What is the easiest way to 'save as' in iWork? The 'save as' option in iWork has changed when versions and Lion was introduced.

I often open up a doc make some changes - names, dates, prices - and then wish to save the doc in another location and under another name.

Currently I have to create a duplicate first and then save it with another name.

Is there a simple way of doing this?

Best practice would arguably be to Duplicate the document the moment you open it, then proceed with your edits. However, sometimes we open a document and start working, only to realize that it's now (in our mind) a "new" document based on the original.

Applications that support Lion's versioning will give you the option to Duplicate and Revert, meaning that they will make a copy of the current document in it's current state, then revert the original document back to its last saved state.

If some unwanted changes have been saved within the original, you can use Revert to restore the original to the state you prefer.

If a document hasn't been opened for a period of time, it will open in a locked state and you will be prompted to either unlock or duplicate it before you can make changes.


How to upgrade to 10.13.3 with fusion drive on apfs I installed High Sierra via the app store, the regular way. In the process the fusion drive of my mac mini was converted to apfs.

I am still on 10.13.1, and wondered, why available upgrades did not show up, so I downloaded

macOSUpd10.13.2Supplemental.dmg
macOSUpd10.13.3.dmg

from the apple website. When I try to install them, I cannot chose any of my drives and the dialog dispays this link for further explaination:

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/apfsfusion

Which states, that I installed apfs during the High Sierra Beta program, which converted my fusion drive to apfs, which somehow seems not to have been the right thing to do and now I would have to backup, setup newly and restore my whole system, something that would take me days to complete.

The thing is, I never signed up any apple beta program and I am unsure whether I am seeing this notification, because I try to install the upgrades from downloaded disk images and have not waited enough for the upgrade to apear by itself. On the other hand I am already missing out on the second iteration of High Sierra and this makes me uneasy, too.

Could anyone clarify my situation for me?

Apparently, you just have to threaten your mac here on askdifferent. Then, it will just install the 10.13.3 update overnight.

:P


OS X unable to update outdated app icon in Launchpad I have an app which is installed in OS X. It needs a certain software patch currently to make it run successfully in the latest OS, and we are sending the patch as a standalone separate app, which when installed, does the necessary things (mainly updating a Config file within the <MyApp>.app folder in /Applications). After this, double clicking the app icon in Finder launches it fine. But when we try to launch it by clicking the icon in the Launchpad, it doesn't open. (this is the problem which we are solving, it won't open even from Finder by double clicking without the patch).

So I tried to refresh the Launchpad by these things:

rm ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*.db
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
cd $TMPDIR../0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/ && rm db*

Nothing works. It still doesn't open. Only upon restarting the Mac does the Launchpad click work and the app launches.

Is it possible in any way to fix this without requiring a restart?

OS - Yosemite, El Capitan both.

I recently come up with the same question.

unlink Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db
touch /Applications/YourAppName.app
killall Dock

the touch(1) command is very important. things would not work without it.
I think maybe the Dock does not update its db unless the app was updated.


Fans blaring again after a brief hardware fix My 2017 MacBook Air began having a problem with a high kernel task and high CPU with fans blaring. I did a hardware test and it said there may be an issue with the SMC PFM006, there may be an issue with the power management system PPN001.

After reading online that it may be to do with the track pad's thermal sensor I took the Mac apart and disconnected then reconnected the track pad. I and also cleared the dust of the machine. I did the hardware test again and it was all clear. So I began downloading all the software that I deleted while  troubleshooting and during the downloads the problem came back.

It's giving out the same hardware errors again, however now the system seems to run a little smoother, but the fans are still blaring. Any advice?

It's giving out the same hardware errors again, however now the system seems to run a little smoother, but the fans are still blaring. Any advice?

Change the track pad.

Cleaning things out probably helped improve the efficiency of the cooling but it doesn't fix a faulty sensor.  If you hare still getting hardware errors, it means you have a problem with the hardware.  Software (hacks) aren't going to solve a physical issue.  It's like hearing a noise in your car and installing a louder radio and speakers to cover it up.  In the end, the problem is still there.

You're on the right track and you've done good diagnostics, you just have to take it the last mile and do the hardware fix.


Aligning, moving and enlarging partitions seems impossible A friend's MacBook (mid 2009 model) was stuck at the boot screen and I have discovered that the HDD was failing, so I've replaced the failing regular 320GB HDD with a Samsung 860 evo 500GB SSD.

I cloned the disk with ddrescue and before reinstalling via the recovery partition, I aligned the partitions (EFI, Macintosh HD and Recovery HD) with GParted.

Something went wrong, and when reinstalling El Capitan was complaining that

  some features of macOS are not supported for the disk [...] you can't use FileVault, set up a firmware password, or use Disk Utility to repair the disk

I didn't want to give back the MacBook with this problem, so I tried different ways to align the partitions. I even installed El Capitan by using a removable USB stick so I could format the SSD, but the newly created partitions were again not MB aligned.

My last attempt was by using the trial version of the Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac, but it failed. It seems that the partitions couldn't be moved and enlarged (so after the recovery partition I still have ~200GB of unallocated space that I can't use).

Any clues on how could I align the partitions and finally return the Mac to my friend?

Note that I have a backup of all the data, so I can format again the SSD. I would just like to preserve/recreate the Recovery partition in the process. And, obviously, allocate all the SSD's space.

So, I've solved my problem in a destructive way: I've connected the SSD to my Linux machine, launched GParted, deleted the Macintosh HD and the recovery partition and created a new Macintosh HD partition, aligning it to the MiB.

After that I've put the SSD back in the macbook, launched disk utility and formatted the partition as HFS+ journaled, then launched the installer from an USB stick and reinstalled MacOS.

The installer had recreated the Recovery partition while keeping the Macintosh HD alignment to the MiB.


How do I ensure iphone wont use cellular data? Possible Duplicate:
  How to stop an iPhone 3G from using cell data, ever?

Travelling overseas and would like to take the iphone only for wifi purposes. I have heard horror stories of people rackin gup huge bills for roaming charges, so how do I ensure the iphone won't use cellular data/3g?

In the Settings App, go to General -> Network.

