What is fastest operating system for my Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010? I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, still running 10.6.8 but I'm getting incompatibility messages from various other sites and software.

Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Should I upgrade to 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion? I'm worried that later versions might be too big a jump for other software, and that I might not have enough space to optimize speed with larger systems.

Would I need to do that in increments, or can I skip to newer version?

You have to weigh the balance between increased functionality/usability/security of the new OS with the performance of the old.

You have to ask yourself the question "is the performance increase/decrease worth the added functionality?"

Better yet, "Am I going to notice the difference?"

Your CPU and GPU are not going to change so running comparative benchmarks against them with varying OS's tells you little.  If squeezing out every nanosecond of response is key to what you are doing, then this is entirely a moot thread; you should buy a new machine.

It seems that you are running into compatibility issues because your OS is now too old.  Upgrading to one that is pushing 4 years old now may not be the wisest move - especially if what you are doing centers around the web where the tech changes almost on a daily basis.

Here's my suggestion (and I have personally done this for a friend and they couldn't be happier) based on the fact you have a pretty good machine in your possession.

First, upgrade your RAM.  I'm suspecting you are seeing some performance slowdown if you are running out of memory.  Open up Activity Monitor and leave it open as you go about your day.  If memory utilization is close to or at the top of its limit, chances are you are sending the overflow memory requests to the hard disk (swap).  That'll slow you down for sure.

Officially, your Mac can to go to 8GB of RAM.  Unofficially, it can go to 16GB.  Get as much as you can afford.  More RAM means more space for your OS and applications to work in and less time being "swapped" to the hard disk.

Next, upgrade your drive to an SSD.  I can't begin to tell you how much a difference this makes not to mention battery life and less heat.  You are going to want to do a nice clean install, not an upgrade here.

Finally (and this one is optional), don't throw away that old hard drive.  There are kits available that can turn your DVD drive bay into a second hard drive adapter.  You can have two HDDs in your MBP.  You can even opt for two SSD's and mirror them (RAID 1) for redundancy or stripe them (RAID 0) for increased performance.

One more thing....

If the "eye candy" and the animations are not important to you, those can be turned off, thus freeing up system resources to be used for other things.

Bottom line is this...for a relatively tiny amount of money (and some surfing on ebay or amazon) you can extend the life of your computer a few more years with much more recent OS.


How do I do a clean install of macOS Mojave? I follow instructions and installed macOS Mojave on my MacBook Air. The update installed and when I try to use the new software, to my surprise, every 2 minutes the screen was frozen.

I am using Mac since I was 18 years old and I am 50 now. I know macOS and the use of software very well.

I have created a USB macOS Mojave installer and tried clean install. To my surprise it got me nowhere. I tried recovery from Internet with no luck. I partition the hard drive to journal but with no luck again.

Make sure first that your hardware is compatible with Mojave - macOS 10.14. Some sources to check:

http://osxdaily.com/2018/06/05/macos-mojave-compatible-macs-list/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/here-are-the-macs-that-will-work-with-macos-mojave/

To do a clean install of Mojave:

Make a usb install drive following these instructions.
Back up your system drive in triplicate, or whatever you're comfortable with. Ideally one would be a literal clone of your system.
Boot from the USB drive, and erase your system drive in Disk Utility. Format it as HFS+.
Quit Disk Utility, and install Mojave on the drive you erased.

If those steps don't work, I would suspect a hardware incompatibility or problem.


How to force Disk Encryption password on boot for ALL users? I want my MBP to be unlocked with Disk Encryption Password before getting access to the login screen. (read : I want to have two passwords prompts before the MBP can be used)

Therefore, I made a clean (re)install of High Sierra and chose APFS Encryted. However the subsequent created admin account has a security token, which seems to be my issue.
Now on startup I have the choice between the admin account and the Disk Encryption Password for others accounts with a disabled Token.

I tried the following :

Tried to remove myself (aka admin) from having the Secure Token with sysadminctl -secureTokenOff admin but I end up with the following error :
Operation not permitted without a secure token unlock.

However I do well have a one (sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus admin shows ENABLED)

Tried to remove myself from being able to unlock the disk with fdesetup remove -user admin but as I'm the only user, I got the following User could not be removed because it's the last OS user on the Volume

In short, how can I force the Disk Encryption Password prompt for ALL users, including admins ?

It makes echo to this post : Prompt for encrypted disk password on startup

Note :
On a buggy install of HighSierra, I ended up with an admin account without Security Token, and it worked as intended. I had to go through the Disk Encryption Password prompt before anything else.
However I re-installed MacOS because this situation made me unable to access the terminal from the MacOS Recovery (I had a error message saying that no admin with the correct statuts (read Token) with was found on the system)

Ok, so here is half an answer.

With a first admin account (e.g. admin) you create another one (admin_tmp) and you log into.
In the terminal you remove the first account from being able to unlock the disk with fdesetup remove -user admin. Meanwhile its SecureToken switch to Off.
You logout and log into 'admin'. Then from the Users accounts Preferences you remove the admin_tmp from the system.
Then you have an admin account with no SecureToken which seems to be the only way to force a Disk Encryption Password prompt on boot. Next accounts will inherently have no SecureToken, hence no allowance to decrypt the disk with their own password.

That's not ideal as this may break some stuff (See my Note in the initial post)


How to prevent iTunes 12.2 from automatically uploading sound tracks to iCloud Music Library? I've notice after I updated my iTunes to 12.2 on my OSX 10.10.4 computers, a very large upload bandwidth has been taken place. This is a result of Apple's new iCloud Music Library feature. I don't want to upload my musics to iCloud, and I found no options to prevent iTunes 12.2 from automatically uploading sound tracks to iCloud Music Library.

I also noticed if I use file > library > Update iCloud Music Library, some of my deleted songs will come back to my playlist. I can delete them but once I click file > library > Update iCloud Music Library again, they will reappear in my playlist.

To turn off iCloud Music Library on your mac, you need to go to: iTunes>Preferences>iCloud Music Library


Can I simultaneously record video from a MacBook webcam and the iPhone screen? So I know I can use QuickTime to record a movie from my Mac's webcam.

And I know I can use QuickTime to record a movie from the screen of my iPhone, connected via a USB cable.

But my question is: can I use QuickTime, or some other application, to record both videos simultaneously?

And can I use QuickTime, or some other application, to combine the videos, so that the video of the iPhone screen is shrunk down into the bottom right corner of the video from the webcam?

You can open a second instance of QuickTime using
$ open -n -a QuickTime\ Player
#       │  └ Specifies the argument is an application to open rather than file.
#       └ Open a new instance of the application even if one is already running.

Each instance can start a New Movie Recording with different inputs.
You can then use iMovie to combine the two videos, using Picture in Picture:
Create a picture-in-picture effect in iMovie on Mac


record in Garageband with iRealPro I want to record my guitar in Garageband with tracks from iRealPro on my iPad. I plugged my guitar into my iPad audio with a guitar interface adapter.  IooAn article says there are small ways to do this but I can't get any of them to work. If I select send/record in iRealPro when it's finished it only saves it too a file. In Garageband, there is no Audio Interface App to choose from. What am I missing?

iReal Pro removed the IAA compatibility with Garageband so you need to export the audio file from the app, import it to Garageband and then record.
You can simply record with iReal Pro as well using your interface.


Changing my display cable from HDMI to Display Mini lead to resolution issue mac After having a problem with the HDMI cable on Samsung Syncmaster 1600x900,
I changed it to a DisplayPort to VGA adapter, but now it is not detecting the monitor correctly.

The available resolutions for it is now 1280x1024 & 800x600.
I have shifted already to custom resolution of 1280x768 by selecting a custom resolution after pressing option and then selecting scaled displays.

But I want it to have its original resolution.

It feels like it has supposed my monitor to be secondary display.

P.S. : Already have deleted com.apple.windowserver.plist in Safe Mode.

Ok, now it wasn't the adapter, but the cable VGA cable which was not working out for me.

As I was suing the original Apple DisplayPort adapter.


Cannot access CUPS utilities after upgrade to Lion Since upgrading to Lion, I cannot access any of the local functions in the CUPS web-based interface. The response I get is "Internal Server Error".

For example:

http://localhost:631/admin or http://localhost:631/jobs/

The printers are all working fine, but I can't access job queues, etc.

Any ideas?

Enter the following at a Terminal command prompt:

cupsctl WebInterface=Yes

You will be able to access the CUPS web interface thereafter.


Can iTunes sync podcasts to an iPhone without removing unfinished podcasts? I often find myself wanting to sync my iPhone with iTunes when I'm in the middle of listening to a podcast. Currently iTunes removes that podcast from the iPhone while syncing.

Is it possible to configure iTunes to only remove podcasts played through to the end?

For the purposes of this question, assume I am halfway finished listening to the newest episode of a podcast and there are no newer episodes available.

UPDATE: this issue is no longer affecting me. Either an iTunes or iOS update (or something else) must have happened. Everything works swimmingly now.

This IS actually the case.

  What you should have a look at is the selection option that you have set.

For instance, if you ask to only sync the "3 most recent unplayed episodes", it might be that the one you are listening to will be replace on your iPhone by the newly released episodes that have been downloaded in iTunes. When the episode you haven't finished will be one of the 3 candidates to be synced (i.e. "when you have listened to all the newer episodes"), the listening will continue where you were the last time you listen to it.

EDIT after the EDIT of the Question :

Hm, ok, with this edit my answer is not right anymore BUT i think you should have a way have it work as you want. If you select for instance "the oldest unread", the one you are listening to will be kept on the iPhone (if you listen to the episodes in order that they are realeased) Another trick is to use the checkboxes on the left of each episode and set the preference to "Sync only checked"


Macbook pro OSX stuck in version 10.9.1, can't update software I've tried updating my software to 10.9.2 and 10.9.3, but it won't go. After trying to install it and restarting my laptop, I am still stuck on version 10.9.1. My app store says I should check my purchases again because updates failed. Apps such as iTunes, Pages and others also do not work anymore.

