Moving Bootcamp to new Macbook Pro Is it possible to move Boot Camp from Macbook Pro Late 2008 w/ Lion to Macbook Pro 2011 w/ Lion?

I have been trying unsuccessfully for several days.

I used WinClone to successfully image my old Bootcamp, and then ran it on my new Macbook, but it errored just before it finished.

The error was similar to this one:

http://roaringapps.com/app:904#post-2927

The command line commands in that article fixed my first problem of Windows not showing up on reboot despite holding the  key, but now when I boot into it, it just blue screens.

So my question is:  Is this even possible?

Is the hardware difference between the two Macbooks causing the blue screen, and the only solution is to re-install from scratch?

I believe that this is a problem with Windows as opposed to Boot Camp.  Windows, if I remember correctly looks for the serial numbers and unique identifiers when it starts up and has a conniption if they're not what it's expecting.  I ran into this a few years ago when I had the logic board replaced on my iMac.  I think your best bet might be to reinstall Windows on your new machine and migrate your data and settings over within Windows (that might also help Windows by giving a fresh, healthy install).


Apple Watch Not Allowed to be Activated by New Owner I recently purchased a used Apple Watch.  The previous owner had already unsynced the apple watch from their phone and removed it from their iCloud account. However when I try to sync it to my phone it said that this Apple Watch was still liked to their Apple ID.

What can the both of us do?

You can easily ask Apple's servers if a piece of hardware is currently locked:

https://www.icloud.com/activationlock/

On e procedural side, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205009 covers the unlocking process, but the seller needs to log into iCloud.com and delete that watch from their account.

They use the settings web app and "Under My Devices, click the Apple Watch that was sold and then click the X"

Should take them 5 minutes or less on a computer to sort that out.


Create a automator application able to launch and quit from dock I have a shell command thats runs endlessly, until you stop it using Control-C. When I run it from the Terminal, it goes something like:

$ /abspath/to/my-command
Command is running ...
Use Control-C to stop it.

I wanted to be able to launch this command easily from the dock, so I created an Automator application, with just a Run Shell Script component, where I wrote /abspath/to/my-command. Then, I saved "MyApp.app" in my Applications folder and drag & drop it to the dock.

So far, it works great, when I click the app on the dock, the command starts running. There's just one huge problem: I cannot quit the application! In fact, in the dock it doesn't even appear that the application is running. The only solution I have found so far is to do ps aux | grep my-command and then kill -9 <PID>.

How can I quit "MyApp.app" (like doing Control-C in the Terminal)?

Your app does start the process and then quits itself straight away leaving the process running.

You could try and check in the Automator action to see if the process is running. if it is quit it, if it is not launch it.

 isRunning=`ps aux | grep -i "Textedit.app"| grep -v grep`

    if [ $isRunning -eq "" ]; then
        echo "is Not Running"

/abspath/to/my-command
    else
        echo "is Running"

# terminate code  here
    fi;

So when you click the App in the Dock. to will either start the process or stop it.


After OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.2, my screenshots disappear Right after I upgraded my iMac to OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.2, my screenshots no longer saves to the desktop.  Using "control + shift + 4", my captured shot just disappears, don't know where it goes.

If the location has been changed, then typing this in Terminal
defaults read com.apple.screencapture location
will show you where it's currently set to.

If you haven't changed it, i.e. it's still set to the default Desktop & has never been redirected, it will error with
The domain/default pair of (/Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist

If it doesn't exist & still doesn't save to Desktop, then try resetting it to there with
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop


Why can't I move the mini iTunes player between Spaces? On snow leopard, I am unable to move the mini-itunes player between spaces.  For any other app (including the full library showing iTunes) I move windows between spaces by clicking and holding the app title then using the keyboard shortcuts to move between spaces.  However when doing this with the smaller player, it's determined to be left behind.  Does anyone else experience this or have suggestions on how to resolve the issue?

Brief Specs

OS X 10.6.8
iTunes 10.5.3(3)

I'm not experiencing that issue here (OS X 10.6.8/iTunes 10.5.3). But one thing you can try is to drag the window to the edge of your screen toward the space to which you wish to switch. After a brief pause, you will slide over to that space, hopefully bringing the iTunes mini window with you.


Why is the Recovery HD mounted when running Software Update? I have installed HardwareGrowler, which displays a notification every time something is being mounted/ejected, connected/disconnected, etc.

It tells me that at the start of when Software Update the Recovery HD is mounted and after something like 5 seconds it is ejected.

Is this because it needs to check the version of your Recovery HD, or is it used for something else?

Software Update checks and updates both your running Lion and your recovery partition, so that in the event of a significant security issue booting to the recovery partition won't instantly open you up to attack.  (Compare booting unpatched Windows XP from DVD or a vendor recovery partition for recovery purposes; it has severe security issues fixed by service packs.  I'm not picking on Windows here; XP's quite old at this point, and was the biggest target out there for years, and security is a rapidly moving target.)  Given the recent growth in Mac malware, this is a good thing.


Force airdrop images to be JPEG not HEIC If i airdrop a photo from my iPhone (iOS 12.4.1) to my MacBook (OSX 10.3.6)the photo arrives as a .HEIC which some other programmes dont reconise.

Is it possible to get airdrop to send .JPG / .JPEG files instead ?

Im aware i could convert the files, or better yet make an automator script to auto convert the files when they appear, but this seems like a work around rather than a solution.

I have had this issue for a while, and this week I decided I was going to find a solution. I work in a firm that is an all Mac environment and we are constantly snapping a pic on our iphone and then airdropping to my Mac desktop or ipad to send/upload to something.

I found a tutorial online using the Automator application that came out in the last OS update. (I kind of forgot about this feature, and was initially excited about it when they made the announcement.)

Here is a link to the tutorial.

https://www.howtogeek.com/398927/how-to-convert-heic-images-to-jpg-on-a-mac-the-easy-way/

I did not use to function to "copy finder item" as I did not want to keep a copy, but this is awesome. Now when I Airdrop a photo in the finder I have a widget shortcut that will convert this image in the finder and replace the HEIC version with a JPG. Hope this helps some of you, as it has been awesome for me!

Here is a screenshot of the end result for the shortcut:

There is a lot of really cool things you can do with the Automator tool so check it out!


Changing the Country & Region with Gift Card You can assume that I am able to change Country & Region. I am trying to change my Country & Region to Germany, though i do not own a German debit Card to do the verification. I am currently living in Germany and I have a german phone number, i tried with that as well but it accepts only numbers from O2 mobile company which i dont have.

Am I able to change Country if I buy and use a German Gift Card? Or if I cant with that either any help please?

The answer is, YES you can using a gift card bought in that country. Though you have to use a real address of that country for the process to finish.


Is it possible to remotely install an app on an iOS device from the web/iTunes? A valuable feature of the Google Play Store is the ability to command a device you've signed in on to download an app without needing to go searching for the app on the device. I would like to do the same on iOS, but the iTunes Preview interface doesn't look like it supports signing in and cuing up app downloads on a device. Is it possible to tell an internet-connected iOS device to download an app from your computer either online or through the iTunes store browser?

Yes - iOS supports this out of the box with many MDM frameworks to push updates to iOS devices over the air. There are some free / open source MDM, but I would recommend something hosted like bushel that has better support and has been running a while.

http://bushel.com

If you need to host the MDM yourself, Apple's server app includes Profile Manager and would be my recommendation for your first server. (It's well documented, inexpensive, handles sertificates well and enables push notification registration.)

https://www.apple.com/osx/server/


Lots of Finder windows opening all at once Last Sunday I was looking through Finder on my mid-2011 MBA.  (I was clearing out my 'cache' and 'preferences' folders.)  I must have either clicked something (I use an external mouse) or pressed something on my keyboard because suddenly all the folders started opening in separate Finder windows!  There were lots of them and they completely covered the screen!  But then I closed all the folders (when they'd finished opening...) and my screen looked normal again.  Is there a menu option for 'opening finder folders in individual windows' or something??  Or a key combination that I was unaware of?  Grateful for any help - intrigued!

Thanks

Harry

Try this:

Select all with CMDA in your home directory.
Hit CMD+ALT+O and have fun. :)


Does iCloud backup only backup non-deleted pictures? I have deleted some photos on my iPad (both from camera roll and photo stream) and I never want them to be found. I heard that you can use "iCloud backup" to restore your stuff in case your iPad crashes or whatever. If at some point I were to backup my iPad, would those    pictures still be found even though I have deleted them? If so, how can they be gotten  rid of forever? I know this probably sounds very strange, but it would be nice to know just in case of emergency.

The pictures won't return as long as you did a backup after you deleted them from your device.


How make snoozing iphone alarm go away for today? Very often by the time I get tothe phone it's lock screen is already on and black so when i wake it up the alarm goes to snooze and i have not found any way to disable the alarm for today unless I go to the alarm settings and switch it off and on again.

Instead of swiping the snooze to the right like you would if unlocking, swipe to the left, then push the x.  Done

Before swiping, the screen will look like this:

After swiping left on the "Snoozing" message, you should see:

Clicking on the small cross should then cancel the alarm.


OK to power off Apple TV (4th gen) at the mains when not in use? I've just given an Apple TV (4th gen) to a relative, who is in the habit of powering off the whole TV system (TV, DVD player, stereo etc) when it isn't in use.

Is it OK to:

remove power from the Apple TV without shutting it down first
leave the Apple TV unpowered most of the time?

I've had a look through the Apple TV User Guide but can't find any mention of this.

Yes - you should be fine. The Apple TV runs iOS which has several technologies to help maintain system reliability when it shuts off abruptly.

