iPhone has been updated successfully but why is it still stuck on connect to iTunes? I only wanted to restore my iPhone 7plus, so I downloaded iOS 10.3.2 and 10.3.1 from a trusted site.
I have made backup and all is okay, then when I attempt to restore my iPhone using the downloaded version, at the end of restoration process, my iPhone stuck on connect to iTunes!

I have connected the iPhone to my computer and it shows a message: There's a problem with iPhone which needed to be updated or restored!!
I tried to use update with the both iOS versions and it says iPhone has been updated successfully. However, it is still stuck on connect to iTunes?

What's wrong? How do I proceed from here?

Those versions are no longer signed.

Apple has stopped signing iOS 10.3.1 so it will not work to downgrade to. You need to use iTunes to update back to iOS 10.3.2 and your phone will work again.


Is it possible to create a Wi-Fi hotspot from iPhone that's not ad-hoc? First off, I am well aware of how to—in general—create a wireless hotspot using an ad-hoc network directly from my iPhone.

I have previously used the latest version of MyWi (version 4.12.6 at time of writing) but it creates ad-hoc networks and this doesn't work for me.

I do not want to and cannot create an ad-hoc network from my iPhone to allow another device to share its connection (must be wireless, as bridged connections don't help either).

Does anybody know if this is possible?

In iOS 4.3 there will be Personal Hotspot integrated in firmware. Just wait


LDAP users in Catalina cannot log in - CRAM-MD5 error in opendirectoryd I'm using Catalina 10.15.4 OSX as client and FreeBSD 12-1 with openldap-sasl-server-2.4.48_1 as Openldap server. I've configured the LDAP server using Direct Utility.

I can see the LDAP users on Directory Editor tab;
I can use "id user" in terminal showing the user, its groups etc;
I can use "dscl localhost -read /Search/Users/user" that shows all user info;
I can use "dscacheutil -q user -a name user" that shows all user info;
I can change to root in terminal and then "su - user" and it works (I've created the home directory and mapped to #/Users/$uid$;
BUT I CAN'T login using user.

All network users are enabled to login. I've tried using "ssh user@localhost" and at Login Window. It doesn't work.

Setting debug with "odutil set log debug" and taking a look in Console logs:

opendirectoryd  failed CRAM-MD5 authentication for authzid - '<private>' authcid - '<private>' error 49
opendirectoryd  ODRecordVerifyPassword failed with result ODErrorCredentialsInvalid
opendirectoryd  nw_path_evaluator_start [78C31F06-08D0-4EF9-B584-EB41028A814D IPv6#0d17d740.389 generic, local: IPv6#ef0057ec.49455, indefinite]
    path: unsatisfied (No network route)

On server, CRAM-MD5 is available.

supportedSASLMechanisms: SCRAM-SHA-1
supportedSASLMechanisms: SCRAM-SHA-256
supportedSASLMechanisms: DIGEST-MD5
supportedSASLMechanisms: CRAM-MD5
supportedSASLMechanisms: NTLM

What's going wrong? How to use LDAP users on OSX?

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There are some tutorial on the Internet about editing a directory configuration file (plist). However, this had worked in later versions of OSX. For example:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add ':module options:ldap:Denied SASL Methods:' string DIGEST-MD5" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/LDAPv3/yourldapserver.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add ':module options:ldap:Denied SASL Methods:' string CRAM-MD5" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/LDAPv3/yourldapserver.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add ':module options:ldap:Denied SASL Methods:' string NTLM" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/LDAPv3/yourldapserver.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add ':module options:ldap:Denied SASL Methods:' string GSSAPI" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/LDAPv3/yourldapserver.plist

In Catalina we can't edit anymore this file (yourldapserver.plist). I've tried to usa another tool, defaults, but the file can only be altered if we copy it to another place. At the normal system location we can't edit to test these configurations.

Does it work for you if you try to edit the plist file indirectly with odutil, as follows:

odutil set configuration /LDAPv3/foo.example.com module ldap option "Denied SASL Methods" CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN NTLM


Can I disable wifi on boot? System not booting That is, are there nvram boot-args to disable wifi or a startup key sequence that does?
Safe mode is said to PARTIALLY disable Wi-Fi on some Macs.

I googled and couldn't find an answer.

Haven't managed finding/searching the source code because that's hard to do from ths iPhone. My Mac is not booting normally... Even in safe mode. (Diagnostic running now. )
I'm getting an error about AWDL mode suspending and I recently enabled AirDrop and so I want to see if I can boot if I completely disable Wi-Fi.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) and tested the following on it.

With my Wi-Fi network adapter turned on and connected, I shutdown my MacBook Pro. (This was to ensure the change I was about to make did indeed disable my Wi-Fi network adapter when rebooted.)

With the MacBook Pro shutdown, I then started it in single-user mode.

  Start up in single-user mode or verbose mode

  Use these steps to start up your Mac in single-user mode or verbose
  mode:

  Shut down your Mac.
  Press the power button to start up your Mac.
  Immediately hold down the following keys:

  Hold down Command-S for single-user mode.
  Hold down Command-V for verbose mode.

  You've successfully entered single-user mode or verbose mode when you
  see white text appear on the screen.

If you can't enter single-user mode, see How to start up your Mac in single-user or verbose mode for additional details.

In single-user mode, run the following commands:

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

Once the filesystem has been checked and you've mounted the / volume as writable, use the following command to disable the Wi-Fi network service, which will turn off the power to the Wi-Fi network adapter when rebooted into normal mode.

networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled Wi-Fi off

Now reboot using the reboot command, type reboot and press enter.

Once rebooted and in normal mode you can reenable the Wi-Fi network service, thus restoring power to the Wi-Fi network adapter, by doing the following.

In Terminal, use the following command:

networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled Wi-Fi on

You'll be prompted for your password, as shown in the image below.

Type in your password and click the Modify Configuration button, or press enter.

Note: While in single-user mode, if your wireless network service is not named "Wi-Fi" then use the following command to determine what network services you have.

networksetup -listallnetworkservices

On my system, after using networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled Wi-Fi off the output was:

An asterisk (*) denotes that a network service is disabled.
*Wi-Fi
Display Ethernet
USB Ethernet
Display FireWire
Bluetooth DUN
Thunderbolt Ethernet
Thunderbolt FireWire
iPhone USB
Bluetooth PAN

So, "Wi-Fi" was the right choice for me.

Note: I do not have FileVault enabled and if you do, you may have additional steps to take to access single-user mode.


My external hard drive has been formatted. No backup on Time Machine. How can I recover my files? I lent my hard drive to a friend and he has formatted it as he couldn't get his PC to recognise it. I have no Time Machine backUp. Is there any way of recovering this data?

First step, use a low level tool like dd to make an image of the drive as it exists now, and then stop using the drive. Every second that drive spends connected to a computer (especially a Mac) is a chance for something new to be written to it on top of data you want to recover. All of your recovery attempts should be performed on the image that you make.

Once you have that image, there are a lot of tools you can try to use.

TestDisk can recover the partition table if that was overwritten. If you had multiple partitions, restoring the table will likely magically and immediately "unformat" all except the first one, because all their metadata will still be intact.

The next thing you want to try depends on the filesystem each (or the only) partition had. There are tools explicitly made for unformatting HFS+, various types of FAT, ext2, etc.

If that fails, or even if it doesn't, the final step is to use a tool that will search through the entire drive, sector by sector, and try to put files back together based on their headers. This is prone to failure in cases of fragmentation, but can often recover things that other methods cannot (including deleted files, fyi). I recommend PhotoRec. You might also try some of the Mac-specific tools covered in this article.


Screen Not Working and Lock Button Stuck The screen has broken on my iPhone 4S and the On/Off button does not work. I had an idea that it might fix if I restart it (tell me if I'm wrong) but I can't. Is there a way that I can restart or even better update it from iTunes on the MacBook? I do know how to back it up.

Method 1: Reboot iPhone by setting "Bold Text"

Open the Settings app and head to “General”
Go to “Accessibility” and locate “Bold Text”, flip that to the ON position
An alert will show up saying “Applying this setting with restart your iPhone” – so tap on “Continue” to immediately soft reboot device

Method 2: Restart the iPhone By Resetting Networking Settings

Head to Settings app and go to “General” and then to “Reset”
Locate “Reset Network Settings” and select it, then tap to confirm and reboot your phone.

If the issue is still not solved you'd better to call Apple or have someone check for you. Or you can check hcqs.cc for replacement parts and repair it yourself.


MacBook App Store not downloading or updating apps When I want to download an app (clicking on the cloud with arrow icon) or when I want to update an app (like XCode), the app gets the "square in circle" icon and stays like this forever.

clicking on the square does not stop/cancel the process
signing out and back in the App Store or restarting the MacBook (Big Sur) did not help (i.e. the same behaviour when signing back in or after restart.
there is Internet (since I see and choose App Store content)

Is there a command line (in the terminal) to force cancel a started download / update?
Is there a place (log file or already installed logging app) to see the errors why App Store is stuck?

A common solution is retry the operation in Safe mode.


install Lion on Imac with macbook-pro HDD copy Is it possible to do a new lion install on an imac if you copied/cloned the HDD of your macbook-pro (with CCC)?

In theory that is ofcourse, because it won't.

The installer log, mentions:

missing of authentication module "ConfigurationProfiles"
unable to find service discovery callback for module "PlistFile"
and some more details

is there something I can do to fix?