How can I fix this?

The possible solution in your case can be doing a combo update, but this may erase all the data from your drive.


Is it possible to add music to your Music Library on the iPhone? Possible use cases. Someone emails you a music demo. You find a song you want to download online. You want to download an MP3 from Soundcloud.

It is easy to add songs to iTunes and sync it over with a computer, but is it possible to add songs to your Music Library on your actual phone? i

This is currently impossible. You can share downloaded audio with many apps - Dropbox, Google Drive, or the one I use most often for learning music and the like, forScore. But you can't share it with iTunes. Although, songs purchased on your phone can easily (or automatically) added to the libraries of your other Apple devices via Settings - iTunes & App Store and selecting Music under Automatic Downloads.


Always Show / Always on Top for Text / Note / Checklist / Calendar I'm terribly unproductive from time-to-time, and I think having a constant reminder of a few important items could change that.

If I could get a sticky note, a text editor, or ideally a checklist/calendar to always show as the top window on my macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, then that'd be great.

So far I've looked at using a legacy program called Afloat. Unfortunately this hasn't been continued and requires me to disable System Integrity Protection and for security purposes, I'd rather not do that.

Any recommendations for apps or secure workarounds.

You can use the built-in Stickies.app in macOS. Go to Launchpad or in the Applications folder in Finder, and launch Stickies.app.

You can create a new note by pressing Command + n or selecting File → New Note from the Menu bar. To float a sticky note on top of all the other windows, press Option + Command + f or select Window → Float on Top from the Menu bar.

You can assign different colours to different notes and independently set them to float on top.


Check mark disappeared from dropdowns In all dropdowns both in the browser and in the system the checkmark has disappeared. This is macOS Sierra and every dropdown in Chrome, Safari or any app looks like this:

Anything I can do? I tried rebooting. Also I had San Francisco Developer version installed, removed it, nothing changed. Installed the latest macOS public beta, nothing.

Updated

Tried to Restore System Fonts but it did not find any problems.

Fixed

In fact right after that I have installed the new macOS beta and it got fixed. Maybe all I was needed is to reboot after restoring system fonts. So I am marking this as solved.

In Font Book, choose File → Restore Standard Fonts….


Boot Camp External Drive only booting to one computer Firstly, I apologize for duplicate posts -- I realized that I wasn't signed in to my account on StackExchange.

I followed these instructions (Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?) to install Windows 10 to my external SSD (Samsung T3). I followed Alex Lambert's guide (the one with most upvotes & correct answer), and was able to install and boot Windows 10 successfully.

I ran to a problem today, as I was connecting the drive to two other Macs until I noticed that my drive was not being seen from the boot menu (option key), although I could see both of my drives (my drives are partitioned in half: 250GB for Windows (NTFS) and 250GB for Data for both OSes, Windows and OS X (exFAT)) in OS X on the other computer.

The computer I used to install was a MacBook Air Mid 2013 and the computers I used to test were two MacBook Pro Retinas made between 2014 and 2015.

Please help, apologies for the noob question (I'm new to this site).

Thanks.

The general rule is that the 2015 and newer Macs can no longer boot operating systems using the BIOS method. This is the method used in the installation instructions you refer to. Also, generally 2011 and older Macs can not boot Windows from external drives. Therefore, the installation method, you refer to, generally only works for the 2012 through 2014 model year Mac computers.

The steps to determine if your Mac can BIOS boot operation systems is given below.

From the menu bar, select "About this Mac". The pop up window
should display the model year and screen size of your Mac. The pop
up window for my Mac is shown below. I have a  20-inch, Mid 2007
iMac.

Goto the Apple web site: Install Windows 7 and earlier on your Mac
using Boot Camp. If the "Boot Camp Support Software" is listed
for your model Mac, then your Mac can BIOS boot operating systems.

  But even if both computers qualify to BIOS boot Windows from external drives, you have the problem of the drivers. One of the steps, in the instruction you refer to, is to install the Boot Camp Support Software. This software installs the correct drives for your model Mac. If you then try to boot Windows using a different model Mac, the installed drivers will be wrong for the this Mac.


Master volume control is grayed out on my Mac 10.6 (MacBook Pro Late 2009) master volume control for both Line-In built and for external USB Microphone is disabled (grayed out)

Nobody really wanted to help what is the reason and how to bring back such behaviour. Googling didnt provide answer.

What I want is to have master volume slider active at least in Blue Yeti microphone.
Any help?

I ran into issues where my audio controls were disabled similar to what you describe. I can't be sure it's the same issue, but in my case, killing the Core Audio process fixed it.

Open up Terminal and enter this command:

sudo kill -9 `ps ax | grep 'coreaudio[a-z]' | awk '{print $1}'`

You'll be prompted to enter your password, but that should find and kill the proper process, which will then auto-restart. Your volume control should come back to normal within a few seconds if this is indeed the problem.


Mac os not showing after install windows 10 with boot camp I'm unable to switch windows to Mac os after installation of Windows 10. working only with restart and holding options key. why this boot camp not working.
Attached screenshots for reference:

The Boot Camp software for certain model Macs can be upgraded after being installed. This upgrade will allow Windows to choose a macOS operating systems stored in a APFS container as the default to boot. The upgrade can be performed by running Apple Software Update while booted to Windows.


Emojis not rendering My genuine MacOS is not showing emojis. They look just like this:

None of the following solutions worked for me:

Creating a new user account
Restoring Standard Fonts in Font Book
Booting in Safe Mode
Changing system font with macOSLucidaGrande

I fixed it by copying the Apple Color Emoji font from another Mac running the same OS version. You can find it in /System/Library/Fonts.


Why can't I get the Windows installer to launch (Bootcamp)? iMac 13, 1 (late 2012) I get a black screen with blinking cursor when Boot Camp reboots after creating the partition.  I have been trying to install Windows 10 1909 on an iMac 13,1 (late 2012) running High Sierra (and now Catalina). The first issue I had was creating the USB - I ran into the issue that boot camp could not create the USB because there is a file greater than 4 GB, and so I circumvented this issue by re-formatting the USB to exFAT and then copying the contents of the Windows software support and the Windows 10 ISO onto the drive.  I also read some reports that you need a USB 2.0, and so I've attempted that as well with the same result.

I then run boot camp and create a partition, and the system reboots, but just has a black screen with blinking cursor, so I cannot not run the Windows installer at all. If I manual shutdown and then reboot holding option, I have a USB option "Windows" and "EFI Boot" (or at least that was the way it was with High Sierra). When I run EFI Boot, I can enter the Windows installer, but an EFI windows install is not possible because the partition scheme is MBR, not GPT (and I've heard the drivers for this generation Mac do not cooperate with EFI boot anyway). When I run "Windows" option, I get the same result - black screen with blinking cursor. So I am stuck.

I'm not certain if this is relevant, but this machine previously had Windows 10 dual boot with its original Mountain Lion install, however, the Windows install completely crashed and was irreparable. What I did was remove the Windows partition with Boot camp assistant, and then I completely wiped MacOS and re-installed the High Sierra. I did run updates, and it did run a firmware update.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Your Mac is suppose to EFI boot 64 bit Windows 10. You should not be using hybrid partitioning when installing Windows 10. You should use the Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows Support Software. If you copied the Window Support Software correctly to the flash drive, then there should be a $WinPEDriver$ folder in the root folder of the flash drive. You should be able to remove hybrid partitioning  by using the Disk Utility application to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format the internal partition where you intend to install Windows. Or, you can use the diskutil command to JHFS+ format. You should EFI boot from the flash drive to install Windows 10.

The Problem

You view the Boot Camp partition in the Disk Utility and you see the partition contains either a MS‑DOS (FAT32) or ExFAT volume, as shown below.

When installing Windows, you will encounter the following error message.

This is a indication that the installation drive is hybrid partitioned. You need to remove hybrid partitioning in order to install Windows to UEFI boot.

Solution Method 1

If an action by the Disk Utility or diskutil command results in no Microsoft specific partitions existing on a drive, then High Sierra and newer versions of macOS will remove hybrid partitioning. Since there is only one Microsoft specific partition on this drive, the drive will be erased and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) by the Disk Utility to remove the hybrid partitioning. The result is shown below.

When installing Windows you will encounter the following error message.

A solution is to follow the steps given below.

Highlight the partition where you were going to install Windows, then select the Delete button and the OK button.
Highlight the unallocated space, then select the New button followed by the Apply and OK buttons. The result is shown below.

(Optional)  Since the Boot Camp Assistant has always omitted the MSR (Reserved) partition when I have installed Windows to UEFI boot, I will delete this partition. Feel free to leave the partition, if you wish.

  Note: Microsoft documentation states there should always be an MSR (Reserved) partition.

Highlight the partition where you wish to install Windows, as shown below.

Select the Next button to install Windows. The installer will automatically NTFS format the partition.

Solution Method 2

If an action by the Disk Utility or diskutil command results in no Microsoft specific partitions existing on a drive, then High Sierra and newer versions of macOS will remove hybrid partitioning. Since there is only one Microsoft specific partition on this drive, the drive will be erased and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) by the Disk Utility to remove the hybrid partitioning. The result is shown below.

When installing Windows you encounter the following error message.

A solution is to follow the steps given below.

Press the shift+F10 key combination to open a Command Prompt window. Enter the commands shown below.  If your drive and partition numbers are different, then make the appropriate substitutions. The last exit command will close the window.

