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Clone whole partitioning scheme to smaller disk
I have the following on my secondary disk. As I am not satisfied with it I would like to clone everything to the other one which is smaller unfortunately.
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Clone                   120.5 GB   disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Data                    578.7 GB   disk2s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         49.4 GB    disk2s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk2s5
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Yosemite HD            *48.7 GB    disk3

I would like to clone the whole thing except making the disk2s3 (Data) smaller to compensate for the smaller drive.
Can this be done?

I wouldn't recommend cloning at all, but since you're asking to clone to a smaller disk I would strongly advise you not to do this. Can't you  copy the stuff you really need?

That is what I have done eventually. But thanks for your reply.


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Macbook boots up to grey 'prohibited' symbol
I'm having an issue with my '09 13" Macbook Pro. When I boot it up, it seems to be booting normally until about thirty seconds in, when the Apple symbol is replaced with a kind of 'no-smoking' symbol, without the cigarette in the middle.
I've removed the drive one and put it in an external holder, and repaired it using Disk Utility on my Macbook Air. It found some things, and said it repaired them. I then put the drive into my Macbook Pro again, and it booted once to only one of my partitions. It acted very laggy and slow, and eventually I had to force kill it with the power button. Now it does the same thing.
I'm in the process of removing the hard drive to try to repair it again, but I wanted to know if anyone here has any ideas on what this could be. Is it the machine itself somehow?
I see this:

Sounds like your hard drive is dead… :-(

But it sounds perfect, @Asmus, and I can mount it on another machine just fine.

Have you tried booting on the other machine?

Right now I'm trying to boot on the 'problematic' machine itself, via USB, @Anno

@shub Exactly the same.

@Undo Dead hard drives don't alway produce a bad noise; in your case your Mac seems to be unable to find the boot system, meaning there could be corrupt sectors in an area where the system files reside, while the drive itself is perfectly mountable. Another explanation (while not as likely) are defect hard drive connector cables or even the main board. Try booting your Mac from a different (usb) drive or DVD if you have.

I can boot from the hard drive fine when I remove it and boot from an attached USB enclosure, @Asmus. Intriguing...

@Undo Well, the drive sectors that are used for things like swapping memory are chosen randomly at boot, as far as I know, so it could be just coincidence if you run into these errors at boot or later. Usually I'd go on with a backup on a new drive, but if I see it correctly, you've got a MacBook Air (says Pro in the first sentence), so I see that it wouldn't be easy to just buy a replacement drive… If you have a perfect backup, you could erase the hard drive with zeroes and see if it manages to finish. If it does, then it's your cables or (worse) logic board.

I have a MacBook Pro

I always try repairing it twice in a row. If it fixes stuff then finds more problems the second time, you know something serious is wrong.

If you can back up your data and want to wipe it, make sure you repartition the entire drive, replacing the old partition scheme, rather than simply reformatting your boot partition.

That also means invalid instruction, perhaps something wasn't installed right, or something like that?

There are times when Apple's 'Disk Utility' software isn't as thorough at repairing problems that other applications may be.
I've had 'Disk Utility' tell me that drives are fine, but it is not until after running a program like 'Disk Warrior' (that replaces the Directory structure), that the hard drive feels 'normal' again.
This isn't to plug any particular software, but to let you know that 'Disk Utility' isn't the be all, end all of determining if a hard drive is 'good'.
Given your description of the problem, I'd be inclined to make sure I had a backup. If not, purchase a new hard drive, and get all the data off of the old one as quick as possible. (I agree with @Asmus that it appears that you are about to lose a hard drive).
On the other hand, you may just need to have the mac reinstall the OS, and fix things that way. Either way - make sure you have a solid backup right away.
Good luck.

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I have trouble accessing my Mac
After I accidentally left my Mac on my balcony last summer and after a heavy rain when typing the mac keyboard only symbols appear.
When using external keyboard things have worked smoothly since until today when I turned on Filevault.
Now suddenly it wouldn't accept my password any longer.
Now I can only access the guest account on my mac.
And the Mac wont recognize my password even after the restore password--- nothing happens in keyboard when i try to type these passwords.
I have even tried resetting the PRAM but it would not work. Any suggestions?

if you do not like my edit let me know.

What do you want to know? How to save your data? Obviously you should have your keyboard fixed...

What Mac are you using (Macbook Air / Pro)? Does it have a replaceable disk?
If the disk is not replaceable, I see the following options:

Assuming the T key is still functional: Access your Mac in target mode and unlock the disk from the other computer. For example this article explains the procedure.
Assuming the cmd and R keys are still functional: Recovery Mode
Assuming the alt key is still functional: Same as above, but you manually select the recovery partition

Sometimes the filevault2 volume cannot be opened easily. See here for a workaround.
If the disk is replaceable I would remove it asap, unlock the disk, and save the data e.g. with an USB-IDE adapter (like this one).

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Attempting to send video on WhatsApp causes crash
I've tried a bunch of different things but whenever I try to send a video on WhatsApp the app crashes. It works fine in safe mode though.
Any ideas?
http://pastebin.com/brjzVrBS
PS: I jailbroke the phone

Could you expand on what different things you've tried?

I've tried a lot of dif things, deleting and reinstalling, restarting, deleting every recent cydia tweak.  I thought maybe there was something in the crash log that I was just plain missing.  Gonna resintall cydia and remove every single addition one by one once I get home.  See if any is doing it.

I had the same problem too but the file that I deleted was titled systemasm.dylib

Looking through your log I noticed a library called Unflod.dylib.
This is malware. You might want to remove it ASAP.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/21/new-ios-malware-with-a-funky-name-unflod-baby-panda/
Users on Reddit are suggesting it grabs your Apple ID and password and sends it to a server in China. So you might want to reset the password for your Apple ID too.
http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/23bdwr/beware_unfloddylib_sends_apple_id_and_password_to/
BTW At least one user on Reddit says it made their WhatsApp crash too. So removing this might stop the WhatsApp crashes.
http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/23b7qs/what_is_unflod_its_a_mobile_substrate_addon_that/cgve5aq

Woot!  You're a lifesaver.  Deleted it with ifile and everything works now.  I was about to just restore everything...  Changed my passwords too.  Fixed!

For application specific issues like this one it's usually a good approach to look for similar issues on the vendor website or to contact the vendor directly (see http://www.whatsapp.com/contact/).
Also, basic things you might try (and maybe have already done) include

restart your iPhone
try to send a different video or a photo
backup your old chats, delete WhatsApp, restart your iPhone and reinstall WhatsApp again

Whatsapps answer to anything is "we don't help jailbroken phones".  It's their policy.  To be more precise only videos don't work.  Pictures work fine.  Any video.

Also already tried resintalling.

I notice you have MobileSubstrate installed. Try restarting Springboard in Safe Mode, which disables all your Cydia installed apps and see if WhatsApp still crashes. This'll at least prove whether it is something installed from Cydia that is causing the crashes.
Install Safe Mode Launcher from Cydia. It'll give you the option to restart Springboard in Safe Mode.

OP has already noted that 'it works fine in safe mode'

Sorry. My mistake.


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iPhone: share with instagram
Sometimes when I take a photo I like to share it with friends and family, so I press the button that points up, which then leads to a screen where I can share the photo with facebook, flickr and several other things that I don't use.
Recently I decided to use instagram as a means of sharing photos, since I had noticed some of my friends on facebook doing it.
I installed the instagram app on my iphone and have used it a few times to share photos, but it is missing from the list of things to share with immediately after taking a photo navigated to from the photo gallery.
How can I get instagram to appear in the list of destinations that I see when I decide t share a photo from my phone?

What you want to do is not possible with iOS 7.  However in iOS 8 app developer will be able to add their app to the share panel.  If I was a betting man I would say that Instagram will be updated to support this.

Are you using the native iOS camera app, or a third-party camera app?

@jer-el the native camera app

Is this supported yet? I agree this is a bad design.

Sadly, iOS 9 beta 4 is here and this is still not an option.

Sorry but you don't really have any control over this. Some sharing panels offer a "Open  In..." option in the bottom-right corner. If you check an application that does offer this option (for example Dropbox) you'll likely find Instagram in that list.
For some reason Apple doesn't provide that "Open In..." option in the Camera or Photos apps.
The Facebook and Flickr options are hard-coded by Apple. They always appear in the sharing list even if you don't have the applications installed.

It might be easier to try opening Instagram first and then picking out the picture from your photo gallery. If the picture you're trying to share isn't in your gallery, you can take a screenshot of it in order for it to appear in your gallery. From there you will be able to upload the picture to Instagram. Hope this helps :)

The O.P. is saying that they have the picture in their gallery and what they actually want is to "share" the photo through the share button for each gallery into Instagram. Your post is not providing an answer to this question. Also, to save a picture in your Photo Gallery, screenshooting is the last option I'd go with. Long tap (press and hold the picture), and a menu will pop up asking you if you want to save it to your Gallery! That's the right way of doing that.

There is no way to share it straight from the photo gallery as of iOS 7. It is much easier to share it straight from the instagram app.  You can simply do so by pressing the bright blue camera photo on the bottom of the screen in instagram. You will then be directed to some filters you can choose.

If it still does not work, try quit the instagram app through multitasking and re enter the app.

 It might be possible to share straight form the photos app in iOS 8 or you could (not recommended) jail break to get it.

Since Instagram developers do not provide a share extension, this is not possible.
You can, however work around this using the Workflow application using a simple workflow that takes an image and passes it to Post to Instagram action.

