How to disable middle click? Middle click to paste is making scrolling impossible in Terminal on my thinkpad keyboard because of middle click pasting.

I'd prefer to just disable it on that app, but globally would be fine.

I found this question with 1 answer but I had too much trouble with Karabiner (it broke hyperdock) and it's specifically about how to disable middle click for terminal, not globally: How to disable middle click paste Mavericks Terminal?

This works! http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/Download.html

You can disable any key you want on any device.


How to ungroup compilations on iPhone Music? I have several "compilation" albums, or albums with more than one artist, in my music library.

On the iTunes app in my computer, I can set "Group Compilations" option off to ungroup the compilations in my library; in other words, it makes those songs show up under the specific artist instead of under "Various Artists."

However, this isn't the case on my iPhone. In my Music app, those compilation songs don't show up under their respective artists; they show up under the "Compilations" tab instead.

Is there a way to turn a "Group Compilations" setting off on the iPhone, like you can do in iTunes?

fingaz's answer is not quite correct—they are talking about when you uncheck the "compilation" box in the Get Info window in iTunes, not turning off "Group Compilations".

The short answer is no, at least not at this time. If you want them to not be grouped as a separate "artist", you would need to alter the metadata in iTunes such that they aren't compilations any more. If this is a feature you would like to see in the Music app, you can tell Apple yourself on this page.


Are the iPhone 7 EarPods longer? I just got an iPhone 7 Plus and noticed that the EarPod's cable is much longer than the one I had with the iPhone 6s.

Do both the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus come with longer earphone cables than the 6s and the 6s Plus?

You've answered your own question - if you see that they are longer, then they are obviously shipped with longer headphones - but for everyone else, I compared them.

The distance from the cord split to the ends of the headphones is the same; however, the distance from the edge of the connector to the split is approximately two inches longer on the iPhone 7 (Lightning connector) EarPods than on the iPhone 6s EarPods.


Text editor - float above other windows I'm looking for a text editor with the ability to float above other windows. As far as I know, Sublime and the native TextEdit don't have this feature. Is there some other program that does have this feature?

Stickies!

The OS X version of this app that's been on Macs since System 7.5 has the ability to float, and become semitransparent.

Technically it's a rich-text notetaking app rather than a plaintext editor, but it might satisfy your use case.

Another option (quite the polar opposite of Stickies) would be to use an editor within Terminal, and use TotalTerminal to display it in "visor" mode.

Finally, it looks like there was an open-source project that added these kinds of window management features to any app of your choosing called Afloat. The original project hasn't been updated in 3 years, but one of the forks might be functional on the current iteration of OS X.


Cursor jumps around on Macbook Pro mid-2010, without trackpad installed to solve my erratic cursor on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro, I brought my computer to the local apple store and had the trackpad completely uninstalled. Does anybody know what it means for the trackpad to completely uninstalled? Ok, anyways I'm going to post a question I never got a reply to on the apple support page. Here it goes.

Macbook Pro mid 2010 15 inch
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB
Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB

Ok all the problems started two years ago, after I bought the computer. For the first four months everything was all dandy until I notices that my cursor behaving erratically, even though I was using a mouse. So I thought that the problem was a bulging battery, even though the trackpad still appeared normal. So using the universal access preferences, I completely turned off the trackpad completely, (using the option to switch off the trackpad when a mouse was in use).

BTW, the mouse was new and corded; used on other computers, it behaved normally.

Another year and a half goes by, and I start encountering another problem. This time the computer would occasionally power off. This occurred randomly, with no preference as to which program or application was more susceptible. In the console it read as a kernel panic, (I had no idea what that meant) and as usual I ignored the problem, blaming it on a faulty battery that would soon need to be replaced. Finally one day I mustered up the courage to go to my peach mac provider and understand the problem.

I was duly shocked to hear green checks all round. Everything was fine in fact (including the battery) expect the trackpad; a problem, which employees assured me, was common enough. Trackpads on my type of macbook pro would occasionally go haywire and just screw up. The estimate for replacement was $170, which was too deep for my pocket, so I politely declined and asked for any other solution. After some prodding, they said they could "unscrew" the trackpad, and I was all ears for this, because I gotten used to working without one. So the trackpad was uninstalled and I returned happy to my house. Also, they told me that a kernel panic was a software issue that could be the fault of the OS X or a third party application.

I forgot to mention, along with the panics, came the general erratic behavior of the cursor. Not as before, where the cursor would go around clicking and dragging mayhem everywhere, but just general skipping around and inaccuracy. So to solve this problem, I bought a new mouse. It was a G100s.

Set to discover the reason behind the kernel panics, I did everything I could to solve the problem. In fact I deleted my entire hard-drive and reinstalled the OS and backed-up the backup. After this, the kernel panics have not yet reoccured (will edit if one does) but the mouse foolishness did. I was afraid to reset the VRAM or whatever you call it, since it also deletes the error log, something that I may want to keep as proof for any techies that may have the solution to the problem.

Once, I started up in safe mode and the mouse worked fine, in fact gloriously accurate, however I was not and could not perform any cpu intensive programs to heat things up. I say this because the mouse problem only occurs after about 30 minutes on the computer. I notice that the general mouse performance is subpar compared to using it on another computer.

If anyone can provide any possible solutions or anything please feel free. And I forgot to include a vital piece of information or something is written in a confusing manner, tell me.

I have a similar problem with my 2009 MacBook Pro. I've been told by an aftermarket apple dealer that it is the graphics card. The card is damaged by overheating. The overheating is due an erratic fan. The erratic fan is caused by a damaged logic board.


Export chat history on Telegram in Mac I'm using the Telegram messenger app on my Mac. I don't see an option to export the chat history on Mac. I've used the Windows version of Telegram app and I was able to export. However, I don't see the option on Mac.
Is there a way I can export the messages on Telegram in my Mac?

Okay, so I had been using the Telegram that's specifically been built for MacOS, called the TelegramSwift, which doesn't have the export chat feature.
However, the export chat feature is only available in the Telegram Desktop.


Where can I download Xcode 10 from as I am facing some problems with Xcode 11? I need to download XCode 10 as I am facing differences between the version I have now which  is XCode 11.4 and the course I am attending now which uses XCode 10 techniques.

So where can I download it from?

You can download it from Apple's developer site here:

https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Just search for "xcode 10" and you'll be able to download any version of Xcode 10.

Another option would be this third party site that has a nice overview of all the release versions:

https://xcodereleases.com

The download links still go directly to Apple's site.


What's taking up all of this "Other" space on my iPhone? I have a jailbroken iPhone, and it's low on space. Much of the wasted space seems to have been consumed by the "Other" part of the space display in iTunes.

How can I get a breakdown of how that space is being used? The restore process from my backup may have left some extra crap around, so I'm thinking that maybe some of it's just incidental data that I could clean up if I knew what was there.

On my mac, I'd use DaisyDisk or something like it; does something like that exist for iPhones?

This space is taken by Application Metadata, and is also taken by Jailbreak applications since iTunes doesn't know that these are regular apps. Doing a full restore of your iPhone through iTunes should clear up this space. There aren't any utilities like DaisyDisk for iOS and the closest thing is iFile on Cydia, an application for managing the files on your device.


How can I prevent shift selection from expanding? On Yosemite in current Chrome (and random other places, but let's try to just solve it in Chrome), if i selection some text (say the "sk differ" in "ask different"), then hold shift and press right arrow, it will expand the selection to include the next character to the right (selection becomes "sk differe"). If i then press left arrow, i'd like the selection to (again) become "sk differ". Instead, in some apps (at least Chrome), it becomes "ask differe". So it seems that it will only expand the selection, so pressing either arrow key only grows the corresponding end of the selection.

How can i make it so that it selects from a caret position that is at either end of the selection (NOT both)?

I have to agree with the comment that it is working as you state you want it to work, at least for me in Chrome 41.0.2272.64 beta on OS X 10.10.2.

That said - there are two ways of creating selections in OS X, from a programmer's point of view: anchored and unanchored. (There is also a third that seems to be employed by Apple applications, mentioned in the Betalogue article as a "smart unanchored" selection.) The way you describe it currently working for you would be an unanchored selection, whereas your desired behavior is an anchored selection. You can read more on the difference and programming implications on Daring Fireball (from 2006) and a slightly more recent 2009 article on Betalogue.

More specifically to your question, it is up to the developer of the program you are using to determine how it operates in that program. I don't have Chrome v40 to test it on but the commenter did and states it works as I am seeing it work in v41 beta. What version of Chrome are you using?

I wrote the below before I realized what you were actually stating is occurring. Hopefully it is useful for somebody else, so I am leaving it here.

The difference is how you created the selection.

If you select text by dragging the cursor from left-to-right, Shift plus arrow keys will expand or shrink the selection on the right edge of the selection. Conversely, if you select by dragging right-to-left, the keyboard shortcut will affect the selection starting from the left edge.

I've confirmed this to be the case in both an Apple-created app (Dictionary) and Chrome 41.0.2272.64 beta.


Mac Won't Boot. Help needed I use top-notch MBPRO15 Late 2011 with the latest OSX and all the recent updates installed. I had booting problems before which I managed to solve through command+option+P+R. I'm not sure what exactly caused the problem, but it helped a couple of times. But starting from yesterday I'm failing to make it boot whatever I do with it.

So I'm having this:

I turn on the Mac
Chimes go as expected and the initial login screen appears
I put my credentials and booting progress bar starts up
After like 30-60 secs the progress bar disappears leaving me only with a grey screen.
Two options possible afterwards (i) the screen stays grey for as long as I wait or (ii) the mac reboots leading me to the initial login screen.

When try to go to the Troubleshooter with command+R the sequence is exactly the same. Instead of the Recovery mode I get a frozen grey screen.

If you need any more information to localise the problem please ask.

