Define different screen resolution when external monitor is plugged in on MBP retina w/ OSX 10.9 I have a MBP retina with OSX 10.9 on it and I'm trying to automatically change my laptop screen resolution when an external monitor is attached or detached. This question is the same but for a different version of OSX and doesn't work with my version.

For example, when I attach an external monitor, I want the laptop screen to display at a lower resolution, then when the external screen is removed I want the laptop screen to display at the highest resolution again.

Is there an easy way to do with, or can someone give me step by step instructions?

There is an app called SwitchResX that, I believe, will allow you to predefine resolutions based on which display you are using. It costs about $20 but it's shareware, so you can try before you buy.


IPad mail app does not show old emails – I can't mark them all as read I have started using my iPad again after long inactivity. The mail app shows 7,288 unread email. I would like to get rid of that red number, the problem is that the mail app does not load old email – and so I can't mark them as read. By the way, is there a way to mark ALL that 7,288 as read in one go?

Actually I found out that the problem was simply due to the fact that I had a lot of unread messages in the "social" and "promotion" folders on Gmail. Best way to get rid of all of those unread emails: do a search using the query is:unread on Gmail's web interface.


Installed PC 16gb Ram into Macbook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) - Errors happening I installed PC Ram into my Early 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro (Ver. Sierra 10.12.4). It works great but occasionally restarts without any warning and sometimes, when I turn it on, this code appears. It is gone if I do a hard shut down and then start it again. I did a hardware test (pressed 'D' on restart) and that hardware test said there were no issues. Thoughts???

Type of ram - Komputerbay 16GB Dual Channel Kit 2x 8GB 204pin DDR3-1600 SO-DIMM 1600/12800S (1600MHz, CL11) for MAC and PC

Image of error message is attached.

If the problem started occurring after installing the RAM, it is most probably caused by the RAM. Issues with RAM can be "spotty", meaning that it doesn't necessarily fail all the time - but just randomly or when the system is hot or similar. Therefore the RAM might be flawed even though the system passes the hardware test.

The error message in the screen shot shows a page fault within the kernel. This is typically caused by either a bug in the kernel, or a hardware error - usually faulty RAM or bus/CPU errors, but the latter is less likely.

As this happens during boot-up and a laptop is usually comprised of only expected hardware components - it is likely to be a hardware error.

If you have any external devices plugged into the laptop, for example Thunderbolt or USB devices - try unplugging to see if that solves the problem. Then the cause could be a buggy kernel extension.

You can try downgrading to an earlier version of macOS if you're certain it is not a hardware error. If it is a kernel bug, the bug might not exist in earlier versions of macOS.


Copy and Paste Multiple Things? OSX I would like to be able to copy and paste multiple items on a Mac using keys like ⌘1 would copy 1 and ⌘2 would copy 2, ect. Then ⌘! would paste 1 and ⌘@ would paste 2. If there is already a program for this please let me know or if you can make me one. Also I need it to be a free program. Thanks in advance.

I really like Flycut. Available here: https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut

Like all of the other answers here, it's a clipboard manager which stores every item you copy using ⌘+c in a list. Then you can press ⌘+shift+v to see a list of the items you have copied and choose one to paste.

Unlike the other answers here, it's free, open source, and doesn't come with a load of other functionality. Also it is actively maintained unlike clipmenu (last release ClipMenu 1.0.0a1 released  Nov 11, 2014).


Screen Sharing icon on login screen I noticed the Screen Sharing icon when logging in despite it being disabled on my computer. After logging in, it didn't appear in the menu bar.

What could be causing it? I tried enabling and disabling it via the command line but it persists.

# Enable Screen Sharing
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist

# Disable Screen Sharing
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist

I tried looking for solutions but only found confirmation that this is indeed the Screen Sharing icon.

What are the "Overlapping Squares" icon in status menu on login screen?

Found the culprit, nothing malicious. It's caused by an app called RetroClip. It enables "Instant Replay" type recording.


APFS - Catalina - Increase the size of a container I have a 4TB external SSD. Running Diskutil I get
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk7         2.2 TB     disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot                         650.0 MB   disk3s6
   4:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         1.8 TB     disk3s4

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.8 TB     disk4
                                 Physical Store disk3s4
   1:                APFS Volume SSD 1015 - Data         1.6 TB     disk4s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 87.0 MB    disk4s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.9 MB   disk4s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      19.3 GB    disk4s4

/dev/disk7 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.2 TB     disk7
                                 Physical Store disk3s2

My goal is to have /dev/disk4 be the combined size (~4TB). It is now about 1/2 the size of the physical disk. 4TB is the size of the physical drive size, but it got split into 2 partitions as i was upgrading from Mojave to Catalina (long story as I couldn't just upgrade because the SSD was originally HFS). I did get rid of the HFS partition and converted to APFS. /dev/disk7 is now blank. /dev/disk4 is now my boot drive.
I really don't want to have to reformat the SSD (boot disk) if at all possible. I tried
sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk4 0

but that didn't work.
Is this possible? I also tried using disk utility, but it didn't seem to want to resize up either.
Can someone steer me in the right direction? -- Thanks

Things digressed after the posting. Without doing anything, the size of the physical disk also changed. I think there was corruption in the file system, although Disk Util found nothing. I saved everything, and reformatted the SSD. All seems OK now with proper sizes showing up.


How do I tell Finder to always show my Library folder on Mavericks? I thought there was a checkbox to suppress the hiding of my user Library folder on Mavericks, but I can't seem to find it. I appreciate hiding Library by default, but since Lion have missed it being easily accessible.

How can I get the library folder to be visible in Finder, the Finder go menus / file save dialogs without needing to hold down shift?

Open your desired user Home folder in Finder (ShiftCommand + H) and select View > Show View Options. There should be a checkbox for toggling the Library folder.


Sync/transfer TV Shows and Movies from iPhone to Mac? I have just updated my Mac to Lion and started using iCloud. Next thing I want to do is update my phone to iOS 5, but I want to backup all my purchased TV Shows first.
Some of them are purchased on my iPhone and I would like to transfer them to my Mac.

I connected my iPhone to my Mac, clicked on my iPhone in the iTunes submenu Devices and when I click on TV Shows, I can't click on anything in there, except for Sync TV Shows. But when I click on that I get the message:

  "Are you sure you want to sync TV shows? All existing songs, movies
  and TV shows on the iPhone will be removed and replaced with TV shows
  from your iTunes library."

How can I transfer all my TV Shows and Movies to my Mac without a hassle?

This answer has instructions which should be having the effect you desire.


Utility to warn when process takes 100% CPU for x minutes? I run on battery a lot and occasionally a process/app will crash in the background and start sucking up 100% of one or more cores.  That in turn burns my battery down way faster than normal.   I used to notice this because my iStat Menu graph would go solid, but now with 8 cores and often only one pegged it's not as obvious.

I'm wondering if there's a utility/watcher that would pop up a dialog warning if a process took up 100% of a core for more than 5-10 seconds?  That way I could decide if it was OK to let run (ie. compile/render) or I should manually kill it (ie. app crashed).

I vaguely recall something like this years ago but haven't been able to find it.

I don't know if it will accept a time frame as a parameter, but atMonitor definitely will provide Growl notifications based upon specific criteria.

Triggers
Triggers can be setup to activate any script when a predefined value reaches its target. For example, a script could be written to email system administrator when the CPU usage goes above 90%. Two sample scripts, one basic and the other one a little bit more advanced using GROWL, are included.


Give local PHP Full Disk Access in Mojave I have a PHP webpage running on the local apache installation.  The page uses shell_exec to access the messages/chat.db via sqlite3.

shell_exec("sudo -u ben sqlite3 ~/Library/messages/chat.db \"SELECT ...

Before Mojave I got the response correctly, but since updating to Mojave I get:

unable to open database

When running in the Terminal directly, this same issue occurs and is solved by adding Terminal to the "Full Disk Access" pane in System Preferences.

I can't figure out what I need to add for the PHP page; I've tried everything I can find... sqlite3, apachectl, php-fpm, but nothing has worked.

What do I need to add?

FYI: ben is in the sudoers file

You are possibly doing it incorrectly.

First of all, sudo typically requires a password to be typed, and that won't happen via a Web app.

Second, the _www user doesn't get to use sudo. That's a big security hole. Don't even think of modifying sudoers to allow it.

What you should be doing instead is allow the _www user (the one the webserver runs as) access to the chat.db file, like this:

sudo chgrp _www ~/Library
sudo chgrp _www ~/Library/messages
sudo chgrp _www ~/Library/messages/chat.db
chmod g+rx ~/Library
chmod g+rx ~/Library/messages
chmod g+r  ~/Library/messages/chat.db


Why there is no cancelling mechanism for filevault? Is there a technical reason? Once it is started you have to wait for days and it is extremely annoying.

It is not impossible in theory to create a "Cancel" button for FileVault.

Technically it is quite involved to create a "Cancel"-button. It is much more complex than for example creating a "Cancel"-button when you're copying a file.

Usually "Cancel"-buttons gets the computer to stop doing what it is doing. These are generally fairly easy to create. In the case of FileVault, it is not enough for the computer to stop doing what it is doing - it also has to undo everything it has done during the encryption process. That can be very time consuming and would need to be able to "survive" shutdowns of the computer.

As to why it was decided not to dedicate resources to creating the "Cancel"-button, there can be only speculation, as there's no official statement from Apple on the matter (which is not surprising).


Downloading movies from TiVo Series 3 HD Recorder to Mac OS X I have a TiVo Series 3 HD Recorder purchased in Dec 2006. For the past few years, when I have wanted to archive something from the TiVo to my Macintosh, I used iTiVo. However, this application has many issues (crashes, freezes, very, very slow) and has not been updated in almost 2 years. My frustration with its "quirks" has prompted me to seek another solution. The only other Macintosh OS X software I have found via google is a Dashboard Widget (ick) called TiVo NowPlaying. This widget (versioned 2.51) has not been updated since Oct 2007. It's usable, but not ideal (slow, sometimes needs to be restarted and doesn't support mpeg4).

I am using fairly modern Macintosh (intel) computers, updated to the current version of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard).