Apps are sandboxed and easily deleted and re-installed from the App Store if they should get corrupted data or settings.
The OS is easily wiped and restored from the network.
Changes and writes to storage are low compared to computers. The filesystem is journaled and most of the time it reads data and pushes pikes to the sound and video attached as opposed to doing large calculations or maintaining data files where corruption is a problem.

You will save yourself the time to reinstall things if you put it in sleep first (that flushes all writes to storage) but I say you could treat it however you wish and only change to sleep / shut down if you find you are having to maintain it / reinstall apps. Probably, you won't need to take any care of it.

The TV is designed to be extremely low power usage in sleep mode, and you give up several functions like rapid wake from sleep, bonjour sleep proxy for other Apple devices like wake for back to my Mac and HomeKit automation since the TV works as a "hub" for those activities even when it sleeps. If you don't notice problems and re-cabling the TV to always have mains power is inconvenient - just keep doing what you habitually do with your entertainment power.


How to set Apple Magic Mouse permanently with Mac? Recently I bought Mac and Magic mouse. I am new to Apple hardware. I  was trying to install mouse with mac. I installed it successfully. But whenever I restart the machine I need to configure magic mouse and pair with mac again and again.

Is there any way so that Mac remembers this magic mouse just like wifi names?

Thanks in advance.

You shouldn't have to continually pair the mouse after every restart, this indicates there is a problem.

First thing I would try is to power everything down, and then turn the mouse back on (small switch on the bottom) so that the mouse is "discoverable" before restarting. Ensure you follow these set up instructions after restart.

Make sure you have installed all system updates. OS X 10.6.2, for example, fixed a problem with bluetooth pairing.

If this still doesn't fix the problem, you could try to Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) (see this Apple support document.)


Apple ID /Facetime account hacked? About a week ago, we received a Facetime call from our own email address and it was a complete stranger.  Then a friend of ours got a Facetime call with from our email address and they missed the call, so they tried Facetiming back and they got this same stranger.  This person Facetimed me again, and I confronted him and hung up.  Then he messaged me on my iPhone.  How could this happen?  What happened?  Did he hack our account?  We have since changed our apple id password, but how could this have happened?  Is changing our password enough?  Would he still have access to our information?

Apple ID Security:

First, someone knowing your Apple ID password could have devastating results. This is because, if they know your Apple ID username and password and you have Find my iPhone enabled, they can remotely wipe your devices, and literally claim your device. Security of an Apple ID should be of utmost priority. They can also purchase content with your credit card (if you have one on file), and such.

With that in mind, Apple has done several things to increase security of Apple IDs. When you set up an Apple ID password, they have very good restrictions that encourage you to make a strong password. In addition they have 3 security questions. If you have done almost anything with your Apple ID in the past 6 months you were probably prompted to set up these questions. "Do something with your Apple ID" could be anything from purchasing content, to download apps, to logging into your Apple ID on a new device.

All that brings me to the point that unless someone knows you, or, has access to quite a bit of your personal information, it would be very difficult to hack an Apple ID as it is setup right now. I am in no way,  stating, or implying, that your Apple ID was not hacked. I am just saying that the process would be difficult.

In addition, you will receive an email confirmation when a new device is registered with Facetime. For example, when I purchased a new MacBook Pro recently, I signed into Facetime, then received an email to my Apple ID email address that stated that my new MacBook Pro was now registered with my Apple ID account(Facetime). To the best of my knowledge this happens any time a device is signed onto Facetime initially. If you haven't received such email, it would seem there is a possibility that your account wasn't hacked. Again, I am not saying either way, just a question mark about what happened.

What may have happened:

Without you sharing more info, there are a couple things that could have happened:

Your account was hacked.

But why would someone Facetime the person whose account they hacked into? From what I've heard, hackers like to remain anonymous. Again, this doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just would just be odd.

Somehow, might it be possible that it, in some way wasn't your email address? Perhaps it is just a one letter different?

While this may, at first glance, sound like a likely  option, it really doesn’t make much sense either. How would this stranger happen to get your email address (slight character or two different then his) and your friends?

I guess that is to say I'm not really sure what could have happened. If he hacked your Apple ID and found your friend's info from that, then  he could have downloaded, via iCloud, all your contacts(or any other data stored in iCloud(Like a whole device backup)). This is truly a worst-case scenario, and could have very undesirable, and far-reaching affects.

What you can do:

Log on to appleid.apple.com and:

Change your password.

I know you have done this already (you could always do it again), and although it seems obvious it is a critical first-line of defense. Use reliable software to generate a long alpha numerical password. Maybe 14 characters long. Be sure to write it down on paper and secure it somewhere.

Consider changing your security questions. Did you know you can use anything (like passwords) instead of real answers for security questions?

Lastly, you could consider changing email addresses. Setup a new email address (like Gmail and enable two-step verification), and link it with your Apple ID when you manage your Apple ID. Also unlink, if you have already, and don't link, if you set up a new email address, your Apple ID email address with Facebook, Twitter or other social services. Consider setting up a separate account for the recovery email addresses for those services.


How to prevent iOS from dimming or changing the screen brightness I have the "Display & Brightness" feature of iOS disabled, and yet the device still dims to a brightness level that is unreadable after about 10secs of inactivity.. How do I turn this off?

iOS dims the display just before the Auto-Lock period.

You can set this period in Settings → General → Auto-Lock.

However, if Settings → Battery → Low Power Mode is set to on, the regular auto-lock setting is disregarded.


disable the windows key in parallels 14 If I press CMD then the start menu repeatedly flies open.

It is really annoying, so I need to stop this.

How do I disable the windows key in Parallels 14??

Open Parallels Desktop and go to Preferences > Shortcuts > Windows 10 (or whatever your virtual machine is called, in the Virtual Machines section of the sidebar). Add a new keyboard shortcut and map the cmd key to ctrl, or something other than win.

This will definitively stop the Start menu from popping open every time you hit the cmd key individually, but I'm not sure how it affects other shortcuts that make use of the Windows key.


Applescript - Run Multiple Instances of an App in Mac OSX I was hoping one of you kind folks could help me write a script that would open another instance of Transmission.

From my online research, I took a stab at making my own and compiled the following script for AppleScript Editor.

 do shell script "open -n -a '/Volumes/2 TB/App/Transmission.app'"

However, I get the following error message:

  There is already a copy of Transmission running. This copy cannot be
  opened until that instance is quit.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

You would need to compile your own transmission-daemon to be able to run multiple instances. Once you have done this you can specify different ports on each instance and start them up.

Information on compiling your own transmission-daemon on osx can be found here:

https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?t=7532&p=52071

How to run multiple instances of transmission-daemon:

https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9139


How to fix dark screen after locking iphone 4 ios6? The last week or two my iphone 4 started dimming it's screen to almost black whenever I lock it. Then when I unlock it I have to get to the brightness slider and move the slider to restore light to the screen.

Can anyone explain why this is happening and how to fix it?

The algorithm for auto-brightness was adjusted significantly in iOS 6.

Rather than before where you would see an immediate change on turning on auto-adjust, now it's a more gradual process, and you can actually see the slider moving as it makes updates.

Also, another change is that the auto-adjust now works on the lock screen, so at night you won't be blinded, and in the day you can actually see the screen in day light.

Personally, I found it very annoying for about 2 weeks, and now I've adjusted to it, I find it works much better than before. If I want to manually control the screen, pointing it at a bright light causes it to brighten significantly, etc.

Finally, some sites have suggested that you can "tune" or reset it by turning auto-adjust off, setting the brightness to minimum, then turning auto back on.

Worth noting, that as I'd had to get my flashlight replaced right when iOS 6 came out, I actually assumed it had broken the ambient light sensor and I took the phone to the apple store because the auto-adjust switch didn't work as it had previously. The geniuses had no explanation for the new behaviour. I had to google it myself, and plenty of other people have complained about it.


Tunnelblick/Viscosity random connection issues even when not connected to VPN I have random connection issues after using Tunnelblick or Viscosity, where existing connections don't seem to drop (SSH, Skype, Hangouts,...) but nothing new can be established, ie. ping to 8.8.8.8 times out. It is pretty obvious because IRC warns about reconnections.

Using a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015 with Yosemite 10.10.3

connection issues last between a few seconds and up to 15 minutes, I monitored this with a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 and other destinations, and they time out, eventually working again by itself
connected by wifi, but connection to router is not affected, ping to 192.168.1.1 works fine even when external ping is timing out
other computers/phones in the same network don't have this issue, including a 2011 MacBook Pro with same 10.10.3 that IIRC used TunnelBlick recently
wifi disconnect/reconnect fixes the connection, and so it does refreshing the DHCP lease with
echo "add State:/Network/Interface/en0/RefreshConfiguration temporary" | sudo scutil
after restarting everything works fine until Tunnelblick/Viscosity are used. Then the issue starts to happen randomly again, even after closing them
Completely uninstalling Tunnelblick also made the issue go away, but need the VPN at some point

It would help to at least be able to unload Tunnelblick/Viscosity completely without the need to restart

It should not be necessary to "uninstall", "unload", or "quit" Tunnelblick to make your issue go away.

In some situations, where the OpenVPN configuration itself is faulty (and it sounds like yours is), you might need to have Tunnelblick "Reset the primary interface after disconnecting". You can do that by selecting the configuration(s) you wish to modify in Tunnelblick's "VPN Details…" window, then clicking the "Advanced" button and putting a check in the corresponding checkbox.