To fix this try the following:

boot to internet recovery mode by pressing cmdaltR immediately after the start-up chime. Depending on your internet connection the boot process may take several dozen minutes.
open Disk Utility, choose your main volume, verify and repair it if necessary

if you had to repair errors just repeat the step to recheck that all errors are gone
reboot to your main drive
if the problem persists boot to single user mode by pressing cmdS after the start-up chime to circumvent the lockout.
after booting is done just enter 'exit' at the prompt to start to the common Aqua interface.
download Onyx or Yosemite Cache Cleaner
start Onyx
clean system/user caches

or start Yosemite Cache Cleaner
clean system/user caches

** "System" is the name of the start volume in my VM. Your volume name may be different.
restart your Mac


An Apple TV tried to AirDrop me a system diagnosis archive. What happened? I was using my macbook, which is running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (build 16B2555), normally until this airdrop notification appeared:

Out of curiosity, I accepted the AirDrop and an archive started downloading.

The item finally downloaded, and I discovered it was an archive! To be exact, it was a .tar.gz file that I unzipped with archive-utility.

There are only 2 Apple TVs that could've sent me this file. Both are signed into the same iCloud account, but haven't been touched when the AirDrop request appeared. In fact, neither had been connected to the new Internet router we had installed earlier. I looked in the crash file and it mentioned TestFlight and other tvOS apps, meaning it's the 4th generation Apple TV.

A few hours later, I continued working until I got the notification again. I downloaded another error log and decided to look at it. Here is my error_log.txt:

[1;31mERROR:[0m Tracing is off - cannot save trace data to tailspin file
Sampling all processes for 2 seconds with 250 milliseconds of run time between samples
Sampling completed, generating report...
2017-03-06 02:55:36.471549-0500 spindump[2104:310691] Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /
Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /
Spindump analysis written to file /var/mobile/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DiagnosticLogs/sysdiagnose/sysdiagnose_2017.03.06_02-55-34-0500/spindump-nosymbols.txt
2017-03-06 02:55:42.956842-0500 spindump[2112:310854] Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /
Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /

What happened? Did the fourth-generation Apple TV crash, or was is something else?

The Apple TV supports creating sysdiagnose bundles and sending them over AirDrop. Apple staff recommend this regularly on the Apple Developer Forums.

  To capture a sysdiagnose, hold down the Play/Pause and - buttons on the Apple TV Remote for six seconds, until you see a dialog confirmation on-screen.  From there, follow the instructions to AirDrop the sysdiagnose off the device.

Beta 7 crashes on HDMI hotplug - Apple Developer Forums

It's possible something's accidentally held down the buttons on the Apple TV remote (since they are next to each other) which has caused this action.

AirDrop must be a fairly new feature for the sysdiagnose functionality since the guide for creating a sysdiagnose from an Apple TV on the Apple Developer site still says a USB-A to USB-C cable and iTunes are required: Apple TV sysdiagnose Logging Instructions (link behind developer login).


Swapping Modifier Keys on a PS/2 Keyboard I've been using an IBM SpaceSaver II very successfully with my Mac Pro through one of those cheap PS2 > USB converters for about the last six or seven years. Recently, possibly after upgrading to Snow Leopard, a wizard popped up telling me the keyboard type was not detectable and asking me to type the key to the right of the left Shift key (KTTROTSK).

Unfortunately this wizard just hangs and doesn't seem to register the keypress and indeed once I've cancelled this and carried on with OS X the KTTROTSK does not do anything at all. In addition, the Cmd and Option keys are reversed and swapping them around in the Keyboard pref pane has no effect. Can anyone help please?

Odd. I use an old-school keyboard as well, and have not experienced the same problem. I can offer no suggestion on the software side, but you may find it useful to know that you can get a modern USB keyboard with IBM buckling spring keys at http://pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD


Find Whatsapp backup If I create a Whatsapp Chat backup on my iPhone and save it on ICloud, how can I find it again?
I couldn't find it on my Mac via ICloud Drive or on icloud.com. Where exactly does Whatsapp save this backup?

You can't access the WhatsApp backup as a file and only the latest backup is maintained. You can see its size in Manage Storage on iCloud. When you reinstall WhatsApp on the same or new iPhone, it will prompt you if you want to restore from iCloud backup.


How to debug the user login process After the Catalina update I can't login with my main user any more. Mostly all I get is the turning wheel but once I got Welcome message notification and clicking that started Safari. And from the Apple menu I was able the system settings and the app store.

I also have a few secondary users and I can login to those just fine. Which is different to the very many reports of user who where logged out after the Catalina update. Some where the user was left with deleting the hard drive to solve the problem.

Since I still have one working admin user I hope that I'm spared that fate. It seemed that the update itself was successful and the OS itself is still in working order.

I can also login to the damaged user via su.

What I want to know is: Is there a way to debug the login process to see where the login hangs?

Cleaning out the ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory worked for me.

See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251132653

I'll find out later which of the auto start applications fail to load.


Screen Saver Stuck On, How To Escape? Today I encountered a problem with the screen-saver, in which it couldn't be deactivated in order to return to normal work. Normally, hitting escape will deactivate the screen-saver, but this did not work. I could see the mouse pointer over top of the screen-saver, however.

I use hot-corners to activate the screen-saver, and I could still use those to re-activate the screen-saver, but then the escape key brought me back to the screen-saver "underneath", instead of the normal desktop. I could also activate mission control/spaces, and it looked normal, but choosing a desktop just brought me back to the screen-saver.

So, a summary of strategies I tried to get the screensaver "unstuck":

hitting escape
moving the mouse
re-activating and de-activating the screensaver via its hot corner
activating mission control with a hotkey and choosing a desktop
hitting cmd-opt-escape to try the force quit dialog

How can the screensaver be deactivated without shutting down the machine? I'm running MacOS 10.13.4.

I encountered this problem for the last two days on Catalina on my iMac. I tried some suggested methods, but lacked an Apple keyboard, and didn't restart or use SSH.
What eventually worked for me, I didn't find elsewhere:

Ctrl+Cmd+Q
Esc
login

Hitting Esc makes the screen go black, which I guess cancels the screensaver.


Can I make the same app for iPad which is already lives on AppStore for iPhone? I had created an app which is live on AppStore for iPhone only. Now I want to make that app for iPad. So can I make the same app for iPad or do I need to create the separate app on AppStore Connect for that?

As I remember 4 years ago, I got this problem in one of my application due to which I was not able to make my app for iPad. And I had to create the separate iPad app at that time.

The answer depends on what you mean by "making the same app for iPad".

If you mean that you're going to take the app (its source code) and make it compatible with both the iPhone and the iPad at the same time - and then publish that on the App Store for both platforms - then yes, you can do that. When you change your Info.plist to indicate that you support both iPhone and iPad as targets and submit your app update, the App Store will automatically list the app for both types of devices.

If you mean that you're going to create a separate app (new project) that will support the iPad only, and you want to publish that under the same name as the iPhone-only app - then no, you cannot do that. You would need to publish that under a different name.


HFS+ Partition of Mac OSX is not recognized in Windows 10 Bootcamp I installed triple systems (Mac, Windows, Linux) on my Macbook Pro retina mid 2014 with rEFInd boot loader. Hfs+ partition used to be visible in Windows 8.1 Bootcamp.

But after updating to Windows 10, it doesn't show up again. I don't enable FileVault. HFS+ drivers installed on Windows 10 with the latest Bootcamp support drivers.

Please help! Thank you so much.

Below is the output from the following Terminal application commands.

diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Your computer uses two partition tables stored on your internal drive. The first is the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table and the second is the GUID Partition Table (GPT). You used the commands fdisk and gpt to print out most of the contents of the MBR partition table and GPT, respectively.

For the most part, Windows (booted via BIOS) ignores the GPT and uses the MBR table exclusively to determine the partitions on your internal drive. For Macs, the usual requirement is for the first partition in the MBR table to have an id=EE. Also this partition should start at a Logical Block Address (LBA) of 1 and end at the same LBA as the EFI partition in the GPT. (The EFI partition has an GUID=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B.)

Your MBR partition table contains the following problems:

Your first partition (id=EE) extends past the EFI partition in the
GPT. In fact, this partition covers the first three partitions in the
GPT.
The last partition (number 4) is empty. This probably where the HFS+
partition information was stored before you updated to Windows 10.
The partitions are not in ascending order. I do not know if this one
has to be fixed. For now, I will ignore this problem.

One of the easiest commands that can fix these types of problems is gdisk. This command can be found in most Linux installs. Below is a example of how to use the command to fix your Mac. In the example, this command was run under OS X. I assume you will be using Linux, therefore you should substitute /dev/sda for /dev/disk0.

Steelhead:~ davidanderson$ gdisk /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): r

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): h

WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,
just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will
be untouched.

Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be
added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 5 4 2
Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): y

Creating entry for GPT partition #5 (MBR partition #2)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 07
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): y

Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 83): 83
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n

Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #4)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): af
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.
You should reboot or remove the drive.
The operation has completed successfully.
Steelhead:~ davidanderson$

When finished the output from sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 should show the following values in the #, id, start and size columns.

 #: id      start         size
------------------------------
 1: EE          1       409639
*2: 07  744597504    214845440
 3: 83  451624920    292970696
 4: AF     409640    449945744

If your values are different, update your question and report the differences.


MacBook Pro 16" Speakers Spontaneously Making Strange Noise. How do I fix this? I have a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6. Ever since I updated from MacOS Catalina 10.15.5, when I play music on my MacBook speakers, after a few minutes I'll start hearing a horrible distortion noise along with the music. See https://imgur.com/a/0mK6ciP for a video I recorded of the problem.
I'm able to temporarily resolve this issue if I plug in my headphones and immediately remove them (as shown in the video), or if I go to System Preferences > Sound and change the "Alert volume" value. But then after a few minutes, the problem recurs.
I'm getting the impression this is software-based, and it's not clear to me that the upgrade to 10.15.6 is the cause of the issue. Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?

