How to merge APFS volumes because of low perfomance Recently I bought a used MacBook Pro 15' with a i7 2,3 GHz processor, 16 GB RAM and 512 SSD total. But the machine runs very horribly. It's performance is nothing like you'd expect with this setup. I can't have Chrome opened with Sketch since it all gets very laggy and horrible. Normal interactions run very slowly, like opening launchpad, option+tab to a full size screen, and so on.

The machine came with a Boot Camp volume. I didn't erase it with native Boot Camp Assistant, but went to Disk Utility and erased it in it, after restoring the notebook to factory settings. But, I couldn't manage to merge the three volumes it had.

Macintosh HD
Home
Container disk1

The Macintosh Volume is the one I use, where I install and keep all my stuff. The "Home" one is APFS and filled with 130 GB of I don't know what. The other one, Container disk1, APFS as well, has the same amount of storage as the other two but it's empty.

I've been searching ways to merge them all wondering it will improve my notebook perfomance a whole bunch. I have no idea whats lowering my perfomance and what is filling the other volume. I do not have another user too.

I am attaching some screen shots here, if it helps a thing.

The partitions should have nothing to do with performance issues, I have the same computer and three partitions on the disk as well. I would run the hardware test that is mentioned above and you can also try resetting the NVRAM (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063) and you can try resetting the SMC as well (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295). Apple recommends resetting the NVRAM/PRAM first and then resetting the SMC. I normally find resetting the SMC to do the trick though. Also, don’t worry, neither of these will hurt your computer if they do not work.


Apple script - formatted text to strikethrough but how do I also change its colour? - In Notes I have an Automator Quick Action routine that changes the font of selected text to Strikethrough.  Is it possible to also change the colour of the selected text to Blue please?

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "Notes" to activate

    tell application "System Events"
        click menu item "Strikethrough" of menu of menu item "Font" of menu "Format" of menu bar 1 of application process "Notes" of application "System Events"
    end tell

return input
end run

To automate changing the color of selected text in Notes it can be done with UI Scripting, which you are already using to click Strikethrough on the menu.

Since you did not specify a color or which tab on the Colors window you want to work with, I'll show two examples, one for the Pencils tab and the other for the Color Palettes tab.

With the text already selected in Notes, the following example AppleScript code works for me in macOS Catalina, using US English for the Language:

For the Pencils tab:

tell application "Notes" to activate

delay 0.25

tell application "System Events"

    --  # Click the Strikethrough menu.

    click menu item "Strikethrough" of ¬
        menu "Font" of ¬
        menu item "Font" of ¬
        menu "Format" of ¬
        menu bar item "Format" of ¬
        menu bar 1 of ¬
        application process "Notes"

    --  # Show the Colors window, if not visible.

    if not (exists window "Colors" of application process "Notes") then
        keystroke "c" using {shift down, command down}
        repeat until (exists window "Colors" of application process "Notes")
            delay 0.01
        end repeat
    end if

    --  # Change the color of the selected text.

    tell application process "Notes"
        tell window "Colors"
            --  # Click the Pencils tab.
            click (every button of toolbar 1 whose description is "Pencils")
            --  #
            --  # Valid colors for the Pencils tab are:
            --  #
            --  # "Licorice", "Lead", "Tungsten", "Iron", "Steel", "Tin", "Nickel", "Aluminum", "Magnesium", "Silver", "Mercury", "Snow",
            --  # "Cayenne", "Mocha", "Asparagus", "Fern", "Clover", "Moss", "Teal", "Ocean", Midnight", "Eggplant", "Plum", "Maroon",
            --  # "Maraschino", "Tangerine", "Lemon", "Lime", "Spring", "Sea Foam", "Turquoise", "Aqua", "Blueberry", "Grape", "Magenta", "Strawberry",
            --  # "Salmon", "Cantaloupe", "Banana", "Honeydew", "Flora", "Spindrift", "Ice", "Sky", "Orchid", "Lavender", "Bubblegum", "Carnation"
            --  #
            set myColor to "Tangerine"
            click (every radio button of ¬
                radio group 1 of ¬
                splitter group 1 whose description is myColor)
            click button 1 --   # Close the Colors window.
        end tell
    end tell

end tell

For the Color Palettes tab, use the following block of example AppleScript code in place of the same tell application process "Notes" block of code in the code shown above:

--  # Change the color of the selected text.

tell application process "Notes"
    tell window "Colors"
        --  # Click the Color Palettes tab.
        click (every button of toolbar 1 whose description is "Color Palettes")
        --  #
        --  # Valid colors for the Color Palettes tab are:
        --  #
        --  # "Black", "Blue", "Brown", "Cyan", "Green", "Magenta", "Orange", "Purple", "Red", "Yellow", "White"
        --  #
        set myColor to "Red"
        try
            select (every row of ¬
                table 1 of ¬
                scroll area 1 of ¬
                splitter group 1 ¬
                    whose value of text field 1 is myColor)
        end try
        click button 1 --   # Close the Colors window.
    end tell
end tell

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and, sans the included try statement in the code for the Color Palettes tab, does not contain any additional error handling as may be appropriate. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted. Have a look at the try statement and error statement in the AppleScript Language Guide. See also, Working with Errors. Additionally, the use of the delay command may be necessary between events where appropriate, e.g. delay 0.5, with the value of the delay set appropriately.


How do I revoke access to twitter for a single app on iOS 5? I sometimes let my kid (6 years old) use my IPhone 4s (iOS 6.1.3) to play angry birds.
Lately friends have been telling me that I tweet silly angry-bird tweets.

It seems that the Angry Birds application uses iOS integration to tweet in my name, and makes it very easy for my son to make those tweets.

I would like to block this application from sending tweets in my name, but I would rather not log out entirely from twitter on my IPhone.

All I could find on the matter is here, which claims that I would need to revoke access to the entire iOS integration:

  Note: Though you will see other specific apps like Twitter for iPhone or Camera for iOS listed in your active connections, you cannot revoke access to these individual apps; you have to revoke the entire iOS integration

That doesn't sound right - by allowing one app to integrate with twitter, I allow any app to do so? Is there no another way?

Thanks!

Reply from Rovio, maker of the game:

  This feature has been done in cooperation with Twitter Inc. Thus, players of Angry Birds Star Wars who have also Twitter accounts got the chance to post the info of their favorite characters on Twitter. Unfortunately we do not have any tool to disconnect Twitter from our game at the moment. However, you can use the 'manage account' option in Twitter app and remove your account on Twitter before your children start playing the game, or disable the internet connection on your device.

  To log out of your Twitter account, launch the Twitter app and go to "Manage accounts" (it's the button next to the settings button on your Twitter profile page). Then remove your default account. When you wish to tweet again, just log in to the app and you're good to go!

  We are still working on developing this feature for future updates, so we apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. Hope you enjoy the game!

  Best regards,

  Kalle

  Rovio Support Team


View a list of recent deleted items from Trash in macOS I've deleted some big folders yesterday while on a shoot, to free up some space to be able to shoot tethered into the Mac. The folders where from past shoots and I've marked the folders to know which I had backed up in several places - just to be able to be on shoots and delete if necessary.

But, yesterday things went quick and I'm not sure if one folder got mixed with the others. So today I'm looking for a way to just see which folder/items I deleted/emptied from the Trash.

Logs, Terminal commands etc.?

Every Google search gets me to recovery posts.

This following solution will not help you retrieve the filenames which were already removed from the trash, before implementing my solution.  However you can use this solution to retrieve the filenames removed from the trash, in the future if you need to.

This AppleScript code works for me using the latest version of macOS Mojave.

You can attach a "Removing Items From" folder action to the /Users/YOUR SHORT NAME/.Trash folder that will write to file, the names of the files that were removed from the trash.

Create a new Script Editor document and insert this following AppleScript code.

on removing folder items from theFolder after losing removedItemNames
    writeToTheFile(removedItemNames)
end removing folder items from

on writeToTheFile(removedItemNames)
    set theFile to POSIX path of (((path to desktop as text) & "Removed From Trash.txt") as text)
    set text item delimiters to linefeed
    set theText to (removedItemNames as text)
    try
        set writeToFile to open for access theFile with write permission
        write theText & linefeed to writeToFile as text starting at eof
        close access theFile
    on error errMsg number errNum
        close access theFile
        set writeToFile to open for access theFile with write permission
        write theText & linefeed to writeToFile as text starting at eof
        close access theFile
    end try
end writeToTheFile

Next, save your new Script Editor document as "Removed From Trash Folder Action.scpt" to the folder...  "/Users/YOUR SHORT NAME/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions/".  Saving it to that location will add it to the list of scripts you can attach to folders in the Folder Actions Setup, which can be accessed when right clicking a folder in Finder, in the Services contextual menu.

Before you will be able to attach a folder action to the Trash folder, because the Trash folder is "hidden", you will first need to run this following AppleScript code to unhide all hidden files.

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder"

After all is said and done, if you want to re-hide all originally hidden files, just run this following AppleScript code to hide all hidden files.

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder"

Here is a look at the Folder Action creating the text file with the names of removed files from the trash


Why is my Macbook pro's screen better than my Desktop Monitor? This is probably a calibration issue, but why is it that my Mac doesn't need any kind of monitor calibration but my desktop's monitor do?

Well, I actually really want to get a monitor, so I am wondering what specs should I look at to get it as close to my macbook colors as possible without a need for calibration.

Your external display, unless it is manufactured by Apple will require calibration. This is because the default settings on monitors are for every day use and for any kind of display card. While the internal displays on Apple products are calibrated specifically for the video card that is in that machine.

In regards to display types it all depends on what you want to do? Video/audio production, graphic design, gaming.

If its for gaming you'll need something that has a good refresh rate for motion graphics. Same with video, audio production doesn't really matter.

