Fan running at 4649 RPM constantly I have an iMac from 2014. I have recently installed the Mojave update for macOS but the fan is turning at 4649 RPM all the time. I have installed a fan control app but the fan refuses to slow down.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

There are few reason why the Fan run at high speed.

1- is when something is actually running hot and Mac needs to cool it

2- a Fan controller SMC is misbehaving and needs rest

3- a hardware failure from a Thermal sensor

---------------Fixing

A 3D party Fan speed software will not fix anything

1- to check that look in the Activity Monitor to see who is consuming CPU and shut it down.

2 - Reset your SMC, it is your model dependent so look it up. Since it can be tricky to do, watch the magsafe light briefly changing the color as you do the reset.

3 - if none of the above worked you might have a faulty temperature sensor. see Apple service for that.


Netcat -e on Mac OS X I'm a newbie macuser coming from Debian, and I'm a big command line user.
One one my preferred one is netcat (aka nc on mac). I especially loved the -e option which enabled to create a process that deals bidirectionnally with the strems.

Unfortunately, when I use the classic:

nc -l -p 6666 -e /bin/bash

Netcat does not agree with me, and I get this:

nc: illegal option -- e
usage: nc [-46DdhklnrtUuvz] [-i interval] [-p source_port]
      [-s source_ip_address] [-w timeout] [-X proxy_version]
      [-x proxy_address[:port]] [hostname] [port[s]]

What does that mean? Can I use this command in another way?

Thanks for your help,

Rob

PS: if someone can edit the tags, would be better -- netcat, nc are not known here :)

After doing some research, it appears that the netcat distributed in MacOS is a rather old (imported at 2005-10-07) version of netcat-openbsd clone. Here is the header file from the netcat.c hosted at opensource.apple.com.

/* $OpenBSD: netcat.c,v 1.82 2005/07/24 09:33:56 marius Exp $ */

There are three popular versions of netcat in the wild:

gnu-netcat or netcat ver. 0.71
netcat 1.10 or nc110 (also known as netcat-traditional in debian)
and the openbsd version (netcat-openbsd, the netcat metapackage points to it) which is in active development.

Currently only the gnu and 1.10 versions support -e option and it's considered insecure. In the 1.10 version you should compile with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE define to enable the -e switch.

The easiest way to install this version would be to use homebrew or other ports system (homebrew uses netcat 0.71 source).


Mac App Store only downloading at only 12-20 kbps? So, I am trying to download an app from the Mac App Store and the download is only coming through at 12-20 kbps. I noticed it was also affecting iTunes downloads as well but all other applications seem to be working at full speed. What can I do to alleviate this problem?

The Mac App Store uses the same servers as iTunes downloads use. Something on your network may be throttling traffic to those servers (this is common in company networks). You might be able to work around it using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.


How can I free disk space on the device to get it back into communication? IOS 13.3.1 bricked my IPhone XR after reporting IPhone storage is full

So, as you might guess, here is the most obvious question: How can I free disk space on the device to get it back into communication?

I followed the disk full dialog - no effect
I try to sync - not possible
I try to backup - not possible
I try to delete stuff - it shows up no more, but frees no diskspace
I try a better mac - not possible, trust wont work
I try to move pictures to the cloud - not possible (Error occurs while doing this)

You should delete the Applications that you purchased from the AppStore.  You can download them again for free. Also, delete the  Applications you don't need.  If you go to Settings/General there is an option that reads iPhone Storage. Open that and give it time to completely load. At the bottom, it will give you a listing of all your applications and the size of them. Check and see if you can delete any of the large ones.


Any way to add Lion full-screen feature for TaskPaper by AppleScript? I am using TaskPaper and, unlike most Mountain Lion apps, it appears that there is no way to make it go full screen. Would it be possible to use an AppleScript to make it go full screen in the same way other apps can? If so, how would I do that?

Nope that's not something AppleScript can do.


TRIM enabled on new Macbook Pro Mac OS X 10.8.4 I'm a newbie with Mac's, so I have a quick question.  Just got a new Macbook Pro with a SSD, and been reading some things about SSD lifespan and enabling TRIM.

In my system properties I have the following:

TRIM Support:   Yes

Seems to me in everything I've read that this means TRIM support is enabled by default and that I do not need to do anything additional to enable this.

Is this correct? Just want to confirm...

Based on Apple documentation, if it says "Yes", than TRIM is supported and enabled.


Can i use a 3rd party USB C cable to charge a Macbook pro? Ive got a 2017 MBP which requires a 87 watt charger.
I use the official apple charger, but can i use any brand USB C cable to connect the charger to the MBP ?

Yes, you can use any standards compliant USB-C cable to connect the charger to the MacBook Pro - it doesn't have to be made by Apple.
Note that a standards compliant USB-C cables is only required to be able to carry 60W of power. High-wattage cables are available that can carry up to 100W of power.
In order to get the full output from your charger, you'll want one of the high-wattage cables. However, you won't damage the cable, charger or laptop by using a 60W cable. The charger and laptop will ensure that only 60W of power is actually carried by the cable.


How can I prevent iTunes from auto starting when I plug in an iOS device? i know we already have topics about it, but i did not found my solution.

So i don't want to start iTunes, when i plug in iDevices. We have like 300 iPads, and i am using the configurator. iTunes still starting automatically, even when the Configurator is running.

I really don't want to turn off this settings under the iPad summary screen one by one. I have already turned off the autosync.

Run this command in a terminal to disable that behavior:

defaults write com.apple.iTunesHelper ignore-devices 1


What are the Ubiquity logs on my Mac? In the "~/Library/Logs" folder, I discovered a folder called "Ubiquity", but I have no such app named "ubiquity" on my MacBook Pro.

I Googled and also searched here (Ask Different), but all references to "ubiquity" seem to relate wifi or iCloud syncing, and my MBP has had issues with both, so I am curious what Ubiquity is.

FWIW: I began looking into the Logs folder because a message popped up to warn me of junk files that I should remove-by upgrading some software. There is indeed a huge number of files, but Ubiquity is the only name I didn't recognize and can't associate with any software.

Ubiquity or Ubiquitous Data File is how iCloud shared documents get synced between your various devices and the cloud storage servers Apple runs. It’s a legitimate part of the macOS, but that doesn’t mean that the files you saw were legit as sometimes scam software like malware reuses a “safe” name to “hide in plain sight” so that someone would find my answer here or Apple’s documentation and conclude all is fine.

The most likely situation for you is all good, but we’d need to look at the detailed file to know for sure.


New Apps Windows with Mission Control I am using Mission Control to help manage my various Desktops. Each time I request a new window for an app, the new window will open in the Desktop where the last instance of app was used. I want the new window to open in the active Desktop. Is this possible?

Yes - In the Mission Control preference pane make sure that the "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" option is unchecked.

Then for the app(s) you want to behave as in your post: right-click their dock icon and under the 'options' menu item select 'Assign to: None'.


Do App Names with Special Characters Effect their Visibility in the App Store? I plan to release an app with an accent at the end. This would be my first iPhone app in the app store so I'm sort of new to this. Do special characters in its title the hinder the chances of my app being discovered in the app store? Say for instance if I had an app by the name of música. If the user searches for musica (without the accent mark) will it return my app in the search results?

This should be fine. Apple will do a number of things to your App's name to prepare it for search matching, including the following:

  accented and other "decorated" characters (ü, å, etc.) with their elemental character (u, a, etc.)


How can I add an Apple email address to an email client such as Evolution? I somehow ended up with an Apple email address.

How can I use my '@me.com' email in my email client (Evolution in Debian)?

You can find the IMAP settings to use for your mail client at this support article.

Incoming mail server

Server name: imap.mail.me.com
SSL Required: Yes
Port: 993
Username: example@me.com (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
Password: Your iCloud password

Outgoing mail server

Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
SSL Required: Yes
Port: 587
SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
Username: example@me.com (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
Password: Your iCloud password


DIsk Image shows larger size unmounted then when mounted. How to fix I have an encrypted dmg (Mac OS Extended Journaled) read/write and it shows a size of of 768.46 GB unmounted but only has a mounted capacity of 665.72 GB. I think something may have been corrupted when I resized it from 500GB to 650GB. I attempted through disk utility, which proceeded to appear to freeze, so I let it go for about 15 minutes and then I checked the log and it said "resize successful". I then proceeded to check the capacity of the image mounted and it still said 500GB. So next i tried resizing through hdutil which led me to where I am now. Unmounted size of 768.46 GB but a 665.72 GB capacity. Any ideas how I could fix this?

I figured it out!

Open Disk Utility.
In the left-hand panel, select the disk image you would like to resize (the DMG file), then click the Resize Image button in the toolbar, and then enter the new size. Click Log to ensure that it resized successfully.
Click Open to mount the volume. (You may also mount the volume manually by opening the disk image in the Finder.) Select the volume in the left-hand panel. Notice how the volume's Total Capacity is unchanged. This is where you got stuck.
Select the disk image again (not the volume). Now there are new tabs available. Click the tab labeled Partition. This essentially allots different partitions of storage space to the disk image. Select the volume you would like to resize and drag the ... draggy thing? or manually enter in a size. Then click Apply. Check the log to ensure the partition was resized successfully.
Select the volume in the left-hand panel. Check to ensure its Total Capacity is the correct size.

That's it! Now you can add more files to the volume. Remember to eject the volume when done.


How can I restore my iPad from iOS 5 to iOS 4? I updated my iPad from iOS 4 to iOS 5 yesterday, without making any backup. However, I  found that it is not convenient for me to debug my programs. So I want to restore it to iOS 4 again.

