Should one wait for new Mac Pro? I want to buy Mac Pro. I've found used 1 year Mac Pro with Xeon 3.5 6-core with 2xD500 which is cheaper around 1700 euro then new one. However knowing there's new Mac Pro coming (hopefully) this year I wonder if I should wait. The question is about potential new Xeon and new GPU and how much better in terms of performance it is comparing to old Xeon. Lately all the changes in CPU/GPU are to make them less power hungry rather than having more power so the changes aren't that big. What sort of power difference can one expect comparing new Xeon to the old one?

TLDR; If you care about your money, buy that 2nd hand MP.  If you care about expandability, look for a 2nd hand heavy CPU'ed cMP (classic Mac Pro).

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That used Mac Pro doesn't sound bad at all!  Sure, one day in the future there will be new models available, and they will be faster and better.

However one must not buy a Mac Pro - or any computer for that matter - for the future.

Assuming your computer is not for academic research or playing games, professional machines like these should start making you money from the day you connect them to the power grid.  When the new model comes out you should have made so much profit with it that replacing it would be a no brainer.

If you don't plan to do that - and are afraid it will be quicker obsolete than the upcoming version - perhaps the Mac Pro isn't the machine for you.

Chances are low the 'new' Mac Pro will follow the latest traditions of the 'lesser' Mac range, being getting smaller, less power demanding and just a slight faster or less fast than its predecessor.  The new Mac Pro will be significantly better leaner and meaner than the Late 2013 model.

Expect the new MP to have a E5 V4 Broadwell-EP - or even a Skylake E3 V5, Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 and an updated AMD FirePro or even the Fury.  These are very cool features indeed but IMHO the steep price and limiting form factor make it not worth it.  Give me 2 grand and I'll search myself a 2nd hand 12-core, matte silver boxed classic Mac Pro.

disclaimer: personal opinion of course.  We swapped our 6 core cMP with a 6 core newMP about a year ago.  If I knew better then I would have tried to stop that.  That's for technical and usability reasons, not for the (companies) money.


Stream matched/uploaded music when local files are not available I use iTunes a lot on the go but I have my music at home on an external harddisk. Every time I try to play a song in iTunes I receive a message that the original song cannot be found. The laptop I use on the go is the same as the one I used to index my iTunes library. Only after clicking cancel in the dialog box the song is streamed.

Is there any way to directly stream the music? That's kind of the whole idea of Match right?

I solved this by creating another iTunes library and switch between the two libraries: iTunes Match and Library on NAS.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201596


Can you get Apple Logo to glow upon new mail under Power Nap? Is it possible to be notified of new emails whilst on Power Nap, e. g. via a glowing Apple Logo or some LED (e. g. the LED on the charger)?


How do I select more than one file in LaunchBar? Is it possible to select multiple files in LaunchBar?  (For example, I may want to select two files in a folder and "drag" them to another folder.)  How do I do that?

I found a post on the Objective Development Forums that suggests a different approach:

Select the file to move or copy (either in the Finder, or in LaunchBar).
Copy it (⌘-C)
Select another file (again, either in the Finder, or in LaunchBar).
Use ClipMerge (Press ⌘-C twice.)
Repeat steps 3 & 4 if you wish to select more than two files.
Select the destination folder.
Paste (⌘-V)

I was skeptical until I tried it.  It works quite well.


Mac exectuable only starts with ./name even when $path set I'm trying to install Mongo but having trouble with the $PATH var in MacOS. Following the guidelines. My $PATH is set in .bash_profile:

 export PATH=/Users/evl/dev/mongodb/bin:$PATH

which works:

echo $PATH
/Users/evl/dev/mongodb/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

entering mongo on command line from other directory:

:~ evl$ mongo
-bash: mongo: command not found

I expected that mongo would be found now the $PATH is set

entering ./mongo on command line from mongo bin directory:

cd /Users/evl/dev/mongodb/bin
./mongo
MongoDB shell version v4.0.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017

So now mongo runs. But only if I move to the folder and I enter './mongo'.

I would expect with the $PATH variable set correctly, the executable would run from any directory. It should actually. What is going wrong? Any help is appreciated!

I just typed everything again, exactly the same as before, but no copy-paste, and now the issue was gone. Some strange characters, invisible, might have shifted in .. Weird.. but happy to continue now..


Menu bar stops working on M1 MacBook Air When running Big Sur on an M1 MacBook Air, the menu bar stops working and is completely unresponsive.
All other areas of the screen work normally.
The setup is M1 MacBook Air running in clamshell mode, connected to an external display.

This only seems to affect MacBooks running in clamshell mode (that is, lid is closed) and connected to an external display.
I don't have a fix, but opening the lid briefly and closing it again re-enables the menu bar as a workaround.


How can I remove mounted volumes from the list that are no longer attached? I have a problem and I suspect that it might be a symptom of a hardware issue though I am hoping I'm wrong.

If I connect an external drive or mount a disk image it shows up in finder and I can see using the "Disk Utility.app" and it shows up using:

diskutil list

When I finished working with the drive or image I eject it an move on with my day unit a later point when I connect the drive/image again. The problem is, I now have two mounted versions of the same drive. Trying to open "Disk Utility.app" does not work as it endlessly keeps "Loading disks". There is nothing under /Volumes (so no mountpoint) however

diskutil list

Shows the duplicate disks still being connected?

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Backup2_GO              2.0 TB     disk2s2

/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Backup2_GO              2.0 TB     disk5s2

/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk6
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk6s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Backup2_GO              2.0 TB     disk6s2

These are all the one drive which is no longer connected at all. I cannot eject the drive from finder as it is not mounted, I cannot do anything using "Disk Utility.app" as it does not work in this state and I cannot remove the drives using diskutil

diskutil unmountDisk disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

Though it really was not as all drive are still there and not unmounted at all.

What can I do here? A restart usually solves this however that gets to be really annoying quick.

I cannot open /dev in finder. I can see the content using the terminal though I am unable to remove the mountpoints, even using sudo.

Any suggestions regarding a solution or what might be causing this issue would be greatly appreciated.

So, I had to revise the title/question as the solution to my problem was not an answer to the question posted originally.

As far as I know, there is no way to manually edit the list of attached volumes manually. However, I managed to prevent mounted volumes to become "permanently attached" by borrowing parts of a solution to a similar problem.

The problem seems to be "Time Machine" related, I cannot say for sure though it seems like the problems I described was observed after mounting an old backup drive to access other files. I read a description of a similar problem and thought I'd give it a try and so far it seems to have solved my issue.

Remove the disk from Time Machine's list of backup destination
drives
Move/Rename or Remove the file "tmbootpicker.efi" from the drive's root
directory
Move/Rename or Remove the file /var/db/volinfo.database
Restart
Mount you backup drive and re-add to Time Machine for future backups

After a slower than usual restart (sweating bullets) I was able to mount drives again, tested a backup, mounted and unmounted drives and so far, they are ejected properly and removed from the output of diskutil list. I have not observed any other unwanted effects so far.

This solved my problem (even if this was not the initial question) and I thought I'd post it here if someone else experience similar issues.


Application installer does not respond when clicked? I am trying to install an application from its .iso image file. I can successfully mount the .iso file, but when I click the installer, nothing pops up.

I am installing a relatively old version of a software. My guess is that my Mac OS version is too new to run the installer.

How does one usually fix this?

In system preferences

security

change the download from to anywhere.


Finder stopped opening a new window when I click the Dock icon When I click on the Finder icon in the dock, it always used to open a new window for me unless I already had a window open. In that case it would bring that window to the front which was no problem. But now if I have no windows open, and I click on the Finder icon, no new window opens. I have to hit Command-N if I want a new window.

Which setting do I have to change, so that Finder will open a new window if there is not already a window open?

What about when creating a new user?  Does that work over there or has it the same behavior?

If it DOES work on the new user, I would try this is in order inside the problem account:

It is (hopefully) unnecessary to mention that you want to create a backup of your machine first before trying the following steps, but I still felt the urge to do so.

flush all cache files (~/Library/Caches/*.*)

in Finder, open menu "Go", press down "Alt" and while holding click on "Library"
navigate INTO the Caches folder and select every object you can find and remove them
reboot the computer (logging in and out possibly does the same trick, but I want to be sure)
empty the Trash at your leisure once logged back in

check ~/Library/Saved Application States to see if there is a folder com.apple.Finder and dump it (if there is not, less work for you)
This is more of a blunt measure, but I think still worth trying: create a folder on the Desktop, move all preference files in there and then test AFTER you logged out and back in.  If it resumed working, try again with more and more preferences put back until either all are back in or the problem re-occurs.  Occasionally, you may want to log out and back in as well to see if, after placing a file back, the behavior starts again.  If removing all preferences does not bring the behavior back to normal, just move all back in overwriting every newly created one.

Until their respective preference files are back in, I would recommend not to open those applications (especially Mail) as this may have side-effects on your applications' settings and sometimes content becoming inaccessible (or more difficult to reach/get back).

The reasoning behind number 3 is that some preferences may not be viewed as the obvious origin, but still may have caused that.  Removing them all and then putting them back one-by-one (or 5 at a time) makes sure that you can identify which file this has actually caused.

In the event that a newly created user has the same behavior (only then), you can try to install the latest combo update or re-install Mac OS X (no erase, just installing over the existing installation) to repair/re-add corrupted/missing files.


Remember shared folder on server I'm new to Mac.

I have files on a shared folder that I often access and every time I restart the computer I have to go to Finder->go->connect to server->fill in the information and press connect. Is there a way I can always have the shared folder available and have the computer remember my password for it?