What are other Macintosh + TiVo owners using to move content from their TiVo to the Macintosh?

I am hoping someone has some information on something better to use than the options I have listed above.

kmttg is a cross-platform Java program that does what you're looking for.  Personally I've used it on Windows without issue to copy shows off my Tivo onto my computer, do a batch convert of the video files, along with batch rename.  It's a very powerful and handy tool for any owner of a Tivo Series 3 or more recent Tivo.   It should run on modern Macs without issue.

You can grab it off Google Code here.  The Tivo Community forums have an extremely long-running thread about the tool here.


Dell monitor randomly goes blank on Mac mini I have a Mini late 2012 (i5 16GB RAM). It was running Mavericks and now running the Yosemite Beta. A Dell U2414H and an older Dell E207WP

My problems is:

My Dell U2414H randomly says there is no signal and goes black. The only way to get it back is to reboot my Mac.  This happens randomly, it could happen 10 times in one hour or once in 2 days. I have the monitor connected via Display Port to my Mac's Thunderbolt connection. My other monitor (E207WP) is connected via HDMI to DVI (woks fine).

This problem started on Mavericks and continued to Yosemite. I have performed clean installations of each but the problem persists. I do not have any other computers available to test the monitor on.

I have ordered a few Display Port and HDMI cables from Amazon hoping that will help.

If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate the help. Restarting my Mac all the time is killing my productivity.

Maybe the problem is caused by overheating.
When I put a pot filled with cold water on top of the mac mini, the blank screen problem occurs less often.


Why is a command line change to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist not effective immediately? When the Info window of Finder is used to associate files of a particular type with an application:

the preference is effective immediately.

When Terminal is used to make a comparable addition to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

the preference is not effective immediately.

Question

Why does Launch Services not immediately respect a write to the user's com.apple.LaunchServices.plist?

An ideal answer might be a reference to a page in the Apple Developer area.

Answers need not involve running a command.

Background

Agent or daemon?

Wondering whether a daemon or agent makes changes to that .plist effective, I ran:

sudo launchctl list

In the list, under the label heading, I see nothing that might relate to Launch Services.

References

An answer to Stack Overflow question How to set default application for specific file types in Mac OS X? suggests:

  … to be reloaded. You can logout, wait a few minutes or force launchservices to restart …

In my case:

log out did not have the desired effect
I used the lsregister approach, but that type of scan is time-consuming.

The accepted answer to Super User question Is there a faster way to change default apps associated with file types on OS X? suggests:

  … restarting the OS to apply changes (logging out and back in isn't enough) …

— if a restart suffices, that's probably less time consuming than killing then seeding the Launch Services database.

From Apple’s Launch Services Programming Guide (all emphasis mine):

All applications available on the user’s system must be registered to make them known to Launch Services and copy their document binding and other information into its database. It isn’t ordinarily necessary to perform this task explicitly, since a variety of utilities and services built into the Mac OS X system software take care of it automatically:

A built-in background tool, run whenever the system is booted or a new user logs in, automatically searches the Applications folders in the system, network, local, and user domains and registers any new applications it finds there. (This operation is analogous to “rebuilding the desktop” in earlier versions of Mac OS.)
The Finder automatically registers all applications as it becomes aware of them, such as when they are dragged onto the user’s disk or when the user navigates to a folder containing them.
When the user attempts to open a document for which no preferred application can be found in the Launch Services database, the Finder presents a dialog asking the user to select an application with which to open the document. It then registers that application before launching it.

In spite of these automatic registration utilities, it may sometimes be necessary to register an application explicitly with Launch Services. For example, although developers are encouraged to package their applications so that they can be installed by simply dragging them onto the user’s disk, some applications may require more elaborate custom installer software. In such cases, the installer should call one of the Launch Services registration functions LSRegisterFSRef or LSRegisterURL to register the application explicitly.

Note the API calls needed by the only named manual registration procedure (source not available on opensource.apple.com, I’m afraid).
While working around a bug in processing of Launch Services on Leopard with FileVault enabled, I noticed that ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist is:

processed only on login after boot, as input data to the buildup of the Launch Services database proper (FileVault-enabled Leopard often failed to do this step, resulting in seemingly lost user settings); and

cached as long as the machine is not rebooted.

Simply put, it’s the user domain persistence layer of Launch Services, and modifications to that persistence layer are only acknowledged on next processing – reboot or reseed.


Is there an plugin for Safari that opens certain file extensions? I have searched for quite awhile and I can't find anything that sounds similar to what I'm looking for.

A lot of my files that I access from my schools website have Microsoft Office extensions like .ppt, .doc, .docx, and so on.

Every time I open our "dailyschedule.doc" it opens a new Safari tab.. then downloads the doc file. I seriously have probably 30+ copies of these stupid things! Why can't they just be opened like a web page?

It's annoying and even Google search results will just download powerpoint files and open them up in ppt/keynote. PDF does it sometimes too, but it's so annoying!

Is there something that will let me just look at the files in safari without having to download them every single time I want to look at them?

Safari downloads every file that it is not able to read (which is pretty much anything but website-formats such as html, css, xml)
There are some plugins that open special formats.
The first result from google is this one
http://www.schubert-it.com/free/


How to use an old iMac as an external display for a MacBook via wifi? There have been several questions how to connect a (new) MacBook to an (old) iMac so the latter will work as a second, bigger display for the former, but all were assuming a hardware connection, i.e. a DVI, Displayport or Thunderbolt cable. Apple even has a support page for Target Display Mode, which is only available in a limited number of recent, but not too recent iMacs. I’m looking for a software solution, because though (Mini) Display Port is available on both my devices, they only support video output:

I’m trying to connect a 2010 MBA running OS X 10.10.5 with a 2006 iMac running 10.6.8, the latest OS X available for that model. Both are connected to the same private wifi network.

Avatron Air Display seems like it could work, but versions 2 and 3 don’t support OS X 10.6 any more and if I try to connect v3 with v1.6 it fails. Synergy may be an alternative, but before wasting 10 bucks I’d like to know if anyone had luck with that piece of software in a setup like mine.

Are there other alternatives that I didn’t find, maybe even free ones?
Could I somehow get at least AirPlay video support? The iMac runs Kodi (previously known as XBMC) which allegedly offers some AirPlay capability.
If surprisingly there was a hardware solution I’ve overlooked (e.g. using USB or, cough, Firewire), that would be fantastic of course.

I’m not quite sure whether How can I use an old mac as an external display using software? was asking the same thing.

I've answered the question you've mentioned. Perhaps it helps you too:

  It seems ScreenRecycler does what you need. There's a trial version available, so you can try it.


How can I change 'history' command output? So by default .bash_history stores 500 last used commands. I changed that to 5000 by setting HISTFILESIZE=5000 in .bash_profile It seems to work.

Now when I do history it still prints 500 commands, but now it does so not from 1 to 500, but from 36 to 535 (earlier commands are stored but not printed).

I'd like for history to print 1000 last used commands. How can I achieve that?

Also recently I tried history -a and haven't noticed anything change. What does this command do? Man history doesn't help.

In addition to HISTFILESIZE, you also need to set HISTSIZE, which controls the number of commands to keep in memory until they are saved.

Also, the manual page for history is available via man bash.  Scroll down to SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS, and you'll find it.  The details about HISTSIZE and other variables are further up in the same manual page.


Jailbroken iPhone, iOS 5.1.1 suddenly has new diagnostic apps I jailbroke my iPhone so that I could make use of the F.lux app which allows me to sort of dim my screen with an orange hue so that I could read on a flight I took recently without annoying other passengers. I'm home now, though, so I don't mine un-jailbreaking.

With that out of the way, here's what's happened. A few days ago I was reading and my phone froze for a moment and the new voicemail popup appeared and told me that I had 2 new voicemails, which I didn't have, and then the camera light turned on and stayed on. So I rebooted the phone and it was fine. But now, moments ago, 4 new apps appeared, seemingly at random, on the home screen - AdSheet, FieldTest, iOS Diagnostics, and Setup. All 4 of them have blank, white icons.

Should I be concerned about a possible security breach of my phone or is this some of the unexpected behavior that one could expect once they jailbreak?

Also, I applied the PDF fix from Cydia and changed my SSH password immediately after jailbreaking. I don't know if that info is important, but is given here for completeness.

This bug occasionally happens to me when I install new apps or update existing ones. All the apps you've listed are built into the phone, but do not have icons by default. Respringing or restarting the phone always works to rehide them. Have you tried that yet?


Safari open new tabs to the far right (end) How can I make Safari open new tabs to the far right (end) and not immediately to the right of my existing tab which is the current behaviour?

This never got answered, but a question was posed. I'm thinking about clicking on a link and having it open in a new tab at the far right of any existing tabs. There used to be an extension called OpenAtEnd that no longer works with newer versions of Safari.


iBooks - is there a way to organize bookmarks by page number? Over the last year, I've replaced (and expanded) my library of programming books from physical copies to ebooks.  In each book, I have a host of bookmarks.  Unfortunately, I didn't save them in one front-to-back read through so my bookmark lists are all out of page order.  Is there a way to sort/organize them by page number?

Short Answer:
There is simply no way to do this as of iOS 6 and iBooks 3.x.
Long Answer:
Apple is amazingly quiet about bookmarks in iBooks - other then mentioning that it is possible. If you follow this link to the iBook FAQ, click "iBook Features", then "Can I bookmark and save my page?", you will notice that they mention it is possible to bookmark pages, but don't even mention how to view the bookmarks - let alone an alternate way to sort them. About the only other iBook information page I could find was this with no information that was pertinent to you.
On the other hand, the Kindle iOS app seems to prefer ordering bookmarks by page number instead of date. It might be painstaking, and I'm not even sure it would transfer you bookmarks over (in which case it would be worthless), but I do know it is possible to email books and PDFs to Kindle for reading (see "Read Personal Documents:" in the above link). It may be possible to sync the books to your computer, and then email them over.
Honestly, what you're asking for doesn't seem to be a very popular request, so it may be a very long time - if ever - before Apple releases such a feature.
I also tried searching for a variety of general terms to see if it would pull up a list of bookmarks - in page order, but even that failed.