Flip the switch beside Cellular Data to OFF.

That is all. I don't have a data plan and I leave it off and have never been surprised by additional charges on my bill.


How can I permanently add my SSH private key to Keychain so it is automatically available to ssh? It seems that ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa will load your key but will ask for the password each time you reboot.

I am looking for a solution that would not require me to re-enter the key password between logins.

On OSX, the native ssh-add client has a special argument to save the private key's passphrase in the OSX keychain, which means that your normal login will unlock it for use with ssh. On OSX Sierra and later, you also need to configure SSH to always use the keychain (see Step 2 below).
Alternatively you can use a key without a passphrase, but if you prefer the security that's certainly acceptable with this workflow.
Step 1 - Store the key in the keychain
Just do this once:
ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/[your-private-key]

Enter your key passphrase, and you won't be asked for it again.
(If you're on a pre-Sierra version of OSX, you're done, Step 2 is not required.)
Step 2 - Configure SSH to always use the keychain
It seems that OSX Sierra removed the convenient behavior of persisting your keys between logins, and the update to ssh no longer uses the keychain by default. Because of this, you will get prompted to enter the passphrase for a key after you upgrade, and again after each restart.
The solution is fairly simple, and is outlined in this github thread comment. Here's how you set it up:

Ensure you've completed Step 1 above to store the key in the keychain.

If you haven't already, create an ~/.ssh/config file. In other words, in the .ssh directory in your home dir, make a file called config.

In that .ssh/config file, add the following lines:
 Host *
   UseKeychain yes
   AddKeysToAgent yes
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Change ~/.ssh/id_rsa to the actual filename of your private key. If you have other private keys in your ~/.ssh directory, also add an IdentityFile line for each of them. For example, I have one additional line that reads IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 for a 2nd private key.
The UseKeychain yes is the key part, which tells SSH to look in your OSX keychain for the key passphrase.

That's it! Next time you load any ssh connection, it will try the private keys you've specified, and it will look for their passphrase in the OSX keychain. No passphrase typing required.


Volume not recovering after a FaceTime call Not sure if this issue started with High Sierra or Sierra, but definitely have been coming across this issue more and more often.

Like it or not, FaceTime ducks the volume of every other source during a call. And sometimes, after clicking the hang up button, volumes are not restored back to normal.

Is there any way to force this back to normal? Restarting an audio service maybe? I'd prefer not to restart the whole system every time. Thank you.

Quit coreaudiod:

Open app Activity Monitor (Utilities -> Activity Monitor in your applications folder)
Search for "coreaudiod"
Click the (x) in the top left corner and quit the process normally.

It should restart automatically and if you hear no sound, restart the desired application. Note: All applications already playing audio might have to restart as well, not sure.
Warning:
Be aware if you've turned up the volume to max in frustration of the low sound. It might break your speakers or cause permanent hearing damage. I take no responsibility for following this advice. Consult with your IT technician before moving your curser.


Disable auto suggest typing when using the CTRL key Sometimes when I press and release the CTRL key while my cursor is in a text field, the letter "I" gets inserted and an autosuggest list gets opened.

I really really dislike this because I often press and release the CTRL key without wanting to type anything.

How can I disable this functionality?

As noted in another answer:

It's the auto completion from the built in spell checker and after a lengthy search I found the solution in Apples Discussion Forums:

defaults write -g NSUseSpellCheckerForCompletions -bool false

Afterwards restart affected programs and Esc just cancels searches again.


Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content? Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content (in particular posts comments) and it sometimes doesnt retrieve the posts at all?

The website works quite well and fast but the app is significantly slower, using the same wireless network.

Is something wrong in my phone or does anyone have hints how to debug something like this?

The predominant theory as to why the current Facebook app for iOS is so sluggish is that the app:

suffers from its heavy use of JavaScript in a UIWebView component which does not currently benefit from the "Nitro" Javascript engine which is available to Mobile Safari
is poorly designed

The app uses very little native code, and thus most of your interaction takes place within a UIWebView displaying HTML and executing Javascript.

Essentially, anywhere where an app is displaying something that looks and acts like it's "embedding a web browser", that's a UIWebView.

In very simple terms, the Nitro Javascript engine makes Javascript "faster".

iOS 4.3 brought the Nitro engine to Mobile Safari, and IOS 5 brought the Nitro engine to web shortcuts launched from the home screen. This is one potential reason why your use of Facebook within Mobile Safari seems so much more responsive.

As of iOS 5.1, UIWebView does not benefit from the Nitro Javascript engine.

This issue has been recently discussed on the Mobtest blog, "Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro)" with a number of comments in the related Hacker News thread.

Within the current app, Facebook has recently increased their promotion of additional iOS apps:

Facebook Messenger
Facebook Pages Manager
Facebook Camera

These apps -- ranging from "old news" to "brand new" -- seem to do a good job of focusing on doing a single Facebook-related task well, in some cases adding support for something which the general Facebook iOS app does not even support.


Change the user Apache runs as Need help to create a new user to apache web server and assign root privileges to newly created user. Or how to login as root user in apache server because following php script showing you are logged in as

<?php echo `whoami`; ?>

  nobody.

There really isn't a good reason to run your web server as root. It opens you up to all kinds of potential abuse. OS X defaults to running the service as a severely under privileged user to protect you.

Don't make these changes unless you're absolutely certain you know what you're doing!

The httpd.conf file for the default Apache2 installation that comes with OS X can be found in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf. Before you make any changes to this file BACK IT UP! That way you can get back to a sane starting place if you make a catastrophically bad change.

Open the file in a text editor and look for the following lines:

# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch...
#
# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
# running httpd, as with most system services.
#
User _www
Group _www

The _www user/group is the default for OS X. If you want to run the server as root you'll need to change this to the appropriate user. For root:

User root
Group wheel

The plist that describes the Apache service to launchd is at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist -- OS X runs any launchd runs daemons described in this location as root so the server starts with sufficient privledges to change context to another user.

Once you've made the changes, restart Apache with:

sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

and you should be running as root.

Again: BE CAREFUL DOING THIS!


