keep photos on iphone but not on icloud Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question. If not direct me. How can I keep photos on my iphone but not in icloud? Most often the question is asked in reverse. I'm not interested in icloud for the most part and would like to free up space but still have pics on my phone. Do I need 3rd party software to do this? I'm not sure why apple makes it so hard to do stuff.
Thanks!

I do not send my photos to iCloud, i only keep them on my phone.

All you need to do is toggle of the switch that tells your phone to send your photos to iCloud or not.

When you are in the iCloud settings page you can choose what things you want to have iCloud save, such as calendar, notes etc by just toggling a switch/button next to each function.

Go to Settings and click on your name at the top of the page, it will  be at the top of the page and have your name in large text ( or whatever your apple id is set to ) and in small text just below it will be "Apple ID,iCloud, iTunes & APP Store with a  >  to the right.

Touch the > scroll down and touch iCloud, now just toggle off the slider button next to Photos. ( it will be green and to the right if it is set to on and if you touch it it will move the the left and no longer be green. )

I also do not use iCloud drive, i keep it toggled off. ( not sure if having it on would have an effect on the photos setting.


I spilled some milk on MacBook Pro, there is no sound what should I do? I spilled some milk on my MacBook Pro and immediately dried it, it seemed to only have been on the top and bottom. Then about 10 minutes later I played a movie and there was no sound. I then noticed a small amount of milk in the aux port so I sucked it out and turned it off and started drying it off (I turned it upside down and put it in front of my now barely warm fire place.) What should do for the sound to be normal?

As a home remedy, you can soak your macbook in a packet of rice. it will absorb the excess water droplet in a safe manner. In that case sometime you might be able save some money without de-assembling your macbook. If any case the issue is there continuously, you better meet a technician or if you are still inside the warranty period, better do the steps adhering that.
Soaking in a rice bucket has been experimented successfully with my xiaomi phone and my hp envy laptop (water spoiled).


Upgrading RAM, iMac 27'' 2019: Is it better to mix Apple/Crucial modules, or substitute all old modules with new ones? In an ideal situation, if money is not an issue, what is a better option?
I have an iMac 27" 2019, with 2x16 GB RAM original modules from Apple (2 slots occupied, 2 slots empty). Using the "System scan results" on the Crucial website, the suggested setup is to buy 2 x 16GB DDR4 modules to install into the 2 empty slots. Another option that I have in mind is to remove the original 2 modules, and install 4 x 16GB new modules from Crucial.
In terms of performance, and if money is not an issue, is it better to

add 2x16GB modules from Crucial (having 2 slots of Apple RAM, and 2 slots of Crucial) with the advantage of using the original Apple modules, or
remove the Apple modules, and install 4x16GB modules from Crucial, with the advantage of not having to mix modules of different kind/vendor?

Rephrasing: is it better to 1) mix Apple and Crucial modules or 2) having all Crucial modules?
Is there a difference in quality between Apple and Crucial modules? Are there any loss of performance when you mix them?
Sources:
https://www.crucial.com/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#27inch2019
EDIT:
On the apple website, it seems that it is better to not mix apple and third party modules. It is written that ".on the Apple website (the link in my question) it is written that
"For optimal memory performance, DIMMs should be the same capacity, speed, and vendor."

As long as all the modules are of the same specification, then there should be no problem, as that's exactly what the spec is there to ensure.


How to add a timer between wget html downloads? I found this very useful script that does the job for what I'm looking to achieve.

It's been taken from this post: Batch download URLs from a .txt file

  To use the following method, you will need to install wget.
       Make a file with the extension .sh in the same directory as your file containing the links and add this text to it:

mkdir ~/Desktop/download

while read line; do wget -E -H --directory-prefix=/Users/username/Desktop/download -k -p $line; done < file.txt

cd ~/Desktop/download

  Make sure to edit the script and change username to your username
       This reads file.txt for the URLs and runs the wget command multiple times with all the links one-by-one and saves them to a
  folder named download on your desktop.

I just need to make a small edit to make sure that between one request and another the script waits 5 minutes.

Could you please tell me how to edit it?

wget can read URLs directly from a file (-i file), and knows how to pause between downloads (-w seconds), so you don’t actually need a loop at all. Also, wget downloads into the current directory by default so you don't really need --directory-prefix either.

Just run

mkdir -p ~/Desktop/download
cd ~/Desktop/download
wget -E -H -k -p -w $((5*60)) -i file.txt

PS: You might also want to add --random-wait to have wget wait between 0.5 and 1.5 times the number of seconds you've specified. This might help to avoid problems with sites who take extreme steps to detect and block wget requests.


How to restore Mac Normal boot (Login before booting up to macOS) After Reinstall macOS Due to Blinking Folder into question mark,
something changed
I boot it up and asks me to login first before booting up
I tried to Reset NVRAM/PRAM but it won't make changes
Is it kind of the exploited Version?

Go to System Preferences » Security & Privacy and then click on the  "FileVault" tab.
If it shows that FileVault is enabled, then it is normal for it to ask for your password when you first boot the computer.
If that is not it, please let me know as a comment.


Shortcut to left align objects in PowerPoint I would like to know the shortcut to left align selected objects in PowerPoint Mac. Some web pages show that it is alt+1, but I don't think it works.

By the way, I have a french keyboard.

Could anyone help?

Shot in the dark as I don't use Powerpoint for Mac, but try these and report back which one works (if at all):

Command + L
Command + Shift + ] (Command + })


How often do my Mac contacts sync with Gmail? I set up my Contacts in OS X Mountain Lion to sync with Gmail. I just went to Gmail and made some contact changes. How can I determine when this will sync?

Assuming you've synced your contacts via Address Book then, if you want a deterministic way of syncing in addition to the periodic sync, you can invoke a sync manually from the menu bar app.

OSX is a bit unpleasant in that it will only add this menu item if you set up iCloud, however, you can add this menu to your menu bar without iCloud :) To do so, you need to open a file called Sync.menu located in System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras on your install volume (usually Macintosh HD).

You should only need to open this file once and then the menu item will remain on your menu bar until you remove it and should persist through logins and reboots.

If you want a quick terminal command to do the above then fire up Terminal and enter the following:

open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Sync.menu


Menu bar shows that macOS Sierra very frequently uses location services to check the time zone even though Setting Time Zone is disabled Ever since upgrading to macOS Sierra, I have been able to keep track of when programs use my location because the menu bar displays an icon whenever an app requests this information. I have noticed that about once per hour, the location services icon appears for a few seconds, and when I click on it it says "Apps requesting location: Setting Time Zone"

I've tried disabling automatic time zone detection in System Preferences (Under the Privacy > Location Services options), and this does not prevent this from happening. Here is what this setting looks like on my computer, note that the "Time Zone" box is already unchecked:

I looked at the list of other programs that have recently requested my location, and nothing unusual appears:

What is causing this, and is there any way to disable it? If this cannot be turned off, then is there a way to prevent it from appearing in the menu bar?

I had the same issue on macOS 10.12.6. Give this a try:

Under System Preferences > Date & Time > Time Zone: Uncheck "Set
time zone automatically using current location"
Disable location services completely
Delete the file "/Library/Caches/com.apple.AutoTimeZone.plist"
Reenable location services again
Restart your computer

Does it solve your issue? Source


Find only podcasts from a single country / language Is there any way to make iTunes (or some command line tool, perhaps) show podcasts only from one particular country / in one particular language?

Or, to put it differently, to hide all American podcasts, because they are so many and often completely drown content from other countries.

On the Mac in iTunes, on the store podcasts page, click on the country flag at the bottom right hand corner, and then select a store for the country you're interested in. You'll then be able to view podcasts for that country, view them in categories, and download them.


How to remove a font downloaded through Font Book? Font Book has a few international fonts that need to be downloaded before use. After downloading one there is no immediate way to remove it again. Can this be worked around?

You can replace them with themselves, but manually installed, with the shell command:

cp /System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_Font5/*/AssetData/* ~/Library/Fonts/

Then, from the “User” section of the sidebar, select all of the fonts you want to remove, and the system-installed version should be removed as well. An alternative way is to resolve the duplicates by keeping the manual version, and then removing that as well.


Is it possible to rename "iCloud Drive"? I do not like folder names with a space in them...

Can I rename iCloud Drive to another name, say, iDrive?

The iCloud Drive item in the sidebar actually points to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs. That said, it is not possible to rename the sidebar item, and do NOT rename the folder. Doing so will likely definitely cause iCloud Drive to stop functioning (if it even lets you rename it).


Restore from Time Machine backup from within macOS I want to restore a remote Time Machine backup on a fresh install of macOS.

From what I've read, you need to do this from the Recovery Mode (Command+R). However, the new Macbook Pro (2017) doesn't have an Ethernet socket and doesn't support USB-C to Ethernet adapter in Recovery Mode.

My only option is to restore over WiFi which will take 90+ hours... (1TB SSD)

So, is there a way for me to restore a Time Machine backup from within macOS (not Recovery Mode)? (this will allow me to use USB-C to Ethernet adapter)

Try Migration Assistant.