For further Tunnelblick support, you should use the Tunnelblick Discussion Group at

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tunnelblick-discuss

Before you post to that group, please read

https://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/wiki/cBeforeYouPost


How to rename osascript in the administrator privileges dialog? I have used the command.

/usr/bin/osascript -e 'do shell script "echo hello args 2>&1 etc" with administrator privileges'

It asks for password saying osascript want to make changes. What I want is, how do I change the word osascript?

I found a much better way of doing this, by digging through the Applescript doc on the Apple Developer's Site. I found this release note for  Applescript in MacOS 10.10

It says:

do shell script can now specify a custom prompt to use in the password dialog. [15194980]

However, it neglects to say how you can do that. After some guesswork, I figured out that there's a prompt clause that lets you replace osascript wants to make changes... with whatever you want when using do shell script...with administrator privileges in a script invoked by osascript.  For example:

osascript -e 'do shell script "ls -l" with prompt "The Great And Powerful OZ " with administrator privileges'

generates a dialog box that looks like:

I hope this helps someone.


Can I restore from a 16GB backup to an 8GB iPhone I recently switched to Verizon.  My wife's phone was a 16GB AT&T iPhone.  Verizon had the 8GB version for free with the contract.

Is it possible to restore from the 16GB backup to the new 8GB phone?

Both are iPhone 4s.

Ok, I got it done, but it took a little bit of a run around.

I had failed to mention in my question that the size of the original 16GB backup was indeed close to 16GB.  Clearly not going to fit on the new 8GB phone.

The very first time I tried to restore from backup, I got a message about the size incompatibility.  Every subsequent time it would just hang at "Estimating Time Remaining..."

Next, I decided to remove much of the superfluous data on the old phone, to get a new backup of it under 8 GB.  Trying to use this new, now smaller, backup resulted in the same hang up.

At this point I thought it just might not work.

With nothing to lose, I decided to have iTunes restore the phone to factory.  Then, the very first thing I did was try to restore from the new smaller backup...  Success!!

Somehow the failed attempts before hand, were keeping the phone from successfully restoring from backup.


Is it normal to have duplicate JVMs or JDKs in a MacBook? I just bought my first MacBook Pro a week ago and this morning, I installed the Java for OS X 2012-004 Developer Package at http://connect.apple.com. Right now, I'm encountering a bunch of weird errors in my code and I wonder if what I just did is to blame, since this machine came with Java built in.

So when I click on the .jdk file in the Developer Package, this is what I see:

Is that normal? I think they are exact duplicates of each other and might be causing the bugs I'm dealing with right now. I'm not sure if there were four or only two entries before. How do I delete the other JDK if it's a duplicate?

That is normal but they are not exact duplicates. To test I just installed the
developer package that you mentioned. This added the two Java SE6 non system lines.

So I think the four packages you see are split by 32 or 64 bit and whether they are the JDK or the JRE needed to just run java and installed when you are asked to run a Java program or web plugin.

As to the 'wierd' errors best to show those and the code in a question on Stack Overflow.


Which utilities are available during Internet Recovery? When booting up from a regular macOS recovery partition there are a couple tools available including:

Disk Utility
Firmware Password Utility

Are these tools also available when booting up from internet recovery? Does it depend on model or model year?

Yes, All the tools(Disk Utility & Firmware Password) are available when you are booting through internet recovery.While normal recovery keeps a copy of your currently running(Updated) macOS and Internet Recovery will restore to by default macOS to which version comes with your Mac.


How can I view and copy an email address in a message header within iOS' Mail.app? If I reply-to-all on an inbound message with multiple recipients within iOS' Mail.app, I can't view or move/copy the email address of any recipients - I can only view the a 'bubble' which contains their name.

Curious if there is a way to view the actual email address while composing, and ideally, copy the address (in case I wanted to move it from the TO: field to the CC: field)

In 4.2 at least, you can tap on the bubble to see the email address, then press and hold on the email address.  A copy option will appear above it.


Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked? Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked?

This behavior started suddenly after migrating to a new machine.

This happened to me after changing my login password. I fixed it thanks to article on Apple support: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6724601

Simply I had to change password for my "login" keychain.

But I was asked to input password to open "Local items" keychain. I solved that issue exactly according this post: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203897
You need to open folder ~/Library/Keychains/, find and delete folder with name similar to "A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8" and restart your Mac immediately.

I had to fixed both "login" and "Local items" prompt to solve it. Only changing password for "login" keychain seemed not to work although it should according Apple support. But I haven't test it heavily.

Hope it helps.


Is it possible to install the GNU mt tape drive command in OSX? I would like to use GNU mt, the tape drive commands in OSX. Is this something I can get or are the architectures incompatible?

macOS does not come with mt - neither the BSD nor the GNU variant.

mt requires your system to have, amongst other things, the magtape I/O-controls. The specification of those controls are made available by the system to developers via a file named mtio.h. That particular file was included with OS X before Snow Leopard, but all versions of OS X and macOS since 2009 has not included that file.

In addition to the magtape ioctls, you'll also need a driver for your actual tape drive. This is the part of the system that will set up a device for you that the magtape ioctls can be used on. This typically shows up as /dev/rstX on Unix-systems. However, such a driver has never shipped with any version of OS X or macOS.

If you want to use a tape driver according to Apple's recommendations, you'll need to use a driver and user software that uses Apple's own SCSI API.

However, third party developers have created a project for macOS to create a device driver that shows up as a /dev/rst0 device that is compatible with mt - alongside the actual mt program. Even though lots of work has been done, it is still listed as not being of "production quality" - nor does it seem to have been worked on for the some years now. You can find the project and download the software here:

https://github.com/jessepeterson/IOSCSITape

You do not list what your intentions are in getting mt working on macOS. In some cases you'll probably be better off by running FreeBSD or Linux on top of macOS using a virtualisation system (such as VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox or similar). Depending on your specific type of tape drive and SCSI interface, it could be possible to use a FreeBSD or Linux mt command along with their drivers for your tape drive.


Difficulties Reinstalling Windows on bootcamp with APFS I installed bootcamp a few years ago and now Windows is pretty hosed so I want to do a fresh install.  Apple says to delete the bootcamp partition in bootcamp assistant (BCA), and then redo it.

issue is that the SSD got converted to APFS, so when I go into BCA, it immediately says: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by boot camp assistant for Installing Windows"

I read elsewhere to delete the bootcamp partition with APFS, can either use disk utility or terminal commands.  But if I do that, I suspect I will get same message in BCA and won't be able to create a new partition.

So what is best way to just nuke the bootcamp partition and re-install windows 10 Oct 2018 version?

MacBook Pro 2016, 10.13.6.  output from diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         798.7 GB   disk0s2
3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                200.8 GB   disk0s3
4:           Windows Recovery                         924.8 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +798.7 GB   disk1
                              Physical Store disk0s2
1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            749.9 GB   disk1s1
2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.0 MB    disk1s2
3:                APFS Volume Recovery                515.0 MB   disk1s3
4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

thanks

Got it working with this info:
High Sierra and Bootcamp with Windows 10 not working

also this was helpful:

https://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/installing-windows-10-on-a-mac-without-bootcamp/


Will installing Jupyter Notebook mess up the Hydrogen package in Atom? I recently downloaded and installed Python 3 from python.org because I wanted to use Hydrogen with Atom (the editor). From what I can gather, Hydrogen (in Atom) runs on (powered by?) Jupyter kernel. Hydrogen allows me to check code inside Atom. That feature is great. However, once I saw how Jupyter Notebook works, I really want to try Jupyter Notebook on my MacBook Pro (High Sierra).

As you can tell, even though I can manage to get things installed, that's the extent of my technical know-how. So I am wondering if installing Jupyter Notebook will disrupt/mess up the existing Jupyter (kernel?) operation.

My apologies for my awkward phrasing--I simply don't know what kernels are or how they work. Thanks in advance!

No, I  use both on my iMac with no problem. Both work fine. I also have High Sierra.


Siri spells my child’s name wrong in texts Siri spells my child’s name wrong in texts. I tried all the suggestions given on here and it didn’t work. Added the field ‘phonetic spelling’ and spelled it the way Siri is spelling it. Then added the field “nickname”. When neither of those worked, I tried putting quotes around the correct spelling of the name. None of these worked. I just got an Xr. I even tapped on ‘tap to edit’and changed it but that didn’t work either.

If a person is a contact and Siri doesn’t pronounce it correctly, you can ask Siri to show you their contact. After  she shows it to you, you can say “that’s not how you say that”, and Siri should ask you how to pronounce it.


Mojave macOS Installation Error (com.apple.DiskManagement error 69854) I tried upgrading from High Sierra to Mojave on my MacBook Pro mid-2012 Non Retina, 16GB RAM and 500GB HDD, core i7.
Unfortunately I don't have a backup and I keep getting this error "com.apple.DiskManagement error 69854" during the installation. I can only access into Recovery.

How can I solve this error and install Mojave without losing my data?

Had the same issue. Retina 5k imac.
Rebooted with cmd-r and restored from time machine. Everything is back and working even boot camp!

Will be waiting before trying Mojave again.


Sharing Mac internet connection from wifi to Iphone USB not working (Mac OS Catalina) I normally share my MacBook Pro 13 2018 (on OSX 10.15.4 Catalina) internet wifi connection to my iPhone XS Max connected directly with a usb c to lightning cable. But now it stopped working and I see that Iphone USB doesn't appear anymore in the "To computers using:" box.

I tried the solution offered here that says that I should add an new location under the network preference, with no avail.

I also checked the solution offered here but the answer I don't understand why suddenly I would need content caching to share my internet connection.

