How to unlock Mac password? I got a MacBook Pro (macOS 12.10.1) from my friend who I can't contact anymore, and here's the deal.

It has only one administrator account with a login password (Which I don't know)
It has FileVault enabled with a password (Which I don't know)
It is linked to an iCloud account (Which I don't know)

I only need the Mac to be reusable, I don't need any documents or files.
I tried some methods through googling, but most of them failed.

I tried to start up in single-user mode.CommandS, but I got an error saying [Builduser() : error building a user type 0x20010008]

I tried ShiftOptionCommandR which is saying to reset password using iCloud account password.

I tried to reinstall macOS through macOS utilities window > Reinstall macOS but it is asking for my FileVault key

I tried to reset user account password through terminal $ resetpassword, but it is asking for the iCloud password.

I tried to erase disk utilities but it is throwing me an error.

I didn't try to install through Internet recovery yet. I don't think it will work either.

(I got a stupid idea while sleeping. Will this work?!!!. I thought to plug my hard disk which may be locked in some way, to another computer and erase the whole disk and plug it into my Mac, so the Mac will think it as a new hard disk)

Is there any other method I can try to reuse my Mac>

Boot to internet recovery and wipe / erase the drive. At that point all FileVault data and system are gone. You then can run the installer and drop a new OS on the Mac.

As long as there is not a firmware password (which you shouldn’t have since that prevents internet recovery boot and other changes to the OS boot) you can run the Mac in target disk mode and erase the drive or boot to internet recovery or recovery HD (external) and erase.

Here are the official steps for an erase install of macOS:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25649


On Mac OS X 10.7, Java Control Panel crashes unexpectedly I'm wondering if this is a serious problem that I should be concerned about.

I have the latest version of Java installed (currently Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_212-b10) via command java -version).

I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. When I try to open the Java Control Panel by opening System Preferences and selecting Java, I get a spontaneous crash with the error: "Java Control Panel quit unexpectedly."

There's an error report that shows a lot of detailed information about the crash.

Is this an issue? And how can I fix this?

For your older version of OS X, you probably should have downloaded a legacy version of Java. Try this link: Download Java for OS X 2017-001


Can't see keychain passwords on another mac I am syncing one of my keychains over Google Drive. Unfortunately things which I add on Snow Leopard I am unable to see on Mountain Lion.

Is it some common issue, which could be easily fixed?
Or can I fix it at least as make it visible on Mountain Lion?

I am syncing the keychains over Google Drive. I've considered the problem could be in the way Google Drive is syncing that, but it also happens when I copy it over Samba and replace the keychain on another machine.

A lot of processes will keep the keychain open, and may not realize that it has been replaced by another keychain.  For example, right now I have

sudo lsof login.keychain
Password:
COMMAND     PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
CalendarA   500  ats  txt    REG    1,4   753764 14974132 login.keychain
ubd         949  ats  txt    REG    1,4   753764 14974132 login.keychain
Dashboard  8779  ats  txt    REG    1,4   753764 14974132 login.keychain
Safari    29631  ats  txt    REG    1,4   753764 14974132 login.keychain
NetAuthSy 29809  ats  txt    REG    1,4   753764 14974132 login.keychain
WebProces 29823  ats  txt    REG    1,4   753764 14974132 login.keychain

You may need to restart things when you replace the keychain, or make sure only to sync the keychain when logged out.  (Which won't work well with dropbox.)

You might want to investigate something else like Keychain2Go which knows about the contents of keychains and makes sure to sync in a fashion that works while other things have it open.


Disk utility detecting error in single user mode, but not when disk utility is opened via recovery mode I verified the integrity of my Macintosh HD (MacBook Pro 13" 2012, OS X Yosemite) with Disk Utility when I was logged in as a user and it reported this problem:

  Invalid volume free block count
  ...
  Error: This disk needs to be repaired

Then a window popped open and said that I had to repair the disk with the Disk Utility in Recovery Mode (cmd+R immediately after restarting the Mac). But when I do this, it doesn't find an error, so when you press the 'repair disk' and you check the disk in single mode once again, the error isn't changed.

Update: What I see, when I open User Single Mode:

Update 2: The solution worked, disk utility also doesn't generate an error anymore:

Here's a beginner's guide to the command line. The single user mode is also like looking in as root - the first user that owns all of the computer historically from a unix perspective.

the $ indicates a prompt where you, the human user can type commands. The system is telling you how to prepare the drive for running the repair command.

Type the following text - the same as the first line you are told to from the screen:

/usr/sbin/fsck -fy

Note, that every space, every punctuation is exact and changing any one item may run an entirely different command. If the fsck command has any errors, you can and should run it again with the same command up to three times in a row or more in some rare cases.

To get out of that screen, you could halt the Mac or type exit to resume the normal start up process.

Apple documents the root user and fsck in these two articles if you are curious or wish to learn more:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012 - About the root user
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201639 - Using Disk Utility and fsck
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21893 - Single user mode in El Capitan


How can I edit a m4v movie file and retain subtitles? I made a copy of a DVD and two sets of subtitles (Hebrew and English). Both subtitles are optional and only VLC can display them.

I am trying to edit out a scene of the movie. QuickTime can do this, but can also only save the file as a mov afterwards, which destroys the subtitles. When I edit and export to m4v, the subtitles are allegedly still there but even VLC cannot display them any more.

How can I edit an m4v file with optional subtitles without destroying the subtitles?

Just a shot in the dark, but have a look at VLMC. It is a non-linear video editing suite based on the VLC library, maintained by the VLC community. Otherwise, another editing software program that I know works with subtitles is AviDemux.

Just as a note. I am pretty sure that if you cut scenes out of the movie, you need to edit the subtitle files as well (otherwise the timing goes off). Not quite sure if any of these programs take that into consideration and modifies the subtitle files for you.

Best of luck. Hope one of these programs helps.


Cannot install applications: error code -60008 I am trying to install new applications, but I keep getting this error message from the "Copy" application:

  The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred
  (error code -60008).

The applications I am trying to install are:

git from git-2.2.1-intel-universal-mavericks.dmg
SourceTree from SourceTree_2.0.5.2.dmg

The message is given after I drag the application on the destination directory, and after being asked if I want it to replace the old one.

In the past I had no problems with them.

After many attempts, the only way I could install these applications has been through a manual copy from the command line:

sudo hdiutil attach ./SourceTree_2.0.5.2.dmg
sudo cp -r /Volumes/SourceTree/SourceTree.app /Applications/


What happens when the battery on my Apple Watch dies while I'm working out? The battery died while I was using Workout.app on my Apple Watch. What happens to my workout data when my watch finishes charging?

You lose everything that it had. Just happened to me.


Execute a script with GUI Access before login I need to execute a command-line tool to force maximum display brightness before user logs in (so login screen is shown with maximum brightness)

My problem is, if I run it from LaunchDaemons, it doesn't work. I think it is because from LaunchDaemons you can't run anything that interacts with the Window Server.

If I run it from LaunchAgents, it works. But it runs after login, so it is not an option.

Is there any alternative to LaunchDaemons to run scripts or programs that allow WindowServer access?

PreLoginAgents

macOS supports the ability to run graphical applications pre-login:

  Running Agents Before Login

  Most software that displays a user interface does not run prior to the user logging in. However, in some rare cases, it may be necessary to create a graphical agent that does.

  By default, OS X does not allow any application to draw content prior to login. If you need to do so, your agent must call the setCanBecomeVisibleWithoutLogin: method on its windows. For more information, see the documentation for that method and the PreLoginAgents sample code.

The trick is to add the following lines to your /Library/LaunchAgents  launchd plist:

<key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
<string>LoginWindow</string>

The executable must be stored in /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools.

We used this ability to show a notification window pre-login for Power Manager pending events.

This functionality may not be supported in the latest macOS; we have not relied on it for a long while.


AppleScript to close "About this Mac" window How could I use AppleScript code to close the window named "About this Mac" (A propos de ce Mac in French). I need an AppleScript for this because I use Dragon Dictate 3 commands. I am handicapped and I don't manage to use any keyboard or mouse. Only Voice and edited commands.

I tried Command+W shortcut but it didn't work for this window. It works for all other Finder windows except this one.

The window is shown by the loginwindow process, and you can close it by clicking the close button:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "loginwindow"
    click button 1 of window 1 -- or window "About This Mac"
end tell

close window 1 didn't work.


Catalina localhost ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED I have seen a number of threads that are close but no answer quite hit the mark for my issue. I have a MacOS AMP environment for testing that was setup using homebrew and that had been working swimmingly in Catalina since about January. Then about a month ago, after a "minor" Catalina update (and resulting crash), I got ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED when trying to access http://localhost (and 127.0.0.1 in case you are wondering about the hosts file).
At the time this happened, one thread I read suggested it could have something to do with the AV software. After I uninstalled the AV software, I was once again able to access localhost. Problem solved...or so I thought. Because after the latest Catalina update, I am once again not able to access. Thing is, I never reinstalled the AV program.
The MacOS firewall is off. Apache and PHP error logs are clear.
$ sudo apachectl configtest

Returns

Syntax OK

Any other ideas? Thanks in advance.

The key here is understanding the error message being generated.

When you see a message indicating a connection was refused (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) this means that the server actively rejected the connection attempt.  This is usually a firewall issue where the firewall rejects the packets.

When yo see a message indicating a time out (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT) this means that your client waited for a response and nothing happened.  This could be due to the service not being up/running, or not installed.

Getting an result back from configtest only checks to see if your httpd.conf file is correctly formatted, not that it's doing what you want it to do.  However, your httpd.conf file has little to do with whether your connection is refused or not other than the IP and/or port it listens on.

Finally, http://localhost and 127.0.0.1 (your hosts file) is a DNS related, not firewall.  An error here can cause your host to be not found but not rejected.