On your new Mac:
Open Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
Click Continue.
When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer from a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk.
Click Continue.


Yahoo as Exchange on IOS 4 I can sync Gmail contacts to my iPhone and it works pretty well.

Is there a way I can sync my Yahoo contacts over the air with my iPhone?

I see that with IOS 5 it is possible to sync contacts with Yahoo


What's the best place to post suggestions for Apple to read? As mentioned in this post, I'm wondering where I should put UI suggestions for apple.

I always prefer this chain:

Speak with an Apple Employee - ask them who exactly is best to hear the specific feedback. Who better to know what the best channel for your idea / feedback than the people trained to interact with the public. Just be aware that not all employees will be in a position to take your feedback, but they might be taking mental notes to send it up even if they don't let on or promise you they will follow up on your feedback.
If it's really a bug in the hardware/software, you can file a bug at http://bugreport.apple.com
There's always http://apple.com/feedback


My ifconfig: command not found for some reason I'm using Mac Sierra version 10.13.6 and when I try using ifconfig it just outputs

-bash: ifconfig: command not found

And, when I run $PATH, I get:

-bash: /usr/local/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/Users/********/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Users/**********/google-cloud-sdk:/usr/bin:/bin: No such file or directory

The ifconfig binary is located in /sbin/ which doesn't seem to be in your $PATH.

You can add it by appending the line /sbin to /etc/paths.


Completely uninstall iOS App and all associated data Background

I am a server-side developer working on an API for an iOS app. From time to time as we are in development (when we have big database changes) we reset our server. This process clears all the server-side data for a member including any App device tokens used for push notifications.

Problem

At the same time as I reset the server database I have been trying to uninstall the app and delete any associated app data. I was hoping that if I did this the next time I install the App it would be like it was a first time download again. This is not working.

How I am doing this:

I have tried the steps listed on the following site https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-devices_organizer/articles/remove_app_from_device.html.

I have also tried uninstalling via the phone:

Under Settings > General > Usage > STORAGE > Manage Storage. I have been clicking on the app and then clicking Delete App;

Under Settings > General > Usage > ICLOUD > Manage Storage. I have been clicking on the current device, then selecting the app and turning off backup and deleting.

I had hoped that this would remove all data so that when I reinstall via Xcode or Test Flight App, the app would start just like a first time user again. However this is not happening. The app still seems to remember some settings, in particular it thinks I have already sent my device token and won't prompt me for it again.

Question

How should I be uninstalling an app form a device so that all app data is removed and the next time a reinstall I am treated as a new user?

Please try the following:

Go to Settings --> General --> (iPhone/iPad/iPod/ect.)Storage --> Select app and "Delete App"

Go to Settings --> Profiles & Device Management (Could also be called "Profiles", if you don't use this feature, it will not be there) and delete any app data.

Go to Settings --> [Your Name] (At the very top) --> iCloud --> Manage Storage --> Select the app and "Delete Data"

Delete and re-install the "Test Flight" app

Completely reset the device (Press and hold Home and Sleep until the Apple logo appears)

5a. If this device is only for testing, you can go to Settings --> General --> Reset --> Reset All Settings

Reinstall the app

Let me know if it works!


OS X Yosemite Server won't create websites I'm having trouble creating a website in OS X Server (10.10.3) using the Website tab. I've created a DNS entry, so I have a green light when I enter the same domain name in the "Domain Name" field.

When I go to click on the "Create" button it turns grey for a moment, then back to blue. The dialog box stays open, and nothing happens. I've tried both with a certificate (port 443) and without (port 80), to no avail. All other settings are default.

Well, now I feel a bit silly. I was remotely administering the server using server.app on another computer within the local network. Everything worked straight away as soon as I tried the same process on the server itself using Screen Sharing.

I'm not sure why this is a problem, but it looks like remote administration using the Server.app doesn't work for everything!


Where has "Keychain First Aid" gone? On my machine running OS X El Capitan, there is no "Keychain First Aid" option in the Keychain Access app.

All documentation, including Mac OS Help in El Capitan, says to go to the Keychain Access menu and select Keychain First Aid. But my Keychain Access menu looks like this:

Where is Keychain First Aid??

Starting in OSX 10.11, you will need to open the Keychain Access app and go to Preferences > Reset My Default Keychain.  "Reset" is a bit of misnomer; actually, it will move your old keychain to a separate database file, and create a new, clean keychain.

Next, if you do File > Add Keychain, you can re-add your old keychain (for example, login_renamed_1) to the viewer.  You can then manually copy over your keys from the old keychain to the new keychain.

You will have to re-enter your root password for each key that you copy, and it will throw errors at you, but in the end they will get copied over.


Can't turn on iPhone, no backup and updating isn't successful. Is there anyway to retrieve the data? I am posting this for a friend.  For some reason the iPhone 5 suddenly won't turn on anymore.  When the power button is pressed the screen lights up, the apple logo shows and then it switches to another screen where the following url is shown: support.apple.com/iphone/restore, the iTunes logo and the a picture of a cable beneath.

What I have tried:

I have visited the url and followed the steps listed on the page, namely holding the power and home buttons for ten seconds, waiting and then trying to turn the phone on again.

I have connected to iTunes and tried to update the phone but this is unsuccessful and produces an error, with error code 26 which gives me this link here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/ht201210.  I have followed the steps on this page as well.

What I think the problem is:

I believe the phone started to update but didn't have enough space and at some point the update failed midway and now the phone can't turn on.  I believe this is also the reason why it wont update via iTunes.  I do not know however as I wasn't present during this time and my friend isn't sure either, all she knows is it wont turn on anymore.

The phone has no backup and my friend would very much like to keep / retrieve the data on the phone somehow.  Therefore we have avoided trying a factory reset at this point.

We have taken it to a shop and they referred us to a specialist shop saying it would cost ~2000€ to decrypt and retrieve the data before performing a reset which is ridiculous.

Are there any steps or methods we could further try before resorting to a factory reset and losing the data or having to cough up all this money?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Disk Drill or iFunbox may be able to help. It is evident that you are able to access the iPhone for a restore, so Disk Drill is likely the best choice.

Disk drill will create the best backup that it can with the files left unencrypted, and iFunbox will only be able to access whatever the phone can.

Best of Luck!


how to download OS X El Capitan for MacBook Pro A1278 I have a Macbook Pro A1278 with a dead hard drive.  I have put a new hard drive in it and now need to figure out how to get my hands on the os.  Does anyone know if it is possible to still download OS X El Capitan?  If so, how?

Apple has a page How to get old versions of macOS which includes a link to download OS X El Capitan 10.11.
The next question is going to be how to make a bootable installer. Do you have another Mac available?
If so, DiskMaker X would be the place that I would start.


What's the duration of a In-App Purchase Promo Code for Auto-Renewable Subscription's? I just can't seem to find any answer to this question on the internet, so it might be good to just ask it here for future reference of people Googling the same question.

In my App, I have a Auto-Renewable Subscription of one month. So it renews every month. I want to hand out a few promo codes to previous beta-testers of my app to thank them for testing out the app.

I know a promo code expires after 28 days of creation. But that does not say anything about the duration of the Auto-Renewable Subscription when that promo code is used.

So, in other words; does the user's subscription expire after one month when using a promo code? Or does that user have a subscription for life when using a promo code?

Got an answer from Apple. They confirm what I thought:

  Promo codes for auto-renewable subscriptions are valid only
  for the duration of the subscription. Subscriptions purchased with a
  promo code do not automatically renew.

So, in my case; one month and then it expires.


How can I change the position of alerts pop up? With Yosemite we got handy, growl-like, alert popups from the notification center. It's great but it often hides handy utils which also take the top right position of the screen.

Is there any way change the position of those alerts (via system preferences, plist, or an app)?

Unfortunately, there is no built-in way to change the position of the popups still. Problem is well known (for instance, see here: Change location of notification center alerts).
The only way you can customize the position of notifications is to use commercial app - Growl (http://growl.info) for those apps that support it or turn all or some notifications off via System Preferences -> Notifications.


How to compile mod_wsgi, mod_fastcgi, etc on Mountain Lion (Mavericks) by fixing `apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536`? I've updated to OS X Mountain Lion.
Update has removed all of my python and apache modules including mod_wsgi.

Now I'm trying to recompile mod_wsgi (it compiled without problems on Lion).

I use source code from here: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/DownloadTheSoftware?tm=2

./configure creates Makefile without problems:

$ ./configure
checking for apxs2... no
checking for apxs... /usr/sbin/apxs
checking Apache version... 2.2.22
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile

But make returns error:

$ make
/usr/sbin/apxs -c -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -DENABLE_DTRACE  -Wc,'-arch x86_64' mod_wsgi.c -Wl,-F/System/Library/Frameworks -framework Python -u _PyMac_Error /System/Library/Frameworks/  -arch x86_64 -ldl  -framework CoreFoundation
/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.8.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc    -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/apache2  -I/usr/include/apr-1   -I/usr/include/apr-1  -arch x86_64 -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -DENABLE_DTRACE  -c -o mod_wsgi.lo mod_wsgi.c && touch mod_wsgi.slo
env: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.8.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc: No such file or directory
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
.
make: *** [mod_wsgi.la] Error 1

I solved this problem while writting question:

For some reason /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.8.xctoolchain/ folder (containing Xcode Command Line Tools) is here: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain

To fix the problem:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.8.xctoolchain

Greg Bair suggestion for Mavericks:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain

This creates symlink to the right folder.