10.7 FileVault & TimeMachine I would like to know if turning on FileVault affects TimeMachine Backups; if yes how?

(E.G. Do the backups become encrypted? etc.)

Time Machine makes a second copy of your data and operates above the Core Storage layer.

File Vault is simply Core Storage setting a scrambling / encryption of all data before it gets written and after it gets read from one or more physical drive(s).

Combined, you can have FV on your real data and not on your TM data. Or the opposite. Or both or none. It all depends how you set it up as nothing changes automatically and you have to manually choose / set-up File Vault for each volume/drive where you wish to have data protected.

In the case you propose (turning on FV on source data), this won't change the encryption on/off status for an existing Time Machine destination. The only way the backup data gets encrypted is if you enable that on the drive when prompted or by intention using Disk Utility.


Mac OS unable to boot with CD after Ubuntu installed I had an issue with the MAC OS and couldn't repair the MAC os i have (10.4) on my intel duo core macbook.

So i install Ubuntu 11 on my mac and works perfectly. I am selling my laptop now to get the new macbook pro but the person who wants it needs mac os but every time I try to install it shows a folder with a question mark when I put the mac cd (Original CDs 10.4 that came with the laptop)

so i booted with the "option" and shows my hard drive, put the mac CD and it ejects it, put the ubuntu CD and works perfectly.

I try to clear the nvram: Command + Option + O + F

nothing,

what can i do to install mac os?

Hint

Command-Option-O-F alone, immediately after the startup sound:

presents an Open Firmware prompt, only on Macs that use Open Firmware
does not reset NVRAM.

At an Open Firmware prompt you might enter a command such as reset-nvram – but it's not the usual approach.

Advice

Use Command-Option-P-R as instructed in Apple's article: About NVRAM and PRAM.

Additional advice

If the optical disc is loaded whilst the Mac is powered off, then C – pressed immediately after the startup sound, and held – should allow the Mac to boot from a compatible disc.

If the C key approach does not work – and if you have reset NVRAM/PRAM – then consider the possibility of a marginal optical drive and/or marginal disc.

Don't rush to reset the SMC.

Links

Apple's Transition from Open Firmware to Extensible Firmware Interface – MacTech | The journal of Apple technology. (2007)

What is firmware? – not a great article from Apple; it mentions Open Firmware but not EFI under a list of modern products that probably do not use use Open Firmware.

"To continue booting, type 'mac-boot' and press return" Message

Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)


Cannot open files from iCloud drive on Mac but they open on iOS devices I only use iCloud Drive for files I need to access on my Mac and my iPad. I have a few Keynote presentations that open fine on my iPad and iPhone, but when I try ot open them on my Mac, I get an error saying that the file could not be opened. The error is the same for MindNode files as well.

The error message simply says that it "Cannot open" the file. There is nothing else in the message.

I tried to logout and log back into my iCloud account, but that did not work.

Any suggestions how I can access these files on my Mac again?

Had this issue -
Opened System Preferences - iCloud - UNselect iCloud Drive (confirm removing local files) - reboot.
Login again - do the reverse:  System Pref - iCloud - Select iCloud Drive.
Have a touch of patiences when you try to open files as that takes a few minutes to get everything back in order.
Worked perfectly for me.


Use only one function key as standard function key I'd like F2 to used as a standard function key. (ie, when I press F2 my screen won't brighten it will send an F2 to the application)

At the same time I'd like the rest of the function keys to do their respective special operations, such as lowering/increasing volume.

Is this possible?

Without some modifications to the system or a special app for that purpose, short answer, no.  Speaking of special apps tho, this link might be where you'll find your answer.  FunctionFlip might be your thing.

How can I change Fn keys usage based on application?


How do I Turbo Boost in Macbook Pro I have a 2010 Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo and I usually use it for gaming. I wanted to Turbo Boost it but how do I do that?

You can't.

It's activated dynamically based on the workload.  There's nothing you can enable that turns on Turbo Boost.

From Intel's Website for the i7-640M Processor found in the 17" Mid 2010 MacBook Pro:

  Intel® Turbo Boost Technology dynamically increases the processor's
  frequency as needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom
  to give you a burst of speed when you need it, and increased energy
  efficiency when you don’t.

This applies to all computers with Intel processors with the Turbo Boost technology, not just MacBooks.

Intel's Turbo Boost Technology Note:

  Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows the processor to operate at a
  power level that is higher than its TDP configuration and data sheet
  specified power for short durations to maximize performance.


Using TimeCapsule through PFSense firewall I'm running some time capsule automatic backups and I've recently totally changed my home network with a PFsense firewall and of course my mac stopped recognizing my time capsule.

My mac is connected by WIFI to the PFSense router on the interface WLAN with the IP : 192.168.4.12, using DHCP.
My Time Capsule is connected by Ethernet to the PFSense router on the interface LAN with the IP : 192.168.3.14, using another DHCP server.

There is a firewall rule allowing any request from the WLAN network to the address 192.168.3.14 on the LAN network. And the LAN network can access the WLAN Network with another rule.

This is working fine, I can ping my Time Capsule from my mac, and when I connect by the finder to 192.168.3.14 with CMD+K it mounts without a problem. However, when I open Airport Utility, it doesn't see my time capsule on the network. (Maybe it's only looking for devices on the same subnet ?) but I can connect to it and configure it by specifying it's ip address with CMD+MAJ+O (Use another device).

But while the airport utility is not detecting my time capsule by it's own,the time machine configuration doesn't see the time capsule neither and I can't run any backups.

I would really appreciate if you had any clue to give me on how to make my mac see my time capsule and start making backups again. Thanks in advance,
tourdetour.

Okay, that was quite tricky. Like I've said in a comment, Bonjour is used by my Time Capsule to be recognized by the mac but isn't supposed to work on a different subnet.
I set up an Avahi server on my pfsense router that is forwarding any Bonjour request to the WLAN and I can now access my Timecapsule by wifi, use AirPrint and Airplay.
For more informations : http://www.avahi.org


iCal and Google Calendar Syncing Is there a way to sync my iCalendar to my Google Calendar? I use the iCal application as my primary calendar resource, and I need to share that data via GoogleCalendar with my colleagues and I cannot figure out how to do this. I am able to get the data from my GoogleCalendar to show up on my iCal, but I cannot do the reverse (I want data created on the iCal to upload/sync directly to the GoogleCalendar).. I have OSX Lion and iCal 6.0

To do so just:

On iCal go to Preferences / Accounts.
In the panel on the left, click the + button to add an account.
Fill in the information, being:

Account Type: Google. Although you can either use Automatic or CalDAV, and the System will detect the proper account type.

Email Address: The email which you are using to log into the Calendar. The @domain.com part should be written too.

Password: Well, the password for that account. If you are using 2-Step verification you must use an application-specific password.

Doing this, by default, will sync any calendars that appear in My Calendars on the web, as well as the Contact's birthdays and events.

Adding additional calendars, or removing any of them from syncing, you must go to the Account Sync Configuration Page, and select the calendars you'd like to be displayed. After doing so, refreshing iCal will display the new configuration.


IiPhone 5s won't appear in iTunes (appears in my computer) after iTunes update I'm running Windows 10, and I recently updated my iTunes to the most recent version. Ever since then, my iPhone doesn't appear in iTunes. However, it still appears in my computer under "Apple iPhone" (rather than the actual name that I named it). Also, everytime I plug it in, it continually asks me to allow the computer to access my photos and videos.

Any ideas to how I can get iTunes to recognise it? (I really want to avoid doing a full reinstall of iTunes though.)

I hope one of these will help you:

Have you given it permission to access photos and videos?
Try open apple software update on your PC, and check for another update.
Try restart your iPhone.
Try restart your PC.
Try with another lightning cable.


Can't Install Any Mac OS on Core 2 Duo Macbook My old hard drive died and so I bought a new SSD, I put it in my macbook and plugged in the USB hard drive with the installation media, but no matter what it just won't boot into the installer: I see the bootable disk icon after pressing power + option ⏻ + ⌥, but as soon as I press the ↑ icon I get a prohibited  icon and nothing more.

I have tried with macOS High Sierra, Yosemite and Mavericks images but they all do the same.

I tried everything:

TransMac
dd'ing the images into the USB hard drive (after converting the .dmgs into .isos with dmg2img (linux)
Creating an HFS+ filesystem and dumping the contents of the dmgs there

I have to note that I tried using the createinstallmedia command present in the installer's Resources directory (before my disk died) but I couldn't run it because this mac has a 32 bit OS and the file (according to the file command) is for a x86_64 arch.

I also tried with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (which is just one minor version above the one I had installed on the original drive, 10.5 Leopard) by dd'ing the boot disk into my USB drive and it does boot, but after 1 minute or so the apple symbol  gets replaced with a prohibited symbol  and does nothing, even the disk activity LED stops blinking. If I dump the contents on an HFS+ partition it boots up to the language selection part, but a few seconds after selecting the language during the "Preparing installation" progress bar window,the window closes and a notification window pops up that says "The disk could not be read correctly, please clean it and try again" or something like that, and I can't do anything.

Apparently my Macbook is supported by High Sierra (according to Apple) and I do have the minimum 2 GB required (albeit DDR2 667 MHz), but I shouldn't have a problem I guess.

You don't specify the exact model of Core 2 Duo MacBook you're using, so the first thing to try is see if you can actually boot into macOS Recovery over the Internet, as some models were able to have their firmware updated to do just that.

First you need to be somewhere where you will be able to access the internet - however this works best with Wi-Fi networks using WEP and WPA security

Follow these steps:

Ensure your MacBook is fully powered off
Hold down the CommandOptionR keys and press the Power button
Keep holding down the keys until you see a spinning globe with the message Starting Internet Recovery
Soon you’ll see a progress bar - be patient as this may take a while
Eventually the Utilities screen will appear
Choose the Reinstall option
Follow the prompts

If your MacBook is not compatible with Internet Recovery let me know and we’ll go to plan B.