During a Time Capsule 35 Pass Erase, do I have to keep my computer on / running? Back Story:

Okay, so I just upgrade my Time Capsule from a 2 TB (802.11n) to a 3 TB (802.11ac). Yay! However, after transferring over all my files, I needed to erase my old Time Capsule Partition.

I chose the 35 Pass Erase, because of the extremely sensitive data on this back up. (not really, but I just want to be safe).

Question:

So I started the erase! But I need to know if I turn off my computer, will the Time Capsule continue erasing on its own? Or if I loose my internet connection, will the Time Capsule keep erasing?

I really prefer not to have my computer on for that long, and I need to take my computer to work tomorrow...

Other Notes:

I am connected to my Time Capsule throughout Ethernet, and have WiFi disabled.

The The Time capsule doesn't need your Mac to run. Once it receives the wipe command, it will run to completion without needing anything but power from the all. (Ok - you could cancel the erase or it could error out, but in most cases the erase completes on its own accord.) You also don't need a Mac to start the wipe command. Airport Utility runs on Windows and iOS as well.


How can I make Mac Partition visible in Bootcamp (Windows 10 Anniversary Update)? Today I installed Windows 10, version 1607, on my MacBook Pro (Retina 15in Late 2013).
Before this I had Bootcamp setup with Win7. So, I started out by deleting the old Win7 Bootcamp Partition using the Bootcamp Assistant on Mac and then created a new partition and went on to install Windows 10.
Everything seems to have gone smoothly: Partitioning, Installation of Windows 10, and the Apple Bootcamp drivers.

However, the Mac Partition does not show up in Windows File Explorer.

I found this related thread Why I can not see mac partition under windows installed with bootcamp?

I have run the commands with the following results:

It looks like my MBP is not using CoreStorage.
FileVault is deactivated.
... and on my prior Windows 7 Bootcamp partition (that I deleted before setting up a new one for Windows 10) the Mac Partition was showing up correctly.

Here's a pictures of Windows 10 Disk Management:

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Apple HFS+ drivers DO work after 1607 Anniversary Update, they just have problems mounting the drives. You can mount them manually with the risks associated with it. (Personally, I have encountered exactly zero bugs/problems in several weeks of hard usage and testing on 3 computers, so I started recommending my method on the net. I am writing this warning anyway, as mounting a partition forcibly may still have unforeseen consequences I have yet to face.)

Firstly, make sure you have drivers from 6.0 installed, 6.1 does not have HFS+ drivers. You can reinstall to be sure, or

Go to Windows\system32\drivers\ check if AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys is there.
Run regedit, go check if "AppleHFS" and "AppleMNT" keys exist in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\"; each should also have some string and dword values in it.

Personally, I would extract these two .sys files from a 6.0 install, Google on how to install them via registry tweaks, and make the habit of always using the most up-to-date bootcamp drivers. Apart from bug fixing and optimisations, new Macs a few years into future will just not function properly on 6.0 drivers.

Reboot after installing your Apple HFS drivers. Nothing will show up on 1607 after reboot, but I would still feel better to install these drivers before we try and mount them.

Secondly, make sure you are not using CoreStorage. I am reasonably certain "read only" HFS driver can't do any harm, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

If you are good to go, you have two options:

Option #1: mount your bootcamp partition via DOS Devices registry edit:

Run regedit, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/system/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/DOS Devices/"
Right click > new > add string
Enter your drive letter by adding ":" In "data" type "\Device\HarddiskVolume#", where # will be the volume number of your partition as it would be detected in MS-DOS. In your case, it SHOULD be 2, as it is the 2nd partition of disk0. (In MY computer, disk0 has 1 partition, my macOS partition is 2nd one on disk1, so MY partition number is 3, just count your partitions starting with 1.)

Your registry entry should (provided nothing is changed in 4 months you posted this) show "D:", "REG_SZ" and "\Device\HarddiskVolume2" for name, type and data respectively (assuming D: is the drive letter you want for your macOS partition).
Never use letter C: or any other drive letter that may contradict with your Windows installation, as this may render your Windows unbootable. (Or may not, it's just a matter of luck whether Windows chooses to mount DOS devices first, or it's own disk management.) It is (probably) safe to do trial and error on volume #, it won't break anything even if you accidentally select your Windows partition, it will just mount it twice with different letters.
Reboot and your macOS partition should be there.
Before using, go to properties of your new disk in "This PC" and your "file system" should be HFS and it should report used and free spaces correctly. If it is RAW, never try to reformat, check your AppleHFS.sys install.

Option #2: use a program that can mount disks via Session Manager (in other words, it will make the registry entries for you).

Download ext2fsd even though you probably have nothing to do with ext2 or linux.
Open Ext2 Volume Manager. In "File System" tab, your macOS partition will show as "HFS". If you installed ext2fsd before successfully installing bootcamp drivers, it will just show as "RAW". (kind of proving bootcamp drivers DO work)
Right click, select assign drive letter (or change drive letter).
In the pop-up menu, select the drive letter first, then select the tick "Create a permanent MountPoint via Session Manager." It -weirdly- closes the pop-up before you click "OK". (Ext2fsd is a little buggy, you should select drive letter first, then select the tickbox. If you want to change drive letter, I suggest removing the existing one first, then re-add it from scratch)
Reboot, and the macOS partition will be there just like before anniversary update.

In both options, your diskpart or disk management will still show your HFS partition as RAW, (so does minitool partition wizard etc), but it will function normally, and you should be able to confirm it as HFS in properties menu. In analogy, this method tries to define your partition letter like defining a legacy COM or Printer (LPT) port.


How to Make Macbook a Slave Display for Raspberry Pi 3b? I need to get displays for my microprocessors which I need for different tasks. I can have a USB-microUSB-HDMI connection to the ultrabook.
I am using Macbook Air 2013-mid and El Capitan 10.11.4.

How can you make Macbook a Slave Display for Raspberry Pi 3b.

It's definitely not feasible, and likely impossible. Whatever ports are for video and audio on your MacBook Air would be out, like to an external display, not in. You could possibly disassemble the MacBook Air and spent an absolutely ridiculous amount of time (and maybe money) to maybe get it to work, but really, you just need a separate display.


New Photos App on Yosemite Isn't Syncing Smart Albums to my iPhone or iPad All my photos transferred just fine from iPhoto to Photos. My albums (smart and regular) are also all there too. I'm using iCloud to sync my library to my iPhone and my iPad and at first it removed all my photos from both devices and then re-downloaded them. So now all of the photos are on my devices but when I go to albums on my iPhone or iPad there are only the regular Albums and none of the Smart Albums I have on my Macbook Pro. Does anyone know how to fix this?


mac mail blacks out messages with dual monitor setup on mackbook air I'm trying to figure out how to see the mail on my larger monitor.  Feel like I did something to fix it once but I cannot remember what I did to get it working properly.  Any ideas???

This is a common issue on High Sierra Mail. It’s caused by a compatibility issue with some of the graphics cards. I was able to fix it by changing the Color Profile.

Go to System Preferences>Display>Color and then switch to a different profile until you find one that both looks good and fixes the problem.

You can also try and use the calibrate feature to create a custom profile.

For more info on how to change the Color Profile: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25231?locale=en_US

More info:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8135091


MacOS High Sierra: disable tabs for all apps? I want to turn off tabs for Preview especially. Following these instructions, I went to Dock and set “Prefer tabs when opening documents” to Manually - yet PDF documents keep opening up in new tabs in Preview when I open files I download from Chrome, open files from the terminal, or even if I click on them from the Finder. Help?

Manually didn't work for me either. Only after I choose "In Full Screen Only", then toggled back to "Manually" did it do so.

Also, make sure in  System Preferences > General you don't have "Close windows when quitting an app" checked, as this may result in previously tabbed PDF's opening together.


Will Adobe Flash be supported in iOS 5? I now own an iPod Touch 4 with iOS 4.3.5 on it. I jailbroke it a while ago, but since it made me too many problems I reset it and it's now locked.

My question is, will the new iOS 5 is going to support flash videos such as from megavideo.com?

Flash videos, or more specifically, movies streamed via a Flash Object will likely never ever be officially supported in iOS as a first-party (built-in) feature.

Apple and Steve Jobs have a very firm stance against Adobe's Flash technologies, claiming that they perform poorly on mobile devices, cause the web browsing experience to be diminished, and drain battery life excessively.

Flash is not an announced feature in iOS 5.


Can I make iPhone 5 screen shots without an iPhone to test with? Given an html5 application that I have access to, Is there a way to get a screen shot of how it would look on the iPhone 5.

I do not have an iPhone 5, so is this possible?

Sure - you can use a Mac for this.

Download Xcode and fire up the iOS Simulator and choose to emulate the iPhone 5. You will have a version of Mobile Safari that runs on OS X and will let you save screen shots of your app. Much of this is documented well by the PhoneGap steps listed for developing an iOS app.

Here I'm using skitch to grab a screen capture and I have reduced the size a bit to upload, but as long as your screen is large enough, you can capture a pixel perfect image easily. In this case, I was using Safari in the simulator and you'll need to follow the steps listed in the phonegap documentation to install Apache Cordoba so that your phonegap code can be seen by Xcode to push it over into the iOS simulator when you press Run in Xcode.

Image above from docs.phonegap.com


Can text messages sent via Global.AQ Lite (iPhone App) be traced? I'm used the app Global.AQ Lite on my iPhone to send an anonymous text message.

I used my home Wi-Fi network while sending the text, and I used fake Global.AQ account details. I now have a different account logged-in on Global.AQ.

Can the recipient find me? If so, how?

The answer is yes and no. She can not find you. The police ultimatively can track you down but its taking a lot of time and effort which might not be worth doing so.

The procedure would be:
a) The police opens up a criminal case
b) the police identifies the sending number
c) the police identifies the sending SMSC
d) the police ask the prosecution of the country of the sending SMSC who the sender was. This will most probably track back to a SMS aggregator. Going up the chain they will end up on Global.AQ provider.

e) The police of Switzerland would have to hand over a court order to the Global.AQ provider (Fink Consulting GmbH in Switzerland) to hand over the identity data of the person who sent the message. A court order is required by law. The laws of data protection and the laws of telecommunications in Switzerland prohibit to give out any information about any telecommunications occuring or their contents to anybody. This is the case in most countries but some countries, such as the US give that information to the FBI or CIA without a blink of an eye. This is not the case in switzerland however where the rule of law is followed strictly in those matters.  Any information of the content of the communication is only available to the police in case of serious crimes. The information on who is the owner of the number is however not restricted to the serious crimes.

f) The identity data would include your e-mail address used at signup, your name etc. which you used to sign up and the IP address. All of which could be hidden/faked to some extent.

g) the IP address then can be tracked down to the mobile phone operator or Wifi access point from where the message was sent.

h) the police now could know you and could prove you sent the message and could go after you.

All this would probably not happen if you are just a bit rude to a person. If you threaten to kill someone however such things can happen quite fast as life is considered in danger. It's also a question on if the police does want to do the effort of all this for a simple case of one time stalking.

So far the above procedure has happened only once in the lifetime of Global.AQ where someone was making a joke of placing a bomb. The receiver however has not considered this as being a joke but has taken it for granted and launched a chain reaction in police work.

My recommendation: be polite to people avoids the problem in the first place. It doesn't help to piss people off. It might fire back on you some day. Maybe in 20 years when you apply for your dream job but the HR manager of that company is the person you insulted and the person remembers it. In other words it never pays off to be evil.

Hope this answers your question

Andreas Fink
Developer of Global.AQ


Broken Safari: Dom Exception 18 I've just tried everything and I cannot seem to fix this for the life of me.

Basically, Safari has started reporting the following error in the JS console: "SecurityError: DOM Exception 18: An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent."  Most of Ajax interactions via https are not working, so I cannot log into Twitter, Facebook or even Apple's own Developer Center.

I've tried installing Webkit, and even removing all preferences files that I'm aware of.

Other local browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera...) work just fine.  I'm using Safari 7.0.2 in Mavericks.

Fixed.  After inspecting the exact JS error when accessing the twitter login page, the offending line was trying to access the browser local storage.