Can you report there as well https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251560058?
You are not the only one....
My guess is that it is not the sound card as headphones work fine, but could be a driver / compatibility issue with the speakers. Def looks like a driver/OS not working as expected to me
My issue happened with the exact same version: MacOS Catalina 10.15.6


How do I get my Mac to receive iMessages sent to a phone number? I love the new messages app on Mountain Lion. Ideally, if another iPhone user sends me an iMessage, I'd like it to appear on both my Mac and iPhone. Currently this only works if someone sends a message to the email associated with my Apple ID.

Since Apple does know both my phone number and email, is there a way to have all iMessages appear on my laptop?
If not, is my only solution to ask people to text my Apple ID email so it appears on both devices?

Right now OS X Messages can only receive iMessages sent to an email address associated with iMessages. So you'll have to ask people to send to your Apple ID email (or another one if you've got it set up with iMessages) if you want to receive them on your Mac.

There was some talk of Apple ID/phone number unification coming with iOS 6, so that an iPad or Mac could receive iMessages sent to a phone number, but that's not available yet, and from the publicly available information, it doesn't look like it's a sure thing either. However it's a possibility, you may want to pay attention when iOS 6 is released (which looks likely to be in September).


How can I right click on an image in Finder and copy its pixel data? I'm using Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I frequently open many image files and copy its pixel data thereafter paste into Photoshop.

So I wonder how can I right click on an image in Finder and copy its pixel data? Is there any app or Services (using Automator) can do this trick? It would help me save tons of my time working with images.

Thanks for any help out there.

I'm not aware of any way to copy the pixel data, but you can just drag & drop the file directly into Photoshop to achieve the same thing.

This works with most image editing and publishing applications I've used (including things like Powerpoint/Keynote, Word/Pages, as well as all the usual image editors).


Is there any app for reduce battery draining for ios 12? I like to play games on my iPhone but it is a real pain because of the battery drain so fast. Is there any kind of solution or app to reduce this draining?

I've got an iPhone x and the operating system is ios 12

No, there are no apps that generally lower power consumption on the iPhone.

You can enable power save mode in the Control Center to reduce power draw by background services, and you can uninstall or limit apps that use background services to stop doing that.

However it sounds like you only have the large power draw when you're actually playing the game. In that case it is the game using the power, and there's really not much to do about it. You can check the game for settings that allow reduced power usage, or write a bug report / complaint to the game developers.


Define order of label color in Finder I have ordered labeled PDF files with the colors green (very good), orange (ok) and red (bad). When I order my files after labels I get:

Green
Orange
Yellow

But I want to have

Green
Yellow
Orange

Is it possible to configure finder to order labels in my preferred way?

You can change the label names in Finder preferences so they'll be sorted how you'd like:

With label names changed, they now sort like this:


Apple TV and Podcasts I have an Apple TV 2, the one with a max of 720p. If I decide to upgrade to an Apple TV 3 for its 1080p goodness (or an Apple TV 4 in the future if/when it's released), when I log in with my Apple ID, will my list of favorite Podcasts transfer over? Or will I need to add them all over again?

I think it does. Because of iCloud, the stuff in your Apple account will transfer to other devices. For example, if I enable app-sharing with iCloud on my iPhone and I download Temple Run, Temple RUn will also be downloaded into my iPad too. so I think that this will work with the Apple TV 3.


State of NTFS Support at OSX 10.9.5 I acquired an external hard drive that came preformatted with NTFS. My MAC quietly mounted it read only. After some conversations with google, I discovered that MAC couldn't write NTFS by default, but actually did have the ability to write NTFS on Lion

I think Lion < 10.9.5

So is it possible to use this drive on 10.9.5 without reformatting ? And will it be possible to read the results on (currently existing) OS X variants >= El Capitan (=? 10.11.0)

And if I do need to reformat, what's the least-likely-to-be-broken choice of file systems?

And if 10.9.5 can write to NTFS, how do I enable it? Will option 3 from http://www.howtogeek.com/236055/how-to-write-to-ntfs-drives-on-a-mac/ work on 10.9.5?

I have found these articles:

http://macdrug.com/free-ntfs-read-and-write-solutions-in-mac-os-x-el-capitan-or-older/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/write-ntfs-drives-el-capitan-free/

(pretty much identical)

If you want to reformat the external HDD I guess that the native Apple filesystem would be the most reliable choice, unless you have to use it with other devices... in this case I think FAT32 could be quite "universal".


Hard drive read only access with Mac I have an external usb hard drive that I used to connect on my old PC laptop. There are some files I created with the laptop on this hard drive.

Now, I can only read those files with my Mac notebook
I can't write any file on the hard dirve.

How can I enable write access on my hard drive ?

You need to install 3rd-party software for this, by default OS X just support reading NTFS, not writing.

Download and install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G.


SD card corrupt after hot removal Accidentally removing a card reader without first ejecting the Sandisk 256GB MicroSD in it has caused the SD card to become corrupt. When inserting it now, OSX prompts that it cannot read the card and offers an option of initialising it. This doesn't work, and Disk Utility gets stuck "waiting for the disk to re-appear" when I try to format it.
In Disk Utility and in /dev list, the card shows up as 8MB rather than 256GB. I am hoping that I haven't damaged the controller and that the card might be fixable. Any thoughts?

Just setting up a new volume is pretty easy with:

diskutil eraseDisk ExFAT SD256 disk44

(I chose disk44 above for the example but you will need to choose your disk number after making sure you're not erasing the boot volume or other critical disks - check your backups and disconnect any external drives you aren't prepared to restore from backup)

See Cannot unmount disk0 resource busy and When erasing media in Disk Utility, how can I change the default format? for a little extra visual or other options of diskutil that work on a volume instead of destroying all data on the disk.


Shortcut for jumping between words in Sublime Text 2 wanted I want to jump between words in a text editor (e.g. Sublime Text 2). In Windows, I can use Ctrl-Left or Ctrl-Right. What is the shortcut on Mac?

I use Sublime Text 2 (version 2.0.2, Build 2221) under OS X 10.8.5 and I move from word to word by pressing the option key and left or right arrow key.

option+←

option+→

These are the OS X standard shortcuts so most apps that use the standard SDK behave similarly.


Can someone explain what "Standby time" is on iOS? Here's my iOS 6.0.1 log after about 9 hours off the charger. "Standby" seems to be including "Usage".

I've had the phone off the wall for only 9 hrs, but the sum of Standby and Usage are over 15 hrs.

What is "Standby time" on iOS 6 anyway?

All iOS use the same definitions of standby time.

Standby is the accumulation of all of all powered on time since its lasts full charge. Whether the device is actively being used, running with the screen off or sleeping, this time counts towards the standby category.

Usage is the amount of time the iPhone has been awake and in use since the last full charge. This use can be an active use or certain background tasks like navigation or checking mail periodically or receiving push notifications and events.

The only time between now and the last time of charge that doesn't go towards standby is if you power down the device.

Therefore, if you've got some background tasks, such us auto-cheking emails, or any background-running Apps, the numbers for the Usage Time will increase although you're not actively using your phone.


How to make Find File dialogue NOT sort by kind It seems like the dialogue attaching files to emails in Chrome, which I assume is Finder-based, always sorts files by kind (folders, then documents, then images, then pdfs, etc). This sorting takes precedence over the sorting by date that I set for the folder. When I'm trying to attach some pdf I just downloaded, this is incredibly annoying, because I have to scroll through all the folders, images, and documents in my Downloads folder to get there, while if I could truly sort by date, it would be at the very top.

How can I simply sort by date, and prioritize that over anything else?

Have you tried this icon on the top left side of the attachment popup?

This preference is saved for some time, long enough for you to not get frustrated.


2008 MBPro Crashes when reinstalling Yosemite My friend asked me to reset this old MBP to its original state so she could pass it on to her niece.
The erase went ok.
The re-install, not so much.
It does the install, but then when the installer reboots, I get the attached error and it reboots itself.
Then gets the same error and reboots, etc., etc., etc., until I have to shut it off lest it overheat.
I am aware that there is an issue with the battery, however, it is plugged into the AC, so that should (IMHO) not be at issue, however, I'm stumped.
As my personal MBP is much newer, I can't even create a boot USB for it as the machine can't run Big Sur and it's a ridiculous undertaking to make a Yosemite boot USB while running Big Sur.
I've run a repair on all available disk drives, multiple times and attempted a reinstall multiple times. I'm seriously at a loss. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. (My personal opinion: send the dang thing in for recycling and buy her niece a lower cost iMac, but I don't think that's going to happen.)
Oh, and for the record: it would boot up and run just fine prior to my wiping it and doing the reinstall, so I'm not sure if I did something, or what I did uncovered a 'masked' problem that is only evident because I'm attempting to reinstall Yosemite.
Also, it had been upgraded to Catalina prior to the wipe/reinstall, so I'm not sure if that's causing an issue.
CTRL-OPTION-R did not allow me to boot from the internet (apparently the model is too old), so that's a no go. Neither did SHIFT-CTRL-OPTION-R. Turning it on and trying to run the Diagnostics didn't work either. (From what I read, hold the D after the chime until you see the progress bar...but this MBP doesn't 'chime' when you restart it, so it's a guessing game for me).
Again, any insight anyone can give me would be extremely helpful.

The last version of OS X that Apple released for a 2008 MacBook Pro is El Capitan (OS X 10.11.x). If this Mac was upgraded to Catalina, then this must have beed done using some sort of macOS patch. The original state for a 2008 MacBook Pro would be Leopard, but you seem to indicate you think this is Yosemite. There have been reports Yosemite failing to boot after installation do to expired certificates. You have give no indication where you acquired Yosemite. Perhaps your statement "it's a ridiculous undertaking to make a Yosemite boot USB while running Big Sur" means you used your Mac to create the bootable USB Yosemite installer. If true, this still does not indicate where the Yosemite files came from or the method used to create the installer.
Apple has a website How to get old versions of macOS. I assume these downloads have updated certificates. If you use your Mac running Big Sur to create the USB installer for El Capitan (or perhaps Yosemite) you will first have to install Big Sur in a virtual machine. I have tested this using a free version of VMware Fusion Player where the host was running Catalina. After creating the Install OS X El Capitan application in the Big Sur virtual machine, I would copy the Install OS X El Capitan application to the Big Sur host before following these instructions: How to create a bootable installer for macOS.