The app may have been rerouted to another directory not visible to the parameters of your iPhone's camera roll. Try reinstalling instagram and check its properties. It should work fine the next time around.

Access the photo from Instagram, and if you're like me, you won't see the "channel" in this case, Instagram to share the photo to, BUT it doesn't matter as you are accessing the photo FROM Instagram, so add text if you want and select post (while ignoring the fact that you haven't selected one of the default channels), and it WILL post to Instagram.  I just verified this.

Simply open your Instagram app, tap the center "camera" icon (the square with a circle in the middle) your photo library from your iPhone will appear at the bottom of your screen and you can "select" a photo from there. Then tap the "next" word at the upper right of your picture until you are satisfied with any filters or alterations you want to make, then continue to hit "next" again and your photo will post to Instagram.

Instagram does provide an extension these days, but it doesn't seem to work for any content you try to share. It does work for the Photos app so it is possible that the extension only allows sharing images.
Reference:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/163568/20160607/instagram-share-extensions-on-ios-perks-and-limitations.htm
https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/06/instagram-share-extension/
Update: I'm also an app developer and was wondering why the share button in my app(s) had Twitter, Facebook etc show up but not Instagram. Turned out if I disabled sharing text and urls and only provided an image to the share action, Instagram would show up as an option. So yes, the sharing extension by Instagram definitely only supports sharing images and will hide if it sees text, urls or other content coming in its way. BTW this is using iOS 11.

Submit a support ticket or e-mail to the developers asking for this feature

Re upload the app you missed a step that it asks to access your pictures I did the same thing I have a iOS 6


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Remove battle.net setup from Spotlight
I installed battle.net a long time ago.
Every now and then I use spotlight to invoke it by pressing ⌘ + space and I start typing "battle" every time, the top hit is "Battle.net Beta Setup". I do not want to invoke the beta setup, in fact, I am not aware of the existence of these files on my computer, not sure how to search for them except by using spotlight, but there doesn't seem to be a way to find out where they are, and I am reluctant to click on them in case it starts up a setup program and interferes with my existing installations.

You can find the location of a Spotlight result by highlighting the result and pressing ⌘+Return. This will reveal the location in Finder.
As it's the setup app, it's probably safe to delete, but you can also move it to a location that Spotlight won't search to remove it from the search results but keep the data.

a (right) mouse click instead of enter also works.

George Garside's answer is probably the best, as this sounds like an application you'd want to delete, and not simply 'remove from spotlight' (as in hiding it).
I've seen instances where a file is stuck in the spotlight search even though it's completely removed from the system.  Sometimes this has to do with permissions of a certain folder and how spotlight indexing works.
If this is the case, and the file has already been deleted, it might require a re-indexing of the drive the file is stored on.
Taken from Apple.com:

From the Apple () menu, choose System Preferences. Click Spotlight.
  Click the Privacy tab. Drag a folder or an entire volume (your hard
  drive) to the list. If prompted for confirmation, click OK. Remove the
  item or volume you just added to the list by clicking it and then
  clicking the minus ("-") button. Close Spotlight preferences.
Spotlight will re-index the contents of the folder or volume.

However, since the index most likely screwed up due to a permissions error in the first place, it's a good idea to do more than simply re-index, and instead use one of the many good maintenance applications that exist to repair permissions / clean up misc files / and re-index spotlight all in one sweep.
Personally, I use an excellent app called "Maintenance" (also referred to as Mac Maintenance, though I've found another application with that as it's name, that didn't work as well in my experiences).
Here is a link to download if you want to try it.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16790/maintenance
And Finally (though as I mentioned earlier I don't believe this is your intention) you can actually 'hide' files and certain extensions from the spotlight results on a folder-by-folder level (This feature is often used to keep adult files away from the eyes of children, etc)
From apple.com:

choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Spotlight. Click
  Add (+), then locate the folder You can also drag a folder or disk
  from your desktop or the Finder into the list. To remove a folder or
  disk from the list, highlight it, then click Remove (-).

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14049


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Bulk downloading PDF files in iPad
I'd like to know whether there is an app or a service which allows bulk downloading of PDF files from a site page. More generally, is there an app that allows bulk downloading to iPad given a string pattern, like the file name or the file extension?

curl
You can use a curl client for iPhone/iPad to do this (e.g. iCurl or iCurlHTTP). Than you can use this client to download multiple files like this:
curl -L -O http://www.example.com/file[1-5].pdf

Thanks! I will try this method (first, I must learn something more about cUrl and the way it works).


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IPhone File Server & Client to Create Proxy Alternative to Personal Hotspot Tethering
Assumptions:

I have the latest iPhone with unlimited fast Internet through my cellular network provider.
I have a new Mac.
My iPhone prevents me from using my wireless data using my Mac when I set up a personal hotspot.
I have no other Internet connection.

Technique that needs improvement:
First I set up an ad-hoc network using my Mac and connect to it using my iPhone. Then I use the GoodReader app to run a server (this is a GoodReader feature) on my iPhone to which I can connect over my ad-hoc network by doing Go > Connect to Server... in Finder on my Mac. Once mounted, I can manipulate files in the GoodReader app storage just like a local folder on my Mac. From the Good Reader app I can then upload my files to Dropbox which syncs with my online storage and have access to the files online.

What I Want:
I want to find an app for my iPhone that will run a file server of some sort to which I can connect with my Mac. I want that app to then transfer files to an online file server (preferably using SFTP), automatically (or with minimal manual help). In essence this would have the effect of me being able to upload files over SFTP to a remote location using a Mac that is offline with an iPhone that is online. I'm basically looking for an alternative to tethering. The Mac -> GoodReader -> Dropbox -> Internet example proves this is possible but it has too many manual steps. I want something more streamlined.
Do you know of any apps or techniques that can work for me?

what exactly prevents you from using your iPhone as a Hotspot? It must be possible (i use it on a dayly basis) or do you just not want it that way?

It is possible -- I just don't want to do it that way. I plead the 5th as to why not.

but as i know using goodreader/dropbox e.g also uses your data connection.

My service provides unlimited LTE and up to 5GB of Hotspot. They are metered separately.

Ok if you say that i take it, although i never heard this before. So maybe You can cut a few manual steps if you use itunes on your pc to directly put the files into your dropbox app on the phone. Or you should take a look at GoodSync maybe that is useable http://www.goodsync.com/de/platforms/ios-server

another quick point you should check first: in our country tere is a second provider not mine, which also has hotspot restrictions but in there case it is meant to be the useage of there public wlan hotspots at trainstations e.g. so maybe that is also the case on your provider.

I have found a few apps in the App Store that claim to be both an FTP client and server. That means you can run a server on an iPhone, connect to it from a Mac, transfer files to my phone, and then to a remote server (or vice versa). This would greatly simplify the process.
The apps are:

FTP On The Go Pro
Easy FTP Pro
FilesConnect
FTPManager
iStorage 2

I believe there are others but these clearly explained that they include a server and client.


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see call history from a computer
Is there a way to access the call history on an iphone from a computer?
My phone has a problem with the display that stops me from using it, it still turns on, but the screen only displays vertical bars, I can tap the screen and it seems to doing something, it makes various sounds that you would expect it to make when tapping the screen, i think i managed to unlock it, but I can't see what is going on.
I plan to take the phone to someone to see if they can fix the display problem. Until then I would like to retrieve a number from the phone that I most recently called. How can I do this?
Also is there a way to redial the previously dialed number, by pressing a combination of buttons without being able to see the screen?

In the future, please try to ask one question at a time. Both of your questions are legitimate, and can stand by themselves.

Answer for question #2: use Siri and ask "Redial last number called." I use it all the time while driving (with a Bluetooth headset, of course!)

is siri something you have to install or is it there already? i tried a few things, i held down the home button for a bit and it made the noise that it makes when it activates the voice recognition (i never use it but it pops up every now and then), is that siri? i said "redial last number" to it and it didn't seem to understand. after that i tried just "redial" and that didn't work either

I have an iPhone 5 with the latest iOS (7.1.2), and Siri has its own on/off switch in Settings. Perhaps your phone has the switch set to off. Sorry I can't be of more help

Question 1-
There are multiple apps available to export your iPhone call log.
Example: Export iPhone’s call logs to computer for storage
Question 2- TBD..


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iOS Sync Device Name
I have set up Google sync on my all my devices as I use the iOS Chrome app. When using the Chrome app I click on 'other devices' and my iMac device name shows up as iMac-2. I was wondering if it's possible to somehow rename/change my iMac device name. I've tried unlinking my iMac and linking it back up again but nothing has worked so far. I know it's only a small issue but it's bugging me.

The other devices list on Chrome uses the name of the Mac given to it, or the DCHP if that fails. To change the name of the Mac, go to System Preferences → Sharing and enter your desired name in the box at the top. You may need to log out and back in for Chrome on OS X to update the name.


