Internet sharing from USB iPhone to Wifi on OSX 10.10.2 Yosemite not working For years I've been sharing Internet on my MacBookPro Wi-Fi coming from USB connected iPhone. After OSX 10.10 Yosemite things started working erratically and now definitely stopped in 10.10.2.

Hardware connection:
iPhone->USB->MacBook Pro (hotspot/tethering active, Internet is working on MBP)

Sharing preferences: "share USB iPhone to computers using Wi-Fi"

Now I'm not getting the usual "arrow up"  icon instead of WiFi on the menubar and sharing is not working.

Internet sharing from Ethernet to Wi-Fi is working as expected.

During many tests I've been able to activate internet sharing only once, after a long series of SMC resets, disk repair and reboots, but never been able to reproduce it anymore.

After installing 10.10.1 everything seemed back to normal.
Just tried now with 10.10.2 and it's not working.

In system logs I'm getting this strange message:

  22/02/15 12:03:34,580 airportd[34]: WARNING: com.apple.preferences.sharing.remoteservice (385) is not entitled for com.apple.wifi.keychain, temporarily allowing request with background priority —— all entitlement requirements will be strictly enforced in a future release

Not sure if it's related.

Any clues?

Someone on Apple Communities says "sharing from iPhone is no more supported...", then why device is still there in the menu and you don't get any warning?

Using the Bluetooth connection to my iPhone works, while USB does not.


How to back up Photos Library to an external hard drive? I have a MacBook Pro running Yosemite and my Photos Library is taking 235G of space so I want to back it up into an external hard drive and delete it from MacBook Pro. I am kinda new to Mac OS systems and never really understand how the Photos application works.

I have my iPhone backups on this same MacBook Pro and have also done picture/video imports via the Photos Library application.

The Photos application shows my pictures / videos from 2007 up to 2016.

But I am confused that when I get into Show Package Content of the Photos Library and then the Masters folder, I only see year folders of 2015 and 2016.

So, my question is: From where is the Photos Library pulling together all of my media files? As you know, the Photos Library software does not allow us to right click a picture or video and reveal in finder, which is very annoying.

The bottom line question is: If I drag and drop the Photos Library package to an external drive, will I have successfully backed up my media and safe to delete them from my macbook pro?

You can move the entire Library if you first Consolidate it from Photos' File menu.

This will pull all externally referenced files into the Library, after which you can move it in its entirety to a new drive. Next Launch of Photos it will ask you where it went & you tell it.

If you then keep the 'Copy items to Photos Library' checked, then in future it will always ensure they are kept within the Library & you can delete any & all external files, should you wish.


macOS High Sierra internet recovery is frozen I am using MacBook Pro 15 2015. I erased the drive and now I cannot complete the Internet recovery. It is stuck saying

macOS High Sierra will be installed on the disk "Untitled"
 "About 17 hours 7 minutes remaining"

for the past 10 hours. I did use Internet recovery in the past many times(with disk erase as well) and it was done usually in the matter of hours. This time for some reason it does not progress.
Internet connection cannot be an issue, Wi-Fi bar is complete and other devices can stream 4k easily (what was just for testing - nothing else was using bandwidth most of the time).

I tried to repeat the Internet recovery and it always eventually get stuck at some time "16 hours 4 minutes" or sometimes even just "8 minutes".

It does not become frozen, i still can click the option to cancel it (or change input language) - - just stuck with update.

I highly doubt there is a hardware failure, because it was working absolutely fine just before the disk erase and there were never any issues with it in the meantime.

Getting to apple store is very hard in my city (there are no apple stores). Is there anything else I could do to try to make it install?

This is why it is better to first download macOS from the Apps Store to your Applications folder. You then can create a USB flash drive installer for offline installations. The instructions are given at this Apple website: How to create a bootable installer for macOS.

You have already erased your drive so this is no longer an option on your Mac. In your case, you would now need another Mac to download High Sierra and make the installer.

  FYI: I usually have two installations of macOS per Mac. Each installation is in separate partitions. I usually the edit the /etc/fstab file so each installation can not access the other installation, unless I do a mount. This way I usually can avoid having to use macOS Recovery.


How to OEM iPod / iPad as controller for our product? We manufacture and sell an industrial product (not consumer-grade) that is currently being controlled using a traditional keypad and display. We'd like to replace this with an iPod Touch (smaller systems) and/or iPad (larger systems).

The iPod would act as an embedded controller to our product. It would likely be connected (via serial interface) to an internal control board by something like Redpark's serial cable.

Is this possible?

There seem to be a fair amount of hurdles to this:

Activation - Each device needs to be activated with an iTunes account (and credit card?)
Power - The Redpark cable only supplies signal, not power to the device
App Deployment - Ideally, our custom app would be pre-loaded on the iDevice so our customers can be up and running with our product out of the box. However, it seems you cannot publish an app to the App Store that uses the 30-pin accessory port. "Enterprise deployment" is out of the question as it's limited to 100 installations.

Has anyone successfully used an iOS device as a front-end interface for their product?

Thanks.

Contact Redpark.  They may be able to help you apply for Apple's MFi program and get a custom cable manufactured to your (and Apple's MFi) specification after you are accepted into the MFi program.  Then you can distribute your custom app for that cable (and your industrial product) via Apple's iTunes App store.


Recents not updating with new files in High Sierra There has been a lot of wingeing over the loss of "All My Files" in favor of "Recents" in High Sierra, and I am beginning to understand why. For one, it seems to be an opaque tool and I have yet to locate any means of adjusting how it behaves or even learn what criteria make files appear there.

One thing I am sure of is that files which I have created in the last 24 hours (specifically, screen shots) do not appear there. These are not esoteric files like .plist files, but .jpg files that I have saved within my Google Drive folder. I have no idea why this file is being excluded from "Recents" but it does infer why screen videocaps created by Monosnap and saving them to some mysterious location with a mysterious name, which would seem to be a perfect opportunity for "Recents" to be useful except that it doesn't seem to work.

Is there any way to adjust how "Recents" works or learn what the criteria are for files to appear there

When Recents is active in a Finder window, go to the window's action (gear) pop-up menu, select "Show Search Criteria". The first criterion for Recents requires that the "Last Opened" metadata entry have a value – this is probably why your screen captures are not showing up (if you were to open them in Preview, then they would show up in Recents).

You can edit the search criteria in that window, or perhaps better, copy the search string and create a new smart folder with it, then tweak it until satisfactory.


How to open Resolution Center for an app version rejection after the app is approved? Something very strange happened to me. My company application was rejected in first place because App Review Team reported that it crashed in iPad Air 2. We bought a new iPad Air 2 and I faced no issues there.. However I did some small fixes here and there and uploaded a new bundle of the app. Even in this case the app was rejected with the same excuse. I had a long conversation in the Resolution Center with the App Review Team with me explaining that the app never crashed even with the new device we bought. As last thing I requested to have a video/screenrecord of the crashing moment.. After some hours surprisingly I got the application approved and ready for sale. My problem now is that I can't access the resolution center anymore. I need to have this conversation documented because my chiefs have it hard to believe that the application was accepted just at surprise :) Can anyone help please ?

Found this floating around on Reddit.  I've also had the same issue and was able to find the Resolution Center from this:

https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/ra/ng/app/[your-app-id]/platform/ios/resolutioncenter

Update it with your AppID.  This ID is for iTC, not the bundle_id from the developer portal.  You can find it in iTC and it will be a series of numbers.

UPDATE

Since iTunes Connect has become App Store Connect, due to redirects, the above URL no longer works. Please use the following:

https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/ra/ng/app/[your-app-id]/platform/ios/resolutioncenter


Contextual Menu Keyboard Shortcuts Is it possible to create a keyboard shortcut for a contextual menu item and if so, how? I'm not sure if this functionality was available in Lion, but if it wasn't, maybe it is in Mountain Lion.

You can set shortcuts for some context shortcuts, specifically anything that's a service. Most app-specific context menu items aren't services (although some, such as services to modify a file in a particular app are), so they can't be assigned shortcuts. So it depends which items you want a shortcut for, but it's doable.

To add a shortcut for a service, open Keyboard Preferences, click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and select Services in the left pane. Then look for the context menu item you want in the right pane, click it and you'll get an option to set a shortcut.


How to disable wifi password sharing on iOS 11? Each time I unlock my iPhone, iOS 11 reminds me to share my wifi password, which is boring.

I've tried this accepted answer, which does not work.

It is not feasible to power off someone else's device. Is there a setting on my own device to disable this feature?

This happens because someone, that also is in your contact list, tries to enter a password for the WiFi network your device is connected to. If possible, find the MacBook Pro it wants to share the WiFi code with, and check if the MacBook is trying to connect to the WiFi network. If it is, power the MacBook off or type in the WiFi password on the MacBook.

Let me know if you have any questions or if it worked :)


Select all hyperlinks in Pages Is it possible to select all of the hyperlinks in a document?

I want to change the colours for every link in the document but it seems a bit odd that i have to go through all of them manually.

There is no easy way to select all the Hyperlinks all at once, but what you can do is use the Styles Drawer to create a custom Style so that you can apply it very quickly to you hyperlinks.

To use the Styles Drawer to create a custom style follow these steps:

In the Pages menu bar click on View > Show Styles Drawer.
Highlight the Hyperlink with the correct color.
Under the Character Styles click on the dropdown arrow and select "Create New Character Style from Selection"
Name the Style accordingly.
After that click on any hyperlink in which you would like to apply the style and click on the style.


I keep being asked by iTunes for password and credit card verification, and getting warning emails I use iTunes (latest available build) on Windows 7 x64.

Whenever I buy apps for my iPhone, or download free updates to apps I already purchased, iTunes asks me to enter my Apple ID password, and my credit card confirmation number; everytime this happens, I also get an email from Apple saying "you purchased something from a device that has never been associated with your account, watch out because someone could be messing around with it".