Remove auto suggestion for usernames How do I remove this function?

It's up to the website to disable autocorrect on fields. You can disable autocorrect globally: go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Text and uncheck ‘Correct spelling automatically’.

Instead of disabling it, you can click the × to cancel that correction, and once you've done that a few times, the word will be added to the dictionary and won't be autocorrected.


Mac Sierra won't boot - SmartBattery: finished polling type 4 I did an update on my Macbook Retina 13" to the most recent version of Sierra OS X. The computer never gets past the Apple logo (black screen with a full progress bar).

I booted into Verbose Mode (command + v) and see that it is stuck at the following point:

SmartBattery: finished polling type 4

Every now and then it will add another line of text (same text) but it never moves beyond that point.

Any advice please! It is a real pain to keep restoring from my Time Machine backup!

Had the same issue and found the solution here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7787207?start=0&tstart=0

Quotes:

  Now that I look a bit more closely, the issue may be a corrupt .kext
  file as I get two busy timeout [x] (60s)  kextd wait(1): messages with
  corrupt garbage characters listed just at the start of the infinite
  SmartBattery messages.

  Not convinced the battery is really the issue as the machine will boot
  quite happily when using another boot disk or USB drive and the
  SmartBattery checks in those boot logs are really no different. To me
  it looks like the boot process has hung at the kextd and the endless
  SmartBattery messages are the OS just passing the time waiting for a
  response to the kextd daemon its never going to get.

  Your (and my) problem is because auf a KEXT file which is not
  compatible to 10.12.2 - the software isn't clever enough to ignore
  this, so you have to do it yourself. There are some ways. I made it
  this way:
  Start into Recovery HD, Open Terminal, write down:

mkdir /Volumes/"Macintosh HD"/kextbackup
cd /Volumes/"Macintosh HD"/System/Library/Extensions

  look for .kext files which are not part of the normal system

mv KEXTNAME.kext /Volumes/"Macintosh HD"/kextbackup/

  I removed the following and after this the system booted again.

Belcarra.USBLAN_netpart.kext
Belcarra.USBLAN_usbpart.kext
HuaweiDataCardDriver.kext
JMicronATA.kext
RemoteControl.USBLAN_usbpart.kext
UsbEthernetGadget.kext
USBExpressCardCantWake_Huawei.kext
vecLib.kext

  Of course everybody
  has his own not compatible kext files in this folder. Actually you
  can't do anything wrong by just moving them to another place... But I
  would recommend you not to move any of the APPLE*.kext files and the
  IO*.kext files. Other files with not that normal names, I would move
  and try to start.... At the moment my Sound is not working.. So I
  moved one kext too much, but anyway... I can write this.. in Safari on
  my Macbook Pro Retina....

EDIT: This worked for me. Note that I also had no sound but got it back after moving back "vecLib.kext" (by again returning to recovery mode and moving it back from the kextbackup-folder), so try to keep that in place from the beginning :)


High Sierra occasionally shows a white/grey screen and I have to switch off and restart The picture attached shows what I see when my computer "crashes".
It happens occasionally. It may be because of heavy load. Or because
I have it open many hours. I don't really know.

Has anyone else experienced this? Can you help? How can I trouble shoot?

Note that I have Mac Book Pro

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
2,5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

Note: the star shaped light area in the middle is my camera flash light. Please, ignore.

I would ssh into the box and run sysdiagnose and top to see what’s happening.

If SSH won’t let you spawn a new process then you have a key piece of information and can press the key card to get a cyst diagnose and then look at the system logs want to to force the system down by holding the power button.


Are all the ports on 2016 MacBook Pro 13" the same speed? I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 13" with 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports. I am connecting a TB3 dock from the back left port of the MacBook Pro but would like to use the right back port instead.

I read on the eGPU forums that there was some difference in the ports, but I can no longer find the post. Are all the ports on 2016 MacBook Pro 13" the same speed? Should I expect lesser bandwidth or performance (for example, data transfer speed) from one port vs another?

As it turns out, there is a support document published by Apple that directly answers my question:

  Late-2016 MacBook Pro models vary slightly in the data speeds they
  provide to each Thunderbolt 3 port.

  MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) delivers full Thunderbolt 3
  performance on all four ports.

  MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) supports Thunderbolt 3 at full performance using the two left-hand ports. The
  two right-hand ports deliver Thunderbolt 3 functionality, but have
  reduced PCI Express bandwidth.

  MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports) delivers
  full Thunderbolt 3 performance on both ports.

Therefore based on this, I will use the left-hand ports for my high bandwidth peripherals.


How do I copy and paste a text address in the messages app? When I get a standard text I can tap and hold the message > Copy.  Now the message is on the clipboard and ready to use.  If I perform the same action on an address I am brought to the Maps application (an app I do not use).  I can create a custom Message, twitter, facebook etc...but no copy option.
How can I copy and paste a physical address on an iPhone?
My common use cases

Copy as human readable text to another human as a text message
Copy and paste into Waze
Copy and paste into any app that needs an address

I think it's just the way you're pressing on it that's causing you the problem.

Assuming iOS has recognised it as an address (typically it would appear in blue and be underlined just like a traditional hyperlink), just tap on it gently for about a second or so and you should get a range of options. One of the options will be Copy. Select that and you can then paste the address as you want into another app etc.

If you just do a quick tap, then it'll take you to the Maps app as you describe.


could you force install OSX Mavericks onto a Apple MacBook A1181 early 2008 model if running snow leopard or mountain lion osx iv just bought an Apple MacBook A1181 (white) early 2008 model and was wondering if i could install mavericks on it? in any way shape or form?

To install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:

iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)

Your Mac also needs:

OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
2 GB or more of memory
8 GB or more of available space

There are some attempts reported how to Force Install on non compatible models, but the result is more of a waste of time then a working computer.


Does Chase's QuickDeposit feature work on the iPod Touch 4G? Now that the new iPod Touch has a camera, I'm thinking of buying it.
However, since Apple crippled its resolution (960 x 720), I'm not so sure.

Does Chase Mobile's QuickDeposit feature work with the lower camera resolution?

looks like they just updated to version 2.8.1202, release notes say "Quick Deposit for iPod touch - Now you can use your camera-enabled iPod touch to make a deposit."


How are these folders invisible? I copied some music off a friend's old iPod for him by mounting it and using Terminal to copy the "iPod Control" folder to my desktop (High Sierra).

However, that folder (the original, as well as the copy on my desktop) contains a "Music" folder that's invisible, and "Music" contains a bunch of other folders that are invisible. By "invisible" I mean that I can see them just fine in Terminal, but I can only see them in the Finder if I press Command-Option-. or run defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.

My question is: how are these folders invisible? When I show them and do a "Get Info" on them, I don't see anything that would indicate that the Finder should hide them. They don't have a period at the start of their names. Even if I do a ls -l@ in Terminal I don't see anything unusual about them.

How do I un-set these folders' invisibility so that Finder will display them normally?

Files and folders can have the ‘hidden’ flag set.

ls can show flags with ls -lO (capital letter O).
Set the hidden flag with chflags hidden /path/to/file.
Remove the hidden flag with

chflags nohidden /path/to/file


How to make macOS APFS Container show up in the boot menu again? I used to have a triple-boot setup with macOS, Bootcamp and Debian on a Macbook Pro 2015 w/ High Sierria. I do not use alternative boot menus (i.e. rEFInd etc). macOS and Bootcamp would show up in the "ALT-menu", a normal boot would go to grub and Debian. I removed my linux swap and root partitions (from macOS using DiskUtility) to open up some space on the drive and now macOS drive doesn't show up in the "ALT-menu".