An alternative would to follow these instructions to create a bootable USB Snow Leopard installer. After installing Snow Leopard on the 2008 MacBook Pro, install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. Finally, use the 2008 MacBook Pro to create the Install OS X El Capitan application. You will need to use your Mac to do all the downloading.


Updating El Capitan to High Seirra will take 18 hours I'm on El Capitan and trying to update to High Seirra. It downloaded the stub file and run the application. I waited for one hour till it says 17 hours remaining. Is there a way to speed up the update process?

None whatsoever.

Leave it alone, it will get there.

If it's claiming such astronomical time remaining, it's based on 'how fast it went so far vs how long it thought it should have taken'. That's a variable dependant on many things - HD vs SSD, space remaining on drive etc.

Also, your download speed will have an effect - maybe significant if your connection is slow or intermittent. [I've never had a download be slow or fail, but I would assume the installer is capable of handling a failed download gracefully].

It will recalculate periodically as it works, so you might find it will drop to something more sensible as it progresses.

One thing to watch out for… when it gets to "1 minute remaining" don't run out of patience at that point. It is really saying "I've done everything I can measure & these final tweaks should only take a minute." If it has a lot of files to look at, it may take hours. It can't tell you at that point.


iPhone claiming low battery in cold weather With the cold weather, a rather odd problem appeared on my iPhone 4S – whenever I use the phone in weather below ~12 °C, it turns itself off and claims to be out of battery. This most often occurs when the battery is at 20-30 %, but isn't limited to that at all.

When it happens, I've found that rubbing the phone to heat it up helps, but that is a temporary fix, as it turns itself off again if exposed to cold again for a couple of minutes.

The fix has worked for quite a while, but it seems the phone can handle less and less cold - starting at about 10 minutes in -10 °C at 10 % battery left when it first happened, to about 3 minutes in 10 °C with 30 % battery. Therefore I have to ask – what can I do about it? I guess it will most likely have to be sent in for a replacement or repair, but I doubt this is covered by the phone's warranty (at least Apple's own)?

I would question two things about your framing of the issue (and will sidestep the whole repair discussion/issue entirely):

1) Apple's warranty does cover batteries that don't retain a percentage of their useful life based on aging at one, two and three years (two for most iOS warranty / coverage, but there are exceptions in some cases). You should open a ticket with them if you have coverage and see if they will repair it for you.

2) I use an iPhone regularly outdoors when the temperature reaches -30 C and even then, the decrease in capacity is temporary. While the device is colder than 0C - you get less juice out of the cell, but once you warm it (in a pocket, next to your skin to warm it temporarily - or when you are inside a heated space for long enough to warm the battery), the devices recover full capacity.

(You will want to watch to control condensation to prevent liquid damage / especially if you bring a very cold device into a warm humid space, that warm air will carry liquid inside the product. Similarly, a warm device when rapidly cooled could have liquid condense inside it and then freeze.) Devices left in a car overnight such as iPad and Mac also see no measurable decrease in battery life once I get them inside and warm - whether I charge them or not.

I'll leave the DIY repair / pay for a repair discussion for another thread where you get specific on what model, but from what I see, the environmental behavior is that cold batteries still have all the charge they took, but they don't produce as much voltage and current while they are cold.


Best Practice for User Shell Scripts location and/or PATH I am interested in knowing if there is a best practice for placing/storing custom shell (Bash/Zsh) scripts and it's related PATH location.
I know folks have their favorite places - I usually dumped mine in /opt/local/bin but that required root permissions (sudo) and it was "intermixed" with all the stuff from MacPorts; thus it was unorganized to say the least.  So, this is not what I'm looking for - an opinion of what each individual liked best.
Is there a generally accepted recommendation of a location/methodology to store custom scripts both system wide (all users) for individual users' own personal scripts (maybe in their home directory?) and if necessary (and available), how to structure the PATH?

Put things in /usr/local is the best practice for global use

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/98626/5472

Your individual user needing a separate playground / path / space is more tricky to solve.

How many users?
Where do they come from in terms of access / authentication?

Best practice (a.k.a workable and optimal) is not the same for three people that ssh in to a machine or you have thousands of students, faculty that leverage a mature file sharing / network home folder architecture or you all are developers and will check your code into source control and access many machines and want to sync things.
There’s likely no best practice than knowing your users, their skill level and preferred tools and working with your support budget. Things a professional IT team / dev team will engineer, provide and support will be far more powerful than a couple people sharing a Mac mini at the office. Those same tools are overkill for a small group or one person setting up several accounts.
Depending on your volume of items subdirectories in the local user folder can be very helpful. The only other suggestion I’ve seen that’s worth considering is /Library or ~/Library but those are further from the unix/shell heritage for my tastes.


Brew doctor asking to update xcode, while its already updated When I run brew doctor It says

Warning: Your Xcode (6.4) is outdated
Please update to Xcode 7.3.1.
Xcode can be updated from the App Store.

While I already have latest XCode cli, which I found out by running pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables which says:

package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
version: 7.3.1.0.1.1461711523
volume: /
location: /
install-time: 1466534515
groups: com.apple.FindSystemFiles.pkg-group com.apple.DevToolsBoth.pkg-group com.apple.DevToolsNonRelocatableShared.pkg-group

How to I fix it ?

The problem here is just simply that brew is detecting an old version of Xcode. If it was objecting to the version of the command line tools that you have installed you'd be getting a different error message.

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

You can see the actual code here yourself. The checks for Xcode and the command line tools are separate.

The way to fix this message from brew doctor is either to remove the old version of Xcode or update it.


Why is Xcode starting on macOS Sierra start up? After starting or restarting macOS, Xcode is launching and opening a file that I never touched. Any idea how I can stop that?

One possibility is that either the MainMenu.strings file (or Xcode itself) is listed as a Login Item.

Check this in System Preferences - Users & Groups, Login Items tab and remove the file.


macOS Catalina - how to set up Finder to use file sorting logic same as ls command (alphabetical order, not "natural")? I noticed today that Finder has some strange logic of sorting files by name and I cannot figure out why is that.

Screenshot 1 - folder in "column" view with folder's options opened:

Screenshot 2 - same folder in "list" view, sorted by "Name" column:

Screenshot 3 - output of ls -al command in terminal, correct and expected file sorting:

EDIT:
I created a testing folder with integer file names only and the behaviour is the same.

Finder:

Terminal:

How can I change Finder to use the same logic like ls command?

Unfortunately, linked duplicate question doesn't answer my question above, only explains Finder's logic and behaviour in sorting files. What I would like to achieve, as stated in title and the question above, is to force Finder to sort files in alphabetical, not "natural" order.

Essentially, Finder is treating the numbers up to the first letter as its sort criterion.

So, as far as Finder is concerned, the order is 'correct' for

0
2
6
298
2655522

It is not considering the entirety of the name as a hexadecimal figure.

Based on your edit - terminal is 'wrong' - 6 is smaller than 2655522

It's still down to "if you want a computer to sort 'properly' give it leading zeroes".

I also made a test folder - the logic is perhaps awkward, but it is actually logical, for a given definition.

I think what Terminal is doing is sorting numbers like they were letters, so like e would sort after aabbaccd so 6 sorts after 2655522


Running an app build with very old iOS SDK on a device running current iOS I have 2 iOS devices, an iPhone 6s, and an iPhone 4. I'm currently using OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 and plan on using Xcode.

The iPhone 6s is running iOS 12.2, and iPhone 4 is running iOS 7. My Xcode version is 5.1.0.

Will I be able to deploy an app using Xcode 5 on my iPhone 6s?

Xcode 5.1.0 include iOS 7.1 SDK. You cannot debug an app build with this Xcode/iOS SDK combination on your iPhone 6s running iOS 12.2 (iOS 12 was non-existent when Xcode 5.1 was released and Xcode is not aware of it).

You can however, in-theory generate the app IPA and deploy it on iOS 12. iOS 11 and later require your app to have executable support for 64-bit mode. So you need to make sure to build your iOS app with 64-bit mode.

However, you may end up hitting roadblocks as iOS 7 is ancient in terms of how iOS has evolved. With a decently complex app, you may run into issues when running an app built with much older SDK on a device running current iOS.


How to decrease timeout after which Touch Bar goes to sleep? There is an option for keyboard backlight to be switched off after some timeout. I would like to do the same for Touch Bar.

It's currently not possible to adjust the Touch Bar timeout.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7820539


Mac connects to iPhone hotspot but no internet I'm trying to set up a hotspot, sharing the connection from an iPhone X running iOS 12.1 with a MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave. The hotspot is working fine and other devices can connect to it and use the internet, but although the MacBook connects to the hotspot OK, browsers don't work.

The MacBook can ping the DNS server set by the phone's DHCP, and other servers, but lookup fails (dig, nslookup or the network utility tool), and all browsers report that there is no internet connection.

I've tried going through the answers to this question but nothing seems to have made any difference.

Both devices have been restarted multiple times, and I've reset the phone's network settings.

I got the same issue and solved it differently.

In my MacBook, I had the DNS server setup to point to Google's public DNS IP (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4), I simply deleted those registers and left the default. It worked for me, hope it works for you.


Why doesn't my iPhone 6s plus charge while it is on the cable? I plug my iPhone 6s plus into the lightning cable and it will make the "chime" sound to let you know it is charging, but if I move it even so slightly on the table where it charges or pick it up to text, it will stop charging.

I checked to see if my cable was the problem, but it charges my iPad. It must be my iPhone lightning port then?

Sometimes even when I do not touch my iPhone and it is charging, it will keep making the charging sound and light up (as if it was unplugged and the re connected).

