iPhone won't connect to internet My iPhone SE connects to my WiFi/router/modem (WRM) fine, but it says "No Internet Connection".  I've never had this problem with my iPhone before.

Two other laptops connected to the same WRM access the internet just fine.  Logging on to the modem, I see all three devices connected to the WRM.

I followed an Apple page and PC World page, cycling the power on the phone, then resetting the network connections.  After logging back on to the WRM, I get the same lack of internet access.

If I use the phone instead of the laptops to log into the WRM using its numerical http address, it times out.  I don't even get to the page for entering user name and password.

Here are one laptop's data from ipconfig /all:

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-26-B6-FC-01-C6
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Here is the other laptop:

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6235
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : C4-D9-87-13-CE-5A
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.103(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 2019-01-27 19:53:16
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 2019-01-31 00:14:54
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
                                    0.0.0.0
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

The data from the iPhone is

Configure IP: Automatic
IP Address: 169.254.184.137
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Router: << blank >>

I can't help but notice that the Subnet Mask is different, and the IP Address is very different,

What else can I try?

My WRM is the TP-Link TD-W9970.  My iOS version is 12.1.2.  I don't recall approving an update recently.  There is apparently a version 12.1.3 available, but without connectivity, I can't install it.

Apparently, DHCP is not enabled on your laptop, but it has the right configuration, so I figure either DHCP must have been disabled on your router recently, or your phone was configured with static addresses which got cleared recently.

For a quick fix, try filling in the Router, IP address, and subnet mask fields on your phone after choosing Manual for "Configure IP". Something like:

Configure IP: Manual
IP address: 192.168.1.123
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.1.1

But you probably want to fix the settings on your router so you don't have to configure every device that connects to your network in the future.

Look for a setting that enables DHCP in your router's administrative interface, possibly on http://192.168.1.1


How do I extend the end of a clip in iMovie? Need help with an iMovie I am putting together for a memorial this weekend.  I've finished the movie, but was hoping to extend the first clip.  Since I am using a 'ken burns' crop for the clip, the view pans from the bottom of the photo to the top in the clip.  Once the view reaches the top of the photo, I'd like it to hold for about four seconds.  I can't seem to make that happen, even if I'm using the inspector.  Any step by step tips folks can offer up would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
Leah

Click the clip after the clip that you wish to pause
Press ⇧← to go back to the end of the clip that you wish
Press ⌥F to add a freeze-frame
Delete the third clip
Set the second clip to Fit or Crop to Fill


Using previous alternate email as apple id I have a serious problem here:

I would like to change my apple id to the email address that I mainly use which happens to be the alternate email. So what I did was to change the alternate to another email thinking I would be able to now use the old alternate as my apple id. Unfortunately and for some very strange reasons,apple is telling me I cannot use alternate email as my id when I had actually changed and verified my new alternate email. Can someone please help me out here?

According to Apple's support page:

Go to My Apple ID, click "Manage your Apple ID," and sign in.
Delete the alternate email that you have. Click Yes when it asks for confirmation.
With the Name, ID, and Email Address drawer selected, click Edit next to Apple ID and Primary Email Address.
Enter your new email address.

I just applied the following steps above to my own Apple ID and it did not complain.


How much space for Bootcamp WIndows OS only I have a MacBook Pro with a 512 SSD drive that I would like to use to run some Windows games. I would like to install Windows via Bootcamp but only leave enough space to effectively run the operating system. The games I would install to an external SSD drive.

So how much space should I reserve for bootcamp when running Windows 8.1? I want to make sure there is enough space for it to run effectively. Most of my games will be played via Steam.

Microsoft's minimum requirements for Windows 8 are 16GB for 32-bit and 20GB for 64-bit (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-8/system-requirements).  You may not plan to install anything else, but likely will like Acrobat, VLC and other utilities you will deploy over time to support day to day use of the OS.  Also with the typical updates of the OS, etc. space in the disk will fill up.  That said I would recommend you double the minimum requirements to ensure your disk has the room you need over the long term.  Another option would be to run Windows virtualized in something like Parallels.  I understand the benefits of Boot Camp...but the benefits of virtualization trump the performance hit for me.


Run Terminal Command from .terminal file I just figured out how to export settings from terminal which creates a .terminal file. And I realize that the ExecutionString parameter has changed to the CommandString parameter.

I put a command in the string tags and it worked but it jumped straight to [Process Completed] after it was done. Is there anyway to get it to give me a new prompt line for more commands?

In the .terminal file, RunCommandAsShell should not be set to <true/>.

This correlates to the "Run inside shell" checkbox in the "Shell" section of the preference window; which is more intuitively named.

When the preference is not selected (RunCommandAsShell is true), then the default shell is replaced with whatever command you've used.  If the preference is selected (RunCommandAsShell is either false or not listed in the .terminal file), then the command is run after the default shell is loaded for that Terminal window/tab.


How many HD video minutes do I get per 1GB of free storage? I have 7GB free. If I give that to someone to record, what sort of ballpark figure would I get for a HD video recording? There may be about 10 individual videos being recorded over a couple of hours, if that makes a difference. Maybe just one hour long one.

I just want to know a rough figure but ideally with some maths so I can work it out myself.

The iPhone 4S takes video at 1080p and 30 fps and initial tests are showing that video takes 200MB per minute. At roughly 12 GB per hour, what seemed staggering a year ago is now quite quaint with the iPhone 4 recording at less than 5 GB / hour.

MacWorld reports that an hour of iPhone 4 video is 4.8 gig.

  The iPhone records its 720p HD video at around 10 megabits (Mbps) per second. That translates to about 80MB per minute, as we noted above, or a staggering 4.8GB per hour. (Hope you sprung for the 32GB model!)


What is the chance for Apple to terminate my developer account? I've published a B2B iOS app in Appstore. When I submitted an updated version of the app, Apple rejected it as my app uses a background mode which is not actually required. But I justified the reason of using it and resubmitted the app once again. However, Apple rejected again. I've also contacted "Apple Developer Technical Support" and they are helpless :(

Now, I hear from some of my co-developers that submitting app and getting rejected for few times may lead Apple to terminate my developer account. Is there any chance for this to happen? Please advice.Thanks!

Unless your App has; an un-announced hidden mode (tethering for example), or use any one else's IP - there is little likelihood of you being terminated for good faith App submission.

Common reasons for rejection are now listed here;
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/rejections/

If you are being rejected for these reasons, then you can rest assured that you will not be terminated.  If these were reason for terminations the forums would be flooded with complaints.  As it is, most terminated devs fall foul of complaints from IP holders.

Top 10 reasons for app rejections during the
7‑day period ending August 28, 2014.

14% More information needed

8% Guideline 2.2: Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected

6%  Did not comply with terms in the Developer Program License Agreement

6% Guideline 10.6: Apple and our customers place a high value on simple, refined,
creative, well thought through interfaces. They take more work but are worth it. Apple sets a high bar. If your user interface is complex or less than very good, it may be rejected

5%  Guideline 3.3: Apps with names, descriptions, or screenshots not relevant to the App content and functionality will be rejected

5%  Guideline 22.2: Apps that contain false, fraudulent or misleading representations or use names or icons similar to other Apps will be rejected

4%  Guideline 3.4: App names in iTunes Connect and as displayed on a device should be similar, so as not to cause confusion

4%  Guideline 3.2: Apps with placeholder text will be rejected

3%  Guideline 3.8: Developers are responsible for assigning appropriate ratings to their Apps. Inappropriate ratings may be changed/deleted by Apple

2%  Guideline 2.9: Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected


How to update Java from 8 Update 31 to 8 Update 51 when install fails? I'm trying to update Java on my Mac OSX Yosemite.  In the Java Control Panel, it states:

A critical Java security update is available.

8 Update 51 (57 MB)

Your current version is Java 8 Update 31. It is recommended that you update
now to keep your system secure.

I click the Update Now button and it brings up the Software Update dialog that indicates I must relaunch the browser to update, but it will not need to reboot the computer.  I click the Install Update button which brings up the Updating Java dialog that downloads 60 MB, extracts it, and then very briefly says ready to update before disappearing.  Returning to the Java Control Panel shows I'm still on Update 31, repeating the process has same result.

How can I get the update to actually install?

No need to uninstall the current version. From the Java website just download the Java 8 update 51 (JDK)from Oracle site and install manually. After installation, no need to reboot the machine. Check version in Terminal or Java panel. It will show the updated version.


Where is Flash installed on OSX? This question is similar, but it's for Windows.

Where is flash installed on OSX?

I've searched the whole filesystem with find, and I see Flash files in the following places:

~/Library/Application Support
/private/var/db/receipts
/private/var/db/BootCaches
~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player

Which of these locations (if any) is where Flash is installed? Or is it in another location?

There is no stand-alone application for Flash Player like most software, as it is simply a browser plug-in. If installed, the plug-in file should be located at either /Library/Internet Plug-Ins or ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and should be named Flash Player.plugin.

Note if you have Google Chrome, it is built-in to the browser. In modern versions of OS X, Flash Player is no longer installed by default, so if you haven't installed it manually from another browser, it may not be on your system at all.


Can I sync the pictures I currently have in Picasa on my PC with the iPhoto app on my new iPad? How do I sync the pictures I currently have in Picasa on my PC with the iPhoto app on my new iPad?

Since picasa is a google property, you could integrate all your pictures to Google Plus and use their mobile app to view the pictures.

From there, you can get photos into the camera roll. This would preserve the organization of your albums in Picasa until you get them into iOS. This would be best if you only import a few pictures or don't mind re-organizing things once the pictures are on iOS.

For a more complex collection, you will want to download all the photos to your PC and then import them into Photoshop. The Windows version of iTunes can read Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 or later as well as Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 or later and sync collections of photos in a way that iOS can understand.