When it comes to graphic design you will need to ensure that your display can reproduce the color spectrums you are working with.

The cheaper the display the cheaper the technology in the LCD.

For really nice color reproduction and refresh rates you will be looking for a display that uses S-IPS/H-IPS LCD panel. For middle of the road you'd be looking at PVA/MVA technology which has ok color reproduction and ok refresh rates. Then there is TN panels which are the bargin screens.

You can read more about LCD technology over at Wikipedia.

I would recommend an IPS display from either Samsung, Dell or Apple.


How can I paste a screenshot image from clipboard into a folder? My screenshots go directly to my clipboard, which works for me most of the time, so I'm not trying to change that behavior.

What I want to do is paste said screenshot into a folder of my choosing.

Finder doesn't seem to let me paste my screenshots from my clipboard into folders, so now I'm looking for a workaround that uses as few steps as possible.

The suboptimal Approach: I've found that I can open these images from my clipboard in Preview, but then I have to re-save them to a desired folder, which is too cumbersome to be considered a solution.

What I'm looking for: Something with fewer steps than the above approach. I just need to get the image from my clipboard into a folder of my choosing. If you can do better, you'll save me and others a lot of time.

I created an automator workflow to solve this problem

Bottom line: the solution allows you to save an image from the clipboard anywhere with one keystroke (you have to show it where to go in the save dialogue, obviously)

The workflow opens preview, creates a new file from the clipboard, and saves the file (opening the save as dialogue). You can then put it wherever you want. Here's the link to a zip with the workflow. To run the workflow, you'll probably need to approve automator with certain permissions (it'll pop up if and ask for approval, so don't worry if you don't run into this problem). Open the zip, then double click the file (make sure there's an image in the clipboard). A new file should open in preview and ask to be saved.

To create a shortcut, just go to 'keyboard' under system preferences > 'shortcuts' > 'services' and setup the shortcut.


How can I program my iPhone so it opens an app automatically when it connects to CarPlay or my car’s Bluetooth How can I “program/setup” my iPhone so it opens an app automatically when it connects to CarPlay or my car’s Bluetooth?
Does Automator or shortcuts do that?
If yes, any recommendations/steps to follow?

You need to create a Personal Automation in the Shortcuts app.
When you initially create the automation, it will ask you for the condition that will cause it to launch.  There are several options like time of day, when you arrive or leave somewhere and even when something gets connected.  Select "Bluetooth." (If your car supports CarPlay and you have it configured, you can select "CarPlay" instead)
Once you choose Bluetooth, you will how have the option to choose the specific device.  Select your car.
Then you can choose your action.  If you want to open a particular app, simply click on "Add Action," select "Scripting" and then select "Open App."  Tap on the "Choose" link to select your app.   When finished adding your action(s), tap next to see the summary.  Tap "Done" when finished.
When your iPhone connects to your car's Bluetooth, it will execute that action.  Keep in mind it can't differentiate when you disconnect and reconnect so if you happen to disconnect Bluetooth while driving and then reconnect it, it will launch the app again so you might want to add a simple confirmation dialog (yes/no) confirming you want to launch the app; this too can be done in "Scripting."


How to stop an iPhone from automatically deleting trashed emails over a week old? Not for the first time, I'm adding an IMAP account to my iphone with over a year's worth of email in the Trash folder and my iPhone has deleted them all as the default setting is to purge emails over a week old. I am currently in the process of restoring them from backups.

Strangely, I can't find anyone else complaining about this but it's not OK with me. Is there a way to stop this happening?

To change the setting, go to Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars → iCloud → Mail (under Advanced) → Advanced → Remove (under Deleted Messages) and set the time period after which deleted messages are removed.

You should not expect anything deleted to persist at all. You have instructed for it to be deleted and this is what you should expect.


How to install or port data to a Fusion / Hybrid / SSHD drive I have a late 2012 Mac mini that came with a 500 GB HDD installed from the factory. It's almost full so I want to upgrade it to a 1 TB Fusion Drive, as the cost for a 1 TB SSD is still steep. The Mac mini is currently running 10.8.5 (I'm not sure if it's even compatible with Fusion Drives) and I'm going to upgrade the machine to 10.10.

Do I need to do anything in particular to use a 3rd party Fusion / Hybrid Drive?

In the past when I've moved to a new drive, I just put the new drive in an enclosure and then backup the old drive (whilst still inside the machine) using Carbon Copy Cloner. Will this work with a Fusion / Hybrid Drive? As I guess the OS files need to be saved to the SSD part of the drive.

For reference I was thinking of using a Seagate SSHD drive like this Seagate SSHD Laptop.

No, there is nothing special you need to do.

At the risk of oversimplifying things, the way that hybrid drives work is that they monitor the data being read from the drive and, over time, they identify what files are regularly read from the drive. The drive then caches the most frequently accessed files to the high speed NAND flash memory.

The net result is that hybrid hard drives blend HDD capacity with SSD speeds.

A couple of years ago I actually installed a 1TB Seagate hybrid drive into a 15" MacBook Pro (late 2008) model and the improvement was amazing. Well worth it in my situation!

In terms of how you go about doing this, it's really a matter of personal choice. I've used Carbon Copy Cloner, Time Machine and others. In recent years I've just used Time Machine to manage all my backups and then restore data that way. I also use two Time Machine backup drives for each computer.

Hope this helps.


Running iPhone Apps on Windows I have an .ipa file in my Windows 8 Laptop. How can I run it on my Laptop.

I just want to run the app, use it in my laptop. I have no intentions of developing iPhone apps or making any changes in the .ipa file.

There must be some way to do this when - Can I develop iPhone apps in Windows? is possible.

Can someone help me out here?

You can’t run iPhone apps on Windows. Heck, you can't run them on OS X either.


Photo library app recommendation With the new Photos in macOS High Sierra, Apple

restored some of the former iPhoto/Aperture functionality (always-on sidebar, improved auto-organization [into moments, still no user-defined events structure], new editing tools, revamped filters, improved third-party integration, batch favorite and rotate)
and even added some new functionality (people sync over iCloud, over a dozen memory categories).

I've been stubbornly sticking to Aperture up until this point, mostly due to Photos poor selection of built-in editing tools, lack of batch editing (still true except for rotating as far as I know), cumbersome GPS tagging and its monolithic file structure (i.e. no referenced files in user-defined folder structure).

However, I noticed that Aperture is starting to fall behind in terms of performance, face recognition accuracy (and stability? Not a lot of experience with Photos.). Besides, the UI is beginning to feel a little... shall we say vintage?

That is what lead to rethink my position on sticking with Aperture. I'm currently considering moving all my files into Photos and just taking the hit in batch processing, file handling and editing capabilities. Before I make the move for good, however, I'd like to know if anyone has been in a similar situation and took a different path. If so for what reasons? What other software is there that can hold out as a standalone photo library and editing app?

Photos

I know the point of the question is an alternative, but I've been through both transitions: first iPhoto to Aperture, then Aperture to Photos. I think there's a few points still to be made for using Photos.

  always-on sidebar

I've always used the always-on sidebar instead of the toolbar since the very first version of Photos. Yes, the sidebar option was buried in the menus, but it was there and is much better than the toolbar. All that's happened in the most recent version is the removal of the (previously default) toolbar navigation and the activation of the existing sidebar option.

  moments, still no user-defined events structure

This definitely was one of the things I worried about moving from Aperture to Photos. However, Albums works almost identically to Events, and I set up a smart folder looking for all photos not in an album as ‘Unorganised’ which lets me organise new photos into albums.

  lack of batch editing (still true except for rotating)

Make adjustments to a photo.
Copy the photo adjustments using ⇧⌘C.
Select as many photos as you wish to batch apply the adjustments and paste using ⇧⌘V.

  cumbersome GPS tagging

Feel free to expand on this one, but this is how I go for photos without GPS:

Select photos that need geolocation.
Get Info (⌘I).
Enter the location in the ‘Assign a Location’ field. The field accepts regular text search (uses Apple Maps) or latlong coords.

  monolithic file structure (i.e. no referenced files in user-defined folder structure)

Storing photos in the library definitely isn't required. Photos has full support for references files. When importing files, deselect ‘Copy items to the Photos library’ (this preference is remembered for next time). For more information about using referenced media, see Change where Photos stores your files.


Restricting SSH access to key-based authentication only So I've successfully authenticated myself with my private key, but now I want to disable passwords all together, so I can only access it with my private key.

I edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config and I add the following:

PasswordAuthentication no
PermitRootLogin no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
UsePAM no

at the bottom of the file. I then restart SSH with:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist

and I try to authenticate with a device that doesn't know my private key at all. I can log in fine just by logging in with my regular user (username@123.123.123.123).

How do I do this? I'm running El Capitan 10.11.1 on my machine.

You need to change your settings in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, not ssh_config. ssh_config is the global configuration file for the local ssh client software, whereas /etc/ssh/sshd_config is the configuration file for the sshd server.


Office word 2010 history/activity I was curious if Word 2010 for Mac has a activity/history viewer for what there has been written/deleted in the document, like Google Docs has?
So far I have not found anything, not even on the web (Googled it).

If I understand your question correctly, I think you're talking about tracked changes.

You can access this via MS Word's Tools menu: Tools > Track Changes > Highlight Changes...


Can I put a "marker" on a QuickTime movie? Is there any way for me to put a "marker" in the timeline of a QuickTime movie? This would be very helpful in certain cases, for example quickly marking parts of long movies from my digital camera which I want to review later. I'm sure I could do this using iMovie or Final Cut Pro, but I'm looking for something specifically in QuickTime player (as I'm previewing movies taken right off my digital camera)

What I envision is something like I have mocked up in this doctored screen capture:

I'm afraid no feature like that exists.