Yes, the "+" button to the right of the pathname text field will save the path for you.

Also, when you authenticate to the server, there should be a checkbox beneath the username/password fields.  The checkbox should read "Remember this password in my keychain."  If that's selected when you successfully authenticate, then your credentials will be saved to your keychain and used automatically when you try to connect.


Is it okay to run two instances of SuperDuper! at once? It's quite easy to start two instances of any app from the command line. In this case:

open -n /Applications/SuperDuper\!.app

However, I know that this isn't always a good idea because most applications are not meant to share resources with themselves. I was hoping to back up two different drives with SuperDuper! (a hard drive cloning application) at the same time. I was wondering if this is safe.

A better question is "can I back up two different drives at the same time?"

If you have 4 drives total, on 4 different connections, then yes. To be clear, there must be 4 physically separate storage devices involved, not just separate volumes. And "4 connections" does not include daisy-chained firewire devices or plugged into the same usb hub (those count as one connection).

Running 2 copy jobs on the same volume is a huge performance hit - drives have but one read/write head so the absolute best you can do is 2x sequential-copy speed. In reality it will be much worse as the heads are constantly going back and forth between the two copy jobs.

Running data down the same wire will similarly eliminate any advantage you gain by running two processes.

The one exception to the rule is network copies - downloading several files over the internet (different servers) works because your external network connection is so much slower than the internal connections that they never get saturated.


Is it possible to bind my Mac OSX Dictionary.app to Google Translate? The Dictionary App has a very cool experience on MacOSX. But I have to install dictionaries to use. Is it possible to bind it to Google Translate?

Thanks!

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be possible, or at least straightforward. As an alternative, you may want to consider creating an OS X Service that opens Google Translate in a browser window, for any highlighted word or phrase you have selected.

If this sounds suitable, follow the procedure below:

Creating a translation Service

Open the Automator app from your Applications folder
Select Service as the type of document and click Choose
In the window that appears, click the search field and type 'AppleScript'
Drag and drop the Run AppleScript action from the list on the left into the area labelled 'Drag actions or files here to build your workflow'

Copy the script below and paste it into the Run Applescript action:

on run {input, parameters}
    set phrase to input as string
    set phrase to quoted form of phrase

    set ui_lang to "en"
    set from_lang to "en"
    set to_lang to "zh-CN"

    do shell script "open 'https://translate.google.com/?hl='" & ui_lang & "'&sl='" & from_lang & "'&tl='" & to_lang & "'&text='" & phrase
end run

Your window should look like the following:

There are three values that you may want to change in the above script:

ui_lang - the language used for the page interface
from_lang - the source language
to_lang - the destination language

Change one or more of these to achieve the desired translation. To find the correct language parameters, refer to the Language Reference. In the example above en refers to English, and zh-CN to Chinese (Simplified).

After making your changes, click File > Save... and in the panel that appears type a suitable name (e.g. Translate English to Chinese).

Using the translation Service

After saving your workflow above, you can make use of your translation service with one of the following two methods:

1. The Service Menu method

Highlight a word or phrase in any application
Click the Application Menu to the right of the Apple icon (), then click Services and Translate English to Chinese (or the name you gave your Service when saving it):

2. The Contextual Menu method

Highlight a word or phrase in any application
Right-click the text and select Services then Translate English to Chinese (or your custom named Service):

Whichever method you use, a browser window should appear with your translated text:


A junk mail that don't want to be deleted I got a strage behaviour on my Mail.app:

In my Junk mail folder I see an email of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) coming from this email address: phuonghm@baria.baria-vungtau.gov.vn

It's obviously a spam email, and the I delete it each times that I found it. But some days ago I observe that the email arrival date it's always the same, and this means that each times I delete it, email come back from the trash and return to the junk folder.

The most freaky things is that this email is ONLY in my Mac. In my iPhone and on iCloud.com there's not trace of this email.

Could this be some spyware of something?
How I can (try) to finally delete it?

PS: When I delete it I also empty the trash.
PPS: On Mail this email is set as junk.

Infos:

MacBook Pro mid 2010
OSX 10.10.3
Mail.app 8.2 (2098)

Try going into the Mailbox menu and clicking "Rebuild". This will rebuild your mailbox and hopefully fix the problem.

Note: This process may take some time depending on the number of messages in your mailbox


keychain security in a managed device (AD) When using a managed device (Active directory) behind, what security measures are recommended to take in order to secure sensitive data like stored passwords, directories or the keychain itself?

The way I need to join/setup this apple device is to boot from network and install company custom OS/software/tools, this will download/setup some certificates needed to get access but at the same time, wondering how much the private data becomes exposed, like the apple id, or data like 1password, etc.

My guess is that in this scenario is like giving root access away and there is pretty much nothing to do besides just using the device with no sensitive data/etc. or is there a semi-managed option not granting too many privileges?

When you have to install a custom-made OS and software, there's really nothing you can do. It is completely like giving away root access. Shy of actually doing a full reverse engineering of the whole platform (not really feasible), you have to consider the risk that there's a built-in backdoor or automatic leaking of data to HQ.

Therefore the best would be to treat it as a non-private computer and not store any sensitive data on it that you wish to keep private from the company.


How do I rename a FAT SD Card using a MacBook Air? I'm trying to rename a 16GB SD card (Untitled) using a MacBook Air but the Disk Utility won't let me rename/erase/reformat it. I am able to open the device and see all of its content but cannot rename it. The reason I want to rename it is so that 3rd party apps on an Android Smartphone can write to the SD card. Right now, only the native Android file manager can write to the Sd card. Inserting the micro SD card into the adapter and then inserting the adapter into the card reader of the MacBook Air puts the device on the desktop. When I click on the label name, it turns blue but I still can't change the name.

sometimes there is a tiny tab on the SD adapter (or standard SD card) that prevents read/write to the card. Make sure this isn't set to "lock."

Otherwise: What version OS are you running? Can you write or delete files from the card?


Multiple iPhones devices synced to the same iTunes, how to keep podcasts straight? This maybe similar/related to this question.

I have my iPhone and my wife's iPhone synced to the same iTunes with different accounts. I sync my podcasts to 3 most recent that have not been listened to. If we listen to some of the same podcasts then we will effectively 'hide' the ones that one has listened to from the other that has yet to listen to it.

Is there a work around for this?

Have you considered using Downcast, or the Podcaster on your device instead of using itunes for podcast management?  By using an application each device will store their settings separately.  This does have the downside that podcasts that you both listen to, would be downloaded twice.  I long ago gave up on using iTunes for podcast management, Downcast is a far better tool, in my opinion.


Is a firmware update required to read APFS volumes in Startup Manager in not so young Macs? Last week I plugged an SSD with a bootable APFS volume with macOS into the USB port of a Macbook Pro 2010.  It wasn’t seen in startup manager, as I had suspected.  This macbook had never been used as it had been stored in an exposition, so its firmware had never been updated.  It had its original and never used macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard installed.

Please correct me if this assumption is not correct:

Any mac whose firmware was never updated after APFS was first launched by Apple won’t see APFS volumes in startup manager because the logic board firmware wouldn’t be able to read APFS.  If any mac with installed macOS releases such as Yosemite, El Cap, Sierra can see a bootable APFS volume in startup manager, it’s because it’s firmware has been updated to be able to read and write APFS.   Is this correct???
The 2010 macbook mentioned above admits macOS up to the latest release (now High Sierra).

Any clarification much welcome.

When High Sierra is installed, any necessary firmware updates are applied. The has to be true, because any Mac built before APFS would not be able to boot from a APFS container partition without a firmware update.

However, even if a Mac as the firmware update which include APFS, this does not automatically mean that versions of macOS (OS X) prior to High Sierra would be able to access APFS volumes. Apple would have to provide an APFS software update for older versions of macOS (OS X). I do not believe Apple has done this.

This is also true for Windows users. Many Ask Different users have reported failures to read APFS volumes from Windows and the inability to boot back to macOS High Sierra directly from Windows.

As for your assumption. I can not provide a proper answer since your reference to a Startup Manager is ambiguous. Each Mac has a firmware Startup Manager, but I think you are referring to the  Startup Disk pane from the macOS (OS X) System Preferences application.


MBP E2015 Sierra keyboard/trackpad unresponsive My Early 2015 13" MBP's keyboard and trackpad quit working a few days ago. I thought it might be the logic board. But it’s definitely not. The power button (on the keyboard) works fine.

I tried a few things (below) more than a handful of times. Eventually, I realized I could just plug in an external USB keyboard & mouse. By that time my Mac was trying to get me to disable FileVault in some weird boot mode that I've never seen. So I did.

Things I've tried:

SMC reset (actually worked -- confirmed with the power adapter light)
PRAM reset & all other boot options -- totally unresponsive
used nvram -c in the terminal to reset the PRAM -- verified this worked
disabled filevault -- nothing
booted into USB installer to test keyboard and mouse -- nothing

None of the above things worked -- I also tried various SMC resets and PRAM resets after each steps and in different orders.

Here's the important thing: even with an external keyboard, no boot options work... except SMC resets. Which leads me to ask... is something wrong with the kernel?

I've tried safe boot, verbose boot, PRAM resets, recovery mode all from on computer keyboard and external keyboard. Nothing is responsive at time of boot.

I should note, I'm writing this from the MBP with external keyboard & mouse.

I did some research and apparently, the early 2015 MBP is known for having trackpad/keyboard cable issues. I reset the cable and boom it works!


What's this CSSM Exception in my macOS 10.12.1 logs? I'm trying to clean up my mac a bit and therefore always check through logs to see what maybe unexpected or otherwise strange. This time I see way too much going on in the logs in terms of lines per second and one thing that catches my eyes quickly is these CSSM exceptions. Here's an example:

Standard    19:46:21.455829 +0100   syncdefaultsd   CSSM Exception: -2147411889 CSSMERR_CL_UNKNOWN_TAG

In this case it's from syncdefaultsd but they happen to be from differenct processes every few seconds. I've also seen them from com.apple.iCloudHelper, quicklookd, mdworker, launchservicesd and other macOS native services.

I found through google that some people posted about them already but didn't get a real answer. Thought I might find someone to help here.

Within Minutes i get thousands of these (just captured 10 minutes with nearly 9000 lines of CSSM Exceptions.

I have found these errors to relate to old keychain data references. I was able to stop most of these CSSM Exceptions from appearing by opening Keychain Access and deleting any empty keychains.

Agreed- my CSSM Exception errors went away when I got rid of some defunct Adobe Air keychain references. The references were particularly defunct, as I had recently deleted the files to which they referred, to get rid of a previous slew of log messages...!

Interestingly, Keychain Access did not immediately disappear the keychains when I asked it to delete them; I deleted them (I tried both "Reference only", and "Reference and Files" (even though I'd manually deleted the files...!)), and they remained visible. So I quit and reopened Keychain Access- and they were gone :-) And so were the CSSM log messages :-)


How can I create a Windows 7 USB from Mac OS to work on a PC? I know this has been asked about two or three times here, but none of the solutions work. Basically I have a frozen PC, a Mac w/o virtual Windows, a Windows ISO, and a USB stick. While I initially thought that using Bootcamp will solve the problem, the Windows installer created using bootcamp is not recognized by my PC.
Are there any solutions to creating a Windows 7 USB stick to work on my PC?

EDIT: I've been looking around, and it seems that unetbootin might solve the issue. Does anyone have any experience with the software?

Usually the person asking the question does not give enough information for a answer to be generated. So, I will try anyway.

Does, the PC have a working bootable DVD drive? If so, just use the OS X Disk Utility application to burn the iso to a DVD.

If your PC can boot from a flash drive, then you have two options. First, use some machine running windows to transfer the iso to the flash drive. Or, install windows 7 to a bootcamp partition on your Mac. Do not activate windows. You can use it for 30 days. Make the iso to flash drive transfer and install on the PC. Finally, remove the bootcamp partition. The last step is fairly easy, if your Mac is not using Core Storage.

The Microsoft software to transfer to the flash drive can be found at Windows USB/DVD Download Tool. The tool does not download software. Rather, the tool assumes you already have the iso and need to either burn a DVD or transfer to a flash drive.

If you edit and refine your question, I can update my answer to better fit your problem.


Remap Mavericks alt key without external tools For some reason the way you write an @ symbol doesn't work anymore. I'm on a german keyboard and it used to be ⌥L but now it is ⌃⌥L which is annoying as hell!

Where are these kind of things stored? I just want a .plist or anything and edit it. All these tools are so incredibly annoying!

DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Create ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and enter

{ "~l" = (insertText:, "@"); }

This rebinds ⌥L to insert @
~ = ⌥

Quit and reopen applications for the change to take effect


How do you reset an iPhone 4s without a passcode or iTunes I have an iPhone 4s running iOS 9.3.5 that i would like to wipe and reset. I do not have the passcode. I also do not have access to iTunes. My only computer is a Linux Ubuntu 16.04. I have tried to run iTunes under Wine and PlayOnLinux as suggested in some other posts, but neither of those worked. iTunes wouldn't run under Wine and PlayOnLinux didn't have USB support.
Installing Windows to a new partition and running iTunes from there is an absolute last resort that i would like to avoid. I am also not reasonably close to an Apple Store.
Is it possible for me to reset this phone without doing that, and if so, how would I do it?

You can wipe your phone remotely by using the web-based iCloud Dashboard, using the Find My iPhone feature. You can add a trusted phone number through the same interface, and use that phone number to receive the code to wipe your phone.


Lowest volume is still too loud—how can I make it even lower? The lowest volume I can get by pressing the volume keys is still too loud when I'm wearing headphones. How can I make it even lower?

I have a Mac Mini 2011 (5,1) running Mountain Lion.

Pressing ShiftOptionVolume Up/Volume Down allows you to adjust in quarter-box increments. You can also click the volume icon in the menu bar and fine-tune with the slider, or open the Sound panel in System Preferences and get a bigger slider there, which would allow for finer control.


iPhone 6 Plus cannot add calendars On an iPhone 6 Plus the calendar app will not allow me to add calendars nor edit calendars.  The "+" sign is grayed out!  What can be done?

You can't add calendars in the Calendar app, only in Settings. To add an event, you should have a calendar set up in Settings.

If you do have calendars set up, make sure they are visible by going to the Calendars button at the bottom center in the Calendar app. Select "Show All Calendars" and see if you can now add events.

If you don't have a calendar set up, go to the Settings app, then iCloud, and make sure you enabled Calendars. Or you can add your own calendars from Outlook, Gmail etc. at Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add Account.

Let us know if you succeeded. :)


Can I share my iMac's internet connection via ethernet My iMac connects to the internet (and my local network) via WiFi. Is it possible for me to connect another device via ethernet cable to my iMac to access the internet from that device?

You sure can! Open System Preferences, then go to Sharing and select Internet Sharing. Change "Share your connection from:" to Wi-Fi, and then in the box below it select Ethernet.


How to search a phrase in Preview of OS X? When I search for a term like "formation water", preview returns everything starting with formation and not the term "formation water". How can I search for a phrase in Preview?

Just like you would with a Google search, use the double quotes operator to tell Preview the result must be an exact match.

In your case, for example, typing "formation water" should yield the desired result.


Mac OS X Mail signing messages with S/MIME certificate from startssl I've got myself an S/MIME certificate from StartSSL, which I have exported from the browser, imported into my keychain and as expected Mail.app is now signing my outgoing messages.

However some clients seem to have problems trusting this certificate. I've tracked the problem down to the fact that the attached smime.p7s is not complete.

A valid smime.p7s for a certificate from startssl has two certificates in it - the complete certificate chain up to the root. Example:

$ cat valid.eml | openssl smime -pk7out | openssl pkcs7 -print_certs

subject=/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing/CN=StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Client CA
issuer=/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing/CN=StartCom Certification Authority
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

subject=/description=aBcDeFg1234/CN=example@domain.com/emailAddress=example@domain.com
issuer=/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing/CN=StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Client CA
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

However the smime.p7s that Mail.app attaches to my emails only has the second certificate, the one bound to my own account and misses the other one, which happens to be necessary for many clients in order to verify the signature.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

You need to add this http://www.startssl.com/certs/sub.class2.client.ca.crt certificate to your OS X keychain. After that your messages will contains both of certificates.


How do I setup a Mac mini server to support a dual drive configuration of System files and User files? User Accounts preferences on OS X allows separating User Accounts from the System files on the principal Hard Disk drive. I have attempted this configuration on three different mac computers. Unfortunately, this excellent idea has a short life expectancy, because inevitably user permissions become hopelessly compromised. After seeking support from Apple Care services, I was told that although Apple facilitates the utilization of this process in System Preferences, in practice it cannot supply the user any support when trouble arises.

It occurred to me, that putting a user account on a server and the system files on a client computer, the disruption of permissions could be avoided. Is this a feasible plan to implement on Snow Leopard and later OS?

If you just link the home folders to a afp share, this does not work! You have to setup a directory server and maybe even a profil manager via the Server.app on your mini server.


What is wired memory? I'm trying to figure out what is using all of the memory in my Macbook Pro running OS X Lion. I have 8 GB of memory total.  When I quit all active programs except Finder and Activity Monitor, then run a memory cleanup (FreeMemory) it shows about 5 GB of Free Memory, 1 GB of Active Memory, and 1.5 of Wired memory.  Support docs say Wired Memory is full of stuff that "can't be moved to disk".  What is taking up all of that memory?  Is it the menubar processes?  I have mozy, last.fm, dropbox, and growl running in the menubar but they all appear in Activity Manager and don't appear to be using a significant amount of memory. I also run Parallels but it is shut down completely so I thought all of it's stuff should be written to disk.  Is it just Mac OS X using a reserved chunk of memory and labeling it "Wired"?

From what I can tell, wired memory belongs to the kernel, the innermost core of Mac OS X.  It's many layers removed from the icons in the menubar, which are just ordinary apps showing themselves in an odd way.

Wired memory is used for some of the core functions of the operating system—things like keeping track of all the applications on your system, or open files and network connections, or chunks of memory used by various drivers.  The "page tables" that form a map of your system's memory are also stored in wired memory, and a system with more memory needs larger page tables.  I suspect that the memory used by the integrated video chips in most Macs is wired as well, but I can't find anything that says that outright.  In any case, much of this information is needed to manage and access memory, and so it can't itself be swapped out to disk!

To understand why, imagine an enormous library.  Think of, for example, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, which has eleven million printed items.  There's no way you could possibly fit all that stuff into a single building—certainly not one in the middle of a university campus.

So instead, imagine that the librarians construct a vast warehouse.  (The real Bodleian Library has about forty sub-libraries of various descriptions, plus storage for really rare books, but this is a thought experiment.)  Most of the books are kept in the warehouse, but anything that's been used recently is kept in the library.  If you show up at the library looking for a book, and it's in the stacks there, you can read it immediately.  If not, ask a librarian and the book you want will be transported from the warehouse and given to you the next day.