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Remove system default / third-party app 'service' items from OS X context menus?
I'm in the process of replacing OS X's default 'Search with Google' context menu item (found when you right click on text in many apps like Terminal, Notes, or third party ones like the RSS reader ReadKit), with my own one that opens in Chrome as the default aforementioned one is a Safari service and hard-linked to open in Safari only.
So currently, my context menu (in ReadKit), looks like this:

I want to be able to get rid of Safari's 'Search with Google' at the top so I don't accidentally use it instead of my own one down the bottom.
Now I realise the actual file / code for the service may be contained inside Safari.app or in ~/Library/Safari somewhere, (though I've had a quick look not finding anything that stands out in particular), but I'm thinking that if I could delete the service outright, it might cause instability, problems, or be re-added when Safari is updated next, anyway. (Though it would be an acceptable second best, if someone can figure out how to do it - without deleting or affecting Safari itself.)
As for the OS X services Preferences menu, it is already unticked, but still present in Terminal, Notes, ReadKit etc.:

So is there a way I can actually remove it? Where in the system does OS X register / save 'Services', whether ones in OS X by default, third party apps, or ones added by the user in Automator? Maybe I can go there and 'remove' the one from Safari so it no longer shows in the context menus?
Or maybe there's some app that can tweak context menu items in general in OS X, including this Safari one I'm looking at? (I have already tried Services Manager which doesn't appear to change it, and as for Service Scrubber they say it may cause problems in OS X 10.6 or later so I have not tried it.)
(N.b., if there's a Terminal hack to just turn off the whole 'Searching' services section in the context menu outright, that would be acceptable for me as I don't use the 'Look up "x"' item [above 'Search with Google'] anyway.)

My own experience (on 10.9) is that the service uses the default search engine selected for the default browser, so right now my own "Search with…" says "Search DuckDuckGo for…" and will open in Firefox.

This doesn't answer your other questions, but it may mean you don't need to bother. I hope it helps. I've an old system running 10.6 so I'll give that a look when I get a chance and see if the same can be done there.

I added the bounty in hopes there was a way to remove the "Lookup" function but I guess there isn't really a way then.

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Returning to First Screen from last Screen in Mission Control
I use Mission Control (on a Mavericks running MacBook Air) a lot, and I was looking for a solution to the following scenario:
I have three (or more spaces open), and I am on the space furthest to the right (the last) in my lineup of spaces.  I want to get to my first space (the one furthest on the left).  Currently, if I try to go right from this last space, nothing happens. Is there a way that if I swipe right from the "last space", I can go directly to the "first space", and vice-versa?

So you want to go around the back ?

Yes, that's it.  (I couldn't think of a word for what I was trying to say, but that's it)

The only way I know to do this is to 3- or 4-finger swipe up for Mission Control (depending on your settings) or use the keyboard shortcut (on my MBP it shares a key with F3), and then select the space that you want.

Have you tried enabling keyboard shortcuts for directly accessing spaces by their number?

No, this won't enable the wrap-around functionality that you specifically asked about, but it will allow you to type ⌃+1 (control+1) to jump from space 3 to space 1.
You will need to press fn+⌃+1 if your Mac is set to use the function keys the default way.

Why use shortcuts when the mouse is so much more convenient. The question is - by swiping, let the swiping wrap around from last space back to first space. Not how to use shortcuts. Desktop space wrap-around is a convenient feature found in some multi-desktops apps in MICROSOFT WINDOWS. Have one way of doing it and doing it well.

You can also use ctrl + ⬅ or ctrl + ➜ to navigate between screens.  And if you've got a trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can enable "swipe between full screen apps" in SysPref to do the same at that @aglasser suggested

I'm using this method to swipe between screens, but I run into the problem enumerated in my question: to get from the last screen to the first, I have to swipe left through all of them.

yeah, I hear you. That sucks.  Maybe we can ask Apple to enable swipe rotation for spaces.  Seems like a no-brainer.  Or maybe we tell them that Android already has this feature.  THAT should get their attention! ;-)


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WD HDD physically damaged, what can I use to recover the data on OSX?
I have a physically damaged HDD that can still be detected by disk utility, but I cannot access the files inside. I tried using Data Rescue 3 but the UI was very clunky and I always end up having to restart the computer for it to work. It did manage to scan it once and recover many files, but not some specific file types I was looking for. But due to the clunky UI I couldn't scan it again.
Any programs that are reliable and known to recover files from damaged hard drives ?
Note :

It is connected externally via USB.
The HDD was on a Windows Desktop, but using the mac to read it

It's not a duplicate @Mark

Why the other question iOS how to get data off a dead disk - which is what you are asking, the answers will be the same

@mark This is exactly why I stopped posting here... The answers in the other topic did not help me. You guys always close down topics even if "duplicates" did not have satisfying answers ....

@bmike This is exactly why I stopped posting here... The answers in the other topic did not help me. You guys always close down topics even if "duplicates" did not have satisfying answers ....

So you need to explain why those answers do not work

The reopening of questions at are closed and on hold are quite painless. Just edit your post to explain if it is different than the linked question or edit / bounty the dupe. We try hard to have the information in one place if you are just re asking an old question.


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Can't log in / supposedly file-vault
I have a power mac, which I recently updated to Lion. I've never used a password before and yet after an unusual abortive boot (unusual boot-sequence which hanged, which I had to hard-reset) I now get a login screen, which since I've never had a login in the first place, I can't get past (tried apple-ID for instance, to no avail).
I did the usual disk scans from recovery mode (which showed no problems), so I eventually ended up having to bring it in to the local apple-reseller (no 'official' apple-stores here). He says I've enabled file-vault and that he can't get to it without the username and password.
Now I can't for the life of me figure out how this could be, and file-vault isn't exactly the kind of thing you can enable accidentally. There was a progress indicator on the unusual boot, which might kind of support this idea (of an encryption process), but otherwise I'm worried that it might not necessarily be the problem.
I've had a search around, and I can't find any similar problems, so I'm just wondering if anybody on here might know if either:

File Vault can somehow become automatically enabled or ...
... some other automatic activity that could somehow bring this situation about

I want to satisfy myself that this is indeed the problem, and if so how could it have come about, so for instance I don't end up doing it again!

Does your login window look like this? http://i.stack.imgur.com/8OpoB.jpg If so, you've somehow enabled FileVault. If you have the usual linen background instead, FV is not enabled.

Yeah it looks like that, so could be bad news .. so I guess what remains is to discover if there's some automatic process by which it could have been enabled ... or if it is somehow recoverable!


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Make Macports use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) to fetch packages
By default, Macports uses HTTP to fetch packages. For example:
--->  Attempting to fetch port_cutleaves-0.1.4_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/port_cutleaves

How should a user configure Macports to use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) instead?

The obvious solution would be to modify the source URLs for the packages. The source URLs for a lot of packages appears to be /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl.
Having said that, I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to modify that file.
If you do a selfupdate your modified file will be replaced.
Also not all the mirrors are set up correctly to work with HTTPS. For example, the mirror in your example above http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ presents an error if you try to access it at https://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ because the host name of the certificate doesn't match.

Is there an option to make Macports try to fetch only from those mirrors that offer HTTPS?

No, there does not seem to be an option to tell Macports to only use HTTPS.

You can set preferred_hosts in macports.conf, or use host_blacklist to blacklist mirrors that don't offer HTTPS. You can, however, not discriminate mirrors depending on whether they support HTTPS automatically.

Why would you want to? If you're worried about the integrity of the downloads, you should know that MacPorts will also download and verify a detached RSA signature for each binary archive it downloads – the public key used for verification comes to your local machine using a tamper-resistant path (either an installer .pkg signed with a DeveloperID certificate, or – in case of key updates – signed with the old key).
For distfiles (i.e. source tarballs of software MacPorts wants to build), multiple checksums stored in the Portfile need to match for MacPorts to accept the download as authentic. The Portfiles also come to your machine using a tamper-resistant path.
Replying to your original question: You don't, the mirror infrastructure doesn't support it.

I've upvoted, because the "tamper-resistant path" info is helpful. However, there is another reason besides integrity to want an encrypted download path, and that is: privacy.

I understand. Unfortunately, MacPorts' mirror infrastructure doesn't generally offer SSL/TLS at the moment.


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Something's eating my disc space - Mac OS X
So something's swallowing about 800gb of disk space on my mac.
I've ran Disk Inventory X and Omni Sweeper, and both show that my main OS drive only houses 30 GB worth of data. 10GB of that is Home folders from the network share, and the rest I'm guessing is OS based guff.
But where the hell is the other 200 or so?!
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Can you post a screenshot of Disk Inventory X's results, including the synopsis along it's right side?

See http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/124127/others-in-macintosh-hd/124143#124143 or the other linked questions for how to get general information on what takes up space.

The biggest issue here is that you need to run your analysis tools as root. If you don't do this, you'll only see the files that your account has access to, and so you won't see everything that is taking up space.
I like GrandPerspective personally. If it's in your Applications folder, the command to run it as root looks like this:
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective

I'd suggest an application called DaisyDisk, it lets you drill down to each folder level to determine which directory is taking up all of the space.  A lot of times, it's either ./MobileBackups or /private/var/vm.  The former is where Time Machine stores local, offline cached backups, and /private/var/vm is where sleepimage files are kept.  Those typically size up to 1.5x the amount of installed system RAM.  The purpose of sleepimage files is to store all of your open data to disk when you put your computer to sleep.
There are a variety of methods to disable both.
Disable /.MobileBackups:
sudo tmutil disablelocal Disable /.MobileBackups
touch /.MobileBackups
sudo chflags uchg /.MobileBackups

Disable sleepimage files:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
rm -rf /private/var/vm/*
sudo chflags uchg /private/var/vm

Link to DaisyDisk (be sure to run your scan as an administrator)

That is hard to answer without taking the time to do more analysis.
Some things to try:
1) Reboot the computer and see if some of the used space is cleared up. This may occur if the /tmp folder is large.
2) From an administrator account, open Terminal.app and use the du command (display disk usage information). I find du gives me more control than graphical disk analyzing tools, which are often limited by the authorities granted to the user running the application. I start by issuing:
sudo du -sh /Users

This will summarize the space used for user files.
Then move to different directories on the drive.
Check out the man du page for more options.