What I can not understand is why a complete copy of the macbook will make my imac work again, but I can not do a fresh install?
This problem that I am trying to fix started out with the imac hanging in the grey screen. After that I try'd the normal things like cmd+R but it just did not install from the app store, wich led me to believe it was a hardware problem, bad sectors and all. But like I mentioned above, I am running lion now, but not the way I want to. I don't have anymore technical knowledge to understand this. I just did the apple hardware test. Appaerantly I have a HDD error 1291;

UPDATE

I researched the error from the apple test some more. Everything starting with MOT is related to the fan. I turned the computer off and pulled out the power cable. Then I hold the powerbutton for about 6 seconds. (read it somewhere, but I forgot the details). After a period of cooling of, I started again with the original SL DVD and it finally installed. The only thing was that I could not login for some reason. It also used the information from my previous attempts to install from the macbook copy. The login screen showed the computername of my macbook. CONCLUSION: This install still did not qualify as a fresh install. Next I erased the volumes again. This time I used the zero fill option. The next attempt to do  a install leaded to the same impossible error "can not install on this HDD". After reading some more in the install log and googling some more, the one thing that was keeping me curious and the log does not tell you that, is that the volume in diskutility shows "ownerEnabled=NO". It is not possible to change that in diskutility and as far as I know, not in terminal either. I made the change by using "TargetDisk" with my macbook. On the selected volume press CMD+I and change the setting in the bottom to Ignore ownership. Now I try'd to install Lion from my downloaded version right onto that volume. It took about 3 minutes. After I booted the imac without "targetdisc" It did not boot, instead you wil see a folder with a questionmark. Ok, the conclusion is that you cannot install lion when your booted from another computer. It just leaves an installfolder with some information if you inspect the volume.
After this I tr'd to do an install from the SL DVD again. I was waiting for it to fail again, but to my surprise, I got a fresh install and now I am downloading the software updates to get to version 10.6.6 wich is the minimal required to upgrade to Lion.
This endavour has cost me 4 days altogether, but I am happy it is 4 houers before I had an appointment with the genius-bar and I had to carry the imac al the way to the store.

Best thing I learnt from this, is to absolutely make a backup!

Because I cannot not with absolute certainty say it was because of the "ownership issue" because I did some other thing after, but I hope it can help someone being stuck like me.

Method #1

Do you have a Snow Leopard DVD? Install it on the iMac, make the Software Update, Download Lion from the App Store, Install it. Then boot the MacBook in Target Disk Mode and use Migration Assistant to import your Data to the iMac.

Method #2 (if iMac is capable of Mountain Lion => if not, use MLPostFactor)

Download Mountain Lion on the MacBook via App Store, boot the iMac in Target Disk Mode and install it this way from the MacBook. After Install worked, use Migration Assistant.


How do I make Firefox open a PDF in a tab instead of downloading it? I find it really annoying, that firefox on my Mac (OS X Lion) automatically downloads a pdf instead of viewing it in a tab. On Windows this works flawless. But why is it not working on the Mac? Is there a way to change this?

What you need is a PDF plugin for Firefox. For instance, this PDF Browser Plugin will work for that. It will allow you to open a PDF in the browser without downloading it.
More information on this Firefox support doc.


OS X Video Driver corruption I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro with 10.9.4.  I've been using it with a Seiki 39" 4K TV as a monitor for about a month now with no problems.  (This is using an UltraAV MDP to HDMI Active Adapter cable.) For the first time yesterday I selected "1080p" as the resolution in Display Preferences to see what it looked like.  Immediately after going to 1080p resolution, the list of resolutions went blank.  I could click (or option-click) on the scaled circle, and there would be a delay of a few seconds, then I'd see a list of resolutions flash up, and then go away.  Based on what I later figured out, I think if I had tried to click one of those selections when they flashed up, I would have gotten out of 1080p mode.  But I did something else, trying to reset the display preferences to a normal state. (I don't remember what exactly)

From then on, the Mac seems to think it's talking to a dumb TV.  It only lets me select 1080p, 720p, and two other resolutions.  Additionally I get a slider for "Underscan" which tells me it thinks it's talking to a TV in some sort of "TV-mode".  I don't see the full set of resolutions going up to 4k that I was seeing before.  Here is what I've tried with no joy:

reinstall jumbo update for 10.9.4 (no help)
updating firmware on the TV
reseting TV to factory standard
logging in as another user (still see 1080p)
Resetting the PRAM
logging in in Safe Mode (this works!)

I'd like to remove/reset/review all the non-user files that are different or new since the base OS was installed (counting updates).

The only other thing I can think of is to reinstall the whole machine.

Any ideas short of that?

Update:
Option-clicking the "Scaled" choice enabled about 10 additional choices, which are all smaller than 1080p.  But still no 4k choices, and I still get a slider for Underscan, so it's still in 1080p mode.

I tried the SwitchResX app, and it might have had a way to help, but I wasn't able to figure out how to do what I wanted.  The normal default operations didn't seem to allow the resolution I wanted.

Try clicking on "Scaled" while holding the ⌥  key.

Regular click:

⌥ + click:


Apple Time Machine doesn't see my WD My Passport 2 TB using USB 3.0 I have Yosemite 10.10.2 on my Early 2008 24".  Time Machine has been backing up to my WD external hard drives for years.  I just purchased a new 2TB My Passport using USB 3.0.  It's formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  The device shows up on by desktop and it does store files that I drag into it.  However, Time Machine does not recognize it.

Any thoughts?  Is it Time Machine or the 3.0 USB?

The following command line, using tmutil, will force Time Machine to use your mounted disk as its destination. If the disk is mounted as /Volumes/MyBackupDisk, run:
sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MyBackupDisk

P.S. tmutil is very useful, also for deleting backups and working over the "operation not permitted" error.


iMac's fans make awful noise My iMac's fans are making an awful lot of noise, sounding like a piece of cardboard is in them. It's a kind of ticking noise. This is happening since a few months ago. I have not changed any hardware. I have never encountered any other problems with my iMac and it has never crashed. My Mac is running normally and fast.

Here is what iStat says:

I have an Intel iMac (iMac9,1), Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.6.6.

I have tried to reset the SMC but this did not help.

How can I make this noise go away without opening my iMac or sending it back to Apple?

Your fans are running at speeds appropriate for that model. Even using a stethoscope on the rear of an iMac, good techs have been confused between hard drive and blower noise unless you can change the noise by increasing or decreasing the fans or the HDD.

Rhythmic blower ticking is one of two things:

Failing or failed bearings in the blower.
Foreign object (paper, hair, other) lodged in the blower.

Choice #2 is less likely since the airflow around the unit usually precludes things getting stuck there. Also the design makes it unlikely things large enough to make noise or stick can enter the blower area.

I wouldn't recommend shaking an iMac (running or not), but tipping it on a side or upside down with a friend's help and then powering it on would let gravity and the airflow dislodge all but the most unlucky piece of debris from a blower. Be aware that succeeding to move debris may land such debris in a worse place than a blower, so do use caution.

If the bearings are the cause - you might try a fan control software to run the fans faster (sometimes higher speeds are less noisy) but do get ready for a visit to the shop as bearings don't fix themselves and the noise will get worse as it wears. A technician is the best person to get debris out and truly resolve a ticking noise whether it's a hard drive, optical drive or a blower.


iCloud Keychain in Safari Requires Password I'm running macOS 10.14.4 with iCloud keychain. Safari is asking me to use touch ID or password every time I want to fill-in credentials. That wasn't the behavior since lately.

I saw some articles which advice to resent login keychain password, but that option is not available in the current version of macOS.

Is that behavior is by design or something is wrong with my security configuration?

Thanks,

Gil

On Mac OS 10.14.4, go to system preferences, select Touch ID. Uncheck using Touch ID for Safari AutoFill.

It will no longer require Touch ID to autofill passwords and reverts back to earlier behavior.


Send/Receive on two numbers How can I receive my husbands text messages without him receiving mine? Does it matter is he has the 4s and I have the 5c?

Cell carriers don't deliver two SMS to one phone as far as I've heard.

You could sign your husband into iMessage on your phone and presumably it would receive both your SMS and his iMessage, but it is likely you can't accomplish the mix you seek with iOS.


songs about OS X or iOS? I know of just one song, but are there other songs out there?

James Dempsey - Model View Controller

James Dempsey and the Breakpoints do a song every year at WWDC.  Knowing the secret to which session will have the song requires knowing some very subtle clues to watch for in some of the Monday sessions.

Besides "Model View Controller" (2003), there's been:

"Fetch Specifications" - 2001
"Relationships" - 2002
"Model View Controller" - 2003
"Modelin' Man" - 2004
"Release Me" - 2005
"Endian Reservations" - 2006
"I Love View" - 2007
"Designated Initializer" - 2008
"Pasteboard Writin'" - 2009
"Anti Patterns" - 2010

Sorry I can't find all of the videos.

There are also comical songs about Mac OS X.

"I'm On A Mac (I'm On A Boat cover)" - 2008


Two-factor authentication when your device is not present What happens when you have two-factor authentication enabled for your account, your iPhone gets stolen or lost and you have to login on e.g. an Android device to activate Find my iPhone and you have no other Apple devices with you?
Is there a way to still get into iCloud to activate Find my iPhone?

Is there a way to still get into iCloud to activate Find my iPhone?

Yes, you can login to iCloud to activate Find My iPhone. You can get a verification code via SMS or voice call on your trusted phone number.
Refer to this Apple Support document:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204915

What if I can't access a trusted device or didn't receive a verification code?
If you're signing in and don’t have a trusted device handy that can display verification codes, you can have a code sent to your trusted phone number via text message or an automated phone call instead. Click Didn't Get a Code on the sign in screen and choose to send a code to your trusted phone number.


MS Word: How do I align the over braces of this equation? How do I align the over braces of this equation in word, from this

into this

I would like all parenthesis the same height but I think this is asking for too much...

You could:

A1. Insert > Text Box > Draw a Text Box

A2. Drag text box

A3. Paste anything you want inside
A4. Position anywhere you want in the page

OR

B1. Build a table scheme like this:

B2. Place your elements

B3. Select all, right click, cell alignment > align center

B4. Goto to borders and shanding

B5. Select "None"

B6. Enjoy


Keychain is getting crazy I am not able to login to my either to OneDrive or my email on outlook.