The information in wired memory, then, would be things like the card catalog, keys to the book delivery trucks, and maps of the route to the warehouse.  If you stored these things in the warehouse, you could never retrieve books to bring them back to the library—so they must be kept in the library at all times, lest the whole system break down.

Anyway, getting back to practical considerations: wired memory is basically used by your computer for internal bookkeeping of various sorts.  You shouldn't worry about it.

And don't worry if you have lots of "inactive" memory and little "free" memory, either.  Inactive memory is basically memory that Mac OS is keeping something in on the off chance it's needed again; if your system needs that memory for something else, it'll be converted to free memory without any performance hit.

To extend the library metaphor, imagine that the library keeps books that have been recently used in the stacks. The space is there in the stacks; there's no use leaving it empty, so you might as well keep the books you already have there.  There's no harm in it, and sometimes someone will be able to pick up a book immediately that he would otherwise have had to wait for.

Similarly, inactive memory can only speed things up; it can't hurt your computer, so don't worry about it being too high.

Really, you shouldn't worry about your memory use unless wired + active starts getting close to the 8 GB in your computer.  That's when you could get into trouble, because that's when Mac OS will start consuming disk space to add "extra" memory, damaging performance considerably.

Otherwise, you might as well have something in that memory.  Ultimately, unused memory is just a waste of power—if you have it, you might as well put it to use.


iTunes updated on my iPhone 5c to 9.0.2 but now iTunes on my laptop won't connect to my phone I have updated the latest iOS software onto my iPhone. When trying to connect to my iTunes library on my laptop, I get an error message (the iPhone cannot be used because it requires a newer version of iTunes). Both my phone and iTunes on my laptop state that I have the latest version... help!

I just got the same error message.  Do you have a Windows system?  Is it Vista Home Premium?  I believe the problem is that iOS 9.0.2 needs iTunes 12.3, but Apple stopped supporting Vista with iTunes 12.3.  When I check for iTunes updates on my computer with Vista it tells me it's the current version.  It is 12.1, which IS the most current version for Windows Vista but the problem is iOS 9.0.2 needs iTunes 12.3.  They could have warned me before updating the iphone that it wouldn't work on the iTunes program that I was using to update the iphone.  Now what?  I have to upgrade Windows just to use itunes with my phone?

UPDATE:  Bingo!  I went to Apple's website and found a page with "older" versions of iTunes.  It's crazy but there was a newer version of iTunes for Vista, even though the iTunes update check tells you 12.1 is the latest. More specifically, I had 12.1.2.7.  I downloaded 12.1.3.6 which still works with Vista and I can connect to my iphone again!  I hope it works for you too!

So to recap, iTunes 12.1.3.6 will work with Vista AND iOS 9.0.2.  Here's the link for the download. Make sure you choose the right one for your version of Windows and video card (32 bit, 64 bit, or 64 bit for older video cards)
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6562#versions


Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for writing (from scratch) a cron-style launchd job? I've got a fairly simple job that I'd like to run every hour. I could do it using cron, but I thought I'd use this to learn about launchd, since I hear good things about it. I've got the man launchd.plist page as a reference, but I'm looking for something based more around building an example job.

launchd runs Daemons (/Library/LaunchDaemons or /System/Library/LaunchDaemons) as root, and will run them regardless of whether users are logged in or not. Launch Agents (/Library/LaunchAgents/ or ~/Library/LaunchAgents/) are run when a user is logged in as that user. You can not use setuid to change the user running the script on daemons. The /System directory is reserved for Mac OS X tasks so I recommend putting your launchd plists into either the /Library or the ~/Library folder as it makes sense.

So the first step is determining if you're making an agent or a daemon.

The second step is to make your .plist file. You can use GUI-based programs such as Lingon to help with this or just use your favourite text editor:

A sample .plist for running a script every hour (StartInterval or StartIntervalCalendar are the keys we want - StartInterval for an item to happen every x seconds, StartIntervalCalendar for a specific time and/or date. See 126907 on SuperUser for an example I made with StartCalendarInterval):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>local.IDENTIFIER_HERE.SOMETHING</string>
    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <true/>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>USERNAME HERE</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/PATH/TO/SCRIPT</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>Argument_1</string>
        <string>Argument_2</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>3600</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

Modify the .plist as necessary to point to your script and any arguments as necessary (arguments are on separate lines) and save the file with the same name as the Label value but with .plist at the end. (for example, local.my-mac.flickrstats would be saved as local.my-mac.flickrstats.plist). If you haven't already, move that .plist file to /Library/LaunchDaemons when making a Daemon (runs all the time) or to ~/Library/LaunchAgents (only you're logged in) or /Library/LaunchAgents (any user is logged in).

To start the job you want to run launchctl as necessary to load the file. For items in /Library, you should use sudo: for example, sudo launchctl load -w /PATH/TO/PLIST

For reference also check out the following questions on Super User: Launchd command as root, Load a system wide daemon, and How can I get a script to run every day


What is this modifier key? What is the OS X modifier key symbol that looks like the control icon (^) but with the addition of a line over it?

Symbol:

This appears to be the enter key symbol:

⌤ is enter

Source


Unknown email password required after selecting iCloud backup While restoring or setting up an iPhone (new or old) and choosing a backup from list of provided backup in my iCloud, I'm shown to enter a password for kmward@roadrunner.com , which I don't have idea of who's email that belongs to, I have lots of data on my iCloud and this scares me because why would Apple ask for some other account password? When I choose 'skip this step', I'm given a model message saying, "you must sign in to restore purchased content" and when I do tap skip, it restores from my own account (which earlier I provided credentials).
Why does it ask for someone else's account password?

Is my account hacked?
Is my account linked to someone I don't know?
Is my content being distributed to someone from kmward@roadrunner.com ?

What should I do to secure and remove this unknown account that Apple ask password for?

The cause of this problem is very simple and isn't related to privacy issue or "left over ids" from refurbrished devices.

You have PIRATED music in your library.

When restoring the back-up, iOS tries to authenticate the PIRATED files and realizes the account has been locked down.


Library specific iTunes preferences? I would like to have two iTunes libraries with one being automatically organized and the other letting me choose where to store the files. When I create a second library it seems to share the same preferences as the first (the settings are actually iTunes preferences). Is it possible to have separate settings for my libraries?

iTunes preferences are stored in

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist

I presume you access your two libraries by launching iTunes while holding down the Opt key.

An alternate method to launch iTunes and swap out pref files at the same time would be to make an Automator or AppleScript app that switches pref files, and makes a link from ~/Music/iTunes to one of the libraries, then launches iTunes for you.


What software can find close duplicates from 2TB worth of pictures? I have collected all of my photographs onto one hard drive. I'm looking for software that runs on Mountain Lion to assist in finding similar photos so I can review and eliminate redundant files.

My picture store is currently 2 TB, so batch and/or efficient software would be ideal. I know for certain that there are a lot of duplicates, and there are lots of programs out there which can find exact duplicates.

What I am looking for is something which will find:

pictures which are identical except for rotation
pictures which are identical except for size (i.e. an original vs a thumbnail from iPhoto, or an original vs a downsized version for the web, etc)
pictures which are similar

I assume #1 is possible, but I am not sure about #2 or #3. What software can do any or all of these tasks?

The best that I could find and have used is Duplicate Annihilator, which works with iPhoto, and is upgraded for 10.8.  You can download and do a run and hopefully get rid and clean your folders the first time through.  For what you need you might need a few passes to get the obvious dups, then find the harder to get ones.

http://www.brattoo.com/propaganda/

I am not exactly sure it will find your #2 and #3 right out of the gate, but since photos are marked with unique timestamps and other meta data, it should find them even if rotated.  The similar part is a bit harder as the criteria for similar could be many things.  Run through a few times first checking my filename, then maybe dimensions, creation date, etc.

KEY FEATURES

Detects duplicates
Detects imported thumbnails
Detects missing images
Easily find and annihilate duplicates created internally by iPhoto or during import.
Compare images using different algorithms to detect and understand differences.
Detect duplicates using effective algorithms using electronic checksums like MD5.
Detect duplicates by using file specific meta data such as filename, dimensions, filesize, Exif creation date or date of creation.
Delete duplicates upon detection or mark them with a keyword to make them easily found using iPhoto features like search or smart folders.
Only uses standard Apple features and API's. No hacking nor tampering with iPhoto system files.
Free updates!
Available in English, German, French, Italian and Swedish.


Disk utility on Mac and free space dispatching I have a physical hard drive that is split into 3 partitions. The second partition is running out of space and I want to give it some free space that I have on the third partition. While, this is simple to achieve on Windows, I just can't get there with my Mac.

The problem is that I can create a new partition from the free space but not transfer space from my third to my second partition. This is a common task and I can't believe Disk Utility can't do that so I ask you what I should do in order to achieve this?

I would say that this is not a common task: it's actually quite complex.

The issue is that partitions are filled up from beginning to end, so the free space in your third partition is at the end of it, so it's not adjacent to your second partition.

What you need to do is to move the data from the third partition to another hard drive (or back up your entire disk to another, which would be preferred). Once that's done, delete the third partition in Disk Utility. Expand the second partition into this free space (leaving enough room for the third partition) and re-add the third partition. Finally, copy the files back to the third partition from the copy made in the first step.