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How to block an iPhone 4 from calling certain prefixes?
I have an iPhone 4 and I need to block certain prefixes between 1-5 digits.
For example, I don't want any outgoing calls to be made with numbers that start with "123", "456", etc, so I want to be able to block those prefixes so that any attempts to call a number that starts with those prefixes does not get placed.  Preferably, this list should be protected with a PIN so only I can alter it.
How can I do that?

There is no way to block outgoing calls on iOS itself, so your only choices would be to find a voip app on the app store that would allow that level of configuration or perhaps jailbreak the phone and see if that community has such a modification to the phone app.


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Parallels app starts from hotkey - not wanted
I have an annoying situation where some key combination, not even sure which, starts up an app in a Parallels VM running Windows, Parallels build 8.0.18619. The app is Chrome. Normally the VM in question is not running. So what happens is that I am furiously typing away, hit the oddball combination, and the VM starts up and Chrome loads.
I don't see where this is set up. It is not set up in OS X, cannot find anything in Parallels, and it is not set up in Windows either. It would seem that it has to be in OS X, because otherwise how could it start up the VM?
As a workaround, I have unintalled Chrome.
I would like to unassign this rogue shortcut. Any ideas?

What version of parallels?

Edited build into question above.


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Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel sheets?
OK, this is a weird one. I take my blank Numbers sheet:

...and export it to Excel:

Whoah, that seems a little large. Let's rename the Excel doc to .zip and have a look inside:

Digging a little deeper:

Well, we just found 99% of the file size. But what is it — some sort of embedded preview image? Let's open it:

Nope, just a 635x635 PNG of random noise. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

I'm not sure why it's included in the export, but this is one of the default "Image Fills":

Fortunately, it seems that it's possible to delete this image without corrupting the xlsx file using zip -d myFile.xlsx xl/media/image1.png

tl;dr: it's the default shape fill, strictly unnecessary if there are no shapes.
XLSX, DOCX and other formats use OPC (the open packaging conventions), which mandates the zip container and describes how files should be laid out.  If there is a file that you do not recognize, look in the various relationship files (they end in .rels).
In this case, the relevant line can be found in the themes relationship file xl/theme/_rels/theme1.xml.rels:
  <Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image" Target="../media/image1.png"/>

The file will be referenced in xl/theme/theme1.xml as rId1.  Using ECMA-376 as a guide, you will find it referenced as the default shape fill:
<a:objectDefaults>                    <-- shape/line/text defaults
  <a:spDef>                           <-- shape defaults
    <a:spPr>                          <-- shape properties
      <a:blipFill rotWithShape="1">   <-- picture fill
        <a:blip r:embed="rId1"/>      <-- references the picture

The writer must not be omitting the image if there is no shape.

Keynote files exported to PowerPoint do things like this too. That PNG is a background fill from Keynote, and is made available to PowerPoint to be used as the default shape fill for shapes created in the exported document. Keynote not only exports your document, but also the template style elements it was created with - even if some of those style elements (i.e. the background image) haven't been used yet.


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Create Code 128 Barcodes within Excel
I'm trying to create Code 128 Barcodes within Microsoft Excel.
I have tried all VBA Makros and Fonts I found on Google, but none give's me a scannable result (usually there are weird characters like ó's mixed in).
Does anybody have a working solution?

Please consider editing your original question instead of asking a slightly different one.

I thought I'll let the old one remain since the context is different and it seems it has been a non-existing question so far


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How to launch Gnumeric after installing using Homebrew
I've installed Gnumeric using Homebrew. I first manually installed XQuartz (as required) and then ran brew install gnumeric. Everything seems to have installed fine.
Now how do I launch it?
When I run /usr/local/bin/gnumeric I see:
Cannot open display:
Run '/usr/local/bin/gnumeric --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

This is the result of /usr/local/bin/gnumeric --help:
Usage:
    /usr/local/bin/gnumeric [OPTION...] [FILE ...]

Help Options:
    -h, --help                                Show help options
    --help-all                                Show all help options
    --help-libspreadsheet                     Show Gnumeric Options
    --help-gtk                                Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:
    -g, --geometry=WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF     Specify the size and location of the initial window
    --no-splash                               Don't show splash screen
    --no-warnings                             Don't display warning dialogs when importing
    --display=DISPLAY                         X display to use

Have you tried launching it from an xterm?

@Édouard Got it! I didn't know I had to launch it using X11. Thanks. If you post an answer, I will accept.

Without doubt, you will detail the steps you took with more accuracy than I could. I’ll let you post your own, and flag these comments as obsolete.

If you install XQuartz from Homebrew Cask with:
brew cask install xquartz

and gnumeric from Homebrew with:
brew install gnumeric

You can then just type:
gnumeric

on the command line and the gnumeric window will open.


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Macports installer public signing key
The MacPorts installation guide says:

Download the latest MacPorts-2.3.1-....pkg installer from the MacPorts download directory. [...]
Double-click the downloaded package installer to perform the default “easy” install.

In between steps 1 and 2, however, a user may wish to verify the integrity of the downloaded package, using the PGP signature file also found in the Macports download directory.
If SIGNATURE_FILE is the name of the signature file, I get the following result:
$ gpg --verify SIGNATURE_FILE
gpg: Signature made Thu 26 Jun 00:37:12 2014 BST using DSA key ID B4AAE6CD
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

Where can I find the public key? Google doesn't seem to know.

The key ID is B4AAE6CD, from your command output. You need to search and retrieve the key from a keyserver:
gpg --recv-keys B4AAE6CD

Then your verify command should work.

Please check the address of the keyserver, seems to be wrong.

@Michael, thanks. Using gpg --recv-keys --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net B4AAE6CD as you suggested produces gpgkeys: key B4AAE6CD not found on keyserver gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. On the plus side, $ gpg --recv-keys B4AAE6CD yields a key that can be used to check the integrity of the downloaded file, so I've edited your answer accordingly in order to be able to mark it "accepted".

(Using that key to verify the signature produces a warning message: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. However, this is correct GnuPG behaviour, as explained here and here.)

It is actually in the original keyserver I posted if you look at the web interface. (all the public ones synchronize with each other) It worked when I tried yesterday. They may be having issues as I can't even connect to it now. Since most gpg installs come with a default keyserver set, it's not strictly necessary to specify one anyways, so thanks for fixing it.


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How can I see if an e-mail is signed in "Mail" (using an Exchange account)?
Usually, a signed message shows a checkmark icon. Clicking on this icon displays the certificate that was used to sign the message:

Not so when a message lies in an exchange mailbox, and is displayed with "Mail" on MacOS (tested up to 10.10):

The iPad, on the other hand, handles the exact same message just fine. It is also connected via Exchange protocol to the server:

So: How can I enable this also on "Mail" on OS X? Or is this a bug, or even a permanent restriction?

Still confirmed with Mail Version 8.1 (1993)

is your SSL turned on ?

@Buscar웃 What does this have to do with SSL? It is not about the encryption between the client and the server, it is about the SSL signature of the email. You cannot turn it off or on. But BTW yes: I fetch the emails with SSL.

@Matteo what are you talking about? Quote->"it is about the SSL signature of the email."

@Buscar웃 Of course but how can you turn it on and off? The email is signed with an SSL certificate. What do you mean by "SSL turned on"?

Still confirmed with 10.10.2 beta (Mail Version 8.2 (2064))

It was most likely a bug. I had the same behaviour and after the latest update (10.10.2) Mail is showing the information again.

Edit
As commented by user2216335 the Security information is not always shown.
Apple Mail was able to recognise the signature from my example:
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s;
smime-type=signed-data Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

but not from a message sent by Apple Mail
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Agree, I now also see the icon as it should be on MacOS.

Actually I have to retract this statement: I can't see the icon anymore. I could see it on a ver old message, but I can't see it on a test message that I just sent.

@user2216335 After your comment I checked. Apple Mail is only able to validate some of the messages. See my edit.

Does the RFC 822 Name in your certificate match the email address that you have listed in Apple Mail on your Mac? If you're not sure, double click on your certificate in Keychain Access to bring up the details and scroll down to the RFC 822 Name field. This email address must precisely match (including case sensitivity) the email address listed in your account's settings in Mail.

For example, if your RFC 822 Name is listed like this:
username@email.com
Check your email address to see what how closely it matches:
username@email.com - Exact match, certificate should appear
Username@email.com - Not exact match, certificate won't appear
username@EMAIL.COM - Not exact match, certificate won't appear
UserName@email.com - Not exact match, certificate won't appear

First of all the behaviour is for all signed emails that I receive (and not only mine). But more important if there is a certificate and it is not matching, the client should give an error and not ignore it. This is the idea of certificates, warning if the sender is not who he claims to be.

Same here: It's about mails that I receive, not mail that I send. So in the received mail with a signature, this signature is either valid or it's flawed in some way. In both cases, the mail client should indicate this. Apple mail does not do this if the mail server is connected via Exchange protocol. Outlook does, and Mail on iOS does as well.

Update: iOS no longer works correctly, with 8.1.2 I can't see the sign for the signature anymore. So at least iOS and MacOS are consistent now ;( As for the RFC822 name field: Yes, it matches exactly.


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Can I swap the SSD from mid-2013 Macbook Air and mid-2014 Macbook Pro?
I bought a Macbook Air with a 256 GB in mid 2013.
I bought a Macbook Pro with a 128 GB in mid 2014.
I'd like to swap the SSDs if possible. Are the parts compatible?
I'm looking at these two guides on iFixit.