I always used iTunes only on this computer, and I've tried logging out/in, and also unauthorizing the system and then authorizing it back again; but this keeps happening.

How can I fix this?

After going through various rounds of support calls and emails with Apple, there was no way to solve the problem. However, after some months, it just disappeared. I never actually found out what was causing it, probably some glitch on the Apple side.

Meh.


Black screen after FileVault restart I’ve recently bought a 2014 MacBook Air 11 and while I was going through the encryption shutdown and hasn’t restarted. Just sat there with a black screen and the Apple logo glowing. I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this or what the problem is?

If you have a current time machine backup, you could try restarting your MacBook in recovery mode. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314   Just a thought as I'm sure there are more experienced users who can help you. Good luck!


How to upgrade to chrome 64 bit? Finally there should be a version of Chrome 64 bit for Mac.

I received an email from google groups:

  Switch the Mac build from 32-bit to 64-bit.

  As of M39, Chrome is a 64-bit only binary. This changes the default
  build configuration to 64-bit globally. After this CL, the 32-bit Mac
  build is no longer supported.

Now, while this is good news, I wonder how to do that without losing all my bookmarks, cookies, passwords that are in my current version of Chrome

Can somebody help?

Chrome is updated automatically by a process that runs in the background. Though sometimes I have to launch it and update it from the"About Chrome" menu selection, that may me being to picky avoid what Little Snitch tells me about...

Anyway you don't (or shouldn't) have to do anything, it will update all by itself with no loss of anything. Just check "About Chrome" in the Chrome menu.


How can I know the end of production date for my MacBook Pro? Apple allows to buy original parts for the products 5 years after
the end of production.

What is the end of production date for Early 2015 13" MacBook Pro?

If it is, for example, 10 July 2017. Does it mean that I can buy battery etc. in Apple Store till 10 July 2022 or till 31 December of 2022?

From the Apple Support article, Vintage and obsolete products:

  Vintage and obsolete products

  Owners of iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Mac products may obtain service and parts from Apple or Apple service providers for 5 years after the product is no longer manufactured—or longer where required by law. Apple has discontinued support for certain technologically obsolete products.

From the English Wikipedia article on MacBook Pro, the 13" Early 2015 MacBook Pro were succeeded by newer models in Late 2016 (released on October 27, 2016 to be precise). So, you could be potentially looking for a similar timeline (5 years past the date) to receive support from Apple.

The popular Apple product database app MacTracker states that the said model of MacBook Pro were discontinued in June 2017 (exact date not mentioned). So you could be looking for June 2022 timeline for product support.


Why does this Applescript often fail the first time, but always work after that? The following Applescript opens a menubar app called QuickHue and then clicks a specified item in the menu.  Often, when I use the applescript, it does nothing.  But if I wait a moment or two and try again, it works perfectly.  And it keeps working.  But if some time passes and I trigger it again, it'll fail again the first time.  After that, it works like a champ.  Here's the applescript.  Any idea what's going on here?

ignoring application responses
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickHue"
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
    end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickHue"
    tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
        click menu item 2 of menu 1
    end tell
end tell

You're right, I didn't test it well enough. The error was shown when System Events was not already running. As another workaround, I added launch application "System Events" and delay 0.2 to the start:

launch application "System Events"
delay 0.2
ignoring application responses
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickHue"
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
    end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickHue"
    tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
        click menu item 2 of menu 1
    end tell
end tell

If it still doesn't work, try increasing the delays.


Terminal - Sudo DD Error I am trying to make a bootable Kali Linux ISO on my MacBook Pro Mid-2012. When I try to use this command: sudo dd if=/Users/jordanbaron/Desktop/kali-linux-2016.2-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb2 of=/dev/disk1 bs=512 conv=noerror,sync I get this error: dd: of: illegal argument combination or already set Is there anyway that I could fix it? The flashdrive I am using is formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) and I am using OS X El Capitan.

It appears you specified the of parameter twice. For Mac OS you probably don't want /dev/sdb2 (that's more likely a Linux device).


How do I search by file extension in MacOS Finder? In trying to search for a .ai file, I have tried doing kind:ai, and have also tried doing it via the kind selector (see image below). I know how to do this using the linux "find" command already, but I really want to find a way to do this using the native finder interface.

OK, I finally figured it out with the following approach:

Open finder to the top-level directory you wish to search
Press ⌘ + F
From the search menu options, on the left, choose other
Click the checkbox under the In Menu column for file extension from the popup window and close the popup window by pressing OK
Select file extension from the search menu
Type your file extension in the text field (follows the word is)


What is this extra partition that has appeared suddenly in macOS and how to delete it? macOS BigSur 11.2.3 (20D91) / MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) has suddenly generated a new 22GB partition. I noticed this yesterday when 22GB suddenly disappeared and I started to receive low disk space warnings. It seems to me this partition is for some update that possibly has gone wrong?
I have upgraded Big Sur as soon as it was available so that is some time ago. This partition is more recent. A week ago I partiotioned some USB drives and this partition did not show up back then. Also I did reinstall XCode recently but it worked fine.
I cant remove it from he minus sign. Should I boot from network and delete this or will deleting it create problems? Is there a "correct way" to fix this?

This is quite normal under BigSur and it is not a partition, but a snapshot of your drive. E.g. mine looks quite similar:

There is nothing you need to worry about and you should not try to delete it. This exact layout has been also discussed in Apple Forums, on MacRumors and on reddit.
To quote from reddit (user "Advanced_Path"):

Big Sur changes the way how updates are done. Now that the System volume is basically immutable, the way an update is done is with APFS snapshots. The system takes a snapshot of the base volume, updates the necessary file and from that moment forward, it boots from that snapshot.

Furher, I can recommend this article.


Why do I see a "Put Back" menu item in the trash for only some items? When I control-click on some files in the trash I see the "Put Back" menu item:

However, on other files I don't see this item:

Why is that?

You only see Put Back if a file/folder was deleted by the Finder, not any other process.
It will silently fail to Put Back if the folder it came from is gone, but it will still offer.
Tested on Mojave.


Menu bar clock differs from system time I have a problem with the menu bar clock showing the wrong time after resuming from sleep. This doesn't happen a lot but when it does, I have to restart to fix it.

I have checked that my timezone is still correct (Eastern), the time shown in the Date & Time app is right and time syncs with apple servers - shown in the screenshot below.

Why is this happening? How can I fix the menu bar clock without restarting?

MacOS Mojave v10.14.5 (18F132)

Thanks.

I know you asked about a fix without restarting, but I really think your best option is to reset the NVRAM which, of course, requires you to restart your Mac. The reason for this is that your Mac's Non-Volatile RAM stores its timezone information.

Reset your NVRAM

To reset the NVRAM you'll need to follow these steps:

Fully shut down your Mac
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionpr keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down for about 20 seconds (or until you know for sure your Mac has rebooted a second time)
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.


Installing Leopard from DVD: Apple logo? I need to install Leopard OSX on my mac.

When the mac starts, I hold the alt button and I load the Leopard Installation DVD. Afterwords I can only see the Apple logo on the screen and everything seems stuck (waited for 8 minutes so far).

How much am I supposed to wait to see the first istructions when loading the Installation DVD at boot time ?

thanks

You most probably won't be able to install this OS X version on your iMac:

10.6.4 (which is Snow Leopard, not Leopard) was released June 15th, 2010 (Wikipedia)
iMac 12,2 was released mid 2011 (Apple Support Document)

As a general rule you can't install older OS X discs on newer hardware (missing drivers etc.).


File assign to a desktop Can I make that a specific file opens in a specific space? (For instancem can I make that "receipt.pages" document always opens in space 2)

(I know that I can make an application open in a specific space: dock > ctrl click application > option > desktop 2. But THIS IS NOT WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR,  I ask if this is possible for a specific file not all files of an application)

Was not able to find if a specific file could be opened in a specific space but you can make applications open there.

From https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18757?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

Assign apps to spaces

If you assign an app to a particular space, it opens in that space by default.

Press and hold an app’s icon in the Dock. You may have to first open the app from Launchpad to see its icon in the Dock.

From the shortcut menu that appears, do one of the following:

Have the app open in the current space: Choose Options > This Desktop.

The app appears only in that space. However, if you open the app in full screen, it appears in its own space.

Have the app open in the current space on a specific display: Choose Options > Desktop on Display [number].

Have the app open in every space: Choose Options > All Desktops.

The app appears in every space.

Have the app open in whichever space you’re using at the time: Choose Options > None.

In Mission Control preferences, you can also specify that, when you switch to an app, your desktop should switch to a space with open windows for that app. To open Mission Control preferences, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Mission Control.


Numbers - multiple conditions in an if statement I am trying to do this:
IF(day(now()) > 28 and day(now()) < 1, A1 + B1, A2 + B2)
However this gives a syntax error. Is it not possible to have more than one operation in a condition?
I don't want to have nested IFs because the other calculations are more complicated than the example and I don't want to have to duplicate the entire thing.

IF(AND(day(now()) > 28,day(now()) < 1), A1 + B1, A2 + B2)

The full user guide is available here.


Change default ssh:// behavior Currently, the protocol handler ssh:// opens the link in a new Terminal.app window. I'd like to default it so it opens it in a new tab instead. How can I change this behavior?

Backstory: I use Alfred and a workflow to open my ssh connections. The workflow uses the ssh:// handler to open the window.

If you don't mind using some command-line tomfoolery:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down'

This is from a stack overflow question on a similar topic.

If you want you can even create a new URL handler (or replace the ssh:// one) with a shell script as described at another stack overflow question.

EDIT1: you can get command line args from osascript by using something like the following (taken from the osascript man page):

a.scpt:
on run argv
    return "hello, " & item 1 of argv & "."
end run

% osascript a.scpt world
hello, world.


Windows installation via bootcamp on a MBA mid-2013 without USB or DVD I need to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Air Mid-2013 (MacBookAir6,1) via bootcamp, for various reasons I cannot use USB, as far as I know since El Capitan it's possible to install Windows without using a USB or DiskDrive, however only on some newer 2015 models.

As you can see OSX tells me to insert the installer disk, I also tried to mount the ISO (no luck even there). Can I spoof my model id to look like a 2015mba? As far as I know no hardware is pulling back this "no-usb" procedure that is available on newer macbooks so it should work even on older MACs.

In order to install Windows via Boot Camp on Mac follow these steps:

Download the Windows iso:

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10ISO

Open Boot Camp and select the first option.

Open the downloaded iso.

You have to select the size of the partition, after that it should automatically install the drivers and reboot on the Windows installation.


My External Hard Drive's format changed to FAT16 without any reason I have an ADATA HD710 1TB external hard drive which I use mostly in my Mac Mini 2011 and I have created two separate partitions for my drive.

One of the partitions has APFS (Apple File System) format and the other has MS-DOS FAT (FAT32) format. I use the second one for Windows 10 that is installed on my computer using Bootcamp. As it's not possible to view files of the drive which is formatted in APSF in Windows I use that FAT32 partition to move some files from my main drive to that and view them in Windows.

Yesterday I plugged my external drive in to Windows 10 and after copying some files I just ejected it. Today when I tried to access my files in macOS I realized that my Hard drive's format is changed to FAT16 and none of the two partitions which I had created are displayed.

I tried repairing my drive using the Disk Utility's First Aid feature but it didn't work. I also tried repairing it via Terminal using diskutil repairDisk command and the result was the same as Disk Utility. Finally, I tried repairing it in Windows (using diskpart commands) and I was unsuccessful again.

How can I fix this issue?

  Please notice that I really need the information inside my main
  partition of the drive (The FAT32 partition is not that important for
  me). Otherwise, I know that if I erase the whole drive, I can use it again.

The exact error message that I get when I connect my external drive to macOS is:

  The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.

It seems somehow the partition table (and possibly more) was corrupted on your hard drive, as you indicate that the drive is not readable anymore in macOS or from Windows.

The next step is to stop touching the drive at all before you have made a bit-for-bit image copy of everything on it to secondary storage. After that you can work on copies of that image in order to try to rescue your data.

It might be that you accidentally overwrote the partition table unknowingly. Then data recovery is probably fairly easy. It might be that your drive is starting to fail and various errors pop up sporadically - this is usually much, much harder to recover data from.

In order to create a bit-for-bit copy of the drive, you'll need to find the disk number from Disk Utility. In your screenshot it is currently listed as "disk2", please ensure that you double check this before proceeding.

When you have the disk number, open Terminal and run the following command:

dd if=/dev/rdisk2 of=my_image_file.img bs=512 conv=noerror,sync

The command probably takes a long while to complete - creating a new file named "my_image_file.img" containing a complete copy of your drive. Make sure that you have space enough to store the file. If you haven't got room on your internal drive, you can plug in another external drive and store the file there.

The "noerror" and "sync" options to dd makes sure that if there are drive read errors (i.e. the drive is actually physically failing) then dd will try to skip the errors, replacing those with bytes containing zeros. This won't get you the data back ofcourse, but it makes a lot easier to recover the rest of the data.

When you have the image copy, you can use any data extraction / data recovery software to work on the image to try to find your partitions, file systems, or even single files that you want to extract.


Keynote slideshow in the background Is there a way to leave a Keynote slideshow running on the second attached monitor while doing other things on the computer? I use my MacBook Pro to run the projector at my school assemblies and I'd like to be able to switch away from the slideshow without it disappearing.

This, unfortunately, does not appear to be possible. See the question comments for more details.


Cannot open Mail.app Preferences in OS X 10.7.5 I get the pinwheel of death when I try to open Mail Preferences. I'm using OS X 10.7.5 and Mail v5.3.

You can reset Mail's settings by running the following one-liner in Terminal:

killall Mail &> /dev/null; mv ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist ~/Desktop && open -a Mail

https://georgegarside.com/o/se/reset-osx-mail.html


Determine storage requirement for VirtualBox snapshot merge Unable to merge storage '/Users/.../Disk.vdi'. Not enough free storage space.

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY (0x8007000E)
Component:
SessionMachine
Interface:
IMachine {c2527465-f1b5-6791-9b86-7954d82gfaa0}

How do I determine how much is needed?

What I have found is that you need at least the size of the snapshot in free space.

So, if you have a 20GB vdi and a 5GB snapshot that will make a 25GB vdi in the end, you need at least the 5GB.

What I suggest you do is move the snapshots to a different volume (like a USB drive), make symlinks to them, then do the merge.

For example...

Move the snapshot file to a mounted volume:

mv /VBM-Folder/Snapshots/{abcd12a3-de1a-9876-ab89-abcd1abvc5abc12a1}.vdi /Volumes/Some/Mounted/Folder

Then create the symlinks back to the original folder:

ln -s /Volumes/Some/Mounted/Folder/{abcd12a3-de1a-9876-ab89-abcd1abvc5abc12a1}.vdi /VBM-Folder/Snapshots

This, right off the bat should free up a bunch of space.  Once you do this, you can then "merge" the snapshots (in VBox, you have to delete them - it's not intuitive)


Password protected partitions on mac os x I have two partitions first is primary with os x installed and second is empty, I want to password protect this second partition so when I double click it must ask for password and then tell me read write files.

I searched on internet but mostly people saying create a disk image apple encryption and you have password protected folder but I simply wants a password protected partition which ask for password who ever assess it.

Please tell me is there any benefit of creating standard user account sudo command can bypass it.

simply format the second partion as Mac OS journaled encrypted via Disk Utility


How to setup DMZ with Airport behind a router (double NAT issue)? My cable provider shipped a new modem which includes WLAN, and thus also a router. It hands out 192.168.0.X adresses via DHCP.

My Airport's WAN side is connected to this router, and gets an address out of the above range. The ISP's router has no address reservation facility, so the address that the Airport gets can vary.

The Airport is configured to hand out 192.168.243.X addresses via it's own DHCP server. As expected it complains about "double NAT". For the moment I have fixed the issue by disabling the ISP's router and WLAN completely (bridge mode).

However, I'd actually like to use the feature. My desired setup would be:

ISP's Router
Airport, using e.g. 192.168.0.10
Web Server, opening port 80, using e.g. 192.168.0.20. The ISP's router supports port forwarding, so I can do this.

On the Airport's LAN side, I'd like to span an independent 192.168.243.x subnet, that cannot be reached from the web server. In a way, the web server would be in a "DMZ", isolated from the rest of my home network.

The problem is: The Airport doesn't let me do this! When I connect any device to the LAN side of the Airport, I get a 192.168.0.x address from the ISP's router, and not a 192.168.243.x address from the Airport. The Airport acts like it is in bridge mode, even though it isn't.

How can I set this up the way I want to?

Out of the box, the Airport (and Apple's Time Capsule) insist that there not be two NAT/DHCP devices chained in a row. You're trying to do this, one being your broadband router, and the other your Airport. In this situation, the Airport will insist on being in bridging mode and letting the broadband router be the DHCP server.

The Airport detects this situation by looking at the IP address it gets. If it is one in a number of known ranges like 192.168.x.x, 172.x.x.x, or 10.x.x.x, it will balk.

So the way you get around this is by having your broadband router give out addresses in a range that's safe but not knows as a "private" address range. I found an article [1] recommending a block of addresses designated for "testing" purposes in the Amateur Packet Radio network (AMPRNet). The range is 44.128.x.x.  I set up my broadband router to use that range, and my TimeCapsule is happy to provide NAT as well. Problem solved.

[1] http://www.wa4dsy.com/robot/ooma-airport-hack


Is there an IOS app that mimics "while you were out phone message pads" but txt all the info to multiple recepients

Yes. Notes app does this perfectly on iOS 11.

Take a picture of the paper, crop and color correct if you please. You can also or store in iCloud Drive, photos or store on the iPad as a file, but I kind of like the notes app.

Then annotate the image with text typing, finger drawing in pen, pencil, marker or use a stylus or Apple Pencil on iPad.

Then send the file using messages or any other app.


Wiped my version 1 IPad and it won't load Facebook now Facebook says it needs IOS version 7 to run, I had Facebook on it before I wiped it. Can I get an older version of Facebook back?

iOS will let you download the last compatible version if you already have the app in your purchase history.

You can add the app to your purchase history using iTunes on your computer, since iTunes is version-agnostic. Once you've downloaded the app on iTunes, it will be in your purchase history and attempting to download it again on your device should prompt you to accept an older version of the app.


Downloading Podcast on iPhone iOS 5.0 No Longer Shows Date In Music App Since I upgraded to iOS 5 when I download podcasts from iTunes on my phone the date the podcast is published is no longer downloaded.

See the below screenshot, notice how the last podcast has a published date of 11/3, that one I downloaded via iTunes on my computer.  The others I used the iTunes store on the iPhone to download directly to the phone.  Downloading directly from iTunes on the phone is nice, but then the phone holds all of the podcasts out of order.

Thoughts?

I think this is a bug in the Music or iTunes app on iOS 5. Something doesn't seem to store the date properly on podcasts downloaded on the phone, they don't show up in the app and if you transfer them back to your computer, iTunes shows the date as Dec 31, 2000 or something nonsensical.

Podcasts I download in iTunes on my Mac and then sync to my iPhone show the date fine.


