Typing into Terminal works, AppleScript partially works What I am trying to achieve:

Click a YouTube link in an app
This URL is used by my youtube-dl script to download the video
youtube-dl is configured to download the highest quality video and audio, then use ffmpeg to combine them into one file

What I have so far:
I use Finicky as my default browser. This gives me control over what browsers open certain links based on rules I write for it. The long and short of the tool is that it detects YouTube links, converts them from their usual form (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXxXxXXX_X) to the shortened, share-friendly form (e.g. https://youtu.be/XxXxXxXXX_X), then sends this to an AppleScript.
The AppleScript is saved as an app and is below.
#!/bin/zsh
on open location input
    do shell script "youtube-dl  " & input
end open location

This runs the shell script youtube-dl https://youtu.be/XxXxXxXXX_X. When I type this exact command into Terminal everything works perfectly: youtube-dl does it's thing, including doing something with ffmpeg to combine the downloaded files. However, when this AppleScript runs it's like ffmpeg isn't involved. I get a video file and an audio file.
I think my issue is in my AppleScript, but I am out of my depths with it. What can I do to make my AppleScript run things just like they run in Terminal?

What can I do to make my AppleScript run things just like they run in Terminal?

Well, you could tell the Terminal app to run your command:
tell application "Terminal" to do script "youtube-dl  " & input

But, I don't recommend this route, because it will actually open a Terminal window!
There are a whole host of differences between do shell script and typing commands into the Terminal. For starters, do shell script commands are run via sh, rather than the more advanced bash or zsh (And, your "#!/bin/zsh" shabang line at the top will have no effect in an Applescript!).
As to your actual problem, it sounds like youtube-dl can't find your copy of ffmpeg—probably because another difference between the Terminal app and do shell script is your PATH is set differently. Try specifying the location of your ffmpeg binary with youtube-dl's --ffmpeg-location flag.
If it helps to have a reference to look at, here is an Applescript I use to download videos from my web browser with youtube-dl. Note that I've been tweaking this for many years, so it has accumulated a lot of error checking, and code for compatibility with different browsers. Don't be intimidated! https://gist.github.com/Wowfunhappy/c2c8fc097a8b4f47430811fc1d0da041


Is it possible to stop the High Sierra Mail app from grouping messages? I recently upgraded to a 13-inch MacBook Pro (2017 model) and installed macOS High Sierra version 10.13.2.  The new Mail app is grouping e-mails into "conversations", which has the net effect of making e-mails from my clients disappear under my replies.  I use Google mail (on the web),  the Apple Mail app on my MacBook, and the Mail app on my iPhone 6S.  My goal is to have all three of these apps simply display the e-mails in the order that they were sent and/or received.  I don't want some "helpful" feature on one platform adding to the overall cognitive burden.

The problem seems to have started with the last set of upgrades.  Does anyone know how it can be addressed, short of switching to Android?

Go to View and disable Organize by Conversation.


What software is available (preferably free) to edit PDF files on Mac OS X? What free software/app is there to edit pdf files on Mac OS X?

Specifically I am looking to edit an existing PDF file and re-save it in PDF format.

For simple tasks like fixing typos, OpenOffice or LibreOffice do the job


Why is my 2016 iMac "Beach Balling" a lot after upgrading hardware? I purchased this system in January, 2016. It says it is a "Late 2015" model. Apple Care told me it is the last generation compatible with non-matching RAM chip amounts so I left the Apple provided 8gb RAM (two 4gb sticks) in when I added 2 8GB sticks of Crucial RAM that is the EXACT recommended RAM specs! I even checked with Apple Care to be sure. "About this Mac" says "24 GB 1867 MHz DDR3" for "Memory". Anybody have an idea why it's momentarily "beach balling" MORE OFTEN now after adding the RAM?
Prior to adding the ram it was "beach balling" HARD if I ran memory greedy apps like Civ 6 Mac edition so I was forced to hold down the power button then but it ran fine the rest of the time.
To answer the drive type question in the comment, I bought the system with a 1tb non-Fusion HDD as that was the only drive I could afford. (Previous comment was incorrectly based on the 2007 iMac this system replaced.)
As requested the output of "diskutil list" is:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         504.0 GB   disk0s2
3:       Microsoft Basic Data Win 10                  496.0 GB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +504.0 GB   disk1
Physical Store
disk0s2
1:                APFS Volume Macintosh 500GB - Data  133.9 GB   disk1s1
2:                APFS Volume Macintosh 500GB         11.3 GB    disk1s2
3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 78.8 MB    disk1s3
4:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.8 MB   disk1s4
5:                APFS Volume VM                      12.9 GB    disk1s5

It sounds like you have a dying hard drive, not a memory problem  - not that more memory is a bad thing!  I did some research and according to EveryMac.com your iMac has both an SSD and a regular HDD.  One or both could be dying.  Most of my drives lasted around 5 years and that one is 5 years old now.
I found this post:  https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/239723/377857 on how to fix it, but it seems like you have to remove the glass.  I did a little more research (I want to do this to my iMac) and it seems like you have to cut the glue holding the screen.  That scares me.
Since it is so difficult to do, I would probably use a program like Disk Warrior or Disk Drill (see them recommended by people all over this site) to test out the drive first.  If it's not failing, why go through the trouble of opening it up?
If you do have to change it, it might be a good idea to get a pro to do this job.  Maybe if I get more experience, I will try it myself, but not yet.
PS - In my experience, I've found that using matching RAM modules is the way to go.


How to execute a Parallels Windows application with command line parameters from Mac? I am trying to call Beyond Compare Windows app to perform a file compre directly from Mac but I am block with command line argument passing.

You can call Windows applications from the OS X command line via something like:

open "$HOME/Applications (Parallels)/{ca50aac6-caa6-47a6-9bfe-e38f6261cb8d} Applications.localized/python.exe.app" --args -v

Still, it seems that there is a problem when you try to pass arguments.

APPROACH 1

This approach is a hack, but works with the least expensive version of Parallels.

On the virtual Windows machine:

Create a *.bat file for each possible set of parameters. For example:

     @echo off
     start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication.exe" --myArg
     exit

On the Mac:

Navigate to $(HOME)/Applications (Parallels)/VMNAME Applications, where VMNAME is the name of a virtual machine.
Duplicate the MyApplication.app application bundle and rename the duplicate MyApplication --arg.app.
Right-click MyApplication --myArg.app and choose "Show Package Contents*.
Open Contents/Resources/AppParams.pva in an editor (e.g., TextEdit), and change the value of the App Path property to the absolute path in the virtual machine to the *.bat file, rather than the application. Save the file.

This is similar to @johnl's answer above, which provided the vital clue. However, at least in Parallels 11, the App Path property would only work with an application path, not with a command line.

APPROACH 2

As of Parallels 11, this approach requires one of the more expensive editions of Parallels - Pro or Business. I don't have either, and haven't tested this approach.

According to the Parallels manual Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition, the command prlctl exec can accept a command to be executed on the Windows virtual machine.

  prlctl exec

  Executes a command inside a virtual machine. Parallels Tools must be installed in a virtual machine to use this utility. Commands in Linux guests are invoked with bash -c.

  Syntax

  prlctl exec vm_id|vm_name command

  Parameters

  Name Description

  vm_id|vm_name The UUID or the name of the virtual machine.

  command A command to execute.


Swipe between Spaces/full-screen apps: Uniform gestures for Multi-Touch Trackpad and Magic Mouse I often run macOS apps in system provided full-screen mode. I switch between using an Apple Magic Mouse and MacBook's Multi-Touch Trackpad.

To switch between Spaces/full-screen apps, System Preferences allow me to use 3 or 4 finger swiping on the Multi-Touch Trackpad, but only 2 finger swipe on the Magic Mouse.

I would like to have the same gesture available for both the devices. I don't want to think about what tool I'm using. To me it should just be the same.

Is there a way to do this using BetterTouchTool? I haven't been able to figure out the correct action?

I figured out how to do it with BetterTouchTool. In BetterTouchTool the action is called "move right/left a space.

I set up an action for both 2 finger swipe left, and 2 finger swipe right on the trackpad and left the magic mouse with the standard 2 finger swipe.


No Plus Sign Button or Edit Button in IOS Contacts App The Contacts App on my iPhone 4 (with IOS 5.1) has no '+' in the top right corner to add a contact and no "edit" in the top right corner to edit a contact. My friends do have this. How to it get these buttons to show up?

You may be looking at a subscribed contacts list, rather than one of your own that you have read/write access to.  Go 'back' all the way to list you contacts accounts, and ensure you are actually looking at your own contacts.


How do I find location of executable file? I was not able to use Illuminated Cloud on Mac since it required to enter Salesforce DX executable path which I don't know.

When I installed SFDX by downloading and executing installer https://developer.salesforce.com/media/salesforce-cli/sfdx-osx.pkg, it never asked me for a folder to install, so I didn't understand where it was installed.

How do I find where SFDX executable is installed to paste it here?

From https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/272125/how-do-i-find-sfdx-cli-default-installation-folder-on-mac:

The simplest way is the type a command

which sfdx

in Terminal.

/usr/local/bin/sfdx

Another (longer and more complicated) way (which I initially used) is to type command

find / -iname sfdx

in the Terminal and search in the results for the actual path

/usr/local/lib/sfdx/bin/sfdx


Possibility to install ML directly from the hard disk? Does it possible to install Mountain Lion (clean install) without using USB key or DVD?

I'm currently running on SL, and I want install ML (I already have the dmg file).

If you boot into the Recovery HD (⌘ cmd + R or ⌥ alt/option then select Recovery), you can open Disk Utility and Erase the internal drive.

Then close Disk Utility and use the Reinstall option in OS X Utilities to reinstall OS X.


moving mail folders to gmail labels - sublabels and hierarchy is lost I use Mail.app and iOS Mail to access 3 different gmail accounts.  Currently I have all of my mail in folders "on my mac", but I'd like to be able to access them from my mobile devices (iphone, ipad) or when logging onto email from another computer (using the webapp).  When I drag and drop folders into my gmail accounts (as per this answer), the nesting/sublabels/heirarchy is lost.  How can I migrate preserving the proper structure?