Macbook Air 13" Mid-2013 SSD replacement
Macbook Pro 13" Mid-2014 SSD replacement

The parts look compatible, but I'd like to a little further confirmation before dissecting both of the laptops.

Additional info
I just did a speed test on each drive.
                  Model      Read        Write       Vendor
Macbook Air 13"   Mid-2013   ~750 MB/s   ~700 MB/s   Samsung/Samsung
Macbook Pro 13"   Mid-2014   ~750 MB/s   ~350 MB/s   Sandisk/Marvell

The Macbook Air's SSD has double the write speed! So if it works, I have even more (than disk capacity) to gain from making the swap.
Makes me really sad that Apple isn't more specific with these details on their website.
Tools required
              Security Bits
Macbook Air   P5 Pentalobe, T5 Torx
Macbook Pro   T5 Torx

I ordered the iFixit 54-Bit Driver Kit which includes the tools I'll need to try this.
I'll post the results here once I attempt the surgery!

It doesn't work
My Pentalobe and Torx bits arrived today and I tried swapping the drives. When I put the 256 GB drive in my Macbook Pro, it doesn't boot and displays this image

I tried holding down opt to boot to a usb drive and do a fresh install of Mavericks on the drive.
When I attempt to boot from the USB drive, the crossed out circle image is displayed again.
I've also tried holding down shift during boot to boot into safe mode. The neutral gray screen displays for a longer time, but eventually the crossed out circle appears again.

According to this well-respected and detailed guide to Apple's SSD modules, the mid-2013 MBA and mid-2014 MBP use the same 'Generation 3' SSD module.
They should therefore work in both machines. The fact that you get the same "No Entry" sign when using an external USB suggests that there's some other problem. Conceivably, that could be caused by not inserting the SSD completely/properly.

how is it going?
I hope you were able to fix the issue you were experiencing, I'm sure you didn't push the SSD all he way in. I swapped the SSD between the two Macs myself and it was very smooth. Hit me up if you need any help.

Which two models did you swap between?

Restart computer hold CMD+R it will boot into recovery
Click reinstall OS X


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Embedding files in Keynote
Is there any way to embed files in Keynote presentation? So, that others can click on it and download/open it in their machines.

Besides images or other media that can natively be placed into Keynote, for a document or binary file of arbitrary format, you would almost certainly have to post it elsewhere (Dropbox/Google/web page) and embed a URL to the sharing link in your presentation.
Unfortunately, it seems you can't make the URL have the format of file:// instead of http:// You can, however use ftp:// or sftp:// or smb:// !

on modern versions of keynote, you can use pseudo links like /Users/john/Desktop/test.pdf. note there is no file:/// part. to open such a pseudo link, select it, open its context menu, choose 'services' and then 'open' (something like this. i'm not at home currently)

Interesting! You should post that as a full answer.

On modern versions of Keynote, you can use pseudo links like /Users/johndoe/Desktop/test.pdf. Note there is no file:/// part (this won't work). To open such a pseudo link, select it, open its context menu, choose 'Services' and then 'Open URL' for Safari or 'Open' for Finder.


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Finding All Files/Applications Installed With MacPorts
I installed MacPorts last April in some delusional moment of thinking I was going to learn about the command line & compiling, etc. That hasn't happened and I doubt it will at any point in the near future, so I'd like to delete both MacPorts and any applications I might have installed/compiled with it. Where do I find the latter? And is everything in opt/local MacPorts related or do I have to go in and individually remove all 335 results from lsbom /var/db/receipts/org.macports.MacPorts.bom, preserving non-MacPorts-related items in opt/local?

There is no easy way to find all the code you compiled which uses Macports but if did not learn re command line/compiling what could there be. Notthing installed should use Macports (there are a few badly done installs that od but these should be treated as bugs) If question is to delete Macports then it is a duplicate and can be deleted in one long line

possible duplicate of How to cleanly remove MacPorts

The linked question does not answer whether all 335 files need to be individually deleted nor does it answer where any applications or scripts that might be dependent upon MacPorts reside. Thanks

It does answer the first - it deletes all macports


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Error message trying to open rtorrent
I just installed rtorrent using Homebrew(on Macbook Air with Mavericks), but every time I try to open it I get the following error message :
dyld: Symbol not found: __ZNSt3tr18__detail12__prime_listE
  Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/libtorrent.18.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
 in /usr/local/lib/libtorrent.18.dylib

This is my .rtorrent.rc file :
directory = ~/Downloads/
session = ~/.session/
encryption = allow_incoming, try_outgoing, enable_retry
schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start= ~/Downloads/*.torrent
schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=
schedule = tied_directory,5,5,start_tied=

According to the answer from: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/24132

I ran into the same thing this week with upgrading to Mavericks. It'll fix itself if you do:

brew reinstall libtorrent --build-from-source

In this case, I think the issue is that the Mavericks bottle for libtorrent is bogus, but it's the default install.

Author: bconway

brew reinstall rtorrent --build-from-source worked for me. Probably a different problem this time around.

This happened to me when I uninstalled gcc after installing rtorrent. First, try reinstalling gcc (brew install gcc) and see if it works. This is what I did and now it works:
brew uninstall rtorrent
brew install gcc
brew install rtorrent


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Prevent Spotify using 3G on iPhone
On the Spotify iPhone app, there is a manual setting to turn offline mode on or off. Ideally there would be a feature that automatically switches to offline mode as soon as a wifi connection is dropped, and switches back to online mode when connected again. Is there another way to achieve this?

This question appears to be off-topic because it is about Spotify.

You can switch off cellular data per app. Go to Settings -> Cellular and scroll to the bottom, tap to turn off cellular data for an app.


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My MBP 2011 won't go to slep when AC is plugged in
Since a few days, my MBP (15" early 2011 with 10.9.4) won't go to sleep when I close the lid and the AC is plugged in.
I fixed the permissions, repaired the SSD via disk utility, searched in the console to find an issue referenced, try to simulate the closing action with a magnet (the screen goes dark).
Since my computer is not power nap capable, I don't understand what's going on.
It goes well when I unplug it.

@ecnepsnai try to simulate the closing action with a magnet (the screen goes dark) the apple goes dark and so th screen ;)

But it doesn't when you close the lid, without the magnet?  It stays on?

@ecnepsnai when I close the lid, it does dark

But when you open it back up, it's right back where you left off?  It doesn't ask you to login, right?

@ecnepsnai yes it does ! (I ask it as soon as the screen goes off) but the fans are still working and the console log is still written so it's not sleeping

In System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Power Adapter Tab is the Computer Sleep set to never?

@ecnepsnai yes, but no, that doesn't fix the issue :(

In System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General Tab do you have the "Require Password after sleep" to to "immediately"?

@ecnepsnai yes !


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Force iPhone to use cellular data while connected to wifi
I have an iPhone 5s with iOS 7 on T-mobile in the US. I have a wifi network that is not connected to the Internet. When I connect to the wifi network with my phone, my iPhone tries to access the Internet using wifi only instead of using cellular data. Of course my phone cannot access the Internet using the wifi network because the network is not connected to the Internet. However it should be able to use cellular data.
How can I force my phone to use cellular data to access the Internet while connected to a wifi network?

sorry, what exactly is holding you back from turning the WiFi off ?

I want to use AirPlay.

This is possible, as shown here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6448960?start=0&tstart=0
As the link describes, use a static IP in the wifi network but only fill in the IP and Subnet Mask fields.
Edit: this is also answered here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/174722/120252

What you are asking to do is not possible (my internet has gone out enough times in the last few weeks that I've tried).
If your carrier allows Personal Hotspot, however, you can turn it on and have the AirPlay device connect to the network the phone creates, and then AirPlay will work just fine.

Yes, I've noticed this. My data plan is in two pools: hotspot (limited) and mobile (unlimited). Do you know which pool will be used if using Personal Hotspot while on wifi?

I've never heard of that being separated, but I would guess that the airplay device would use hotspot (but it wouldn't have to connect to the internet much, if at all) and the phone would continue being mobile.


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Importing modules in python gives syntax error
Whenever I try to import modules from python source code files using the python shell(installed in brew folder), I get the following error :
>>> from not import *;
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    from not import *;
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Can anyone please help!?

not is a built in boolean operator so you can't use it as the name of a module. If you're trying to load this symbolic negation module: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/Not.py , you need from Not import * (python is case sensitive)
Incidentally, using from x import * is a bad idea in most cases. It breaks static code analysis, it can hide bugs, and you import all kinds of stuff into your namespace. Apart from a few specific use cases, it's probably better to import only what you need or to leave the module its own namespace.


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Why doesn't twitter or facebook have sound on iPad Air?
My twitter and facebook app do not longer have the sound on the iPad Air? The other apps all have sound.
Whats up with that?

Please check your Question "do not have have " and give us bit more details what the problem is.

@Buscar웃 thanks revised as requested sorry about that

Remember that Facebook and Twitter have autoplay features for their videos. However, when the videos playback, they are muted by default. Is it possible that these apps are autoplaying the videos as muted and you are mistaking it as the sound not working?