My problem is a little similar to this one except APFS container shows up in Internet Recovery but is listed as an "Image". (at the moment I can't provide a screenshot for this. Basically, they were listed separately under the Windows drives with much smaller capacity listing (~2-3 GB))

Using a live linux stick, APFS drive is named sda2. here are some read outs:

fdisk -l for the hard disk

Disk /dev/sda: 465.9 GiB, 500277790720 bytes, 977105060 sectors
Disk model: APPLE SSD SM0512
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D0E4615B-509C-4516-9787-A0C116837A4E

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1         40    409639    409600   200M EFI System
/dev/sda2     409640 756269007 755859368 360.4G EFI System
/dev/sda4  829251584 879316991  50065408  23.9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  879316992 977104895  97787904  46.6G Microsoft basic data

apfsutil /dev/sda2

Volume 0 D5E22857-2B7D-3590-BF9E-87F9FBD6398C
---------------------------------------------
Role:               No specific role
Name:               Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
Capacity Consumed:  372848881664 Bytes
FileVault:          Yes

Volume 1 8055269A-5FAC-40A6-ABE1-879B688E5755
---------------------------------------------
Role:               Preboot
Name:               Preboot (Case-insensitive)
Capacity Consumed:  22323200 Bytes
FileVault:          No

Volume 2 856749D1-B62E-4B9B-AE80-E120E9F47C07
---------------------------------------------
Role:               Recovery
Name:               Recovery (Case-insensitive)
Capacity Consumed:  514936832 Bytes
FileVault:          No

Volume 3 92FC4412-ABD5-4836-89BE-9301F19E5CEC
---------------------------------------------
Role:               VM
Name:               VM (Case-insensitive)
Capacity Consumed:  2147594240 Bytes
FileVault:          No

gparted screenshot (shows the empty  space as well)

I tried adding the boot flag to sda2 to see if it would boot, but it didn't. (in other words, partition didn't have that flag at first. This screenshot was taken later) also, the Fat32 drive is only for shared files and nothing else. Also, I still have grub installed.

You could try using gdisk to change the second partition to type AF0A. Note: klanomath's answer lacks the gpt remove ... command due to the nature of the question you have referenced. The type AF0A exists in versions 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 of gdisk. If you have an older version, then you have to enter the type given below.

7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC


How do I delete empty DCIM folders from my iPhone? I regularly transfer all photos from my iPhone to my Windows PC. However, I cannot delete subfolders of DCIM. So I'm getting a little collection of folders that I want to delete, but can't.

To be specific, I currently have zero photos on my camera roll, but this is what I'm seeing using File Explorer in Windows:

mtp://Kit's iPhone/Internal Storage/DCIM/807CIQGG
mtp://Kit's iPhone/Internal Storage/DCIM/850RTGCV
mtp://Kit's iPhone/Internal Storage/DCIM/879SQXPS
mtp://Kit's iPhone/Internal Storage/DCIM/924ZUYVS
mtp://Kit's iPhone/Internal Storage/DCIM/943YHDPL
mtp://Kit's iPhone/Internal Storage/DCIM/980HHNVQ

But I cannot delete any of them. File explorer says:

  807CIQGG could not be deleted. The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected.

It hasn't stopped responding, and it hasn't been disconnected. I just can't delete these folders. I tried an alternative file explorer, Directory Opus. It says:

  An error occurred deleting '924ZUYVS': Incorrect function. (1)

Is there any way to delete these rogue folders from the phone itself?

The same exact thing happens with my iPad. (Neither device is jailbroken.)

If your iDevice is jailbroken you can install iFile from Cydia in that device and then you will be able to access the file system directly.

In /var/mobile/Media/DCIM there are empty folders that you mentioned. You can delete them manually (rmdir empty_folder_name).

You can do this by accessing the file system of your iDevice via SSH also.


How to copy and paste Javascript code from a PDF file to a texteditor (Textmate or Sublime Text) Everytime, I want to copy and paste one Javascript code example from a book (in a pdf version) to Sublime Text or Textmate, any " " become “ ” >> the code doesn't work.

Is there any way to fix this ?

Thanks in advance.

Config: OSX Lion,
PDF reader : Skim

Update: For Textmate. the solution is here.

That's probably because the PDF uses actual curly quotation marks (which are indeed syntactically incorrect). The most straightforward thing to do would be performing a search and replace on the copied text in your text-editor.


In iOS 12.0.1 on iPhone, what is the point of the block list? It doesn't block calls I get spam calls on my iPhone SE. I have caller ID.

I have a contact called "do not answer". The contact is blocked

Inside the "do not answer" contact I keep a list of all the spam numbers that call me.

In iOS 12.0.1 I get calls saying Incoming call from "do not answer". How is this possible? Doesn't the phone app see its showing the "do not answer" contact that should be blocked?

The only workaround I have found is to set my "do not answer" contact to have a silent ringtone without vibration but it still interrupts use of my phone

This has been ongoing since my iPhone 4s days

If a contact has more than one phone number, you have to block each number separately. Have you blocked every individual phone number that’s assigned to your “Do not contact” contact?


Finder tag not working for all folders I set the red tag for the folder ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData but if I search all files or folders with the red tag, this doesn't show up.

Probably need to search 'System files - are included'.
Regular search may not look in there.


Desktop notifications for phone calls on iOS 7 Is it possible to send notifications to my Mountain Lion desktop when my iPhone receives a phone call?

Without a jailbreak what you ask is definitely not possible right now.

With a jailbreak there seems to be some apps that can send notifications like GrowlNotifier.


What does XProtect protect/secure on Mac OS X? My research so far has found XProtect appears at first glance to be a basic AV engine that scans DMG & apps through Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I'm looking to understand what does it actually do and what does it exactly monitor outside of DMG and apps? I've read it doesn't provide protection from BitTorrent and removable USB thumb drives. What else?

The Xprotect "system" is not really an AV engine as such. It looks for a very limited number of text strings, or "signatures," in specific types of files. For this reason, it is far less useful than a real AV program (up to you if you think one is necessary). In addition, it only checks files downloaded with certain apps: Safari, Mail, Messages, and third-party apps that have activated a setting to use Xprotect to check their files as well. Also, it only sets a flag on files, and depends on user interaction for protection. So an un-savvy user may see the dialog warning that a file is dangerous, but still click the necessary button to open it.

As you say, it doesn't protect against BitTorrent downloads (though specific BitTorrent clients could use the feature), and doesn't protect from files copied from any kind of removable media or files copied over a network.


Failed to verify InstallESD.dmg: hdiutil verify failed (Trying to reinstall Mac OS X Lion) Alright about a week and a half ago my Macbook Pro started acting up. All of my applications were crashing randomly and what not so I decided to just try and reinstall El Capitan onto it. I tried and tried and tried but only got an error about how it couldn't be installed on that computer.
So then I went and completely reformatted my hard drive and booted up with Internet Recovery. Told it to install Mac OS X Lion again (that's what came with my computer) and I am now getting the following errors when I look at the installer log:

Line 1: Install Mac OS X Lion [379]: Chunk validation failed, retrying...
Line 2: Failed to verify InsallESD.dmg: hdiutil verify failed
Line 3: Damaged resume data :/Volumes/Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB Media/Mac OS X Install Data/InstallESD.dmg.partial : /Volumes/Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB Media/Mac OS X Install Data/InstallESD.chunklist.partial

I'm leaning towards the conclusion that my SSD has gone bad even though it's only a little over a year old.
However, I thought I would post here too in case anyone else has had this problem and was able to fix it without getting a new hard drive.
It's also worth noting that when I use Disk Utility to check the disc for errors it doesn't find anything.
UPDATE
I just tried to install onto my old mac hard drive and I'm getting the same error. After some more research I saw that some say if you upgraded ram to take out the ram from one of the slots and try again. I'm going to try that when I get home and see if that works.

The pulling the RAM out before installing did the trick for me!

When I first bought my MacBook 5 years ago it only came with 4GB of RAM. About a year and a half ago I upgraded this to 8GB. For whatever reason this throws errors and won't let you reinstall Mac OS X again.

So what I did was turned the MacBook off and flipped it over and took off the bottom cover. I then removed one of the sticks of RAM (the one on top) and restarted the computer and tried installing again. This time it installed without any issues and after it was installed I put the other stick of RAM back in again.

Here's an article that will help you locate and remove any RAM that you may have previously installed in case someone else had done it for you or before you.

MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory


Jailbreak an officially unlocked iPhone My iPhone 3GS was unlocked using O2's official method.

I am considering jailbreaking but am unsure if this will affect the unlock status of the handset.

The jailbreak options available seem a little bewildering, so is there a specific jailbreak method which doesn't unlock and will leave my iPhone with the official unlock?

What I really don't want to happen is to jailbreak and have the phone lock again on the next iOS update.

I am currently running iOS 4.3.3 and use iTunes on Windows 7 x64.

It won't affect the unlock.  A legitimate (ie sanctioned by the carrier and not hardware/software) unlock happens at the carrier level and jailbreaking doesn't affect that.


How to manually determine version control metadata for Finder? I have a Scripts folder where I keep Automator actions, Applescripts, and shell scripts. Automator scripts are automatically assigned a version of 1.1.1 it seems. When I make revisions to any of these kinds of documents, how can I manually set the versions so that info will display in the finder, either with Get Info or in a folder list with Version view enabled?

Especially in the case of shell scripts (zsh), is there a comment format where I can enter the version of the script and Finder will see it? Or is there a way to associate an editable system resource to the scripts that will make the script version visible?

Finder does not keep track of versions as it just represents the file system which under HFS+ does not keep versions.

I don;t see how to do exactly what you want but I think a way that would work is to use version control as used by programmers - I use this for control of my shell and other scripts.
Examples of this are git, mercurial, svn(subversion) with various GUIs available e.g. SourceTree (for all three).

