iPhone 5s: Have to wait before I swipe after unlock animation is done I use the iPhone 5s with iOS 7.1.2.

When I unlock the phone with my finger print, there is an animation where the icons move from the edges towards the center of the screen. After this animation is done, I have to wait approximately an entire second before I can swipe left/right on the touch screen in order to get to the apps on the other screens.

This is extremely annoying! Simple and quick tasks such as checking on emails will take far longer because I have to wait. This is very annoying and there is simply no way to avoid this and I don't know why Apple didn't fix this already. That's the first thing I ever noticed after buying this phone.

Will this be fixed? Is there any reasonable workaround (I don't want to install jailbreaks) ?
I know that the out-of-the-box iPhone 5s doesn't do this that way. After you install the latest iOS, the error occurs (maybe it's a "feature"?)

This isn't a bug that's only on my phone. I did reset it once (out of other reasons) and the bug was still there. Later on my phone got stolen, so I bought a new one and it was still there.

According to ActMonitor, I have 230 MB RAM free plus 100 MB RAM inactive. There is also 3.6 GB storage available (out of 16 GB)

Take a look at 7:31 in this video. There you can also see it, but not as extreme as with my phone.

This isn't a solution (I doubt there is one, at least without jailbreaking), but it seems you can open apps immediately. So I would recommend putting those apps that you want to be able to open right away every time you check your phone like email on the bottom, so that they are always there.

It also looks like pressing the home button to swipe all the way left to the first home screen does not have a delay, so you could put apps on the first home screen and press the home button after unlocking (which is easy as you finger is already there). When I tested it it seemed pretty easy to accidentally activate Siri, so you might want to disable her if you do this if you don't use her.


Why is my 2010 MacBook Pro not detecting RAM? I recently acquired a 2010 13" MacBook Pro. The computer beeps every 5 seconds (indicating no RAM is installed). I have tried installing four different compatible SODIMMs in both slots but nothing works. None of the slots work! Because both slots are not functional, the computer is useless. What could be causing the problem? What part of the slot might be damaged? I have tried adjusting the four screws surrounding the RAM slot with no luck. Suggestions?

Far fetched but has anyone had success with reflowing the RAM slot?

Verify that all the RAM you're trying is actually good, by installing each the SODIMMs in another machine. If the RAM is recognized, then it's OK.

If the RAM is good, then the memory modules are not being electrically connected to the motherboard in the Macbook (either because of a RAM socket problem, or a bad electrical connection(s) between the socket and the board), or there might be a failure within the electronics on the board.

If the RAM is good, the repair sounds like something that'd require professional attention. The Macbook may be considered "Vintage" or "Obsolete" by Apple; more information is on Apple's page here. If the machine is Vintage or Obsolete, Apple may decline to repair it and may further decline to provide replacement parts.

However, you may be able to find a non-Apple service provider who can examine and perhaps repair the fault(s), as repair may require no parts, or parts which can be sourced other than from Apple.


RSYNC recursive over Time Machine Backups identify unique files i have an issue with my Time Machine Backup. To fix the mess i thought about waling recursively over all TimeMachine Backup folders.

Oldest Backup
RSYNC to NEW_TARGET

Recursively go over every Backup folder (Oldest Backup +x Days) and only copy files which don't exist on NEW_TARGET.

But there's a pitfall. The folder names got changed so:

"insurances"

in the Oldest Backup Folder might be renamed to

"insurences new"

on a more recent backup folder but might contain a lot of same files AND NEW files. So i'm looking for a solution which could handle renamed folders in some way.

I hope someone has a clue how to achieve a solution.

Chris

Modifying Time Machine back-ups directly is difficult. Time Machine uses hard links and other tricks to work. So probably best to try and reconstruct the contents on a new drive.

I would divide the problem into parts:

Fix the folder names
Merge the folder contents

Renaming

You can automate the renaming of files and folders matching specific patterns. See Rename multiple files by replacing a particular pattern in the filenames using a shell script for a collection of approaches.

You could also use AppleScript or Automator for this task, if you need more involved logic.

Merging

rsync is probably a good starting point for extracting the contents from the Time Machine drive:

which is the rsync command to «smartly» merge two folders?
Synchronizing folders with rsync

If rsync does not quite provide enough for your needs, consider unison.

unison is designed to keep folders synchronised, with the merging taking care to ensure the destination contains only the latest files. Unison can be used on local folders.


How can I make bootable macOS High Sierra without the HighSierra App from App Store I have downloaded a genuine copy of macOS High Sierra from a website and after I opened it I can see many part files (like part 1, part 2 ...). How can I install macOS from these part files? How can I make a bootable out of it?

It looks like the installer came in archive parts. You can use The Unarchiver from the Mac App Store to extract the installer from the archive. Be sure to select part1 when extracting. Also remember, downloading macOS from 3rd party websites might be dangerous as they might be modified.


How to stop Gmail app checking emails in background? Is it possible to stop Gmail iOS app checking email without me asking for it?
I don't need the phone to check for emails while I'm in from of my computer.

As the GMail app is a third party app not built by Apple, it is not allowed to run in the background to check for mails. So closing the app stops it from checking for mails.
However, it probably will still get notifications about new mails pushed from Google's server. But this notification is not initiated from your phone.

You can switch off notifications for the gmail app in the iPhones settings.app under notifications.


Why are FTP connections read-only when I use "Connect to Server..."? I'm just trying to connect to the server hosting my website through Finder, but it's always read only, even though I'm logging in with my username and password.

Obviously, I can connect with an FTP client (Fetch), and through the terminal, etc. – but what's the trick to FTP-uploading with Finder?

From Apple Support:

  You can use the Connect To Server command to connect to an FTP server in the Finder, but you will have read-only access. You cannot copy, or upload, to an FTP volume in the Finder.


iPod Touch, HD video app Dim Screen? Is there an app that will record HD video but sleep or dim the screen? The camera app that comes with the device chews through battery power like crazy.

You can use backgrounder iPhone tweak if jailbroken that will run apps in background While iPhone seems to be shut down I use this when downloading long files I just turn on backgrounder to have app run in background  and press button on top of iPhone so everthing is off but what your running in background


Shorcut to show all Finder windows Wondering if there's a shortcut available to show all open Finder windows? Not sure what to call this behaviour; not 'focus all windows', since that involves a single window, not 'raise all window', since that also involves a single window.

There isn't a shortcut but there is a menu item: Window / Bring All to Front. You can use System Preferences / Keyboard / Keyboard Shortcuts to add one.


Gatekeeper not blocking apps? On Mountain Lion, I've got Gatekeeper enabled and set to allow Mac App Store apps only. Now: if I download any app from the internet (and I'm talking about apps I've never run before) it just runs, Gatekeeper seems to be not working at all.
Does anybody know what's happening?

As bogdansrc mentioned, Gatekeeper only applies to application bundles that have a com.apple.quarantine extended attribute. Some applications (like μTorrent) don't add them to the files they download, and some unarchiving programs (like unzip) don't add them to files after extracting archives.

You can list extended attributes with xattr -l.

Gatekeeper is also disabled if you have disabled LSQuarantine with for example defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false.


How to use bash as default shell I am running El Capitan 10.11.3 with bash version 3.x so I decided to update bash via:

brew install bash

Brew places the new bash under /usr/local/Cellar/bash:

brew info bash

bash: stable 4.3.42 (bottled), devel 4.4-beta, HEAD
Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
/usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.42 (59 files, 7.3M) *
Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/bash.rb
==> Dependencies
Required: readline ✔
==> Caveats
In order to use this build of bash as your login shell,
it must be added to /etc/shells.

As you can see brew mentions that I need to update /etc/shells in order to use the new bash. But after closing/reopening the current shell bash --versiontells me that now I am already using 4.3.42 so I wonder what happened under the hood that the new version is automatically used?

brew install bash
sudo nano /etc/shells

# add to last line
/usr/local/bin/bash

# save and quit via kntrl + x

Now, you need to see something like this:

cat /etc/shells

# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.

/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh
/usr/local/bin/bash  # we added this!

Now set your default shell:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash $USER # this will set for the current user.

Now quit Terminal and re-open it! Check if all ok?

echo $BASH_VERSION # 4.3.42(1)-release


Formatted MBP. Can't install Mavericks I've formatted my Macbook, and attempting to reinstall Mavericks, but I have a problem.

I access my Internet via an access point that requires me to log in via the web interface. When the formatted finished, I opened Safari to log in, but it froze. I was forced to reboot.

Now when I reboot and hold 'CMD + R' it automatically ties to connect to Apple, but of course it won't until I log into the web interface. So it fails.

How can I get around this? I have no other computers, apart from my tablet, I have no access to the router to plug in the LAN (not that it would matter because the MBP has no ethernet port). I have no CD/DVD drive, and the Macbook doesn't have one either.

Any advice

Did you format your whole drive, or just the Data Partition (usually called Macintosh HD)

If you formatted your whole drive, holding down Command+R will take you to Internet Recovery (if your Mac has either had the EFI Firmware Upgrade for Internet Recovery or it's pre-installed on a relatively new Mac), or else do nothing, and flash a ? mark, indicating that there is no bootable partition on any available drives.

Internet Recovery doesn't work on captive-networks, as you've discovered.

I suggest you take your Mac to an Apple Store, use the Free Wi-Fi to connect to Internet Recovery (if possible), and download your OS from there.

If Internet Recovery is not a possibility, then I suggest you make an appointment with an Apple Genius, and he/she should be able to guide you through the steps necessary to re-install OS X Mavericks.


Exit full screen for both windows upon leaving split view In split view, when I exit full screen with one window (by clicking on the top left green button), the other windows remains in full screen and is hidden. What is the way to exit full screen for both windows at the same time?

Yes. Open Mission Control and hover over the space with the two windows until you see this
.
Clicking the white circle will minimize both windows and drop them to whichever desktop they started out on.


Using Car Speaker As Music Player in iPhone I have an ordinary bluetooth speaker.

I connect to the device using bluetooth and when someone calls me I can hear my ringing tone through the car's stereo and hear the caller's voice through the car's stereo.