No when I turn the sound on it still doesn't play @CharlesCaldwell

For Facebook:
First make sure this is done so that you can go on to the actual solution. Facebook push notifications are controlled inside the actual Facebook app under “Account Settings>Notifications”. They are NOT controlled under the iOS “Settings>Facebook>Settings>Notifications”, if you go there you will be directed to the actual Facebook app.
Now it’s time for the solution to the problem. There is one more step that you need to do that doesn’t turn on by default for some reason.
STEPS:

This starts from your iOS device home screen
“Settings”
“Notifications”
“Facebook”
Turn on the “Notification Center” – required to have the push notifications work
Under “Alert Style” by default this is set to “None” for some reason. So, turn this to the style you want.
Turn on the “Badge App Icon” – if you want to, this will display the number of new notifications on the Facebook icon, just like it does on your Messages app when you have a new text message
Turn on “Sounds” – if you want to, this will play a sound when a new Facebook notification comes in

but it just fb and twitter the other apps have sound

That is why is it important to provide detailed question, you did not mention that.

finally fixed mine!!!! Hope it works for you too!! Turns out the hidden Mute button was on on my iPad so only SOME videos weren't playing within apps while other things worked fine! You get to it by swiping up on bottom of iPad to reveal icons such as airplane mode, a volume slide bar (make sure that is on high) and a mute button! If that mute button is white, click on it so that it is grey. That should indicate "mute off" I learned this and other possible volume issues by watching http://youtu.be/SDf1LDcE95Q is a great video with some trouble shooting for iPad on this issue that has happened for many of us since the iOS updates. Again, good luck to y'all! Hope this helps, the video helped me!

Yes, that worked for me too! iPad Air 2 doesn't have a toggle switch. You need instead to swipe up the control center settings to access the mute function. When the mute function is activated, in app videos in Facebook and LinkedIn have no sound, while they play perfectly well directly in YouTube. Deactivate the mute button, and all inapp sounds work fine! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203121


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Where May I (legally) get a Mac OS X .iso File to Virtualize OS X?
I want to virtualize a Mac (the latest, 10.9) on my Mac (MacBook Air). I prefer to use VirtualBox. After setting up the OS X guest, I need to provide a .iso file from which VirtualBox will install OS X. Where can I (legally) get such a .iso file? My Mac didn't come with installation media so I can't just create one from a disc.

Sorry about the duplicate. I did a search but it was not specific enough.

These steps assume that you already have purchased OS X 10.9 through the Mac App Store.

Open the Mac App Store
Press the Alt Key and hold it during the following steps
Click at the purchased tab
Scroll to OS X Mavericks
Click at the Download button
If you already have OS X Mavericks installed, you will be asked if you want to continue
Click continue
Now, you can release the Alt Key

To get the dmg file:
1. Go to the downloaded install application in the applications folder
2. Control+click on the installer, and choose Show Package Contents, and choose Show Package Contents.
3. Navigate to Contents > Shared Support
4. The file you are looking for is called InstallESD.dmg
If you need a .iso file, you have to convert it using Disk Utility

Sadly, even after all that, I doubt the ISO will work with VirtualBox. From this page: Unfortunately, the standard "Unibeast" method for installing OS X Mavericks on PCs (which uses an official copy of the Mavericks installer) doesn't work with Virtualbox. Instead, you'll have to pirated "distros" of Mac OS X such as Niresh, which is now the most popular distro for Mavericks.

For install info see http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/106840/5231
VirtualBox supports a Mac-style EFI boot when using the Mac OS X type choices with "Enable EFI" selected, so you can boot an unaltered OS install. However, as noted in the answer I linked, the InstallESD.dmg from the Mavericks App is just plain not a bootable disk image even on a real Mac, so workarounds are necessary.


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Navigating on the internet sometimes I get this webpage "mackeeperapp2"
Is mackeeperapp2 a safe website? Does that mean I have some security problems? I am in possession of a Mac OS X v.10.9.4, which actually is not mine at all, and I wouldn't like to risk or imperil it. As you can notice, I have not so much experience with Mac OS X.

These are pop-up ads, usually opened in new tabs or windows, by aggressive sites that are paid by the makers of MacKeeper to advertise for them. The appearance of these advertisements has nothing to do with the state of your Mac -- your computer is good, safe and fine.
The MacKeeper application itself is not well regarded:

MacKeeper has been described by various sources as highly invasive malware that can de-stablize your operating system, adding that it is unethically marketed, with a history of making false advertising claims, by a company called Zeobit, and a rip-off.


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Chrome Apps in Login Items fail to start
I have a Chrome App (packaged app, installed from Chrome App Store) that I want to start up upon login on my Mac (Mavericks).  I add the item to login items under my User in the Accounts area of Sys. Pref., but it (or any Chrome app) fails to start.  The app is located in Users > me > Applications > Chrome Apps. Any ideas why Chrome Apps won't work as login items? Is there something else I can do to get it to automatically start up?

I'm sure you have to launch Chrome, then tell that to launch the app

Not sure how that works


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How to access a folder which name is composed of more than 1 word via shell?
I have tried with a simple command:
cd Name of the Folder

but it's not working, of course.
I have also been searching on the web, but the methods I found are not actually working.
How can I accomplish this?

"not actually working" doesn't explain the problem you are facing. In case the answers below don't help you in solving the problem, please include the actual command you are executing and the error you get in your question.

Thank you, all methods you suggested work perfectly now. I decided to not vote for none of you, because both answers are helpful :) +1 for both :)

The answers in the linked article are correct (but maybe hard to find among all the other information there). Key problem is that bash (and any other shell) use whitespace to separate between words, so any space characters within names (and any situations where such characters might occur) need to be protected/escaped.
cd "folder with whitespace in name"
cd folder\ with\ whitespace\ in\ name

and (if you have the name of the folder in a variable)
FOLDER_NAME="folder with whitespace in name"
cd "$FOLDER_NAME"

I was trying with the second method, but I was trying wrongly, I was forgetting to insert the variable $VAR between quotes

To access files or directories that have spaces in them you have to tell Bash to ignore them (it uses spaces to delimit commands so it has to be told that the space in the file name is actually part of the filename)
to do that you need to put a backslash (\) in front of the space.
ie.
cd Name\ of\ the\ folder

However bash will help: if you press the TAB key after the start of the filename it will autocomplete and take care of the spaces for you
so type:
cd Name Tab and it will autocomplete.

After writing cd just press the Tab again and again until desired folder appers. Or first pass ls or dir to display all folders inside that folder, then write cd , write first word of your desired file name and start pressing Tab it will give you all the folders whose name starts with that particular word.


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Is there a way to order all the files and folders automatically?
I am new to OS X, but there's one thing that annoys me a little bit, which is that every time I have to clean up all the files (by name, for example) because they are always pasted in an unordered way.
I would not like to lose time to order them every time I change the content of the folders.

I assume this is Finder - if so use list or grid format

Instead of using Clean Up By, use Arrange By. This both cleans up the layout and sets the default sort order for the folder for the future so that any modifications to the folder will update the sort order.

grgarside Is this applied also to sub-folders right?

@cell That depends. You can force it to be default though by setting up a folder how you wish, then press ⌘J and click Use as Defaults.


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Strange path environment
Is it normal to have all this stuff in my path environment?

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin

It seems I have included the same path many times. I have installed and uninstalled Python 3.4 and Python 3.4.1 a few times because I am still having problems in making the IDLE work correctly due to Tcl/Tk libraries compatibility and stability problems with Mac OS X. Is this maybe the reason of having apparently the same path repeated?

How do you uninstall python? (also what stability issues worth OSX - Python install will not affect OSX stability)

Fur python 3 and tcl see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk

For first comment - yo need to start a new terminal to see the changes - for second one I have no idea what you are saying I suspect you need to read a bash tutorial

The issue is how you have uninstalled python. Deleting the app does remove the code but does not affect anything you have changed elsewhere will not have been undone. In this case the changes to the path have not been undone and as the installer is a simple one it keeps adding the new bit of the path to the existing path.
To fix the path you need to find the file where the PATH environment variable is altered. If you are using the bash shell (the default in recent OSX) then. . ideally it should be ~/.bashrc but probably ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile. See other questions or manuals on what startup file bash uses) Then edit this file so that you have only one Python in it, the lines changing PATH will begin export PATH=
In general things are uninstallable if only you know exactly what they changed in install and what they write to at run time. There is no generic way to do this. The best apps have uninstallers which will do the best. You can stop the app running by deleting the .app bundle and most configuration takes up little disk space so the cost of leaving it is not high. Also most .apps do not need edits in bash files so are more self contained.

I always recommend using Homebrew: brew.sh
Installing, uninstalling, updating etc. of Python and many other useful apps is a breeze if you are a bit familiar with terminal. Even for complete n00b following the guides should not be a problem.

That might be true although I would suggest macports but either one does not answer his current problem which is sorting out his path - and I would suggest the OP is not familiar with Terminal

I think that I have determined the problem that this person is having.  They might be using a different kind of shell, like .tschrc.  They should look at their startup files, and likely the now unused framework has been added to the path there.

Reading the other's answers and comments, Uninstalling seems the idea.
However just dragging into the bin isn't enough, so you'll need to use an app that'll search the system for similar files - AppCleaner.
I have used AppCleaner several times and can commend to it. It's not for deleting apps,  but can delete settings. widgets, and related files if you drag and drop into it. Just be sure you see what files you are deleting because I often accidentally delete the app installer/zip from my Downloads folder when I need to reinstall it.
So my opinion is to use a system scanner that'll look for related files and folders and this should prevent from duplicate paths, files or folders being made.
Just be sure to see WHAT you are deleting

Dpoes AppCleaner chnage the path in .bashrc ?

Hm... I'm not sure, but I think AppCleaner looks for similar names, not the contents itself. But I'm not sure


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How to close a file and a folder using bash?
Is it possible? I would like something which is the opposite of the command open file_or_folder_name. I have searched on the web but I got no results.