Bluetooth sharing works, but the speed is very slow. Belkin usb-c lan, thunderbolt bridge and usb 10/100/1000 lan do not work. I was wondering if my cable was the cause, but the iPhone appears in the finder and charges without problem

How do I get the iPhone USB to appear back in the sharing tab and resume internet sharing?
Below find screenshots of my settings with my iPhone connected to the laptop.

Sharing setting:

Network Setting:

sorry for the short answer but simply, your interface for iPhone USB is not there. To add it back, Go to Network Preferences and then click the Lock icon and enter your password. Then, click the "Plus" icon at the bottom. This will present you with a few choices. See if you can choose iPhone USB.

If that doesn't work, then open Finder and see if the device is recognized. If it is recognized, then that means that you might have a problem with the charging cable or something like that.

The best options would be to update to the latest iOS and macOS on your devices and then try using another charging cable from Apple. You can also use Safe Boot to check your Mac for issues. See this for more on Safe Boot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Good luck!


Is there an image editor like Windows' Paint for OS X? I tried out several image editors mentioned on this site but some of them (like Pixen and Seashore) were very disappointing. These apps were too simple and low level.

What do you suggest for a (preferably free) image editor on OS X?

P.S: I was using GIMP on Linux and also know that it was released for OS X too, but I want to find new good applications.

You could try Paintbrush (free).
As quoted from its website :

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.


iPad Mini 1st Gen (Jailbroken), want to upgrade from 7.1.2 > 9.0.2, not 7.1.2 > 9.3.5, don't know where to start. So I have an iPad Mini First Generation that is currently jailbroken using Pangu. It is currently on 7.1.2 and I want to upgrade it to 9.0.2, but not the latest, which is 9.3.5. I've heard about using BLOBs and unsigned IPSWs but I'm not sure what to do. Could someone shed some light on me?

Thanks!

The short answer is, you can't.

First, for the most part, using SHSH blobs to install an unsigned version of iOS hasn't worked since iOS 6. There have been some recent developments with a tool called Prometheus, but it will only work on more recent versions — at the moment, that basically means iOS 10, though I am greatly simplifying the situation.

Second, though it's a moot point, you would need to already have saved the SHSH blobs for 9.0.2 while it was being signed/while your device was running 9.0.2.


Do non-retina graphics looks worse on a retina display than they did before? There are complaints that non-retina apps look terrible compared to retina apps on a retina iPad.

Is this purely in comparison with high-resolution apps, or does it actually look worse than it did on an iPad without the retina display, i.e. do four pixels forming one big virtual pixel on a retina display look worse than one big pixel of the exact same size on the old display?

Not to me - it probably looks worse because you are seeing the difference now more readily. Subjectively things look worse because you now expect a new-iPad level display. I had this effect when iPhone 4 came out, everything looked fine until I saw one.

It's not just the increased resolution that has improved - the maximum brightness of the new iPad display is brighter and the minimum brightness is dimmer. Dan Frakes noted this in MacWorld on March 30 2012 and it is important - the screen does look better if you can adjust the brightness to the right level, bright in the sunlight and dim when you're reading in the dark. Given that I say that non-retina graphics should in fact look better on the new iPad display when greater ability to adjust brightness matters.

I don't know if you ever played Marathon for Mac, late 90's game. State of the art graphics in its day, but now it's hard to tolerate when you play it on a modern machine. Not because it looks worse on a modern LCD but because you expect so much more.

(if you're interested - get the Marathon trilogy for Mac OS X - a GPL'ed release by Bungie)

With computers, you truly never can go back.


How do I get my late-2012 MacBook Pro to work with my Seiki 39 inch 4k monitor? I've tried quite a few settings and haven't been able to get it to display anything better than 3840*2160 14hz, while I've ready about quite a few people that have their MacBook Pros working with the Seiki 4K pretty easily.

So I ask: what exactly are your settings with yours or how do I get mine to work?

Using a Belkin Thunderbolt-HDMI adapter (and have tried plain HDMI as well), have SwitchResX installed (but haven't gotten 3840*2160-30HZ to be accepted by the computer) with an Intel HD 4000 graphics card.

You will need an active adapter that converts the DisplayPort 1.1 signal coming from your Thunderbolt port to an HDMI 1.4 Signal. The UltraAV Mini DisplayPort 1.1 to HDMI 1.4 Active Adapter for example. The regular (passive) adapters will not give you the HDMI 1.4 that is required for your resolution.

Also, make sure your HDMI cable is High Speed certified (sometimes it's called a Category 2 cable), and that you use the right resolution, refresh rate and color depth.

HDMI resolutions

HDMI Standard    1.3a                 1.4                   2.0
HDMI cable       Standard/Cat1        HighSpeed/Cat2        HighSpeed/Cat2
Resolution       2880x576  2560x1600  3840x2160  4096x2160  4096x2160
Max Refresh Rate 50 Hz     75 Hz      30 Hz      24 Hz      60 Hz
Max Color Depth  48 bpp    30 bpp     36 bpp     48 bpp     30 bpp
                                      ^

Mind the maximum color depth, although 24 bits per pixel should suffice for most uses. On the Mac, 24 bit is sometimes called "millions of colors".


Security Update 2015-002 Asks To Setup Mac I just had to install the latest Security Update from the Mac App Store and it started auto updating.

Then when I completed the update (and restarted) my Mac asked me to enter in my Apple ID password and asked me if I would like the 'Cloud keychain thing', after that it said it was setting up my mac (just like the first installation!) it did however keep all my data.

Is this normal for the latest update or do I have some sort of virus?

Edit

Here are the latest updates on my Mac

That is normal for iCloud tokens to time out. You will see it when you reboot, so the update was a coincidence and not causing the password request.

This setup seems to trigger more often if one of your user accounts on the Mac uses an iCloud password for the account or you have Back to my Mac or Find my Mac enabled in iCloud system preference pane.


Sort Finder columns reversed I can't get this reversed thing to work:

Tell application "Finder" to set the sort direction of the modification date column to reversed

There is a bug in 10.7 and 10.8 where changing the sort direction doesn't always work unless you change the sort column first (see this question).

tell application "Finder" to tell list view options of window 1
    set sort column to name column
    set sort column to modification date column
    set sort direction of column modification date column to reversed
end tell


dpkg.pm @INC dpkg-scanpackages / > Packages I am running Max OS X 10.9

Installed: -Xcode 5 (latest version) -Fink -MacPorts -Xcode Command Line Tools -Theos

I have a shell script running

Dpkg-scanpackages debs / > Packages

But i am getting this error when running the script

Last login: Tue Jul  8 11:43:25 on console
Mayss-iMac:~ Mays$ /Users/Mays/Desktop/Generate_Packages.command ; exit;
Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /sw/lib/perl5 /sw/lib/perl5/darwin /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.3/darwin-
thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.3/darwin-thread-
multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.16.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.16.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /opt/local/bin/dpkg-scanpackages line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/local/bin/dpkg-scanpackages line 8.
logout
[Process completed]

It used to work but when i installed Theos it stopped working and gave that error

This will help you out, I had the same issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TOaHp-Gio


Can I read the synced iBooks books from iTunes as well? I've noticed there is a new category in my iTunes (Books), with all the boocks I synced from the iPad.

Can I read books in iTunes on my computer as well ?

If not, there is some other way to read them, since they are stored on my mac ?

thanks

The books and PDFs are stored, as all other media files (if media organization is turned on), in your iTunes Media Folder (Music/iTunes/iTunes Media). You can use Adobe Digital Editions or any other ePub reader for OS X to read them.


Can the new iPad record dictation while recording audio? Apple has featured Voice Dictation as one of the marquee features of the new iPad. Either through a app that ships with the iPad or an App Store one, can the iPad record audio (as for a podcast) and at the same time transcribe the text therein?

No, this does not work.
I started a background recording with DropVox, then switched over to PlainText and tapped the dictation button and dictated a sentence. I then switched back to DropVox and it looked like it was still recording (the counter was still going up). I stopped it, it uploaded the file, but when I listened to it the start and end were there, but the part from when I started dictating to when I opened DropVox back up wasn't. Very strange, but ultimately the answer is it doesn't work.
If you're curious, the resultant audio file can be found here. "And it looks like the timer's still going" was said after DropVox opened back up.


iMac running High Sierra is very slow — photoanalysisd can't be killed? My iMac running High Sierra has become painfully slow.
I suspect photoanalysisd, as it's using a lot of CPU time, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it.
There's at least one other question (What is "photoanalysisd" and why is it using 77% of my CPU?) here about photoanalysisd, but my scenario is different and none of the suggestions in the other thread were helpful to me.
Looking in the Console log, I see odd errors for photoanalysisd, e.g.:
"seekAndRead -- Input/output error"
"error: (266) I/O error for database -- CLSBusinessCategoryCache.sqlite.  SQLite error code:266, 'not an error' errno:5"
"error: -executeRequest: encountered exception = I/O error for database at ... CLSBusinessCategoryCache.sqlite.  SQLite error code:266, 'not an error' errno:5"

Error code "not an error" -- huh?
Using the Terminal, I've tried all of the following:
sudo launchctl remove com.apple.photoanalysisd
sudo launchctl kill -TERM gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl kill -STOP gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl kill -TERM gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd

BUT photoanalysisd is still running, according to the Activity Monitor. Even after I issue commands to kill the process(!?), it's still there. Of course it also comes back when I restart, and slows the machine horribly again.
First question, then: why don't these commands get rid of photoanalysisd?
Next, I have tried starting in safe mode, but it makes no difference: the iMac is still unusable, until I issue commands to kill photoanalysisd.
Also, the screen updates are incredibly slow in safe mode. The desktop appears very slowly and is painted in bands like venetian blinds opening up from the bottom. Never seen this before.
Again, there is nothing in the Activity Monitor that is obviously eating up CPU or memory. Activity Monitor consistently reports over 90% idle, though the system is beachballing constantly.
Finally, I have already re-installed High Sierra once, but it made no difference.
I really don't care if the Photos app does the person recognition thing or not. I just want my Mac to be useable again.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: 25 days later, I still have no solution to this. My basic question about photoanalysisd (above) remains unanswered.