However, with QuickTime Pro, you can fairly easily cut out clips of a movie to save for later. You get two selection cursors, and can actually use copy and paste to yank out sections and put them into new players. It will then save them natively inside .mov containers with no need for exporting.


Alternatives for Suggested Routes Apple maps shows "1 of 3 Suggested Routes".

How do I get to see the alternatives?

When Apple Maps shows alternate routes they'll appear in a lighter color then the primary route and touching the alternate route shift the darker color to it, changing the route details, while the previous focused route is now the lighter one.


Create hybrid MBR/GPT just like Bootcamp Assistant does Currently I have two partitions with data on them I would like to keep (marked with a *):

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh SSD*          164.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Additional_Storage*      56.6 GB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data                          28.4 GB   disk0s5

Now I would like to install Windows on /dev/disk0s5. However, since the partition is GPT Windows cannot be installed. Is there a way to create my own MBR/GPT hybrid like the Bootcamp-Assistant does? /dev/disk0s5 would then be MBR and the rest still GPT.

Output of sudo fdisk /dev/disk0:

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  488397167] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  320702320      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  321111960    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  322381496        328
  322381824  110616584      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  432998408       2040
  433000448   55396352      5  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  488396800        335
  488397135         32         Sec GPT table
  488397167          1         Sec GPT header

My system:

MacBook Pro 2011, OS X El Capitan

The problem is not that you don't have an MBR.  The problem is that an MBR can only have 4 partition entries.  On an out-of-the-box fresh install of OS X, you'd be using 3 of those partition entries already; one for the EFI partition, one for the Mac HFS partition, and one for the recovery partition.  That leaves only one MBR slot available for the Boot Camp Assistant to work with in order to install Windows.

In your situation, you have an additional Data partition called "Additional Storage" that is taking up the 4th slot.  Since your Windows partition is the 5th partition on the disk, the MBR cannot handle this, nor does the Boot Camp Assistant know what to do in this scenario, so it refuses to work.

The solution is to manually use fdisk to make your partition table look like this:

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  320702320] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 322381824 -  110616584] HFS+
 4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 433000448 -   55396352] HPFS/QNX/AUX

What I have done here is used the sector numbers from your output of the gpt command to show you what your MBR partition table should look like.  If you look closely, I have omitted the recovery partition from the table (since it's generally useless and you'd likely want to access your Additional Storage partition while running Windows).

To make these changes, use fdisk -e /dev/disk0 to enter fdisk in interactive mode.  You can issue a ? command to get a list of the available commands you'll need to do the modifications.

Also, when fdisk asks you if you want to edit in CHS mode, say no.  Don't worry about the cyl/hd/sec values.  They won't have the same numbers for you as they do in my table above, but it doesn't matter.

A few words of warning here:
This layout is horribly unsupported by both Apple and Windows. Having the GPT and MBR partition tables disagree with each other is an error as far as OS X is concerned, and there is a 650MB gap between partitions 2 and 3 as far as Windows is concerned.

Do not EVER under ANY circumstances use any partitioning tools to adjust/repartition your disk from this point on.  Best case scenario: it'd just give you an error.  Worst case scenario: it'd destroy the entire disk.
Make sure you do not use Disk Utility to "repair" your disk. Always make sure you have a partition selected when doing First Aid, not the disk itself.
Do not use whole-disk encryption software (BitLocker or FileVault). These require additional support partitions and will attempt to repartition the drive.
Do not convert your disks to Dynamic (Windows) or CoreStorage (Mac) volumes.  These will modify the partition tables also.


Macbook pro crashes Whenever installing Matlab 2016? Okay so, I have a Macbook Pro mid-2012 macOS Sierra 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD. I need Matlab for my work. And whenever I put Matlab on installation it does install up to 60% but in it sixties somewhere the Mac crashes. Showing me a gray background saying "You are seeing this screen because of a problem with your mac...". I cannot understand where is the problem.

There is another problem. That is, my mac wont will work properly if I used it as long as I want then turn it off and wait for an hour or so to start it again. If I start it up right-away it would show a prohibition symbol on bootup and in verbose mode would say "Read Error--Kernel Cache Read error"

You never mentioned which version of MATLAB you were running.  However, the 9.0 (R2016a) doesn't mention Sierra at all and the R2016b which does list Sierra support has it as "limited."

First thing I would do is verify that your version of MATLAB is compatible with Sierra.

Secondly, a read error is indicative of a drive error.  It could be a corruption of the file or it could be a physical error.  You need to at least run First Aid on your drive to see if there are any problems.


Changing Apple rescue email How do I change my Apple Rescue email.  It is no longer valid and there is no edit function to change it? The only edit function in this area is to change my challenge questions, which I have done.

Have you tried doing this via the Manage Apple ID page?

If you use two-step verification or two-factor authentication, you have a notification email address, not a rescue email address.

For more info about additional emails and rescue emails with your Apple ID read this. This page also provides step-by-step instructions on how to add/edit these emails.


My Macbook Pro crashes every time I change my desktop So everytime I change my background on my desktop, I go and delete the image. The next thing I almost always find is that the next time I turn my Macbook on, the whole thing freezes and I always have to safe boot my laptop.

Once I do manage to boot up again, my original background completely disappears and my desktop goes back to the "universe" background

I am getting frustrated with this. I don't know why deleting an image will cause my laptop to do this sort of thing. My Macbook isn't even a year old.

I have OS X 10.8.2

EDIT I just restarted my laptop and now it's even worst. It's quite laggy and my whole wallpaper is now just completely blank white.

If your Mac still works, I would connect a USB drive (or other) and make sure Time Machine gets a full backup before anything else goes wrong.

At that point with your files safe, you can use OS X Recovery to run Disk Utility. The first link has some very general items in case this is the first time you've heard of Recovery or Disk Utility.

As you troubleshoot this, you can either ask a follow on question or edit the question if you can rule out some things you have tried or need more specific help using / deciding which step of these tools and guides to take next.


Terminal - different window colors? Here's an obscure one, it used to be that if you ...

opened a window A (say, green bg, your default)
open another window B
open prefs
change the bg color in prefs to yellow
that would change B to yellow, but leave the other one green

In this way you could fairly easily have mulitiple Terminal windows, with, different bg colors for clarity.
Unfortunately Apple fixed this bug a couple yrs ago!  Changing color in prefs now changes all open windows!
Is there any way to get different color backgrounds in Terminal when more than one window is open?

(Do note, you can set that BACKGROUND windows have low alpha (look at, strangely, the bottom of the color pane.  This doesn't help at all.  If I have four shells to four servers, I want them to have red, green, blue, yellow backgrounds. Thanks!)

You should make four shell profiles by using the duplicate option and create your shells from those different profiles.
Edit: There are other answers with alternatives that may better suit different use cases. This way is still going to be the nicest approach for consistent re-use of color sets.


iPhone is stuck in Recovery Mode with full storage I was trying to update my iPhone X (GSM) from iOS 12.3.1 to iOS 14.0.1
The following steps was carried:
1- Downloading the latest firmware ipsw (size 4.61 GB) from
iPhone10,3,iPhone10,6_14.0.1_18A393_Restore.ipsw from ipsw.me
2- Downloading the latest iTunes on my Windows 10 PC
3- Connecting the iPhone by an original USB cable to my PC
4- Locating my iPhone
and pressing "Shift" button from my keyboard and pressing on the
Update from iTunes
5- Selected the ipsw which was previously
downloaded.
6- During in the middle of the update, an error came out
with a code # 14.
7- My iPhone got stuck permanently on the iTunes
logo
8- Tried for several times to exit the Recovery Mode by
Pressing and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly
release the Volume Down button. Then, press and hold the Side
button. it just keep restarting and getting back into the Recovery
Mode.
9- Downloaded couple of software's "Tenorshare ReiBoot Pro"
and "3uTools" to force exit Recovery Mode, no good results.
The problem here is happening because I guess that I have tried to install the updates although there was no enough storage on my iPhone.
If there is anyway to delete large files in order to free space of my iPhone (while it is in Recovery Mode" it would be much appreciated.
Or
If there is a way to update the iPhone to any iOS that has a small ipsw size would help on this issue, bare in mind downgrading or using OTA (Over the Air) firmwares to be directly installed on my iPhone by a PC.
Note:

There is no back up file for the iPhone
All the documents on the iPhone are needed, therefore; restoring the iPhone is not an option as it would erase all the files and bring it to its original factory settings.
The above concern was similar to this case iPhone stuck on Apple Logo because of Storage Full, Any solution to delete some data to make it boot or backup data before restore? but there was no answer to solve the issue.

Thinking outside the box:
If there is a way to connect the iPhone to any operating system i.e. Linux and have it connected there by entering the file explorer in order to delete some large files would help, need some experiments please.

I have an idea.

get off the nand flash from the mainboard.
copy all nand flash data to a large one.
solder the large nand flash with data to the mainboard.
update new IOS with itunes.

Because changing a new larger nand flash in China is a very common thing. And there is a nand data mirroring tech in 2016 on Iphone 5C.
So I think Combine these two technologies may be can solved this problem.


Revert UI on Big Sur? How can I revert the Big Sur UI changes, especially Finder's?
While it looks cleaner, it now takes 2 clicks to change the Finder's view type of gallery, list, icons, or columns.
I would rather have the old UI and use 1 click.
How can I accomplish this?

You can revert application toolbars to their 10.x look by setting NSWindowSupportsAutomaticInlineTitle.
defaults write -g NSWindowSupportsAutomaticInlineTitle -bool false

-g sets this globally (all applications), or you can specify a bundle identifier for a single app. Restart the application for the change to take effect (restart Finder with killall Finder).

However, I think your Finder window is too small, it's still just one click to change those settings with macOS 11 UI.