Things to check
So, unfortunately, nothing you've looked at is related to this.  What you have to look for is your firewall.  First, disable your firewall and see if it's working. Next, check your httpd.conf file for the Listen directive and make sure that is set properly.
For Best Results
Unless you're hosting a website on a Mac sever (very rarely done), don't install an AMP stack on your Mac.  Instead, deploy a small VM running the OS that you'll ultimately deploy to.  This way, you can configure the AMP stack exactly for what you'll be using in production and macOS updates won't have any effect on your web server configuration.


2560x1600 on Dell U3011 with new MacBook Pro I have a brand new MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) and a Dell U3011 30" display.

Is there any way to get the full 2560x1600 resolution on the Dell without the $100 Dual-Link DVI adapter?

I've tried HDMI to HDMI and Thunderbolt (Mini DP?) to HDMI, but I can't get more than 1920x1200. I've also tried resetting NVRAM/PRAM.

Try using the mini Display Port to the Dell's Display Port.
That's how I connect to 2 2560*1440 Dell screens.

I've found, in order of reliability

Display Port - works every time
DVI - works most of the time, can be fussy on some screens
HDMI - haven't used
anything  > VGA [barely works at all on anything over 1920*1200]


Unable to upgrade from OS X Mavericks to OS X Yosemite I have a problem upgrading the system from os x mavericks to os x yosemite. I tried to update it through the app store, but it says that it is unavailable in the UK? Can anyone explain to me what this means?

It means it isn't available in your region yet. You just need to give it a bit of time.


How do I delete all of the music on my iPhone 5? I have tried to delete all of the music off through iTunes and through settings. the computer and settings says it is gone but when i go to the music app it is all still there just not downloaded. all of my songs are shown but they have the cloud icon with the arrow pointing down next to them. I went them all gone to the point that I can't even see them on my phone. How do i do this?

If all your music is deleted locally, then go to Settings => Music => Show All Music and uncheck the box. This will hide all music including the purchased one stored in the cloud.


iMac 21.5 late 2013 idle fan speed I recently upgraded my HDD to a SSD. Before upgrading I never checked fan speed.
Now, after my upgrade the fan spins at 1400 rpm on idle.

Is this normal? I thought it would be quiet like on a MacBook Pro, with the fan turning on after it reaches a certain temperature. However, it seems to me the fan is now on sooner and because of this my iMac is noisier than before.

Can someone who has original hdd check fan speed and temperature and post it here?

A fan speed of 1400RPM really is nothing to worry about. And your model iMac does not require an external thermal sensor for an ssd upgrade, so that shouldn't be an issue for you.

My first step would be to try resetting your System Management Controller. To do this:

Shut down your computer
Unplug it from power
Wait 15 seconds
Plug the power cord back in
Wait for an additional 5 seconds
Press the power button to turn it back on

Software option

You can also try installing SSD Fan Control to see if that resolves your issue. However, I would only do that if the SMC reset does not resolve your issue.


Can't launch Mac OS 9 Need to launch Mac OS 9 but it says it is no longer supported, is there a way around that? I am trying to put it and an old version of QuarkXpress on an old 40 GB external hard drive.  I need access to both to open up some old important files.

What are my options?

Option 1: Run OS9 Emulator and install QuarkXpress:
Found here for free: emaculation.com

Option 2: Change filename to work on current QuarkXpress:
Assuming you have QuarkXpress on your new mac all you have to do is add the .qxp filename extension at the end of your old filenames and it will open on new versions.


Is there a quick way of toggling the predictive keyboard on iOS 13? On previous versions of iOS, I’ve generally kept the predictive keyboard turned completely off, since I found it very distracting when trying to type.

However, with iOS 13’s new swipe-to-type functionality, I find the predictive keyboard is very necessary in order to correct mispredicted words while swiping. I’d like to be able to quickly turn the predictive keyboard on and off so that I can use it when I feel like swiping but keep it hidden most of the time.

In previous versions of iOS, there were at least two ways to quickly toggle the predictive keyboard:

Swiping down on the predictive keyboard would collapse it into a smaller form and hide its predictions, and swiping up would restore it.
When pressing and holding the globe button on the keyboard, there was a toggle switch there that would turn the predictive keyboard off entirely.

Now, however, the toggle switch is not present, replaced with a “keyboard settings” option that sends me out to the settings app where I have to hunt for the option, and swiping down on the predictive keyboard appears to do nothing.

Are these options just gone forever, or is “Keyboard Settings…”—>”Predictive” really the fastest way of toggling the visibility of the predictive keyboard?

No, this is currently the only way to turn off the predictive keyboard. As of not, no shortcut exists to do it in the Shortcuts app either.

This is also the only way mentioned by this Apple article.


Create dmg file on macOS 10.14 that can be opened on macOS 10.11 Running

$ hdiutil create -size <size>b <.dmg-file> -srcfolder <directory> -ov -format UDBZ

on macOS 10.14 creates a dmg file that can't be opened on macOS 10.11. Is there an option that creates the dmg file that way that it can be used on macOS 10.11?

If the source folder is in a APFS volume, then by default a APFS volume will be created in the dmg file. This type of volume can not be read by El Capitan. The solution would be to create a dmg file which uses JHFS+ format. The correct command you should be using is given below.

hdiutil create -size <size>b -fs JHFS+ <.dmg-file> -srcfolder <directory> -ov -format UDBZ

  Note: When testing this answer, I used the -megabytes option instead of the -size option. Also, I tested while running High Sierra instead of Mojave.


Macbook Pro 2011 SSD Placement Location I just recently upgraded my 2012 macbook pro with a 250gb SSD and have succesfully clean installed a new OS on the SSD. I was also able to change the boot setting so that the SSD would boot first and be primary. I already erased the my existing HDD and will use it as a builtin storage.

Question: The picture shows my current setup with the SSD being in the Optical Drive Tray. Would there be any significant changes if i placed the SSD on where the HDD is currently placed? Are the 2 connectors the same? Does it even matter?

There will be no problem.  A SATA SSD has the same connectors as a SATA HDD drive so the connectors are identical.

To use you SSD in the optical bay, a optical bay drive kit is required.  You simply need to remove the SSD from the kit and replace it with the HDD into the same optical bay kit.

To answer your question...

  Does it even matter?

Nope.  It makes no difference.


Can I Share All Photos in iCloud Photo Library to Family Members? With iCloud Photo Library, assuming I have purchased enough storage space to store all my photos, can I then share all my photos to other my family members who are using different iCloud accounts?

(This question here seems to imply there is a limit imposed by Apple that is not publicly-known.)

According to this article by Serenity Caldwell of iMore, there are three ways to share photos to all your family members.

Use the "Family" album that is automatically created if you have Family Sharing turned on.
Create a shared album.
Use the same iCloud account for all family members.

Nevertheless, there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically share all your photos to your family members. You will still need to copy photos into the share album. (Unless you are all using the same iCloud account, which I didn't want to do, since each user already have their own active iCloud accounts.)


I cant get any apps to open anymore, how do I fix it? I was trying to get apps to not pop up on the MacOS dock,even when they weren't closed and I found a thread with the same question as me. I looked through the answers area of the thread and this is what they said in the answers area:
This question references How to hide a specific active app on OS X (has to be reversible)?

This solution worked for me, but it might depend on the application in
question. I tried it with a 3rd party app called "Burn" and it worked.

Go to your applications folder and right click (control-click) on the app you wanna hide from the dock.

Click on Show contents. You should now be able to see "inside" the app's files.

Open the Info.plist file in the Contents folder with TextEdit (right click -> "Open with...")

Go to the very bottom of the file and find the last two lines which should say:

</dict>
</plist>

Now insert this before these two lines and save the file.

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>

After this the app's dock icon will not be shown anymore. Keep in mind
that you will need to use the Activity Monitor or Terminal (killall <appname>) to quit the app if you close the window.
If closing the window quits the app, you can press cmd + h to hide
the window. This should make your app completely invisible.
To make it visible again, just remove those two lines again and the
app should behave like before.

Source: Link

so, I was stupid and did this on almost all of my apps, without opening any of them in the process, and now they all won't open at all no matter what I do. I've removed the text, I reinstalled the apps, nothing worked.. Please tell me how to fix this, I need this laptop for work as it is my main machine.

That previous Q&A should be flagged, I guess, to indicate that it's no longer a good idea. Apps are now digitally signed and notarized, and I'm guessing that editing the .plist invalidated the signature, so Gatekeeper (a macOS feature) won't let them launch anymore.
Have you rebooted the Mac? That might help. I would delete all of the apps that you modified, reboot the Mac, and try reinstalling one of them.
Then I would download and install "ArchiChect" from The Eclectic Light Company. Howard Oakley, who runs the site, is both knowledgeable and trustworthy.
Drag the app that won't launch to the ArchiChect app window, and see what it reports.
It's possible that you may be able to get the apps to launch by reinstalling them and then manually removing the quarantine flag. However, you should know that doing so will bypass the security features of macOS, which obviously puts you at some risk if these apps have been tampered with.
Assuming that you are downloading trustworthy apps from trustworthy developers (and not, say, "pirated" or "cracked" versions from somewhere) there probably is not too much risk, but you should be aware of it nevertheless.
To remove the quarantine flag, enter this command in a Terminal.app window:
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine

Make sure there is a space after the word 'quarantine'.
Then drag the app that won't launch to the Terminal window, so you end up with something that looks like this:
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner.app

(I just randomly picked an app with a space in a filename to use as an example.)
If you get a message about 'Permission Denied' try the same command prefacted with sudo and then be ready to enter your login password (i.e. the password you use to log in to your Mac):
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner.app


Can I use my iPhone as a fax machine modem using the Bluetooth connection? I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a bluetooth modem so I can send a fax using my Mac.

I can pair my iPhone to the mac and then add a fax from the Printer section of System Preferences and then, I can add to the Fax print queue from Preview. However, the print queue doesn't establish a connection to the iPhone.

I'm not interested in sending faxes over email and I'm not interested in downloading an app to the iPhone that will send faxes over the internet. I'm interested in using my iPhone as my fax machine modem and printing from my Mac.

Anyone know how can I do this?