Does macOS High Sierra 10.13's EFI firmware check cause problems for MacPro3,1 2008 installations? Apparently there is a new eficheck routine that runs on macOS High Sierra that detects if your Mac is consistent with a database of known good firmware signatures. Though it appears to just report a warning with the offer to send the information to Apple, it does raise concerns about whether or not a MacPro3,1 or MacPro4,1 are going to be prevented from running High Sierra as a result.

Yes, I'm aware that a MacPro4,1 can be flashed to 5,1 to make it officially supported. For the 3,1 I've read that so far it will work as long as you have done the Bluetooth and WiFi upgrade and hacked the installer's plist to recognize the 3,1's motherboard. While the 5,1 might pass, I'm imagining that the 3,1's firmware would definitely be absent from a known list of good images.

Is this a blocker or just an annoyance?

Short answer: No, there's nothing you need to worry about eficheck.

First of: eficheck is not a blocker, at least in its current state. Also I wouldn't call it an annoyance as it's supposed to be a security feature on supported system and the prompt it generates only appears once and remembers your decision whether or not you want to send data about your EFI to Apple.

Coming back to your question, eficheck shouldn't affect your system in anyway. I'm currently running High Sierra on my MacBook5,1 patched with the High Sierra Patcher Tool and it runs fine. Executing eficheck manually from the Terminal just throws the following error:

ReadBinaryFromKernel: No matching services found. Either this system is not supported by eficheck, or you need to re-load the kext
IntegrityCheck: couldn't get EFI contents from kext

Meaning the tool cannot read the EFI anyway.

I guess the same would apply to your MacPro3,1, I'm not entirely sure though. But even assuming it does, it wouldn't block anything and I doubt it would prompt you the message because your EFI firmware likely isn't modified anyway. And even if eficheck gets triggered for some reason: you could just click the prompt away once and it never comes back again.


Avoid automatic shutdown I have a MacBook Pro running Lion. Usually, I need to run tasks that takes hours... so I just leave the laptop working before going to bed.

When I wake up, I notice that it tried to shutdown the system. How do I notice this? Well... all apps are closed except for iTerm (which always stops shutdown process when there is more than one tab open).

I tried to search the energy saving settings but there is nothing related to this... I would like to see how to prevent this behavior.

Make sure your power adapter is connected to the Mac while you are sleeping.
In the Power Adapter section in Energy Saver, make the "computer sleep" -> "never".
You don't want your screen is on when you are in bed right? So make "Display sleep" -> some minutes.
Uncheck "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" and "Restart automatically if the computer freezes".

That should work!


Install Homebrew packages on macOS Mojave Beta I am trying to install some dependencies for flutter, which requires homebrew. The only problem is that homebrew does not install any tools.

For example, if I try both brew install --HEAD libimobiledevice, brew install ideviceinstaller and brew install ios-deploy, it gives me the following error (sometimes it is slightly different) and the tools do not install.

Last 15 lines from /Users/davidkeen/Library/Logs/Homebrew/makedepend/05.configure:
checking for rename... yes
checking for fchmod... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for X... configure: error: in `/private/tmp/makedepend-20180609-57475-hh24w0/makedepend-1.0.5':
configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.  Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables X_CFLAGS
and X_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>.
See `config.log' for more details

Do not report this issue to Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core!

Error: You are using macOS 10.14.
We do not provide support for this pre-release version.
You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.

Error: A newer Command Line Tools release is available.
Update them from Software Update in the App Store.

Error: You are using macOS 10.14.
We do not provide support for this pre-release version.
You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.

How am I meant to install these dependencies on macOS Mojave beta 1?

Please note that brew install cocoapods works, so I'm not sure if this is an issue with homebrew or package?

Error: Your Xcode (9.4) is too outdated.
Please update to Xcode 10.0 (or delete it).
Xcode can be updated from
  https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient on Mojave.
Install the Command Line Tools:
  xcode-select --install

This is a different error, however the solution is the same: install the Xcode 10 Beta and then run xcode-select --install.

The Command Line Developer Tools are now available!

First, agree to the invisible license agreement.

Wait for it to install...

Now, Brew works happily.


iPhone 6s Plus Home Screen rotates on tilt On my iPhone 6 Plus, the home screen rotates on tilt, but on my iPhone 6s it doesn't rotate, is it ok? My iPhone 6 Plus is running iOS 8.1 and my iPhone 6s is running iOS 9.

Only the iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6S Plus rotate in the Springboard like an iPad. Smaller iPhones do not rotate like that. There are no settings on the small iPhone models to get this behavior.


How to add colors for Charts in Numbers v6 Numbers 6.2.1 limits you to six colors for a Chart, which is a problem when creating a donut chart with more than six segments. Is there a way to add colors if needed?

I've found this question being answered for earlier versions of Numbers, but  it's unclear how to do it in v6.

I just filled  2 columns and 12 lines in a spreadsheet. I then made a donut chart as shown in the image below.

The chart needed more than 6 colors so some colors were repeated. I clicked on the chart once to select it and then clicked again on a colored segment. See next image

You can see here that I have selected one of the colored segments and slightly separated it.  Now I go to the Style tab at the top right of the Numbers file. You can see here where you can change the color of the segment. I changed one instance of light blue to bright blue, one instance of green to a dull green, one instance of gold to yellow and finally one instance of red to fusia. This final plot is shown below.


Moving iBooks library to an external drive Is there any way to move the existing iBooks library on my MacBook (Mavericks) to an external drive and also ensure iBooks treats that as the new location for all future purposes? I am running out of space on my default drive and need to unclutter it.

You can copy, then symlink, the iBooks folder to an external drive.

The iBooks library is stored in the following location:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books

Quit iBooks, then move this1 folder to an external drive. Then, symlink this folder:

ln -s /path/to/iBooks-library ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService

1 In the example above, I moved the entire BKAgentService container, but you can just move the books themselves and leave the rest on the local disk — may improve performance.


How to download a list of URLs saved in a text file on iOS? I have a list of URLs saved in a text file separated by spaces, and I would like to download every single one to my iPad as a zip file.
How can I do that?

There are at least a couple of ways. Unfortunately there is no command line interface on iPadOS so WGET is going to be impossible to use. And unless the text file is ENORMOUS there is no need to zip the text file, though there are zip utilities for iOS.
iCloud allows for the synchronization of data between apps on both the Mac, iPhone and iPad. If you have iCloud drive you could paste the URLs into a pages.app document and save it there. Then you can open it on pages.app on your iPad.
If, like me, you don't have iCloud drive set up you can log into iCloud.com on your Mac and paste that text into a new notes document. This will then sync to all of your iCloud devices, including your iPad.
If you have a blog you can upload the text file to the blog and then go to that file on your iPad:
http://myblogwebaddress.com/textfileiwant.txt
Also if you have iCloud drive you can put the file in one of your iCloud folders and then use the files.app on your iPad to access the text file.
There are other ways but, hopefully, that will get you started.


How can an iPhoto Library be shared between users in a way that facilitates backing up to Time Machine? I'm aware that there has been a similar question that points towards Apple's own guidance on sharing iPhoto Libraries.

Apple's solutions aren't compatible with Time Machine - it can't be used to back up an external drive and a disk image appears as a single file, meaning the whole image would have to be backed up every time it changes, rather than just the changes.

I currently have my iPhoto library in the /Users/Shared and it sort of works, except for regular permissions issues. I can cope with these OK, but my wife finds them confusing and frustrating.

As a general rule, photos are imported in my account and I manage Events, Faces, Places and PhotoStreams. My wife generally just wants access to the photos to share them and occasionally to create albums.

Is there a better solution, possibly one involving Hazel, Automator and/or AppleScript?

Currently running OS X 10.8.2 and iPhoto '11 (9.4.2).

You don't have to put the Library on a Disk Image. You can put it on any drive formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - a USB/FireWire/Thunderbolt drive. Time Machine can back up externals too.
From your description - all your wife wants is access and to make occasional albums, then iPhoto Sharing is more simple than trying to share the whole Library.

If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.

Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.

Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.


Can I control the ringer volume based on a timer/clock? My wife leads a very scheduled life.  She has a meeting every morning from 6 to 8 am and does not want it interrupted by phone rings or text boops, so she sets the phone to silent.  And never turns it back.  So it is nearly impossible to call her.

Simple solution, use clock to turn to silent and back to active.  Nope, doesn't do that.  Must be an app for that!  Nope.  A few apps claim so but actually just set timers to remind you to turn it back on and, since it is in silent mode, they just flash the screen.  Which does little good in a purse.

How can we accomplish this either with built-in functionality or with an app?

Apple does not allow apps to "play with" that system setting. That's the technical reason why there's no app for it. It might be able using a jailbreak tweak if it has to change every day (for example: monday between 2 and 4, tuesday between 2 and 3 etc.)

However if you go to:

Settings
Do not disturb
Scheduled
Pick the time of your desire
You're done


How to format cases properly in MS Word? I am desperate I am trying to add a case using the equations of MS Word.

These are two different ways I have tried.

The first one was obtained by adding a left Curly Brace, then a 3 row by 1 column matrix. I have aligned everything to left, right and center the result is the same.

The second one was obtaining by adding a 3 line case.

Both are incorrectly aligned.

What I want is this, everything beautifully aligned by the operation signs and by the numbers, considering the signs.

Can this be done in Word?

On the Equation Tools tab ,chose liner format and use & to align.
e.g.

\eqarray(2V_A-5V_C&=-&20@ V_A-6V_B&=-&40@5V_B+6V_C&=&40)

After you finish edit,change it to pro format,just get what you want.