Is it possible to upgrade original iMac (1998) memory (RAM) to above 256 MB? I am looking into buying myself an original iMac, and I want to mess with the older system a little bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3

Also, is it even remotely possible to change the RAM in the system to being over 256 MB. I am willing to do it even if it means changing out other parts to allow it to be possible.

The maximum amount of RAM that the iMac G3 could accept was 384MB for the Rev. A model and 512MB of RAM for the Rev. B model.

This was done with a 128MB and a 256MB module or two 256MB modules of 144pin PC66 RAM, respectively.


Remote login hangs on El Capitan I am trying to SSH my iMac from an Ubuntu server (without root access), but the command just hangs without ever connecting. I enabled the "Remote Login" from the iMac's settings, but here is what happens when I try to ssh from the server:

$ ssh -v mymac -l mylogin
OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to mymac [129.67.12.95] port 22.

I am also confident it is not because of the server, because we tried from two different servers and a Mac laptop, same problem.

The first thing I noticed in your debug output is that you are attempting a connection to a public IP rather than an internal IP address.

This raises the question of where that IP address hits before it gets to your Mac. Almost certainly you have a router that is getting in the way.

Try making the connection to the Mac's internal address from another machine sitting inside your net. This is much more likely to work. Go to the "Network" preference pane in System Preferences and this will tell you what the network address of your Mac actually is.


How do I merge tracks from audiobooks so they are one file instead of 100 separate tracks? Some of my audiobooks download as 1 7-hour long track. Others are in iTunes as 50-100 separate tracks (that sometime get out of order). I would like to merge the tracks so each audiobook appears as one long file/track. How do I do this?

I do this in the terminal with ffmpeg.

Install ffmpeg. Download it from https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/, extract the 7z archive, and copy ffmpeg to /usr/local/bin. Alternately, if you use Homebrew or MacPorts, you can brew install ffmpeg or sudo port install ffmpeg, respectively.
cd into a directory containing all the audiobook segments you want to join together. Make sure the file path does not contain any spaces.
Run: ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i <(for f in $PWD/*.EXT; do echo "file '$f'"; done) -codec copy full.EXT, replacing both instances of "EXT" with the file extension used by your audiobook (mp3, m4a, etc).

This will, of course, not work with DRM'd audiobooks. The same will be true for any tool that does not strip the DRM.


How to property uninstall Python 3.7? I'm trying to build a package but would like to uninstall Python 3.7 from my machine first. The build appears to think /usr/local/opt/python/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/Python exists on my machine, but it doesn't. I wonder if some process is still linked to 3.7 even when it doesn't exist. Anyone know how to property unlink/uninstall Python 3.7?

I had to do this; I used:

sudo find / -name '*3.7*' 2>/dev/null | grep -e '[Pp]y' | xargs sudo ls -lad

I pipe stderr to /dev/null to eliminate internal files that even with sudo I can't access. Things like:

find: /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000sm00006d/0: Operation not permitted

That returned all the possible Python 3.7 files / folders / symlinks on the machine. Armed with that, I can remove those files.

Pity that brew may have left something around. That does happen - I just spent 40 minutes getting VirtualBox manually deinstalled / reinstalled up to 6.01 because something in the uninstall file prevented brew from cleaning the existing installation up.


Change the duration for the screenshot thumbnails macOs Mojave introduced screenshot thumbnails.

Is it possible to change the thumbnail duration? (The settings for the screenshot app do not provide this feature).

The default behavior is to display a thumbnail of the image for a short delay before writing the image to the Documents folder. An alternative would be to set the Clipboard as the Save to in the Screenshot options. In this case, the image is placed in the clipboard instead of being written to a file. You can then paste the image. Here, no thumbnail is displayed, but the image in the clipboard can be viewed in the Finder. (From the Finder menu bar, select Edit➝Show Clipboard). If you need to drag and drop the image, then one method would be to set Preview as the Save to in the Screenshot options. From the Preview application menu bar, select View➝Thumbnails or the option+⌘+2 key combination. You can drag and drop the thumbnail.

I realize your question was to increase the delay. This answer attempts to point out alternatives to having the image end up being saved to the Documents folder by default after the delay has expired.


Account with parental controls enabled breaks proxy use I have a MacBook Air running Mojave (10.14.2). My router is running a proxy using Squid that works fine on the Mac's administrator account and a user account. When the user account has Parental Controls enabled the proxy fails and no sites are reachable.

This is a known problem first reported in 2008 where Parental Controls runs the httpsproxyd daemon which interferes with external proxy operation. The solution was to either disable httpsproxyd or httpd, as described here.

MacWorld's MacOS X Hints

Summary: Run "sudo chmod a-x /usr/sbin/httpd"
Result on my machine: Error "chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/bin/httpd: Operation not permitted"

Apple discussion forum

Summary: Run "sudo chmod a-x /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Versions/A/Resources /httpsproxyd"
Result on my machine: File "httpsproxyd" does not exist in that location or anywhere else.

As both these approaches fail I'm looking for any other approaches to resolving this conflict where an account with Parental Controls enabled has issues using a proxy.

A related issue regarding how the Parental Controls interfere with HTTP/HTTPS traffic was also asked here earlier in 2017 but was unanswered. I'm including the link as it may provide additional details relating to this problem.

I've found a solution for this problem. Running proxy software on the Mac will override Apple's built-in proxy used for parental controls. In this case I used squid via the SquidMan package as follows:

Install the SquidMan package to the administrator account. Ensure SquidMan is configured to run at startup.
In SquidMan's preferences enable use of a parental control proxy, and point it to your router that is running squid (at 192.x.x.x, port 3128).
In the controlled account configure the browser to use a proxy and point it to the one created by SquidMan (at localhost, port 8080)

In this way Internet access from the controlled account will be routed through SquidMan to the specified proxy coming from the router.

One caveat of bypassing the Apple proxy is that the Parental Controls will no longer keep a history of visited websites. However you can configure Squid on your router to keep access logs that provide much more information than Apple's parental controls are capable of.


How to use different contacts on different iPhones with the same Apple ID My daughter and I use two iPhones, both connected to the same Apple ID. At the moment I see my daughter's contacts merged to my contact list, but we'd like to use our contact lists separately from each other.

I met the similar issue when I set up FaceTime, however that issue was resolved by using different emails in FaceTime settings. It looks like I can't solve the issue with contacts the same way.

Does anybody know how to use different contacts on different iPhones with the same Apple ID?

The only reason I can see for sharing an Apple ID is to share purchases.  Otherwise as you have found out, you are sharing contacts, calendars, emails and maybe even video calls and imessages etc.

Luckily, whilst all the above are iCloud functions, they are not mapped to your App Store account, and you can sign into separate accounts for each of these functions on your device.

So, on the assumption that the above is your scenario, then just sign into the App Store with the existing Apple ID which then is only responsible for purchases and download authentication etc., and then one of you can sign up for a separate free iCloud account to handle all the other functions.


Where does the mail utility store read mail? I have a few cron jobs that mail their output to my username. I check this mail in the terminal by typing mail. When I quit the mail program with 'q' it says "Saved X messages in mbox" (where X is the number of messages I just read).

How can I read those messages again?

If you wanted a full featured editor / mail client from the command line:

brew install mutt

If you just want to see the mail you can use the from command to see headers or look at the files in /var/mail/${USER}. Depending on how you disposed of messages, they also might be in your ~/mbox file

Some good reading at:

OS X: Read mbox formatted files in /var/mail (local mail) graphically
Where is my mbox located at?
https://superuser.com/questions/306163/what-is-the-you-have-new-mail-message-in-linux-unix


How can I find my Java directory in 10.8.3? I'm trying to run a Lejos application on an NXT. For it to work I need to set up a profile page with the path of Java. I know that Java doesn't come pre-installed on my Mac version, so I downloaded a .dmg to install it. I kept looking for what path the installer used, but I never found it.

I know that java is installed because I ran

java -version

on terminal, but still can't find the path. Anyone else know how?

The command which java will tell you where the java binary is within your $PATH.


What features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's 'whats-my-name' service? Upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) enabled Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service on my Mac; I would like to disable this (for security policy reasons) but wonder if some feature (perhaps something new with Yosemite) will be lost if I do so.

What, if any, features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service?

You will lose the visibility of your services on other computers (i.e. Finder sidebar). If you don't have any sharing services running than it is of no consequence and would be equivalent of a firewall not allowing multicast traffic from your Mac.

Because you did not completly disable Bonjour you will still benefit from seeing others on the network and cloaking of the ".local" domain in DNS. AirDrop, Handoff and Continuity all use BLE as discovery mechanism, not Bonjour so would not be affected.


Will lost mode take effect even when the phone is reset? I lost my iphone 5s today at the movie theater, and I'm pretty sure someone stole it... There's a passcode lock on my phone, and I have tried to enable lost mode on Find My Iphone, but the device is offline and the request is still pending. I have no hope that I will get my phone back, but will the phone go into lost mode if the phone is reset and someone connects to wifi? Or will my phone be automatically removed from my icloud account due to lost mode not enabled? Thanks!

Lost mode does not remove either activation lock (good for you, bad for resale or thieves) nor wi-fi saved credentials or cellular data.

The finder can ensure the device never connects to a network but they also can't use it under those circumstances for anything but trying to brute force the passcode and read the data offline.

If they reset the device / iTunes will report that it's activation locked and until they connect to WiFi or get you to release it from your iCloud - they can't activate that device without Apple's help. The reset will wipe saved WiFi but not cellular data. If you discontinue service, you'll drastically reduce recovery location chances. But that costs $$ and the tradeoff is about a month or two for me currently.

You should keep it on your iCloud forever if you wish to keep it locked to your account.

Sorry for the loss - you are in the ideal situation to get it back and haven't sabotaged any of your options with lost mode.


Why am I having trouble entering a new Gmail password in Mail (and Internet Accounts)? I'm required to change my school Gmail password every year.  I recently did so, and it seems to work just fine for accessing Gmail with a web browser.  It also works fine in the Mail app in iOS (I was asked to enter the new password, but it accepted it just fine).  However, in the Mail app on macOS, I've run into some issues.  It shows a "Login Failed" message on the top right of the window as well as the telltale lightning bolt "offline" icon to the right of the mail in the left sidebar.  I totally expected to see both of those, since Mail is trying to access the account using the old password.  But I can't get past that.  If I click on either of those, it opens a dropdown/popup where I can enter the password:   That's all good.  After I enter the password, though, I see a "loading" animation (a spinning-type one) for a brief second and then just blank gray in the window:   The same thing happens if I try to do this in the Internet Accounts section of System Preferences.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can resolve it?

I had this issue recently. There are some answers here, but what worked for me was I had to sign out of my iCloud account first. Add/Update the Google password (should now work) then sign back into iCloud.


Will Apple reject an app with "background fetch" which is used to upload a photos Looks like this is the right place to ask.

Basically I'm gonna to build an app which, while suspended periodically uploads photos to server (just like Google Photos uploads new photos to their backend while the app is in background).

I'm thinking of using Background Fetch to get notified of a moment to check if sync is required and to upload any photos if so.

The question is will apple reject the app?

My concern here is that according to the specs Background Fetch is intended to fetch small amount of data from the network while I'm gonna to use it like in the opposite direction - to upload relatively big amount of data.

Probably someone had similar experience.

It's like a different question, however if this approach doesn't work, could anyone bring the light on what an appropriate solution could be? Google got approved with their photos anyway so there should be a way (yes, I'm not Google but hopefully there is a solution for ordinary developer as well).

Background Fetch only allows you to download data and the process exit if the transfer time is superior to 30 seconds. There are limited things you can do while the app is in Background mode : Background Execution

If you want to upload your photos in the background you'll need to use background transfer service, but once the task is finished the app will not upload more data. This tutorial explains how to download a file without the application in the foreground but you can use the same logic to send data : iOS 7 SDK: Background Transfer Service


Replaced hard drive in iMac, have time machine back up but no installation discs The hard drive in my 2008  24" iMac failed, I have a current time machine back up but I have lost my installation disks.

I do have installation disks for my 2010 27" iMac, but I suppose these would not work.

Any idea what I need to get my 24" iMac working?

You have several options to accomplish this. You'll need either a firewire 800 cable, a thumb drive (8/16 GB or bigger) or a DVDR. I suppose the new hard drive is already mounted to the iMac 2008.

Target Mode

Attach the firewire cable to both Macs. Boot the iMac 2008 in Target Mode by pressing T while booting. You will see a "jumping" Firewire logo on the screen if you have been successful.
Attach the Time Machine backup drive to the iMac 2010.
Boot the iMac 2010.
Start Disk Utility to partition the Target Mode hard drive in the iMac 2008 (if necessary). Use one partition, HFS+ Journaled and GUID partition table. Don't partition your Time Machine drive accidentally.
Quit Disk Utility and open Time Machine.
Restore the Time Machine backup to the Target Mode disk.
Eject the Target Mode disk and detach the Firewire cable.
Reboot the iMac 2008

Bootable OS X thumb drive

Download 10.7-10.11 OS X Installer from the App Store and create a bootable OS X thumb drive (16 GB or bigger) on the iMac 2010 by installing OS X to it.
Boot the iMac 2008 with the thumb drive and the Time Machine backup drive attached
Start Disk Utility to partition the internal hard drive in the iMac 2008 (if necessary). Use one partition, HFS+ Journaled and GUID partition table. Don't partition your Time Machine drive accidentally.
Quit Disk Utility and open Time Machine.
Restore the Time Machine backup to the internal disk.
Reboot the iMac to the internal disk.

Hack the iMac 2010 Installer DVD

Several similar methods exist to modify a restore DVD to be universal. Only one is outlined below. This is only recommended if the previous system on the broken hard disk was Snow Leopard.

It takes time to make modification work on DL-DVD, so i used 8GB USB thumb drive, restored Snow Leopard DL-DVD to USB thumb drive with Disk Utility.
After you get SL on your USB thumb drive, you need to modify OSInstall.mpkg file (which is located on Packages folder) with Flat Package Editor, and to get FPE you have to install Xcode.
After that go to

/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents

open Flat Package Editor, choose File->Open and open OSInstall.mpkg, you will see Distribution file, drag it to your Desktop(do not close Flat Package Editor, we still need it), and open it with your favorite text editor, Look for the following:

<installation-check script="installCheckScript()"/>
<volume-check script="volCheckScript()"/>

they are on the line 50052 and 50053, remove installCheckScript() and volCheckScript(), and this is how they should be:

<installation-check script=""/>
<volume-check script=""/>

Save modification, and re-drag Distribution file to Flat Package Editor and go to File->Save, that's it, now you should have a working OEM Snow Leopard on any iMachine.
Boot the iMac 2008 with the thumb drive and the Time Machine backup drive attached and install Snow Leopard.
While configuring Snow Leopard, use the Migration Assistant to import all data from the backup drive.


How do you reset screen zoom to zero? How do you reset screen zoom to zero?
I mean the one you do with control-mouse wheel, I know you can reset it with the wheel again until it gets to 1:1 but it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to make it 1:1
Is there?

I'd say hold ⌥+⌘+–. In fact, holding ⌥+⌘+8 will disable it, but once you press it again, it comes back to the old level, therefore ⌥+⌘+– seems the best solution.


Macbook Air login screen twice I have a serious problem with my 2011 MacBook Air (current OS version (Mountain Lion))
Always on startup, I have to enter my password twice.
Right after entering it the first time, the screen is gray for a very short time and the same login screen appears again. After entering the password the second time, it takes me to my desktop as usually...

I also tried activating the automatic login, but then a different problem occures:
The desktop appears (without wallpaper and dock), after less than a second the screen is gray again, the screen appears again (still without wallpaper and dock). After about 10 seconds the dock slides up and the wallpaper appears...

Is it possible to reinstall Mac OS without changing any files and settings?

Any help would be great!

yes its really easy to reinstall it without damaging anything! however a backup is ALWAYS recommended, if you bought it over the Mac Appstore you can just redownload it for free and install it again! or if your computer came with mountain lion you can

Choose Apple menu > Restart, and then hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys while the computer restarts.
If you’re not connected to the Internet, choose a network from the Wi-Fi menu in the right corner of the menu bar (in the top-right corner of the screen).
Select Reinstall Mac OS X, and then click Continue.
Follow the onscreen instructions. In the pane where you select a disk, select your current Mac OS X disk (in most cases, it is the only one available).
To start the installation, click Install.


In iTerm, how can I change alt+delete to ignore slashes? I set up my iTerm to work a lot like OSX does in other text fields, eg ⌘ Command+Delete = delete line backward, ⌥ Option+left arrow = "move cursor back one word" and ⌥ Option+Delete = delete word backward, but the way I have it, ⌥ Option+Delete in bash/iTerm doesn't count / as a word separator, so if I have cd a/path/to/a/folder and I hit ⌥ Option+Delete it deletes the whole path, instead of just folder.

How can I set it up so that ⌥ Option+Delete only gets rid of folder? I realize this might need a bash solution, or an iTerm solution, but I don't know which. Or maybe it needs both.

In order to get this to work, in iTerm preferences I had to set the key alt+backspace (or w/e you have it as) to map to these hex codes:

0x1B 0x08


Migration Assistant and USB Time Machine disk Mavericks Update

Sadly this issue remains unresolved in Mavericks.

End Update

When I run Migration Assistant (from an admin account) in Lion, M.A. hangs at the message

"Looking for Other Computers". The Time Machine disk is not seen even though it is connected through USB and it is the Lion TM disk from the same machine.

I tried:

Pressing the greyed-out 'continue' button.
Having the Time Machine both selected as the TM disk, or connected
without being selected.
Rebooting into the recovery partition and attempting recovery from
TM. At least in that case the TM disk is seen, but it cannot be used
because "only full Mac OS X backups can be restored". I only save
user files on TM.

What are some other ideas I could try? I prefer to avoid running a 'cp -pR', but if you think I could get away with it, please mention the caveats.

I've had a similar problem, which may be different to your problem because all the computers in my house share the same backup drive, and so there are lots of different backup files.

My problem (which I fixed) was that Migration Assistant couldn't see the backup drive, but it turned out that if I opened the drive in Finder, and then opened the '.sparsebundle' file that belonged to my computer, then all of a sudden the backup drive became visible to Migration Assistant and I could restore from backup.


Macbook battery information (cold weather & plugged in usage) I kinda have two questions but they're both battery related so I just made one post.

1) Does it harm the battery if I cary my MacBook around with me and the weather is really cold? This has been a very harsh winter with temperatures going even below -15C. Sometimes when I take it out of my bag and then its pouch, it's so cold I can barely hold it in my hands.

I don't boot it up instantly when getting inside but it's usually sleeping nonetheless so technically turned on. I've read it's a bad idea to start using it since it could heat up too fast and condensate, but is it also harmful for the battery or for the laptop itself to expose it to low temperatures while in a bag? If so, what could be the damage and how can I avoid it?

2) I'm always trying not to use the MacBook while it's charging. Does this matter at all? Should I charge it only when it's sleeping or turned off? How about charging time? Should it be charged only until it gets 100% or I can leave it over night?

Model: 12″ Retina MacBook

Fabrication date: August 2015

If you are carrying the Macbook from outside (cold) to inside (warm & humid), you may want to consider bagging the Macbook in a sealed plastic bag (Ziplock or similar), so the condensate will form on outside of the bag, not the Macbook.