The "Privacy" settings in Safari had the "Block cookies and other website data" set to "Always".  I've set this to "From third parties and avertisers" and now it's working again.


Tool to remove image parts in PDF The reader of my university lecture regularly posts lecture notes online. The pdf contains handwritten mathematical theorems including the proofs. Everything is written on a completely white background.

I want to create a new printable file containing the theorems and comments only (no proofs) as exam preparation

Is there an easy tool able to accomplish this on a Mac running High Sierra? It may be a bit tricky to get the breaks in pages right.  The workflow would ideally look like this:

Use rectangular selection tool to highlight proof. Hit some key to delete selected area/fill the rectangle white. Select everything below the proof and move it upwards until no whitespace is left.

Maybe think from the opposite side...

Open your PDF
Select an area you want to keep.
 Cmd ⌘   C  to copy, then  Cmd ⌘   N  which will open a new document with the clipboard contents.
Repeat for each section you want to keep.
Save each of your new sections as separate files. Use the default name, which will number in save order, these will be ephemeral.
Close everything.
Select all your newly-saved files in Finder & Open
They will all open in one window, in file order.
You can then Print the whole lot as a single document - to PDF.

Requires Preview prefs > General > Open groups of files in the same window


Is it possible to turn off iCloud Photo Library on one device only? I would like to know if its possible to turn off iCloud Photo Library on one of my devices. The device in question is a MacBook Air which I use while at the office during the day. I would like to keep photos on for my iPhone, iMac, and MacBook Pro. Anyone know if this is possible on a device level?

I might add the reason that I would like to know if this is possible. I’m noticing the photo processes are using high CPU as well as kernel_task. I’m attempting to minimize CPU.

On your MacBook Air, open  → System Preferences → iCloud and uncheck Photos.

This will prevent iCloud Photos from syncing to and from the device on which you did this.

On iOS, this is done by going into Settings → Photos and disabling iCloud Photo Library.


iPad remote management, but not on apples DEP I have a dilemma. I work for a decentralized organization with independent business units.  We’re now starting to centralize the support of IT.
I have a few companies who bought their own iPads from like Best Buy, amazon and the Apple Store. I had read that you cannot enter consumer purchased iPads into the DEP program.
I have 20 iPads I want to manage and maintain, but it also seems like an Apple ID is a MUST to do literally anything. I read somewhere that an Apple ID has a max limit of 10 devices.
The other problem is when I add a new iPad it sends alerts to ALL the other iPads, which could interrupt or scare a user in a different location.

My question is, how best can I manage and maintain 20+ iPads? I’m currently using InTune, but features a limited without Apples DEP and still requires an AppleID to install any apps.

Check out What's new in DEP from WWDC17. All devices can now be enrolled into DEP regardless of purchase source. Apple Configurator will allow you to provision any device for DEP however these device will be put into a 30 day trial period where the device will display a warning on the lock screen and can be un enrolled at any time.


Macbook touchbar pressing some buttons on its own I have MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019).

Recently I noticed a very weird touchbar issue. It looks like it is pressing some buttons on its own. I recorded a small video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmxKqdcbo4M

I have no idea what triggers this... Tried to close all apps and restarted the laptop several times but it didn't help.

Any ideas how to fix it?

It's a capacitive screen much like the touch screens on cell phones.

The first thing to do is rule out 3rd party apps/software/drivers that could be causing it.  Boot into Safe Mode (Hold ⇧ Shift
 while booting).  If the problem stops, then it's a 3rd party app. Start investigating things like:

Login items (System Settings → Users & Groups → Login Items).  Disable each one.  See if the problem goes away.  Yes?  Re-enable each one individually and test/observe if the problem comes back.  Repeat until you've found the item causing the problem.
Issue the command sudo launchctl list | grep -v apple.  This will list any LaunchAgents or LaunchDameons that are running excluding anything that has "apple" in the name (i.e. com.apple.coreduetd) which are native Apple daemons.
Create another User account and see if the problem exists there.  If so, it's definitely system wide.

You can also try resetting the Touchbar by killing it's processes:

    $ pkill "Touch Bar agent";
    $ killall "ControlStrip";

If the problem returns, it's definitely hardware.

However, from experience, it's most likely it's due to a physical problem with the touch screen itself.  Unfortunately, it means it has to be replaced.


Stream All Audio to Speakers I'm looking for a device that will wirelessly stream my computer (13" Macbook Pro) audio to my 5.1 speakers. I've seen that AirPort supports 2.0 streaming of iTunes music, but I'd like support for all audio and surround sound (for games and movies). Does anyone know of a product or software for this?

Have you considered Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba? http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/


Find which editor is being used by Terminal when `info` is run I have run the command info bash in my Terminal and it opened bash.info file in the terminal editor.

What type of editor am I seeing here. Is it emacs, vim, something else?

What you started not an editor but the program info. You can press ? to learn about the key shortcuts available. As info is the GNU documentation tool of choice it's probably no surprise that these key shortcuts closely resemble the ones used by emacs proper.


How do i use my MacBook Pro on iPhone hotspot? I have crappy Wi-Fi and want to use my iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot for my MacBook, but the iPhone seems to be connecting to the crappy Wi-Fi rather than cellular.

How do I force it to use cellular?

Simply turn off the Wi-Fi on your iPhone, and share your cellular connection through USB cable from your iPhone to your Mac.

If you don't otherwise need the crappy Wi-Fi network you have, just turn it off, most probably on your Internet connection router.

To improve the quality of your wireless environment, and if you don't use it to access your iPhone, I advise you to turn off Bluetooth on your iPhone too.


How to turn off screen saver for remote desktop sessions in macOS Catalina? Purchased an M1 Mac Mini. Running it headless. In the OS for my user, I have the screen saver set to "never." However, when I connect via remote desktop, the screen saver comes on after some period of time.
Where is the plist or setting to completely disable the screen saver for remote desktop sessions?

I think I found the solution. I noticed an energy saver plist with a UID appended to it.
 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PowerManagement.{UID}.plist

In addition to the default
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist

Reading the default plist with my correct system settings gave me
{
"AC Power" =     {
    "Automatic Restart On Power Loss" = 1;
    DarkWakeBackgroundTasks = 1;
    "Disk Sleep Timer" = 10;
    "Display Sleep Timer" = 0;
    "System Sleep Timer" = 0;
    "Wake On LAN" = 1;
};
SystemPowerSettings =     {
    "Update DarkWakeBG Setting" = 1;
};
}

Reading the plist with the UID gave me
{
"AC Power" =     {
    PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep = 0;
    "Sleep On Power Button" = 1;
    "Standby Enabled" = 0;
    TCPKeepAlivePref = 1;
    TTYSPreventSleep = 1;
};
}

So I added the "System Sleep Timer" = 0 and "Display Sleep Timer" 0 by the following linesp.
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PowerManagement.{UID}.plist "AC Power" -dict-add "System Sleep Timer" 0

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PowerManagement.{UID}.plist "AC Power" -dict-add "Display Sleep Timer" 0


Magic mouse smart zoom not available on trackpad Smart zoom on the magic mouse allows to zoom on an area of page with double tap of magic mouse.

Viewing the trackpad options this smart zoom does not appear available ? Is there a workaround ?

I think you're looking for Smart Zoom.

Unless you've changed it from the default, tapping with 2 fingers will zoom in and out.

See this Apple page for more options and gestures on the trackpad.


How Do I Remove Duplicate Apps From Launchpad? I have three copies of Skype. How do I remove them from Launchpad?

First make sure you don't really have three copies of the Application. You can use spotlight to clean out any duplicates and keep one copy of the application mounted.

Once that is resolved, you can delete the duplicates from Launchpad one by one; if they all go, just reinstall Skype.

You can also force Launchpad to recreate its database, if it is corrupt, or just to refresh the apps alphabetically by using this hack:

run Terminal
execute sudo rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db
execute sudo killall Dock to restart Dock and Launchpad

Just be aware that you will use any user-defined grouping/sorting etc. this way.

Another wonderful high-level (and safe with undos and backups) GUI solution is Launchpad control, which is a system preference panel.


Mail.app Assumes Google is the Desired Service for a Self-Hosted Domain I am migrating from Google Apps for Domains to a self-hosted service. After removing my Google account from Mail, and attempting to add my self-hosted account, Mail and System Preferences always default to Google as the provider for my email. DNS records have been switched (mail flow works fine from my self-hosted service).

Every time I attempt to add a new account, it assumes I want the Google account it discovers and not my personal email.

I have uninstalled Gmail from the Google Apps for Domains control panel, but this has not helped (yet). I have also removed my preferences folder for Mail.app, but this does not help either.

I cannot delete or rename this Google account; other services are attached to it.

Any suggestions?

I had previously thought that by changing the passwords to differ after uninstalling Gmail, it was working. However, while it lets you add a different IMAP account, the type is still "Google IMAP", which causes issues when trying to setup the accounts properly (most notably because I also have a self-hosted CalDAV account).

After further testing, I have found that any IMAP account I attempt to create is set as a "Google IMAP" account once I provide the self-hosted domain (meaning, even if I create it with fictitious information and later supply the domain only when I have to). How can I address this?

I was able to finally resolve this. Here's a simplified version of the breakdown (in a corrected order), in hopes that it is helpful to anyone trapped in this in the future:

Setup the self-hosted service
Switch DNS records to point to the self-hosted service
Ensure your Mac or iOS device is aware of this DNS change (e.g. dig domain.com mx in Terminal returns what you expect to see)
Uninstall Gmail and Calendar from the Google Apps for Domains Control Panel (your data will not be lost; you can reactivate them later)
Remove the Google Apps account from your device
Add a new email account with the correct information:

After clicking "Continue" on the screen where you enter your name, email address and password, immediately press "Cancel", then
"Continue" again. This ensures no automatic search for services is
done. (Apparently in a different way than holding the option key
does...)
On each subsequent screen, hold down the option key when clicking
continue and ensure the advanced settings are correct
Confirm the account displays as "IMAP" or "POP" and not "Google
IMAP" or "Google POP"

Add any other accounts.

If you experience trouble with the above, verify that you are certain your local device sees the correct DNS information, remove all accounts from Mail and delete ~/Library/Mail.

Hopefully this helps someone else.


Unusually long boot time in non-verbose mode - early 2008 MBP + SSD + Mavericks Inside my early 2008 MBP (15", C2D 2.4, 4GB, GF8600M) I installed a used Samsung SSD (128GB), did a clean Mavericks install and at first startup, I restored the Applications, Desktop, Documents etc. from my Time Machine - it went fine. But now it boots up for 5 minutes, even though it used to take like 2-3 mins maximum when the original 200GB HDD with Mountain Lion was inside.

So I mirrored that new Mavericks SSD to the old HDD and booted the machine from it - time varies a lot. I tried different methods - a plain shutdown + start, a restart; I also switched disks couple of times - cannot see any relation to the boot time. In a series of bootups I measured times.

Booting from pressing the button to the login screen usually takes now (+-2 seconds):

from SSD 5:07 - that happened ten times.
from SSD it ONCE booted in 0:24 (+0:20 after logging in),
from HDD 0:49, 6:04, 5:35, 1:48, 5:44, 4:29, 5:45 (plus 0:40 to 1:10 after logging in) - this seemingly varies.

The bottom line is: booting from SSD usually takes exactly 5:07, though it once was 0:24. Booting time from HDD is unpredictable to me. On SSD, after logging in, it takes another 0:20 for all the apps in the background to start etc.; it's 0:40-1:10 on HDD for that - might not matter, but shows that SSD is is fact quicker once the system started.

Console application shows logs like this:

15/11/13 16:54:28,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1384494868 0
15/11/13 16:59:21,000 syslogd[19]: Configuration Notice: ASL Module
"com.apple.appstore" claims selected messages. Those messages may not
appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.

so with every restart, there's boot time logged and the next message is >5 mins later (while using SSD).

Any hints on what to do next? What log to check? What can cause such long start?

UPDATE: When I run it in verbose mode, it always boots in 20s from SSD. It's 5:07 again when I don't hold cmd+v during startup. Fcsk tool says disk's fine. Any ideas?