My Folders looks something like:

Group/
|- SubGroup1/
|- SubGroup2/
   |- SubSubGroup/
   |- <some messages>
|- <some messages>

and the new gmail labels look like:

Group (messages)
Group/SubGroup1
Group/SubGroup2
Group/SubGroup2/SubSubGroup
Group/SubGroup2/SubSubGroup (messages)

The key is that this process doesn't seem to make the top-level folders appropriately.

1) In gmail settings add a label with the missing top level.  For example, for my example above, If I create a label called Group then instantly the sub-labels get properly moved to it automatically.

i.e.

Group (messages)
Group
|- SubGroup1
|- SubGroup2
   |- SubSubGroup
   |- SubSubGroup (messages)

2) Manually move the (messages) emails to the new label (i.e. move everything in Group (messages) to Group and from SubSubGroup (messages) to SubSubGroup ).  Repeat this for the missing labels further in the tree

You'll then be left with the appropriate

Group
|- SubGroup1
|- SubGroup2
   |- SubSubGroup


Why does iTunes keep re-downloading my deleted podcast episodes? I delete my podcast episodes from iTunes after I listen to them. Recently, I migrated from a Lion machine to a Mavericks machine (both iTunes 11), bringing my iTunes Library with me (but not my preferences file). Since then, when iTunes updates my podcast, it insists on re-downloading the episodes I've deleted (and worse, now they're marked as unplayed).

Is there a setting I need to change to stop this? It used to work fine.

I still don't know why it was doing this, but I've since set iTunes to automatically delete played podcasts after 1 day, and stopped deleting them manually. That does what I need.


Can I cause auto-correct in Lion to beep and to get a summary of the changes? Auto-correct in Lion is great, but I need to know when it has made a substitution so I can check it.

Is there a way to set an audio alert so that OS X makes a sound to alert me everytime it autocorrects?

Is there another way to see a quick summary of the auto-correct changes which have occurred in a document?

As a Mac developer I've been working on a solution to this problem, so far I've been able to detect autocorrect in a NSTextView within the app itself and play a sound to alert the user.

At the moment I am working on making it able to detect autocorrect in any NSTextView in any app but that's a bit harder and may take longer so I thought I would just brief you on what I've done so far.

I'll edit this answer with the final app when it can detect autocorrection in any app.

Here's what I've got done so far: [Most up to date download link further down]

I'm currently in the process of testing a version of the app which is generalised and works on every single text view no matter which app is active. It uses a slightly different method to how I did it when it was just a NSTextView within the app itself as when you deal with these things with other apps (via the Accesability API) you don't have direct access to the objects themselves.

Anyway enough with the 'jibber-jabber', here are some screen shots of the preferences:

General - At the moment it just lets you choose the sound to play when autocomplete is detected.

Blacklist - Allows you to blacklist certain apps so that autocorrect detection is turned off and no sound is played.

The reason I am testing it is because the method I use is not completely sound, it simply detects any change in text before the cursor. This means it will detect autocomplete but in general will detect any change in text that is NOT directly done by the user (e.g a button which clears all text) other than this it works pretty well.

I'll update this answer with a download link once I've finished testing.

I've finished testing, so… here's the download link: http://cl.ly/9CIZ

It runs in the background, so has no dock icon. To access the preferences double click on the app in Finder.

Again, this doesn't work perfectly and has a couple of bugs but it should work 99% of the time!


List all calendar events on iPhone How can I see the list of all my events on my iPhone 4s? Not just the ones for that day or by searching with an alphabet letter.

This is really a bit tricky on iOS. If you are in Calender view, there are three icons on the right side. The third from the right is the list icon. But there are two types of that list icon: one only shows three lines, the other shows two lines and a square.

The mode you are talking about must be the one with the two lines and the square. So you see the calender view on top ("the square") and a list of events for that ("the two lines").

Press this button so it is not selected any longer. Now you see the calender view without the list. Now press the "Today" button in the lower left corner. The view will switch to show you the timeline of the day, and also the third icon from the right switched to the one with the three lines. Pressing this "three lines" button will show up the event list you are searching for.


Disable cellphone network but keep wifi? Possible Duplicate:
  Disable iPhone Cell Antennae

Is there any way to make my iPhone 5 like a simple iPod touch? I'd like to disable all cellphone functionality but keep the wifi.

No jailbreak if possible.
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.

You can enable "Airplane Mode" and then turn on Wi-Fi.
For phones that use a GSM sim card (even if they are on CDMA networks), if you remove the SIM card, you disable the cellular radio. Calls and cellular data stop flowing in this case.
This will not disable phone calls, only internet:
Settings > General > Cellular > Cellular Data -> OFF


High Sierra 10.13.4 will not install - "Some Updates Not Installed" I asked in the Apple community Mac OS X forum seven days ago - no answers.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8357828

My late 2012 mac mini 6,2 16gb with 1TB fusion drive refuses to upgrade from 10.13.3 to 10.13.4 reporting "some updates were not installed. details/install".

i have tried:

1) app store upgrade

2) update combo 10.13.4

3) booted to recovery mode, ran disk repair on internal Fusion drive, which found and repaired errors, rebooted, then tried update combo
(repeated verify/repair cycle no errors found, no fixes needed)

4) Disconnected two external TM drives, ran update combo

5) booted to safe mode, ran update combo

6) turned off google updater with script, ran update combo

#!/usr/bin/env bash
osascript -e 'tell application "GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent" to quit'
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

7) held shift during update combo reboots

8) Removed Google Updater which was filling log with lots of failed update messages

9) Level 1 Apple support: App Store Featured page High Sierra which failed with unable to unmount to perform repair.

9) More Apple Support - a couple more tries working with level 3 which is reviewing collected logs and settings, and screen shots.

You may want to consider yourself lucky as there seems to be a lot of people reporting problems with this particular update of macOS.

If you just Google "Mac OS 10.13.4" you will get a number of articles showing problems with just the update, not to mention the things that it breaks.

Yeah it installed fine for me and probably a lot of people, but enough folks had enough issues with this update that I think your best bet is to not install this update and wait for 10.13.5 to be released.


To Rescue Nonbooting OS X with Grub? I had Refind bootloader in Macbook Air 2013-mid. My disk has OSX and broken Ubuntu. Ubuntu messed up my bootloader such that it starts only.
I cannot go to grub/refind by pressing ALT, ALT-R, ...
My SIP is disabled.

I followed the guides here and here.
I am now in grub> command prompt where I managed to get by pressing ESC at startup. In grub, ls gives

(proc) (hd0) (hd1) (hd3) (hd1,gpt4) (hd1,gpt2) (hd1,gpt1) error: failure reading sector 0x0 from `hd2'

where

hd1 is my SSD find out by ls (hd1)
(hd1,gpt1) EFI here, fat filesystem, probably swap size 20kB
(hd1,gpt2) 75 GB here, probably OS X
(hd1,gpt3) Recovery HD, not sure what
(hd1,gpt4) Ubuntu 16.04, 45 Gb here

So I need to setup a bootloader which has (hd1,gpt2) and (hd1,gpt4) in the same table. I may still have refind but not sure, because Ubuntu probably replaced it.
Problem: ls (hd1,gpt2)/ gives

error: unknown filesystem

I cannot configure the bootloader apparently back with Linux grub.
If I could see the contents, I would like to do

set root='(hd1,gpt2)'
...

I really would like to start some live system to fix the thing, but I cannot find any key to boot from USB.

Updates in Linux side

I did many update and upgrade cycles on the Linux side. So the Linux kernel is now 4.4. In startup, I get only Grub menu where is no OS X. Just the Ubuntu and its variations.
So I think the problem is just to link the OS X to Grub but I am not sure about if when I could read OS X filesystem in grub>.

Unsuccessful attempt of installing refind in Linux

In Linux, install refind again

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install refind

and answer yes. Restart. However, Grub is still there but not refind.

How can you fix the bootloader in Macbook?

Just run the refind-install script with sudo in the OS X side. I could not get to the recovery mode. This solved the problem.


Efficiently add builds to all slides in Keynote 6.2 I would like to have all of my slides build the bullet lists with Appear / By Bullet (animation, build in: appear, delivery: by bullet). In Keynote prior to version 6, it was possible to set a build in the master slide. Keynote 6 has removed that option. I find I'm manually going through every slide to add this animation.

Is there some way to do this in a more automated / efficient way?

Under the "format" menu, you should be able to copy the animation you want and paste it for any other object. Does that not work?


How do I detect failed remote login attempts and block them? How do I detect failed remote login attempt on my MacBook Pro and how do I block them? My MacBook Pro is on a network with built-in firewall, if that's relevant.

Login attempts are logged in the file /var/log/secure.log, but there's a lot of other entries in the file also. You could search for lines containing the phrase "Failed to authenticate user" to narrow down the failed login attempts.

In Mac OS X, by default, telnet and rlogin are not enabled at all. As far as ssh is concerned, it can be turned off and on using System Preferences. If you deselect "Remote login" then it should not be possible to ssh into your computer.


How to launch apps that require Java on Mountain Lion with only Java 7 installed? Just got a brand new MacBook Air which shipped with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and no Java installed. There is a /usr/bin/java, but running it would prompt me to install an Apple-distributed Java 6 runtime in a Cocoa dialog.

However, Oracle is no longer supporting Java 6, and I don't want to be running an unsupported and probably insecure Java installation.

So, I went to Oracle's Java SE downloads and installed the latest JDK, jdk-7u25-macosx-x64. Now the only Java I have on this machine is 1.7.0_25, distributed by Oracle. /usr/bin/java -version now works.

I just ran brew cask install eclipse, and ended up with Eclipse 4.3. When I first tried to run it, I got the same prompt to install a Java runtime as if I had no Java installed.

So I looked here on Apple StackExchange and found https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/58841/52440. After running sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_25.jdk /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk, I'm now able to launch Eclipse.

However, when I try to launch other apps that require Java, such as /usr/share/java/Tools/Java VisualVM.app and /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/webstorm/6.0.2a/WebStorm.app, I get an error that no compatible Java 1.6 is available (see below).

Does anyone know if it's possible to get these other apps working, or do they really actually require Java 6 and can't work with Java 7?

The dialog is shown because Oracle's Java has only partial 'JVMCapabilities' set and advertises itself as command-line-only capable.