If you use iCloud  photos and sync with another device, you can turned off the photos sync on Mac. In case you go to turn it back on and it gives storage full error, do as suggested in download iCloud photo to mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 in second paragraph.

However this will bring the problem back if you would want to use photos later. So best shot can be leaving it on overnight by disabling sleep in System Preferences and keeping it plugged in. This might give it enough time to complete the analysis.


Device Manager fails to start on a macOS Server 5.2 I have setup a working Open Directory Master on on Mac-Server-1 running macOS Sierra and macOS Server 5.2 (latest as of today).  I have also successfully started the Device Manager and enrolled a client computer with no problem.

I have now also setup a working Open Directory Replica on Mac-Server-2 running MacOS Sierra and macOS Server 5.2.  However, when I try to activate the Device Manager on the Replica, it stays Disabled.

Is this by design that Device Manager can only be active on the Master?  Or is this a bug?

Steps:

In macOS Server -> Profile Manger -> Device Manager, status is Disabled
In macOS Server -> Profile Manger -> Device Manager, I click Setup... button
New window appears telling me I can manage devices.  I click Next
The window now changes and asks me for a Name, E-mail, Telephone, and Address (presumably to generate a certificate?)
I enter the info, and click Next
The next window appears, telling me to click Finish.  I do.
The window disappears, returning me to the macOS Server -> Profile Manger window, where the status of Device Manager still shows as Disabled

Ideas?

Edit1: I tried uninstalling Server.app and deleting /Library/Server/* and reinstalling the Replica from scratch.  Same behavior.

Edit2: I tried reinstalling the entire server from scratch.  Same behavior.

I believe that Profile/Device manager needs the full Certificate authority (to sign profiles) that is only available on the OD master, so it is probably by design.


How do I stop marking mail as read caused by looking at the preview pane? I use Mountain Lion.

How do I prevent Mail.app (6.0) from marking a message as read automatically, just because I have looked at it in the preview pane?

You can change the mark as read delay to a great value, for example 30 seconds, by typing the following in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Mail MarkAsReadDelay 30

(NB: A value of -1 will disable marking as read from Preview if the preview window is hidden.  Tested on Mail 5.2/OSX 10.7.4)


Auto-launch the Info Sheet after a screenshot is captured? (by way of script, automation or app etc?) I use the command+shift+4 feature constantly for genealogy research, and have this problem whereby I forget where I took the picture from.  To fix this, I'd love it if the Info Sheet could launch immediately after taking the screenshot, so as to remind me to manually cut-paste the URL I took the image from into the comments box within Info Sheet.  Any suggestions on how best to do this would be terrific.  Thanks in advance!

edit: added "shift" above and clarified wording for intended use (cut-and-paste text into comments box).  All this is is a self-reminder for me, by displaying Info Sheet automatically after screenshots are captured -- if this can be done at all.

It takes a few seconds to do its thing, but you can use a folder action.

If you are using Mojave or later, a destination folder for the screenshots can be set by using the Options menu of the Screenshot.app.

Create a folder action document in Automator, setting it to receive files added to the screenshot folder, and add a Run AppleScript action:

on run {input, parameters}
    repeat with anItem in the input
        tell application "Finder"
            activate
            open information window of anItem
        and tell
    end repeat

    return input
end run


Cannot access specific website (MBP - OS X 10.10.5) I’m having problems connecting to a certain website. It’s random whether the site loads but recently it’s been getting worse. What happens is that I turn my router and computer off at night, then after rebooting in the morning more often than not the site in question will not load. This happens even though I could access it the day before without any difficulty. A reboot of the router is what triggers the glitch. All other web sites load as they should.

The site itself is ok since I can access it via a proxy server and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com verifies it’s online. I suspect it has to do with my computer since I can access the site using an Android tablet via wifi (same router & modem).

Things I’ve tried on my computer:

tried 3 different browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera);
cleared the browsers' caches and disabled firefox addons
ran Onyx in automation mode, rebooted.
deleted SystemConfiguration in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration then rebooted.
tried booting into 2 different HD disks.
flushed the DNS cache (from Admin account)
added/removed DNS addresses on Google & OpenDNS. Currently use my ISP’s DNS addresses.
disabled OS X firewall briefly. Disabled & reinstalled GUI app for OS X firewall.
disabled LittleSnitch, rebooted.
checked /etc/hosts (localhost entries only)
changed MTU to 1453 in Preferences > Network > Advanced > Hardware (Manual, 1453)
called my ISP. They told me it was a problem with my computer.
A ping test results in 100% packet loss and Request Timeout.

Router & modem

reset router and modem to factory settings and rebooted.
tried 2 different routers; one wifi, one wired, same maker.
bypassed the router so that the modem was connected directly to my computer. Problem persisted after modem/computer reboot.

I have no anti-virus software installed but I recently upgraded to a new modem. Am using a Macbook Pro on OS X10.10.5. I’d appreciate any suggestions as I’m out of ideas. Thanks.

1 - Run Disk Utility from the Utilities folder and "Repair Permissions."  Let it run.  It will take a while.  When it is done, quit the program.

2 - Reinstall an anti-virus program and run a scan.

3 - Open Safari and from the "Safari" menu, click on reset Safari.

4 - Go to System Preferences, click on "Security and Privacy."  Make sure your firewall is set to "ON."


stopping the expansion of the safari window after opening a new tab When opening a new tab in safari while not browsing in full-screen mode, the safari window expands, in order to preserve the content of the webpage shown. I think this is quite annoying, is there a way to prevent this?

I'm not sure of an elegant solution, but choosing to always show the tab bar will never have to increase the size of the window, since it would always be there


Can't delete an event in iMovie because 'the library must contain at least one event' When I try to delete an event in iMovie it tells me, 'the library must contain at least one event.' I have made so many events just to try to delete this one and yet the same message appears.

If it's the only event in a project, you can't delete it, because you can't delete the last event in a project, regardless of how many events you have in other projects. Instead, delete the entire project.


2 iPhones with iMessage and getting messages from one phone to the other I have a personal iPhone XR. A couple of weeks ago my boss wanted to get business cells for a few of us (I'm a customer facing landscape designer) so we could ignore work calls when we wanted to.  As a Mac/apple user for years but I'm no power user or anything, we selected 2020 iPhone SE.

I want to push my personal texts through to my work phone so that during the day I can set my personal phone aside and not worry about it.
I have both devices signed in to the same Apple ID and I think I set
it up right.
Some things push through and some things don't.

Mostly what I've missed is group texts that include android users. At first I thought it was because it's only pushing iMessages through and not true SMS, but I miss texts from some android users but not all. Also I get regular SMS pushed through to my laptop and iPad....so that doesn't seem to line up.

Is there a general fix for having two phones, and allowing the personal one to forward everything to the work phone and being able to switch that on and off cleanly once a day?

SMS does not do group messages (well it might be up to the provider)
In the UK the phone providers will charge extra for MMS which do do group messages but not directly supported by Messages by default.
This is one reason to use WhatsApp, Signal etc.


Apple keeps resetting my Apple ID password? For the last 4 weeks or so, I get the "This apple ID has been disabled for security reason... bla bla bla" notification at least two times per week. All my devices are up to date and have been updated to use the new password.

There are at least 5 people in my office that are experiencing the same problem. I have read the article @ http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2446 but it doesn't help me much.

How can I make them stop? I will run out of passwords very, very soon.

It might be the case that someone is trying to gain access to your and your coworkers accounts by trying out random passwords. After a certain number of failed attempts, your account will be disabled to prevent bad guys from continuously trying out passwords.

My suggestion would be to try to find out why it is being reset by contacting Apple support. They can probably tell you the specific reasons for disabling the account as it will probably be logged by them.

Sorry to redirect you, but this is not something we can 'solve' without knowing the reason behind the resets :-)


Does Time Machine do file level backup and restores? If I were to backup my Mac with Time Machine does it do a file level backup or a block level backup? I don't want want some deleted files on my Mac to be stored on my backup HDD and even for restores. For example if I put back the data on the HDD to my Mac does it do a file level or block level restore?

Time Machine works with individual files and folders. You can set up Time Machine exclusions in System Preferences → Time Machine → Options. Any files or folders in this list won't be backed up and won't be restored.


Mac trying to play audio through monitor's thunderbolt port I have a Dell monitor connected through a thunderbolt port.

Sometimes my Mac for some reason is attempting to play audio through that port.  How do I stop this from happening?

It appears in my list of sound outputs in system preferences but I have headphones selected.  Unplugging the monitor from the thunderbolt port makes the audio work correctly.

Same thing happened to me. You have to manually change it in System Preferences > Sound > Output Volume.


How can I import private keys to iSSH app in iPhone? Suppose a private key in Dropbox/server. I have tried copying it from Dropbox to iPhone's default clipboard and then to iSSH app but there is no area to paste it in iSSH, very unintuitive user-interface!

How can I get private key to iSSH app?

This is not the most user-friendly app. Besides importing the key, you should put MOSH support on for better connection on phone.