Start in verbose mode and see what takes time. Here is how:

Shut down your Mac if it is on.
Press the power button to start the computer.
Immediately press and hold the Command key and one of the following:
...
the "v" key for verbose mode.  (Command-V)
You have successfully entered single-user or verbose mode when you see white text appear on the screen.

If it is "fsck", than you should start backing up your data – disk is most likely is failing.


Does lost mode goes into effect once iPhone is turned on My iPhone is lost/stolen and I didn't have a password on it, lost mode is on pending due to the phone being off and cell data is off as well being that I'm in another country. Will lost mode goes into effect once the phone goes on? Are they able to see all my pics and data being that it was not password protected?

If the phone ever gets an internet connection again it will go into effect, yes.

However if your phone was stolen, you risk that the thief will wipe it and sell it off - probably as parts - and your lost mode setting will be for nothing.

As you have no pass code on the phone, they will be able to see all your pictures and data, yes.


iTunes keeps asking about incoming network connections Since I’ve upgraded to Mavericks (10.9, then 10.9.1), the system has been asking if iTunes (up to the current 11.1.5) should accept incoming network connections every time it launched it.

I’ve tried reinstalling the app, to no avail. Running the app on a fresh account (hence with default preferences and empty library — does it even need inbound connection by default?) doesn’t display the dialog.

I’ve tried removing the preferences file and the iTunes directory from the ~/Library folder, yet again with no result.

I’ve check the signature of the app with:

$ codesign -v /Applications/iTunes.app
/Applications/iTunes.app: a sealed resource is missing or invalid

It thus seems I have an app signature issue.

What should I try next?

I reinstalled iTunes again, and this time was successful.


Operation failed when I tried to create a partition I'm trying to create a partition in following "Part 2: Preparing your Mac" from this website. I have to create "Ubuntu Boot Loader" in selecting the principal hard drive "APPLE SSD AP0512J Media", select Partition -> + -> Name : Ubuntu Boot Loader -> Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) -> Size: 128 MB, but I got the following error with Disk Utility :

I got the following message when I hit "Show Details" :

  Running operation 1 of 1…
  Checking prerequisites for resizing Logical-Physical volume stack
  The requested size change for the target disk or a related disk is too small. Please try a different disk or partition, or make a larger change.
  Operation failed…

Could anyone be able to tell what do I have to do to fix the "Operation failed"?

Like it says in the error box, try making a bigger partition. The partition you are trying to create is only 128 mb. Even though it says create a 128MB partition(in the guide), it wouldn't cause any problems to increase the size of the partition since there are errors for creating a partition of the size 128MB.


How do I insert a picture into the Notes app? I use the Notes app for keeping track and sharing the extended notes with fellow physicians in cardiology studies. There are a lot of pros to this app and I would find it very much useful if I could insert pictures into specific areas within Notes. (a video would make it even better). How is it possible to customize this for a such purpose and is there an alternative to this solution?

The iOS Notes app is not able to insert pictures. At best it will paste a url to an image.

I suggest you use another note app such as Evernote or Notability.


How to set AirPlay device name of the hosting computer? In the AirPlay device list, the name of the hosting computer is always "computer", independently of the computer's actual name.

Is there any way to set this string to a more "expressive" name?

EDIT

Setting the host name in the sharing section of the "Systems Preferences" does not work, as the following images demonstrate:

Mac:

iPad:

Here's what I did to rename the Computer label in the list of available AirPlay speakers in iTunes.

In Finder, go to your Applications folder.
Hold the control button and click on the iTunes icon. You'll get a pop-up menu.
Choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. You should now see a Contents folder in your Finder window.
Use Finder to navigate to the Contents > Resources >  English.lproj folder.
Open the Localizable.strings file in a good text editor.

You may want to make a backup copy of Localizable.strings before going any further!

TextEdit isn't good enough. It'll show you gibberish. I used TextWrangler, which is free.
Use Command+F to search for pb7r8smvm5. You should see two lines that look like this:

  <key>pb7r8smvm5</key>
  <string>Computer</string>
  Change Computer to whatever label you want (e.g., Living Room).
  Save the Localizable.strings file.
  Quit iTunes and then open it again. Your new label should appear in the list of speakers.

  These instructions are for Mac OS X. Windows instructions are available.


iTunes isn't installed on both user accounts on PC How do I change where iTunes is installed to on Windows? For example, on my PC, iTunes shows up on my husband's user name but not mine.

When you install a software on windows it usually asks "install for this account only or for all accounts". It looks like your husband chose "for my account only". I do not know any option to change this later.

Last week I re-installed a program I had the same problem with. When it asked me, I then chose "for all accounts".

The user settings for the existing installation were not harmed.


Offline and account-less notes and calendar apps for iOS Are there any calendar and notes apps for the iPhone (iOS 12.4) that don't require syncing, cloud use, or an account with a supplier? I have not been able to find any, but I hope some exist.

The 'Notes' app should work fine in a stand-alone mode. Its included with your iPhone. And I think the iPhone Calendar should not have any requirements either but I assume you've tried it.


How do you turn sound off in IRC client colloquy? How do you turn sound off in IRC client colloquy? I don't see any option to do so:

Does this FAQ help? It looks like you can use Preferences → Alerts → Mute all notification sounds.

To access Preferences, use the keyboard shortcut Command + ,, or select from the Colloquy Menu bar item (just like any other macOS app).


ruby version on macOS Sierra Can someone let me know the version of ruby on macOS sierra? I have a public beta of macOS Sierra (10.12.1 build-16B2327e) and the version is 2.0.0.

I wanted to know if the stable version of macOS has a higher ruby version than 2.0.0.

ruby --version says:

  ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]

macOS Sierra 10.12 (16A323) release installed from the App Store with XCode 8 installed

Update: macOS 10.13.3 has

  ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [universal.x86_64-darwin17]


How do I get "wget" for Snow Leopard? There's no wget command. How do I get it?

Alternatively, if you don't need wget specifically, Snow Leopard does come with curl which does many of the same things.