Select the Refresh button.
Highlight the partition where you want to instal Windows, as shown below.

Select the Next button to install Windows. The installer will automatically NTFS format the partition.

Solution Method 3

If an action by the Disk Utility or diskutil command results in no Microsoft specific partitions existing on a drive, then High Sierra and newer versions of macOS will remove hybrid partitioning. Since there is only one Microsoft specific partition on this drive, the drive will be erased and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) by the Disk Utility to remove the hybrid partitioning. The result is shown below.

To avoid the problems encountered with the first two methods, the partition will be erased and ExFAT formatted by the Disk Utility application. The result is shown below. With High Sierra and newer versions of macOS, the drive will not be hybrid partitioned by this action.

When installing Windows you encounter the following error message.

The solution is to select the Format button to NTFS format the partition. The result is shown below.

You can now select the Next button to proceed and install Windows.

A Note About Partitioning

There are two unique partition tables stored on a drive where macOS is installed. The first is a legacy Master Boot Record (MBR) table. This table is ignored by macOS. The second is a GUID Partition Table (GPT). If there are partition entries in the MBR table, then Windows with use this table and ignore the GPT. This is referred to a hybrid partitioning. If a UEFI booted Graphical User Interface (GUI) Windows installer detects partition entries in the MBR partition table on a drive, then the installer will not install Windows on that drive. In your case, hybrid partitioning needs to be removed from the internal drive in order to install a UEFI booting Windows 10.


Symbolic links, why doesn't this work: me$ ln -s ~/x/y/ ~/Desktop/
ln: /Users/me/Desktop//: File exists

Why does this attempt at creating a symbolic link to ~/x/yon the Desktop now work? The only way I can seem to get something like a symbolic link is this way:

ln -s * ~/Desktop/

I'm confused, this was really simple in Ubuntu.

Alternatively, you can do

ln -s ~/x/y ~/Desktop/

(note there's no slash '/' character after ~/x/y/).

I think the error message is not the most informative, but I understand it as that if you're putting a trailing slash, you're referring to the content of your directory (in this case ~/x/y), but if you omit it, you're referring to the directory itself.


How to use an old MacBook Pro as a display? I have 2 MacBooks:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)

I want to use the old MacBook as a display. How? Thank you.

Unfortunately, Target Display Mode doesn't work on MacBook Pros. However, this thread here describes various ways to use the MacBook Pro as a screen. In a nutshell, it says to use a third party app such as Air Display or Screen Recycler (both of which, it appears, operate over a network. The thread suggests connecting the two computers with a thunderbolt cable and thunderbolt network to speed up the connection. For more details, see the link above.


How can I delete saved commands from Terminal? As all of you know, Mac OS X stores all commands that run from Terminal in Terminal itself, however, I want to delete (for example) the last 3 commands from the terminal. How can I do this?

It's not a Mac OS feature but a shell feature. Assuming that you are using bash (the default):

the command history is stored in memory and persisted in a file (usually ~/.bash_history)
you can list and edit the history with the history command

With man bash (in the SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS section) you will find the description of the different options.

You can:

list the history entries

$ history

delete the whole history

$ history -c

delete a given entry

$ history -d offset


Raspberry Pi as Time Machine Is it possible to setup a Raspberry Pi with a USB HD to act as a Time Machine?

This answered my question perfectly:

https://www.jannikarndt.de/blog/2018/01/how_to_use_a_raspberry_pi_for_your_time_machine_backups/


Running script through launchd with no annoying prompts I have an applescript that checks my macbook battery and forces hibernation when it reaches a certain level, after displaying a 60 sec countdown.

I've successfully set it up to run in the background via launchd, every 30 secs, as a script but this causes an annoying bouncing icon on the dock.

So, I saved the script as an app and now the dock icon is no longer bouncing but if I am in the terminal app (for example) and I happen to be pressing CONTROL just as it launches in the background, I get the dreaded "Press Run to run this script, or Quit to quit" dialog box. And yes I have made sure that when I save it the "Startup Screen" option is NOT selected.

This dialog appears behind all other windows so I have no idea that it has happened and my app/script is stuck at this point.

Any suggestions how to overcome this so I can run my script with no annoying dialogs or bouncing icons?

Thanks.

EDIT: One idea that came to mind was to use the ExitTimeOut option in the plist file. The man page says:

ExitTimeOut <integer>
    The amount of time launchd waits before sending a SIGKILL signal. The default value is 20 seconds. The
    value zero is interpreted as infinity.

So I added it in like this:

<key>ServiceDescription</key>
    <string>Battery Monitor</string>
<key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>30</integer>
<key>ExitTimeOut</key>
    <integer>90</integer>

then did unload/load of the .plist file. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to work. Am I understanding this option wrong?

Convert to Shell Script and AppleScript Pair

Convert your check for the battery status to a shell script. The shell script can then run regularly through a launchd job ticket without presenting any user interface.

When the conditions are met, your shell script can launch an AppleScript to interact with the user.

This assumes you use an ~/Library/LaunchAgent approach for the launchd job ticket. A computer wide launchd job will not be able to launch the AppleScript component in the appropriate user session.

Alternatively, you could use a third party tool to trigger on a battery event, such as Power Manager; this would avoid polling your battery and improve your battery's performance.


Applescript creating Sym link with spaces in the path I'm trying to create a sym link to a network directory when i log in. This is working for a couple of other directories without spaces in the name, but for the life of me I cannot get this one director to work and I'm assuming it has to do with the space characters.

in a terminal window I can successfully create the link manually with

ln -s "/Volumes/D/Contracts and Price Sheets"/ ~/Desktop/Contracts

my current applescript looks like this

tell application "Finder"
  mount volume "smb://user:password@192.168.0.0/D"
  set contractsPath to "/Volumes/D/Contracts and Price Sheets/"
  if not (exists ((path to desktop as text) & "hDrive")) then
    do shell script "ln -s /Volumes/D/Home/user/ ~/Desktop/hDrive"
  end if
  if not (exists ((path to desktop as text) & "sDrive")) then
    do shell script "ln -s /Volumes/D/Data/ ~/Desktop/sDrive"
  end if
  if not (exists ((path to desktop as text) & "Inventory")) then
    do shell script "ln -s /Volumes/D/Inventory/ ~/Desktop/Inventory"
  end if
  if not (exists ((path to desktop as text) & "Contracts")) then
    do shell script "ln -s " & quoted form of the POSIX path of contractsPath & " ~/Desktop/Contracts"
  end if
end tell

I'm sure all these conditionals are bad habit, but I'm not an experienced programmer. Anyway, the first three drives mount successfully, however the final directory (with spaces in the title) just will not work. I've combed the web for answers, but keep getting no results.

Any and all input is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hm, I've run a similar script in AppleScript Editor but it works ok for me:

set contractsPath to "/Users/subhu/Test test test/"
do shell script "ln -s " & quoted form of the POSIX path of contractsPath & " ~/Desktop/test"

Note that, if you escaping a backslash with another backslash you have to use just contractsPath, not quoted form of the POSIX path of contractsPath, e.g.:

set contractsPath to "/Users/subhu/Test\\ test\\ test"
do shell script "ln -s " & contractsPath & " ~/Desktop/test"

Try it.


mac won't start after "sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*" command I tried to install a program and it alwaysed lacked permission on /usr/local.
I tried sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local but then found out that doesn't work anymore with High Sierra.
So I tried sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*  . That brought an awful lot of "Operation not permitted" in the terminal.

After that I wanted to install again with sudo. Then an error message showed sth like "sudoers uid is 501 should be 0" (cant exactly remember it)

Then I tried to restart the mac, but it never did... Just black screen. I heard the starting sound once or twice, but it never booted again or showed anything on the screen. Anyone any idea what happend and how to fix it?

It sounds like you mistyped the command or had problems with your brew command, making the chown apply to not only /usr/local but rather / - i.e. the whole system. The command you have written is actually relatively dangerous, as you're relying on "brew --prefix" to output the right thing.

In this case your command changed the owner of system files, such as the /etc/sudoers file. This is why the system won't boot anymore.

The good news is that you should be able to boot the Mac in Recovery Mode by holding down Cmd and R while booting. From there you should be able to select that you want to reinstall macOS on your computer. This should allow you to overwrite those system files and ensure that the system is good to boot, while keeping your own files intact. If you have done any changes to the system files, you'll loose those ofcourse.


Non USB iPhone Charger Does anybody know of any non-USB chargers for iPhone (lightning connector)? I need a charger that can only plug into an AC outlet and not have any type of USB connector.

Found this a BH in a 20 second google search!
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=902893&gclid=CJ6GgZrLkcMCFWFp7AodCg4AzQ&Q=&is=REG&A=details


Gmail doesn't work with default Mail app on iPhone 6 with data only Like any normal person, I've hooked up my Gmail account to the default Mail app on iPhone 6. But for some reason it's not sending or receiving anything when I'm on data (Verizon 4G LTE), while working perfectly on wifi. I've tried my Outlook account also which works pretty much fine except for problems with sending on occasion.

On data trying to refresh inbox, I get a popup saying: "The mail server 'imap.gmail.com' is not responding. Verify that you have the entered the correct account info in Mail settings." On data trying to send, I get a popup saying: "The connection to the outgoing server 'smtp.gmail.com' failed. Additional Outgoing Mail Servers can be configured in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars." Started noticing about a week ago. Anyone know if this is a known bug of some sort, or at least fixable?

This was resolved in a comment which has since been removed. The solution was to enable data for the mail app, because I had previously turned it off.


How do i pair my AirPods to my iPhone 6s? How do I pair my AirPods to my phone? I have tried everything, such as turning off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Contacting Apple Support did not help.