I've had the same problem. Sometimes shooting a little compressed air in the port or taking a swipe in there with a clean cloth (not a q-tip or kleenex) can get rid of gunk that might build up from normal use (like the phone being in a bag or pocket that has dust, dirt, lint and such.) My old 3G (with the wide charger) was doing the exact same thing until I cleaned it out - had a TON of dog hair, lint, grime, tobacco and such from like four years of riding in my pocket. Pushing in the charger just pushes down and compacts whatever is in there.

Some people suggest a toothpick or using a little rubbing alcohol (like 90% so minimal watercontent) but whatever you use I'd recommend being gentle. Here's a video where they gently use a pin. Whatever you choose to try, I'd first shine a bright light in there and take a good look (even better if you have a magnifying glass). Here are some more suggestions if mine don't help.

My folks have big cover cases for their mobiles which have flaps that close over the charging port, I just looked in their charging ports and there didn't look to be any gunk, so maybe a good idea for moving forward with a lint free mobile lifestyle?


What's the purpose of removing an iPhone from Account in icloud.com > settings? According to Apple in the article below, you can temporarily remove an iOS device from the list in icloud.com/settings so it doesn’t appear in this list until it goes online again.
I’m curious to know why would anyone ever want to do such a thing.
I’m just trying to grasp the ins and outs of Find my iPhone and Activation Lock.
Any clarification much welcome.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/icloud/mmfc0eeddd/icloud

I do this when I have a device that is lost or stolen. I’ve already documented the serial, filed a police report, sent a remote lock or wipe command. Now it’s time to remove it.
I never expect it back, but Apple has my back and will notify me if it ever comes back online.
I also have some older devices I keep for sentimental reasons. They go in airplane mode, get charged to 50% and powered off, I wake them every 6 months or so to prevent deep discharge of the batteries. No need for them to clutter my list, but they are still under activation lock and my account.


Completely remove some strange iTunes-purchased songs I do not understand why my iPhone recently gets some strange songs and I would like to delete them, completely.

To remove them, I first locate these songs in my iTunes library. But when I try to delete them, I get this message before continuing:

These items will be hidden from your iTunes purchases.

What I am looking for is a way to completely remove those songs. So simply hiding them from itune does not suffice. Any idea how to do that?

Unfortunately their is no such way. For the U2 album Apple forced everyone to buy for free, there is a tool to completely remove it SOI-Removal Tool

The only option for your case would be to contact Apple Support in order for them to completely delete those purchases.


Are there any "App Store quality" apps for creating animated GIFs from a series of image files? I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app that I'm a beta tester for. These are the standard PNG files created by OS X's ⌘+⇧+4 keyboard shortcut. They show the sequence of events I use to reproduce a display bug.

When I say "App Store quality" I mean they are native Cocoa apps. These apps generally have attention paid to user interface and usability. You know, all the things that make good Mac apps good.

You might install ImageMagick with brew install imagemagick and then use something like this:

convert -delay 4 *.png output.gif

-delay 4 sets the delay between frames to 0.04 s.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/ for more information.


Should I get a mini DisplayPort to DVI or HDMI to DVI adapter? I bought the new Retina MacBook Pro, which has an HDMI out and two Thunderbolt ports. I have an external display that I've been using that has a DVI input. Should I get the Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter or an HDMI to DVI adapter? Presumably, an HDMI adapter would be cheaper, because I wouldn't have to buy the Apple one. Is there a reason to go for mini DisplayPort instead?  I remember reading that DVI and HDMI are the same as far as video quality is concerned. Any other pointers or recommendations in this area are also appreciated. I guess one consideration could be that they are on opposite sides of the computer so I could pick the one that is on the side I plan to put the monitor.

And yes, I do know that my old display will look like crap next to the retina display.

Additionally, don't forget that Thunderbolt really means mini DisplayPort where video adapters are being considered. Since a DVI connection is required for your external display get something that will end in a DVI connection. Additionally don't forget to shop around for adapters, places like MonoPrice can help you save a bundle on adapters and Cables when compared to retail prices.

Solutions:

Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter (from MonoPrice)
HDMI to DVI adapter (from MonoPrice)


2 iPhones, 1 computer. Why are they now both running on the same iTunes account? I have recently synced my partner's iPhone to my computer because his computer crashed. He has his own iTunes account so we backed his phone up to iCloud, wiped it a re-synced it to my computer.But when he tried to access iTunes through his iPhone (to download music or new apps) it takes him to my account and asks for my password.In settings on his iPhone under iTunes account it still has his user ID. How do we get access to his iTunes account from his iPhone back?

Why not log out your iTunes account so that he can log in his iTunes account?


Can I watch the WWDC from the beginning when the event has not finished? I want to watch the WWDC tomorrow however I will traveling home from college. This means that I will miss some of it and do not want to start watching it half way through. Is there a way how I can start watching the WWDC at the beginning when I start watching it tomorrow?

UPDATE: The stream is officially posted in a replayable state, just like any other online video, located here. It's also the latest entry in Apple's "Apple Keynotes" podcast, available for download on iTunes and iDevices here.

Since no one seems to have given the answer iProgram was hoping for, I might as well make this a proper answer in case other people have the same question.

Under the circumstances, live blogs can be a tolerable substitute for watching the stream. (Source: Experience when Apple events happened during school hours.) I personally recommend the ones at Macworld and iMore, but there are countless others that you can find online if you search for them.

Good luck, and enjoy the keynote, however you end up experiencing it!


How can I back up my iphone if my touch screen is broken? My touch screen capability on my 5c wasn't working, so I had to get a new phone. Before I close out my old phone, I have to back it up (hasn't been backed-up in a LONG time).... Is there any way to back-up my phone since the touch screen capability isn't working? (I'm on icloud, but it seems that wasn't backing up as it should have.) Thanks for your hep oh smart ones!

Assuming you have made an backup to iCloud before and it's still turned on.

Backups made to iCloud run only automatically when the following criteria are met:

Your device is connected to a power source.
Your device is connected to a Wi-Fi network.
Your device's screen is locked.


How do I get iOS Reminders to recognize my location/geofence better? I really like the idea of location based reminders, and would love to use them more.

When I first tried them, they worked great. I had it setup to remind me to do something when I got home, and the alert would fire when I pulled into my driveway. I have my home address in my address card as being my actual address, which routes correctly.

Now though, they never go off. When I go to the reminder, and then look at current location, it always seems to have a very exact address, but not mine. For example, I may live at 123 Main Street, but it says that I am at 432 Broad Road (which may be only a house or two away around a corner).

I have not seen a difference when being outside or inside. I used to think the location services were just not working correctly, but then when I went to the current location in Reminders, it was always a little off, and I figured thats why the event wouldn't fire.

Is there any way I can get this to work better? If anything, I would like it to be less sensitive. As in, let me know when I am very close to the location, which would work for me.

This is on an AT&T iPhone 4. My wife has a 4S, and hers only slightly works better. When using other apps, location is actually more precise, and usually only a house number off (I think due to how the underlying GIS system is done).

The Reminders.app does not allow you to customize the geofence perimeter in the application. In iOS 6, it will allow custom address input versus someone from your address book.

A way to get around this is use one of the several other apps available.

I ended up using Checkmark. You can enter custom locations, and for each of those locations, you can adjust the perimeter. This has worked great, I have a larger perimeter around my work, and a medium size one around my house.

Finally, I think this comes down to the GPS sensitivity in the iPhone 4. My wife's iPhone 4S picks up our location much closer and quicker when it comes to geofencing.


Hard disk Partitions I have a two partitions on the Hard disk; Mavericks and Data.

Anyone know how to stored all the desktop files automatically move to Data partitions.
My ideas is there is no files stored on the first partitions.
//Thanks.

Move your desktop to the Data partition.
Symlink your ~/Desktop to this new desktop folder.

ln -s /Volumes/Data/Desktop ~/Desktop


"Open File in BBEdit" missing from right click menu I have the most recent version of BBEdit installed on my MacBook and iMac, both running the most recent versions of macOS. On my MacBook, when I right click on a file, the menu shows the options to "Search Here in BBEdit" and "Open File in BBEdit" at the very bottom (see image). On my iMac, these options are missing.

How can I get these options on my iMac, too?

As @jaume has explained in their comment, the options can be enabled under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Files and Folders.

Here is a screenshot (as it looks like in German):


Keyboard shortcut to show/hide hidden files in Finder in macOS Mojave In macOS Sierra, it used to be Command + Shift + .. But that does not appear to work in macOS Mojave. Has something changed?

What is the keyboard shortcut to show/hide hidden files in Finder without restarting in macOS Mojave?

that still works for me on 10.14.1 Mojave


Force quit closed application I force quit Google Chrome by right-clicking the app icon in the Dock and selecting Force Quit. That seemed to quit Chrome (absence of indicator under app icon). However, when I try opening Google Chrome, nothing happens. When I open the Force Quit window by using the keyboard shortcut,Option + Command + Escape, Google Chrome is present in the list.

At the same time, Google Chrome does not show up in ps output or in Activity Monitor app.

I think that Chrome is actually closed but that macOS thinks it's open. How do I convince macOS that Chrome is, indeed, closed?

I have just installed macOS Mojave.

From searching online, I think I may have run into an edge case. My best guess is that, having just installed Mojave, one of the many new permissions dialogs was generated but hidden behind another window. As I closed programs, some permissions dialogs appeared, including for Chrome. This doesn’t make much sense as a cause but it was related to a major system change so it’s my best guess.

I wound up resolving the issue by rebooting.

Edit: I had the problem again a few more times. Today, FlowVPN wouldn't force quit. I had to hard reboot because macOS was waiting for FlowVPN to close and it wouldn't.


Keyboard shortcut for locking screen in macOS Sierra? In previous versions of OSX, I could use Ctrl Shift  Power on my built in keyboard, or Ctrl Shift  Eject on my (old) Apple bluetooth keyboard to lock the screen.