Macbook Pro fan running full speed, activity monitor shows no computationally intensive applications My 2018 Macbook pro 15 inch fan is running at full speed all the time. I checked activity monitor and my idle was >95%. If this is a hardware problem, is there any way to fix it without opening up the whole computer? Otherwise, are there any easy fixes? Thanks

Like Allan said in the comments, try resetting the SMC, or if you want to manually bring down your fan speed manually, try using Macs Fan Control (this app can and will come in handy later in your life).


VPN with mac mini reachable locally but not from the Internet I have a Mac mini that I'm trying to make ssh-reachable when I'm in a coffeeshop outside on the Internet (How do I convert my mac mini into a remote server?) so I can run more computationally intensive tasks on it remotely.  I've set up a VPN using Strongswan and this tutorial: (configure Strongswan on Ubuntu) and can now connect to it from my other computer on my home network.  However, I can’t reach it from Internet with IPsec or ssh connection.

What am I missing? How do I fix it?

I will assume that your situation is like mine and most other at home: Your Mac mini and other computer is on a local network, you have a router and is connected to the internet using a service provider. Then there are four things needed to reach you mini from the internet.

1) The mac mini has to be "opened" for access. It seems you have done this already.

2) The internet provider needs to allow access from the internet to your computer. Some do, absolutely not all. And not necessarily on all ports. Some allow web on port 80 and 8080, some allow ssh. You need to check.

3) You need to find out the IP adress to your home network, actually to your router. Logging in to the router might give you that. One problem is that it can change, the IP adress lease is time limited. Some service providers can give you a static IP adress, often at a cost. If not, you could use a dynamic DNS adress service.

4) Finally, your router needs to take internet connections and transfer them to your Mac mini. You need to log in to the router and set up things there.

And lastly, remember to add security. It will take a few minutes before the crooks out there try to connect and make nasty things.


Pages - Why dont numbers like 6th format like they do in Word? Whenever I type something that involves order, like 6th or 2nd, in Pages, I want it to be able to do the behavior that Word does, i.e, make the 'th' or the 'nd' part a superscript. Is there any setting to do this? If no, is there any other possible way?

To have this feature, you need to use Pages 09, where it can be selected in the Autocorrect preferences.  The Pages 5 released in 2013 deletes this feature, along with dozens of others, and has become useless for many purposes.


iTunes install error 45075 on Windows 8.1 I've attempted to install iTunes on Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit for the first time. I downloaded the latest iTunes64Setup.exe from Apple's website, and the install seemingly completes without error.

However, when I run iTunes, I get the error "A required iTunes component is not installed" with error number 45075, and then iTunes closes.

The install process didn't involve any component selection/deselection, so I'm not sure what caused this. Also, this is a clean install of Windows so I don't imagine existing installs are interfering.

I've tried:

repairing the install
uninstall/reinstall
this advice to uninstall all other Apple components (Bonjour, Quicktime, etc), before reinstalling. However, in my case there are no other existing Apple components that might be interfering.

Any suggestions on a fix?

I found a solution which is a variant on this advice, which suggests extracting the files and installing the components manually in a particular order.

Extract iTunes64Setup.exe (I used 7-zip)
Run AppleApplicationSupport64.msi
Run iTunes64.msi

Success! Now iTunes opens, and stays open.


Could the padlock icon shown in the Safari address bar in macOS, be moved or removed? The address bar in Safari for macOS shows a padlock icon just left of the current website address. Is it possible to move or remove it altogether?
It's shown almost in the middle of the address bar, and I keep hitting it when I just want to enter new text in the address bar.

The padlock (lock) icon shown in the Safari address bar cannot be moved or remove. But if it's getting in the way, you can try one of the following approaches.

Instead of clicking using Mouse/Trackpad, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command + L to move focus to the address bar. Doing so also selects the current website address, so you can immediately start typing to enter new website address or search query.

You may consider enabling Show full website address setting under Advanced tab of Safari preferences. This would show the full address of the current webpage and may also move the padlock towards left in the Smart Search Field/Safari Address Bar thereby reducing the possibility of accidental click.

P.S.: The lock icon is shown in the address bar (officially named the Smart Search Field) for a good reason. You should be cautious when the padlock icon is missing. To learn more, refer to this official document from Safari guide from Apple:

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/sfri40697/mac


iOS 8.2 iPad mini iCloud login stuck at "Verifying" All of a sudden today my iPad stopped syncing iMessages. I turned iMessage and Facetime on and off, and reset my device, several times but nothing worked. So I signed out of iCloud, reset my device, then tried to login again to iCloud. The Settings screen has been stuck at "Verifying" for 15 minutes, and I have repeated this process a few times with the same ending. While it's "Verifying" the Settings screen is frozen. I can't scroll or tap anywhere, but screen rotation still works and I can go to the App gallery and all apps work fine. FYI my internet is working just fine as I am writing this post, and I can also login through icloud.com just fine. Note I have 2-step verification on. Thank you.

Asking another person to call you, if the call is successful the bug goes away. At least that happen in my case, after upgrading to 10.3.1 suddenly my wife called and voilá! eveything back to normal.


Lost connection after spoofing MAC address I've changed the MAC address using

$ ifconfig en1 |grep ether
    ether b2:n7:v8:x6:31:k2
$ openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'
69:b5:32:54:75:38
$ sudo ifconfig en1 ether 69:b5:32:54:75:38
Password:
$ ifconfig en1 |grep ether
    ether 69:b5:32:54:75:38

After that all my network connections got lost. Why is this happening?

From man ifconfig:

ether   Another name for the lladdr parameter.

lladdr addr
    Set the link-level address on an interface.  This can be used to e.g. set a new
    MAC address on an ethernet interface, though the mechanism used is not
    ethernet-specific. The address addr is specified as a series of colon-separated
    hex digits.  If the interface is already up when this option is used, it will
    be briefly brought down and then brought back up again in order to ensure that
    the receive filter in the underlying ethernet hardware is properly reprogrammed.

So loosing the connection is the expected behavior here.


Change in sleep behaviour on MacBook Pro and ignoring settings on Yosemite Recently (possibly since the 10.10.5 upgrade, but not sure) my MacBook Pro mid 2012 (non-retina) changed its sleeping behavior and I cannot seem to restore it. For years, I used a 48 hour hibernate delay (autopoweroffdelay). So when I close the lid or the sleep timer kicks in, my MBP would sleep (i.e. suspend to RAM) and pulse the Sleep Indicator Light (SIL) for 48 hours.

But recently my Mac will wake after approximately 1 hour of sleep and go into another sleep mode. I believe it is standby, because the SIL will turn off, but when I open the lid it takes only slightly longer than after the regular sleep state. In hibernate / autopoweroff it would take a while to load the RAM content back from the disk (which is not the case here). This does not happen when a USB disk is connected.

Here comes my pmset -g:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         172800
 standby              1
 womp                 0
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 gpuswitch            2
 sms                  1
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            0
 sleep                10
 autopoweroffdelay    2880
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

So my questions are:

Have you heard about any recent sleep-related changes in OS X Yosemite? How come my Mac suddenly ignores its settings?
What standby state am I dealing with? See my guess above.
And of course, how to make my settings work again?

What I tried so far (will update):

SMC & NVRAM reset
Onyx maintenance
Set all timers anew, e.g. sudo pmset -a autopoweroffdelay 2880, etc.
Change hibernatemode to 3 as suggested by @rewozz

I can't tell why you Mac wakes up, but here is how you could find out:

Type pmset -b -g assertions in your terminal. That will list the drivers that have requested power setting overrides when running on battery.

You can also inspect the power management log, using pmset -g log.

For example, on my 10.10.5 MacBook Pro 2015, I found out that leaving my Sandisk Ultra fit USB3 memory stick plugged in makes my Mac wake up every 3 hours. Here's why:

$ pmset -b -g assertions
2015-10-19 18:38:32 +0200
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   0
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  1
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 51(powerd): [0x000000040008012e] 03:37:52 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"

ExternalMedia is set to 1 by process powerd.

Unfortunately I haven't found out yet how to prevent this. I looked for a "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted" plist file but could not find any... So I don't know if these driver overrides can be changed or disabled. :(  Anyway, I expect it is driver dependent, so changing the behavior should also be driver dependent...

This detailed web page seems to indicate that, for external media altering sleep behavior, the only option is to unmount or eject the external media. Based on the driver the external media uses, eject is sometime required while for other unmount is enought.


tlsv1 alert protocol version when connecting via SSL to OS X Server How can I re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.0 on server 5.3 with macOS 10.12.4 in the short term while I evaluate all the clients that aren't ready for TLS 1.2?

If you jump to the bottom, attempts to change comfiguration files have failed so far to restore backwards compatibility

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2

After having updated our server to macOS 12.4 and the Server app to version 5.3, using curl to connect to a macOS server https site from a Linux machine ceased to work, issuing the following messages on the client side:

$ curl -v --insecure -o "output.file" https://myserver.domain/path/page.php
* About to connect() to myserver.domain port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.168.xxx.xxx... connected
* Connected to myserver.domain (192.168.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: none
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
} [data not shown]
* error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
* Closing connection #0

The connection worked well before the update of the macOS server. So it seems that the update switched off a connection option which curl relies on. I googled a lot, but I am still uncertain about what exactly the cause is.

The same curlcommand works when issued from another Mac. The linux machine has

$ curl --version
curl 7.19.0 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8h zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.10
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

while on the Mac client

$ curl --version
curl 7.51.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0) libcurl/7.51.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets

Unfortunately, it is not an option to try updating curlon the Linux machine.