As a superuser (use 'sudo' if editing in Terminal), you should edit /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk.1.7.[version-and-release].jdk/Contents/Info.plist and find the following key:

<key>JVMCapabilities</key>
  <array>
    <string>CommandLine</string>
  </array>

and add it to include the missing values:

<key>JVMCapabilities</key>
  <array>
    <string>CommandLine</string>
    <string>JNI</string>
    <string>BundledApp</string>
  </array>

After that, you have to either reboot, logout or killall Finder, what ever seems to work. (People have reported that restarting Finder was enough, but I had to log out.)

--
Source.


Gatekeeper won't let LibreOffice open .csv files I recently installed LibreOffice Vanilla (LOV) from the Mac App Store.  I want it to be the default app for opening .csv files.

First, I tried to open a .csv file using the "Open With" dialog.  LOV is not an offered option, so I clicked on "Other" and there it is but it is ghosted until I go from "Recommended Applications" to "All Applications".

That should be it, but I then get this error message (I think from "Gatekeeper"):

If I go into Security Preferences I can make it "Open Anyway", but the next time I try to open a .csv file I get the same error.

How do I set up my Mac so double-clicking on a .csv file will have it open in LibreOffice?

Update: I found a procedure (described as an answer below) that will make LibreOffice the default app for ONE .csv file, but I have to go through the same steps (add LibreOffice to "Open With" and tell Gatekeeper to "Open Anyway") for every .csv file that has not had this done.

So how do I set up OS X so that double-clicking on any .csv file will have it open in LibreOffice?

I had the same problem and finally managed to fix it.
Simply adding 'Libreoffice Vanilla' by doing a right click on a csv file and choosing that app did not remember this for all csv files, as you state.

I was able to configure it by going to the info of a single csv file (mac button & i or rightclick and 'Get Info'). Open the 'Open with' apps list and you'll probably need to choose the 'Other' option at the bottom. Choose the 'All Application' selection and 'Always Open With' option while finding the Libreoffice app in the list and confirm that selection.

Now you'll have to click the 'Change all' button right under the App selection combo box on the general file info window. This step ensured all other csv files to open using Libreoffice from then on.


Web Sharing does not work with FileVault? I want to use both Web Sharing and FileVault however when I turned on FileVault, my home directory Sites folder came up in the browser as permission denied, even though the Unix permissions were 777, meaning anyone can access it.

How to resolve this?

And by the way where is the toplevel web directory? I am tired of trying to use my ~/Sites directory anyway.

I'm assuming you aren't using Lion, since your description sounds more like FileVault 1 (through Snow Leopard) than FileVault 2 (Lion).

FileVault 1 protects the entire home folder, with encryption when you aren't logged in and permissions when you are. In order to get to files in your Sites folder, the web server process would have to go through your home folder -- since it can't get into your home folder, it also can't get at anything inside it, so the permissions on your Sites folder are irrelevant.  (I'd recommend setting the perms on Sites back to 755, though -- 777 is just a bad idea.)

As a result of this, ~/Sites is pretty much useless in FileVault accounts.  Same with ~/Public -- normally, it's for sharing files both locally and (if the services are enabled) over AFP and/or SMB, but with FV it's not reachable.

But you do have an alternative: the top level web directory, /Library/WebServer/Documents.  Just replace the default files with your own and you should be good to go.


How do I figure out if my iPhone is iCloud locked? I have an iPhone 6 that I purchased online. During initial setup I selected the language and country and also connected it to Wi-Fi. However, it's giving me the following error:

  Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server
  cannot be reached.

Does this mean it's iCloud locked? Or is it just that it needs a SIM card (I haven't put one in yet)?

If you have a SIM card you should definitely install it and try again.

However, considering your message is about the activation server being unreachable, I would also recommend checking Apple's System Status page. Once there, check in particular for the colour of the circle next to iOS Device Activation (usually listed in the 2nd column). If the circle isn't green, try activating your iPhone again later.

In terms of your concern/question about determining if it is iCloud locked, you will know this if you're being prompted to sign in with an Apple ID in order to activate it. If you are, then it has an activation lock.

For more information you can read Find My iPhone Activation Lock.

Finally, for general support on activation issues you can refer to: If you can‘t activate your iPhone.


Safari not able to reproduce 8k video from youtube I'm trying to see the new 8k videos on Youtube with Safari but when I choose the 8k quality I get an error: an error occured, please try again later.

An example of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChOhcHD8fBA&t

When I choose 4k works fine.

I'm using a Macbook Pro 15" with touchbar with Radeon Pro 460.

Any idea why this is happening? someone is able to see the video?

With Chrome you can play it. It looks like Safari is not compatible with 8k.


Can't share Internet connection from MacBook to iPhone I have my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.4) connected via WiFi.
iPhone 5s 8.4 is connected via bluetooth to the MBP. But I can't navigate on the Internet from my phone.
Here's the setup:

Can someone help me to navigate the Internet from the iPhone using the MacBook's connection?

The question you are asking seems unclear, but I think you are asking if you can share internet connectivity from your computer to your iPhone (or other iOS devices) via Bluetooth.

In this case the answer is no this is not possible, however you can share via Wi-Fi.

You can share (tether) your iPhone, or Cellular iPad's data connections to your computer via Bluetooth, USB or Wi-Fi but not the reverse.

This article on Apple.com explains the later option


Why `echo -n` doesn't work in this script on mac terminal? I am learning shell from tutorialspoint today:http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-shell-loops.htm

And I copied this code block to a loop.sh file:

#!/bin/sh

a=0
while [ "$a" -lt 10 ]    # this is loop1
do
   b="$a"
   while [ "$b" -ge 0 ]  # this is loop2
   do
      echo -n "$b "
      b=`expr $b - 1`
   done
   echo
   a=`expr $a + 1`
done

But when excute it, I got things like:

...
-n 4
-n 3
-n 2
-n 1
-n 0
...

Apparently, the -n flag doesn't work in echo -n "$b ".

Then I move the same file to my Ubuntu virtual system. Runs it.

I got ：

0
1 0
2 1 0
3 2 1 0
4 3 2 1 0
5 4 3 2 1 0
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

I'm confused, though Ubuntu use dash as its default sh, but OSX use official bourne shell as its sh, why the script failed here? How to fix it?

Echo is both a binary program (/bin/echo) as well as builtin command in some shells such as bash and sh.  As man echo states,

 Some shells may provide a builtin echo command which is similar or iden-
 tical to this utility.  Most notably, the builtin echo in sh(1) does not
 accept the -n option.  Consult the builtin(1) manual page.

In order to fix this, you can change your script to use bash by setting the first line to

#!/bin/bash

Or change your invocation of echo to

/bin/echo -n "$b "


What external screen size/resolution will make using Xcode on an 11 inch Air better? I'm looking for an external LCD for my 11 inch Macbook Air (i5, 2013). The only thing I (am going to) use the Mac for is Xcode so the screen size needs to support development needs.

I hear the minimum decent resolution for Xcode is 1920x1080.

Is that enough or should I be looking for more pixels?

I would look at the pixel counts for the current iMacs since I've never heard of anyone that couldn't get substantial work done with the smaller but that most developers really appreciate the pixels of the larger iMac if they do substantial coding (6 hours a day or more).

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs/

The lower pixel count is 1920-by-1080 and the larger is 2560-by-1440

I've actually been productive on the 11 inch Air when traveling, but having a second display of any size was a big plus when at a desk to have code or documentation on the built in display and the app running on the larger screen (or the other way occasionally).

The fact that you have one use in mind for the Mac means you probably can do with less screen than someone that will also want to do communication, email, calendar as well as coding.


How to make my `/usr` folder secure? I'm trying to install the Tunnelblick open source VPN client on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5.

When I try to install the dmg I get the following error (see attached screenshot).

How would I make my /usr folder secure? The account I use by default is my main user account, but also the admin account for the computer. Would it be a question of making a my main user account a standard user and setting up a separate admin account?

It seems the permissions on /usr are incorrect, which in the past has been attributed to installing MacPorts. You can repair the permissions on /usr by running:

sudo chown root:wheel /usr
sudo chmod 0755 /usr

Since MacPorts installs to /opt/local, this shouldn't affect MacPorts, but as I don't use MacPorts I can't say for certain.


Can I copy the mac OS directly from my macbook pro to a card in the SD slot? I bought a refurb macbook pro a few years back, to use for video editing. It came with Snow Leopard installed. I never upgraded beyond 10.6.8 as I still edit in FCP 7 and didn't want compatibility issues. Now I've reached the point where I need to upgrade my OS for pretty much everything other than video editing.

So I thought a good workaround might be to plug a microSD adapter into the SD slot, with a 128GB microSD card in it, and to install the OS 10.6.8 software on that. That way I could boot up from the SD drive when I need to do video editing, but the rest of the time I can just run the computer with the latest mac OS installed.

So here's my conundrum. When I bought the macbook pro as a refurb, it didn't come with software install disks. Is there a way to copy the 10.6.8 OS directly from my laptop to the microSD card? Or do I have to shell out the additional $ to buy another copy of 10.6.8 from the app store?

You can use Disk Utility to make bootable copies of the OS. It's always preferable to use an OS that's not booted (i.e. you're not copying yourself), but in practice, OS X generally behaves well. Worst thing - you waste time with a non-bootable copy.

You could also look into something like SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner. They will serve you for more than the initial need of making a backup copy of the OS.

Worst case, you end up with a broken system and have to pick up a secondhand disk from craig's list or similar. Apple also sells replacement media, but used media is usually less expensive.


What does it take to get FaceBook to stop pushing notifications to my iPhone? I don't want FaceBook to put any notifications on my iPhone's home screen for anything, ever.

I've gone into the iPhone's "settings" app and turned off all  notifications for FaceBook.

I've gone into the settings within the FB app itself and turned off all push notifications.

But I still get notifications.

What more do they want from me?

If there is something FaceBook is good at, it's in bothering it's users :)
So make sure you've unchecked those items:

Make sure you've switched the Notification Center-slider to off and the Alert Style to none in such a way FaceBook is listed in the Not In Notification Center.

And if you go to Settings < FaceBook, make sure you're Push Notifications are all switched off.