Usually you will open up your iPhone (i.e. use TouchID/FaceID/PIN-code) and bring it to the Home Screen (i.e. where you can see all the icons for you apps). Then bring the AirPods case near the iPhone and open it up.

After a short wait, a popup message will appear on your phone asking if you want to setup the new set of AirPods.

If that isn't working, check that:

The AirPods case is charged
WiFi and Bluetooth are not disabled on your phone
Your phone is updated with the latest iOS updates

If that is still not working then try opening the lid, wait 20 seconds, and then hold the setup button on the back of the case, until the status light begins to flash white. Now check with your phone - perhaps even from the Settings app to check for Bluetooth devices nearby in pairing mode.


Export album as set of sequentially-named images to a folder I took thousands of time-lapse photos and imported them into a few albums in  Apple Photos app on MacOS. It wasn't until later I realised Photos doesn't store albums literally in an album:folder mapping.

I don't even know if Photos retains the original file-name or not?

I have software that expects photos to be in a single folder, with sequential naming (like how they normally are on a camera), to create a time-lapse video.

How can I get this out of Photos from an album?

If you select all the photos that you want to export, you can go to File -> Export. You can then chose to export the original files or compress versions. In either case, you can choose to have the exported files keep their original file names, or just be pure sequential (1.jpeg, 2.jpeg, 3.jpeg, etc), optionally starting with a prefix of your choice.


Mail notifications continue to appear even when mail app is closed When using a variety of email clients (Newton, Nylas), MacOS will still show notifications for incoming mail when the client has closed. Is there a way around this?

Notifications for mail are designed to arrive whether the main app runs or not.

You can disable notifications for mail entirely, though - Go to System Preferences > Notifications and make sure the apps have their Notification settings turned off. In the example below, the DaisyDisk alert style has been set to None:

You can also uncheck all the checkboxes for more granular control of when you see (and hear) notifications.


How to share iPad's wifi to Mac? I want to connect my MacBook Pro to my iPad mini's Wi-fi. I don't see any hotspot settings. I have searched on the web but all I see is to go to cellular option in setting which is not available in my iPad (cause there is no SIM).

Can this be achieved through Bluetooth sharing, a personal hotspot, USB tethering or any other means?

If the iPad mini and the MacBook Pro is on the same WiFi, they also have the same IP-adr. range, so they can see each other.

The Personal Hotspot option is for sharing an internet connection, and here you have the cellular network (SIM-card) as the external connector, and the WiFi (Personal Hotspot) as the DHCP Server.


is there a way to delete all the photos shared to my iPad from my iPhone (done through iCloud), but keep all my original iPad photos? So I just turned on iCloud photos for my iPhone and it shared all my iPhone photos to my iPad camera roll, and I don't want all those photos there, and I don't want the photos from my iPad on my iPhone either.
is there a way to put it back to the way it was without turning off iCloud?

This is trivial to do from the Mac version of Photos. I don’t know of a way to set it up on the iPad or iPhone, but once you have your smart Album, it’s easy to delete all the photos that match the criteria selected for that album. Note, this smart album syncs to your iPad and iPhone so you can take action there in addition to Mac photos.

On the mac, once you have your Photos library established (you don’t need the originals - you can optimize storage on the Mac if you prefer) - use the new smart album control and specify all photos taken from iPhone (or you can even select which lens, which model of iPhone, front or back camera, etc..)

Unless you have an import in the albums that contains all the photos you wish to eliminate, go for the computer to do the large curation / collections and deletions.

Smart albums are my secret photos power, list files not uploaded to iCloud to find errors, list pictures in date ranges or other specifics. Metadata is the key to unlock all sorts of awesome on MacOS and soon iOS with the new scripting being introduced there.


How does an app get to be featured in the App Store? I have created an iOS Lifestyle app. In the App Store, under the Top Featured tab in the New column I was amazed to see my app listed there.

Is it organized by sales or Apple featured?

It might be placed there when an Apple employee decides to feature it.


How do I AirDrop from a MacBook to its tethered iPhone? My MacBook (OSX Yosemite 10.10.5) is tethered to my iPhone (10.0.2) in order to provide Internet access.

How do I AirDrop from my Macbook to an app on my iPhone?

Currently I have to use Dropbox, ie. move the file into Dropbox, wait for the (possibly large file) to upload, then download it on my iPhone to the desired app (causing another sync).

You will need to turn off Personal Hotspot before you can AirDrop.

AirDrop transfers data over Wi-Fi between the two peer devices (in this case, your MacBook and your iPhone). Since your iPhone is providing a Personal Hotspot via Wi-Fi, that connection is not available for AirDrop.

If turning Personal Hotspot off and on repeatedly is too cumbersome, you can provide tethering through USB instead. Then your Wi-Fi connection will always be available for AirDrop.


For least power usage, should I turn off or put my Mac to sleep? If I'm not going to be using my Mac for a while, am I better off shutting it down completely or just putting it to sleep?

Obviously it uses more power to "sleep" than to be off completely, but it uses much more power during the boot up and shut-down stages... Presumably, if I'm going away for a couple of minutes, I'm better of sleeping it, but if I'm leaving it for some longer period I should shut it down completely (assuming I know how long I'll be away for!).

How can I tell when to shut it down vs sleep it?

I'm interested in knowing the answer for a few different, specific models (me/friends/family):

Mac Mini (late 2010)
MacBook Pro 15" i7 (late 2010)
MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo (late 2007)
MacBook 13" Core 2 Duo (mid 2008)

But of course it'd be useful to have some more generic information for others too.

I have a fairly generic (mathematical) answer, but can only find some of the actual numbers.

After finding the 2010 Mac Mini Environmental Report from Apple, there are four important numbers:

Tbooting = The time taken to boot up and shut down (s)
Pbooting = The power consumption while booting or shutting down (W)
Psleep = The power consumption while sleeping (W)
Poff = The power consumption while off (W)

The last is actually stated in the Mac Mini's environmental report, and for very low sleep power usage can't just be ignored!

The total energy used during a period of sleep is:

Esleep = time * Psleep

The total energy used from shutting down, being off for a time and booting up is:

Eshutdown = (time * Poff) + (Tbooting * Pbooting)

Requiring that Eshutdown < Esleep, we can rearrange the inequality to give:

time > Tbooting * ( Pbooting / (Psleep - Poff) )

The Mac Mini's environmental report provides Psleep and Poff, and if we assume say 90 seconds total booting/shutting-down time and about 35W during said times, this would give an answer of 45 minutes.

I've yet to find similar values for the laptops (they make a big deal about the Mac Mini being so energy efficient), and the booting power/times would really need to be measured to provide accurate figures. But it surprised me that it was only 1 hour (I was expecting somewhat longer based on claims I've read in the past, that went along the lines of this discussion).

As @mankoff points out, there's another option which is to hibernate using something like DeepSleep. In my experience this is usually faster than a full shutdown, and of course it uses the same (incredibly low) power while off/hibernating. So to compare mathematically, you can consider it a "shutdown" of sorts and use the same equations (with the time taken to enter and recover from hibernate as Tbooting and the power usage while it swaps between RAM and disk as Pbooting). More than likely, this will reduce the the time answer since Tbooting should have been reduced somewhat.

A final thought is that laptop batteries seem to lose voltage over time, even when off, at a higher rate than the Mac Mini's advertised Poff. So the Poff value might actually be quite a bit higher for a computer with a battery, which may significantly lengthen the threshold between standby and shut-down/hibernate (however the battery and charging circuitry will complicate measurements of Poff). And to further complicate things (and possibly ruin the whole argument!), more recent Mac laptops will write the contents of RAM to the disk even when they go to sleep, in case your battery runs flat while sleeping (effectively preparing for a hibernate in case it's forced).


Download from app store When I want to download from App Store it is asking me to switch to US store or KWT or Saudi store.how I can get rid of this?

You see the prompt if the App Store is set to a country which is different from your iTunes account. Your option is to either sign in (with an existing or create a new ) iTunes account belonging to that country. There is another option which is to change your current iTunes account's country to that country, but you'll LOSE any credit balance.


Apple bootcamp keyboard driver causes BSOD What I did: Installing Windows using Bootcamp

Mac: MBA 6.2

Bootcamp assistance: 6.1.0

What Windows version: Windows 10 and 8.1

What OS i tried: Catalina, Mojave, and High Siera

What happened: BSOD, all of them

Question: why?

Apparently, the Windows Support Software you used to previous install Windows is currently unavailable. The current download does not appear to work properly. This software is for the UEFI booting of Windows. This method of booting was adopted by the industry for booting x64 Windows in 2011. Apple started using this method of booting x64 Windows in 2012. Prior to UEFI booting, the industry (including Apple) used the BIOS boot method for x64 Windows. The BIOS boot method dates back to mid 1980's, when the original IBM PC's BIOS was modified to allow booting from internal HDD and has gone through many revisions since then.

The BIOS boot files for your Mac are suppose to be used for the installation of BIOS booting x64 Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), 8 or 8.1. However, these files should also work with x64 Windows 10. In your case, you would need to download Boot Camp Version 5.1 (Build 5640). These files have been referred to as the Boot Camp Support Software or the Windows Support Software.

Create a Partition for Windows.