I did as follows:

Downloaded iOS 4.3.3
Downloaded iTunes 10.4 to replace 10.5
Connected iPad with my PC
First, I click the on/off button for seconds and then keep clicking the on/off button and home button for about 10 seconds. At last, I keep clicking the home button only for about 15 seconds. iTunes detected my iPad in restore mode.
Following the tips of iTunes, I clicked "Option" and "Restore" button to choose the Firmware I downloaded and tried to restore my iPad.

However, something is wrong here. The error is:

  this device isn't eligible for the requested build

Can anyone give me an idea?

iTunes will not willingly load a lower iOS onto a device. Have you looked into the tiny umbrella program to see alternate methods to trick iTunes into doing what you wish.

iOS 4 requires an shsh key to sign the 4.3.3 package for your specific device. This key normally comes from the itunes actication servers. Unless you have already saved that key, the automation tools won't work and you'll have to do muh deeper hacking to crack this nut.

tl;dr

read up on jail breaking
it might be too late for you to go back easily


Running `nano` uses the old nano(2.0.6) even though nano 3.0 is installed I installed nano 3.0 with brew install nano, but when I run nano --version, it shows version 2.0.6, which is what came with macOS.

Screenshot:

echo $PATH also shows that /usr/local/bin is listed before /usr/bin

How do I make running nano use version 3.0 and not 2.0.6?

This doesn't help as nano is already in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/bin is listed first in $PATH and /etc/paths.

You don't make nano "use" anything. You run the executable you want, from the shell. Bash keeps a hash of where binaries are. If you type type nano, and it shows you the system-provided one, restart your shell or use the command hash -r to force the shell to re-hash the paths. Also, cat /etc/paths is meaningless, instead echo $PATH.


Enable ~/Sites Folder I have been following this tutorial in order to setup my local ~/Sites folder.

/etc/apache2/users/carloabelli.conf:

<Directory "/Users/carloabelli/Sites/">
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

I have restarted apache numerous times. Whenever I go the the url http://localhost/~carloabelli I get the following response:

403 Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~carloabelli on this server.

What else do I need to do to get this to work?

Take a look at the Permissions set on the /Users/<username>/Sites Folder.

The "web user" (i think on Mac www is used for this) must have the Rights to read and execute so in most cases a chmod o+rx /Users/<username>/Sites should be enough.

If this doesn't work let us know what you are using to control your Webserver? OSX Server or MAMP or something else?


How can I add a WiFi network ahead of time? I have an SSID and WPA2 credentials. How can I tell them to iOS?

I've tried:

In Settings → Wi-Fi → Other, enter the SSID and WPA2 credentials.

Expected:

some kind of Save button

Actual:

I only see Join, which of course fails because the AP is 200 km away.

This is the same question as #175614 but for iOS.

You can only "pre-define" WiFi access using Apple Configurator.
Create a profile, configure the WiFi payload with SSID/password and "Auto Join" enabled.
Then install the profile to the device. It should now connect automatically to an access point with the given credentials.
https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.3/#/cadbf9e6ff


What is the difference between Memory, Real Mem, and Compressed Mem? I've already seen this question:

What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory?

but I think it might be outdated. Specifically, there is a Memory column, as well as Real Mem and Compressed Mem column. What is the difference, and why would the Real Mem ever be smaller than Compressed Mem?

(I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12, but I think I've seen this in slightly older versions as well.)

The relation between them is this:

Memory = The amount of memory the process has reserved for its use.

Compressed mem = The amount of memory (a subset of "Memory") that the operating system has used its compression algorithm on

Real mem = The amount of real memory that is actually used by the process (i.e. a sum of the memory that hasn't been compressed, and the size of the result of the compression algorithm)

So in this case the process thinks it has reserved 976,2 MB for its use. The system took 649,7 MB of that memory and compressed it. That leaves 326,5 MB that wasn't compressed plus the size of the compressed memory after it was compressed - which in this case is approx. 77,2 MB. The total of actual memory used by the process is then 403,7 MB.


Firefox Flash HDMI No Sound I've got no sound from Flash in Firefox running my MacBook pro through HDMI cable and I've found a similar question from '15 on the, cached, Adobe Forums

When viewing video with flash player in firefox the sound is played through HDMI altough my USB headset is set as the default sound device. All other sound is played trough the default sound device EXCEPT flash player sound.
Restarting firefox doesn't help.
Reinstalling the flash player plugin doesn't help.

To which the answer says:

Yeah, this is a lingering Firefox problem, and it's related to limitations in how we had to retrofit sandboxing to the NPAPI.  The best workaround is probably to just use Chrome.  I forget the exact reason why (this has been a problem for years) but the low-integrity Flash Player process doesn't have permission to call into the Windows Sound APIs necessary to set the correct output target, and I don't believe that we can broker it safely for some reason.
Mozilla has recently engaged in a collaborative effort with us to improve the overall experience with Flash in Firefox by addressing some of these long-standing architectural deficiencies.  Our hope is that we'll be able to provide both a secure and efficient Flash implementation all around, but that effort is going to take at least several months before it reaches customers (and we're doing incremental stuff in the meantime).
Sorry I don't have better news on that front.

The Q&A is a good two years old, I'm hoping there has been some improvements by now.
Any fixes?

The solution I've found is to use the HTML5 Video Player.

Flash can be blocked or turned off in "manage plug-in use" - the grey looking lego-type piece with a blue dot at its top right - next to the url:

which, if flash is on, will bring up something like this:

at which point you can block it.

Upon restarting Firefox it will stop trying to use Flash automatically and default to the HTML5 Video Player. The HTML5 Video Player in Firefox has no problem passing audio through HDMI.

Not all flash based videos - or services - can also use the HTML5 Video Player, but for those that can this is a great solution.


Adobe Bridge Opening on Login For some reason Adobe Bridge is opening on login, even though my Login Items shows that it is unchecked.

Without uninstalling Adobe Bridge, how can I stop it opening on login?

The checkbox is to hide the application:

Remove it from the list by clicking the "-" button while it is selected.


How to convert a CorelDraw file to Adobe Illustrator CS5? Assume I have a CDR file, Adobe Illustrator CS 5 and no CorelDraw. How can I convert this CDR file to AI file? What is the fastest and cheapiest way?

Download Corel trial version. Import all cdr files and export as AI.
job done !


what is /usr/share/dict used for Where is this used, I read the README and it didn't say what program it was from, I do not think that it is the stock dictionary app because I tried some very obscure looking words that were in some of the files and they did not come up in the stock dictionary app.

Any idea where this comes from?

The origins go way back as a place holder for the dictionary words used by the spell utility. spell is not available but the program look will use the words dictionary. You could use one of these alias/function courteous of Wilfredo Sanchez Jr. to do word look ups.

For ksh, zsh, and bash

word () { grep -F -i "$*" /usr/share/dict/web2 ; }

For tcsh

alias word  'grep \!* /usr/share/dict/web2'


Upgrade Operating System Snow Leopard to OS Sierra I know I must upgrade first to El Capitan before upgrading to OS Sierra.
But my question is will I loose installed Adobe Photoshop CS5 and my Bootcamp where I have 2 other costly programmmes installed.

Doubtful that you'll lose either Photoshop on the Mac partition or the Bootcamp partition itself while upgrading. Of course, backing up before moving forward is always the way to go.  :)


How can I get the PostScript name of a TTF font installed in OS X? I have a True Type font installed on my Mac that I have added to an X-Code development project. For the life of me, I cannot get it to work with my application, but I think it's because I'm using the wrong font name.

Using Font Book, or any other tool, how can I get the Postscript font name from the font metadata?

I have a hunch that the Postscript name might be different from the Font name, but I need to verify.

Open the Font Book application. (It should be in your Applications folder.)
Select the font you need the Postscript Name for.
Select Show Font Info from the Preview Menu. ( Or use ⌘+i).

If you are seeing only a preview ensure you click on the i


How to keep Mail from encoding messages with the old charset=windows-1252? A few of my colleagues using Mail, and myself, are unwillingly
and without any knowledge of this misbehaviour,
sending messages encoded with a charset of windows-1252:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
[...]
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\))
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874)

I see the same problem coming from many different versions of Mail.
This is a serious problem since for some anti-spam and anti-virus filters, messages encoded with
this historical coding are identified as coming from SPAM sources or viruses.

Of course, I found an easy way to choose the format used to encode one message.
But this function doesn't scale for people dealing with tenths or hundreds of messages.

How is it possible to avoid sending messages with this historical and
malware symptomatic format?
How is it possible to definetly and easily choose the format used for
all sent messages?

As far as I know, the only way to guarantee the encoding is to make sure every message includes an Unicode dingbat (e.g. in the sig).  This will ensure that the message goes out as UTF-8.  Dingbats are in the Unicode 2700 range, e.g. ✈ .  You need to add this from the Character Viewer, not by just changing to a "dingbat" font, which may not be Unicode.


How to unsubscribe from subscriptions in Find Friends App Recently within Find Friends App I have created a subscription like this:

And now I would like to remove that subscription because subscribed person is notified every time when I arrive to selected location;)

Where is the place I can preview my subscriptions and If I wish, unsubscribe from it?

Thank you;)

Go to Find my Friends app’s contacts ( these are the people you are sharing your location with right now-as we speak).  Then select the contact you want to stop sharing your location with. Then on top Right there is a “More” option. Select “More “ & select “Stop sharing my Location “.
You’re all set. Cheers.