I tried to find a solution to do this about a week ago, and found that if you're in the US with a non-jailbroken phone, you just can't.

Yeah, it annoyed me, too.

There are a number of different Bluetooth profiles; here's Apple's list of Supported Bluetooth profiles. No faxing on there, dammit.


XQuartz cannot generate any windows (even the built in terminal or xlogo) getting a bit desperate here after trying everything I could find/think of — I'll just come out and say that I have a weak back ground in unix systems.

I use XQuartz 2.7.11 to connect to a RedHat server run by our group to use some software packages. I am able to login and connect to the server normally but when I try to launch an application, terminal opens XQuartz but it cannot generate any windows. I am having the same issue with another simulation code that is installed locally but uses XQuartz to generate some UI elements — the point of saying this is that I don't believe it is any issue with connecting to the server.

Furthermore, if I open XQuartz normally and try to open the XQuartz terminal nothing happens. Under XQuartz>Applications> there are also "xman" and "xlogo" options that don't do anything when clicked. Previously I remember clicking "xlogo" would open up a small icon of XQuartz in a window. So this seems like something is preventing XQuartz from opening any kind of desktop windows.

One last note, if I try to run a terminal command that normally opens XQuartz, then XQuartz launches but doesn't generate any windows like previously mentioned but also I cannot close XQuartz. Quitting XQuartz just causes it to restart a second later (likewise for force quit). The only way to keep it from reopening is to log out. This makes it seem to me like the original command that uses the X11 window server is continually trying to open it without success causing XQuartz to come up — even if I close terminal.

I noticed this issue the first time I installed Xcode and Python IDLE. I have since removed and reinstalled every combination of XQuartz and Xcode.

Looking for any suggestions short of reinstalling macOS.

Reinstalling macOS from the online recovery option (Command-Option-R at startup) fixed the issue. All my files, programs and settings remained as before. I've tried many things but seems like this was the way to go from the start.


What are the tools required to develop iOS applications? What are the tools (hardware/software) required to develop iOS applications? Because I want to learn iPhone application development.

You'll need a Mac (any current model will do) and Xcode which can be downloaded from the Mac App Store. It comes with all the tools necessary, including a Simulator. It nevertheless is recommended to test apps on the hardware (aka an iPhone) as well.

Additional details can be found here.


How to recover jailbroken iPhone? I have a jailbroken iPhone 6,but I've been using it for 1 month and I decided I didn't want to anymore so I went on settings and erased all content and data but it made my screen stuck on the boot logo and loading bar ,what should I do?

Put it in recovery mode and restore from iTunes.

To put it in recovery mode, turn the phone off if possible (by holding down the power button), if not possible hold down both the power and home buttons to do a hard power off.

Finally, connect the Lightning cable while holding the home button, the phone should power up and then display the recovery mode logo; at this stage you can release the home button.

The rest of the process takes place on your computer.


Use custom App Shortcuts: Find "Menu Command" for Chrome switch to right/left Tab I want to add an additional key binding for Google Chrome. I want to switch between my Tabs not using (Shift)CtrlTab (really bad finger position) but use ShiftCmd -> or <-

I hope to achieve this using App Shortcuts in Keyboard-Settings. However, I need the "exact name of the menu command" which I don't know. How can I find out the exact menu commands in general and does anybody know the ones for my use case?

You can use CmdAlt> and CmdAlt< to navigate between the tabs.


How do I make a FaceTime call in macOS for contacts marked, "Siri Found in Apps"? I'd like to make a FaceTime call. To do this, I:

Open FaceTime
Type the name of my contact
Select the contact from the dropdown under the section, "Siri Found in Apps"

However, when I click either the green "Audio" or "Video" buttons, nothing happens. The buttons are not disabled. The buttons depress but have no effect.

How do I make a call at this point? Why don't the buttons do anything? If the action is not succeeding because of an error, where is the error reported? No error dialogs appear on the screen.

This only happens for me for contacts marked, "Siri Found in Apps". The others work fine. Both the "Audio" and "Video" buttons make an audio and video call respectively. Once I add the email address (the same email address Siri found) to the contact card manually in the Contacts app, then the green buttons actually make a call.

System Specifications

This is likely a bug.

As long as there’s a phone number available, you should be able to make a call.  If this is working everywhere as you indicate except via Siri, then it’s a bug.  The best course of action is to report it to Apple: https://apple.com/feedback


Why is my Siri getting activated in between conversation Recently Siri on my iPhone 7 latest iOS is getting activated, if I am speaking loudly e.g calling someone from first floor. It usually get activated when I call my son or my wife. This is creepy and I have privacy concern.Why is it happening and What should I do

Siri on Apple products is programmed into the local code and hardware. If that code thinks it hears the key phrase, it will activate. If the vibrations local to the microphone are close enough to what you trained when you said hey Siri, it triggers.

I would set up Hey Siri again one time and then consider deactivating it if you can’t eliminate the false positives.

The Hey Siri function is optional and easily disabled if you don’t like and/or trust and/or understand how it’s implemented on the device.

Tap into the Settings app for Siri & Search and toggle the Listen for “Hey Siri” function off.

Good call on not automating something you don’t want and thinking about privacy. Even if the initial “Hey Siri” happens at some point and is processed on the device, the next verbal commands the microphone (mis)interprets might not necessarily be so safe or stay on the device.


MBP Freeze + Graphics Card Problems I have an unusual but annoying problem with my MBP. The problem occurs often when running my laptop with an external monitor connected, and watching YouTube in Chrome. The problem is that the video will (seemingly randomly) freeze, audio will continue playing, and the computer becomes completely unresponsive aside from the mouse still moving. If I then shut the lid of my laptop, eventually the computer will sleep, but the screen remains black (no backlight) when attempting to wake it up again, although you do hear the CPU fan and HDD spin up like normal.

I have located the exact location in the log files that the crash occurs. The relevant portion is here.

I believe that the point at which the crash actually occurred is here:

15/04/2015 10:44:05.000 kernel[0] NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = Graphics Engine Error (GR Error 5)
15/04/2015 10:44:05.000 kernel[0] IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
15/04/2015 10:44:25.000 kernel[0] NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
15/04/2015 10:44:45.000 kernel[0] NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!

My question is this; is it:

A hardware problem (with the graphics card)?
A software problem (with the OS)?
A software problem (with Chrome)?

Since the crashes are sporadic, this is unfortunately not easy to reproduce at will, although they happen often enough to be a serious problem.

My MBP is a mid-2010 15-inch running OS X 10.10.3. The graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB and I'm using Chrome 41.0.2272.118.

Any help or advice on this problem whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

I ran into a similar issue a while back.  You will need to diagnose the video card with a diagnostic utility

1)  Download, burn, and boot Ultimate Boot CD.  There are a number of video utilities you can run that will test out your video card for you.  Since you are no longer booting OS X when you boot this CD, you are bypassing any software issues you may be experiencing from Apple and OS X.

There is a USB Flash Boot Drive option instead of a CD (I personally use this).

This will tell you if your video chip is good or bad.  If it fails at any point, then it is a safe bet that you have a hardware issue.  If everything passes, it's on to step 2.

2) Install a pervious version of OS X; Mavericks or Mountain Lion will do.  The best way is to boot from a USB drive (don't overwrite the HDD in your MBP).  A small USB drive is fine 10/20 GB is more than enough.  This is just to install OS X 10.9.x or 10.8.x so you can do some diagnostics.

Do a Time Machine Backup First!  Just in case you accidentally select the internal drive when doing this procedure.

Do a fresh install of ML or Mavericks on the USB HDD.  Let it wipe and partition the drive.

3)  Boot from the USB HDD (hold down the option key before the boot chime to select boot device).  Install Chrome and watch videos as you normally would.  If everything works properly, you have narrowed down the problem to Yosemite.    Which means you will probably have to wait for a fix from the folks at Apple.

At that point, you have really only two options:  downgrade to Mountain Lion or Mavericks or wait for an update to Yosemite.


LAPACK, BLAS, ATLAS on Mac book pro 2017, Mojave I want to know if and where LAPACK, BLAS, ATLAS packages are installed. I have been reading that these libraries speed up data crunching with numpy(python).

How can it find the location of these packages (if they are installed) and turn them off?

on linux you can do this

apt-cache policy liblapack3
apt-cache policy libblas3
apt-cache policy libatlas-base-dev

and for the lapack, you will get

liblapack3:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.7.1-4ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.7.1-4ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

For clarity, the original post is asking about mathematical (linear algebra) libraries (usually in FORTRAN or C) that are included with macOS Mojave, specifically LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage), BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms), and ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software). These libraries are included in the Accelerate framework, documentation can be found here: Apple BLAS documentation

On my machine, these are located here: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.Framework

These libraries are also included in many FORTRAN compiler packages vis-à-vis Intel iFort and the like. They are also available here: LAPACK and BLAS and ATLAS

The OP is also curious about which libraries are linked in python and how to change them. I am amending my answer to provide context on this as it is relevant to those in the Apple community who use their machines for computational intensive tasks.

To determine which libraries numpy is linked, open up terminal and type:

python
import numpy as np
np.__config__.show()

This will yield how numpy is linked. On my machine this is:

mkl_info:
    libraries = ['mkl_rt', 'pthread']
    library_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/lib']
    define_macros = [('SCIPY_MKL_H', None), ('HAVE_CBLAS', None)]
    include_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/include']
blas_mkl_info:
    libraries = ['mkl_rt', 'pthread']
    library_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/lib']
    define_macros = [('SCIPY_MKL_H', None), ('HAVE_CBLAS', None)]
    include_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/include']
blas_opt_info:
    libraries = ['mkl_rt', 'pthread']
    library_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/lib']
    define_macros = [('SCIPY_MKL_H', None), ('HAVE_CBLAS', None)]
    include_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/include']
lapack_mkl_info:
    libraries = ['mkl_rt', 'pthread']
    library_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/lib']
    define_macros = [('SCIPY_MKL_H', None), ('HAVE_CBLAS', None)]
    include_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/include']
lapack_opt_info:
    libraries = ['mkl_rt', 'pthread']
    library_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/lib']
    define_macros = [('SCIPY_MKL_H', None), ('HAVE_CBLAS', None)]
    include_dirs = ['/Users/wjid/anaconda3/include']

If you are concerned about computational efficiency and are using an Intel processor, you'll probably want to use the MKL libraries that ship with Anaconda or Miniconda (what I am using). If you want something else, you will likely have to build from source.