Git and mercurial work by s saving a set of changes across all files in a project which when you need more than one file you will find is needed. This snapshot of files can be tagged with a name e.g. 1.0.0 etc. Each change is individually labelled with a version control assigned name. The version data is kept in metadata in the version control system and not in the files as putting the version number in the files was found not to be useful. The GUI can browse over the file system and can show the change history.


The time on my Mac is 5 minutes ahead of the actual time The date-time has been configured to be automatic and yet, the time on my laptop is 5 minutes ahead of what it should be.

OS: El Capitan 10.11.3
Model: Macbook Pro Retina 13" (2015 Edition)

How do I fix this?

If neither the ntp pool nor time.apple.com are suitbable or reachable from the network you use, you may have to resort to setting your clock manually. Once you are within 15 seconds of time, do try the command line option again and setting it automatic.

Also, when you can try a different network or VPN to a server in a different geo that might help get around network issues local to you.

From this question on Ask Ubuntu, it's pretty likely your ISP is blocking port 123 which ntp needs to work.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/429306/ntpdate-no-server-suitable-for-synchronization-found

You can get a good server date from curl as well:

curl -I http://www.apple.com 2>/dev/null | grep ^Date:

If you wanted to parse that and set the date, that would be an easy fix for a one time correction or an alias you might run periodically at the command line. To debug things properly, here is the command I would use:

ntpdate -vd time.apple.com

It will show you the packets being sent and received and then a detailed explanation of how the time is changed like this:

$ ntpdate -vd time.apple.com
21 Feb 13:12:49 ntpdate[17139]: ntpdate 4.2.6@1.2089-o Fri May 28 01:20:57 UTC 2010 (1)
Looking for host time.apple.com and service ntp
host found : jptyo5-ntp-002.aaplimg.com
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server 17.253.68.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.19341, dispersion 0.00044
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reference time:    da748aad.d730f54c  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:45.840
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delay 0.19341, dispersion 0.00044
offset -0.002966

server 17.253.84.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.24779, dispersion 0.00063
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    da748ab2.077fa659  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:50.029
originate timestamp: da748ab3.1f69b486  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:51.122
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filter delay:  0.24779  0.24857  0.24857  0.24823
         0.00000  0.00000  0.00000  0.00000
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delay 0.24779, dispersion 0.00063
offset 0.011965

server 17.253.14.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.06609, dispersion 0.00035
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    da748aaa.d5225db1  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:42.832
originate timestamp: da748ab2.af170bf9  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:50.683
transmit timestamp:  da748ab2.a8bec679  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:50.659
filter delay:  0.06775  0.06786  0.06865  0.06609
         0.00000  0.00000  0.00000  0.00000
filter offset: 0.005122 0.004585 0.004944 0.004527
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delay 0.06609, dispersion 0.00035
offset 0.004527

server 17.253.54.251, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.14940, dispersion 0.00041
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    da748aac.bdf434ff  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:44.742
originate timestamp: da748ab3.2c5f6146  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:51.173
transmit timestamp:  da748ab3.1af31b15  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:51.105
filter delay:  0.14940  0.14998  0.15178  0.15584
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filter offset: 0.004575 0.004469 0.005269 0.002918
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server 17.253.38.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -22, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.17906, dispersion 0.00018
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    da748aaf.ba3c03ed  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:47.727
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server 17.253.12.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.07823, dispersion 0.00056
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    da748ab2.71e94c76  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:50.444
originate timestamp: da748ab3.52ca2f7d  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:51.323
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filter delay:  0.07823  0.07959  0.07927  0.07938
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server 17.253.4.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
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reference time:    da748ab2.9c86971f  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:50.611
originate timestamp: da748ab3.89a4a287  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:51.537
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server 17.253.34.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
refid [GPSs], delay 0.14059, dispersion 0.00099
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    da748ab2.20438b82  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:50.126
originate timestamp: da748ab3.f3cda148  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:51.952
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filter delay:  0.14117  0.14233  0.15315  0.14059
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server 17.253.6.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
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reference time:    da748ab0.6e7f416f  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:48.431
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server 17.253.2.253, port 123
stratum 1, precision -20, leap 00, trust 000
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reference time:    da748aaf.90dc62bd  Sun, Feb 21 2016 13:12:47.565
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iWork 08 no longer updating in Mavericks Apple talked a lot about updating iWork for free with the new Mavericks, I bought iWork '08 it was installed on my machine and updated with no issue.

A few months back I upgrade my MBP to a SSD, and did a clean install, I put iWork 08 on expecting it to be updated, but this hasn't happened.

Has this upgrade no longer available?

iWork '08 was released for OS 10.4 originally from 2007. Whilst it would have free upgrades within its cycle e.g. 8.1, .2, .3 effectively this does not mean you get a free upgrade to a significantly new version 3 years later e.g. iWork 09.

In your case, its likely there was a temporary offer for a free upgrade initially to encourage customers to port to the Apple Store (for software download) rather than traditional disc installation. After a period Apple withdraw software these upgrades.

In terms of your re-install, have you signed in with the same Apple Store account used previously? If you haven't, it wont recognise your previous status and upgrades may be un-available. This is true of the 10.8 OS update - if it is on your Apple Store account as installed previously, you can download it again, if you come into the Store clean, you wont even see it as a download.


Unable to play copied AVCHD I have a Flash drive accessory for my camcorder which allows me to record to it as well as the SDHC cards it also uses as media.

This Flash drive can be connected to a computer using a USB connection and is recognised as an external hard drive formatted as FAT32, containing a single AVCHD folder (containing the video).

I have my own external USB Hard Disk, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Case Sensitive) and wish to copy my video to that drive for storage, so that I can clear the camera Flash drive for future use with my camera.

I copied the video by dragging it in Finder, however, the new copy will not open in QuickTime; instead a message box "cannot open" appears.

After doing lots of comparisons, I was able to see that the contents of both copies were exactly the same, with the exception that one file: AVCHD/BDMV/INDEX.BDM had changed case (to AVCHD/BDMV/index.bdm).

Upon renaming this file, Finder no longer associated the file with QuickTime, but if I copied the file, so that I had both INDEX.BDM and index.bdm, it worked correctly.

My question is: what is going on here? Why did the case of that file and only that file change during the copy? Why does QuickTime expect it to be one case and Finder another?

The index.bdm file was probably named that way on the original card, but appeared as INDEX.BDM when mounted on the Mac. FAT32 is not case-sensitive, and OS X's file system code (specifically the NSFileManager class) programmatically presents FAT32 contents in uppercase. OS X can open AVCHD content, even with a filename in lowercase, from case-insensitive media, like FAT32 or HFS+ in its default, case-insensitive mode.

However, when you copied the AVCHD content to a case-sensitive filesystem, the true nature of that lowercase filename becomes visible (it doesn't get renamed as lowercase, it simply gets revealed as lowercase to begin with!). OS X / QuickTime get confused by the lowercase name, and you get the dreaded "CANNOT OPEN".

The fix is to ensure that all the AVCHD-standard files and folders are in uppercase. As you see, the folder tree above the INDEX.BDM files loses its special status, but the INDEX.BDM file can be double-clicked to open the AVCHD browser. Just as importantly, editors like FCP X and FCP 7's Log and Transfer window will properly see the media even on the case-sensitive filesystem.

I encountered the same thing copying AVCHD to a Linux-based NAS with a case-sensitive filesystem. In my case, my Panasonic cameras will write an INDEX.BDM file when I erase all clips or format the card in-camera, but if I erase just one or a few clips, the file gets written as index.bdm. Since Apple's code breaks with mixed-case AVCHD filenames, I'm writing a utility to walk my folder trees and make sure everything is uppercase, grumble grumble...


Remove app on App Store created by previous developer for our company My company developed an app a few years back (last updated in 2016) for our news website. Our developer at the time uploaded it under their name. Since then though we have stopped working with them and have developed a new app that is under our name.

I have tried on a number of occasions to contact the app's owner to delete our old app via email, Facebook, Messenger etc but they just will not reply.

What can I do?

Send a real letter in a friendly tone to ask them to delist the app.

If that doesn't work, contact a lawyer and get them to send a letter.

If that doesn't work, discuss legal possibilities with the lawyer. This could include letting the developer know that the rights for the app's are yours and thus they have no right to distribute it on the app store (but only if that is really so), and it could include warning the developer that he's infringing on your trade marks or company name (if he is really doing so).


Does the hard disk sleep setting in Energy Saver affect drives in the optical drive bay? If a second hard drive is mounted in the optical drive bay of a MacBook Pro, will it be affected by the Energy Saver setting for "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"?

If it is affected, is there a way I can instruct the OS to sleep one drive, but not the other?

Yes it does. The OWC blog talks about this and shows a terminal tip to set spin-down time to a shorter delay, saving a bit more power.

When you think about it the disk is still on the SATA bus - no reason it shouldn't spin down. I don't think you can address each drive individually though.