Step-by-step

Copy your key to Dropbox or any other service to copy the text to iPhone's default clipboard
General Settings > Configure SSH Keys > Import Key... > [Hold finger long, press Paste and insert password]
Add Configuration... > Use Key ON > Key > [Select your just imported key]


iTunes - reset sync settings on device I'm running

iTunes 12.9.5.5 on macOS 10.14.6
iOS 12.4 on iPhone 8

How do I reset the sync settings on iPhone?

What I have tried:

General > Reset > Reset All settings (this doesn't reset the sync settings to iTunes.)

So the issue was the following:

Summary:

iTunes Backup changes to "iCloud" when "This Computer" is selected when iPhone is connected to iTunes.

Issue:

when connecting to iTunes in iPhone(YourIphone) > Summary > Backups the "iCloud" option was checked.  When I had set the "This computer" option. So when I set it again to "This computer" option and clicked "apply" and "sync" it would backup locally but then revert back to the "iCloud" option.  I thought the settings were corrupted locally. so was looking a way to reset the sync settings to clear out this issue.

Fix:

on your Device > Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > iCloud Backup > Turn on iCloud Backup (since it was off) > then Turn off iCloud Backup. Reconnect the Device to the computer.  Your settings will now remain on "This computer".

So I'm leaving this solution that took me over 5 hrs to figure out to save other people some time if this ever happens to someone else.

Hope it helps someone else


Cross-Platform Password Management I am looking for a password manager that is compatible with open-source password database files, such as those used by KeePass (.kdb) or PasswordSafe (.psafe3). Both of those projects have terrible Mac clients - I'm looking for something a little more polished, but can still share password databases with Windows and Linux users.

The excellent 1Password by AgileBits supports import for both of the formats you mention:

  1Password can import data from many popular applications, including:

  AppShelf
  AutoID
  Data Guardian1 (formerly Password Retriever)
  eWallet2
  KeePass and KeePassX
  LicenseKeeper
  Minefield
  Password Safe 3
  PasswordWallet by S3
  Passwords Plus3
  RoboForm Passcards and Safenotes
  SplashID by SplashData
  TurboPasswords (formerly Cloak)
  Web Confidential

Highly recommended app, well worth the purchase price.  (EDIT) 1Password does not include Linux support at present, just OS X, Windows, iOS and Android.


Connect LED Cinema Display (Mini DP) via HDMI Is there any way I can connect an LED Cinema Display via the HDMI port on my MacBook Pro with Retina display? I know there are various dongles that adapt for HDMI cables from Mini DP, but if I were to plug such an adapter into the back end of a LED Cinema Display, and connect it to my rMBP via an HDMI cake, would that configuration work?

You don't need to use an adaptor (supposedly) -- thunderbolt ports are the same as mini display ports, so according to Apple you do not need an adaptor, because it "will work just like it was connecting to a Mini DisplayPort connector when plugging in directly to the Thunderbolt connector on your Apple computer."

That said, I am also trying to figure out how it works, because it doesn't for me currently. But it is "supposed to".

Some links:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219#11

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3382#3a


iPhone/iPad unable to see iMac/Apple TV until router reboot (affects AirPlay, Remote app, Wi-Fi sync) Every few days my iPhone (4) and/or iPad (3rd generation) lose their ability to "see" my iMac and/or Apple TV on the network. This means:

The Remote app shows zero sources available for Home Sharing (normally will show both the iMac and the Apple TV)
AirPlay cannot be used to send audio or video to the Apple TV
Wi-Fi sync will not work (states that it will resume when iMac is available)

Power cycling my router (a Linksys E2000) fixes the problem temporarily, but it always comes back.

Thanks for your help.

Sounds like a router problem.  Bonjour/Zeroconf uses multicast to reach all hosts on the network - if the router treats these incorrectly you have the problem.

If the rest of the network works correctly, then the simplest thing might simply be to replace the master router of your network with an Apple router (they tend to work well with Apple units) and set the current router to be just the internet uplink.


How set up a local domain such as local.test? I'm web-developer and I need local domains. Before 10.7.2 update, I'm just fix /etc/hosts as I need, but new update crash this solution. How fix this new "feature"?

This answer on the question Lion “hosts” File Bug is relevant here as well.

All additional entries to the HOSTS file must be above the:

fe80::1%lo0

Make sure there is at least one line break after the last entry. Like so:

127.0.0.1 LLL.localhost
127.0.0.1 LLL.localhost
#

Although you probably can't tell, there is another line following the # symbol. One more thing to mention, using Space instead of Tab between 127.0.0.1 and localhost might help too.


Podcast Speed on iPhone How do I slow the speed of podcasts on my iPhone?

I have looked through all of my settings and have searched all possibilities on the podcast itself. Voices are too fast to be understood. There is no trouble with the playback of music.

Yes - you can slow down podcasts by pressing the 1x button to the left of the rewind by 15 seconds button:

In the above screenshot I have pressed the 1x button until it has become ½ x button.

If the voices are "too fast to be understood," then you may have actually increased the playback speed (2x or 3x), and may want it back at 1x. Either that or their voices are actually that fast and you will want to slow it down.


Rdr Missing on Yosemite I'm trying to add a rule to my computer which was working on my work computer. strangely enough there's no rdr program on my Yosemite. should I install a particular package to obtain it?

sh-3.2# rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
sh: rdr: command not found
sh-3.2# which rdr
sh-3.2# wtf
sh: wtf: command not found
sh-3.2# uname -a
Darwin sathias-iMac.local 14.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Sep 19 00:26:44 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2782.1.97~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

rdr is part of the packet filter/firewall in OS X and used to configure redirections. You can't run this command directly in the shell but need to edit it into /etc/pf.conf and friends. More details are available via man pf.conf and in the PF FAQ.


Why does the Messages app request access to your heart rate? In health.app, under the Sources tab, one of the apps that use health data is the messages app. It only has asked for the ability to read my heart rate data which is enabled.

I would like to know what the Messages app uses the heart rate data for. Is it an iMessage app?

The messages app requires the your heart beat for the pulsating heart sticker.

This sticker works on both the apple watch as well as messages on iOS within the "Digital Touch" scribble feature. There you can press and hold two fingers until a heart shows up that will pulsate with your current heart-rate.

This can of course be considered a gimmick so if you do not want to allow messages to access your heart beat, you can just choose not to share it. The only consequence of that would be that, if you send a heart beat using that feature, it will not be synced to your actual heart beat but use a default value.


Family sharing, some clarifications needed Recently we've set up family sharing. Now my SO has done an in-app purchase. So far no issue. But when I told her she was a little upset that there was no way to make the payment herself. Because obviously I got to see the purchase.

So, how can she pay for her own purchases, whenever she desires?

This article suggests it is not possible, except when using iTunes store credit or vouchers.

And will the receipts for purchases based on her iTunes store credit or vouchers also end up in my mailbox?

After all in many families there isn't just a single parent and then kids (in this context apparently handled as subordinates). It seems like this would be based on a view on the woman as stay-home mom with the husband paying for everything?!

She can purchase iTunes gift cards then redeem them in your account. Yes, you will still see the transaction but it won't be charged to your credit card.


Left and right single quotes in Pages document I just realized I made a big mistake in one of my Pages documents : for a Romanized version of a Hebrew text, to represent the letters ayn and aleph I used left and right single quotes instead of (for example) left and right glottal stops, as defined in ISO 259-3.

Now Pages understandably interprets single quotes as single quotes, and makes them left or right as it sees fit to have a logical presentation. As a result my text is now a mess.

The most natural idea would be to do two successive replaces, replace all left single quotes   by left glottal stops and right single quotes by right glottal stops. Unfortunately, Pages' search engine does not distinguish between left or right single quotes. Any ideas ?

Disabling smart quotes may help.

Navigate to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and disable "Use smart quotes and dashes."


Yosemite Photos: How to select only photos Photos Version 1.0.1 (215.65.0)
I can't seem to see anywhere inside Photos to filter items by file type.  No detail/list view like in Finder for me to sort and select. Search with, for example *.JPG in the search box of Photos does not return anything. It does not seem to understand wildcards

To do so, you can create Smart Albums

These can be set to filter based on filetype.  You can set as many of these as you wish, and even modify existing ones.

In Photos go to File > New Smart Album or ⌘+⌥+N

Then you can set your filter criteria in several ways.  See the attached screenshot illustrating a PNG filter.

UPDATE: If you choose to use the Search field, enter just "jpg" without quotes to get a dropdown that shows filetype.


Chosing the right charger: MacBook7,1 White A1324 I bought a used MacBook with identifier MacBook7,1, it's the white 2010 version (A1342). However, it already came with an off-brand charger and the text on it has gone washed off it seems, so I can not reliably tell which charger I would have to buy.

What I do know: I have to use MagSafe 1. According to a datasheet, it may as well be 60W.

Now, I have seen some bricks with USB-C to MagSafe 1 cables and additional USB ports - which would be handy to charge additional devices when on the go. But I am afraid of accidentially picking the wrong wattage.

What do I have to look out for, exactly, when picking a charger? I also live in Germany, if this is any important in terms of outlet, power delivery and alike. I'm a software-, not a hardware guy :)

You can buy one here. It is original charger and it works well. Why do you need type c I can not understand

All you need to know about the charger is: voltage, socket type, magsafe version


Is It Possible to Interact With the Windows in Mission Control? Is it possible to use the windows shown in Mission Control?

For example, let's say I have Safari window opened and I want to scroll the page up/down while in Mission Control - is that possible?

If it isn't possible - do you know an app that can do something similar?