"VPN is not configured" error on El Capitan I discovered this new annoying bug in El Capitan 10.11.2 running on a MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013.

Sometimes when I click on the VPN icon in the menu bar, I get "VPN is not configured" despite the fact that I configured three.  It is all resolved by going into System Preferences → Network, then unchecking and rechecking the "Show VPN Status in menu bar" checkbox.

Even though I can manually sort the issue each time, I would like a more robust and permanent solution.

One workaround that I found useful was to use Tunnelblick rather than macOS built-in VPN networking. Tunnelblick is open source and generally respected, and if you are able to install this software on your machine, it is a more robust and permanent solution than macOS' Networking prefpane.


Mac OS X cannot find the hard drive (anywhere) I suspect this is a dead hard drive issue:

blinking question mark folder at startup
resetting PRAM has no effect
single user mode not available with Cmd-S

When I get to Internet Recovery mode, the drive does not show up, either in the Startup Disk dialog, in Disk Utility or in Terminal with ls -a /Volumes

Is there anything I forgot to check before turning to Dropbox to get my files and Apple to get a new drive?

(It's all very disappointing, because this is a quite recent MBA, and I thought SSD would spare me these issues.)

It does sound like a failed SSD drive, or possibly its PCIe connection on the logic board.  There are two things you can attempt before taking it in to Apple though.

1) An SMC reset.  This resets the system management controller, which is responsible for directing power flow through the Mac.  A lot of odd issues, not just disappearing hard drives, can be resolved with an SMC reset.  Apple's KB article HT3964 explains this a bit more in detail.

Shutdown your Mac
Connect your MagSafe adapter to a power source and then to your Mac
On the built in keyboard press left Shift + Control + Option + Power button at the same time.  You might notice the MagSafe's LED light change from green to orange, or vice versa, while doing this
Release all 4 keys/buttons at the same time
Attempt to power on your Mac as normal by pressing the power button

2) Remove the bottom case and reseat the SSD drive.  Obviously this is a bit more involved than performing the SMC reset but it's something I would typically try before taking the time to head to the Apple store.  This does require some specific tools though, a size 5 Pentalobe driver and a Torx 5 driver.  This iFixit walkthrough does a good job showing the process.  Essentially you need to remove the 10 pentalobe screws securing the bottom case, remove the bottom case, disconnect the battery, remove the torx 5 screw securing the SSD, remove and reinsert the SSD ensuring a snug connection, then perform the reverse for reassembly.

Good luck!  Hopefully either of these is all it takes to get you back up and running.


How to remove locally stored Exchange emails? VIP in company who uses several people's mail boxes purchased Mac Air. Outlook 2011 by default insists on locally storing everything.

50k+ items, plus attachments later the HDD is full. I've set the accounts to download headers only, but the HDD is still full. How do I remove the locally stored mail, because it's still on the exchange server where it belongs?

The computer is so full it can't really do anything anymore and I can only come to this Office once before Christmas.

Outlook 2011 cannot disable storing the email locally. Your best alternative would be to access the email using Outlook Web Access (if it is enabled).


Is there a downside on using APFS on a conventional HDD when using macOS 10.13 or later? I'm using Superduper to make a copy of my system disk to an external conventional harddisk (HDD, not SSD). Superduper wants to convert the disk to APFS. Until now I've used HFS+. Is there a downside on using APFS? I know the advantages of APFS are mostly lost on a HDD, and that older systems don't work with APFS, but for me that is no issue.
Are there downsides on using APFS that I should know of?

Yes there are downsides to HDD formatted APFS instead of HFS+
The newer format is optimized for solid state characteristics.
The older format is optimized for HDD characteristics.
Unless you are sure you need the new features, stick with the format that’s best for your storage type. If you don’t care about long term performance or use the storage lightly, it can be fine and not even measurable but heavy use will cause you to wipe and reformat the HFS in my experience if you choose and use APFS for months of continuous use on HDD as the inefficiencies build up over time and the storage allocation cannot self-optimize like HFS does on HDD.
My advice: Use Time Machine if you only have HDD to back up or provide SSD storage to Super Duper.


How to jump to 'input' bar in a website dictionary with shortcut in Chrome? In website dictionaries such as Cambridge,Oxford,and Merrian-Webster Dictionary.Is it a must to use mouse to jump to the search input bar
? How to achieve it with keyboard?

For me, these sites seem to load with the cursor already in the search field. However, if this isn't your experience, I would press the Tab key on your keyboard as this will move the cursor for you.


Stopping iOS backspace deleting whole words or lines? Background

Even though I have owned every iPhone from the 3G onwards I have NEVER mastered the backspace key. If you hold it to delete a few words it almost ALWAYS catches me out and starts deleting whole words and then whole lines (if you keep it pressed).
I just want it to continue deleting one letter at a time until I remove my finger. If I want to delete huge blocks I would highlight them. :)

Question

Is there ANY way to prevent this?
My iPhone 5 is Jailbroken so I'm sure there must be a way but no matter how much searching I do I can't for the life of me find it.

Thanks

SwipeSelection

While this does not 'fix' your backspace you can use the 'shift' key en swipe over the keyboard to select the text you want to delete. avoiding you to have to hold down the backspace

Check out the video in the link.

Works on iPhone and iPad.


Map Parallels shared folder to drive letter I'm running Parallels 9 for Mac (OS X 10.9) and I have CentOS Linux (6.4) installed.

I want to map a shared folder from my Mac to a drive letter in CentOS.

How do I do this?

CentOS (like all Linux distros) doesn't have "drive letters" - that is a throwback to the toy operating systems that were installed on some computers in the 1990's and early this century. I believe they went by the name "Windows".

Instead it uses mount points.

Once you have installed the Parallels tools you can use the "Shared Folders Tool" to specify the mount point for the folders that are being shared from your Mac.


What does the iPad Mini warranty actually cover? I am grasping at the straws here...  I am trying to read the iPad Mini US warranty, but I can't make heads or tails out of it.

Does it cover accidental damage?

Here is what happened.  I got my kid an iPad Mini 2 weeks ago.  At his mom's place, he placed it on the table, his mom was cleaning and put it on a fold out bed where his grandma stays when she comes there.

The grandma, who can't see very well, then folded the bed and bent the iPad mini.  It's still kind of functional (in that it beeped, when we tried to locate it via Find My Phone app), but there is a bent and the screen is cracked.

I seriously want to scream, still, 2 days later, but...on an off chance, does the warranty cover accidental damage?

No - damage caused by external forces is excluded from all Apple Warranties.

It lists some other hazards that don't get covered as a manufacturing defect like fire, liquid, earthquake, etc.

AppleCare plus does however cover accidental damage of all sorts as long as you have the device to hand in. (It doesn't cover loss).

Many people have some coverage from a credit card or other insurance - so you might check that and depending on whether you are pre / post purchase (or within the time widow when you can buy AppleCare for that iPad) to see what your best options are for coverage.

In your case - you might get it to Apple as soon as possible - just because the wording is to deny coverage - sometimes there are times when an exception could be made or some compromise reached - especially when the device is very, very new and you were unaware of the AppleCare plus when this was gifted / purchased.


does these battery stats are reasonable for rMBP? (max charge 98% after 25 full cycles) I have my rMBP for 14 months, during the first month I barly used it and it was off most of the time. today I'm connecting it to a display (unfortunately the fonts are blurry!) and the lid is closed most of the time. the power charger is connected most of the time (prevents the computer from sleeping). from time to time I'm openening the lid and disconnect the charger to let the battary drain.

Is it normal that my max charge decreased to 98%?

Thank you.

Definitely. I had a MacBook Pro for 5 years, and by the end, the battery health was 73%. Yours looks to be 98% after 14 months. Battery degradation is just a fact of owning a laptop and not something to be terribly worried about.

EDIT: Apple support website says this:

Occasionally, the battery may not show a full charge (100%) in OS X, even after the power adapter has been connected for an extended period of time. The battery may appear to stop charging between 93 percent and 99 percent. This behavior is normal and will help to prolong the overall life of the battery.


How do i disable Fn Key on Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard for OS X? I recently acquired a MS Surface Ergonomic Keyboard. Its a great device for everything other than a Fn lock key that is awkwardly placed between the CTRL and OPTION/WINDOWS key.

I've looked at the keyboard viewer to see what input is being communicated so i might try and override it in Karibener Elements - but the Keyboard Viewer is not showing any key inputs.

How do i find what key is being triggered and disable it?

Note: The 'Fn' key is stateful like a caps lock key.

It seems like the keyboard handles the Fn key itself, rather than passing it through to the OS to handle. Since the OS doesn't receive the Fn key input, it can't do anything to change it.

Therefore, disabling the Fn key would have to be something the keyboard would allow you to control, either on the keyboard itself or with a tool which writes that information back. I can't find either of these, so I don't think it's possible currently.


Preview Bug with (Mountain) Lion -- hangs/crashes on repeat postscript openings I have been able to duplicate this error on both Lion and Mountain Lion.

Open a(n) (enhanced) post-script file (either .ps or .eps) using preview.
It should convert properly to PDF and be displayed
Open the same file a second (or a few more) times
Eventually preview will hang, then crash

For me, opening the same file 3 times is usually plenty.

Can other people reproduce this problem?

Any ideas for causes/fixes?

This seems like a big bug; im surprised it would have made it this far (especially from Lion).

After duplicating the problem, having Preview.app hang, and force quitting, my 'problem report' is at http://www.2shared.com/file/RjuzZbvC/Preview_2012-08-22-224825_Daed.html (too long to include, don't see another way to attach a file...)

I eventually submitted an bug-report to apple.  According to them there was already one open for the same thing.  They wouldn't give me any information about the issue, but it was solved with version 10.8.2


How do I turn off notifications from the home screen of my iPhone in iOS 9? How do I turn off the notification on the lower left corner? I tried to turn off notifications in Settings for the app, but it didn't work. iOS 9.0.2.