Whenever I try to delete a file in Finder I get "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." I can't figure out why Finder isn't letting me delete files under my home directory without providing my password. Here's a listing of some files on my desktop:

~/Desktop steve 526$ ls -l@ flower*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  43909 Jun 10 12:01 flower1.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  57568 Jun 10 12:03 flower2.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  42322 Jun 10 12:04 flower3.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  41845 Jun 10 12:04 flower4.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  37917 Jun 10 11:58 flower5.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  73718 Jun 10 11:59 flower6.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  62222 Jun 10 11:59 flower7.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  51334 Jun 10 12:00 flower8.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32

When I try to delete a file from Finder, I get this:

Here's a listing of my home directory. The permissions all look reasonable to me.

~ steve 534$ ls -al@
total 112
drwxr-xr-x@ 34 steve  steve   1156 Apr  7 09:16 .
    net.decimus.synk.fakeVolumeUUID    36
drwxr-xr-x   8 root   admin    272 Apr  7 09:38 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 steve  steve      3 Jul 18  2006 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@  1 steve  steve  21508 Jul  1 14:38 .DS_Store
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwxrwxrwt@  3 steve  steve    102 May 12  2008 .TemporaryItems
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwx------  34 root   steve   1156 Jul  8 08:40 .Trash
drwxr-xr-x   2 steve  steve     68 Nov 12  2008 .Xcode
-rw-------   1 steve  steve  12721 Jul  4 17:04 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--@  1 steve  steve    464 Jan 17  2008 .bash_profile
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwx------   3 steve  steve    102 Sep 25  2008 .cups
drwx------  14 steve  steve    476 Jul  8 08:19 .dropbox
-rw-------   1 steve  steve      0 Jan  2  2009 .gdb_history
-rw-------   1 steve  steve     46 Feb  1  2010 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x   6 steve  steve    204 Jan  9  2010 .lilypond-fonts.cache-2
drwx------   2 steve  steve     68 Jan 17  2008 .macports
drwx------   3 steve  steve    102 Jun 14  2010 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x   6 steve  steve    204 Dec 19  2008 .subversion
-rw-------   1 steve  steve   1661 Dec 19  2008 .viminfo
drwx------  18 steve  steve    612 Jul  8 08:50 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  18 steve  steve    612 Jul 19  2009 Development
drwx--x--x  13 steve  steve    442 May 28 11:19 Documents
drwx------  43 steve  steve   1462 Jul  6 15:10 Downloads
drwx------@ 20 steve  steve    680 Jul  8 08:19 Dropbox
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwxr-xr-x  24 steve  steve    816 Jun 10 11:12 EmagicBugReports
drwxr-xr-x   3 steve  steve    102 Feb 15 19:57 FXpansion
drwxr-xr-x@ 55 steve  steve   1870 Jun 29 20:05 Library
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwx------+ 14 steve  steve    476 Jul  9  2011 Movies
drwxrwxrwx  26 steve  music    884 Feb 11 14:13 Music
drwx------   7 steve  steve    238 Feb 22  2011 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  13 steve  steve    442 Jul  8 08:49 Prime95
drwxr-xr-x   8 steve  steve    272 Sep 25  2011 Public
drwxr-xr-x   7 steve  steve    238 Feb  2  2008 Sites

I can delete the files from Terminal with rm flower1.png without problem. Why is Finder being so picky?

I already tried repairing permissions in Disk Utility.

Edit
Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.4.

OS X asks for a password whenever you try to delete a file because your ~/.Trash folder belongs to the root user and has permissions drwx------ — noone but root can read, write or open this folder. Being in the same situation I tried the command shown below in Terminal and it helped:

sudo chown -R steve:staff ~/.Trash

Note that I've changed my username to yours in this example. Also note that sudo command will ask you for user password — it's OK.


I need Git. Is it better to install command line tools (183mb) or `brew install git`? I think that it is better to install Git from Homebrew:

Less size
Install only what I need - I do not need LLVM compiler, for example.
Faster install
All packages in one place
No need to re-install command line tools after every macOS upgrade.

You need the command line tools to install Homebrew anyways, see:
https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

  Requirements

  An Intel CPU
  macOS 10.12 or higher
  Command Line Tools (CLT) for    Xcode: xcode-select --install, developer.apple.com/downloads or Xcode
  A Bourne-compatible shell for installation (e.g. bash or zsh)


need help saving my stuff on my laptop So my iPhone 6 broke completely still turns on but the screen is totally cracked cant see anything and I have a lot of stuff saved on it I tried saving them to my laptop but my phone is locked how can I unlock it to get get my stuff off I basically only need an alternative way to unlock it. I have a windows laptop

Try this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/21852561#21852561

  PLfrompasadena

  Jul 31, 2014 9:35 PM
  Re: Is there a way to unlock an iphone with a non-responsive touch screen? in response to Princesscheena I am posting this solution
  hoping that it will help others.   My son dropped his iPhone5C and the
  screen is cracked.  One small area still works, but he couldn't enter
  his passcode and therefore couldn't sync with iTunes to backup the
  iPhone before giving it to someone to repair.   I searched online and
  most people said it couldn't be done. However, in this particular
  situation I was able to log in.  Essentially, I was able to turn on
  the VoiceOver mode and that allowed me to use the small area of the
  screen that still functioned. In VoiceOver mode, you swipe left/right
  to highlight different keys on the screen that can be selected by
  double-tapping.  Step by step, this is what I did:

  Hold Home key to turn on Siri, told Siri to 'Turn on VoiceOver'
  Press Home key to get to main unlock screen
  Swipe right/left until 'Slide to Unlock' is selected
  Double tap Now the passcode page comes up
  Swipe right/left to highlight the correct keys on the keyboard and double tap to 'enter' each one.
  Swipe to highlight enter/done and double tap to submit the passcode. Once the iPhone was unlocked, the first thing I did was backup the
  phone and download all the photos.   Hope this helps people.   Phil

Hope that works for you.


My iMac Doesn't boot it. Hangs with spinner and verbose mode can't boot I have my iMac and I have to install Yosemite because I got iMac with older version when I got it. Then I did too many updates but I had my iTunes account and I had my credit card option set to "None" so that's where I started. My iMac froze!!! I can't boot anywhere! I haven't plugged any USB devices at any side I can find. So I used my second but it's non-mac computer. "Yes I have PC and iMac" but I gonna online and searched how I can boot to verbose mode "Learned when I got it". And then I hold "Command" key wich is "Windows" key on pc keyboard and I press "V" as well to boot to that mode but then I noticed this error came up.

xc240 -- 0xd000 -- 0xbc00 *****

And i did look in Google but there are no results for the error so i was worried that i should reinstall it. But i hate that because its waste of time. What command can i do in "Single user" mode for bringing OS X back to life?

  Specs of my iMac

 - 5024MB Ram = 4.9 GB Ram

 - 150GB of hard drive space

Sounds like your installation is messed up.

Are you able to boot in Recovery Mode?

Hold both the Command and R keys on the keyboard until you hear the chime noise.


Is there a way to retrieve a log with histories on all apps currently or previously installed on an iPad? Is there a way for me to extract a log with past installation / update information on the apps that are currently / have been installed in an ipad before?

You can use https://privacy.apple.com and request a log of Apple ID details. May take some days.
In App Store, in the profile section, one can visit all previous purchases and hide/unhide purchases.
Easy way to see a list of all the apps I have installed on my iPhone This suggests using Apple Configurator and after plugging in, go to Actions -> export -> information.


Is there a Terminal command that will force open the DVD tray? Is there a command I can enter in Terminal that will force eject a CD or DVD? One that will always work, equivalent to a "Force Quit" for an app?

I have an intermittent problem getting the DVD in my Mac Pro to eject. Right now the only solution is to do a full restart, but that is obviously not always convenient. I'm hoping there is a workaround to this through the magical power of UNIX...

First of all, try the "nice" way using the drive utility

drutil tray eject

If this doesn´t work (probably because the system can´t unmount the volume), the following command will forcefully unmount the Volume with name "untitled" (make sure you´re using the right mountpoint!!):

hdiutil detach -force /Volumes/untitled


Message send failure on iOS 7 I recently bought a iPod touch 5th generation and installed iOS 7. Whenever I try to send messages, I get a message failure notice. I checked Settings, Contacts, changed the DNS to 8.8.8.8 but nothing seems to fix the problem. Can you help?

Try resetting your network settings - this fixes a variety of problems with Messages in iOS7. You shouldn't need to change your DNS, especially if you can browse the web normally with your existing DNS settings.


Implementing licensing mechanism for Applications Distributed in App store I have an app that I intend to distribute via the App store.
Currently, the user purchases a license from the website, he receives a key via email and our web server validates the license key entered by the user in the application.
Is it possible to distribute the app in the App Store without any change ie:the user purchase on app store,he receives a key.

Can i distribute the trial version as free on App store?

Licensing Schemes

No, applications can not use their own key based licensing system with purchases being handled by Apple's App Store.

See Apple's Validate app and in-app purchase receipts with the App Store documentation about how to handle App Store purchases and the Receipt Validation Programming Guide.

  See WWDC 2018 > Engineering Subscriptions for more information on implementing receipt validation for apps that contain auto-renewable subscription products.

Apple does not provide licensing sample code. Apple fear that if everyone uses the same implementation, it becomes trivial to bypass. If you need code level help, contact Apple and use a Technical Support Incident.

Trials

Apple does not accept free trials in the App Store. Applications must have value that does not expire. In-app purchases can be used to unlock additional features. See App Store Review Guidelines.