Problem is, I can't use this device to play music through the car's stereo. The device only uses the car stereo if someone is calling me.

Is there an app (maybe something from cydia) that can fix that problem? I basically want every sound from my iphone to be played through the car's stereo INSTEAD the iphone's speaker.

If your stereo does not register that it supports the A2DP profile, then it likely will also not handle A2DP communication. It is not as simple as finding an app that will "fix the problem", because the problem is likely that your Stereo does not support audio playback. The level of difference between A2DP for audio playback and HSP for maintaining calls is enormous.

Perhaps you may be able to talk to the dealer and see if there is a firmware update for the stereo itself, something they can do to enable this feature. But otherwise, no App can solve it alone.


2018 Mac mini random restart problem Over the past couple of days, my 2018 Mac mini has been randomly restarting/shutting down after I’ve stopped using it. When I power up my Mac mini, it says that it’s been restarted because of a problem, and the report shows it has to do with something called Bridge OS 4.4? I’m not sure what that is or how it would cause a restart. My Mac mini has a Time Machine backup drive plugged into one of the two USB 3 ports, and a powered USB hub plugged into the other. I also have two 4K Monitors plugged into two Thunderbolt 3 ports, along with an external SSD plugged into another one. It’s hooked up to Ethernet, not WiFi as well. Not sure what to do here. Tried plugging the power cable in and out of the wall and the Mac mini which helped for a while, but the problem consists. I’ve never had this problem until the last week or so.

Last week, I had a similar problem with my MacBook Pro performing uncommanded restarts. I solved it by performing a reset of the System Management Controller.
From Apple's Support page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295:

Desktop computers

Shut down your Mac, then unplug the power cord.
Wait 15 seconds, then plug the power cord back in.
Wait 5 seconds, then press the power button to turn on your Mac.


Is a screen protector worthwhile for an iPad? Is a screen cover worthwhile for an iPad?  Does the screen scratch easily, or is the protector just another snake oil?

I've found non-adhesive covers that can be reapplied.  It took 4 applications before I had one application that I was happy with (washing it between each application to remove dust, lint, etc.) but now it is fabulous.  Less glare, less fingerprints, and my screen slides on it much easier.  I am pro screen protector now, at least for the re-applicable ones.

:

Here is the screen protector I am using. I believe the key feature is that it is "Easy to apply & remove without residue or screen damage." so another screen protector might work just as well.

Can anyone talk to the long term viability of protectors like this?
Are there any problems with using ones as described?

I had a screen protector on my iPad for exactly 2 days.  I bought an anti-glare one because I found that the matte finish made fingerprints much less of a problem on my iPhone.  Unfortunately, I managed to get a few tiny creases when I applied it, causing annoying bubbles.  I found the feel of the touch screen was not as good, and felt the film reduced the beauty and clarity of the display.

Ultimately I removed it and, so far, I have not gotten any scratches. I do keep my iPad in Belkin Grip Swell case, and put that in a Case Logic netbook sleeve when not in use.  I also clean it frequently with a 3M microfiber cloth.

Pros

Protects your screen (yes, really)
Anti-Glare screen protectors minimize glare and.. fingerprints!

Cons

Difficult to apply perfectly (and less-than-perfect is not good - buy two in case!)
Expensive
Makes display look and feel cheap
Might not really be necessary if you are careful


preview merges pdf and result in huge file size? I used preview to merge 5 pdf files, of total size of 800k. All pdf have no graphs. However the resulting file size is 10MB...

I then tried Acrobat, under similar simple method I got a combined pdf of 750kb.

So why is preview so inefficient? Or Have I just misconfigured sth.?

I can't really answer as to why it's so inefficient, but i've had the same problem, and i got around it by using free Quartz filters from Jerome Colas.

This post on the Apple discussion boards has the details, but the link is broken, an extra * on the end breaks it, it should be https://public.me.com/jcolas.

Download, unzip, and add the "Filters" folder to your Library folder.

To use, open a PDF in Preview, click File > Save As, then select Quartz Filter, and the level of compression.

I believe that Jerome is exposing something that already exists in OSX, but certainly, it's a good solution that works well for me, allowing me to get a good balance between quality and filesize.


I have available storage, but can’t install apps For a while now I’ve been having trouble installing apps on my iPhone. Even a small app (50-100 mb) can’t be installed. It says that the device has no available storage left to install this application. I can’t even install a firmware update so I’m stuck at iOS 12.1.4

If you have any partial downloaded app, large file etc which has not been removed, this might can occurred. Clear Cache or delete partial downloaded large file and that might have cause your problem.
A quick glance of how to clean the cache in iPhone.

-Tap Settings > General > iPhone Storage. (On an iPad that option will be labelled iPad Storage.)

-At the bottom of the screen you'll see your apps, arranged by the amount of storage they take up.

-Tap an app that's taking up a lot of space(In this case application download data and store them in a location of the iPhone

-Take a look at the entry for Documents & Data. If it's using more than 500MB, it's worth deleting and reinstalling the app to clear the space.
Tap Delete App,

-confirm


Photo Albums Created On iPhone Are Not Appearing/Syncing to New Photos App in Yosemite I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 8.3 and a mid-2011 iMac running the latest version of Yosemite.

On Phone

I have iCloud Photo Library turned on.
I have "Optimize iPhone Storage checked
I have upload to my Photo Stream on.
I have iCloud Photo Sharing on.

In Photos on the desktop

I have iCloud Photo Library unchecked (I don't want all my images in the cloud and I don't want to pay for the storage)
I have Photo Stream checked
I have iCloud Photo Sharing checked.

I created an album on the iPhone (and there are some others that are not being synced) and it's filled with about 20 images but they are not appearing in Photos. They don't appear after a sync either.

Thoughts?

I am afraid to restore the phone for fear of losing photos that are stuck in limbo somewhere....

So I found out that photo albums that you create on your iPhone DO NOT SYNC back to your desktop computer.

Mental note: Make all albums on the COMPUTER FIRST and then sync them from the computer to the iPhone.

So stupid.


Which format should I choose for a Time Machine backup volume? I'm using Catalina on an formatted APFS SSD and am finding a correct way to backup the OS. In the plugged in external HDD, I create a backup volume with APFS format using Disk Utility. But when I choose it as the backup volume in Time Machine, Time Machine requires the volume have to be erased. I did it and then go to Disk Utility to check, the volume is now formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Should I continue to use it? Will it occur any problems when I make a restore from backups on a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to an APFS SSD? Thanks for any help.

Time Machine in Catalina only supports HFS+ as a destination volume.  The first macOS that supports APFS as a destination volume is Big Sur.
ref:
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/types-of-disks-you-can-use-with-time-machine-mh15139/10.15/mac/10.15
vs:
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/types-of-disks-you-can-use-with-time-machine-mh15139/11.0/mac/11.0


How do I enable Java to do JNLP in Safari? We use the Java Network Launch Protocol to load up our applications at work, but it's failing for our Mac users now.  I VNC'd into my test Mac to give it a test, and it appears that nothing happens at all.  In the past, if Java wasn't installed it would give the install option, and if it was install it would to a launch.  Now the URL bar just flashes and goes back to the previous website.  Appears that perhaps some recent OS X update has broken this functionality.  How can I re-enable it?

Quick and easy solution is to utilize an alternate browser. I had a similar issue with a Keyboard Video Mouse switch that required Java in order to initiate a JNLP (Java Web Start) session. After installing various versions of Java (1.6, 1.7, etc.) (O.S. is Mountain Lion) and trying to start a JNLP session in Safari (Version 6.0.5, [8536.30.1]) would see the efforts subsequently fail. I installed Google Chrome (Version 28.0.1500.71) and tried to initiate a JNLP session and it worked fine. Firefox may or may not work equally as well but I did not test beyond Google Chrome.


Do MacBook Pros have support for the Remote Control? Do the new (2011) MacBook Pros work with Apple's Remote Control?

I'm little confused because the Apple Store offers me an Apple Remote when I try buying a new MacBook Pro, but I don't see any information about support for that remote in the MacBook Pro's description.

From the Manual for the 13inch, here is a picture that shows you where the IR port is located.


Connecting Wiimote to Dolphin Emulator I having tremendous amount of trouble connecting my Wiimote with the dolphin emulator on Mac. I am using the latest version of dolphin. I have both the Wiimote and the Wiimote plus. The Mac bluetooth easily detects both Wiimotes and connects with no issues. While Dolphin detects the Wiimote to some extent (it shows up in the controllers dropdown in settings), it does not connect. The lights on the Wiimote stay flashing, it never actually connects completely. Any ideas why this is? Is anyone else having such issues?

I appreciate any suggestions.

have you changed the settings in dolphin to "real controller"?


iPhone keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes I just got an iPhone 5 from my friend. It worked well and I decided to restore it to reset it. Yet it is now restarting itself every 3 minutes so I'm trying to do a factory restore. While letting it connected to my computer I pushed the top and menu button and went to iTunes. I get this message ~without any interaction~:

  iTunes is downloading the software for this phone and will restore

~It seems to be stuck, but it eventually restarted but~ it keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes.

Between restarts I can start to set the IPhone or even to use it a bit as everybody does if I was fast enough to set it.

Update

I think I achieved to reinstall the OS, but it keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes.

Since using iTunes to restore the iPhone can't solve this problem, the following method is worth a try:

Restore all settings on your iPhone.
Update all applications or remove potentially conflicting applications
Remove the SIM card from the iPhone and check if it stops restarting
Check and clean the charging port
If you restart when charging, please replace the iPhone battery
Finally, it is recommended to contact Apple officials for the best solution.

https://www.fonecope.com/fix-iphone-keeps-restarting.html


How can I change sleep mode's wallpaper? I was able to change the wallpaper of the user accounts's window:

I did so by modifying /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png

But I also want to change the wallpaper of the sleep mode's window, which looks like so:

How can I do this?

Unfortunately what you are asking is not possible. Because the Sleep Mode just displays a blurred version of your desktop background, you cannot make it different than your desktop background.