Those are not notifications, those are apps that are suggested by iOS due to location and usage, or by Handoff from your other devices.

To change the settings for those, change the toggles in General > Handoff & Suggested Apps in the Settings app. Toggle everything off if you do not use Handoff and do not want to see any suggestions.


macOS Catalina firmware corruption issue still "open"? Late 2019, there were a series of reports that the then-latest Catalina update corrupted Mac firmware and caused computers to be bricked. My computer (MacBookPro11,1) appeared to be one of those affected. The reason why I believe this is real is because I always do a hardware diagnostic check before and after an upgrade. Before the update, the computer reported no problems. Afterwards, it reported memory problems. The hardware could've failed at that exact time, but it's quite a coincidence.
My Mac is now a door stop, but so many months later, I wonder whether there are any solutions found other than replacing the mainboard? There was also an account of someone reflashing the firmware with some tool, but there were never any details on this and I was not able to find this tool.
Anyone have first-hand experience with this that can comment?

I can't speak with any expertise, but I can speak from experience, as two of my machines fell victim to this.
I don't know if I would call it a "corruption" issue, though it isn't too far from reality (Technically, the firmware isn't corrupt, it just doesn't boot the system. Since you were able to run diagnostics after the Mac was "bricked" I'm convinced that this was true in your case as well. Big difference, I know, the end result is the machine doesn't post, but it did make troubleshooting a lot harder for me.)
So as you said, the Catalina update involves changes to the firmware. Specifically, it updates it. Many macOS updates have included firmware upgrades as part of the process however, so why are there issues in the Catalina update?
I don't know. I can only guess. I don't think there is a way to start multiple processors in EFI, and if a big application fails, more often than not the processor resets. And it's meant to start up again, make another attempt.
But sometimes it just fails to do this. In my case, perhaps it was because I had added drivers, applications etc. to my EFI, and the MultiUpdater(?) choked on the significantly altered region of the firmware that outlines descriptors of regions and their offsets.
Since you're working on a portable, power failure seems less likely, but it's still possible, when you're making changes to the SMC, EFI, and depending on each individual circumstance, even a microcode update (sort of like firmware for the CPU, bad analogy but whatever :P)
What usually ends up happening, from my experience, and from the anecdotes I've heard, is that for one reason or another, the BootROM flash doesn't happen, and usually the update application with a bunch of drivers is left on the ROM. For me, it went into a sort of half booted state, where the bootrom has started, doesn't flash the update and is just doing nothing, and also there is nothing you can do to change its startup behavior.
For T2 Macs, there is a supported solution, you can put them into DFU mode and restore the T2 firmware (which now envelops the smc).
For non T2/T1 Macs, the solution is simpler in one sense but infinitely more convoluted in another. Basically you open up the machine, and physically access the SPI bootrom SOIC8 nor memory chip to program it using known good firmware edited to include your serial number.
That's what I did to my non-T2 iMac, which I had modified to use without an internal display installed. Getting the materials/resources gathered up takes some effort and a lot of time, but the actual flash, is done in a flash :)
Depending on where you live, there may be non-apple authorized repair shops providing this service for a lot less than what a replacement logic board costs.
I don't think I can help with the firmware, I'm pretty sure my mbp is 10,something, but you can find SPI ROM dumps, all cleaned (like an SMC reset, but more like SMC wipe and reprogram from official Intel releases) and ready for a serial number if you google around. You might end up paying around 5 bucks for it.


How to scan from my HP-1610 (all in one) networked printer/scanner (Lion) I have an HP-1610 all in one.  It's hooked up to my TimeCapsule as a networked printer.  Networked-printing works.  I'm on Lion (latest; 10.7.3 as of this writing.)  I'd like to scan a sheet from my printer and get it onto my desktop (or wherever.)

I tried opening Preview.app and Import From Scanner -> Include networked devices, but the scanner never shows up in the popup menu.

I tried "Share scanner" in sharing preferences.

Oddly, in Print & Scan preferences, there is no "scan" option.  I think that's the bit I'm missing.

Hints?

Thanks!

EDIT: In Print & Scan prefs, my instance of the printer for when it's hard-wired has Print/Scan tabs but, for the networked one (the same printer appears in the list 2x), there is no Scan, only Print.  Same thing when I open the print queues.

Use Image Capture (Applications>Image Capture). Select the printer from the sidebar:


Macbook bluetooth connection with my earphone suddenly my macbook air (High Sierra OS) starts to have problems with my earphones bluetooth.
After few minutes that I'm connected to my earphones, they start to make a scretch sound and after a while my macbook lose the connectivity with them. Sometimes happens that the laptop can't reproduce any sound with the earphones.
I've already tried with another mac and the earphones works correctly, I have this problem just with my mac.
I've already cancel my earphone from the bluetooth devices list and pair them again, but it didn't solve anything.

Anyone than can help me?
Thank you very much!
Cheers

I'm copying here the link of how to reset the NVRAM, this is how I've fix my problem:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
I hope that it'll help someone else! :)

Cheers!


Slow speeds when moving data to an encrypted image. Method for speeding it up? With a new harddrive purchase I decided to encrypt it before moving all the data there.

I have followed some tutorial regarding encrypting the drive and have used disk utility to create and encrypted image on a 2TB Seagate hardrive, encrypted image is 1.8TB. When trying to move my data I realised that the speeds are horrendous and moving directly to the encrypted image is much slower than moving to the unencrypted part of the harddrive. Below is the comparison:

Here same files are copied to encrypted and unencrypted parts of the drive. Writing speed is about 18x slower for the encrypted part. I have seen in a related answer that a disk image encryption is much slower than the partition encryption. Hard drive is HDD, I have USB 3.0 port as well as cables for both drives.

Would speeds be much more favourable if the whole drive was encrypted?

What is the best way of encrypting a harddrive that will not affect the read/write speeds too much and will be mainly used with a macbook?

Thanks

Of course writing on an encrypted partition is slower than writing on an unencrypted one, because any writing operation goes through the encryption algorithm.
For the same reason, writing on an encrypted disk image is slower than writing on an unencrypted disk image.

But, what you are comparing here is writing on an encrypted
disk image EW(x) (x is the number of bytes to write) which is then written on an unencrypted filesystem W(x), against writing directly on an unencrypted filesystem W(x). And of course:

EW(x) + W(x) > W(x)

If you would like to measure correctly the overhead introduced by encryption you should compare writing directly on an encrypted filesystem against writing directly on an unencrypted filesystem. Then you would be comparing EW(x) and W(x).

Of course:

EW(x) > W(x)

But you would save a double writing on the same filesystem which can't bring you performance or security.


Virtual MIDI input device? Can I create a virtual MIDI keyboard that plays a .mid file?

I have the Piano VST Addictive Keys, and would like to be able to play .mid files using the sounds that this VST provides.

I thought I could use a virtual midi device as the input device for Addictive Keys.

The easiest way to play a MIDI file with a VST plugin is to load it in some VST host (see here for a random list).

If you want to use a virtual MIDI port, you can create one with the IAC driver.


What is consuming HDD space on my MacBook Pro? Possible Duplicate:
  How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?

How do I find out the files that are consuming a lot of space on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?

Sounds like you need a disk visualizer. There are several out there:
Disk Inventory X (free)

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".

It is my personal favorite, as it is really simple and easy to use, as well as the great price of free!
DaisyDisk ($20, currently on sale for $9.99)

DaisyDisk scans your disks and presents their content as interactive maps where you can easily spot unusually large files and remove them to get more free space. The map gives you an overview of your data, so you always know what your hard disks are filled with.

I don't have personal experience with DaisyDisk, but it has been highly recommended by many people, including members of Ask Different.
GrandPerspective (free)

GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

Again, no personal experience, but highly recommended by others.


rMBP 15inch Wifi Issue I've just bought a new rMBP 15 inch a few days ago and for some reason every time it goes into sleep / powernap mode, when I turn it back on the wifi doesn't work. The odd part is the wifi still appears to be connected but I can't transfer any data, go online etc. I have to turn wifi off and on in order to get back online.

Any ideas what's going on? I have Mavericks installed and completely up to date.

I have exactly the same issue on my rMBP, but only with my home router. Every other router works fine, so I've put it down to the router being strange (it's a proprietary ISP router) as opposed to the Mac.


How to set permanent default applications on El Capitan Every time I restart my mac book pro, all my settings of default applications change to factory default applications. For eg, I set adobe acrobat reader DC as my default PDF viewer, sublime text as default text editor and google chrome as default browser but on next restart/power on, the default applications change back to preview, textedit and safari.

How can I make my changes permanent and prevent this change from happening?

Right now, for setting default apps, I right click on file -> Get Info -> Open With -> Change All
But this has to be done on every power on/restart.

Never face this, but I would say to delete the
/users//library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist file
where  is your username

Then, define a preferred app for your PDFs, shutdown, restart and check


Seeing details on software updates for Mavericks I have a pop-up telling me that there are "Updates Available" and asking me if I want to install "now or try tonight?".  Before Mavericks, I was able to see what the updates were.  Is there a way to do it in Mavericks?

Clicking anywhere on the alert (other than the buttons) will open the Mac App Store's "Updates" tab, listing the updates available and their descriptions. If the alert is not open anymore, you can find it in Notification Center under "App Store". When you find it, click on it to see the list of updates.


Would it be possible for a share sheet item to open a specific browser? I'm thinking of a way to easily switch browser or simply open pages in Chrome by using the share sheet.

Can an app to create an icon in the share sheet that opens a third-party app? Does UIActivityViewController allow this?