EDIT: I should point out that when you focus on a window in Mission Control and you press Space, it enlarge the window. (not what I want, but it's useful feature of Mission Control).

The only things you can do with them are move them to other desktops, select them from groups to bring them to the forefront, or drag files/copied text into them.


Synced iPhone to a new computer. iTunes cannot delete music from iPhone My Mom's iPhone used to be synced to my computer, a Mac.
She recently got a new computer, a Windows laptop, so I set that up for her.
I did a sync to the Windows laptop and that seems to work fine except that none of the existing music was deleted. I.E. We want it to be deleted.
When I try and sync all her music on the laptop, it complained that there was not enough space even though her entire library is less than half the phone's capacity.
Syncing an existing album duplicates the album inside Music.
Syncing a new albums copies over the new album and that is manageable through iTunes.
No existing music can be deleted.
When I check "Manually manage music and videos", none of the existing music appears.
At the moment I have the following options checked:

Summary

Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected

Sync only checked songs and videos

Sync music

Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres

<Selected a new album>

The following questions do not help.

iTunes sync does not delete songs
How can I remove unchecked and deleted songs in iTunes from my iPhone?

Device info

iPhone 4
iPhone iOS 7.1.2
iTunes for Windows - just downloaded from website, I assume it is the latest but I cannot find "About"

I had the exact same issue when setting up a new computer—frustrating. What's happening is that iTunes sees that the current songs on the iPhone are taking up a lot of space, but iTunes is unable to figure out that many of the songs that are already on the iPhone are the same ones that are in your iTunes. Instead of syncronizing it to make all the songs match, it's saying there isn't enough space on the iPhone to add all of the songs in your iTunes library.

Based on a couple of posts I read on the web, I just tried this solution and it worked:

Make sure you have all of your songs organized the way you want them in iTunes on your computer.
Connect your iPhone to your computer and sync your iPhone with iTunes, but on the music tab in iTunes, uncheck "sync music."  Set up all your other synchronization settings as you want them (Calendars, Contacts, Photos, Podcasts, etc). This way everything but your music will be correctly synched between your iTunes and iPhone. Once you have iTunes set to sync, click "Apply" in lover right corner of iTunes. This will sync everything except your music.
Next, you need to erase all of the songs on your iPhone. If there are any songs on your iPhone that aren't in your iTunes, you'll lose them, but that wasn't the case with me. To erase songs on iPhone, go to Settings → General → Usage → Manage Storage → Music → Edit (top right of screen). Click the red "-" to the left of "all songs" and tap delete.  Scary, but this will delete all songs on the iPhone itself.
Not sure if it's necessary but I restarted my iPhone after this.
Connect your iPhone to your computer.  Click on the little iPhone icon in the top left of the iTunes screen, and then click the Music tab in iTunes.  Put a check in the box by "Sync Music" and then select whether you want to sync your entire library or selected playlists, artists, etc.  Once you've selected what you want to sync, click on "Apply" in the bottom right corner of iTunes.

This will dump all of your iTunes songs/playlists back into your iPhone.


Is the X-mailer number assigned to a specific iPad? On the iPad is there going to be the same X-mailer number assigned to it, or does it change when emails are sent?

Basically, is the X-mailer number assigned to a specific iPad?

The X-Mailer header is used to identify the client application that is sending the message.

If there is a number in this header it should be the version number of the client mail application.  It is not unique to your iPad, all emails sent from the same device model with the same version of the Mail app will have the same number.


Connect dual Monitors to a single USB-C Port How can I connect dual monitors with DVI or Display Port or HDMI to my single USB-C Port on my 2016 MacBook?

I don't have a Macbook 2016 but you could try this (or more cheaply a third party cable that converts USB3A to DVI/DisplayPort/HDMI) connected to this connected to your Macbook.

You may want to look at the review for the second one. Apparently it has some reliability issues.


Alternatives to purge command I read in a different thread (How to specify command to always run as root?) that using the purge command in Terminal to free memory is not a good idea. Does anyone know an alternative way to do this without installing third-party software? This is a curiosity based question, I don't mind if it's a complicated process, because I already have third-party software to clean memory. Thanks.

EDIT (maybe I wasn't clear in my question):
Sometimes I want to speed up my Mac because too much memory is being used (for example immediately after closing a memory-consuming app). The question is: how would I quickly clean and retrieve memory to give to other tasks? Do I have to wait for the computer itself to do this or can I also do it manually?

The problem is with clearing inactive memory in the first place, regardless of which command is used to do it.

Indeed, using purge is "not a good idea" but the problem is due to what the end result of the command is rather than how the command does it or other specific problem due to the command.

Running purge attempts to clear inactive memory. An 'alternative' command would not be any better than running purge, providing it does the same thing.

This excellent answer explains the reasoning behind inactive memory in more detail:

Isn't Inactive memory a waste of resources?


Is there a decent icon editor for OS X capable of editing .icns files? The software for editing icons needs to run on OSX Lion.

In 10.5+, Apple's built-in Preview.app lets you do edit .icns files!
(Preview used to be pretty bare-bones back in 10.2 days, but with every OS release it has gotten more and more powerful.)
After opening the file, use the up/down arrow keys to switch between the different sized icon and bitmask images contained in the .icns file.
Then with each image you can:

Cut/Copy/Paste
Annotate (draw rectangles, add text, lines, arrows, ...)
Change transparency
Scale
Adjust color (saturation, tint, sharpness, etc)


How to disable Better Touch Tool (BTT) inside a specific app? BTT should stop triggering actions whenever I am working in a specific app and BTT should automatically start triggering actions or listening to triggers whenever I move to a different app.

Google search is not giving me any solution.

Click on BTT's menu bar icon, and then select Disable BTT for Current App.

To disable specific global actions inside a specific app, do this:

Open BTT and make an action for what you want to prevent. For example, you have a global shortcut ⌘+F which perhaps opens Alfred, but you don't want it to happen in the Finder. In that case create a new BTT gesture in the Finder and set the trigger to ⌘+F.
Then set the action (which happens if you invoke this trigger) to simulate the shortcut ⌘+F. Essentially you are remapping the shortcut to itself, because per-app shortcuts take priority over global shortcuts.


Reanimate "dead tracks" in iTunes that are one external drive I keep my 20k+ songs on an external drive because the of tiny drive in my MacBook Air. Unfortunately after i removed the drive, all my tracks in iTunes show the exclamation mark. Is there any way to tell iTunes "Hey, now all the tracks are here again"? Get info or play works for individual tracks, but for 20k+ tracks it's a hassle. I haven't tried iTunes track CPR because it needs a very ordered library folder (mine does not strictly follow the Artist/Album/Track file hierarchy) and I'm afraid it might damage something.

I would gladly use another music app, but iTunes is the only way to sync songs to my iPhone.

First, go to Preferences > Advanced, and uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder." For whatever reason, that seems to be necessary to get it to search for missing files. You can re-check that option when you're done.

You have to get iTunes to recognize that tracks are missing. The only method that I know works is to select the first track, hold the down arrow on your keyboard, and scroll all the way through. This should check each track as it is highlighted and mark it with that exclamation icon.

There may be a better way to do that…

Once iTunes recognizes multiple tracks are missing, select one, and get info. It should notify you that the track is missing. Find the file for that one, and it should then ask if it should search for other missing tracks in the same location. It may take a long time, depending on how many tracks it has to go through. Just let it churn away and it should eventually come up with a message saying "X items were found, X items could not be found," or something like that.

I've done this many times, moving old items to a network storage drive. Works with music, podcasts, books, audiobooks, music videos, and mobile apps.


iMac 18,3 with dual external 5K monitor I would like to run a iMac 18,3 (Radeon Pro 580, i7 4.2 GHz) with two external 5K monitors (LG 27" 27MD5KL).
In Apple's description (https://support.apple.com/kb/SP760?locale=en_US) I found:

Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports with support for:
DisplayPort
Thunderbolt (up to 40 Gbps)
USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps)
Thunderbolt 2, HDMI, DVI, and VGA supported using adapters (sold separately)

However, this document also states that two 5K external displays are not supported:

Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display
at 1 billion colors and:
One 5120‑by‑2880 (5K) external display at 60Hz with support for 1 billion colors, or
Two 3840-by-2160 (4K UHD) external displays at 60Hz with support for 1 billion colors, or
Two 4096‑by‑2304 (4K) external displays at 60Hz with support for millions of colors

Is there anything I could do to run two external 5K monitors? E.g. replace the iMac's graphic card or use an eGPU?

According to Apple, your iMac supports the following as second displays:

This model can simultaneously support the internal display at full native resolution and up to one 5120x2880 (5K) external display at 60 Hz with support for one billion colors; two 3840x2160 (4K UHD) external displays at 60 Hz with support for one billion colors; or two 4096x2304 (4K) external displays at 60 Hz with support for millions of colors. It supports both extended desktop (second workspace) and video mirroring (internal display duplicated on the external display) modes.