If the Macbook is in a case, a bag, or sleeve, the case should supply some insulation to shield the Macbook from the cold for a short time.

Photographers in cold regions use the plastic bag trick frequently to protect their equipment.

The condensate problem is NOT caused by heating up too fast, it is caused by metal parts exposed to cold, dry air transferred to a warm (relatively) humid environment.  The cold surfaces, like laptop cases or lenses, act as a collection surface for the inside air water vapor.

The Macbook probably has a minimum operating temperature recommendation of minus 5C or so.

Try to avoid leaving the macbook in a place (car) where the machine will go into a cold soak as to damage the Li-polymer battery.  The battery construction is essentially a layer of foils & gels, and does not take well to deep freezing.  I had a co-worker forget a Windows laptop overnight in a pickup truck, during a -10C night, and the laptop never had useable off-mains battery life again.

Assuming the Macbook has a SSD, the major components susceptible to cold damage are the battery, display & keyboard.

AFAIK, you can leave the laptop charging all the times it is convenient to do so.  The harshest treatment is a daily use of deep discharge cycles, taking the battery to a low state (under 30%), then recharging to 100%, the back to 30% again.

I'm using a 13" MBP that I travel with, and it shows about 400 battery cycles; by comparison, an at-home 15" MBP, plugged-in almost all the time, shows only 55 battery cycles after more than 3 yaers of use.

It should be perfectly OK to use the machine whilst charging.


How can I have a fixed size wastpaper basket? Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a way to limit the size of the Trash?

I'd like to have a way to auto-deleted item in the basket, based upon the time they come in (oldest to be deleted first)...

You may be able to do this with a Folder Action.
apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/06/folder-actions-tutorial-automation-meet-the-filesystem/

when new item is added, count items in folder, if number of items is greater than threshhold, delete oldest one.

This requires some knowledge of how the trash works...Something about the .Trashes hidden folders.


Installing Windows XP into Boot Camp under Lion I've been attempting to install Windows XP using Boot Camp with Lion 10.7.4 following the procedure in Pogue's  missing manual for Lion.

I have partitioned my internal HD using Disk Utility and booted to my original XP installation disk. All goes well until the Installer requests that the Enter key be pressed to continue.

The two USB wired keyboards I have tried will not work with the installer, although they do work while still running the Mac OS. Any suggestions for getting this to work?

You state in your question that you have partitioned your "internal HD using Disk Utility".

Frankly, I do not see how this could possibly work since the hybrid MBR on your drive would not be properly configured if you partition your drive using Disk Utility. (This is just a guess, but possibly the BIOS emulation is also not correctly enabled?)

I suggest you use Disk Utility to remove the partition you created for Win XP and then restore your OS X partition to its full size. Then use Apple's Boot Camp Assistant (located in the Utilities folder) to create the Windows partition to install XP into.

Using Boot Camp Assistant to create the partition will ensure the hybrid MBR is set up correctly.

Another alternative you might want to consider if your usage of XP is going to be minimal (i.e. no graphics intensive gaming) and your Mac has enough memory (at least 4 GiB) and a processor which supports virtualization. You might want to try installing Windows XP into a virtual machine instead.

I have had good luck using a Oracle's free, open source virtual machine VirtualBox.

The advantage of using a VM is that you don't have to reboot your Mac to use Windows. You just start the virtual machine which runs under OS X.


Use time machine for backing up a different computer I've been over many faq's and troubelshooting but can't seem to find an answer to this.

I'm currently running my mac from an external HD. My internal got corrupted, I can't repair it with disc utility. So I booted from an older time machine backup, on an external HD which now is my main HD and what I'm running from.

Anyway I want to put everything back the way it was. Meaning erasing my internal and let time machine put back a back up of my current workspace. But when I let it run he backs up the corrupted internal one. It even makes for a total of 500G, and my original HD is only 320.. so I'm making a backup to big to be used to restore later.

How can I change that he backups only the external information? Or maybe I'm wrong and he needs to back up the internal to for things to work since I still use it as my computer (but not my HD). I don't need the content of the original HD to be backed up along with my external one. I just want the workspace I created with a back up on my external to be put back on my erased, internal one..

I'm also worried if I erase my internal HD the booting help progam (C or R) will be gone to.. will it?

To exclude your internal drive from backup, do the following. Go to System Preferences > Time Machine. Click Options... Under the section titled "Exclude these items from backups", click the + button. Select your internal hard drive. This will prevent Time Machine from backing up your internal hard drive.

If your external hard drive is working just like you'd like your internal hard drive to work after you finish fixing it, you can also restore your external volume onto your internal volume. To do this, boot into Recovery Mode (holding R upon boot). Once booted into Recovery Mode, follow the steps in this Apple Support article, under the section Restoring the backup disk image's contents to your internal Mac OS X disk. You can begin with Step 4, as you have a newer operating system than the article was written for.


Mounting an ext3/4 Linux external hard drive to OS X I just bought two 500 GB hard drives for my Mac for the purposes of backing up ten older hard drives to it. One hard drive (200 GB, pretty much full) is from my Linux machine.

I tried installing Linux via VirtualBox, but I can't seem to mount the external to my vbox installation. In either case, I get an error that it can't read the media, where I either must eject or initialize.

In Disk Utility, I can see all the hard drive partitions but I can't mount it or do anything with it.

The machine that this hard drive came from is dead now, and I don't have access to other Linux machines.

You can mount ext2/3/4-Volumes using MacFUSE with the fuse-ext2 Driver.


Disk Utility can't repair external hard drive, tried fsck whats the next step? When I try and repair my external hard drives (I have two corrupt now some how both I think from improperly ejecting from the same machine), I get this message:

  Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, ?reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Do I just have to reformat them now? Whats the next step? Both where being used as backups for the most part with a few files. Thank you for your time.

If your disks have non-critical data you can live without, and you just want to wipe them clean, use Disk Utility. If you're not in a rush use the Secure Erase/Zero Fill option as this will take any bad sectors out of use that may have formed since you acquired the drives.

Alternatively, if you have data you really need to access, try DiskWarrior as it can repair many disk issues that Disk Utility/FSCK can't.


How do I revert the default mail client back to Mail from GMail? I downloaded Google Chrome and it automatically changed my default mail reader from Mail to GMail in Chrome. I went to the preferences section of Mail and didn't see an option to make Mail the default reader.

This can be disabled in Google Chrome. Go to Settings, then select "Show Advanced Settings..." at the bottom of the page. Click "Content Settings", and click "Manage Handlers" under the "Handlers" heading. Under "Active protocol handlers", change mailto to "None".

Then go into Mail.app and into Preferences -> General, and make sure "Default E-mail Reader" to "Mail"


Navigating OS X dialogs with the keyboard I am a keyboardist and using the mouse is slow and distracting. For the following dialog - which is just an example since there are others similar to it - how would one choose a non-default button using the keyboard?

I have tried arrow keys, tab, various letters .. none do anything to move the selected button.

Does Apple dislike keyboardists?

OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" (and older versions at least back to OS X 10.7 "Lion") lets you use the Tab key to navigate between buttons (and other items) on the screen. To configure it select "All controls" in System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts as shown below:

When the desired button has focus, press the Space bar to select it. (Don't press Enter, as it will select the default button.)


How do I make sure I purchase the correct replacement gfx card for my iMac? I have a 24" Early 2009 iMac, and it has a faulty graphics card (detailed here). I'm obviously no longer under warranty or applecare, and I'd like to try to replace the part myself.

I'm unsure about how to search for and select a replacement part, however, especially since my machine is quite old so the original gfx card model is probably not available new. How can I know that any given card listed on a hardware website will work as a replacement?

(A short list of appropriate gfx card model numbers would also suffice.)

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS is not available anymore, but you can try the NVIDIA GeForce GT 680, which you can find here: http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=02G-P4-3682-KR
You will also need to upgrade your RAM to support this card. The RAM I suggest is here: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/8566DDR3S4GP/


Person keeps coming back into group conversation This person keeps hacking into my iMessage group conversations and it's really starting to get annoying. Every time I remove him from our conversation, he joins back in and is unkickable. I believe he has a jail broken device, but I do not know what hack he is using. I've searched up this and I can't seem to find anything.

What is he doing and how can I stop him?

He isn't actually hacking into your iMessage at all. Group messages can be a little strange in the way they work. When you remove someone from a group thread there is no way for them to know unless you specifically notify them. It does not show them that they were removed nor does it delete the thread. As such, the other party in your case is likely carrying on business as usual by messaging the group thread that you thought to removed him from. Here's the catch: you did remove him but when he messages the old group it creates a new group thread that looks identical to the one you removed him from. Then, when you remove him again, it goes back to the other thread and he can not see updates.

As such, to resolve your problem, use two, unique group thread names. If you tap "Details" in the upper right, and scroll up a little you will see a field to name the group. Find the one he is part of and the one he is not part of and then name them differently. Then inform the others on the thread he is not on to use [thread name] for messaging not [thread name with unwanted user].

Finally, if you want no correspondence from the unwanted guest, you can block him, but that will sever all communications. Moreover, you will not receive any of his messages yet the other members of your group chat will if they haven’t blocked him.


Will using iTunes Match with a large music library use up all the storage space on my iPhone? I have 100 GB of music on my MacBook Pro and I have an iPhone 4. If I sign up to iTunes Match will all this music flood my phone?

In short, no. When you turn on iTunes Match on your phone, nothing happens automatically. The key setting is in Settings -> Music:

Show All Music - if this is turned on, all music that you've uploaded to iTunes Match appears in the Music app on your iPhone. However, this music is not actually present in your phone's storage. If Show All Music is turned off, only music that is in your phone's storage appears in the Music app.