Perhaps someone has a better solution, but these are the best two solutions I can come up with for getting Google and Apple to play nicely together with your photos.


“PowerPC applications are no longer supported” – Microsoft Office I am running on Mac OS X 10.8.2.

I have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office, and haven’t had a problem using it, until a recent update!

Since then, whenever I try to open it I get the following message:

  You can't open the application 'Microsoft Word' because PowerPC Applications are no longer supported

How do I resolve this, please?

PowerPC applications were allowed on Intel Mac with Rosetta. Rosetta disappeared with Lion, if I remember well (There were 2 OS between Mavericks and Snow Leopard).
The solution is either get a new version of Microsoft Office, or downgrade your Mac OS X.


How many watts in iPhone LED flashlight I have a few 1 watt and 10 watt LED's laying around. I want to compare them to the iPhone 5 flashlight. In another question, I saw a lumen rating, but I want a watt rating. Does anybody know the wattage of the iPhone 5 flashlight?

If you already know the lumens value of the light source, you can use the following calculator to determine its equivalent rating in Watts:

http://www.rapidtables.com/calc/light/lumen-to-watt-calculator.htm


iTunes Shared Libraries on iOS I have a number of iTunes users in my household, and most of us choose to share our extensive iTunes libraries over the local network. This is all well and good when I want to listen to something on a shared library when I'm at my computer, but doesn't work at all on anything iOS.

Can anyone here explain why Apple has disabled access to normal shared iTunes libraries on iOS? As far as I can tell, it is no longer possible to access a normal shared iTunes library from any iOS device using any known Apple iOS software. You can now configure "Home Sharing", but that feature seems almost completely useless to me. I can see no advantages to Home Sharing over normal local network shared iTunes libraries, which are still entirely functional over desktop iTunes.

I have also not been able to find any online discussion of this issue whatsoever; no similar complaints, no explanations of why Apple disabled normal shared library access on iOS, nothing. If anyone has any information whatsoever, or a functional workaround that does not use Home Sharing (I don't want to have to ask someone to manually type in a different Apple ID to access their shared library in my house, and we're not all going to post our Apple IDs and passwords on the wall), please let me know.

Why not make an new shared apple id that you can all use specifically for home sharing.
Then you get to tap "more" then "sharing" in the iOS music app.


Prevent other users from ejecting (or even seeing) my mounted disk images I have an encrypted disk image (sparsebundle) where all of my private documents are stored; I mount it to a custom mount point with:

mkdir -p /Users/gabriele/MyDocs
hdiutil attach /MyDocs.sparsebundle -mountpoint /Users/gabriele/MyDocs

Other users see the mounted disk image in the Finder window sidebar and maybe also on their Desktops (according to Finder preferences), but they cannot access the volume because of unsufficient privileges. In any case other users can eject the volume, and this is bad.

Is there a way to prevent other users from ejecting my volumes, or even seeing this volume if they don't have enough privileges to view its innards?

To help make the mounted disk image less visible, you can run the SetFile command to make the volume's directory invisible. This will make the mounted disk image be less-obviously visible in the Finder sidebar for other users. Of course, this makes it less visible to you, too, but you can make an alias in the Finder to where the folder should be for you.

Run SetFile to make the mounted disk image image be invisible in the Finder:

SetFile -a V /Users/gabriele/MyDocs

Open the disk image location in the Finder:

open /Users/gabriele/MyDocs

Make an alias to make it easy for you to open the now-hidden MyDocs. Within the open Finder window, grab the folder icon in the top center where it says "MyDocs" and then drag that while holding down the Option+Command keys and release it on your Desktop, just not to /Users/gabriele, because you will need to rename the alias first, otherwise it will not let you copy it. So rename the dragged-off "MyDoc" to "MyDoc alias", then move it to /Users/gabriele or wherever you like. Now you should have the alias "MyDoc alias" to your hidden MyDoc directory, other users will not see it in the Finder sidebar.

Note: Xcode needs to be installed in order to use SetFile. Additionally, I had to relaunch the Finder on Lion for the mounted disk image to become invisible, try that if you can't get MyDoc to disappear.

Not sure how to prevent ejection, since anyone with access to Disk Utility, the mount command, etc. can see the path to it and un-mount it for you. However, making it invisible does lessen the need to make it un-ejectable, since it will not be in other users' faces in the Finder as an option to eject.


Recommendation for a gui scp client I'm looking for a recommendation for a GUI SCP client that supports private keys.

All of the ones I find don't support private keys.
Thanks

Transmit by Panic - http://panic.com/transmit/

Configure as an SFTP server, click the Key icon.

I'm not sure of the specific implementation (SFTP vs SCP), but testing onto another standard OS X host with SSH keys setup works fine. The other box isn't running a special SFTP setup - appears to work fine.

Transmit is a great OS X app for any sort of file transfer.


Apple now says you have to have iPhone turned on to get iMessages on all devices? iMac Pro - 10.15.3, iPad 13.3 and iPhone 13.3.1. This AM I noticed that when I did some logging in to different sites, that I have text message 2 step verification turned on, I was not getting the iMessage verification code. Tried multiple sites and times - no iMessages. So, I had to get the codes via iPhone.  I was using an iPad and I got no iMessage on it or my MacBook Pro.  Later on I went to the kitchen and turned on my iPhone and viola, I get all these iMessages with codes coming through which then all go to my other devices.  In talking to Apple the senior tech she tried to get me to update my devices - which I refused - gonna wait a bit on that - but she also said you have to have the most current software on all devices and have all devices on or text forwarding won't work.

This makes no sense to me.  Anyone else having iMessages not forwarding issues?

so it happened again with the bank agin this am - phone turned off, no verification iMessage received on the iPad or computer even though at about the exact same time I received some iMessage/texts from others....  I decided to call the bank this time and not apple.  The banks response seems reasonable------

the message they send are what the guy called, short code carrier messages and bc the associated number, my cell, was turned off the message is not received and therefore cannot be synced through iMessage to other devices. Makes more sense than what apple told me.


Count cells with background color In a range of cells, is there any way of counting the ones with certain background color?

Here is an example in AppleScript that will count the number of cells in a range that has the background color of red.

Note that the target Numbers document was open and in the background of Script Editor.

When the script was run, it displayed the following dialog box.

--  # User definded variables.

set theRange to "A1:L10"

--  # The background color of the range’s cells. Expressed as a list of RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
--  #  values, from 0 to 65535. For example, the color red is: {65535, 0, 0}

set R to 65535
set G to 0
set B to 0

--  # Other variables.

set thisColor to ""
set theRGBValue to {}
set theCount to 0

tell application "Numbers"
    tell document 1
        tell sheet 1
            tell table 1
                tell range theRange
                    repeat with i from 1 to (cell count)
                        set thisColor to background color of cell i as string
                        if thisColor is not "" then
                            set theRGBValue to (background color of cell i)
                            if item 1 of theRGBValue is equal to R and item 2 of theRGBValue is equal to G and item 3 of theRGBValue is equal to B then
                                set theCount to theCount + 1
                            end if
                        end if
                    end repeat
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

display dialog "The cell count with the color {" & R & ", " & G & ", " & B & "} is: " & theCount buttons {"OK"} default button 1

Note: This was tested on an old version of Numbers (09 ver 2.3) and may need to be adjusted for newer versions.

If you do not know what the RGB value of a given cell is, to plug into the script above, then to get the RGB value of the background color of a given cell, e.g. F5, use:

tell application "Numbers"
    get background color of cell 1 of range "F5:F5" of table 1 of sheet 1 of document 1
end tell

Just an FYI, I coded the main example further above in the long form and it could be condensed down to the following for the tell application "Numbers" block:

tell application "Numbers"
    tell range theRange of table 1 of sheet 1 of document 1
        repeat with i from 1 to (cell count)
            if (background color of cell i as string) is not "" then
                set theRGBValue to (background color of cell i)
                if item 1 of theRGBValue is equal to R and item 2 of theRGBValue is equal to G and item 3 of theRGBValue is equal to B then
                    set theCount to theCount + 1
                end if
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell


Apple Watch Updated Time Zone Settings Recently time zone was changed in Turkey. It was UTC + 2, now opting out of DST, time zone is permanently UTC + 3. All iOS devices updated correctly.

However, on my Apple Watch, it asked for 'There is an updated Time Zone Settings, click OK to apply' or similar and I accidentally said no. Now it shows the wrong time.

How can apply the updated time zone settings?

I have tried restarting, updating to watchOS 3.0.1, airplane mode on/off, nothing seems to be working.

Any ideas?

On your iPhone, go to settings, general, date/time. Disable auto time zone and switch to another time zone. Then switch back to your own time zone (maybe wait a bit for the watch to pick up the change?). It will ask you again.


Spotlight pop-up effects I saw someone with a Macbook Pro using the Spotlight feature several times, and every time the Spotlight opened, it used a certain effect that's not like what I see in other Macs (I use Leopard).

The effect I'm talking about is like a vanishing "teleport" effect, it opens up starting with a thin, long horizontal bright line which shortens and expands in height until it reveals the Spotlight. To see a similar effect, use a recent version of Safari with several tabs open, and drag one of the tabs down as if you're going to break it off into a new window.

Does this effect happen to be OS based, or exist from a third-party tool (Something like Compiz, but for Mac)?

It sounds to me like you may be describing Quicksilver, which is, among other things, an application launcher.

http://qsapp.com/index.php

I use it daily and it can look very much the way you have just described.  It has several different interfaces.

However...  It is definitely not spotlight, and it doesn't use any spotlight like icon...

Mine also pops up in the middle of the screen, not the top right like spotlight....

Does this sound like what you may have been looking at?