Assuming you have a single internal drive with an EFI partition as disk0s1 and an Apple_APFS container partition as disk0s2, the you can enter the following command to create a ExFAT formatted partition where ultimately Windows will be installed. Here, you will need to replace 800G with the size of you wish to shrink the Apple_APFS container partition to make room for Windows.

diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 800G ExFAT BOOTCAMP 0

For example, say the command diskutil list disk0 shows the following before entering the above command.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         999.8 GB   disk0s2

The result after entering the command is shown below.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         800.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                199.8 GB   disk0s3

One problem, with manually installing a BIOS booting Windows, is the need for the drive to be hybrid partitioned. The Disk Utility used to hybrid partition drives, but this no longer happens with High Sierra and newer versions of macOS. Basically, there are two types of partition tables stored in a Mac. The first is the legacy Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table. Normally, this contains a single entry of type 0xEE which indicates the existence of the second type called the GUID Partition Table (GPT). The partition entries in this table are used by macOS and UEFI booting Windows. However, BIOS booting Windows only read values from the MBR partition table. Therefore, in order to get BIOS booting Windows to work, the entries the GPT need to be copied to the MBR partition table. Once this is correctly accomplished, the Mac is said to be hybrid partitioned. Two different methods to hybrid partition a drive are given here. If method 1 was applied to the above example, then the input to gdisk would be as follows.

r
h
2 3
y
af
n
07
y
n
w
y

Example output is shown below.

davidanderson@Snapper ~ % sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): r

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): h

WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,
just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will
be untouched.

Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be
added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 2 3
Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): y

Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): af
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n

Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 07
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): y

Unused partition space(s) found. Use one to protect more partitions? (Y/N): n

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.
You should reboot or remove the drive.
The operation has completed successfully.

Create a BIOS Bootable Windows 10 Flash Drive Installer

To create the USB installer, use the Disk Utility to erase a flash drive. Use the ExFAT format with a MBR partition type. Mount the Windows ISO and copy all the files to the flash drive. Do the same with the Boot Camp Support Software. If you are using the Windows 10 (1909), the the result should be the same as shown below.

Next, you need to write boot code to the MBR and boot sectors of the ExFAT formatted partition. On my Mac, I have VirtualBox installed. So, I basically create a Windows 10 virtual machine using the default settings. Next I put the Windows 10 ISO in the virtual DVD drive and the physical flash drive in the virtual machines USB port. Next, I booted from the virtual DVD drive and pressed the shift+F10 key combination when the first window appeared. The opens a Command Prompt window where the following command can be entered.

boosect /nt60 c: /mbr

Below is an image showing that the boot sectors were updated.

To shutdown the virtual machine, follow the steps below.

  Enter command exit to close the Command Prompt window.
  Click on Repair your computer.
  Click on Turn off your PC.

Finally, you need to mark the first (only) partition on the drive as active. Here I assume the flash drive have been assigned the identifier disk2. To flag the partition as active, enter the following commands.

diskutil unmountdisk disk2
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk2
flag 1
quit

Below is an example.

davidanderson@Snapper ~ % diskutil unmountdisk disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
davidanderson@Snapper ~ % sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk2
Password:
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> flag 1
Partition 1 marked active.
fdisk:*1> quit
Writing current MBR to disk.

Install Windows

Restart the Mac and immediately hold down the option key until the Startup Manager icons appear. Next, choose the external drive icon labeled Windows.

  Note: If the Mac reboots back to macOS before finishing installing Windows, select Windows from the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences. Next, click on the Restart button. Windows will continue installing.

If you have problems installing the Windows Support Software after installing Windows, then try entering the command BootCamp.msi in an Administrator Command Prompt window. The BootCamp.msi file can be found in the BootCamp\Drivers\Apple folder on the flash drive. You will need to change to this folder before entering the BootCamp.msi command.


Samsung EVO 480 *and* stock hard drive not recognised by Snow Leopard installer A friend of mine came to me with her Macbook Pro 8,3 (17 inch, 2011). The hard drive had failed, and booting into the recovery disk didn't show a working hard drive.

I went out and bought her a samsung EVO 480 (because why not do an upgrade while I'm at it?), and plugged it in.

Still not recognised by Disk Utility on the install disk.

I went back and reformatted the disk as HFS+ with my windows machine, using MacDrive. Put it back in the laptop, and it's still not turning up in the list.

I have confirmed that the SSD has the latest firmware on it using Samsung's magician software, and I'm now focusing on the SATA cable.

Though I'm not sure what my options are for diagnosis and replacement of parts now, as I haven't ever had to deal with a broken cable! Any ideas, anyone?

The answer in this particular instance was that the SATA cable had come loose. Unscrewing the metal grate housing and re-pressing the connector to the mobo fixed it, and the HFS+ formatted Samsung 840 EVO SSD worked in the macbook pro.

The original hard drive still works, but will now be put in the optical bay instead of the superdrive.


Can you recommend an editor for both iOS and Mac OS X designed for writers? Is there an editor designed specifically for writers of short prose? Currently I am using Microsoft Word and it is very heavy weight.

Large technical reports need indices, chapters, heavy formatting (provided by tools like Word and InDesign), and programmers desire all sorts of code hooks, definition lookups, and integration with other tools like Xcode or code control tools.

I want a tool for putting out prose and haven't found good solutions for this need.

Better for writers means:

fast - especially on older macs without SSD or large amounts of RAM
lightweight in feel as well as in visual impact

Ideally this tool should be available for both Mac OS X and/or on an iPod Touch.

iA Writer for OSX and iA Writer for iOS
Only 0.7 MB in size. (Mac version) The iOS version is iPad only.

Fullscreen
Autosave
Reading time, word and character counter
sync via Dropbox or iCloud
supports TextExpander Touch


Grab.app disappearing from dock? When I use Grab, if ever I close all its windows and then take focus away from it by clicking somewhere else it disappears from the dock.

Grab hides from the dock even if the Grab window I close is the "About Grab" window. Grab doesn't hide from the dock if I open it and then take away focus before opening and closing a Grab window.

I can see the Grab process is still running when I check from Terminal and when I "reopen" it to get it back into the dock it's the same PID and only one copy is running.

Does anyone know how to stop Grab from hiding? I don't want Grab permanently in the dock even when it's closed, I just want it to stop hiding while I'm using it. I'm using MacOS 10.10.5 MBP 11,3.

Thanks in advance!

This is called "Automatic Termination" and is also implemented for QuickTime Player and others.  The processes stay open in the background, so they re-open quickly, but with enough memory pressure (for other processes or applications for example) they will be forced to terminate.

To disable it, open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities, or search via Spotlight) and type:

defaults write com.apple.Grab NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes

Then hit enter.
Make sure to properly quit and relaunch Grab after running this defaults write command.

To restore the original settings, run the following command:

defaults delete com.apple.Grab NSDisableAutomaticTermination

From the Apple Developers site:

  Automatic and Sudden Termination of Apps Improve the User Experience
  In OS X v10.7 and later, the use of the Quit command to terminate an
  app is diminished in favor of more user-centric techniques.
  Specifically, Cocoa supports two techniques that make the termination
  of an app transparent and fast:

  Automatic termination eliminates the need for users to quit an app.
  Instead, the system manages app termination transparently behind the
  scenes, terminating apps that are not in use to reclaim needed
  resources such as memory. Sudden termination allows the system to kill
  an app’s process immediately without waiting for it to perform any
  final actions. The system uses this technique to improve the speed of
  operations such as logging out of, restarting, or shutting down the
  computer. Automatic termination and sudden termination are independent
  techniques, although both are designed to improve the user experience
  of app termination. Although Apple recommends that apps support both,
  an app can support one technique and not the other. Apps that support
  both techniques can be terminated by the system without the app being
  involved at all. On the other hand, if an app supports sudden
  termination but not automatic termination, then it must be sent a Quit
  event, which it needs to process without displaying any user interface
  dialogs.

  Automatic termination transfers the job of managing processes from the
  user to the system, which is better equipped to handle the job. Users
  do not need to manage processes manually anyway. All they really need
  is to run apps and have those apps available when they need them.
  Automatic termination makes that possible while ensuring that system
  performance is not adversely affected.

  Apps must opt in to both automatic termination and sudden termination
  and implement appropriate support for them. In both cases, the app
  must ensure that any user data is saved well before termination can
  happen. And because the user does not quit an autoterminable app, such
  an app should also save the state of its user interface using the
  built-in Cocoa support. Saving and restoring the interface state
  provides the user with a sense of continuity between app launches.

  For information on how to support for automatic termination in your
  app, see Automatic Termination. For information on how to support
  sudden termination, see Sudden Termination.

Automatic and Sudden Termination of Apps Improve the User Experience


My MacBook isn't charged since 2016, can I still charge now? I have a MacBook that requires a MagSafe charger, but my charger broke in mid 2016. My MacBook was holding 40%+ charge and no longer being charged. I am wondering if I can still charge it today? If yes, I am going to order a charger online.

There's no other way to find out than to try it.

In general there's nothing that says that a battery must stop working because it hasn't been charged in two years - batteries like those really age more due to heavy use rather than lying around on a shelf. So unless something bad happened to the computer or the battery over those two years, it is probably going to work just fine.


Share iTunes playlist with another computer (Different account) I want to share my playlist with my friend. He can give me his apple ID. I have a big playlist on my computer. I have not made any changes in the Preferences yet. Help appleseeds?

Drag the individual tracks to a USB key etc - this will initially lose the playlist data & only copy the tracks themselves.

To add an importable playlist to that, go to File > Library > Export Playlist, then save as M3U format & add to the USB key. Your friend can then add the entire playlist by dragging just the M3U file to his iTunes - the tracks will be copied in automatically.

Alternatively, you can export a playlist by burning to CD/DVD
Right click the playlist title & click Burn Playlist to Disk.
I'm not certain whether this will carry playlist information or just the tracks - it's been too long since I did it.

BTW - passing around AppleID information is really not recommended.
It's the way to lose control of your own devices, if ever used maliciously.