Why can't I create a directory on a mounted USB drive after mkdir, but finder new directory works? I'm trying to create a directory on a USB3 mounted hard disk drive and it is failing even though the permissions are open:

bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 0
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 user  user    68 Jun  3 18:24 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 user  admin  102 Jun  3 18:17 ..
bash-3.2$ mkdir local1_test
mkdir: local1_test: Permission denied
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Volumes/MiniPro\ 2/test

The same operation works fine on the built in disk, but when I'm in a directory of the mounted USB drive it fails.  Is this due to my drive containing a space in the name?  Is this due to the drive somehow being mounted as read-only?  From the finder I cannot see the test directory.  I can also create it from the command line with sudo, but as myself, it fails.

I was able to work around, by creating a folder in the finder named test which seems to have erased the old test folder but mkdir still fails.  Why did I have to use the finder to create the folder?

I went to do the test requested by fd0, plugged my USB drive back in again, and the issue is no longer showing:

bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 user  staff   68 Jun  5 10:12 .
drwxrwxr-x  13 user  staff  510 Jun  3 18:36 ..
bash-3.2$ mkdir local1_test
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Volumes/MiniPro 2/test

I did notice an odd item though:

bash-3.2$ cd /Volumes
bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 24
drwxrwxrwt@  7 root  admin   238 Jun  5 10:11 .
drwxr-xr-x  41 root  wheel  1462 Jun  3 18:29 ..
drwxrwxr-x  13 user   staff   510 Jun  3 18:36 MiniPro 2
drwxrwxrwx+  3 user   admin   102 Jun  3 18:17 MiniPro\ 2

Why do I have to entries, could that have been the source of the issue?  Both show the same contents of the USB drive, why are there two entries?

Here is fd0's test results:

bash-3.2$ mount
/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
localhost:/UFZ8fiBtsQjvo5MXlysi8r on /Volumes/MobileBackups (mtmfs, nosuid, read-only, nobrowse)
/dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/MiniPro 2 (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)
bash-3.2$ sudo ls -ld /Volumes/MiniPro\ 2
drwxrwxr-x  13 root  wheel  510 Jun  3 18:36 /Volumes/MiniPro 2

mount without any options gives an overview of the mounted file systems with information such as the type of file systems, location, and mount options. In your case, you have one file system mounted in /Volumes called MiniPro 2 which is a HFS file system mounted noowners (ignore permissions). Your list (ls) command reveals that you also have a directory named MiniPro\ 2 in /Volumes. Once you have determined that the directory MiniPro\ 2 does not contain any files that are not backed up and you can safely remove the directory MiniPro\ 2 then remove the directory. Do this without MiniPro 2 mounted.


Can I use my iphone charger to charge my kindle? Can I use my iphone charger to charge a kindle

I use the Kindle USB cable with the iPhone wall adapter (US-style plug). It works fine.


Reinstalling Lion OS using recovery , will it erase my other partition(s) data? I am about to re-install OS Lion on my MacBook Pro. But before that I want to make sure that my data in other partition created, will that be lost to?

Example I have 3 partitions

1)Macintosh HD (OS installed in this drive)

2)Work

3)Media

So if I re-install the OS Lion using recovery mode from HD, will it also wipe out my other two partitions or only will clear "Macintosh HD" partition and install a fresh Lion copy?

The Lion Recovery HD can be a very misleading name. Especially if you're familiar with PC vender recovery solutions. The Lion Recovery HD [or disc] is, in functionality and feature, just like booting of an Mac OSX Installation Disc.

When you boot into the Recovery partition [or disc] and start the process, you will be asked to select which disk you wish to restore [which actually means install to]. You will see a list of your three partitions to which you select your "Macintosh HD" partition and you're good to go. Any formating that may occur will only occur on your selected partition and not affect any other partitions.

You are safe to run the Lion Recovery Partition.


How to securely restore new MacBook air after someone else was first admin user I've just received my new MacBook Air. (my first Apple computer in 15 years!) Unfortunately, I had it sent to work on a day I wasn't in, and it was mistaken for the new intern's computer. He proceeded to do whatever it is one does with a new mac when one first receives it.

I have the admin password he created, but I imagine I need to do a full wipe to be sure the computer hasn't been tampered with - i.e., a login script exists that maliciously exports my data.

What steps should I take to secure my laptop? What registration etc. information might I need to correct that one enters upon starting up a new MacBook Air?

The simple way is to boot to recovery mode and use disk utility to first erase the "Macintosh HD" partition, then start the installer. No need to zero the drive since you won't be recovering any deleted files at this point.

A verified correct installer of Lion will then get downloaded from the Internet.

Here is a guide for you...

OSX Recovery
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery

Once you go through the new boot process to create your preferred admin account and register the Mac to your Apple ID. Just send in whatever registration info you please when prompted.  This will bump any prior registration if it was even sent.


How big is the apple on the back of your MacBook? Bit of an offbeat question, I know: but are the apple logos on the back of Mac laptops all the same size? Has the size varied over time, or does it vary over the models that are currently available? I don't have easy access to an Apple Store so I can't go in and measure the logos by hand.

I'm trying to get some stickers made for an event, and as people seem to stick stickers on top laptops (and often over the Apple logo) I thought it would be a good idea to make the stickers slightly larger than the logo!

On Macbook Pro 15 and Air 13, both mid-2012 : 47mm x 38mm


Transmission frequently locks up when writing to Samba share at more than 3MB/s For every torrent I download, I set its destination to my fileserver, which my Mac is connected to via Samba. When download speeds are higher than about 3 megabytes a second, Transmission will lock up (beach ball) for 10-15 seconds, work for about 10-15 seconds and then repeat.

Moving the data files to the local OS X drive completely eliminates this behavior, even at speeds above 5 MB/s. Finder doesn't seem to have any problem writing to the share at speeds even higher than that.

I posted on the Transmission forums that, when saving to the Samba share, I would constantly see "Prefetch failed, Operation not supported" debug messages in the Transmission log; literally hundreds of them every second for every torrent being downloaded. I suspect this has at least something to do with it, but haven't gotten a response on their forums.

Other than "Just save stuff on your local disk then, dummy", is there anything I should try?

Download latest version of Transmission
Still having trouble, then limit the DL speed to 2.8MB/sec

I find that when I use Transmission at speeds less than 3.0MB/sec, I tend to not have the problems with a SAMBA share that you are having.

It writes to the disk in a different manner than what a direct connection does. Torrents create an empty file(s) that represent the downloadable content. Then they write to this file. Direct connection sends a request for the allocated space to the share/server and sees if it is available. If yes, it proceeds to start filling in the gap with the data until the transmission is complete and the end of file is written to the file system.

If you want an alternative option, create the download, add it to Transmission, but pause the download for a few minutes - THEN start the download as per normal. That way it should have enough time to write the inflated empty file first, and then start writing the data into it.


Is there a multiple copy paste app for ios? I am particularly interested in copying several chunks of text and then paste all of them together into another app

I find CopyClip 2 from FIPLAB Ltd very useful - it doesn't merge clips automatically, but it does continually record up to 100 copied pieces of text on an easy-access icon.


Can you (semi-)automatically rate all songs with at least X plays with Y stars in iTunes? After reconsolidating my music collection in iTunes, I’m curious if there is any way to programmatically set star ratings based upon the number of plays, but only for songs that I have not yet rated?

Specifically, I'd like to set all songs with >1 plays and 0 stars, to 3 stars.

(3 being the average in that I didn't care enough to rate the song lower because I hated it, higher because I liked it, because I was doing something else at the time.)

An AppleScript that I can run occasionally would be sufficient – this way I can passively set song ratings based upon an apathetic impression of the song :).

Create a smart playlist in iTunes with criteria set to all of

is Music
rated less than 1 star
play count greater than whatever count you want

Check “update automatically”. Make sure the contents conform to the list of songs you want to rate automatically. Name it “Unrated Songs” (or similar).

Now create the following AppleScript:

tell application "iTunes"
    set unratedSongs to tracks in (playlist "Unrated Songs")
    repeat with unratedSong in unratedSongs
        set rating of unratedSong to 60
    end repeat
end tell

Save it to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/iTunes (creating the folders that do not exist yet – note ~/Library is hidden under Lion: use the Finder’s “Go To” menu while pressing Option to get to it or press Cmd+Shift+. in the Save dialog to show hidden folders) as “Rate unrated songs”. You will find the script in iTunes’ script menu, ready to do your bidding.


Where does Windows store my imported photos from my iPhone? I have just synced ~7700 photos/videos from my iPhone to my Windows 8.1 laptop, but I wish to view these files, except I cannot seem to find these files in a viewable format, so I can sort through them.

The default location for Windows photo imports is the Pictures folder in your user account, but can be changed (and you can see where it is set) in the import settings by choosing ‘More options’ at the bottom-left of the import window.

How to change photo import settings in Windows 8


Bootcamp: is there an advantage of 64-bit vs 32-bit Windows? I've got the new MabookPro retina. I want to install a dual boot Windows OS.

I have the option from MSDN to either install a 64-bit or a 32-bit. Is there a performance advantage? Other advantages?

According to the store pages, it looks like all the retina models have 8GB memory, with option for more, and as such you should choose the 64-bit version to make sure you can take advantage of all that memory in Windows.

A 32-bit Windows installation would only be able to use 2GB/3GB of the available memory.


During a new Mac setup, it asks for the iPhone passcode. Why? Why are they asking me for this? What is it used for?

EDIT: Some have suggested that this is a recent effort to encrypt all of the iCloud data: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4b70xy/starting_with_ios_93_apple_will_encrypt_icloud/?st=irfs7s30&sh=2a9995dc

I think that you've selected to use your iCloud account, so by verifying your Passcode with you iphone Apple added a security to be sure that you are the owner of your iCloud Account. This will allow your Mac to synchronise your data from iCloud.


Screen sharing MacBook-pro to iMac I wonder if there is someway of sharing the screen on my macbook pro (which stands on the right of my iMac) to the iMac, so that I can use the same keyboard and mouse for both computers.
I believe there was someway of doing this between windows and linux a few years ago using a kind of SSH-tunnel, but cannot find the application or what its called.

Any help?