Apple Mail always needs to "rebuild" Exchange mailbox for new mails I'm experiencing problems on macOS Mojave 10.14.2 with an Exchange Mailbox in Apple Mail. The Exchange Mailbox account only updates once I click Mailbox > Rebuild.

According to the Connection Doctor (Window > Connection Doctor), all connections work properly. Outgoing mail also works. With the same setup on my iPhone 6, iOS 12.1.13, there are no issues and the inbox updates promptly. The issue seems to be related to the Apple Mail on my Desktop computer, and to Exchange accounts only. My Gmail (IMAP) account in Apple Mail works as expected.

How can I troubleshoot the issue, when one of several mailboxes won’t show new mails?

As MS Exchange keeps all of your data on the server there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't just remove that account. Delete any leftover mailboxes from mail.app and then re-add the Exchange account. I find that often fixes issues between mail.app and Exchange.

As an aside I stopped using mail.app for exchange connectivity (for work) for reasons that there are times when mail.app, Calendar, contacts, reminders, etc. just don't behave as expected when connecting to an Exchange server. Microsoft's (free, last I checked) Outlook client is actually an excellent mail client and I have never had a problem with Outlook on the Mac or on my iPhone.


What is the InterCheck process that occasionally uses 96% CPU on my Mac? I heard my computer's fan spinning fast, so I checked Activity Monitor and saw that a process called InterCheck was using close to 96% CPU. What is this process and why's it using so much CPU?

In the Inspect window, it said that the parent process is launchd.

It's a real-time scanning process by Sophos Anti-Virus that scans your computer's running processes in the background.

The parent process is launchd so that when you accidentally kill the Intercheck process, it gets restarted.


Why is my icloud backup taking so long? I just created an icloud account and i am backing it up and it says it will take 3 hours.  I have no pictures on my phone so i think its just backing up contacts, reminders, etc.  Does anyone know why it would take this long?  Is there something that i could be configured incorrectly?  Any advice would be great.

iCloud backups the following:

Photos and videos in the Camera Roll
Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)
App data
Home screen and app organization
Messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS)
Ringtones
Visual Voicemails

It might be due to your app data size and also if this is the first time backing up then it will take a bit longer. Have a look at this link, it will explain why else it might  take longer.


How do I make my 1Password extension positioning stick in Safari? In IOS 8, I have the 1Password extension installed. I move it to the beginning of the queue so that it's the first item in the list of possible actions, but when I restart Safari, it's always at the end. How can I make this configuration change stick?

This was a bug in iOS 8 that was fixed in version 8.1.1


Automator quarantine Gatekeeper workaround? I am using my Developer certificate to sign Automator Apps via the Export dialogue, however when distributing these apps (outside the Mac App store) via email, Gatekeeper still flags my apps as a from an unknown developer. I gather from the Apple Developer forums that non-App store apps are tagged with a quarantine of some sort.

I am hoping to see if someone else has encountered a similar issue and found a workaround. Perhaps an Applescript I can add to my workflow that will remove that quarantine?

Signature Check

Check your Automator application is being signed correctly. Do this using the command line tool codesign. Use the following command in Terminal.app to view the code signature associated with your application:

codesign -d -vvvv /Applications/MyGreatAutomator.app

Does the output mention your developer identifier? If not, revisit how you sign your application as it may be broken.

Quarantine Flag

The quarantine flag is applied to files downloaded from the Internet. This flag can be manually removed using this command:

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MyGreatAutomator.app


How can I make applications on OSX open new windows in the same space when opening a file from Finder? OSX 10.8. Pretty simple. Right now when I open a file through Finder, if the filetype is set to be open by application Y, oftentimes OSX finds a space that has an open window of Y, and sends the file into that window in that space. What I want though is, when I open the file, I want a new window for that file, and in the same space.

Per this question, I know that there is a workaround explicitly for Chrome, which is great; ditto this for Finder. But I want this setting to be system-wide. E.g. I want to open a new txt document through finder and have MacVim open a new window with the file in my current space (as it would if it were launching for the first time) rather than locating an open window in a separate space and pulling the file into a tab in that window.

Note, I do have my settings set so that switching to an application does not switch to a space with an open window for that application, which works correctly, but when the application launch takes place through a file opening rather than via the cmd-tab switcher, it still does the find-an-open-window-even-if-in-another-space thing.

Note again, there are two issues here--

I don't like that it switches spaces
I don't like that it opens the file in an existing window rather than in a new window

--and I don't see how you can solve one without solving the other; but it'd be great if either or both could be solved.

Does setting the assign to Desktop:none; work for you.
You can do this from the Applications Dock menu.


Catalina (10.15.5) Spotlight calculator CPU spike? I noticed that I would have insane CPU spikes (400%+) whenever I type in a math equation (even something simple like 1+2) into spotlight. The task that spikes is called mds_stores. Does anyone know if this is just an issue with my system/is there some sort of software fix coming?
Attached = picture of the spike

I have this issue too, on two Macs. As a workaround I've had to kill mds_stores and launch an app, the App Store or something to have the CPU return to idle.
Here is the bug in action:
https://youtu.be/Ymc5ElAdUIQ
I've reported to Apple FWIW.


MacOSX how to ping local Windows machine by using $machine_name.local? I have home network with 3 devices:

MacHighSierra
Windows10
WDMyClould

Bell Home Hub 2000 is the router, from my Mac, I can access #3 by doing

ping WDMyCloud.local

But the same thing didn't work for the Windows machine, I had to use IP. ping Windows10.local dosen't respond, but, ping 192.168.2.18 works

Any suggestions on how to diagnose and fix?

According to this answer on superuser, you should be able to install iTunes on the Windows device, which includes Bonjour.

It sounds like installing iTunes, and therefore Bonjour, will enable your Windows device to be accessed via a .local address.

You can download iTunes here; iTunes - Download iTunes Now


Bottom row of system preferences (third party apps) not showing In OSX Yosemite I used to have a bottom row of third party preference applets that contained Java, Flash, Air Display etc in System Preferences. This is no longer showing. How do I turn it back on? (I've spent ages googling but not found an answer).

thanks!

I installed homebrew http://brew.sh/ and osquery https://osquery.io/. Then did

select * from preferences where domain like "%system%";

which showed a list of preference settings that might be interesting. ThirdPartyCount was 0, which I thought was wrong. So I backed up ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist and used XCode to edit the value to 3 (which is the value I expected). After a reboot it went back to zero.

After more googling, I found /Library/PreferencePanes contains third party preference panes. The aliases in there were all broken: because I'd manually deleted browser plugins from "/Library/Internet Plug-ins". So i deleted the really-dead aliases, re-installed Java and now the bottom row is displaying as expected. Thanks for all your help.

(footnote: AirDisplay used to have a prefpane i think but the latest version not longer has it)


Is using mid 2012 MacBook Pro RAM in mid 2011 iMac 27" an option? I recently came into possession of a 27 inch mid 2011 iMac. It only has 4GB RAM and I have been pricing compatible memory modules online.

I  then remembered I also have a 13 inch mid 2012 MacBook Pro that was damaged some time ago. It has 8GB RAM that I have no reason to suspect has any faults as it worked fine before the damage which was not anywhere near the bottom case. So I thought I would investigate the types of memory modules the iMac and MacBook Pro use.

I found the iMac uses 204 pin PC3-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM modules.
I found the MBP uses 204 pin PC3-12800 (1600 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM modules.

Obviously I'm thinking that if I can use the MacBook Pro RAM in the iMac I can save some money and it's a good way of recycling.

I understand this RAM would not operate at 1600 MHz in the iMac. My questions are:

Would the MBP RAM work okay otherwise?
If it would work, does it make a difference if I add them to the original RAM so I have 12GB in total, or will I have to remove the old modules and just use the 8GB instead?

While I am not a fan of of mixing and matching memory, Crucial, a manufacturer of quality memory components, has this on their website:

  Memory is designed to be backward-compatible, so generally speaking,
  you can safely add faster memory to a computer that was designed to
  run slower memory. However, your system will operate at the speed of
  the slowest memory module.

So, technically speaking, the answer to both your questions is, yes it will work and no it won't make a difference as you can mix and match the different speeds.

They also go on to say...

  Keep in mind, that the right memory for your computer is the kind of
  memory it was designed to take. Check your system manual or look up
  your system in the Crucial Memory Advisor or System Scanner tools to
  find the memory guaranteed to be 100 percent compatible or your money
  back!

Well, the "system scanner tool" is for PC's but the rest of the statement is absolutely true.  The last part about "money back" is why I only buy from reputable manufacturers like Crucial (PNY and  Kingston are excellent choices as well).

That said, according to Everymac.com, the maximum supported memory configuration is 32GB1.  Personally, I would (at minimum) sell the  existing memory that you have (4GB modules are going for around $20USD on eBay) and instead buy a  16GB kit so you can max out your memory in your iMac either today or at a later date.

My personal iMac runs with 32GB of RAM which allows me to virtualize a Windows 10 machine, and two FreeBSD servers (one for development/testing and the other for a Plex media server).  I am a firm believer in the old axiom "it't better to have and not need than to need and not have."

1 Everymac.com:  Officially, this model supports four 4 GB modules -- one in each slot for a maximum of 16 GB of memory. However, third-parties have discovered that it actually will support 32 GB of memory using four 8 GB modules.


How do I save a document as .doc in Pages 5.2 not .docx? I have OSX10.9 and pages 5.2 and want to save the document in Pages as a *.doc. I can already export it as *.docx. I need help as to how to export or save it as *.doc?

To save Pages document as .doc (compatible with Word 1997-2004), You need to: File -> Export to -> Word..., open "Advanced options" and pick .doc.

Here's article on OSXDaily about that: http://osxdaily.com/2014/08/06/save-pages-file-as-word-format/

Image from their site:


Is there an external SSD enclosure compatible with OWC Aura SSD? I have bought an OWC Aura SSD that I have used to expand the memory of my previous Macbook. Now, for various reasons, I would like to use the Aura SSD as an external drive. Is there any enclosure available which is compatible with it? Apparently, the Envoy enclosure it was delivered with is not - it is only intended to be used with the original Apple SSD. I found the following disclaimer in the product description:

  "Important Note: The OWC Envoy enclosure has been specifically
  designed for use ONLY with the factory SSD found installed in Apple
  MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Retina display mid-2013 and later
  models. Do NOT attempt to install or use the OWC Aura SSD in the Envoy
  as you can damage the Aura drive, the Envoy enclosure or both and such
  damage is not covered under warranty."

OWC Aura SSD product description

As far as I know, there's no such enclosure on the market today.

The reason behind the disclaimer is that the OWC drive produces more heat than the Apple-supplied drive. The enclosure simply does not cool the OWC sufficiently.

You could add some custom cooling to the enclosure (or simply not put on the lid), and make sure that the temperature stays within specs.


Excel Data Analysis ToolPak available for download for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011? Does anyone know how to download the data analysis toolpack add-in for Excel 2011 for Mac? I have looked around quite a bit and can't seem to find it anywhere... did Microsoft discontinue this completely?

P.s. I am familiar with the StatPlus software and have used it - that is not what I am looking for. I am looking for the native Data Analysis Toolpak for excel.

Yes, it appears to have been discontinued.  Sorry.

Refer to the discussion at What happened to the Data Analysis Toolpak or Solver in Excel for Mac 2011? – answers.microsoft.com. Quote:

  The Data Analysis Toolpak was removed in Office for Mac 2008. [emphasis mine] However,
  the following is a free third-party tool [...]

  [... goes on to mention the StatPlus software you already mentioned ...]

See also: I can't find the Analysis ToolPak – Microsoft Office Mac Troubleshooting. Quote:

  Cause: Excel 2011 does not include the Analysis ToolPak.

  Solution: Download StatPlus:mac LE for free from AnalystSoft, and then use StatPlus:mac LE with Excel 2011.
  ...

That last link used to include loads of comments from disgruntled Office for Mac users, but Microsoft seems to have removed comment functionality from that help center article. Surely you can find disgruntled comments re: the above elsewhere on the net.


Streaming a movie to my iPhone 3GS through ITunes Is there any way to stream a video from my iTunes library to my iPhone 3GS? I have a couple of videos sitting in the 'Movies' folder of my iTunes, but when I start up my iPhone iPod application, it doesn't show anything in the 'Video' tab. What am I doing wrong?

For completeness, I'm using a PC.

With iOS 4.3 you can enable home sharing while you are in the same wifi network. First make sure home sharing is running in iTunes. Then on your iPhone go to Settings - iPod, and then enter your home sharing account info.

Then, when you go to the iPod app, you can select the shared library.

As long as these videos are encoded the correct way, they should play through home sharing by streaming to your phone. I have tried this with music and movies on my iPhone and iPad.


Problem updating apps after iOS 6 update "Your account is not valid for use in the Indian store. You must switch to US store before purchasing." I am getting the above error while updating apps (I have recently installed iOS 6). My Apple ID was created with country as India. I followed the below steps:

Open the Appstore.
Go to Featured (scroll down to bottom until you see your Apple ID).
Click on Apple ID.
View Apple ID.
Enter your Password.
Once you login it will say your account is transferred to the respective country.

Since the store somehow thought my account was from the US, I approved "the change" to India and signed out and signed in again, still I get the same error.

I had a similar problem trying to update apps because I live overseas in Japan, and after updating to iOS6 it defaulted to the Japanese AppStore. I went to the AppStore, clicked on view AppleID, then it asked for my password which was not recognized as a Japanese account, so after a few attempts, it switched me to the US store and now I can update everything.   Not sure if this will help, but following your steps helped me figure out the solution to my problem! Thanks!!


Detecting other bluetooth devices from my iPhone When i turn on Bluetooth in my application it didn't detect other bluetooth devices. I wonder if there's a fault in my iPhone device or i didn't configure it properly.

So at this moment i have my iPhone and my Mac Book pro. Can someone please tell me how to check if the bluetooth is working in my iPhone ?

I need step by step instructions :s

EDIT:

how to turn on Bluetooth on a Mac book pro ?

You can't connect iPhone and Mac computer by Bluetooth (unless the iPhone is jailbroken). You will need another Bluetooth enabled device (e.g. Bluetooth headset, keyboard etc.) to test Bluetooth on your iPhone.

About your edit:

  EDIT:

  how to turn on Bluetooth on a Mac book pro ?

To turn Bluetooth on Macbook pro: check if there is a bluetooth icon in the menu bar (next to the clock in the top right corner). If so, look at the color of the Bluetooth icon. If black -- Bluetooth is already on. If gray, click on the icon and choose "Turn Bluetooth on"

If there is no Bluetooth icon on the menu bar: Go to System Preferences (on the dock or below the Apple icon at the top left corner of the screen), choose Bluetooth. If it is off, it would say "Bluetooth is off..." and there would be an "On" checkbox below it, click on it to turn on. You may also want to turn "Discoverable" on when pairing with other devices, and turn it off when not pairing (already paired devices can still connect thought even if Discoverable is off). You may want to check (if unchecked) "Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar".


Suspicious warning about a Kernel Extension This morning i received this warning from BlockBlock about a new kernel extension being installed. I'm running OS X 10.11.4.

I looked up on google and found out that it could be related to a blacklisted ethernet driver. I decided to allow but then i turned off the machine. Could this be some malware or it just an update from Apple?

Without knowing anything about your machine (i.e. what OS are you on?  possibly not El Capitan (OS 10.11.x), but that's an educated guess...) it is difficult to say, BUT Apple would update your computer through the Apple Store, and it would not just dump a Kernel Extension like that.  About your Kext there, I would not have a clue, but a quick google does not come up with exctitingly good news.  I trust you have a backup of your data.


Check PowerPC HDD for faulty sectors I have a iMac G4 that doesn't boot, so I'd like to check the HDD for faulty sectors.

Are there any utilities featured on the Leopard installation disk I can use for this purpose? For instance, can dd be run in any way to report all faulty sectors?

Alternatively, are there downloadable binaries for PowerPC that can do this? I have TestDisk for PowerPC, but I don't know if it does sector testing. I can't find it anywhere in the menus, at least.

There are no utilities on the install disk that can help you. The "SMART Status" that is shown in apple's Disk Utility is completely useless. VERY rarely have I had a failing drive actually indicate it is failing in Disk Utility.

The best app for this is a utility called SMART Utility. It's not free but does have a free demo. They have an older version available that runs in 10.5.8 on PPC. You can get it here:
https://www.volitans-software.com/apps/smart-utility/

That will tell you if you have any reallocated bad blocks without needing to scan the disk. But you will have to have 10.5 installed on some volume and working in order to run that. Which means another internal drive or maybe a Firewire drive, or possibly a USB drive but that might not work.

As a mac repair professional, it is my primary tool for diagnosing failing hard drives.

If you want a utility that does actually scan the entire drive, I've found the best utility for that, believe it or not, it SoftRAID. Even though RAIDs in OS X these days are a whole big bundle of problems, that utility has a couple of different full-disk scanning and verifying tools that work very well. Although like I said, I almost never run them because SMART Utility is sufficient. Also SoftRAID is not free either although it also appears to have a free trial.


How can I create an iCal realtime backup? I'd like to create an event in iCal and either 1) save it to multiple calendars, such as create an iCloud event and have it save simultaneously to another calendar, or 2) upon creating an iCloud calendar event, have it automatically copied to a different calendar.  This is more or less the same thing, but makes one think about it in different ways.

Basically, I want a realtime backup for my iCloud calendar.  I don't know applescript but I could probably learn it - I've done a lot of php, javascript and actionscript coding - I'm just not sure applescript would be the way to go.  Any advice appreciated. Maybe I'm looking at this in the wrong way.
Thanks, Klaus

Maybe merging iCloud, local, and Gmail all together and then having Time Machine?

Your thoughts (dare I say paranoia) are interesting and the goal, unique. You could also create a script that runs at a set time interval and fetches your calendars and archives them in a method of your choosing.

Maybe the simplest would be to create an Automator script that will fetch your iCloud calendars and then save it to your ideal location and archive it automatically. The file of your calendar can be pulled when you go into iCal.app and then obtain the URL for sharing the calendar. Copy that URL and change "webcal://p20-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/..." to "http://p20-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/..."

That should fit the bill and keep system and effort to a minimum.


Two windows on Mac OS X full-screen How can I open related windows of the same app in the same full screen workspace? For example, in Safari, when in fullscreen mode, if I click on Preferences it opens the window in another desktop.

You can't. Fullscreen Mode in Lion moves the given window to its own Space to be presented full-screen. Any other window created by the same application defaults to the Primary ("Desktop") Space.

An obvious workaround while browsing in Safari is to open new pages in tabs rather than windows, but that doesn't apply to the Preferences (or any other app-) window.


How can I convert 60FPS videos to work on an iPhone 4? I have some 60 FPS videos ranging from 640x480 to 1280x720.  I was able to convert a few using H.264 Baseline @ L3.0 and sync them to Photo Albums on the iPhone and they clearly are playing back at 60 FPS.  The smoothness is incredible.

Apple's tech specifications claim the iPhone can playback up to 30 FPS, but evidently this is not a true limitation.

My problem is most 60 FPS videos I have, fail to sync in iTunes and I get a message saying this video is not playable on the iPhone.

What do I need to do differently to make 60 FPS videos reliably convert to iPhone 4 compatible H.264?

Tools like MediaCoder iPod Edition and Any Video Converter tend to either force 30 FPS (A.V.C.) or crash outright when handling 60 FPS videos (MediaCoder which uses the x264 project to do the converting).

I use Handbrake to encode my files to iPhone and iPad specs.  Handbrake has presets for all the major Apple devices, so you don't even need to know the specifications for each device.  It even differentieates between an iPhone before the iPhone 4 and an iPhone 4.  Works every time for me.


NO LOGINS: System going down ... stuck and won't shutdown I issued a remote SSH shutdown command to a headless Mac server. However, the server is not shutting down and I can no longer access the server with SSH, I get this message:

  NO LOGINS: System going down at 08:16

This was nearly 20 minutes ago. What can I do now that the machine won't shut down and I cannot login?

I realize I can push the power button, but I have some Drobos attached that could loose data if don't gracefully shut down.

Go to Finder. In the menu bar click Go, select Go to folder, type /etc/ and press Enter. In the opened window find the "nologin" file and delete it. It's fixed.


Move complete Lion installation to another physical drive is there a way to completely move my OSX Lion to my new SSD without reinstalling? I came from Windows and Linux to OSX and i thought maybe it is possible to simply change the bootloader config after copying all system files to the SSD like in GRUB?

I believe that simply copying the files manually won't be enough. I'd use SuperDuper for getting a "true" clone of the old drive.


How to remove unsupported format podcasts from iTunes download queue on iPad/iPhone I tried download some video podcast episodes a few days ago but the iPad displayed a message saying it can't download them because they were in a format it couldn't read.

The problem is they are now still on the download queue in the iTunes app.

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

Thanks

In the iTunes 'Downloads' section, select and delete any downloads. Quit iTunes.

Look in your iTunes folder, where the audio files get stored. For example ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/. Here, you should find a 'Downloads' folder. Inside it, 'Podcasts' (assuming that the file you're downloading has the media type of podcast).

Inside here should be a folder with the name of the podcast subscription with '.tmp' appended. Inside here should be the partial file that you've downloaded. Trash the folder and its contents.

Restart iTunes. Note that iTunes can be a bit sticky when it comes to automatic downloads (e.g. I am asked to log in twice when launching iTunes). The actions above should result in there not being a 'Downloads' on the sidebar. If for some reason, there still is, select and delete the items there again.


Batch replace substring with another in filenames I have a bunch of files named similar to this:

1_1.pngEND1_1.png

How would you replace .pngEND with _?

I've googled this problem and tried  literally 5+ solutions, non of which worked on mac.

Unless you need a solution you can use in a script, you can do this directly in Finder.

Select the files you want to rename
Right click one of them, and choose Rename N Items... (where N is the number of selected files)
Choose the Replace Text option in the dropdown
Enter the text you want to replace (".pngEND") and the text you want to replace it with ("_")
Click Rename


Attempted to fix macOS startup volume after failed dual-boot Linux install, but failed and now original partition unknown Attempted to install Linux on my MacBook Pro 15" 2015 one day for school, but then the install failed and I had a GRUB issue similar to this: How do I recover/fix my OS X partition?.

Weirdest part was that before this I was able to boot into macOS Catalina just fine, and then after taking a look at Disk Utility (noticed swap partition exists, but not ext4) and shutting down (and then rebooting), the drive disappears.

Being shocked, I thought that deleting the Linux partition would solve my problems. WRONG (don't ask why plz). I formatted it to FAT32, then realized that did nothing. The linux partition(s) should be around 115 GB (since I allocated 40 GB for swap and 75 GB for Linux - tho I could be wrong). So, then I combined those two partitions and had a ~110 GB FAT32 partition.

I went into recovery ALT+CMD+R, and the drives couldn't be repaired.

I followed these directions: MacOS Disk Partition FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

However, I realized that I typed in the incorrect start and size for all of my partitions and I don't remember the size of original partitions. Now I'm just stuck wondering how I could recover the data off my drive.

My main issue is after running gpt destroy ..., how would I know the original contents and can I still recover my files?

In Disk Utility, I wiped the FAT32 partition and replaced it with APFS, but the mac partition will not mount.

I'm also quite bad with terminal commands, but I'm willing to type whatever is necessary to get the data from my computer, since there's a lot of schoolwork on it.

I'm using an OWC Aura Pro 2 TB SSD, and I'm wondering if this could also be a factor.

Output of diskutil list and gpt -r show disk1:

Edit: scratch that, I only see disk1s1 now, and that the other two partitions are gone completely:

Edit2: heres the output from running commands from klanomath (thank you!)

-bash-3.2# export LC_CTYPE="ASCII"
-bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/disk1s2 bs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null | vis -wc;
'\M^Q9\r\M-/\^X\s\M^E\^A\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\M-7q\a\0\0\0\0\0\^A\0\0\M^@\0\0\0\0NXSB\0\^P\0\0\M-3\M-mA\^Z\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\^B\0\0\0\0\0\0\0T\M-6\^\\M-C\M-k\M-\Kk\M-(bL\M-"\M^D?\M-^Z\M-d\M-4\a\0\0\0\0\0\M-8q\a\0\0\0\0\0\^X\^A\0\0\M^\l\0\0\^Z\M^M\^B\0\0\0\0\0~\s\^B\0\0\0\0\0\M-L\0\0\0\^R\^_\0\0\M-J\0\0\0\^B\0\0\0\M-~\^^\0\0\^T\0\0\0z\M-.\a\0\0\0\0\0\M-xA\s\0\0\0\0\0\^A\^D\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0d\0\0\0\^B\^D\0\0\0\0\0\0\^F\^D\0\0\0\0\0\0\b\^D\0\0\0\0\0\0\n\^D\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\^D\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0-bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/disk1s2 bs=512 count=1 2>/dev/
-bash-3.2#
-bash-3.2#

I am sorry to hear that you are having this issue. Can you access macOS Recovery? If you can, that's great news!

If you can access macOS Recovery, then the first step would be to run First Aid on APPLE SSD/HDD, the Container Disk, and Macintosh HD. If the process fails, then that means that the data might not be recoverable. If you do manage to mount the disk, then that's good news!

If the OS drive mounts, then go to Disk Utility and type cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD then type ls. This will allow you to see if your data is still there.

If you can boot up on the macOS Drive again, then that's good and your repair process is complete! If not, then try reinstalling macOS from macOS Recovery. This will not delete your data. Then try booting up on it.

If none of these work, then the last thing that you can do is erase the APFS container, and reinstall macOS on Macintosh HD.

Good luck!


Change plist and make it stick I'm sure I can get into all sorts of trouble by doing this, but that's what this site is all about right?

I found a key in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist called TopSitesGridArrangement which, is connected to the "Top Sites Show" Safari preference which allows you to choose 24, 12, or 6 Top Sites at a time. When you set the preference to 24 the plist value is changed to 2 and so on with 12 --> 1, and 6 --> 0.

I want to be able to do this in reverse i.e. change the plist and make Safari respect the change. The problem is, when doing it this way, Safari always remembers what it was last and overrides the change you made in the plist. Anyone know how to hack this? I plan on modifying this file through a python script if anyone was curious.

Well that was quick, I found the answer. Apparently in Mavericks the OS caches the preferences so you have to read them out after you change them. In my case I opened Terminal and typed defaults read com.apple.Safari

Read this article for more info


iPad mini capacity determination my iPad mini indicates 19000+ photos, 600 videos and low disk space.
I want to buy a new iPad mini that has more capacity.

How can I determine what I have now, so I know how much more capacity the new iPad will need?

Go to Settings app → General → iPad Storage, and you'll be able to see the total storage capacity of your iPad at the top as XX GB of YY GB Used.

Here, XX is the space currently used, and YY is the total storage capacity of your iPad mini.

As of now, across different models, iPad mini comes with either 16, 32, 64 or 128 GB of storage capacity.


disable lid sleep in mojave I used to use InsomniaX but it doesn't work for me right now.

I want to stop my MacBook from sleeping when I close the lid.

Use the latest version of KeepingYouAwake. It works pretty well in macOS Mojave. It's a GUI based wrapper around Apple's caffeniate command line utility. All current versions of macOS ship with caffeniate tool built-in. So, it should be safe to use.

Courtesy: https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake/#how-does-it-work

For installation:

You can download latest version from here, or
Install it using Homebrew by running: brew cask install keepingyouawake

Reference: https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake/#installation


How to regenerate random smart playlist in iTunes 11? I have several smart playlists that pick a random selection of music limited by total disk space.

It used to be that to change that random selection, you just selected all the tracks in the smart playlist and pressed backspace to delete them, which caused it to repopulate with a new random selection.

In iTunes 11.1.5, if I select all the tracks and press backspace, nothing happens.

How am I supposed to regenerate the random list now? The only way I've found that works is to open the smart playlist properties, change the "selected by" dropdown to something other than what I want, click OK, then open the properties it again and change it back. But that's far from optimal.

EDIT: Apple seem to have fixed this sometime around iTunes 11.4. You can once again select some or all of the tracks in a Smart Playlist, then press backspace to delete and regenerate (provided Live Updating is selected in the playlist properties).

If you uncheck "Live updating" in the smart playlist edit screen you will be able to delete tracks from the smart playlist.

However the playlist won't repopulate until you right-click the playlist and select "Update Smart Playlist".

Interestingly that command doesn't do anything unless the tracks have been deleted.


how to log the search history in mac dictionary I am trying to improve my vocabularies so am hoping to log all the search I made on mac dictionary. I have found a link which probably a bit outdated so it doesn't work, thought I do get the file on my desktop but no history is logged.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121106085330476
Just seeing if there are others who can help me on this.

thanks

The following AppleScript code can be used in an Run AppleScript action as an Automator Service, and assigned a keyboard shortcut to act on a selected word to open it in the Dictionary, and log it, if it isn't already in the log file.

on run {input, parameters}
    try
        considering diacriticals
            if first character of (input as text) is not in "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" then
                tell current application
                    activate
                    display dialog "The selected text starts with a non-valid character." & return & return & ¬
                        "Make a different selection and try again." buttons {"OK"} default button 1 ¬
                        with title "Dictionary Look Up Logging Service"
                end tell
                return
            end if
        end considering
        open location "dict://" & input
        set theDictionaryHistoryFilename to "Dictionary Look Up Service History Log File.txt"
        set theTargetFilename to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to documents folder as string) & theDictionaryHistoryFilename)
        set foundSelectedWord to (do shell script "grep '^" & input & "$' " & theTargetFilename & " > /dev/null; echo $?") as integer
        if foundSelectedWord is greater than 0 then
            do shell script "echo \"" & input & "\" >> " & theTargetFilename
        end if
    end try
end run

Note that if the log file is open when the service is run, the added word may not appear until you close and reopen the log file, depending on what app you have the log file open in.


Why does the enter/return key rename a file/folder, instead of opening it? Is there some sort of known logic behind Apple's choice to make the enter key rename a file/folder, rather than open it as is standard on Windows and Linux?

For those of you coming here for the substitute key combination, ⌘-O and ⌘-down arrow both work. And I fully understand ⌘-down, since ⌘-up goes "up" in the directory tree. But couldn't they have made some other key combination the rename key, and allowed enter to be the "standard" open action?

I understand this is a point of view question, and you could argue Windows and Linux are the weird ones, but "enter" or "return" is, at least in my mind and experience with others, the universal "okay" key. When a dialog pops up, you can smack the enter key for the default action. When you finish typing your password, hit the enter key to submit the form and log in. In terminal, type a command and hit enter. So then why is it browse to the file, select it, and hit enter... to rename?

"enter" or "return" is, at least in my mind and experience with others, the universal "okay" key. When a dialog pops up, you can smack the enter key for the default action.

In the Finder, the default action is file management. The Finder is not a launcher. You have a bunch of files you want to rename, or move, or whatever. What percentage of files do you actually open regularly from the Finder? Why should the default action in the Finder be "Open"?

You can learn to use the navigation standard of OS X instead of ENTER/RETURN. The navigation standard is:

⌘ + ↑ - goes to Parent Folder
⌘ + ↓ - goes to Child Folder.

Over time I have found these key operations better than Windows navigation where you have to switch between ENTER and Alt+Up.


Mavericks install: "there was a problem... try reinstalling", third time in a row Mavericks install worked at first. I was able to enjoy Finder tabs and such. I updated Tuxera for Mac to 2013 and rebooted, then I was stuck at an endless spinner. I tried disk repair, safe mode, same problem.

Finally, I tried reinstalling Mavericks. Two more times. Both failed with "there was a problem... try reinstalling". I tried resetting the PROM, now back at the endless spinner problem.

Any idea how to fix this?

I upgraded from Mountain Lion on a 13" mid-2013 MacBook Air.

I took my Mac to an Apple Store. On the next reinstall, everything worked: booting, rebooting, and no data lost.

Shrug.


Difference Between Duplicating? is there a difference between "exactly duplicate" and "duplicate"?
File> Duplicate / Exactly Duplicate

Taken from the answer the OP added to the question:

When a directory or a file is duplicated, the (access) rights of the original file are usually not copied and the new file is owned by the copying user. However, if a Mac is used by several users or if network drives are involved, it can make sense not to make a file accessible to everyone.  To do this, right-click on a file, press OptShift and select "Duplicate exactly". This ensures that owner and access rights are copied as well.


iOS 8 Refresh to load desktop site I have noted that to view a desktop site in iOS 8 (such as Ask Different) that you need to refresh the page after you clicked on 'request desktop page'.

Why do we need to refresh the page when the loading bar move after you click request desktop site?

The desktop site is an entirely different site in many cases than the corresponding mobile website (not including responsive websites, of course).

Because of this, "requesting" a desktop site requires loading a different set of dependencies/resources and a different version of the site you're currently on (this is particularly evident on Stack Exchange sites, but it applies elsewhere as well).

Because of this, the page must reload to re-layout the page and load these new resources, and it would not be possible to do it otherwise, as in these cases it is more than a matter of page scaling.


How to Stop Website Requests for Location This is macOS 10.12.6 and Safari 11.1.

Frequently when accessing a website new to me, I am presented with this dialog:

In System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy, the checkbox for Safari is unchecked, presumably blocking this sort of request...but they keep appearing.

Is there another setting I've missed (perhaps in Safari preferences), or some other way to block these Location requests or to mandate a default "Don't Allow?" I think this could be done by turning off Location Services entirely, but then I'd lose "Find My Mac" which I'd like to retain.

In Safari 11.1 Preferences > Websites > Location. Bottom right of the window, change "When visiting other websites:" select Deny. This will block all websites and you can white list specific sites in the above list.

You can also right click the address bar and select "Settings for this website" to get to the same options.


Mouse hover doesn't work when Microsoft mouse is connected I'm using the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop for one and a half years now and had no problems with it.

A couple of days ago I noticed weird behaviour with the mouse. The same behaviour was with the trackpad as long as the mouse's dongle was connected to the Mac.

Any mouse-over/hover behaviour is gone. The Dock doesn't pop up automatically, no tooltips or sub-menus (which only open when hovering the curser above them) show up.

I did do some changes before I noticed it. I created an admin account and set my personal account to standard; I activated the firewall; I activated FileVault. I'm uncertain if this is just a coincidence.

Additionally, a strange side effect occurs when plugging the dongle in or out: If a web browser is opened, you can see that the web-page's layout slightly shifts horizontally.

My Mac's specs:
OSX 10.10.3 (14D136)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

The keyboard/mouse combo: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop

Update

I tried replacing the batteries, which did not help.

I tried out the mouse on my colleagues Mac and it had the same behaviour.

Interestingly, when I turn off the mouse while keeping the dongle plugged in, the track pad behaves normal again.

I know it's an old thread but since there are no solution mentioned for the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse... I had the same problem and fixed it just now.

It is a hardware issue where the little button below the Windows blue button gets stuck. I had two of these and the one where it was clickable, it worked fine and the second one had the button stuck and the hover over wasn't working.
I stuck a push pin into it and tried to pry it out through the rubber layer on it and it now works fine.

So it was down to poor quality buttons on this nice mouse.


How to decompress and run .app? I'm trying to execute an AppleScript .app thats compressed.

unzip -p file.app.zip | open -

or

open < $(unzip -p file.app.zip)

Is this possible?

You are asking the open command to open content from stdin.  open can be made to read from stdin but it will open the contents in at text editor--which isn't what you want.

Try using osascript directly:
If the zipped file is simply AppleScript, then you accomplish this with the following.

unzip -p file.zip | osascript -

From the osascript manpage:

  osascript will look for the script in one of the following three places:

  Specified line by line using -e switches on the command line.
  Contained in the file specified by the first filename on the command line.  This file may be plain text or a compiled script.
  Passed in using standard input.  This works only if there are no filename arguments; to pass arguments to a STDIN-read script, you must explicitly specify '-' for the script name.


BootChamp equivalent to go from Windows to Mac I use BootChamp to restart into Windows directly from OS X. I was wondering if there is an equivalent piece of software to restart from Windows into Mac. This will be especially useful when using remote access.

BootChamp only sets the next boot, so to get from Windows to OS X just reboot normally!
It will boot into OS X by itself, since the default boot disk is still OS X.


'Choose file' sidebar options disappeared When you go to a website with a file uploader you click on a choose file and a pop up window appears with a sidebar similar to what you have in your standard finder window, however recently all of the options like Documents, Downloads, Pictures etc are no longer present, now I can only see ak52-macbook and remote disk. In standard finder windows I have all my standard folders plus custom ones that I added. I made sure in finder preferences that all of them are displayed.

I could not find anything in the finder or chrome browser preferences regarding this so here is my question, how do I display all of those folder in the pick file to upload pop up sidebar?

The kind of items in your case hidden are named Favourites. To show them, go to a site where you can upload a file (e.g. https://encodable.com/uploaddemo/) and then click on "Choose File", like you said. When you are prompted to upload something, just hover your cursor on the Favourites line, located on the top of the sidebar. A "Show" button will be shown (no irony, at all). Click it and all of the items will re-appear. Done!

If you have any more issues with this, feel free to comment.


iPod Touch 4gen internet connection issues Today I have a problem on my iPod Touch where there is a problem with internet connection using browsers (e.g. Google Chrome and Mobile Safari) but I also use Skype and it is working normally with no issues .

I assume that it is not a problem with WiFi connection because Skype works on my device and I can send messages and receive messages and I don't understand why the browsers are not working.

I have made this solution:

Open Settings
Open General
Open Reset
Reset Network Settings

This process helped me.


How to disable line break conversion in Parallels Desktop? When copying text between a Windows client and the OSX host Parallels converts line endings, which is a big nuisance. Can this be disabled?

This seems to be a common complaint based on my research but there currently is no setting to disable this behavior.


Can't pair 13" MacBook Air with iPhone 4 via Bluetooth I'm not sure why, but I can't get my iPhone 4 to talk to my new MacBook Air 13".  I turn bluetooth on for both devices, open the Bluetooth Preferences and pair the devices.  This works - the code is displayed on the Mac and the phone, I click OK and it looks busy.  After that I get a message on the iPhone saying "[mac name] is not supported".

I have also tried clicking 'Connect to Network' on the Mac and that results in the error "The Bluetooth network is unavailable: There was an error connecting to your device. Make sure the device is turned on and in range".

I'm running 10.7.2 and iOS 5.0.

Well the device (iPhone) is on and in range.  Can anyone help?  I want to be able to control Keynote on my Mac using the Keynote Remote app on my phone.

Have you followed Apples instructions?

It seems that Keynote works better via WiFi than Bluetooth but the link above shows how to setup both.


GateKeeper Blocking Audio Plugin I'm an audio producer although I have also worked as a C/C++ programmer so I'm reasonably technical!

I bought a Mac Mini about a year ago and it recently developed a fault and had to be replaced so I'm currently in the process of setting up a new Mac Mini running Catalina (10.15.3).

One of the audio programs I use is Presonus Studio One. A big part of how it's used is via third-party plug-ins which come in a variety of formats - AU, VST2, VST3, etc. The plug-ins are installed in different ways - some via a "control centre" app, some by an installer, others by drag-and-drop to the appropriate folder.

I've run into a problem with one VST3 plug-in. I dropped the plug-in into the folder (/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3). Then I ran Studio One which does a plug-in scan at startup. An error message popped up (can't remember exactly what it was) saying that the software was from an unidentified developer and couldn't be run. Ever since then, the plug-in won't load. I suspect the plug-in has been "blacklisted".

I've tried the following in order to fix the problem but so far nothing's worked:

Re-installing the plug-in with an installer
Disabling GateKeeper with: spctl --master-disable
Resetting GateKeeper with: spctl --reset-default

Other plug-ins are loading fine.

Now I'm stuck. Any suggestions as to what I should try next?

Cheers,

Chris

From the man pages of spctl:
To allow Frobozz.app to run on the local system:
       spctl --add --label "My Stuff" /Applications/Frobozz.app

Labels are optional as well, it seems strange even after a master-disable that you were still unable to run the plug in.


Add custom OS images to bochs on iphone? im trying to get DSL (Damn Small Linux) to work on the iphone version of bochs but i cant figure out how to configure the os.ini file, please help?

Use ifile, click "os.ini" then click "text editor".

It works for me!!!


If an app runs on the iPhone 4, will it run on the 4th generation iPod touch? I've been developing an iOS application, and I've confirmed that it works fine on the iPhone 4. I have never tested it in a 4th generation iPod touch.

