How can I send a mail message later? Back in the day, I remember having an e-mail program (perhaps it was Eudora?) that could schedule the sending of mail, so when composing a message, you could set some preference for when it would be sent. The message would be composed and queued up, but would not send until the computer was connected to the internet at or after the schedule time.

Is there a way to duplicate this feature in Apple Mail? Specifically, I want to compose a message, but rather than clicking "Send", I click "Delayed send" (either from the Services menu, the AppleScript menu, or, ideally, from an icon magically added to the Mail toolbar, but I don't expect that will be easy to pull ofF). When I do this, I'd get a dialog box asking me when I want to send the message. I enter the information, and the message is queued up and will be sent at the soonest time after the scheduled send time/date when the computer is on and connected.

It is possible to achieve this effect using Calendar and Automator:

Open Automator and create a Calendar Alarm.
Use the tasks “New mail message” and “Send Outgoing Messages”, customize them as required, and save (⌘S).
An event will be created in Calendar automatically. Move the event to when you want the message to be sent.


Gatkeeper prevents Photos from importing Aperture Libary I am trying to open a 160GB Aperture Library with the Photos.app
The library can be opend with aperture w/o problems.
As soon as I start opening it with Photos, Gatekeeper starts checking the files.
This seems to take very long. I did let it running for a couple of hours and quit everything.

I tried to disable Gatekeeper with

sudo spctl --master-disable

But that didn't change a thing.
It still opens the dialog and start checking the files, with no progress:

The library was on an external diksdrive.
I set the "Ignore Permissions" option with Command-I for that drive.
Restartet the Mac and opened the library with Photos and the import was done in several minutes.


I'm not getting notifications from only one contact I was getting all notifications from one contact but all of a sudden it just stopped giving me notifications.

Also it automatically opens the text and it doesnt say that I have read the message but read receipts are on. "Hide notifications" is turned off too.

I have an iPhone 8 Plus.

Exact same thing has happened to me - I've tried everything, and my most frequented contact will not notify, and all imessage texts come in as if they've already been opened.

In most cases - this is a result of "Hide Alerts" turned off for that contact.


How can I create a personal Photostream with Manual Upload? My first time using Photostream. I saw that My Photo Stream automatically uploads photos the stream over wi-fi, but I do not want to do this.

I want a personal stream with photos uploaded manually, and that they're not shared with anyone at all.

Photo Sharing states that I can create a stream to share with others, but what if I don't invite anyone, does that still make my stream public ?

If you'd like to disable Photo Stream on your iOS device, go to Settings > iCloud > Photos and switch off "My Photo Stream".

As for the personal stream with photos being uploaded manually, you can, in fact achieve this.

I find that the easiest way to do this is to first go into your Photo library and select the photos that you want to upload.

After that, select the "Share" button (the one on the bottom left corner of the screen) and select "iCloud".

You'll be greeted with the screenshot below. Select the button that says "Stream", then "New Photo Stream".

Type out the name that you want to call your Photo Stream.

You'll now be greeted with the screen where you type in who you would like to share this Photo Stream to. Leave this blank. Click "Next".

After that, you're done. I'll let you know that you can also add videos to photo streams as well. To add, remove, or modify photos and videos, go to Photo Stream and select the Photos Stream that you created. Everything should be self-explanatory after that.


Mavericks won't update. Crash on boot software update I believe the update process was interrupted once. My computer works fine but the SoftwareUpdateLauncher fails to do anything on shutdown when I am logged out. I can see that it is in the application SoftwareUpdateLauncher but nothing happens, I've let it sit for over an hour before.

OS X 10.9.1

Photos:

http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UGoR
http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UGra
http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UH6o

Try deleting the software update caches at

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate

Delete the entire folder you find.


How do I get display resolution on modern macOS? Now that xdpyinfo is gone and Settings -> Display have no useful information.

How do I get the display resolution details?

Here's an answer. Warning: in addition to my solution, I've captured other solutions from the comments above.

I used this from the commandline:

system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep Resolution

The other answers worth trying are:

Find it via the "About This Mac" in the system report (@nohillside's answer)
System Preferences > Displays > Display. Then click the "Scaled" radio button and it will display the current resolution and allow you to change it. If you don't want to change it just click back to "Default for display" (Steve Chambers' answer)
open the "About my Mac" and click on the display "tab" that is second from the left. The resolution is shown there (me)

All of these work fine.


How to find command line program with which I am trying to remove all traces of Ureka. I followed the instructions in the link to do this, but when I test if it is gone with $ur_setup I see that the terminal does know what it should be looking for, because it says:

-bash: /Users/myname/.ureka/ur_setup: No such file or directory

But when I type $which ur_setup nothing is returned. And I have deleted the directory in the above code with

rm -rf /Users/myname/code/Ureka
rm -rf $HOME/.ureka
rm -rf $HOME/.ureka_tmp

How can I delete all memory of this program so that terminal does not know where it should look for the program?

As a note, when I $echo $PATH I get:

/Users/myname/code:/Users/myname/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

Try this:

for i in `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
    printf "\033[1;103;30m        $i\033[0m\n"
    ls "$i" | grep "ur_setup"
done

This will iterate through directories included in PATH, print them in yellow and then if there's something in there matching ur_setup pattern, print it. It can be done cleaner, but it's not worth creating a big function for a small need.

Also, if there's no result from which ur_setup (neither not found nor like /usr/bin/spiderd), you should try type which.


Which process is periodically writing to the disk? Even when I am not doing anything on my Mac, I see a lot of Disk IO: "Data Written per Sec" in Activity Monitor showns continuous writes:

Is this normal? Why would some process continuously write? I understand there can be some housekeeping activities going on, the "Sleep image" being updated, but does this happen this frequently? (I have not set up Time Machine)

Edit: I have quite some free memory:

You can get a better idea what's causing the activity with some of OS X's command-line tools:

sudo iotop -- display of what processes are doing the most I/O, updated every 5 secs.

sudo iosnoop -- shows I/O as it happens, including the process ID and process name doing the I/O, as well as data size, file path, etc

In both cases, you'll need to authenticate as an admin to run them, and use Control-C to exit.  They may not tell you precisely why the activity's happening, but they'll at least tell you what processes and files are involved, which usually narrows it down considerably.


2010 MacBook Pro does not DHCP on a certain network (WiFi and Ethernet) As the title suggests, My Mac will not receive an address via DHCP from a certain network. No matter if it's connected via WiFi or ethernet, it always fails. Even when I boot into Windows 7 there's no luck (so it's not the OS). All the other computers, older MacBooks, and iPod/Phones work great on the network. Take it to a different network and it works flawlessly.

Has anyone else had this problem? Did you find a way to fix it?

Update: Manually entering a valid IP (copied from another computer that's on the network) gets me a connection. The issue seems to be just in the DHCP.

Have you tried to set 'Configure IPv6' to OFF in the Network > Advanced settings for the en0 ?

I've just had a sim problem as yours (never got an address, other windows machines worked) that was resolved by turning it off. Then my IPv4 address was received.


In Lion's new Mail.app, is it possible to change the font size of the mailbox list? I have a small screen and MANY email mailboxes. I'd like to make the side panel font size smaller, but I can't find an option for it. Is there one?

(I can change the font size in messages and in the message list--that's not what I'm talking about.)

This thread says System Preferences -> General controls it.


iPhone X has a green line on the screen. What is damaged? After dropping my iPhone X, green lines appeared on the screen (attached image). Searching for the problem online I could not find a satisfying answer. I would like to know if this is clearly a display (or display cable) issue, or if it might be a graphic driver/chip problem; E.g., Can I solve the problem with "simply" replacing the display.
I am assuming that there is no guaranteed answer to this, however, any best guess or with high probability answer would help me deciding the fate of my phone :)

NOTE I did a repair myself, solution added as separate answer.

It looks like a hardware issue, display or cable hard to tell, but I'd guess display itself.

A quick test to make sure it's not earlier in the structure is take a screenshot & look at it on another machine, phone, pad, computer. The line won't be there in the screenshot if it's a hardware fail after the GPU.


OSX HotCorner behaviour I'd like to know if there is a function that allows a hotcorner to trigger 'minimize current window in focus'. There is an app that I use on PC that ha this and I find it very useful.

I'd be open to 3rd party apps to get this functionality.

I have found a very functional utility called CornerClick that allows for a variety of usages for each HotCorner (including minimize current app in focus).

This handy little gem of an app allows for a little more functionality than the default features of HOtCorners offered in OSX.


Looking for replacement surface mount component in MacBook Air (A1466) mainboard After liquid damage my backlight was broken. So I had to change the D68B chip.

After the replacement I lost a device. Please see below link for the photo of the diode/resistor/whatever I'm looking for on the motherboard.

It is a motherboard of a Macbook Air A1466 EMC 2925 Early 2015.

I need to replace it but I don't know the specs. Is there a diagram sheet?

That looks more like a capacitor than a diode. Anyway, here's a link to download the schematic and boardview for it:
https://github.com/pctechneer/Diagnostic/blob/master/820-000165.zip
Use Open Board Viewer (at  https://openboardview.org/) to view the .brd file.
See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-air-a1466-no-power-wont-start.2179208/ for the board project I've been playing with.


Applescript click on a button Is this possible to click on the button "detailed" using AppleScript (Google chrome)

for="7cd6f428-1are-41f2-9054-c452d7fe242-view-selector-e5f5de50-634a-45bc-bf30-98e2a64676cc">Detailed

I would usually use this for a click

 "document.getElementsByName('clasenamehere')[0].click();"

but in this situation I'm not sure how to proceed

update : I updated my reply as I didn't realised the code was hided by askdifferent text editor

that what I usually use :

tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell tab 4 of window 1 to set myClickingbutton to execute javascript "document.getElementById('Clasenamehere').click();
"
end tell

So you already know the JavaScript method for clicking on an HTML element using its class name as a selector:

document.getElementsByClassName('classnamehere')[0].click();

where [0] denoted the first item in the array of elements, all of whom share the same classname.  Often, it's better--at least in my mind—to try and use an element's id, which provides a unique attribute by which to select an element:

document.getElementById('idnamehere').click();

To run this code from Google Chrome by way of AppleScript, the general form looks like this:

    set js to "document.getElementsByClassName('classnamehere')[0].click();"

    tell application "Google Chrome" to tell ¬
        the front window to tell ¬
        the active tab to ¬
        set jsResult to execute javascript js

The important feature about execute javascript is that it must be directed to a specific tab in Google Chrome.  You can't send the command to a window or the application object.  So:

    tell application "Google Chrome" to ¬
        execute javascript js

will throw an error (even on the assumption that you had defined js).