What is /Users/me/Applications? I am on Mavericks (1.9.2) and I just noticed a folder called Applications in my home folder, i.e. I have a folder /Users/me/Applications.  This folder is empty:

cd Applications
pwd
/Users/me/Applications
ls -a
./          ../         .localized
cat .localized
[nothing]
cd
ls -lh
drwx------   3 me  staff   102B 19 Apr 21:08 Applications/

I was wondering how did this folder came into being... this is admittedly a purely academic curiosity before I get rid of it.

Anything can create ~/Applications.

It's usually used to store apps that you don't want to (or can't because you're not admin) install globally on the system. The folder doesn't exist by default, but if created it will be given a custom icon like /Applications. Any app on the system can create this folder and since no record of what app created it exists you probably won't know.


Starred folder showing up in Mail I have a gmail account connected via IMAP to the iPhone 4. For some reason it shows a folder named "starred" which I cannot delete, move, nor find via the web interface in gmail. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?

Edit: in the properties of gmail, I have unchecked both "Important" and "Marked" folders via visible in IMAP, but that had no impact. Same goes for "All Mails", which I also cannot get rid of.

The starred folder is used for flagged e-mails. If you don't want this folder to show up in the mail.app you have to change the preferences directly in the Gmail web interface.

Go to preferences and choose the label tab. There you can uncheck show in IMAP. After the next synchronization, the folder should be gone.


Is there a key command to shift Apple Mail focus to top? This one drives me crazy...

If you search in Apple Mail, you likely end up way back in time in your list of emails. When I am ready to read new email I have to scroll, scroll, scroll to the top of the list again.

There HAS to be a key command or something I am missing to instantly jump to the top of the list.

Is there?

You should be able to press the Home key (Fn + ← left arrow key on a laptop) to go to the top.

Alternatively, if you have a multi touch trackpad, you can use BetterTouchTool to set a gesture for Home and End. I personally think this is the best way, and I set a three fingered swipe down to Home and a three fingered swipe up to End


iMac Pixelated Screen I just recently acquired an iMac. I'm not sure what model it is or anything but the attached pictures show it.

When it boots up there's a pixelated screen and it won't boot into the OS, and when I try to boot from a CD it says that the computer needs to restart.

First, try to boot it off a different drive. It is possible (unlikely) that this is severe data corruption on the drive. You can use another Mac in target disk mode, or you can use internet recovery, or you can use a bootable external drive if you have one.

If you boot another drive and still have the graphic distortions then it is certainly a logic board issue. If it functions normally (this is not likely) then you just need a new hard drive, or maybe just a wipe and reinstall. It's unlikely but worth a shot.


How do I enable a British English voice in Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation on iOS? I'm a UK iPhone user. Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation has always used a US English voice for me, even though both Siri and Apple Maps use a British English voice. I was surprised recently to hear British English directions in Google Maps on another user's phone. I've never been able to find a setting to change it, beyond checking my Siri settings, so assumed I was stuck with a US voice.

How do I configure Google Maps to use a British English voice and British variant words?

There are two steps involved:

Change your Siri voice settings to English (United Kingdom) - as of iOS 7.1.2 this is under Settings > General > Siri > Language and also Settings > General > International > Voice Control (they're both the same setting: change one and the other changes too).
Change your device Language setting to British English: it's under Settings > General > International > Language.

That second one was difficult to find because the default option is English - as opposed to English (United States) which always prompts me to check for an English (United Kingdom) version - and the list is not in alphabetical order: British English and Australian English are both there but way down at the bottom. And weirdly, devices bought in the UK come with most settings defaulting to British but not this one.

You'll know if your device is set to British English because the Cellular option in Settings becomes Mobile.

NB: If your device already has these settings and you still get an American accent, try changing the device language to US English, then back to UK English.


Missing the Health.app on my iPhone? I lost icon for the Health.app (the one with the Heart icon) on my iPhone. How do I get it back?

Go to Setings > General > Restrictions and enable it.

Do nothing and re-enable it, the app should be back. On iOS 10 and later, you might also need to go to the App Store and reinstall system apps so be sure to try that as well.

Last - look for any profiles in settings in case someone managing your device has prevented use of that app systematically. You can generally remove the profile or ask them to reassign your device if you should have access to the health app and store health data on your device.


How to use Applescript to type in a application? I'm trying to type in another application using Applescript, and it keeps giving me this error: Can't get keystroke of "string".
This is my code.
on run {}
    tell application "My Application"
        set str to "string"
        repeat
            keystroke str
            keystroke return
            delay (random number from 5.0 to 10.0)
        end repeat
    end tell
end run

Also, when I replace application with process, it types into the Script Editor instead of the desired application. It would be preferred if I use the application name instead of it's process ID, otherwise I'd have to change the Process ID variable every time.

You need to use System Events to send the keystrokes not the app, try something like this:
on run {}
    tell application "My Application" to activate
    set str to "string"
    repeat
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke str
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke return
        delay (random number from 5.0 to 10.0)
    end repeat
end run


Switching between windows with cmd-tab Possible Duplicate:
  Best app to switch between all open windows (Witch alternatives)

In Microsoft Windows Alt+Tab combination switches between all windows from all applications. In Mac, Cmd+Tab only switches between applications, and when you want to switch between windows in single application, you have to use Cmd+`. I'm used to Windows behavior and I like it more. Is it possible to configure Cmd+Tab to switch between all windows from all applications?

There is no built-in way to do it, but Exposé (Wikipedia link) is pretty good.

Alternatively there are some third-party apps which are might help.


How can I un-trim a trimmed voice memo? I recently recorded an interview on my iPhone 4, however i trimmed it (before syncing with my computer) and shared the trimmed section with a friend. Is there any way I can get the full voice memo back?

Today I used the free software iBrowse on my Mac (PC version also available) to view my iPhone 5 file sytem. I opened the Recordings folder and found all my Voice Memos.

The interesting part is, a Voice Memo I had Trimmed and sent to someone via iMessage, was there in both its original filename and full size, as well as another copy with .trimmed appended to its filename, evidently this is the shortened version I sent my friend.

So if you use iBrowse to view your Recordings, there's a good chance you'll find your original Voice Memo inside there.

PS: I am using iOS 6.1.4 on my iPhone 5.


Safari keeps losing connection I'm trying to download CentOS' ISO from a mirror, and the download fails all times (connection lost). It fails after downloading something like 3.5 GB out of 4.5 GB.
The problem is that every time that I click on the arrow in the downloads tab it restarts from the beginning. How do I restart a download and keep the piece that I have already downloaded?

If you are downloading large files like this on a connection that isn't reliable you're best bet is probably to use a command line tool like curl.

Open a Terminal window, change directory to wherever you want to download the file (for example cd ~/Desktop to save to your desktop). And then type the command curl -OC - http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso to download the CentOS ISO image (I just picked this URL for an example, use you own as you wish).

If the download gets part of the way and stalls or dies, you can just run the same command again and it should restart from the place it left off.

The O in the command tells curl to use the remote filename and the C - tells it to continue where it stopped previously.

Please note: servers have to be set up to allow downloads to start from random positions, so if you try this and it always starts from the very beginning it could be that the server doesn't support it.


How to re-install deb package from MobileTerminal (iOS) [jailbroken] I am trying to run a command to re-install an already installed package. Here is what I see that gives me a clue that I am on the right path, but it doesn't install the package:

su
******
apt-get --reinstall kr.iolate.simulatetouch

The system gives me an error, for which I presume because the .deb file isn't found? How do I tell terminal to download it, if I must? And from where? Here is the complete input/output:

AlarmNextGen:~ mobile$ su
Password:
AlarmNextGen:/var/mobile root# apt-get --reinstall in
stall kr.iolate.simulatetouch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of kr.iolate.simulatetouch is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
AlarmNextGen:/var/mobile root#

I am doing this from command line for a few reasons. Once I get the command to run, I will compile it into a script to do this with activator. The main reason for doing this is because this package ceases to work after the device is rebooted, and must be re-installed over again.

Thanks in advance.

Download http://apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/debs2.0/simulatetouch_0.7-17.deb to your device and then run this command:

dpkg -i simulatetouch_0.7-17.deb


Daisy chain of two Dell U2414H to Macbook Pro Retina 13'' My MacBook Pro have only two thunderbolt ports.

My new external monitors are Dell U2414H connected to MacBook Pro using Display Port to Mini Display Port cable each one. In this situation I'm unable to connect Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter cause of no free ports.

Next step I tried to connect monitors using Daisy Chain function this way:
On first monitor I enabled "Daisy Chain" function. On second (and the last one) I didn't change anything and left it disabled. Now I connected supplied cable (DP to MiniDP) to first monitor to DisplayPort and the other side (Mini DP) two second monitors MDP input. Than I connected only one cable (from first monitor) to first thunderbolt port of my MacBook Pro. Only thing I got was display mirroring. Two of My Dell's was mirrored.

My question is - Any chance two run it using Daisy Chain functionality? As far as I know MacBook thunderbolt ports compatible with MiniDP but...

Any chance to solve it?

Any Mac that supports DP 1.2 technically supports daisy chaining.  However, OS X does not yet support it.  If you boot Windows on your Mac you will be able to daisy chain.


iMac display -- can't change screen brightness on bootcamp with Windows 7 I can't change iMac (2011) display brightness on bootcamp with Windows 7. When I press F1 it shows icon and even fill the bar, but nothing happen to display.

What have I tried:

Reinstalling support files
Installing fresh drivers from ATI site.
Changing screen brigtness in windows "Power Options".

I solved my problem, but I don't actually know what solved it:

I rebooted manualy without any third-party software like BootChamp.
I was pressing Alt (option) key when booted.


How can I add autocorrect shortcuts programmatically? In System Preferences > Keyboard > Text, I can add shortcuts that will be available to me globally via autocorrect.