Yes you can. You will have to develop it yourself. Or the developers have to develop for their respective apps. I am a developer so this is an easy to do for me, but if your not a developer it may be more costly than its worth. Time, finances, hardware. You could look into jailbroken options though ( I don't know too much about that department )

If you are a developer look into the following :

UIActivityViewController

You will have to subclass it in order to customize it to your needs.

The proper documentation is located HERE


How's battery life of the Oct 2013 Macbook Pro 15" Retina? I am using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air 13" and the battery life is great!

Now I am considering upgrade to a bigger screen and is checking a refurbished Oct 2013 MacBook Pro 15" retina.

Everything seems perfect except I am not sure whether it is energy efficient as the Haswell CPU in the MacBook Air. Any experience to share?

No, it's not as energy efficient as the MacBook Air. How could it be? Apple lists the expected (high end) battery life for each of their battery powered devices on their site. If battery life and a large screen are your primary interests, it sounds as though you'd be better off getting an iMac or a Mac Pro, assuming you need the dedicated graphics card. If you don't need the dedicated graphics card, there's always the Mac Mini. These all either come with large screens or can be easily attached to large monitors and their power lasts for as long as you pay your electricity bill. And you won't have to worry about becoming a hunchback from using the least ergonomically designed piece of modern tech, the laptop.


Does a driver exist to step up a PC USB 3.0 port to charge an iPad at 12W? The iPad Retina requires 12W to charge.

It appears the Mac has special non-usb-standard drivers that step up the USB 3.0 port to provide the extra power for charging.

My question is: Does a driver exist to step up a PC USB 3.0 port to charge an iPad at 12W?

Your motherboard may have a firmware update to enable it, or add-in driver on the install CD/DVD

Ref - iPad displays “Not Charging” when plugged into USB ports. What can I do?


How can Growl trigger an shell script or AppleScript (NOT vice versa!) When a Growl notification gets issued I want to trigger an AppleScript. I had a look at the "Actions" in the Growl preferences, and you can trigger things like an email or a text-to-speech call, but not an arbitrate shell script  or AppleScript.

Any idea how to do this? Does a Growl plugin for this exists? I searched the net for it, but could only find solutions for the other way around (i.e. issuing a notification from a script).

Many thanks in advance!

Growl 2.1 does support ScriptActions, but it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere but a google group thread. Below is a simple example from the thread. You create a script file with the content, place it in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp, and then set it up inside Growl as described in the same thread.

using terms from application "Growl"
    on perform action with notification
        ignoring case
            if notification's app name is "test growl" then
                activate me
                display dialog "goodbye" with icon 1
            end if
        end ignoring
    end perform action
end using terms from


Can I play Assasin's Creed II on my Macbook Pro? I have a Macbook Pro 13" and pretty much all the requirements asked on the Mac App Store are met in order to play AC2.
It says at the top of the page though,

  This app is not compatible with Macbook Air and Macbook Pro 13"

Will it still work?

You should check your graphics card... The minimum AC2 requires is

  Nvidia geforce GT 8800 or ATI radeon 4850 or better

I wouldn't buy it if I were you, chances are you will have the play the game with a huge lack or not at all as some users seems to complain about...

Some people share my opinion in not buying the game...

  If Assassins Creed 1 runs anything like 2, I wouldn't recommend anyone
  buy it for the 2010 13" MBP.

  It runs ok (its playable), not anything like the ps3 or xbox 360 which
  pretty much ruins the experience.

But if you lower the graphic performance on the game, maybe your 13" will play the game just fine.


Flux vs Night Shift? New MacOS sierra 10.12.4 introduced us new feature called Night Shift .

Is it better to stick with flux software https://justgetflux.com/ or just use Night Shift?

Pros and cons of using these softwares for adapting display colours on late nights?

Edit:
There is interesting article about this on iMore site:
http://www.imore.com/night-shift-vs-flux-whats-difference

At the end of the day (ho-ho!) it probably just comes down to which effect you prefer, as the science is somewhat inconclusive anyway. Night Shift's effect is more subtle even when turned all the way up, but it's rather less configurable than Flux.

The article you linked to basically already covers all this, and the relative merits of each:

Flux:

Bigger variety of colour-shifting effects available
More control over start/end time
Can be permanently turned off for specific apps, e.g. video players or photo editors where you don't necessarily want colour-shifting to occur
Can be temporarily turned off for all apps
It's nice to support a 3rd-party developer

Night Shift:

Better system integration; potentially easier on battery as a result (just a guess: I've not measured this, nor heard any anecdotal evidence either way)


Deleted libsystem.B.dylib by mistake I deleted libsystem.B.dylib by mistake. On boot it got struck with Apple logo and a loading symbol below it. I tried booting with Cmd-v but it got struck with

AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
[HCIController][configurePM] power parent ready after 1 tries

and didn't process any further.

Any hints on how to get out of this are appreciated!

Roh oh. You'll need to find someone with a copy of it (what Mac have you got?), then copy it back over somehow, probably by mounting the drive with another machine, then cross your fingers and hope OS X plays nice with it. If not you'll need your system disks and do a clean install.


How to default UTF-8 encoding in Text Encoding in Mail.app? I'm using Mail.app.

Often times I would write on reply emails typed in foreign language (Chinese, Japanese), and the receiver will see garbled text (e.g. a bunch of ??? or squares).

The way I solve the problem is: before sending each of these reply email, I go to "Message" -> "Text Encoding" -> select "Unicode *UTF-8*". But as soon as the email is sent, text encoding is set back to "Automatic". On my next email, I have to set the text encoding again to UTF-8.

This is annoying. Is there a way to set UTF-8 as default text-encoding, and not Automatic?

Open Terminal.app and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"

If it does not work, you can revert by using

defaults delete com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset


Change apple ID associated with Mac App Store application How can I change the Apple ID associated with an application downloaded from the Mac App Store? For example, when I try to update an application, it says for me to login with the account that downloaded the application. Is it possible to change the original Apple ID that was used to download the application to mine? Maybe in the Package Contents?


Microsoft (Preview) Outlook Quit Unexpectedly I got the preview release of Office for Mac and everything works but Outlook. Every time I launch it immediately crashes with

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

I can still use Outlook 2011 just fine, so that's what I'm doing but Outlook was the primary reason I wanted to upgrade to the preview release. Has anyone else seen this?


“SIMBLAgent.app“ wants access to control I updated to Mojave yesterday and since then I get so many windows prompting up with the message “SIMBLAgent.app“ wants access to control... and I can get rid of all those windows comming.

Someone knows how to stop that?, any help is appreciated

These messages are part of the new security measures in Mojave. You are giving up control of your system to apps you may not intend, so you should deny those requests until you’re sure it is not malware or something you don’t want typing / interacting on your behalf.

Consider, an app could copy text like passwords or just watch for you typing / save screen captures using these permissions. Not all do, but you might use caution before disabling security.

You can try giving the app full disk access in the System Preferences.app > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access. Add the application by using the [+] icon or by dragging to the list.


Can I get an older version of iTunes to get the App Store back? The latest version of iTunes for Mac removes the App Store which I often use to sync my apps onto my iOS devices.

Even though Apple encourages users to use the iOS App Store to manage apps, ...

  Apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are now exclusively available in the new App Store for iOS. And the new App Store makes it easy to get, update, and redownload apps—all without a Mac or PC.

... I personally prefer to use my Mac's iTunes to manage apps. As such, is there any way I can get the previous version of iTunes back?

Yes, Apple has released iTunes 12.6.3 which can be installed alongside the latest version of iTunes.

Apple released this version specially for Volume Purchase Programs users who may need to use iTunes to install apps. However, regular users can get this version too, if you want to get the App Store back.

  If you've already installed a newer version of iTunes, you can download this version of iTunes on your Mac, PC 32-bit or PC 64-bit* and run the installer. After installation is complete, you can continue to deploy apps with iTunes.

Also, this "special" version of iTunes includes compatibility with iOS 11, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X and supports both Windows and Mac.


A website to upload my ios app that anyone can download Hi there I am looking for a website to upload my ios app(with swift) there and get it's link so that anyone can download it through the link.
thanks for your help :)

Sorry, no...
The only (legitimate) way to do this is via the Apple App Store.
There may be a way to do this for jailbroken devices but that would be off-topic (I believe) for AskDifferent.


Is it worth is to get a headset with AAC codec for iPhone? I'm considering getting a wireless headset for my iPhone (and the upcoming iPhone). During my search, I found that some of Bang & Olufsen headsets are supporting AAC codec, such as  H5 and H7.

Does it worth to get a headset with AAC codec considering that AAC is an Apple standard?

Is there a noticeable difference between a headset that supports AAC codec and a one that doesn't?

I'm an Apple Music user.

It's hard to say whether it is worth it as it highly subjective.

A headset with AAC codec support will be able to receive audio at a higher quality than the alternative SBC codec at similar bit rates.

The question is whether you are able to hear the difference in sound quality, and if that translates into enough value for you that you're willing to pay a premium for it.

So basically, if you're into high quality audio - go for the AAC support. If you don't care, you're probably not going to notice the difference between AAC and SBS anyway.


How to disable single-user boot (command S) By default, Macs are extremely insecure if somebody can get physical access, as they can simply shut it down, press the power button, hold command-S, and there, they get root access in 5 seconds.

Is there a way to disable the single-user boot mode, or at least password-protect it?

The best you can do is set a firmware password in hopes that someone won't change the boot options stored in NVRAM or let the keyboard select an alternate software to boot and bypass your administrative passwords.

Older macs use Open Firmware to enforce this password, newer ones use EFI Password to prevent booting into single user mode.

Physical access means with tools, your mac is vulnerable to physically reset the firmware password or remove the drive. To protect there, consider FileVault which encrypts the contents of your disk and requires the correct password regardless of physical access to the mac.