Disable backspace to delete e-mails in Mail.app Sometimes I accidentally move messages to the trash in Mail.app when I hit backspace. I tried to find what the 'Backspace' shortcut stands for, but I could not find it in the Mail.app menu. The only thing I could find was Command-Backspace:

I understand I can change shortcuts through System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts, but since I can't find what Backspace does, I cannot disable it.

My questions are:

How can I disable moving e-mails to trash with only 'Backspace'?
What does 'Backspace' do in Mail.app?
Why does this not show up in the menubar?

I'm using Mail.app 5.3 on OS X 10.7.5 on a MacbookPro8,1.

Actions performed by keys like delete (⌫; backspace on Windows) or return don't often have menu bar items. One reason might be that they are just so common and would clutter up the menu bar. The keys also have different functions in different contexts. If a menu item was assigned to delete, it would normally have precedence over the function delete has in text views.

You could use KeyRemap4MacBook to disable delete in Mail, but it would also disable it in text views.


MacBook Pro with Retina display VGA problem I just bought a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display. When I connect it to a projector using a MiniDisplay Port to VGA cable, the quality of the image is awful in terms of definition and colour. How can I fix this?

To correct the resolution, open the Display panel in System Preferences, connect your monitor if not already connected, and look for the Display preference window on the projector.  Click on "Scaled" instead of "Best for display".  Then hold the Option (⌥) key while clicking again on "Scaled" and you will see a list of resolutions to choose from.

You can then select an appropriate resolution from the list.

To correct the color, click in the Color tab in that same window, and either choose from one of the available color profiles, or click the "Calibrate..." button and adjust the color as needed.


Virus detected. how do I remove it? How to fix this?
I am on High Sierra.
I can't purchase, Help!

First get another antivirus & see if it agrees.

Google 'Mac free antivirus'. Pick one you've already heard of.

If it agrees you just saved yourself some money.

If it disagrees, then there are 3 possibilities.

The first antivirus was more accurate.
The first antivirus was less accurate & is showing false positives.
The first antivirus just wanted to scare you into buying it.

We may never know which.

If you can find the files referenced, you can upload them to Virustotal for further evaluation.


How to sync an iBooks collection created on my iPad? I recently created a few collections in iBooks on my iPad.  When I synced my iPad with my Mac, none of the collections that I created in iBooks on my iPad are visible on in iBooks on my Mac.  How do I get these collections to be visible and fully synced across all of my devices?

Everything is fully up-to-date: the iPad is running iOS 9.3.2, the Mac is on OS X 10.11.5.

follow the instructions given on this page:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201478

Find the section "Organise your library" then scroll through to the sub-category called "Create, view, and organize collections."

The following is the part that will sort it out:

"To automatically sync your Collections with your other devices, sign in to all of your devices with the same Apple ID. Then, on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > iBooks and turn on Sync Collections."

If in future you wanted to reverse this and sync all of your collections FROM your Mac to your iPad, this is what you'd do:

"To sync from your Mac, choose iBooks > Preferences from the menu bar at the top of your computer screen. Click the General tab, then select "Sync bookmarks, highlights, and collections across devices." "

NOTE - if you have the "Sync Collections" option turned on on your iPad AND on your Mac at the same time IT WILL NOT WORK. Choose one or the other.

Hope this solves it for you!


Activate PressAndHold for LibreOffice or OpenOffice With most apps on my macos (TextEdit, TextWrangler, Skype, WeChat, Mail, Xcode, Android Studio, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.) when I hold down a letter like E, I get the choice of accents to use from the PressAndHold popup:

Alas, when I switch to a powerful document editor like LibreOffice, I lose this ability to choose accents.

Note: Sierra and High Sierra

This feature is not supported by LibreOffice 5.3 according to this page.  It's the same for 5.4 according to my tests.  I did not try the dev version 6.0.

  EricP 2017-06-01 01:56:19 UTC Comment 8

  A few years later now... Press And Hold still does not work in
  LibreOffice, even though LibreOffice is now built against an SDK
  requiring MacOS 10.8 or higher (see comment 3).  As indicated in
  bug 42437, comment 7, just an SDK update is not enough; adding this
  feature will require some developer time.

  It is, apparently, possible to "add" Press and Hold support to some
  applications simply by typing a Terminal command similar to this:

  defaults write org.libreoffice ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

  but this does NOT enable Press and Hold in LibreOffice 5.3.


How do I change the shortcut for lock screen? In macOS High Sierra, the new Lock Screen shortcut was added, but you can only use the shortcut  ^   ⌘   Q . I'd like to change it to something more Windows-esque, like  ⌘   ⌥   L . How can I go about this?

You can do this by following this webpage instructions :

Open System Preferences
Open Keyboard Preference Pane
Go to Shortcuts tab
Select "App Shortcuts"
Click "+"
Select "All Applications", "Lock Screen" and type your shortcut.
Quit System Preferences


Where do older versions of apps go when a developer removes them from the App Store so when a developer removes their older versions of their app from the App Store so that you cannot downgrade to them where do they go? for example if an app requires iOS 10 or later and a developer unticks the older versions of their app so that people on lets say iOS 8 cannot download the latest compatible version, what happens? thanks all :)

The older versions do not "go" anywhere as such. If you're hoping that there would be some kind of "Apple Archives" web site where Apple offers up downloads of older versions that the developer has requested no longer to be used - then you will be disappointed.
When a developer unticks older versions of an app, what happens is that Apple no longer offers that version for redownload from iTunes in the Cloud (i.e. from App Store on a device, iTunes on a computer, etc).
Note that developer often have good reasons for unticking a version. In the end most developers want as many users as possible using their app. It could be for example that an older version no longers work with newer versions of their server software, or that they found a grave bug.


Fixing a couple of odd problems after I dropped my MacBook I dropped my MacBook (six years old, running OS X 10.6.8) on the ground, and have observed a couple of odd problems since then:

Whenever I open my MacBook it attempts to eject the CD, makes a couple of violent-sounding noises, fails, and gives up. (Also, the software no longer recognizes that there is a CD in the drive.) Whenever I try software solutions (e.g. drutil tray eject) it does the same.
Occasionally, roughly every two or three minutes, the computer freezes for about ten seconds. When it does this it often highlights the "File" option in the menu at the top.

Otherwise my MacBook works fine. Anyone know how I might fix these issues? (Especially the second, if I busted my CD drive I can live with that.)

It sounds like the CD drive is broken.
A sign of potential future HDD failure. Does the drive make any clicking noises or any strange sounds? I'd make a full backup and prepare for the worst, especially considering the age of the machine.


Application Support directory, some apps are using tons of space! After running out of space multiple times, I started researching and putting a strategy to permanently fix this issue.

In the end I found that Application Support is an important directory for most of apps, but I've a directory called Google with 2.2 GB size. Most probably this is for Chrome only. What does this directory include and what will happen if I delete it?

Including information about directories and their sizes:

It appears to be local storage, used by websites to store temporary files. This article explains how you can use Chrome itself to inspect the contents in more detail.

Seems like it should be safe enough to delete (the article also describes a Chrome extension that can safely do that), but as always, make sure you have a backup just in case.


Can I back up a single folder on time machine? Basically, I do a lot of work from home, some of which is confidential work. My company has a policy which restricts me from using any form of 'Cloud' to back my files up, so I have set up my time machine to a partition drive on a work server. This however tries to back up my whole Macbook, but I only want to back up the folder which contains my work.

Is there anyway I can set it up to just back up the single folder, as the partition will not have enough space to back my whole Macbook up, and I also have personal files on which would not be required.

You can specify folders to be excluded from your Time Machine backup, specifically, you could specify everything BUT your specific files. You can access this by going to system preferences > time machine > options.

For example, I have an SD card that's always in my MacBook Air missing from my time machine backup, because I prefer to keep that separated. So I added that device as excluded.


Gmail app on iphone shows notifications for 'everything' instead of just inbox Recently Gmail changed their web interface, and introduced several different inbox views.  I tried them, but quickly returned to the default, which shows only the number of new messages in Inbox, and ignores the other tabs.

Gmail on my phone made the switch over to showing everything, showing unread first, but the problem is it notifies for Everything.

Google claims that you can't change this from your phone, but changes made to your desktop web interface will propagate to the iphone after a few hours.

This isn't happening.  3 days now, I still get notifications for everything, and the badge on the icon shows total unread rather than inbox unread.

Stopping and restarting gmail made no difference.

Restarting my iphone made no difference.

Went to updates.  Loaded the latest update for the gmail app (Escaped -- er released -- 18 September)

Problem vanished.

Edit 2 days later:

Or seemed to.  It's back now.  I've reported this bug now both from the Gmail App and from the desktop app.  We will see if Google takes action.  While I'm waiting I'm looking for other apps tha understand gmail labels.


Mail from AOL, font to small Fix? I know that Mavericks removed the PreferPlainText preference, but I have a client that uses AOL and must use the web-client that always created HTML formatted emails with a text size of 10px....

I get a lot of email from her... Is there a way to fix this?

I've not up'd to Yosemite yet... Anyone know if its different there?

thanks!

Command Shift + will increase the font-size while viewing an email.


How do I force Safari 5.1.7 to ask to remember my Gmail password? Safari 5.1.7 remembers my Gmail user name but will not ask me if I want it to save my password.  As I use Gmail often, this would be a real timesaver. How can I force Safari to ask?

Copy the code from this page http://ostermiller.org/bookmarklets/rememberpass.js into the address field of a new bookmark, effectively creating what's known as a bookmarklet.

Once created, click on the bookmarklet while on the gmail login page.  Wait for the page to refresh and then enter your password.  If done correctly, the browser will ask to remember your password.


Unable to remove Windows partition on Boot Camp partition I have installed Windows Boot Camp partition and installed Windows 8. Later, I upgraded to Windows 10.