Lets say I had 100 of these shortcuts and they were on two Macs, rather than adding/removing each individual item by hand, is there a way to maintain a single .plist file that could manage these shortcuts?

You can copy the settings to another Mac by copying ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist.

Note that preferences are cached on 10.9, so if you replace a plist or edit it directly, quitting and reopening applications won't apply the changes. You can apply the changes by running defaults read -g, by running killall cfprefsd, or by logging out and back in. Changes made with defaults are still applied if you just quit and reopen an application.

Print the current settings:

defaults read -g NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems

Add one setting:

defaults write -g NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems -array-add '{on=1;replace=cmd;with="⌘";}'

Replace all settings:

defaults write -g NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems '(
{on=1;replace=cmd;with="⌘";},
{on=1;replace=opt;with="⌥";}
)'

Print the current settings as XML:

defaults read -g NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems | plutil -convert xml1 - -o -

Replace all settings:

amp() { local x=${1//&/&amp; }; x=${x//</&lt; }; printf %s "${x//>/&gt; }"; }
out='<array>'
while IFS= read -r l; do
  out+="<dict><key>on</key><integer>1</integer><key>replace</key><string>$(amp "${l%% *}")</string><key>with</key><string>$(amp "${l#* }")</string></dict>"
done <<< 'cmd ⌘
opt ⌥'
defaults write -g NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems "$out</array>"

Replace NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems with NSUserReplacementItems in 10.8 and earlier.


USB Debugging/Identifying I have a pair of headphones with an ARM chipset of some sort, and wondered if there was a way of identifying it with a micro USB plugged in, but then I thought, how would I identify a USB device in the generic case?

Given USB port X, and device Y, how might I go about finding information in OS X about what device Y might be?

Not sure if this is the kind of information you are looking for but there is the System Information application.

You can launch it from Spotlight, or by clicking on the Apple symbol in the menubar and selecting "About the Mac" and then clicking "System Report...".

If you select USB from the list of hardware types on the left-hand side, you will get some information about the USB devices plugged into your Mac including VendorID, ProductID and Manufacturer.


Dynamically (automatically) change the "download folder" in Safari Saft -- the (now seemingly defunct as of Safari 5.1) Safari plugin -- had the ability to change the name of the download folder (and create said folder if it didn't already exist) that Safari uses (e.g., by creating a name based on the date).  This was incredibly useful for decluttering/ordering my downloads.

Is there any comparable feature in a supported Safari extension (for Safari 5.1)?

P.S.  I know I can create a cron job to do this after the fact, but that seems kludgey and prone to errors because of file timestamps, automatically unpacked ZIP/tar/cpio files, etc.

I am using the Glims Safari Plugin (ver1.0b29) in Safari 5.1 (OSX Lion), which has the feature "Create dated folder for downloaded files".


FFmpeg with Automator & ask Start and Stop parameters I use Automator together with ffmpeg which works great. A shell script command is run with two parameters:

-ss 00:00:00 (starting)
-t 00:00:00 (time length)

Q: Is it possible to set the two parameters using a popup window?

You asked "Is it possible to set the two parameters using a popup window?" and the answer to that is yes.

Here is one example of how it could be done:

In between the Ask for Finder Items action and the Run Shell Script action add a Run AppleScript action with the following AppleScript code:

on run {input, parameters}
    display dialog "Enter the start time and length:" default answer "-ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:00" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} ¬
        with title "Set FFMPEG Start Time and Length: -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:00"
    set beginning of input to text returned of result
    return input
end run

Then in the Run Shell Script action, change the script to the following code:

start_time_and_length="$1"
shift

for f in "$@"
do
    /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.2.4/bin/ffmpeg -i "$f" $start_time_and_length -c:v copy -c:a copy -f mp4 "${f%.*}.mp4"
done

How this works:

The Ask for Finder Items action passes a list of filesystem objects to the next action.
The Run AppleScript action uses a display dialog to add the start time and length to the beginning of the list passed to it from the Ask of Finder Items action.
The Run Shell Script action receives what was returned from the Run AppleScript action, in this case the value of return input as a list in which its first item is the text returned from the result of the display dialog, being the start time and length. This gets set to the start_time_and_length variable and then shift is used to remove it from the list that gets passed to for f in "$@" to process the remaining items in the list.

Note: If you have a issue using the AppleScript code, shown above, then you could use the following as a workaround:

on run {input, parameters}
    set tempList to {}
    display dialog "Enter the start time and length:" default answer "-ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:00" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} ¬
        with title "Set FFMPEG Start Time and Length: -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:00"
    set end of tempList to text returned of result
    repeat with i from 1 to (count of input)
        set end of tempList to item i of input
    end repeat
    copy tempList to input
    return input
end run


How can I cancel a pending payment in App Store? I have accidentally subscribed yearly to an app, and now I removed the subscription but they're still trying to take the payment (no sufficient funds). Can I cancel the payment anyhow?

If you cancelled the subscription soon after you subscribed, and you explain it was an accident no payment should be taken.

Bear in mind that if you had a free trial before the subscription, and you don't cancel 24 hours before the end of the free trial, you may still be charged.

  Some subscriptions might offer a discounted or free trial. If you don’t cancel more than 24 hours before your renewal date, your subscription might renew.

(Source)

Make sure you follow View, change, or cancel your subscriptions.

Additionally, you can go to Apple's official Report a Problem. This is specifically for subscriptions.


Apple Watch will not activate: Pair→Update→Pair→Update→etc iPhone 7+ updated to 13.4.1 this morning.

Refurb Apple Watch 3 delivered this afternoon.  Pairing always says "must update to latest Watch OS to finish pairing.  Tap update, says "may take a few minutes" but in less than a minute, it is says "unpairing" and than asks me again to pair it.  If I tap "skip update and continue," it asks which wrist, says "connecting," and then "unpairing" and I'm back to where I started.

Where do I wave the dead chicken?

Watch refused to turn off for the purpose of reboot.  But doing a hard reboot of both iPhone and Watch changed the behavior.  There were still some things that shouldn't have happened, but eventually I got past them all.


Why does pressing the left command key sometimes trigger a window from Virtualbox I installed Ubuntu under virtualbox under OS X IN MacBook Pro.

A while ago, I asked a question about how to switch between windows in the guest Ubuntu by keystrokes, and the reply at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/241981/12994 suggested to press the left command key once before pressing alt-tab.

It sometimes works, but sometimes immediately following pressing the left command key, Virtualbox will pop up a window saying:

  You have clicked the mouse inside the Virtual Machine display or
  pressed the host key. This will cause the Virtual Machine to capture
  the host mouse pointer (only if the mouse pointer integration is not
  currently supported by the guest OS) and the keyboard, which will make
  them unavailable to other applications running on your host machine.
  You can press the host key at any time to uncapture the keyboard and
  mouse (if it is captured) and return them to normal operation. The
  currently assigned host key is shown on the status bar at the bottom
  of the Virtual Machine window, next to the ￼ icon. This icon, together
  with the mouse icon placed nearby, indicate the current keyboard and
  mouse capture state. The host key is currently defined as Left ⌘.

and asks me whether to choose cancel or capture.

Why does it sometimes work and sometimes brings out the interrupting Virtualbox window? How shall I switch between windows in the guest Ubuntu?

Thanks.

It's because your mouse and keyboard is captured by the VM instance.

When you mouse is captured in the VM window, pressing the Left ⌘ Cmd will bring up the window you described.  When it's not captured, it won't.

If you want to avoid this problem, instal the Guest Additions.


How to fix a corrupted .txt file After my hard drive was formatted by a mistake, I used a data rescue software to recover some files, but when I tried to open my notes and bookmarks files, it just showed weird characters like these below:

  °F
  /ø£#◊≠'P0Í9†‡q@¸≈«4Xb˚p>îºú˙SFsNëû‘AœÚ•Èÿ–)GZWª†uıÙ§†s÷èL˛5ZXh3ëä\ü÷åzP3RäûÙßø˝zL€°•èJv)
  å±æî§‰Á•¡#⁄Üá4oπHLqÕ�qû‘´–qMPø¬x˙“-R·BÓœÆ8§é2xÔ@…ﬁé ÁÒ°;êºÅÄ›{bì±Ë}(:}M*Ò€ìFΩHQ∆Oq…†rFXbìû<ÒKÚì¡‰„44ZCW=z`”â˘∞�—ÅëOsDÖÀtèjC˙ä3Ëip’€ı4XaÄy∆(9¿›◊∑“ìé„4{P∆Õä0)=vi9¸©z)¥fñÄ2~¥Äu<˙PìÄtß˘g#ﬂ“û±∑¶Tså‘âMπ˘zäæ[!\à!Ú≥Ç  ß¶Â‰GNΩ
  L±∞]∏≈J™FÔîF:”D9ï|¨G}W9©∂ùÿŒN3≈L±ê~ˆ·¥ï"≈∏üóÊ«ZmÍ"±@y« piÂ w<
  ≥Â19$ëÈÈOXà9q“ôõ®UÚ˛^I#Î“ùÂÒ€Ò´B/CÕ8E«9&ïå›R¢√ú±Áß‚úS�Ç3VÑ8ˆˆßX�TåıŒ)§K™Pt¿Á—‰Ûª8≠~(ÚÌCBˆÊkFY@'ßJâÌÅ#ﬂüL÷ÚZO≤Á®‰PëKc,@N7

Given a uniform distribution of bytes in your file, and analyzing the data for entropy, the file looks random. The entropy (for 1-tuples) is 7.61 Shannon. This is really near 8 Shannon, the redundancy in your data is insignificant und looks like random error. Of course your file is way too small for proper analysis, but it looks as if

Your file was compressed before, which is unlikely if the file extension was txt and no (known to me) compression header is present.
Your file was encrypted.
You chose to secure erase the disk while formatting.

I think it's most likely the third option. No way to restore it.


iMac (El-Capitan) - Trying to make Wi-Fi as a priority over Ethernet I am trying to prioritise Wi-Fi over Ethernet cable and have changes settings to Wi-Fi under service order but when I do the speed test on Chrome the internet is used from the cable which is only 3 Mbps but on my wifi I get 20 Mbps. Both connections are on a different network.

Is there any way where I can use the internet service from Wi-Fi connection and local file transfer using from the Ethernet cable?

On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Network.
Click the Action pop-up menu , then choose Set Service Order.
Drag services into the order you want.
Click OK, then click Apply to make the new settings active.


Replaced OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 that I am using as a start up disk and it keeps disappearing OWC replaced my Mercury Accelsior E2 because it stopped being recognized on my computer. They said the old one checked out ok even though I did their tests at home before I sent it in. When trying to install the new one, the only way I could get it to show up was by using an old DVD of Snow Leopard (major reason why I like to have software on disk!). Yosemite didn't cut it. I got the Disk recognized and began to update it to Yosemite and update all my software. Then all the sudden the OSX crashed and I couldn't find my disk again. I have tried Disk Utility, Cmd R, Option,etc. with no luck. I even tried using Apple Hardware Test, but it's a Catch 22! My Mac Pro 2008 is suppose to have it on the 2nd DVD, but Yosemite says it no longer works with PCIntel or somthing and this system also doesn't have the holding down "D" key at start up control.

This last time I did an OS X re-install my system just went and switched over to my internal disk and I keep getting a message that my Mercury Accelsior ejected improperly. Another weird thing is that my new External Hard drive goes with it at the same time, but my older hard drive (also connected through one of the two eSata ports on the Mercury Accelsior stays connected?

So, I am at a complete loss. All the things I've been told to try, if they even work, has only been temporary at best and this has been going on for 2-3 weeks with no suggestion working.

When updating to Yosemite you will want to make sure that you are at least running 10.6.8. Running the early versions of 10.6 when updating to Yosemite, will cause errors.

You will also want to make sure that the TRIM has been disabled. Please take a look at this OWC Blog post for instructions: http://blog.macsales.com/27116-disable-trim-before-upgrading-to-yosemite

I am a member of management with Other World Computing


Mac laptop master password problems I've created a Master password  in my Mac laptop it says this password can override any account and be used instead of their original password but it doesn't work The admin account I don't have the password

The master password cannot be used in place of any user's password, it can be used to reset any user's password from the login screen. Just try to log in with the wrong password, and it should show an option to reset it with the master password.

If you're not seeing that, and you have FileVault turned on, you may be looking at the pre-boot authentication screen instead of the login screen (they look very similar). The master password cannot be used a the FileVault pre-boot authentication screen, but a FileVault recovery key can (if you selected that option when enabling FileVault), or linked iCloud account can (if you selected the "Allow my iCloud account to unlock the disk" option instead). Alternately, if you have another (non-admin) account, you could log in with that at the pre-boot authentication screen, then log out to the regular login screen.


Why does the Terminal app need access to Contacts? In Security and Privacy, Terminal has access to Contacts.  It also has access to Calendars, Reminders, and Photos.

Why does Terminal have access to them? I do not know of any Terminal feature which requires them.

It doesn’t need access - say no to the request.

Unless you want some program that runs inside terminal to look at your user data, just decline these requests.

This is covered in the security part Data protections - https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/features/ - you are seeing the ask to allow looking into that data store / folder.


Is it possible to automate tags / tagging of new files dropped into a specific folder? Is it possible to automate tagging of new files dropped into a specific folder?

I use Hazel tool to automatically define tags when files added to specific folders.

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel


I want to run an applescript whenever a certain person signs onto my Messages buddy list I want to run an applescript whenever a certain person signs onto my Messages buddy list

Exactly. Thats exactly what I want. Pretty self explanatory.

I am aware you can run applescripts for messages events, however I don't know how to check if it was that person who signs in.

There is a buddy became available event, that passes in a buddy object. You can use one of the attributes on this object to see 'who' it is (handle, name or full name, for instance).

You can attach an arbitrary script to an event, in the way described at bynkii.com


Open CD/DVD tray when connected via remote-desktop and no eject key? I am connected to my headless (and keyboard less) Mac, which has a cd / dvd drive, via Remote Desktop.

If there is no disk in the drive, it doesn’t show up in Finder. How can I open the CD/DVD TRAY from a MacBook Pro without eject key?

When I connect a usb keyboard directly, I can eject via the eject key.

You can do it from the Terminal by entering the following command:

drutil tray eject


MacBook Pro won't boot after remove boot partition I want to install W10 on my macBook Pro, after searching about a solution all ideas seems dont work with me.

Now, I Follow instruction for BootCamp, i restart my MBP, it gave an error message: No bootable disk found, please insert ...

I went with restarting and option solution I selected the EFI boot going to W10 and when I want install it on BOOTCAMP partition it wont.

when I want to return to the begening, i deleted the BootCamp partition and another partition wich has 600 Mo about, but when i want restarting with my Mac Ox it wont boot, i clicked on option, and here no Machintosh partition is here, I think that I deleted the boot partition.

please can somone give me a solution to reinstall it without formating my MAC

You should be able to net-boot by holding command-option-R at startup (it has to be online of course). This will give you the option to reinstall Mac OS X, and you won't have to erase your disk to do it unless the disk is already damaged/corrupted.


iOS Photos metadata privacy I just recently learned that Photos app has a quite a lot metadata for the images I have taken, try searching for "fruit", "book", "food", "baked", "bottle". As a feature this is pretty neat, it simplifies searching for past pictures much easier. In addition to this the logic can detect people from pictures and even identify them.

However I am concerned about the privacy factor. I have not enabled iCloud Photos sharing. Yet when I take new photo of an apple in Airplane mode, the search finds it as "fruit" only after I have enabled Internet access again. This means that Apple is sending my images (or some derivates of them) to their servers to be processed.

I haven't found any source that explain exactly what happens there, so I can only guess.

Does Apple really send photos to their servers or am I doing something wrong?

Not seeing this behaviour.

I put my iPhone into Airplane Mode, took a picture of a coffee cup. When I tapped the search icon in Photos, at the bottom, saw an "Indexing" spinner for a while (less than a minute). After that, search on "cup" found the picture. Repeated with a photo of a candle, same behaviour.

Maybe you should wait a bit longer.


random "broken" alias from Keynote presentation So for over a few months now ive been having issue with the Keynote application creating these 'broken alias' files on my MacBook Air randomly from time to time(10.13.5 High Sierra; APFS Volume). Ive been working with a iApps Senior Advisor from Apple about this case, but we cant seem to figure out what's causing it as it appears out of the blue, more commonly now if i restart my computer. The Keynote application is version 8.1 and the presentation(s) themselves are in the 'single file' type by default.

The alias & options: https://imgur.com/a/2UAkjEP
Fixing option: https://imgur.com/a/dedu7Dc

I cannot fix the alias, selecting 'delete' does nothing as well as dragging it into the trash. The only solutions ive been able to do is the ts4040 fix or restart my computer into recovery mode and boot back out into normal.

Currently i changed the presentation to 'package' than the defaulted 'single file' as of now and i havent experienced any broken aliases when restarting my computer; but i still dont know why this is happening when it's a single-file...

At this point ive deleted the original presentation and started completely from scratch; but i still get this broken alias file, more commonly if i restart my computer. The iApps Advisor gave me a quick fix when this first started happening for preforming a ts4040 which reset permissions on my computer; but that seems to temporarily work. Screenshots are down bellow of this 'broken alias' file.

Has anyone else ever experienced this issue before??? If you have, please comment bellow.

HUGE UPDATE: Turns out that i found a UI bug with the handoff between MacOS and iCloud; since i dont use iCloud my device couldnt sync the documents up into the cloud and that was causing broken permissions. It took a while for the engineering team to figure it out, but if its just barebones for the Mac(no iCloud synced/erased hard-drive) it reproduced the issue


Why is `brew` extremely slow? When I run brew --version, it took 30 seconds to return a response. Other brew commands are even slower. My CPU is ~ 90% idle. All other programs are running perfectly fine on my machine. I have the latest version of brew, and brew doctor passes.

Any ideas on what I can try (other than reboot the machine)?

$ brew --version
Homebrew 1.5.4
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision bda76; last commit 2018-02-26)

$ brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.

$ brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 1.5.4
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 021fe22e3c982b08346422d1e7897e929a709380
Last commit: 2 weeks ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: bda76108c4f452684682a89f1d7fb7cd4acf8557
Core tap last commit: 4 hours ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS_THIS_RUN: 1
CPU: quad-core 64-bit haswell
Homebrew Ruby: 2.3.3 => /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.3.3/bin/ruby
Clang: 9.0 build 900
Git: 2.15.0 => /usr/local/bin/git
Curl: 7.54.0 => /usr/bin/curl
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/bin/python
Ruby: /usr/bin/ruby => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
Java: N/A
macOS: 10.12.6-x86_64
Xcode: N/A
CLT: 9.2.0.0.1.1510905681
X11: N/A

It looks like a network issue.
In such cases when I use a framework that is dependant on the internet I would run a ping test which can give a clue on what's happening on the network layer (any delays or such)


iTunes wont sync items to iPhone after Family Sharing set up I ran into issue where my iTunes on Windows wont sync any data to iPhone 6 after I set up Family Sharing. Any ideas how to fix this?

There are no error messages, photos sync just ok but music does not appear on the iPhone after syncing or clicking Autofill button. iTunes version is 12.2.1. iPhone is on iOS 8.4.

So I figured what was the problem. First of all its not family sharing but new Apple music which is in the cloud now and prevents from downloading songs from iTunes to your iPhone. So if you go to Settings --> Music and disable Show Apple music it restores the ability to transfer songs in old fashion from iTunes. See attached screenshot.


How to authorize iTunes in Mavericks (OS X 10.9)? I've got my new iMac OS X 10.9
I'm using iTunes on my new iMac, running Mavericks. I would like to download music/movies which I've purchased.

But then a pop-up displays:

  Your computer is not authorized; You must authorize this computer
  before you can download previous purchases.

How can I authorize my computer?
'

Open iTunes
Find the Store menu
Select "Authorize This Computer" and enter your Apple ID and password.


Jailbroken , erased all data and restoring I have a 3g phone jail broken. In order to delete data. i click on the option of Erase All Content and Settings.

then i was stuck on apple logo when ever i open Iphone. So I entered into DFU mode in order to restore OS. But it throws me an "unknown error occurred 1015".while restoring ...

I dont remember the exact version i had on Iphone. before this mess. but i remember that done through changing the base band to Ipad.

I stuck , i am dont know how to recover my phone. Worried.

First of all, Erase All Content And Settings on a pre-3GS phone is slooooooooooooooow. In fact, while it is happening, only the Apple logo appears on the screen. (It may still be running)
From HT2110:

  This process
  can take several hours, depending on
  the storage capacity of your iPhone or
  iPod touch. During this time, the
  device displays the Apple logo and a
  progress bar.

Second of all, anytime you have an error message when restoring an iPhone, TS1275 is your best friend.

  Error 1015: This error is caused by attempts to downgrade the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch's software. This can occur when you attempt to restore using an older .ipsw file. Downgrading to a previous version is not supported. To resolve this issue, attempt to restore with the latest iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch software available from Apple.

Sounds like you want to restore to a more recent version, worst case just get the most recent jailbreak instructions with the most recent software that supports your hardware from the Dev Team Blog.


Notifications on dual monitors: how can I specify which monitor? I would like to have notifications on my left monitor and not my right monitor. It's hard to see them when I'm looking at the left monitor (since they're all the way on the right side and they're rather large monitors).

Is there any way to keep the screens in this order but have the notifications appear on the screen I want them to appear on?

You should be able to do this by choosing the monitor on which the menu bar is active.
Try:

System Settings -> Displays -> Arrangement

and drag the little white bar to the monitor where you want the notifications to show up.
In the picture below, the bar is being dragged from the left to the right window.


Multiple iPads need multiple games I have 4 kids and they all have games on their iPads that are the same games.  How do I get the accounts squared away so they are no playing each others game?  For example, everyone has "Clash of the clans" on their iPads and they all play the same game.  How can we get it so each person can create their own world in the game and not interfere with each others' game?

If you ensure that each device has a distinct iCloud account so that the Documents and Data for each device is stored in a separate account, you can have the 4 devices all share one Apple ID for purchasing and have a separate account for each child's mail, contacts, messages, etc...


How to save data from broken GPT, GUID and unmountable, no type volumes? I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 and 750GB hard drive. I tried to delete Windows partition on the hard disk and now I can't access my main Mac partition (disk index 2) anymore. It shows something like "FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF" and I don't even know what it is.

I don't want to format/delete this partition because it has important files. The main Mac partition had FileVault enabled and this is the output from sudo gpt -r show disk0

 start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1167843728      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
  1168253368        1608
  1168254976   126689280      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1294944256      262144
  1295206400   168673192      4  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1463879592     1269536      5  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1465149128           7
  1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

I appreciate any help or suggestions!

I deleted from the MAC-Disk utility window. No, I am not trying to boot into OS X or trying to mount the disk from another system. I am just trying to save my files from that partition.

Here are the screens:

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

Thanks!


How do I convert a pages document to a word document without access to pages? Suppose I didn't have access to a Mac with pages.  How can I convert a pages document to a word document using only a windows environment?  Is there a freeware converter available?

Pages is free, so go get it if you can.

In addition to the iOS and macOS pages app, the iCloud version of Pages enable anyone on Linux, Windows and Mac to use a modern browser and edit/convert pages documents without needing local software.

This beta started rolling out to people that had brand new iCloud accounts in late July at https://beta.icloud.com and now Apple is slowly rolling out the beta to anyone that logs in to https://www.icloud.com

The actual web apps are the same whether you enter through the beta URL or the normal URL and the only difference between the two is the treatment of the rest of the iCloud icons. The www url has linen and iOS 6 styling and the beta URL has iOS 7 styling without needing Mavericks or iOS 7.


What are the implications of "Select Your Country or Region"? I'm opening an iPhone after it has been reset to factory settings, and I'm asked to choose a language, and then to choose a country or region.

What are the implication of choosing a particular country? Will it lock me out of something? Can I change this setting later? Will it affect what apps I can download from the Apple app store?

You can change this setting later at any time.

It doesn't affect the AppStore. The region setting will affect the availability of certain features which aren't available in all regions yet such as Apple Pay and Apple News.

Apple News is only available if you set your region to Australia, UK or US.
Apple Pay is additionally available in Canada.


How to uninstall "Installations" under System Report? I was wondering how I can access these five programs that I downloaded without having the proper knowledge of uninstalling them. They have been messing with my system audio output through the speaker and I am trying to locate and delete them. Any ideas?

In those cases i use a little app called AppCleaner.

The just drag the app in question in to it and it will find all associated files to that program and ask you if you want to delete them.

If you do not have the original app any more, you could use Terminal and find the files and delete them.

type mdfind TechSmith and see what comes up


Install python3 from Homebrew vs the installer from https://www.python.org/? Is there any advantage of installing python 3 through homebrew vs through the installer from https://www.python.org/ or vice verse (except that the installer can give me the latest version)?
I try both and I can't find the difference.
---- update ----
I now gain some insights about this question.

If I install python through the installer, the installer will modify PATH in .zprofile like following and create softlink /usr/local/bin/python3

    # Setting PATH for Python 3.8
    # The original version is saved in .zprofile.pysave
    PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin:${PATH}"
    export PATH

    # Setting PATH for Python 3.9
    # The original version is saved in .zprofile.pysave
    PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:${PATH}"
    export PATH

    ls -al /usr/local/bin/python3
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  69 11 20 11:18 /usr/local/bin/python3 ->
    ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/python3

if I then install python thru brew, brew will complain. Sometimes I don't run brew install python directly but install some bottle, which installs python, e.g brew install httpie will install python, then brew complains

    ...
    ==> Caveats
    Python has been installed as
      /usr/local/bin/python3

    Unversioned symlinks `python`, `python-config`, `pip` etc. pointing to
    `python3`, `python3-config`, `pip3` etc., respectively, have been installed into
      /usr/local/opt/python@3.9/libexec/bin

macOS preinstall python at /usr/bin/python & /usr/bin/python3 which remain unchanged. But since PATH is modified by the installer or brew (brew puts /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin) so preinstall python is shadowed.

I do find brew has an "annoying" feature, when brew’s Python being installed as a dependency for a bottle and then I uninstall the bottle, the brew's Python remains. For example I installed httpie and uninstalled it. But to my surprise my system python is still the one installed by httpie. It took me quite sometimes to figure out that.

I'd say it's entirely a matter of personal preference, as to whether you like to use HomeBrew or not.
There was a recent post about some problem with brew python, but it may be a local issue, or have been fixed.
Python 3 'json' module is actually corrupted


Change the shell that functions use In my current terminal setup, I make use of zsh; it's my default shell. I also have an up-to-date version of Bash for other reasons installed from Homebrew.

However, there is also the Bash provided by Apple which is at version 3.2.57.

I've my own functions setup and a particular one requires a feature starting from Bash 4.0. Even though my default shell is zsh and I aliased sh(Apple's bash) command to bash(the bash from Homebrew) command, the function I've defined still defaults to using sh and hence, my function doesn't/can't function. I've also changed the shebang at the head of the file defining my custom function but no help.

How can I make that function I've defined default to using the bash installed from Homebrew?

You can turn the function into a shell script and define the shell to be used in the first line

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

# the content of your function goes here

Then make the shell script executable and put it somewhere into your PATH.


iPhone 11 failing to connect to 3g For the first time in a long while I am to a location without any 4G or LTE - only 3G. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I am failing to coax my iPhone 11 even as close as to receive/send any data over it including switching voice and data on the phone’s secondary line (the one with a plan for roaming) to 3G. Text messages seem to go fine.
Here are my current data configuration:

Is there anything possibly wrong with the configurations that might be a quick fix? Is this a known issue?

In the end, the problem was with the cell service provider to which my phone was connecting by default. It seems it was not respecting roaming agreement with my provider. Switching to another provider manually solved the issue.


iCloud Music Library and Apple Music subscriber - mass delete all local music files from iPhone I enabled iCloud Music Library and subscribed to Apple Music.

I have iPhone with 16 GB and wish to delete all local music files, to free up space for other stuff. Before iCloud Music I would "not sync" my music files and then they get deleted from iPhone.

With a search engine I found how to to delete songs in Music app. Bud sadly I need to delete every artist individually. I have about 600 different artists and albums.

Open settings
Tap general
Tap Storage and iCloud Storage
Under Storage, find music.
Swipe left where it says "All Songs"
Press delete.


Prevent my Mac from connecting to an unsecure Wi-Fi network? How can I prevent my Macbook from connecting to non-secure wireless networks?

I've ticked the "Ask to join new networks" option and removed the offending network from the Preferred Networks list in Advanced > Wi-Fi.

Ideally, I'd like to blacklist a particular network based on its name (rather than on any HW addresses, since there are many access points with this name).

My system: Mac OS 10.8.3, Macbook Air 13", mid-2011.

Your Mac will only automatically join Wi-Fi networks which are in its preferred networks list.

If the non-secure network is not in that list, it will not join it.

If you want to be prompted to join a network when no "known" network is available, turn on "Ask to join new networks."

However, if you do not turn on "Ask to join new networks" then your Mac will not automatically join the non-secure networks, it will simply stay disconnected without prompting you.

So there is no need to 'blacklist' a network because it will not join it unless you tell it to join it.  Unfortunately there is also no way to tell your MacBook not to present it as an option. The best you can do is require an administrator password before it can be joined:


Empty Firmware Password? I was wanting to reveal the EFI password on my Mac using this in the Terminal:

sudo nvram security-password

but instead of outputting hex data, it gives me this:

nvram: Error getting variable - 'security': (iokit/common) data was not found

I know there is a FW password because I get the lock when holding Option on boot. Any ideas why this isn't working? I have admin access.

Macbook Pro 13-Inch w/ Retina Display, Mid-2014, running 10.10.4

The firmware password on newer machines isn't stored in nvram anymore (which is why anything newer than around 2010/2011 cannot have the firmware password removed by reseating RAM).

Source: https://github.com/munkireport/munkireport-php/issues/43#issuecomment-29738033


Turn down TX power on AirPort? Our floor has a blind spot so we needed to place an AirPort to cover two rooms. The AirPort in this particular room is transmitting at a higher power than needed, and its bleeding onto some areas where its unwanted. (This was found with Wifi Stumbler).

I'm running the AirPort Utility on OS X Mavericks. The room in question has an AirPort Express. I've looked in the AirPort Utility, but I don't see where I can set TX power.

How do I turn down TX power on AirPort?

Is there some sort of secret knock to use with AirPort to get into advanced settings? Or should I be using something else to configure them?

In order to set the TX Power you need an older version of the Airport utility which is available here.

Navigate to your base station > Manual Setup > AirPort > Wireless > Wireless Network Options. Once there, choose a transmit power that’s lower than 100% (you can choose between 10%, 25%, 50%, and 100%).

Remember to Update your configuration when you’re done.


Mavericks - Tell application "Preview" open PDF - strange permission issue I have recently moved a large research collection of PDF files, from a Snow Leopard 10.6.8 TimeMachine disk, to my new rMBP (to the internal flash storage). I did this manually, not through the TimeMachine interface. The rMBP runs Mavericks 10.9.3.

When I double click the PDFs, they open without a problem in Preview.

But, when I write a small AppleScript to open one, for example:

tell application "Preview"
    activate
    open "/Users/me/Desktop/test.pdf"
end tell

I get the following error on executing the AppleScript:

  The file “test.pdf” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have
  permission to view it. To view or change permissions, select the item
  in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.

I look in Get Info for test.pdf. In the "Sharing and Permissions" tab, it does not matter what I set permissions to, even if all users can Read & Write the file, I still get the error.

Conversely, if I download a PDF from the internet, straight to the desktop, and execute the applescript to open it, it opens in Preview without a problem.

(p.s. I need to open PDF by AppleScript, as part of a larger system I have, I am not just doing it for fun!)

for me do shell script.. failed, but this one below worked.

set filepath to POSIX path of "Users:student:Desktop:Yourfile.pdf"
try
    set command to "open " & quoted form of filepath
    do shell script command
end try

Note: Instead of ":" for file path I used "/", a modification one can try.

Source of Code: MacRumors


How serious are occasional kernel panics? I had a kernel panic about 2 years ago, and another one a few days ago. I haven't had any other problems besides minor software bugs, and I was able to harmlessly reboot after both. I've been told this can mean many bad hardware-related things. Could it just be something relatively harmless, since it doesn't really seem too persistent? Is it worth having it checked out?

The first time you get a kernel panic, it is a reminder to make sure you have a regular backup system in place. Restart the Mac and check that your backup is configured. Check later that day to test restoring a files you need to be backed up.

The second time you get a kernel panic, decide how you're going to track when they happen. I use a 3 x 5 note card to document things like what I was doing when I noticed it in the date and time.

Other than that, until you lose real work, the occasional panic/error isn't a real concern as much an annoyance. If you end up annoyed or have recurring panics, gather objective data needed to solve most kernel panics. Apple documents their well engineered process for this:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200553

Once you have a handful of events, checking with support is good since they are in a better position to weigh if hardware is suspected to be faulty or if your panics are software in nature.


What do light grey song titles mean in iTunes? When song 5 is done playing, it automatically skips over to song 16. The songs in between play just fine when started manually but are not part of the queue when playing the album. Why? What do these grey song titles mean?

I do have iTunes Match, but these songs are all downloaded to my computer.

Switching to the "songs" view showed the problem: they were unchecked for some reason (no idea why). And because this checkmark wasn't visible in the "artists" view (which I always use) I never noticed this before.

Anyway, selecting all songs -> check selection solved the problem!


Is it possible to downgrade to ios 4.3.3 without SHSH? I am trying to downgrade to ios 4.3.3 but each time I try this, my iPod Touch 3g goes in a recovery loop with an all black display and I can't do anything but restoring ios5.

Is it possibile to downgrade to 4.3.3?

If you have your SHSH's saved for 4.3.3, then you should be able to get back to 4.3.3 with some help of TinyUmbrella (it also has a button to get out of recovery loop, maybe you can try that?)

If you don't have your SHSH's saved, there is no way you can get back to 4.3.3 (or any firmware version for which you didn't save your SHSH's, for that matter...)

Official download links are to the right of this page: http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/


Rearrange single pictures in Photos? How do you manually rearrange single pictures in Apple "Photos"? In iPhoto it was possible to select the picture, hold down the mouse button and move to another position in the album. Has that feature been deleted?

The default views (Moments, Collections, Years), as well as all automatic albums (All Photos, Selfies, Videos…) are always sorted with the most recent at the bottom. This ordering cannot be changed.

However you can create Albums, throw your pictures in there, then rearrange them to your heart’s content.

To view your albums, press ⌘ cmd 4. You can also show the sidebar by pressing ⌘ cmd ⌥ opt s (it will be shown by default in macOS 10.13 High Sierra). Either option will give you access to your albums. Once you open an album, simply drag-and-drop it wherever you like with the mouse.

This will not affect the default views and automatic albums.


How to Command-Tab to a specific Safari window running in full screen I wish to switch between Eclipse IDE (not running in full-screen mode) and a tutorial running in Safari (in full-screen mode).

Whenever I Command + Tab from Eclipse to Safari I am not taken to the tutorial in full screen mode but to a Safari page showing the message Click to exit full screen.

How could I move between the two without changing Eclipse to full-screen mode and without switching spaces using swipe on trackpad?

You opened a tutorial video on YouTube in Safari which is running in full-screen mode. Now in the main YouTube player window, you have clicked on the Full Screen control placed towards the bottom right (of the player). This takes the YouTube video full screen, and moves it to a separate Space of its own.

When you use Command + Tab to switch to Safari, you land on the Safari window running in full-screen mode. You are shown the current Safari tab, but its full-screen video display is on another Space (generally, the next Space towards right of Safari's Space). This is the default behaviour in the described scenario.

After switching to Safari's Space, you'll have to change to the adjacent Space using any one of the methods to change Space. Since you mentioned you don't want to use trackpad, the easiest way to do so, is to use the keyboard shortcut to switch Space. To view/configure keyboard shortcut to switch Spaces, go to System Preferences app → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Mission Control.

The default shortcut assigned by macOS to Move right a Space is Command + →. In my case, I have changed it to Option + Command + →. Command + → is commonly used to move to end of line while editing text, which is a more frequent activity than moving to right Space.


iTunes Helper still running even if it is off I want to disable iTunes Helper.

I have remove it from Settings > Users & Groups > Login Items, but it's still running after restart.

Did I miss anything?

iTunesHelper will run if you open iTunes, or do something that opens an iTunes service.

The only way to completely disable iTunesHelper is to…

Quit iTunes and remove iTunesHelper from Login Items.
Go to /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/

You can use Finder's Go to Folder to go there - paste in the path as above.

Rename iTunesHelper.app to something else (e.g. iTunesHelper-disabled.app).

iTunesHelper should not run automatically now.


iPhone photos suddenly disappeared I cannot view my photos on my iPhone 7 plus although it takes up 13GB of storage. It happened last Sunday, March 31, 2019, I was about to send a photo thru messenger when I noticed that the picture selection wouldn't load. So I checked out photos and found out I couldn't view them. There's a note on the bottom that it's restoring. I haven't been able to find any fix to problem, please help. Thanks.

PS: I can take photos or screenshots but I do not know if they are actually saved.

Try out from the following options to make it work:-

Reset Network Settings
There is a chance that the culprit is the networking. To be specific, your iPhone is syncing photos to the cloud. Yet, the networking is not fine. Thereby, you see that it keeps deleting and restoring photos. Under this circumstance, you should reset network settings. Just go to “Settings” > “General” > “Reset” > “Reset Networking Settings”. Then, enter your password and confirm “Reset Networking Settings”.
Turn off Cellular Data
Moreover, this issue may result from unstable or malfunctioning Cellular Data. Therefore, you can try to fix it by turn off cellular data. Just Launch “Settings” app. Then, in the new screen, you can tap the “Cellular” option. In subsequent “Cellular” screen, you need to tap the green switch beside the “Cellular Data”.
Turn on Airplane Mode
If you encounter this issue when you attempt to import files, you can solve it by turning on “Airplane Mode”. Likewise, get access to the “Settings” application on your iPhone. Then, locate the first “Airplane Mode” option and tap on the switch next to it.
Change iCloud Settings
What’s more, there is a likelihood that the criminal is improper iCloud settings. On your Mac, get into “System Preferences” > “iCloud” and uncheck the “Photos”. Then, in “System Preferences”, go to “iCloud” > “Photos” > “Options”, and next uncheck “My Photo Stream” and “Photo Sharing”. After that, in your iPhone, you should delete the account for iCloud. After that, re-sync iOS device with iTunes. Finally, set up an iCloud account on your iPhone again.
Update iOS System
Furthermore, this problem can occur from iOS system bugs. As we all know, older iOS will always contain some bugs. Hence, you should check the version of your iPhone system. If it isn’t the latest version, you have to update it. You can go to “Settings” > “General” > “Software Update”.
Reset All Settings
Assuming that all the above solutions cannot help you, you can try the “Reset All Settings” option. This can eradicate multiple system issues. But, it should be the last resort in that it will erase all of your iPhone data. Hence, you had a better back up your iPhone in prior to “Reset All Settings". It can save you from difficult data recovery, similar to Outlook recovery on PC. After backup, just go to “Settings” > “General” > “Reset” > “Erase all Contents and Settings”.

Source:- https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/6-solutions-iphone-keeps-deleting-restoring-photos/


Is there a way to enable Java only for specific applications? I know that it is possible to completely disable Java in OS X, and to disable its use from within a given browser. I use just one or two applications that require Java, and would like to enable it for them, but prevent it from running in all other cases.

Is there a way to enable Java only for certain apps that I specify?

There is a way, but it's convoluted and non-intuitive.  I will say that I do not recommend this approach, but I am listing it for completeness.

Java Default Policy Administration is the official doc on Java's own internal security and access policy.

The idea is that you can set deny access to files/folders at a global level, then add specific grant permissions to those Java classes/jars you want to allow.

The permission's that can be set are listed in the JDK Permissions

Some examples of what can be done can be found at ExampleDepot


MacBook with Lenovo C-Dock duplicates image on external monitors I connect my MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 3 to a Lenovo C-Dock, which connects 2 external monitors through 2 DisplayPort cables. The problem I have is that the 2 external monitors mirror each other.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)
macOS Mojave
Version 10.14.3 (18D109)

Lenovo USB-C Dock Type: 40A9

I looked at the display settings, and there is no options to change it. I also tried to connect one of the monitor through VGA port, the 2 monitors still duplicate.

How can I make the 2 external monitors display distinct content and not mirror each other?

The MacBook only supports dual displays including the built in display.  In other words, it will only support one external monitor.  Per the tech specs:

  Dual display and video mirroring: simultaneously supports full native
  resolution on the built-in display and up to 4096-by-2304 resolution
  at 60Hz on an external display, both at millions of colors

The Lenovo C-Dock doesn't enable your MacBook to supply more display bandwidth than Apple provides.  So, the mirroring you are seeing is expected behavior.

From the comments...

  ...I should specify that my MacBook is actually MacBook Pro (15-inch,
  2018). Would that make any difference?

Yes and no.

Yes in that the MacBook Pro (as opposed to the MacBook) can support more than 1 external monitor.  However, as you've already discovered, if you connect them separately, it works.  Unfortunately, you can't daisy chain monitors from a single port; you must use separate ones.  Use of the dock still doesn't increase the available video bandwidth of the Thunderbolt/DisplayPort port even if the machine itself has the capability.


What app is this icon with a square and a black triangle? I've seen this icon in a tutorial I watched on YouTube. What app is this icon?
Have searched through Google Images but found nothing.

That is the icon for AirPlay, by Apple, and that menu bar item allows you to control the streaming/mirroring of content on your Mac to an Apple TV or other AirPlay server.

  Turning AirPlay Mirroring on and off

  If your Mac supports using your Apple TV as a display, an AirPlay menu appears in the menu bar when an Apple TV is on the same network. The AirPlay Mirroring menu icon turns blue when AirPlay Mirroring is on ().

Source: About AirPlay Mirroring in OS X


Photos unable to consolidate referenced photos I recently imported my Aperture library of 17,000 referenced images into Photos. Initially, they were referenced in Photos as well. Since I plan to upload my entire library to iCloud Photo library I told Photos to consolidate all 17,000 files. This revealed a problem. Photos is unable to locate and consolidate about a 1000 of my photos even though Aperture has no problem pointing me to them when hitting "Show in Finder".

The weird thing is, Photos offers me to locate these files for it. I then navigate to the exact folder where the file is stored and even made sure that its filename is identical to the name of the file Photos states it cannot find in that folder. At this point I'm stuck. What can I do to make Photos identify these files correctly?

I'm happy to provide additional information if anyone tells me what might be relevant.

For the record, although I was reluctant to try it at first, what eventually solved my problem, was to

relocate all files into the Aperture library,
completely delete the Photos library,
reimport the Aperture library with all photos now managed.

Steps 1 and 2 can run in parallel to save time. After doing this, Photos is now able to scan all 17,000 photos for faces and upload all of them to my iCloud Photo library.


Can you install OS X from a USB on late 2010 iMac? I'm having quite a few difficulties with my old, late 2010 iMac, and upgrading from Lion to Siearra did not help. I have used my Laptop to create a USB Boot for El Capitan, and I would like to use it to downgrade my Desktop to El Capitan.

I know these older models of iMac cannot install Windows, via Bootcamp, from a USB, but is this the same for OSX? Any help with downgrading/fresh installing to El Capitan would be much appreciated.

P.S. My iMac's super drive is broken, so I cannot install anything from a disc. It's USB or nothing, I'm afraid.

Your iMac late 2010 is compatible with Sierra according to the official MacOS Sierra - Technical Specifications page.

  Mac Hardware Requirements

  For details about your Mac model, click the Apple icon at the top left
  of your screen, choose About This Mac, then choose More Info. These
  Mac models are compatible with macOS Sierra:

  MacBook (Late 2009 or newer)
  MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)
  MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
  Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
  iMac (Late 2009 or newer)
  Mac Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)

You can still get the OS X El Capitan via this link - thanks to @user3439894 for pointing out. It's up to you what OS installation to proceed with, but as long as your hardware supports the newest OS version I would go with clean install of Sierra.

Before proceeding further make sure you have your data backup somewhere, preferably using Time Machine. Also make sure you have a working memory stick with 8GB or more on it.

You can create a bootable USB drive with macOS Sierra on it following these steps:

Go to App Store and Download macOS Sierra. You can do that even you already have the macOS installed.

When the download will be finished the popup will appear asking you to proceed with installation. You need to close it. You can double check the location of your Install macOS Sierra.app in Applications folder.

With your memory sticked inserted in your you need to open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) window. And copy/paste the following command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app

For El Capitan you'll have to type this command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app

Where Untitled is the name of your memory stick.

Then you need to type Y acknowledging the fact that your memory stick will be erased in order to create bootable media.

Copying installer files to disk process can take some time depending on type of your memory stick (2.0 or 3.0) and your internal HD (HDD or SSD).
When the process is finished you will see the following screen:

You can proceed with restarting your iMac keeping the memory stick inserted.
You need to hold ⌥ key during the startup in order to go into Startup Manager.

You need to choose Install macOS Sierra from the available options.
Go to Disk utility and erase (OS X Extended (Journaled)) the current startup drive - the one you're running your OS on. This will format your drive and delete everything on it.
When the formatting process is finished, close Disk Utility and select Install macOS from the menu. Make sure you're installing your macOS on the startup drive not your memory stick.

Following these steps will help you with your macOS clean install. If you feel you get stuck somewhere you can always consult with this guide or this one. There are many other guides available.


iPhone can not upload notes to iCloud my iPhone can not upload the contents in iCloud account notes to iCloud, which means my Mac and iPad can not sync it. But the iPhone can sync the contents edited on my Mac and iPad. So that I can edit the notes on Mac and check it on iPhone but can not edit the contents on iPhone and check it on my Mac. Google a lot but no answer. Tried log out apple ID and log in again already but it did not work. My iOS system is 10.2 the updated one. Any one can help me? Thank you very much

I bought iPhone 7 a few days and got exactly the same problem. My old iPhone 5S still syncs perfectly but new one doesn't.

Have done everything: logged out Apple ID and in again, turned off iCloud Notes syncing and then on again, still nothing. Even set my new phone up as a new iPhone but the Notes app is still not syncing with other devices where it works perfectly. I can see notes made on other devices but edits made on iPhone 7 are not showing up on my old iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro.

I tried all these things here but mine isn't still working - maybe it works for you: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/12/19/icloud-notes-not-syncing-fix/


Map certain ports to URLs via hosts file or DNS resolver I use SSH tunnelling extensively to gain access to remote machines that are behind a firewall. So to access a development server I use something like http://localhost:8888 which is forwarded to port 80 on a remote host.

Is there a way to simplify my setup with custom domains? For instance, I want to be able to type in http://remote.dev and actually be accessing http://localhost:8888?

DNS and hosts are only for domain mapping of IP addresses. Ports aren't part of a domain, and according to this post, it cannot be done in the way you're asking. There is an alternative solution mentioned there, but things can get messy when modifying firewall tables. Essentially what you have to do is redirect 127.0.0.1:8888 to a remote server (you'll have to know the IP address of the server, and it'll have to be unique). That being said, it is possible, but may not be worth the effort or potential consequences.