When my external display is on, my Mac thinks it's off. When it's off, on Hardware details:

MacBook Air, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter
Standard HDMI cable
Famous Maker 23” Ultra-Slim LED Display, 1080p

Yesterday everything worked fine. Today when I connect the display to my laptop or turn it off or on, I get a blue screen on the laptop for a second, but then it goes back to normal.

The weird thing is that in the System Preferences > Displays preference pane, when the display is plugged in and ON it doesn't detect it, but when it's plugged in and OFF "Gather Windows" appears right beside "Detect Displays, and you can drag windows off the screen where the display should be.

The "Gather Windows" button allows me to see the Displays window for both displays. I've used it to play around with the resolution but this did not work.

Any idea what could be going on?

Restart you Mac and try resetting the PRAM:

Hold down the ⌘+⌥+R+P keys until you hear the start up chime two times.


Installing VirtualBox guest additions on v4.3.28 (IE no Devices menu tab)? Using OSX Yosemite and VirtualBox v4.3.28 I'm trying to install guest additions. In all online sources it says go to Devices -> Install Guest Additions but in this version I guess there is no Devices menu. In all the screenshots on the help it shows Devices next to Window and that is just not present on my VB (See screenshot). I've checked in other menus and VB preferences but I don't see anything related to guest additions or devices anywhere.

You'll only get that menu once you start the Virtual Machine, which launches in a separate application in the Dock. That Virtual Machine application has a devices menu, or you can right click on the CD icon in the status bar.


"Today summary" widget in notification centre displays strange behaviour I have upgraded from El Capitan to Sierra a couple of weeks ago. Today, I have been experimenting with widgets in Notification Centre and came across this puzzling issue. I am not sure whether it is a bug or intended behaviour hence I decided to ask a question and confirm.

This is what my Notification Centre looks now

As you can see, "Today" has no frame or border around it. However, when I try to edit widgets, it appears

Prior to me removing and adding "Today" widget, it had border/frame both, when displayed and when being edited.

Is this a bug in Sierra or intended behaviour?

The today widget has no widget frame or title, except when in edit mode where the remove button is shown. This is standard behaviour since the today widget can be removed and added, but cannot be rearranged.


Used a chemical on my MacBook screen. Now what? I used Monster ScreenClean to clean the screen of my MacBook Air. I later read that this will leave a film on the screen, which seems to be the case when holding the screen up against the light.

How can I return my screen to the state it was before using the chemical? (Preferably without purchasing additional or hard-to-obtain products.) Or is my screen permanently ruined?

The printing on the bottle very informatively lists the following ingredients:

De-ionized water
Proprietary polymers

You may have damaged the coating on your MacBook Air Screen.  Chemicals "strip" the protective coating that's applied to the glass.  It's like if you peeled some of the tint on your car window; you can't wipe it back on.

Monster includes a PDF "manual" which is available on their website's support page.

  If the product to be cleaned stipulates "soap and water" cleaning only or
  recommends that no cleaners be used on your product, do not use this
  cleaner as a cleaning method.

As, as pointed out in the comments, Apple says to dampen a soft cloth with water only.

  To clean the screen on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air,
  first shut down the computer and unplug the power adapter. Dampen a
  soft, lint-free cloth with water only, then use it to clean the
  computer's screen.

Bottom Line

You probably damaged the protective coating.  You may be able to "polish" the streak out by completely removing the protective layer, but this is just conjecture at this point.


How to reset OS X 10.8 to boot? I ran the dd command on /dev/rdisk1 and now OS X is not starting.

Is it possible to recover the OS? I have access to recovery mode, but Disk Utility says that the disk is fine.

You can Erase the disk using Disk Utility (open Disk Utility, select the disk, then the Erase tab, and click Erase), then use the Reinstall OS X option in the Recovery HD utilities list, following the instructions as a normal OS X install.

Alternatively, use Internet Recovery by booting with ⌘⌥R.


What is the default (blue) value for AppleHighlightColor? Lots of popular dotfiles repos (stemming from this one) include this:

# Set highlight color to green
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColor -string "0.764700 0.976500 0.568600"

It looks bad. How do I change it back? What was the original value?

The original value of blue is used when AppleHighlightColor doesn't exist, therefore you can reset it deleting AppleHighlightColor:

defaults delete -g AppleHighlightColor

You can change the AppleHighlightColor with a GUI through System Preferences → General → Highlight Color.

Setting the highlight colour to Green through System Preferences:

~ ❯ defaults read -g AppleHighlightColor
0.752941 0.964706 0.678431

Setting the highlight colour to Blue  through System Preferences:

~ ❯ defaults read -g AppleHighlightColor
2015-05-21 18:47:25.072 defaults[37881:344707]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) does not exist

-g is shorthand for NSGlobalDomain


MacOS equivalent for Ubuntu Linker (ld) command? I'm following some tutorials from 2015, and in it you run this Linker command:
ld -T linker.ld -melf_i386 loader.o -o kernel.elf

I get this error:
ld: unknown option: -T

I tried to replace it with ld --script=linker.ld -melf_i386 loader.o -o kernel.elf, but this error: ld: unknown option: --script=linker.ld
After now looking through man ld, it seems neither of these are options. This tutorial was designed for Ubuntu, what would be the MacOS equivalent?
If it matters, I am on an Intel Big Sur machine.

Linker scripts can be used with the GNU version of ld to customise how you want your program to be linked. Essentially not all customizations can be made with command line arguments, and instead you specify them in a linker script.
The ld command on macOS on the other hand allows you to specify all the possible customizations through the command line arguments. Therefore linker scripts are not used and not supported.
If you really want to find an "equivalent" option to -T, it would be @. You can go ld @file [...] and the contents of the file named file will be added to the command line arguments. It does not give you further possibilities for customisation than those already available as command line arguments.
Note that linker scripts made for the GNU version of ld cannot be used with the standard macOS supplied version of ld.


Apps deleted in iTunes 11 not removed from iPhone & iPad In previous versions of iTunes I could delete an app and this deletion would propagate to all devices on synchronization.  It no longer seems to be the case in iTunes 11.0.2.  I can delete the app from iTunes, but the app isn't deleted from my iPhone or iPad on synchronization.  Is this a new feature or a bug?  Is there a configuration option to change this?

This seems like new feature since you can manage applications on your iDevice without changing others. This is way like iPhone Configuration Utility always do.


How can I avoid iTerm trying to scp a file when ⌘-clicking it? I am working with a developer setup so that I run my code in a docker container and be able to edit it locally (via volume). Local path is e.g. /path/to/my/project while inside docker container it is /app/source.
Say I have a file relative to the project called app/models/team.rb.
On an error in the container I see an output like this:
/app/source/app/models/team.rb:13:in my_method...

iTerm seemed to be smart about the open on ⌘-click such that it underlined only the app/models/team.rb:13 (incl. line number) when I hover over the a of app (unfortunately only on the first character), and opened the local file in my editor (VSCode). That was already great.
I now added an iTerm profile that identifies when a session is running inside docker (greedy: auto profile switching checking for "&docker") and sets the hostname and path via Triggers and regex (besides colors etc). This also works fine.
However now when I hover over the filename, the whole path is underlined and when I ⌘-click, iTerm tries to download via scp (which fails).
How can I avoid iTerm to try to scp the file and make it realize again how to load the local file?
I already tried not to set the hostname, but this results in iTerm not providing anything anymore for opening. When I don't set the path then it's working like before of course, but I'd like to have this information of the docker container in the status bar.

I know this is not a direct answer to your question, but here is how I have handled the situation in other cases. Instead of mounting your local volume at /app, mount it in the container at /path/to/my/project. That way the file has the same path name inside Docker as outside it and you can skip special processing of the path name in iTerm.
If you are running Docker Desktop for Mac, the default osxfs driver will handle for you the issues arising from the files having different owners and permissions inside the container than outside and you do not have to worry about it. (This is a unique benefit of running on the Mac, other platforms do not have this feature at this time.)


Share a single calendar with iCloud I would like to share one of my calendars with a friend, without uploading my other calendars, and without making this shared calendar public. Is that possible?

If on mac:

Open up calendar app.
Right click on the specific calendar you want to share with someone.
Click on "Share Calendar..."
Write the name of iCloud user you want to share that calendar with.

If on ios:

Open up calendar app.
Find the calendar you want to share.
Press the "i" icon aligned at the right of each calendar.
Click "Add Person" and write your friends iCloud adress, name, whatever..

I gotta mention it mainly works on iCloud calendars, not for lets say "Google" account's calendar.
I hope it helps, feel free to comment here if you got any more question.


MacBook Pro 2015 - New SSD, can't install macOS I installed a 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 into my MacBook Pro 13" 2015 (128GB).
I followed instructions in a youtube video. (Boot-Stick created, case opened, battery disconnected, SSD removed, 970 Evo Plus with adapter installed, battery connected and booted from the boot stick).

But now I have my problem and maybe someone can help me.

After I have selected the boot stick in the boot menu, the white apple logo appears against a black background and a progress bar appears below it. However, the MacBook dies off after about half of the progressbar and the following error message appears:

"Your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few seconds to continue starting up"

I have already re-created the boot stick twice. And I tested it with my old Apple hard drive. As soon as the "old" 128GB disk is inside, the installation program downloads completely and I could reinstall macOS.

Maybe someone had a similar error here and can help me? Or do I have an incompatible combination of hardware?

The answer to the problem is the SSD itself!

Apparently MacBooks can't handle the Samsung 970 Evo Plus. After is used a 970 Evo it worked just fine.

So keep your eyes open when you buy new SSD for your "old" MacBook!


Performance problems, possibly malware? I have concerns about malware or something significantly affecting the performance of my iMac.

As you can see from the screen shot below I have updated to OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5, but I did this after I started to have problems in the hope that any new security updates would help.

Additionally, I have installed Avast Mac Security and it hasn't identified anything.

Among my performance problems:

Applications can open very slowly.
Typing often has a very long lag before the letters or words appear on the screen.
Searches using Spotlight take ages.
Searches in Mail (which uses Spotlight?) take ages.
Clicking through folders in Finder can take ages for files to appear.