Safe to delete the pictures from the camera roll, without them being deleted from iCloud drive? Firstly, let me just say that I do know that similar questions might have been asked, but none seem to answer exactly what I'm wondering, and I cannot afford to guess in this case, as that may result in all my pictures disappearing. Notice that I am wondering about iCloud drive.

I recently noticed that I can go into the camera roll and one by one add the pictures I want to iCloud drive. What I don't understand though, is if they, after this, are saved there in a way that makes it completely safe for me to delete them from my camera roll (on my iPhone 6), without also losing them from iCloud drive. From what I have found online (online forums etc), this is not possible for "regular" iCloud, however I think all the threads I found were a bit old. An example of a thread I found: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7604440?start=0&tstart=0
I could not find any answers concerning iCloud drive.

Note that I do not allow for my pictures to be automatically uploaded to iCloud/iCloud drive; they are only saved in my camera roll. If iCloud drive can work as its own storage, then I will choose which pictures I want to go there, and then delete them from my phone to free up some much needed space.

Hope someone can help me, I would be very thankful!! And when you answer, I would really appreciate it if you explained all the words, as I have very little knowledge about this stuff. For example, I have no idea what photo stream means (it came up once when I was searching this topic), so if that actually is a factor in this context, please explain it. I don't really understand the "help" pages on apple's homepage..

iCloud Drive is just a way to sync photos and other files between all your iOS devices and computers (both Mac and PC). iCloud does not function as a standalone Cloud storage service, hence if you delete photos from your iPhone they will also be deleted from iCloud Drive.

You can however upload your photos to other Cloud services like Dropbox, or simply transfer the photos to your computer (i.e. into another folder or import them into photo management software such as the Photos app on macOS), and then delete them from your phone and these photos will still remain on your computer or Dropbox.


How to change the font size of the Reminders app? Is there a way to increase the font size of the Reminders app? It was easy in Mavericks, by changing a text file inside the app package, but I can't find it anymore on yosemite.

The text is just too small, isn't it?

I believe the right answer is: it is not possible.


How to change all dates on file and preserve them during file move? I would like to change all dates on a file [all four reported by stat command].
I cannot find a way to change the "inode last changed" date.
I've tried:

touch -t
SetFile -d
SetFile -m

but this single date remains unchanged.

Also, is there any way to move file between directories and leave all of the dates intact?
I am moving whole directories, with lots of files inside, so I would prefer to have a single command to do so, if not - I will read the date upfront and set it after the move.

You cannot controlctime.ctime is set with the creation of the inode. ctime changes to the mtime when you modify a file. ctime is set to the current date and time when you modify the inode metadata, such as changing mtime, file permissions, or renaming a file.

The closest you can come to matching atime,mtime, and ctime would be totouch a file which will set all three to the current date and time. But at anytime ctime may change, even OS X applications can cause changes to the inode metadata without changing the content of a file.

btime or birthtime will not change when moving files on the same filesystem.

Tools that support preserving file metadata are ditto, pax, and cp with the p option. None of these tools support preserving birthtime across filesystems.


Which model has better CPU-performance: iMac MMQA2HN/A or Mac mini MRTR2HN/A? In this comparison the main difference I see is in the processors.
https://www.apple.com/in/mac/compare/results/?product1=imac-21&product2=mac-mini

Irrespective of other feature differences this is what I'm mainly concerned about.

On the iMac it is 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor

On the Mac mini 3.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i3

Can someone help me to identify which is better in terms of performance?

The iMac in your screenshot comes with the Intel i5-7360U CPU. The Mac Mini comes with the i3-8100B CPU.

If you look at the PassMark benchmark, the i5-7360U CPU benchmarks at 5823 passmarks multi-threaded and 2047 single-threaded. If you look at the Geekbench benchmark, the i5-7360 CPU benchmarks approx. 9075 multi-threaded and 4375 single-threaded.

In comparison the i3-8100B CPU benchmarks at 8431 passmarks multi-threaded and 2172 passmarked single-threaded. For Geekbench the numbers are approx. 14.000 multi-threaded and 4700 single-threaded.

There could be an obscure corner case, but I would expect the Mac Mini to have the best CPU performance in almost any case. According to the benchmarks, you would expect it to be approx. 40-50% faster, when running a multi-threaded workload (i.e. running more than one app at the same time, or running an app that is multi-threaded in itself). Note that this number may vary wildly depending on what exactly you're doing with it. As the i3-8100B is a newer generation and has a higher frequency memory bus, I would expect there to be almost no corner cases, if any at all.


Cannot turn off FileVault process in terminal or DU in macOS High Sierra Worst mistake of my life upgrading to High Sierra. At first I couldn't use Time Machine with error 11 and so I decided to try FileVault to encrypt my SSD and it's been going for a week, stuck at 10%. Unbelievable it can't be stopped in terminal. See below:

typed fdesetup status to check progress Encryption in progress: Percent completed = 1?  been over a week now

typed fdesetup disable Error: This command requires root access.

This is actually a different message from yesterday when instead it asked me for a password and then username and then I got a filevault not disabled (-69573) message.

Does anyone know what that number code means?

All I want to do is turn this damn thing off and attempt another Time Machine backup. Any help is greatly appreciated.

If you're on a laptop, make sure it's plugged in as FileVault will pause on battery.  If that's not causing it, you can create a clone of your system using Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/) or SuperDuper - that's what I would do - and then wipe the system, re-install the OS (High Sierra isn't that bad).  Then I would enable FileVault on the clean system, wait for it to finish encrypting what little is there (OS only, a few gigs), then restore your files from the clone manually, then enable Time Machine and have it do its backups.


Macbook Pro 2016 13 inch - Display turns off whenever I physically adjust it Whenever I try to adjust the angle of my screen my display just turns off. I know the Macbook itself doesn't turn off because I can still hear sound and the keyboard is still lit up. But if I try to adjust the screen, the display just turns off and it's a gamble whether or not it's going to turn back on. I've tried closing it and reopening it but sometimes that doesn't work. I can turn it off and back on but again, the display may or may not turn back on depending on how it's feeling I guess.

Googling this hasn't been helpful, and Apple Diagnostics is reporting no problems. Any ideas?

EDIT: I've discovered that after closing the screen, I can adjust the screen to about 90 degrees until it turns off. Strange.

After further Googling turns out this is a common issue with this model of Macbook. Apple will fix it for free. https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-display-backlight-service


App Store: Not enough disk space to install Xcode Similar to Xcode free space requirement, but different details.

  We could not complete your update

  There is not enough disk space available to install the product.

The download size lists:

  Version 11.0 • 7.6 GB

and my Mac has 31.2 GB available according to About This Mac : Storage

My question is this: How can I discover what the exact storage requirements are for this update without performing the update? I'm looking for a definitive answer, not methods for estimation. Thanks!

EDIT: I'm not looking for sector-specific values. I'm just trying to understand how much available storage is actually required for a successful update—clearly it's not 7.6 GB.

EDIT 2: Mysteriously, Xcode now updates with no change in available storage space. In fact, it appears I have a few hundred MB less available storage than before.

There's really no easy way to produce a definite answer for you. The definite answer varies from system to system.

You could get the definitive answer by freeing a small amount of disk space. Taking a full backup of your system. Try installing. When it fails, restore from backup. Repeat until you have the definitive answer.

It would be an unrealistic amount of work to get to a number that you would then have no interest in having, as you have already installed the software.

EDIT: You have changed your question so that you no longer require a "definitive" answer, but rather want an "approximate answer". To that I can I add that my installations of Xcode are approx. 15-20 GB in size depending on what exactly is installed on each computer. Note that for updating you'll need room for both the currently installed version plus update files. You might find that it is easier on your disk space requirements to simply delete Xcode, and then reinstall it. You might get be with even less disk space if you download Xcode manually from the Apple web site instead of from the App Store.


Error when remotely controlling iOS device over VNC I'm using Quamotion xcuitrunner to remotely control an iOS device over VNC. I'm launching xcuitrunner on Windows, using the command line.

When I connect to localhost:5900 using TightVNC, I see a black screen with the following text:

Could not connect to the device. The installation of application Quamotion Agent on device iPhone failed.
The installation proxy returned the error ApplicationVerificationFailed.

The following syslog messages may contain more information:
0x16f577000 -[MIClientConnection _doInstallationForUrl:withOptions:completion:]: Install of "/var/mobile/Media/PublicStaging/com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner" type Customer (LSInstallType = (null)) requested by lsd (pid 81)
Acquired termination assertion for event <BKSTerminationAssertionCreateEvent: 0x14de894c0; Identifier: 45-1B4BE7A4-CCC7-458A-A2DD-B7B0E2176EFE; Name: FBSApplicationTerminationAssertion; Target BundleID: com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner; Efficacy: Unconditional>
0x16f577000 -[MIINstaller performInstallationWithError:]: Installing <MIInstallableBundle ID=com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner; Version=1, ShortVersion=1.0>
com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner:7:5:1:1:Start : Install (New)
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf IssuerCommonName LeafMarkerOid Revocation1 SubjectCommonName]
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf IssuerCommonName LeafMarkerOid Revocation1 SubjectCommonName]
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf IssuerCommonName LeafMarkerOid Revocation1 SubjectCommonName]
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf Revocation1]
0x16f577000 +[MICodeSigningVerifier _validateSignatureAppAndCopyInfoForURL:withOptions:error:]: 199:

Failed to verify code signature of [...]/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.nV5S17/extracted/Payload/WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner:
0xe8008018 (The identity used to sign the executable is no longer valid.)
0x16f577000 -[MIInstaller performInstallationWithError:]: Verification stage failed
com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner:7:5:2:0:Fail (End) : Install (New)

Can you please help me with this error?

The underlying error is a bit hidden in the output, but the crux of it is:

Failed to verify code signature [...] The identity used to sign the executable is no longer valid.

This means the developer profile you have used contains a developer certificate which has been revoked. This can happen, for example, when you request a new certificate in Xcode.

Can you please:

Make sure your developer profile contains no revoked certificates. You can use xcuitrunner developerProfile -d [path to your developer profile] -p [password] to list the certificates embedded in your developer profile, and see their status (expired, revoked,...)
Remove the WebDriverAgent app from your iOS device
Delete all .ipa files in the folder where xcuitrunner.exe is located

Then:

Open a command prompt, and navigate to the folder where xcuitrunner.exe is located
Type ideviceinfo.exe > deviceinfo.txt
Type idevicesyslog.exe > syslog.txt. The application will remain running until you stop it by typing CTRL+C. Don't stop it yet.
Open a second command prompt, and navigate to the folder where xcuitrunner.exe is located
Launch xcuitrunner.exe, and wait for the error to occur
In the first command prompt window, type CTRL+C to stop idevicesyslog
Share a copy of deviceinfo.txt and syslog.txt via a Gist.


Does iTunes 11 need extra services or tools to manage duplicates in the library? In the new version of iTunes 11 the find duplicates option is gone and I don't want to revert to iTunes 10 to get that function back.

I know I had 1 GB of duplicates in iTunes 10, but I can't have iTunes show them to me anymore. My first thought was wondering if iTunes 11 finds/delete/merge them automagically?

I mean, I know that I had two versions of "Lemon Tree", one is the original one and the other is a cover, but now I can't find the cover anymore. The same with other covers.

I ran http://www.macroplant.com/meta-tunes/, and I only found 3 duplicates, while I am sure I had 100+ duplicates, because last sunday I imported a lot of songs and the "find duplicates" found 800 MB.

If anyone has insight into what iTunes 11 does when upgrading a library that would be a great start, but I'd prefer an ongoing plan to keep my library minimally duplicated.

I found 160 duplicates with dupeGuru.

But, none of them can be found in iTunes, even if they are in the hard drive.

Look: I have two identical copies of the same song on my hdd (same artist, same bitrate, same duration, different album), but when I search it in iTunes I can't find it.

It looks like iTunes found duplicated songs and removed them from the library (without removing them from the hard drive, though)

Maybe that's why tools that scan the iTunes library file won't find duplicates, while tools that ignore the library file and scan the folder will find a lot of them.

I arrived to the conclusion that iTunes will "hide" songs if it thinks that it's an exact duplicate.

More proof. I got two identical songs from iTunes store in 2010 (The same song in two different albums)
One of them is on the HDD but can't be found in iTunes

Or, again:

But, when there are too many differences, like 1 second in duration, or an "à" that become an "a", the entry is kept:

That's why Apple "removed" the "find duplicates" menu: it's done silently and automatically - no need to search for them. (Though, the file gets "lost" in the HDD, wasting space...)


On OSX what is the opposite command to "say", i.e. what command is there for speech recognition? I'd like to be able to enter a command that registers a speakable word that OS/X can listen for all the time. When the user speaks that word, it should launch an app. Similar to the "OK google" idea.

But is this possible these days? Last I heard of people doing this was in 2010.

If you go to System preferences -- Accessibility-- Speakable items
In settings turn on speakable items, and you can provide a keyword. After saying the keyword you can say commands.


Can i add an animation from crazy talk 7 into a whole keynote presentation? I want to do a presentation with keynote and with Crazy talk 7, but i would like to know how to lay the animation over the entire keynote presentation, how can i do that?

With CrazyTalk7 you can output your creations as videos or images in different sizes, resolutions and file formats. You can convert your work to an AVI file in DVD, HD, iPad and iPhone quality. You may also convert it into sequenced image (BMP/JPG/TGA/PNG) files to broadcast on a web server.

If you wish to import a photo or movie into Keynote the most convenient way to do it is by dragging the file directly into Keynote. Just drop it onto you slide.

You can also import media by choosing Insert > Choose from the top menu.

Hope this helps answer your question.

If you have any further questions please contact Reallusion Customer Support directly using the link below. The support team will gladly help you.

http://www.reallusion.com/CustomerSupport/User/QForm.aspx


How do I change the menubar transparency in Lion? So I love the login screen in OS X lion, and I want to make my desktop look like that. I found the background image they use, but now I want to make my menu bar completely transparent like it is in the login screen.

I've tried the "translucent menu bar" option in system preferences, but thats not the same at all. I googled quite a bit about this, but I can't find anything. Any ideas?

You would most likely need to use a translucent/transparent background image to accomplish what you're asking. If you know how to make an image 90% transparent then you should be able to experiment and to come up with something similar. Tweaking the UI is art in many ways, however, it's not necessarily a function of the interface creating the effect; the elements that compose it (background color, wallpaper, dock and icons) play a key role.

[posted for reference]

System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Translucent menu bar

One app that I've used to achieve a similar effect is called Nocturne. I'm unsure of it's compatibility with Lion though.


AppleScript Dialog gives error? My AppleScript app on my computer gives a error.

Here is the code:

set file to display dialog "Open Script?" default answer "tests/helloworld.in"
do shell script "cat " & file & " | python parenthetic.py"
do shell script "echo"
do shell script "echo App +" & file  & "+ is done load!"

And the error:

  Can't set file to display dialog "Open Script?" default answer "tests/helloworld.in". Access not allowed.

You can't set file because it's reserved by AppleScript.

Rename file to something else, such as myfile.


MBP Late 2013 A1502 High fan usage and kernel_task at 300%, mobo replaced no luck My computer is super laggy after my fiancee spilled water on it. I originally bought a new motherboard but still seeing the same behavior. Hardware diagnostics show PFM006 and PPN001. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for looking.

I found a thermal sensor under the trackpad that was returning a bad temperature reading. This throttled the CPU and forced the fan to 100%. Bought a new palm rest/upper case assembly and will update if it resolves the issue.


Purchase from random account showing up in Mac App Store? There's an app in my Mac App Store update list called "Mahjong Deluxe Free". I have never downloaded this app, let alone play mahjong (is that normal?).
Upon trying to clear it from the list by updating it, I am presented with the following:

The Apple ID entered is not mine, and I have never heard of it. No one else in my house uses my laptop, and I don't know anybody that still uses Hotmail.
I figured I would try clearing it by finding the app and downloading it with my own Apple ID, but the following:

I click OK, and it presents me with a final error, saying:

We could not complete your request.
There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (4)

Any ideas on what to do?

This is caused by a Mac AppStore Receipt residing somewhere on your system that was issued for different account. Spotlight is generally of no use in finding these, since it can't go deep enough to find them within the places they are. Usually the offending receipt can be located with a simple command, that may have to be adjusted according to your file system structure.

Open Terminal and try:

cd /

then

find . -type f -name "receipt" -exec grep -s -R -n -i "com.ensenasoft" {} \;

Press Control - C to cancel/stop

if located you will should see something such as:

Binary file Applications/Mahjong Deluxe Free.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt matches

If it failed to locate anything you will need to adjust the path, for example to search a different volume:

cd /Volumes/<Name of Volume>

then try the command again.


Default to Pages '09 when Pages '13 is also installed? Both Pages '09 and Pages '13 use "com.apple.iWork.Pages" as a bundle ID.

I can set individual .pages files to open with Pages '09, but when I try to set all .pages files to open with Pages '09, Pages '13 keeps taking over.†

† Selecting a .pages file, changing to "Pages '09", and then clicking "Change All…" always selects Pages '13. You can see it here https://vimeo.com/78545014.

Anyone know how to force OS X to accept Pages '09 as the default for all .pages files?

If Pages '09 is already open, any Pages documents you double-click will open in that app, rather than in Pages '13.

To make sure Pages'09 is always open, I added it to the list of Login items (System Preferences —> Accounts —> Login Items).


unload kext when it is in use or retained (cannot unload) I want to disable the trackpad on my laptop without a mouse connected. I need this strange functionality because I use synergy (https://symless.com/synergy/) and game with my desktop.

This is what I have tried so far,

kextstat -kl | awk '{print $6}'| grep -i multi

which gave

com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver

Thus I went ahead and ran

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver

which gave the error

(kernel) Can't remove kext com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver;    services failed to terminate - 0xdc008018.

Failed to unload com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver - (libkern/kext) kext is in use or retained (cannot unload)

To be sure, I also tried another way (which was floating around stack exchange)

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMultitouchDriver.kext

which produced the same error message.

Thanks in advance! I am a new user so please excuse my poor formatting.

For reference, I am using Sierra and the latest version of MacBook Pro 13 inch (no touchbar).

In addition, these are the links I have looked at,

https://superuser.com/questions/606338/how-to-disable-trackpad-mouse-via-the-mac-os-x-command-line
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5240707?start=0&tstart=0

I resolved this issue by resetting the PRAM on my MacBook.

How to reset NVRAM/PRAM


String and Variable concatenation not working in Applescript I'm trying to concatenate at variable within a path name string to make this script more efficient.
This is the code I have so far. But I can't seem to find the right syntax needed in order to set the  variable in the string.

    set vserver to POSIX file "/Volumes/johndoe"
    set user to "johndoe" as string

    set source to POSIX file "/Users/johndoe/Documents"

    tell application "Finder"

        duplicate source to vserver with replacing
    end tell

I want johndoe to be replaces by variable user to make the code more maintainable for the future. My ultimate goal is to be able to copy multiple home folders including: movies, pictures, documents etc... onto a shared server.

I tried doing this

"/Users/" & user & "/Desktop"

But I received this error:

  "Finder got an error: Handler can’t handle objects of this class."
  number -10010

If you run

set user to "johndoe"
set source to POSIX file "/Users/" & user & "/Documents"

the result is

{file "Macintosh HD:Users:", "johndoe", "/Documents"}

Just put parentheses around the path:

set user to "johndoe"
set source to POSIX file ("/Users/" & user & "/Documents")


iMac stuck since update I'm on an IMac mid 2017
I tried to update my Mac running under Mojave to Big Sur. I got an error that the disk check couldn't be done.
Since if I boot the mac in normal mode I can't start it, it gets stuck on the apple logo.
So I wanted to reset the mac but when I open the disk utility via Mac Restore it loads endlessly and doesn't display the disks.
I count on this precious community to help me.
Thank you for your time

There’s only two things to do.

Connect this Mac to another in target disk mode and use a second Mac to erase / test the storage.
Boot to internet recovery and follow the precise exact steps. If you select the wrong part of a disk or the wrong image, the erase will fail.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496


Moving Recovery HD partition to end of disk This is my current partition map:

$ diskutil   list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Hummingbird             100.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

$ sudo hdiutil pmap -complete -endoffsets -shims -uuids /dev/disk0

MEDIA: ""; Size 113 GB (236978176 x 512); Max Transfer Blocks 2048
SCHEME: 1 GPT, "GPT Partition Scheme" [16]
SECTION: 1 Type:'MAP'; Size 113 GB; Offset: 34 - 236978143, (236978109 x 512); Overhead 67; UUID: 0000146C-6D0C-0000-F108-0000266E0000

ID Type                 Offset       Size         End          Name                      (3)
-- -------------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ -------------------- --------
   Free                           34            6           39
 1 EFI                            40       409600       409639 EFI system partition 00005552-571C-0000-C278-0000F1770000
 2 Apple_HFS                  409640    196236456    196646095 Hummingbird          0000026E-6D8D-0000-6064-0000840F0000
 3 Apple_Boot              196646096      1269536    197915631 Recovery HD          2175E76A-2663-4D30-8EF6-21786653B4A3
   Free                    197915632     39062511    236978142

$ sudo gpt -vvvv show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, start=40, size=409600
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=409640, size=196236456
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=196646096, size=1269536
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  196236456      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  196646096    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  197915632   39062511
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header

$ diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk0s2  limits
For device disk0s2 Hummingbird:
        Current size:  100.5 GB (100473065472 Bytes)
        Minimum size:  100.5 GB (100473065472 Bytes)
        Maximum size:  100.5 GB (100473065472 Bytes)

It's the result of previously having a Bootcamp partition, which I've removed using diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" "Free Space" disk0s4 (after first backing it up as an image to external storage).

I would like to move disk0s3 to the end of the disk, i.e. offset 236978142-1269536 = 235708606 (or an appropriate approximation thereof for SSD alignment), so that s2 (my root partition) is free to resize.

How can I do so, ensuring that GPT is aware of it?

Answer to Posted Question

When you enter the diskutil command to resize your boot partition disk0s2, the recovery partition disk0s3 will automatically be moved. You do not want to move this recovery partition to the end of the disk using a separate command. In other words, you are trying to do the wrong thing.

See Merge partitions with Macintosh HD for the correct procedure.

Response to Comment:  What if I want to leave some free space in the middle, e.g. for another partition later, but have the recovery partition at the end?

The recovery partition should always follow after the boot partition. For example I have Yosemite installed in partition disk0s5 and El Capitan in partition disk0s7. Both partitions are followed by their respective recovery partitions. Below is my current partitioning.

Sector size is 512 bytes.
Drive contains 1,953,525,168 sectors.
Drive contains 1,000,204,886,016 bytes (1.00 TB).

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640        2008
      411648   394530816      2  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   394942464   394530816      3  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   789473280    97654784      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   887128064      262144
   887390208   478769528      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1366159736     1269536      6  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1367429272   195995208
  1563424480   388568960      7  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1951993440     1269544      8  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1953262984      262144      9  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  1953525128           7
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

I have 100 GB of free space between partitions disk0s6 and disk0s7. I could, for example, install Linux in this free space. (For the curious, partition disk0s9 is a second EFI partition which contains the rEFInd boot manager.)

To determine the limits for resizing your partition, use the following command.

diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk0s2  limits

  When a partition is followed by a recovery partition, the previous command will display the correct minimum size and display the maximum size to be to the current size. The actual maximum size may be larger than this value. You will need to use the gpt command or some equivalent method to determine the free space the follows the recovery partition.

For example, to change your partition size to 110 GB, you would enter the following command.

diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk0s2  110G

To change your partition size to the maximum size of approximately 120 GB, enter the command

diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk0s2  R

You can enter the command man disktuil, for more information.


TimeMachine over network without TimeCapsule Are there any good/easy solutions for using TimeMachine over the network? I am currently unplugging the backup drive from the desktop to backup laptops but would like to do this wirelessly instead if possible.

You will need to share the backup drive with AFP (setup under Sharing in System Preferences).

On your laptop you'll need to go into Terminal and type

sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

This will allow your laptop to see the backup drive as a supported Time Machine compatible network drive.   Select this drive in Time Machine preferences and you should be good to go.


Preventing Safari background tabs disconnecting from server Safari puts background (i.e., currently not selected) tabs to sleep.  If that tab is on a website that requires an active connection to its server, such as chat apps (Slack, Google Talk, etc.), then that app will disconnect from the server.  Most of them will show you a brief "reconnecting" or "retrying" message when you select that tab again.

Not only this is annoying but it also causes that tab to not update or refresh constantly so I would miss a notification, if there is one, or even lose the session from the server requiring me to type my user credentials again. That happens very often with my company's e-mail web app.

This is not what the App Nap technology does.  I've already tried disabling that with

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES

to no avail.

It isn't the "Stop plug-ins to save power" preference either, as that is disabled and those websites don't use plug-ins.

Does anyone have any tips?

Safari 10.1
macOS Sierra 10.12.4

I think the setting you’re looking for is Disable Hidden Page Timer Throttling, located under Debug → Miscellaneous Flags.

If you haven’t enabled the Safari Debug menu yet, triple-click the following line and paste it into a Terminal session:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

Now completely quit Safari, then reopen it. The Debug menu should become available.

If you’re on Safari Technology Preview, the Terminal command is:
defaults write com.apple.SafariTechnologyPreview IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1


OS X - TodoApp with shortcut that can popup on any space/desktop? I'm fairly new to the Mac world. I really love the multiple desktop feature.

Unfortunately, every todo application I've tried takes me to the regular desktop when I want to use them, or on their own desktop. I would like to have an app that could pop-up on top of the screen no matter where I am – like Spotlight when I press Control + Space.

I'm not sure it is possible though, since it feels like each app in full screen mode takes control of the whole "shortcut space". But once again, I don't know anything about OS X.

Is it possible, and if so, is there a todo app I could use that would do that ?

Try Wunderlist for Mac. It has a feature called "Mac Quick Add" where you press ctrl+alt+w, and you can quickly add a todo with spotlight-like interface, and it works on any active space as long as the app is open.


In Terminal, can I find out the current Finder folder? It is commonly asked how to get a Terminal prompt from a Finder window.  I am asking the opposite.

I would like a command-line way of determining the working directory of the "current" Finder window.

The following command will return the path to the frontmost Finder window, if that's what you're looking for:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get the POSIX path of (target of front window as alias)'

Note that this cannot return a POSIX path if the frontmost window has no POSIX path. So if the frontmost Finder window has an ongoing/finished search, is a smart folder or other magical location (like your Mac under devices, which lists all the mounted volumes and the network).

Search/Smart folder/No Finder window returns:

  execution error: Can’t make «class fvtg» of window 1 of application "Finder" into type alias. (-1700)

And trying to execute the command when viewing your Mac:

  execution error: No result was returned from some part of this expression. (-2763)


Is there any reason not to enable Error Correction in iTunes? When importing CDs in iTunes you have the option to enable error correction. With the exception of the obvious potential for slower import speeds... is there any reason not to have this enabled?

Possible reasons why you might wish to disable error correction are

if you are looking for the fastest possible import,
have a very old computer where resources are limited, or
want iTunes to use less CPU time.

Enabling error correction allows iTunes to read the error correction data on the disc, and use this to verify the read audio data. Disabling the error correction makes iTunes ignore this information and presume that the data that is read is correct.

Error correction data is basically a summary of the last few bytes of data on the disc. If the total size of the data matches the size reported by the error correction data then the data is approved and iTunes continues importing. If not, iTunes re-reads the area of the disc, and as a last resort 'guesses' the content of the malformed data. Forward error correction - Wikipedia

This additional verification causes an increase in import time. On an older computer, this difference is pretty noticeable, however in newer computers the difference is negligible.


OS X (Mavericks) file sharing: Can only see contents of shared folder, not open files I have setup my mac with two admin users, lets call them foo and bar. The user foo has a folder x which contain files and other folders and so on. In system preferences I have enabled file sharing and added "read only" access to the user bar for the folder x. Now, if I am logged in as user bar, I can open the folder x and see its files and folders. However, if I try to open, say, a pdf-file in that folder, I get an error message telling me I do not have permissions. Interestingly, if I copy this file to the desktop (being prompted for admin password), I can open the copy afterwards.

Should not I be able to open all the files as user bar in folder x? Do I have to user more fine-grained access control, like, enabling access on each file?

Stupid approach to enable access to same folder for two admin users on same computer. Instead, I changed file/folder permissions using chmod, allowing group access (the two admin users belong to the same group).


Can photo sync be as effortless as music sync, between macOS and iOS? To copy photos from iOS (and make space for more photos) one connects the device (iPhone or iPad) with a cable to the Mac and opens Photos, then imports.