Log in to your Widows account (online) and reset your settings there.

https://account.microsoft.com/account

Keychain is just following orders, and accessing stored information.


Emailing pics from icloud photostream I'm afraid I'm not very wised up technically.  I have taken pics on my ipad.  They have synced to my pc, in the icloud photostream, where I can view them.  I want to attach some of them to an email, using my normal email service.  Can I do that?

You can view them in iPhoto  !

In the left column there should be an item "Photostream" if you synced your account with the iCloud account.


"Permission denied" when running macOS installer from command line I'm trying to install High Sierra to an external drive, from a system which is running Mojave. I can't run the GUI installer (it warns me about trying to install an older version of the OS), so I'm trying to use the command line instead.

My system has SIP disabled and I've connected an empty, Mac OS (Extended, Journaled) formatted SSD via USB and named "macOS". I run the following:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --converttoapfs NO --agreetolicense --volume /Volumes/macOS

This gives the following output:

By using the agreetolicense option, you are agreeing that you have run this tool with the license only option and have read and agreed to the terms.
If you do not agree, press CTRL-C and cancel this process immediately.
Preparing to run macOS Installer...
Permission denied

Any ideas why permission is denied even though I'm using sudo and have SIP disabled?

What worked for me is:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/macOS --converttoapfs NO

As it will then show you the license to review.


iPhone 7 Frozen Can't turn off or Reset My iPhone 7 just frozen right after the Passcode was entered. So basically it's frozen on the home screen right before the apps animates / slides in on the home screen.

I've tried holding the sleep / wake button + home button down with no luck. Nothing happens. I'm able to slide down the notification center and type and search in the box but then I try to open an app nothing happens.

If I press and hold to activate Siri, she appears for a second then turns off as if I pressed the home button again.

I've tried connecting the iPhone to a Mac but as it's Passcode enabled it tells me to unlock it and then replug it which I'm not able to do.

Any idea on how I can move forward?
I could wait for the battery to drain but since it's at 91% it will take a while and I was hoping for a quicker fix.

To force shutdown the iPhone 7 you need to hold volume down button and the sleep/wake button.


Error 53 makes my sister's iPhone 6 brick Little did I know, my sister had encountered an issue that Apple bricks her iPhone, after she repaired her iPhone 6 by a non-Apple technician.

Later, I hear reports that iOS 9.2 restore fails if it detects that a repair has been carried out by a non-Apple technician. I also know that this is a touch ID related problem.I have to advise her to ask Apple support team for help.

How can I solve this?

Because the iPhone was serviced by a third-party, the phone is bricked. Apple will issue an out of warranty replacement, but it will be quite expensive. (It is an out of warranty replacement because the technician voided the warranty when he replaced internal components.)

Apple is not just doing this for fun. It keeps your biometric data secure. If someone at the mall, for example, replies your Touch ID sensor with another one, he can gain access to the iPhone and your information is not secure. While it may be frustrating, there is a good reason it happens.


Do Macs in a corporate setting behave more erratically? I've used a MacBook Pro in my last two jobs (one was circa 2012, and my current one is 2015), and at home I have an iMac (circa 2009) and MacBook Air (circa 2013).  At home my Macs perform wonderfully - they hardly ever freeze or crash.  I use the iMac for multimedia applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., and the Air is more for general purpose internet/office apps (although Lightroom is used on it as well).

The work laptops tend to experience login times of up to 15-20 seconds when connected to the corporate network (and this tends to get worse over time), and sometimes I'll open up the laptop and find it's unresponsive.  My current laptop has 16 GB RAM, and the most memory-intensive application I use is Excel, and even then I'm not manipulating huge files.

Does anyone else have a similar experience with Macs at work?

No - Macs in enterprise are generally less erratic, more agile, less expensive, more productive and let people get work done with less unpleasantness like cryptic error messages, slow deployments, hard to diagnose issues, and things that require a large, IT support orgainzation.

In 2015 - IBM was 6 months in to a user choice program allowing their employees to choose a Mac or a PC and they had realized faster deployment, less support and cost savings of somewhere south of $300 per device.

https://www.jamf.com/blog/mac-ibm-zero-to-30000-in-6-months/

In 2016 - IBM is now betwwo 90k and 100k Macs deployed and is realizing savings of $250 to $500 per device type in cost to buy, support, provision Mac hardware versus PC hardware.

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/events/jnuc/2016/246/keynote-a-user-first-mentality?view=info
https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/events/jnuc/2016/220/mac-ibm-under-the-hood?view=info

The videos from above should be posted within a month. Also keep in mind that this is a customer / partnership success story, but the hard numbers and experiences of people I spoke with make me feel these numbers are both fair and real as well as transferrable to many other enterprise organizations immediately with low risk if the company decides to support their employees and let them choose their platform to get work done.

If you are getting slow performance, it's likely due to something that can be fixed without a lot of delay if someone looks into the root cause and decides to support your location.

If you have stability issues - consider getting a good backup and wiping. Just add back the apps you need. My feelings are that the only changes that organizations make tend to increase stability of the Mac OS except for one.

antivirus software other than Apple's GateKeeper and Xprotect are huge sources of delay, slowness, resource usage and breakage. Kernel extensions generally are buggy, slow to be ready for new releases, etc...
Setting up restrictions like disabling iCloud sync generally make a Mac run better, not worse.
Setting up a server to delay or restrict updates and patches generally makes a Mac more stable.
Having IT to help you with backups and procedures to automate things like an erase instal and/or script setting things up like printers and such generally reduce the time you need to manage settings and don't cause any issues with stability.


How do I connect an internal SATA drive to Mini-SAS? I have a SATA III SSD which I would like to connect to an ATTO technologies' SATA II card in my Mac Pro. The SSD uses the typical internal SATA interface while the ATTO card uses Mini-SAS both internally and externally.

What do I need to plug the SSD into the ATTO card? I'm assuming internal/external doesn't matter, and that I'd get the same speeds either way, correct?

This is the proper cable:

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Adaptec-Serial-Attached-SCSI-SAS-external-cable-1.6-ft/1217280.aspx

Details:

Interface Provided
  Connector Qty:         1
  Connector Type:        36 pin 4i Mini MultiLane SAS (SFF-8087)

Interface Required
  Connector Qty:         4
  Connector Type:        29 pin internal SAS (SFF-8482)


What do setting CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled from defaults actually do? I was trying to make fonts on external non-retina display look good and I was playing with setting CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled as many advices on the internet said. But nothing helped me and I declined an idea of using an external display.

But now I wonder what this setting actually does? I was playing with CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) with Catalina and without external display and it seems to me that this setting does not change how the fonts are rendered on built-in dislay. No noticeable difference.

Can somebody please explain what setting CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled is supposed to do? Maybe I use it wrong or not able to see the difference.

CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled is used to enable/disable subpixel antialiasing. Apple disabled it automatically on macOS Mojave which may cause problems on some displays (especially non-LCD) but it improves the rendering on Retina screens.

Here is an example :


Suspected hard disk failure - Is it possible to boot from just a USB drive? In theory can someone tell me if I should be able to at least boot from the USB created by following a Mavericks install USB guide ? I suspect HD fail but I don't have a lot to go on. On a pc I can always use what is called fdisk to check the HDD.

So in theory I can remove the hard disk and get at least some kind of terminal (fdisk equivalent) or other to try to work out what is wrong with the system.

[I have tried to use other similar answers but moderators are forcing me to start a new question.]

First off: Welcome to Ask Different.

Yes, you should be able to boot off of a USB drive in the way you describe.

It shouldn't be necessary to remove the HDD, though (to diagnose, that is). When you're turning on your Mac, you can hold down ⌥ (option/alt) to choose which device to boot from (Where you could select your USB drive). Booting from the recovery partition or a USB drive with the OS X installer on it, will give you access to both Terminal and Disk Utility.

Having dealt with disk failure in the past, I would advise you to try running AHT (Apple Hardware Test), if the Mac in question is from before June 2013, or Apple Diagnostics if it's newer. Click on the links for instructions, you won't need to start OS X to get to AHT/AD.

AHT/AD will be able to tell you if there's a hardware problem. If the HDD is truly busted, there's a chance AHT will stall after having run for 3-4 min (Happened to me) which in itself will "confirm" that the HDD isn't working like it should.

If you can't even get the computer to boot, obviously, you won't be able to start AHT/AD.


how to reset iTunes incorrect unplayed Podcast count I have an odd question, but at some point after updating to iTunes 11 my unplayed podcast count suddenly went up to well over 1,000 despite only having a few unplayed episodes at any given time. The number was at like 1,200, but today still shows the number being at over 1,000. At the time the screenshot below was taking the actual unplayed Podcast episode count was 4.

My problem is i've never seen or encountered anything like this in iTunes before so I am not even sure what I should start searching for as a means to fix this. Anybody have any suggestions?

Per request here is my unplayed podcasts list it shows when I click on the podcasts section

Well I guess after accidentally stumbling onto the fix I'll explain what I found.

iTunes is sometimes bad at managing feeds. One podcast for some reason it split up into 2 feeds even though they were really one, I deleted one and it got rid of both. My unplayed count went down, but there was still like 900+ unplayed count. Then I stumbled upon it. If you go to the "List" section in Podcasts (which I've never spent any time in because I assumed it was just the podcast list in different form) I found the reason.

When I subscribe to a podcast I typically tend to change the rules for a podcast so it only keeps the most recent or only unplayed episodes. If you ever want to go back to an old episode you can right click on a Podcast feed and tell iTunes to list all episodes. From there then you can select individual old episodes to download.

For some reason iTunes can treat this episode listing as suddenly having a whole bunch of new episodes. Even though you never downloaded any of them or had long since deleted them through iTunes rules, it treats them as unplayed episodes in the listing, though if you go back to the "Unplayed" section they never show up there. Though this also happened to be the case for at least 1 podcast I am certain I never asked it to retrieve old episodes for.