This means that only one 5K external monitor is supported. Two 4k monitors are supported however. I suspect this is due to the throughput of Thunderbolt, which is 40Gbps. A 5k monitor requires 28 Gbps alone. Also, you can not daisy chain the video connections, so you will need a thunderbolt dock with either displayport or HDMI port connectors for the monitors.
In response to questions below:
A Thunderbolt dock doesn't change the throughput of Thunderbolt or the Mac, it just adds additional connections. So, the dock will not allow two 5k monitors. It only provides additional connections. Now, perhaps your iMac already has two Thunderbolt/Displayport connections on the back to support the 4k monitors (not sure). If not, this is the role of the Thunderbolt dock, so you should purchase one with the needed connectors (they are all different so consider wisely).
An eGPU can drive your desired 5k monitors, but you will have to research the available eGPU options to find support for your configuration.
Note that the biggest limitation in this is the cable and connectors: Apple introduced 5K in iMac first, because Thunderbolt 2 only supported 20Gbps, which is not enough bandwidth for 5k, so they built the monitor into the system and created a sort of dual Thunderbolt 2 connection inside.
Thunderbolt 3 introduced 40Gbps, allowing 5k (Thunderbolt used mini-displayport connections and now usb-c style connections). Displayport connections (minidisplayport on Macs can support 5k with some displayport1 and all displayport2, which is on the Mac. For HDMI connections, HDMI 1.2 can support 1080p, with HDMI 1.4 needed for 4k. To get 5k, you need to have support for, and a cable that offers HDMI 2/2.1. Even then, most systems get 5k by compressing the signal.
So to get dual 5k on your system, you will need to use Thunderbolt to an external GPU, and then either Thunderbolt or HDMI 2.x from the eGPU to the Monitors, which means you need the proper monitors as well.


Is there any way to verify that OSX 10.8.1 installed correctly? When I was installing OSX 10.8.1, when the install when to reboot Finder refused to shut down citing a mount point problem.  I force closed Finder at which point the post-reboot install started without the system having fully rebooted.  Is there anyway to verify that nothing went wrong with the install?

There is not really an easy way to verify the update went successfully. Your next steps should be to check your start up disk and then run a stand alone installer for the suspect OS X update. There is no harm in re-running an OS X installer over an OS with the same version.

Run Disk Utility on your start-up disk selecting Verify the Disk and also try Verify Permissions, selecting the repair options as needed.
Download the standalone OS X 10.8.1 installer.
Re-run the installer, and hopefully this time it completes without issue.


Cannot "slide to unlock" when iPhone is in dock. Any idea why? I have a third-party iPhone dock connected directly to the mains. I found that I cannot unlock my iPhone 3GS when it is in the dock. The slider just slides back and doesn't follow the finger's movement completely.

Any idea why?

Strange issue...

I would guess that the dock is somehow interfering with the capacitive 'field' of the screen. You could confirm this by unlocking the device before connecting it to the dock and see if the rest of the interface is affected in the same way.

Though I guess the only way to proceed would be to get the dock replaced (if it's under warranty) and see if that fixes the problem or buy a different one.


Why does the name of my flash drive change whenever I demount, then remount it? I have a LaCie key (iamakey). When I change the drive's name to "LaCie" then dismount and remount it, it's name changes to "LACIE"
I'm trying to figure out why it won't stay named as "LaCie"

Any ideas?

It has always been the case that changing the case of a USB volume formatted with FAT required some low-level hacking.

There are instructions to do this in the following link: (a word of warning: I have not tried this and making a mistake with some of these low level commands may wreck your drive, so be careful!)

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090506034709445

Also see the thread here for instructions to change the drive icon if you so desire.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=677658


How to download the .ipa for MDM? We use Apple MDM at the small school I work at to manage our iPads.  In the past we would download the .ipa from the App Store then upload it to the MDM then deploy it to the iPads.  With the new updates we can't figure out a way to download the .ipa files?  Can anyone help?  (I will add we are not in the US and do not have access to VPP.)

I suppose it depends on the MDM or are you just looking for the link to get iTunes version to get the IPA so you can then manage your devices:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208079


Way to continue work on other Mac I have 2 Macs. I usually work on one, but would like to be able to quickly continue work on the other. That means the following:

open important apps that are in use (e.g. for develeopment)
open all iterms and set the correct path
open Chrome with all the tabs
copy files changes (in one way only) from main Mac to the other

I do use BTSync for some of above, but still, would be like to be able to continue work in a better way.

Although the solutions suggesting GIT or O/S X Server will work one way to keep two Macs in Sync is something like Dropbox. I know a few people who keep their entire home folder there.

Obviously usage of that much disk space in Dropbox will required a paid subscription but for the syncing files issue that should work a treat.


Mac pro early 2008 won´t boot from pendrive with yosemite install app Mac pro 8 core early 2008 mountain lion installed.

I need to clean install Yosemite.

The pendrive does not show when you press alt, at the boot screen.
Nevertheless it shows on configuration startup disk, but is not booting from this volume.
The problem does not seem to be on the pendrive, since it works fine on a macbook, but does not show on the mac pro.

Please help, I´ve tried many times with no success.

Here's something to try...

If your Mac Pro has issues with booting from USB but will boot from a DVD, create a DVD from the USB installer. If you know how to do this then ignore the rest, grab a dual-layer DVD and get cracking. If not, read on...

First, mount your USB installer and then go to Disk Utility. Highlight the partition Install OS X Yosemite on the upper left pane then go to File > New > Disk Image from "Install OS X Yosemite". Select DVD/CD master as the image format then hit the Save button when you're ready.

After a few moments you will have a disk image with the extension .cdr. This should be listed in Disk Utility on the lower left pane - highlight it and select Burn. You will need a dual-layer DVD for the burning operation.

If you can boot from the original Apple installation discs you should be able to boot from your newly created DVD, and hopefully it will appear as a boot option. Be warned, booting from the Yosemite DVD will take a small eternity, the installation itself will take quite a bit longer. Still, it's better to get there slowly than not at all ;-)

Alternatively, if you have a spare hard disk you could clone the Yosemite USB installer partition onto that using Disk Utility's Restore function. This should in theory be much quicker but I've not tried it out yet. I have had a successful boot and install from DVD on a MacBook (school's out for Easter so no access to a Mac Pro at the moment) so at least we know it's possible to create a working DVD installer.

Small addition - when installing from DVD the progress bars will lead to you to believe it's actually going to take forever, if not slightly longer. However, these do tend to stick at certain points while the system's busy and the whole process should be done in just over an hour.


Can't restore nor update iPhone 4S Whenever I try to turn on my iPhone 4S, it comes out with the Apple logo for a few seconds and then turn off.

Turning it on while holding the + button makes the iTunes screen appear. (The provided link is just an example - not my phone)

When I try to Restore and Update it, it extracts the software, starts to update and then suddenly and slowly fade away the Apple icon and turn off. Then it comes back to the iTunes screen again and the computer shows an unknown error 4013.

Yes, I did try another computer. Another USB cable. It simply won't work.

How can I overcome this?

Error 4013 is a disconnect or repair / service / timing issue.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201444

The steps there are pretty short to do for the things you can control so it might be as simple as an update to iTunes or a force restart of the phone.


PuTTY Equivalent for Mac Is there a good PuTTY (free telnet / ssh client) equivalent for OS X?

I know that I can just use terminal and an ssh command, but I want some sort of application that will store connection info, passwords, logs, etc for me, much like PuTTY.

Does this exist?

PuTTY is a great Windows frontend, not to mention the need for an SSH client in the first place. On Linux, OS X, and most other UNIX-y based environments, SSH is generally purely command line, but still amazingly powerful.

The SSH client allows you to store an amazing amount of properties based on a given hostname, even global defaults, in the "ssh_config" client file. This file doesn't exist by default (per the comments on the question), but should be written at ~/.ssh/config.

That path equates to:
~, your home directory, it expands on my system to /Users/jason.
.ssh, the leading dot makes it hidden. If you're in Terminal and in your home directory, you can simply run cd .ssh and enter it.
config is the file name, it is a plain text file with configuration parameters.

I use this file to control tunnels I always use, the private key needed for the connection, the username (if it differs from my local username), etc.

See the manpage, either via man ssh_config on your own machine which will contain the most appropriate version, or you can view it online from OpenBSD's Site.

Some example contents from my ssh config file are:

ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/sockets/master-%r-%h-%p
VisualHostKey yes

Host serve
    Hostname 8.8.8.8
    User        jason
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    LocalForward 5901 localhost:5901

Whitespace is purely personal preference, it is not required except to separate Keys from Values.

The first three lines are global properties, they affect every SSH connection. The second section is a host-specific configuration.

The Host line specifies the host tag you will use when invoking ssh. Ex. ssh serve. When running that, it loads all the properties listed until the next Host line.

Since serve is not necessarily a DNS name, I specify the Hostname that it should actually connect to (no, not actually mine). User is self explanatory and there just to be explicit, and the IdentityFile is the path to the Private Key file it uses to connect.

Lastly, LocalForward sets up a port forwarding rule that I send through the SSH tunnel.

The various syntaxes are all documented on the man page.

There is no mechanism for defining a plain text password. Password entry is ALWAYS interactive when setting up the SSH connection. If you want to log in automatically, set up Private Key Authentication. Storing plain text passwords is stupid, always.

I use this to great effect. And the best part? All your SSH configurations are incredibly portable, it's just one file that you have to backup/retain, and move between system to system! Not so portable to Windows, but who really likes dealing with the registry anyway?


Can I transfer a PDF to iPhone then use gmail to send it by email? I have a PC running Windows. It has iTunes installed. This PC does not and cannot have any Internet connectivity.

I have an iPhone 4s. (Not jail broken).

There is a PDF file on the PC. I want to transfer that file to the iPhone. Then I want to send it by email. (Preferably the gmail app).

I can use iTunes to transfer the PDF to the iPhone, but the PDF reader app has control of that file and nothing else can access it.  And it seems like the gmail app can't attach anything other than photos?

Is there a way to do this? Or should I give up with this approach?

The commercial answer is to install a good quality PDF viewer. Even better would be to install GoodReader which started out as a PDF handler but can now handle a number of different file types and do any number of things with them, including email.

http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodreader-for-iphone/id306277111?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4