How do I remove an installed .pkg file I recently installed this "CH341 Driver" so that I could connect my new chinese Arduino.

But when I plug the USB cable, connected to the Arduino, into my computer it crashes immediately. A few moments later a message pops up that tells me that, because of a problem, the computer had to restart.

Now I want to delete this installed driver and download another driver or another version of it. But in order to do so I need to delete the old software (which makes my computer crash).

I looked around on the internet about how to do so, but most of the googled suggestions tell me that I can simply remove it from the "Applications" folder. It isn't a program so that won't help. I also found a few results that tell me to open terminal, enter the command "pkgutil --pkgs", search for the package and enter the command "sudo pkgutil --forget the-package-name.pkg".

But I can't find the package name in the list. So I went to "About this Mac" -> "System Report..." -> "Software" -> "Installations" and there I can see the names of the packages, but unfortunately I can't remove them from there.

So is there anybody who can tell me where I can remove them?

You can check what was installed and remove it manually. Copy the *.pkg file to some empty tmp folder. Then:

xar -xf YOUPACKAGE.pkg

Then print the content of the Bom file with:

 lsbom $(find . -name Bom)

You'll have the list of files like: (Here's the part for Cisco AnyConnect)

./opt/cisco/vpn 40755   0/0
./opt/cisco/vpn/bin 40755   0/0

All file path start with . but they are installed relative to the root folder (/). In my example I have to remove /opt/cisco folder.


Quicksilver accessible script for disabling and enabling Time Machine? I'd like to disable and enable Time Machine at will via Quicksilver.

'nuff said.

Do you're thang, nerds. :)

Just realized I could copy it out of another script I use to detect displays.

Here they are:

Disable:

tell application "System Preferences" to activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "System Preferences"
                click menu item "Time Machine" of menu "View" of menu bar 1
                tell button "OFF" of window 1 to click
        end tell
    end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit

Enable:

tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Events"
        tell process "System Preferences"
                click menu item "Time Machine" of menu "View" of menu bar 1
                tell button "ON" of window 1 to click
        end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit

Hope that helps someone else. If there's a better solution, I'm all ears!


Apple Developer Program enrolment outside of Apple listed regions I’m new to iOS development also and want to enrol in Apple developer program. My question is how can I purchase ADP from Bangladesh?

Anyone purchase ADP by Payoneer master card outside of USA?

Also have Visa Card from Standard Chartered (can't charge in USD).

Some people advice me to get a bank account in other country like UK, USA (don't know how they suggest me to do that while I'm not in that country!). However if I manage to get a physical address and bank account in any of these countries am I able to purchase ADP? What about tax or it is possible literally while you’re not in that country?

Anyone experienced purchasing ADP outside of Apple’s listed regions like Bangladesh?

Really appreciate if you've any solution.

I'm a developer in South Africa and I don't have a bank in USA.
You enroll with your Apple ID, and the $99 will deduct from the card you have added to it. If you don't have an Apple ID, you can create one and add your card details there.
It doesn't need to be a credit card, you can pay with a debit card as well, as long as it can do online payments (usually cheque accounts). If you don't have a credit card or a cheque card, you can buy a pre-paid MasterCard/VISA card and just recharge it with money (might have problems with the cardholder name, see below). I don't have a credit card but I do have a chipped VISA debit card (from South Africa) which works for online payments and works for Apple Developer Program.
And anyone can register from any country. :)

What payment methods can I use?
You can pay for your items with a Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express.
Can I use a credit card other than my own to complete my purchase?
The payment information you provide must match exactly with your enrollment information. If this information does not match, your enrollment will be delayed and you may be asked to provide a copy of a government issued identification.


I suspect this is malware. How do I remove it? Several pop-ups have recently begun appearing on my MacBook screen.  They coincide with my attempting to update Adobe Flash Player.  I suspect I was careless.  I have never seen pop-ups constantly appearing on my Mac before.  They have no name, so I cannot easily search for where the program is residing and get rid of it. Does anyone recognize these who would be able to instruct me on how to locate and eradicate?

Turn off the Mac, then power it up holding down the shift key. depending on what has infected you that may either disable it or reduce its effect on the system.

Download Malwarebytes (or another) virus scanning app for the mac and run it. Hopefully it will be found and removed. If not perhaps someone here recognizes it and knows how to remove it manually.

Alternatively if you have another Mac and the right cables to connect them together you could boot the affected Mac into target disk mode, and plug it into your other Mac that you have installed AV software on and scan the infected drive from there.

Note that these are preliminary steps. other people may have more and/or better suggestions. Proceed with caution and, if possible, turn off the network on the infected Mac.


Turning off or restarting iPhone if lock button is broken? Now that I know how to lock the iPhone if the lock button is broken, I was wondering how I can restart the phone or turn it off.

The lock button is completely unresponsive and holding it down does nothing. Are there any workarounds besides replacing the button?

You have a couple options:

Simply let the phone discharge until it turns off. Then, you can charge it again and it should turn on when it reaches a high enough battery level.
If you dare, you can reset the device's network settings which will restart it (but obviously, also clear your network settings).
You can use Assistive Touch (Settings > Accessibility) to lock and turn off the phone.

But really, you should take it into an Apple store, so they can deal with the underlying problem of your broken button!


How (or where) I can set keyboard shortcut to "add new desktop place" please, how to set up keyboard shortcut to "add new desktop place", that must be added via "Mission Control" and by mouse click to "plus button" (top right corner)?? I'm looking at "system preferences" -> "keyboard" -> "Shortcut" ... but there is no any settings for "add new desktop" or someone same.

Is there any way to set up this shortcut ??

Many thanks for ideas.

You could use this script then make a shortcut to it in Automator.

In Mavericks, Applescript to create a new Space in Mission Control

delay 0.5 -- time to release command if the script is run with command-R
tell application "System Events"
    key code 126 using control down -- control-up
    delay 1
    do shell script "MouseTools -x 1900 -y 60;sleep 1;MouseTools -leftClickNoRelease;MouseTools -releaseMouse"
    key code 53 -- escape
end tell

source https://stackoverflow.com/a/22873544

Get the MouseTools


iPhone frequently asks "Trust this computer?" upon connection to Mac Often, when I connect my iPhone 7 to my MacBook Pro 2018 (using a new Apple Store-supplied USB cable), the iPhone prompts "Trust this computer?". I tap "Yes", and then have to enter my six digit pass code on the iPhone.

It's happening more than 50% of the time, probably 60-80% from eyeballing.

i.e. Not every time. It's not 100% repeatable.  But I've just tried disconnecting and reconnecting 10 times and 7 times I got this prompt.

This is beginning to infuriate me.  Is there any step I can take towards diagnosing?

EDIT: It is worth noting that the cable does work. I am able to transfer data between the computer and phone. So it appears the issue is not related to the cable.

EDIT: I've noticed this only occurs when I have hotspot enabled!

Most likely lint.

The lightning connector is prone to collecting dust and dirt, which can keep the phone from getting a clean signal from the cable (a faulty or not-to-spec cable can have the same effect). Take a toothpick or anything else that's thin and non-conducting and get that dust bunny out.

Never believe anyone telling you to reboot all devices and reinstall all operating systems in your house.


Running launchd agent not preventing macbook from sleeping I have an agent/daemon that runs a backup script (I use restic) at 4:05am on a StartCalendarInterval. My understanding is that if a launchd agent is running, that should prevent osx from sleeping. Is that wrong?

I can see that my script partially worked as a snapshot was created in the repository, but when I went to check the snapshot, the repo had a lock on it which indicates to me something happened mid-run.

Here is my plist file for the agent.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
        <dict>
                <key>Label</key>
                <string>backup.restic.username</string>
                <key>ProgramArguments</key>
                <array>
                        <string>/Users/username/Documents/scripts/backup.sh</string>
                </array>
                <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>Minute</key>
                        <integer>5</integer>
                        <key>Hour</key>
                        <integer>4</integer>
                </dict>
        </dict>
</plist>

Is there something I can add there to prevent sleeping? I will say the macbook wasn't plugged in and was at 35% battery when I woke up.

@nohillside gave me what to lookup. Updated to use caffeinate to prevent disk and system from sleeping.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
        <dict>
                <key>Label</key>
                <string>backup.restic.username</string>
                <key>Program</key>
                <string>/usr/bin/caffeinate</string>
                <key>ProgramArguments</key>
                <array>
                        <string>-im</string>
                        <string>/Users/username/Documents/scripts/backup.sh</string>
                </array>
                <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>Minute</key>
                        <integer>5</integer>
                        <key>Hour</key>
                        <integer>4</integer>
                </dict>
        </dict>
</plist>


How do I know if an update requires restart in macOS Sierra? How do I know if an update requires restart in macOS Sierra? I just updated iTunes and read the description of the update, but couldn't find any mention of a restart required. After a moment the computer restarted without a warning. Luckily, I wasn't in the middle of anything important, but I'd like to avoid such forced restarts in the future.

Edit: There was also a macOS Sierra update today. In the figure below, there's no mention of a restart required. I also followed the two links, but found no mention there either. I'm pretty sure that the info shown here was the same prior to the update.

When you look at the Updates list in the Mac App Store, it will indicate in the info if a restart is required. Below is an example of this:

You will see the words Restart Required followed by an icon of a white triangle within a grey circle (looks like a reverse play button).

Prior to installing the update, just check the info against each update to see whether any of them require a restart.

Security updates and OS updates usually require a restart. Most other apps don't.


How do I delete a Service? If I created a service using Automator, how can I delete it if I no longer want it?

You can do this by:

In the Finder, press ⌘⇧G to Go to Folder.
Type "~/Library/Services"
Find the service you no longer want
Drag it to the Trash


entering data in Numbers When I hit Return after entering a number in a cell, the cursor automatically drops down to the next row under the cell.  How can I disable that, so it stays on the cell I entered and I can move on my own to wherever I want to make my next entry?
I use the num pad when entering into a spreadsheet and it is habitual to hit "enter" after inputting numbers into a cell, then arrowing to wherever I need to go next (often to the next column rather than the next row.) There was a way to disable the automatic movement in Excel, but I've not been able to find a way to disable in Numbers.

Not exactly what you've asked for, but try pressing Command+Return while the cell is still in edit mode, instead of just Return. This should keep the same cell selected.

Edit after OP clarification:

There is no option to disable cursor movement on Enter in the latest version of Numbers. It used to be there in earlier versions (pre 3.0, I believe).


AutoImporter no longer import my photos, after switching to iOS 10.2 To automatically transfer photos from my iPhone 5S to a folder on my Mac (macOS 10.11.6), I had configured the macOS utility named AutoImporter.app.

After upgrading my iPhone 5S from iOS 9.3 to iOS 10 (10.2), AutoImporter.app on my Mac continues to run upon connecting my iPhone to it using an USB cable. However, it quits immediately without importing any photos.

This tool is very practical on a daily basis (it avoids going through applications such as "Photos.app". I don't use it. Why should I use an app to organize my photos?).

An idea, a solution? Thank you for your help.

Just for your info : this is how I have configured autoimporter: very simply from Image Capture and what it should do when I connect my iPhone to my Mac using a USB cable (when it works correctly).

There might be multiple solutions to this:

Verify Auto Importer settings

Go into Finder
Hit CMD + ⇧ + G
Enter the following path: /System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Application/
Open up the AutoImporter.app
Hit ⌘ + , to open up the settings
Verify, that everything is set up the way you want it to be.
Retry by reconnecting your phone.

Reset Auto Importer start

Open Image Capture
Set the Connecting this iPhone opens: option to something different then "Auto Importer", like Image Capture.
Reconnect your iPhone, see whether it opens Image Capture.
Then alter the setting back to "Auto Importer".
Reconnect your phone and see whether it works.

Delete Auto Importer Prefs and Cache

Get AppCleaner (Freeware) or an similar App, because it's hard to locate the cache for Auto Importer by hand.
Open up AppCleaner and drag the AutoImporter.app onto it.
AppCleaner will show you the pref and cache files associated with AutoImporter

com.apple.AutoImporter.plist in ~/Library/Preferences/
com.apple.AutoImporter folder at /var/folders/[…]/com.apple.AutoImporter/

Delete the plist and the cache folder.
Restart AutoImporter.app (for me it auto quitted itself after the first start, so restart it once again).
Retry by reconnecting your phone.


I have a Macbook Pro 2012 that continues to beach ball after I erased the hard drive and upgraded to macOS Sierra 10.12 , why is still beach balling? My original OS is 10.10.5. I had trouble with really bad beach balling. I ran an Malware bytes scan, everything is good. I ran disk permissions in Disk Utility with a total of two repairs and verified after each repair. Verified a total of three times. Prior to verifiying it a third time I received a cksum error on both repairs. I erased the hard drive anyways because it was still beach balling and it went from 10.10.5 to 10.8. I ran an upgrade that took at least 12 hours to complete. It rebooted and it stilled continued to beach ball after the upgrade install. SMART status is verified so I'm assuming the hard drive is good.

Sounds like you have the 13" MacBook Pro 2012, Disk Utility is not indicating a failing hard drive via its SMART status, and that the OS and/or any software you are running is not the cause there is one other thing I've not seen you mention you need to check into.

This model MBP13 2012 can develop an issue with the flex cable that connects the hard drive to the rest of the computer if the unit is getting carried around in a back pack or heavy book bag. The cable can be damaged by compression of the bottom case in the area where the cable runs from the hard drive to the logic board causing errors in the integrity of the data flowing to and from the hard drive.

Check out Apple's website but for this model they may still be offering to replace that cable at no cost for the 2012 only. If you've never had the hard drive flex cable replaced then all things being equal that may actually be the cause. Failure of this cable/bracket assembly starts as a general slowdown of even the simplest things on the computer like just opening a folder full of files. Best of luck with it.


how to create daily task for GMVault in automator I just moved to Apple, being an experienced (i'd like to think so) Windows user.

Recently I started using GMvault (gmvault.org) to backup my Gmail account locally, but it's become a pain having to manually launch a terminal and type ./gmvault sync -t quick myemail@gmail.com

if i wanted to automate this task on Mac OSX 10.8.2, what would be the right/best way to do it? Is it using an Automator task? I've heard of Cron too..so, Im open to suggestions. What is the most correct (and maintainable) way to do this?

In windows I would've just created a .bat file and setup a Scheduled Task.

Thanks for the help!

As you mentioned you can use cron which is more transferable knowledge since it's used also on other platforms. Or you can use LaunchDaemon which is more Macish ;)

Cron

Please refer to question How do I run a cron job on a Mac?

Launchd

Doc
short how to

file for service looks like this
you will copy that file into /Library/LaunchAgents. If you want the daemon to be launched when you login, not when your computer start, just prepend ~(home) before the path

I am sorry for linking the code instead paste it here, but it seems i am not compatible with code adding here on apple.stack ;)


Permanently change mount point of volume? I'd like to set another user's home folder to use a certain volume on my disk. To that end, I'd like to be able to mount said volume at a specific location, say, at Users/foobar

I can do this using the command line by running sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk0s4 /Users/, however this is only a temporary solution. If I unmount and remount the disk, it will mount to its usual location in Volumes/

Is there some way to permanently specify the mount point of a disk?

Set an entry in /etc/fstab as directed here. To summarize.

Open Disk Utility, unmount the relevant volume.
Click on the volume you're trying to mount, and click the "info" button. Note down the drive's File System UUID, which should look something like 5E85BA88-7C74-34A9-8CE6-267C752CE2BA. I'm just gonna use 123abc as shorthand for it.
Open up /etc/fstab using your text editor of choice (run it as root!) Edit: as per klanomath's comment below, run sudo vifs to safely edit etc/fstab, and add the following line.

UUID=123abc /desired/mount/path hfs rw 0 2
Mount the volume, the mount point should show the path you specified.

Some notes:

I have absolutely no clue what the "1 2" does at the end of that line. It was there in the link, so I kept it. Thanks to fd0 for helping me out here!
The page I linked instructs you to reload /etc/fstab using some niload command. I couldn't figure out how to install whatever package that required, but the good news is that I think DiskUtility will automatically reload the file, so don't worry about that.
Some sources will tell you to reload etc/fstab using the command mount -a. It seems like this should be a perfectly sensible way to do so, but it does not work. Don't worry if it tells you it can't mount a volume.


Problem with Non English(Farsi, ...) subtitle When I want to see a movie or video in mac os x (with VLC, DivX Player, Quick Time) and want to load subtitles, these video player applications can't load my subtitle correctly show in strange text.
My subtitle language is Farsi (RTL language). I must change some Unicode settings, but I don't know where anyone has any idea?

According to Trezoid answer on superuser the solution is:

By default the language encoding on VLC (and possibly others) is set to "default" which is windows-1252 (possibly only if your language is set to english, but I'm not sure)

This will not display other languages very well. To fix it, open up VLC preferences, click on the Subtitles and OSD tab, and change "default encoding" to UTF-8

This will give the program a much wider choice of characters to display from allowing it to render the characters as they should be.


Editing/removing hostfile on jailed iPhone So guys I've done a very silly thing. I've installed a tweak that blocks ad websites, but apparently it blocks every connection on the internet(things using DNS, but now all the things use it)
I only realised this after restarting my phone(silly me thought that restarting will solve the problem). Pretty much my iPhone is a brick because I can't even connect to the http://ppq.apple.com (again it uses DNS) to validate the developer certificate. So there is no way running yalu again or any other code.
So is there a way to ignore/delete/edit that hostfile?
I want the restore to be my last resort(hopefully to iOS 10.2(I have the blobs saved))

The hosts file is located at /private/etc/hosts which cannot be accessed on a non-jailbroken iOS device. There is simply no way to do it. More information on why this is and what occurs during the jailbreak process can be found on my answer on Can you apply jailbreak tweaks to a non-jailbroken device?


Insure MBP against theft/breakage I don't have home contents cover. Anyone know of a good, reliable insurer for a MBP?

I've read up on AppleCare but it doesn't include theft cover (as far as I can tell?)... I'd need this sort of cover as it's my major concern aside dropping it.

AppleCare definitely doesn't cover theft. In fact, AppleCare doesn't even cover accidental damage like dropping it, spilling liquid on it, etc.

There are two companies that I hear about from other Mac users where the stories have been positive. Mind you I've never used either company so have no idea how their service is or anything.

For accidental damage plus the normal manufacturer's defect coverage provided by AppleCare I've heard good things about Square Trade. This is the company I've heard the most good about, but they don't provide theft coverage. Square Trade is available only in the United States and Canada.

For accidental damage plus theft (not clear if it covers standard warranty-type damage) I've heard some good about Safeware. I haven't heard as much about them, but a lot of folks have theft coverage through their homeowner's insurance or their renter's insurance, so not at many people need a separate policy. Safeware is available only in the United States.


Dictionary shows wrong language (British English instead of American English) Under macOS 10.14.4, I've enabled the following dictionaries:

Yet, when I hid ⌃⌘D, I get the results as follows:

I would expect the results to show only American English dictionaries, and not British English.

This seems to be a bug that appears when you're switching languages. I know I had switched from British to American English at some point before.

What you have to do is:

Open Dictionary.app
Go to Preferences
Uncheck all dictionaries
Enable the ones that you need

Now the order is correct, and the British dictionary entries are gone from the results.


Safari Redirecting http to (non-existent) https Safari forces a redirect to the https version of a site I previously visited via https.

However, the https site no longer works and there is no way to prevent Safari form trying to load it.

Here is a related Apple Forums question, Safari keeps redirecting http to https

If the site has previously indicated to Safari that it wishes to always be accessed over HTTPS through HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), then Safari will always try to redirect to HTTPS.
You can clear the HSTS cache by deleting ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist.
Note that Safari does also cache 301 redirects for a while and thus clearing the normal Safari cache may also be necessary: from the Develop menu (enable in Preferences → Advanced), choose Empty Caches.
#For 2020...
In current MacOS, you must

Clear the cache in Safari. (Developer menu.) Then immediately:
Quit Safari, and any other apps that may use networking (quit all apps)
Open /Users/ your user name /Library/Cookies which will look like:

Throw HSTS.plist in the trash, then immediately restart the whole Mac.

In extreme cases, turn off all bandwidth to the Mac before steps 1-2-3-4.
In current MacOS, the HSTS list is immediately rebuilt if the file is thrown away, if any networking happens. Hence the Mac needs an immediate restart for trashing to work.


Help me to understand this /Users/username/sites/website1 Can anyone help me to understand the logic behind placing my /sites folder like this /Users/username/sites/website1
How do I find the Users folder?
I am using OS X El Capitan
Thank you

The folder /Users usually is in the root of your boot volume. The folder /Users usually contains all user folders of the (non-system) accounts configured in OS X and a Shared folder. The name of a user folder usually is identical with the short name of the user account.

To see/access /Users either open your boot volume or bring Finder to the foreground and in the menubar navigate to Go To -> Go To Folder..., enter / and hit the OK button (then you will see the folder Users) or enter /Users and hit the OK button (then you will see the content of the folder Users).

In /Users/username/sites/website1 username is just a place holder for your (OS X) short name. So in /Users open the folder with your OS X short name (your user or home folder is also indicated by its icon: a little house) and you are in your user folder.

To immediately jump into your user folder use the shortcut shiftcmdH in the Finder.


Windows have pinstripes and large corner radius on Lion Somehow, some defaults setting or something in Lion on my MacBook Pro has gotten set terribly wrong, because starting recently, my inactive windows (and certain other window chrome) have gained what I presume to be 10.4 Tiger-style pinstripes.
Behold the horror:

Obviously, this is not acceptable in any way. I don't know what I did that made these appear. I've looked through Secrets, but haven't found anything relevant. Does anyone have any ideas?
EDIT: I just realized that in addition to the pinstripes, windows' corner radii have grown larger, as they were in Tiger and before, as well. What in the world is going on?

It turns out that I overlooked the two checkboxes in Secrets depicted below (even though their labels were red and in bold and they are obviously in every way exactly what I was looking for). The second one, "Use Leopard window values", was unchecked. Checking it and rebooting restored all windows to their normal appearance. Phew.


Reinstalling clean system on faulty hardware? Suggestions I have a faulty MBP 17' Late 2009.
I can sell it for spares & repairs on ebay for quite a lot as I've found but it has a lot of sensitive data on it and I'd like to return it to a base system.

The problem is that there's a problem with the heatsync and it will switch off without warning if it gets too hot.

What would be the safest method of doing clean install. I have no means of connecting the internal drive to another machine.

Thanks very much.

If overheating is the problem I would try doing the clean install while having a fan blow cool air directly onto the computer into the vent openings. I may even remove the bottom covers to increase airflow.

If you are selling for parts, why not remove the hard drive and sell it drive-less, then take a hammer to the drive itself to protect your data.


Time Capsule/Time Machine volume slow to process with tmutil My 2TB Time Capsule has functioned as our home router and backup device for years.

It's not very fast at backing up over network, but since this is a passive activity it's never been a problem.

I went into the volume to try to clean it up a bit and it's really slow to respond over both GUI and command line.

I'm within close wireless range (5 meters, direct line of sight)
Pinged packets return in < 1ms, I don't think it's the wifi
Browsing the network disk in Finder is very slow, it takes 20+ seconds just for folders and files on the disk to populate
tmutil responds just as, if not more slowly (as does simply running ls in the Time Machine volume)
Most importantly, trying to delete items via tmutil is way too slow. Usually taking over 45 minutes to delete a 500MB backup.

(I realize that these backups are stored as diffs rather than complete files, so there's some degree of logic that is going into the deletion process, but this still seems absurd)

I looped through my backups and wanted to delete most of them, like so:

sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/Backups.backupdb/foo/2016-08-10-015922

I have 130 backups I want to remove this device and even at an optimistic 30 minutes per deletion, that's still 65 continuous hours of this script running (for something that should take less than an hour IMO).

What's wrong?

Base Station/Time Capsule OS version: 7.6.9 [11] (latest)

I don’t think anything is wrong. The hard link directory nature of a time machine backup is extraordinarily iops constrained and coupled with the limited power of the disk controller in AirPort, you’re far better off copying off the files you want to keep and then erasing the volume.

Each backup has a directory entry for each and every file present on the source so each backup interval deletion is actually a ton of work (whereby a ton is defined as 250,000 directory entries with ACL, permissions, date metadata, etc...)

Your network measures are spot on, and I worry your TimeCapsule drive could be failing if a simple ls is lagging so badly.


What font is used for keyboard symbols? I'm looking for the font that Apple is using for Special Key Symbols on their keyboards. I know that Vag Rounded is used for regular characters, but that font does not support characters used for the special keys. I've been searching for a font that would look at least similar to the symbols, but so far I haven't found anything satisfying. For example, here are some of the keys with the special symbols:

Return(↩) key:

Tab(⇥), Caps Lock(⇪), Shift(⇧), Alt(⌥), Command(⌘) keys:

Have a look at Apple Symbols.  Glyph 1009 in that one has similar corners.


sketchy email from apple/itunes i recently just upgraded to osx lion(july 30 here). Today I just received a receipt from itunes of my purchase with the receipt date as 01/08/11.

I have read about recurring charges from apple about this but not for credit card(i think the problem was paypal). I immediately double checked my account and sure enough there was only 1 purchase.

Im still paranoid though. I am in  the philippines and I wouldn't want to call their US number(maybe only as a last resort). Was this just a matter of the receipt email being a week late? or is it a real double charge?

Apple delays charging of cards for purchases on the App Store/iTunes, and hence email confirmations. They do this so they don't need to charge your card multiple times if you happen to buy a bunch of stuff close to each other, saves them from having to pay some processing fees.

I bought Lion on July 20th and didn't see an email confirmation until the 25th, and that confirmation listed the receipt date as July 22nd.


User UUIDs on different Macs I have three Macs at the house and have the same user account setup on each of them. The users on two of the machines were initially set up using migration assistant to transfer user accounts.

When accessing the Advanced Options menu under System Preferences > Accounts >  > Advanced Options, I notice that the UUIDs on each machine are different. The User ID and Group values are identical.

Question: should the user UUID (different than UID) be set to the same on each of the computers? Any disadvantage if they are not? Does OS X use the uid (e.g. 501) to determine if the users on two different machines are the "same"?

UUID means universally unique identifier. It sounds like the identifiers for the three accounts are unique. In other words, the system works.


How can I prevent the App Store from doing automatic update checks or notifications? I don't like the App Store app automatically checking for app updates, or showing me notifications when there are updates for my installed apps.  I prefer to take care of updates when I'm ready to update.

How can I prevent the App Store from automatically checking from updates, or from giving me the the little red notification when updates are available?

I've got an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.

Sadly, it seems there is no way to do that.

I checked the AppStore panel in the preference app, and the notification panel. No trace of an option to do that.

Sorry!


How do I get Apple Hardware Test working on a refurbished Mac? I recently picked up a refurbished "Unibody" Late 2009 MacBook, which arrived with a fresh Sierra (10.12) install. After going through the first time setup, I immediately upgraded RAM and HD.  After that, I thought I'd fire up Apple Hardware Test for its memory test, since Apple describes Hardware Test as "built into your Mac" for this model (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25696?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_IN).  However, holding down d during a reboot just left me with a normal Mac OS X session.
How do I get Apple Hardware Test working on this machine?

For this model, Apple Hardware Test actually comes pre-installed on the hard drive.
If you've reformatted or replaced the original hard drive, it's possible to install Apple Hardware Test back to it from a downloadable disk image, but you need to boot the system using the Recovery partition on another disk to do it:

Download the appropriate Apple Hardware Test disk image for your machine (partial list at https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest)

Reboot into recovery mode, by holding the option key down at boot, and then choosing the recovery partition from the menu

Open Disk Utility, mount the Apple Hardware Test disk image, and then quit disk utility (with the disk image still mounted)

Open Terminal from the Utilities menu

Copy the System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics folder from the disk image to the new drive:
 cp -R /Volumes/AHTBTwo/System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics \
 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/CoreServices/

This copy of Apple Hardware Test is now installed; you should now be able to launch it by restarting while holding down d.

Background:
The drive supplied with the machine had a recovery partition on it, but I don't know if that had the appropriate version of Apple Hardware Test for this machine. In any case, I also neglected to copy the recovery partition across to the new drive when I copied the Macintosh HD volume.  I had done that using a Mac OS X Install Disk's copy of Disk Utility with the new drive on a USB adapter before I installed it in the MacBook.
To get a recovery partition back, following the nice guide at https://www.lifewire.com/create-os-x-recovery-hd-on-any-drive-2260909 I manually took a disk image of the recovery partition on the old drive using a Terminal command:
sudo hdiutil create ~/Desktop/Recovery\ HD.dmg -srcdevice /dev/disk2s3

and then ran Disk Utility and made a partition for it on the new disk, and restored that partition from the Recovery HD.dmg disk image.
That gives the new recovery partition on the new disk the right contents to be a recovery partition, but it still has the default partition type code that Disk Utility sets, which is for a regular Mac OS X partition.
To change the partition type value for the recovery partition, which is normally prevented by the integrity protection in Sierra, I rebooted from the recovery partition on the old disk, and then ran the commands in a Terminal there:
diskutil unmount /dev/diskXXX
sudo asr adjust --target /dev/diskXXX -settype Apple_Boot

(Use whatever Device shows up in Disk Utility for the new recovery partition in place of diskXXX)
At that point I had a usable recovery partition on the new disk, and I could follow the steps up above to add Apple Hardware Test.


How to set a screen resolution other than what is displayed in the scaled list? I need to set my screen resolution 1280x720 (this is a requirement for a screencast I need to create).  When I go into the Display - Scaled menu this is no longer available as an option on Yosemite, even though it was available on previous versions of the OS on the same laptop.

Is there a way in Yosemite to access or force different screen resolutions for this?

You can install John Ford's screenresolution utility via brew install screenresolution. Alternatively you can download and compile the source here.
Once the utility is installed you can see all available resolutions via screenresolution list. Assuming the appropriate resolution is listed you can set your display with something like screenresolution set 1280x720x32.


Why Retina screenshots are twice as large as chosen area? This is a known issue, but I do not understand why the screenshot taken on my retina-MBP always has doubled size as compared to area chosen for screenshot:

If I choose 100x100 (as OS shows - of what? pixels? - on "get info" they do not provide, only shows "dimensions") area I get 200x200 which upon scaling becomes more blurry than original picture.

My questions:

Do all retina users always get these doubled screenshots?
How can I take a screenshot of the same size as the area I choose?

I found a lot of "resizing" solutions, but is there a way to take a screenshot with "original size" without resizing the resultant screenshot?

Yes - that's the way it's coded/engineered
No - you'll need to post process the images using a tool that's designed to automate this or use Automator to make a service to resample the images.

I like Skitch and Napkin for processing retina images, but there are many others.


Should I enable Trim for SSD drives in Windows / VirtualBox? I understand that Trim exists for OSX Mountain Lion, but is there anything I should do for Windows on Virtualbox in this regard?

No. The Mac OS handles the physical drive - so any sort of second level defragmentation, optimizations or attempts of a guest OS to control the virtual file system driver would just add delay and complexity on top of the normal IO. Unless you were booting Windows directly in control of the SSD, this setting should be off.


Software to clone / recover data from almost dead ssd on MBP MPB 15 2011 with Sierra on an ssd.

ssd is almost dead, Mac OS (Sierra) isn't loading with a folder with question mark showing on boot. The drive is detected in bios though, which gives me hope :)

I've taken it out of mac, connected to a regular pc & checked with mhdd & it shows dead & unrecoverable sectors on it.

Disk utility from mac internet recovery isn't showing any partitions on the drive & cannot make an image because of input/output error.

So I've googled & installed "Data Rescue 4" https://www.prosofteng.com/data-rescue-recovery-software on another MBP & made a bootable rescue usb to try to recover data, but this thing isn't working properly :(

Is there anything else I could use? I'd like to boot from smth which I can put on a usb with f.e. Rufus & either recover data to another usb hdd or make a sector by sector clone of an ssd drive with an option to skip dead/unreadable sectors to work on it on another machine.

Please recommend smth you tested & works well with Macs.

Thanks!

The best way to recover is to restore from your backup. Assuming you don't have a backup, you could try Disk Warrior, as I've found it tends to work well. Although damaged SSDs are trickier than hard drives, it may work.


How to keep track of external hard drives? I have about 7 external hard drives of varying capacities. From time to time, I move files from my MacBook onto those external drives and put Finder aliases where those files used to be. The process usually goes down like this:

Move file in internal drive to the external drive.
Hold Cmd + Option and drag the file from external drive to the original location, thereby creating an alias.

Months later I don't recall which file is on what drive. Keeping a note around to write that down is tedious. Is there any app that keeps an inventory of disconnected external hard drives?

This is an interesting (as in unique, but not something I would personally do) way to store files.

My first thought would be to use colored tags.

Put a colored label on each of your external drives
Tag the aliased file/folder with the color associated with the drive's colored label.

Below, I created a folder alias (Music) from a USB drive to my desktop then  I tagged the folder with the red tag to correspond with the color coded USB drive.

The colored tag on the folder alias will tell you which drive the alias resolves to.

You can even use multiple colors on the tag if your drives go above 7.  Here I have blue, orange, and red tagged.

You can find more information on how to fully use Tags from the Apple Support Document:  OS X: Tags help you organize your files


Auto Adding from Google Chrome to macOS Notes How do I make it possible to add stuff (text, links, images) from Google Chrome to macOS Notes app?

(It's available on right click or through extension to Evernote, Milanote, and so on, but not for the built-in Apple's Notes app)

Tried creating a service but failed.

Here's my rough service workflow:

Only texts can be added, and a new note is created.
Apple Script:

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "System Events"

        tell process "Notes"

            click menu item "New Note" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
            click menu item "Paste" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1

        end tell

     end tell
     return input
end run

Update*2:
To add pictures, simply use another Apple Script block that clicks a menu item. And add some delay for Notes app to launch.

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "System Events"

        tell process "Google Chrome"

            click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1

        end tell

     end tell
     return input
end run


How can I upload videos to Flickr using Uploadr? Flickr Uploadr on OS X scans the folders I selected, but it doesn't count the videos in that folder. If the folder doesn't contain any photos, it simply says:

  No photos

How do I get Uploadr to upload videos to Flickr?

Open the Uploadr app and click the about tab. Then click on the logo to make a hidden menu appear:

Click "Enable Video Upload" and that's it! You can now upload videos in the formats that Flickr supports.

Reference: UserVoice request about this issue


Can you disable a code signature check? I wrote a patch/utility that disables OS X's default functionality of starting iTunes when the play button is pressed.  This utility basically modifies the Remote Control Daemon (rcd) and comments out the Apple Script command to start iTunes.  This has worked fine until 10.7, but with 10.8 rcd now has code signature.  The patch now causes Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid) after the executable is patched.

Obviously, the code signature checking is working as designed, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on what options I might have.  Is there a legit way to turn off this check on a single executable?  I have tried turning of GateKeeper, but that, understandably, didn't do it.

Any other suggestions for disabling the play button?

I got the patch to work after running sudo spctl --master-disable. I don't know if there is any way to use spctl to target only rcd though.

Replacing the code signature with an ad-hoc identity with sudo codesign -f -s - /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/ didn't seem to work. Edit: but as mentioned by user48986, it works if you specify the path to the executable, like sudo codesign -f -s - /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd.


MacBook Pro 2012 - Lagging and slow boot-up I've left my Macbook pro to sleep with a lot of programs and memory used (probably lot of swap used as well)

And when I've waken it up, it started to have 60 s lags then 5-10 seconds of responsiveness and again 60s lag (with death beach ball)

When I boot up it takes 30 seconds and around 120 seconds to login. (Earlier it was like 20 s for everything)

The craziest part is that when I turn on the Black magic benchmark test of the hard disk drive - I have Samsung 840 evo with 250GB - it goes without lag... System is not so fast but it goes on without lag.

When o boot to Windows it  lags as well (almost without time for responsiveness)

Is this disk problem ?

The video show it all (skip too the moments when something is changing)

Laging Mac OS X with SSD disk Samsung 840 evo: http://youtu.be/9a7CjKuzzsw

Thank you very much in advance.

EDIT:

Interesting info: I've erased this disk, installed via USB SATA connector the Mac os x 10.9.

Then booted. From USB, NO PROBLEM!

Then mounted it to the SATA connector in the Macbook itself. And the same problem ... Of 5 minutes boot up time and extremely laggy Mac.

Maybe the problem is in the firmware of Mac itself ?

disk seems fine, as your tests indicate.
first, best chance:

have you done a safeboot to clear out some caches and repair the hard drive?
shift key down at boot up.  then when it comes up, do a regular reboot.


How can I get Siri to list all relationships? As can be seen in this screenshot:

Siri seems to be able to list all of the relationships which it understands.

Does anybody know the command for this? I've not been able to work it out.

Ask Siri "Who am I?", and then scroll down.


OSX disk space shows 200GB as "other" I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" Mid 2014, with a 500GB disk.

I never have to work with large files such as movie editing or anything like that nor do I use time machine backups. After upgrading to Catalina 10.15.4 I noticed my disk shows ~200GB of used space which I have no idea where is it coming from.

Rebooting doesn't help and even the system information tool is not giving information on what's taking up that much space.

In the image below, the other sections (Applications, Documents, etc) all contain the correct sizes that I expect from the stuff that I use.

You should run DaisyDisk on your mac. It will give you a graphical mapping of all the space on your drive. The app is about $10, but has a free trial you can use. Just download it from the link.

There is also an older version names Disk Inventory X which is Donationware. It says on the link:

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".

If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

For a quick start, please read the readme file on the disk image. Or see a 1 minute video about Disk Inventory X from macbreak.com.

Both apps take several minutes to scan your disk.


Why do symlinks sometimes vanish in Xcode? The source files of interest are on a network share hosted on a Win7 machine, but the symlinks are created on this Mac using ln -sf

These are .h files, and sometimes one or more of them are not found by the C++ compiler.  I get an error like foo.h is not found, when I can see it and read the (linked-to) contents using Finder.

My work-around is to copy the file instead of symlink to it.  Then I find that the other files (symlink .h files in the same directory linking to files in the same source directory; just like the "bad" one) have no problems.

Which one(s) are affected will vary, too.

Any idea what could be causing this?  It started when updating Mac OSX to Mavericks, which has different CIFS network code.  It still happens with Yosemite.

Note that the symlink does work on the Mac in general; I make it on that Mac, and even when it's having the error in Xcode I can see the file contents resolved as expected in the Columns view in Finder, or with cat on the bash prompt.  It's only Xcode's compiler's problem.

More Specifics

The files are part of a “framework” and the link (example)

cd /Volumes/There/blah/blah2/blah3/blah3/CocoaPods/Pods/BuildHeaders/Cheeseburger
ln -sf ../../Cheeseburger/Burger/head1.h
  ⋮ a bunch of files in same path, head2.h, head3.h, etc.

cd ../../Headers/Cheeseburger
ln -sf ../../Cheeseburger/Burger/head1.h
  ⋮ etc.

I'll get an error finding head5.h, and the others work fine.

Symlinks are often destroyed by some archiving tools, especially by those built into some versions of PHP, for example. Try to pack and unpack an archive and check if symlinks are still alive.
Also, symlinks won't be saved on NTFS or similar non-mac filesystem.
Please check if symlinks get broken after you access the drive from Windows computer.


Doing a "mail merge" from Microsoft Office to send out an individualized email I have an Excel spreadsheet with the grades of my students. Every so often I'd like to email out their current grades, one email per student, that will only include their last three homework grades or so.

Ideally I'd use Thunderbird to email it out but that might be trouble. Mail.app could also work, or Outlook in a pinch.

I've tried Word's Mail Merge and got all the way to the sixth step but the "Generate e-mail messages" option there is always greyed out, whatever I seem to be trying.

I'd also be happy with another solution, like using LibreOffice or exporting as text and using some command line tool to email it out but so far I haven't been able to emailing anything via mailx...

In the end, staying within the Microsoft Office environment is probably the easiest answer. Sorry for not having researched that more thoroughly before asking the question.

"Generate e-mail messages" in the last step was greyed out because Microsoft Outlook was not the default email application. So to make it work:

(Temporarily) Make MS Outlook the default email application: This is an option within the Mail.app preferences.
Go through the usual mail merge steps. Note that the email-address does not need to be in the Word message, but I would recommend to have it as a field in the Excel sheet.
In the last step the "generate e-mail messages" option should not be greyed out anymore. Select it.
A small window pops open. Among other options (Subject, for example) the field containing the email address can be chosen here.
The format can be chosen as "Text", "HTML" and "Attachment". When sending as text, all me line breaks would disappear, so I ended up sending as HTML, even though I very much prefer "text"...
Done.
(7. Don't forget to undo your choice of default email app, if you normally use another one.)


How can I quickly adjust “Do Not Disturb” - “Allow Calls From” in iOS? I like to adjust which contacts can call me when “Do Not Disturb” is active, but going deep into the settings each time is tedious. Is there a faster way to adjust this setting?

Long hold on the “Do Not Disturb” icon in control center, and select “Schedule”.
This will take you directly to the “Do Not Disturb” settings, where you can make any desired adjustments.


Is my iPhone bugged? Is there any way to determine if a non jail broken iPhone is bugged?, is it even possible to bug a non jail broken iPhone?

Thanks

Yes, there are ways - though detection depends on what kind of bug we're talking about.

Is it possible to bug a non jail-broken iPhone: Yes.

Remember that a bug does not have to be in software - it could possibly also be in hardware. It also doesn't have to be in the actual phone, it could be placed in the cell network or in your providers systems.

In order to detect bugging, you could use equipment to scan for out of the ordinary radio emissions. You would also need to use a tool such as Wireshark to monitor network transmissions from the phone.

However a bug could elude such detection by being for example remotely activated or timed. Then you would need to employ your detection tools when the bug is actually active.

All in all it is very hard for an "ordinary Joe" to be certain that a phone is not bugged.

However, it is very unlikely that your phone is bugged if you really are an "ordinary Joe".


.iso vs .img files for DVD images? There seem to be multiple standards for image files representing the contents of a DVD.  For example, iDVD creates .img files if told to burn a file rather than a DVD directly.  However, Linux install disks (for example) that are too big to fit on one CD (over 740 Mb or so) usually come in the form of .iso files meant to be converted to a physical DVD using dd, Toast, Disk Utility, or a comparable program.  Disk Utility can also mount an .iso image on the desktop so that it looks like a drive, much as with .dmg files.  So, several related questions:

What exactly differentiates a DVD-size .iso from a DVD .img?
Is there a simple conversion path from .img to .iso?
Is .img an Apple-specific file format?
If .img is Apple-specific, should I be worried about archiving DVD images that I want to keep permanently as .imgs (i.e., is it possible that future software won't be able to read them)?

The last question speaks to the specific issue that brought this question to mind--I have a number of DVDs of home movies, painstakingly produced with iMovie and iDVD, that I would like to archive both as actual burnt video DVDs (i.e. for a DVD player) and as image files from which I can burn more copies if necessary.  But is .img the best format to do this, or are those likely to become obsolete?  Would .iso be better?  I'm interested in the general question of .iso vs .img (vs any other relevant formats) too, as the title of the question indicates.

Single-track (.iso) vs. multiple-track (.img)

  Any single-track CD-ROM, DVD or Blu-ray disc can be archived in ISO
  format as a true digital copy of the original.

  But ISO files have limitations. For example, a CD can have multiple
  tracks, which can contain computer data, audio, or video. File systems
  such as ISO 9660 are stored inside one of these tracks. Since ISO
  images are expected to contain a binary copy of the file system and
  its contents, there is no concept of a "track" inside an ISO image,
  since a track is a container for the contents of an ISO image. This
  means that CDs with multiple tracks can't be stored inside a single
  ISO image; at most, an ISO image will contain the data inside one of
  those multiple tracks, and only if it is stored inside a standard file
  system.

  Formats such as CUE/BIN, CCD/IMG and MDS/MDF formats can be used to
  store multi-track disc images, including CD-Audio discs. These formats
  store a raw disc image of the complete disc, including information
  from all tracks, along with a companion file describing the multiple
  tracks and the characteristics of each of those tracks. This would
  allow an optical media burning tool to have all the information
  required to correctly burn the image on a new disc.

Shamelessly copied (an slightly edited) from wiki/ISO_image (24-10-2015).


SSH stops at 'SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received' When I attempt to SSH to anything from my iMac (SSH, git, etc.), SSH freezes at debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received. This only happens on my account; I created a new account as a test and everything worked fine. I did reinstall SSH, but both accounts use the same executable. I can SSH to my computer from other computers, so I'm assuming that the problem lies with ssh and not with sshd.

SSH version: OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
OS X Version: Version 10.6.8 build 10K549
Log: http://pastebin.com/wrugsYhf  (I use a custom port, 7742)

Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance.

Running unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK in Terminal worked for me, though I'm currently unsure why. One thing I did not mention in the body of my question was that I had to modify /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist in order to get sshd to work: here's a link to my org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist in case anyone in the future thinks they know what caused the problem.


Select file from command-line Is it possible to launch Finder from the command-line to perform a file select action?
The purpose of this would be for the end user to, when running a shell script, be able to select a file using a GUI instead of typing in the path and filename.

Is it possible to launch Finder from the command-line to perform a file select action?

There's some confusion about Finder and what it is/does.  You don't "launch" finder in the conventional sense.  It's always running. It's the graphical interface through which you interact with your Mac system.  You open a file using Finder's file selection tools or view the contents using Preview, etc.
Get to know the Finder on your Mac

The purpose of this would be for the end user to, when running a shell script, be able to select a file using a GUI instead of typing in the path and filename.

Bouncing back and forth between a GUI and a text environment is inefficient.  Why would you begin typing a command in a text environment, then switch to a GUI to get your file, then switch back to text?  Instead, you create the File Selection Dialog Box right there in the text environment.
There's a tool called dialog available on MacPorts and on Homebrew that allows you to create dialog and file selection boxes in your text environment.  Below is an example of the file selection box from the deletefile.sh script (similar to what you described).

For more examples of the different dialog boxes you can create, see:  https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog-figures.html


What is the normal fan speed for the 15'' Retina Macbook Pro? What is the typical fan speed for a 15'' Retina Macbook Pro ?

I would like to compare it with mine using istatpro

I've been monitoring my fan speeds for as long as I've had my device. At idle, the lowest it gets is hovering around 2000rpm. The left fan is usually closer to 2100rpm, actually. The maximum speed appears to be 6000rpm, which occurs during gaming and heavy CPU loads.

SMC Fan Control lets you monitor and control your fan speeds. The minimum setting is 2000rpm and the max is 6000rpm, so I think we can safely conclude that these are the standard maximum and minimum values.


What is the correct shasum of InstallESD.DMG for OS X 10.10 Yosemite? apples-mbp:~ apple$ shasum /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
142a3186e05932b60e2100452777eab3346913da  /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

This the result i got when I run shasum, I am getting a checksum error on installation file.

The correct sha1 of InstallESD.DMG for OS X 10.10.0 Yosemite is eebf02a20ac27665a966957eec6f5e6fe3228a19.

There's no way to correct corrupted downloads, so you have to download it again.


Microsoft Office on Mac Book Air I used to have Microsoft Office on MacBook Pro. Now I bought MacBook Air. what do you suggest to download and where from? I need to open my files that I created in my previous Mac and of course the Office that works offline

My parents office 356 is from 2010, and is installed through a DVD
newer versions are installed via online.
do you have a product key or account with Microsoft 365 license?
if so, go to office.com and sign in with the account with Microsoft 365 license. then, click get office, or download office, or some button like that. when finished installing, sign in with same account


How to repeat SMS message alerts indefinitely until read? I would like to enable repeated audible alerts of new SMS messages on an iPhone 6.  Specifically, I want the alert to be repeated indefinitely until I read the message.

This is because it is inconvenient for me to carry my phone with me around the house, but it is important for me to hear an alert when I return -- perhaps an hour or later -- to the room in which my phone is stored.

I think that the closest you can get is to change the number of "Repeat Alerts" for the Messages app in Notifications, but keep in mind that the maximum number of repeated alerts is 10 (at two minute intervals).

To change, go to Settings > Notifcations > Messages > Repeat Alerts.

Not a solution if your gone for an hour, but will get you up to 20 minutes.


Security problem as using same apple id on my mother and my phone bcz of which all imsgs and calls are going to her also I have 2 iphones one is with my mother and one is with me but apple id on both the phones is same which is creating problm for me as my imessages and facetime calls are going to her also so how can i make my stuff secure and stop my calls and message on going on her iphone????

Yes.
You can stop using the same Apple ID.

If you want to be able to share apps/books/music etc - but not personal data - then set up Family Sharing


What is the relationship between the OS release, the XCode release, and the default compiler? If you run:

'cc --version'

or

'c++ --version'

on a modern OS X with XCode and the command line tools installed (in my case, Mountain Lion with XCode 4.6.x) you will see that the default C compiler and C++ compiler are clang. At some point previously, it was GCC.

I'd like to know: is the change to clang as default attached to the OS revision (e.g. 10.6 vs 10.7), the XCode revision (e.g. 4.5 vs 4.6), some hybrid of the two, or something else altogether?

Xcode version
With a recent release of Xcode, the default compiler was changed from GCC (like you said) to LLVM (clang) - a more modern compiler, with more error options.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with your OS X version.


OS X 10.8 seems to break printer communications Anyone using a Kodak ESP 7250 with OS X 10.8?  Everything worked fine until I upgraded to 10.8. I have two computers and they both systematically stopped printing and scanning immediately after updating OS X.

I've tried Kodak support a few times but they are absolutely NO help.
I've installed the latest updates for printer and computer.
I have followed Kodak's troubleshooting steps.
I have tried USB and WiFi.
I have played with my firewall.

Nothing. Just thought I would throw out a message here and see if anyone has had similar issues that got passed it.

Thanks

This happened to me with my Epson after upgrading to Mountain Lion. Not for a while did I realize, I was not following Epson's onsite directions to the letter, and when I did, everything began to work just fine.


MacBook Air and external USB 3.0 hard drive I have EEB-40S-U3 with 500GB Seagate Momentus inside and 2012 MacBook Air 13". When I connect HDD case to laptop nothing happens: I don't hear any sound from HDD itself, volumes does not appear in Disk Utility.app, nothing changes in USB section in System Information.app and no new lines appear in system.log. I suspect that MacBook Air just does not supply enough power for drive. What are the possible solutions?

Case and drive itself work fine with old ASUS X51L laptop, which supports only USB 2.0. I also tried to connect case via USB 2.0 cable, but that didn't help.

If two Air don't power the same drive and you've tried several cables, you might need to talk to the drive manufacturer. MacBook Air can power a SuperDrive that triggers a high power mode on the USB ports, and I have seen reports that they can push well over 950 mA to burn a DVD.

Basically, it's unlikely two MAcBook are are both under-powering one hard drive and more likely the drive only asks for 500 mA and that's not enough to power the drive's controller or perhaps that drive/controller is simply out of spec.

You can refer to Apple's KB article that covers USB 3 devices getting 900 mA at 5V as a feature of the MacBook Air, so that should be plenty of power for a drive to operate.

You might need to seek service for either the Air or the drive if you can't fix things with trying other cables. The operation with other devices is nice, but in the end, if you need it to work with the Air, you'll need to work through that by repair/replacement of something.

Using the System Information tool on OS X, you should be able to determine if the USB chipset is sending any data over to the Air - whether or not it is getting enough power or even getting to the point where it can signal how much power it would like as part of the USB enumeration process.


Mavericks lock screen doesn't show screen saver Prior to upgrading to Mavericks, when I chose to lock my MacBook Pro's screen, it would do so with my screen saver options (rotate through images in a folder, and show a clock). However, when I go to lock my screen now, it's simply a black screen.

Is there a way to make Mavericks use my screen saver settings when I choose to lock my screen as with older versions of OS X?

Check system preference -> Security & Privacy -> General-> Require password XXX after sleep or screen saver begins


Can you spoof your iOS to pair an Apple Watch with an older iOS? I'll keep it short, if an iPhone is jailbroken can you spoof your iOS version to pair an Apple Watch running OS 4 or 3 for iOS 10 on an iPhone with iOS 9.3.2?

The Apple Watch relies heavily on support from the phone for a lot of common tasks, especially features like cellular data, notifications, and iMessage. It’s possible there would be a way to spoof the version the watch sees, but without a few copyrighted frameworks from iOS 11 or 10, it’d probably crash before you finished pairing.


Triple Boot Mac OS Sierra, Windows 10, Kali Linux 2.0 On A Macbook Pro I have successfully dual booted both Window and Mac OS as well as Kali and Mac OS. The problem is installing Kali once I have dual boot Windows and Mac OS. I have tried several tutorials, and the one that got me the furthest was here. Once I had windows and Mac OS dual booted, from within Windows I shrunk the Windows partition to 128gb, and created a 32gb for partition for Kali, a 32gb one for swap, and 32gb for a shared file folder between all three OSs. I then tried installing Kali with the GRUB boot loader. No errors occurred, then when booting with rEFInd I selected the Linux partition, only to receive an error saying "missing operating system." I then deleted all of the partitions, reinstalled Windows and then tried installing Kali without the GRUB boot loader. This did not work any better. Windows still gave the 0xc000000e with the "preparing to repair" message, and Kali still said it was missing the OS. I know this doesn't pertain entirely to Apple, as it involves Linux and Windows, but has anyone successfully done this before?

This is my laptop. It has a 500gb SSD, and 16gb of RAM.

I sugest the  easiest  way is to instal Mac and windows as you have done before make the partition etc then when you go to install Grub there is an option where to install it. install to the partition where the linux installation is (take note during partitioning the location) this way the boot partition doesn't get edited and often it cant be on new systems except by the host OS. then make a bootable usb with supergrub2 to boot linux this way when osx updates or anything else decides to write to EFI your ok. this still gives you the option to direct refind or whatever bootmanager to grub


How to do a clean installation of a software in Mac I bought a software as a dmg file. It came with a license which was expired on 31st October 2018
So, I bought a newer version of that of that software with a license for the next 12 months.

When I installed that new software and open it. It says that your license is expired.
When I clicked on the license tab. It shows the expiry date which is 31st October 2018

I wanted to know how I can completely remove that software from my system so, that I can re-install the newer version of it and get the upgraded license.

Note: I know how to do it in a Windows machine by removing the registry of that software or using 3rd party software such as uninstaller pro.

There is no registry on macOS so the developer can choose from many ways to license the software. Some store files and licenses in your user keychain, others in your user library. If the software is licensed per computer (say three people have user accounts on your mac but all can use the software) then the license key would be stored in the system area.

I would start with the vendor to get the uninstall / unlicense steps needed for however they choose to implement their licensing scheme. It could be a preference that is cryptographically signed or something as trivial as writing a hidden (or obscurely located) file on the filesystem.

Things like this are why App Store and buying apps through Apple is so compelling - all this confusion on licensing is cut through with a simple to understand model. Unfortunately - many vendors still try the old ways or think they can save money by not supporting their customers. This vendor is doubly unfair since the new install should clean up after the old if the old uninstall process left behind detritus or they don't have a clear path to get support.

I'm glad to see they did support you and resolve this issue. Feel free to add an answer if you learned where this vendor stores their licenses or if it was just re-running their license tool that fixed it.


Is there a way in Xcode to create a file not associated with a project? I know that I can do this if I open a text file and use Xcode but often when working on a project, I want to have a temporary place to write something (usually stuff that I'll be copying into the Terminal). Any way to do this in Xcode 4.3?

There is no a way to do this in Xcode. It must be related to the project or workspace. It even does this if you deselect the target.

It sounds like what you need is a text editor and not an IDE like XCode since XCode is built for OS X and iOS development primarily. You may want to try TextWrangle for free, or it's purchasable counter part BBEdit.

If your doing C/C++, Python or PHP work, you may want to try some of the other JetBrains products like AppCode, PyCharm or PHPStorm. There is also Eclipse, with it's many plugins, the heavy favorite amongst many developers.


Library sharing suddenly stopped working I have three Macs on the same local network, all running iTunes 11 (one running 11.0, the other two running 11.1). As of today, suddenly none of the computers' libraries appear on any of the others as a shared library.

On all three computers, library sharing is enabled in iTunes preferences, Shared Libraries are set to be visible (under General), and Shared Libraries are not set to be hidden under Parental Controls.

Nothing with my network setup has changed, and I ran Network Diagnostics and everything is normal. None of the computers have even been rebooted!

What gives?

This happens to me sometimes too - quitting and relaunching iTunes usually fixes the problem.


What is the latest version of OS X that I can run on a Black MacBook 4,1 (Early 2008 model?) I would like to run OS X El Capitan on an older, black MacBook 4,1 (Early 2008 model with 2GB of RAM).

However, after looking at the El Capitan specifications, it appears that OS X 10.11 requires at least a "Late 2008 Aluminium" unibody MacBook.

My first question is:

Does anyone here have OS X 10.11 running on a MacBook 4,1?

Probably a more realistic second question is:

What is the latest version of OS X that I can get running on a MacBook 4,1 Early 2008 model?

As you mentioned, OS X El Capitan will run on the MacBook (13-inch Aluminium, Late 2008) model, known as MacBook 5,1.

The latest version of OS X that you can get running on a MacBook 4,1 (Early 2008 model) is Mac OS X 10.7.5. El Capitan will not run on the non-Aluminium 2008 models (Early or Late).

I have verified this information against the Mactracker app (not affiliated with Mactracker in any way).


Removing iPad virtual keyboard prompt (iOS 13 beta) On my iPad I’m using a Bluetooth keyboard, I’m using a web page as an app that is downloaded on the home screen of the iPad. When I start typing this iPad prompt pops up as seen in the picture. It distorts the web app I’m using. Anyway to stop this? I’m strongly leaning towards no but maybe some expert knows a way. I’m using iPadOS 13 beta 5 on an iPad Pro 12.9 by the way.

I'm running iPad Pro 10 inch with iPadOS 13 beta 5, and you should be able to turn it off in

  Settings > General > Keyboard

and turn off Shortcuts. This should remove the bar shown in the picture.


How can I trim the first 3 characters in file name with AppleScript? Is there a way to trim off the first 3 character of multiple file names? (or last 3 characters)

This code will do it for you:

set whichFile to choose file with multiple selections allowed
repeat with aFile in whichFile
    tell application "Finder"
        set filename to name of aFile
        set name of aFile to ((characters 4 thru -1 of filename) as string) --trim first 3
        --set name of whichFile to ((characters 1 thru -4 of filename) as string) --trim last 3
    end tell
end repeat

Note that stripping the last three will get rid of the extension. If that isn't what you want to happen, let me know in a comment.


Handoff webpages in Safari from iPhone to MacBook without the Dock I have a webpage loaded on my iPhone. Now I want it in Safari on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid-2015).

The only way I found so far: Click the icon in the Dock (on my MacBook). But I don't want to use the Dock.

How can I Handoff a webpage from my iPhone to my MacBook without needing to look at the Dock?

You can use a feature called iCloud Tabs.

Set up and use iCloud Tabs

  iCloud keeps the tabs you have open in Safari up to date on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac. That means you can go from one device to the next and pick up browsing wherever you left off.

Once you have iCloud Tabs setup, simply launch Safari on your MacBook and go to Safari Menu bar → View → Show Tab Overview, or use the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + /.

The web pages open in Safari on all your linked devices are listed just below the tabs open in the current window.

The iCloud Tabs are listed just below all the open tabs in the current Safari window, so you may have to a bit of scrolling if you have a lot of tabs open in Safari on your Mac.

The beauty of iCloud Tabs is that it also works the other way round. You can easily open pages from your Mac on your iPhone. This comes in handy especially since iPhone (unlike iPad) doesn't show a Handoff icon in the Dock.


How do I prevent Facebook on iOS 7 from accessing my location? I'm using Facebook on iOS 7. When I send a message, my location is included, and the prompt tells me how to turn it off permanently: Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and turn it off for Facebook. But Facebook doesn't appear as an app in Location Services. So, how do I prevent Facebook from accessing my location?

To be clear, the question is not about whether Facebook includes my location in messages. It's that I don't trust Facebook itself to access my location.

Indeed @cksum appears to be correct. I just tested this on my dev device that's never had Facebook installed. The app said that it knew my location and showed the blue location icon, but didn't show in the list of apps in Location Services.

I pressed 'send' and got the 'Facebook wants to use your location' message, which I accepted and now the app is in the list and allowed me to switch it off.

In conclusion, yes it appears that Facebook doesn't request the actual location data until you press send, at which point the app is added to the list in Settings.


How to reset default sidebar favourites icons in Finder? I broke my Mac Mini, trying set some permissions on some folders for web-development, but somehow ended up removing permissions from everything.

I managed to restore permissions, but have had a few issues since, namely the folder icons on the sidebar in Finder are not reflecting the icons they should be.

The desktop also seems slow to refresh when saving a file to it. They don't appear until I do another action.

Is this something I can fix in Terminal or elsewhere to restore everything back to how it was? Will I have to resort to reinstalling Mavericks?

Alternatively, will restoring from my Time Machine have an impact on things like these folder icons.

edit:

folder permissions when running ls -le as per answer below

 drwxrwxrwx@ 16 username  staff    544  5 Nov 21:33 Github
 -rw-r--r--@  1 username  staff      0  4 Nov 02:01 Icon?
 drwxr-xr-x@ 72 username  staff   2448  4 Nov 01:55 Library
 drwx---r-x@ 20 username  staff    680  4 Nov 01:44 Movies
 drwx---rw-@  9 username  staff    306  4 Nov 01:54 Music
 drwx---rw-@  8 username  staff    272  4 Nov 01:45 Pictures

etc..

How did you restore permissions? Manually, or did you use the "Repair" feature in Disk Utilities?

Restoring from a Time Machine backup from before things went bad should work.

One thing you might try before restoring is to delete the Finder preferences. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist then relaunch the Finder (Hold Option while selecting the Finder icon in the dock). The preference file will be regenerated with the system defaults.


Can't save alarm, iPhone 4s My iPhone 4s has recently deleted all my alarms and now I can't create any new ones.

Open Clock
Tap Alarm. Screen shows "No Alarms"
Tap "+"
Choose: Time: 11:00PM, Repeat: Never, Label: Alarm, Sound: Radar, Snooze: Yes
Tap Save
Screen goes back to show "No Alarms"

Specs:

iPhone 4s
iOS 8.0.2 (12A405)
Capacity 12.7Gb
Available 633Mb

What I've tried:

Turning it off and on again
Hard reset

That's very strange. The only thing that I can think a bug in the version of iOS that your iPhone 4S is running. So try a software update and if iOS 8.4.1 doesn't solve your problem, then hopefully iOS 9 will when it comes out in a few weeks.

If you don't wish to update your iPhone now, you could try to backup your iPhone and all apps (make sure to check "Encrypt Backup") and then wipe your iPhone and restore the backup. This, however, is a lot more tedious than just updating it.

So you should probably update it and go from there.


How to debug slow Chrome on MacBook Air? I have a MacBook Air that is behaving poorly with Chrome.  Symptoms include:

Chrome often giving the "Ahh Snap" error message for lots of different websites, this happens frequently with the Google search page, when I enter a query to search, it often crashes.
The insertion point for entering text is slow to respond to a click to position cursor.
Web pages are slow to respond, for example, clicking on a message to select it for deletion inside Gmail can take a long time after clicking. This can take 30 seconds at times.  Sometimes, if I click again, I get the multi-colored rainbow spinning wheel.
Craig's List and Garnet Hill pictures do not appear in Chrome.

None of these issues happen with Safari. I've confirmed that speed tests show excellent Internet connectivity.  I've run the Activity Monitor and no process in using significant CPU percentage.  I'm running OS X Lion.

Should I try upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion?  Should I reinstall Chrome.  Should I reinstall my extensions to Chrome?  How can I best track down the issue?

I'd start by creating a new "User" in Chrome.

Chrome > Preferences: New User

This will give you a fresh start on preferences and extensions.

If the new user has no issue then you likely have a bad extension or preference.

Chrome and Safari are both memory pigs these days (in exchange for which they are wicked fast when they have enough memory).  How much RAM does your Air have?

When you look at the Chrome console when images fail to load is there anything interesting there?  Chrome > View > Developer > JavaScript Console


OS X as X Window Server Is it possible to serve Mac applications like iPhoto over a network to X Window clients?

Our problem is that a broken Graphics card is causing a lot of stripes etc on the screen.
Other remote solutions doesn't circumvent the problem.

This is a G5 PowerPC.

No, it isn't. iPhoto and nearly every application on OS X don't run under X11 environment. They have no idea about X11 and cannot be transmitted via X11. Besides, the server component of X-Window runs on the computer whose display is used. You are actually looking for a way to make iPhoto transmit its appearance to a different window server.


Cutting and pasting files OS X doesn't allow me to cut files. Are there any applications to enable this?

It is possible to cut-paste files/folders in OSX 10.7 Lion's Finder (so, since 2011), but the OSX way is slightly different from the Windows way.

⌘-C (copy first)
⌘-⌥-V (now move to it's destination)

So, the steps are very similar to copy-paste, but holding ⌥ (option key) moves the file/folder instead of copies it.

You can also have a look in the edit menu after copying a file - press ⌥ while looking to see the difference: "paste" changes to "move item here".


Decimal separator setting for the Spotlight calculator I use the Spotlight calculator a lot but since the upgrade to OS X Mavericks the decimal pointer has changed to a , instead of the . as in a previous release. Probably it now respects some locale setting but I cannot find which.

I reside in a German speaking country but use a US keyboard, the interface is set to English, the region formats are set to United States (with the exception of the currency being set to Euro), see this screenshot.

Still, the calculator expects a , as a decimal separator:

1+.5

gives no result, while

1+,5

prints 1+,5 = 1,5

How can I change the decimal separator back to a .?

Edit: As you can see in the screenshot the decimal point is set to . through these settings. Spotlight ignores that setting until you reboot (which I hadn't done at the time).

You can change the settings from the Advanced...button in the Language & Region preference pane.

Remember that you have to either reboot or log out for the changes to be applied to Spotlight!


Macbook Pro lags when dual screen is connected My mac acts weird sometimes when I connect it to two of my 1080p screens. The computer will become extremely lagging to the point where it becomes unusable. Things will recover once I unplug either one screen or both screens. (My MBP's screen is closed, power plugged in.)

I didn't have these issues before, therefore my guess is that there is no hardware compatibility issue. However, I think that my gfx should also be adequate to support two 1080p screens.

Does anyone have any idea what could be happening?

Specs:
Macbook Pro, 15 inch (Mid 2014)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB

** I have been monitoring my RAM and CPU usage through Activity Monitor when these lag moments happen and they were barely utilised.

** Also ran an Apple Hardware Test but no issues were found.

Try a different HDMI cable. Not all HDMI cables work well with Macs. Make sure that you get one of a decent quality, those are usually better.


Can't start PHP localhost So i've done this before but I don't remember the command. I was able to use a directory a localhost file. I've tried sudo apachectl start but when I go to localhost the page isn't found. I've also tried restarting the server, but the result was still the same. Any ideas? I'm using OSX Mavericks

I think you have a problem with opening http://localhost ?

If I'm right you should check your httpd.conf:

Look for: Listen 80 <- This line should not be commented and make sure 80 is written ( when you write localhost into your browser, the browser checks the 80 port on default.
)

If it's 80 then check your if your server root folder is OK:

Must be where the --prefix folder is : normally under /usr/local/apache2.x.x

Then you should check that the DocumentRoot points to the right folder (where your index.html is located if no index.html is present)


Is it possible to mute notification sound on ALL apps? I want to enable the sound button (left side of the iPhone X), but then I got the notification sound whenever I got a message on WeChat. I'm fine with disabling the notification sound on WeChat.

But then, there are other, numerious apps that send out the notification and whenever I get it, the notification sound is alerted.

So far I only found it is possible to disable the sound one by one on each app, but is there any global setting that disables it? I use iOS 11.

No.

Unfortunately, there is no way to do them all at once. You’ll have to do them individually.