Some resources claim incompatible cipher suites to be the cause, but after some testing, I haven't been able to find a solution using the --ciphers option, and also I am not sure how to find a compatible cipher suite.

I have tried to find out what changed with macOS Server 5.3, but the Apple change log does not give me any hint about it. So the question is:

What has changed in macOS 12.4 and/or macOS Server 5.3 and how can I re-configure my macOS server so the curlconnection works again?

Update 1:

I have temporarily exposed port 443 to the public, so I could perform the SSL Labs tests. The results show that my macOS server supports only TLS 1.2 and nothing else any more. For several simulated clients, the test report Server sent fatal alert: protocol_version - including, for example, IE8-10/Win7 and Java7u25.

I have tried to reactivate TLS 1 and 1.1 in

/library/server/web/config/apache2/sites/0000_127.0.0.1_34543_myserver.domain.conf
/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd.conf
/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf
/library/server/web/config/proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf (multiple instances here)

changing

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.2

into

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2

or even

SSLProtocol All

but it did not make a difference when fetching the URL with curl.

Update 2:

The service proxy error log shows

[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] [client x.x.x.x:38805] AH02008: SSL library error 1 in handshake (server myserver.domain:443)
[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] SSL Library Error: error:1408A10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:wrong version number
[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] [client x.x.x.x:38805] AH01998: Connection closed to child 11 with abortive shutdown (server myserver.domain:443)

To me, it looks as if my attempts to activate TLS v1 do not work.

So the question is: How can I reactivate TLS v1 in macOS Server Apache?

curl 7.19.0 ... OpenSSL/0.9.8h

This is a very old (and unsupported) version of OpenSSL you are using here which has no support for modern protocols like TLS 1.2 and modern ECDHE ciphers. Chances are high that after the upgrade your server now requires such protocol and/or cipher and thus connecting with your old OpenSSL version will fail.

  * SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

This might also indicate that your client is trying to use SSL 3.0, which is usually disabled today because it is an insecure protocol. You might try to enforce to use TLS 1.0 (which is supported by OpenSSL 0.9.8) by using curl -1 or curl --tls1 in the hope that the server still supports TLS 1.0 and has ciphers configured to be usable by the old OpenSSL version.


Mac doesn't go to sleep anymore Since a while, probably the last system update, after inactivity, the screen won't go to sleep. The system itself is configured not to go to sleep, but the screen should, and it should lock then, but it doesn't.

There is a similar question here: My MacBook won't go to sleep anymore

$ pmset -g assertions
2018-01-01 17:22:20 +0100
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    1
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  1
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 111(hidd): [0x00029b5b00099302] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968026.3"
    Timeout will fire in 300 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
   pid 574(AirPlayUIAgent): [0x0001717d0005a3c9] 38:38:30 PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep named: "com.apple.airplay.disableUserIdleDisplaySleep"
    Details: disable user idle display sleep for AirPlay screen
   pid 61(powerd): [0x0000000600088000] 91:42:44 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
No kernel assertions.
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

I've had this problem last week, then decided to restart. This solved the problem, until now. It seems to have to do with Bluetooth? I'm not sure yet.

Update: it is related to Airplay. Whenever I stream to Apple TV, this happens.

How can I get my screen to go to sleep automatically and fix this problem either permanently or temporarily without having to restart?

I have same issue. I quit the air play process and it works. Is this a bug?


How can I add an HFS+ partition to an MBR-partitioned external drive I have a 1Tb external drive that currently has two partitions -

64 Gb NTFS
524 Gb ext2

The remaining 414Gb is unused and shows as "Free Space" on the Mac's Disk Utility.   I'd like to take 250Gb of this for an HFS+ partition to use with Time Machine, but Disk Utility doesn't seem to offer a way to add a partition in that space or format it.

My running Linux box (FC9) doesn't offer an hfs+ option for mkfs; if needed, I could boot from a DVD of a more modern Linux distro to accomplish this.

This question is similar, but my partition table is fdisk format, not guid.

I'm running MacOS 10.7.5.

Here is information on the current partitions

# diskutil list disk1
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 61.4 GB    disk1s1
   2:                      Linux                         524.3 GB   disk1s2

# gpt -r show disk1
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1   120005549      1  MBR part 12
   120005550  1023999165      2  MBR part 131
  1144004715   809520453

# fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 0C    0   0   2 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  120005549] Win95 FAT32L
 2: 83 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 120005550 - 1023999165] Linux files*
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Obligatory warning: You seem to have found your way to fdisk. Keep in mind that, like most BSD-Unix-style command line fdisk tools, the Mac OS X fdisk's editing feature does not 'do' safeguards, it has even less safeguards than whatever other platform's command line fdisk tool you're thinking of.  It will happily let you accidentally use the erase command (which removes all the partitions) or edit a partition that Mac OS X is currently using (rendering your system unbootable) and even has few safeguards against putting numbers that just plain don't make any sense under any circumstances right into the partition table, so please be careful.  Its only saving grace is that the changes are only in memory until it writes them, so if you are careful you can exit without saving.

You can use fdisk in interactive mode to edit the entries in the partition table. For instance, to edit the partition table on disk 1:
sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1

Then edit your first blank partition table entry (e.g. edit 3), set it to type AF, press return for the default to the CHS mode question, press return to accept the default of starting the partition after the end of the last one, then enter the end sector number you want (the default is the end of the disk; to figure out one for a size you want: divide the size you want by 512 bytes to get the number of sectors you want, and then add that to the start sector number and subtract one to get the end sector number ). Do a print to make sure it looks okay (nothing has been saved yet, so if there's a mistake you can just exit (not quit) at this point and run fdisk again to start from the beginning.) Then write to save the partition table over the old one on the disk. Then exit.
If you get a warning at write that the changes will require a reboot, that's okay; answer y, and reboot Mac OS X after exiting.
Now the partition table has been updated, but the partition itself still has the whatever old blocks of data were in that space before; Run Disk Utility, and from the Erase tab, choose the new partition, give it a name, and Erase it.


Diary App which supports Tags with values I am looking for a diary app, which supports tags with values. Which means I can define custom tags, and with each entry I can add tags and define values for it.
Example:

01/01/2013 had a great party today, mood:5, health:7, moneySpent:152
02/01/2013 met Tina today, went to the pool, mood:7, success:3

It should provide some line charts to see how the values go up and down.

I couldn't find it using my search terms, maybe you know how to call this feature, or know an app implementing this?

A great diary app is Momento. Supports tags and has a great interface:
http://www.momentoapp.com/


Folder disappear from NAS only in Finder I'm using a Lenovo ix4-300d has my backup system for my archives and it work pretty well. The only downside right now (and it's not even them fault) is that some folder has disappeared from my Finder view. I still can access them via Terminal (not SSH, just cd into Volumes/share-name/archives) or via the web interface of the ix4-300d. Do someone have an idea how I can get them back on my Finder listing? I've already tried to delete .DS_Store via the web interface and I got no luck.

Here is a screenshot from my 3 views…

Perhaps the OSX system (i.e., Finder) is treating the folder like a hidden folder? In which case, it would be useful for you to have an Automator script that toggles the Hidden flag in the Finder. Once the script is created, it appears as a menu item under Finder menu >> Services.

Here is the link to a previous discussion concerning showing hidden files.


Connect 2 external monitors with MacBook Pro I recently got an MacBook Pro (Retina) 15" from my office. I prefer to use my laptop as a desktop. So I have a docking station for my Dell which I used to connect to 2 external monitors, keyboard and mouse. I use both OS X as well as Windows via Boot Camp.

Is there anything similar for new MacBook Pro (Retina)?

If not a docking station what would be better alternative to connect 2 external Dell monitors (supporting resolution of 1920 * 1080)?

I have a MacBook Pro Retina. I connected a 27" Asus Display directly to the HDMI port, and a 27" Samsung Display to the Thunderbolt port through a DVI to VGA adapter.

I now have three displays stacked horizontally, with quite some nice real estate. Both external displays are 1920 x 1080 and have the Mac with Retina resolution of 2560 x 1600. You can do at least the same with your 15" MacBook Pro Retina.

Hope this helps!!


How can one create a shortcut for pasting unformatted text in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac? iWork provides the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Option-Shift-V to paste text without it's original formatting. How can I get this or a similar shortcut key for Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac?

I found the answer in this blog post

Create the AppleScript:

try
  set theClip to Unicode text of (the clipboard as record)
  tell application "Microsoft Word" to tell selection to type text text theClip
end try

  Save in
  /Users/YourUserName/Documents/Microsoft
  User Data/Word Script Menu Items as
  Paste unformatted\mosV.scpt (the
  backslashed bit at the end of the
  filename provides the shortcut).
  Restart Word and you can now paste
  without importing extraneous styles
  with Apple-Alt-Shift-V.


How do I do a clean install of Mountain Lion with no disc? I purchased an iMac in late 2013. This model has no disc drive. It came with Mountain Lion pre-installed. If I ever needed to perform a clean install of Mountain Lion, how can I? I don't have an installer file and no disc came with the computer. What's the official way to deal with the fact that I essentially don't own a copy of the OS my computer came with?

For Repairs/Recovery:

One is to use the build in recovery installed on your hard drive. To check for it use disk utility, but it is a hidden partition so make it non hidden first.

Second one is to use the Internet Recovery.

For clean install:

is to create a bootable USB, with complete ML installer. (you need to have/purchase the ML installer package), and a USB with 8GB space.

http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/How-To-Re-Download-Apps-From-The-Mac-App-Store.htm

Example:

OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0

  The OS X Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create OS X Recovery on an
  external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in
  OS X Recovery: reinstall Lion or later, repair the disk using Disk
  Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with
  Safari.

  Note: In order to create an external OS X  Recovery using the OS X
  Recovery Assistant, the Mac must have an existing Recovery HD.

  To create an external OS X Recovery, download the OS X Recovery Disk
  Assistant application. Insert an external drive, launch the OS X
  Recovery Disk Assistant,  select the drive where you would like to
  install, and follow the on screen instructions.


Disable cover flow in 10.8 Mavericks I'm annoyed that when I arrange a folder "by Kind" while in Icon View, each section is a single line with a cover flow collapsing all the icons that don't fit in the line.

(I very rarely use icon view, but the folder in question contains a mix of images, GIMP files the images were generated from, and a great many subfolders; I'd like to be able to quickly look at the icons for my png  images.)

Is there any way I can get a grid view of the files sorted by kind, or better yet by type (e.g. separate .png and .xcf files.)?

(The results from finding *.png are perfect layout (not shown), but mix in images from folders, which does not serve my purposes.)

Arrange By: None

Good:  Grid arrangement.  Bad: files and folders mixed.

Arrange By: Kind

Good: Files and folders separated.  Bad: most icons hidden in cover flow scroll area.

This question has been asked before on other versions of OS X, but the solutions given there (arrange by none and then clean up by kind) don't work for me, as "Clean up by" is grayed out on the top menu and completely absent from the context menu.

Ref:
Stop finder using cover flow in icon view

Remove horizontal scrolling in finder with big thumbnail view

As per the accepted answer below, the solution was:
1. Arrange By: None
2. Pull up the options with Command-J or Control-click on the window
3. Sort By Kind

With Arrange By set to None, Show View Options (⌘J) and choose Sort By: Kind.


How can I shut off the confirmation prompt when I delete conversations in Messages in OS X? I receive a lot of messages on my MacBook Pro on a daily basis. Periodically throughout the day I need to delete multiple conversations in messages for clarity purposes. Each time I delete a conversation thread I receive the following prompt:

I have looked around in Messages preferences and I can not see any readily apparent option to disable the deletion confirmation pop-up dialog box. Is there any way to disable this dialog in Messsages or otherwise?

This is more of a workaround. If you enable the "Save history when conversations are closed" option under Preferences->Messages, you won't be prompted when deleting conversations.


How can I delete one of my devices from the "lists of known hosts (ECDSA)" after connecting to it with SSH? How can I delete one of my devices from the "lists of known hosts (ECDSA)" after connecting to it with SSH on Sierra ?

You can delete a device entry by navigating to ~/.ssh/known_hosts and remove the respective line:

In the Finder hit cmdshiftG, enter ~/.ssh/ and hit Go. Open the file known_hosts with a text editor and remove the line with your device's host name or IP-address and the ecdsa key hint (e.g. ecdsa-sha2-nistp25).

Open Terminal and enter nano ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Move the cursor to the respective line and hit ctrlK to remove the line. To save the modified file and exit nano hit ctrlO and ctrlX

The known_hosts file looks like this:
ip-address (or host name) key_hint key

→  one line per ip-address/host!
Example:
host.example.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDWn...
192.168.0.7 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDEIb...
192.168.2.7 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDEIb...
host3 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDWn...
github.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7...
host2.example.com ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHA...

Opening the file in an editor like TextEdit the lines are probably wrapped:

To remove a host (in the example github.com), choose ip (or host name), key hint and key and delete it.
Editing ~/.ssh/known_hosts removes the host for the actual user only.


Lost calendar icon on 4S iPhone My calendar icon accidentally got deleted. How do I recover & restore that icon to my screen.

At least on un-jailbroken phones it is not possible to delete the standard applications, so the icon (and the app) are still on your phone. Try to

Use Spotlight search to search for "Calendar"
Go to Settings -> General -> "Reset" (last option) -> Home Screen to reset the home screen to its factory state


How to remove Cox Cloud Drive icon from menu bar? Cox cable had a cloud storage system called Cloud Drive. They discontinued it several months ago. The icon is still in my menu bar. Their support services says they no longer support uninstalling it. (Can you believe it?!)

Anyone know how to get rid of it? (Would there be any other files on my Mac relating to it that I should delete, too?)

The icon appears for all log-ins, so it must be system-wide. It can't be removed with Command-Drag, and it doesn't appear in System Preferences > Users and Groups > Log-in Items. Searching for Cloud Drive on the computer doesn't yield any hits. I have tried to find files with that name in Library and System/Library to no avail: searching those folders for Cloud Drive or CloudDrive yield nothing, and I am not sure exactly where to look. I have tried the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemon folders.

Sure would appreciate any help.

The first thing I would try for any third-party menu bar icon is holding down the command key while you click on and drag the icon totally away from the menu bar.

If this works and then you find it returns after a reboot, I would also check your Login Items at Apple > System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items.


iTunes updated my iPhone 5c to 9.1 but now iTunes on my PC wont connect to my phone I have updated my iPhone 5c to iOS 9.1
When I try to connect it to my iTunes Library I get a message that the iPhone can't be used as it requires a newer version of iTunes.

iPhone and iTunes are both up to date.

I'm using Windows Vista.

Your version of iTunes is unlikely to be up to date [currently 12.3.1], as the latest version requires a minimum OS of Windows 7.

Your only real solution would appear to be to upgrade your OS.

  Windows System Requirements

  Hardware:

  PC with a 1GHz Intel or AMD processor with support for SSE2 and 512MB of RAM
  To play standard definition video from the iTunes Store, an Intel Pentium D or faster processor, 512MB of RAM and a DirectX 9.0-compatible video card are required.
  To play 720p HD video, an iTunes LP or iTunes Extras, a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor, 1GB of RAM and an Intel GMA X3000, ATI Radeon X1300 or NVIDIA GeForce 6150 or better are required.
  To play 1080p HD video, a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor, 2GB of RAM and an Intel GMA X4500HD, ATI Radeon HD 2400 or Nvidia GeForce 8300 GS or better are required.
  Screen resolution of 1024x768 or greater; 1280x800 or greater is required to play an iTunes LP or iTunes Extras
  16-bit sound card and speakers
  Broadband Internet connection to use Apple Music, the iTunes Store and iTunes Extras
  iTunes-compatible CD or DVD recorder to create audio CDs, MP3 CDs, or back-up CDs or DVDs. Songs from the Apple Music catalogue cannot be burned to a CD.

  Software:

  Windows 7 or later
  64-bit editions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 require the iTunes 64-bit installer; for more information, visit www.itunes.com/download
  400MB of available disk space
  Screen reader support requires Window-Eyes 7.2 or later; for information about accessibility in iTunes, visit www.apple.com/accessibility
  iTunes is now a 64-bit application on 64-bit versions of Windows 8 and 7. Some third-party visualisers may no longer be compatible with this version of iTunes. Please contact the developer for an updated visualiser that is compatible with iTunes 12.1 or later
  Apple Music, Apple Music Radio, iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match availability may vary by country

Source: http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/download/


How to reset OS X volume after sleep using launchd? I'm been trying to write a plist file on which when I return from sleep mode, I always want to make my Mac volume to the minimum amount. However, it looks like the following plist doesn't work, with an error: 1:1: syntax error: Expected string but found end of script. (-2741)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <false/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>my.plist</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
            <string>-e</string>
            <string>"</string>
            <string>set</string>
            <string>volume</string>
            <string>output</string>
            <string>volume</string>
            <string>0</string>
            <string>"</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>

Also, when the following is not working:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <false/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>my.plist</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
            <string>-e</string>
            <string>"set volume output volume 0"</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>

The osascript command functions well if I execute it from within Terminal, so I think it's due to how I set my arguments list to the plist.

So is it feasible to take the string argument like "~" in launchd? Or is there some other things that I'm missing here?

I suspect that it might be better to write the osascript command in shell script, and load the shell script to enable the Mac's volume to minimize... but is it the correct approach?

I use OS X Mavericks 10.9.2.

The second launchd job ticket format is almost correct. Only a set of quotes need removing.

Quotes

The quotes are no longer needed in the second launchd job ticket, so change:

<string>"set volume output volume 0"</string>

…to…

<string>set volume output volume 0</string>

Grouping Arguments

In this case, the quotes grouped the set of arguments for osascript to see as one item. Thus osascript gets two arguments, the flag -e and the script. This meets the requirements from the osascript manual.

When called through Terminal.app and thus through the shell, the quotes are needed to perform the grouping. When osascript gets the arguments, the shell has removed the quotes.

Without quotes, spaces subdivide each item passed via the shell.

When called through a launchd job ticket, the grouping is intrinsic within the array passed as ProgramArguments. In your first ticket, the array contained nine items and in the second ticket, the array contained three.

LaunchAgent

Be sure to add this launchd job as a ~/Library/LaunchAgents as osascript requires an active user with a graphical session.

This approach approximates what I do with Power Manager in How to Set the Volume When Logging In.


How to restore my deleted .bash_profile? I have deleted my .bash_profile with rm command and copied another one to use. But now i remember there is some PATH thing in the previous file :(. Can i find the deleted .bash_profile in some place like Trash?

When you do rm on a file, it is immediately unlinked from the file system and gone for good.

The Trash is a Finder Idiom that is not available in a unix terminal session. The only way to restore your file is by restoring it from a backup.