I am unable to remove Windows partition using bootcamp assistant. The removing Windows option is greyed out.

diskutil list
 /dev/disk0
   #:              TYPE NAME                    SIZE     IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme              *121.3 GB    disk0
   1:                        EFI               209.7 MB    disk0s1
   2:      Apple_HFS Macintosh HD               70.0 GB    disk0s2
   3:      Apple_Boot Recovery HD              650.0 MB    disk0s3
   4:      Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP        50.0 GB    disk0s4
   5: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC     471.9 MB    disk0s5

I found that the only way to remove a bootcamp partition and make it a fully MacOS partition is to wipe the drive and reinstall macOS. Bootcamp utility says it can remove the bootcamp partition and resize the MacOS partition,  but it doesn't work. Please tell me if anyone has gotten it to work.


iOS e-mail app without automatic downloading of large e-mails It will also help me if you can write e-mail clients without this feature, so I don't need to try them myself

People keep sending me e-mails with pictures embedded in the text. While this is nice in principle, the problem is that those pictures have some mbyte in size each and together they eat up my cellular data volume.

Unfortunally, you can't tell iOS Mail not to load e-mails above a certain size (or to download those pictures automatically). You can switch off downloading images from remote servers (I did that), but that doesn't work for pictures embedded into the e-mail. Also, attachments of a certain size are not automatically downloaded, but somehow pictures are not considered to be attachments.

MacOS Mail has the possibility to set a limit for POP accounts, above which a confimation is needed before download. Why on earth not on iOS.

I also tried spark as an e-mail client, but I don't find that option either. And I don't find it in the description of any e-mail app.

Is there an alternative e-mail client to support this feature?

I think you can't stop the whole email downloading.

This is because an email is a stream of text the format is defined in this RFC. The programs that transmit and receive the email do not look at what the data is in the body of the email and so have to send all or nothing.

The files downloaded from other servers are represented in the email body as just text containing the name of the external file (a URL).

The mail client (the app on your iPhone) is the only software that looks at the body and it recognises certain plain text that the text after it is an encoded image.

Apple's mail clients including mail on the iPhone allows the sender to decide if large attachments are not put directly in the email body but held in iCloud as a external file so take up the small space as other external linkss.. Apple email attachment document.

There is a reason to use text only email :)


Problem moving application from DMG file I downloaded vlc-2.2.1.dmg to my computer and it opens ok.  When I try to copy the app to the Application folder I get this error message.

When I try to open VLC from the DMG file it runs fine.  I just can't move it to the application folder.  Any ideas why?  I am running OSX 10.6.  I thought i was because I didn't have trust applications from the internet turned on but that is not an option in 10.6

After you download the VLC.dmg, you double click on it to create a installer and it opens new window that looks like this.

Now just "drag" the VLC.app icon to the Application folder.

Alternatively, copy the VLC.app to the desktop and then move it to the Applications folder.

There are some reports regarding the Finder Error -36.

Try the "dot clean" as described here http://osxdaily.com/2015/02/21/fix-error-code-36-finder-mac-os-x/

and explained here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dot_clean.1.html


step counter, how do I add steps to the dashboard? I closed the step counter by accident and now I can only see floors and miles. I cannot find the page where I can re-open the step counter to add to dashboard.

open health app - tap Health Data at the bottom, search for steps in the top search field - tap Show on Dashboard


MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019) with a 4k monitor mis-identifies monitor I've got a:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)
LG 32UK50T-W 32-Inch 4K UHD (3840 X 2160) with Radeon Freesync Technology and DCI-P3 95% Color Gamut
The HDMI cable the monitor came wiht
Apple USB-C port dongle providing 4k HDMI and two types of USB ports

All these things claim to be 4k @ 60hz.

My Mac is fully patched 10.15.3

My Mac thinks my monitor is not capable of 60hz at 4k? It actually wants to run it at 1920x1080@30hz but if i choose "scaled" it offers "3840 x 2160 (low resolution)" though still capping refresh rate to 30hz.

What am I missing?

It is most likely still the adapter/cable being used. I had the same issue with an adaptor that claims to run 4K@60 and it didn't. I have the same model for work, and a 2017 model hooked to a Samsung U28E590D and I can get 60Hz using HDMI or Display Port. If what you say is true, and it is an apple adaptor, then you may just have an older version of the adapter which does not support 4K as shown here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207806


Write permissions on a new encrypted partition The HD of my MacBook Pro (macOS Mojave) is encrypted with FileVault.

Yesterday, I created a new partition from the Macintosh HD (APFS) using the DiskUtility and called the new partition Data (Extended Journaled).

The problem is that now I cannot copy any files to the new partition. It seems that I don't have write permissions to write anything on the new partition.

Why is that and how can I fix it?

I assume this happened as you have used the partition on Extended Journaled
Open the finder, find the drive under ‘Devices’, then right-click and select ‘Get Info’.  A dialog box should pop up and display the basic info of the drive. At the bottom, there is a collapsed menu for ‘Sharing & Permissions’, make sure your username has read and write permission, and check "Ignore ownership on this volume"

If you are unable to do this , then first try to disable Journaling, and do the previous step shared above
Open Disk Utility, Select the partition and then hold down the alt key. Select the file from the top menu and you will then see an option to ‘disable Journalling’


Use different DNS servers for guest network on AirPort Extreme/Express I have an AirPort Extreme and Express which provide a guest and a private wireless network. I also have a Mac server (192.168.1.10) running on the LAN. I want that server to be accessed only on the private wireless network.

I want the hostname of the Mac server to resolve to 192.168.1.10 on the private wireless network instead of resolving to my external IP address. This means that DHCP clients on the private network need to have 192.168.1.10 as the primary DNS server and 8.8.8.8 as the secondary DNS server. The clients on the guest network on the other hand need different DNS servers (eg. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4).

How can I configure these settings separately for the private and guest network on the AirPort Extreme and Express?

What you are suggesting will provide name resolution to the 192.168.1 subnet but has nothing to do with restricting access.

The correct way to do what you want is to firewall the device, or have no routing between your subnets.

If you do want to set up just the DNS settings then all you have to do is propagate them via DHCP. This means having two separate DHCP scopes, one with the google DNS servers, and one with your internal DNS server.


Open a file with spaces in the name in Terminal How do you open a file which has spaces in the filename using Terminal on Mac?

I've seen some pages that say type: "open FileName" and it works for files that are one worded. But I would like to open a picture that is named: "Test Subject.jpg".

I've already tried: "open Test Subject.jpeg" and "open TestSubject.jpeg" but none will open it.

How can I open a picture or video on Terminal if there is more than one word in the "FileName" e.g. Test Subject.jpeg?

Either escape the space with a backslash or use quotes.

open Test\ Subject.jpg

open "Test Subject.jpg"

You can also use autocomplete with tab. Type open Test then ⇥ to autocomplete.

Take note of the extension and make sure you use the right one. You've used 3 different extensions in your question, only the right one will open the file. List the contents of the folder with ls.


Timing individual slides in Keynote I have a self-playing slideshow in Keynote, with 20 second transitions (each slide is shown for 20 seconds).

The last slide plays a movie, which is longer than 20 seconds. How can I set the transition to longer than 20 seconds for the last slide only?

You might want to consider exporting the slideshow into a Quicktime movie and present that way instead of through Keynote. If the contents don't change much, or at all, this is easiest. You can use iMovie to splice the two movies together. Make sure to set the movie to loop.


How to setup Mac mini server for remote access? I'm a web developer and I have a Mac mini (late 2009) that I can leave always on in order to run it as a web server for my clients' sites that I work on (before I upload them to their servers).

Do you know how can I set it up? Unfortunately I have dynamic IP. Basically, I want to access them remotely in order to show them to my clients and edit/develop them using my main Mac or my laptop.

It runs the latest version of OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and I own macOS Server app v5.2.

I am basing my answer what your requirements are

Web Development.  Developing websites or web apps that typically run off a server; typically Apache/PHP/MySQL
Access the server remotely to edit/develop

I belive this is much more than just screen sharing as you don't want to share your screen, just the website you are developing for a client.

You will need the following:

Web service listening on the appropriate port
Open/forwarded port on your router
Dynamic DNS (DDNS) with the ability to update your record

Web service listening on the appropriate port

Typically, when doing Web Dev, this is Apache listening on the correct IP/Port.  Assuming that you have just one network adapter, you have to make sure that Apache (or whatever else you are running) is listening so that other computers on your LAN can access it.  If you can do this, then you are good to go for the next step

Open and/or forward the port on your router

So, you can get to your service from inside your network, but now it's time to get to it from the outside.

Determine your local IP.  Using terminal, issue the command ifconfig en0 grep inet.  The line should start off with inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.  That's your local IP address
Forward HTTP traffic to that port.  There are many routers on the market and each have different user interfaces, but they are all technically doing the same thing:  taking traffic bound to your IP and port and forwarding it to an address you specify.  You will have to check your user manual for the specifics on how to do this.

But, basically, you are going to forward port 80 traffic (HTTP) to the IP address you found in step 1.

Next, you are going to want to test this out.  Use a service like IP Chicken or WhatIsMyIP to find your public IP.  You can even type the search directly into Bing and have it return your IP address.

Once you have that, you need to browse to it.  A smartphone NOT connected to your WiFi makes a good choice.  Point the browser of the smartphone to the public IP address you just obtained.  If you can see your page/application, your router is working.  If not, you need to go back and make sure your port forwarding is set up correctly.

Setup DDNS

This is the final step.  Dynamic DNS allows you to use a domain name to access your IP even though it changes.  Many newer routers support DDNS in their firmware - you will need to check with your specific manufacturer and or model.