Recently I distributed the app to several testers (using a service called TestFlight). Only two of them are having problems downloading/installing, and they happen to be 4th generation iPod touch users.

So this leads me to my question - will an app that can run on the iPhone 4 be able to do so on a 4th generation iPod touch? Maybe their devices can't download/install the app because they actually can't run it.

The question at
 http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/ipod/will-all-the-iphone-apps-work-on-an-ipod-touch/QTH2T4XUYF29DAUUA says

  Most apps will work on the iphone and the ipod touch but some apps
  will require things that only the ipad or iphone has.

What are those specific things that an iPhone 4 may have that are lacking on a 4th generation iPod touch?

The app doesn't really do anything fancy. It uses Game Center, it has In-App purchase, an accelerometer... All of that seems to be supported by the iPod touch.

As a developer, you can control exactly which hardware you want to support and which you will not support by picking the source code you use and properly tagging the files you upload to Apple.

The iOS app store then can prevent the devices you have disallowed from downloading the app. So, there's nothing to prevent a developer from targeting only iPhone 4 with their code or just targeting a specific iOS version.

It's up to you (and each other developer) to decide on a build-by-build basis, so the general answer would be:

No, there is no guarantee that all apps (or any one app) that run(s) on iPhone 4 will also run on iPod Touch (4th generation).


Finder keeps presenting blank window About the 3rd or 5th time after I relaunch finder or reboot and choose a new folder, the finder windows presents this image

Once this happens I can no longer interact with the window besides dragging it.I recently repaired disk permissions, and it is still happening. I am using the latest version of OSX Mavericks. Any ideas on what is going on?

Looks like I found the problem.  I created a new blank user and logged in there and it didn't happen, so I figured the problem had to be software related.  Turns out it was an application that recently updated called "display maid" which was causing the problem.  After i disabled that app, everything was fine.


How to accept USB as audio input for New Macbook Pro Retina? I would be very grateful if you could help me clarify - I used to use a software program for recording vinyl mixes on my old Macbook called - Audacity. Recently I've replaced this old Mac with a new Macbook Pro which does not have a phono jack, "line in” port, only a USB port and the same software does not pick up the sound any more, from my vinyl mixes.

Do you know a way to get my new Mac to accept the sound from the original phono outputs of the same mixer to the new USB port? I've already bought the generic cable and can't get it to recognise the new USB port as an official input.

Your guidance is greatly appreciated, as there is no current USB input availabilty option within the generic Mac settings - under "sound" settings. This basically means I can not work out how to accept input, via USB & I can not record, until I solve this problem?

You just need a quality digital audio interface for your Mac.

The one I personally use and have had great success with has been the Behringer UCA202 Audio Interface   This installs with no drivers required El Capitan recognizes it as a USB audio input/output device.

I have used it with just the System audio as well as with Audacity and it works flawlessly.

Since you said that you use a phono plug, you will likely need a phono to RCA adapter like the one below. Fortunately, these are relatively inexpensive (around $5 USD)


How to disable discrete graphics card and use only integrated graphics MacBook Pro Early 2011? I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 and the GPU has died. I want to switch to Integrated
Graphics only until I get my Logic Board replaced.

I've tried:

gfxcardstatus and I get this:

There is no External Display connected btw and I've never used one.
I moved /System/Library/Extensions/AMD* -> ~/DisabledExtensions/
I've tried Single User Mode and did the same thing as above.

I really don't know what else to do. I want to know if there is a way
to login to EFI/BIOS and disable it or anyway whatever it takes to just kill that
annoying AMD that is making my screen blue and twitchy.

Finally!! ( in 2015...? )
MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

http://www.apple.com/ca/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

I hope this helps everyone.


How can I determine the battery level of my magic mouse from the command line? I know how to get it through the menubar, but how can I get it via the command line?

Use ioreg and search for battery using grep

Check the battery level of connected bluetooth headphones from the command line?

Since ioreg is really verbose - here is one command that cuts down to the names of bluetooth devices and all percentage of battery for each.

ioreg -l |egrep "BatteryPercent|Bluetooth Product Name"


Export non-Camera Roll Photo Albums to PC? Is there any way to export non Camera Roll or Photo Stream photo albums from an iPhone to a PC? There are a bunch of "free" software online than can do this, but they all require you to buy the software to transfer the photos, or they can only transfer a few photos before needing to buy the software.

The iPhone is hooked up to the computer right now and I can browse the DCIM folder, but those are only Camera Roll pictures. I'm not willing to jailbreak the iPhone either as it's not mine.

You can only transfer photos out of a device that were taken on the device or are otherwise in the Camera Roll. Photos synchronised to a device over iTunes are not able to be synchronised in reverse or otherwise taken from a device.


connecting my laptop to iPhone HotSpot using Ethernet adapter Can someone suggest an adapter to connect to iPhone hotspot through Ethernet data cable?

Wireless hardware in my laptop has stopped working and I am using Ethernet cable to connect to Internet. But once in a while, I want to use it outside and I am looking for some kind of hardware to connect to iPhone HotSpot.

I looked at IOGEAR Universal Ethernet to Wi-Fi N Adapter and it could have worked but their customer support said they have had problems to connect to hotspot and they haven't tried iPhone hotspot yet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UAKCS6/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_YL-9ybAKFN7NK

Just for grins and giggles, I thought I'd give this a try and I could not get it to work.

Hardware was an iPhone 8 running iOS 13.3, Apple Lightning to USB 3 camera adapter, power from a third party power brick, Apple USB to Ethernet adapter, with an Ethernet cable to an older MacBook with built-in Ethernet.  Cellular service is from AT&T if that matters.

I was able to get a hotspot working fine with a Lightning to USB cable to the same laptop so I know the hotspot function works.  To set up the test I disabled WiFi and Bluetooth on the iPhone and MacBook to avoid either device from looking elsewhere for the internet.  I verified a live Ethernet connection between the two by pinging the iPhone from the laptop.

After verifying that the hotspot function didn't work I wanted to check that the Ethernet would do more than a ping.  I set up the laptop to share WiFi internet on Ethernet to the iPhone and the iPhone was able to load web pages, with airplane mode enabled to assure it didn't connect by other means.

When enabling the hotspot function on the iPhone it did report that it was sharing the internet by USB-only, Ethernet was not mentioned.  Checking the settings on the Ethernet port I saw no IP address configured when left as auto-configure.  Internet sharing still did not work when I tried manual configuration.

I don't know if anyone cares about this anymore as I am resurrecting a zombie thread.  I was looking on if others tried this and I found this thread.  My intention on doing this was to ditch my poorly performing cable internet and instead use an old iPhone 7 for internet, to avoid having to tether my iPhone 8 every time and wanting Ethernet so I can share it on multiple wired computers without having to dedicate a computer for routing the internet.  It looks like if I do go with cellular internet at home then I'll have to stick with WiFi and USB from the iPhone, and anything on a wire would have to be connected by USB to the iPhone directly or have a computer in the middle to route from the iPhone to Ethernet.

Unless I missed something important somewhere I guess I have my answer.  I just thought I'd share my experimental results since so far it looked like educated guessing, and some time has passed which may have changed the result.  So, thanks and I hope this helps.


Open a file from the command line with a specified application path Is there a way to open a file from the command line with a specific application, where I specify the application by path, not name?

So something like:

open file.txt -a /path/to/chosen_app.app

instead of:

open file.txt -a "chosen_app"

Use case for this is speeding up my workflow. I'm developing an application that is opened by double clicking on a certain type of file. Currently I'm right clicking on the file, choosing "Open With" then "Other" and selecting my .app. Without having to install my app each time I change it, I'd like to just build it, then from the command line open the file with my newly built application.

Execute the command-line as per the following syntax:

open [-a application_path] file_path

i.e.

open -a /path/to/chosen_app.app file.txt.


Normal operating temperatures and fan speeds for mid-2006 iMac? I have an aging, but still functional mid-2006 iMac at home. Last night, my wife was in the basement and said she smelled a faint odor of something burning, she said it smelled like it might be plastic. Earlier in the night, I had noticed a high-pitched whine coming from the computer.

I'd like to eke as much life out the computer, which we use for balancing the checkbook and my wife uses to check her email and do some light writing now and again, as we can get.

I had an old copy of iStat nano on the computer and saw that all three fans were spinning and none of the temps seemed too high.

Could someone tell me what the normal CPU, hard drive, and optical drive temps and fan speeds are?

Thanks.

With a machine that old, dust covering the internal components will make it difficult for the computer fans to dissipate heat.

I would suggest turning the iMac over, opening the RAM cover and blowing out as much dust as you can through the vents.


Is there a 3rd party program that can change the cursor size? I've always used a larger mouse icon in Windows (made it easier to find when zipping around multiple screens :p). Recently switched to using OSX and discovered that the option to enlarge the mouse icon does just that, literally.

It just zooms the mouse up... Normally this wouldnt be an issue, except when I use photoshop, the icons are all larger than their effect area (ie, brush size is inaccurate) due to the mouse literally being scaled up.

Is there another application that can replace the system mouse rather than just scaling it up??

If you open System Preferences>Universal Access>Mouse & Trackpad, you can adjust the cursor size to be larger. To my knowledge, there is no third party application that will do this since it is allowed natively. Hope this helps!


Using my iMac in a country with a different power supply standard We may be relocating to a different area of the world where the power standards and outlets differ considerably from what I've got here in North America.

Is the power supply in my iMac auto-adjusting, universal? Can I just buy a new IEC cable for it to match the local plug standard and run it straight in to the wall? Or do I need a transformer?

Edit: I have an older iMac. 2007. 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo.

Building on @penguinrob's answer, the specs for the 2007 iMac can be found on the Apple Support KB:

  Electrical and environmental requirements

  Meets ENERGY STAR requirements

  Line voltage: 100-240V
  AC Frequency:
  50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
  Maximum continuous power: 200W (20-inch
  models); 280W (24-inch model)
  Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10°
  to 35° C)
  Storage temperature: -40° to 185° F (-40° to 85° C)
  Relative
  humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
  Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet

It looks like you should be able to get by with the IEC cable/adapter; the transformer can handle 100-240V, so you likely do not need an additional transformer.