After upgrading to Sierra, that shortcut stopped working. Using Karabiner-EventViewer I discovered that pressing the built in power button triggers SysKey 0x6, and the Bluetooth keyboard Eject triggers no events.

Whats going on, and how can re-enable that shortcut?

In macOS High Sierra (10.13) there is a 'Lock Screen' option built in the Apple menu.

And finally a shortcut ctrl + cmd + Q :-)


Unable to change network location while Firefox is open Under the Location option in the top-left Apple menu I have set up a few different options that let me quickly swap between different web proxy configurations when I connect to different networks. Normally I can just choose one and the new settings are applied immediately.

It has started showing this message if I try to choose a different location while Firefox is open.

The location doesn’t change and Firefox doesn’t actually close. I have to press Ignore, close Firefox, change location and re-open Firefox.

What is the cause of this?

I also have this problem. I submitted a bug on bugzilla, the code is 1424709, let's hope they fix it.

Bugzilla link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424709


Time Machine fails to eject disk (sparesebundle) on Time Capsule, then cannot mount on different Mac Have MacA and MacB running TM and backing up to the same Time Capsule. TC has the internal drive and two attached USB drives - same problem occurs on all of them. Both Macs are latest version - 10.15.7, and TC is the terminal version 7.9.1
MacB will frequently show a "Failed to eject diskX" message in the log. Then cannot mount that sparsebundle on MacA. This will continue even after complete power down and restart of everything - MacA, MacB, the TC, and the external drives - so some setting must be persisted to one of the drives, but what and where? If MacB is offline for a couple of days (wife's computer and not heavily used), and MacA has gone through a couple of daily power cycles, then suddenly all of the bundles can be mounted. When MacB is turned on again, and generates some new backups, then the same problem recurs.
Have reported to Apple feedback with full discussion and logs https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/7739401 but so far crickets.
Will sometimes (rarely) have the same problem with a sparsebundle for a MacA backup also not being mountable on MacA - this usually clears after one reboot. Note that the remount issue occurs when trying to use Finder, or from the command line with hdiutil or open (using DiskImageMounter internally) - usually get a "Resource temporarily unavailable" message. Time Machine itself never seems to have any problem re-mounting these bundles for the next backup.
Suspect some XATTR setting, but various experiments have all failed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

You may not like my advice, but walk away from network backups. Use direct attached storage and use two backup destinations if you can’t afford to have one take days to check the filesystem if they eject due to a cable failure, power failure or cat.
To have things run as you describe, you’d need dedicated new hardware, have to set up a directory service and/or managing permissions by user ID, manage SMB and possibly AFP sharing services, the source system has to do a ton of overhead to manage the storage bands. Time Capsule is not powerful enough for the task in my experience. It was fine 5 years ago (fine for light use, OK performance) but not anymore.
What’s easy is APFS filesystem on the Mac so your get snapshots and HFS+ filesystem on the storage destination.

And to answer your question, you can use tmutil stopbackup to ask for a quick abort, but since you skip any clean up, your next backup interval takes so much longer since the code has to do all the cleanup before it finishes the next interval. I would need to analyze the network capture, but temporary unavailable errors can be due to the server not responding in a timely manner since it’s busy managing files and network as opposed to serving the data to your Mac.


How can I find the source of a Mac desktop notification? I installed a trial software, NTFS for Mac, and then uninstalled it (via AppZapper). However, I am still getting occasional desktop notifications and I don't know how to get rid of these. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Oren

I may have found the solution, which involves manually deleting a record from an SQL database.

Using Ralf Westphal's answer here and Oscar Zhang's answer here to solve my issue by editing the db file in the db2 folder. I found the app_id in the app table and then deleted it (which causes the 'app_deleted' trigger to delete the app from all the other tables). This is for Mojave. I used an SQLite editor for this (DB Browser for SQLite].

I will have to wait a while to confirm this works.


Macbook pro 13 inch 2017 W/ touch bar - battery drain during sleep OS Version I'm on is High Sierra 10.13.2

My battery seems to drain way too much on my new MacBook Pro 13 w/ Touch bar 2017 when it's supposed to be sleeping.  Things I've done after reading other posts on the issue:

Turned off power nap on battery in the settings
Turned on Do Not Disturb whilst sleeping

After a test yesterday, at the end of a day the battery went from 100% to 84%, I didn't open the lid once in that time.

I don't recall ever having this issue with my MacBook Air mid 2012.

Is this a software, hardware issue or both?

Thanks

UPDATE 01/01/2018 - Happy new year! So I did as suggested in reply.  Nothing was open preventing sleep.  20hrs this time on sleep and down to 78%.  This can't be right!

If you open Activity Monitor there is an Energy tab that will display what is consuming the most energy. One of the columns is "Preventing Sleep", which will allow you to see if any apps are preventing your Mac from sleeping. It could be that it isn't sleeping when you think it is.

If you leave Activity Monitor open for a while it will gather data and you can look through and see what the biggest culprits are for energy usage. You could have a program that hangs and uses more power than it's supposed to.


Once backward conversion of encryption has started, can it be stopped? I have accidentally given my external Extended journaled hard drive (with password) the command to "decrypt" the disk.

When you restart the decryption starts immediately on the external, how can you stop it? (even via a command line option in terminal.app or such)

It is not possible to stop the decryption of the drive while also using the drive.

You can unmount and possibly unplug the external drive, and the decryption will obviously stop.

However, as soon as you plug the drive in again and mount the file system, the decryption process will continue. You cannot ask the system to stop that.

Your options are either to a) let the decryption process finish, and then apply encryption again -- or b) backup the files off the drive, wipe the drive, create a new encrypted file system and copy back your files.

Option (b) usually takes just as long as option (a), but requires a lot more manuals steps. So I would recommend option (a).


How Can I access Mac OS X Base System on Boot Screen? Im going to try to wipe out my hard drive and reinstall Mavericks but whenever i reboot the iMac and hit the OPTION key it won't show Mac OS X Base System. Can anyone help me on this?

If you mean the Recovery HD, then it means that you don't have a Recovery HD that's able to be booted into.

Try booting with ⌘R. If that fails, use ⌘⌥R for Internet Recovery.


How to initiate iOS software updates remotely on managed devices? I am trying to setup the so called "Profile Manager" in Apple's Server to manage a number of iOS devices for the family. The main purpose is for me to be able to (1) remotely restart the devices and (2) initiate software updates, if that's possible.

So far I was able to add devices to the "Profile Manager" and view settings for each device. I can configure different general settings, most of which I do not really care about (such as AirPrint, Mail, etc). I also know that the device still needs an iOS Software Update to get to the latest iOS version/

Unfortunately, I can not find a way to start this update remotely. I did come across the "About" page in the web view of the "Profile Manager", which has a section on: "OS, Built-In App, System Data File, and Security Updates", but that simply says "No Updates Available." When I check inside the iOS device under "Software Update", I see "iOS 10.1", though.

Am I missing a certain setup step to get this working or are remote iOS updates just not possible?

Additional info that may be relevant:

I have enabled Signed configuration profiles, but the certificate is local
Everything is happening on the local network only, no public domain is involved
I did not enable any of the "Deployment Programs"

Forcing iOS Updates to devices using Profile Manager is only possible if the devices are in the "supervised" state and the iOS version is out of date to begin with.

Device supervision (the highest level of device management, enables MUCH MORE control over devices) is only possible by:

Enrolling in Apple's DEP program (really only practical for device administrators that order a lot of phones for the company)
Configuring the device through Apple's free OS X App: Configurator 2

Conf2 will enroll the device in MDM and enable "supervision" on the devices.

http://krypted.com/iphone/enable-device-supervision-on-ios-devices-using-apple-configurator-2/


Left AirPods in Washing Machine I stupidly left my AirPods in the washing machine through a whole cycle. I took them out, hand dried them, and they were surprisingly still working. I used them for about an hour after that and then all of a sudden they shut off.

Now, they won't turn on at all. I've tried holding down the button for 15 seconds and re-charging them with no luck.

Any ideas for how to fix this problem? Are they permanently dead?

Apple support can quote you a repair. Since they have batteries and several processors inside each, immersion and agitation for tens of minutes likely caused an overload / short circuit which will be followed by rapid corrosion of metal in the device.


How to disable MacOS X helper tool? Every now and then some apps asks to auto update using the built in helper tool. I am so tired of it. They ask for privileged access.
Is there a way where I can disable that for all apps? May disabling this helper tool? I want to upgrade my apps manually.
In some apps (like in the one in the picture) I cannot disable auto update feature. It's a dark pattern, there is no option for that!

If not, I will need to uninstall those awful apps.

No, there's no way to disable that one place for all apps.
Contrary to what you might think, it is not the case of one macOS helper tool. Instead it is each of these apps that comes with its own helper tool - different from the helper tools of other apps.
Some apps will function even when you remove their helper tool - some will not. But it will have to be done individually.


MySQL and server settings when upgrading Mac Pro from 10.6 to 10.7 I have my web development environment on a mac pro running on OS X version 10.6.
I'm considering upgrading it to Mac OS X 10.7.

Will it upgrade smoothly or do I have to reinstall mysql, perl and so on?
I am especially scared for upgrading MySQL and the databases.

To answer remarks here below, I don't remember how I installed MySQL in the first place, but for what I remember, it didn't came out of the box. That's why I am scared it might get removed.

Concerning the os version, I tend to say as close possible to the version that came with the mac at the time. The more recent the OS the more resource hungry they are. I prefer to have a fast mac then an up to date OS. I would stay to 10.6, but there are some applications could help me and are only running on 10.7.

MySQL, as well as the databases, is still there and working after upgrading. This said, all the settings, php, mysql, apache, virtual hosts, where resetted to the default. Very annoying I have to rebuild all my development environment.


Is it possible to recover a deleted APFS volume? Nothing’s been changed or formatted. The “container” is not mounted and the volume I accidentally deleted still shows up in the Boot menu at startup.

How would I go about recovering this APFS volume?

Most commercial file recovery utilities for the Mac also will perform recovery of deleted partitions. Disk Drill Pro, EaseUS, Stellar Data Recovery Pro, etc.

Primary concern is avoiding writing anything to the drive with the deleted partition. Don't run any disk repair/maintenance utilities or attempt to re-create the partition. Avoid using the affected drive (and if it's the boot drive of the Mac, then the Mac itself) at all if possible. My suggestion would be either:

boot the Mac into Target Disk Mode and run recovery software from a different Thunderbolt-connected Mac
(if your recovery software offers this option) create a bootable recovery USB drive on a different Mac and boot the affected Mac from it


Serial terminal not taking keyboard input Not sure when this started, but I can't seem to get any keyboard input in my serial terminal window.
No issues however in binding the tty.usbserial interface to the terminal program and getting output from whatever device is connected. But once I start hitting the keyboard, nothing shows on the terminal window.

I have tried zTerm and CoolTerm as serial terminal programs and I'm on macOS Mojave 10.14. Oh and not to forget the built-in "screen" program.
Tried several devices with a console port.

ls /dev/tty.*
/dev/tty.usbserial-A700HCG8

What can I do to troubleshoot & hopefully fix this issue?

Usually this means that either:

(a) the target device is not sending back any response to your keystrokes

or

(b) your flow control settings are incorrect

or

(c) you have a defective cable.

If (b) is the case, you'll to make sure that the settings XON/XOFF, RTS/CTS and DTR/DSR are set correctly. You can just try flipping them manually, as nothing "bad" happens if you set them incorrectly (except not being able to send/receive data).

If (c) is the case, try with a different cable. It is possible to have a cable that only works in one direction due to a hardware problem.


iPhone IOS 7 SHSH blob IOS 9.X bricked my last device, so a replacement phone with IOS 7.X arrived.  Before upgrading to the latest 9.X: I am wondering if it is still possible to obtain the SHSH blobs should I wish to go back to 7.X.

iFaith can generate SHSH blobs and turn them into restorable IPSW files!

https://github.com/iH8sn0w/iFaith/releases


"Monitor stays black" lag? Since lately, I am using an AOC 32 inch monitor. A Decent piece of hardware, but alas, one thing really sucks:

When I come back from a break, and screen lock kicked in
I press a key on my keyboard: my older lenovo monitor immediately goes from black blank to my background image, but the AOC just sits there blank, black. For 10 seconds, 20 seconds.
Most of the time, the Lenovo monitor turned black already again. When I press keys on the keyboard again, then finally the AOC tells about HDMI signal, and then shows my background image and I enter my password and log in.

In other words: there is a terrible lag before the monitor goes "alive" (10 to 20 seconds at least). Any idea anybody what I could do to change this behavior?

( for the record: both monitors are connected to my Mac Book Pro 2017 using a Lenovo ThinkPad TB3 dock, and this is not a duplicate of my own question, that one was about an external monitor never going alive )

That Lenovo TB3 box has 2 DP (display port) and one HDMI port:

( picture from here )

I simply switched ports, from DP2 to DP1, and using the first port, there is (almost) no more lag any more!

And as reference for future readers: if you intend to connect two monitors to this Lenovo TB3 dock: the second monitor has to be connected using the USB-C port on the front of the box. When you plug two monitors on the "back" of the dock, they will show the same content (like only "mirroring" is possible).

Update:

I figured a bit later that yes, switching the port did help, but only to a certain degree bit. A slightly better "solution" boils down to this:

when I come back, and both displays are black, I click my mouse once
I count to five, I hit ESC on the keyboard
I count to five again, and click my mouse again

What that does is: (almost) reliably get met to "both displays awake at the same time".

( I basically noticed that clicking the mouse will wake up display 1 quickly, and when putting it back to sleep with ESC, the next mouse click will wake up both displays )

Another update:

Since upgrading to Catalina, no more workarounds required. display 2 still has a lag, but I simply enter my password, display 1 turns on, display 2 follows 2, 3 seconds later. Reliably. At least for now.


(How) Can I push notifications from my Mac notification center to my iPhone? I have a 2015 MBP running OS 10.11, and an iPhone 6s with iOS 9. Can I push notifications from the Notification Center on the MBP to the iPhone? If so, how?

And I mean any notification. I'm not talking about synchronizing individual apps.

You can install Growl in your Mac, and install Prowl in your iPhone. Then setup the Prowl to connect to your Growl instance with the API. Finally you need to forward all OS X notifications to the Growl.


iPhone voicemail won't play Using an iPhone 6, I received a call which went to voicemail, and the caller apparently left a message. I say "apparently" because when I go in to the voicemail app, the message won't play. If I click the "play" button/icon, the icon changes to the "pause" icon, but otherwise nothing happens and no sound plays. The progress bar shows a 32-second message, but it doesn't advance.

I exported the message to Voice Memos but that app exhibits the same behavior when attempting to play the file - the progress bar doesn't move, and no sound is played.

If this was just a normal audio file, I would guess the file is somehow corrupted (although apparently the metadata is OK). Are there any strategies I can use to try to recover the file or otherwise play the message?

The issue turned out to be something about my iPhone audio. A little later in the day I discovered that music wasn't playing. (Oddly, I was still getting sound effects from a game.) The music app would advance the progress bar on a song but produce no sound.

With that additional data, I rebooted the phone (full power down and power back up) and music would play and so would the voicemail. So whatever it was, it was software (because the power cycle cleared it).


Does a "windows keyboard" on bootcamp installed windows work as if on a normal PC (hotkeys etc.)? I do want to use windows on my Mac especially due to the low hotkey functionality of Excel and PowerPoint on Mac.

Therefore I also want to use a windows keyboard. My question is: If I install windows via bootcamp and connect a normal (windows) keyboard. Does it work like a normal PC or are there some  problems I should be aware of?

This is basically the only way I can avoid buying a second notebook so help is greatly appreciated.

I do think that it will not work on a virtual machine since some hotkeys (for instance switching between windows) are still linked to the underlying operating system. Therefore I think bootcamp is the way to go.

I did not find any previous questions regarding this problem.

Thanks in advance

You can choose the keyboard from within Windows 10. You should be able to choose a standard Windows keyboard when installing Windows. The rest of this answer assumes Windows 10 is already installed.

This answer was tested using Windows 10 Pro version 1909.

To add a new keyboard layout on Windows 10, use these steps:

Open Settings.
Click on Time & Language.
Click on Language.
Under the "Preferred languages" section, select the current default language. In my case, this is English (United States) - US.
Click the Options button.
Under the "Keyboards" section, click the Add a keyboard button. ...
Select the new keyboard layout. In my case this is US QWERTY.

The result should appear as shown below.

Note: You may encounter the opposite, where the Windows keyboard is installed and the Apple keyboard is not.

How to choose the Windows keyboard as default.

Open Settings.
Click on Time & Language.
Click on Language.
Under the "Preferred languages" section, select the Choose an input method to always use as default.
In the pulldown under "Override the default input method" section, choose English (United States) - US.

The result should appear as shown below.

References

How to the change keyboard layout on Windows 10
Switch between languages using the Language bar
Use your Apple Keyboard in Windows with Boot Camp
Use function keys on a Mac keyboard in Windows with Boot Camp


Time machine can't find backup on Synology through Finder, but present when viewed through Synology disk station I'm having a strange issue with Time Machine which is stored on a Synology ds215j. If I go to finder, I can navigate to the shared directory and see my girlfriend's time machine .sparsebundle file - but mine is no longer there. In its place is a package titled "AD4GNS~X". Clicking it opens a terminal window to its location. I can't view the package contents. I'm suspecting this is my backup rendered in some strange format I can't access.

However, when going into my Synology disk station via the web app, it correctly shows my .sparsebundle. I don't know why Finder is displaying something differently than the Synology disk station.

I'm running Mac OS Sierra build 16A320. Perhaps it's a permissions issue but I'm scratching my head as to why this is happening all of a sudden.

Turns out you need to connect using afp://[your synology IP] then select the share point manually, and likewise in the Time Machine preferences pane. This seems to be a known issue with macOS Sierra.


Mojave install froze on "analytics", successful force reboot- but did it miss anything? When I was installing Mojave, the installer went up to the analytics page on which I disabled everything. Upon proceeding, the installer froze on the analytics page. I waited five minutes and force rebooted, coming back to find that Mojave seemingly installed successfully, given that it let me log in to my account and desktop.

Did I miss any options when I did this?

For me the same issue occured it stoped at setting analytics step for 30 min . Finally had to force reboot.
Reboot took longer time( 50 min ) so I had to force reboot again. Tried command +option P+R while rebooting it worked everything seems to be ok


How to convert macOS Extended Journaled to APFS? My Macintosh HD is running Sierra from which partition for Mojave was made which doesn’t has APFS option.

Installed Mojave 10.14.2 on a MacBook Pro mid 2012 which has HDD and volume  formatted in macOS Extended Journaled.

Tried to install Xcode 10.2 on Mojave 10.14.2 and got error "this version of Xcode requires Mojave 10.14.3 or later"

Then downloaded macOS Mojave 10.14.4 Combo Update, tried to install it and I got an error:

How to convert the Mojave volume from macOS Extended Journaled to APFS even when convert to APFS option is dimmed in Disk Utility:

This site has instructions on how to convert your drive to APFS.

Restart the Mac into Recovery Mode.
Launch Disk utility.
Click-select your named boot volume. (Not the physical drive above it.)
In the Disk Utility Edit menu, select “Convert to APFS

More detailed instructions are given in the link above.


Why do I have 8.3 GB mail on my hard drive even when using gmail? I am short of space on my 128 GB SSD so I've been using Grand Inspector to see what has been using up all this space. I found that in Library/mail/v2 there is 8.2 GB of email.