Screen Sharing
Screen sharing is actually built-in already. Enable "Screen Sharing" in System Preferences -> Sharing on the computer you want to access remotely. Then you can access it from the Finder either by selecting it in the sidebar window or directly via Cmd-K and entering the address vnc://IP-Address or vmc://Bonjour Name.local.


How do I create a folder in the Files app on my iPhone? (not on iCloud) When I open the files app on my iPhone there's no option to create a folder. I'm stuck with the defaults of Keynote, Numbers and Pages. How do I create my own folders?

Creating a new independent folder in the "Files app" does not appears to be possible without iCloud with exception of creating sub folders in the existing apps like Keynote, Numbers and Pages.


Driver software for Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro on 10.7 My wife has an old Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro (pictured).

It's built like a tank and refuses to die, and that longevity seems to be causing trouble.

I just upgraded her computer to Lion. The old driver software will not run (I think this is a 32-bit vs 64-bit kext problem). I downloaded the current driver software, and it does not recognize the trackball--my suspicion is that this old trackball is not on that driver's list of recognized devices, but I don't really know.

The thing does nominally work without any custom driver software, but without control over the extra buttons, and with tracking speed that seems too slow.

If there's a way to make Kensington's current driver software work with this thing, I'll try that. If there's third-party software, I'll look into that.

-- later --

Spoke with Kensington support. They claim new driver software will be released Oct 28. Will update again then.

Your wife has excellent taste in input devices. I use the same trackball daily, and if I can't also find a solid Lion solution, I'll be heartbroken (not to mention much less productive).

History:

Kensington shipped four models of this type. The Expert and Turbo versions had slightly different coloring, and each came in wired and wireless versions.

K64213 Expert Mouse Pro
K64214 Turbo Mouse Pro
K64245 Expert Mouse Pro Wireless
K64240 Turbo Mouse Pro Wireless

The good news:

According to Kensington's drivers page, TrackballWorks™ 1.1 for Mac was released on Oct 19, 2011.

[Note: yes, that's TrackballWorks, not MouseWorks—the latter was last updated in 2009.]

The Installation/Notes file says:

  Requirements:
  Apple OSX 10.5.6 Leopard
  Apple OSX 10.6.x Snow Leopard
  Apple OSX 10.7.x Lion

  Description: Enables trackball customization: button functions, pointer speed and acceleration, and scrolling speed and direction.

  Languages: English

  Installation:
  Save the DMG file to your desktop and double-click on it.
  Click on the installer package icon when it appears.
  Follow the on-screen instructions to install the software.

The bad news:

I haven't been able to get it to work, and I'm not the only one.

Kensington support says:

  TrackballWorks - Supported Kensington Devices

  Which Kensington trackball models are compatible with the software application TrackballWorks?

  Kensington TrackballWorks is compatible with SlimBlade TrackBall model K72327, Expert Mouse model K64325, Orbit Trackball w/Scroll Ring model 72337, and Orbit Optical Trackball K64327.

Note that all the supported models have numbers greater than K642nn.

Workarounds?

There are some reports of success with TrackballWorks, so it's worth a try.
There are third-party mouse drivers. Some people have switched over to using USB Overdrive. I'm currently trying out SteerMouse, which makes the trackball work, but only has limited button support.

Neither focuses on supporting Kensington devices, or trackballs in general, which makes things problematic.


After upgrading to Mavericks, two-finger right-clicking in Chrome doesn't work I upgraded my rMBP to Mavericks recently and since then, I'm not able to right-click in Chrome using the trackpad. I can click on menu bars and things like that but not within the actual webpage display window that it renders.

When changing the gesture to the bottom right click, it still doesn't work.

Any workarounds?

I had the same issue. The solution for me was to uninstall Chrome extension Smooth Gestures.

Which is a shame, because I love that extension, because it makes managing tabs a lot easier if you use a mouse.


How to find all folders that are larger than 1GB or 10GB on the Mac HD? I thought the method to find all the folders that have more than 1GB of content would be:
find . -type d -size +1G

where . is the path here and if we want to do it from the root directory:
sudo find / -type d -size +1G

However, nothing was found when I know for sure there are folders that have more than 1GB of content.  How is that done?
I also tried Finder and when we press space in the search field, the criterion to add has "File Size" but not "Folder Size".

find doesn't auto-sum so it only looks at the size of each individual item (which in this case would be the directory entry itself). You could do something like
du -h / | grep -E '^[0-9 .]+[GTP]\t'


Is there a way to minimize open windows from the command line in OS X Lion? Just wondering if there is a way to retrieve open windows and minimize them from the command line in Lion?

I have an AppleScript that does this, but it kind of slow, so wanted to know if there was anything

Thanks

EDIT:
I have not completely figured out how to do it yet, but there is the command line command
osascript which allows you run applescript from the command line. So you can use:

osascript -e "applescript command goes here"

SOLVED:
Yes you can do it... here is how I figured it out:

/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to click (first button of (every window of (application process "firefox")) whose role description is "minimize button")'

Some other application process that I have are "Skype", "Finder", "thunderbird-bin", AppleScript Editor"

I agree that pretty much any solution you can get for the command line would have to rely on AppleScript. And your solution will work. However, rather than scripting System Events, which depends on UI events (actually moving your mouse and clicking) it's a much cleaner approach to script the application's window directly.

This way, if you move your mouse while the script is executing, it won't affect it. For minimizing all Firefox windows you could do something like:

tell application "Firefox" to set miniaturized of every window to true

The property is called miniaturized for Firefox and most OS X applications, but some third-party apps, like Google Chrome, call the property minimized, so if one doesn't work, the other should. This functionality is part of the Standard Suite that pretty much every AppleScript-able application has.

For applications that don't support AppleScript at all, you can fall back to your approach and use System Events to access the windows belonging to the application's specific process running on your machine.

If I were you, though, I'd try to rely on the application to minimize itself rather than through System Events where possible, as this will be much more reliable.


How to disable automatic wifi connection? When OSX already knows an wifi network it auto connects to it, but when it doesn't know the wifi network it will auto connect depending of the setting of the "ask to join" toggle setting in system preferences.

How do you force OSX to ask to join for every wifi network, whether it is known or not?  I don't want OSX to ever connect automatically.

The only way to stop from automatically joining a preferred, or known, wi-fi network, is to not store the password for that network and type it in each time without clicking the "save password" button.

As soon as you save the password the network will be added to the preferred list even if the remember networks button isn't selected, and it will connect to it automatically (or rather it will connect to the first one on the list that is finds in the order in which you have them listed).


Macbook pro keyboard stuck issue I have 15 inch macbook pro , i am facing issue with keys , option key is automatically pressed and becoming active all the time when i press any key in marked red zone in image . the Left Option is not working and Right Option key is working , when i press twice option key , than it is inactive (i tested after enabling hot key from preferences ) .

Here is the keyboard image

for ex. if i press Space key or right shift or enter then Option key is becoming active .

What is the possible fix for this ??

I had similar issues. Found a fix around. This app (Unshaky) will stop your mac from pressing keys multiple times (you have to configure the app, its pretty simple and straight forward). my problem was that my keyboard kept on pressing the option key instead of just holding. This app worked with me.. Hope it helps.

link found here

Hope this helps


Can I get the game center application back on my MacBook Air The previous owner of my MacBook Air seems to have deleted my game center application. Is there any way I can get that back?

Try reinstalling OS X from the Recovery Partition. Turn off your computer, hold down Command and R while you turn it on again, and then go through the Reinstall OS X process. Apple Support has an article about it here.


Something like MHDDFS for OS X? I'm trying to have my Mac Mini take over all my server's functions (I'm recycling the server hardware into a Linux workstation).  Its pretty much all done, except for the file-serving portions.  Currently I'm using MHDDFS (FUSE).  In a nutshell, it lets you give it multiple directories (in my case on different hard-drives), and have them be combined in a directory.  (e.g., /media/storage0/ and /media/storage1/ are accessible via /media/storage_pool/

What I would like to know is, does anybody know of anything that might act like this?

I know of NRAID/SPAN, but part of what worries me about that is (I think?) in SPAN the drives share a file-system, similar to a RAID level, which makes me very nervous.  (even though I keep backups)

Looks like it's available with MacPorts - https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/fuse/mhddfs/Portfile


Any iOS apps for me to talk to people just nearby? I want app for iPhone or iPad, which can search for people within 100 meters (probably need to use Bluetooth), and is able to exchange information with them or talk to them directly.

Does anyone know of such an app?

Have you tried Bluetooth Chat?

  With this little app you can chat via Bluetooth with other iPhone and iPod Touch (2nd Gen) users nearby.

Customer reviews are good, so it seems to be the solution you seek.


How to set up macOS High Sierra "wfsctl" WebDAV to use with an application that uses basic authentication? How does one go about setting up a macOS High Sierra wfsctl WebDAV server to use with application such as Password Wallet? Does any one have a good set of notes for setting up a wfsctl server?

Use Case

wfsctl WebDAV server now ships with macOS High Sierra. The context of this question is for mainstream macOS High Sierra, and not any macOS Server software.

Applications (such as PasswordWallet) would use basic username password authentication to access a WebDAV server.

Background:

At this time, search on various apple.com urls only returned one result, "Prepare your institution for ... macOS High Sierra ...", which just states:

  You won’t be able to set up file sharing with iOS devices in macOS Server 5.4. ... If you want to configure WebDAV sharing on a Mac with macOS Server 5.4, see the wfsctl(8) manual page.

The wfsctl man page (on regular macOS High Sierra) provides technical command information. However, the man page does not provide a example setup or getting started guide.

So far, internet searches for wfsctl use on macOS High Sierra has not yielded much additional information about using wfsctl.

Finally, while there are many Apache WebDAV guides available, my initial wfsctl experimenting started with the unexpected wfsctl will start but not stop the related Apache httpd services.

So, does any one have a good set of summary notes specific to setting up a wfsctl WebDAV server and how to navigate through any "quirks" of a wfsctl system? (i.e. not general Apache WebDAV links.)

Step 1. Host Address. Know the IP address or DNS Domain Name for the host machine. A static IP address or fully qualified DNS name will allow other guest machines to bookmark the host machine. If DHCP is used for the host machine, then the dynamic TCP/IP address will need to be known each time prior to connection. The IP address can be found in the System Preferences > Network panel.