Touchscreen troubles I recently had my screen replaced on my I phone 5c from a vender in our local mall. The screen had been previously cracked for about 6 mnths and functioned fine until I dropped the phone after being outside in freezing weather for a few hours. At any rate now it is acting all hay wire like my touch screen doesn't always work properly... I press one thing I get another... Especially if the phone is cold or my hands are hot then the touch screen doesn't work at all... My question is should I be heading back to the mall and asking some questions about my repair? I was reading previous post on calibrating touch screen and I tried a couple ideas... It mentioned something about it being in the front panel which I just had replaced so I'm wondering if I got a faulty repair or if it's something else entirely?

yes - you should head back to the vendor that performed the repair as soon as practical and ask them to have a look at the device - assist with calibration and or perform the repair again if it's not working.

Most locales have a short period where any work is warranted, so be sure to get something in writing from the vendor if they tell you they can't support their work.

Hopefully it will be something they have seen before and know how to remedy and/or reach an agreement that is satisfactory to you both.


How to I make my text messages go as iMessages When I send a text to my brother's iPhone from my iPhone it goes as a text.  When I receive a message from him it is an iMessage and my responses go to him as an iMessage.  His is the only iPhone to which I cannot send an iMessage.  How do I reslove this. His number is listed as an iPhone in my contacts.

I've had this happen before, and it took erasing the phone number and re-adding it to the contact for the iMessage system to correctly "sync up".

Another thing you can try doing is deleting the phone number, and then adding his Apple registered email address first (add the email, save the contact, then add the phone number).


Security problem if Mac Os X file sharing permissions for "everybody" is set to read-only? What does "everybody" exactly mean in File Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane in Mac Os X.
Sounds as if everybody in the local network could read my files without authentication if its set to read-only. Is that right?

Any user on your machine would be able to read the files. People on the local network can only read from the places you have set up in Sharing preferences (under file sharing).


iOS 8 AppleID/iCloud says pass/id incorrect, but definitely not I recently changed my AppleID and iCloud passwords. I can log into the services on my Mac, but my iPhone stubbornly refuses. I've already reset all the device's settings, but I still get this error.

I believe it's a connectivity issue of some sort. There are several apps I am trying to update, but they seem to be stuck. Any advice on resolving connectivity issues like these?

I believe it is safe to presume that the problem was the length of my passwords. When I reduced the length from 16 characters to something less everything started working peachy.


How can I enter Greek numerals based on obsolete letters {Ϛ΄, Ϟ΄, Ϡ΄}? These three letters, now otherwise obsolete in the Greek language, still have usage in the Greek numeral system:

6 = Ϛ΄ (stigma)
90 = Ϟ΄ (qoppa)
900 = Ϡ΄ (sampi)

Aside from copy-pasting, how can I input these symbols using the Greek Input Source?

Have you checked the Greek Polytonic input source provided by Apple on the option and option-shift levels?

Otherwise the usual way to enter archaic characters is via the character viewer.

If you need them often, you can make a text replacement entry in system preferences > keyboard > text > replace with.

If Greek Polytonic doesn't have everything you need, you can make a custom layout with Ukelele.


How to tell if it is Wireless-G or Wireless-N that the iMac is using? I sometimes see the iMac copying files from the PC wirelessly at a rate of 1.5MB/s and sometimes 2.5MB/s (by visually examining, because Mac doesn't seem to show what the speed is in the copy dialog).

Is there a way to find out whether my iMac is connected to the wired PC through the wireless router using Wireless-G or Wireless-N?  Can some app show and/or the terminal app show?

Option + click your menu bar's status icon.


BBEdit Code Completion and other features found in Textmate Sometime back in the early 2000s I switched from BBEdit to TextMate, but now it seems TextMate gets to be long in the tooth while the good folks at BareBones are still at it.

The most convenient feature I am missing is the code completion by pressing the esc-key, which will cycle through suggestions based on the current document as well as a code language library.

example:
with the following code:

private var _hello:String = "Hello";

in Textmate when entering the character

_

followed by a keyboard shortcut ( e.g. esc ) I would get the suggestion

_hello

as _hello is in the current document.

if I would type

Nu

followed by a esc I would get

Number

since it is defined for the source language.

The other feature would be the code snippets.
For example:
typing

fn

followed by the tab-key would give me

function ():void{

    };

with the cursor conveniently placed in front of the parentheses.

The basic BBEdit code completion does not seem to achieve the same results.

Does anyone here know how to achieve these features?
Somehow BBEdit announced Kite support but judging by the absence of any documentation either with BareBones or Kite, I guess they had a fallout of sorts.

Any tips greatly appreciated, thanks.

According to the 12.6 user manual (p104), BBEdit offers code completion based on:

  clippings (both language-specific and universal);
  ctags symbols computed by running the current document through 'ctags';
  ctags symbols found in 'tags' files in the current document's hierarchy;
  predefined names for the source code language at the point of completion;
  language-specific completions (both predefined and derived from the current document’s content);
  dictionary words provided by the system spelling service

By default this completion is triggered by F5 but "You can change this equivalent via the Menus & Shortcuts preference panel."

(And, yes, Kite support was deactivated in version 12.1.5.)


Is there free real time app to protect my Mac that are not dangerous for Mac or its user? Do following real time protection apps for Mac harm Mac technologically or spy after the user?

AVAST, Avira, Sophos, AVG

Yes - all of the listed apps harm usability and make Mac OS less secure and less performant in my opinion. Spy on the user is a little vague, so you'd want to examine one product specifically and their data retention / collection / implementation to get a meaningful answer.

I would say you should use Apple's gatekeeper and only run signed / MAS apps if you are thinking free protection is worth your effort or time. You pay Apple for hardware so it's clear why they protect you. If you aren't paying for software, someone else is paying for your data or benefiting so without a compelling reason why you trust that person, my initial reaction is to be overly suspicious of that "free lunch".


Disk repair failed after using OS X with hibernated Windows/Boot Camp with MacDrive I forgot I just closed the lid of my MBP the last time I used Windows/Bootcamp (instead of shutting it down) and that triggered hibernation.
The next time I powered my MBP on, OS X started automatically and I opened some of the same files that "were already open" in the hibernated windows (on OS X main/boot partition, using MacDrive in windows).

That (or resuming the hibernated windows later) probably led to some data corruption that prevents the OS X volume from booting and neither the automatic repairing during booting nor disk utility (external hard disk drive or recovery partition) is able to repair it. I am not sure if there is any difference.
Booting in verbose mode shows the file names that were double-opened during repair attempts.

After booting OS X from an external hard disk drive, Disk Utility fails mounting the main OS X volume straight away. But succeeds with mounting it after a failed repair attempt. I only have read access then, though.

Bootcamp partition is still working fine.

I wonder if it is possible to gain write access somehow and if deleting just those "double-opened" files/the containing folder (which is saved on Dropbox, so I really wouldn't mind deleting them/it) would solve the whole problem or if i really have to reformat everything and spend 10+ hours to revert everything to the state before the data corruption.
If I have to reformat + reinstall, using migration assistant and the corrupted volume as source isn't a great idea, I guess? Are there any options to exclude some specific folders of the user folders?
Will the Bootcamp partition work after reinstalling OS X or do I have to winclone-it somewhere? Checkdisk says the volume is OK.

I managed to solve the problem on my own by running DiskWarrior who was able to repair everything!


Can I share a 3G connection from an iPhone/iPad by creating a Wi-fi hotspot? I've been wondering about this for awhile. So, is it possible to create a Wi-fi hotspot from an iPhone or 3G iPad?

Yes, it's called "Personal Hotspot" by Apple and works on iPhone 4 and 4S. Here is an Apple support doc on it.
Not available on the 3G iPad though, as far as I know.


Made a change to 'Path length on Finder Tabs' - I need to change it back to default I read an article that led me to change the way the file pathway shows up on tabs in Finder. So instead of a Tab just reading "/Downloads", it starts with /Users/MyName/Downloads. This is NOT what I wanted to do, and I don't know how to change it back. The filenames are so long that if I have 6 or more tabs going across, then file paths are truncated so they all look like they read the same thing, and I have to click on each tab to see what it is. This is a big time waster when you have to do it several times a day.
I copied and pasted some text in to the terminal application to change Finder. I'm running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6
Can anyone tell me how to change back Finder to default?

The unix command you used in terminal was the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

This adds a key to the Finder user defaults — _FXShowPosixPathInTitle — and sets it to true, which enables showing the full posix path of the file in the title bar. To turn that feature off and return to the original behavior, delete the key:
defaults delete com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle

For more information about using the defaults utility, see its man page. Once you delete the entry, it’s best to log out of your user from the Apple menu and then log back in to be sure the preference stuck.


How do I read show notes while playing a podcast in the iOS Podcasts app? I can’t figure out how to view show notes in the iOS Podcasts app.

Previously, I could just tap on the album art in the now playing screen, and it would display the show notes just like lyrics to song. But now, tapping the album art brings up a tape deck.

Where from can I read the show notes?

1. Tap on an individual subscription or "Unplayed Episodes":

2. Tap on the blue disclosure indicator:

3. This will display the show notes for that episode:


Creating an alias for Python in bash/zsh I have often seen people recommending to setup an alias in one's .bash_profile or .zshrc along the lines of
alias python='python3'

This seems like a convenient idea, however, as far as I understand, python2 is still installed for compatibility reasons, so won't creating such an alias break certain things?

From man bash
Aliases  are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the
expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see the description  of
shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).

So unless you explicitly set an option, aliases aren't expanded in scripts and any reference to python will call the binary directly. For interactive use it's probably best to call python2 directly if you rely on pre-3 syntax/functionality.
PS: AFAIK it's the same for zsh.