You might try and find a script that changes your desktop background as soon as you sleep the computer and change it back as soon as you unlock it, but that would not be very feasible for everyday use.


macOS Big Sur Users folder issue I have just updated my macOS to macOS Big Sur but I am very confused about the organization of users. On my previous macOS version, I had an account with all my applications and files stored on Macintosh HD - data disc, however, after updating to Big Sur, a new user had to be created and stored on Macintosh HD with my old user being stored in Macintosh HD - data. The real problem is, that all new downloads, applications, any new files and also desktop are stored in the newly created user on Macintosh HD. How come, since all user data should be stored in the Macintosh HD - data disc? Do I have to migrate all those gigabytes to Macintosh HD? My Mac is now the same as a factory new one, however, my old user is stored only as a folder in Macintosh HD - data. I will appreciate any help, I need my Mac up and running as soon as possible. Thank you.

First thing - don't try to fix anything.
Check when your last back up was done. If you don't have a backup - stop and back up this Mac to a blank external drive (ideally) using time machine and be sure you have a good backup before proceeding.
Now write down some details:

When did you start the update.
What was the previous version ( softwareupdate --history should tell you all the recent updates on the Mac)
What is the state of your storage ( diskutil list is a good indicator to share with someone technical )

Decide if you want to use Apple, someone local to work with, or trust us randos on the internet to know what your setup is and hopefully give good advice. The problem with us, is no matter how smart, honest and well intentioned we are - we only see your word and if you are mistaken, we may give you bad advice. Also, we could just be evil but hopefully if you are patient - votes will help see if we're all evil together or someone has good advice.


Will Reset > Delete Data and Settings, prevent recovering my Data? if I am planning to sell my iPhone? In Windows I know that when you delete a file or even format your PC, then some data can still be recovered from the hard disk using some tools.
Now I have iPhone 11 and I am planning to sell it. So I backup my iPhone using iTunes. Then I went to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Data and settings.
If resetting my iPhone and deleting all the data and apps will prevent someone from recovering my data? Or can other users still recover my data?
If the answer is yes, then what is the best way to permanently delete all the iPhone data before selling it? in Windows I use a tool named fileshredder which will wipe all the free space. Any advice ?
Thanks

Any determined hacker can get an awful lot of data off of just about any data storage device. The catch here is, does Apple make it just difficult enough for the average, non-government, hacker to spend more time and money getting the data off your iPhone or SSD than it is worth?
Generally speaking that unless you are carrying information worth tens of thousands of dollars in your iPhone then it is unlikely that it is worth the time, effort and money to recover the data.
Is is POSSIBLE? The answer will (almost) always be yes, unless you want to feed your old iPhone through a metal shredder.
Is it at all LIKELY? The answer will (almost) always be no.
It is a decision only you can make but if the information is only valuable to you then the likelihood of anyone getting any usable information off your iPhone is slim at best. And the built-in wipe feature is sufficient to protect your personal data.


Is it possible to encrypt a hard drive that is dual booting ubuntu using rEFInd? I recently installed ubuntu on my macbook pro. I am using rEFInd to dual boot ubuntu. Following the installation, I tried to encrypt my Macintosh HD partition by first converting the disk to core storage. I received the following error message:

Error: -69730: Unable to create boot loader partition due to the specifics of your partition map layout

I was using FileVault for whole disk encryption before partitioning my hard drive in order to install Ubuntu. Is there any way to correct this error, or another method to encrypt my hard drive?

I am dual booting Ubuntu 16.04 on my 13 inch Macbook Pro from mid 2014 running El Capitan. This is what my partition lay-out looks like:


Occasionally getting additional spaces inserted when typing When typing, after hitting spacebar, I often get an additional space inserted. I haven't seen it happen when using the built-in keyboard, but it happens with two separate external keyboards. As far as suspect software goes, I do have Karabiner installed, though I see the issue even when it isn't running and if it were the issue, I would expect to see it happen when using the built-in keyboard as well.
I've tried two separate brands of USB-A to USB-C dongles for connecting the keyboards, but the issue still happens with both.
I also haven't seen the issue with any other key, only the spacebar. I'm not sure how to go about tracking down a root cause here.

Just found out that this was due to a bad switch, at least on the second keyboard. Both keyboards I was having issues with are mechanical, but it seemed pretty unlikely that they'd both have an issue for the exact same key. I swapped the switch used for the spacebar with another and it's working much better now :)


Can authorised seller store not real apple store able to activate my ipad 2? I'm the owner. Apple activation says it synced with "k****@gmail.com" but my gmail starts at k and says it cannot be used to unlock. I checked icloud and ipad2 isnt sync and only has my other device. I have the receipt but it doesn't have the serial number in it. There is no apple store in my city. I bought the ipad from authorised seller, can they activate it?

No. An Apple Authorized Reseller (AAR) or Apple Premium Reseller (APR) cannot activate your iPad when it has an activation lock.

You could try to call Apple Care so they can help you with activating your account. Take a look at this website to find the Apple Care number for your country.


Repair Permissions messed up network preferences I ran repair permissions a few days ago, because other accounts on my computer couldn't open system preferences (this problem persists, but I don't care about it very much). What does bother me, however, is that it seems to have messed up numerous network permissions.

Specifically,

My home network is no longer recognized as a "preferred network." When I wake from sleep, my home network is in the list directing me to select a different network. When I direct the computer to join my network, it says "a connection timeout occurred" and then joins anyways. This does not happen on the campus wireless network.
I can no longer connect to my campus VPN. I get an error that the "shared secret" is not available. When I enter the shared secret and apply in network preferences, the shared secret is cleared.

I have already deleted and recreated my login keychain. And as repairing permissions got me into this place, I don't feel it is my way out.

Since several files appear to be either missing or corrupt, now might be a good time to check that you have a good backup of your data and then see about booting to a Recovery HD or other bootable media and seeing if the disk catalog itself needs repair.

You might also have a technician look at the hard drive if there are lots of problems with the disk. Most can be fixed by wiping the drive and then reinstalling the OS and finally restoring your applications and files from a backup. Of course, corrupt files like you are seeing in the network preferences could get backed up in a poor state - so you might still need to find and clean things one by one, but hopefully this is the extent of the problems.


Which tools can I use to analyze memory dumps in macOS? I am trying to analyze memory dumps from specific processes on the MacOS. I am using commands:
lldb --attach-pid 1041
process save-core "core"

And the size of the file core is 3.3GB. With the same application process on Windows I've go 150 MB and on linux 600 MB. Makes it hard to analyze it at that size.
What are reliable tools for the analyzing mem-dumps on MacOS, regarding looking for the sensitive data?

The reason for the memory dump being so big is that the application has mapped that much memory. It might not actually be "using" it, but it could mapped in the way of memory mapped files, or just "blank" (unused) space.
In terms of tools for analysing memory dumps, it depends entirely on what you're looking for and whether or not you know the internal data structures of the application you're analysing.
If this is a third party application, you do not have the source code for, and you're looking for sensitive data in the form of text - I would run the memory dump through the strings program:
strings core

An idea could be to save this intermediate result, and use that for later searching:
strings core > text
grep searchstring text

If you want to have a tool that actually understands the contents of the memory dump (for example to differentiate between different types of memory mappings), you can use Rekall. Note that it is unfortunately no longer maintained for macOS.


Macbook Power Adapter Prongs Burnt I was travelling in China with my Macbook and USB-C Power Adapter. While plugged in at a hotel, the prongs of adapter got burnt.

Is it okay to just replace the prongs, or is it likely that the adapter's circuits have been damaged?
There is no other visible damage to any other part of the charger.

Should I just replace the whole adapter to be safe?

Taking a close look at the adapter, you will notice there is evidence of melted metal on the second prong most likely caused by arcing.

What this tells me is that there was a short from the hot to neutral which (should have) tripped the breaker.  What caused it?  Any number of things from faulty wiring to a surge with enough voltage to cause the electricity to "jump" from one conductor to the next.

Is your adapter safe to use?

Yes, provided it works.  Adapters are designed to isolate the high(er) voltage mains AC from the lower, cleaner, usable DC voltage.  If anything was damaged due to a surge, the adapter simply won't work (most likely the internal fuse would be blown).

Bottom line... you can plug it in and it won't hurt your Mac.  You can even used the charred AC plug connector and it will still work.  Unless the prong is broken, or so physically deformed that it's causing a short, there's nothing to worry about.


Test website on real iPad on macOS For responsive tests on macOS I'm using Xcode and his simulator, but I found something strange going on on real iPad and I want to test it. Is I possible that I pair my iPad with Mac Mini and test it with Inspect Element like I was testing with the simulator?

On the iOS device, open Settings → Safari → Advanced and enable Web Inspector.
Connect the device to your Mac over USB and open the website in Safari on your iOS device.
On your Mac, open Safari → Preferences → Advanced and enable Show Develop menu in menu bar.
Choose Develop → your iOS device name → your Safari window to open the web inspector for the iOS device on your Mac.


Missing ip command line tool on macOS The ip program is a multi-purpose network configuration tool that makes use of the full range networking features available in modern Linux kernels.

However, it does not work on Mac:

$ ip a
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Switch to Ubuntu,things go well

$ ip a
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host
    ...

Is there  a substitute tool for it?

This question was asked on Superuser.SE

The accepted solution is to use brew to install iproute2mac, which adds the ip command.


How to sync macOS with iCloud Drive? I've got MacBook where I used to have iCloud turned on to sync all my files (desktop & documents) and have them accessible from other devices. When I go to "Files" app on iOS, I can easily see and access those files. The same from icloud.com website.

Now I've just got new MacBook. I've turned on iCloud Drive in Preferences (and checked Desktop & Documents Folders  in Options panel) but it doesn't download anything from iCloud, i.e. it doesn't sync files from iCloud Drive. It has only created new folders locally (Desktop & Documents).

Also, those two folders created on new Mac are not visible anywhere on iCloud Drive (neither through icloud.com nor Files app).

Is this normal behavior? Or am I doing something wrong? How can I get those iCloud files on my Mac?

Assuming you've logged into the same Apple ID in Apple > System Preferences > iCloud as you have on your other devices, you should be fine. Beyond this, you've already selected the correct options regarding iCloud Drive.

Considering this is a totally new MacBook, you will need to allow some time for everything to get synced, especially when there's multiple devices concerned and if there's larger amounts of data (not only in terms of file sizes, but also in terms of the actual number of files).

Another factor will be the speed of your internet connection. In the meantime, just make sure your MacBook is online and has a stable connection. I'd allow 24hrs in order to start seeing your files populate, keeping in mind that they may not all be there if you have a lot of data.

Finally, if you do have a lot to sync, you can opt to not let your MacBook go to sleep during the initial sync period (i.e. allow your screen to go to sleep, but not your MacBook itself). In other words, select the Prevent Computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off option in Energy Saver preferences.


DNS not resolving on Mac OS X Some of my coworkers are having troubles on their Macs - DNS resolution does not work under Mac OS X. They're running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. They can use DNS in a Windows 7 virtual machine (VMware Fusion 3.1.3) running under OS X. The computers are 15" MacBook Pros, early 2011 model.

Things they've tried that have not worked:

turning airport on/off
rebooting
using wired connection instead wifi
deleting connection credentials and adding it again
turning off Mac firewall
using fixed static IP
manually setting DNS servers
restarting mDNSResponder
the fixes from this other question

EDIT response Martín's answer:

• Can you ping the DNS you want to use?

$ ping apple.com
ping: cannot resolve apple.com: Unknown host

• What is/are the IP address(es) of the DNS(s) you want to use?

This is a company DNS server that is given with DHCP, it works well for
other people. I've also tried Google's 8.8.4.4 and 205.171.3.65 (which I found from GRC's DNS Benchmark to be the fastest).

• Have you tried using 8.8.8.8 (google) or any of the OpenDNS
   208.67.222.222 or 208.67.220.220?

It doesn't work, see Google Chrome output:

  The server at www.apple.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.

• Can you ping those hosts?

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from
8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=3.925 ms

• creating a blank user

A guest user account was created, the DNS issue was still there when using
the guest account.

• nslookup and dig both work fine

$ nslookup www.apple.com 8.8.8.8
Server:  8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.apple.com canonical name = www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net.
www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net canonical name = www.apple.com.edgekey.net.
www.apple.com.edgekey.net canonical name = e3191.c.akamaiedge.net.
Name: e3191.c.akamaiedge.net
Address: 184.24.141.15

$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.apple.com
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.apple.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11298
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.apple.com.   IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.apple.com.  1041 IN CNAME www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net.
www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net. 38 IN CNAME www.apple.com.edgekey.net.
www.apple.com.edgekey.net. 8794 IN CNAME e3191.c.akamaiedge.net.
e3191.c.akamaiedge.net. 17 IN A 184.24.141.15
;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 4 09:25:28 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 158

• also flushing the DNS cache was done but it didn't help

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

EDIT 2:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
#
# Mac OS X Notice
#
# This file is not used by the host name and address resolution
# or the DNS query routing mechanisms used by most processes on
# this Mac OS X system.
#
# This file is automatically generated.
#
domain {redacted}.com
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 208.67.222.222

It turns out the solution was to bounce mDNSResponder:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

This was obtained by a different coworker from this Server Fault question.

OS X 10.10.0 – 10.10.3, Yosemite

Apparently, mDNSResponder doesn't exist in Yosemite (OS X 10.10). You can restart descoveryd instead to fix these issues.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist

OS X 10.10.4+, Yosemite

In OSX 10.10.4 the mDNSResponder has been reintroduced. So use the first one will work again.


Optimal configuration for MacBook with small SSD and big HDD? I am looking for an optimal configuration for a MacBook Pro that was converted to have two disks: primary one one SSD of around 100-200 GB and second one of 500-750 GB (the original drive that was moved to the DVD bay).

Objectives:

Maximize battery life - the secondary HDD should be used in such way that the OS will use power management on the disk.
Keep big files that do not need fast access to the HDD, this includes: pictures, music (iTunes), movies, downloads.

So, what mounts should be made and how?

I have this kind of setup in my Mac mini, 120 Gb SSD, 320 Gb HDD. Instead of doing mounts or messing with the location of the home folder I decided to just link the "heavy folders" back to their location on the HDD :

$ ls -l
total 1304
drwxr-xr-x  17 tyr   admin     578 Apr 17 01:51 Applications
drwx------+  6 tyr   staff     204 Apr 21 20:20 Desktop
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      35 Dec 31 08:15 Documents -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Documents
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      35 Dec 31 08:19 Downloads -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Downloads
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      33 Mar 18 16:11 Dropbox -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Dropbox
drwx------@ 56 tyr   staff    1904 Apr 18 03:49 Library
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      32 Dec 31 08:19 Movies -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Movies
drwx------+  6 tyr   staff     204 Feb 19 04:35 Music
drwx------+ 25 tyr   staff     850 Apr 21 16:24 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+ 88 tyr   staff    2992 Apr  8 11:17 Public
drwxr-xr-x+  3 tyr   staff     102 Dec 31 08:02 Sites
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      41 Dec 31 08:30 VirtualMachines -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/VirtualMachines
drwxr-xr-x@  2 tyr   staff      68 Jan 11 19:51 dwhelper
drwxr-xr-x   2 tyr   staff      68 Dec 31 08:54 lf5

I've had this setup for a couple of months now and have not had any problems with it.
2 folders are not linked : "Music" and "Pictures" because I've changed the location of the music and pictures in iTunes and iPhoto respectively. For iTunes this allows me to keep the metadata (the iTunes "db") on the SSD where it is fastest.


Any issues with using US bought iPhone 11 in the UK? I currently own an iPhone 5s and I'm thinking of upgrading to the 11. I live in the UK but I'm going to the US during the Christmas holidays and was considering purchasing the phone over there, considering it works out to be about £150 cheaper. However I have concerns over whether there's any issues (anything from minor inconveniences to significant problems) with permanently using the US-bought iPhone 11 in the UK? I read that previous models had slight differences in hardware in different countries and that there were also warranty problems if buying the phone internationally. Are there any differences to be aware of with the iPhone 11 or is it exactly the same across all countries?

I don’t recommend purchasing a US phone to be used in the UK. It’s not that it “won’t work” per se, but there are models specific to your region.

iPhone 11 Tech Specs US
iPhone 11 Tech Specs UK

At first glance, the Mobile and Wireless specification for the US lists the A2160 and A2161 models of the iPhone where as the UK  version lists the A2215 and A2218 models.  Specifically, there are differences in some of the FDD-LTE bands which could affect things like speed or particular service availability.

The best course of action would be to confirm with your carrier as to what the differences of the US vs. the UK models would be in relation to your services.


Relative performance of 2006 Mac Pro and 2007 iMac I'm trying to evaluate a purchase but am having trouble finding apples-to-apples performance comparisons for these two machines.  A year and and many details separate them.  Are there any common benchmarks that consider disk and graphics performance?  Which is preferable for software development (dual-head, but otherwise light on the GPU)?

Mac Pro (2006) [Detailed specs]

Two dual-core Xeon processors at 2.66GHz (1.33GHz bus)
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256 MB RAM

iMac (2007) [Detailed specs]

Core 2 Duo (obviously dual-core) at 2.4GHz (800MHz bus)
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon 2600 with 256 MB RAM

Both machines have their original hard drives (SATA).

Thanks in advance for your input.

Your question is somewhat difficult to answer, because not all is based upon “raw” performance.

I’d say that it would be better if you consider the following differences:

RAM

MP(MacPro): Very easy to add and the limit is probably higher than what you can/Want to afford for the task you want to perform. Adding 8-12GB is probably “cheap”.
iM(iMac): Probably more limited, tho not harder to change as far as I can remember, but if you need 12 GB you can’t achieve that with that (or any AFAICR) iMac.

HARD DRIVES

MP: Although “external” drives are “ok”, having four internal SATA bays is godsend. Very easy to add/remove drives and to create a simple RAID1 if you wanna have a mirror “just in case”.
iM: close to impossible (unless you have the right tools, time, patience and dedication) to change the internal drive, which is a “slower” 2.5 drive if I am not mistaken. Some “hacks” exist to replace the superdrive with another drive, but I don’t know if that Model fits.

Video

MP: Tho I don’t know if the NVIDA is better than that particular ATI (tho I believe it is), the expandability of the MP is superior to the zero expandability of the iMac. You could add more cards to your MacPro for more than two displays if that’s what you want. But you have to get your own displays…
iM: Zero. You can’t change or add another video card. You’re stuck with a very nice 24 inch display and an integrated iSight. The MacPro, will need displays (and webcams). The CONS here is that if you don’t like Glossy Displays… you’re out of luck :)

RAM Speed, Bus Speed, etc

All these things don’t really change your day to day workflow, yes, some Front Side Buses are faster than others, but in the end, the difference is probably not a decision factor. (given similar specs of course).

Connectivity

Both machines have enough USB/FW ports I believe, tho the Mac Pro surely has some more, you will need more ports in the iMac if you use external drives (not that you have much choice there).

So which one do I chose?

The answer is, there’s no answer. You have to evaluate your priorities. I wouldn’t change my Mac Pro (early 2008) for a new iMac, because I already have two 27’’ screens, already have 4 drives in there (with some RAID going on) + an SSD for the OS and I have replaced the stock video card (NVIDIA) with an ATI (because my nVidia Failed and the ATI costed the same as the out of warranty nVIdia). My Mac Pro is going to turn 3 years soon and it works fantastically.

The iMac on the other hand, is a beautiful looking machine that if you use paired with a lot of BlueTooth stuff, makes your desk look very pristine. Sadly, I need storage, redundancy and multi-core for some of the things I do for a living, so the 8 cores of my Mac Pro are needed in my case.

I notice that the MultiCore is godsend sometimes, you see processes hanging there at 100% and the rest of the CPUs and cores take care. But of course, a normal World of Warcraft user wouldn’t even use 5% of all that.

I suggest you visit Anandtech’s Mac section if you want some benchmarks and reviews. It’s usually filled with good impressions and comments and sometimes comparisons. I don’t know if you’ll find an exact comparison between those two models, but you might come up with something similar.

My Personal Opinion

Get the Mac Pro if you’re going to develop and already have screens (or the budget to buy them), because in the future, when you want your time machine, your drive cloned, more space, etc., the Mac Pro is going to be much more helpful than stacking fragile external Firewire/USB drives.

UPDATE ON VIDEO

According to the experts (tegeril), the “ATI 2600 Pro is a substantially superior card to the Nvidia 7300GT”. You’ll have to find some benchmarking for that and of course evaluate if you’re going to need the extra power or the expandability is better.


How long does it take to convert a cdr to an iso? I ran the command

sudo dd if=/dev/disk# of=/Volumes/Path/To.iso

at about 6am this morning. It's now almost 2pm and the command is still running. The cdr input image is about 300GBs.

I have a Late 2012 Mac Mini Server, 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB. And I'm running up to date Mojave.

This seems really really slow to me.

I first tried using hdutil but it kept throwing an error.

Adding a large buffer will speed things up significantly.  The default size is small; like 512 bytes. You increase the size by using the bs option. I'm only using sudo because you did.

sudo dd if=/dev/disk bs=4096m | sudo dd of=/Volumes/Path/To.iso bs=4096m

This scary looking command will ask the dd commands to report back their status.  The -s says to signal.

sudo kill -s siginfo $(pgrep ^dd)   # get dd info

I did testing with various buffer sizes, the larger the buffer the faster will be the copy. Don't want to get so big a buffer as the buffer needs to be paged.

If I got the syntax above wrong, these are the actual commands that have worked for me.  I assume you know that you need to unmount the partition/drive before using dd. For some dd commands, I needed to use sudo.

dd if=/dev/disk0s10 bs=4096m | gzip | dd of=~/disk0-s10 bs=4096m
dd if=~/disk0-s10 bs=4096m | gunzip | dd of=/dev/disk0s10 bs=4096m
sudo kill -s siginfo $(pgrep ^dd)   # get dd info

Edit: Jan 18,2019 I did timings using one or two dd commands.  It was a toss-up of which form was faster. The time in my test varied typically by 0.3 of a second between the commands. However, in one case the two dd commands were slower by over a second.  The difference seemed to be which command was run first.  The second test was always faster. I'm guess that the one dd command build a second process to output the data and communicates to the second process via a pipe.  This is about the same as using two dd commands.

dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k  of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
5+1 records in
5+1 records out
4719681368 bytes transferred in 28.887363 secs (163382216 bytes/sec)
Show_Time
 date +%s
  Elapsed time in seconds since start of processing: 84    Time of this step: 29

dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k | dd of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg" bs=801920k
5+1 records in
5+1 records out
4719681368 bytes transferred in 27.383548 secs (172354633 bytes/sec)
0+72017 records in
0+72017 records out
4719681368 bytes transferred in 27.459524 secs (171877757 bytes/sec)
Show_Time
 date +%s
  Elapsed time in seconds since start of processing: 112    Time of this step: 28

rm  "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg"
rm  "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
Show_Time
 date +%s
  Elapsed time in seconds since start of processing: 112    Time of this step: 0

dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k  of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
5+1 records in
5+1 records out
4719681368 bytes transferred in 26.754509 secs (176406950 bytes/sec)
Show_Time
 date +%s
  Elapsed time in seconds since start of processing: 139    Time of this step: 27

dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k | dd of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg" bs=801920k
5+1 records in
5+1 records out
4719681368 bytes transferred in 26.210222 secs (180070255 bytes/sec)
0+72017 records in
0+72017 records out
4719681368 bytes transferred in 26.286946 secs (179544682 bytes/sec)
Show_Time
 date +%s
  Elapsed time in seconds since start of processing: 165    Time of this step: 26

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Here is the bash script I used.

#!/bin/bash -v

function Show_Time () {
  let currentRunTime="$( date +%s ) - ${Seconds_since_the_epoch_start}"
  let stepRunTime=currentRunTime-previousRunTime
  echo "  Elapsed time in seconds since start of processing: ${currentRunTime}" \
     "   Time of this step: ${stepRunTime}"
  echo
  let previousRunTime=currentRunTime
}

savedCommandName="$0"
echo
echo "${savedCommandName} script last revised on $(GetFileInfo -m $0)"
#echo "${savedCommandName} script revised."
echo
# input file name  "/Applications/InstallmacOSHighSierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg"
inputDir="/Applications/InstallmacOSHighSierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport"
cd ${inputDir}
inputName="InstallESD.dmg"
echo "inputDir is ${inputDir}"
echo "inputName is ${inputName}"
ls -l "${inputDir}/${inputName}"

ls -l "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg"
rm "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg"
ls -l "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg"

ls -l "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
rm "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
ls -l "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
# Set the start time now that the user interaction is done
Seconds_since_the_epoch_start=$( date +%s )
# 80meg buffer

Show_Time
dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k  of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
Show_Time
dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k | dd of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg" bs=801920k
Show_Time
rm  "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg"
rm  "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
Show_Time
dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k  of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
Show_Time
dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k | dd of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg" bs=801920k
Show_Time
rm  "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg"
rm  "/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
Show_Time
dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k  of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave2.dmg"
Show_Time
dd if=InstallESD.dmg bs=801920k | dd of="/Volumes/--Mojave--/mojave.dmg" bs=801920k
Show_Time


Using `say` to read terminal output from a command line tool? I'm not sure if this is possible. I'm using a command line log parser for an MMO I play. Information is shown in Terminal window but I have to read it while playing rather than hear it while playing. I'd like to program Terminal to say the output as it's being streamed to the screen.

I'm new to the command line and Terminal-- is there a way to do this?

<command> 2>&1 | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done

Replace <command> with the normal command that outputs what you would like to be spoken.


Clever sysadmin needed! How to keep SMB shares mounted? We have multiple Mac OS/OSX servers (A mix of El Cap and High Sierra) that have SMB shares mounted for backing /archiving jobs (chronosync and P5)

The SMB shares are connected via "connect to server" and generally remain stable, but become unmounted randomly at least once every 1-2 days.

My question: Is there any way analyse the logs (We've looked in system.log) and find the reason for the unmount?

The goal here is to keep the SMB shares mounted at all cost.

I've read around on StackExchange and tried analysing the network connections using the command from this post:

SMB: auto-unmount then unable to re-mount without restart

netstat -I
ping -c 90 -i 10 your_SMB_server
tail -f /var/log/system.log

No errors or issues with the packets found.

I'm sure there's a sys admin expert out that must have solved this already ;)

Appreciate any suggestions or ideas, however rudimentary

Thanks!

Not certain I understand the context of your question, so let's try this first:

This has worked for me:

Mount the SMB/CIFS share using Finder's Go, Connect to Server....
If prompted for credentials, and given the option, store those credentials in the Keychain
Open System Preferences, Users and Groups; select the Login Items tab near the top
Click the + button at the bottom of the list of login items to "add" an item.
This will produce a new Finder window that allows you to select an item. Simply navigate to the mounted SMB/CIFS share from the Sidebar, select/highlight the SMB/CIFS share of interest, then click the Add button in the bottom right of the Finder window.

This should dismiss the Finder window, and now the share should be mounted at each login. Let us know if this doesn't work/isn't what you needed.


Why does my iPhone keep asking me for passwords for random WiFi networks? My iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.1 (although this also happened when running 4.3) keeps interrupting whatever I do with it (I might be playing a game or browsing the Web) with a dialogue asking me to enter a password for some WiFi network the phone appears to have found in the vicinity.

It's very annoying.

In the Wi-Fi Networks settings "Ask to Join Networks" is set to "off".

Why does my iPhone do that and how can I get it to stop doing that?

That must be annoying, and you have identified the correct place that should turn the feature off, which clearly isn't working.  So it's not really a problem we can identify with as we are unlikely to be able to recreate it for start.

As with lots of this type of problem, there is no way we can help assist with identifying exactly why it's doing it, other than noting that it is likely transient behaviour and provide some possible steps to try and fix it, which veers us into the realm of off-topic answers as there is no way of knowing if this "answer" can solve it for you.

But with this in mind, I would try the following steps, in this order.

Turn Wifi Off and On.  If this does not solve it:
Turn Ask to Join Networks On and Off.  If this does not solve it:
Turn Wifi Off, turn Ask to Join Networks Off, and reboot your phone, then turn Wifi On
If none of the above solves it, I would consider connecting to iTunes, backing up your device fully, performing an OS re-install, then recovering from your backup.  This is last resort, but if none of the first 3 steps fix it, it's likely that there is some corruption of the settings for your Wifi which may only be fixed by replacing with a clean setup.


iOS Safari Repeatedly Opens "Virus Detected" Emails On my iPad 2 (running iOS 9) there's a "Virus Detected" email popping up that I can neither delete or change. No matter what I do, the "Virus Detected" email keeps opening on my screen whenever I attempt to use Safari.

I've attempted to delete the email, change the email and to close Safari but the email keeps returning and makes using the browser impossible. I have no intention to either call the provided phone number or sending this email as it directs me to do. The email is as follows:

To: foo@example.com

Subject: Warning! Virus Detected! Immediately Call Apple Support +1-800-876-6855. Your credit card details and banking information. Your e-mail passwords and other account passwords.Your Facebook, Skype, AIM, ICQ and other.Call Apple Support +1-800-876-6855. Your private photos, family photos and other sensitive files.Your webcam could be accessed remotely by stalkers with a VPN virus.

CC: bar@example.com

Message: Apple Tech Support

How do I remove this email and regain access to my browser?

Basically, this is a website that repeatedly spawns email templates by repeatedly opening a new tab with a mailto: link, causing iOS to open email templates repeatedly. This is a known vulnerability in iOS, fixed in iOS 10.2.

To fix the issue without updating your software, go to Settings -> Safari -> Clear Website and History Data. Alternatively, on an iPhone 6S (or newer) with 3D Touch, you can force-press on the Safari icon, open a New Tab, then immediately press down and hold the tab switcher icon, and hit Close All Tabs.

Learn more about this issue.

Note: This is fixed in iOS 10.2 (which, sadly, your iPad 2 can't update to), which prevents websites from opening mailto: links until the user specifically approves it.


how to automate / run 'brew cask upgrade' as a cron job? I wish to run brew cask upgrade in a cronjob, but it prompts for a password.

When I run the job as root all permissions are screwed up.

Howto run that command in a cronjob env? I use zsh.

~ brew cask upgrade
==> Casks with `auto_updates` or `version :latest` will not be upgraded
==> Upgrading 2 outdated packages:
java 13.0.1,9:cec27d702aa74d5a8630c65ae61e4305 -> 13.0.2,8:d4173c853231432d94f001e99d882ca7, keepassxc 2.5.2 -> 2.5.3
==> Upgrading java
==> Downloading https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk13.0.2/d4173c853231432d94f001e99d882ca7/8/GPL/openjdk-13.0.2_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying SHA-256 checksum for Cask 'java'.
==> Backing Generic Artifact 'openjdk-13.0.1.jdk' up to '/usr/local/Caskroom/java/13.0.1,9:cec27d702aa74d5a8630c65ae61e4305/jdk-13.0.1.jdk'.
Password:

I have tried using cron as well but it just won't go as well. Instead I wrote a script called macupdate that held the instructions for homebrew to upgrade all installed apps as well as for the mac to look for and download any MacOS updates, made it executable and selected it as a startup application.

brew update && brew upgrade && brew cask upgrade --greedy; mas upgrade;
sudo softwareupdate -i -a --restart


AppleScript-sent messages pop up as unsent drafts when trying to quit Mail I have a spam processing script that I use to forward spam messages as attachments to my spam filter using the 'send' command in AppleScript. Everything processes and delivers fine, but later when I go to quit Mail, I'll have a new message window pop up with one of the messages that was sent in its own window as if it were a draft I was working on.

If I manually send it again, it will do the same with the next message that I had sent with the script, over and over until all of the ones since last open have reappeared. After the last one is re-sent or closed, Mail quits fine. They aren't being stored in my Drafts folder up to this point.

Here's the relevant part of the script:

        tell application "Mail"
            set theNewMsg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theReportSubject, visible:true}
            tell theNewMsg
                make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:theAddress}
                make new attachment at after the last paragraph with properties {file name:theTempFileName}
                send
            end tell
        end tell

I've tried visible:true and visible:false and don't see the message appear either way, I assume because it's processed so fast. Is there something I should be doing after 'send'?

Thanks!

D'oh! Finally figured it out, and it's all my fault. Setting visible:true is the key. The problem was that I was always editing the original scripts in my ~/Library/Scripts/ folder, but testing them by using the hot key I set up to trigger...duh...the Automated workflow files in ~/Library/Services, which I had not updated.

Posting an answer in case someone else does something as dumb as I was doing. /headdesk


how can /etc/ppp/ip-up tell which VPN service is used in OS X I am using /etc/ppp/ip-up to set up some particular routes for an L2TP VN (defined in System Preferences/Network as a service)

I now want to add a new VPN service but use a different ip-up script (or at least have that ip-up script behave differently). I cannot see any distinguishing info that is passed to ip-up though. The parameters are the same, and the 'env' also does not contain a hint to the service name.
(in this case the second service is to the same VPN server, I just want a different set of routes set up depending on which VON I start, so going by the IP addresses ppp gets from remote is no use in this case)

is this even possible?

Taking a page from this answer: https://superuser.com/a/206826/48893 you can write an ip-up script that tests $1 and selectively execute commands for a given vpn interface.


15 Pin Joystick (old style PC) to USB solution for OS X I have a set of old Thrustmaster TCS joysticks.  I'd like to try using them again on my Mac Book Pro to play a flight simulator.  I have seen some DB-15 pin to USB Joystick Adapters, but I have not seen a single one that indicate OS X compatibility.  Has anyone found anything like this that works with OS X?

As long as it is the standard USB joystick interface, those adapters should work with macOS just fine.

You can use programs such as USB Overdrive, Joystick Mapper or GamePad Companion to map the buttons and axes to match your game and joystick.


iMac refuses to boot, Disk Utility always says there are drive errors it can't repair -- what to do? This is a follow on to the question I asked about replacing the hard drive in my iMac. The restore from TimeMachine finished and the machine still won't boot. Just the white screen, Apple logo and spinner. I booted to the Snow Leopard DVD and ran Disk Utility on it again -- and again Disk Utility told me:

  Verify and Repair volume "Main"
  Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
  Checking extents overflow file.
  Checking catalog file.
  Invalid node structure
  The volume Main could not be verified completely.
  Volume repair complete.
  Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
  Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Is this drive dead? Seems odd I could restore to it if it's dead. Should I try an older backup from TimeMachine? Could the most recent backup be restoring something so corrupt to the disk that it's un-bootable after the restore?

Edit: SMART status for the drive was fine. No problems reported.

Edit: I restored from a TM backup that wasn't the latest. A few hours before that. It still won't boot, but I get a little further in the Repair Disk function now. Mean anything to anyone?

  Verify and Repair volume "Main"
  Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
  Checking extents overflow file.
  Checking catalog file.
  Invalid sibling link
  Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
  Invalid key length
  The volume Main could not be verified completely.
  Volume repair complete.
  Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
  Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Update: it was an issue with my primary drive. It had something going on with that was preventing it from being boot-able. Replacing the drive (more or less) fixed the problem.

Having solved the problem I can answer my own question.

It was a problem with the iMac's internal hard drive. Scanning the drive after the fact revealed a whole host of bad sector errors. Not sure why I couldn't pick this stuff up when I was trying to restore to it.

In any case, even with a new drive installed in the machine I couldn't get the Utilities -> Restore method of restoring the machine from my TimeMachine drive to work. It did the same thing with a new drive: it's just hang forever on boot, no chime, just Apple logo and a spinner for hours and hours.

The solution was to do a clean OS X install from the OS X DVD (instead of using the Utilities -> Restore menu option to restore the machine). Then, on first boot, when you first log in to OS X it'll ask you if you want to restore this machine from a TimeMachine drive. I said "Yes" to this option, it found my TimeMachine drive, I selected all the available types of things to restore (System Settings, User Data, Applications and Other) and let it do its thing for a few hours.

And this time it worked. Reboots were fine. My data is there and intact. All is well.


Freezing after update to iOS 9.3.3 I just updated my iPad to iOS 9.3.3 this morning and immediately have been having problems with glitching and freezing.  Hard restart will usually work but then within 2 minutes of using it, it freezes again.

Is there a way to fix this problem?  Either with another update or within my 9.3.3 update itself?

Try some basic steps:

First of all backup all data of your iPad and restore the iPad from the backup. If it still happens, restore the iPad to factory settings.

If that doesn't work, try downgrading to 9.3.2 (you can still do it) by downloading the IPSW file from ipsw.me and download the iOS 9.3.2 IPSW file for your iPad model.

If problem continues, you may have to take it to the Apple Store and let them service your iPad because it might be a hardware issue.


Can I connect my Time Capsule wirelessly to my mobile router? I've just received a router with my new internet access. This router is wireless only and therefore has no ports except for power.

How can I connect my Time Capsule to this router now that I can no longer connect it directly through a network cable?

Using the AirPort Utility, I've tried to choose the Wireless Network Mode: Extend a wireless network. Even though I provided the correct settings for the existing wireless network my Time Capsule doesn't extend it and there's no wireless connection to my wireless router. It just keeps blinking orange...

I'm afraid you can't.
Extending networks only works between Apple products and the Time Capsule does not have a "client mode", as the Airport Express. You could buy a router that can connect wirelessly to your ISP Modem - Router, and connect the TC by an ethernet cable to it, in order to keep using it as a Time Machine destination. You would have to put the TC in bridge mode. An Airport Express will be able to fulfill this role.


Bundle ID does not appear in iTunes Connect created App ID - DONE
created development provision profile - DONE
when creating App in iTunes Connect I would hope to select appropriate Bundle ID, but that is not listed

This is happening since around 14 hours so far, it's a server issue and it's not the first time to occur.


Besides the main battery, do any components inside MacBooks rely on any other batteries to operate? Besides the main battery used to power Apple notebooks, do current MacBooks have any other built-in non-rechargeable batteries that may need to be replaced after a certain period of time? I was thinking particularly about the SMC; I wasn't sure if that required any external power (other than the main MacBook battery) to function.

There is only one battery in any modern Apple Laptop, and so far as I remember, there have never been other batteries in any Apple laptops.
The PowerPC iMac and other PowerPC G3/G4 tower CPUs did require a button battery replacement for the internal clock. I replaced many of these batteries back in the day.


How to identify the blocked Google extension and remove it from the OS? When I rebooted my MBP (Catalina), I got this error message

When I jumped into the System Preferences, this is what I see

It does not give me a lot of information where the extension comes from.
How can I identify which extension it is? If I can identify it, then I will know if I still need it or not.

Here is an easy way to identify which kernel extension is causing this MacOS blocking of its install.
When you are on the Security & Privacy System Preferences… telling you:
System software from developer "Google, Inc." was blocked
from loading.

just select Allow once just to be able to get its real name and not to keep it installed.
Then let the complete boot of MacOS terminate, and open a Terminal or xterm.
Enter the following command to extract from all your kernel extensions the one which developer might be Google with:
/usr/bin/sudo kextstat | egrep -i '(^Index|google)'

The 6th field of output of this command is the bundle name under which this extension is registered in the MacOS kernel.
Let's say for this example its name is:
com.google.kext.foo

Next go to:
cd /Library/Extensions

and search for this bundle name within all the Google looking directories:
grep 'com.google.kext.foo' [gG]oogle*/Contents/Info.plist

Then if Google made its job of developer correctly you should be able to find on the web what this extension id doing.
And you will know if you need it or not.
If you want to keep it within your /Library/Extensions but not loaded within MacOS, just reboot.
Investigation closed.


EarPods Sound Works but Remote Control Doesn't? I have a pair of EarPods that came with my iPhone 5s. They worked completely fine until the other day. When I plug them into my iPhone or my iPad, the sound worlds completely fine but the remote interface just doesn't work entirely. I have looked into the apple support communities but couldn't find anything. I have tried Cleaning the headphone jack on both devices and I have tried updating to iOS 7.0.6 AND iOS 7.1(I'm a developer). This issue has been bothering me and I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

That sounds like a hardware issue with the EarPods.

If you have an apple store nearby you can take them in and try a new set. I've gotten one set of earbuds and one set of EarPods replaced with very little trouble.


Not entering sleep mode while MBP's Lid closed while using external monitor? I have Retina Macbook Pro 15' connected to an external monitor.
Is it possible to close the MBP's lid and still use the external monitor without entering sleep mode?

Yes, it should work without any special extra configurations. You only need to have the macbook connected to an external display and also have an external keyboard (probably it also works without the external keyboard, but what will you do without it :p). If you have the lid closed and macbook is "sleeping", you can wake it up (by pressing any keyboard key) and start using it with the external display without requiring to open the lid.

Cheers!


How can iPhone be used when wearing gloves? In colder weather wearing gloves is essential. Looks like iPhone 4 completely ignores touches of fingers in gloves. So I sometimes even see people controlling their iPhones by touching them with their noses.

What are the limitations of how iPhone can be controlled? How can it be used by a person wearing gloves?

I like these lambswool gloves by Dots. I imagine they use some sort of conductive thread woven in the fabric, and they're quite affordable at $15.50 to $20.


How does macOS implement symbolic link in Mojave on FAT32 filesystems? I remember in the past, not all types of aliases (as in the macOS feature) can be created on all filesystems. This is because symbolic link (as in the type of file) is a special Unix file type, whereas aliases (as in the kind of file with resource fork) utilizes resource forks (which on some filesystems creates the ugly "._*" files).

But today, I just created a symbolic link on my FAT32 USB pointing to a folder in my removable harddrive.

My question is:

1) How does macOS Mojave creates symbolic link on FAT32 filesystem?

2) Is it portable with other Unix/BSD/Linux systems?

3) Is it compatible with Cygwin?

The Minshall+French format is what macOS uses to store Unix symlinks on FAT and CIFS volumes. More details on the Minshall+French format can be found here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/UNIX_Extensions

The Linux CIFS implementation provides a 'mfsymlinks' mount option (which is off by default) that supports the Minshall+French format.

I believe Docker for Windows also supports the Minshall+French format.


imac mid 2011 ram installation issues I just received 2x 4gb corsair 204 pin pc3-10600 ram sticks for my iMac 27" mid 2011. I put them in and turned it on and received 3 short beeps, a pause, and repeat, which I think is the ram integrity error. I ended up taking out the ram that came with the machine (2x 2gb elpida pc3-10600 sticks) and then in worked. Why is this machine not accepting all 4 sticks together? I though you could put in unmatching ram without any problems. Any ideas?

The mid-2011 iMac uses 4 - 204-pin PC3-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM, so it seems that you've purchased the correct memory. The most likely cause of the problems you're seeing are improperly inserted- or faulty RAM. It can help to blow out the memory slots with compressed air and ensure that the RAM does not have grease or grime on any of the contacts prior to installation.

One method of debugging these problems is to try varying combinations of the RAM to determine which (if any) of the sticks is faulty. Try booting to 3 sticks and swap around. If one of the SO-DIMMs is faulty, you should be able to determine which it is and exchange it for another module.


Why is the accountsd process eating so much CPU? Why are the accountsd and securityd processes using so much CPU on OS X 10.10.3?
I am on a Early 2011 Macbook Pro.

What are these processes for? Is it safe to kill them? The machine has only been up 4 hours so has been rebooted recently.

In Mail.app's application's preferences, I deselected "Accounts > Advanced > Automatically Detect and Maintain Account Settings" on two Google accounts, and CPU usage returned to normal.


How do I make my Favorites icons fit their squares? Here's a pic of what I'm talking about.

I already know how to change the icons (by going to ~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons Cache/Images/ then replacing them with the same named .png) but some of them don't fit perfectly like the Facebook, Twitter, or "Day 1 Advent of Code" icon does. Btw, I'm not so bothered about the Reddit icon not fitting since it's not a square so please ignore that.
Is there any way to solve this?

I already tried resizing but it stayed the same. Let me be clear that I'm doing this because I don't want any plain letters in my Favorites (such as the "U" you'll see in the pic). I also checked the sizes of those icons who fit perfectly, and some were even smaller than the ones that do not occupy the entire square!

The sizes were all at least 144x144 px. From there I tried scaling up and it didn't work. The files were .png format. I also did not change the file names.

I hope someone can help me customize this.

If these are png files you can open them in Preview and adjust the size. Try to keep the proportions the same when you do this. In Preview there is a menu item Tools. Click on the and you'll see Change Size as an option. Click on that and it'll bring up the panel shown below.

On this panel, you can make your image any size you want. I think the icons are square so you can set them as 64x64 for example.


If I download podcasts on iTunes, should they download on my iOS5 3GS automatically, over the air? I was under the impression this was a killer feature of iOS5. I'm running the latest versions of OSX, iTunes and iOS.

iOS 5 does not do automatic Podcast download or subscription. OTA downloads are available only for Music, Apps and Books under the Settings -> Store screen.

For podcast management, you're still required to sync with iTunes. This might change in future versions, but it is not in the current version, nor can I find any references that it will be.


Google maps is not working on my IPhone 5S the last 2 days when on LTE For the last 2 days when on LTE, my Google Maps will load the data, but once it comes up, it's immediately deleted.  It's only Google Maps I have trouble with, as my Gmail comes up without problem

I have not met with this problem before, but i suggest that you can uninstall Google maps and download it again


IPhone earbuds with iPad Pro Can I use my iPhone 7 earbuds with my iPad Pro 11” 2nd generation, iOS 13.5.1? I’m confused by the lingo about connection ends. Looks like iPhone 7 has Lightning. But I don’t know what the iPad port is called.

Not out-of-the-box.  There are 3rd party adapters that allow this to work.  Belkin, for example, makes a USB-C to Lightning Audio adapter that would work with your current EarPods.  You can also get a USB-C to audio adapter (this would let you use any headphones that have an audio jack -- but not your current EarPods).
The iPhone 7 came with "EarPods with Lightning Connector"
If you check the Apple website on compatibility (for the EarPods), you'll see:

Works with all devices that have a Lightning connector and support iOS
10 or later, including iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone.

The iPad Pro 2nd Generation comes with a USB-C port - it will not work.
Apple provides an excellent document to help you identify the ports on your Mac:  https://support.apple.com/HT201736.  While it doesn't specifically mention iPads/iPhones/etc. it can help you clarify the "lingo" that can get confusing.


Why is a number of notifications showing up on one of my calendars? MacOS has just (last couple of days) started placing a red circle with a white number on the Calendar (version 8.0 (2034.9)) icon, as if there are calendar notifications sitting around, waiting to be read. It's just like the mail notification that tells you how many unread emails you have, or the App Center notification that tells you how many unapplied updates you have.

When I open up the calendar, I likewise see that number next to one of my Google calendars.

But in reality there are no notifications that need dismissal. That calendar hasn't even had any events this week. The context menu offers no clues, nor do I see anything in the Preferences that illuminates this new behavior. The Notification Center has nothing from the Calendar.

What on earth is causing this? How do I get rid of this Red Bubble of Disinformation?

I discovered the cause once I arrived at work: the notifications, which came from an airline, were sitting on my desktop computer, waiting to be approved. For some reason, they didn't pop up on my laptop while I was at home. (possibly different OS version: 10.11.6 vs. 10.10.5)

It still isn't disappearing from my laptop, but hopefully if I wait it out a while Apple's Calendar will get around to noticing.


El Capitan system font blotchy on non-white background [Non-retina monitor] EDIT: found solution, will post answer below. Turns out that even the screenshots I've posted appear fine in other devices.

I've received a mac mini from a friend with El Capitan already installed, it's hooked up to a samsung non-retina 1080p LCD monitor.

However the system font appears blotchy (almost as if missing a shadow) on lightish, non white backgrounds. Notice the tabs here:

Similarly it appears badly on the top menu bar (the inside of the '4' is white which is very noticeable on my monitor).

But fine when it's in dark mode:

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. I've tried using 3rd party tools to change the system font to Lucida but to no avail, had same blotchy problems.

I've found a solution for anyone who has this problem in future. Turns out this problem was hard to communicate as even the screenshots I posted appear fine for most people.

OSX machines were detecting this Samsung LCD monitor as a TV, therefore setting the color profile to YCbCr colour space instead of RGB. It turns out that this problem reared it's head a lot with Dell U2410 monitors in the form of blurry fonts.

The solution is to override the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) for your monitor so that OSX outputs in RGB mode.

The solution for doing this is detailed at, but I will repeat here.
http://www.ireckon.net/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor/

Disable System Integrity Protection

Restart Mac, as booting, trigger recovery mode with Cmd+R, then launch Terminal.
Enter csrutil disable and press return.
Restart Mac and login.

Generate Monitor Color profile override.

Download and save this ruby script https://gist.github.com/adaugherity/7435890
execute in terminal ruby saved_edid_script.rb
It will output a folder in your current directory.
Take this folder and place it in /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides (El Capitan location, folder is a couple of levels up in older OSes, backup any folder with existing name)
Restart Mac

Re-enable SIP.

Same steps as "Disable SIP" but with csrutil enable


Windows Remote Desktop Connection to Mac I've Mac OS X (El Capitan) VMs in ESXi 6 on our local network that I can SSH into and I can VNC into and I can connect Xamarin Mac Agent to but I can't Remote Desktop Connection (Windows 10) into. Our developers are all on Windows but need access to the Mac VMs for cross-platform development, particularly viewing the iOS Simulator.

How do you set up a vanilla Mac OS X install to enable remoting into it with Windows Remote Desktop Connection?

It's your virtualization software that provides the RDP server, not OS X itself.

I don't know what you are using specifically, so I will frame my answer using VirtualBox as the example.  However, the principle is basically the same.

On my FreeBSD VM that I have running on my iMac (10.11.5), I have the option to turn on Remote Display as well as configure which port it connects to as well as how I authenticate to the display server.

In this case, VirtualBox uses the RDP protocol, so you can have any RDP client, whether it's Windows or OS X or even Linux connect to this particular VM.

There is nothing that I have to do to the OS running in the VM instance to connect.  Infact, the connection will remain persistent across reboots so you can in fact issue a shutdown -r now command and watch it go through the whole process.


Apple ID shows different names While trying to make a Genius Bar reservation, the name appearing in the reservation is different from the one appearing in my profile—I modified it at some point. Why is that and how can I update the one from the reservations page?

Also, when I’m trying to edit it from the reservations page, it redirect to the account page, where the name is correct.

Genius Bar reservations page:

My account page:

You have detected that the database Apple is using for store reservations is different than the one you see on the My Apple ID page.

You can correct that information by asking them at the bar to assist in correcting and if they say to log in and change it, you can do that on one of the store machines (or your own if you don't trust Safari's private browsing function) and ask them to check that the changes are effective.

Sometimes, you need to call the main AppleCare support number if there is a problem with your record, but most cases you can fix at the time when you see the difference.


Why aren't mp3 files I deleted by accident showing up in the Trash? I accidentally deleted all the mp3 files on my computer (as opposed to just the ones in my downloads folder). There were a lot of files (around 2,000) so it took a while to delete but now, although at the bottom trash says it holds 2,500 files, they don't show up.

I need to drag these back onto my computer into their respective folders but I can't find them.

I am running Mac OS X 10.8 (Leopard) on an iMac.

Any assistance would be much appreciated!

Yes I do, is there a command to move them to another folder? In the short term I don't mind where they are, as long as they're not sitting in the trash waiting to get deleted!

Answering down here to have enough room.

Create a new folder to move all these files from the Trash into. It can be anything, for this example I'll create a folder called "undeleted" on the Desktop.
Open up a Terminal window, and navigate to the Trash: cd ~/.Trash.
Confirm that the stuff you want is there: ls -a.
Move the mp3s: mv *.mp3 ~/Desktop/undeleted. If you create a different folder somewhere else, the easiest way to get its path is to drag it into the Terminal window. Type in mv *.mp3  including the trailing space, then drag the folder you want the files to go into into the window - it'll automatically fill in the correct path. The * wildcard will match any .mp3 it finds.
If you have any AAC encoded songs, repeat the above, but change the extension to .m4a: mv *.m4a ~/Desktop/undeleted


My iMac shows another connect computer what is it? I am kinda freaked by this new computer that seems to be connected to my imac. It showed up ok I noticed it about 3 days ago. Am I being hacked? When I looked up epson it showed a microprocessing chip that's kinda pricey and only sold in japan I think and that is even weirder. Thank You

It is an Epson device connected to your WiFi network, most likely a printer. However, it could also be a scanner, projector or even a pair of smart glasses.

If it's only new to your network, it could be that someone has plugged a USB stick (or similar) into a printer etc.

I wouldn't be worried unless you don't actually own an Epson product.


cannot download Safari 6.0.2 update from App Store on ML As by the title!  I have an update notification:

Safari 6.0.2
 Safari 6.0.2  is recommended for all users running Mountain Lion
 v10.8.2 and includes security updates.  For more information, please
 visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

I try to update and I get:

 An error has occurred
 The operation couldn’t be completed.
 (NSURLErrorDomain error -3001.)(102)

Is this a problem my side?  If so, how can I fix it?

Here you have a direct Apple link: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/53/02/041-8081/2jwp4wjrwygtm4lc608qy4h0n4a9yyq37g/Safari6.0.2Mountain.pkg


Why won't OS X query multiple DNS servers I have found that in all my years of use with Macs, multiple OS versions, multiple hardware configurations, that it never queries anything but the primary DNS server. Why is this? We have spun up many different internal DNS servers and have tried specifying both internal and external DNS servers on the client. It will only resolve hosts in the primary DNS and completely ignores any DNS specified after that.

If it gets a response from the first DNS lookup it won't try again with another DNS server, even if the first response is NXDOMAIN. All your DNS servers are supposed to return the same results; if you're relying on different DNS servers with different results then your architecture is broken.


MacBook Screen Does Not Work, External Monitor Does Update 2012-03-19: I never figured out what the problem was because the screen started to work again after reinstalling OS X 10.6 for a second time. I sold the Mac on eBay a few months afterward (I explained the full history ;).

Original Post: My Late-2008 Aluminum MacBook Unibody screen doesn't usually turn on. External displays work via the Mini-DisplayPort.

Sometimes when power is not connected, the lid is open, and I have the external display connected, the internal monitor will work! When it works, it stays on until reboot.

I've tried:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 (SMC Reset)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379 (PRAM and NVRAM Reset)

I've been told by an independent, authorized Mac repair company that the logic board needs to be replaced. That seems a bit excessive to me, although I've read many similar diagnoses online.

Any other ideas?

I had a similar issue - if I had a monitor connected, my macbook screen would sometimes stay dark. I found out that that was only happening if I connected the external monitor while the laptop lid was closed. If I connected it while the laptop screen was on, it will stay on.


OSX 10.11.x and Adobe CS6 suite incl photoshop? Since updating to OSX 10.11.3, I have found Photoshop CS6 will not load, as well as several other programs. Others include Hugin, possibly Dragon Dictate 5 (not resolved or confirmed yet re VP updating), Bamboo digital tablet, and a few others.

Concentrating on Photoshop CS6, for me following upgrading to OSX 10.11.3 it begins to load then freezes. A web search (several done over a few months) seems to suggest for others there is no issue, yet for others there is, and for some few if any of the CS6 suite is working. Adobe no longer offers support for CS6. Apple is silent.

I am left confused if there are few or many that find Photoshop CS6 working fine on OSX 10.11.x. If here are many, perhaps a recent replacement of the motherboard, CPU/GPU is the real issue, not OSX 10.11.x in my case.

I understand OSX 10.11 relocated some system files as part of improved security, so it could be the issue. Others posts on other sites seemed originally to confirm this.

This article seems to outline these changes best:  Article Security Changes OSX 10.11.x

Lost and confused.

Last night I updated to OSX 10.11.6. I have made no changes to my Photoshop CS6 installation since posting this question.

With this update, Photoshop now opens and loads perfectly fine. I have not done any complex operations, but it works fine. Seems the Apple Feedback site may get read after all.

This may be of interest to other Mac Users with issues with Photoshop CS6.


Thunderbolt 3 - Thunderbolt 2 problem I have a new MacMini, OS 10.15.3 and I am trying to connect a new Presonus Quantum Thunderbolt Interface to the Mac.

The Presonus has two TB 2 connections, the Mac has TB 3 connections.

I have connected an Apple TB3 to TB2 adapter to the Mac and a 3m Delock TB2 cable from the adapter to the Presonus.

I am using LOGIC recording software and the Mac/LOGIC will not detect the Presonus.

I need your help and advice please.

On the Presonus forum it appears I am not the only one with this connection problem. There are very many unhappy un-users on there...

I uninstalled and reinstalled their Universal Control software several times and tried different approaches. One thing I did discover is it is very important to open the Security and Privacy section in Mac system preferences and change the settings to allow third party software.

I also followed the advice of a contributer on the Presonus forum, advice which is not mentioned in the Presonus setup information...
Following an install of the Universal Control software you switch off the Quantum and unplug the TB cable. You reboot, reconnect the TB cable and switch on the Quantum and it worked. Thanks for the advice and happy recording.


Does the iPhone 7 Plus camera really "zoom"? I'm confused about the use of the term "zoom" in much of the discussion about the iPhone 7 Plus. As near as I can tell, just as has been the case on all previous models, there's no optical zoom at all. There's the usual digital zoom (cropping) and what's been added a second lens with a longer focal length, that is switched to (under favorable conditions) when the zoom level goes over 2x. So what's really going on is an automated switch from one lens to the other as cropping passes the 2x mark. Is that what's going on, or am I missing something?

Apple states the iPhone 7 Plus has "optical zoom at 2x" and digital zoom up to 10x (versus the iPhone 7 having digital zoom only, and up to 5x).
From developer notes:

These two cameras [can operate as] as a single virtual camera that automatically switches between physical cameras for zoom — in effect turning two prime lens cameras into a single zoom lens camera.
The Dual camera's defining feature is its ability to smoothly transition between wide and tele cameras, acting like a single lens camera with optical zoom at 2x.
The point at which the cross over from wide-angle to telephoto happens depends on a variety of factors including current focus position, current zoom factor, and current exposure.

From a developer's point of view, when accessing the cameras, they can choose to target one of the two cameras specifically or can access a hybrid "virtual" camera that automatically switches as the user zooms.
Apple is not necessarily incorrect when it states that 2x is optical zoom, since at that point the image is entirely "zoomed" through physical lenses and not in software. That said, there is no lens on the device that is independently capable of optical zoom, so the term is also not really being used in its traditional meaning.
Beyond 2x, zoom is entirely digital.


Mavericks in Appstore twice? I bought my iMac a month ago and it was already set up correctly. I had to run an update on Mavericks and that was it..

After a while "OS X Mavericks" appeared on the App Store, and i can download it..

My Question is... since i HAVE Mavericks - what will the installation do ?
Will i loose my files and settings if i go further installing it or will it just run and leave everything as it is.

What am i missing ?

The OS X upgrades on the MAS are very different than all other products.

It is an installer as opposed to the actual program that you run.

What is available is the chance for you to re-download the installer before you need it and save a copy. Apple initially made it hard for people to re-download the installer - presumably since many are equally confused as you are. However, lots of people were confused on how to re-download the app and a change was made a while back to show it as a download to anyone that "purchased" an upgrade.