A cumbersome solution is to eject the disk when you no longer need it. But then you can't unplug/replug it like you would for an external drive. To remount it, in terminal you would do:

diskutil list

diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk1

I experimented with my Time Machine drive to see if this works. Your optical bay drive may well be /dev/disk1, but that's why you did diskutil list - to see what its identifier is.

(Rebooting will remount the drive too, if you forget the diskutil command)


Does the presence of Diagnostic Data mean someone unauthorized is checking my phone? What does Settings > Privacy > Diagnostic & Usage Data mean?

I think there is a chance that I am being watched.

Nobody is watching your phone (at least from this specific point).
The setting you are talking about is called Diagnostics & Usage. It looks like this:

It explicitly says what it does:

Help Apple improve its products and services by automatically sending daily diagnostic and usage data. Diagnostic data may include location information.

If you feel like you do not want to share your iPhone application usage data then just check Don't Send.
Note that diagnostic data will be saved, but not sent to Apple, on your device in any case even if you choose Don't Send.
If you proceed into Diagnostics & Usage Data then you can see what application and when saved its data on your phone. What looks something like this:

In case you want to find more information about this topic, consider visiting this official Apple page.


iPhone 4S, Forever recover mode? I have an iPhone 4S, and it is in recovery Mode, and when I want to restore it, error (1) pop-up. like in photos below

I did search on Internet, people say it's an electronic part issue, is it true?

According to Apple, error 1 means:

  These errors mean that your device or computer may have a hardware issue that's preventing the update or restore from completing.

I would suggest you try:

Other usb ports
Not using a usb hub, plug directly to your machine
Different computer
Different (preferably original) usb cable
Use TinyUmbrella and its "exit recovery" option (you probably need to put your device in DFU mode first)

Also make sure you use the latest version of iTunes

Finally, if everything else fails, then it could be an actual hardware issue according to reports from other users :/


Make all occurrences of string superscript I'm currently using Pages to write a rather long essay and have run into an annoying problem I can't seem to find the answer to. I have included a bibliography in my document and have referenced the bibliography elsewhere in the essay with [1] where 1 is the book number I am referencing. Here is an example sentence:

  Here we see , "the quick brown fox"[1], jumps over the "Lazy dog"[2].

My intention is to format the sentence like this:

  Here we see , "the quick brown fox"[1] , jumps over the "Lazy dog"[2].

Whilst I understand you can select the text, click Format, Font, Baseline and select Superscript; this would take an extremely long time to do as there are around 100 places where I would need to do this.

Is there a way to find and replace a string, e.g. [1] with [1], throughout the whole document?

If I were you, i will search for online superscript converter to convert that word 1 to ¹ such as https://lingojam.com/SuperscriptGenerator
Then i will copy converted text
> pages
> find "[1]"
> change "Find" to "Find & replace"
> paste the copied text in the replace field "[¹]"
> click on "Replace all"


Home screen wallpaper not covering entire screen I'm using ios 9 and ipad pro 9.7 inch. When I set the homepage wallpaper the bottom horizontal area reserved for icons is not using the wallpaper, instead it uses a grey background :

On the lock screen the images utilizes whole screen.

Can the wallpaper for home screen be set so it incorporates the menu space at bottom of screen ?

This is the intended behavior and it cannot be changed. The bottom row takes on a color derived from the background itself (similar to iTunes when you expand an album).

Generally, that row will be filled with icons. Seeing it with a special background helps differentiate those apps which will show up on every page.


Numbers 3.6: Change text depending on value Newbie here!

I'm trying to find a function so when I enter a value in one cell (A1) it gives me a predetermined word in another cell (A2). The values are ranges (0-19, 20-39, 40-59, 60-79 & 80<) in another table (A1-B1 to A5-B5) and each has a different word associated to them (C1-5).

Can anyone help?

Many thanks in advance!

To be honest, your question is a little unclear, so If I've misunderstood it please clarify.

What you need is a formula in A2 that is something like the following:

=IF(A1="0-19",C1,IF(A1="20-39",C2,IF(A1="40-59",C3,IF(A1="60-79",C4,IF(A1="80<", C5,"N/A")))))

The above formula should display in A2 the text you have in cells C1:C5 depending on what's in A1. For example, if A1 = "40-59" then A2 will display whatever text is in cell C3.

However, if you meant that the formula should work so that the text in cell C3 displays in cell A2 if A1 is any value from 40 up to 59, then the formula would be along these lines:

=IF(A1<=19,C1,IF(A1<=39,C2,IF(A1<=59,C3,IF(A1<=79,C4,IF(A1>=80,C5,"N/A")))))

Once again, if I've misunderstood your question, please clarify.


How can I see if RAM was failing after removing it from the Mac? I recently replaced some original 1GB RAM modules in my Mac Pro with 4GB ones. After a day or two of constant uptime, I attempted to reboot the machine which resulted in the power light blinking quickly (an indication that there is bad RAM). I removed the new RAM, replaced with the smaller modules that were there before and things were fine.

I have had bad RAM before as indicated by ECC failures in the System Information screens. However, before rebooting I didn't look at these screens so I don't have screenshot proof to send to the vendor that it is their modules at fault.

Is a RAM failure somewhere captured in the system logs?

No, normally RAM failures such as the one you describe cannot be captured in system logs.

You should RMA the RAM modules as usual.


will running Google Latitude (or any similar app) in the background significantly affect battery life? I have installed Google Latitude and am wondering how much quicker my battery will run flat? I know the way Apple implemented its "mutitasking" framework minimises the impact?

Specifically, the Latitude app (and other background location-updating apps) register themselves for location updates "on significant location change".

How the phone knows the location has changed significantly is when the phone does a cell tower handoff. It's moved enough that it's out of range of the tower it was talking to and its service is handed to the next tower. At that time, if any apps are registered for location updates, the phone fires up its GPS, gets its coordinates, and feeds them to those apps. Those apps then get to do a LITTLE work with what they were told.

When iOS 4 came out, I wrote a little app to play with this API. Basically it just sat in the background and recorded lat/lng for every update it got. Between my office and my house (like 10 miles) it got eight or nine sets of coordinates.

That means eight or nine times (call it once a mile or so) that the phone has to fire up the GPS chip, listen for signals from outer space, and do something with them. That obviously takes up more electricity than if it didn't have to do that.

Is it MUCH more? You know what? Not really. I charge my phone when it needs it (rather than, say, nightly), and I didn't notice it needing it more than usual when my little app was running. So my guess is that Latitude won't be a major battery suck. But it'll definitely suck some.


Does clearing Safari's cookies actually help the iPhone's overall performance? There's an iPhone 4 that has been getting pretty slow lately, so I figured I'd browse a bit about how to fix it. One particular tip several sites seem to suggest is clearing Safari's cookies.

I am skeptical about this, because, well, cookies are just files that are used when you browse the web. I suppose that clearing the cookies may speed up the browsing experience, but I don't see how can that speed up the overall iPhone performance. In fact, if I have Safari closed, I can't imagine any way in which cookies could affect my iPhone. I mean, it's not like the iPhone is checking my cookies when I am playing Angry Birds or something.

Is there any truth to this tip? Does it actually help iPhone performance to clear the browsing cookies?

You've seem to come across some high-quality bull crap here. No, deleting cookies from Safari will do absolutely nothing in terms of speed anywhere. The only thing it does it reset all of your login sessions for websites. That's all it does. The speed difference even in Safari will be unnoticeable.


Watch World Cup on Apple TV How do you watch the World Cup on an Apple TV? Can somebody give me a tutorial with pictures? I do not have any cable subscription whatsoever.

I heard that you can watch it on ESPN on Apple TV, but I want to confirm that this is true.

Extra note: I have the Apple TV with the black console. (see below)

In other words, I have the latest version of Apple TV.

I do something different.

I am in Canada, so I am using the CBC's (free) World Cup app on my iPhone, which gives access to live streams of matches. Using AirPlay I stream those to my AppleTV.

The quality is pretty awesome.

You don't mention where you live, but maybe there is an app available in your region too?


How to make ''sudo launchctl limit' change permanent? I have a background job that failed due to too many open files error.

To fix it, I  have to kill the job, then run the following

sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 10240 10240

before restarting it.

Is there any way I can make the launchctl limit maxfiles change permanent?

You can create a launch daemon to run that command on every startup. Create /Library/LaunchDaemons/private.maxfiles.plist with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>private.maxfiles</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>launchctl</string>
            <string>limit</string>
            <string>maxfiles</string>
            <string>10240</string>
            <string>10240</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>


Bluetooth icon missing from iMac. How do I connect wireless keyboard How can I connect wireless keyboard to iMac when Bluetooth icon missing from system preferences?  I bought a refurbished computer and have not been able to connect due to missing Bluetooth icon needed to connect wireless keyboard

To setup Bluetooth keyboard:

Go to System Preferences app → Keyboard → Keyboard.
Click on Set Up Bluetooth Keyboard... button shown at the bottom.

Now, the Bluetooth icon may have been removed from System Preferences app.

To get the Bluetooth icon back again:

With System Preferences app, click View → Customize... in the Menu bar.