Bootcamp Assistant thinks SSD I'm booting from is an External Drive — help? I'm trying to get Windows 10 on my computer but since I have a small internal storage space I want to put it on my external Transcend StoreJet 500GB SSD.

I installed OSX on this SSD and booted from it, and am now trying to use the Bootcamp Assistant to format this drive for mostly Windows, but when I try to run the program I get this issue:

I'm confused.. Since I'm actually booted on the disk that I'm trying to install Windows 10 on with Bootcamp Assistant, isn't it technically not external? Isn't this the same as trying to Bootcamp with OSX on my Internal HDD?

To clarify, I am not booted from my Internal HDD right now, I'm on a fresh OSX install on my 500GB USB 3.0 SSD and trying to bootcamp from that.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm very confused here..

Apple does not support running Windows from USB drives. This does not mean you can not, just that Apple does not provide a way to do so. This also does not mean you can run Windows from an USB drive. I lot depends on which Mac you own. For sure, the Boot Camp Assistant is not going to help install Windows on a USB drive.

After installing Windows (internally) using the aid of the Boot Camp Assistant application, Windows boots and executes exactly the same as if you installed on a PC. In fact, you can install Windows on your Mac without OS X installed. One user posted where the Boot Camp Assistant was used to create the USB Windows Installer. Once booted from this installer, the internal disk was wiped clean of OS X and Windows was installed as the only operating system.

The company twocanoes offer a product called WinClone. They claim it can be used to migrate Windows to an USB drive and then booted using a Mac. See the link Migrate Windows 8 or higher to an External Drive . The key word here is migration. Windows was installed somewhere else, then migrated (copied) to the USB drive.

Instructions for installing Windows 10 on an external drive can be found as several answers to the question: Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?

Personally, I prefer my answer which only requires the external drive and the Windows 10 ISO file.


How to extract information from an app and put into excel spreadsheet? I have an app on my iPad that is basically a flashcard app that has questions and answers.  I want to put these questions and answers into an excel spreadsheet.  How would I extract the information out of the app?

Unless the app has that functionality built in there is no easy way to go about this.

Apps keep all their data stored internally, giving you no way to access it unless they include an export feature or integration with iTunes Documents or something like Dropbox. You'll have to look at the documentation for the app you're using to see if it does.

The only potential solution I can think of would be to jailbreak so you have access to the iPad's internal filesystem and hope that you can find and extract the files. You would then have to either write a script or handle the conversion to XLS/CSV manually so the data can be used by Excel.


How do I add a Send to Myself link in the Share menu of iOS? in iOS, when I'm reading an article or when I see a picture I want to save, I just click on Share and use Mail to send it to my own email box.

During a few days I had the opportunity to send it to my mail by using the Favorites line in Share menu but now it only contains sending text messages to friends.

Is it possible to configure this Favorites line in Share Menu ?

Or if not, is there a way to make a Shortcut that would automatically take the item i want to share and send it to a pre-configured email box in just one tap ?

Thanks

Assuming it works on suggestions and you changed nothing in email configurations, best shot is to take the pain of using the longer route. Send some emails to yourself and it should be back.

Also consider using reading list in Safari.

For shortcuts in iOS, see https://support.apple.com/HT208309


Do I need Apple TV to stream wirelessly to my TV? I recently bought a new TV. Now I want to mirror my MacBook Air on it.
I don't need all the other fancy features of Apple TV (I don't have an iPhone/iPad, don't use iTunes etc.).
Right now I'm using a VGA cable, but I want to do this wireless.

If I get Apple TV, can I still play the sound over my MacBook (to use USB-Headphones)? I live together with other people and want to watch movies late at night.

Are there good alternatives to Apple TV that I could use or is Apple TV the only hardware that would allow for me to wirelessly send a mirrored display of my Mac to a television set?

Update for people who stumble upon this now:
By now I'm using Chromecast. For my case it does the very same thing and it's cheaper, more handy, is hidden behind the TV (invisible so to say) etc. It streams YouToube or Google Music/Movies and I can control it with my Android phone/mac. If you have a movie file, you can stream it to it (1080p, no problem) with the 'Videostream for  Google Chromecast' extension for Google Chrome. The mirroring performance (enabled through the Google Chrome browser) is.. ok? A little worse than Apple TV I think, but it's ok for presentations, or showing pictures etc.

There are two options which will suit what you want

Any AirPlay video receiver will let you stream wirelessly. (You can stream the audio and video, or just the video and use headphones) AppleTV is one such receiver and by virtue of it being on the market the longest, it has the most users with experience as to how it works.
Buy a longer cable and link up physically.

On a personal note, I'd be in favour of the longer cable option, as it offers slightly more compatibility (a friends laptop, perhaps) and costs way less. That said, Apple TV's are awesome. I'd also recommend using either HDMI or Thunderbolt/displayport.

In short, yes, an Apple TV will do what you want.


Trackpad and mouse different scrolling directions Is it possible to have the trackpad scrolling direction different from mouse connected to the MBP?

EDIT: Found the solution, check my answer below.

Found the solution.

Apparently you can solve it using software. I downloaded Scrollreverser, which is free: http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

This allows you to control the scroll direction both on the mouse and trackpad separately.

Really cool.

Enjoy!


Unscrupulous apps on iTunes -- bank account hacked by iTunes merchant? I recently had $500 stolen from my bank account via the iTunes store. I am not certain whether the charges are directly from Apple or via some other company whose iPhone app has somehow circumvented whatever security is on the system.

The specifics are that I had 3 phantom charges amounting to just under $500 on my credit card, but there were no charges on my itunes statement!

Apple of course will not even look at the case. It is the job of 'local law enforcement and credit card companies to assure that your account has not been compromised'.

I am looking for somewhere that has compiles/maintains a list of unscrupulous/hacked/hacking iphone apps so that I can compare the applications that are on my phone with untrustworthy ones.  Also, if anyone has advice with respect to cutting through the bureaucracy and receiving real support from Apple, that would be appreciated.

NOTE: Manually migrated from Super User

Forget about working with Apple. Just tell your credit card company.


Monitor resets with OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock? I recently got a OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock and am hooking my monitors into it. I have Display Port to MiniDisplay Port going from the monitor to the dock, one thunderbolt cable going from dock to Macbook Pro, and one Display Port to MiniDisplay Port going from a second monitor to the MBP.

Every so often, the monitor hooked into the dock will simply 'reset' or disconnect and then connect again. Everything I had on that monitor moves to my laptop main display and then the monitor appears again.

I have checked the lights/connections and there is no poweroff of the dock. Has anyone else experierenced this or know of a solution?

UPDATE: After switching ports with monitors, the same thing happens with the second monitor in the Dock. It also happens with HDMI to the dock (which is why I went with DisplayPort -> miniDisplayPort in the first place).

January 22, 2016: I had similar problem (intermittent monitor and hard disk disconnects) and called the OWC HelpDesk.  The OWC technician said that problem was with the Mac Thunderbolt driver, not the Dock, and the solution is to reset PRAM/NVRAM: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
Since PRAM/NVRAM reset, the intermittent screen and disk resets have stopped.  I am keeping fingers crossed.

January 30, 2016: The monitor/disk disconnects have restarted :-(

February 9, 2016: Has worked flawlessly for past 10 days, following another NVRAM reset.  I wish I could understand the problem a little better, what causes it in the first place and why it goes away after NVRAM reset?


Verify disk reports error, recovery os repair + fsck says disk is fine After my time machine backups got stuck to finish at some point, I decided to do a disk check using disk util.

I'm getting the following output while running "verify disk":

The volume 86A26AC7-8D39-4917-AF77-2F25314852EA appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0.
Verifying file system.
Using live mode.
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
(It should be 28985392 instead of 28450688)
File system check exit code is 8.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.

Unfortunately restarting into recovery mode and running "repair disk" doesn't find any errors at all. I've even booted into single user mode for running fsck also without any results - disk was reported as OK. It seems that the FS error only happens after regular booting up.

Disk is a SSD in MBP on Yosemite. Seems to work fine beside this error and stuck backups.

Any ideas to to fix this FS issue?

Try repairing only your back up> select> disk(external) in Disk Utility>First aid > Repair disk permissions> and see if problem resolves!


i can't access itunes, appstore, even the website www.apple.com using my wifi i can't access itunes, appstore, even the website www.apple.com using my wifi, both on my iphone or pc.
i've tried to looking for the troubleshoot problems using my windows pc and it says
"Windows can’t find the host name "apple.com" using DNS" what should i do?

It doesn't look like Apple specific question. It looks more like network setup question. You need to check your router settings. Looks like you have either wrong or missing DNS addresses. If you don't know what it is, call tech support of your internet provider.


How does disk utility work while the system is live? (e.g. partitioning/resizing the OSes partition) How is it that Disk Utility allows you to resize the partition that OS X is botted from live, while the OS is running? Can there be problems doing this? I would have thought that booting into recovery mode to do these things would be a requirement.

Here's what I mean, Disk Utility will allow me to "Apply" this change while booted in OS X:

I'm not sure whether clicking the "Apply" button is something safe to do while the OS is live. Is it? If so, how/why?

Although I don't know what specific property of HFS+ allows a user to modify the current system partition while in use; my expectation would be that operations to blocks of storage that the filesystem is not currently utilizing are allowed.

Now if you tried to shrink the system partition below the current size of your system installation (the blue shaded area) disk utility would present an error.

EDIT

Just wanted to add some additional information that I came across. If you refer to the diskutil(8) man page under resizeVolume it states:

  Non-destructively resize a volume. You may increase or decrease its
  size.

  A size of limits will print the range of valid values for the target
  partition, taking into account current file system and partition map
  conditions such as files in use and other (immovable) partitions
  following the target.

This seems to confirm my thinking above.