iPhone 4S linked to old Apple Id I'm trying to clean my old iPhone for selling it.  iCloud address is a different Apple Id from the one I'm using now.
I can not see a way to reset the password for the old linked Apple id.

What should I do?

Remove it from the iCould via Web Browswer

You'll have to log into icloud.com with the AppleID that the phone is locked to.

Click on Find iPhone.  It will bring up a Map and try to locate all of the devices linked to that AppleID.

Click on All Devices drop down at the top.

Click on the iPhone 4s in question.  It will have the name of the phone (for example - Users iPhone)

Click Remove from Account

Next time you reset the device it will no longer be linked to that Apple ID.

Remove it from iCloud on the Phone

If you can still get into the phone. Follow these Steps:

Open the Settings App
Touch iCloud
Touch Find My iPhone
Turn Find My iPhone to Off Position
Enter the password of the iCloud account
***Note - these steps might be slightly different depending on iOS version

Next time you reset the device it will no longer be linked to that AppleID.

Just FYI iCloud account and AppleID are synonymous these days.


kextstat-Listed Files Not Present in Extensions Folder I used "kextstat | grep -v com.apple" to find active extensions, and found the following listed extensions.

  119    3 0xffffff7f826c7000 0x3e000    0x3e000    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (3.2.4) <7 5 4 3 1>
  121    0 0xffffff7f8196c000 0x8000     0x8000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (3.2.4) <119 35 28 7 5 4 3 1>

I want to unload them with kextunload in order to reduce kernel memory usage, but there are not any org.virtualbox.kext.* files present in my /System/Library/Extensions/ directory. Any suggestions on how I can find where these are being stored and unload them?

VirtualBox puts their kexts into /Library/Extensions just as they should be. No third party should put anything into /System… if it's not absolutely necessary to do so.


How do I reset/clear my external display settings in 10.9? I messed up the settings for the clamshell display mode on my MacBook Pro. I can't get my external display to work when I close my laptop. I can get all other modes working (standard mirroring and shared desktop) except for clamshell.

I've tried using defaults to remove com.apple.windowserver, but that hasn't helped.

Neither of the above two answers has solved the problem. Maybe I can move the ball forward a couple of inches ...
I, too, clicked on the wrong resolution for my external monitor and now I can only use the monitor in "Mirror Displays" mode. When in separate mode, the external monitor is black except for a message saying "DVI NO SIGNAL". I cannot see the System Preferences > Displays control dialog for that monitor because it's on the black screen. When I return to Mirror Displays mode, I can see that the wrong resolution is set and when I set the proper one, I get both monitors work -- but ONLY if I stay in Mirror Displays mode.
This sounds like exactly the problem that @CyberSkull reported, same cause, same results.
I can verify that Colorsync Utility.app does nothing for resolution, only color profile, and my profile is likewise set to Factory Default.
Similarly, the answer about hmscreen is about Arrangement, not Resolution. I looked at the doc for hmscreen and it confirms that it deals with ScreenIDs, screen positions, and which screen is the main screen, not resolution. I'm afraid to try it to set the black external monitor to be my main screen, and that seems to be the only experiment it might be useful for.
Finally, I found a solution that worked for me! In another Ask Different question, "change screen resolution with AppleScript", more than one AppleScript solution was offered (which I didn't try) AND @user332214 posted a link to a utility developed at the University of Utah, Display Manager which worked for me.
Display Manager supposedly has a GUI interface available, but I couldn't find where it had been installed to invoke it, so I used the command line interface. Once it was installed, the command line:
display_manager.py res 1920 1200 ext0

successfully changed my external monitor to 1920x1200 resolution, my usual, from the erroneous 1920x1080 that I had accidentally set and which resulted in a black screen except in Mirror Displays mode.
It works.


Fresh install for MacBook I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. A1278. It’s getting very very slow. Boot up is 5 mins. Random freezing. I thought it was just old. But I’ve done research and apparently it’s either the hard drive failing or hdd cable so I’m gonna replace both. SSD is gonna be faster anyways.

Question is: do I need to do anything to do a brand new install when ssd is in as I haven’t got a disc or usb install for OS X? I don’t want to clone or anything as all my important stuff is in cloud.

Thank you

What you need to do when you want a fresh install is to follow these steps on here:

How to create a bootable installer for macOS

and then boot from it (press and hold ⌥-Option while powering up) to install the OS.

Other then the above proceddure this formats the drive completly so I recommend to do a backup before even though you have everything in the cloud. Sorry, nevermind since you add a new SSD.

After finishing the installation keep in mind to enable TRIM since you installed a 3rd-party SSD!
Then you can copy all your needed files.


iPod and iPhone iMessage inquiry Okay, so my iPhone and iPod are both connected therefore the iMessages that I receive on my iPhone are also sent to my iPod, but earlier by mistake I disconnected my iPod through my iPhone settings. Couple hours pass by and I just connected them again but I just wanted to know will the iMessages I received earlier ever go through to my iPod or will it only receive the iMessages from the time I re-connected?

Normally, your iPod will load the previous messages. That's from my experience...


iWork and iLife are not free after reinstall I recently bought a Macbook Pro 13" Early-2015 from a guy who used it only once and then reinstalled it for selling (already upgraded to the latest El-Capitan).
After I set up my Apple ID I couldn't download the iLife & iWork apps for free, they all cost money..
I have them all free on my iPhone though.

What are the necessary steps to be able to download them for free? I know it should be on every Mac after 2013. The one I bought is 2015.

The Macbook was purchased in an official Apple Store in the United States, I have the receipt.

Thanks!

You can download the iWork '09 and iLife '11 trials and install them. The AppStore will then offer to upgrade these old apps to the current version. See these or these instructions.


How do I save images in Messages to my hard drive? I want to save some phone space and dump pics to Photos, and some cloud pic storage. Is there any easy way to dump pics from all convos?

Yeah I know about iExplorer. I was wondering if there was something on the Mac that I could script.

This isn't quite as quick as a script via Mac, but if you know there are a few specific convos that have most of the images, you can access them all at once:
- open message thread you want pics from
- keep scrolling up (tap on IOS clock to do quickly) as far back as you want pics
- tap on a photo
- once photo is open, you should be able to see a little "list" indicator on bottom right - 3 bullets & lines
- tapping the list icon will open all photos from that date forward
- you can browse through & save from there
- same procedure to take pics from camera roll & save to mac from there

Apologies if this was already obvious to you or not quite the shortcut you were hoping for - but it's what I've found useful as I only have a few people that I regularly exchange lots of photos with!


Issue with Finder on iMac running OS X 10.10.5 "Yosemite" I have Finder preferences set to "Open folders in tabs instead of windows", but when I open a finder window I do not see any tabs, only folders and when I double click on a folder it opens in a new window.

Finder used to just open the folder in the same window revealing the contents of the folder thereby allowing you to navigate to the file that you would like to open in the same window and then once you found the file of interest and double clicked that file, it opened.

I would like to get back to that version of Finder.

Any suggestions?

Edit:

If I open Finder using Go to folder and choose the Macintosh HD then the finder window opens with tabs and I can then navigate to the file of interest.

On the other hand, if I Go to Home, the finder window opens without tabs and now any combination of double clicks opens a new finder window.

I can live with this, I just hope I do not have some adware or something similar that has changed the Finder ... ummmm ... I suppose there is nothing to worry about?

From this Apple Support article it's clear that the Finder Preferences are overridden by the preference in
System Preferences > Dock > Prefer tabs when opening documents.

This seems oddly clunky to me. Apple's GUIs are usually thought out very carefully, but they seem to have made a mess of this. (Well, unless I'm missing something.)


OS X Time Machine keeps getting disabled For some reason my Time Machine keeps getting disabled in OS X. Every time I look at it, it's disabled. Why would this happen? It is an office Time Machine server I am backing up to and only when I am at work, but the next day when I return to work with my MacBook Pro it is disabled again. How can I see why it is disabling?

I use Viscosity as my VPN and by default it disables time machine upon connecting to the VPN. It is pretty much always on so that is why it seemed to be disabled all the time. I was able to fix this by disabling the option to disable time machine when connected to the VPN.


Why isn't xargs running one command per line for this use case? My overall task is to ping each EC2 server I happen to be connected to.

I am using this command to do that:

netstat -W | grep ec2 | cut -d " " -f 18 | sort -u | cut -d "." -f 1,2,3,4 | xargs -0 -p "ping -c 10"

It outputs the right output, but is not calling xargs per line:

ping -c 10 ec2-107-20-154-211.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-107-20-169-186.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-13-58-191-91.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws
ec2-18-204-248-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-18-207-50-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-18-234-32-173.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-34-192-54-86.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-34-195-196-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-34-206-216-146.compute-1.amazonaws.com
?...^C

The written explanation of each step is:

Run netstat with the -W flag to get complete FQDNs and not short hostnames
grep for ec2
cut the output to get just the hostname column
sort unique hostnames
cut the hostname again to drop the portnumber from the end e.g. ec2-1-2-3.amazon.com.80 -> ec2-1-2-3.amazon.com
xargs the output to ping each host ten times

I think I am running into an issue with either the OS X variant of xargs because piping the same output to wc -l shows eight lines:

netstat -W | grep ec2 | cut -d " " -f 18 | sort -u | cut -d "." -f 1,2,3,4 | wc -l
       8

I am focusing on the xargs aspect here. That is the only part of this task that is not apparently working.

I solved this myself with:

netstat -W | grep ec2 | cut -d " " -f 18 | sort -u | cut -d "." -f 1,2,3,4 | xargs -p -L 1 ping -c 10

It provides the expected eight calls to ping, one for each host found.

I think this solution works because the -L flag limits it to one line per command.


SMB share only accessible with FQDN or IP address, netbiosname no longer resolves We have several Macs in our office, ranging from 10.5.8 - 10.8.2.  Until a few days ago all of the machines could access all of our file servers, running on Win 2007 server, using just the netbiosname by "Connecting to Server" in Finder.  Basically they could reach the share by connecting to "smb://Server1/MyFiles".

Well, a few days ago we migrated one of our file servers (Server1) from a physical box to a VMWare VM.  Ever since that change we have been unable to connect with our 10.7 & 10.8 Macs using our traditional method.  Attempting to do so results in a "Server not found" error. The workaround that we've found is that we can still connect using either the FQDN or the IP address, such as "smb://Server1.Domain.Extension/MyFiles" or "smb://160.1.1.1/MyFiles".

Some more info:

Golden Triangle environment, AD providing authentication & OD providing management
10.6.8 & older Macs can still access by connecting to smb://Server1/MyFiles
10.7 & 10.8 Macs can only access via the FQDN or IP, smb://Server1.Domain.Extension/MyFiles
The Search Domain still populates correctly as "Domain.Extension" in the DHCP/DNS settings of the affected machines
Pinging Server1 from the affected Macs is successful, the address populates as Server1.Domain.Extension
Unbinding and rebinding has no effect
Comparing the affected, recently migrated, server to our other working server in Directory Utility shows only one difference.  The dsAttrTypeNative:servicePrincipalName value is different between the two.

The working server, Server2, has two values: HOST/Server2 and HOST/Server2.Domain.Extension

The affected server, Server1, has three values: HOST/Server1, WSMAN/Server1 and WSMAN/Server1.Domain.Extension

My first thought was the SMB compatibility issues that arose when Lion was first released but considering everything worked smoothly until the server migration I can't imagine this is the case.  We also considered DNS but with it pinging properly, and the older Macs & Windows machines connecting properly, we have a hard time believing that.

Has anyone run into this before or have any ideas?

I had been using 10.7 for the last two years, and have a Windows 7 server in the closet that I use to share files with all the Mac and Windows users in our office, of which there are equal amounts of each due to their differing roles (Accounting, Coding, Editing on FCP).  As an Apple support tech, I have seen many of my clients with odd issues as soon as they upgraded, and it made me hesitate to move to Mountain Lion; but I just purchased a new Macbook Pro, and finally wanted to see if I could resolve any upgrade issues I had in order to help future clients.

OF COURSE! The first thing that happened was my ability to connect to the Windows shares using a Netbios name was gone.  Even with the exact same settings migrating from 10.7 to 10.8, I now had to use the IP address of the server, as Mr. Rabbit above illustrated, or by installing Samba...a daunting task involving tons of Terminal commands. Not interested in overkill; I like the principle of Ockham's razor when it comes to this stuff.

I decided to take a look at what I could do with this issue, as I attempted yesterday to resolve it but couldn't figure it out.  After a night's rest (and a strong cup of joe) the answer revealed itself.  (I'm running 10.8.4, fyi.)

Open System Preferences.
Go to Network.
Highlight your Network (ethernet or wireless) and click the Advanced... button.
Select WINS from the Menu items.  Update your NETBIOS name of your Mac.
Make sure your workgroup is the same as the share you're connecting to.
Enter the IP Address of the shared resource (Windows machine).

Usually it took between 10 and 20 seconds for the network shares to resolve; now they are loading up within about 2 seconds.


IntelliJ Scala does not work anymore after El Capitan upgrade After I have updated to El Capitan I am having problems in running a Scala project with IntelliJ.

When I run it I obtain the following error:

  Error:Cannot run program "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/bin/java" (in directory "/Users/donbeo/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea14/compile-server"): error=2, No such file or directory

I think I have to specify where Java is or something like that.

It was working before.

How can I solve it?

If the system version of Java 6 is installed, it gets removed when you upgrade.

For applications that still rely on it, you will need to reinstall it.

Download the official Apple installer and install it. Your program should then work as expected.

Edit: Optionally, inspect your project settings and see if you configure your project to use a newer version of the Java SDK, such as 8u60.


Deleting photos from my iPhone - and keeping them in iCloud I had the Apple Helpdesk helping me to delete all the photos I had on my iPhone.
I had to go to Settings and switch off the iCloud Photo Library and my Photo Stream.
Well, I thought that would work but it only deleted 1/2 of the photos. I still have 17,111 photos on it.
The question now is: how do I get the rest off? I tried to delete some, but then I get the notification that the photos will be deleted from all my devices.

What to do?

I’ve experienced something similar and I always suspected that they were the photos on the phone before iCloud Photo Library was enabled. The only way I know to delete them is manually or through a manual sync on my Mac using Image Capture which gives you the option to delete all the photos copied to the Mac. Note that I’m syncing to a folder on the Mac, not to Photos.

I’m not sure what’s supposed to happen but I was trying to force my iPhone to only have optimized copies, so I turned off iCloud Photo Library, deleted the photos that remained, and then turned iCloud Photo Library back on. Photos proceeded to delete all the photos I’d manually deleted from my iPhone from iCloud Photo Library. That was unexpected but not a huge crisis because I restored them from “Recently Deleted”. However, I did learn not to assume I understood iCloud Photo Library well enough to think I could bend it to my will.

After those experiences, if I wanted to take a device completely out of iCloud Photo Library, I’d erase it and rebuild it form scratch rather than a backup. Painful but the only way to be sure.


Anyone gotten 10.7.2 to bind properly to Active Directory in a multi-domain environment? I work for an international non-profit that has Active Directory with multiple domains. (A bunch of them.) We can't get Lion (10.7.2) to bind to it properly. Has anyone been successful in getting AD to work in Lion 10.7.2? We have a bunch of new Macs and can't get them on the network. We'll be testing AdmitMac this week, but would rather not pay more than $100 a machine to get them hooked up.

MacWindows has a lot of good feedback about this issue.  In my own testing I've found that 10.7.3 has certainly improved network logins on AD2003-bound Macs, though its still not as reliable (or fast) as I'd like.

As always, contact your SE and leave feedback about your issues.


Safari automatically appends .txt extension to .ino files When I download an .ino file in OS X, my files are automatically converted to .ino.txt and opened by TextEdit app, even though, I have installed Arduino IDE. How can I close this feature?

It seems that this is a server issue. And one can't solve the issue by changing safari settings. The answers to the same question I found are in the below.

iMeowbot user in macrumors says that:

  "This filename modification stuff isn't something that Apple made up,
  it comes straight out of RFC 2183 (see "2.3 The Filename Parameter"
  and "5. Security Considerations"). While that RFC talks about
  "messages" and "mail" it applies equally to the Web, as HTTP employs
  MIME.

  OS X and Safari have no way to read the mind of the server operator,
  and cannot tell if a mismatched media type and filename are accidental
  or intentional. So, they follow the standard.

  Recent Safari versions add additional checks, such as that annoying
  prompt for when something appears to contain an executable file. It's
  all part of the same healthy paranoia that helps ensure that the end
  user knows exactly what a remote server is attempting to send."

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/safari-adding-txt-to-a-m4v-download.167086/

TETENAL user in macnn says that:

  "AFAIK the Apache server software comes with a preset of
  extension->MIME-type assignments. If a file with an unknown extension
  (like .dmg) is served with the MIME-type text as a fallback, Safari
  adds a .txt extension. This behavior is arguably correct. The server
  tells Safari it is serving a text-file, and a text file needs a .txt
  extension on Mac to be opened with a text editor. So Safari adds one.
  Other browsers ignore the server, which is a short term benefit for
  the user, but in the long run a) makes the server admin not notice the
  mistake and b) prevents the server admin to use this feature whenever
  he intentionally wants to (as opposed to unintentionally doesn't care
  as usually).

  Anyway, to fix this you can create a file .htaccess to the respective
  folder and correctly define the missing MIME-types by adding AddType
  application/octet-stream .dmg or AddType application/x-stuffit .sit
  and AddType application/x-stuffit .sitx etc."

http://forums.macnn.com/82/applications/339922/safari-apending-txt-file-extensions-how/


How to connect 24" Apple Display to HDMI output of Mac Mini 2011? Trying to have two monitors connected to Mac Mini mid-2011. It has one Mini DisplayPort and one HDMI outputs.

I have 27" monitor connected to Mini Display port of the Mac Mini mid-2011. I was going to connect 24" Apple display to it, but can't find anywhere on internet male-HDMI/female-Mini DisplayPort adapter.

There are the other way around (male DP to female HDMI) available, but not the one to connect 24" display as a second one.

I was thinking about finding a male HDMI–to something in between–to female Mini DisplayPort cables, but can't figure out what that "something in between" could be that would carry on digital signal.

Any advices?

Unfortunately, adapters like that don't exist, AFAIK.

That is, you can't just convert from HDMI to DisplayPort via a simple cable. The [Mini] DisplayPort to HDMI adapters aren't just cables, they contain IC's that provide an HDMI interface. I don't know of any such adapter that works in the other direction.


how to find out the submenu item's name in this special case (for a shortcut) In TextEdit there is this submenu (see the image) that I want to define a shortcut for.
I can't define a shortcut for the "Right to Left" item, I assume it's because there are actually 2 such items in the submenu, under different sections. So how do I uniquely identify this item? Thanks.

The indented menu items start with tabs, but there are still two of them.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "TextEdit" to name of menu items of menu 1 of menu item "Writing Direction" of menu 1 of menu item "Text" of menu "Format" of menu bar 1

You can specify some shortcuts like Format->Indentation->Increase in 10.8 (or >Format>Indentation>Increase in 10.7), but it doesn't help in this case.

You can enable shortcuts for changing writing direction in System Preferences:


Create backup iPhone with forgotten encryption password I'm trying to make a backup from my iPhone, however it's set to be password protected.
I do not know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to make sure I didn't set it.

I've also tried the default 0000 and 1234 codes.

I want to uncheck the encryption checkbox in iTunes, but it requires me to type a password.
What else can I try?

I have no problems in removing all backups and start from the scratch somehow, however - I do not want to restore my phone as new and remove all those settings.

The short answer is no. The phone thinks you are a thief trying to steal the data and won't cooperate with attempts to initiate a second backup. Your best bet is if you have a computer that was syncing / backing up the device and follow the steps listed for a disabled device with a passcode:

iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode

Once your iOS device is locked with a passcode, the data at rest is scrambled and the decryption key is only stored inside the iOS keychain or inside a backup of the device in iCloud or on a computer.

Even if you connected the device to a computer and got past the hardware telling the USB storage to not present itself - you would need to perform a decryption of whatever forensic image you retrieved.

Without knowing your situation (exact device, iOS version, whether it's an older device that doesn't have Data Protection, where else you may have backed up the device so that you could try restoring a backup onto an unlocked device (where you could then choose a different passcode) it's hard to guess what your best move is next.

You could:

edit more details into the question
ask a follow on question once you've explored your options
Contact Apple to do some troubleshooting / learn more options


.profile configured, no error message, but no change New to editing my .profile, so please bear with me if my question seems somewhat trivial.

I downloaded software to convert a proprietary data to ASCII, the software being from Trimble. Then I did the following:

cd /Users/my_iMac
mkdir runpkr00
cd runpkr00/
cp ~/Downloads/runpkr00-MountainLion-i386-5-4.40 .
vi ~/.profile

In .profile

export PATH="/Users/my_iMac/runpkr00:$PATH"

Then back out...

source ~/.profile

When I begin typing runpkr and then tab, it is recognised, then trying to convert a .T02 file (in the correct directory), the command is executed and doesn't return an error message, but doesn't convert the files either. After reading about setting variables in the .profile I'm still a bit confused about where programs should be stored (/usr/local/bin or /usr/bin/ or simply /bin/) and whether the program should be stored in either one of these three directories.

The following is an overview of the directories that you mentioned.

/bin  user utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments

/usr/bin  common utilities, programming tools, and applications

/usr/local/bin  executables, libraries, etc. not included by the basic operating system

Since your application isn't delivered by a package, I would leave it in your home folder.


iphone 5c could not be synced an unknown error occured (-4) Every time I try to synced music from my laptop to iPhone I get this message; I tried to reinstall Itunes I updated the iphone software, nothing works!!
I can't transfer any music on my Iphone from my computer !! This is insane

Launch iTunes, connect the device and uncheck Sync Music, Sync Movies, Sync TV Shows, and Sync Podcasts” in iTunes.
Click Sync. This will remove all media from the device but keep it in iTunes.
Disconnect the device from the computer.
Switch off the iOS device by holding down the Sleep/Wake button and using the  Slide to Power Off button.
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button to turn the device back on.
Connect the device to the computer.
Click on the device in iTunes and tick the media that you want to sync.
Click Sync.


Adobe applications - Case-sensitive volumes not supported Mojave I am trying to install the adobe creative cloud apps. when the setup launched it shows this error :

  Case-sensitive drives not supported

I created a partition with the format APFS but nothing. Should I format the whole drive to change it?? if so how? Thanks.

When you Erase a drive, or Add a volume to a Container, you will be given a choice of Format. By default, this is APFS, but it can be changed to "APFS Case Sensitive", which is presumable what you have already done.

You need to change the format to "APFS". Adobe applications have several 'issues' with case-sensitive volumes (even on HFS+) through errors of their own making.


iOUSBFamily or USB Prober.app equivalent for macOS High Sierra? It seems USB Prober.app is no longer a part of Xcode, and iOUSBFamily hasn't been updated since 10.9.4... is there anything equivalent available for High Sierra?

It is directly integrated within System Profiler:

/System/Library/SystemProfiler/SPUSBReporter.spreporter/Contents/MacOS/SPUSBreporter

Which /Applications/Utilities/System Information.app will use to display under the branch:

Hardware > USB


How to determine why my Mac temporarily freezes? Every couple days, my Mac will simply freeze for several seconds to a few minutes.  Any audio stops playing, and the mouse stops responding.  Then it's back to normal.  The 99.9% of the time it's behaving normally, it's just as snappy as the day I bought it.

How can I figure out what is causing this?

My Mac is getting old so I accept that it could simply be normal (if excessive) lag, but I don't know what aspect of my system I would need to upgrade to mitigate or minimize this.  More RAM, faster RAM, faster GPU, more VRAM, faster SSD, faster CPU, more cores?

I'm on a cheesegrater Mac Pro running Sierra, so it's not the newest Mac in the world, but it has 16GB RAM and a mostly-empty SSD and quad Xeons, so it's certainly not the slowest, either.

If you want a better idea of the problem, you can check the console app installed in every mac by seeing the time the mac freezed and search that error code. You can also check if the problem is systematic by seeing the log files. First launch a window if finder and press cmd + shfit + g then type “/var/logs”


What is a normal cpu temperature for a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)? Problem with temperature on this mac:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB

Now I have temperature about 80-100C in 90% of time (without load temperature about 65-70C). I think maybe problem with thermal paste and heatsink.

Before I install Yosemite 10.10 temperature was aroud 60-70 (except youtube videos or some heavy work like video editing and similar).

I tried to disable coherence, reset smc and nvram but without any changes, temperature high even on simple tasks like browsing or work in simpe apps like text editor.

How can I try to prevent overheating or it's a normal temperature for this types of cpu/macbooks?

Cooler works, system show from 4000 to 6200 rpm (that is noisy).

PS. After some observation found that WindowServer with enabled transparency load up to 60% of cpu (and sometimes more), without transparency about 12-40%. So I guess maybe WindowsServer main problem.

I do not know if iStat works well with Yosemite and delivering correct results.

Your CPU temp is on very high end indicating full load of CPU = continuous load of >100%.

Your SMC reset might not have worked so try it again.

Intel made a simple tool that correctly reports CPU load.

A 2011 model should not have a Thermal paste issue, those usually occur after 5 Years (if), and when the conductive paste dries up.
But if you consider doing something about it, it is in the difficult category to do it your self.

Intel Power Gadget.


Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook that lack eject keys? The new MacBook Air and Pro without optical drives lack an Eject key.

I use Ctrl + Shift + Eject a lot to put my display to sleep at the simple press of three keys. Without the Eject key being there anymore I'm wondering if there's an alternative to those very handy shortcuts which required the Eject key.

The alternatives I've found so far are not too good:

in Alfred type "lock" - too many strokes for fast computer locking
a hot corner in the bottom left to put the display to sleep - ok, but I get there by error too often and lock the computer for serious productivity bummers
close the lid of the MacBook Air - puts the Mac to sleep completely and therefore not very useful, when it should keep doing what it's doing.

Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook?

I'm using a MacBook Air 2012 with Mountain Lion, and the new keyboard shortcut is:

Control+Shift+Power


Can I retrieve deleted photos (beyond 1,000) from Photo Stream? Is there any way to access photos from my Photo Stream that were there yesterday before I stupidly downloaded my SD card with over 1,000 photos on it.  Are those earlier photos gone forever or stored somewhere in the Cloud?

The photos are deleted once they go beyond 1000. Unless the photos exist elsewhere, they are gone.


How can I stream video stored on one MacBook Pro to another? I have two MacBook Pro laptops, a 17-inch MBP and a 13-inch MBP. The 17-inch MBP is connected to an Elgato EyeTV HD Video Capture Recorder (and thence to a cable TV set top box). I use that to grab video off of my STB and to record live TV. The 13-inch MBP is my general purpose laptop, and I also want to use it for iOS and Android development.

Eventually I know I will get a RAID unit from Synology or a Drobo (in order to do automated redundant backups of the media on my 17-inch MBP and on the array of external HDDs that are connected to it), but not immediately since I'm trying to save money and pay down credit card debt, etc.

My question: without using sneakernet to copy the multi-gigabyte files over, or using remote control software like TeamViewer, or a LAN, is there a simple and cheap way to play back videos stored on my 17-inch MBP on my 13-inch MBP? Sort of like how you can use AirPlay or Google Chromecast to stream media from your phone to your TV or something?

If the video is already recorded, you could just share the video folder with the other Mac. If you connect to the 17-inch MBP from your 13-inch and log in as the 17-inch MBP user, you can have access to all the users files. You can open the videos on the 13-inch MBP and play them in e.g. VLC player. Or you could share one folder only and set it to read only.


Images from PDF to presentation: low quality I have a PDF that has some embedded images, and for some reason I'm not able to extract them with wondershare PDF editor (they're not even seen as images). So I tried to make a screenshot with cmd+alt+4 but the captured images have a too low quality, specially when I insert them into a powerpoint presentation. This is how they are seen in the PDF:

And this is how they appear in the presentation:

I don't know if you can see the difference, but it's clearer when I run the presentation on my macbook. The problem is that I don't find a way to directly extract the images, so I'm looking for an alternative solution, something like a high-quality screenshot or another way to extract images from the PDF.

Preview app on 10.6.8 doesn't let you extract images except by selecting then copying and creating a new file from clipboard.

Another way is using the free unix xpdf tools. They come with a utility called pdfimages. I just used it on a PDF and it perfectly extracted the images from the file.

For example...

pdfimages -f 2 -l 2 -j 27487.pdf testname

It extracted the images starting (-f) and ending (-l) on page 2 and saved as JPG.

xpdf is available from HomeBrew.

HTH


Type leftwards arrow on macOS I need to type a leftwards arrow, an example as follows:

Is this possible using the keyboard on macOS Mojave?

Use ctrl+cmd+space to bring up the Character Viewer. It is also accessible in edit menu → Emoji and Symbols. Leave the cursor where you want to type and double click on the arrow you want.

Alternatively, The alt codes for arrows can be viewed here on Wikipedia. Have Hex input enabled and active in input sources in keyboard preferences.

For right arrow, hold alt and type 2190. ← will appear.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(Unicode_block)

More standard codes can be found in this table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Standardized_subsets


Typing Pinyin with tone marks doesn't work I have a Macbook Air.  Running El Capitan with British keyboard layout.  I have enabled Chines Simplified Pinyin input.  I am trying to type the tone marks.  For example, pressing opt+a followed by u is supposed to produce ū.  This doesn't work however.  Any advice?

I have seen mentions of US Extended Keyboard or ABC extended keyboard layout as being the culprit.  While this makes 0 sense to me, I have replaced the British layout with this ABC Extended one.  While now I can type the accented characters in it, they still don't work in Pinyin.  This is extremely annoying.

If your purpose is to type Latin script pinyin, then ABC Extended is the right keyboard.  Chinese Pinyin input is only for Chinese script and does not use tone marks.


Remove @me.com and icloud.com. I use my outlook.com for "icloud" services.
I have 2 apple id 's in @me.com & @icloud.com. These are just additional email id's I have.

I do not want these 2 accounts. HOW DO I DELETE THIS?

If what you are asking is how to delete an Apple ID from Apple's servers the answer in short it that you can not. At least they do not have a simple process to do so. There is no way to remove an Apple ID from Apple directly from their associated websites, instead you have to call Apple support directly and see if they will assist you.

If you are worried about information that you have stored on Apple's database you can go into your Apple ID settings (https://appleid.apple.com/#!&page=signin) and remove information you no longer want them to save.


How can I change my desktop background? I've tried everything with no luck Here's a recording of what's going on:
https://i.imgur.com/fBIt1rJ.mp4
This, as you can see, is not ideal. I've also tried it with my own images as well to no avail.
I've tried just about every site on the first page of this Google search.
I have tried

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to set desktop picture to POSIX file "/path/to/file.png"' and then killing Dock with killall Dock
deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db and killing Dock again with the same command.  After this, I tried to set the desktop picture with sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db "update data set value = '/path/to/file.png'"; and then killing Dock again.

Still no luck.

Unless you're trying from a user account with restricted permissions, you should be able to change the background image by going to:
System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop
There, you will have default choices, including those supplied by the system, or Photos, and some folders. You should be able to drop your image into one of the listed folders, or add your own.


Adding to accented characters available on OS X Keyboard If you hold down a letter then OS X will show you options for accented versions of that character.  This is very useful when typing in other languages.

However, not all the versions of that letter are always available.  For example, if I hold down the [S], then I can choose ß, ś, or š.  However, I'd like for it to also display the turkish ş. Is there a way to add that character to the accent menu?

I'm looking for an easy way to type Turkish characters on my english keyboard.

You can find the answer where this question was asked back in 2011:

How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?

An extra step is needed for El Capitan:

The keyboard's plists of PressAndHold also can no longer be modified to add the new accents in El Capitain


Whole family uses same AppleID - can I block them from receiving my iMessages? The whole family uses the same Apple ID. I have been told this is not good. Now, my kids and wife are receiving all my iMessages. Is there a way to stop this without having access to their devices?  Long story short, separation and ugly divorce under way.

If it is your Apple ID - you should log in and Manage your Apple ID to change the password, remove all emails that are not yours, and update addresses / phone numbers so that only your personal ones are listed.

If the ID is not yours, you will either need to trust that the person controlling the account has done this or open an Apple ID support ticket to ask what the legal department contact information is so that you can justify to an Apple employee why they would modify an existing record to detach any of your personal data from an account you no longer control.

Obviously, your phone number is yours, so you can set up a new Apple ID and register that phone number to correspond to your new Apple ID and that would mean that "your messages" would only go to the "old Apple ID" if people keep sending messages to that email. This only matters if you use an iPhone with iMessage and not an email address.


What do I need to do to get my Apple Watch apps to launch quickly? Apple describes its Watch as being "ideal for quick looks and fast interactions", but most (in fact almost all) of third party Apple Watch app Dark Sky take 20-40 seconds to launch — during which time I could have removed my phone from my pocket and launched the corresponding iOS app.

Is there something I need to do to get this app to launch faster than I could launch it myself on my iPhone?

The biggest thing you can do is delete all the apps except the few you want to be “fast”. Then benchmark and only add others till your performance is acceptable. Be sure to power off your watch, then try launching apps a couple times to get the stable time and not first launch time.

All third party apps on the Watch currently are going to be slower than grabbing the iPhone, unless you can't get at the phone due to social constraints or it being inaccessible in a bag or pocket or some distance from you and the watch.

This is because Apple has made every effort to let no code run on the watch at release. Third party apps get to run nothing on the watch. They don't get access to the digital crown, force touch, regular touch, sensor data or the speaker/microphone directly.

They only pre-load some potential answers and pictures (think flash cards and a small photo album) and all the work gets done on the iPhone OS. If you want an answer quickly, get your phone out and access the apps there directly. That saves the Watch from constructing a network connection to the phone, waking it up if needed, activating the app in the background and then telling the app what to do so that the phone app can then tell the watch what images / text to display. If those assets are not pre-loaded on the watch, you then have to wait for them to transfer.

The watch will be faster than the phone only when the phone can push events to the watch on its own behalf. For Dark Sky - perhaps you have a severe weather alert that the phone detects in the background or due to a push notification from the Dark Sky servers to the phone using APNS. Then the phone knows there is a watch and pushes a notification to it. You'll get that notification on the watch before you can pull out your phone.

Worse, most of the apps that are shipping are programmed only in the Xcode simulator and not by developers that have used the watch. A select few developers had the chance to tweak their app with pre-release watches and in the past few weeks with hardware, but most apps just can't be great yet.

It's like reading a book about how to learn to ride a bike and then playing with a bike riding simulator. Developers need to go out and ride their bikes and crash, skin their knees, crash some more before they know how to actually ride that new bike.

Here are some developer perspectives explaining this in more detail:

Your Apple Watch app probably sucks
Overcast Apple Watch app redesign

The two apple watch apps I was involved in were not shipped. After evaluating the risk of shipping a smiling , we decided the benefit of being "First" wasn't worth the high chance of wasting our time and our user's time until we actually know if the app would be useful.


Dock disappearing on Mac Why does the Dock disappear on my Mac? It pops back up when I put the cursor to the bottom of the screen but does not stay there permanently any longer.

You've probably enabled Dock hiding. You can toggle this by pressing ⌥⌘D.

Alternatively, you can toggle it through System Preferences or by right-clicking the spacer between the apps and the stacks then turning Hiding off:


Disable ,  accent mark I know this has to do with my keyboard layout being U.S, but I have no idea what to do from here. I'm using MacVim, so I want to bind <Alt-u> to something, but I realized it was waiting for another character, and sure enough if you type <Alt-u> you can get characters like this: ï  if you type another character after it. I want to disable this behavior and I'm not sure where to look.

There is a simple solution, which is to download Ukelele and then create a new US keyboard from your current (or whatever language you are reading this in), and then modify the dead keys to whatever you want. I made https://github.com/norcalli/undead-us-keyboard as result of this with a keyboard layout already made and installation instructions.


Keyboard shorcut to switch focus between displays on Mavericks I was wondering if there was a shortcut or solution to switch focus between different displays since I'm using a mac air with an external monitor. Often times I have to use the mouse just to focus on another application on a different display. Would really speed up the work flow if I can focus on apps in different displays.

Also I use full screen apps so I take advantage of desktop switching by hitting control + left or right thats why I need to be able to first focus on an app on either screen 1 or two then start switching apps or just use the app on that screen.

I have always used the ⌘ + TAB keyboard shortcut to switch focus between applications.  It should not matter if an application is on a different screen for this shortcut to work.


Getting 2 error messages when trying to download previously purchased, or free, apps from the Mac App Store Last week I upgraded from macOS Mojave to macOS Catalina - but many of my programs went grey with the question mark. Yesterday, I backed up my computer and downgraded back to macOS Mojave.

After adding my files from my backup, I found there were now 2 HD's on my desktop, Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD Data. I'm not sure what this is about, so if anyone has an info - it would be appreciated.

I went to the Mac App Store to download previously purchased or free apps that I had, like Keynote, Pages, even Solitaire, I get these 2 different messages.

The first is below, the second just says "cancelled".

Any ideas on how to fix this?

I found there were now 2 HD's on my desktop, Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD Data. I'm not sure what this is about, so if anyone has an info - it would be appreciated.

This is expected behavior in macOS Catalina. Refer to the Apple Support document, About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina

  macOS Catalina runs in a read-only system volume, separate from other files on your Mac. When you upgrade to Catalina, a second volume is created, and some files may move to a Relocated Items folder.

  macOS Catalina runs on a dedicated, read-only system volume called Macintosh HD. This volume is completely separate from all other data to help prevent the accidental overwriting of critical operating system files. Your files and data are stored in another volume named Macintosh HD - Data. In the Finder, both volumes appear as Macintosh HD.

  I went to the Mac App Store to download previously purchased or free apps that I had, like Keynote, Pages, even Solitaire, I get these 2 different messages.

This is apparently a server side message from Apple. Try again after some time and make sure you have an active Internet connection.


Slight delay when bringing up spotlight since booting from an external drive I copied all my data to an external hard drive and used that as my main hard drive for a few days. After that I noticed a slight delay when bringing up spotlight, so that when I search for "Safari", it searches for "fari" instead, as I am used to being able to start typing close to instantly.

I just associated that with the fact that booting from an external drive is slower, however, even now when I have copied the data back to my internal drive and boot from that, the delay persists. I have reindexed my drive twice.

The problem also exists on the Guest user and my other user, so the problem does not have anything to do with my user/home folder. I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.3.

EDIT: Even after updating to 10.14.4, the problem still exists.

EDIT: Also on 10.14.6

Note: I can't take credit for these solutions, however a few of them have worked for me in the past.

Solution #1: Kill SystemUIServer

Launch ‘Activity Monitor’ (located in /Applications/Utilities/)
Locate the process ‘SystemUIServer’, highlight it, and click the red button “Quit Process”
Within a few seconds the menubar will rebuild itself and often Spotlight will magically work

Solution #2: Rebuild the Spotlight Index manually

Launch ‘Terminal’ (located in /Applications/Utilities/)
At the command prompt, type this exactly:
sudo mdutil -E /
You will be asked for your password, provide it, as this command requires administrator privelages to run
You will receive a confirmation message saying that index will be rebuilt
Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, etc.
Note: You can also rebuild the Spotlight index with MainMenu, mentioned in Solution #4

Solution #3: Change Desktop Resolution

This is a strange fix but it works everytime for me when my Spotlight menu icon highlights but the search form doesn’t appear
Open “System Preferences” via the Apple Menu
Click ‘Displays’ and select a resolution smaller than what you are currently using, 640×480 seems to always work
Select your native resolution again, changing your screen resolution back to normal
The Spotlight search tray will magically become available again

Solution #4: Clear caches and preferences

Clear caches and preferences relating to Spotlight, this is best done through either the free tool OnyX, or the free tool MainMenu, I recommend MainMenu because it’s easier for novices

Note: Some users discover that just cleaning the Font caches is adequate to repair a screwy Spotlight, but it won’t hurt to clear them all

Solution #5: Reboot your Mac

This should almost be listed as #1 just because sometimes a simple reboot will fix Spotlight, but if I can avoid a reboot I will, and often, a reboot isn’t good enough
What do MDS and MDWorker have to do with Spotlight?
The MDS process and mdworker processes usually run concurrently on your Mac when Spotlight is indexing your Mac. Let the processes finish running to complete a relevant search index of your Mac filesystem.


Create macOS High Sierra and newer bootable recovery partition on a separate standalone disk There are manuals on cloning the recovery partitions to a separate disk for any macOS or OS X version prior to High Sierra, but I can google nothing about creating a standalone recovery disk for High Sierra and higher.
Is it possible for APFS based macOSs? Are there any manuals?

What you suggest is no longer possible with Big Sur. When booting to Recovery, you are required to enter a password of an existing account. AFAIK, these passwords are not stored in the Recovery volume. This would make it impossible to boot from a standalone Recovery disk.
Before Big Sur, there is no reason the an AFPS Recovery volume could not be placed on a standalone disk. However, getting the firmware to boot Recovery from such an arrangement might require a third party boot manager such as rEFInd. I an unaware of any manual which would explain how to do this. On the other hand, I can not imagine a reason one would want to do what you are proposing.


My iPhone 4 (model AI332) won't turn on or charge My iPhone's back got smashed and, not liking the look of it, I took it off and used the phone without the back.

Later, I dropped the phone again and the battery came out completely. Although the battery was a bit loose before I dropped it the second time, now it wasn't even in the phone.

I put the battery back in and because it would not turn on, I began charging it. The iPhone started booting up, but then it shut off and restarted. It did this several times before it finally brought up an image showing me to plug it into iTunes.

When I did connect it to iTunes, nothing happened; the iPhone did not light up at all as I plugged it into my laptop.
 I went to a phone repair store, and a gentleman told me it was the battery, but is there any way I can fix this myself and is it definitely the battery?

The real answer is you can:

a) pay someone to test a new battery in the device and tell you if it's just the battery
b) buy a new battery (or one that is so old and used, that it doesn't hold a long charge, but works well enough to restore the device when it's being powered from a computer).

There's no way the internet can do the diagnosis on one device with the details you have provided. We can explain how to test things, how things work but generally refrain from making guesses.


How can I archive automatically on reply in mail? I'm using Mail with Google Apps (Gmail). My goal is to archive automatically the email I've just reply. Leaving me with a clean inbox. How can you that exactly? (I'm using MailTags and Mail Act-On a lot.)

Apple's Mail.app doesnt have a feature to toggle for this, but you /can/ do this in Sparrow.

Sparrow has a lite version that might suit your needs, but the full version does what you ask.


Custom keyboard shortcuts not working for Excel contextual menu item I want to bind control-option-command-F to "Filter by Selected Cell's Value", a contextual menu item in Excel. As you can see in the screenshot

it appears to be associated with the correct menu item, but pressing this keyboard shortcut does nothing. Selecting this menu item with the mouse does trigger the expected behavior.

I tried binding this same combination to a regular menu item ("Split") and that worked fine, so I don't think it's an issue of this combination of keys being incompatible with another shortcut.

Can anyone explain to me why this is not working?

Check your System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.

It may be that those keystrokes are already bound to a System function.


AirDrop Not working - Missing Settings I can't get AirDrop to work on my machine running OSX 10.11.4 (trying to send file to and from iPhone 6s)

I'm missing the bottom menu that reads "Allow me to be discovered by..."

Any thoughts?

Do you meet the minimum requirements?

  To send items to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you need a 2012 or newer Mac model with OS X Yosemite or later, excluding the Mac Pro (Mid 2012).

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT203106


What is the best media player for the mac (besides .mov - e.g., .mp3, .wmv, .avi, .mpg, etc) I've recently switched from PC to Mac, so I'm slowly building a library of useful utilities. So, any recommendations for the best generic media player?

On the PC - I've found the VLC player to be pretty useful - there's a Mac version, but I don't know how it compares to other alternatives.

Many of the alternatives on the PC are full of crap - e.g., constantly pushing toolbars, add-ins, anti-virus junk, etc.

So, I'd like something lightweight and crapware free. I'd be happy to pay $20-$30 for something that was worth it.

VLC is by far the best.

Fast, extensible, and versatile. You can play just about any format video, Video_TS file, remote disks, remote streams, even pipe the output of a command into it to play. Can you say on the fly video manipulation? That's VLC.

Not to mention the main selling point, it's free.

Quicktime? Slow. Plugins? Hokey. Alternatives? Either not very "native" or buggy, slow, and prone to crashing. There is not one thing I have been unable to play with VLC that I had to use something else.

Okay, one thing. The MKV support on it is a bit of a pain. Try seeking with a 4GB MKV file.


Remove macOS Dock icon with a command in Terminal I'm trying to find the terminal command which can remove an icon from the dock, but I can't find the solution.

I tried the defaults read / defaults write command but it doesn't seem to have the delete function.

The plist is com.apple.dock.

It's curious because the graphical function do it well, and I searched in the console, I don't find what the graphical function call..
I need to do find it to create a removal script..

If someone have a solution, it could be cool.

Thanks

I recommend using dockutil for this. You can either download and install this directly from github, or you can install it using Homebrew with the command

brew install dockutil

Once installed, you can use a command like this to remove an app from the dock

dockutil --remove 'Microsoft Excel'


Finder shows .dmg is unmounted, Trash refuses to delete it I downloaded a .dmg file for an application, and now after installing the app and unmounting the .dmg I can't delete the .dmg file because Trash says it's "in use". Finder shows no mounted .dmgs, yet if I use the lsof command in Terminal and filter for the filename it shows that a process called diskimage is using it. What do I do?

I should mention that when I initially downloaded the .dmg file to Downloads and tried to open it from there, nothing happened. I clicked it several times and got nothing. My browser was writing a bunch of temporary files to Downloads (I was using an extension to download a bunch of files at once, that was the source of that), so I figured that folder was "busy" and moved the .dmg file to another folder. Sure enough clicking on it from there finally got it to mount. I'm wondering if all that clicking with nothing happening earlier actually mounted a bunch of disk images that for some reason are hidden. Could that be possible? Also, I ultimately ended up junking the installed application, but I don't see how that could be a factor.

I am using OS X 10.6.8.

Rebooting should clear all the processes that are using the file and unmount all potentially mounted disk images. Once rebooted, try deleting it again.


How do I make a sub-mailbox? How do I create a mailbox within a mailbox in Mail?

When creating a new mailbox with Mailbox -- New Mailbox you can select where exactly you want to put it.


bsdtar gives (Empty error message) when trying to extract an ISO On High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65), trying to bsdtar -xf something.iso fails with:

bsdtar: (Empty error message)
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

I have plenty of disk space left and know that the ISO indeed works. For example, try a debian stretch installer ISO (that's what I originally tried it on).

According to bsdtar --help:

bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3

Currently installing latest libarchive via homebrew to see if this persists.

This isn't a great solution, but it's possible that the bsdtar shipped with High Sierra is buggy (if I get time, I'll bisect the libarchive repo to see where this occurred).

A workaround is to install the latest with homebrew:

brew install libarchive

This formula is keg only, though so you'll need to add $(brew --prefix libarchive)/bin to your PATH to be able to invoke with just bsdtar.


How can I get my trackpad settings to work on the login screen? I enabled the System Preferences > Trackpad > Tap to Click which causes it to work while I am logged in. However, in the login screen, it does not work. How can I get this setting enabled in the login screen as well?

Open Terminal and enter the following commands

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

In Finder

open Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences
Ctl+click/right-click a file called .GlobalPreferences.plist and click 'Get Info'
Change the permissions to allow you to alter it but make a note/screenshot of what they are first. (be careful here!)
open the file by double-clicking

Property List Editor will run and open the .plist file

Click 'Root' at the top of the window
Click the 'Add Child' button
Add an entry called com.apple.mouse.tapBehaviour
Make it a Number type
Set the value to 1
Save the file

Back in Finder, reset the permissions to what they were

In Terminal enter the following commands

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

Reboot and the next time you login you should be able to use Tap to click

If you run into issues with Terminal commands or with the plist file make sure your capitalization is correct, case matters!


Command line open pkg I am trying to write an app that will trigger an pkg to open so the user can install this. I have the code and it is working well except for the following.

When I try to open the pkg file using open /tmp/mypackage.pkg in most cases it will open the Finder to the users home folder not the package.

I have checked and the package is present within the specified directory and the application is creating the correct command.

The command i am using to do this is in python:

subprocess.Popen(['open', '/tmp/mypackage.pkg'])
application.close()

From the command line you could use

sudo installer -pkg /tmp/mypackage.pkg -target /

I assume you can incorporate this into your python application.


Find My Phone email notifications One of the purposes I use Find My Phone is to keep track (when needed) of my children. Now they are receiving email messages that I am using the feature - which defeats the purpose of why I use it. Is there a way to turn off the email notifications?

I'm reluctant to suggest this without knowing more about your situation, but taking your question at face value, you might want to look into Apple's Find My Friends app.

It has various settings that control who can see a phone's location and for how long they can see it. And with the Restriction settings within iOS you can set various settings and lock them down.

There are various articles online about parents using Find My Friends in a positive way with their children. For example:

http://www.allprodad.com/articles/dads-and-teenagers/find-my-friends/

http://dotcomplicated.co/content/2013/05/location-tracking-app/


Unknown port - Looking for a VGA converter I have the following plug-in hole to put a converter to plug it to a VGA screen.

Issue is I've never seen such type of plug-in.

Does anyone know about it, please?

Thanks.

That looks like a white MacBook Core Duo 13-inch, and while I have not seen one of those for a while (congrats on keeping it running!) I believe that is what is called a mini-DVI port.

So a search for mini-DVI to VGA should find you the adapter you are looking for. I doulbt Apple still carries it and you might have to buy a used adapter (ebay and the like) but that is the spec.

BTW, in the future when asking for help on something it is best to give the model number, part number or official designation of the hardware (if applicable) and/or the version of macOS on the Mac, also if applicable. You are more likely to get an accurate response, and a faster one.


Applescript mail errorhandler I have a script to send an email, but I'd like to detect if no email account is setup, and to do something else.

Is there a way to detect or trap for this condition?  Thanks.

tell application "Mail"
    set new_message to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:false, subject:"AppleScript-2014", content:("Success " & linefeed & "user: " & userName & linefeed & "OS: " & (system version of (get system info)) as rich text) & linefeed & "IP: " & IPv4 address of (get system info)}

    tell new_message
        make new to recipient with properties {name:"Len", address:"me@law.edu"}
    end tell
    delay 7
    send new_message
end tell

This ought to do it...

tell application "Mail"
    set nAccounts to every account
    log "Number of accounts: " & (get count of nAccounts)
end tell


Occasional low contrast on external display when waking MacBook Pro from sleep I've been using the LG 43UN700-B for a few weeks now. It's connected to a 16" MacBook Pro (running 10.15.5) for power and video via the USB-C cable that came with the display.

Right from the start, I've been experiencing occasional color glitches. Every 3rd or 4th time I wake the MacBook from sleep, the external display will show very low contrast (like a gray filter applied to the whole image). The MacBook's built-in display is unaffected. Most times, I can get back to normal colors by temporarily changing the external monitor's resolution.

Any ideas what could be causing this and how to fix it permanently? I was unable to find any firmware updates for this display.

Did some more searching through system preferences and the OSD (on-screen display) settings. Looks like high dynamic range may have been the culprit here. After disabling it yesterday, I haven't had any more color issues (usually happens several times a day).


iPhoto not launching after upgrade to Yosemite, I don't know how to execute the fix I migrated a MacBook pro to a new iMac with Yosemite.  I then upgraded iPhoto to v 9.6, and when I try to launch iPhoto, it does not launch, stating: iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem.

I found the fix to the problem on a related question on this site that references: http://www.sanebutdifferent.com/iphoto-11-nyxaudioanalysis-crash-error

This appears to address my issue, based on the error report.  I've downloaded the replacement file, but I don't know where to put it.  I don't seem to have a /library folder. Where should I be looking?  Finder will not let me create a /library folder either.

I'm not sure whether that is a true fix or not - however, that file doesn't actually reside in /Library/Frameworks/ it is symlinked from /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
to
/Library/Frameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework

You would need to replace the original, not the symlink

The simplest way to get there is…

switch to Finder
 Cmd ⌘   N   for new window
 Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   G  for Go to…
Copy/paste /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/
Hit Enter
drag the file in [you might want to copy the original to the desktop first, just in case]
click 'replace'


Safe way to cancel shrinking hard drive partition I thought it would be a good idea to create another partition on my hard drive to use as a backup. I opened disk utility and configured the internal hard drive to split half between the OS partition and the backup partition and hit go. Then it started shrinking the OS partition.

Now, several hours later, I am wondering if it will ever stop. I opened activity monitor and I can see that diskmanagementd process is reading and writing like crazy, but it is only transferring about 3 MB/s. According to my calculations (I have about 500 GB of data on it), it would take me 45 days to complete the shrinking of the drive.

Is there a safe way of cancelling the process? Will I corrupt my disk and / or data by just killing the disk utility process?

Unless there is a  Cancel button that, when pressed, gives a warning that it will revert the current action, wait it out.

If there is no Cancel button, then you have no choice but to wait.
If you force it to stop halfway through, your data will be in an uncertain state.

BTW running a backup to the same storage medium is rather pointless... if the drive goes down it takes your backup with it.


OS X El Capitan download button is grayed out I'm currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and trying to upgrade to OS X El Capitan. I'm in the App Store on the OS X El Capitan page:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1018109117?mt=12

However, the download button is grayed out and there's really no way for me to upgrade. See image below:

How to solve this predicament?

Just restarted the machine and that solved the issue. Now it's downloading.


Why don't appointment times show on my iCloud Calendar Maybe I'm confused.  I'm using Mac Leopard, so I have to use the iCloud website in order to post appointments on my calendars.  The appointment times show up on my iPhone and my iPad, but don't show up on my iCloud Calendar.  There is just a solid dot as if it were and "all day" appointment.  I can't seem to find anyone who has asked this question before anywhere on the web.  Ideas?

It sounds like you may not have your views set to see the items, or that you have the view in MONTH, and the screen is just too small to show them as a 'boxed' houly appointment.
Try enabling all the calendars, or at least the calendar you use, and then check the list or Day view, and see if they show up.

If this is the wrong Idea, can you submit a screen shot of what you see?


Terminal in full screen mode: how do I recover from "cat /dev/random" What are the ways I can regain control over my computer when I have terminal in full screen mode and type:

cat /dev/random

If you have Terminal.app open anyway (doesn't matter whether it's in fullscreen mode or not):

Cmd-T to create new tab/shell
ps aux | fgrep /dev/random to find the running cat (you can grep for cat as well but there might be more than one matching line)
kill <PID from above> (or kill -9 <PID>)

Just be patient, the system may be really slow (even on a multicore system as I've just found out).


Is there a Simple minimalistic Twitter iPhone application? I am searching for an iPhone application that does not show or load the timeline. On my phone, I am just interested in tweeting text and/or photos, and consequently, that's what I want my twitter iPhone to do, nothing more, nothing less.

Now I found a good app for just tweeting, but it doesn't let me tweet photos; it's called Birdhouse, it's a really good app. I also have instagram, but it resizes the photos and forces the user to add all kinds of effects. For mentions, which I also care about, I use Notifio which does an amazing job.

So is there an iphone twitter app that let's the user just tweet text and photos, AND that is up to date (by that I mean that it uses oAuth and has been updated once at least in the last three months)? Otherwise, is there a good minimalistic app that just let's users tweet photos with optional text (no effects, no bloat)?

Found exactly what you are looking for. It's called SuperPost by, of all people lol,... MySpace. Needless to say, it's free and also can optionally post to Facebook & MySpace simultaneously. It's not too shabby actually.


Changing my Apple-Id's nationality Not many years ago, there was quite a difference between accounts from different countries when it came to apps and music available for purchase. Nowadays I don't really see that difference, so I wish to change my AppleId's nationality. Is that possible? Will my purchased apps and music be kept with the new nationality?

The App Store purchased items are tied to Apple ID per country.

If you have an Apple ID under registered under my.appleid@icloud.com in US, everything you’ve purchased is only available when you’ve switched to US App Store.
If you use the same Apple ID and switch country to Hong Kong, you won’t be able to download all the apps and musics you’ve purchased in US App Store unless you switch back to US App Store first.
You can, however, download the apps from the US App Store before switching to HK App Store where you can buy an apps from the there separately. The apps bought from HK App Store is only available when your Apple ID’s country has been set in Hong Kong.

For the sake of simplicity, never switch an Apple ID to other regions unless you decide to move to the destination country permanently.


Verizon switch to Virgin mobile for iPhone 4 I have an iPhone 4 from Verizon Wireless, but I have never put it on a contract due to high prices of Verizon.

My questions are:

Is there a way I could activate it with Virgin Mobile?
If so, how?

There are 2 telephone systems in the USA. They are named CDMA and GSM.

One with SIM card and the other without SIM card.

Verizon is without SIM card!

So just check with the new provider what system they use and you will know if your phone works.

Major carriers Sprint and Verizon networks mainly use Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, while AT&T and T-Mobile use Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) technology. All of these carriers also support 3G or higher networks. The network plays a big part in the capabilities your phone will have and, to some extent, its performance.

GSM phones have a SIM card that stores your account information and, if you choose, your phone book. When you switch to a new phone, you can simply remove the card from inside the old phone and insert it into the new one. But you can't use a T-Mobile SIM card in an AT&T phone, or vice versa. Also, GSM phones work more widely across the world than do CDMA models.

The good news is:
If you have the iPhone 4s
the iPhone 4S is a world phone," it will support both GSM and CDMA networks. Regardless of your carrier, you can be sure that the micro-SIM slot will be there to accept your GSM micro-SIM cards, as well as any CDMA "roaming SIM.""


In OS X is it possible to specify which network connection an app uses? My ethernet connects to the LAN, my airport connects to a different network (it's another mac sharing a VPN connection). I want all apps except the iPhone Simulator to connect via the LAN.

Is this possible?

The main way you would have to go about this is probably using ipfw command line, although I really don't have much experience with it. You could make custom routing rules to do what you need to do.

Some other options:

If the app was trying to use something specificially on that network, it should route that way. As in, if you local network is 192.168.x.x, and your remote is 10.0.x.x, if you try to access something on 10.0.x.x, it should route that way.
Another idea that comes to mind (Which really just jumps around the problem) would be to have an applescript that changed the order of interfaces when you needed it. Your mac should be using whatever is at the top of the list as its primary network in preferences. If you drag airport up, it would use that as the main network. Maybe scripting this would be easy to do and a quick change when you need to test something in simulator.


Time Machine not starting when I connect the HDD I have a 500 GB WD My Passport with two partitions on it, one of which is set as a Time Machine backup drive. The problem is that the backup doesn't start automatically when I connect the HDD. Any idea why?
If it helps, the only thing I did was to partition it, I haven't formatted it, so the SmartWare drive kicks in every time I connect it.

Environment: Last generation MacBook Pro; Mac OS X 10.6.8.

(Edit: Lion makes this less of an issue with local snapshots possible as well as the ability to script the starting with tmutil startbackup - the rest of this answer is in regards to Snow Leopard implementation of TimeMachine)

Time Machine sets a timer based on when the mac is booted, so it's very unlikely the system looks to start a backup when the device is attached.

Instead, it is designed to commence a backup periodically and will log messages and skip a backup if there is a problem or the drive isn't attached. Once one or more backups gets skipped, perhaps it might start one sooner when the volume it expects is attached. I just checked on one mac that backs up to a local disk. When I log out all users, it doesn't see the disk at attached, so it skips each back up. When I log back in, that user log in mounts the disk and Time Machine started a backup immediately rather than waiting the "rest of the hour" for the backup.

This is how it is supposed to work.

I would initiate a backup using the control panel or the menu item to be sure there isn't an error condition - but once you rule that out, it's just a matter of time until the hour passes and your backup will start.

Have you made sure there isn't some other issue by checking in the console app? Also, do you let this mac sleep, or will it stay running for several hours and still skip a backup when the drive is connected?


Safari Auto Fill problem At some point I misspelled my name when I typed in my email address to one of the those log in boxes.

Now the misspelling always comes up and fills in and I have to delete it and start over.

I have tried clearing history and cookies and the auto fill feature but it still happens.

How can I clear this and why will it not use my correct one after I type it in.

You can edit all of your AutoFill information under Safari / Preferences / AutoFill.

As your issue is with your contact information, you can, even, change it directly from your card in the Address Book application, as there is where it gets this information from.


Custom keyboard layout: Command+V doesn't paste in Safari and Mail I have created a custom keyboard layout (.keylayout file) and remapped (amongst other keys) the X, C and V keys. However, I want to keep Cmd+X/C/V like on the QWERTY, because it's practical and I am used to it.

So in my layout, I have kept the original X, C, V mappings for when Command is pressed:

<keyMap index="0">  <!-- No modifiers -->
  ...
  <key code="7" action="y" /> <!-- my modified layout -->
  <key code="8" action="x" />
  <key code="9" action="." />
...
<keyMap index="10">  <!-- command -->
  ...
  <key code="7" output="x" /> <!-- same as qwerty -->
  <key code="8" output="c" />
  <key code="9" output="v" />

This works well except for Command+. (which should do a Command+V, i.e. paste) in Safari, Mail and a few other Apple applications… In that case, using the original V key (on a QWERTY keyboard) does work…

I don't understand why it fails just for this shortcut? I've read that some Cmd+… shortcuts are special and can't be overridden, but why does it work with cut/copy but not with paste? And why does it work in all applications except Safari and Mail?

I've used the bepo (french dvorak) layout and edited it in a text editor. My version is on GitHub. I have opened my layout in Ukulele and it shows it quite fine, is there anything I could try with it to debug/detect problems?

I have also tried to open+save my layout with Ukulele and it doesn't work anymore, it's not even detected by OS X. I have reverted back to my version.

I'm not surprised you may be experiencing this issue with Apple Software. Basically the Command-. keyboard shortcut has been used by Mac OS for decades as a universal "halt operations" keyboard shortcut.

In a sense it works in a similar way to the ESC key. So I am thinking this is why you are experiencing problems with this keyboard shortcut. It used to be that software developers had to respect this Command-. keyboard shortcut for any software they developed for the Mac platform, but this is no longer the case, hence why your keyboard shortcut may be working with some software but not others. You may want to read the Keyboard Shortcuts page in the macOS Human Interface Guidelines.

Extra Info

Apple first introduced the Command key in 1980 with the Apple III computer.

The purpose of the Command key was to allow users to enter keyboard commands in applications and within the operating system. The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines have always recommended that developers use the Command key (and not the Control or Option keys) for this purpose.

A small set of keyboard commands (such as cut and paste, open and save) are standard across all applications. If an application needs more shortcuts than can be obtained with the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet, double modifiers such as Command+Option are used.

The Macintosh keyboard's other unusual modifier key, the Option key, serves as a modifier both for entering keyboard shortcuts and for typing text — it is used to enter foreign characters, typographical symbols, and other special characters.

As mentioned previously, the Command-. shortcut was once a universal recommended shortcut, but this is no longer reserved by macOS. In fact, Table 67-3 of the macOS Human Interface Guidelines now only lists one keyboard shortcut with a period (.) in it. This is the Control-Option-Command-. keyboard shortcut for increasing screen contrast. You can read more about this in Accessibility Programming Guide for OS X.


USB 3.0 Ethernet dongle (AX18879) not working with 10.11.4 I have been using the StarTech USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet dongle which was working until I upgraded to the latest OSX Beta 10.11.4. Now it has stopped working--not even showing any indicator lights when plugged in.

I reinstalled the latest drivers on their site but still nothing.  When I try to check kernel extensions with kextstat but didn't see the driver there. However, when I check extensions in the system profiler, and i see this

Does anyone know what I could do to make sure the driver is loaded so I can use the dongle? Thank you!

In Terminal.app issue the command:

sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1 rootless=0"

Remove the NetworkInterfaces.plist file to regenerate a new one:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

Remove the device from System Preferences.app > Network
Reboot your Mac
Plug-in USB dongle
Re-add device in the System Preferences.app > Network


Photostream screensaver on apple tv3 and ios 10.x? I have always had whatever photos I take with my iphone, automagically in my photostream, and those then making up the screensaver of my apple tv 3. I guess with whatever is different with apple photos/photostream now, this connection doesn't work any longer.

Any suggestions?

The iphone and apple tv are signed in to the same icloud account.

So, at some point, Settings->iCloud->iCloud Photos Settings got a new option: iCloud Photo Sharing. I'm pretty sure enabling this is what allowed me to select my photos as before.


/Library/Fonts vs. Font Book Why are some of the file names in the /Library/Fonts folder, e.g. AppleGothic, missing from Font Book's (top level) font name list?
Why are some of the (top level) font names in Font Book, e.g. Arial, missing from the /Library/Fonts folder?
There are some font names that appear both in the /Library/Fonts folder as well as in Font Book, but with different spacing, e.g. AmericanTypewriter (/Library/Fonts) vs. American Typewriter (Font Book). Why?
Are there any other differences between the filenames in /Library/Fonts and the font names in Font Book that I should be aware of?

This all stems from how font files have a file name as well as a family name and a full name stored inside the file. The file name is what is seen in Finder when looking at /Library/Fonts, whereas the family name is what is shown at the top level in Font Book (with the added items for the full name shown when you click on the triangle). You can find the full name of a font file from Finder using Get Info.

This screenshot shows the answer to your point 3. The file is called AmericanTypewriter, but it could be called anything, because the actual font within the file is called American Typewriter and won't be changed by renaming the file.

To find a font file given the font listing in Font Book, right click on the font and choose Show in Finder. This will select all the font files which are used to make up this font face.

AppleGothic is not missing from the list of fonts in Font Book, it's just at the bottom, out of alphabetical order.


Removing connected servers from sidebar The Macs that I admin all have Home Shares mapped (via AD - Force UNC path) and are appearing in the dock.

However I need to get rid of the root folder that appears in the sidebar of Finder once the home shares have been connected. Edit This needs to be for 1000+ users.

I have tried looking for the Sidebar Plist in ~/Library/Preferences, no luck.

I have also tried to use the Mysides utility, however it can only see the items in the "Favourites" section.

I am open to any/all soloutions. Thanks in advance

Finder menu > Prefs or  Cmd ⌘   ,

Locations > Connected servers - uncheck.
Unchecking Bonjour computers will prevent them showing when not connected.


Changing date created of bulk files to 9 hours before I have 3000 files which all have different dates in which they were created. For example a file has a date created timestamp of: 1 August 11:05. How can I use the terminal to change the timestamp to 9 hours earlier: i.e. 1 August  2:05?

To do that, you need to open the 'Terminal'

In your Terminal, enter the following command:

touch -t YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss (DON'T press enter yet)

replace YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss by it's respective characters

So for example:
touch -t 197512232000.23 (DON'T press enter yet)

Locate the files you want to change their timestamps in Finder

Select all the files you want to modify and drag them into your Terminal and now, press enter

The timestamps are now changed.


I forgot my local backup password to unlock the iPhone backup file I just received my new iPhone from Apple after I had my old one changed due to it being a rather bad specimen. Now I'm occurring a rather irritating problem, as I connected my iPhone with my iTunes to back up my last iPhone settings etc. it asks me to enter a password I never remember entering myself.

All my important contacts, notes etc. are on my last backup and I am not happy just starting "from the start". So I badly need to enter the password to do the backup.

I have already searched for some knowledge, but it's useless due to the fact, I have a PC. I know there are ways to see the password with a Mac, but have not yet a solution to figure out the password with a PC. I have tried randomly some numbers, my previous passcode, my password for the SIM-card, nothing. As I also understood, the password has to be a number code from 0000 or 1111 to 9999.
I would be really glad if someone figured this out and let us know, who are occurring this same, rather an irritating problem.

Try using your iTunes password that you use to log into the iTunes store worked for me, after iTunes decided that my backup was encrypted even though I didn't select it.


How to force Mac OS X ML not to auto connect to Wi-Fi For my work I need hundreds of open tabs in my Chrome. When I restart, Mac automatically connects to Wi-Fi and all tabs get loaded which consumes much memory. I don't want this.

What I have to do is manually turn off Wi-Fi, then launch Chrome. When all tabs get loaded with "Unable to connect to the Internet", I turn on Wi-Fi. This helps me not waste memory on unused tabs.

So, is there a way to force Mac not to auto connect to Wi-Fi? I still need it "Remember networks this computer has joined" since I use my company's secure network and I don't want to reenter all the credentials all the time.

Go to the network preferences, select "Wi-Fi", and click "Advanced..." (you may have to click the lock in the bottom left first).  Then, in the "Preferred Networks" list, delete any that you don't want.

The passwords are saved separately, in the keychain.  I have verified that removing an SSID from the list in the network preferences doesn't remove it from the keychain, so you can delete them without worrying. (this is unlike the case with iOS, where forgetting a network also forgets the password)

You may also want to uncheck "Remember networks this computer has joined" to prevent them from being re-added when you join them again.   Again, this is separate from the "Save password in keychain" that saves the password in the keychain when you enter it.


How to log system activity the whole day How can I log my Macs system activity the whole day (on OS X Mavericks)? E.g. memory and CPU usage?

Update

I tried OsTrack, but it crashes all the time.

The average energy impact column in Activity Monitor shows the average energy (or CPU) use for the last 8 hours:

If you have downloaded Xcode, you might use the Activity Monitor template in Instruments:

With top, you can use -a for accumulative display. -o cpu orders processes by CPU use:

top -a -o cpu

To track the average CPU use of processes, run EDITOR=nano crontab -e and add a line like this:

* * * * * ps -eco '\%cpu= comm='|sed $'s/^ *//;s/ /\t/'>>~/Documents/cpu

Then run awk -F$'\t' '{a[$2]+=$1}END{for(i in a)print a[i],i}' ~/Documents/cpu|sort -rn later.


Is there any way to tell my iPhone to use a different mic than my AirPods? I use my AirPods for streaming on YouTube. I don’t own a computer only an iPad and iphone. A friend bought me a usb mic not thinking that I don’t own a computer. So I bought a usb to lightning adapter. The mic has power but the sound comes from my AirPods not the mic.

I only have wired and wireless AirPods and both have built in mics.

I want sound in from the wired mic and sound out to the AirPods over Bluetooth.

Can I split the audio and use the better mic for recording?

Only in Live Listen mode (an Accessibility feature under Settings : Control Center).

But in general, no.  iOS devices switch both audio routes (in and out) to the last connected audio output device.  AirPods in your case.


Apple Macbook SERVICE BATTERY status and where is it stored I know for a fact that Service Battery status is stored in macOS files somewhere but not sure where.
Reinstalling Macbook removes this status.
Running Macbook from external OSX removes this status.
Reinstalling OSX and migrating original OSX removes the status.
I'd like to know where is this status hidden in OSX files to remove it without reinstalling??
Does anyone have any idea where to look for it?

"Service Battery" isn't stored in a file somewhere.  It's a value that, for a lack of a better term, is "calculated".  The SMC reads certain values, measures the current charge and depending on the results, you get a "status."
This is why you can have a faulty battery one minute, change it out with a good and it in a few moments, it will give you an updated status of "Charging" or "Charged." (Granted, it takes more than a "minute" to swap a battery, but you get the idea).
You can obtain this information with the system_profiler command:
% system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep -i "charge information" -A 10


How do your rearrange the photo album icons in Photos for iPad? How do you rearrange the photo album icons in Photos for iPad? I don't want to rearrange the pictures in the albums, just the icons of the various photo albums.

First, there is no way to move the "Camera Roll" album and the "My Photostream" album. These two albums are always at the top and in that order.

To arrange any other albums, including the automatically created "Videos", and "Panoramas" just tap "Edit" in the upper right corner. You can now tap (hold) and drag these albums around as you desire. They drag and drop in the same way that your home-screen icons do. When you have adjusted them as you like, you can tap the done button.


Reconfiguring a launchd job I want to configure a launchd daemon to run a virus scan daily.  I have written a .plist and manually loaded it using launchctl load but it doesn't seem to run.  I wanted to modify it to try and debug why.  However, it doesn't seem to be modifiable.

Here's the output of sudo launchctl list org.macports.clamscan:

{
        "LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
        "Label" = "org.macports.clamscan";
        "TimeOut" = 30;
        "OnDemand" = true;
        "LastExitStatus" = 19968;
        "Program" = "clamscan";
        "ProgramArguments" = (
                "clamscan";
                "--suppress-ok-results";
                "-l";
                "/var/log/clamscan.log";
                "-r";
                "/Users";
        );
};

I tried to unload it to edit it and reload it but it didn't seem to work:

$ sudo launchctl unload org.macports.clamscan
Password:
$ sudo launchctl list org.macports.clamscan
{
        "LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
        "Label" = "org.macports.clamscan";
        "TimeOut" = 30;
        "OnDemand" = true;
        "LastExitStatus" = 19968;
        "Program" = "clamscan";
        "ProgramArguments" = (
                "clamscan";
                "--suppress-ok-results";
                "-l";
                "/var/log/clamscan.log";
                "-r";
                "/Users";
        );
};

I tried to modify it to replace clamscan with a script so I can verify which arguments it was being called with.  However, when I try and load it, it complains that it's already loaded.

$ sudo launchctl load ~/Code/org.macports.clamscan.plist
/Users/Stephen/Code/org.macports.clamscan.plist: service already loaded

Aside from rebooting is there a way to edit an installed launchd job?
 This is for Sierra.

You can tell launchd to remove it from its cache and reread from disk. From the man page:

 uncache service-name
          This subcommand instructs launchd to bypass its service cache
          for the named service and instead read the service's configu-
          ration file directly from disk.  launchd maintains an in-mem-
          ory cache of XPC service configuration files to minimize the
          disk I/O. This subcommand will remove a cached entry so that
          developers may more rapidly iterate on a service's configura-
          tion. It should not ever be used as part of production work-
          flow.


Mid 2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15" monitor daisychain I recently bought 2 Dell U2715H monitors to use in a daisy chain configuration to save on thunderbolt port usage. Everything I read said it would work with my Macbook, but so far I have not had any success.

My specs are: 2.5 GHz i7, 16GB DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB for graphics.

The first monitor is connected to my laptop via mini-dp to display port in of the first monitor. The second monitor is connected from display port out on the first monitor into the mini-dp in port.

I have enabled DP 1.2 on the first monitor, but I'm not sure if it should be on for the second. I did try it in both configurations but neither worked.

Based on the support pages I've read, my Macbook has DP1.2 support via Thunderbolt 2 and MST was allowed in update 10.10.3 (I'm on 10.10.5). My graphics card can handle this setup based on my research. Am I missing anything obvious?

All I get is a blank screen on both monitors.

Should I try updating to El Capitan?

MBP.MiniDisplayOut > Monitor1.DisplayPortIn > Monitor1.DisplayPortOut > Monitor2.DisplayPortIn

NOT:  -> Monitor2.MiniDisplayPortIn

Manual HERE, page 25


Why do certain command key combinations not make it to remote screen sharing server? Using MacOS 10.10.5 on a recent Macbook Air, I'm trying to use X-windows emacs on a remote Linux server via vnc. I have the Mac command key configured as the emacs 'Meta' key, and it works fine for Meta-F, Meta-B, Meta-X, etc...

However, certain key combinations: Meta-P, Meta-Q (command-{P,Q} on the mac) don't get transmitted correctly, making the experience very frustrating.

Is there a way to change something in this setup to get those keys to work?

I believe your issue was addressed in this thread. I am not familiar with all key bindings in emacs and their binding on older OSes.


Can Lua config files be downloaded and executed in an iOS app? I have an cross-platform app that runs Lua scripts, and I am interested in publishing it on the iOS App Store. I know that Apple does not allow apps to download and run code from the internet on iOS, but what about a simple Lua configuration file, like this:

obj.title = "Hello world"
obj.author = "Somebody"
obj.version = "1.0.1"

Or if assignments count as code, what about a simple JSON-like table, like:

{
    title = "Hello world",
    author = "Somebody",
    version = "1.0.1"
}

Would either of these violate the guidelines?

This is fine. Apple doesn't approve of apps which download executable Objective-C. Other languages seem to be fine, including but not limited to JavaScript. A configuration file, regardless of the language, is perfectly within the guidelines.

The specific wording of the guideline indicates that content (used figuratively to mean data, executables, scripts, etc) that is provided by the app developer, modifying the functionality of the app further than is already built in to the app at review time, is prohibited. This is to prevent apps changing completely once they've been reviewed and accepted. Your app which runs Lua scripts presumably can run Lua built in, rather than executing the scripts externally and receiving the result. This means that all the functionality is within the app, thus acceptable.


iTunes on iOS 7 Crashing Since Friday 9/20/2013, when I try to open iTunes on my iPhone 4s (running iOS 7), it crashes.  I was able to open it to do a search and purchase a song, but after it started downloading, it crashed.  Every time I try to re-open it, it crashes after a couple of seconds.  I've tried unloading it from memory and that doesn't fix it.  I also completely shutdown and powered on the phone, but that doesn't fix it either.

I can't believe completely wiping my phone would be the only way to fix this; any other suggestions?

You don't have many other levers other than a full backup and I erasing all content and settings as a general remedy, but I would probably try the following for resorting to a wipe:

Check the usage and delete some content so that you have at least one gigabyte of free space
Signout of iTunes Home sharing and iTunes match
Sign out of the App Store
Make sure the date and time are set correctly or automatically set
Put the device in airplane mode, then power down and start back up while in airplane mode

If the music app is still misbehaving after removing all the network influences it might be something about your iTunes library on the device. You could also try using iTunes to blow away all the music.

Also, since you just made a purchase from the iTunes stores, Apple support should be able to help you with that purchase (and the problems using it as a result of the purchase).  http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/


MacOS Sierra Keyboard layout changes to Windows keyboard layout in Microsoft Remote Desktop I use the most recent version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection [v8.0.40] to connect to my Windows PC at work. When the connection establishes on the Windows 10 environment, Mac's keyboard layout doesn't work. Thus I have to use different combinations of the keys to work on the remote desktop. It is very annoying as I am very much used to using command instead of ctrl and could not remap my keyboard layout. Is there anyone who can suggest a fix?

The previous versions of RDC app were working fine and I Mac's Keyboard layout was operating well on Windows platform. Following is a list of details on my two devices:

The remote Windows:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586

Mac OS:
10.12.5

There are currently two versions of RDC available; release 8.0.xx & beta 8.2.xx - If one doesn't behave as you'd expect, I'd try the other.

Beta from Microsoft Technet blog

More specifically, the Release version has always made you switch to using Windows standard  Ctrl ⌃   C   X   V  etc
The Beta allows you to use  Cmd ⌘    C   X   V  & even though still a beta, is actually better in many respects.


Downgrade GCC version How do I downgrade my GCC v5 to GCC version 4.7 ? I currently don't have Xcode installed and I am using the command line tool.

More details :

Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.4.0
Thread model: posix

OS X Version : 10.11.4

To install GCC 4.7 from Homebrew:

$ brew tap homebrew/homebrew-versions
$ brew install gcc47

which will install it as gcc-47. If you want to install as gcc instead:

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc-47 /usr/local/bin/gcc