The syntax can also take this form:

    tell application "Google Chrome" to tell front window to ¬
        set jsResult to execute of tab 1 javascript js

or this form:

    tell application "Google Chrome" to tell front window to ¬
        (execute javascript js) in front tab

In each of these commands, the javascript is being told to execute in a specific tab.

You haven't yet specified what "detailed" refers to, and when you do, I can update this answer accordingly.  Working on the assumption that it's either a class name or an id of an HTML element, you can use one of the expressions at the top and plug it straight into the code examples I gave you.  So, you might use the JavaScript method getElementsByClassName, which would take this form:

document.getElementsByClassName('detailed')[0].click();

where [0] could end up being changed to [1], [2], etc. depending how many other elements have this class name.  What I would then do is define my AppleScript variable js to hold the JavaScript command for me:

    set js to "document.getElementsByClassName('detailed')[0].click();"

then tell the active tab in Chrome to execute it:

    tell application "Google Chrome"
        tell active tab of window 1 to ¬
            execute javascript js
    end tell

The execute command will always return a value, even if it's just an empty string.  Therefore, if you wish, you can assign that value to a variable in AppleScript to use later in your script:

    set jsResult to the result

Or, more directly:

    set jsResult to execute javascript js


Mac Mini does not startup despite entering the password When entering the administrator password while starting up the mac mini, the login screen keeps appearing again and again, prompting me for password.

This is a great troubleshooting question since there are about 5 things that come to mind that can cause this and you'll need some time and or another mac to did into the logs to determine the cause.

Before we start - does the password field shake left and right to indicate the password you typed was not accepted, or does it fade out smoothly to indicate the password was accepted and the user log in process is starting?

Next, you might find out your OS level to see if you have Lion or later and can use a recovery HD to boot and look at the logs. Alternatively if you know ssh and command line tools, you could try remotely logging into the mini.

Before you start down this road - try disabling the log in items by typing your password and then immediately hold shift down after pressing return. This is something quick to try before you reach out for support.

Here is where I'd start:

review this - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2674 - _It looks from your description you have failed the last step in the table. Ignore the link at the bottom of the page - it's probably far too old to be of help.
try this - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455 - This safe boot is similar to the "safe login" above, but much deeper.

If you reach out to Apple or another technician, they should be able to walk you through the steps to make a new admin user in 30 minutes or less. Then you will know if it's your user or the system that has failed and you can start to proceed from restoring a backup or picking apart why your user has failed to let you log in.


LTE USB dongle Huawei datacard driver on macOS Mojave Using a Huawei USB-stick for LTE connectivity there is a data-partition on the stick that automounts and offers the installation of a "Mobile Partner.app" software and some drivers in the form of kernel extensions.

These are hopelessly outdated and ceased to function with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

Huawei used to offer upgrades that worked under OS 10.9 and another under 10.10 That however is now gone completely from the Huawei website and older links are either 404 or greeting us with the message "Content has been archived".

My mobile phone provider also used to offer their own bundle under the name "Mobile Connection Manager". That also contained updated drivers that worked with more modern versions of the OS. On their support pages the now simply state and answer likewise to questions about it that they just do not offer that any longer.

The problem is now, that the old drivers can be shoehorned into a Sierra install but lead to a kernel panic on boot. This is for the latest drivers from a Huawei installer I archived. Upgraded from Yosemite the drivers work in Sierra. Those from Huawei are still called DatacardDriverMacOSX(10.9)

On Mojave the installer complains about an expired certificate but continues. Expecting a security exception to confirm I restarted and the extensions just do not load at all. The system just refuses to touch them and loading is no longer possible. Now I guess that I might disable SIP for that but I would strongly prefer getting an updated driver for the hardware that works cleanly under mac OS 10.14 Mojave.

The latest software I tried were

Mobile Connection manager Version 8.9 (8.9.0.13408) (Every button, every action broken under Mojave, no connection)

Mobile Partner.app creation date: 30. Sep. 2017 (when I last installed it on Sierra) copyright Huawei v 23.015.11.01.983 (2014)

And the latest download I could now still find in a forum is bringing only a version from 18. April 2016.
That was advertised in the forum as "mobile partner für 10.12" to be found at http://download-c.huawei.com/download/downloadCenter?downloadId=90143&version=352019&siteCode=worldwide
the downloads a file called MAC-V200R003B015D16SP00C983.zip

In that download is a driver install for HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext modification date 21. Apr. 2016 that will not load in Mojave.

Now that site seems unsearchable and I did not even manage to navigate there from regular Huawei sites.

They still sell sticks like the one I have, but with updated part numbers/model names/features new – and the older sticks used to work with the latest one-size fits all drivers. They only ever had one driver package for Macs that supported all sticks they ever made. As that stick I have supports all the speed the provider offers here I'd like to stick with that stick. The latest downloads to be found via the Huawei site seem to be Windows only. I feel that that cannot be the last word on it.

Therefore:
How do I get an old Huawei Surfstick LTE USBdongle modem to work with macOS 10.14 Mojave?

You may be missing the following .kext driver:
/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext

for the Huawei E3372 modem (aka Megafon M150-2).
As explained in this excellent blog post, you just need to download the driver for your macOS version:

macOS 10.14 Mojave
macOS 11.15 Catalina

and install it.
Note that the driver for Catalina won't work with macOS 11 "Big Sur".


iPhone not charging in Windows. Driver without iTunes? On a Windows 8 machine, I've connected an iPhone 4s. Windows makes a audible chime for 'device connected', but doesn't allow charging in any USB port.

iTunes isn't installed, and cannot be installed at this time under corporate policy.

The iPhone shows as a generic device / toaster under Control Panel's Devices as below. The iPhone does NOT show as charging.

Is there a driver to install to ensure the iPhone is detected and can charge via USB without installing iTunes?

I've tried:

forcing Windows Update

Just download iTunes, open the .exe file with winrar or some other similar software and then run the AppleMobileDeviceSupport(64).msi executable from there.


4G iPod Touch internet speed incredibly slow with B/G WiFi router but fast with N I have a B/G protocol modem/router and when I connect my iPod Touch (4G) to it, the internet access is incredibly slow (0,19 MB/s DOWN // 0,05 MB/s UP). So I've tried to create a new wifi (N) connection through the share menu on my iMac and connecting to it the iPod Touch has the normal speed one would expect.
I've also tried to restore wifi settings and restore from DFU my iPod but nothing changes.
Any idea on how to make my iPod Touch fast with my B/G modem?
Thanks

It is quite normal to see a real difference between 802.11b, g and n wireless networks.
The maximum network speed you can reach on this 3 different standards are:

IEEE     |        max speed        | ratio relative
standard |  radio     |  practical | to 802.11b
---------|------------|------------|---------------
802.11b  |  11 Mbit/s |   5 Mbit/s |   1
802.11g  |  54 Mbit/s |  25 Mbit/s |   5
802.11n  | 270 Mbit/s | 120 Mbit/s |  24

On the other hand, 802.11b, g and n use different radio channels.
You may consider these channels as different roads with different speed
limits and different amounts of traffic. Some of these channels may be
free when others may be congested.

Your problem isn't a problem, but rather the radiowave reality.
If you want to see it and even bring it under control,
I advise you to use iStumbler. This is an invaluable tool for wireless network tuning.


Is it possible to make the terminal background live? I have terminal open for a lot things and added pretty gradient backgrounds. I thought it would be really cool to have stars zooming or green text falling or gradually shifting background colors in terminal. Does iterm or something have that? What is the way to get live backgrounds?

Launch your favorite browser, download node.js and install it. Then download Hyper for macOS (direct download link!) and install it.

Then struggle with configuration and install some "plug-ins" like hyper-cat:

Hyperpower:

hyper-command-gifs or rediscover your programming skills and create your own themes & animations.

To install a plug-in (here hyper-cat) do the following:

cd ~/.hyper_plugins
npm install hyper-cat

Then in Hyper's menu choose Hyper > Preferences. Depending on your EDITOR variable (here the default nano) scroll down, replace

  plugins: [],

with

  plugins: [

  "hyper-cat"

  ],

and hit ctrlO and ctrlX to save the changes. Then reload with cmdR.

The plugin update error can be resolved by replacing shell: '', with shell: '/bin/bash', (or another shell) in ~/.hyper.js.


How does Application Level Firewall work? I'm a bit confused about OS X Mountain Lion's Application Level Firewall.

I have enabled ALF (Application Level Firewall) in Settings -> Secuity & Privacy -> Firewall and have some rules for some applications in it and those rules are stored by ALF in /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/com.apple.alf.plist

But it seems that ipfw is disabled (no /etc/ipfilter) and sudo ipfw list is 65535 allow ip from any to any. pf is also disabled.

So I do not understand how ALF works. If ALF does not use the known legacy firewall applications, how does it do what it does? What does it use for a backend or is it a totally separate application that does not deal with ipfw or pf?

ALF uses a process called Firewall. The rules list you are looking for exists under: /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/com.apple.alf.plist

Additionally, any changes made on a per user basis, is made to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist.

If you navigate to /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/, you will also see the Firewall and socketfilterfw processes, which supply the backend and configuration manager (respectively) for ALF.

You can read more about Apple's in-house firewall here: http://krypted.com/tag/socketfilterfw/


Lion Server with Profile Manager I setup a few profiles in the profile manager and when I remove them from the profile they still seem to be applied on the clients. Like to test around I made a change to the dock size and then un-applied it so it isn't even listed but yet the client cannot change their dock size anymore.

How do I completely revert a change made?

Remove the profile from the client system preference pane.