So if you ever get something like this check the listing, even though you really don't have "unplayed" episodes iTunes may show a lot of episodes of your podcasts there as being "unplayed" because they are in the feed. Select all and right-click and select "mark as played." Manually mark as unplayed any episodes you forgot to de-select and suddenly your iTunes unplayed podcast count is correct.

I've attached a screenshot showing iTunes considering a whole big listing of Hypercritical episodes as "unplayed" even though you can see they aren't downloaded to my Mac.


Is there a way to monitor which disks are spun down in a Mac Pro? I have an 2009 Mac Pro full of disks, most of them seldom used (boots on a SSD). Is there a way to see which disks are spun down at a given time (currently running 10.6.8)?

I'm afraid this isn't made possible by the S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) system that is used to provide details of Hard Drive operation, I was hoping to find a SMART attribute that details the current 'park' status, but it seems that there simply isn't one, and as this is a low level activity that is fully handled by the drive itself without any OS input I cannot see a way of ever retrieving the status as the value isn't available in the first place.


Mount network drive to Mac server on boot Is it possible to mount a network drive to my Mac server on boot, without requiring a login?  I have one setup to mount on login via an automator script that I have added to the login items for the user account, which works fine.

The reason is I don't want to have to login to the Mac server, just to mount the network drive.

Simply create a launch daemon with the purpose to mount a remote share:

Create a mountpoint:

sudo mkdir -p /Shares/mntpoint1

Add a launch daemon in /Library/LaunchDaemons:

sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/local.mount.extvol.plist

with the content:

<?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>local.mount.extvol</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/sbin/mount_afp</string>
        <string>afp://user:password@remotehost/share/</string>
        <string>/Shares/mntpoint1</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Load the daemon with

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/local.mount.extvol.plist

The remotehost and share have to exist and the user has to have permissions to access the share with the password. The user doesn't have to be root!

The share will be loaded with root:wheel 700 permissions.


Remove Program Association from Directory I have a directory, ~/Downloads, which has accidentally become associated with Terminal.app. I would like to remove the association so that the directory can be used with Finder.app again. Thus far, I have investigated extended attributes with xattr, but this isn't the right method to remove associations. How does one fix a problem like this? Please see the illustration below.

This is macOS 10.13.6.

It appears to have been done by copying a Keynote "file" to the directory.

cp -rp file.key/ ~/Downloads/

Looks like you've set the bundle bit on your folder somehow (visible in the Info window: Kind: Package).
Some applications prefer (or create) a package instead of a folder, which can be double clicked to open a whole library folder in an application (iPhoto for example) and maybe to make it harder for the user to mess with its content(?).
To remove the bit run the following command in Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, or search in Spotlight):

SetFile -a b ~/Downloads

SetFile is part of the command line tools.
Without the command line tools installed, a popup should ask you if you want to download them.  Allow this and try again.


Navigating forward/backward in Microsoft Word? I have a Word document with internal links (i.e. a link will jump to anchor in the same document). When I click on one of these links, it jumps to that location, as it is supposed to.

How can I get back to the location I was at before I clicked the link? I can't find a back or forward button anywhere.

Also, if I'm in Outline view, it changes the view to Print Layout. Is there any way to have the back button also switch the view back to how it was originally? In other words, I'm looking for a way to undo the link click.

I'm using Microsoft Word 2011 (for Mac).

Use Shift + F5 to return to the last edit location in the document


iPhoto overhead and the iPad I have been delaying switching to iPhoto on OSX. A quick experiment had shown that the overhead (actual storage / bare file storage) is too high, although I do not have a concrete number to mention at this time.

Now that I have an iPad, I am stumped by how to get my photos onto the iPad by a simple file copy. Do you have an opinion one way or the other? Did you for instance find a decent way to get your photo library onto the iPad without first handing the photos to iPhoto? Or did you find that the overhead of iPhoto is tolerable in the long run?

The easiest way is probably the camera connection kit: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE

But, depends on the app. I've found drop-box to be very easy for simple file transfers.

If you open iTunes you can also configure which files can be copied into which app under the App tab when you control the device.


Selecting iPad As Audio Source When Mirroring to Apple TV? I'm currently mirroring from my iPad to my Apple TV, but the audio source automatically sets to the TV. At night I'd love it if I could switch the audio source to my ipad so I could hook up some headphones, while watching on the TV. Is this possible?

This isn't possible with how AirPlay currently works. It's a great idea to send to Apple for future consideration, however.

On my Panasonic Viera theres a headphone jack and a seperate volume setting for the headphones (so you can turn the TV right down). I've also got a set of TDK wireless headphones which do double duty (TV, iPad, iPhone). They've got line-of-sight range of about ten meters so you can move around without causing disturbance. Smaller TV's generally dont have audio out, but if you're looking to watch stuff in bed, why would you need anymore than the iPad fullscreen.


What stylus is good for taking notes and writing equation I frequently need to take notes and write equations. I never draw any thing other than graphs, diagrams, etc.. like board works. I am not a painter. I bought an Adobe Ink for my iPad (not iPad pro). Tried to use in one of the Adobe softwares. It looks like that is very good to paint or sketch. But when I try to write some equation, often it jumbles up with subscript notations. It applies its intelligence to turn my x into n. iPad's own notes app works slightly better. Instead Microsoft Onenote works much better. But still even with onenote things don't work to my expectation. I thought I would be able to take notes straight away. But it is nothing close to that smoothness. If I write very slowly ike painting letters on the board then it somewhat works. Should I change my stylus for a better experience ? Are these styluses optimized only for painting ? What budget stylus is good for writing and taking notes ? Or if it is more or less same for all stylus then I would not bother buying another one.

If you want something that is significantly better than the Adobe Ink, you'll need to go for an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. The combination of higher display refresh rates on the iPad Pro and the higher rate of stylus updates from the pen itself - it's really much, much better.

I use the Apple Pencil to write mathematics and draw diagrams/graphs, and it works well for me. However YMMV so be sure to go to a local Apple vendor and try it out before buying.


App not found in App Store by some users, but found by others I have developed an app which is now publicly available in the App Store. I know other people in my organisation can find the app in the App Store with a search, yet I am unable to find the app myself, neither on my iPhone nor my iMac, using the exact same search terms.

What would be stopping me from finding the app?

Actually, there are several possible reasons:

Not available in the user's country
The AppStore take some time to deliver an app update to everyone (should be available within 24 hours)
Not available for the user's device (32bits, iPad or iPhone..)
Phased Releases option used in AppStore Connect

This list is certainly not exhaustive*

- How to browse iPhone App on iPad:

http://osxdaily.com/2017/10/18/download-iphone-apps-onto-ipad/

- 32 bits apps aren't showing up in the AppStore anymore:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/32-bit-apps-arent-showing-up-in-the-app-store-but-dont-panic-yet/


iPhone in Lost Mode Can I use same apple id on new phone My iPhone was recently lost, I put it in lost mode via icloud and I know it was found by someone because I got the email from icloud saying it's been found as well as a last known location...but it has since not come online anymore.

I have a new iPhone now which I want to setup like the old one but I'm still hoping the person who has the old iPhone returns it after realizing it's a paperweight to them without my apple ID(i had text saying reward available if returned).

My questions are:

-What would happen if I setup my new iPhone with the same Apple ID as the old one? Would that remove the old one in lost mode?

-What if I name the new iPhone with the same name as the old iPhone?

-I want my old phone number...what happens if I deactivate the old Sim in the lost iPhone, and have my carrier create a new sim for me so I can use in my new iphone? Would that mess up the lost mode?

I basically want to setup my new iphone like my old one but I don't want my old iphone to be taken out of lost mode

You can set up your new phone using a previous backup! You’ll need to use your same Apple ID and password, however I highly recommended you change your password once you set up the new phone, just Incase they do get into your old phone they would be able to mess a lot of things up!


How to transfer a movie (.avi) from pc to iPad without iTunes? I'm trying to copy a .avi movie-file that I ripped from a dvd that I own from my PC to my iPad. I've tried doing this with iTunes, to no avail, and frankly I'm sick of iTunes so I'm looking for alternative methods. So far, I have found none.

Does anyone know an easy way to transfer a file (specifically an .avi file), from a pc laptop (with windows Vista) to an iPad without iTunes? (Preferably through the usb connection?)

ps.: Don't worry about the .avi format, I've installed the flexplayer app on the iPad, which should be able to deal with movie formats other than .mp4 such as the .avi I've chosen here.

There are a lot of alternatives for iTunes which will allow you to manage your iDevice.
Floola, Songbird and Yamipod are three popular alternatives for iTunes.

Then there is software which will allow you to treat your iDevice like a external hard drive, like iTransfer or SyncPod (not for Lion or iOS5).
But my overall favorite is Bigasoft iPad 2 Transfer. I've used it quite some time and I have no complaints about it.

If it's an option, you could try and stream it. Make an server out of your Mac and stream it with Air Video to your iPad.

And there is even an alternative by using the cloud. Dropbox is a great example of this. It's all listed in this article of MacWorld, which made me wonder if you even have searched far and wide enough :)


How to only route office traffic over the VPN while having default route for other traffic? I have a VPN to my office and would like to route only office traffic over the VPN while maintaining my default route for other traffic.

I have attempted the following:

sudo route delete default
sudo route add default 192.168.1.254
sudo route add 172.0.0.0/8 172.26.7.79

Routing table after change:

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.254      UGScI           1        0     en1
default            192.168.1.254      UGScI           4        0     en0
127                127.0.0.1          UCS             0        0     lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH              3      898     lo0
162.119.232.200    192.168.1.254      UGHS            3       78     en0
169.254            link#7             UCS             1        0     en0
172.0/8            172.26.7.79        UGSc            3        0   utun0
172.26.7.79        172.26.7.79        UH             34       95   utun0
192.168.1          link#7             UCS             9        0     en0
192.168.1          link#4             UCSI            3        0     en1
192.168.1.202      127.0.0.1          UHS             0       48     lo0
192.168.1.203      127.0.0.1          UHS             0        2     lo0
192.168.15         link#10            UC              3        0  vmnet8
192.168.99         link#9             UC              2        0  vmnet1

When this happens, I can get to 172.0.0.0/8 but I can't get anywhere else.

If I add a default route back such as:

sudo route default 172.26.7.79

Then everything starts working again.

Starting Routing Table:

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            172.26.7.79        UGSc            2        0   utun0
default            192.168.1.254      UGScI           0        0     en1
default            192.168.1.254      UGScI           3        0     en0
127                127.0.0.1          UCS             0        0     lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH              3      898     lo0
162.119.232.200    192.168.1.254      UGHS            3       94     en0
169.254            link#7             UCS             1        0     en0
192.168.1          link#7             UCS             9        0     en0
192.168.1          link#4             UCSI            5        0     en1
192.168.1.202      127.0.0.1          UHS             0       48     lo0
192.168.1.203      127.0.0.1          UHS             0        2     lo0
192.168.15         link#10            UC              3        0  vmnet8
192.168.15.132     0:c:29:14:38:20    UHLWIi          0      152  vmnet8   1136
192.168.99         link#9             UC              2        0  vmnet1

Any ideas?

This is how you route specific traffic over an interface sudo route add google.com en1 (en1 is the interface).

In order to find the interface use ifconfigcommand, run the command before and after connecting VPN and determine on which interface the VPN is running.

A similar question has a detailed answer.


Software recommendation: Command line network analyser that shows owning process I'm looking for something that is a mix of tcpdump, lsof, and netstat.

I want to be able to filter like tcpdump, but have an additional column showing the process ID.  At the end I'd like to be able to stats like wireshark, but by application.

Why, you ask?

Good question.  I want to be able to answer things like this:

What process is connecting on port 80 to *le100.com (owned by google)
Why am I seeing packets to amazonaws when I have no browsers running?
Why is there traffic to stackoverflow.com when I have no web pages open to it?

GUI or commandline doesn't matter.

This got started when I was trying to figure what was taking up all the bandwidth on my rather limited connection.  (We have 4 computers in the house for an asymetric 2M/500k connection.  That's bits, not bytes.)

lsof will do this with the correct flags and arguments.  The following flags will show you the program and PID using the open connections.

-P to show you port numbers instead of names.
-i[tcp|udp][@hostname|IP][:port]

Here are examples for the 3 situations you listed.

lsof -Pitcp@le100.com:80

Note, I do not believe that lsof allows globbing with *

lsof -Pi@amazons.domain.here

or

lsof -Pi@x.x.x.x


protecting keychain data when using Time Machine I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data.

If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system login password in order to be able to do this?

Keychain files are password protected, your login password is required to access their content. In the file itself only passwords and the content of secure notes are encrypted so a potential attacker could at least read the URLs and the associated login names for web accounts etc.

For details about Keychain see Wikipeda and the pages referenced from there.


How to find a file which can't be found on macOS Big Sur After updating to the latest version of macOS Big Sur, I've noticed strange system behavior. Now while opening the system I'm getting a popup where there is the information:

The file can't be found.

I want to file this file, but the difficultly about it is, I cannot find out what file is the problem about, or at least narrow the problem to the program or location, where I should look for it.
Any tips on how narrow the problem would be appreciated.
PS. Clicking the question mark icon is not helping, opening a blank page without any content.

I see the exact same thing. I noted the time (09:35:25) and found this in Console:
Nov 14 09:35:24 Honu amsaccountsd[673]: objc[673]: Class AMSDaemonConnectionInterface is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleMediaServices.framework/Versions/A/AppleMediaServices and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleMediaServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/amsaccountsd. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Nov 14 09:35:24 Honu amsaccountsd[673]: objc[673]: Class AMSXDProtoMessage is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleMediaServices.framework/Versions/A/AppleMediaServices and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleMediaServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/amsaccountsd. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

Nov 14 09:35:25 Honu MRT[674]: getattrlist failed for : #2: No such file or directory
Nov 14 09:35:29 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Nov 14 09:35:29 Honu mdsync[694]: objc[694]: Class MDSPathFilter is implemented in both /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Metadata and /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdsync. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Nov 14 09:35:30 Honu com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]

So it seems to have to do with something called "getattrlist".
Here's a link that might be of help:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/getattrlist.2.html
That said, I still don't really know what this is but now I now know that I'm not the only one with this issue.
I know that this is likely not much help. If I find out more, I will post back.


iPhone shows wrong location I recently moved and my iPhone still shows my old address for location services (e.g. in the Maps app and 3rd party applications that use Apple's location services). I assume the source of the problem is that my wifi router, which moved with me, is listed in an internal Apple wifi geolocation database.

I've tried rebooting the phone, turning off and on wifi, turning off and on airplane mode, etc.  Nothing has made a difference. It's been about 2 weeks now.

Any advice? Is there any way to submit the new location to Apple the way there is for map errors?

It turns out the only thing to do is wait. I called Apple and the rep said that if power cycling the phone and "forgetting" the wifi network didn't help, the Apple database would clear stale entries after 30 to 60 days. Sure enough, after about a month my phone started showing the new location.

(Note: I tried @bmike's procedure several times on each of the iPhones in our household, but it didn't seem to make a difference. It could be that the procedure does remove that phone's historical location info from Apple's database, but over the many years we were living at our old address we had enough guests with iPhones that removing only our own phones' records wasn't sufficient. If anyone else is having this problem you might as well try that procedure, but know that the problem will self-resolve within a month or so.)


Can I import my old podcast MP3s into iTunes? The title pretty much says it all.

If I have 25 podcast MP3s, how can I associate them with the podcast in iTunes?

In iTunes it's possible to label items as Podcasts. To do so:

Import your items into iTunes if not done already
Select them all and choose Get Info from either the contextual menu or the File menu
Go to the Options tab and set "Media Kind" to Podcast
It will then appear in the Podcasts section using the Album name as a group


Do MacBooks have a true "Hibernate" option? I've recently switched from Windows to a MacBook pro. In Windows, there are the following shutdown options:

Standby - the machine goes into a "light sleep" from which it can awaken very quickly (like, in a few seconds), but plenty of energy is consumed.
Hibernate - the OS dumps the current system state (including the contents of the RAM) to a file, then turns the machine off. Wakeup takes longer than from standby, but there is no latent energy consumption.
Shut down - the OS shuts down, and the machine is turned off.

In OS X, what I can see is

Sleep - seems equivalent to standby, or an even lighter form of sleep as Mail seems to even continue to poll for new email?
Shutdown and restore all apps on next start - turns off machine, seems to start the OS from scratch and restart alls apps - from what I can tell, it's not hibernation
Shutdown and don't restore apps - shut down

is this correct, and does OS X not have a true "hibernate" mode that can write its state to disk? Because that's what I'm looking for really. There's talk of a "Safe Sleep" mode on the Internets, but I can't see it in my OS X menu. Is it hidden in 10.7?

When newer laptops are put to sleep, they should save the contents of the RAM to /var/vm/sleepimage but keep the RAM powered as well. Desktop Macs should just use normal sleep mode by default.

man pmset:

hibernatemode = 0 (binary 0000) by default on supported desktops. The
system will not back memory up to persistent storage. The system must
wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on power
loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep.

hibernatemode = 3 (binary 0011) by default on supported portables. The
system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and
will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from memory, unless
a power loss forces it to restore from disk image.

hibernatemode = 25 (binary 0001 1001) is only settable via pmset. The
system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and
will remove power to memory. The system will restore from disk image. If
you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery
life, you should use this setting.

0 (traditional sleep mode): fast wake up and sleep, saves disk space
3 (default safe sleep mode): fast wake up and sleep, state is kept when losing power
25 (hibernation): saves energy, state is kept when losing power

You can see which mode your Mac uses with pmset -g | grep hibernatemode and change it with sudo pmset -a hibernatemode $mode.

Some newer Macs support a standby mode on 10.8 and later. Even if hibernatemode was set to 3, they power off memory after a bit over an hour of sleep.


Unusual problem with Swoop on Mac OS 9.0.4 under SheepSaver I have setup SheepSaver with Mac OS 9.0.4 and it boots okay. I've installed software and games. One of those games is Swoop http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/swoop/

I can launch Swoop and play the game ok. But after I'm dead and try to play it again, the game starts but then freezes. The music and sound effects keep playing, but pressing the keyboard keys or moving the mouse has no effect. The only response I can get is by forcing SheepSaver to quit. When I launch SheepSaver again, I can play the game again, but only once. During that first game I can play for ages, but when I'm dead it freezes again upon trying to play it again. Very strange.

I used to play this game all the time in the Classic environment in OS X and never had any problems.

I've tried setting up SheepSaver on another Mac and have the same problem in that installation as well.

I've also tried changing the SheepSaver preferences - but all my changes have made things worse - the game either doesn't start or starts and freezes immediately.

My usual settings when the games works fine for one game are as described here http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try next?

Sorry it's taken me a while to respond, but as promised in the comments I've tried to replicate this problem at my end.

The good news is that I could in fact replicate the problem. The problem occurs on five separate SheepSaver installations on three different Macs (running Tiger, Snow Leopard and El Capitan). I've tried various preference settings, along with experimenting with Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.0.4 installations. I've also tried booting SheepSaver with extensions off, and tried playing Swoop without sound.

Long story short, I couldn't play more than two consecutive games before SheepSaver froze.