Once the Music app is showing your iTunes Match music, there are two ways these tracks will actually be stored on your iPhone:

If you just start playing music, it will by default stream the track from Apple's servers (if you're not on a Wifi network, it will only do this if the Settings -> iTunes & App Stores -> Use Cellular Data setting is on). When you stream a track, it will be downloaded to your iPhone and subsequently stored.
If you tap the download button that appears when you view Albums or Playlists, the associated tracks will begin downloading from Apple's servers, to be stored on your iPhone.

In both cases, you retain control over what actually takes up space on your phone: only the music that you either choose to play or explicitly download. There are two other details worth noting here:

I believe that, when space on your iPhone starts to get limited, iTunes Match tracks that have been streamed to your device may be deleted from storage to reclaim space (the idea being that you can always stream them again). I don't know whether or not tracks that you explicitly chose to download will also be cleaned up in this way.
If the Settings -> iTunes & App Stores -> Automatic Downloads settings are on, your phone will automatically download new songs (or apps, or books) that you purchase on your other devices. However, your existing purchases will not be downloaded automatically.


Macintosh Color Classic won't turn on and has weird boot chimes I recently got my hands on a Macintosh Color Classic that is known to not work in the hope of fixing it. I have the power plugged in, keyboard, and mouse. When I flip the switch on the back, I hear the fan come on, and then three monotone chimes about a second apart. I have searched for manuals or docs to tell me what these chimes mean, because they aren't the normal Sad or Happy Mac chimes. After those chimes, the fan remains on but the screen stays dark. Any ideas?

Quite possibly the "chimes of death."

If you feel comfortable doing so, pull the motherborard, and try it with different RAM configurations. Look for capacitors with swollen tops (little cylinders) and possibly even replace the PRAM battery.

The board itself could be toast but that should get you started on what to try.


How does OS X connect to other computers on the LAN? I am behind a router, with some windows users, and I noticed that their computers show up in my finder, under shared. I never closely examined this feature, but today I decided to connect as my user on the windows computers. What I noticed is a directory labeled Users popped up. Clicking on this, and then my user directory, I see the normal OS X user folder structure, but the files are the ones on the computer.

This looks like FTP to me, but the windows computer has no special configuration, so I don't think that that's the case.

How does the OS X connect to other computers on the LAN, when they have no special configuration to do so? What service is this?

OS X 10.11 El-Capitan

There are several Protocols in a LAN Environment which a Mac can use (AFP, SMB etc.). You can connect to a PC's usually (or a PC Share) via SMB.

In order to connect to that PC you have to provide credentials, a Username and a Password. If you have a local Account (ignoring complex Network-, Server- and Domain-Architecture for a moment) on that Computer you can use these Credentials and have access to all Folders for that User-Account, including a 'Documents' and 'Desktop' Folder. So you are not actually seen the Folders from your OS X User-account, but the default Folders from the Microsoft OS which happen to be Named the same ('Desktop' etc.). There are differences, f.e. on OS X you have a 'Library' Folder which you don't have on Windows etc.

FTP is a completely different Protocol, requiring an FTP Server and Credentials. I doubt that this is the case in your environment, even though you can access it via Finder (on the menu bar, click Go > Connect to Server and enter "ftp://test.domain", if "test.domain" is the name of the Server).


Cron configuration on Mavericks How can I configure cron to send a local email only to the crontab owner with the cron job output.

This worked with Lion, could check the cron emails by just running mail in the terminal so I don't know what changed or how to reimplement that behavior.

This should be working and is certainly working on my Mavericks box.

If you don't have a "MAILTO" line in the crontab then output should get sent to the owner of the crontab.

Are you sure the job actually outputs something? Have you tried putting a job in the crontab that will be sure to have some output such as

*/10 * * * * *  /bin/echo "Working fine"

Are you sure you don't have a .forward file in the user home directory?

Have you tried using sendmail to send some mail to the account and see if it gets through.


OSX cmd+tab behavior with multiple windows of same application and monitors First of all, my question is not answered in any of the questions with the similar titles. My context is a little different.
I have 2 monitors connected to my MacBook Pro. I opened 2 windows of Safari, one for each monitor.

On 1st monitor, there's a Safari window and Application A.

On 2nd monitor, there's the 2nd Safari window and Application B.

2nd monitor is focused on Application B.

1st monitor is focused on Application A.

On the 1st monitor, I switch from Application A to Safari using cmd+tab and 1st monitor successfully focuses on it's own Safari window.

But 2nd monitor also switches to it's own Safari windows instead of keeping the Application B on the screen.

How can I prevent this from happening so 2nd monitor doesn't switch to Safari as well and instead keep it's application on its screen?
I already tried all the combinations from Mission Control page but none of them helped me achieve this. Or maybe they didn't work as they intended to be, I'm not sure if that's the case.

You're trying to fight the basic paradigm. Bringing an app to the front… brings it all to the front, no matter which screen it's on.
The simplest workaround I could think of would be to use a different browser app on each screen.


How do I transfer photos from my iPhone to my computer without using iCloud? How do I transfer photos from my iPhone to my Windows desktop without going through an external network? I used to be able to plug the phone into the computer with a USB cable and it would show up as a drive in Windows Explorer, then I could right click and select "Import Photos and Videos". But now after I installed an update to iTunes, it's not showing up in Windows Explorer any more after I plug it in.

This happened before in this question, but I already installed all the Windows updates available, and I also restarted my computer, and I have the latest iTunes (12.4.1.6), and the latest iOS (9.3.2), so now I don't know what it could be. It was working a week ago.

This articles describes what I used to do, but it's not showing up in Explorer. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302

OK I found out the problem! You have to have a photo on the phone for it to even appear in Windows Explorer! I was testing out a new cable to see if it worked and the phone didn't show up (but did iTunes sync). So I switched back to the old cable I knew worked and it still wouldn't show up and got me worried! I took a screenshot to generate a photo and now it shows up in Explorer. This was not obvious at all.


Why aren’t my Reminders repeating? I have an iPad Pro with iOS 13.3. I have set a number of Reminders with repeats, but none of them are repeating. They don’t show up on the Lock screen as notifications, and if I look inside the app under the “Today” or “Scheduled” panels, they are only scheduled for their original days. Even though they say “Repeat daily” on them, they are not actually moving up in the queue.

What can I do to fix this?

It turns out that in the new version of the app, iOS 13, you have to actually “complete” a to do, by clicking on the complete circle, before it will repeat.


Time Machine Strategy? I just finished a tough weekend of getting my Mac back.
For whatever reason, it would no longer boot. I am running 10.6.8 on a 2010 MacPro.

I installed a new copy of the OS, and migrated, then updated the OS, and it froze. Back to the install disks, loaded, updated OS first via software update, then migrated and I'm back in action.

The migration took hours as the drive had a lot of data including large iTunes files, etc. 3TB drive is my main drive.

Is there a better strategy for one's OS drive and data files that would make a re-build less time consuming? e.g. Use the OS drive, and keep it smaller, say 1TB, just for the OS and apps, and then a second drive for data only?

I'm grateful Time Machine worked so well, just looking for a faster way to get going next time.

(Note - I have too many apps needing Rosetta to jump to 10.10 full time. Not ready to drop $hundreds on updated software.)

If you have a 3tb drive would you not partition it? 1tb would be HUGE for OS and apps, I can't imagine the number of apps you'd need to fill that much space. Do remember though, that you'd still need to backup your data (SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner are sometimes more useful for data backup). As you have a MacPro then dropping a new, smaller boot drive in should be very simple and then you could use your 3tb drive just for data (iTunes etc). You might also think of a smallish ssd as a main boot drive (even 128gb is probably fine for all the OS and Apps you'd throw at it). This would boot very fast and apps also load a lot faster.


Search tool for Safari I'm using Keywurl now, but since Safari 5.0.1 there are also supported extensions for search. I'd like to add any search url format and assign it to a shortcut.

e.g. g macbook air is google "macbook air", w ipod is google "site:en.wikipedia.org ipod" etc.

Any good suggestions?

I know what you want because I had that in Opera a long time ago, but then I switched to Mac full time and dropped Opera. Safari lacks in that aspect.

I don’t know if there’s a specific extension for that, but you might want to take a look at tools like LaunchBar ($$) or Quicksilver (Free).

I use Launchbar and I type ‘goo’ and then whatever I want to type and enter. I Have searches for StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc. You can add whatever you want.

After some time doing that, it becomes extremely much more natural, because you can invoke either of those from anywhere in the system. You just invoke Launchbar, goo + xxxxx and you’re done.

Give it a try, I believe is a much more natural workflow than having to find safari, going to the search box and typing there.


Need printer driver for samsung ML-1210 compatible with Mac OS X 10.11.6 I use Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and I would like to find and install a printer driver for an old samsung ML-1210 printer.  Can anyone help?  If yes, please tell me in simple terms, because I am not computer savvy!

It’s unlikely you will find a printer driver for this model printer.

It’s not listed anywhere on Samsung’s support site
I found a review of the printer from 2001 making it about 20 years old
A service manual I found online confirms that as it’s copyrighted in 2001 (page 79)
The specs found on C|Net lists Mac OS 8 as a supported OS and the latest release was 1999.
The most recent Mac printer driver I was able to find was for Snow Leopard (10.6.8) for the PowerPC Mac; you have an Intel Mac.

However, there may be some hope...

Though the printer specifications list the only emulation as “PrintThru” (I’ve personally never heard of it) it was quite common for printers to emulate “HP LaserJet”.  It can’t hurt to try that generic driver.
Since it supports Linux, You can try a generic CUPS driver.  I found this article How to install the Samsung ML-1210 printer on Mac OS X Lion (and higher). It uses an open source driver (not supported/provided by Samsung).

Keep in mind this article is from 2011 making it 9 years old. It is technical, so you’ll want to get someone local to assist.  It's not feasible for us to test since we don't have access to that printer.