New disk on MacBook, how can I install OS X I recently change my hard disk for ssd on my Macbook 7.1. My old hard disk doesn't work, I don't have access to anything.

How Can I install now OS X El Capitan?

At the moment I don't have access to any OSX, so how can i resolve this situation?

First get your hand on a USB drive 4Gb or more
Next download and install this program for windows : http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm (15 days trial), it will allow you to format and create a bootable usb installer for mac easily.
Open the program as an administrator, insert your usb drive, right click on the drive and choose Format the disk for mac, it will take a couple minutes to complete the process, and then right click again and Restore with Disk Image and choose a DMG file,you may get a warning just click YES.
Now Insert your usb into your mac and install the OS.

If you have trouble finding ta DMG of the OS X you prefer, you can download Yosemite from here : http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/mac-os-x-yosemite-free-download/

(This is not an official link, if you're not sure about the validity of this file and don't want to download this. I suggest finding another machine running OS X, or install it on your machine and from your new OS create another USB bootable device following this method https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 and redo a fresh install)


Sparrow for iPhone: Download all mails I use Sparrow for iPhone with Gmail.

Sometimes it confuses me because the unread count for some of my labels doesn't match with the one shown in the Google Mail app (it's lower, presumably because Sparrow doesn't download all mails).

The thing is, that I know the expected unread counts of most labels, and if they differ from the official app, I can't quickly see whether there is something new in or not.

I think for this to work correctly, Sparrow would have to download all mails, or update the unread mail counts from the server instead of the mails it already has on the device.

Is that possible?

Sparrow computes the number of unread emails based on the downloaded emails in the specific folder.
That would be possible to show the number of emails based on the server but some servers shows the wrong information, some servers requires to consume lots of bandwidth to get that information.


Zoom (green) button & Finder list view I am using Finder list view in OSX Lion 10.7.3, and I want to size the window to the contents. I click the zoom (green) button which according to the web 'toggles the window between the “user state” and the “standard state”'.

However, I find that OSX miscalculates and makes the window about 2.5 lines too short to fit the whole file list, unless the list is very small in which case it goes no shorter than a minimum size.

How do I avoid this behaviour and size the window to the list correctly?

Unfortunately I think you may be out of luck on this one. I tried hiding the toolbar, path bar, status bar, holding down modifier keys — nothing seems to change this behavior. You could check out some third-party utilities to change the zoom button's behavior, but I don't know of anything that will give you the exact behavior you want.


What is the shortcut for changing my primary display? What is the shortcut for switching the primary display when two monitors are connected. It is cumbersome to open up System Preferences > Displays and drag the menu bar across each time I switch.

Background: I have a makeshift IKEA standing desk and two monitors. One monitor is on my standing desk and the other is directly on the table (at sitting level.) Because I switch between sit/stand positions often, I want to switch the primary display so that all of my open windows are on the monitor I'm working on.

It's not 100% clear how you're using your screens, but perhaps the following will work for you.

Let's assume your Primary monitor is on the sitting desk. When sitting this is fine, but when you're standing you could just use the Command + Brightness Down Keyboard shortcut to turn display mirroring on so that what's on the sitting screen appears on the standing screen. Then, you can use the same keyboard shortcut to turn display mirroring off when sitting again.


Why do sidebar folders turn white? Sometimes, not always, when I drag a file to a sidebar folder, it turns white.  The folder I'm dragging into turns white, and it doesn't turn back.
  I have to delete the folder from the sidebar, and then re-import it, and then it's a normal color.

I have no idea why this happens, but you can go to Finder > Preferences and select the Sidebar tab. At the very bottom of the window will be a "Recent Tags" option with a checkbox next to it. Uncheck the box and it's fixed.


How do I keep my mac from going into sleep mode? I have tried setting the energy saver setting sleep to never. I tried both Caffeine and NoSleep apps. I've tried setting pmset sleep to 0. I read somewhere that it might be the lid sensor which is on the ribbon cable for the battery light indicator, so I disconnected it but it would still go to sleep. I've also tried resetting the SMC, and it made no difference. Not sure what is wrong. I'm running 10.9.3 on a Macbook Pro mid 2009.

Update: http://pastebin.com/7Q3aVZam Power Management logs

Thanks for your help Graham, but I decided to take a look at my logic board and found some places that had been corroded. I removed my logic board and gave it a good clean with isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush and for now my mac has stopped going to sleep on its own, also fans are back to normal.


Unable to boot into recovery mode on Mavericks Mid 2009 17" Macbook Pro I am trying to restore a new SSD I placed into my MBP using a Time Machine backup on an external HD. In order to do this, I read I need to be able to go into recovery mode as I boot my system up. To do this, I am supposed to press ⌘ Command R at startup. This is not working.

First, I realized that there isn't any startup chimes when I restart my MBP. I followed this thread
to reset the NVRAM, and it seemed to work as I did get two chimes during this process. Now when I restart, I hear the chime. However, after pressing ⌘ Command R as I load my system, I still cannot get into recovery mode. Instead, as before, I am going directly to my logon screen.

What can be wrong?

Your MacBook is too old to use Internet Recovery. You will need to reinstall from the restore discs that shipped with your Mac, a retail copy of a 10.6 DVD or a Mavericks USB installer (created on another Mac).

If you still have access to the drive that was replaced you could put it in a USB enclosure and boot from that, then go through the Mavericks install routine, selecting your new SSD as the destination.

To build a USB installer from the Mavericks/Yosemite installer application you can use 3rd-party utilities or follow this procedure...

Download the Mavericks/Yosemite installer but quit it when it tries to run.

Take an 8GB USB stick and name it Untitled.

Then run this command in Terminal (replace both instances of Mavericks to Yosemite if using 10.10 install application)...

/Applications/"Install OS X Mavericks.app"/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/"Install OS X Mavericks.app" --nointeraction


How to change desktop wallpaper for all virtual desktops? I have six virtual desktops and want to change a desktop wallpaper for all of them at once. There is no such option when using System Preferences, so I have to change a wallpaper only for one desktop and repeat this six times.

Is there any way for process automation?

Another option until Apple gives us a better one:

If, like me, you have your additional desktops arranged just how you like them, then the thought of deleting and recreating them just to change the wallpaper would be like recommending that I demolish my house so that I can repaint the walls. I'm not going to do that.

Instead, you can open up your Desktop preferences ( > System Preferences... > Desktop & Screen Saver ), then change the wallpaper on the current desktop.

Then, open Mission Control (on my machine, I launch Mission Control with the "Swipe up with three fingers" gesture) and drag & drop the Desktop & Screen Saver window onto the next desktop. The window will update to reflect the new desktop in focus and I can switch that desktop's image to whatever I want it to be. Repeat for as many desktops as you have. (If you have multiple monitors, then each monitor will have it's own Desktop window, named something like "Secondary Desktop".)

This is a lot easier than closing and reopening the desktop preferences on each desktop, and way easier than deleting and recreating all desktops (for me, at least).


Where to get a copy of Boot Camp's Unattend.xml file? I have a 27" iMac that originally had a Fusion Drive and I had previously installed Windows 10 on it using the Boot Camp Assistant.  I recently upgraded the storage in it and in the process of reinstalling everything, I opted to go with two large independent drives rather than the Fusion Drive setup.  Now I'm trying to reinstall Windows on it and it looks like I've painted myself into a corner.

When I run the Boot Camp Assistant, it complains that Boot Camp cannot be installed to a split Fusion Drive.  OK fine, I'm comfortable doing it manually, so I partitioned the drive and made myself a bootable Windows USB stick with the Boot Camp Support files on it.  It works splendidly, except for one tiny problem:

My Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse don't work.  All I can do is stare at the Windows Setup screen with no ability to click or tab over to the install button.  And unfortunately, I don't have a wired keyboard or mouse to plug into it either.

When the Boot Camp Assistant creates the Windows partition, it copies the Boot Camp Support files over for you and does something to make sure Bluetooth drivers load during the WinPE portion of Windows Setup so that wireless keyboards and mice work properly.  I assume it's doing this with an Unattend.xml or Autounattend.xml file.  But since I can't run the Boot Camp Assistant anymore, I can't examine the temporary environment it creates to see exactly how it's doing that.

Does anyone know how the Boot Camp Assistant loads drivers into the Windows preboot environment?  If it's just an Unattend.xml file like I suspect, you can just copy/paste the contents into your answer.

This is not an answer to the question, but I resolved the issue by borrowing a wired keyboard and mouse.


Keyboard Issues: Can’t sign in or access system preferences I have an issue where my keyboard is typing random characters when I type, my left and right arrows type a ‘=‘ sign and the numbers don’t work.

I am not signed in and at the login screen. I am unable to type numbers, this is what I need to sign in, and I assume edit the keyboard preferences.

Things I have tried with no results
- Safe Boot
- Reset Cache

The easiest way is to use an external keyboard, connect it and then get in and reconfigure in-built keyboard in System Preferences.


Can't boot MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2010) The problem occurred after installing the update SMC 1.6 on Apple - OS X Mountain Lion:

First for a long time was a white screen and noisy cooler

After the system battery icon was crossed out and the indicator on the left side of macbook does not show anything and everything worked cooler at high speed (he was cold macbook)

After reboot appeared crossed circle and the system has stopped running

I took out the hard drive and connected via a USB adapter to the same Macbook pro and have to boot from my hard drive - as a result the system has booted and gave to make a full backup timemachine

My macbook does not boot with any device (Hdd, Usb flash, DVD, other HDD) while on other laptops these devices make it possible to boot
Any ideas?

It looks like you Mac doesn't detect an OS on the drive (or the OS is corrupted...) at least, that's what the crossed circle means. It's trying to boot, but it's missing some files in the System folder.

There are some solutions to this issue:

If your MacBook Pro is still able to "boot" (meaning, it reacts when pressing the power button):

Select your start-up disk:
Hold the alt button immediately after pressing the power button until some drives appear on the screen. Now select you Macintosh HD to start up from.
Try to force start from your system folder:
Press the X immediately after pressing the power button. It will force the Mac to start up from your Mac OS X. If this works, go to System Preferences and make sure your folder is the System Folder.
Boot from a bootable drive (like a Mountain Lion Startup USB disk) and re-install the OS. I sure hope you have a back-up of your files...

If your MacBook Pro isn't able to "boot" (same meaning as above):

Unplug the drive and connect it to another computer. Try to access the drive as an external hard drive, take a backup of your files and format the drive.
After that, plug it back in your MacBook Pro and use the last bullet of above to re-install your OS.

Since I've been there and struggling for many hours to get things working, I think of myself as a semi-expert :)
So, if you've any questions at all, feel free to ask.


Changing tabs in Terminal is very slow with lots of output I frequently have Terminal open with several tabs.  I have noticed that sometimes switching to a new tab takes several minutes, during which Terminal appears to hang with a busy cursor.
I suspect that cause is running programs in that tab with very verbose debug output, that is producing extremely long lines.  I know that sometimes there are single lines with megabytes of text in them, and it's possible that the lines have tens or hundreds of megabytes.
One solution to the problem is to run those commands as command_with_long_output | cut -c 1-1000, but I have a tendency to forget to do that, especially if I'm switching from running a test data set (where the lines are maybe a few kilobytes) to running the full data set.
I'm hoping for a setting of "Only keep 1M of data" or "Only keep first 20k characters per line", but I don't see anything like that.

Go to Terminal / Preferences / Profiles / Window / Scrollback / Limit the number of rows to:


Batch Reformat Date in Filenames I am in need of a solution that will allow me to batch reformat/rename the date appended at the end of a filename and then move the date to the beginning of the filename. I'm adopting the ISO 8601 standard (yyyy-mm-dd).

After searching the web for a solution and tinkering with Automator, I haven't found a solution.

Example 1:
Current Filename: Statement 01-07-2019
Desired Filename: 2019-01-07 Statement

Example 2:
Current Filename: 01-07-2019 Statement
Desired Filename: 2019-01-07 Statement

There are various options to mass rename files on MacOS:

Automator, Apple Script
Third-party Applications (Metamorphose2, Name Changer, Inviska Rename, A Better Finder Rename, Renamer, File Renamer, ...)
Terminal

I'll go with the terminal option here.

Install HomeBrew if you don't have it already.
From your Terminal, enter: brew install rename
From your Terminal, go to the folder where all your files to be renamed are
Enter the two commands below. The first one is for your Example1 case. The second one for your Example 2 case.

Note: Those two commands will not affect your file names. Their only purpose is to check.

rename -n 's/^([^""]+)( )(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})(.*)$/$5-$4-$3 $1$6/' *

rename -n 's/^(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})(.*)$/$3-$2-$1$4/' *

You should get results similar to:

'Statement 01-07-2019' would be renamed to '2019-07-01 Statement'

'01-07-2019 Statement' would be renamed to '2019-07-01 Statement'

After you checked everything is ok, remove the -n option to effectively rename your files:

rename 's/^([^""]+)( )(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})(.*)$/$5-$4-$3 $1$6/' *

rename 's/^(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})(.*)$/$3-$2-$1$4/' *


MacPort : Is a given package a dependecy for another one ? My MacPort package are becoming the huge mess. I probably won't use some of them and I was wondering how I could know if a given package is a dependecy for another one.

For example I have GTK3 installed. How could I know which other installed package needs GTK3.

From Macports guide You can list all the ports dependent on a port x say

port echo depends:x

To find ports that have no dependants use

port echo leaves


How to fix Permission Denied error when starting up MongoDB So I'm newbie to learning react and node and thought of building something based on MERN stack - I installed mongodb using npm install -g mongodb then it says its installed - then to create data directory for Monogo to use I ran mkdir -p /data/db and the response is Permission Denied.

To solve this I tried to do Fixing /etc/sudoers file which hasn't led me anywhere either. Anyway when I run this command mongod it gives me shutting me down server message as below:

2019-03-29T13:30:02.772+1100 I CONTROL  [main] Automatically disabling TLS 1.0, to force-enable TLS 1.0 specify --sslDisabledProtocols 'none'
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=2962 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db 64-bit host=Farwas-MBP
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] db version v4.0.3
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] git version: 7ea530946fa7880364d88c8d8b6026bbc9ffa48c
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] allocator: system
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] modules: none
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] build environment:
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] distarch: x86_64
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] target_arch: x86_64
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] options: {}
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 E STORAGE [initandlisten] Failed to set up listener: SocketException: Address already in use
2019-03-29T13:30:02.793+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] now exiting
2019-03-29T13:30:02.793+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] shutting down with code:48

Use homebrew to install mongodb so you don’t need root would be my help to offer.

https://brew.sh

Then

brew install mongodb
brew services start mongodb

As to sudoers, boot into recovery and use terminal (utilities menu) to mount the filesystem and fix it per this answer from your linked question. Older os can use single user mode, but terminal in recovery is nicer to use.


Mute Outlook app on iPhone during holidays I have an iPhone which I use for work and private. Now I'm on holidays for a week and I don't want to see any notifications or e-mails.

Is it possible to mute (or completely turn off) the iPhone Outlook app?

If you do not want to receive notifications for the week you can simply disable notifications in the notification center.

Steps

Go to Settings (the settings app for the iPhone)
Tap on Notification Center
Find Outlook and Tap on it
Tap the slider next to Allow Notifications to turn it off.

This will turn them off so you do not receive any notifications. To turn them back on follow these steps.

Go to Settings (the settings app for the iPhone)
Tap on Notification Center
Find Outlook and Tap on it (This time it will be under the do not include section)
Tap on the slider next to Allow Notifications to turn it on.


How to delete MacPorts user after using the Migration Assistant My 2012 MacBook Air (11", i7 2GHz 8GB RAM) crashed and I had to erase the SSD and re-install macOS High Sierra with the Internet Recovery Mode tools. Once I had the working OS, I used the Migration Assistant to rebuild my system from a Time Machine backup. Upon restoring my system, I ended up with MacPorts as a User. I am at a loss to understand why this happened and am wondering if I should get rid of it?

$  port installed
Error: Current platform "darwin 17" does not match expected platform "darwin 16"
Error: If you upgraded your OS, please follow the migration instructions: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
OS platform mismatch
    while executing
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, OS platform mismatch

I had originally started this computer with macOS Mountain Lion. I'd installed MacPorts when using macOS Sierra. Prior to the crash I had macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (and that is what I have now).

As I recall, I've only used MacPorts ever to install one thing - I think it was Valgrind (which is not functional in High Sierra - so I don't need it). Of note - there is not a "MacPorts" User that I can login with or see in the Sys Prefs >>> Users & Groups:

...but there is a "macports" directory in /Users/:

Any ideas on why Migration Assistant would create a MacPorts user? Thought on how to and whether or not to nuke it (and any other MacPorts components?)

Update:

I removed MacPorts per their instructions: https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html

...and I removed /opt/local/bin from my $PATH, then deleted /Users/MacPorts.

Upon rebooting, MacPorts is still a User that shows up in the login screen. Also I get the following from dscl:

$  dscl . list /Users | grep -v '^_'
daemon
Guest
macports
mixelpix
nobody
root

How do I get rid of this?

$  dscl . list /Users | grep -v '^_'
daemon
Guest
macports <--------------------------------------------- remove?
mixelpix
nobody
root

$  /usr/bin/dscl . -search /Users name macports
macports        dsAttrTypeNative:name = (
    macports <----------------------------------------- confirm...
)

$  sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete "/Users/macports" <---- DELETE
Password:

$  dscl . list /Users | grep -v '^_' <----------------- GONE!
daemon
Guest
mixelpix
nobody
root

Also useful: sudo ls /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users

Similarly, to delete the group "macports" use:

sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete "/Groups/macports"


I can receive but not send any iOS Invitation (Shared Albums / Reminders / Calendar events etc) I have tried everything I have found online and all the settings are in place. My wife can invite me to calendar events, reminders, shared albums etc. I, however, with the same settings I can not do it from any of my two iPhones or my Macbook.
I would guess it is a problem with my iOS account itself, but I do not know where the problem is.
Could it be it that I do not have an @iCloud account? My Apple ID is my gmail account.
Best regards

You need at least one account added on your device to be able to invite. You can add it on Settings > Accounts > Add Account.
If you have a provider specific app you may be able to use it to invite other users to calendar events without the previous step.
Shared albums should not need an account though, just the email or phone address associated to the Apple ID of your invitee, depending on the way you chose to send the invitation.


How to find out which process is sending huge data to the internet? I have installed MenuMeters so I can see the realtime outbound date, sometimes it will display "out: 5xxKB/s" for a long time, so I want to know which process is sending data to the internet?

How to do that in Mac?

Activity Monitor

  Activity Monitor measures how resources are being used by different processes (or applications) on a Macintosh.
  This can then be used to monitor the Mac's processor and disk activity, as well as the memory usage and network activity.

Open Activity Monitor (you can find it in Applications/Utilities)
Select 'Network' tab
Sort on sending or receiving data


Is it OK to run -sudo purge, frequently? I'm on Mavericks 10.9.2, 24GB's RAM, and my usage constantly teters on 23.95 GB in use very frequently.

From what I can tell, the largest running process is 'kernel_task', and even then it's less than 2GB.

The only way to reduce this amount used is using the sudo purge command in terminal.

Is it ok to do this frequently to speed the system back up?

There isn't a good reason to run it (as detailed here). Inactive memory won't slow things down (I haven't stress-tested it myself, but it makes sense to me). Inactive memory is second only to free memory with malloc, etc.

Inactive memory is just used for keeping things around so it won't have to load them from disk again. If you open, say, Terminal for the first time in a while (or after a reboot), you'll notice it takes a couple seconds to get a prompt. Quit and reopen it (or just make a new shell window) and it's almost instantaneous.

That said, running sudo purge all the time won't break anything. I would recommend setting up an alias/function in your .bash_profile as you don't want to mistype anything prefixed with sudo. (The results could be disastrous, and I mean it).

But with 24 GB of memory, there is no reason to run it.


USB Type-C headphones detected on Catalina MacBook Pro with 2 or more minutes delay I have a pair of wired/corded USB Type-C AKG headphones.
When I plug them into the MacBook Pro's USB type C ports, they are visible (in the Sound Output preferences) only after about 2 minutes (measured several times). In this time, audio is not working via the USB type C headphones.
I did not observe any headphone detection patterns:

at exact interval after plugging in (varying around 2 minutes)
at exact minute change

The controls on the headphones wire work 5-10 seconds (play/pause, volume up, volume down) after plugging in.
After the about 2-minute interval, the Sound Output preference page appends the USBC Headset (Type: USB). No other audio devices are connected to the MabBook. Only the Internal Speakers (Type: Built-in) are available by default.
Is this a known/expected behaviour for MacBook Pros and USB Type-C headphones?
The devices I use:

headphones: wired/corded AKG (cannot find the model name).
computer: MacBook 2017 (with Touch Bar and also with 3.5mm audio port)

I would start diagnosing the issue using the IORegistryExplorer available as part of the "Hardware IO Tools for Xcode", which you can get at Apple's. If it shows up there but not in the System Preferences, I would hazard a guess that it's a driver issue. If it doesn't show up there, then I would think it's a hardware issue. Maybe also check the system logs for coreaudiod; the USB audio interface I use shows up within a second of being plugged in and prints all kind of info there.
In general, I've never had issues with USB audio devices on macOS over the last 15 years, and this reddit thread indicates that there are others with a similar issue with AKG headphones. You may just have made a bad purchase - which shouldn't be too bad if AKG still pretends to cater to professionals.
Best of luck!


How to use a portable display with an older Macbook 2011 (USB 2.0) I've been looking at the Asus Zenscreen portable displays to add a second screen to my Macbook Air. (Model 1, Model 2)

The problem that I'm running into is that it's a USB-C connection, or alternatively you can convert that to USB 3.0.

My Macbook Air only has USB 2.0.

Is there any way to go from USB-C to either my Thunderbolt, or USB 2.0?

Some reviews that I read say that USB 2.0 will work, but the brightness and color might be affected. Others said that there might be latency issues (like noticeable lag).

Is there was some type of adapter or converter that I could use to make this work?

There is a reason for the USB-C / USB 3.0 requirement, and I think it is power (among other factors).

The specifications of those monitors mention 7.5 and 8 Watt. If I understand the USB wiki correctly, USB 2.0 can at most give you 2.5 W (0.5A x 5V), which is not sufficient for your situation.

So even if you find a cable that can physically connect you MacBook to the screen, it will probably not work.


Where are sudo insults stored on macOS? How do I get all sudo insults messages list on macOS?

If you run sudo strings /usr/bin/sudo you get (among a lot of other things)

Sudo version %s
1.8.17p1
Configure options: %s
--with-password-timeout=0 --disable-setreuid --with-env-editor --with-pam
--with-libraries=bsm --with-noexec=no --sysconfdir=/private/etc
--without-lecture --enable-static-sudoers --with-rundir=/var/db/sudo

For insults to be included, --with-insults (or any of the other insult options mentioned in the INSTALL file) would need to be used when compiling sudo:

--with-insults
    Define this if you want to be insulted for typing an incorrect password
    just like the original sudo(8).  This is off by default.
    Sudoers option: insults

See How do I install sudo insults on Mac? for instructions on how to compile it yourself.


Under Usage my Messages shows 1.1GB Used but I don't see any messages. How can I find and delete them? Under Usage my Messages shows 1.1GB Used but I don't see any messages. How can I find them and delete all 1.1GB of the messages?

I got this tip from http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-clear-message-imessage-cache-on-iphone-ipad/

You’ll need:

iBackupbot (Download)
Your iPhone/iPad
PC/Mac running latest version of iTunes

Follow these steps:

Backup your iPhone or iPad through iTunes. (Connect your iDevice to
the PC/Mac, under the devices in iTunes, right click on your device
and click on Backup Now; alternatively, you can also use the Back Up
option from the Summary tab)
Open iBackupbot
From the sidepane, navigate to System Files > Mediadomain > Library >
SMS > Attachments
All the folders within Attachments are your Message cache containing
all photos, video and media that you sent/received. Clear them out.
At its best, delete all folders.
Click on “Restore” so your iPhone is now restored to this backup.

Obviously, it doesn’t end here. If you have an iCloud backup already, you might have to flush that too. Go to Settings → iCloud → Storage & Backup and clear out any backup that exists. You can create a new backup.


Why do I have duplicate groups in Contacts app on my iPhone? If I open the Contacts app on my iPhone I get duplicate groups, hence duplicate contacts.
I started to delete one of a duplicate contact but they both gone away.
I thought I could solve this problem going on my Mac and delete the duplicate groups but there I don't have duplicates.

I'm using iCloud for syncing contactes between my MacBook Pro and iPhone.

How can I solve this problem?

The best procedure is to one by one, turn off each cloud sync source of contacts.

They will remain in the cloud and be removed one by one from your iPhone.

When you have all cloud accounts turned off as far as injecting contacts into the contact app, you will be left with only the local groups and contacts stored on the device itself. If you don't wish to have a local contact on the phone, sync and delete these from a computer (or manually from the device).

At that point, re-establish the cloud sync for each account - checking that there are no duplicates after each addition.

Once you have eliminated the possibility of duplicates locally vs. cloud - you can quite easily clean up the cloud source of duplicates if needed.


EFI Boot doesn't work when trying to boot windows from my Mac 2 years ago, I installed Windows on a external SSD to be booted from my Mac. It used to work well. I would plug my external SDD, hold the option key at the beginning and chose if I wanted to boot on MacOS or on Windows (for windows, the name of the volume was EFI Boot).
But today, something went wrong and the EFI Boot doesn't work anymore. When I choose it, the screen and the mouse freeze and I have to force a power off.
The problem probably comes from the fact that I recently tried to install Linux on another partition of my external SDD. Although, I didn't want it, the EFI Boot file of Linux were placed in the EFI partition of my internal drive. In the end, I deleted Linux and the EFI File generated in the EFI partition of the internal drive. So technically, I didn't touch the EFI partition of my external SSD. But clearly something happened Beauce now it doesn't work anymore.
Do you have any idea what happened?
Is there a way to repair or recreate the EFI partition that would boot on the windows that is already installed on my external SSD?
Thank you!

I found a way to do it.

Boot a Windows 7/8/8.1/10 installation media (generated with another functioning windows)

On the first screen, press SHIFT+F10 to bring up the command prompt.

With the command prompt, use diskpark to erase the Broken EFI partition (you may need to force it with delete partition override)

Use diskpart to create a new EFI partition create partition efi size=100

Then, exit diskpart and execute bcdboot X:\windows /s S: /f ALL
Note: Replace "X" with the volume letter of the Windows OS partition and S with the new EFI partition
In fact, I had to adjust it to my case but I got some help from here:
https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/52837-moving-recreating-efi-partition.html


Why does directory vanish when I do SSHFS? I'm running Max OSX 10.9.3 and I'm trying to setup an SSHFS file-share between my MacBook Pro and a remote file system. However, when I try to do it, it doesn't work.

Strangely enough, it makes the target directory disappear. Has anyone else seen this happen? Is it a bug?

First see that I can ssh normally into the target machine:

% ssh remoteuser@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX            # <--- SSH to remote system works! See below.
remoteuser@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX % ls -altr remoteDir
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 26 remoteuser remoteuser 4096 Jun 22 01:00 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 remoteuser remoteuser 4096 Jun 22 01:08 .
remoteuser@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX % exit
%                                           # <--- Logged out of remote system

Next, I create a directory locally and verify it was created:

% pwd
/mnt

% ls
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  31 root  admin  1122 Jun 18 18:34 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  admin    68 Jun 23 08:11 ./

% sudo mkdir share1
% ls
drwxr-xr-x  31 root  admin  1122 Jun 18 18:34 ../
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin   136 Jun 23 08:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  admin    68 Jun 23 08:50 share/

Now I try to setup the SSHFS share:

% sudo sshfs remoteuser@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:remoteDir /mnt/share1
remoteuser@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX's password:
%

Ok. It seems to have worked. No errors. So let's see the share we created, shall we?

% ls
ls: share1: No such file or directory
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  31 root  admin  1122 Jun 18 18:34 ../
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 Jun 23 08:12 ./

What? Not only is the File Sharing not working, but the share1 directory seems to have vanished! (Although the file system seems to know it is missing, which is weird).

Where did /mnt/share1 go and how do I setup this SSHFS?

On OSX you should run the mounting command as your own regular user, not root.

sshfs user@host:/ ~/sshfs -oauto_cache,reconnect,defer_permissions,noappledouble,negative_vncache,volname=MySSHFSMount


Aggregate highlights from PDF? Is there an app that I can use to highlight blocks of text in a PDF and then export the highlights - pretty much the same thing as iBooks does with EPUB?

I would use this for that purpose http://highlightsapp.net/


The first line on a TextEdit moves out of center alignment, and then when recentered it is not in alignment with the rest of the document I am new to word processing, so this is probably something incredibly simple that I am overlooking.  Knowing that, just compounds the frustration however of not being able to figure it out.  Any help that you can give me, so that I don't pull out all of my hair, would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my problem.  I have created a document in TextEdit and centered all of the lines, and then saved the doc.  In this original document, the ruler above the page has two down arrows, one clear over to the left at the 0" point, and a second one clear over to the right at the 20" point.  Additionally, at the 0" position is the "T" sign, which if I understand correctly, determines where the first line of text will begin.  Those three symbols are in these same exact positions, no matter which horizontal line of text I place my cursor on.  Besides those three symbols, the two down arrows and the "T", there are no additional special characters on the ruler, except for the inch numbers and the corresponding 1/8" marks.

Something that I found interesting is that when I centered the document, the center point of all of the text is at the 7" mark on the ruler, even though the ruler goes clear up to 20 inches.  So, I'm curious as to why this is?  However, the frustrating part is when I close the document and then at a later point reopen it and start to type on the first line again.  The entire first line automatically moves from being centered, to being aligned at the left of the page.  The remaining lines of text remain centered at the 7" centering point discussed above, whether I type new text onto those lines or not.  The only line that is affected in this manner is the very first line.  Additionally, whereas on the original document there were only the three symbols above the ruler, the reopened document has numerous left indent arrows on the ruler as well as the original two down arrows and the "T" symbol.  If I then click the "Center Text" button on the document, while my cursor is still on this first line, it centers it on the 10" point and leaves the remaining document centered on the 7" point.  Even if I align the rest of the lines of text to the left, along with the first line, and then try to center them all, the first line centers at the 10" mark, and the remaining lines of text once again center themselves at the 7" mark.

For my purposes, it doesn't matter to me whether all of the lines are centered on the 7" point of the page or the 10" position.  I just need to have them all centered above one another.  Again, any help on this is very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Unless you really want a 20 inch wide paper printing you need to adjust your settings.

In TextEdit, click on File than on Page set up.

In the new window click on Paper Size and select proper size, like US letter or other standard formats.

As you know those markers above the scale are the TAB positions (for the tab key on your keyboard.

You can move them around as you see it fit, or remove them. The First and the last one are positioned depending your settings for the page margins. If you right click on one of them you get a choice to choose what they are fore.

The centering will be always for the center of the word it self, thus some might look out of center if they are longer then others.

Now you can use the keyboard TAB key and move a word to the center, or just use the Text Center Icon, but not both at same time


Show caller ID and number on incoming call on iPhone? I looked around quite a bit for an answer to this question but can't find one, so maybe I'm overlooking something obvious.

I recently starting paying my carrier for caller ID. This is great sometimes, but now when receiving calls only the caller ID name is displayed, not the caller's phone number. I can't find any setting to get the caller ID name to display along with the phone number before I answer an incoming call. This is especially difficult when the caller ID text is UNKNOWN CALLER or something similar since I can't tell if the number looks familiar before I answer.

All of this applies to receiving calls from people not in my contacts list.

Is there some way to make callers' phone numbers appear along with caller ID text when receiving incoming calls?

This is an iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 9.3.1 on T-Mobile (US) in case any of that is relevant.

Unknown caller generally means their number (caller id) is private


Display as an Extended Desktop across 4 x Dell Monitors I have purchased a 2021 13" Macbook Pro, four Dell 24" monitors, four HDMI to HDMI cables and a 1-in-8 hub. The monitors work seamlessly each mirroring the desktop but not as an extended desktop. I have also purchased two HDMI to Thunderbolt 3 connectors but again only one output works at any time.
Is it possible to use more than one external monitor in "extend desktop" mode?
Adding necessary detail From OP's comments:
APPLE MacBook Pro 13.3" (2020) - M1, 256 GB SSD, Space Grey - Curry's PC World
4 x Dell S2421Hn FUll HD 23.8 LCD Monitors - Curry's PC World – Th38ozz
2 x USD C to HDMI Adapters Syntech (Amazon) / 8 x Snowkids HDMI 8K 60Hz 2.1 Cable (Amazon)

The answer depends on whether you have the M1 MacBook Pro or the Intel version.
M1 Macs
M1 Macs officially only support 2 monitors, for the Laptops this means one external and the internal screen. This is the same for all M1 macs, i.e. the 13" MBA, 13" MBP (M1 version), MacMini and iMac 24".
However, there is a workaround called DisplayLink. It does work, however, it needs special software and hardware, which means it may break at some point due to lack of support (this is very unlikely in the near future though, it seems like it gains more and more features right now, since there are still some limitations like rotating a screen).
Intel Macs
Depending on what exact model (13", 15", 16") you can usually connect at least two external monitors, the more powerful 16" version can even handle 4 monitors. You mention you have a 13" MBP, which means you can only connect up to 2 external monitors.
Connecting more thant the officially supported amount of monitors is again possible with DisplayLink or with an eGPU.

Remember, every pixel your MBP has to render puts more strain to it and will lead to higher CPU/GPU usage. Of course, maybe you need 4 monitors, but it seems like the "small" 13" MBP can't handle that. I have a 2017 15" MBP with a dedicated GPU and if I charge it and connect a 4K monitor it quickly starts ramping up the fans (depending on the workload), which might not be ideal, too.


History of downloaded iBookstore samples? For some reason—presumably a sync by my iPhone that overwrote my iPad’s more recently downloaded library—the majority of my iBooks were deleted.

The books I purchased can easily be restored, but I had downloaded a bunch of samples to, well, sample, before I bought the books.

Shy of using the restore feature, which will probably wreak its own havoc the way my iPhone did, when I synchronized iCloud through it, is there any log or history of the samples I have downloaded? I am sure this will happen again, and I don’t think restoring your iPad is the intended user experience by Apple.

I was able to recover the list of all books in iBooks, including sample chapters, with the following steps:

Select a tool to parse iPhone/iPad backups on your hard drive. Google for "iphone backup extractor", there are various.
Select a recent iPhone/iPad backup from the list presented by your extractor software.
Select iBooks as the app you wish to extract.
Search for a file called iBooks_v10252011_2152.sqlite, or something like that.
Use a SQLite viewer (such as Base on the Mac) to view the ZBKBOOKINFO table.
Look for the ZBOOKTITLE field - this should contain a list of all your books, including sample chapters, from the time of the backup!
If you want to get fancy, try sorting on the ZSAMPLECONTENT field.


Can I have a custom desktop wallpaper 'Change Picture' interval? In System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver, it's possible to set an interval for changing the desktop wallpaper picture:

However, you are limited to a few specific times:

Is it possible to set a custom time for this interval?

I found this Apple scripts web page with examples.

There is a line in this script for the change of interval time allowing you to specify it, and you can customize the rest of the script to your needs.

tell application "System Events"
 -- RANDOM ROTATION OF A FOLDER OF IMAGES
 tell current desktop
 set picture rotation to 1 -- (0=off, 1=interval, 2=login, 3=sleep)
 set random order to true
 set pictures folder to file "Mac OS X:Library:Desktop Pictures:Plants:"
 set change interval to 5.0 -- seconds
 end tell
end tell


iCloud.com has empty picture folder Using the Finder on my iMac, I goto the iCloud Drive. There is a Pictures folder showing 5.78 GB. Inside the Pictures folder are 2 files: "iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary" and "Photos Library.photoslibrary".  These total 5.78 GB as expected.  I logged onto iCloud.com and went to the iCloud Drive folder. The folder names matched what was displayed using Finder. Opening the Pictures folder however revealed it was empty. Why did this folder show empty on iCloud.com but showed over 5GB using Finder?  A similar question has been asked but not answered. I thought I would try my luck.

The 2 files shown in Finder both are designated with a cloud with a line drawn thru it. When I hover the mouse over that small icon it says ineligible.  Any clue whats going on?

The photos library is not synchronised to iCloud Drive as itself. Rather, Photos syncs the contents of the library to iCloud to appear in the Photos section of iCloud.com. This means the library itself won't appear in the Pictures folder on iCloud.


Windows keyboard on mac, change combinations? I have my reasons why I use a Win keyboard on a Mac, I'm interested to know how can I change keyboard combinations like: change  Ctrl ⌃  vs.  Win  key, I want on Mac to have  Cmd ⌘  functionality on  Ctrl ⌃  key and  Ctrl ⌃  on  Win ... it is possible or does any software exist for that?

You can change Modifier Key Assignment from
System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys...


Finder becomes unresponsive when viewing network folders with large amounts of files (OSX 10.6.8) When loading a folder which contains around 500 video files (each approximately 200mb-700mb in size), Finder becomes unresponsive and displays the beach-ball.

The folder in question is a networked folder (on an AvidISIS server). Network speed shouldn't be an issue as we are accessing the server using dual ethernet cards (high-end).

What's annoying is that this only occurs on systems running Snow Leopard. Our Lion systems (which dont even have the dual ethernet set-up) have no problem accessing the folder. I've also tested this on SL computers without the dual ethernet and the issue still exists.

Furthermore, if I open the folder, wait 10 seconds and then scroll around with the mouse, the folder responds fine for a while. But if I click and drag the scroll bar Finder shows the beach-ball again.

Is there a way to prevent Finder from slowing down when accessing the
folder?
Could it be due to Finder trying to load thumbnails of
the video files?

(both the Snow Leopard and Lion systems are fully up-to-date - mix of Mac Pros and Mac Minis)

Quicklook may want to read the remote files to generate an icon preview, and that on a slow network can be problematic.

A trick that helps me in similar situations is to uncheck "Show icon preview" from menu View -> Show View Options (Command-j)


How do I copy files from the photo library (not the Camera Roll) to a PC Pretty simple really.

I have a bunch of photos not in the Camera Roll and I would like to copy them to a PC.

There doesn't seem to be a single useful article on the web that helps with this.

Note - it's not entirely clear which photos you mean, I'm assuming you're talking about photos in albums created by apps like Hipstamatic, LINE camera, PhotoToaster, etc.

I think the official answer is iTunes somehow (on the app screen, the data section, bla bla bla), but I've found that not every app works well with it. Some apps are designed specifically to make it hard to get pictures or moves without some sort of online social experience being involved (Smule, for example).

I've found the one tool that always gets things out of my iPhone is iPhone explorer - http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

I don't work for them, this isn't an advertisement - I've just used it to extract all kinds of things from my phone, and I've never had a problem with it.


Can I use a Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" charger with my Late 2013 MacBook Pro 13" with the MagSafe Adapter? I bought a Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" but eventually upgraded to a newer Retina Late 2013 13" model.  I'd like to get another charger, but I'm curious if I could use the old charger that came with that laptop with this new one if I buy the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter.  They both use a 60W adapter, so I don't see a reason why they shouldn't work.

Simple answer-- yes you can! there should be no any problems.


What does "The iTunes Store is unable to process purchases at this time" message mean and how can I fix it? I’ve been getting this message a lot. It just started today and I haven’t tried to purchase or download anything.

This message typically occurs due to some temporary server side issue. For troubleshooting an error message like this, you should view Apple's system status.

There is no user-side fix. You have to simply wait for Apple's services to come back online.


Slow down podcast playback speed How can I slow down podcast playback speed to 90% - 75% on my iPhone?

Apple's Podcasts app lets you slow down playback speed only to 50%. To slow down the playback speed, tap the indicated button to cycle between 1x, 1.5x, 2x and .5x speed.

There are various 3rd party Podcasts app for iOS which lets you slow down the playback speed with much fine grained values. One such app is Podbean Podcast App & Player. It lets you slow down the playback speed with granularity of 10%.


I have a strange 'binoculars' icon in my menu bar that disappears when I log in On the lock screen in the top right corner of my Mac, there is a strange icon that disappears when I enter my password and log in. It would be great if somebody could tell me what that icon is, because it is making me start to worry. It is the icon in the left of this screenshot - like a pair of binoculars.

The binoculars icon may be present after ending a screen sharing session using tools like Google Meet or Slack, if those tools do not correctly shut down the screen recording functionality.

To eliminate the binoculars icon, just quit Slack and Google Meet. Restarting the computer should also work to make the icon go away.

Source: Reddit.com


Default factory resetting iPhone 4 Is it possible to reset an old iPhone but keep the operating system with all updates?

Is it possible to reset an old iPhone but keep the operating system with all updates?

Yes, and that's the default behavior when resetting an iPhone (or any iOS/iPadOS device).

When you reset an iPhone to its factory settings, the OS updates installed are retained. Or to put it in a simpler manner, when factory resetting an iPhone (or an iOS device), it is not reset to the version of OS with which it shipped, but the latest installed version of OS is retained.

On the other hand, with the Apple's signing process, it's technically not possible to roll back to older supported version(s) of iOS after update (and after Apple stops signing the older version(s)).

For an iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.2, is the current latest support version, and you have it installed, you can't go past it to an older supported version (iPhone 4 originally shipped with iOS 4.0).


Is there a plugin for hotmail calendars I'd like to see my hotmail calendars using iCal (or if need be, another calendar tool).

I have a new mac running Maverick and I'm blown away by the answers I'm seeing online. I don't want to forward my calendars to another email account like gmail. That's a ridiculous work around. It's 2014!

What are my other options? Is there some kind of plugin for acccount connections? or is there another program I can use to see my calendars instead of iCal? (keep it free people).

Thanks

Go into outlook (hotmail) calendar and push "share" then choose the option to send a View only Link.

Copy the "Import into other calendar applications (ICS)" link.

On your mac, go to Calendar and subscribe.

Write a name for your calendar and then enter the URL you copied from hotmail, substituting "http" for "webcals".

Chose how often you want it it to refresh, what alerts you want, then enter and the calendar from hotmail will appear on your Mac!


Is it okay to install a second RAM chip? I have a 2010 MacBook Pro with a recently replaced logic board and SSD upgrade. I haven't yet upgraded the RAM.

Currently, RAM is 4GB, one slot, Apple RAM (whichever manufacturer they use). I am thinking of buying some Crucial RAM to bump it to 8GB. Would it be better if I did 2x4GB from Crucial and put them both in the slots available, or could I get just one Crucial 4GB RAM chip and install it in the empty slot? Would there be any advantages/disadvantages to either?

Crucial RAM will almost certainly work with the existing.

Their configurator is pretty good at getting exactly the right RAM for the machine.


How can I change the default save location of Office for Mac? I have Office for Mac 2011 and unlike Office PC, I can't find how to change the location where my files are to be saved.

The default position doesn't suit my needs and I spend a lot of time "navigating" to the folder where I store all my projects.

I would like to open a file, edit it's contents, and "save as" a different file name, but to the same file folder from which the document was originally opened... just like you can on a PC.

The File Locations preference pane allows to to specify the location for all documents to be saved.

In Word Preferences... select File Locations:

When in File Locations, set the path you want Word to use by clicking in the Location field. The default setting, which appears blank in the screencap below, is to ~/Documents.


nvram boot-args to boot in target disk mode I'd like a Mac to always boot in target disk mode. Similarly to setting

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

which boots in verbose mode, I tried

sudo nvram boot-args="-t"

but to no avail. Any idea?

From this (very useful!) page : http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-manage-os-x-boot-options-with-wireless-keyboards/

I found the answer you want. And I quote:

  The "boot-args" variable can be used for setting the above modes. but in addition if you need to load the system into Target Disk mode, you can do so by setting the "target-mode" PRAM variable in the following way (this will be enabled only once for the next time the system is started):

sudo nvram target-mode=1

It looks like you can't get it to do that on every boot - but you could write a startup script that waited for a minute then set that parameter again then rebooted. Note that without the delay, you would never be able to boot the machine again :)

Then if you ever did want to start the machine not in Target Disk Mode, you would simply kill the startup script while it was waiting for the minute.


Why are some Mail messages shown as empty with "This message has no content"? Sometimes new messages come in and Mail (on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion) shows them as empty, with "This message has no content" in the preview column. The message is empty in the full message view window.

I'm connected to Exchange 2010 on the backend.

When I open Outlook for Mac I can see the mail, and it's definitely not empty.

When I quit and restart Mail the message appears in its entirety, but the middle Mail column (with the subject/from/snippet in it) still says "This message has no content".

So a Mail restart sort of fixes the problem, but it's quite annoying.

I didn't have this problem pre-Lion with the same Exchange backend.

I don't know why this happens either, but did I find a workaround that's a bit more lightweight than restarting Mail.app:

  Delete the message, and hit CMD-Z (undo delete) immediately after that. This brings back the message, including its lost content.


What's this icon in menu bar on Macbook Pro? Does anyone know what's this icon to the left of battery status in the menu bar? It looks like binoculars.

This appears only on lock screen, and disappears as soon as I login (either through TouchID or entering the password). Clicking on that while the screen is locked doesn't help.
If it helps, this is a MacBook Pro with TouchBar (2017 model) and is running macOS Catalina 10.15.6.
I've been using this laptop for more than 2 years but this started appearing only 3-4 days ago.
Thanks

if you see it on the lock login screen, it means that your computer is actively creating a video of your screen.
For Reference you can view this article:
https://macreports.com/binoculars-icon-on-mac-what-does-that-mean/


iOS 10 tap home to use I dislike pressing the home button.

How can I make it so that a tap equals a press?
I have it for unlocking the phone (iPhone SE) so it should be possible elsewhere too.

Open settings and navigate to

Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button

Toggle "Rest Finger to Open".

For every other situation it is not possible to perform Home Button actions without pressing it.

Please let me know if this answers your question.


MacOs Catalina doesn't fully boot until you log in After some Catalina update recently, my 2013 Mac Pro, upon startup, immediately shows the login screen before actually booting up.

By this, I mean that TeamViewer, and other background service are not available until you login once... This makes it extremely frustrating when working remotely to my Mac because I cannot risk rebooting it, otherwise I have to go physically log into it in order for TeamViewer to fire up.

This was not the case for the past 7 years I have been using Macs.

Is there any way to turn off this delayed-load nonsense? I looked everywhere in preferences and Google'd away but either I am not googling the right terms or no one's noticed.

My PCs still work fine after a reboot, FTP, RDP, TeamViewer, IIS all work upon booting a PC on Win10 without having to log in. But, of course, not Apple...

If you've turned on Disk Encryption, then you might get the login from a small boot partition, which then boots the 'real' system after you've authenticated the unencryption with your password.

Alternatively, it may be that Catalina's increased security is more cautious about how third-party software launches at this stage.

If you have just updated to Catalina, then you will need to check that your apps are compatible with Catalina. You may need new versions.

The other option, if your Mac is located in a secure location, is to turn on auto-login in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options.


CalendarAgent continuous error generation in MacOS 10.12.4 After upgrading to MacOS 10.12.4 today, I started getting tons of Error/Fault log message in the Console generated by the CalendarAgent process.
Some of the errors are pasted below:

error: sql cached statement NSSQLiteStatement <0x7fae52e27ad0> on entity 'CalDAVError' with sql text 'SELECT t0.Z_ENT, t0.Z_PK, t0.Z_OPT, t0.ZCODE, t0.ZDOMAIN, t0.ZUSERINFO, t0.ZCHANGEREQUEST, t0.Z8_CHANGEREQUEST, t0.ZPRINCIPAL, t0.ZOPERATION, t0.ZPRINCIPAL1, t0.ZPUBLICATION, t0.ZSUBSCRIPTIONINFO FROM ZERROR t0 WHERE ( t0.ZPRINCIPAL IN (SELECT * FROM _Z_intarray0)  AND  t0.Z_ENT = ?) ' failed due to missing variable binding for (null) with expecting bindings (
    "<NSSQLBindVariable: 0x7fae52eed410>"
) but actual substitution variables {
    destinations = "{0x400072b <x-coredata://F6135326-AEE3-4C69-AD55-060EF81D21A6/CalDAVPrincipal/p16>}";
}

error: sql cached statement NSSQLiteStatement <0x7fae551cadc0> on entity 'Attachment' with sql text 'SELECT 0, t0.Z_PK, t0.Z_OPT, t0.ZATTACHMENTID, t0.ZCONTENTTYPE, t0.ZFILENAMEINCACHE, t0.ZFILENAMESUGGESTEDBYSERVER, t0.ZISAUTOARCHIVED, t0.ZISCACHED, t0.ZOMITSYNCRECORD, t0.ZPATHONDISKSTRING, t0.ZURLSTRING, t0.ZUUID, t0.ZITEM, t0.Z4_ITEM FROM ZATTACHMENT t0 WHERE  t0.ZITEM IN (SELECT * FROM _Z_intarray0)  ORDER BY t0.ZITEM' failed due to missing variable binding for (null) with expecting bindings (
) but actual substitution variables {
    destinations = "{0xd340030b <x-coredata://F6135326-AEE3-4C69-AD55-060EF81D21A6/Event/p845>, 0xf2c0030b <x-coredata://F6135326-AEE3-4C69-AD55-060EF81D21A6/Event/p971>}";
}

The number of errors generated within a few minutes is more than 6000!. What do you think the reason could be?
If you think I need to add more details, please state in the comments.

The possible problem is that database schema or some of database entries are incompatible with latest Calendar app. Or may be these entries are corrupted.

There are 2 possible solutions:

fix db which is tricky.
drop db - it's just cached data of your cloud accounts.

to do the 2nd option:

stop Calendar App (ctrl+q), then
open ~/Library/Calendars and
remove Calendar Cache files (you may just trash them)
start Calendar App again.

You will need probably reactivate your calendar accounts.

To do so, open calendar app settings and choose desired accounts in accounts section


How can I block iOS 10 Notifications It seems that I can not find a solid answer on this. Currently, I've tried this...
Using my NetGear Genie, I went to security and blocked the keywords/domains of:

https://mesu.apple.com

https://appldnld.apple.com

Clicked apply, and nothing happen. Am I missing something here?

Using NetGear Genie, you must Reboot the router in order for the changes to be applied.

Second, I received an error when trying to add both (http) and (https) at the same time. I had to reboot with both links being (http). then, go back, and add the (https).

https://mesu.apple.com
https://appldnld.apple.com
appldnld.apple.com
mesu.apple.com

This seems to work as of now. Of course, this only works with your home-WIFI. If you were to go connect at someone else's WIFI, you end up with the same problem. So, I found an alternative by installing the tvOS Beta Profile, which stops it forever. If you decide to update, just go into Settings - General - Profile - and then Delete Profile.

Steps to install the tvOS Beta Profile:

Click on the link using your Safari app on your phone.
Click Install.
Click Install again.
Reboot your phone.

You won't be bothered by the recurring notification.

You're only left with a red circle on your settings app. Which doesn't annoy me as much, but if you would like to get rid of that as well, theres another process in which involves using a third party app and turning off your "Find My iPhone".

Article: How to stop your iPhone from asking to install OS updates


Trying to re-format via internet recovery, no entry sign I am trying to reformat my MBP 13" late 2012 as I've sold it on eBay. I have KnowHow support from PC World and they're absolutely useless and just the most arrogant people I've ever spoke to in my entire life. Anyway enough about that...

I was told to press CMD + R to start the recovery process on reboot, it comes straight up with internet recovery where it downloads and after that is complete it just comes up with a No Entry symbol for about 5 minutes then restarts and just asks me to login. I've rebooted and held down alt (option or whatever it's called) and I can see the recovery partition and when I select it, it will not load and asks if I want to restart. I've downloaded OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 to a portable hard drive and it does the exact same thing, it will not load the recovery assistant.

Does anyone have any ideas? Pretty much needed to get this shipped off today.

The fastest method around a sticky recovery partition is to just boot your Mac in target disk mode and connect it to another Mac and have that OS run Disk Utility to erase / zero the drive.

At that point, you should have far less issues reinstalling the OS in recovery mode. Depending on the agreement you had with the buyer, you could just send the Mac to them with a wiped drive and let them sort out the reinstall since then their Apple ID will be associated with the upgrade / app store instead of yours.

To diagnose why your Mac isn't starting will likely require access to the install logs and/or system logs.

Can you boot the Mac into single user mode and get a usable prompt?
Can you boot holding the option key and then select your Recovery HD to get Disk Utility to run and zero the main partition/volume?


Is there any way to get iPad Safari Youtube videos to play at a higher (HD) quality? I like to watch educational videos (like Udacity) which are hosted on Youtube.  However, when I watch these on my iPad 2 over Wifi, they always play back at the lowest quality!  The quality is so bad that I can't even read the code on the screen!

These same videos on the same Wifi connection play in HD on a PC.

Searching for each individual video from the Youtube app is obviously not an option - that process would take almost as long as the video itself.  Is there some way to get Youtube within Safari to play at a reasonable resolution?

I don't know what the actual answer is, but I am having the same issue.  The page https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/AudioandVideoTagBasics/AudioandVideoTagBasics.html

has some good info.  And the page
https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009523-CH5-SW1

states

"Optimization for Small Screens

Currently, Safari optimizes video presentation for the smaller screen on iPhone or iPod touch by playing video using the full screen—video controls appear when the screen is touched, and the video is scaled to fit the screen in portrait or landscape mode. Video is not presented within the webpage. The height and width attributes affect only the space allotted on the webpage, and the controls attribute is ignored. This is true only for Safari on devices with small screens. On Mac OS X, Windows, and iPad, Safari plays video inline, embedded in the webpage."  - Which, I believe, means on the iPad, that the video plays at the resolution of the initial window (determined by the programmer), and does not naturally play on the YoutTube player, or at a higher res if you enlarge the video.

This seems to be the "problem" that we're encountering - that its a "feature" specific to Safari on the iPad.  Why they do this, I dunno.  In my case, the video plays at a higher res (and better) on my smaller iPhone than does on my iPad mini with Retna.  Go figure.

I came upon this post, hoping to find the answer and a work around.  If you get the Youtube app, and find the video through that, it will play at the highest resolution, but not through Safari.  So far as I can tell.

Enjoy


Why does this cause Mac OSX to print over SSH? While screwing around and breaking things I came across these stupid commands (if executed in order it causes what I got):

cd / && cat vmlinuz

cd /boot/ && cat init*

It causes special characters that aren't recognized by the system like ��� however, for some reason it causes weird effects like causing iTerm2 to send a bell (a notification to the system) like the screen shot:

However, the weirdest this is that is causes Mac OSX to print (screenshot):

Can someone explain to my why this happens, especially over SSH?

Thanks in advance!

Terminal.app probably implements the "media copy" (printer) escape sequence from VT100s.  You can read about those control sequences at vt100.net, or in the XTerm Control Sequences, e.g.,

CSI Pm i  Media Copy (MC).
        Ps = 0  -> Print screen (default).
        Ps = 4  -> Turn off printer controller mode.
        Ps = 5  -> Turn on printer controller mode.
CSI ? Pm i
      Media Copy (MC, DEC-specific).
        Ps = 1  -> Print line containing cursor.
        Ps = 4  -> Turn off autoprint mode.
        Ps = 5  -> Turn on autoprint mode.
        Ps = 1  0  -> Print composed display, ignores DECPEX.
        Ps = 1  1  -> Print all pages.


Deleting old email caches on macOS Sierra I'm deleting email account from Mail App but it doesn't automatically deleting the email caches. There are still about 2 GB left in the ~Library/Mail/v4

Is it safe to delete all folders under the ~Library/Mail ?

If you already deleted the emails, the cache will be deleted when the operating system needs more space. You can also delete the folders in ~Library/Mail/v4, only the next time you launch Mail it will write there when you add a new account.


How do I zip a .app file using terminal? I'm having trouble zipping a .app file. If I zip without -r (recursive) it is really shallow, if I zip with -r it's really dense. The zip doesn't unzip correctly regardless.

From the man page for ditto:

ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc --keepParent src_directory archive.zip


High Sierra with Yosemite Time machine restore I had made a High Sierra clear installation in my old Mac Book Pro 13"(Mid 2010) where I had put also a new SSD HD. After this I restored my Yosemite Time Machine backup. It said that it will erase my HD and I clicked YES and continued to restore. It had restored very well all my files but there is no High Sierra there anymore. If you go to "About this Mac" you see the Yosemite 10.10.5 which was before.
The question is: Could my Yosemite Time Machine backup that I had, restore the Yosemite operating system and wipe out High Sierra?
I needed to have the High Sierra as operating system and my older files which I thought Time machine would restore them.

Yes, this is different from iOS,iOS only backup data and you can't restore your backup to a low version.

Time Machine will backup all you files include macOS itself.
Recovery from Time Machine will restore the entire partition.
So this is normal and  you don't have to worry.

You can download High Sierra then upgrade instead of clear installation.
I have upgraded many times without problems,from 10.10 to mojave.


How can I open a Finder window in Desktop without switching to another one? I have these five desktops with a dozen of full screen apps and feel very happy.  Say I'm at right Desktop 5 now. (Sadly my picture is deleted since it wasn't uploaded to the site hosting service)
Now I want to open Finder to locate a file to open it on this desktop.
So I click Finder in Dock.

Ouch!
I get dragged all the way to the  Desktop 1 because that's where Finder is currently open.
Well, that makes sense from a programmer's perspective (switch to Desktop with the app window).
But it doesn't make any sense for user.
Whenever I press Finder, I want it to open on current desktop, because it's utility and not really an “app” I need to “switch to”.
I usually have half dozen Finder windows on different desktops and these redirects just get in my way.
Is there a workaround to make Finder in Dock desktop-bound, apart from choosing New Finder Window in menu?

You have several different options:

Create Finder Window with a Shortcut

  While this doesn't solve your problem with the dock, using a keyboard shortcut can be much faster and can help in your workflow.

Activate Finder by clicking the desktop background
(If the desktop is cluttered with windows, pinch out to clean it up and then click)
Use the New Finder Window shortcut: ⌘ + N

Disable Spaces Auto-Switching

Uncheck the Missions Control preferences checkbox to switch to a space with open windows for an application:

On a side note, this does not effect the Finder if you have the Assign to all Desktops option selected. Link Here


Is it safe to delete the com.apple.appstore folder? It takes up 80gb on my 256gb hard drive Is it safe to delete this folder? From what I've read, it just holds App Store cache. I'm running really low on disk space, and this folder is massive.
Edit:
The filepath is: Macintosh HD/private/var/folders/bw/0tlgj1q56zs3msbssd_w4jv40000gn/C/com.apple.appstore
All the folders inside of it contain a package and a file called preflight.pfpkg.
Edit 2: I took a closer look at the packages inside and it looks like they're all Xcode installers, like every single one of them. I made a Time Machine backup in case something went wrong, but so far it's been smooth sailing.

It’s safe to delete just about anything as long as you:

Have a backup and know how to restore things.
Have internet recovery so if you break things, you can reinstall macOS.

Since you know where that folder is located, it’s best to give a general answer since we can’t guess if that’s something you made, another software made or Apple made.
Then feel free to ask a follow on question if you need help like this and you don’t have good results with a process to reset things:

Mac App Store Download Failure - Clear Cache?

In my experience, this self-solves by booting to recovery, reinstalling the OS and restarting twice, no need to delete anything at all. (But it’s a pretty rare failure in my experience)