Select the checkbox besides the Bluetooth icon and tap Done button shown in the toolbar.

Voila! Bluetooth icon is back again in System Preferences.


Launchpad fails to show app icons contained in folders Randomly, my Launchpad is failing to show app icons contained in folders.

Is there a way to fix it?

I had the same problem.
Until now resetting the Launchpad database worked for me. Try:

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock

Note that this operation will reset the organisation of your Launchpad back to default.


Removing a news source from iOS Spotlight Search I like the headlines from Spotlight Search, but I hate that fact it displays many sites that have paywalls (e.g., LA Times, NY Times, etc).  Is there a way to tell iOS not to show certain sites in the headlines?

Unfortunately, no. Apple doesn't give us a way to adjust the news sources for spotlight search. There's rumors that it takes your preferences into consideration when you read and swipe-away articles in the News app, but I haven't seen that happen yet with my preferences.


Where can I get macOS Catalina Beta version? I have a MacBook Pro which came with macOS Mojave pre-installed. I have heard that macOS Catalina is releasing this fall.

I want to use the beta version of it. Where can I get it?

Public beta for macOS Catalina is now released by Apple. The same is available to download from Apple Beta Software Program website.

You can find handy guides for installing public betas here:

Guide for Public Betas

To download the macOS Catalina installer, select macOS tab on top of the page and under Get Started section click on enroll your Mac link.


How to disable the rubber banding/elastic scroll effect in OS X Mavericks? OS X uses the rubber band effect to show users that they’ve scrolled to the end of a window’s content.

In the past (Lion) the terminal command that follows would disable this effect:

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0

I've tried using Onyx and Tinker Tools to disable this and they do not work. The  above terminal command doesn't work either.

Can this scrolling behavior be suppressed or eliminated on 10.9 Mavericks?

There is no known solution at the moment – Apple seems to have deprecated the NSScrollViewRubberbanding command in 10.9.

You may find that it helps to do Settings > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options > Scrolling > Without Inertia. This won't actually disable the rubber band effect, but in my experience it makes it less annoying.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23778772#23778772

Supposedly Cocktail may eliminate the bouncing, but reports are mixed.


Why does the phone light up at times but other times it's dark with a green dot? Why does the phone light up at times () and others it just black with a green dot next to it?

The grey dot and a device shown with the display off is used when the device is offline and cannot be tracked with Find My iPhone.
The green dot and a device shown with the display on is when the device is actively reporting its location to Find My iPhone.

A green dot and an 'off' display as you mention in your question is mutually exclusive.


What's the difference between Export as PDF and Print, Save as PDF in Apple Pages? This question has been asked in regard to Safari, and some six years ago, so i would like to reiterate this with a focus on Pages.
I am trying to understand how it works. If i run File -> Export to -> PDF from Pages and i do a Print -> Save as PDF i get results that to the naked eye show no difference. Filesizes differ though: 97.7 MB and 97.8 MB.
The document i work on has 296 pages, contains hundreds of graphics and pictograms and many hundred line elements, as well as multiple fonts.
Can someone enlighten me in regard to how these two print/export functions work and what the differences are? Because even if i change settings in the Print dialogue before hitting Save to PDF i still get the same result as if i don't make any changes.

In short: Not much. The only significant difference between the two is the different options that are displayed in the dialogs in each process.
Export PDF gives you image compression, the ability to include various metadata.

"Save As PDF" gives you options to set keywords such as Title, Author, and lets you set Security options.

There may conceivably be slight differences in the way that the PDF is formulated - it's likely that using "Save As PDF" from the print menu will involve the print driver for the selected printer in some way. (Though, for example, note that a mono printer still produces colour PDFs.)
It's all just a conversion from CoreGraphics (which is conceptually similar) to PDF. Apple's PDF-creating routines don't have the latitude and range of options that you find in GhostScript or Distiller.
Comparing two PDFs created by each of the two methods reveals that the data is substantially the same for the vast majority: the differences lie in things like decimal precision of page sizes (again, likely due to page definitions in the print driver).


Will upgrading to Yosemite remove all my tweaks and setting? I've made many small tweaks and preference customization to the Mavericks install on my Mac. If I upgrade to Yosemite, will those tweaks and preferences be reset and would require me to re-apply them?

In general, no. Most of your settings will remain intact, but some of them may be reset or irrelevant in Yosemite.


Copy screenshot to clipboard in addition to saving the file Within OS X 10.11.6, the  Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   4  key combination saves a screenshot to the desktop by default.

Is there a way to automatically copy the file to the clipboard (in addition to saving the file), so that the screenshot can be pasted into a document?  Maybe there is some clever why to tee and pipe the image to the clipboard?

The intent is to:

save screenshot to a file and
copy screenshot to the clipboard

with a single command.   Examples are always appreciated.

The following is an example of what I'd do, if I needed both, to place a screen shot on the clipboard and save it as a file at the same time.

I'd use Automator to create a Service1  workflow, to which a keyboard shortcut could be assigned, to run an AppleScript script to have these two events happen in conjunction with each other.

In Automator, create a new Service1  with the following settings:

Service receives (no input) in (any application)
Add a Run AppleScript action, replacing the default code with the example AppleScript code shown further below:
Save the Automator Service1  as, e.g.: Screen Shot to Clipboard and File
Assign a shortcut, in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services:

Screen Shot to Clipboard and File      ⇧⌘5 2

Now when you press ⇧⌘5 2  the crosshair cursor appears just as though you had pressed ⇧⌘4, however after making the selection as normal and releasing the mouse, the selected area is both copied to the clipboard and saved to a file on the Desktop.

macOS Mojave Update:

1 In macOS Mojave, a Service in Automator is now called a Quick Action, so select that.
2 By default, ⇧⌘5 in macOS Mojave is by assigned to a new Screenshot feature, so try ⇧⌘6 instead.

The file naming convention is that of the macOS default for Screen Shots saved normally, in my region. You may need to adjust the following line of code for it to be as in your region:

set theDateTimeNow to (do shell script "date \"+%Y-%m-%d at %l.%M.%S %p\"")

In my region, this command produces the following example output where the value of the theDateTimeNow variable would be, e.g.:

2018-01-13 at 12.04.30 PM

Between the line of code above and the two lines that follow it in the script, they produce, e.g.:

Screen Shot 2018-01-13 at 12.04.30 PM.png

In Terminal, have a look at the man page for both date and strftime, in order to make adjustments to format the date and time value of the theDateTimeNow variable, as needed or wanted.

Note: Read the comments throughout the example AppleScript code so as to understand what the script is doing.

This was tested under macOS 10.13.1 and worked for me without issue.

Example AppleScript code:

on run {input, parameters}

    --  # Screen Shot to Clipboard and File

    --  # Clear the clipboard so the 'repeat until isReady ...' loop works properly.

    set the clipboard to ""

    --  # Copy picture of selected area to the clipboard, press: ⌃⇧⌘4
    --  # Note that on my system I need to keystroke '$' instead of '4'.
    --  # I assume this is because the 'shift' key is being pressed.

    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "$" using {control down, shift down, command down}
    end tell

    --  # Wait while user makes the selection and releases the mouse or times out.
    --  # Note that the time out also acts as an escape key press of sorts. In other
    --  # words, if the user actually presses the escape key it has no effect on this
    --  # script like it would if pressing the normal shortcut outside of the script.
    --  #
    --  # As coded, the time out is 5 seconds. Adjust 'or i is greater than 10' and or
    --  # 'delay 0.5' as appropriate for your needs to set a different length time out.
    --  # This means, as is, you have 5 seconds to select the area of the screen you
    --  # want to capture and let go of the mouse button, otherwise it times out.

    set i to 0
    set isReady to false
    repeat until isReady or i is greater than 10
        delay 0.5
        set i to i + 1
        set cbInfo to (clipboard info) as string
        if cbInfo contains "class PNGf" then
            set isReady to true
        end if
    end repeat
    if not isReady then
        --  # User either pressed the Esc key or timed out waiting.
        return  --  # Exit the script without further processing.
    end if

    --  # Build out the screen shot path filename so its convention is of
    --  # the default behavior when saving a screen shot to the Desktop.

    set theDateTimeNow to (do shell script "date \"+%Y-%m-%d at %l.%M.%S %p\"")
    set theFilename to "Screen Shot " & theDateTimeNow & ".png"
    set thePathFilename to POSIX path of (path to desktop folder as string) & theFilename

    --  # Retrieve the PNG data from the clipboard and write it to a disk file.

    set pngData to the clipboard as «class PNGf»
    delay 0.5
    try
        set fileNumber to open for access thePathFilename with write permission
        write pngData to fileNumber
        close access fileNumber
    on error eStr number eNum
        try
            close access fileNumber
        end try
        activate
        display dialog eStr & " number " & eNum buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "File I/O Error..." with icon caution
    end try

    --  # Convert the POSIX path filename to an alias.

    set thePathFilename to POSIX file thePathFilename as alias

    --  # Hide the file extension as is the default.

    tell application "Finder"
        try
            set extension hidden of thePathFilename to true
        end try
    end tell

end run

Note: The example AppleScript code above is just that, and sans the include error handling does not include any other as may be appropriate/needed/wanted, the onus is upon the user to add any error handling for any example code presented and or code written by the oneself.


MacBook pro - External screen flickering after reconect I have MacBook Pro late 2011. When I am at home, I use it with my external monitor, when I connect external monitor for the first time (after reboot), everything works fine, but when I disconnect the external monitor and reconnect it again, the external monitor starts flickering and external monitor screen starts turning on and off. The MacBook's default screen works fine. If I reboot macbook and then connect monitor, everything works fine until I disconnect and reconnect it again, then it starts doing that weird things again.

I don't want to reboot my MacBook after every time I disconnect external monitor... I am thinking, maybe I am not disconnecting the external display right. I just disconnect the cable. Should i be doing it another way?

Does someone have some experiences with that? Could someone suggest me any solution?

I have a similar problem, a lot of people recommended resetting the smc. and it seemed to work for a lot but not me. You should try it anyway, can't hurt. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295


This content can't be played on this Apple TV Just watched Suits - S6; E13. I bought the season pass a while ago. Went to watch the next episode - S6; E14, but got the following error:

  This content can't be played on this Apple TV.

Why / why not?

Skipped ahead to the episode after that one - S6; E15,  which is working fine.

What's going on?

Just got off the phone with Apple support. Resolved by Settings>Apps>ITunes Movies and TV Shows>Quick Start and switched to off.


How to access the iCloud Drive Archive folder on my MacBook? I couldn't find 'iCloud Archive' folder in the Finder. I have been searching it everywhere in the desktop to the different folders, but I couldn't find it. Where do I access it and its contents?

If you signed out of iCloud and kept a local copy, you should have an Archive folder created in your Home folder:

  If you turn off iCloud Drive or sign out of iCloud, you have the option to keep a local copy of your files that are in iCloud Drive. Whether you decide to keep a local copy or not, a new Desktop and Documents folder is created in your home folder. If you choose to keep a local copy, your files in iCloud Drive are copied to a folder called iCloud Drive (Archive) in your home folder. Then you have the option to move any files that were in your iCloud Desktop and Documents, back to your new local Desktop and Documents.

(Support article)

There is a possibility that:

You didn't keep a local copy
You moved/deleted the folder
You already emptied the contents of the folder


MacbookPro Unlock screen with High Sierra My Macbook Pro- 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 is not showing default login/Touch ID screen with background blur effect wallpaper. instead it is poping up some weird screen to login(Attached image). If I create another user then it is showing fine.

This kind of screen is coming only for one existing user.

EDIT:
Screen Saver - Show with Lock option deselected

this is not the login screen - this is a lock screen. This requires user input to authenticate, and assuming one has the correct info to do so, once past this screen, the option for screensaver to require password can be deselected. If this lock screen was driven by properly authorized remote management, there may not be a toggle to disable it.


Help understanding Keychain passwords vs Safari passwords I don't understand by which criteria a password is saved to Keychain vs Safari. Can I select somewhere where the passwords will be saved?
Let's say that I want all my passwords to be kept in Keychain, how to?

Thank you

Like Tik27 said, when Safari saves a password it is saving it to the Mac Keychain. There is no way for Safari to actually save a password, it hands it off to the keychain.

So any time Safari (or Mail.app, Finder, etc.) offers to save a password it is being saved in the keychain.

you can verify this by signing on to a new website with a username and password, letting Safari prompt you to save the password and then opening Keychain.app and seeing the new username/password saved there with a date/time stamp of only minutes ago.


warranty repair with activation lock activated I just bought a 2nd hand broken iPhone5s which stuck at restore mode, restore failed every time. This phone is still under warranty,and i wanted to send it for repair but it's have be service from out of my country. So i would like to know does apple repair any phone that have activation lock on.

If they replace the motherboard then you will need to add new apple account (activation lock will be turned off). But if they repair your phone you will need to enter your id & password.


How to insert a section break in a Pages '09 Page Layout document? I have a Page Layout document. I need to remove the header and page numbering from the title page. So, I want to insert a section break after the title page. The problem is, I cannot do that. No matter where I click in the document - page one, page two, a textbox/shape/outside of them on page one or two, when I click the Insert menu -> "Section Break" is greyed out.

I searched everywhere, but I constantly stumble to threads where people discuss how to remove headers/pages numbers from the first page rather than how to actually insert the section break. I think the problem might be that I use Page Layout and not Word Processor, but I am not sure. Any help would be appreciated.

You can't!
You can't insert a section break in a layout document because layout documents don't have sections; each page it its own section. See Creating Sections:

In a page layout document, each page is one section. You can use the predefined sections as they are, or you can modify or remove them one page at a time.


There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server - akd NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9807) When entering my password into App Store I get:

There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server

I checked the password and it's fine. I changed the password just in case, it still does not work, but now my whole Mac is disconnected from my iCloud account.
When I open Console, I get:

2016-05-01 9:17:06.292 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.auditd[1047]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.auditd
2016-05-01 9:17:06.300 PM myusername[1052]: audit warning: soft /var/audit
2016-05-01 9:17:06.300 PM myusername[1053]: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20160502011137.20160502011706
2016-05-01 9:17:06.300 PM myusername[1051]: audit warning: allsoft
2016-05-01 9:17:06.499 PM akd[300]: NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9807)
2016-05-01 9:17:06.700 PM akd[300]: NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9807)
2016-05-01 9:17:06.898 PM akd[300]: NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9807)

It seems like people get the last error when they're using an iOS 9 app that doesn't support TLS 1.2.
I'm using OS X El Capitan 10.11.4.
Edit: same issue using Safe Boot.

I've had the same problem with App Store and Icloud for some time. For me the root cause for was a security hardening tip to enforce OSCP and CRL verification.

To see if you have the same problem start "Keychain Access" and open "Preferences". Select "Certificates" and verify that you have "Best attempt" for CRL and OCSP. After changing these values back to "Best attempt" I could login to Itunes. I had to restart to be able to login to App Store.


Search for link in Mail and click on it without using the mouse Sometimes I receive an e-mail, which contains a link that I have to follow. I would like to be able to follow this link without having to reach for the mouse. I can locate the link with a search (cmd + F), but how do I follow it by pressing keys?

I'm not sure if that is possible without additional software, but it definitely works if you use the tool Shortcat. With Shortcat, you can do a lot of things by keyboard that usually require a mouse.

I bought a license almost three years ago to support the project, but apparently you can still use it for free, because it has not officially left beta yet.


How to select every second object? I unfortunately copied few of my photos in the foto application and now I want to delete them. This is the specific setting.

Is there a general way to mark files and select every second object in a short way?

Thank you!

Okay well if you want a simple way to batch delete duplicates with the naming convention photo.file, photo(1).file you can do it very easily from the terminal.

First open up your terminal. Then navigate to the folder you are trying to delete stuff from. This is done by using the cd command.

For example, if your photos are stored in your_username/Desktop/my_photo_album you would type cd ~/Desktop/my_photo_album.

From there you can type ls to make sure you are in the right folder, and it should list the contents of your folder. After that, all you have to do is type:

rm *"(1)"* and it will delete any photo that has (1) in the name!


Win10 - Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed I am trying to install Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro 15-inch 2019, (macOS Catalina 10.15.5) using Boot Camp. I have two different Win10 ISO files. They both gives me this error:

  Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration.
  Installation cannot proceed.

I have seen some "fixes" online, but none of them has been working for me. I have tried the following:

Re-run Boot Camp Assistant to remove the Windows partition and restore the full Mac HD as a single partition.
Run a PRAM reset (restart, while screen is still black, hold down ⌘+Option+P+R and keep them pressed until you hear the startup sound a second time).
Open disk utility and repair permissions on the Macintosh HD partition. TWICE.
Start Boot Camp Assistant again.

Any tips?

To completely remove any previous installations of Windows, you would have to remove the EFI/Boot and EFI/Windows folders from the EFI volume. The EFI\Windows\Boot folder contains the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) file. You can mount this volume by using the command given below.

sudo diskutil mount disk0s1

You can use the Finder application to move the folders to the trash. Afterwards, empty the trash. You can unmount the EFI volume by using the command given below.

diskutil unmount disk0s1


How do I convert FLIC files properly I need to open and convert old Autodesk Animator FLIC (.FLI) files (from MS DOS) into something more useful, like say AVI or even an image sequence. I realize both Motion and QuickTime "can" do this, but they mess up the films, probably because of a faulty decoder.

I've already downloaded the UNIX app xnview, but it doesn't work well. While it can handle the format well, it can only store one frame at a time as a standalone picture, which is PAINFUL to do when there are usually several hundred frames in any given animation.

I don't know what you can do about converting the files....   However, if xnview will export the still frames to a folder, and if the files are sequentially numbered, QuickTime will be able to make a movie out of these images.

Perhaps xnview can be scripted to export all of the still frames.

Will that work for you?