Even if your router dosen't support DDNS, you are still in luck.  All you need is a DDNS client to update your record and it can run on any computer on your network.  For example, on FreeDNS's website, they provide a number of different clients you can on virtually every platform from Windows, to Linux and even iOS.

So, what you will need to do is install one of these clients on your Mac server so that it can periodiocally update your DDNS record


How can I permanently disable the Mac keyboard backlight? I'm running Lion, soon to upgrade to Mountain Lion once I can ensure compatibility with installed apps, on an MBPR, and in the meantime I'm being driven crazy by the keyboard backlight. Here's the deal: you may have heard about people who have issues with an undersensitive ambient light sensor, viz.: people turn on "automatically illuminate keyboard in low light" in System Prefs -> Keyboard, and then find that the light comes on too frequently.

They are helpfully informed to disable the automatic illumination, and manually to turn the light off using the F5 and F6 keys (actually, technically, the keyboard light down and keyboard light up keys when not using fn modifier).

Here's the funny thing: I have the "automatically illuminate" setting turned OFF, and I use the keyboard light keys to turn the keyboard light off.

Yet within a second, the light is back on.

Seriously!

Procedures to reproduce:

Be doing anything
Keyboard light is on
Press keyboard light dim button -- but whatever is reporting the keyboard illumination level thinks the keyboard light is already off:

Press keyboard light increase button -- the light actually ends up dimmer, because it increases its illumination to one unit from what it thinks is 0 but is actually something higher.
Press keyboard light dim button again -- keyboard light switches off for a split second.
???
No profit. The keyboard demons switched the light back on during step 6, and now the light is on again.

Once again: I have automatic illumination DISABLED [please don't make me upload another screenshot to prove it:) ].

Frankly, I don't need keyboard illumination. It's occasionally useful in pitch black, but I touch type anyway, so it is usually just an annoying distraction and waste of battery.

So, I'd like to just turn the darn thing off permanently. Terminal commands appreciated!

Addendum:
Apparently, the behavior does not repeat when plugged into power.

Addendum 2:
Apparently, the behavior does persist when plugged into power; it just takes longer for the computer to realize that it has stopped annoying me.

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for, but have you tried resetting the pram and smc? That might solve your problem without permanently killing the backlight


PHP won't include files properly since updating to Mojave On our office Mac, we have a local Apache server running through the software AMPPS. Prior to updating to Mojave, everything was working correctly. Now, after updating, there is an issue with using PHP include or require.

Our system uses an object for storing settings, and one of these is the document root path. This value is usually the same as $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], however using that is not an option for various reasons.

An example of the issue that is occurring:

include settings::$documentRoot . '/fileToInclude.php';

This will resolve to the path "/Applications/AMPPS/www/fileToInclude.php" and will fail with the standard 'not found' error:

Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

However, if I change the include line to the following:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/fileToInclude.php';

which resolves to the path "/Applications/AMPPS/www/fileToInclude.php" it will work without a problem.

As you can see, both include statements resolve to the exact same path, but only one works. I have done testing to confirm that both paths match exactly using a strict equality check (===).

Does anyone have any idea why this would happen in Mojave? As I mentioned, it was working perfectly fine in High Sierra, and it works fine on all our Windows machines.

EDIT:
The server error logs output the following when trying to use the failing include.

PHP Warning: include(/Applications\xe2\x81\xa9/AMPPS\xe2\x81\xa9/www/fileToInclude.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/AMPPS/www/index.php on line 14

I would sanitize your input files for non printable Unicode characters. This appears to be something common when crossing platforms or using code editors that don’t show you this clearly.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55841767/unable-to-display-image-using-matplotlib-pyplot-on-ipython-project
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53016584/python-no-such-file-or-directory-error-trying-to-print-a-file-list-directory-on

What's happening looks to be different handling of text encoding - the log statement is hiding characters that the program is passing as a legitimate path in the filesystem.

It’s lucky this worked before on older OS, but the error is pointing out that you don't have /Applications\xe2\x81\xa9/AMPPS as a path and instead need your web code / framework to be looking at /Applications/AMPPS

It would be curious if all of these come from copying and pasting from the get info box and then the text editor where those values are pasting take the styled text and not the plain text version of the clipboard contents.


Make text into a link in OmniGraffle If I have an object, such as a circle or rectangle, with a label (text inside), how can I make turn a word of that text into link, a hypertext web link with a backing URL?

For example, within the OmniGraffle app or an exported PDF, in the object shown below I want to be able to click on the word JDK and have my web browser open to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Development_Kit.

Linking to a box or other drawing object is the easy thing to do. It's not a true link to text like you asked, but maybe a small object surrounding the text would be worth the hassle.

Now on to the easy option:

Select any object / shape that exists in the canvas/layers picker (or is visibly selectable).
Select the inspector control if the right inspector pane is not visible (click on the circle with an i in it)
Select Properties (the blue gear below)

* Open the action triangle (if needed) and select @ Open a URL and paste in the link you wish to have linked

.


How to use two internet connections independently I have two internet connections, the one is high speed and I connect to through WiFi and the other is a slow PPPoE connection. I have a 5 gig cap for the WiFi connection and a 20 gig cap for the PPPoE connection so the idea is that I use WiFi for general internet browsing, emails etc and the PPPoE connection for torrents.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to use both at the same time. Is there any way that I can setup my torrent client to only use the PPPoE connection, and not the WiFi?

This is an admittedly convoluted method, but you could run the torrent app in a vm. Vbox, Parallels, Fusion, whichever. Then you can bind the vm's networking to a specific network interface. The default for the vm networking is usually "Auto" which means it uses what the Mac uses and that's dictated by the service order in the Networking System Prefs. But you can also bind to a specific interface and that will keep the vm's traffic on that connection.


Restoring iOS without updating iOS in iTunes I have this problem that when I'm trying to restore my iPhone 6 on iTunes it keeps me prompting me that restore and update when I'm just choose the restore option only, cause I don't want it to update its own iOS to the newer one. Is there a way to avoid updating when I choose the restore option only? I already search all the solution online yet no answer help my concern.

You can here: https://ipsw.me/ find the old restore images (the image will be downloaded from Apple's server), which you from iTunes can use for the restore.

To use the downloaded .ipsw file, you hold down the "Option" key, then click "Restore iPhone" in the Summary page in iTunes. Here, you'll see a file browser menu pop up. Locate your downloaded .ipsw file, select it, then click "Open"

Just be aware that it is only signed iOS versions you will be able to install.

Here is a guide, that show the steps: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/downgrade-ios-13-back-ios-12-4-1-your-iphone-using-itunes-finder-0198642/


What kind of data does Spotlight index and store on OS X? With Spotlight it's possible to find almost anything on a Mac computer, but to know everything, Spotlight must keep this information somewhere.

Regarding text (txt, doc, pages, etc,) files, Spotlight indexes not only the file name and metadata, but also the content.

What kind of data does Spotlight store and how does it index text files? Does it keep metadata when the file is being deleted?

When you edit work files from flash drive, does it keep index and content of that files after flash drive was removed?

Spotlight indexes are kept in an invisible folder at the root of the indexed drive: .Spotlight-V100. When you eject a drive, its index is no longer available for searching.

Spotlight relies on importer plug-ins to extract metadata and content from files. The system ships with importers for many common file formats. Third party applications often include importers for their proprietary file types.

What information is extracted from files and given to Spotlight for indexing is left up to the developer of the importer plug-in. This often includes text content, but can really be any information about the file: author, date received, bit rate, image dimensions, ….

Files are re-indexed automatically when modified. Delete files disappear from the index. I would not bet on every trace of a file disappearing as soon as you delete it.


How can I move a MS Word "toolbox" when the grab area is behind the OS X menu bar? MS Word has positioned what they call a "toolbox" so that the area you click on to drag it is hidden behind OS X's menu bar, as shown in the screen capture below...

There is no place on the palette (or "toolbox") where I can click on it to move it.

I tried hiding and showing it again via View > Toolbox, but it always reappears in the same inaccessible location.

I tried restarting the machine.

How can I release it from captivity?

I've had success with problems like this by changing the display resolution to a lower value. This will often force floating palettes to reposition themselves. If the palette moves, reposition it to an accessible spot and switch back to the original screen resolution; you can now position the palette where you wish.

This also works for modal dialogs or pop-up windows where the controls are positioned off-screen, though it may require jumping to a higher resolution (if available) to have access to the window or menu controls.


Help with iPod 5 and desktop Mac regarding iMessage The text messages I send through iMessage on my iPod are showing up and notifying my desktop Mac. Is there a way I can stop this

You have to either sign out of your Apple ID on your Mac or disable just iMessage by signing out of it.

If you use the same Apple ID on both devices, then in general a lot of data will be shared between the devices such a messages, email, contacts, calendar. This is by design to be convenient for people to have access to all their data on all their devices.


VNC connection to OS X Yosemite 10.10 not working with Firewall enabled. I've been connecting to my Mac with the iOS VNC app to monitor a process remotely, and noticed Firewall was turned off in Security & Privacy.

So of course I turned it back on, and tried to connect again with VNC. The connection fails with "The computer's network could not be contacted." With "Stealth Mode" disabled, VNC still will not connect.

The obvious solution here would be to approve VNC logins:

The same way SSH is enabled, but clicking the "+" brings up a drop-down menu to select an application.

Checked VNC's support site, but they have outdated information:
https://support.realvnc.com/knowledgebase/article/View/269/12/how-do-i-allow-connections-through-my-firewall

What am I missing here?

Enabling the firewall changed the SSH/VNC connection IP. I changed it to the correct IP in the iOS VNC app, and can now connect even with Stealth Mode enabled on the client Mac.

The Sharing Control Panel clued me in, as the IP shown wasn't the one entered in the VNC app: