Purchasing a Mac Mini with Future Compatibility in Mind I am contemplating purchasing a mac mini. However, now that Apple has just released newer models of the mac minis, I find myself a bit confused.

Basically, my requirements are: A mac to learn and develop ios apps, within a $700 budget.

Apple hardware is expensive and because I will also need to purchase an iPhone and iPad, I want to ensure that if I buy a Mac Mini it should at least last me for 3-4 years (i.e., support iOS development for 3-4 years) with only the occasional RAM or HD upgrades needed.

My doubts are:

Is it prudent to buy the cheaper 2012 Mac Mini model, and just upgrade the RAM and HD, rather than opting for the 2014 mac mini? (I do not see any significant differences in the hardware between the 2012 and 2014 model except for the better processor and integrated graphic support.)
The newer 2014 Mac Minis come with the 4th generation (Haswell) intel processors, while the 2012 mac mini models come with older i5 and i7 processors. Seeing that the lowest specs of the 2014 mac mini is 1.4 Ghz i5, how much weight should be given to the processor considering future compatibility when it comes to future mac OS X releases?
How is apple's hardware support for older models, in general?

Buy the "Basic" (as they call it in Apple Store) 2012 Mac mini and replace HD and RAM yourself is the most economical way. It's also the power user move.

a) While leaving the factory HD in place, you can put in a second drive such as a SSD at where the optical bay used to be. You can dual boot two OS X installations. One can be the daily OS, the other 1) as extra storage for less frequented files, 2) as Time Machine backup location, and 3) as beefed-up Recovery Mode if the primary fails. I don't know if you can put a 2nd drive into the 2014 model.

b) Dual drive and merge them into your own fusion drive.

c) Upgrade to a 3rd-party 16 GB RAM. The price cannot be cheaper given the amount of time it has been out in the market.

Haswell's raison is saving energy. It makes a lot of sense on MBP and MBA. And 2014 Mac mini DOES use less power than the 2012 model, but that's a moot point.

Compatibility is less concerning if you consider performance. An iPhone 4 is compatible with iOS 7, but that's not preferable, and a 4S can technically run iOS 8 but only sluggishly and without many features. You COULD install Yosemite on 2009 Mac mini, but would you do it?

Great. I fixed/tweaked my MBP, Mac mini, and MBA for 4 years now without ever going to the genius bar, hat in hand. So apple's support did a great job of staying out of my way. I'm serious. When I had a Dell, I chose to add years to my warranty because the company is the the only place you can turn to. Because apple has sold so many and kept its lines simple, there ought to be somebody out there doing what you're doing.

I don't know if you agree that Apple has placed Mac mini into that peculiar spot in its line-up: iPod Touch is the thing that's not an iPhone; iPad mini (2014) is that thing that is not a iPhone 6 Plus. Mac Mini is the thing that is not a Mac Pro. Apple's not going to be pushing the boundaries with it. That's my guess.


Is there a way to "swipe" between lists in Reminders in iOS 6? In prior versions, you could simply swipe to switch between lists.

The default setting in the iOS 6 version has eliminated this gesture, which means that you have to click on the lists icon, then click again on a specific list.

Is there a setting somewhere that lets you turn swiping back on to switch lists?

Now that the iOS 6 version has swipe-to-delete enabled, you must swipe the list’s title to move between lists. Swiping in the body won’t work.


How to track down Facebook notifications on OS X to disable them I have a Macbook Air running OS X 10.11/El Capitan and two days ago these notification just started appearing:

Perhaps I hit some special keys accidentally, but I want it to go away and it won't.  Furthermore, I have NO facebook option in my Notifications:

Safari:

Chrome:

How do I stop this?

Check Safari prefs too, as Facebook is not an app, but a web-based service…


How to add access to the camera to one app which doesn't appears in the system preferences ->privacy menu? Hi I have an app which take screenshoots from my macbook, but I didn't give access to the camera when I installed the app, that's why I am not able to use this app now, which has very nice tools to comment and edit the screenshoots. My question is, how can I give permissions to this app if it doesn't appears in the menu system preferences -> privacity -> camera, how can I add this app to this section or give the camera permissions? Thanks!

The app is lightshot I was able to use it in another mac, where I gave the permissions when I installed it, the another problem here is that when I installed it again it didn't ask me to give permissions maybe for some kind of history.
For more clarity, what I would like to do is to be able to show the lighshot app in the privacy -> camera section, just as in the next picture.

Thanks!

Apps only appear in privacy settings when they attempt to use the category.
The Camera privacy settings refers to photographs and videos from the built-in camera, which is not something Lightshot uses.
The list on the left of Privacy settings also contains Screen Recording lower down, which is what is required for apps to be able to take screenshots.


How do I select the right iPhone carrier I have seen a lot of people asking about what carrier to use and what features they have.

Also people have asked about Visual Voicemail, which confusingly is not available on some networks, although Apple highlight it as one of the iPhone features, without mentioning it is not available to all carriers. Source

Also I have had many people ask about using a Personal Hotspot or unlocking the iPhone.

Where can all this information be found?

I asked this question so I could answer it, as I said there are a lot of people asking me about this issue.

On this page of Apple's support website, you can find a list of worldwide carriers and the features they support on the iPhone.


Email a photo from Photos. I simply want to email a photo from Photos. When I click on the share button, I do not get a message box to address an email

The share button doesn't bring up an address box, it bring up a set of choices, depending on what apps/services you have installed...

After clicking Mail, a new Mail should open, with the cursor set ready to add an address...


Upgraded RAM, Bootcamp doesn't recognize I have a Macbook 13' i5 early 2011, with Windows 8 64 bits and recently I bought new RAM kit from Crucial (8gb). After I installed the hardware, the windows OS doesn't recognize all 8GB, like the printscreen attached shows. Does anybody knows why?

Can you boot into Mac O/S? If so open up System Profiler, click on the memory option and see what the Mac is seeing. If it sees all 8GB then the issue is with windows and you might want to ask your question on superuser or another Windows forum.

If the mac side only sees the same 4GB then you may have an issue with the DIMM. It could be not seated properly, contacts could be dirty (clean the contacts with a pencil eraser and then rubbing alcohol) or the DIMM could be defective.

Another quick (and sometimes overused) trick would be to zap the PRAM:

Reboot and hold down COMMAND - OPTION - P - R (that's four keys) and let it bong a couple of times before releasing the keys and booting into Windows.


Strange steps measurement in iphone Does someone have an explanation for this strange step measurement which is happening in my iPhone?

As you can see from the screenshot here reported, for some days in this month the steps counted were exactly the same (I have noticed that this happens frequently).

Clearly, it is impossible that the phone counts the same number of steps for consecutive days. I think this may be an average value computed due to missing data.

I checked the actual amount of steps for those days and it is always the same fixed value.

Is it normal? Can I avoid this to happen?

This issue fund is in fact a bug. I have reported it on bugreport.apple.com

I guess now, they are taking care of the problem...


Unable to log in to time capsule wired to an router after reconfiguring that router Short: Ever since I reconfigured my netgear router, I haven't been able to log in wirelessly from Win7/Airport to a time capsule (TC) that is cabled into my netgear router.  I think the problem is that I had previously, years ago, configured the TC to have an fixed IP, and now (after giving the netgear a new IP during reconfig) that IP is out of range.

On launch, Airport find the TC and shows it to have the old IP.  When I click manual setup, the error message -6753 "An error occurred while trying to access the Apple wireless device. Make sure your network connection is valid and try again."

How can I login to the TC short of resetting the TC to factory? (and lose its config).

Long:
I have a time capsule (TC) plugged into my main router (netgear). I use it as a wifi router and administrate the TC wirelessly under Win7 using the AirPort Utility.  I have the TC configured to only accept connections from a list of MACs.

I can no longer login into the time capsule from Win7.

This started after I changed the IP address of the netgear router. That caused me to lose all my router settings.  It's reconfigured now.

There are a couple odd things. The TC is handling its wifi connected devices (printers etc) properly.  The netgear router is showing them as connected devices, and I can print from a Win7 machine through the TC to a wifi printer.

Yet the netgear router does not show the TC as being connected. And I cannot log in to the TC wirelessly using AirPort.

I think the problem is that I configured the TC to have an fixed IP, and now (after the netgear reconfig) that IP is out of range.

FWIW, this is how I ended up logging in to administrate the time-capsule.

I cabled the TC to a laptop using one of the three LAN ports on the TC.  At that point Win7 indicated there was something connected at something like 192.168.1.1, which I suspect is the TC's default IP address.

Using that IP and the existing password, I was able to log in to administrate the TC via AirPort > File > Configure Other.

I suspect that on power-up, TC uses that default IP address until it successfully connects through it's WAN port using DHCP, or in my case, the user-configured fixed IP.

Anyway, with a successful login via AirPort, I was able to update the fixed IP to one that was in the range of the reconfigured netgear router to which it is WAN cabled.


How do you check how much current a Mac USB port can deliver? This question is similar to the superuser question "How to check how much power a USB port can deliver", which is answered for Linux and Windows.

How do you check the same on a Mac?

The Knowledgebase article Apple Computers and Displays: Powering peripherals through USB contains some general guidelines and illustrates using System Profiler (System Information in Lion) to provide information about the output (according to specifications) of a Macs USB ports.

If you want to test the real world voltage output of a given USB port on an individual Macintosh at a given load you will have to use a test device. (USB Test Circuit)


Macbook Pro 2011 : After disabling the dGPU using Arch, normal boot hang halfway but working in safe boot I have followed all the instructions provided at
MacBook Pro: How to disable discrete GPU permanently from EFI?
and I'm stuck at the following step:

  3.1 Move AMD / NVIDIA kext files to a backup directory

  Remove all the AMD (or NVIDIA, depending on your card) kext files in
  the Terminal in Recovery Console. Trying to remove them in Single User
  just gives sandbox errors, so don’t do it in Single User Mode! (the
  one that you boot with cmd+s).

  If you have FileVault, unlock it first.
  Boot into Recovery (cmd+r) directly. If it fails then repeat step 2 and retry (dGPU could get active again after
  booting into the os with AMD / NVIDIA kexts).
  Start Terminal (This commands are for AMD. If you have NVIDIA, change accordingly)

  diskutil cs list (find Logical Volume UUID: last item)
  diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume UUID (UUID: from previous command)
  cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
  mkdir AMD_Kexts
  mv System/Library/Extensions/AMD*.* AMD_Kexts/
  reboot

The Result is:

I'm using 2 hard disks, with no partition, a 120 Gb SSD for the system only and a 750 Gb drive for data. I actually don't understand the commands, I'm just following the instructions. After reboot it still hangs halfway.

Please, what should I do next?

Im using macbook pro 17" late 2011 with HD Graphics 3000/ AMD Radeon HD 6770M

The problem that you're having is that you're not quite following the instructions correctly.

More specifically, you've run the diskutil cs list command correctly, but the purpose of running this command was to identify the Logical Volume UUID. And, the reason you needed to identify it was because you need to actually use it in the next command.

In other words, instead of entering:

diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume UUID

you need to enter

diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume 3F7CB47E-F743-4DBF-9BF1-10E574F85D13

instead.

NOTE: This answer is designed to clarify how you needed to follow the instructions you're following. As your question only quotes a portion of those instructions, I cannot directly vouch for the accuracy or validity of the full instructions you're trying to follow.


How to restrict OS X video output to a specific part of the screen I accidentally bumped my MacBook Pro and now I have several lines on left and bottom sides of the screen.

The effected area is usable but hampers experience. I would like to somehow restrict the output to the working area of the screen.

I remember CRT monitors used to have features to easily, stretch/skew and position output.

How can I do this in OS X 10.10, Yosemite?

Either a built-in feature or a third party application would be welcome.

What you're looking for is called adjusting the overscan; this doesn't technically exist on an LCD screen.

However, I think you can probably manually adjust the usable area of your screen using SwitchResX.
If you're running El Capitan, you have to do an additional step to enable custom resolutions called disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP); search their website for a detailed how to.

SwitchResX has a demo version you can test out before buying.


Switching between RDP sessions on OS X El Capital OS X El Capitan 10.11.3

I use Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.26

and many times open multiple sessions

The only way to switch these sessions i see is by clicking using mouse and i can't find any keyboard shortcuts to switch between multiple session

Is there any way to switch between sessions?

Regards

Same key command as any Mac app…   Cmd ⌘   `
which cycles through all open windows [in RDP's case, that also includes the 'picker'.]
 Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   `  will reverse the direction.

 `  seems to move around depending on which nationality keyboard you have, on a UK keyboard it's left of  z .

 Perhaps others could add in the location for other keyboard layouts…


What are these weird permissions? ==> d????????? ? ? ?? Since my Mac crashed and does not boot OS X at the moment, I am trying to recover some data from my user folder in OS X from within of Ubuntu.

Usually I have no problem accessing the files. But not this time.

I have stumbled upon these really strange permissions and I cannot change them. What are these?

Using sudo chmod... and sudo chown... is not possible and I get a message saying: (translated) no access possible: input/output error

d????????? ? ?    ?     ?            ? matthias

When you don't have permission to a folder in Ubuntu (and various other Linux OSs), you will get d?????????.

To recursively fix the permissions, use this command:

chmod -R a+rX matthias

From this answer on Ask Ubuntu:

  To read a file, its read permission needs to be set. However, to read a directory and the listing of its files, both the read and the execute permissions need to be set. If they aren't, you get weird errors like the ones you're experiencing.


CMOS Battery or similar for iPhone Location I have an iPhone 7. I want to know where the CMOS Battery or similar to CMOS Battery for iPhone.
Please let me know where it is by showing a diagram if there is one.
If you cannot show me, let me know the parts close to it. Thank you in advanced!

All power on the iPhone comes from the main battery which is a big lithium ion battery taking up most of the case.
Settings etc are stored in internal nand flash normally and not the CMOS chips that PCs used to use with the real time clock being updated via internet connection (Apples own time servers) or via the mobile phone network.
A full breakdown can be found on the ifixit site here and step six shows you the battery.


Archive Utility Error 13 - Permission Denied attempting to create archive I want to compress a Time Machine backup folder to a Zip file on another drive. I've set what I believe are the right preferences for Archive Utility. But when I try to run it, I immediately get "Error 13 - permission denied". It doesn't tell me whether the problem is with the source folder or the destination archive, and I don't know where to look.
I've read everything I can find on Archive Utility, but can't find the solution. Does Archive Utility need write permissions on the source item? If so, that could be my problem.
Also, what user does Archive Utility run as? Is there complete documentation for it anywhere?

It is not a good idea to compress the folder as a zip. Time Machine uses directory hard links a lot and zip does not recognize them. So you might end up with a zip archive 10 time (or more, depending on size and modification frequency) bigger than the space your Time Machine backup originally requires. If you have to have your backup as a file, then create a compressed image from your Time Machine disk.
Open Disk Utility. Select your TM drive, and go to "File - New Image - Image of ". Then choose "compressed" in "format". Choose a location and click "save". This operation might take several hours to several days depending on the size and complexity of your backup.
If you want to do it no matter what, you have to use the command line.
sudo zip -9ry /where/you/want/zip/to/be.zip /path/to/backup/


Make a sound in zsh when a command is not found How can I get zsh to play a sound when the command is not found?
Ex: I have the alias vpn to open my VPN from the terminal (zsh). If sometimes by mistake I type cpn instead of vpn, I get the following output:
me@iMac ~ % cpn
zsh: command not found: cpn

I know how to play a sound from terminal, in general. How do I integrate it so that there is a sound whenever the command is not found?
The specific sound I want to play is available at System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects > Funky.

First, some background on command execution in zsh is helpful:

If no external command is found but a function command_not_found_handler exists the shell executes this function with all command line arguments. The return status of the function becomes the status of the command. If the function wishes to mimic the behaviour of the shell when the command is not found, it should print the message ‘command not found: cmd’ to standard error and return status 127. Note that the handler is executed in a subshell forked to execute an external command, hence changes to directories, shell parameters, etc. have no effect on the main shell.

So, there are two requirements now:

I need to have a command_not_found_handler defined;
zsh will have to load this function every time it starts.

The second point can be taken care of by defining the function in ~/.zshrc file. For the first point I used the following definition:
function command_not_found_handler() {
        osascript -e beep&echo "zsh: command not found: $1"&
        return 127;
}

Breakdown of the function body:

osascript -e beep&: This command produces the default beep sound of macOS. It's the same sound as the one that plays in System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects > Funky. The actual location where it is present in macOS is /System/Library/Sounds/Funk.aiff. I have added & at the end of this to execute the sound in parallel. Otherwise the next part of the code will be delayed in execution.
echo "zsh: command not found: $1"&: This is the default action that zsh takes when a bad command is executed. Since the goal is to produce the sound and have the error output on the terminal code, this has to be here. Again, I have added & at the end of this to execute the sound and this message echo in parallel.
return 127;: This, as mentioned in the quoted text at the top of the answer, is the expected status code when a bad command is executed. While the method worked for me without it, it is a good programming habit to return what is expected.

Copy pasting the method in ~/.zshrc file and then sourcing it again makes zsh aware of this function. Now when I call cpn instead of my actual alias vpn, my terminal behaves more consistently with the rest of the macOS and produces the same sound as it does in other GUI interactions, and produces an error message on the terminal.

Credit for this answer goes to @glennjackman's comment.


How do I scan a QR code from an image stored on iOS? iOS 11 added the option to scan a QR code with the built-in camera app on an iPhone. However, I couldn’t find an option to scan a QR code from an image saved to my camera roll or otherwise already saved to Files and not something printed or physical external to the phone.

How can I scan a QR code from an image already saved on an iPhone?

The app QR Reader for iPhone on the App Store is quite a powerful QR code app. Check it out.

I use it infrequently, but I'm glad I have it in my toolbox.

Another reader that isn't scammy or tries to advertise / monetize your use is QRafter Pro and it's very solid over years of use.

Disclaimer: We're satisfied users of QR Reader/ QRafter for iPhone, and there are no financial or other connections between to TapMedia Ltd or QRafter.


How to fix this disk has 2 partions popup on external HD I've been recently getting this message when I try to eject my external HD, I only use it for Time Machine backups. How do I stop this message form appearing?

It certainly looks like that disk was at some point partitioned. Open Disk Utility, click on the disk and look under the Partition panel. Disk Utility will show the current partition scheme, and whether you can repartition the disk without losing data. But back up your data onto another disk or your computer before trying that!

In the unlikely event this is just a glitch, you should certainly run Disk Utility Repair!


My entire music collection is gone from Finder I do not use iTunes but instead store my music files in nested folders in /Users/User/Music. I recently downloaded Tomahawk, a music player.

I decided quickly that I preferred to stick with VLC for playing music, only to find that I can no longer use VLC as all my files are removed from my music folder. I restarted, and some of the files appear in Tomahawk program while other are gone. It seems unlikely (and would be very unfortunate) if the files have been totally deleted; I imagine they are hidden somewhere on my computer. Where can I find them, and/or is it possible to reset my system to a few hours ago or restore them in some other way?

Note: it is not the entire folder that has been removed. The folder structure (subfolders for each artist, etc.) remains, and other files, like images of the album covers in .jpg format, remain.

It seems unlikely it would delete them, but I don't know how that app works at all...
...so, assuming Tomahawk has moved the files to its own cache/storage location, you could try using something like EasyFind (freeware) - which can search hidden locations far more easily than Spotlight - to look for either Folders containing the name Tomahawk, or one or two actual music file names.

Chances are, you find one, you've found them all.

Without Time Machine as a quick revert, moving them back to their original locations may not be so simple - it might be a case of dragging each one back to its correct folder, one at a time.


Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption? Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that you cannot even get to the partition table without decrypting it?

And if not, is there any support for reading File Vault disks on Windows, Linux, or, for that matter, Snow Leopard ?

John Siracusa's detailed Lion review covers the new FileVault disk encryption feature in great detail:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/13#lion-file-system

To summarise, the new system is "volume" based. This means that not all volumes can be or are encrypted. The Lion recovery partition for example is not encrypted. Non Mac volumes are also not encrypted (FAT, NTFS, ExFAT, etc).

From John's description it does appear you can have multiple encrypted volumes. Whether or not they can use different passwords is unknown to me. Some use of the diskutil command may be necessary to achieve this if possible.


Change to a second language dictionary while readinjg I need a French dictionary as a second choice when I read French text on my iPhone. I am not able to invoke a French dictionary when I select a French word as I do when I am reading English. Is this another case of American exceptionalism? Also there appears to be no way to get to the keyboards when I am reading text. Most awkward indeed!

With the French keyboard activated, type a French word in Notes and then select it and do Define.  Hopefully it will let you download a French reference dictionary.


Reopen PDF in Preview on the same page when modified externally In Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks when a PDF document opened in Preview is modified by an external application, Preview automatically reopens the new version with the same page displayed as before.

After updating to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite this behavior changed, and each time a PDF is modified externally, Preview reopens it on the first page. This is quite annoying to me, since I work with many LaTeX documents, which I recompile often to verify how changes in LaTeX code render in the PDF.

The question is, can I bring back the previous behavior of reopening PDF on the same page in Preview or I'm forced to change my default PDF viewer to other application?

Note that the option "Start on the last viewed page" in Preview preferences is enabled. However it seems to work only when Preview is closed and then reopened. It does not work when the PDF file is changed.

I always ⌘+W to close the current preview then compile. Preview then reopens at the last position, with modifications. It's not that convenient, but works for me.


Friend with Android phone and Mac computer defaults to iMessage in Messages I have a friend who uses an Android mobile phone and also a Mac. My iPhone contact page for him shows a FaceTime icon which I suppose is correct because it would go to the Mac when available but if I choose the speech bubble next to his phone number my iPhone goes to Messages and shows "iMessage" in the empty box. There's no speech bubble next to his email.
The messages that I send him are delivered succesfully via iMessage (blue bg) but how can I explicitly send him a regular text (sms) message to make sure that it's delivered to the Android phone and not to the Mac? I'm using iOS 9.3
Please note that I don't want to disable iMessage altogether.

Thanks

This is an old thread, but I found it while trying to solve this myself...

The only way I have found to work around this is:

Open iMessage
Start typing the contact's name
When the iPhone displays the contact you want, tap the ">" icon on right of the name.
The iPhone will drop down and show all of the contact options.
Tap the contact's phone number to select the delivery method.
Carry on as you normally would typing and sending the message.


How to stop my iPhone from merging contacts? My iPhone keeps merging contacts when two of them are of the same company or have something else that is identical.

So, let us say I wish to call a contact (that unknowingly to me has been merged), I keep scrolling through my list of contacts until I finally decide to obtain their number via other means. Much later, I find that this very contact had been merged with the main company contact or one of their colleagues.

It has happened countless of times since the iPhone 5. Unmerging and re-adding contacts has become part of my routine.

My iPhone has one Exchange account configured that synchronises the contacts. I use Outlook 2016 on PC.

How to stop my iPhone from merging contacts?

It appears to be a feature of Office 365. Similar contacts get ‘linked’ automatically. Unlinking is possible, although, when I attempted it myself, one of the linked contacts was lost completely. There is no way of disabling the ‘feature’ at the moment.

Unlinking contacts may be achieved as follows:

Open Outlook 2013 or newer and switch to People;
Ensure that your Current View is set to People;
Choose any of the contacts that you believe to be linked;
Press ‘Link Contacts…’ under View Source at the right;
Press × for each contact listed as they will reappear in your list of contacts.


Logic Pro X 10.1 update button does nothing I have Logic 10.0.7 and got a notice to update to 10.1. I press on the Update Now button but nothing happens. I have OS X 10.9.5 installed. What should I do?

Try resetting the Mac App Store.

Enable the debug menu and restart the Mac App Store.

defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true

Choose the Reset Application option.


How to update virtual machine disk space in VMware Fusion? I'm using Windows 7 on VMware Fusion.

In the hard disk settings of the virtual machine I've set Disk Size to 65GB, I've selected pre-allocate the space and applied.

However when I run Windows 7 I still the old amount of space (and not the 65G), and on the mac I still can see the same space available. What am I doing wrong?

You need to extend the windows disk size from a running windows.

Here is how you do it: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007266

Now that you have extended the VMware image size, you need to start at #6 in the link.

EDIT:

I don't want to write a new answer, and the comment text-box isn't large enough - so here is a more less re-write of the link:

1) extend the VMware image size.

2) attach the HD image to an existing virtual disk of the same OS as the resized image (Virtual Machine Libary->[select the VM to use]->Settings->Hard Disks->[click +]->[select the new HD in left menu]->File name->Choose existing disk...->[navigate to the resized image, and select the .vmdk]->[choose "Share this virtual disk....."]->Open->Apply) - if you will go the safe way, you'll choose "Make a separate copy af the virtual disk" instead of the "Share this virtual disk...."

3) Start the virtual machine that you just attached the new HD to.

4) Now because you are using Windows 7, you need to go to "Start->Computer Management->Disk Manager" and right-click on the partition you need to extend, and select "Extend Volume".

5) power off (shutdown VM) - and remove the HD attached in #2 - don't delete it...!

6) if you in #2 choose to make a copy of the .vmdk, then you need to replace it manually in the VMware image file (package) - right click on the VMware image (.vmwarevm)->Show Package Contents.

7) Power on the virtual machine from #1, and verify the disk size change.


How to change the path of application in OSX I removed phonegap from

/usr/local/bin/phonegap

and installed it again using npm, now when running phonegap, I see this error:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/phonegap: No such file or directory

while phonegap is installed in

/Users/myUserName/.nvm/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules

How can I fix this?

I can't speak to the odd path you've installed this software into, but the reason the shell says it can't find it is that bash (and other shells) maintain a hash table with the locations of executable binaries that have been run before.  The reason behind this is so that the shell doesn't have to actually search for it each time it needs to execute it.

See: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Search-and-Execution

To force bash to re-hash the table, use 'hash -r' .


Trash is not getting emptied no matter how many times I click on empty trash option! I recently cleared my system caches and as usual moved them to trash and then clicked empty trash. After the cleanup I was designing some stuff when my eyes fell upon the trash icon, it was full inspite of the fact that I have recently cleared my trash, so I opened it and I came across this cache file (com.apple.kext.caches) no matter how many times I am clicking on empty trash, trash is not getting emptied it still shows full and the file still exits in the trash!

The permissions on this file doesn't allows me read/write this file so tried to add myself (admin) via the get info panel and as expected macOS didn't allowed me to change the permissions.

After trying everything to delete this file I though of putting it back in it's original place system>library>caches and guess a same file already exits so I didn't replaced it.

Moving the cache file out of the trash recreates or creates an exact copy of the file within the trash.

Trash is working normal it is deleting everything send to it except the cache file!

And since it's a root file none of the DIY Terminal commands are working to remove the file

I have already tried deleting it in Safe mode, which didn't worked and I haven't yet tried deleting it in recovery mode using terminal because I don't know how to do it!

The message I am getting when I tried to delete the file using a terminal command:

Sayans-iMac:.Trash sayan$ sudo rm -R /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches
override rw-r--r--  root/wheel restricted for /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories/Library/Extensions/KextIdentifiers.plist.gz? Y
rm: /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories/Library/Extensions/KextIdentifiers.plist.gz: Operation not permitted
override rwxr-xr-x  root/wheel restricted for /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories/Library/Extensions?

The file can be found under this directory

And I am getting this error when I am trying to delete the cache file using this command rm -rf path to the file.

Probably the easiest thing to do is to just boot up in Safe Mode and then empty the trash.

Boot into Safe Mode

Follow these steps to boot your Mac into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Once you're logged in, empty the trash
Exit Safe Mode by restarting your Mac as normal

Next up is Apple steps to repair the disk:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201583

Basically you boot to recovery and repair the disk in question.

[EDIT]

If all the above steps fail to empty the items from Trash, then the following options are available to you:

Reboot your Mac from another boot drive (e.g. an external USB hard drive, etc). Once logged in, your Mac will see its internal drive as just another hard drive and you will be able to empty its Trash.
Reboot your Mac in Target Disk Mode and connect it to another Mac. The other Mac will see it as an external drive and you should be able to empty the Trash.
Create another Admin user account for yourself and then reboot your Mac and login to your new account. Start using this account instead. It will have access to all your apps and you just need to transfer your data across. When the time comes, delete the other user account.
If you're familiar with Terminal/Bash, and you have a full Time Machine (or other) backup of your system, you can also boot into macOS Recovery and access Terminal from the Utilities menu. Then run the necessary commands to gain read/write access to your usual boot volume, navigate to the correct user, and try deleting the Trash.


Brand new MacBook Pro says "Service Battery" Unpacked a new MacBook Pro 13" yesterday. I've been using it for a couple of hours before plugging it in for the very first time as it told me that it still had plenty of battery power left. I was surprised that it seemingly did not deplete, until the device shut off suddenly due to a completely emptied battery.

When plugging it in and restarting it, the battery icon in the menu bar said "Service Battery". Upon googling the problem I found out that resetting the SMC is a popular first trouble shooting step. However, a reset did not change anything, the warning remains.

Do you have any additional suggestions for me? I'd hate to take it back.

Update: After charging it to 100% I took it off the charger and the warning eventually disappeared. It's still on 100% though after having worked on it for about 3 hours.

If this happens with a new MacBook Pro, you will want to call the seller and arrange for a repair or a device replacement. It is not supposed to happen until you have used the device for years.


How get email account settings from my Macbook Air onto my iPhone 5s? I need to get the email account settings from my Macbook Air on to my iPhone 5s.

It was working perfectly until I got a new iPhone 5s. I backed everything up, but my email account for work is not working now, meaning I am out of the loop if I am not near my Mac.

On your 5s, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Tap the email account, and make sure the Mail slider is on.

If the email account does not appear there, you have two options:

Add it using the email and password. More info can be found here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201320
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201855

Or, provide additional info on the type of email account you're trying to use on both your Mac and iOS device for further troubleshooting, eg is it a POP, IMAP or Exchange account? If you are unsure, check it here:

https://ssl.apple.com/support/mail-settings-lookup/


Apps for screen rotation hotkey? So I'm using the latest El Capitan, and I find myself using my 'external' monitor both portrait and landscape mode simultaneously.
It's been quite bugging to go into system prefs. and changing the screen orientation every time I rotate my screen.

Is there a way to simply rotate the orientation without having the hassle to go through all those steps?

http://www.magesw.com/displayrotation/

This program is added on to menubar, and basically allows user to change to rotation accordingly.

This also allows you to press cmd + ctrl + opt + 0 to return to landscape


iMovie 10.0.7 How do I mark my "favorite" part of a video and move it into the timeline Under the old version you could make the part of the video clip you liked and it would show GREEN after you moved it into the the timeline. This version shows the make area in the menu, but does not work. The menu is light gray and there is no "heart" icon on the screen for the "favorite" part of the clip. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help.

You can still favorite sections of your clips in iMovie by selecting a portion of your clip in the library and hitting the "F" key. Your selection will be marked by a green bar, like before.


iOS 9 Cydia “Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status” I've recently installed Pangu jailbreak where you get Cydia because a friend said it's a good way to customize your iPhone 6 (which I'm using) and other generations of iPhones.

At the end my Cydia and Pangu crashed instantly upon opening so I tried deleting it but Cydia is "impossible" to be deleted because it has no profile or "X" mark on the icon when removing it.

So I looked up that you can search for "Cydia compactor" (I think that's the name of it) inside of Cydia, but the problem is when I go inside of Cydia there's a database error popping out instantly in "RED":

Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: no such file or directory)

The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I really want to un-jailbreak my iOS 9.3.3 iPhone 6 but i need help fixing Cydia so i can search/ download the Cydia compactor (which again i think that's the name of it) which removes and un-jailbreaks your phone / cydia.

I tried every way to get rid of it: restore, reset and other stuff that did not work, Cydia compactor is the only way.

Some people say it's illegal but I just want to remove it because I don't want this kind of stuff on my iPhone anymore, if anyone could help that would be amazing.

The problem here is that Cydia can't find the file "status" in  /var/lib/dpkg.

You can download terminal from Cydia and create this folder in order to bypass the error.

After installing Terminal, you  type

su

password is alpine by default. After that write these codes in order to create the folder.

cp -R /var/mobile/Media/Books/lib /var
mkdir /var/log/apt

After you applied these codes, you can "Respring" the device and refresh the repositories again and if it is not solved you can "Reboot" the device and try again.


Is it bad to leave the Macbook Pro Retina 13inch charging all the time? I connected my Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse and in order to leave it closed, you must have it connected to power. When my Macbook is closed, does it ruin my battery because it's always closed?

The battery charging automatically stops when battery is full.

So you can leave it plugged in as long you wish.


Should the pgrep command be available in OS X 10.7.5 I posted this question on stackexchange and was told in no uncertain terms that my system was broken because pgrep did not exist in /usr/bin

This has me worried, my system is stable and I am sure I did not 'accidentally' delete pgrep from the /usr/bin directory.

I checked one of my other (newer systems) and indeed pgrep is available.

Is pgrep shipped by Apple in 10.7.5?

No, it's not shipped until 10.8 so you'll need to get it elsewhere for 10.7 and earlier.

Starting with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the pgrep command should be in /usr/bin/.

In a Terminal type the following and press enter.

whereis pgrep

Looking at the contents of the InstallESD.dmg from "Install Mac OS X Lion.app", pgrep is not present.


What is the relationship between Xcode and Xcode command line tools When I install Xcode from App Store, I can compile programs in Xcode as well as command line too. Several command line utilities like clang, make and git all become available when Xcode.app is installed. So I thought that the separate package of command line tools are only for those who do not want a full IDE installed.

But to my surprise, one of the linking problems I encountered when compiling MacVim can be successfully solved by installing the command line tools with xcode-select --install. So apparently the Xcode.app and the command line tools differ, at least in subtle ways. What is the difference then? Does the latter have better coverage for all the essentials for programming than the former?

Currently I am using Xcode 6.0.1 on Mavericks.

You can see it as:

The command line tools are the basic foundation. Many basic tools are needed to compile your Swift/Objective-C code.
XCode is the IDE which brings a few additional packages with it.

  So the command line tools get sure that the basic UNIX tools are
  covered (as GCC for example) to be able to compile and link code.

Xcode then is using those basic tools.

From the documents:

What is the Command Line Tools Package?

  The Command Line Tools Package is a small self-contained package
  available for download separately from Xcode and that allows you to do
  command line development in OS X. It consists of two components: OS X
  SDK and command-line tools such as Clang, which are installed in
  /usr/bin.


How can I create an option in the print PDF pop up menu with Automator? I tried to create a print plug-in for pdf pop-up menu, where I'd like to open the PDF in messages so I can send as a text or iMessage. After a few trials it did launch the messages app but it didn't show the pdf within it, nothing to send. Wanted to try the same plug in  with iBooks to see if it works and it did beautifully; saved the pdf to iBooks. I’m using the “open finder items” command. Is there something different I should do to make this work with messages app? My OS is BigSur 11.1.
Thanks!

Simply putting an Alias to the application in the Library/PDF Services folder (either the User's Library folder or the root level /Library folder) should be sufficient to send the PDF from the print menu's "Save As PDF" button to any application.
This should have the same effect as opening the document with the app, or dropping it on the app's icon. It may depend what the app does with incoming documents.


What does "EFI system partition couldn't be created" mean? When trying to click "Repair Disk" on an external hard drive from Disk Utility, I got the following error message:

  ...
  Repairing the EFI system partition's file system
  Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
  Creating a new EFI system partition
  Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map:
  Error: Couldn't repair the partition map because a new EFI system partition couldn't be created.

What does this error message mean?  Is it just complaining because there is no EFI system partition, or is it something more serious?

This is an 3TB external hard disk I use for external storage (e.g., Time Machine backups, other data), and it is not bootable.  diskutil list shows that it is partitioned with 2 partitions (one for Time Machine, one for data) but no EFI partition.  I suspect the partition table was created under Linux rather than Mac OS X.  The disk has been working fine up until recently.  I did read Why does Disk Utility create EFI partitions on external disks?; that and other sources gave me the impression that a EFI partition is not strictly required unless you want to boot from the disk.

Set your Disk utility in to Debug mode.

Now you should be able to "see" the hidden partitions like EFI and the Recovery HD.

To enable the Debug mode use your Terminal:

Enter the following command at the Terminal prompt:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

Needless to say, there is a reason for those partitions to be hidden, so do not mess around with them on your start up disk.


OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7, Search, Spotlight I'm handling a migration from an on old Mac server to a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running a 12 TB (10 usable) RAID 5 server. It's using an SMB share and now the OS X 10.5/10.6 users can search -  sometimes it works, but takes up to 10 minutes. The OS X 10.7 machine seems to be fine. I've looked in the root of the shared drive for a .Spotlight-V100 file (ls -a) but it doesn't seem to be there. mdutil says indexing is on for that volume and I have cleared the index using mdutil -E /Volumes/MeSharedVolume numerous times. Any ideas?

SMB Shares are indexed locally by the client since SMB does not support remote queries by spotlight. You need to wait for each client to finish indexing to be able to search.


Setting Default Send-From Address on iPhone If I take a photo using the camera app, and then want to share it by email, the default is to send from my icloud email address. I have my gmail set up on my phone using exchange, and that had always been the default until recently (with all that icloud stuff).

How can I set my gmail address as the default send-from address when sharing a photo?

For setting your default email account on an iOS device do the following:

Go to:

Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> and scroll down to Default account.
(Hope I translated it correctly, but I guess it is clear what I mean)

Set the default account to your likings.


MacBook Pro Function key + Command/Option hotkeys problem I'm using Intellij Idea on Mac, that heavily utilizes hotkeys including Function keys + the Option and Command keys.

While hardware keys + the Option and Command keys work okay, Touch Bar keys + the Option and Command keys pressed don't register the combination, essentially breaking so many hotkey commands in Idea.

Has anyone been able to resolve this problem?

Sharing a solution to this problem, although it's pretty uncommon case.
Root cause of the problem was Karabiner elements setup.
They have a ticket open corresponding to this case:
https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/1160

What you need to do to start registering this hotkeys is essentially enable unknown devices in Karabiner settings.


How can I get persistent Dictionary popups to go away? In some applications, such as nvAlt, the Dictionary popup (accessed by double-tapping with three fingers or by using the Look Up command in the context menu) won't go away once called. The only solution I've found to make it close is to quit the program. Is there any way I can do it without quitting the application?

This popover is built into the NSView class (showDefinitionForAttributedString:atPoint:). Since (as far as I can tell) it isn't controlled or powered by a distinct system process, it is completely owned by the app that owns the view where the popover was triggered.

In short, since the popover is owned solely by whatever app triggered it, there's no way to get rid of a stuck one without killing its parent app.

FYI, if the popover isn't dismissed with the escape key or by clicking outside of its body, something has gone wrong. I would file a bug report with the developers of the app where this happens.


Disk locked after formatting I am selling my iMac and I formatted every disk which also included startup disk and there is none. Now when I go to reinstall macOS, it shows the disk is locked. When I go to disk utility, it shows me no option of format e.g. Journal etc. It only has AFPS option.

What can I do to reinstall the OS?

In disk utility you will want to choose "View" in the upper left and then select "Show All Devices".
From there you should be able to select the Internal drive at the very top of the list and select erase as you're used to.

Once you've erased the drive you can now quit Disk Utility, and go back to the Mac OS installer as you had been doing. The drive should now not be locked.


Can I move a movie rental from my Apple TV to my iPad? If I rent a movie on my Mac, I can move the rented movie to my iPad.

Can I do the same if I rent a movie directly on my AppleTV?

Quote from Apple Support Pages:
"Movies rented on your Apple TV are not transferable to any other device and can only be viewed on your Apple TV."

If you have a iMac or Macbook at home, rent it through that computer, and then stream it to Apple TV for watching there... Movies rented on that Apple computer can be transferred with a click over to your iPad.


How can I stop AirPort from waking my Macbook Pro? Recently I have noticed my MacBook Pro is completely discharging when I leave it to sleep. After investigation I've discovered traces similar to the following in the Console output:

24/01/2014 18:35:11.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:35:57.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:36:01.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:37:01.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:37:05.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:37:50.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:37:55.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:38:56.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:38:59.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

And so on and so forth until it eventually kills the battery and it gives up altogether. Obviously this is, er, unhelpful and I'd like it to stop. I've unticked 'wake for network access' in the energy saver settings but it makes no difference. I've disabled 'allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer' and switch Bluetooth off. I've also unplugged all peripherals before sleep to check it wasn't something else triggering it. I have, of course, tried restarting.

This is a mid 2012 MacBook Pro, currently running OS X 10.9.1 but it was happening with 10.8.4 as well.

Can anyone suggest how I can stop this happening?

Edit: More information, as requested in the comments

pmset -g log | grep wake gives pages of this

24/01/2014 18:33:55 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:35:01 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:35:50 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:36:55 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:37:44 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:38:49 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:39:15 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:40:20 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:41:24 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None

interspersed with occasional sections like this:

24/01/2014 17:40:47 GMT  Assertions             PID 18(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:00  id:0xe000008ff [System: SRPrevSleep kCPU]
24/01/2014 17:41:02 GMT  Assertions             PID 18(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15  id:0xe000008ff [System: SRPrevSleep kCPU]
24/01/2014 17:41:02 GMT  Assertions             PID 18(powerd) Released InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15  id:0xe000008ff [System: SRPrevSleep kCPU]
24/01/2014 17:41:07 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None

You have gotten pretty far and tried several things. Found this gem: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11080 which has a list of things, some of which you have already done.

XHC1 refers to a Bluetooth device that is trying to wake your system but the fact that you are getting a output of "AirPort_Brcm43xx", the AirPort message pointed me to: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4645214?tstart=0

And if you have everything unplugged, BT is off and you have disabled the "Wake for network access" then I have a tendency to think that your OS is corrupted. I would go so far as to say that Power Nap is the service is that causing this but hard to say without for logs and I don't have that much free time! ;)

Unfortunately in the Apple discussion there was no marked answer/solution so if the issue still remains after a reinstall or test OS then you might have a hardware issue. You could also try resetting the SMC (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964) maybe the AirPort/Bluetooth card and MLB need a quick power cycle via the reset.

Hope that helps in some way.


How can I make a Keynote file non-editable? I have a PowerPoint presentation that I am converting to Keynote to distribute to students; however, I do not want other users to be able to edit the presentation.

Is there a way to make a Keynote file read-only, non-editable?

I don’t want to convert it to PDF files as I will lose the animations, or to convert it to a video file as the students would lose the ability to read the presentation at their own pace.

To make a Keynote presentation non-editable, you can export the slides as images and replace all the original slides with the images.


How can I run a hardware test in lion? My Mac was shipped with Lion. Therefore I have no install CDs that I could use to run a hardware test.

How can I run a hardware test?

If your mac shipped with Lion, you should be able to run the hardware test by simply holding D when your computer boots.

If your mac did not ship with lion, you will need the original install disks to boot into the hardware test mode.

Reference


Earphones problem/ sleep mode/ MacBook Air I been trying to listen to the music in my MacBook Air early-2015 however when I close it the music stops. How can I fix this?

download NoSleep for mac, makes it so that your display doesn't sleep when you close the lid.


Block Internet access to specific apps on specific Wi-Fi networks My company just set my laptop up with Backblaze, and the backups are killing my crappy rural DSL connection when I bring the machine home. Are there utilities that can block specific applications from accessing the Internet on specific Wi-Fi networks?

I've seen recommendations here for apps like Little Snitch or Radio Silence that can control Internet access on a per-app basis, but they don't seem to say anything about specific Wi-Fi networks. Can Automator control these apps when connecting/disconnecting from a specific Wi-Fi network?

Try TripMode, https://www.tripmode.ch

It is specific-network-aware, so you can activate it when you are on the constrained network, and after that it will remember, and auto-activate itself there.


pip3 abort signal on startup I've just upgraded to macOS Catalina, I've used brew install dpkg, and homebrew decided it was time to run brew cleanup.

After running it, I've not been able to run pip3 anymore.

Tried running brew doctor and brew reinstall python3, but none helped.

Running pip3 outputs this:

[1]    26346 abort      pip3

That problem is caused by asn1crypto.
You could try:

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/asn1crypto*

Which will uninstall asn1crypto.

Reference:
This Stack Overflow Post


Where are airdrop files located on ios? I sent my files(pdf, docs...) from macbook to iphone but i did not open my files when received. And now i can not find my files anywhere. Is there anywhere or removed?

When a file gets sent, you'll be given a popup menu with a list of apps in which to store the file. You have to pick one if you want to keep the file. If you just press Cancel, the file gets deleted. If the file(s) are photos or videos (compatible with ios) they end up in the photo album. If, however they are not compatible with any photo viewer installed, they seem to disappear without warning.


VPN client is not working after Yosemite update: Enforce Firewall Policy Fail I use both the Apple VPN client (L2TP over IPSec in Network preferences) and Checkpoint Endpoint Security client to connect to work.

I installed Yosemite last night and today I can not connect to work using VPN.  It connects to the server but fails.

The Checkpoint software gives a bit more feedback:  "Connection Failed: Enforce Firewall Policy failed".  This occurs after authentication of my username/password.

Both clients work fine on my MacBook which still has Mavericks.

Suggestions?

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

I think the unerlying issue is that Yosemite will not load kext (kernel extensions) unless they are signed by an authorized kernel extension developer. However in 10.8 and earlier, kexts could not be signed and signed kexts for 10.9+ will not load in <10.9.

I experienced the same issue loading unsigned tuntaposx for the vpnc cisco client.

You can override this behavior and allow the cpfw.kext to load in Yosemite by putting your computer into kext developer mode. This essentially reverts to the 10.9 behavior by allowing unsigned kexts to load.

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

Now reboot and your kext should load.

You can revert by doing this:

sudo nvram -d boot-args


Auto hide all other apps when clicking on an app’s window Heading says it all really. I have lots of windows open, belonging to lots of apps. Sometimes when working in one app I click on one of the windows of another app, and that window becomes the active window, but all of the app’s other windows are still hidden!

Is there a way for me to automatically hide all windows from all apps when I click on the window of one app?

Here is an example of what I mean:

I have five TextEdit windows open in various locations on screen
I’m currently using Safari and only one of the TextEdit windows is partly visible
I want to navigate to the TextEdit window from Safari and somehow automatically hide all other apps in one process

BTW, I know I can use the OPTION+COMMAND+H shortcut once I have made the other app’s window active, but I was hoping there was some way to do this as part of the navigation.

Can this be done?

Assuming I understand your question correctly, you can do exactly what you want by holding the optioncommand keys down as you click on the window.

Also, if you just want to hide the last app (i.e. not all other apps) you can just hold down the option key while you click on the other window.


How do I edit an Info.plist file? I want to edit three lines of file

Whenever I try to edit it this comes up

I already gave myself permission to Read & Write (I'm 21muffinp)

The same thing still comes up, saying I do not have perimission.

You need read/write permissions to the containing folder as well as the plist itself for Xcode to modify the file in place.

A workaround for this if you are unable to change the permissions of the containing folder is to copy the file out, edit it, then copy it back over the top of the existing file. Alternatively, you can use a different property list editor such as the CLI ‘defaults’.


Will playing CSGO overheat my Mid-2012 MacBook Air? I've been in a dilemma for a long time that my MBA can't run a decent game. The last thing that I've played is Unturned which didn't really require a high spec but my MBA heats pretty much every time which scared me.

I've been searching for threads with the same question and most says it will run fine. But will it really not overheat and completely damage it?

I don't know what CSGO is but the answer to the question of whether or not an application will overheat your CPU is an emphatic "no."

See this answer for additional reference.

Whether you run something in Terminal to max out your CPU (as in the linked answer) or a GUI app, both your MacBook Air (all computers for that matter - PCs and Macs alike) as well as the CPU itself has thermal protection mechanisms built in.  The fans will spin up, kernel_task will consume massive amounts of processor resources, the CPU will scale back and even shut itself down if necessary.

As for your game....

You didn't specify which CPU your MBA had nor how much memory.  However, it's a pretty safe bet that your configuration as is just dosen't have the horsepower to drive the game.  Your MBA won't suffer, just your gameplay experience.


How do you get Spotlight to search in sub-directories? How do you get Spotlight to search in sub-directories like Windows Explorer does? Here I have done the same search on the same directory - the root of the usb drive SFD223128GB using both OS X Finder and Windows Explorer (via Parallels). The results are different - it seems that the Finder doesn't search within sub-directories. Is there a way to change this?

This seems like a bug with Spotlight in OS X.

Spotlight should search recursively in whatever directory it is told to, however after some testing it seems this functionality breaks with some exFAT and NTFS partitions.

If you want to search by name in such cases, you can use 'find':

find /path/to/folder -name "*name*"


Today panel is white/disabled and unusable since upgrading to Sierra The right side panel for me, is white and disabled. I do not see any settings that would cause this behaviour. How can I return to the working version of this panel? In particular, the World Clock widget is important to me and I currently can't use it.

The problem has resolved itself. Apparently the solution is to wait.


How can I search the iPad only apps/games on iTunes? I can browse the iPad apps/games but they are often also iPhone/iPod. How can I search only among the iPad apps/games and not iPhone/iPod apps/games?

Is there any filter os something in iTunes?

Click the iTunes Store button in the top right corner of iTunes (11.0 and above)

Click the App Store Button in the middle of the screen and then iPad.

Click the iPad list that appears on the right and then select what apps you would like to see that are exclusively on the iPad.

Note: Some iPad apps that you may see are also available on the iPhone, but that does not mean they are not also native iPad apps. When you click on a certain app, most of them display "This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad." (see below for pictures). If it does not say that, the app is only for iPad, not iPhone (For instance, the app Things for iPad).  Therefore, the apps that are shown here are native iPad apps.

Update:
While the solution and the steps above detail which apps are iPad only, this solution can take a long time and is not extremely efficient. Therefore, this website details iPad exclusive apps that are on sale. The contents of the website are updated several times throughout the day.


Changing my iTunes account details I have a UK account but have relocated to Australia.
I'm trying desperately to change my account details but the system won't let me as I have £10 credit on my UK account.

I don't mind losing the £10 I just want to change my details to my new Oz details.

Anyone know how?
Also, is possible to credit the £10 to my Oz account as that would be fantastic.

After searching around the internet, it sounds like other people are having this same issue. You could try contacting Apple to get their advice, but it will probably be easier to just spend the £10 credit on something and then try switching again.


Watch YouTube without suggestions and ads on IPad In desktop browsers I have extensions for that. But iOS browsers don't support extensions. So is it even possible?
EDIT: Also, is it possible to get rid of "recommendations", i.e. videos on home page and sidebar? I would like to watch only channels I am subscribed, but sometimes I am too weak and cann't struggle against temptation to watch "recommended" stuff which leads to lots of wasted time. On desktop I have empty home page and no sidebar thanks to browser extension so I see only videos I need on subscribed channels. Is it possible on iPad?

Yes (sometimes - and no, sometimes). Nothing will be able to block everything Google and YouTube throws at you long term. Short term, you can very likely get excellent relief from some and perhaps all that irritates you or erodes your privacy while you consume their content and avoid their advertising.
iOS has content blockers that work equivalently to an extension, but differently than extension due to OS architecture.
Since iOS is sandboxed and inter-app communication and code injection are much more restricted than on macOS, you’ll want to try a few of the commercially available blockers and perhaps try your hand at writing one if you are so inclined. It’s free to write these with Xcode and install your app on your device.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/creating_a_content_blocker

I use FireFox rarely on iOS and I pay for and benefit greatly from OneBlocker. Brave browser is great. Lastly, consider removing google as your search engine on every last device in your home network. Use Duck Duck Go for a while and you’ll see less targeted advertisements. You may or may not like that, tbh, but over time it can help immensely without resorting to something like https://pi-hole.net/ .

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-for-safari/id1365531024
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brave-private-web-browser/id1052879175
https://DuckDuckGo.com

It does a marvelous job on YouTube as does adding the request for no cookies to the URL for YouTube. Just keep in mind, google makes billions in getting you to see their ads, so it’s a bit of an arms race between people attempting to block and people attempting to track. The reality is the Surveillance-Advertising Complex is massively funded and has hired some of the best software minds of a generation to track you and boost their revenue. Until and unless regulation or cultural shift alters the balance of google, It will neither be easy nor completely effective to escape all of their efforts - but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

https://youtube-nocookies.com

https://www.cnet.com/news/youtubes-new-nocookie-feature-continues-to-serve-cookies/

Since you edited in some very specific information - here’s how I block hot network questions from the side bar here on iOS using 1Blocker. You can very well do the same in YouTube if you find the tag they use to serve sidebar ads. The developer of the extension you use might help you if you can’t figure out what they did, there.


I can’t connect to localhost on Mac high Sierra I have followed this guide to set-up Apache on High Sierra: https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-and-phpmyadmin-working-on-macos-sierra/

I used it to set it up on Sierra.

But when I go to http://localhost I get "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding the site "

A suggestion on this similar question: localhost on macOS High Sierra. Which I've tried, but still cannot connect to localhost:(

I tried install mamp and reinstall it then install ampps but still that problem , I write in terminal sudo apachectl start then sudo apachectl stop and again start but nothing changes.

Please help me i tried to solve problems for 2 weeks ago :(

You need to do some troubleshooting to find out what's wrong. That error message ("Hmm. We’re having trouble finding the site.") sounds like Firefox having trouble looking up the address for the name "localhost", which is really weird because "localhost" is pretty much built into the operating system. So, first verify that "localhost" is being properly resolved with the command dscacheutil -q host -a name localhost -- it should look like this:

$ dscacheutil -q host -a name localhost
name: localhost
ipv6_address: ::1
ipv6_address: fe80:1::1

name: localhost
ip_address: 127.0.0.1

If the response doesn't list at least the addresses "::1" and "127.0.0.1", something is terribly wrong. (It's ok if it lists additional addresses like "fe80:1::1".) This has nothing to do with Apache. If this is the problem, check your /etc/hosts file; it should contain at least this:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost

Also, try bypassing the name lookup by trying to reach "http://127.0.0.1/" and "http://[::1]/". If those work, Apache is running and "localhost" lookup is the reason you're getting errors.

If bypassing the name lookup doesn't work, check to see whether Apache ("httpd") is running with the command ps -ax | grep '[h]ttpd'

$ ps -ax | grep '[h]ttpd'
48917 ??         0:00.62 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
48924 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
48927 ??         0:00.01 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND

If there are no "httpd" processes listed, Apache is not running, and you'll need to troubleshoot further to find out whether it's not starting at all, or starting and getting a fatal error. If it is running, make sure it's listening for network connections with sudo lsof -a -c httpd -i -sTCP:LISTEN

$ sudo lsof -a -c httpd -i -sTCP:LISTEN
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
httpd   48917 root    4u  IPv6 0x3c39418bc7b0ab99      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)
httpd   48924 _www    4u  IPv6 0x3c39418bc7b0ab99      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)
httpd   48927 _www    4u  IPv6 0x3c39418bc7b0ab99      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)

In the above, all three "httpd" processes are listening for TCP connections on "*:http" -- that is, port 80 (http) on all of this computer's IP addresses. If it lists something else, Apache is running, but the configuration is weird.

Note: none of the above will solve the problem, it's all directed toward finding out what the actual problem is. Once you have a better idea what the problem is, then you can try to figure out how to fix it.


Intel EFI shell on Mac I would like to try Intel's EFI shell.

How can I (build and) install EFI Shell on Mac? I've seen prebuilt binary, but I'd like do build it myself and I don't trust stuff from file-sharing sites.

There is EDK but isn't it for Windows only or maybe I can built it on OSX somehow?

If you are still looking for an answer I found one on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/777437/sopen-s-firmware-console-on-mac-osx-intel

It does not seem possible to do this.

The only thing you can install to get some kind of EFI boot menu options menu is rEFIt, which can be found here:

http://refit.sourceforge.net

I know it isn't the answer you were probably looking for but I hope that this answer at least helps you out.


Delete iCloud backup iOS 9 I am using iOS 9. I would like to delete my iCloud backup. So I go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage like the support page says to do.

Unfortunately when I do that I get the message "Cannot delete backup This backup cannot be deleted at this time". What do I need to do next? What is the problem?

There is a solution for that on the internet I believe. http://macreports.com/icloud-this-backup-cannot-be-deleted-at-this-time-error-fix/

Try restarting your phone and reconnecting to the wifi or even logging out and logging back in to your Apple ID. If it still doesn't work, you might want to consider doing that from a computer. You can follow the instructions here. https://support.apple.com/kb/ph12792

Remove a backup using your Mac

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Manage.
Click Backups on the left, select an iOS device on the right whose backup you don’t need, then click Delete.
If you don’t see Backups on the left, your iOS devices don’t have iCloud backups. For more information, see Back up your iOS device to iCloud.

Remove a backup using your Windows computer

Open iCloud for Windows, then click Storage.
Click Backups on the left, select an iOS device on the right whose backup you don’t need, then click Delete.
If you don’t see Backups on the left, your iOS devices don’t have iCloud backups. For more information, see Back up your iOS device to iCloud.


iPhone asking for icloud login after being restored after icloud has been removed I have my old iPhone that I would like to give to someone. I've deleted my iCloud, then restored the phone and now when im setting up its asking for my iCloud log in again.

Has anyone encountered this issue and why does it happen?

Standard procedure before you sell or give away your old iPhone/iPad etc
Don't set the phone up for the new user, they must do it themselves.
If you still have your iOS device
Before you sell or give away your device, you should remove your personal information.
You shouldn't manually delete your contacts, calendars, reminders, documents, photo streams, or any other iCloud data while you're signed in to your iCloud account. This would delete your content from the iCloud servers and any of your devices signed in to iCloud.

Back up your device.
Tap Settings > iCloud. Scroll down and tap Sign Out. In iOS 7 or earlier, tap Delete Account.
Tap Sign Out again, then tap Delete from My iPhone and enter your password.
Go back to Settings and tap General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings*. In iOS 7 or later with Find My iPhone turned on, you'll need your Apple ID and password.
If asked for your device passcode or Restrictions passcode, enter it. Then, tap Erase [device].
Contact your carrier for guidance on transferring service to a new owner. If you aren't using a SIM card with your device, you can contact them to get help transferring service to the new owner.

If you no longer have your iOS device
If the steps above weren't completed and you no longer have your device, follow these steps:

Ask the new owner to erase all content and settings as described above.
If you're using iCloud and Find My iPhone on the device, sign in to icloud.com/find, select the device, and click Erase. After the device has been erased, click Remove from Account.
If you're unable to follow either of the above steps, change your Apple ID password. This won't remove personal information that's stored on your old device, but it will prevent the new owner from deleting your information from iCloud.
If you're switching to a non-Apple phone, deregister iMessage.
If you're using Apple Pay, you can remove your credit or debit cards at iCloud.com: Choose Settings to see which devices are using Apple Pay, then click the device. Next to Apple Pay, click Remove.

Source : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201351


How do I setup VNC on Windows to connect from Mac OS X? I want to control my Windows box from my Mac. I installed RealVNC on Windows but it's impossible to connect from Mac. (Finder, Command+K) What should I do to do this?

What is happening - are there any error messages? - Can you ping your windows machine from your mac?

A pretty easy alternative would be TeamViewer.

  TeamViewer - the All-In-One Solution
  for Remote Access and Support over the
  Internet

  TeamViewer connects to any PC or
  server around the world within a few
  seconds. You can remote control your
  partner's PC as if you were sitting
  right in front of it. Find out why
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What is the "In-House Distribution" profile on my iPhone? I was just looking around my iPhone and noticed that I have a profile named "In-House Distribution" installed (under Settings > General > Profile). It has a received date of November 18, 2013. The thing is, I have no idea where it came from. My employer didn't install it, I don't recall accepting any profiles, and I simply have no idea where it came from.

My question: Should I be worried about this?

Theories:

I understand that Apple uses "in-house distribution" provisioning for iOS developers. I don't develop iOS apps, but I am currently running the alpha version of the Stack Exchange iOS app (released in February 2014). Could this be the reason?
I do have a couple of favorites from Safari saved to my home screen for easy access; I may have saved the first of these around November. Could saving those links have caused creation of this profile?

if you don't know what it does, and its of no importance, simply remove it...
also do a iCloud backup before


Show all services on right click Whenever you have more than 4 services, they are put in a dropdown option "Services" on right click instead of just being added to the right click menu itself.

Is this an option somewhere that can be changed?

Thanks.

Services Manager seems to just modify .GlobalPreferences.plist:

defaults write -g NSServicesMinimumItemCountForContextSubmenu -int 999

You have to reopen applications to apply the changes.


MBA displays the Question mark Folder on booting up All of a sudden MBA boots displaying question mark folder. I've tried booting from a USB OS X to use disk utility but can't see the Macintosh HD of the Air to fix the disk. Safe mode doesn't seem to work. Any root-cause? Any solution?

The question mark folder usually means:

The hard disk is failing or has failed
Your Mac can't find a System Folder to boot from

Try starting up while holding down the Alt/Option key. That should prompt the Startup Manager window where you can select the startup disk.

If that doesn't help, refer to this Apple KB Article.


What is the difference between 'Recommended Applications' and 'All Applications'? I wanted to open my video file with VLC, so have opened the 'Choose Application' dialog. The window looks like this:

As the image shows there is a dropdown to select labeled 'Enable'. That dropdown's two options are 'Recommended Applications' and 'All Applications', as shown here:

and, zoomed in, here:

What is the difference between these two options?

I thought that I was choosing this particular application to open this file, and perhaps setting it to open files of this type in the future. What does this dialog have to do with enabling some set of applications, and what am I apparently enabling these applications to do?

What distinguishes the two options, the set of 'Recommended' applications as opposed to 'All'?

With "Recommended Applications", you can only select applications which have declared to be able to open that type of file.

With "All Applications", you can select any application, e.g. open an image in TextEdit (which then will show a lot of strange characters) or a video file in the built-in Chess app (no idea what will happen). This could be necessary if the file format's extension is wrong, or the app is somehow able to open more file types than it declares.


iTunes 11 Stuttering During Playback I have a 2011 generation Macbook Pro, upgrade to 16gb RAM and a 128gb SSD drive - running Mountain Lion and iTunes 11.

During playback (approximately 20 times per song) it stutters, stops playing for a few seconds, and then resumes from where it left off. It seems to co-incide with my using the keyboard or performing any file operations - and at the same time the file operations freeze up. The following screenshot was taken about 3 seconds after a skip and doesn't show any signficant CPU activity:

However, if I close iTunes, I get no problems with file operations, or any other app on my machine - leading me to believe that iTunes is causing the problem. Has anyone else run into anything similar, or have any advice on stopping iTunes being such a resource hog?

Note: Other apps (for instance VLC) have no problem with playback under the same conditions.

Buried deep in the comments are these answers to solve the riddle of the stuttering iTunes playback on Mountain Lion:

  I've just remembered that I have FileVault enabled, and as the crashes / skips happen when the computer is performing file ops, I think turning FV off might help - decryping my hard drive now... – George Pearce Jan 12 at 14:34

  Update: Turning off filevault and decrypting my hard drive appears to have entirely solved the problem. – George Pearce Jan 12 at 19:20


Storing and working off iphoto and itunes library on NAS? I have the 2011 macbook air with 128gb ssd. Storage is low so i'm hoping to set up for the very first time, a NAS to host large files such as photo's (raw format), video's and music (lossless and aac format).  I require your help in achieving the below functionality.  A list of of hardware/software that I need to achieve the below will be very beneficial as will be those products that would provide very good performance.  I would like most action to occur wirelessly.

I have 1 macbook air, 1 ipad, 2 iphones, 1 cable modem, 1 airport express 802.11n
Itunes library to be hosted on NAS with writing and reading files to occur wirelessly.
When I plug in my iphone or ipad to sync, I would like it to sync and backup with the files on the NAS wirelessly.
Iphoto library to be hosted on NAS.  When I plug in my sd card, I would like files to be imported to the library wirelessly, which is on the NAS
I understand iphoto library needs to be sitting on a disk that is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  Does this mean I just partition one of the disks in the NAS and format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? Which products support the formatting of Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? I am only familiar with fat32 and ntfs.
For photos stored on the NAS, I would like to browse and view the photos on my ipad wirelessly.

I am willing to go without iphoto if it turns out that iphoto becomes the biggest challenge.

Thanks in advance,
Rob

To keep this general, here are some things to think about:

DAS: Direct Attached Storage - Thunderbolt, eSata, USB 3.0, FW800, FW400, USB are the rough pecking order. FW400 is better than 100 MB ethernet, and FW800/USB 3.0 are equivalent to Gigabit Ethernet.

NAS: The network matters - latency over WiFi can be a big bottleneck as can the controller chip / lack of cache in less expensive NAS.

Think in terms of the bottlenecks - For streaming a song, AirPlay shows you what to expect - a slight delay, but the system can buffer the music to overcome little lags and delays due to network burps. DAS is much more responsive - especially for little file input/output as opposed to streaming a large file or song.

NAS does offer some nice features like cross platform sharing and with a good network can be shared effortlessly with several clients that don't mind sharing the speed of the device. DAS is designed for one user and optimized for speed - especially for database workloads like iPhoto.

NAS can be harder to back up, where DAS works easier with whatever backup program you use on your mac.

Your iPhoto database will be the last thing you want to move. It has no provision for splitting the large files from the database files and the latency of reading / writing to the NAS might make you feel the program is too slow. Try it out, but don't be surprised if it's the least responsive by it's design.

You want programs that can use local database and thumbnails on the fast SSD and store large original files on NAS or slower storage.

Aperture works amazingly well if you find iPhoto too laggy when stored on the NAS.

I would start with the iTunes media folder - move that to the NAS and see how you like the performance.

Then get a tool like WhatSize or DaisyDisk so you can quickly measure what folders on the SSD are largest as you prune things down.

You might find you don't need all the audio loops from Garage Band or other surprising folders that make a difference in what you want to bring along on the SSD.

Have fun with the tweaking - you'll learn how things work. Also, it won't be long until ThunderBolt storage is more available - your NAS might even have a DAS connection for when you really need some speed to access / move files to the NAS.

Don't forget to back up your NAS. CrashPlan might be a great thing to try for that.


AppleTV 4 Podcast App Slow Playback After using a Harmony 520 remote with the new AppleTV 4 Podcast app, all the podcasts now playback in slow motion. Rebooting the AppleTV does not solve the problem. It appears that the Universal Remote somehow triggered a non-advertised slow playback feature.

No amount of finger mashing on the Harmony Remote or the AppleTV remote manages to reset this.

Anybody else stumble into this bug and find a solution back to normal speed other than resetting the entire AppleTV to factory defaults?

Solution for me was to just use the Apple remote one time to get it back on track. Harmony works properly now.


iOS 14 WiFi 5GHz issues After updating my iPhone 11 to iOS 14 I've noticed that I constantly face issues with my WiFi network.
What happens is that you use the Internet and suddenly notice that webpage is stuck or whatever indicating network issues. WiFi is connected with no Internet connection though. A while later (usually 1 min or less) a connection is re-established (it just starts working again) and everything works fine.
What's interesting is that this only happens to 5G WiFi network and only this device is experiencing such a problem.
When using 2.4G there is no problems and connection is always stable.
I've already tried resetting the network settings with no success though.
Is there anything that can be done? (without full reset)

In iOS14, there is an additional network setting that offers extra privacy/security by providing a private wifi address individual to each wifi network you connect to, which is particularly useful when connecting to public wifi networks. However, there have been reports of connection/performance issues when using private wifi addresses, particularly with wifi networks that have multiple wifi access points.
So as a troubleshooting step, you may wish to disable the private wifi address for the particular affected wifi network. You can disable the private wifi address by going to Settings>Wi-Fi and press the ⓘ symbol of the affected wifi network (when you are connected to it) and midway down you will be able to disable the Private Address. Doing so will revert the wifi address to the device's default wifi address but only for that wifi network. This won't affect other wifi networks you have saved/connected to, but you can individually disable the private address for those too, when you are next connected to them. I'm not sure if this will fix your issue, but it is worth trying out.
Additionally, is it affecting other 5GHz wifi networks or just one specific 5GHz wifi network? It may have something to do with the 5GHz channel band the wifi network is on. If there's lots of other wifi networks (like in an apartment block) on the same channel band it can cause signal interference which is particularly worse on 5GHz networks than on 2.4GHz networks.
So, if it is just affecting the single wifi network, then it may be worth checking whether the channel band is on the same channel band as other nearby wifi networks and try change it to one that has the least amount of wifi networks on the same channel band. Hope this helps!


Does MacOS need antivirus protection? Are Mac systems immune to viruses and malwares ?

Do I need to install software to protect MacOS just like we do for Windows ?

Most, but not all, Mac virus protection is there to stop Windows viruses being spread further.

That doesn't mean Macs are immune - there are viruses/trojans/malware targeted specifically at Mac users.

Shlayer is a recent example, but not the ony one - check the table on the linked page.

There are also fly-by attacks & social engineering/phishing attacks that you always need to be aware of. Shlayer's attack vector is usually a simple "Your Flash Player is out of date! Click to update." Click to download, click to install & you just invited it in.

After comments…
There is no single authority on which antivirus is best, but there are sites which test [for a fee] various competitors in this field. If you just Google it yourself, you will get a thousand hits pretending to be advice, but actually just sock-puppets selling their own 'solution' with no authority but their own.

The only authority I know to be 'trusted' is AV-TEST who keep tables of current antivirus products by OS, for business & home users. The most current Mac page is always at https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-macos/.


Macbook Air 2019 will not boot from USB or complete Internet Recovery, Exhausted options Internet Recovery fails. USB Boot fails. Target mode won't mount.
Macbook Air 2019 TrueTone, ran before I deleted the SSD (stupid). Battery shot, requires power supply to run.

Tried Internet Recovery with CMD-R, OPT-CMD-R, SHFT-OPT-CMD-R. All run download with progress (about an hour), then remain at full progress bar for days until I shut down. Reset PRAM. Tried various Internet, including Gigabit speed. 20 tries or more, occasional dropped Internet error -2003F on lousy WiFi.

USB boot defaults to Internet Recovery. USB Drive is recognized, chosen, goes directly to Internet Recovery. Created several USB boots with several sticks and several apps, including manual w/ Terminal. Chose various erase formats (GUID, etc). Chose several OS installers (Catalina, Mojave). Latest USB stick with Mojave boots older 2014 iMac, but not the new Macbook.

Will not mount in Target mode. Macbook displays target mode, but will not mount on iMac. Bought a new wire.

Beautiful, new, clean laptop, hardly used, left discharged for months, thus bad battery.
Can anyone think of anything else to try? Apple Store, maybe? Would they do anything I haven't? Does a dead battery affect these things?

Call Apple or chat online with service would be my next step. Ask for a mail in repair if available and convenient. #3 is really unlikely to be anything easy if you have charged it for 2 to 4 hours.
Flat rate repairs for these are quite reasonable amd it would cover things like battery and or cpu board. Possibly under warranty or a program, worse case you get a quote for a professional battery repair.
A totally flat battery can drag the whole controller and board down. Hard to say until it’s in the shop with known good parts to test things out internally.


Find My iPhone shows my Macbook as Online although it's in Sleep mode This is a pretty weird 'problem' for me. I always only close the lid when leaving my macbook, today I did the same. After an hour or so, when I checked find my iphone, i saw my macbook as online, in my backpack at my dorm. I waited half an hour hoping that it'd show as offline, but whenever I checked it became online. I freaked out, thinking that it'd overheat and burn it mainboard inside my backpack. Apple help says that macs are findable if and only if they're turned on and connected.

Long story short, I ran to my dorm and my mac was kinda asleep, wasn't hot. Battery went down from ~30 to ~16. I tried to put my mac explicitly to sleep and check if I can see it's location from my iphone. Yes, I was able to see it as online.

Is this a problem?

TL;DR

Apple help says macbooks are online iff they're turned on and connected to the net, but my experience says they're also online when they're sleeping, draining battery.

Yes this is normal. Nothing to worry about.

It part of Power Nap, which was introduces in MacOSX Mountain Lion (10.8). When your Mac is asleep the following features will run as your Mac gently snoozes:

Contacts. Your Contacts update with any changes you may have made on another device.
Calendar. Receive new invitations and calendar updates.
Reminders. Reminders updates with any changes you may have made on another device.
Notes. Notes updates with any changes you may have made on another device.
Documents in your iCloud account. iCloud pushes any edits you made to a document to your Mac notebook.
Photo Stream. Your Photo Stream updates with new photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Mac App Store updates. Your Mac notebook can download updates from the Mac App Store.
Time Machine backup. Your Mac notebook can back up while it sleeps.
Find My Mac. Locate a lost Mac notebook even when it’s sleeping.
VPN on demand. Corporate email updates securely.
Configuration profile. Macs in managed environments can receive configuration profile updates.

These all run regardless of whether the notbook is plugged in or not, which is impressive as regards power use. Power Nap might look like a little bullet point on the Mountain Lion spec sheet, but it really is a big deal, especially for those non power users (aka. Normals) who never bother with updates and the like. And the sleepy Find My Mac feature is just plain magic.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204032


Catalina home directory shows 0Bi storage I recently upgraded my MAC to Catalina. After the upgrade the home directory shows 0Bi free space
Is there a way to add storage to the home directory.
I am new to this OS and after doing some research found that apple has changed its file system and the root directory is read only
I am not sure how to create partition or how to increase storage in the home directory.
Any help is appreciated

I assume you refer to the line starting with map auto_home. This is just the mount point for the automounter, it isn't your home directory.
Your home directory (/Users/YOURNAME) is in /System/Volumes/Data. You can run
df $HOME

to just get the line relevant for this directory.


How to install ssmtp on mac? I want to install the ssmtp (http://archive09.linux.com/feature/132006) on my Mac (El Capitan).

I have homebrew installed but ssmtp isn't one of the packages available.

What are my options for getting ssmtp installed? I'm guessing the only way is to compile it from source code but I'm not sure where to get the source code and what commands to run.

As you said, the only option is to compile the source code.

You can download from the project repository on github. There is a download button there.

To install it, your have to uncompress the downloaded file. Once done, cd to sSMTP-master directory.

The generic compilation process is executing the following commands one by one:

./configure
make
sudo make install

The configure command can be altered with lots of parameters. To let you know your options, you can run ./configure --help


Easy way to get *all* Notes to synchronize via iCloud? I have tons of notes on my iPhone. When iCloud came out, I created an account.

Now I have the Notes App in Mountain Lion, but only notes added after the iCloud account creation date are showing there.

In my Notes iOS app I can see three 'Accounts': All Notes, On My iPhone (old unsynched notes) and iCloud (new synched notes).

Is there an easy (or complicated but automated) way to get all notes from my iPhone on iCloud? I would like to avoid copy-pasting all of them into new notes, as I have tons of them.

You need a 10.6/10.7 system handy as this doesn't work in 10.8. The method I've previously used is as follows:

Plug your iPhone into your Mac and go into iTunes -> Your Device -> Info tab and choose to Sync notes.
This should grab the notes out of the On my iPhone section and dump them into Mail.app.
Your notes should appear under the Notes section in Mail.app, but ideally filed under an On My Mac header.
Simply select all the notes from under On My Mac and drag them into the iCloud section. That should upload them all to iCloud and save you some time copying and pasting or fiddling with other software!