Step 2. Create Share Point Directory.

# For example,
sudo mkdir /Library/WebServer/ExampleSharePoint
sudo chown $USER:staff /Library/WebServer/ExampleSharePoint
sudo wfsctl share Volume/HardDisk/Library/WebServer

Step 3. Configuration.  Edit /etc/wfs/wfs.plist. Set SynthesizeSharePointForUserHomeDir to determine whether to allow remote WebDAV clients to see their home directory as a share point. Default is true.  Use false to limit sharing to the expressly added share points.

<key>SynthesizeSharePointForUserHomeDir</key>
<false/>

Note: CreateHomeDirsForLocalUsers and ApplyUserInstanceSandbox appear to be undocumented at this time.

Step 4. Start wfsctl.

sudo wfsctl start
# Using identity with self-signed cert
sudo wfsctl diagnose # verify

Step 5. Setup Application Connection.

In the case of PasswordWallet, use the Network Sync Wizard to create a new sync.  Select WebDAV as the sync type.

If the server does not have a fully qualified DNS name, then the IP address can be used directly.

Step 6. Stopping wfsctl and httpd.

Based on How to unregister “httpd” after “wfsctl stop”? ...

sudo wfsctl stop             # stops WebDAV. restarts httpd
sudo apachectl graceful-stop # if desired, stops httpd
# verify
sudo wfsctl diagnose

Addendum

The WebDAV share can also be mounted directly from macOS Finder. Menu: Finder > Go > Connect to Server… ⌘K.

The default auto self-generated certificate can be either temporarily or permanently accepted.

Finder Share Point Folder View

Finder Share Point Info

Observation: Sometimes a file transfer via a macOS Finder WebDAV mount could fail and cause a loss of connection.  In these cases, so far, a second transfer attempt has succeeded OK.

At the time of this writing, the Password Wallet direct WebDAV synchronization connection has been solid and reliable for me.


Battery issue with Macbook pro retina I have a MacBook Pro Retina Early 2015 model, that I have owned for 2 years. It was working absolutely fine just yesterday (or the day before). I consulted an Apple authorized service center that said I needed to replace the battery but I was confused how could the battery die overnight. So I contacted another Apple authorized service center. They took in my laptop for diagnosis for a couple of days and told me that the "topcase" was faulty and needed to be replaced. Of course they are also charging a hefty sum of money for it.

I have two questions:

What is a topcase? (sorry i am slightly technologically challenged)
Is there any way around my problem. I really don't think I can afford a new top case.

My laptop works fine on AC power, it's just that it's not a laptop anymore if I always have to keep it plugged in.

Thanks for you help in advance.

The top case (or Upper Case Assembly) is essentially the case that contains the keyboard and trackpad. In some models, when replacing the battery, Apple will replace this as well.

In terms of other ways around your problem, you could try resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) to see if that has any impact. To give this a try, follow these steps:

Shut down your Mac
Unplug the power cable from your Mac
For 10 seconds, press and hold at the same time the shiftcontroloption keys (on the left side of the built-in keyboard) and the power button
After 10 seconds let go of all keys and the power button
Plug in the power cable
Turn your Mac back on with the power button.


How do I re-add a card that I swiped away from Google Now? I accidentally swiped away the Weather card in Google Now for iOS.

Tapping Show sample cards lists the Weather card, but there's no way I can add it again. Under Google Now's settings, it shows that the Weather is On, but it's just not there in my Google Now screen.

I've also tried turning off Google Now, and turning it back on. No dice.

How do I get it back again?

The solution is quite simple: You have to wait.

For me, I had swiped away the Weather card at 10 PM, and the next day I got up at 6 AM, I was greeted by the weather forecast for that day.

No refreshing or changing of settings worked, unfortunately.


Terminal Failing to login Suddenly, when I attempted to create a new terminal window, it fails. It does nothing for about a minute then shows only this:

Login incorrect
login:

Typing in my username doesn't work. I get the same message. Terminal was already up and running in another window. I just can't create any more.

My editor, IntelliJ, has a built in terminal and that's running fine.

This has happened to me in the past and just happened again on a Mac running High Sierra (10.13.5) that is bound to an Active Directory domain.

Turns out it was caused by an active Cisco IPSec VPN connection. The VPN connection likely hijacked my DNS settings and broke local name resolution that relied on using the AD server's DNS.

It also broke access to the Users & Groups System Preference panel.

Try disconnecting your VPN and reopening Terminal.


How to check if my HD is case sensitive or not? How can I get information if my HD format is case sensitive or case insensitive?

I want to make sure my Mac running Mountain Lion has a case sensitive file system.

You can use terminal to read the File System Personality:

diskutil info /

Look for the fields named below:

   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

If the file system is case sensitive, you will see Case-sensitive Journaled HFS in the first pasted line and Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) in the third.

Disk Utility will also show you this from the info window for any File System it can see.


iOS App Store keeps asking for password for free items Has the option to just download free apps from the App Store without password been removed?

I tried signing in through the Settings app, the App Store no longer lets me use Touch ID for free items.

How do I make iOS App Store either not ask for password or allow Touch ID I already have the option set in Settings app.

I am running iOS 11.2.

No. It’s not removed, but it can get stuck. I would disable this feature and then reboot if you think it’s already enabled. Also, free apps are basically the same as paid - you go through all the same hoops to “buy” save an optional second confirmation for payments.

To allow downloading from the App Store without having to enter your password every time for free apps follow these steps:

Go to Settings
Scroll down and click Itunes and App Stores
Click Password Settings
Toggle off "Require Password" under Free Downloads.

You will now be able download apps without having to enter your password.

UPDATE

I since found the issue was localized to a bad home WiFi/router which blocked access to Apple servers. This can be verified by:

signing out of App Store in settings
trying to sign back in
getting an error message
disconnecting from WiFi, using cellular
signing back in
getting the “verify payment alert”
entering credit card Security code or selecting “none” payment type
this enables Touch ID for purchases


How to add wallpapers to iOS 7? How can I add wallpapers to iOS 7 without adding them to Photos.app ?

Is there a way to add wallpapers to native iOS wallpapers?

No :(

The list of Apple wallpapers in Settings → Wallpapers & Brightness → Choose Wallpaper → Apple Wallpaper → Dynamic or Stills is not customisable by the user, without jailbreaking.

If you want a separate list of wallpapers, you can create an album in the Photos app, add your wallpapers to that album, then open that wallpaper in the Choose Wallpaper → Photos list.


Floating semi-transparent image for comparison I'm a web developer on a Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) and was wondering if there is a (free) alternative to Overlay2 - basically it's an app that lets you create a floating window with a semi-transparent image on it that you can use for direct reference - I plan on using it to match my output code to what the designer had in mind, pixel by pixel. I often just move between tabs real fast but the position isn't the same and my eyes can only be that precise.

I just don't want to have to pay $25 for such a simple functionality.

Here's a few more:

Uberlayer
GluePrint
Overlay

More alternatives (also for Windows) on alternativeto.net


How to launch Steam games from Spotlight? Is there a way to open Steam games directly from Spotlight?

You can make your Steam games appear under Spotlight as follows:

Open Steam.app, go to Library, right click on the game entry and select Create Desktop Shortcut from the content menu. An alias for the game is created on the Desktop.

After the shortcut is created, it can be moved to any location on hard disk (as long as the location is indexed by Spotlight) and it will appear in Spotlight search results.


Why does my Exchange account work on my iPhone, but not Mail.app? I can set up my work Exchange account just fine on my iPhone, but I can't get it to work on Mail.app under Snow Leopard.

I have read some forums and understand that mobile devices use ActiveSync in order to access Exchange mail and I thought Snow Leopard introduced this feature to Mail, but I can't seem to get it working.

I have tried just about every combination of settings I can think of.

My iPhone asks for a domain, but I can't find a similar setting in Mail. I have tried entering my username as domain/username to no avail.

Has anyone had experience/similar problems with this?

Most likely because your corporate exchange server is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Snow Leopard now only connects to Exchange 2007 (See http://www.apple.com/macosx/exchange/) whereas Leopard used to connect to Exchange 2003 using the OWA mechanism.

iPhone supports both Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 it seems (See iPhone User Guide , page 2);


App Store on iOS keeps asking for another user's iTunes credentials I recently helped a friend activate her iPhone 5. She used to have an iPhone 4S which I helped her do a backup on my Macbook. After backing up her iPhone 4S, I restored her iPhone 5 with the backup. Because her SIM card was not the correct size, I used my own SIM card to activate the phone as well.

But now there is a very weird issue where if she downloads certain apps from the App Store, it would ask for my Apple ID credentials instead of her's. I tried signing out of the App Store and having her sign in. But every time I download a certain app, it keeps asking for my credentials. Very strange.

Any one know of how to fix this?

PS: iCloud is also signed in with her credentials.

When an iPhone is restored from a backup, it gets as much data as is can locally. Any app data is stored in the backup, but the apps themselves either have to be synced from a local iTunes (preferred) or downloaded.
When an iPhone is synched with iTunes, by default all apps on the iPhone are copied to the iTunes library, assuming iTunes is registered with the same Apple ID as they were purchased with. I think.
iOS app files are registered with a specific Apple ID, and without this same authentication, there's no (easy, non-jailbreak) way to use the app with another Apple ID.

So, when you restored your friend's iPhone with your computer, rather than download all of the apps from the iTunes servers, it copied as many as it could from your computer. These apps are linked to your Apple ID, so in order for your friend to use them her iPhone would need to be registered with your Apple ID.

The solution: Your friend can back up her iPhone to iCloud or another computer (make sure, if so, that the offending apps are deleted from the iTunes library after synching) and restore it again. This will definitely keep her data from the other apps, and probably from yours as well. Alternatively, she can delete all of yours and re-download them from the App Store, which will definitely lose the data.


Which directory does Mac OS X 10.10.x keep iPhone back up file？ I backed up my old iPhone 5S with iTunes on Mac OS X 10.10，But It seems that it's not easy to find the folder. (In Windows，It's C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\backup)

Here is what you are looking for.

    ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/


Is there a way to access and view/modify APN settings on IOS 9.0.2 Is there a way to access and view/modify APN settings on IOS 9.0.2

Previously, I had iOS 8.4 installed on my iPhone and I was able to access and modify the APN settings by going to:

  Settings > General > Cellular > Cellular Data

I currently have no way to modify or even view the APN settings after upgrading to 9.0.2 and the cellular data menu is gone, but I did switch to AT&T recently as well so I'm not sure if the APN settings were removed in 9.0.2, if using an AT&T SIM hides the cellular data/APN menu, or if that menu/option is hidden somewhere else altogether.

Bad news... good news.

Bad news... cellular APN settings are disabled on by carrier and/or iOS 9.

Good news... you can create the appropriate APN settings profile via your mobile browser of choice at unlockit.co.nz

Just select your country/carrier and tap Create APN, follow the prompts and that's it.


Forward slash doesn't work when in terminal... works in every other application I'm trying to use terminal and in every tab I open, when I try to change directory such as

   cd /

I get a beep and am unable to type the character.  I am on the same computer and am able to type a slash in this webpage, just not in that bash shell

I don't have any key-remapping software enabled.

How can I type a forward slash , or determine what is preventing me from typing it?

When I type "shift-/" I get a question mark, so I know the basic essence of the key is working.

Copying and pasting a "/" character results in a beep as well

When I connect an external bluetooth keyboard, the same results happen for both keyboards (on the laptop and on the keyboard)

Yes I rebooted.... many times

Let's try a few things.

First, make sure "Secure Keyboard Entry" under the Terminal menu does not have an arrow next to it.

Second, go to Terminal > Preferences > Settings > Keyboard and make sure that forward slash is not defined in the list. Under 'Advanced' make sure 'Declare terminal as:' is set to one of the xterm settings, preferably 'xterm-256'. In the same dialog make sure 'Character encoding:' is set to 'Unicode (UTF-8)'.

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and make sure that '/' is not set to do anything in 'Services' and 'App Shortcuts'.

Now try it and see if you still have the same problem.


Email contacts in iPhone contacts When logging into hotmail on the mail app, do all contacts save into the contact list on the iPhone? Or only certain ones? If so how?

It depends on how you have the account setup in your iPhone Mail settings.

From: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook-to-go

  iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch Tap Settings, and then tap Mail, Contacts, Calendar.

  Tap Add Account in the Accounts page.

  Select Hotmail.

  Enter your Outlook.com address and password.

  Select the fields that you want to sync. Tap Save.

That last step is where you decide whether you want to sync contacts, calendars, etc or just mail. If you choose to sync contacts, it syncs all contacts. There is no way to selectively sync contacts.


Dialog I cannot get rid of The steps here were simple, but unexpected:

download a file
in finder, rename the file using Keyboard:

Press Enter to start rename
Start typing a new name (but not pressing Enter again)

Try to open the file by pressing Command-O

Now this dialog appears and won't go away (it only reacts on moving with the mouse, but clicking on it fails, just as pressing Spacebar, Enter or Esc).

Both Finder and Spotlight now refuse to open any other file.

I tried:

killall -KILL Dock
killall -KILL Finder
killall -KILL NotificationCenter
killall -KILL SystemUIServer

Help (:

Note the file is not damaged, just renamed.

Search for OS X identify process by window I found What process owns a certain window (Mac OS X) which told me this after moving the Window:

RetinaMBPro1TB:bin jeroenp$ ./show-recently-moved-windows.py
Move target window

List of windows that moved:
{(
        {
        kCGWindowAlpha = 1;
        kCGWindowBounds =         {
            Height = 1094;
            Width = 1130;
            X = 43;
            Y = 45;
        };
        kCGWindowIsOnscreen = 1;
        kCGWindowLayer = 0;
        kCGWindowMemoryUsage = 5246548;
        kCGWindowName = "bin \U2014 Python \U2014 160\U00d776";
        kCGWindowNumber = 23921;
        kCGWindowOwnerName = Terminal;
        kCGWindowOwnerPID = 357;
        kCGWindowSharingState = 1;
        kCGWindowStoreType = 2;
    },
        {
        kCGWindowAlpha = 1;
        kCGWindowBounds =         {
            Height = 153;
            Width = 420;
            X = 1359;
            Y = 182;
        };
        kCGWindowIsOnscreen = 1;
        kCGWindowLayer = 8;
        kCGWindowMemoryUsage = 390292;
        kCGWindowName = "";
        kCGWindowNumber = 23246;
        kCGWindowOwnerName = CoreServicesUIAgent;
        kCGWindowOwnerPID = 87976;
        kCGWindowSharingState = 1;
        kCGWindowStoreType = 2;
    }
)}

Since CoreServicesUIAgent is the owner, I performed this:

killall -KILL CoreServicesUIAgent

That worked. Now I can open the PDF again.


Moving from an old IPhone with faulty charge connection to android, I'm not a iPhone user so my knowledge is limited.

My mother-in-law has an old iPhone (5 i think) with iOS 10.3.4. It does not charge very well anymore and the pc does not recognize it when connected.

She got a new Android phone and when setting up the iPhone for her it says  you can transfer her photo etc by installing google drive on the old iPhone, but can't install google drive to iOS 10.3.4.  Considering I can't connect the iPhone to the pc and backup that way, what options do I have to get her photos off her phone?

Thanks

You have quite a few options, any of these should work, choose the one you like the most:

I see your cable isn't working properly, but you may try to connect the iPhone to a PC with iTunes for just enough time to enable the wireless (Wi-Fi) syncing feature (press apply to save and enable it). Then, you can create the backup on the PC wirelessly, transfer photos, etc.
You can try to download Google Photos and let it sync all of her photos. You will lose quality on photos and videos if using the free service, but you may transfer any amount of data this way, and the photos will automatically be on her Android phone if she uses the same Google login on it.
Use iCloud Photo Library. It's available on iOS 10.3 and later. If she has less than 5GB of photos, it's free: enable the iCloud Photo Library on Settings > [her name] > iCloud > Photos and let it sync all of them. You can then download them on any PC from iCloud.com. If she has more than 5GB of photos, you will need to purchase 1 month of the service with the amount you need (from $0.99 for 50GB to $19 if I'm not mistaken for 2TB).


Marks on my Macbook Pro Retina's Screen I was cleaning my macbook pro retina's display with Apple's piece of cleaning cloth that came with the macbook in box.

But after I'm done cleaning I noticed weird marks on my screen and they won't be removed with cleaning liquids or even with pressure.

they looks like if the black color of the screen frame was scratched .. but is that even possible ? since its already has a glass layer above it ?!

So anyone know how are those marks appeared ? and how to remove them if possible ?

I hope the images are clear enough

I have seen the exact same thing happening to my retina MacBook Pro. I carried in my MacBook Pro recently to an authorised service provider. As per the technician, this happens due to scratching of the Anti Glare coating. I was covered under Apple Care and got the screen replaced, which apparently is the only way to get rid of the marks.


Finding drivers for Macbook Pro (13 inch, i5, 2.3GHZ) without bootcamp I had a customer come in (regular) and brought me a mac his son screwed up by deleting partitions and installing windows. Somehow in the bootcamp process he screwed it all up.

So now there's a fresh windows 8 installation on it, but I cannot for the life of me find proper drivers for his wireless card and other items.

I have tried installing a driver for a different system (Acer system. Same chipset, same wireless card) but it failed in the setup (setup.rul 343)

Anyone know how to get this to work? The kid needs Windows for his distance schooling and has no mac disks to re-install.

Get a Snow Leopard retail install disk. Fix the partitions and erase and install Snow Leopard. Download and install the latest SL combo update, or continue on the the usual upgrade path to Lion and/or Mountain Lion according to the customer's preference and the capabilities of the Mac.

Download and install VirtualBox. Make a new Windows VM and re-install Windows. Note that Bootcamp doesn't yet support Windows 8.


Why does Spotlight give a wrong value for `cos(pi/2)`? As you might know, Spotlight can do simple mathematics.
For instance, typing cos(pi) will result in -1, as you might expect.
I just typed in cos(pi/2), which should be 0 but it gave me -5e-12.

Yes it is probably due to a rounding error, but come on: cos(pi/2)!
In my opinion, that clearly looks like bug. What do you think?

It's due to the lack of precision of pi and due to the overall all lack of precision in the built-in system.

pi = 3.1415926536

pi/2 = 1.5707963268

cos(1.5707963268) = -5.103412e-12

FYI =  5.103412e-12 = 0.000000000005103412 ~ 0

About the overall system precision :

3.141592653589793238462643383 = 3.1415926536

In Python we get following :

>>> float("3.141592653589793238462643383")
3.141592653589793

As we can see there is a problem with the precision since it doesn't even match the float representation.


Hiding items from the Applications folder without touching them I have a link to the Applications folder on my dock - basically it's a great, unobtrusive, quick launcher when I'm already using the mouse.

Problem is, it's cluttered up by a bunch of junk I don't want there. Dashboard, which I never use, Photo Booth, and other detritus that just clutters up the view.

I'd like to remove those somehow - but I'm not interested in a number of common workarounds for this use case:

I don't want to actually mess with the contents of the folder, which rules out every idea given in this answer. Setting the .app folders +hidden or putting a dot in their names means I have to disable SIP, and besides this could cause issues with updating or using the app later should I need it. I don't want to trash the apps either.
I don't want to maintain a separate folder with aliases to this one - having newly installed apps visible in this folder by default usually means I can launch them faster with the mouse than I can with cmd-space and finding it with Spotlight (since spotlight takes a while to update its cache)

Ideally, I could remove certain items from my "view" of the folder, but leave the actual folder untouched.

Is there a way to do this? Some feature I've overlooked or some app that provides an unobtrusive dock menu?

Go to the Applications folder, then do 'Find', and search for any application whose name is not (X, Y, Z).  Save the search, and add the search to your dock.


Enabling remote login without password authentication I have enabled remote login (ssh) on my Mac via System Preferences. But it doesn't work with keys and only works with normal user/pass authentication. I want to disable this behaviour and only allow public key (RSA or DSA) authentication.