But with music things "just work" without the user having to do anything. I have "smartlists" set up. When the music (even just play count) changes on my Mac, they sync wirelessly and with no intervention on my part, not even triggering the sync.

Does such a convenience exist for photos? Is there a way to say "iOS: everytime you're on the same WiFi as my Mac, copy the photos over to the Mac, and delete the photos"?

Basically I'm looking for functionality similar to Dropbox/iCloud, but without any cloud or cloud-like features. It seems like a pretty obvious feature to add, especially in a homogeneous ecosystem, and so the question is: are we there yet?

Yes - enable iCloud Photo Library. I’ve been happy with this for my main personal library consisting of 90 GB library size and 75,000 photos.

I do maintain some side libraries that don’t sync to iCloud - but those are specific professional and trip specific libraries where I just save my best 100 or so photos from those libraries to my “main” library.

I have a MacPro that keeps original size of all photos. The rest of the iPad, iPhone, Apple TV and Mac that sync are allowed to “optimize” photo sizes when the main storage for that device runs low.

I’m happy knowing I can use Time Machine (or SuperDuper / Arq / CrashPlan / whatever) to make offline and off-site backups of my Main libraries and not trust that iCloud Photo Library will never mess things up. So far it hasn’t, but I have a plan to walk away from iCloud any time and restore from backup if needed.

—–

Even better - Apple offers caching service so you could cache all your iCloud data locally on pretty much and Mac you can leave running with an inexpensive external drive if needed. I like to give 500 GB of space to cache downloads and iCloud data and that works well for 5 people, each with several devices and similar sized photo and music libraries. The caching server makes backup and restore very fast as well as updates and upgrades to new OS and new devices when they get configured the first time.

On 10.12 and lower - this caching service is part of Server.app and works great.
On 10.13 and higher - there are signs you won’t need server.app to cache apps and iCloud data locally. I have no complaints yet testing this in beta.


Closing an application in full screen leaves a black box in Mission Control I have a MacBook Air with OS X EL Capitan 10.11.6, when I use an app like Safari or email and so on, in fullscreen mode the app work very well. But when I close the app and restart the mac I see this:

or

Thank you for your help.

I read this and it seems to be a problem occurring when CMD+Q is brutally pushed to close a not Apple App.

Substantially, I suppose it should be a bug of the program that you are closing and so – maybe – you have to wait a bug fix update from the developer of the App in question.


Rights on file read write execute I am logged in as "myuser" which is also the administrator of the computer.
I have a file on which I have the following rights:

-r--r--r--   1 myuser  staff  167 17 Feb 14:26 my_python.py

However, when I type in python my_python.py on the command line, I still can run the file. Don't I need execute (x) rights in order to do that?!

The only way I cannot run the file is when I change the rights to:

----------   1 myuser  staff  167 17 Feb 14:26 my_python.py

Python only requires the file contents to be read.

Recall that Python is an interpreted language and just processes the contents of that file, rather than executing it; python is the executable here!
Therefore, calling the interpreter with the file as input/argument does not require other than read permissions (e.g.,python example.py).


Changing Icloud user name I have an Iphone 4s that is linked to an Icloud account with an old email account that I no longer have access to.  Is there a way to delete that old account and recreate  a new account with my new email address?

The issue is with the Apple ID used to activate the iCloud Service. An Apple ID is simply an email address that you sign into Apple with and, by extension, use set up Apple’s auxilary services (iCloud, iTunes Store Purchases, etc).

  Is there a way to delete that old account?

Apple usually won’t let you delete an old Apple ID. You need to contact Apple ID Support to inquire. If you wish to purge Apple’s servers of all the information associated with that Apple ID, you can.

  Is there a way to…recreate a new account with my new email address?

Yes.

Option One:

Create a new Apple ID using your new email address. This is the easiest solution.

Option Two:

Change the primary email address associated with your Apple ID account. You don’t need access to the old email address in order to change your Apple ID. This is preferable if you have old purchases or other information you wish to keep.* From Apple ID FAQ:

  I no longer have an email address that was also my Apple ID. Can I still use the email address as my Apple ID?

  Apple recommends you change your Apple ID to your current, working email address. This will not create another Apple ID, it will only
  change it to your working email address. See Changing the name you use
  for your Apple ID if you'd like more information.

*It’s important to note that you cannot merge Apple IDs. Period (period).


How can I set program associations in mac? I know the way to change association per extension (get info => open with => change all) but is there a way like in Windows to change association of all video extensions to be opened by VLC like this:

With on-board GUI tools this isn't possible. But you can download and install RCDefaultApp which is a PrefPane.

Open System Preferences > Default Apps. Choose the Apps tab, scroll down to VLC in the left panel and choose it. In the right panel scroll down to Extensions and hit the (cycle) button...

This works for other apps too - VLC is just an example also used in the question!


How do you position your hand to press Command (cmd) + Option (alt) keys? Combination Cmd+Opt+some key is pretty common in OS X. For example "cut": Cmd+C  Cmd+Opt+V.

I'm struggling to press it with one hand. It's hard. Things goes insane if combination also includes Shift ("Save for Web" in Photoshop - Cmd+Opt+Shift+S).

It is easier to press "equivalent" Ctrl + Alt on Windows which placed like Ctrl+Command on Mac.

First of all I was trying to avoid Cmd+Opt in any sofware I used. But it looks like, it's the "OS X way" and there always be the software containing shortcuts with this combination.

How do live with this? How to make it less painful?

I am also suffering the same issue. I think logically and ergonomically these Apple keys really suck.

What I do is that I have to use my both hands. I leave my right hand from mouse and Press cmd key with my right hand and other combination keys from the left hand


Apple Mail does not seem to connect to my IMAP server I have my own Mailhosting, and am moving servers. Thunderbird works fine with the new Server IP. However, Apple Mail seems to fail and to silently ignore the new server.

I am using Courier IMAP and watching its log messages. When Thunderbird connects, I can see the successfull login. Apple Mail's activity window and network window shows a lot of stuff as well, but Courier keeps silent. Apple Mail then complains that it cannot connect. This is the only message I get in Apple Mail regarding the IMAP connection:

INITIATING CONNECTION Dec 28 18:15:53.727 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:myhostname.com -- port:143 -- socket:0x6000004c4210 -- thread:0x600000666340

For some reason, the connection is never mentioned again, and the signal in the network diagnosis goes "red" very quickly.

Any ideas what Mail is doing differently, compared to Thunderbird?

As a followup: I solved my problem by doing the following steps:

Delete the account from Mail.app
Quit Mail.app
Delete /Users/$USER/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-yourmail@something.com, if it still exists
Start Mail.app and re-create the account

After that, I could use the IMAP account just fine.


How can I configure my computer to run an AppleScript at a specific time? Caveat: without using iCal Since upgrading to Lion, I have seen a sleight decrease of productivity when it comes to using iCal. As a result, I am trying alternatives such as BusyCal. The application seems great, however I cant set an alarm to run a script as I could in iCal.

Hence, I want to become independent from iCal and have an AppleScript run everyday without having to keep iCal running. Any idea of how to do this?

You can run a cronjob using crontab.
So basically, to run a cronjob, you will need to type nano ~/crontab in Terminal. This will create a new file called "crontab" in your home folder, and open up a simple text editor in Terminal. Type:

* * * * * osascript ~/Desktop/theScriptToBeExecuted.applescript

This will run an AppleScript named "theScriptToBeExecuted.applescript" located on your desktop, every minute. The five "*" before the osascript command specify the time. Here's a table to show you what each field stands for:

*     *     *   *    *        command to be executed
-     -     -   -    -
|     |     |   |    |
|     |     |   |    +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
|     |     |   +------- month (1 - 12)
|     |     +--------- day of        month (1 - 31)
|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)

So to run the same command at one minute past midnight (00:01) of every day of the month, of every day of the week, type this in the file:

1 0 * * * osascript ~/Desktop/theScriptToBeExecuted.applescript

If you need more info, check out this article on cron.

To save the file that you're working on, type Control+X (exits), then Y (tells Terminal that you do want to save the file), then Enter Now type at the prompt cron ~/crontab This tells cron that it should be looking at the crontab file, if your file is named "crontab" in your home folder.

Another alternative is Cronnix It's a GUI for crontab.

Script Timer is similar, but it runs specified AppleScripts at specified times. It's a little easier to use, but it costs $12. I would recommend just going with Cronnix (free) or crontab (also free!)


zsh: killed git on Mac Hi~ I am just using a Mac with M1 chip.
I just found when I tried to run
git clone ...

I got
zsh: killed git

What should I do?
I have tried to reinstall git via brew.
but it doesn't work.
git version:
git-2.30.1.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz

Assuming you used the brew reinstall git command instead of brew install git, and assuming you still have Command Line Tools installed, then I would first install gettext and pcre2 as git needs them.
So, first do...
brew reinstall gettext

...followed by:
brew reinstall pcre2

and then by...
brew reinstall git

If that doesn't work you could try all the commands again but with install instead of reinstall.
And if that doesn't work, what's the result of brew config?


How can I pair my Magic Trackpad with multiple Macs? I have a Magic Trackpad that I'm using with my iMac.
Everything works great, but I would also like to use the trackpad with my MacBook.

For some reason, it seems that I can only pair the trackpad with one computer at a time.
With the iMac turned off, I turned on the MacBook and went to set up a new Bluetooth device. The trackpad was not found.
I know that nothing is wrong with my connection procedure (I pressed the power button, it was within range, etc), and that nothing is wrong with the trackpad itself (it works fine with the iMac).

I finally got the trackpad to pair with the MacBook by unpairing it with the iMac, turning the iMac off, and power cycling the trackpad.

Then, when I went to re-pair with the iMac, the device was not found (the MacBook was completely off; it was not connected to anything). Only by unpairing with the MacBook and power cycling was I able to re-pair with the iMac.

So, I think the trackpad is trying to tell me that it can only be paired with one computer at a time.

I would like to pair the trackpad with both my iMac and my MacBook not for simultaneous use, but for using with one when the other is turned off or far away.
I have other Bluetooth devices that let me do this just fine, and I can't think of a reason why it would be different for the trackpad.

How can I pair my Magic Trackpad with both my iMac and MacBook for non-simultaneous use?

Ideally without any third-party software.

No, it can only be paired to one computer at at time according to Magic Trackpad Manual. You would need to un pair and then re pair it to another computer in order to use it on both computers.

Here's the extract from the manual:

  After you pair your Apple Magic Trackpad with a Mac, you can pair it again with a different Mac. To do this, you first remove the existing pairing and then pair the trackpad again.


Internet sharing through WiFi disconnects I am currently using an iMac running Lion and am having problems sharing my internet through WiFi.

The iMac is connected to the internet through ethernet and I share that connection through WiFi to my iPad and iPhone.

The WiFi icon in the menu bar will randomly switch from the sharing icon (grey with an up arrow) back to the normal WiFi icon. At this point my iPad and iPhone no longer see the network.

When I go into my sharing preferences in Lion, the "Internet Sharing" box is still ticked and it says its connected, but I have to stop it and start it again for it to actually work.  Any help would be appreciated.

The first step is to know why the connection is failing, so you might need to look in the console log for messages that speak to en1 / link down / AirPort and such. I don't see a good troubleshooting article from Apple to start things out, but feel free to comment here or edit the answer yourself as we narrow down the when and then finally the why.


Resetting previously selected folder when selecting a file with Finder I use a personal password manager and the database is protected by a password and you have to provide a key file. To select the key file you click a file selection dropdown. A Finder window pops up and opens the folder I previously navigated to with this file dropdown and presents you the folder where I stored the key file. In terms of security, you understand this is not desirable behaviour.

Ideally I would want Finder to just open the default folder that pops up when I open a new Finder window. I would like to modify this behaviour for this specific application, but a system wide solution is also welcome. I don't mind clicking through several folders.

I am on a relatively fresh install of MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and I'm not afraid of tinkering with the Terminal or AppleScript. I just don't know where to start.

Alas, my question was not so popular that it inspired people to answer my question. But after rephrasing my google search terms and some investigation of my own. I found a solution to this.

It appears every application stores these previously opened folders as defaults, which is also the command you need in Terminal to see and reset this value.

I stumbled upon this Quora answer which introduced me to the defaults command. It seems all you need is the bundle identifier of your application (in the source example org.videolan.vlc) and the namespace of the default you are trying to erase.

I found the bundle identifier of my application by typing lsof | grep [appname]
 (which isn't very reliable, because the application name could differ slightly from the bundle identifier) and looking for Library (which commonly hold folder names with these bundle identifiers) in the result. But you can also do defaults read > defaults.log and search the file for your the path of the folder you are trying to erase the default for.

This led me to the namespace NSNavLastRootDirectory. So all I have to do is execute the command defaults delete com.bundle.identifier NSNavLastRootDirectory everytime right before I open the application.

How I am going to do that? I'm not sure yet. Probably some Applescript solution.
Furthermore I was wondering if I used the right tags for this, since my question got so little attention.


Safari: Can I open all bookmarks in a bookmark folder in a new window? Is it possible to open all bookmarks in a bookmark folder in Safari in a new Safari window?

I know that I can do this with a single bookmark, but can I do the same with a bookmark folder?

Open the Bookmarks menu, top left, right click the folder of bookmarks, Open in Tabs...

Though irritatingly, it re-uses the current window, so maybe start with a new one first.


How can I make screenshots be true pixels? It seems like all my screenshots end up being twice as many pixels as they should even though I run the screen in 1920x1200. If I screenshot this editing box, via command + shift + 4 it says about 600px across, but the screenshot ends up being about 1200px. See:

How can I remedy this?

This is to be expected, as your Retina MBP has an actual pixel resolution of 3840x2400.

You can downscale your screenshots manually, or use an app like RetinaCapture, which takes a full-sized and a downscaled screenshot at the same time.


Changing file permissions on 10.6.8 after restore A friend has a Macbook Pro that had the drive crash.  A new hard drive was installed in the system and the OS was reinstalled.  However, when they restored from their backup (using Retrospect), the User profile folder and system sub-folders all were restored with their original permissions.

So in the User folder, is an "Ash Williams" folder and an "Ash" folder.  And in each of those folders are: Documents, Downloads, Applications, etc.  Since the permissions were restored, the duplicate folders can't be deleted or renamed.

I figure I can enable root and then delete/change the extra folders or I can boot to single user mode and the do a chmod on them, but I wanted to get the collective opinion.

If you are not comfortable with chmod commands, (as an administrator user) right click on the folder with the incorrect permission and choose "Properties". Then under "Sharing and Permissions" click on the Settings wheel button and select "Choose new owner..." and enter the new owner's name (you may need to "Apply to enclosed items..." too)


Audio/Video editor for macOS I have a short MP4 video (with sound), and a separate short MP3 file. I am looking for a way to replace the audio of the first file with the audio of the second one.

Is there a lightweight app solution for doing it on a Mac?

If lightweight means command line, then get ffmpeg

https://brew.sh - install homebrew package manager
brew install ffmpeg
profit

See any of the plethora of tutorials online or questions on the network :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9446578/how-to-replace-audio-track-in-mkv-file-on-ubuntu-11-10
https://superuser.com/questions/800234/how-to-replace-an-audio-stream-in-a-video-file-with-multiple-audio-streams
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11779490/how-to-add-a-new-audio-not-mixing-into-a-video-using-ffmpeg


Apple's wired keyboard (with adapter) doesn't work on MacBook Pro 2019 I just switched from my old MacBook Pro (2011) to the newest one. Because I'm often working with a display I've been using Apple's wired keyboard from 2007 (A1243).

While it still works on my old MacBook, it somehow doesn't work on my new one. The keyboard does seem to be somewhat connected since it sometimes (rarely) reacts (although with a lot of lagging) when I press a key repeatedly on the keyboard, even though the light of the caps lock key isn't working either (when I press it).

But there was one time the keyboard worked perfectly fine. It stopped though when I disconnected and then reconnected it.

The adapter doesn't seem to be the cause of it since it doesn't show any problems with connecting to other USB cables (for my iPhone, iPad and an external hard drive or even my mouse).

Is this problem solvable or do I need a new keyboard?

Resetting the System Management Controller on my MacBook seems to have solved this problem.


Can I set the "Exercise" goal for my Apple Watch Activity app? The Apple Watch Activity allows for setting an overall "Move" goal, but I don't see how to change the green "Exercise" goal from the default 30 minutes. Is there a way to accomplish this?

No there is no way to accomplish this.

From Apple - Apple Watch

  You close the Exercise ring when you reach the globally recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day. And you don’t even have to do it all at once, which means you’re more likely to fit it into your day.

From all searches I have performed I have not found any possible way to change it and the above quote suggests that 30 minutes is the amount Apple has fixed on (the call it "recommended").


Printer Driver in macOS Sierra I'm currently trying to install a Dell 1130n Printer Driver on macOS Sierra.

Upon installation, the installer displays this message:

  Error opening file: libscmssc.dylib
  1008:6, -35 Drive not found

This file is located in a folder in the same directory as the installation file.

I have disabled some security settings in macOS Sierra by running a line of code in Terminal, which I thought might have caused that issue:

sudo spctl --master-disable

But it does not appear to have any effect on the installer.

Any ideas?

Yeah, that installer is from 2011 so it may not work anymore... The following site suggests they dropped support for it in 10.10:

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN294375/EN

That being said, does it work if you select a generic driver?

Looks like people have used the SAMSUNG ML-191x 252x SERIES driver with success previously:  http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/3528/t/19450382


using multiple emails in the mail app and sending texts to that app as well the question is almost identical to the title: i just got an iPhone 5, coming over from a blackberry. on my blackberry i was able to receive all my text messages and emails from both of my accounts (one personal gmail, and one work email address) in one app. is there a way to do this on the iPhone?

No. All SMS, MMS and iMessages are all collected in Messages.app. All email is, by default, put in Mail.app. There isn't any built-in way to merge the two.

That being said, there is some flexibility to view multiple inboxes in Mail.app. While in Mail.app, go back to Mailboxes screen and select All Inboxes. You will see all the email messages from all of your accounts in a unified view.


Formatting USB Disk As EXT3 On Mac How can I format a USB disk as ext3 using OS X Yosemite?

I want to use it on another system that is linux based but I wish to format it first before connecting to the linux system.

I needed to format a partition to ext3 on my USB flash drive. The drive was already formatted, and had 3 partitions, and I wanted to convert partition 1 from FAT32 to ext3.

install brew, visit http://brew.sh/
install e2fsprogs using brew install e2fsprogs
figure out the name of your partition or drive using diskutil list -- in my case, my partition had was on disk2 and had the identifier of disk2s1
If the drive is mounted, unmount it: diskutil unmountDisk disk2. Note that this is the drive in the listing above, not the partition.
sudo $(brew --prefix e2fsprogs)/sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/disk2s1 but you may need to change the drive from disk2s1 to the partition or drive that you want to format. This command will ask you to verify the name of the partition, just to be sure :)

Note, if you're able to ssh/telnet into your router running dd-wrt or tomato, you can already directly run mkfs.ext3 directly in the router, and don't need to do anything on your mac at all


Connecting to FTP, directory seems to be blank I need to transfer some files into a guest computer in VirtualBox, and I think FTP would be a good way, but am having trouble connecting the two "computers".

I tried running:

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

then running:

ifconfig | grep "inet "

and grabbing the address returned that wasn't 127.0.0.1.

I even downloaded the FTPD Enable app, but when I visit ftp://192.168.1.119/ in a browser it's just an empty directory.

Is there a setting in Preferences -> Sharing I need to set, or is the FTP leading to a directory somewhere that might just be empty?

When going to higher level directories, (ftp://192.168.1.119/../../../../../../../../../), they all look the same.

I wouldn't think it should be necessary to install OSX Server for this.

Okay so to move files btwn host and guest (virtualbox) i was able to set up ftp on the host as noted above and access the host from the guest either via browser by doing:

ftp://username:password@192.168.1.119

Substituting username and password with my user/admin username and password.

OR (even better) simple from the command line:

$ ftp 192.168.1.119
Connected to 192.168.1.119.
220 192.168.1.119 FTP server (tnftpd 20100324+GSSAPI) ready.
Name (192.168.1.119:username): my_username
331 User my_username accepted, provide password.
Password:
User my_username logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

The the commands within the ftp interface are mostly quite similar to bash/unix commands.

ftp> cd Sites/mzoo
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd mglitch
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
500 Illegal PORT command rejected
ftp: bind: Address already in use

Hey! What happened there? We have to go into passive mode:

ftp> passive
Passive mode on.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,119,194,210)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 my_username  staff  12292 Jun 25 21:45 .DS_Store
rw-r--r--   1 my_username  staff    252 Jun  5 15:13 .htaccess

get will retrieve a single file and wget will get files matching request. for example:

ftp> lcd audio # changing to local directory "audio"
Local directory now /home/username/bla-bla-audio
ftp> mget *.mp3

Here's a list if basic ftp commands.

Command to turn off ftp on the host is:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist


Which Macs support HDCP on their built-in / native displays? Which Macs, both desktop and portable, support HDCP on their native displays? The web is awash with information on connected displays, and which support it, don't support it, and stories of people who weren't warned that theirs don't support it, paid $15 for a movie, and are now screwed.

But for internal displays, I can find nothing. Apple's own Technical Specifications do not list HDCP support. Everymac.com has nothing. I was once able to play an HD iTunes movie on my Late 2008 MacBook Pro, but had to take a leap of faith that it supported HDCP. A StackOverflow answer indicates even a motivated developer couldn't make an app that determines whether a given Mac has HDCP support for its built-in display.

It seems the only way - not exaggerating here - is to buy some protected content from iTunes and hope it works.

Basically every modern mac with an embedded screen supports HDCP.

iTunes will play all copy protected HD content on all integrated displays (MacBooks and iMacs) but not on non HDCP displays.

This lets us deduct that the integrated displays are HDCP compliant or at least that Mac OS ignores the DHCP flag when playing protected HD content on the integrated screen.

Apparently you might get this strange error, which leads me to think that Mac OS simply bypasses the HDCP check when using integrated displays.


Music on Apple Watch without iPhone Background

I'm still working toward my goal of being able to leave my phone in a locker while I work out. Despite the gains of WatchOS 5, it appears that my only real option for music without my phone being nearby is Apple Music (the service) or moving audio files to the watch manually with Apple Music (the app). I'd prefer not to have Apple Music installed on my phone. Googling reveals a lot of articles from the Series 3 release saying that this should be possible now, but I've not found any actual solutions.

Actual Question

Can I listen to music from my Apple Watch without having my phone nearby and without requiring Apple Music be installed on my phone?

MixTape turns out to be an excellent solution that costs only $3.

http://dorshorst.com/mixtape/

I'm not sure what changed between now and Feb 5th when I first tried it (and commented above) when literally nothing worked but I tried it again today and it worked perfectly for my needs.

As pointed out by @dwightk, Pandora as of 2019 does not support streaming directly to the watch, but does allow you to manually transfer songs to the watch for offline, phone-free listening if you are a Premium subscriber.

So far those are the only two solutions I can find.


Is there a good email app with text-to-speech for iPhone? I cannot read small text due to eyesight deterioration and want an app that can read email out loud. Is there anything good that has text to speech and possibly also dictation of emails?

Speak Screen
From email to books, let your iPhone read to you. If you
have a hard time reading the text on your iPhone, use Speak Screen to
read your email, iMessages, web pages, and books. Turn on Speak Screen
and swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers, or just
tell Siri to Speak Screen and have all the content on the page read
back to you. You can adjust the voice’s dialect and speaking rate, and
have words, sentences, or words within sentences highlighted as
they’re being read. And the new Speech Controller provides a Speak
Under Finger feature for more precise control.

https://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision/
From the Home screen, go to Settings → General → Accessibility → Speech → Speak Screen. Or simply search using the search bar in Settings. To read screen, imagine bringing down notification centre, but with two fingers.
For single words: select them, and find "Speak" in the tooltip options that appear.
RSS reader for iPhone with text-to-speech support?


How can I fix or back up a system after I use gparted to resize my drive and the system will not start? I created an EFI to run Ubuntu on my mac it was working well but I didn't have enough space so I created a another partition in disk utility and then went to gparted and turned the new partition to un-allocated space, selected swapoff on my SwapSpace  partition in order to move the un-allocated space next to my ubuntu partion.
Now I can  no longer select  macOS to boot and am exclusively stuck in linux. I don't know to much about this stuff and am really struggling.
Apple support says to erase everything but I have no backups.
My whole drive for my mac is still there and I can see it is taking up space. I just cant access it
Is there a way to salvage the system or at least back things up now that my system will not boot?

I was actually able to figure this out myself (no thanks to Apple), but have seen a lot of questions similar, so I thought I would share what worked for me:

I downloaded Gnome Disk for Linux
reformatted the corrupted drive to Apple AFPS
and then remounted the drive

I was able to get everything back and into macOS.


Use iPhone to connect desktop to wireless I have an old Windows XP desktop with no wireless capability, a wireless router, and an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1.  If the iPhone is connected to the desktop by USB, (how) can I use it to access the router (and the internet) without incurring 3g network data charges?

I think what you're trying to do is called tethering. There are several tethering apps available. They require your iPhone to be jailbroken though. Some apps are PdaNet, TetherMe, and MyWi.
I know that with MyWi you can connect to the Wireless Network, turn off cellular data in your iPhone, and use it to tether without charges.
-Notice, these apps are all Paid apps on Cydia, but if you're jailbreaking your iPhone there are ways to get the apps for free.


Time Machine backups to a Veracrypt volume? I've got an external USB drive with a few VeraCrypt volumes. I want to use one of them for my Time Machine backups. The partition can be deleted entirely, I just wish to keep it encrypted with VeraCrypt.

Is this possible? When trying to set things up like this, I cannot select this partition as a backup volume in Time Machine settings.

I know I can also create and format a regular partition and use that in Time Machine, and use macOS' or Time Machine's own encryption. But I prefer VeraCrypt.

Note that I'm not using a VeraCrypt container, but an actual partition. Which is then mounted and formatted with regular HPFS+, so I would say after mounting it's virtually the same as without VeraCrypt. But somehow Time Machine won't allow me to select this volume...?

You need to add the partition manually. In Terminal type

sudo tmutil setdestination -a / Volume/YourBackupVolume

Check your Time Machine destinations with tmutil destinationinfo before and after adding the new Volume.


App Store download paused due to internet disconnection I tried to download Xcode from the Mac app store and the internet connection stopped at some point. It has downloaded more that 3 GB out of 4.53 GB. Now that I got my internet connection back, but the download stopped entirely.

I tried to open it, but it cannot be opened:

Should I go back to App Store and continue the download. But I am afraid that it will re-download the app. What should I do?

It'll automatically resume the progress of the download.


Siri shortcuts voice input Is there a possibility to make voice input with Siri shortcuts? I haven't found it. What I want to do is to create a new todo item on my todo app in my case trello, but I don't want to manually type the todo item in, but dictate it via voice. Say "trello new card: [INPUT]" and then it creates the card. Is this possible? Also to send a message it would be nice to be able to have voice input.

Yay my first Shortcuts question!

Use the Dictate Text action.

This action will convert words you speak into to text and pass that text to the next action.

Currently, there is a bit of down side: You will not be able tell Siri in one sentence "Tell [Shortcut Trigger], Apples are cool" Instead you need to do it in two parts "[Shortcut Trigger]" wait... "Apples are cool".

Warning: Make sure to pick a language or it will silently fail.


Bootcamp Windows doesn't start up after 10.7 fresh install upgrade to 10.10 Hardware: Late 2009 27" iMac (it's the first generation 27")
OS: Mac OSX 10.7, Windows 7 64 bit on Bootcamp

Last night, I decided to upgrade my OS to Yosemite, and seeing how old my Mac OS is (haven't touched it since 2013, I have a MacBook Air that I use as my main machine), I decided to do a fresh install.

Everything went fine for Yosemite, but after that, my Windows stopped working. It's still showing up in the System Preferences.app Startup Disk panel, but not when I hold down the ⌥ Option key during system boot up. However, if I try to boot into Windows from the System Preferences.app Startup Disk panel, Windows will refuse to boot and show an error along lines of

Non-system disk
Press any key to reboot...

What can I do to start up as Windows again?

Found the problem. So it seems that it's a relatively common problem with Yosemite messing up the partition scheme, deleting the header for the Windows partition.

This guy called Loner T had been helping people on the forum, and one of the victims of the bug had written up a summary of the steps to take to fix the issue. Do note however, that the fix is highly technical, and requires at least a competent understanding of operating systems and the CLI to safely apply it. So if you're uncomfortable (or have no idea what the instructions are asking for) it's better to find a professional to help). Obviously it goes without saying that you should have a backup of all your data before you attempt this.

Link to the fix:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/27109000#27109000