The open command opens a file in the default application for that file. To close the file in that application, you will need to control the application to close the file. This will depend on what the application is—not all applications support AppleScript control for example and quitting the app is not the same as closing a file.

You can use osascript to run an applescript which closes a window in a certain app:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e "tell application "$1"
close window 1
end tell"

Save this shell script as "closewindow" and do chmod +x closewindow.
This way by running:
$ closewindow appname

you will close window 1 of appname.
There also must be a way to get the number of open windows and close the one that was opened last, but I can't find that right now

You cannot directly close a file, this is a responsibility of the application.
If quitting the application is an option you can use kill or pkill to quit it.
Or you can try to use Apple Script to close an individual window. See How do I close a window from an application, passing the file name? on SuperUser


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A few applications are automatically opened when I first turn on the mac
I have a few applications that are automatically opened when I start the computer, for example TextWrangler or Activity Monitor. Is it possible to start the computer without this stupid behaviour?

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

I'm not using TextWrangler so much, but assuming this old one picture, I can deduct that it had got startup action, which was removed in future versions. But value in property list is still remains. So you can try this defaults write com.barebones.textwrangler StartupAndResumeAction 0. Hope this may help you

Checking this last checkbox would cause open-at-startup only if documents were open at the time textWrangler was quit - not any time the computer is started up.

Thank you, @IconDaemon, I didn't get this. Otherwise, eventually I disable launch at startup searching in launch folders. And hope that this could help


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Is it possible to have 2 wireless interfaces and have each interface connect to a different VPN over a MacPro?
Is it possible to have 2 wireless interfaces and have each interface connect to a different VPN over a MacPro?
Basically, I have a MacPro with 2 wireless interfaces. I connected to both wireless networks, and would like each network interface to be able to VPN to 2 different VPNs.
I was wondering if that was even possible. Currently, when I connect to one wireless network via Cisco IPSec VPN it forces all traffic through that one interface. And was wondering if I had a 2nd wireless interface would I be able to connect to the network to a different VPN.

Could you edit this to explain how you have created 2 wireless interfaces on the Mac Pro?

The problem of Cisco VPN rules forcing all traffic through the VPN is a long-standing pain in the neck. You may find this post helpful in manually adding routing rules:
https://superuser.com/questions/91191/how-to-force-split-tunnel-routing-on-mac-to-a-cisco-vpn
Good luck with it!


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How to enable cut action (and shortcut)?
I am using currently Mac OSX v. 10.9.5 and not being able to cut files or folders is the most stupid thing I have seen in an Operating System, with all respect for this nice OS.
Is there a possibility to enable this shortcut or action?

Things are "Different" on Mac. There's only Copy action. Hovewer if You want Cut feature, instead of Paste You'll need to Move the item with shortcut ⌘ CMD+⌥ ALT+v.


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How to mitigate Bash risk while waiting for a patch (sans a recompile)?
This is related to How do I recompile Bash to avoid the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169?, Are Macs vulnerable to the Bash shellshock bug? and Are Bash, Bourne, and Korn shells compiled into one binary in OSX?.
Apple has not released a patch for 10.8.5, and there's no telling if/when they will patch the defective software.
I don't want to download and compile a version of Bash because version headaches. For example, I might place a new copy in /usr/local/bin, but other software may be hardwired for Bash in /usr. Or I might replace /bin/bash and some unintended consequence might arise, like Apple refusing to update my version of Bash.
How does one mitigate the vulnerable without compiling and patching?

There is a patch for Mountain Lion, see http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1768.


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Delete a currently-open file directly in the application?
OS X's ability to rename or move a currently-open file right inside the application is really handy:

To take it one step further, is there a trick to actually delete the current file  inside the app also? (Obviously 'closing' the file would need to be the second half of the process.)
It would save a lot of time to not have to close the file, manually locate it in Finder, then move it to Trash - but but just delete it right there and then.
I have tried dragging the 'file' (with the file icon to the left of the file name in window title) to the Trash icon on the Dock, but that doesn't actually move it to Trash.
The best I can think of is to add ~/.Trash directory as an item in Finder Favorites, then change the 'Where' in the above screenshot to the created 'Trash' Favorite shortcut, followed by a Cmd+W to close it.
It's a little clunky, but it's not bad.
So is there a nifty Automator workflow / AppleScript (which can then be easily assigned to a hotkey), to make the above process quicker? A single AppleScript that could perform both the step to move current file to 'Trash' directory and then the subsequent Cmd+W keypress after a 200ms gap e.g., would be ideal.

I use this AppleScript:
tell application (path to frontmost application as text)
    set f to POSIX file (path of document 1) as text
    close document 1
end tell
tell application "Finder" to move f to trash

A hackier version that works with a few more applications:
try
    tell document 1 of application (path to frontmost application as text)
        set f to path
        close
    end tell
on error
    tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 whose frontmost is true)
        value of attribute "AXDocument" of window 1
        set f to do shell script "x=" & quoted form of result & ";x=${x/#file:\\/\\/};x=${x/#localhost/};printf ${x//%/\\\\x}"
        keystroke "w" using command down
    end tell
end try
POSIX file f
tell application "Finder" to move result to trash

It seems it is not working anymore, at least in macOS High Sierra. Do you know how this AppleScript should look like now to still be valid?

Try this AppleScript in an Automator service (you can assign a hotkey to any service):
on run
    set x to path to frontmost application as string
    tell application x to if exists document 1 then
        try
            try
                set p to path of front document -- some app use --> path of document
                p
            on error
                set p to file of front document -- some app use -->  file of document
            end try
            my moveToTrash(p)
            close front document
        on error
            my speakText("can't delete this document")
        end try
    else
        my speakText("You have no open document in that application")
    end if
end run

on moveToTrash(p)
    if p starts with "/" then -- some app return posix path
        set tFile to p as POSIX file as alias
    else -- some app return HFS path
        set tFile to p as alias
    end if
    tell application "Finder" to delete tFile
end moveToTrash

on speakText(t)
    say t
end speakText

I tested the script on these applications ("BBEdit", "TextWrangler", "TextEdit", "Preview" "QuickTime Player", "Pages", "Numbers", "Keynote", "Automator", "AppleScript Editor", "Xcode") on Mavericks
This script will not work some non-apple applications.
To assign a keystroke combination to the newly created service:
Open the System Preferences application and navigate to the Keyboard preference pane, and select the Shortcuts tab.
From the list on the left of the preference pane, select the Services category.
A list of the installed services will be displayed to the right.
Scroll to the last category titled General, and locate the service you just created.
Double-click to the far right of the service name to activate the keystroke input field and then type the key combination you wish to assign to the service.
Close the System Preferences application.


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How to always show the menu bar on fullscreen mode?
Do not tell me to use this shortcut CTRL + COMMAND + F to exit or enter in the fullscreen mode. I would like to always see the menu bar in the top of the page when I am in fullscreen mode, is it possible?
This Mac default style is completely annoying.

really annoying...

I agree, probably the most annoying thing with mac, apps jump up and down everytime you use the toolbar

I don't think it can be done.
By default, the menu bar will float in if you hover the mouse at the top.
Alternatively, why not just use the window maximised, which will give a very similar look to what you want. [Green dot, top left of any window - though some apps will toggle full screen horizontally & vertically, others only vertically, you'd have to drag the corner for those]
Update for Yosemite, the green button behaviour is now reversed from Mavericks & before…

Green dot will set to fullscreen, without the menu bar.
 Alt ⌥  /Green dot will maximise, leaving the menu bar visible.

The green maximize dot hides the menu bar for me.

The green dot is not maximise, it's fullscreen, since Yosemite. Opt/green dot is maximise, as already explained. This answer is from 2014.

When you have two monitors and you arrange them vertically, the menu bar of the maximized window on the lower monitor will never show up when you hover your mouse on the top of it.

SOLVED!
The way I did this was:

Go to SystemPreferences -> Dock -> Check the AutomaticallyHideAndShowTheDock
Instead of ClickingTheGreenButton to use 'default' FullScreen, you must do:
Option + ClickTheGreenButton.

Hope it helped you! :D

alt+green zoom button doesn't open a new screen, it just resize window

You can create a new screen if you want, it work as well,
but I think one of the best benefits of not using the default FullScreen is to open window over windows, and use resources as Drag and drop things between windows.

My colleague use 2 monitors, so he wants status bar is always visible on second monitor in FullScreen, but there is no way to do it)))

The problem with the suggestions people are offering is that they are NOT full screen mode. When you resize a window it takes over the desktop rather than becoming a separate pane. I like to toggle between screens using a four finger swiping motion on the magic trackpad (the way you do on an Ipad), or alternately, press command ⌘+TAB. You know how. If the apps are not in TRUE full screen, then they appear as part of the desktop screen and you can't toggle between them. You have to minimize one to find the other one beneath it, then bring it back up using the dock. I've lost pages that way when I have more than one screen from the same program open (like two spreadsheets, pdfs, or Word documents). Even when you go to Mission Control only one screen appears, that of the desktop. I sympathize with them. I hate that you can't have full screen and still see the menu.
The only thing I can suggest to you (just figured this out now) is to try to replicate some of the stuff from your menu bar onto the dashboard and then have a hot key for the dashboard. I suggest the blank F5 key. This will be as close as you can get to bringing up the menu bar with a single press as I can imagine. And you can just as quickly make it go away.

i have the exact same problem. i love the 4 finger scroll. but i hate that the menu bar keeps disappearing in fullscreen mode.