What is this and how can I get rid of it considering that I use Gmail and have all my email in the cloud?

This is a feature of the default set up of Mail.app on OS X. It is storing all your messages for "offline viewing" you can turn this off.

Go to Mail > Preferences click on Accounts
Click on your Gmail account on the left
Then click on the Advanced tab.
Under "Keep copies of messages for offline viewing" set that drop-down to "Don't keep copies of any messages" '

Also make sure that you gmail e-mail account is setup as IMAP and not POP3 you can see the type under the "Account Information " tab.


Now that Apple have stopped selling Click Wheel Games is there a repository for them? I'm aware that I'm probably some kind of technological dinosaur but I love my click-wheel iPod. Now that Apple had stopped selling the click wheel games is there somewhere else I can get them?

Is there an equivalent to cydia / or jail-breaking my iPod classic to get home brew or the like games on it?

I tried and failed to find a repository a while back, however if you're lucky, there are torrents for the complete archive which crop up sometimes. Obviously the torrents exist in multiple places, but there are rarely any seeders.

Obviously you'd have had to purchase them to be entitled to use them, and if you had purchased them, you wouldn't have been able to download them again as this was all before you were able to re-download purchased apps, so this may be an ideal solution to get things you'd lost and not backed up.


How do I remove the IOS 7 update on my phone? How do I remove the Ios 7 update on my phone? I've been having problems with my 4S since it was installed such as not being able to connect to Wifi and unable to send emails.

If you didn't saved SHSH blobs from earlier iOS you cannot downgrade the iDevice.
Apple is signing only the newest versions of their OS so if you dont't its too late.
Try to recover the system using itunes. Google has very much info about how to enter recovery mode and use it. It will restore clean, newest iOS for you.


Why might the App Store draw variable-type strings in place of actual values? I have just formatted my drive, and performed a fresh install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion from USB flash drive. When doing my first Software Update, within the App Store application, under the Updates section, the first listed update is the weird looking string "DAHSoftwareUpdate" with title field having the value "DAHSoftwareUpdatesPage.OSUpdates.Title".

Underneath this title, is the correct name of the update (OS X Update Combined 10.8.2, iTunes 11.0.1. Also under the progress bar I see FileSize.MB of FileSize.MB, then the remaining time in minutes.

This seemed odd to me, especially after I get zero google results for "DAHSoftwareUpdate" or even "SoftwareUpdatesPage.OSUpdates.Title".

One possibility, that seems extremely remote, is that the MountainLion.dmg which has been moved around between my backup drives a lot, might have been corrupted, and I'm seeing a weird bug in the AppStore app as a result. It seems much more likely that this is a result of something like a bad localization/language setting, but that would not account for the zero hits for the variable names showing.

Can someone explain what's going on here?

This issue resolved itself after that single update.
I did reboot once without updating, and the glitch persisted past that boot, but after the update in question was done and the laptop rebooted, there was no recurrence.

As for the likelihood of a corrupted installer dmg, @KevinChen points out that "there is a lot of checksumming that goes on when you open DMGs and apps, so corruption seems unlikely"


Some questions about Time Machine I have two questions about Time Machine:

Do I need an access to Time Capsule (or external hard drive) when I want to restore old version of file ?
If I understood correctly if I have turn on Time Machine, but doesn't connect the external hard drive (Time Capsule) to my macbook too long, all the changes in my file system must be logged on my macbook.  Is it right ?  I think they are take a much of disk space. Where they are stored (in which folder) ?

Some versions of files are stored temporarily locally, when you're away from the TimeCapsule. These are on your MacBook and can therefor be accessed without the TimeCapsule present. As soon as the Mac syncs back with the TimeCapsule, they are longer stored on your local drive, therefor you'll need a connection to the TimeCapsule to restore them.
"Mobile Backups" in the Library
It won't keep so much files forever, as it deletes some after a time. Hourly versions are only kept for a week I believe. From then on it's daily versions.


Keynote: How to skip "open presentation" window? When I launch Keynote on my new MacBook Pro, the window used to open existing presentations is opened:

I would like to simply open a new document instead, but cannot find an option for this.

Is there any way for me to set Keynote to default to creating a new presentation, instead of defaulting to opening an existing one?

This is determined by the ‘NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile’ key. Setting this preference to false will show the new document view by default.

defaults write com.apple.iWork.Keynote NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false

If you would like a new document to open with a set theme instead of with the theme chooser, go to Keynote Preferences and set For New Documents: Use theme.


OS X Lion Server multiple postgresql installs I am using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL on my Mac mini server (Lion). However, I am unable to run the version I have installed, the only version I see running is the version installed with OS X:

216    83     1   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.47 /usr/bin/postgres -D /var/pgsql -c listen_addresses= -c log_connections=on -c log_directory=/Library/Logs -c log_filename=PostgreSQL.log -c log_lock_waits=on -c log_statement=ddl -c log_line_prefix=%t  -c logging_collector=on -c unix_socket_directory=/var/pgsql_socket -c unix_socket_group=_postgres -c unix_socket_permissions=0770
216   266    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.27 postgres: logger process
216   300    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:01.01 postgres: writer process
216   301    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.75 postgres: wal writer process
216   302    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.51 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
216   303    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.91 postgres: stats collector process
1025  2698   814   0  1:30PM ttys000    0:00.00 grep post

How do I go about starting another postgres instance and having it run on startup?

The Homebrew postgresql formula tells you exactly how to do this when you install it.  Run brew info postgresql to have that information shown again.


Command and Option keys on Windows keyboard I am using an external keyboard which is a Windows keyboard. I am not able to use copy and paste command with ctrl and there is no command key or the option key in this keyboard. What is the shorcut for copy paste or cut paste on such keyboard?

The Windows key will operate as the Command key, so cmd-c is win-c.

Further, the Alt key will operate as the Option key.


Where is the official Apple documentation for the Terminal App? I need a list of escape sequences Terminal.app does not implement all xterm sequences. I need to get the complete list of what it does implement. Is it available anywhere?

This is a bit vague... what sequences are NOT implemented?  One simple solution would be to see if iTerm2 is a better fit to your needs.  Incidentally, have you tried:

~$ cat .bashrc
export TERM=xterm-256color

(I am setting my TERM to xterm-256color in my bashrc, so that I get a number of xterm-256color behaviour by default).

Having said that, a few google inspired links that you might find useful, or not, depending on the sequences you are looking for:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1375184?start=0&tstart=0

http://taoofmac.com/space/apps/Terminal


Chromium builds for Mac OS X What is the proper way to install Chromium (not chrome!) on Mac OS X?

Stable builds are a must, beta builds or nightlies are nice to have.

Currently recommended method (05-2017):

Install HomeBrew
brew tap domt4/chromium
brew cask install mac-chromium
brew tap buo/cask-upgrade
(click here for cask-upgrade info/source)

To upgrade Chromium, run:

brew cu

or

brew cu -y -a

This was the original posted answer:

Install HomeBrew
Install HomeBrew Casks: brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask <- this is now obsolete
Install Chromium: brew cask install chromium

Or, an alternative
is this method which uses this script, and has a more up to date version as the one above (and also verifies the Chromium checksum), and provides updates:

Install HomeBrew
brew tap domt4/chromium
brew install domt4/chromium/chromium
brew linkapps chromium

updating is as simple as:

brew update; brew upgrade

If you want to automatically upgrade daily in the background you can use this (note that this also upgrades your other HomeBrew packages if you have any):

brew tap domt4/autoupdate
brew autoupdate --start --upgrade


Moved my time machine backup drive to another computer, can see it but won't recognise old backups I've been using an external hard drive on my MacBook for time machine for a year or so. Now I have a Mac Mini too and have connected the external hard drive to that for the same purpose.

I want to leave it connected to my Mac Mini and still backup to it wirelessly from my laptop.

I have done all the steps to allow time machine to recognise network drives and I can see the drive from my laptop etc., but it won't recognise the old backups.

Do I need to change the file permissions or similar to get it working?

Just Just go into System Preferences … Time Machine and hit Select Disk…

(If that's not working, let us know what error you're getting/what does happen.)


QuickLook stopped working What might cause quicklook to 'freeze', as it were.

quicklook has gone south to some degree, some files are QL-able, other not,
and we're speaking of the apple plug-in type (pdfs, txt, jpg, etc.)

Even whilst running the Topher 'fix', terminal hangs
after either the qlmanage -r or qlmanage -r cache.

Cheers, and thanks in advance for any light
your available time might hereby shed. :)

Running OSX, ver 10.6.6 on an iMac

It is possible that some QL plugins are broken, you should check

~/Library/QuickLook/
/Library/QuickLook/
/System/Library/QuickLook/

for new QL plugins (check the date of the files). Maybe a program installed a new (broken) plugin? But some QL plugins are not inside the Library/QuickLook/ folders you can use

qlmanage -m

to list all QL plugins, with

qlmanage -m | grep -v com.apple

you see only plugins which are not from Apple.


Apple iPod 16gb; Can this be used without the internet? Can I use my iPod outside in the yard without the internet? I will buying one for Christmas and would like to know.

Yes.  You can use your iPod/iPad/iPhone without Internet.

As long as whatever you are doing doesn't require an Internet connection, you will be fine.

For instance, if you are listening to music that you sync'd from your computer or downloaded from iTunes, it will work.  You can even play a number of games without an Internet connection.

However, streaming services like Pandora, Spotify, and Netflix will not work.


How to close the window and quit the application when you press ESC key under OS X? On Windows it is something common to close a window by pressing ESC key. I'm looking for a solution that would allow me to close the current Window and the application when I press ESC.

Currently the Preferences panel does not allow you to set a shortcut for ESC.

Use case: you open a file from another application inside a viewer or editor and you want to return to the initial application just by pressing ESC once.

Off the top of my head:

Downlod KeyRemap4Macbook
http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/

See if you can't find a setting for escape, I'm not sure if there is one.
Remap it to Command + Q.