Bottom line... I’ll be the first to applaud your efforts to continue using “useful” equipment, but there comes a point of diminishing returns and if getting a printer working will cost more in time, labor and lost productivity than the price of new one, it’s time to go shopping.

As a buying tip, I suggest you stick with familiar names like HP, Lexmark, Xerox, etc. because you ensure the widest range of compatibility for the longest time.  For instance, I have a HP 2025dn (from 2008) that not only has current drivers, but emulates HP (obviously), PCL and PostScript.  If your printer can emulate any of these, you can get it to work.  Look in either the printer specifications page or in the user manual for confirmation.


Is Lion's new "Date Added" field supposed to work in the Trash? One of the little things in Lion I was most excited about was the Finder's new "Date Added" field. I wanted it for two folders in particular, for obvious reasons: the Downloads folder and the Trash.

Well, it works in Downloads, but as far as I can tell, not so much in the Trash. Now, when I first booted into Lion, Date Added didn't work anywhere. I suspected that it was because Spotlight wasn't done reindexing yet. Now that it's finished, Date Added is populated on new downloads, but still not in new Trash items.

Looks like it simply doesn't work. But maybe Spotlight is not the only thing involved. Am I missing something? Or am I doomed to futilely hoping they incorporate this in a point update?

The answer was basically in my original question. Spotlight is indeed the sole arbiter of the Date Added column. And the Trash, not being a real folder, is not Spotlight indexed.

If you move a file with a Date Added into the Trash, it keeps the Date Added from its original folder. If you then put it back, its Date Added (to the original folder) is updated to the present.

It would probably take a significant engineering effort to make this work for the Trash, so I'm not expecting to see this fixed before Mountain Lion, if ever.


Are the two SATA bus interfaces in the 2010 Mac mini equal in speed? I want to replace the DVD in my old 2010 mac mini with a SSD but first I would like to know if the two SATA interfaces are equal when it comes to speed.

I would prefer to keep the harddrive on the first interface as it is much easier to change it than is to change the one in the DVD location.

You can answer this question yourself by running Apple System Profiler/System Information and noting what it reports under the "Serial-ATA" column.

Here is what the report looks like on my MacBook Pro.


Can I connect a projector with HDMI to my Mac Pro's DVI connector using an adapter? I am interested in purchasing a projector that has native resolution of 1024x768.
The projector has HDMI connector and VGA connector. I want to connect it to my Mac Pro computer which has only DVI connectors.

Can I simply connect a DVI cable to my Mac and then attach this cable to the projector with a DVI/HDMI adapter?

Will this maintain high quality video?

You can get DVI to HDMI adapters from around $4 online on Amazon, (just search for ‘DVI to HDMI’ on any online shopping site). As for the quality, most of the adapters that I have seen are able to do HD video and such.
Hope this helped!


iMac 21.5 Core i3 mid 2010 SSD swap, is a bay required When swapping out the mechanical drive for an SSD in these machines, I've seen people put in a size-up caddy.  But is this needed - can I just gaffa tape the drive to the back or something?

If it never gets moved around, you could actually just leave it loose inside the casing.

It won't make any practical difference, you just don't want to be shaking it around unnecessarily.
I wouldn't think of doing it in a laptop, but a desktop it will be fine.

I had an SSD hanging loose inside the optical bay of a Mac Pro for about 5 years with no ill-effects at all - & in fact I'm not sure that more than one of the Mac Pros here has a proper mount at all, & that one is only because the machine came with it. As soon as I need the bay for another big HD, it will go up in the optical bay like the rest.


iTunes version in AppStore download of Mountain Lion What version of iTunes comes with current AppStore download of Mountain Lion?  10.7?  11.0?

UPDATE:
As of today (6-Dec-2013), AppStore has 10.8.5 with iTunes 11.0.1.

Was hoping to avoid a whole VM install to find out the iTunes version, but it had to happen.  Will keep looking for a table view, and will post it here if I find one.

I don't know about the versions of OS X currently available from App Store, but my 10.8.0 VM has iTunes 10.6.3 and my 10.9.0 VM has iTunes 11.1. I created the 10.8 VM from an installer that I downloaded from App Store about a year ago.


Jar Launcher.app : where is it supposed to be located at? On Sierra I installed Java (JDK) and Parallels Desktop. The Windows VM I have in Parallels has decided to set its own (Windows) copy of Java as default for Mac .jar files, which means that whenever I want to run a .jar file by double clicking it runs it in the Windows VM.

So I opened the menu to change default program to run the file and it showed me a Finder-like window where I would have to pick an App. I wish to set Java Launcher as default, though I don't know where it's locatee.

Yes, it is located at /System/Library/CoreServices/Jar Launcher.app.


How to fix permission denied for home folder with Apache in Mavericks? I recently activated the apache that ships with OS X Mavericks.
I followed some tutorial to set up the web-server, however. When I browse to my home-filter at http://localhost/~nazeem, I get the following error: You don't have permission to access /~nazeem/ on this server.

Installation steps

To setp up the webserver, I took the following steps:

activated the webserver with command: apachectl start
enabled PHP by checking if the module is loaded
checked if the home folder module is loaded
made the user based configuration file, in /etc/apache2/users/nazeem.conf
The content is as follows:

<Directory "/Users/nazeem/Development/Websites/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Permissions

~/nazeem : drwxr-xr-x+
~/nazeem/Development : drwxr-xr-x
~/nazeem/Development/Websites : drwxr-xr-x

Log

The apache log says the following:

[Mon May 19 21:22:57 2014] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/nazeem/Sites

In My opinion this is remarkable, as the path /Users/nazeem/Sites is nog what I defined in my user configuration.

Versions

OS X Mavericks 10.9.3
Apache 2.2.26

Does anybody know how to solve this?

In your computer's main apache config file, there is a designated "DocumentRoot", which appears to be set to ~/Sites - hence /Users/nazeem/Sites.

Try setting a document root in your /etc/apache2/users/nazeem.conf file, something like this:

DocumentRoot "/Users/nazeem/Development/Websites"

That's NOT within the Directory section of your nazeem.theconf file.

Note that the main apache config probably also designates the directory aliased as "cgi-bin". It's probably /Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables. Either use that directory for your executables, or post a follow-up about ScriptAlias settings.

And of course after any change to your apache config:

sudo apachectl restart

HTH


No more notification for iMessage with Mavericks I did the upgrade to Mavericks few days ago. I noticed a problem with my iMessage app : I don't get any notification when I received a new message (neither alert, nor badges on the icon in the Dock).

How can I troubleshoot if this is a problem with my computer or account or perhaps my network connection?

Go to System Preferences > Notifications.

Make sure that you're not in the 'Do not disturb" mode.
Check your settings for the Messages app. Enable 'Banners' if they're off (or even 'Alerts').


macOS Big Sur YubiKey Login Freezing Issue
After upgrading to macOS Big Sur's update on 11/19/20, the login screen freezes intermittently, after entering the YubiKey login pin, requiring the MacBook Pro to be shut down completely and turned on again.
The YubiKey issue has been documented from a few sources.

Reddit - MacOS Big Sur SmartCard Authentication issues
Apple Discussions

Stuck at lock screen, macOS Big Sur
Big Sur and smart cards

MacBook Pro Configuration

Two-Factor authentication enabled with a YubiKey 5C
OS: macOS Big Sur, Version 11.0.1
Device: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)
Processor: 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
Memory: 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Attempted Solutions

Restart the computer.
Shutdown and turn back on.
Reset NVRAM. See: Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac
Reset SMC. See: How to reset the SMC of your Mac
Run Disk Utility's First Aid: No issues found
Run Apple Diagnostics: No issues found
Scan computer with AVG Antivirus: No viruses found
Reinstall Big Sur from macOS Recovery
Remove apps from starting automatically at login. Specifically, there was a Zoom app that I removed from starting at login. See: Add or remove automatic items
Run in safe mode: The frozen login screen still persists intermittently in safe mode. See: How to use safe mode on your Mac

Performing a factory reset and restoring the system from a Time Machine backup has resolved the login freezing issue with Yubikey's Yubico 5C.
The Time Machine backup restored to the Mac was created right before doing the factory reset.


How can I delete odd photos on my iPad without deleting them on daughters phone which is linked by applie Id using iOS 12 Hi I’m not great on these devices and have searched for the answer but my screens don’t appear the same so apologies if already answered .
I have an iPad and iPhone and my daughter also has iPhone and we both  use my Apple ID ( she’s only 9); how do we delete odd photos and notes from one device without them deleting off the others . Many thanks

You may be reluctant to set up an account for your daughter, for various legitimate reasons, but Apple's recommendation is to do just that, and to link the two accounts via "family sharing"

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201084


Can anyone share original IO80211FAMILY kext for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Can anyone share original IO80211FAMILY kext file for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 as I by mistake deleted it and now my WiFi has stopped working.

I could not find it on Google, please if you have the 10.8.5, please share original file.

Run the 10.8.5 combo updater, from https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1676?locale=en_GB

This will ensure all updates since 10.8.0 are applied.


Can I transfer my Google Play music onto my iPhone? I had a Galaxy S4 and I just bought a iPhone 6. Is there a way I can transfer my music using an app to iTunes? Or do I have to download iTunes onto a computer?

you won't be able to transfer your music directly to iTunes.

You can download this music on your computer per Goolge Music Manager and them sync with your iPhone
(https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/manager)

Obviously you can use the Google Music apps on your phone too and have the music to play offline too.


How can I use Apple News without changing my region on macOS Mojave? I want to use Apple News on macOS but not to change my region to the United States. How can I do that?

To access Apple News on Mac, simply enter this in Terminal. This will open the News app, no matter where it is located in on your Mac. As such, your region does not need to be set to the United States.

open -a "News.app"

If you want to access it conveniently, add the app to Dock.