This is precisely what Spaces was designed for. Fullscreen breaks Spaces [bad move, Apple] so using maximised & Spaces is a far more graceful solution - see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/179376/what-is-an-efficient-way-for-developers-power-users-to-use-osx-window-manageme

Answering a question within 5 years of the question being asked was considered fast turnaround in ancient times. So...
The only way to do this is this:
1- Create a new desktop (slide three fingers up, click on the + on top right corner to create a new blank desktop)
2- Un-maximize (Microsoft language: restore) the window or app in question.
3- Drag the window all the way up until all the desktops show at the top.
4- Place the window/app in the desktop you just created.
5- Press Option and click on the green/maximize button of the on the top left corner of the window/app.
The window/app will maximize in that desktop with the menu showing on top as desired (only if the options is unchecked in System Preferences > General > Automatically hide and show the menu bar).

Go to System Preferences > Dock and Menu Bar, uncheck the box Automatically hide and show the menu bar in full screen.
After unchecking the box, refresh your app by exiting full screen and entering it again.

In Safari, enable View → Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen.

That only works for some applications and I think the OP meant the top menu instead of the toolbar (which is different depending on the app that's focused).

I just figured the solution! You need to adjust the screen in the maximize screen as everyone said but also, click hide on the bottom bar and hide it, that way you get a larger portion of the screen and keep the menu bar on top showing.
I like the menu bar because it keeps showing the time and battery. Not sure how you can live without seeing those two all the time...

My husband showed me how to make it always show up.
Open up your browser and float at the top to get the tool bar.
Click on View, and then "Exit Full Screen."
It will make your browser window half the size of what you will want.
Then use your mouse to put the arrow on the right side of the window and pull it to fill in the right side.
Do the same on the bottom. And any adjustments you want on the top.
Now, quit your browser.
When you re-open it, it should remember and be the exact size you want - with the menu bar in full view.

Hold down on the option/alt key while clicking the green dot in the upper left hand corner.

This is no different than the answers already provided.  Can you edit your answer to add any info that's not been already provided?

I observed this phenomenon and let me try to explain the rationale behind this.
Think of full-screen mode as a full-screen mode of a video on a youtube.
you wouldn't want any menu bar appearing on that full-screen while watching any video.
Similar is the logic behind the disappearance of the menu bar while in full mode of any application.
the only other option is to maximize the application to view the menu bar.
Additionally, mac allows the reappearance when hovered on the top instead of exiting the full-screen mode. This is an added feature when observed from this logic.
I hope, I have answered the logic behind the disappearance of the menu bar with my observation.

this does not answer the question at all. The question asks for how not why.

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Double Fusion Drive Volume in Startup Menu after DIY Drive Fusion
After replacing the SuperDrive in my MacBook Pro I copied the Recovery HD to a USB stick and booted from it. Then I ran diskutil cs create MacintoshFusionDrive /dev/disk0 /dev/disk1 (SSD, HDD), reinstalled MacOS from the stick and migrated from my backup.
Unfortunately, I didn't think about keeping the Recovery HD, so I ran from the stick diskutil cs resizeVolume on the logical volume and diskutil cs resizeDisk <UUID> <size> "Recovery HD" <size> on the coreStorage disk of the HDD to make a new partition on wich I then copied the contents of my recovery stick.
Somehow the name of the recovery partition only in the startup menu (alt boot) was localized in German but I got rid of that by running sudo bless --folder /Volumes/Recovery\ HD -label Recovery\ HD. I don't really understand why this happened and how that exact line solved problem. But all seem's fine now. Perhaps I accidentally copied the image on the drive back to the drive directly. Anyhow.
It remains to resolve the last oddity that in the startup hdd menu, there are two Fusion Drives wich both start up the system just fine. It's not a real problem but I would like to know what's causing this and how to get rid of the duplication.
$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 3D7E41ED-2D3B-4C46-A696-2C0C156B6BF6
    =========================================================
    Name:         MacintoshFusionDrive
    Status:       Online
    Size:         625672790016 B (625.7 GB)
    Free Space:   154107904 B (154.1 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume B7097B08-1AD3-4AAA-BD1B-88BF5E0EF57E
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     127691702272 B (127.7 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 12F98EE5-AE4C-4A14-8276-7915BCD06999
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     497981087744 B (498.0 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 5E001AF2-DE08-46C2-A1DA-5637AB534553
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume AC804BCD-419F-4AA0-AE01-1C7D25FF3949
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          619999997952 B (620.0 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Fusion Drive
            Volume Name:           Fusion Drive
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         127.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         498.0 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             1.1 GB     disk1s4
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Fusion Drive           *620.0 GB   disk2

$ sudo gpt -r show disk1
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  972619312      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  973028952    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  974298488    2212488      4  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  976510976     262159
  976773135         32         Sec GPT table
  976773167          1         Sec GPT header
$ diskutil info disk1
   Device Identifier:        disk1
   Device Node:              /dev/disk1
   Part of Whole:            disk1
   Device / Media Name:      Hitachi HTS545050B9SA02 Media

   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

   File System:              None

   Content (IOContent):      GUID_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
   SMART Status:             Verified

   Total Size:               500.1 GB (500107862016 Bytes) (exactly 976773168 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
   Ejectable:                No

   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 Yes
   Solid State:              No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

Please let me know, if anything else could be of help.

Had the same question...
Fusion Drive utilizes a component of OS X called CoreStorage to work. When you boot your Mac holding down Option, you are booting into a screen running in the low-level EFI environment, before OS X has started. EFI doesn't understand what a home-built Fusion Drive is, but sees two physical drives capable of booting into OS X.
I'm not sure of the mechanics of why factory-built Fusion Drives in the latest Macs act differently but my guess is that there is a firmware chip of some sort, like you said. Apple is known to put custom firmware on some of their hard drives.
(Answer taken from another post)

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Recognize audio vs video podcasts in iOS
When searching for podcasts in the official iOS app, is there a way to see which ones are audio vs video? Or filter the search?

File size will tell, Audio is usually not more than 5 Meg.

That may be true for an episode, but what about an entire podcast? To quickly see from the search result which ones are audio...

MP3, WAV, ALAC,

what? Where do you see that??


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Adding TextWrangler to the path environment
I would like to add TextWrangler to the path environment. I have tried with this command on the terminal:
alias textwrangler=/Applications/TextWrangler.app
and then tried to call it just typing textwrangler, but as you can imagine, it's not working.
I did it in this way, because I had done the same thing for mysql, and it had worked.
I know there are other possibilities to add an application to the path environment, but I would like to know what is the secure way to do it. Can you describe it?
By the way, what I did, as I understood, is not exactly adding TextWrangler to the path environment...

Your alias which you have configured will change the working directory in shells which support changing directory without 'cd' to the application bundle of TextWrangler.
To have an alias which opens an app, you will need to run the binary in the app bundle, usually located in Contents/MacOS. For example…
alias textwrangler=/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/MacOS/TextWrangler

The binary in TextWrangler also understands arguments for passing files, which will mean that you can now edit files using the following. This won't work with every app though.
textwrangler /path/to/file

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to add to your path, but if you want to add the binary to your path, you can add the containing folder:
export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/MacOS

To add the alias to every interactive shell session, add the alias line to one of the profile files for your shell.

The first sentance appears to about something else. You out to add a bit about TextxtWrangeler being an app and mysql just a plain Unix executable

@Mark The first sentence is a reference to OP's alias in the question and why it won't work.

aliases don't change directory (unless they have cd in)

@Mark "in shells which support it"


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Terminal not recognising commands
I have tried to add TextWrangler to the path environment modifying the file .bash_profile. This is what I have added:
# Just a comment
PATH=/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/MacOS
export PATH

I am not sure if it was exactly like this, but I am sure it was not so different. I must admit I do not know exactly what I was doing with the commands above, but by suggestions of other people and content on the web, I decided to add it to the .bash_profile file.
Now, when I type for example ls or open or nano it does not work. I have seen on the web that this has already happened to other people.
I am not able to open the .bash_profile file with TextWrangler to restore it as it was, so this is a big problem, I might say.

Is that the only thing in .bash_profile - also what happens when you try to edit the file? (The obvious thing to do is restore .bash_profile from a backup - if no backup set up Time Machine or anther backup before doing anything else

Here's similar question about wrong PATH export: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146940/accidentally-removed-all-commands-in-terminal

Perhaps you can modify the .bash_profile with textedit or textmate? You can download textmate from http://www.macromates.com/download. I like it a lot better than TextWrangler.

I don't think so. I use TextMate 2.0 alpha which is free, but it looks you can purchase other versions.

Also, TextMate 2 is open source and on GitHub: textmate/textmate. I've been using it (the alpha) as my main editor for a while and haven't noticed any stability issues.


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Home folder name changed but terminal prompt is still showing last name
I changed the name of my home folder in 2 ways. First I change it using the instructions from the official Apple website:
sudo mv /Users/old_name /Users/new_name
and then I also changed it going to System Preferences > Users & Groups > Advanced Options.
My problem is that the prompt on the terminal is still showing me the last name I had
name-mbp:~ old-home-folder-name$

why?
Is it possible to make changes have effect also on the terminal?

possible duplicate of Why is my host name wrong at the Terminal prompt when connected to a public WiFi network?

What the terminal prompt is showing you is not the home folder name, but the user name.
The folder is displayed after the machine name, in the ~ highlighted below:
name-mbp:~ old-home-folder-name$
Folder   ^ ^ User name

You can type the command pwd ("print working directory") to see which folder it is currently in. Or you can type the command echo $HOME to show you what Terminal thinks your home directory is.