Time Machine backup to different subnet fails after update to macOS 10.13 We used a Mac Pro running server app as time machine target. The Mac Pro is on a different subnet, so we had to add it as a time machine target via command line:
sudo tmutil setdestination -ap afp://user@host.domain.tld/timemachine

This worked pretty well on several machines. Today, I upgraded the Mac Pro from OS X 10.10 and Server 5.0 to macOS 10.13 and Server 5.6. This means, the time machine target stuff was moved from the server into the operating system. I checked the sharing settings:
System Preferences -> Sharing -> File Sharing -> timemachine, rightclick -> Advanced options:

Share over "SMB and AFP"
Share as Time Machine backup destination checked

Next thing I tried was a TM backup on my local machine. Failed with error The network backup disk does not support the required capabilities. My first idea was to resetup my local Time Machine. I thus removed the TM-target and tried to readd it:
sudo tmutil setdestination -ap afp://user@host.domain.tld/timemachine
Password:
Destination password:
Disk does not support Time Machine backups. (error 45)
The backup destination could not be added.

Same result with SMB instead of AFP.
Then I tried to run a backup on a different machine, same error as above. This machine still has the Mac Pro as a TM target as I didn't remove it yet.
I checked the logs on my local machine and found that TM is trying to use /Volume/timemachine-4 as target. mount told me that there are several mounts to the Mac Pro, thus I unmounted everything and restarted my local machine. After that I was at least able to readd te Mac Pro as TM target (via AFP). But a backup resulted in the same error again: The network backup disk does not support the required capabilities.
Does anyone know which required capabilities are not provided (anymore)? Or do I need to open additional ports in the firewall between the two subnets?
Update 1
After trying this and that, I again removed the TM target, but can't readd it, even after a reboot. However, the log tells me (when trying to mount via AFP):

kernel: (afpfs) AFP_VFS afpfs_vnop_ioctl:  SyncDir failed 22
backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogError] Mountpoint /Volumes/timemachine does not support required Time Machine capabilities!

But I also see (besides some other NetAuthSysAgent messages)

(AppleShareClientCore) ERROR: AFP_OpenSession - Login failed with 80

Don't know whether this indicates a problem or is normal operations, e.g. due to falling back to some other authentication.
Update 2
The target share point on the Mac Pro is on a Thunderbolt attached Lacie device, which is still on the old Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. Could this be the problem?

There is a Lacie Raid attached to the Mac Pro. The Raid runs on HFS+, which doesn't get changed to APFS when updating the system to macOS 10.13 High Sierra. However, it seems that backing up onto a volume with HFS+ file system is not supported anymore.

I created another share on the system disk, which is APFS by now, and was able to back up onto this disk. Conclusion: Time Machine targets have to reside on APFS.


Volume password challenge in Migration Assistant I'm trying to migrate a user account from an old MacBook Pro to a recent, two-year-old iMac.

MacBook Pro, Mid-2010, High Sierra
iMac, High Sierra

I'm able to open Migration Assistant on both devices. The device I'm migrating to sees the source device, it totals up the capacity utilization of the accounts I can migrate from. I choose the account on my source device that I want to migrate.
When I'm ready to go, though, Migration Assistant on the target device gives me a message saying that I must supply a Volume Password for an account that is authorized. I thought this was because my source machine used FileVault. I input the password for that account on the source device, but it wouldn't authorize.
Therefore, I decrypted my source machine, meaning I turned off the FileVault protection. It took  a couple of days to do that.
Migration Assistant still gets to a point where it requires a Volume Password. I don't know what it means. I've tried every password used by every account on the source and target devices. I'm still blocked from migration.

I resolved the Volume Password issue. I did two things, so I don't know which of the two actions resolved it or if they both played a part together. If you encounter the same Volume Password issue, maybe your scenario will resemble mine and this will help you, too.

The accounts on my target iMac had issues with their iCloud configuration. I reentered the authentication for those iCloud accounts.
Returning to the Migration Assistant, this time when I ran through the wizard I waited for the source accounts and documents to be identified completely before advancing to the next screen which prompted me to create a password for the administrator account I was migrating. Formerly, I created the password on that screen before the previous screen completed identification of the file sizes to be migrated, while going back and forth between the two screens until the file sizes were calculated completely.

This time, I waited until the file size calculation was complete before advancing to the next screen for creating a password for the administrator account I was migrating.
The next screen is where, formerly, Migration Assistant challenged me for a Volume Password. This time, the prompt didn't refer to a "Volume Password," but instead said it needed authentication for an account authorized to create a new user. I realized this meant an account on the target machine. That must have been what it was trying to do at this point before. I still don't know why it didn't work in the former case, because I know that all the passwords I tried included those target machine accounts, too, and they didn't work. This time, instead of challenging for a Volume Password, the screen identified for me the name of an administrator account on the target machine.
I supplied that account's password and the migration began.
So, it works now. As an extra reward for surmounting this surreal problem, while I was fixing my iCloud synchronizations I got the attached error message. Mind you, there is only one iMac on my network. The source for my migration is a MacBook Pro.
This is a perfect OSX koan and it is my single favorite error message ever.


Self-hosted Webinar service software I'm searching for self-hosted webinar software. The software must be ready to organize webinar services and be fully independent, without any dependencies on Google Hangouts or other servers. It does not matter if it is free or paid.

Thanks.

A few suggestions:

BigBlueButton

  BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for on-line learning. BigBlueButton enables you to share documents (PDF and any office document), webcams, chat, audio and your desktop. It can also record sessions for later playback.

BigBlueButton is free and open source.

OpenMeetings

  Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.

Openmeetings is free and open source.

WebHuddle

  Designed with the end-user in mind—as well as the realities of corporate information technology resources—WebHuddle is easy to use and flexible in delivery and installation. To create a meeting today, simply click the log in button, create a profile, and follow the instructions for uploading content and conducting your WebHuddle virtual meeting. During the beta period, there is no charge to use the WebHuddle service.

WebHuddle is free during the beta period.

RHUB Webinar Appliance

  R-HUB gives you 6-in-1 web/audio/video conferencing and remote support server that YOU own and YOU control. Forever.

RHUB Webinar Appliance is a commercial product.


Does Apple save a (hashed) version of my device passwords? As earlier described in this question, I was asked today by my iPad to enter the user account password of my MacBook, and my MacBook later asked me to provide the passcode of my iPad. I'm specifically not talking about my iCloud password, the actual device passwords were requested and this behaviour is kind of known.

Now my question is: What happens to these passwords? Are they sent over to Apple? Are they used locally to decrypt something that has been encryted with that passcode?

So is Apple in possession of data that can be used to run brute-force attacks agains my device passwords? This would be totally against the idea of the T2-chip limiting brute-force attacks and I never agreed that such information is sent over to Apple and at no point was I informed about that. I'm not sharing my KeyChain with iCloud and do not wish to.

I couldn't find any exact information on that matter, anybody shedding some light on it is highly welcomed.

I haven't reverse engineered if it's a hashed / salted version of the password or if it's just key exchange and entangled secrets that are cryptographically difficult to alter. However, my best estimate is no - it's not simply a hashed version of your password.
Apple states that they don't retain the secret or shared key, so I expect if that's the case, it is unintentional or a weakness in their algorithm / implementation and not they are lying to us about their design intent and execution.
There are very high visibility cases where FBI and U.S. Government frequently complain bitterly, publicly and in the courts arguing that Apple should change their design to make it easier for government to get into people's data and devices, so I tend to think Apple is largely doing precisely what they say to protect the integrity of your data / keys and passwords against surveillance, and unlocking.
Apple clearly designs things to have much data encrypted before your device sends: IP addresses and device identifiers. When they don’t retain that data indefinitely, that limits the potential for lost or stolen data, as well as limits what could even be delivered to the government by legal or procedural discovery. What I can tell is Apple works continually to reduce any non-brute-force access avenues by technical design and by making it easy to choose a complicated passphrase. When we choose secure secrets, that makes bypassing encryption more costly in terms of time and effort.
Whether you feel Apple can be honest or just is honest and/or transparent is hard to know ultimately unless you’re there in the room when the government comes knocking for data or concessions.

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/government-information.html
https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/
https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests/


How do you delete a mailbox from your Yahoo app on the iPhone? I have an iPhone 8 running the latest version of the yahoo mail app (4.37)

In the app, I can either "Add another mailbox" or add another account thru "Manage Accounts"

I initially added my account as a mailbox through the "Add another mailbox" link.  It added my account/mailbox but didn't load all my emails.  I then clicked "Manage Accounts" and added my account.

Going thru "Manage Accounts" to add my account shows all my emails.  Now, I want to delete the mailbox that was created.  However, I can't seem to do so.  I even went through "Manage Accounts" to delete the account, hoping that it would remove both the mailbox and account but it didn't.

I followed the directions on Yahoo's website but those instructions didn't work

I also tried adding my gmail account (as a test to delete it) thru the Yahoo mail app as a mailbox.  I'm running into the same problem, I can't delete my gmail account/mailbox either.

Hopefully someone can help me.  Thanks.

UPDATE: Deleting the app didn't work.  The mailboxes are still here.
I also tried going to my Iphone Settings->Yahoo Mail->Reset All Accounts.  Also didn't work.  Both my gmail account and that rogue yahoo account is still there.

From Yahoo's site:

Tap the Menu icon Image of the Sidebar menu icon..
Tap Manage Accounts.
Tap Account info below the Yahoo Mail account that's linked.
Tap the X beside the linked account. <- I assume you did this, and it did not delete.
Tap Unlink to confirm.

From:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/add-remove-email-accounts-yahoo-mail-sln26459.html (your link took me to different document...)

If the account doesn't go away via the Yahoo delete instructions, I think you should look for sending a report to Yahoo.


How to always allow "[program] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." I use a program which prompts me often to "make changes" (make a system-level/root-level change). I trust this program and want to always allow it to do so. How is this done? I would expect an "always allow" button, but there isn't one.

I know the system directory which the program wants to modify and that I could lower the permissions of that folder; however, that may have an impact on other applications which expect certain permissions on that folder, so I don't want to do that.

Here is an example of the dialog. (I removed the name for privacy.)

This is too large a trust you want to give to osascript.

Do you want this command to run without asking you for a real confirmation:

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'

?