As a final check, I tested Swoop on a standalone 2002 Quicksilver PowerMac G4 running Mac OS 9.2.2. Swoop plays flawlessly! :)

So, in a nutshell, I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but I don't think you're going to get Swoop to work properly in SheepSaver. You could try some other emulation software, such as Basilisk, or purchase an older Mac capable of booting directly into Mac OS 9 (or running the Classic environment under Mac OS X). If you happen to want to try the Classic environment, post a comment and I'll happily test this for you (I have a couple of Macs that can run Classic OS under OS X).

Either way, good luck!


How to fix broken EFI partition? I have an iMac running OSX Lion. I also installed bootcamp and Windows 7. During the install of Windows 7 I wasn't paying complete attention and deleted and formatted the EFI partition.

I didn't really realise the significance of this as the machine continued to work fine, booting both into Windows and OSX.

I did notice that the EFI firmware updates failed to install, but paid this no mind.

However now I want to install Mountain Lion and there's a whole heap of trouble. Mountain Lion won't install without a valid EFI partition.

Here's my partition table.

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            799.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                200.3 GB   disk0s4

As you can see I've had a go at fixing the EFI partition with the following command:

newfs_hfs -v EFI /dev/disk0s1

This didn't seem to create the correct type of partition, it created an Apple_HFS instead of EFI.

My question is (without formatting the disk) how do I create an EFI partition?

Thanks
Rich

You can recreate the EFI System Partition (ESP) using the command-line gpt tool. It should start at sector 40, and it should be 409600 sectors (exactly 200MiB) long. The GPT entry's type should be C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, and if you have a hybrid MBR, the type there should be EE. The format is actually a subset of FAT, not HFS+. You can read the GPT using the command sudo gpt -r show disk0 in a Terminal window, this produces output that looks something like this:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  447801712      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  448211352    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  449480888   40753831
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

You can see the correct EFI partition at index 1. If that line doesn't match exactly, the easiest way is to delete the partition in its place and recreate it.

Make sure you know what you're doing before proceeding from here - you may lose data if you mess up.

You can't edit the partition table using gpt while partitions on the drive are mounted, so you'll need to boot from another drive (e.g. a USB stick with the OSX installer) or run the mac in target disk mode and do the partitioning from another mac. You may need to unmount any automatically mounted volumes using diskutil unmountDisk disk0 before proceeding, and in between commands.

To delete your "bad" EFI partition, run this command:

sudo gpt remove -i 1 disk0

Make sure disk0 is really the disk you want to change - the numbers can change between reboots. Also, this will only work if you already have a non-ESP partition in the place of the ESP - if not, deleting partition 1 could be disastrous! In this case, you'll need to move the indices along, as I think the ESP must have index 1. By the sound of it, this won't be necessary in your case.

Once deleted, re-add the partition with the correct layout and type:

sudo gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B disk0

This should sort out the partition itself, but as you've created an HFS partition in its place, you need to fix its format as well.

The format of the EFI System Partition is documented by Apple here. As you can see, they recommend you clone an existing ESP rather than recreating the file system with newfs_msdos. If you have an external drive with a GPT partition table (OSX install stick should have it), you can clone that.

Make sure you have your disk and partition numbers the right way around or you may overwrite data:

If disk1 is your external drive, and it contains an ESP as the first partition (disk1s1) and disk0 is the drive whose ESP (disk0s1) you want to fix, run this command:

sudo dd if=/dev/disk1s1 of=/dev/disk0s1

This will copy every single block of disk1's ESP and overwrite the corresponding block in disk0's ESP with it.

Alternatively, take a gamble with newfs_msdos.


What version of OS X originally shipped on my mac? The short version:
Is there a way to find the original operating system that shipped with my mac from within the operating system itself?

The long version:

I am trying to identify the version of OS X the originally shipped with my Mac. It is a Macbook pro from late 2008 15-inch. It is currently running 10.10.4 and it was originally running some version of Leopard but I'm not sure. How can I find out what version of Leopard it was originally running? It appears as though apple also provided an install disc for the original Leopard on the system but that disc doesn't have any printed information about what version of Leopard it is.

Thank you :)

I use the program Mactracker when I want to know about specific machines throughout Apple's History.  With your model number you can identify all there is to know about that mac you have.

It is available form the App Store for both Mac and iOS devices.


Where to place my pictures from a harddrive So I've used windows all my life and am giving osx a shot.
I have an external harddrive full with images stored in multiple levels of directories.
eg.
 -car
    -ferrari
    -audi
 -family
   -2020
 -house

Should I just copy everything to:
/users/myusername/Pictures

There is also a directory inside there called Photos Library.photoslibrary can that just be removed?

If you use the Photos app, do not remove the Photo Photo Library.photolibrary directory.
You can place the pictures you have on your drive in the Pictures folder. What I would do is create a new folder inside Pictures and place my image files in there.
You can use the Photos app to browse your library in the directories you placed in the new folder under Pictures. If you would like to not use the Photos dedicated library, you can remove that option in the Preferences of Photos under General > Importing > Copy items to the Photos library. Make sure iCloud Photos is deselected under the iCloud tab in Photos.


Do I need to upgrade the firmware on a Mac Pro with mismatched processor config and serial number? I'm looking at buying a used Mac Pro. However, I want to know what I'm really buying as the serial number he provided does match the processor configuration in the about:

EveryMac says this is what the machine is according to its serial number:

The 2.4 GHz 6-Core configuration wasn't released until 2012 according to EveryMac:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-twelve-core-2.4-mid-2012-westmere-specs.html

So my question is, am I buying a 2009 Mac Pro, originally shipped with an "Eight Core" main board, but has been upgraded to a 2012 2x 6-Core main board?

If so, will I need to upgrade the firmware to match the new board?

The firmware had to have been updated before the newer processors were installed.

The differences between the 4,1 '09 & the 5,1 '10 - '12 are minimal. What you're looking at is a hybrid, older machine [quad-core Nehalem originally] with upgraded firmware & newer 6-core Westmere CPU.

In itself, there's nothing inherently wrong with that - I'm typing on one right now.
The fans are a little noisy - my older 3,1 you cannot even hear the fans until it's working hard - but it really has no issues, to all intents & purposes it's now a 2012.

This is mine

The 5,1 upgrade does allow it to run Sierra too - I just don't like Sierra.


Is it possible to take a screenshot in vector format? Is it possible to make screenshots in vector format (SVG or PDF) instead of only in raster formats on OS X?

Solution 1: Using a vector GUI widget API with PDF backend:

Actually, it is possible. Consider the fact that on screen objects are created by a widget API, and if this widget API is based on vector elements and have appropriate vector output backend, then it can output to vector formats like PDF.

Please look at the similar question, which also contains some working samples:

Can I take a screenshot as vector graphics or at a higher resolution
than native?

This needs Gtk+ widget library and Cairo as its GUI display and PDF generation backend, which both are available for Mac OS X. But as few applications in Mac OS X use Gtk+, this is not a general solution. I wanted to show the possibility of creating vector screenshots. If you are a developer, this may be useful for you.

Solution 2: Creating vector mockups:

For general applications, you can create mockups. Here you can find "Free Yosemite Vector GUI for Illustrator", which can be used to create mockups of your GUI. It includes all main UI Components:

http://codemotionapps.com/yosemite-gui/


When is the metadata store updated? I'm trying to understand how Spotlight indexing works - in the documentation here, Apple says that the kernel notifies the Spotlight engine which then attempts to update the metadata store. If this is the case, why does it have to index - presumably it would be up to date if this already happens after every file event?

Initially, the indexers have to process the entire disk so there are hours (days) to take one pass to index all files.

Steady, state the kernel and system indexes all files as they are written so newly created files and files copied in are basically indexed real time.

You can see this in action by having spotlight in finder search a nonsense string that doesn’t exist. Then open text edit and past that string into a file and save it to your desktop - watching the finder window update to show that file.


macOS Catalina causing "find: .: Operation not permitted" errors I have an automation workflow that I use as a Quick Action.  It takes a Finder item and calls a shell script with it.  Part of the shell script runs a find command on the directory of the Finder item.  Prior to Catalina, this worked.  Now I get

find: <path to the directory>: Operation not permitted

This only happens when I'm running it as the Service Quick Action.  If I call the script in Terminal, it works fine, as does the find command in Terminal.

# Directory to delete files from
REAL_FILE=$(/usr/local/bin/realpath "$1")
DIR=$(dirname "$REAL_FILE")

find "$DIR" -type f -depth 1 -print0 | while read -d $'\0' FILE
do
    if [[ "$FILE" < "$REAL_FILE" ]] ; then
        mv "$FILE" ~/.Trash/
    fi
done

You need to grant the Finder full disk access:

Open Security & Privacy preferences
Go to the Full Disk Access option.
Click the plus button.
Locate the Finder in /System/Library/CoreServices/ (or simply type 'Finder' into Search).

Compare Grant “Full Disk Access” to Workflows run via the Services menu.


Keyboard shortcut for Sort By Date Created As there’s not one built-in (see hold ⌥ ALT and navigate to Finder->View->Sort By), I tried to create a custom keyboard shortcut for Sort By Date Created in Finder (such as the built-in for Sort By Name ⌃ CTRL⌥ ALT⌘ CMD1).

However, whichever keyboard combination I assign to it doesn’t work (i.e. ⌃ CTRL⌥ ALT⌘ CMD8, or ⌃ CTRL⌥ ALT⌘ CMD9, etc.)

How can I create a custom keyboard shortcut for Sort By Date Created?

First make sure that date created is a visible column in list view in finder. You can do this by entering list view and right clicking the headers and checking date created.

Then go to system preferences, keyboard, Shortcuts, and choose app shortcuts on the left. Then add a new shortcut for Finder by pressing the plus button and choosing finder from the drop down. In the menu title put "Date Created" exactly (without the quotes). Then focus the shortcut field and press your desired shortcut. For example Option+Command+8

Tested it in Mavericks and it works for me.


Missing 2 GB of memory? I got an iPhone 4s 16 GB. I had around 3.5 GB free earlier today. Then suddenly the low memory message pops up. Nearly 2 GB is gone. I'm still on iOS 7. Haven't downloaded anything since I had cleared up that 3.5 GB. What happened? Did my iPhone autodownload an update or something? If so, how do I delete that update?

It sounds like the iOS 8 OTA update has downloaded. You can update to iOS 8 to remove the downloaded update package. Also see Remove OTA downloaded (but not installed) iOS 8


MBA mid 2013 trackpad not clicking Should the top part of MBA mid 2013 (MD711) trackpad click? I recently noticed that mine doesn't. I don't know if it's an issue just with mine.

This is how the trackpad is designed. The trackpad is pivoted at the top, so it requires more force to press at the top than at the bottom, up to the point where you are pressing at the pivot which won't click the trackpad.


My Mac has weird lines when booting MacBook Pro, Late 2011 2.5Ghz. The Mac works perfectly fine, however, every so often, the Mac simply freezes and doesn't respond. Therefore I turn it off, and when turning it back on weird lines appear.

The Mac loads up and then shuts down again as soon as the loading screen ends. We tried replacing the RAM because we recently had a RAM issue, but that did not fix anything. Has anyone had a similar problem?

I am suspecting that you have a GPU failure.

"Weird lines" while booting is indicative that there is a problem with the video.  Below are a couple samples of the weird lines similar to what I have seen in my travels.

However, the best way to test this out with with Apple Hardware Test (AHT).  Hold the D key while booting from a powered off state with the AC adapter connected.

It will run through a series of diagnostics - I am pretty certain that you will find you GPU is failing.

Apple Has a Replacement Program for GPU issues.  If your GPU is in fact failing, Apple has a repair extension  program where they will repair, for free your Macbook Pro.  From the details you provided, but check with Apple to be certain.  The program runs until December 31, 2016.  See the link for details


How can I add a path to the PATH environment variable? I want to add a path to the PATH environment variable?

I have tried with export PATH=/mypath:$PATH and it works. But the next time I start the Terminal, my new path is not int the PATH environment variable any more.

How can I add a path to the PATHenvironment variable? and it should be there also the next time I start the Terminal.

I have problems with this now again, the trick that worked before doesn't seem to work anymore.

I have tried with:

echo 'export GRADLE_HOME=/Users/jonas/gradle-1.2/' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PATH=GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile

to add two environment variables. Then my ~/.profile-file has this content:

export GRADLE_HOME=/Users/jonas/gradle-1.2/
export PATH=GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

But when I start a new Terminal window and type gradle (the command I added to PATH), I get a message that the command doesn't exists. If I run the command from /Users/jonas/gradle-1.2/bin it works fine!

OSX reads the following files in order when a terminal opens :

/etc/profile
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile

So place your path addition into one of these.  I normally put additions into ~/.bash_profile


Several applications trying to connect to IP I have several applications on my computer which are attempting to connect to a small hand-full of IPs over port 80(http). This seems suspect to me and I'm not sure how to proceed. Currently I am using Little Snitch to block the IPs however this is causing some things to not work.

IPs in question:

151.205.0.101
151.205.0.103
151.205.0.105
151.205.0.107

Looking up these IPs on Who.is reveals they are owned MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business (MCICS)

The applications I have seen trying to connect to these IPs

Private Internet Access, Although it has since stopped since I updated it to the latest version.
softwareupdated
nsurlsessiond
storedownloadd
Google Chrome
Spotify
ksfetch
vmnet-natd
ScreenSaverEngine

I believe I have seen other applications in the past attempt to connect to these IPs, however, the ones above are attempting to as of me writing this.

What could be causing all of these seemingly unrelated applications to try to connect to these IPs?

All these applications need the DNS (Domain Name System) to translate Internet names into their IP address, and the reverse.

The IP you found are the one of the DNS servers of Verizon.
The following command will show it clearly:

 dig -x 151.205.0.101

Your udp and tcp exiting traffic toward DNS port = 53 should be permitted.

Fix your Little Snitch configuration so that all your DNS traffic could pass.


OSX Lion - missing csrutil command i have IMac 5,1 with Lion 10.7.5 OSX and in terminal i'm trying to use the command csrutil.
I checked everywhere but didn't find the way to have and use it.
The reason is that i would like to disable ( i know i have to do in recovery mode) to install windows 7 32bit( 64bit seems not possible)
Last week i upgrade the HD to SSD of 1TB and RAM from 2 to 4gb and i used CarbonCopyCloner to clone the OSX but i lost the Windows partition that i would like to have again.
Thank you in advance

There isn't a csrutil command in macOS 10.7.

System Integrity Protection (SIP) was introduced in macOS 10.11, and the csrutil command is for modifying SIP.

More at OSXDaily about SIP in macOS 10.11 and later.


How to share photos with iOS users if you don't own any Apple products I have a bunch of family members with iPads. I'd like to share picture streams with them. But I don't want to buy any Apple products, thus no icloud access for me. I have pro accounts for dropbox and 2 other services like that, Amazon CloudDrive, etc. But nothing seems to be providing anything other than a download link, that ipad users simply cannot import into their pic library.

Let your friends sign you up for a free iCloud account using their device.

Once you have a username/password in iCloud, you can upload photos and share things quite well using the web app.

https://icloud.com

There isn't a provision to pay for iCloud - so you need to sign up on the coattails of a hardware purchase.


How do I configure Yosemite to be able to resolve DNS ending in ".local"? Yosemite doesn't seem to understand any domain that ends in .local

My DNS server is pointed at the ip of the debian box, which runs dnsmasq.

It has a ton of apache sites configured that all have names like clientname.debserver.local - all which resolve fine from the other machines around the lan (not Yosemite).

(tried flushing cache, resetting network, rebooting, all the usual suspects)

Apple has provided some related documentation here.  In which they recommend avoiding .local if you can and instead using a suffix such as .private, .intranet, .internal, or .lan.
The reason .local should be avoided is because it's used by the Bonjour service.

Short Answer
Add the following Search Domain as in the screenshot (you can disregard my DNS Server settings):

Long Answer
Another possibility is documented here in an article about using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X and a related StackOverflow question in which someone seems to have found it successful except when their offline (which doesn't make a lot of since.. but the key point here is, it seems to work for them at least part of the time)
The linked article directs that you should create a directory at /etc/resolver if it doesn't already exist by using the command
sudo mkdir -p /etc/resolver

Now you should create a new file in this directory for each resolver you want to configure.  Configure with at least these two options (there are more options available):

the name of the resolver (corresponding to the domain name)
the DNS server to be used.

For more information about these files, see the resolver(5) manual page:
man 5 resolver
Create a new file with the same name as your new top-level domain in the /etc/resolver/ directory and add a nameserver to it by running the following commands:
sudo tee /etc/resolver/local >/dev/null <<EOF
nameserver 127.0.0.1
EOF
Here local is the top-level domain name configured to respond to and 127.0.0.1 is the IP address of the server to use.

I looked to see if I had that directory by default and I did not, but I did notice I had a file /etc/resolv.conf which existed by default.  I have not attempted, but if the solution in the article is unsuccessful I would try using this pre-existing resolv.conf file.. under the assumption.. it must be there for a reason.


MacBook Pro (2011) bricked after firmware 1.7 update I allowed AppStore to apply the newest firmware update to my MacBook Pro, which seemed to work fine, until the final restart. At this point, the machine just shut down. I waited for quite a while, assuming it was doing something (despite no power LED) before trying to switch it on using the power button.

The machine now won't start. If I press the button, the screen does absolutely nothing, and the power led briefly turns on, and dims after about 5 secs. At the same time, my DVD drive attempts to power up, and continues trying to read for a rew seconds before dying as well.

I've tried the following:

Testing the mains charger, it was OK
Trying to start the machine with/without charger
Tried to reset the SMC, but nothing seemed to happen other than the same above
Burned DVD of firmware update for 1.7/1.6 and inserted into DVD. DVD took disc for 1.7, then won't give it back (and nothing else happened)

Suggestions welcome, and my thanks in advance.

I had to perform the SMC reset twice after this exact thing happened just now. After the second reset, it booted and finished the firmware update.


El-capitan crashing while booting Objective:

Somehow I want to fix the issue and should be able to login to the El-Capitan without reformating as so many valuable files are there
Find what has caused this problem so that I can avoid this problem in future

Overview:

I have two drives on my mac desktop one is Macintosh HD and the other one is El-Capitan and El-Capitan is my start up disk.

It was working nicely for long time, then all of a sudden one day El-capitan started showing trouble logging into the account.

some applications disappeared from applications like chrome

I couldn't open any apps it always showing the color wheel

then all of a sudden whenever i try to boot up in the el-capitan system started crashing now I am unable to log in to the el-capitan drive.

But I am able to login to Macintosh HD which runs on Yosemite

The below pictures will depict all the ways I have tried to solve the problem but nothing fixed it.

References

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT203176

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201262

Possible solutions:

They say DiskWarrior can fix this but that is not free
Take the backup of files and reformat the drive again which I don't want to do unless there is no other way

Note:

I didn't any backup mechanism like using TimeMachine

I would like to leave no stone unturned

Thanks for any help in advance

Update:
Here is S.M.A.R.T status

I/O Error usually means your disk has hardware failure. I would backup everything ASAP and change the disk. Disk Warrior will probably not solve the issue as it's only repairing a corrupted filesystem.

If you can mount it at some point (try repeatedly), use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup your important data on a new drive. If you can't, try some recovery software like Data Rescue.


Trouble logging into macOS When I left my MacBook Pro for a minute, it closed out, which is normal. But, when I returned, it refused to accept my password to my regular administrator account. So I clicked on Guest User to see if I could log in through there. Now I can’t log into Guest and there is no way I can get back to my regular login. It does not want to accept my password.

How might I troublsehoot this further?

I fixed the problem by doing the following steps in this video. Here is the link to the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxAgiNqkDM


How to force iOS apps to use global proxy settings Most stock apps will use the proxy settings, but apps from the App Store rarely use the proxy settings given under Settings > Wifi. I am told that the proxy API must be called explicitly, but is there a way, perhaps a jailbreak app, that will force all connections to go through the proxy? I currently have the option of using either a .PAC config file or typing out the http proxy of my university manually and providing authentication details.

I was able to proxy URL requests from 4 apps I just tested (Instagram, App Store, Omni Focus, Bookmarks). I used a manual proxy configuration and Charles to test.

I'm not sure what proxy API you're talking about. From personal experience, I know that any app using an NSURLConnection to make the request will go through the proxy as defined by the system. It's possible some apps use a socket directly to make the request - if so that may bypass the system's proxy settings, but I'm not sure about that.


Where are the other windows in Gimp? (Edit: Fixed to be workable but still an open question - please see bottom)

I've tried using both the official version from Gimp's website as well as the one from http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Photo_editing.html.

Both exhibit the same problem:  I can't locate any of the other windows like Layers or Toolbox.  The only window shown is the one displaying my image.  I've searched the interface for an option but can't find anything to reveal the hidden ones.

I'm sure it's not a bug and I'm just ignorant but can someone please tell me how to get the other windows to display?

Some further info:

Both versions of the application showed some of the other, probably default, windows when I began using them.  However, upon subsequently opening the program, only the window with my image is displayed.
I tried switching Gimp to Single-Window, and that helped once in lisanet.de's version.  But after I re-opened Gimp, all I see is this now (even if I toggle it on and off):

Thanks for the help.

Edit: In lisanet.de's version I just realized that "Hide Docks" was checked in Single-Window mode.  Oops!  Sorry about that.  However, I'd still like to know how to get the other windows to show up in non-Single-Window mode.

In the Window -> Dockable Dialogs menu you should see a list of all of the possible windows you can show, such as Colors, Layers and so on. You can turn them on one by one and then re-arrange them into docks as before.

I remember that at some point there was an option to display the default docks but it seems to have disappeared.


LaunchPad totally disorganised after reboot OS X Yosemite Running Yosemite 10.0 with a clean erase and install, when I reboot, all my launchpad apps are totally disorganised, folders and un-official apps disappears...

After reorganizing the layout twice, I don't want to keep sorting my launchpad every time I restart my Mac.

Go to: User directory > Library > Application Support > Dock > there, you might have a file with a strange name finishing by .db - you can do this in finder with the Go menu and paste or type the string shown below:

Put this file into the trash, but don't empty the trash, just in case.
Just restart the Mac. The Launchpad must be reinitialize, that's mean you have to remake the arrangement of all your apps, the same way at your first Lion's installation. Voilà!
If you have problems after the reboot, you can restore the file from trash to the correct location - replacing any new file that was created and then contact Apple support in that case:

From Apple Discussions


Applescript dictionary for Preview Is there an Applescript dictionary for Preview.app?  I am unable to find it under Mac OS X 10.7.5, and Applescript 2.2.1.

I did a rudimentary search in google and duckduck but came up empty.

I've also ran https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/40084/10733 however when I run it for Preview I am getting the following error:

tell application "Preview"
    get every property
        --> error number -1708
Result:
error "Preview got an error: Can’t get every property." number -1728 from every property

Where can I find the scriptable objects for Preview?

I have found several answers saying it is not scriptable, however I have not changed the NSAppleScriptEnabled preference and the following runs:

tell application "Preview"
    set save_location to ¬
        (choose file with prompt "Choose the png to be modified")
    activate
    open save_location

end tell

I've posted a separate question about why this runs on stackexchange.

My original question stands.  Where/How can I find the scriptable objects?

As markhunte said, NSAppleScriptEnabled is set to true by default in Preview's Info.plist in 10.9. So Preview has a basic AppleScript dictionary, and tell application "Preview" to properties works by default.

In 10.8 or earlier versions of OS X you can set NSAppleScriptEnabled to true manually:

defaults write com.apple.Preview NSAppleScriptEnabled -bool true

The open and activate commands also work with applications that don't have an AppleScript dictionary.


how to download Rando photos from iPhone to Mac I've been playing around with the iOS app Rando, which anonymously exchanges photos with people around the world. Is there some way to download these photos to my Mac? To be clear -- the photos I take with Rando are normal iPhone pictures and easy to download; I'm asking about the photos from other people, which seem to live only in the Rando app.

Any on screen image can be captured in a screenshot (press and hold home then press lock) which will be saved to your local camera roll.  If Rondo does not support exporting photos explicitly, you can just create a local copy using this method, the only downside being that the resolution will be capped to your devices screen size, not the original photo dimensions.

After actually checking the app out, I noticed that if you double tap an image it gives you the option to save to the camera roll anyway, so you then transfer via the method of your choice: Photostream/iTunes Sync/Email/iMessage etc


Images are intermittently distorted when copy-pasted into Power Point This is just a small addition to an existing topic, but it's driving me crazy and I don't see an answer anywhere, or have time to gain user points. I reluctantly switched to High Sierra recently on my MacBook and MacBook Pro (I have a lot of old software I'm happy with). When pasting images from a browser or pdf (or probably anywhere) into Office 2008 Power Point, they often come out skewed in the way others have shown. Doesn't seem to matter if I use shortcut keys, or Paste, or Paste Special. What will sometimes cure it is closing the Power Point and opening it again, which is obviously not very practical. I can paste into Illustrator, so it seems to be a Power Point issue. Has anybody figured this out?

Thanks,

Barbara

Bypass the copy/paste directly into PowerPoint procedure and instead, paste the copied image into a new Preview.app document, export the image into a .gif, .png or .jpg formatted file onto your computer, and then import the file into PowerPoint. It takes more steps, but it should work.


2012 Macbook Air Mt Lion 10.8.2. Can I factory reset and upgrade using only an external monitor? I just purchased a 2012 MacBook Air with a broken screen. I'm using it as a desktop via an external monitor. I plan to do a factory reset and then upgrade to mavericks.

Will I be able to complete the factory reset and upgrade using only an external monitor?

Could I essentially accomplish the same result of erasing the previous owner's data and restoring the MacBook by just updating to Mavericks? Again, using only an external monitor.

Yes, it is possible, as long as the machine is run in clamshell mode.

Turn the computer on, plug in the external display, make sure an external keyboard and mouse is connected (wired or Bluetooth), then close the internal display. The Mac will enter clamshell mode and will use the external display as the primary display.

The only caveat with this is that the laptop screen must stay closed and AC power must be connected.

You can read more about clamshell mode in Apple KB article HT3131:

Mac notebooks: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display


Can these 10 steps for creating a podcast episode be automated? This is my first time trying to put together a recording of something which will become a podcast, and it seems like I have 10 "post processing" steps which I am currently doing manually.

It's entirely possible (in fact, it's likely) that I'm doing this in a way which is much harder than it has to be, but I don't know how to automate and/or simplify it. I'm hoping others who know more about this process might chime in and tell me how to make it simpler.

I'm starting with an AIFF file which has to be edited (cutting off time at the beginning and ending). This strikes me as the only step which can't be automated.

Edit AIFF in Fission to just contain the recording
Export as AIFF
Open Intro (a pre-recording mp4), Outro (same), and new recording (AIFF) in QuickTime7
Create new document in QuickTime7, and then Copy/Paste: 1) the Intro, 2) the new recording, and 3) the Outro.
Export AIFF from QuickTime7
Open AIFF in Levelator
Import leveled AIFF in iTunes
Export leveled AIFF to MP3 (iTunes) at a certain bitrate
List item
Add tags to MP3 (iTunes) checking to make sure I'm using same tags I used in previous episodes in all required fields except for the episode title which is different.

It seems like steps 2-10 should be something I can automate, even the tagging, except for the episode title, which I can manually add before I upload it to the server.

So how can I automate this, or otherwise make it easier / less error-prone?

For a good summary about how other people do it see How we do our home work which documents how the Home Work podcast gets recorded and post-processed:

QuickTime for audio recording
GarageBand for audio editing
Levelator
Sound Studio to adjust the sample rate, mix down to mono and add metadata

Depending on your setup and your quality requirements you can at least combine #1 and #2 by recording directly in GarageBand and also add intro/outro parts.


GarageBand 10.1.1 Removed MainStage Instruments After updating to GarageBand 10.1.1, all the instruments I've downloaded from MainStage 3 have disappeared from the instrument library. They still seem to be in /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Instruments, but they're not showing up in the list. Any projects with the instruments, however, play perfectly with them.

I'm not talking about Jam Packs here; they're still right there in the "Legacy" category. I'm talking about things like the expanded orchestral strings, world music, etc. How can I get these back?

Topic on the Apple website.

To restore all your MainStage3 instruments do this trick which will add new root folder "User patches" in the Instrument selector:

Quit Garageband
Open Terminal
Type these three commands (all are one lines):

mkdir "$HOME/Music/Audio Music Apps/Patches/Instrument"
ln -s "/Applications/MainStage 3.app/Contents/Resources/Patches/Instrument" "$HOME/Music/Audio Music Apps/Patches/Instrument/Mainstage"
exit

Close Terminal and start GarageBand
Locate Mainstage3 instruments in the "User patches" area or use search box

Downside is some patches are now showed twice, but this does not mean your instruments occupy more space or disk or anything. In the steps above, you actually made a symlink from user patch directory into MainStage3 program patch directory, so GarageBand can always access it. This will alway work not matter how many times you update any of the two programs.

Extra trick: You can edit any patch and save it into Patches/Instrument directory and it will also show up (only first strip channel). This works with all Logic Pro X instruments, including Alchemy and others!