I edited /etc/sshd_config and uncommented following lines:

PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no

I then restarted the Remote Login service but it didn't help. It still allows password authentication and my keys are rejected.

Could anyone help me set this up?

Allow me to answer myself as I found a resolution.

If PasswordAuthentication no doesn't work on its own (and I read in some situations it may) make sure to uncomment and set to "no" this:

UsePAM no

Kudos for this resolution go to Mac OS X Hints - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050815135941513&lsrc=osxh.


Can hear boot noise but no other sound I have a MacBook Air A1237. I can hear the "dong" from startup, but in OS I couldn't hear anything.

In System Preferences, as output, I see only headphones. If I plug in a headphone I can hear sounds, music. If I plug out this, nothing happend. The internal speakers are not showed.
I've tried to reset NVRAM and SMC, install a new copy of OS, same problems.
I tried to clean with a toothpick, nothing happened. Any other idea to solve the problem?

Generally, this issue indicates a stuck pin in the headphone jack and/or a hardware issue with the sound driver.

For the headphone jack, take your headphones and RAPIDLY plug/unplug them about 10 times in your Macbook. This should be enough to reset the pin and get it working again. Also, check for any debris that could be inside - a nasty lint bunny may be hiding inside causing some wreckage (heck, I've even seen wood inside of them). I know you said you cleaned the jack with a toothpick, but do this as well since a toothpick may not always reset the pin.

Should that not correct the issue, it may be an issue deeper with the computer. Since you already went through and reinstalled the OS, I'd say your next step would either be running Apple Diagnostic or Applecare service done on the laptop.


How do I fix macOS Mojave httpd syntax error in a localhost setup? System details:

OS Host: Mac OS Mojave
PHP: 7.1.23

I am trying to set up my local server on a new Mac. I have been following the following instructions on https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-13841.

After enabling PHP, perl and personal websites, I check  the configuration with apachectl configtest and the terminal returns the following:

httpd: Syntax error on line 511 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 16 of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf: No matches for the wildcard '*.conf' in '/private/etc/apache2/users', failing (use IncludeOptional if required)

However, I am expecting syntax OK. What should I do to fix this?

It sounds like you do actually not have any configuration files in the /private/etc/apache2/users/ directory, and thus you cannot include them - therefore the configuration check fails.

If you have users on your system with shared a shared Sites folder, you would usually have configuration files in this directory named username.conf with the following contents:

<Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    Require all granted
</Directory>

(Note: You'll need to replace "username" in the filename and the contents with the actual name of the user)


Sharing iTunes account with separate game center accounts We have a family iTunes account. My son wants to have his own Clash of Clans game on his iPod, so we created his own Apple ID and he logged into Game Center from his iPod with the new ID to download the game. However, it automatically reverts back to my husband’s game and the family account.

How do we get it to download under his new ID?

You will need to check the settings app and sign out of the App Store for the account you don't want to purchase things. There are about 5 places you can enter an Apple ID in the settings so that you can mix one app for music and apps, another for home sharing, another for iMessage, another for iCloud and another for Game Center.


Genius problems with iTunes and Match I have iTunes (10.6 40) and Match on my mac, as soon as I enabled match my "genius" playlists no longer work.

If I click genius on a track that is playing it says:

  Genius is unavailable for the song "Don't Drop It"

I click "Update Genius" and it says that the results have been updated, but never makes it available.

I have over 10K songs, so surely it can find a genius result for a G-Love or Jack Johnson song... but it never does.

Thanks.

Click the iCloud download icon to download the song to the computer you're using, and then try again.

An edit: This has only worked sporadically for me.


Is it possible to charge my MacBook Air from a powerbank? I recently bought a powerbank that has two USB outlets. It's great for charging my phone and iPad. Is it possible to charge my MacBook Air from the powerbank? If it's not possible to do this "out of the box", would it be possible to build or buy something that would enable me to do this?

Yes, The answer is positive. The power bank capable to charge a laptop needs to supply not only the USB standard charging port but also (or only) a DC output port, or a build-in power inverter with an AC outlet.

Here i collect some power bank that can charge laptop:

1.Anker® Astro Pro2 Multi-Voltage Portable Charger – 20000mAh
Multi-Voltage 5V 12V 16V 19V for iPad Air, Mini, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Note, HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, Toshiba Netbooks

2.RAVPower® Xtreme 3-Port Portable External Battery Charger with Multi-Voltage 23000mAh
Multi-Voltage 9V/12V/16V/19V/20V – for Apple Macbook, UltraBook, Digital Cameras, Surface Tablets,Asus Tablets and more

3.Poweradd™ Pilot Pro Monster Capacity Multi-Voltage Portable Charger – 32000mAh
Multi-Voltage 5V 9V 12V 16V 19V 20V for Tablet PC, Netbooks, Notebooks, Laptops, Smart Phones

4.BiXPower 153 Wh (42500mAh) Super High Capacity 12V & 19V External Rechargeable Battery Pack – BiXPower BP160
Made with high quality Panasonic Li-ion battery cells. Compact size can easily fit into a laptop/notebook carry bag

5.Energizer XP18000AB Universal Power Adapter with External Battery for Tablets/Laptops/Netbooks/Smartphones

Energizer XP18000AB Universal Power Adapter with External Battery for Tablets/Laptops/Netbooks/Smartphones

6.Qi-Infinity™ Powergrid External Battery Pack/High Capacity Power Bank charger – 34200mAh
For Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks, Tablets and Smart Phones

7.Lizone® Extra Pro Super Capacity Portable External Battery Charger 40000mAh
For Apple Books, HP, IBM Lenovo, Tablets, Smartphones and more

8.Intocircuit® Power Castle PC26000 External Battery Pack/High Capacity Power Bank charger – 26000mAh
12 Connectors for Laptops, 10 Connectors for Phones and Tablets, AC Adapter Included

There are power banks available with various plug in connectors for laptops, but they cost around 15,000. I have seen one on ebay india, and the ad says that they’ve even sold 29 units. These are not marketed by laptop manufacturers so I am not sure what your laptop warranty status will be if you purchase one of these banks and use it charge your laptop. Most laptops charges through its adapter only. Powerbanks on the other hand have only usb 2 output interface. Replacing laptop batteries with Extra cell batteries available in the market can help. One desi jugaad is using a UPS to charge a lappy but it wont make it handy and portable.


MBP hanging on unlock after sleep in Yosemite My mid-2012 MacBook Pro is worse at waking up from sleep than I am. I mash some keys to wake it up, enter my password, and it just hangs on the login attempt. There's no crash and no error, like I've seen in many other questions here - it just sits there. I can still hit "cancel" and go back to the Enter Password screen, and the "go back to sleep" function works fine. But attempting another login just results in another hang

This usually happens only after an extended period of sleeping - almost every time it goes overnight, but not when I step away for an hour or so.

It seems to have begun recently when I upgraded to Yosemite.

I set a 24-hour delay before the SSD goes into standby mode:

sudo pmset -a standbydelay 86400

and my MBP now unlocks just fine after waking up.


How to remove an environment variable on OSX using bash I'm running under Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I recently added an environment variable which it seems to be messing my bash terminal (I guess).

What I did is add the variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.2/lib to my .bash_profile file, which looks like this:

export PATH=/Users/Carlos/pear/bin:$PATH:/Users/Carlos/android-sdks/platforms:/Users/Carlos/android-sdks/platforms-tools:/Library/PostgreSQL/9.2/bin/
# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.2/lib

And then run the command:

source ~/.bash_profile

So that now I can see the variable listed along with all the environment variables when I run "set" on the terminal.

The thing is I want to remove it. I've checked several forums and to be honest none of the solutions worked for me so far.

unset it

unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

The bash reference manual says

  Once a variable is set, it may be unset only by using the unset builtin command.


How to make the Wifi of Airport Extreme and Macbook go back to 802.11ac? It was 99.99% of the time my Macbook and the Apple Airport Extreme were connected by 802.11ac, and today, nothing has changed, and they were shown to be connected by 802.11n all of a sudden, and it has been so for hours. (by pressing Option and clicking on the Wifi icon on the task bar).
How do I make it jump back to 802.11ac?

You can try simply turning WiFi off and then on again from the WiFi icon in the top bar.
If it still doesn't work, you'll need to check if you've made settings changes on the router - or if some source of interference has been introduced to the environment (such as another WiFi access point, or other electronical equipment). If this is the case, you can sometimes work around it by changing the WiFi channel used on the Airport Extreme from its settings.


Remove bucketing by date in Finder results I have sorted by Size but Finder still sub-buckets by Date: e.g. Previous 7 Days Previous 30 Days etc.  I need to have that sub-bucketing removed: how to do this?

Update  I am on Mojave and the Finder | File menu is as follows:

You should unselect "Use Groups" in Finder settings. Pls see the attached picture to see the exact setting.


Is the distance between the USB-C ports on the 2019 Macbook Pro 16" exactly the same as on earlier 15" models? Asking so I know whether an older USB hub will fit.

Yes, it fits perfectly! I checked today with a new MacBook Pro 16" and the distance between the two USB-C ports is the same.


Does Mac OS X Lion support surround sound on optical audio outputs? Does Mac OS X support running digital signals to multichannel audio systems beyond 2.1 sound systems via optical audio outputs. Eg 5.1 surround sound, 7.1, etc speaker systems?

I have found a guide from 2008 for setting up some stuff, but it looks like it requires set up first in Audio MIDI setup???. Configuring 5.1 Surround Output in Mac OS X. Is this how it is still done on Lion?

The optical output (Mini TosLink) does support multi-channel sound, up to I think 7:1 - but the standard 2.5mm doesn't.

iffi9211
Re: surround sound
Jan 30, 2012 2:49 PM (in response to parker612)
I was able to fix this problem, my speakers are connected to my pioneer receiver and I used it to create surround sound. iMac has toslink output which is connected to my receiver. iMac however gives only 2 channels and doesn't have option for surround sound on every track. It will not create surround sound from mp3 songs like some sound cards can. However if I play dvd that has surround sound then iMac will output 5 channels.

Thanks for the reply.
Edit: second post down here explains it.