Very frustrating all of this.

I did have one of those MacKeeper things that locked up Safari one day but I've pretty thoroughly looked for evidence of it and can't find any.

Still, in the screenshot of my Activity Monitor below:

I consistently see the process, mds, seeming to command a ridiculous amount of CPU time.  This doesn't seem normal to me.

I have additionally, cleared Spotlight's index by adding Macintosh HD to the Privacy list them removing it.  I have further put just about every folder into the Privacy list except for Documents and Mail & Messages.  In Spotlight's Search Results, I have unchecked everything except:

Documents
Folders
Mail & Messages
Contacts
Bookmarks & History

and I still have all of this mds activity?

One more additional symptom, that has me concerned.  Some of my saved Safari information, like logins to innocent websites have disappeared.  Not certain if this followed the MacKeeper yuck or after the update to OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5.

Also, I do have Time Machine running.  Not certain if the mds stuff has anything to do with it, but I even turned of Time Machine and I still saw all that mds activity.

Any suggestions about how to solve this problem or even how to analyze it much appreciated.

Well, for starters, clearing Spotlight's index will make mds have to work all the harder to refill it.

If you've ever had MacKeeper on there, you need to get hold of Malwarebytes to get rid of the leftovers.

Avast, in itself, will slow down your machine. I tried it once, got rid of it within a week.

I'd also be tempted to say updating to El Capitan might fix some of it. I found Yosemite was getting pretty laggy towards the end. I even posted on here about one aspect of it - Typing lag on SE sites - Safari


What is the best method of locking a kids ipad to a particular app? I would like my children to have unlimited access to a Sonos device in their room so as to listen to Pandora or Audible audiobooks or whatever.

However, controlling Sonos requires a device with an app and I don't want my children on the web or using apps, etc.  I would like to lock the tablet to only the Sonos app.

I see two methods of doing this - Guided Access and Single App Mode.

Guided Access appears to be just what I am looking for - and further, is described by Sonos as the correct way to do this:

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3167?language=en_US

... however, all you have to do to jump out of guided access is force reboot the ipad with power+home for 15 seconds and you get a freshly rebooted ipad, and are not locked in the guided access app.  It is my understanding that the latest versions of iOS behave that way ... and my kids will figure that out in an hour.

What about "single app mode" ?  I think this is also known as "kiosk mode" ?

I think you need to have a MDM account and a controller system and ... that's not something I'm going to setup for my two kids at home, right ?  Should I just ignore "single app mode" and pretend it doesn't exist ?

All this to ask:

How can I lock the ipad to a particular app and not have it trivially (laughably) easy to break out ?

Thanks.

The Guided Access method is the one that is usually suitable for home usage. It is, as you describe, easy to break out of if you want.

If you want to protect against reboot breaking out of Guided Access, then "Single App Mode" is the way to go. In contrary to what you write, it is not necessary to have an MDM system for that to work.

All you need to do is download the free app "Apple Configurator 2" from the App Store on a Mac. Connect the iPad with a cable, and select the iPad in Apple Configurator 2.

If this is the first time you use Apple Configurator 2 with the iPad, you'll  want to click the "Prepare" button in the top bar. You'll want to choose to prepare with "Manual Configuration". Do not add to device enrollment program or add MDM. Choose also that you want to "Supervise devices".

NOTE: THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTENT AND SETTINGS ON YOUR DEVICE.

When this step is done, your iPad will behave like a new app. You'll want to connect to the WiFi again and install the Sonos app. When everything is ready, connect the iPad to the Mac again and start up Apple Configurator 2.

From the menu bar choose Actions, then Advanced and then "Start Single App Mode". You'll then be presented with a list, where you need to choose the Sonos app.

This will keep the iPad in the Sonos app even after reboots. You'll need to connect the iPad to the Mac and use Apple Configurator 2 again to disable Single App Mode again. The option is again found in the Actions menu under Advanced.


Bootcamp Partition Erased and Partition is Gone (Now it's FREE SPACE) I removed my Bootcamp Partition and now I suddenly lost about 75GB of space on my Macintosh HD drive. I had 256GB of internal default storage; now I have about 174GB. Bootcamp partition does not show up on disk utility. In the terminal disk lit below, you can see it under "/dev/disk0" that it doesn't even have a disk number or identifier. It's literally just "(free space)". HELP! I need to reunite the partitions into a normal 256GB storage.
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         174.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
                    (free space)                         75.7 GB    -

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +174.9 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            14.9 GB    disk1s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 14.9 GB    disk1s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 288.3 MB   disk1s2
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                655.5 MB   disk1s3
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   6:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     151.9 GB   disk1s6

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         1.5 TB     disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         500.0 GB   disk2s3

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.5 TB     disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume Samsung Y3 Media        526.5 GB   disk3s1

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk4
                                 Physical Store disk2s3
   1:                APFS Volume TIME MACHINE            133.8 GB   disk4s2

You should not need disk0s3. You can remove the partition with the command given below.
diskutil erasevolume free none disk0s3

The free space can now be added to the APFS container by using the command given below.
diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 0


Access to Time Capsule via Internet Can I access data on a current Time Capsule via the internet? If so, how does it work? Would I be able to make Time Machine Backups then as well? Does it appear as a disk in Finder?

Yes, if you sign in to your iCloud account in the TC preferences. Fire up AirPort utility and make sure your iCloud account info is in the "Back to my Mac" section of the "Base Station" tab.

Your TC disk will show up in the finder under "Shared" on any macs that are also signed into iCloud/BTMM.

Not sure if you'll be able to select it as a backup disk though; Time Machine preferences don't have a standard file chooser UI, it seems to demand either a local disk or a Time Capsule on a local network.


Add text substitution for all words ending with certain letters I’d like to have automatic spelling correction in MAC OSX 10.7 for all words ending with certain letter sequences. It would help me a lot in my typing if all words ending with "...ao” were substituted by “ão”, for example.

Is it possible, or do I really have to add every word in Text and Language —> Text menu?

What you're looking for is probably a text-replacement suite that supports regular expressions.  They can be cryptic at first but once you learn the syntax, they are extremely powerful.

There was a previous question on another site that netted a product called Find and Replace It which looks appropriate for your usage.


An Error Has Occurred: Downloading and installing Keynote Update: Looks like the installer is looking for a previous version of Keynote to upgrade, from appstore.log:

storeagent[473] <Critical>: SoftwareMap: No app was found with bundle ID com.apple.iWork.Keynote to upgrade to 6.2

First question here.

I purchased Keynote last night and switched to the Purchases tab to watch the download begin (0K of about 434MB).  Immediately the progress bar changed to the Installed button but I saw (via Little Snitch) that bandwidth was still being consumed by storeagent.

Later, storeagent stopped consuming bandwidth and App Store said Could Not Download Keynote: An Error Has Occurred.  In Applications I saw Keynote with its own progress bar empty.

I've tried emptying the ~/Library/Cache for storeagent, signing in and out of the App Store, restarting the Mac (OS X Mavericks) to no avail.

Any ideas?

Here are the most relevant entries from Console:

6/19/14 6:18:26.767 AM storeagent[401]: *** Assertion failure in
-[SoftwareInstallOperation _startInstall], /SourceCache/Pisa/Pisa-232.9/iTunes Protocol/Built Into App/SoftwareInstallOperation.m:338

6/19/14 6:18:26.768 AM storeagent[401]: error Error Domain=SoftwareInstallOperation Code=0 "The installation could not be started." UserInfo=0x7faae8fa30d0 {NSLocalizedDescription=The installation could not be started., NSUnderlyingError=0x7faae8fa2c60 "NSInternalInconsistencyException"}

6/19/14 6:18:26.768 AM storeagent[401]: underlyingError Error Domain=SoftwareInstallOperation Code=0 "NSInternalInconsistencyException" UserInfo=0x7faae8fa2c90 {NSLocalizedDescription=NSInternalInconsistencyException, NSLocalizedFailureReason=[PKInstallRequest requestWithPackages:(
    "<PKPackageSpecifier>:\n{\n    URL = \"file:///var/folders/3h/gqqtp7fd5b73ct9c40cbxgqm0000gs/C/com.apple.appstore/409183694/mzps4539971783482202424.pkg#Keynote6.pkg\";\n displayName = TITLE;\n    displayVersion = \"6.2\";\n    identifier = \"com.apple.pkg.Keynote6\";\n    options = 0;\n    version = \"6.2.0.0.1.1341568473\";\n}" ) destination:/] failed}

6/19/14 6:18:26.768 AM storeagent[401]: localException [PKInstallRequest requestWithPackages:(
    "<PKPackageSpecifier>:\n{\n    URL = \"file:///var/folders/3h/gqqtp7fd5b73ct9c40cbxgqm0000gs/C/com.apple.appstore/409183694/mzps4539971783482202424.pkg#Keynote6.pkg\";\n displayName = TITLE;\n    displayVersion = \"6.2\";\n    identifier = \"com.apple.pkg.Keynote6\";\n    options = 0;\n    version = \"6.2.0.0.1.1341568473\";\n}" ) destination:/] failed

Here's what worked for me, sign out of App store, quit it.  In the Terminal run:

  defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true

Start App Store, in the Debug menu, choose Reset App, sign in again, then choose Start Scan for Updates.  Tried Keynote again and it worked.


Deleted icons reappear on dock after reboot Well, I've been having some issues lately. While trying to get the USB WiFi antenna working again on my wireless bridge I found the adapter's light wasn't activating, so I tried plugging it into my iMac to troubleshoot. The computer didn't acknowledge the antenna when I plugged it in. Assuming it needed a driver, I rooted around and found a 10.7 driver pkg on the adapter's driver disc.

I proceeded to install said driver, and reboot. On reboot the device was still not recognized, but now the dock's icon set had changed. My dock usually contains Finder (Obviously), Firefox, Terminal, Settings, and Mission Control. However, now Maps, iBooks, Siri, and Photos were also on the dock, dispersed randomly throughout my other icons. On top of this both my docked app's custom icon and one of my docked folder's custom icons were reset (the icons were replaced by question marks, but the apps would still launch).

I've managed to fix the disappearing folder icon, however my app's custom icon is still missing on every boot, no matter how many times I fix it, and Maps, iBooks, Siri, and Photos still reappear in my dock in the same spots every time I turn on the machine. This was at first a minor inconvenience, but it has since become a major annoyance that causes me to hesitate to reboot or switch over to Windows at all, knowing I'll have to reconfigure the dock each time.

I've tried to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.db, but unsurprisingly with no luck. This is a very oddly specific problem and I'm struggling to think of any explanation as to why this is happening or why a WiFi driver install package would even be able to cause this problem.

System in question is iMac 14,2 macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. (BTW, I have since scrapped my old antenna and uninstalled the driver in favour of simply buying a better one, so it was definitely caused by something the driver installer did rather than a file it installed.

Maybe try both resetting and restarting the Dock.

(I know you've already reset it, but I'll provide full steps below for the benefit of others):

Go to Finder
Press and hold the option key down
Now go to the Go menu
Select the Library option to open the User's Library folder. You can let go of the option key now.
Go to the Preferences folder (i.e. within the Library folder)
Find and move the com.apple.dock.plist file to the Trash
Now open Terminal (usually located in Applications > Utilities)
Enter this command killall -KILL Dock
Press enter
Re-add any non-default icons (i.e. apps) that you've added to the Dock, and remove any you don't want.


How to get the iPod Nano 5th gen battery health Is there any way I can get the battery health of an iPod, specifically a 5th gen Nano?
I've done a little bit of googling and I don't think there is a way, but I though I could give it a try here.

I would like to buy a used iPod Nano (5th gen), but I am worried that the battery might not last very long, so I was wondering if there is any way I could check that (other than playing a song over and over again).

Thanks

Apple have software at the Genius Bars which can diagnose faults, read the current voltage, and assess the health of devices but I've never been able to find a copy before.

There is a diagnostic mode for iPods which you can access by resetting the device with Menu+Select and then upon seeing the Apple logo, press Rewind+Select. There are many tests on there including some battery ones within the Power section, however I doubt this will tell you much without a lot of research.

Basically, no, there's no easy way to test the battery other than playing a song over and over as you've stated. Perhaps you could get a quick written agreement with the seller that you'd expect the battery to be at least 80% as good as the expected battery life or something along those lines, and if not they will refund you?


Turning off Apple hardware checks on startup Since I stay on top of possible hardware errors using utilities, I don't want to allow my Mac to boot up and go through the checks each time.  How do I skip over this process each time the computer boots by using Terminal commands, and then how do I reinstate the default startup routines if I want to have a traditional boot?

You can’t bypass this.

It’s technically not an Apple limitation as all computers (PCs too) need to run a minimal set of tests to probe how much RAM is available, what boot devices are present, etc.   Without it, your Mac wouldn’t know from where to boot from at a very minimum


Preferred Location for cgi executables in Lion Server This question relates to use of a Lion Server only for testing and prototyping, so I don't need multiple sites hosting separate domains. All of my projects have directories in the root directory, not in separate "Sites" sub-directories.

In Lion Server, Apple has dropped the previous directory arrangement of:

/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables [aliased as cgi-bin]

/Library/WebServer/Documents       [aliased as root directory]

Now, the web server is simply:

/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default

After I installed Lion Server, Apache was still configured with cgi-bin aliased to /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables and root directory to /Library/WebServer/Documents. I changed the latter in the Web section of Lion's Server.app to /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default.

I'd like to ditch /Library/Webserver. I can't find any reference to a preferred/recommended directory for my executables. I'm thinking:
/Library/Server/Web/Data/Exec   [aliased in Apache config as cgi-bin or whatever]

I'm used to having all my executables in one place, and they usually share lots of modules in common, so I'm not inclined to put a cgi directory in each project's own directory.

Suggestions? Current best practices?

Thanks.

OS X being an unix-based system, you may use the standard unix file structure for that.

Generally speaking, most unix/linux distros use /var/www/ for web server storage, you could imagine something like /var/www/html for pages and media and /var/www/cgi-bin for cgi executables.

There are others locations available (/srv for example), see this list on wikipedia for an explanation on the directory structure (if needed)


How to disable preview for some types (EPS) of files thumbnails in Mac finder? I am stocker and draw tons of images in Adobe Illustrator. All images are being saved in pair of EPS and JPG format. I updated to Catalina on my Mac and the Finder now shows preview for both EPS and JPG Thumbnail and it is impossible now to work for me with tons of duplicated files visually.  Before my Finder is shown only preview for JPG and all was polite and good.

I attached how I what to see all in finder. Buy the way, all old folders still as I want, but all new files created - there is .eps file preview

You need to disable /System/Library/QuickLook/EPS.qlgenerator.  You can rename it to append .backup to that & then rename it back to original to restore it.

OR you can simply make a copy somewhere else and delete this quicklook generator.

You may need to run

qlmanage -r

after that.

The way I reached there is:

mdls /path/to/some/epsFile/pwrdLogo.eps   -name kMDItemContentTypeTree

& then searching the output of

qlmanage -m

for  one of these

kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
    "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript",
    "public.item",
    "public.data",
    "com.adobe.postscript",
    "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript",
    "public.composite-content",
    "public.content"
)


Internet Sharing Over Ethernet I am attempting to share the WiFi connection on my MacBook Air running Mojave over Ethernet. In other words, Computer #1 connects via Ethernet to Computer #2 and Computer #2 is doing Internet Sharing with Wi-Fi

I am able to successfully connect another computer via Ethernet but I can only ping the machine itself, I can't get out to the Internet. Firewall is disable, as is Little Snitch.

Any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong?

Your first screenshot shows (I think) that you have configured Computer #1 with a manually entered IP address of 192.168.70.1. It's been a while since I played with this, but I dug into some of the details of Internet Connection Sharing a while ago - see an answer I wrote back in 2014 here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/135163/22953.

When Internet Connection Sharing is turned on on Computer #2, that machine will have two IP addresses - one for WiFi and one for Ethernet. Each will be in a different subnet. For example: WiFi gets 192.168.61.x, and Ethernet gets 192.168.2.y.

Computer #1 will need an IP address in the same subnet as the Ethernet interface on Computer #2... so 192.168.2.z.

When I wrote that answer in 2014, it seemed likely that the Ethernet subnet here would be 192.168.2, not 192.168.70. I think if you set Computer #1 to configure "Using DHCP" instead of "Manually", I hope it should be assigned an address like that automatically.


How to get old contacts back from Exchange on iPhone? A user has an iPhone that is using Exchange email.

The email password recently changed and the iPhone kept trying to connect using the old password, which kept locking him out of his email on his laptop and tablet.

I tried to change the Exchange details on the iPhone but it refused to authenticate, and I decided it would be just simpler to remove and re-add the Exchange account on his phone.

After I re-created the Exchange credentials, all was up and running. Thinking at first that all was sorted out, he later realized that most of his phone numbers were gone.

Is there a way to have the iPhone download the contacts from the Exchange server?

PS the iPhone6 is relatively new and I am not accustomed to iOS interface.

You can use this app to import your contacts from CSV file to your iPhone:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contacts-in-import-csv-contacts/id549639443?mt=8

You can send CSV file to app via email attachment or iTunes. More details:
http://csvcontacts.wordpress.com/user-instructions/

You can handle phone number types correctly ("mobile","work","home"), import birdthays from any date format and many more.


SIP prevents Lync 2011 from starting I'm running OS X 10.11.5, and try to start Microsoft Lync 2011.

When trying to start the Lync application, it directly just exits. I see following log messages:

2016-07-18 15:32:49,309 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc
2016-07-18 15:32:49,329 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
2016-07-18 15:32:49,346 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/QuickTime.rsrc
2016-07-18 15:32:49,362 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc

Any ideas on how to fix this? Do I need to configure SIP to allow for this, and if so, any tips about how I do that would be appreciated.

Installing the "OS X El Capitan 10.11.6" Update fixed the issue. This is perhaps not a proper answer, since I still don't know the underlying cause, but I post it anyway since it points to the cause being configuration of OSX and not a problem with Lync. Since it was fixed by the upgrade, I most probably could have configured my previous version of OSX (10.11.5) to fix it but I don't know how.


iPhone almost always defaults to Music app over Spotify Before iOS 7 it seemed like if I had a "music" app open, when I would hit the play button (from the lock screen, ear bud button, bluetooth speakers, etc.) the music from that app would start playing. Now however, it only does that sometimes. For example, last night, I was listening to Spotify on my phone. When I was on my way to work this morning, I hit the bluetooth play button in my car, and it started playing Spotify (exactly what I wanted). Then after I have been to work for about an hour, I plug my ear buds in and hit play, the Apple Music app takes over.

Before I hit the play button, the Spotify app was open and the Music app was closed.

Any idea why this is happening? My phone also randomly restarts from time to time and I am worried that there is something bigger going on with my phone than the Music app just wanting to take over all the time. I would love to know if other people are having this problem or if it's something rare.

My device is an iPhone 5s with the latest version of iOS 7.

It's nothing to do with your iphone it's generally an option on your stereo settings. On my ford fusion, I can select between two apps - Podcasts and Music. I guess it depends on whether your stereo was precisely developed for iPhone or it is generic for any other bluetooth connection.


12-inch MacBook & Ethernet I am trying to configure the network on my 12-inch MacBook. I have the following manual:

But there is no Ethernet in the list.

I tried to import it from my old computer, but it output the following:

  The "8021x" configurations could not be important because a "8021x" service has not be set up in Network preferences.

Could you help me?

OS Version: 10.11.5

 Hardware: Ethernet
  BSD Device Name: en1
  IPv4:
      Configuration Method: DHCP
  IPv6:
      Configuration Method: Automatic
  Proxies:
      Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
      FTP Passive Mode: Yes
  Service Order: 1

VPN-Zugang:

  Type: IPSec
  IPv4:
      Configuration Method: Automatic
  Proxies:
      Exclude Simple Hostnames: 0
      FTP Proxy Enabled: No
      FTP Passive Mode: Yes
      Gopher Proxy Enabled: No

The 12-inch MacBook doesn't have an Ethernet port. It is normal for it to not give you an option for something that it doesn't have.

If you can't use WiFi, you will need a USB-C to Ethernet adaptor, as noted by Apple.


Is there a setting to force Adium to open a new chat in a new window? For Adium, a single window holds many chats.

from official link (http://trac.adium.im/wiki/TabbedMessaging)
"A single window might contain 10 different tabbed chats"

Is there any setting where I can force Adium to open new chat in new window?

Yes. Under Preferences -> General, uncheck the box called 'Create new chats in tabs' as on the screenshot below.


Clone one mac to another? I have 2 macbook pro A and B. I want to transfer A to B to make them identical. I have done something similar before by creating a disk image and then retoring a new hd from the same disk image. However, I tired the following and it seems I am missing something:

plug-in external HD with a newly created disk image from computer A into computer B
Launch disk utility on computer B
Click restore on the 1 and only partition
Select the source to be the image on the external hd (.dmg file)
select the destination to be the partition.

Then I get a promted to scan the disk image but it fails with error unable to scan Resource Busy.

What am I doing wrong? Am I supposed to boot in recovery mode before?

Yes - booting to Recovery HD is the best option. Then you can do the bit for bit copy. I'm liking to do installs and then run Migration Assistant (over the network if needed or) by connecting over target disk mode to migrate from the old Mac to the clean new OS during the initial setup.

The procedure for that is to boot the new Mac to Recovery HD and to erase it completely if it already ran the setup assistant and created an initial user.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

The reasons I like migration is:

You know the new OS is clean/pristine
It's faster - sometimes far faster
System unique files are actually unique so that the two "clones" aren't too close a match for some oddball edge cases and Time Machine backup cases.


How can I make Growl Tunes start automatically? How can I make GrowlTunes start automatically when either Growl or OSX does?

Go to Preferences -> Accounts -> Select your account -> Select the "Login Items" button or tab (not sure what I would call it!) -> Then press the + sign to add a new start up item and select GrowlTunes.


Make iTunes Read-only I have a huge iTunes collection and have been researching this for a while but cannot seem to find an answer.

Basically I would like to leave my iTunes collection open so that people can select their own songs. My only concern is that they might accidentally delete or change info in the tracks.

Is there any way that I could have a read-only (or play-only) toggle for my iTunes library on OS X?

You can turn on Home Sharing in iTunes and allow other users to stream music from it to iOS devices or Apple TV and copy content to their own libraries. You can also prevent their playcounts from being updated in your library.

Open iTunes
Go to iTunes > Preferences
Go to the Sharing tab
Check Share my library on my local network
Choose entire library or specific playlists
Uncheck Home Sharing computers and  devices update play counts if you do not want this to be updated

See Setting up Home Sharing on your computer for more information.


"iCloud Download" column in iTunes keeps reappearing I updated my iTunes on my computer, and one of the things I noticed was that the "iCloud Download" column had now appeared on top of my music library. Now, I don't use iCloud for my music, so I right-clicked the bar and turned it off.

A few minutes later, the iCloud Download tab was back again. I could've sworn I'd turned it off, but just to be sure I right-clicked and turned it off again.

A few more minutes pass, and the iCloud Download tab is right there back again. Every time I turn it off, it just keeps reappearing sooner or later. I have Automatic Downloads for music checked off, so I don't know what is causing this.

This is very annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I found an answer that doesn't require you stay logged out of the iTunes store (found here, whose poster found it here).

In iTunes, press command1 or click Menubar/View/Music.
Click the Playlist button from the center-top row of the the iTunes window, below the large Apple logo.
Click Menubar/View/Only Music Available Offline.
Repeat for all other media types: command2 or Menubar/View/Movies, command3 or Menubar/View/TV Shows, etc.
Return to Music Playlists, and the iCloud Download column is gone, no matter whether you're signed into the Store, no matter whether you've enabled/disabled Apple brand subscription-based streaming, and even after quit/relaunch of iTunes.


Is there a way to lock a folder's icon without making its contents Read Only? I have a network share that is used by a large group of kids. They love changing the icon of this folder, which causes a lot of debate. I know that there is a hidden file that specifies the icon; can I lock this file so the icon of the folder can't be changed anymore?

You're exactly right. Here's how to lock the file that controls the icon:

Show hidden files.
Navigate to your folder.
There will be a file called Icon inside it.
Go to the Get Info window for that file and check the Locked checkbox.
Try to change the icon. You can't. Ta-da.


Is it safe to delete my Time Machine sparse bundle? Can a fresh one be recreated? Is it safe to delete my Time Machine sparse bundle file? Can a fresh time machine backup be recreated WITHOUT reformatting the drive or affecting any other files on my external Time Machine drive?

My time machine backups stopped a month ago and nothing I do will get the backups to continue as usual.  The drive is 25% full.  I don't know what to do.  The way I look at it, the best option might be to delete the sparse bundle entirely and just start a fresh sparse bundle, right?   This seems logical to me but I cannot find any advice anywhere to affirm my belief.

I am afraid to choose the "Delete backup disk" option in the Time Machine applet because, while I want it to delete my sparse bundle, I am afraid it will take the liberties of deleting all content on the "drive".   That would be disastrous since I also use the drive for a important file share.   I'm also afraid to delete the sparse bundle because I don't know exactly how it works.

Can anyone provide advice?  I cannot find any advice on this specific subject anwhere.

As long as you don't care about anything in the backup being gone, yes it is safe to remove the sparsebundle.

Disable Time Machine first. Instead of deleting the whole bundle at once:

Right-click and choose Show Package Contents.
Open the bands folder.
Select a large number of bands (8000 at a time seems to be good from what I read) and move those to the trash.
Repeat until all bands have been deleted, then delete the main sparsebundle file.


VirtualBox 5.1.8 installation didn't install kernel extensions. How do I fix this? [macOS 10.13] When I installed VirtualBox it said that the installation "failed" but I still got VirtualBox.app in my applications folder.
When I try to boot windows 7 VM, it says "Kernel drivers not installed (rc = -1908).
Online solutions are saying I should "restart the host". I checked my StartupItems folder and it's empty.

So I guess the installer failed to install kernel extensions.

So there's this thing called SIP which prevents installing kernel extensions. Should I disable it for now?

What do I do? I need a Windows virtual machine in 8 hours...

High Sierra comes with a new security feature: Secure Kernel Extension Loading, which blocks kernel extension loading. The implementation appears to be questionable.

To allow the loading of some non-Apple kernel extension you have to either allow execution in Preferences > Security & Privacy > General:

or disable the security feature with a Terminal command (not recommended):

sudo spctl --master-disable


How can you unhide the file extension of an application created in Automator? I've created an application with AppleScript in Automator.

When I was saving the application, I made sure that the "Hide extension" box was unchecked, like so:

But once the application was saved, the extension did not appear after the filename in Finder.

When I right-click on the file in Finder and click Get Info, I am presented with the following:

After unlocking the padlock in the bottom-right corner of the Get Info window, the "Hide extension" box is still greyed out.

I have also tried renaming the file by pressing Enter while the file is selected in Finder, and manually appending ".app" to the end of the filename. Although I am able to successfully do so without triggering an error message, the ".app" bit is removed from the filename instantly.

I believe that the System automatically by default hides the .app filename extension regardless of unchecking the Hide extension checkbox upon being saved and the Hide extension checkbox on the Get Info sheet will be grayed out when the .app filename extension is present. You'll need to send feedback to Apple on this one.

The only way I know how to override this in Finder is to check the Show all filename extensions checkbox under Advanced Finder Preferences. This of course then shows all filename extensions that are set to hidden, not just the .app filename extension.


Can I share files from my external hard drive across my PC and Apple laptop? I have a desktop PC with a pretty small hard drive.  I bought an external hard drive with 500GB of space and now use that for all of my pictures, music, etc.  Its almost full.

I am now in the process of buying a laptop and I am considering an Apple laptop.  The one issue I have is trying to figure out how I would access all of my content that I mentioned above.

It depends on the file system used by your external hard drive. Most likely, the file system is FAT which allows both Mac and PC to read from and write to it, so you would be fine to just plug it into your Mac.

It could however be NTFS which is Microsoft file system that PCs can read and write to but Macs can only read. In this case, you'll still be able to read all of the files on the drive and copy them to your Mac, you just win't be able to add any more files or alter the files while they're still on the drive.

To tell what file system the drive is, just right-click it in Windows and select Properties, the file system should be shown in the General tab.

If the drive is NTFS you have a few options:

You could format the drive to FAT32 or exFAT.
You could install Paragon NTFS on your Mac which allows you to write to NTFS drives.
You could share wirelessly from your Windows machine. You'll have to Google this yourself as it's different for each version of Windows and you haven't said which version you're using, but it's fairly easy.


Can I upload songs to Itunes from second HD? I have 2 Hdd's one solid state and the other is moving parts. I have Itunes on my solid state and all of my music on the secondary. Is it possible to to have iTunes play music from that drive without me having to waste all of my ssd with mp3's? Windows Media Player can do it with no problem so I'm sure iTunes can. Anyone understand what I'm asking for or have a solution?

If it matters I'm using Windows 7 Pro and Itunes 11.4

Open iTunes. Choose Edit > Preferences. Click the Advanced tab in the Preferences window. Select the "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" checkbox. Open iTunes. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences. Click the Advanced tab in the Preferences window. Click the Change button in the iTunes Media folder location pane. In the Change Media Folder Location window that appears, navigate to the location where you would like your new Media folder to be created. Then click&drag or copy and paste music files to the folder "Automatically add to iTunes" and it will automatically populate iTunes.