E.g., fetching your flair via wget:

wget http://apple.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2726.png

vs. fetching it with curl:

curl -O http://apple.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2726.png

Notably lacking from curl is wget's --mirror option, but it does have nifty fetching with patterns, which handles many of the same problems:

# Fetch flair images for users 2726 through 2730
curl -O http://apple.stackexchange.com/users/flair/[2726-2730].png


What is the difference between Apple MB110LB/B and Apple MB110Z/B keyboards I am looking for a QWERTY US layout apple keyboard, on amazon I found several models and this made me confused.

My current keyboard looks like this, I thinks this is the standard US QWERY layout, isn't it? Anyways, I am looking for this model. Is it MB110Z/B?

One seems to be the “USA” keyboard, the other one is the “International English” keyboard, you can see pictures of them (click to zoom in) on the Apple Store sites:

MB110LB/B: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB110LB/B/apple-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad

MB110Z/B: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB110Z/B/apple-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-international-english

Both have a basic QWERTY layout, but have some differences in the other keys. The layout around the ‘return’ key and of the key itself differs a little. The left shift key is shorter on the International English keyboard, and it has an extra key for ‘§’ and ‘±’ (below the ‘esc’ key) which doesn't appear at all on the USA keyboard. Finally, the USA keyboard uses words on some keys like ‘tab’ and ‘shift’ where the International English one use images.

I'm not sure if there's any difference between the “MB110LB/B” and “MB110LL/B” keyboards, the latter one is more clearly labeled “USA”:

MB110LL/B: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/B/apple-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-english-usa

Based on the Logitech keyboard of which you showed a picture, I assume you want the “USA” one.


DNS cache on macOS (Catalina) Can somebody share with me a way to display the DNS cache on my MacOS, Catalina (10.15.4)?

It's very likely you don't actually have a DNS cache. If you do, dscacheutil -cachedump seems relevant here, probably sudo dscacheutil -cachedump. That said, I don't see any cache on any system I have, neither server-oriented systems nor end-user laptops.

See man dscacheutil for more.

Denis' answer via the comment will let you see lookups as they happen, but the DNS cache is very short lived if present at all.

Is there an actual problem at hand?


Does a Mac installation have an identifier I wanted to know if a Mac installation has an identifier with which apple could theoretically identify the machine? More concretely I am wondering if I clone an installation of for example snow leopard would the clone also have the same identifier, or does OS X not use identifiers like Windows does/did back in the day?

Thanks

As far as I can see it there are several ways to track a mac system:

Hardware-UUID
serialnumber
Mac addresses of network interfaces (and I think bluetooth as well)

The hardware-uuid seems to depend on the used hardware of the mac. It seems to change if one exchange e.g. a graphics card:

  It is possible for a system to lose its serial number so that it
  will no longer appear either in System Profiler or the I/O Registry.
  Repairing a system by swapping hardware components is one reason this
  can happen. Apple does not document the specific details of how a
  machine can lose its serial number. Once the serial number has been
  lost there is no means to restore it to the machine.

  Apple does not guarantee that all future systems will have a software-readable serial number.

  Both of these cases illustrate why asset tracking software should always provide a way for a serial number to be entered manually.

Source

As far as I can tell they mean the UUID when they say „serial number“.

The serial number of the system seems to be fix. I have no prove for this other than that it is used for registering your mac with Apple.

Conclusion

In theory Apple as well as developers are able to identify your installation based on your hardware. If you clone your system to new hardware there will be new UUIDs and serial numbers for the new installation.


Why AppleScript in El Capitan runs differently? Why in El Capitan this app says 3 1 2? Before El Capitan it said 1 2 3.

When this script is double clicked, it needs to say 1 2 3.

on run
  say "1"
  testing()
end run

on testing()
  say "2"
end testing

on idle
  say "3"
  return 60
end idle

on quit
end quit

The on idle and quit handler are for Applets, not Scripts. Applets and scripts are different, however they are both written in Applescript.

An applet, is script application, which support idle and quit handlers, while script is like any other script in any language; it runs and till the end, doesn't know when it's about to exit, or when it's idle. Applet it like any other application, if you right click and "Open Package Content" of an applet you'll see the resemblance. Applet can have resources, can be CodeSigned, can have multiple script and shared without any problem.

That's your problem, choose to save the script as an application when asked, also select "Stay open after run handler", then your idle handler will run.

Few more things, it's always a good idea to return out of every handler, which you aren't in run and testing, this can cause the idle handler to not run as it'll be waiting for run to finish. You should also insert continue quit in your quit handler, otherwise it'll never quit; you'll have to force quit it.

For more info AppleScript Language Guide


Does the iPhone ask for iCloud password after updating to iOS 8.1? I forgot the password of my iCloud account. I'm using iPhone 4S I am afraid that if I updated to the new iOS, the phone will be locked and I wouldn't be able to use it. P.S. I have tried iForgot to restore my password, but it didn't work out as it keeps telling me that my answers are wrong.

Yes, you will be required to verify your account when you first log in.

I would suggest trying to get to the bottom of it BEFORE you upgrade, it will be harder after (since you should still have some access to email accounts etc).

Also, I would research the effects of running iOS8 on an iPhone 4S. Although it may be supported, I would think it would be incredibly slow.

I know you didn't ask for the second part of this answer, but I would strongly recommend you do some more research on this before blindly doing it.


How do I install an application for just one user? How do I install an application for just one user, without using administrative permissions or affecting any other users?

Just put the application in the home of the user. You could create folders like this for every user:

/Users/<username1>/Applications
/Users/<username2>/Applications

and put the application(s) there.


What is the default META key for Irssi (IRC) on macOS? What is the default Meta key for Irssi (IRC) in Terminal?

I noticed that I can use the ⌥ Option key as Meta key if enabled in Terminal settings, but this prevents me from using it to type special characters.

If there is no default Meta key, is it possible to define one different from ⌥ Option?

According to Irssi documentation, it's Alt, which I believe the author meant ⌥ Option to be on macOS, as this is how ⌥ Option is usually used on macOS compared to Windows.

However, on macOS Mojave, it is actually Esc.


OS X crashes "No memory", but much of it free I was running a Python code which may have increased the need for memory. Anyhow, the following happened, and I feel it should not.

I have 16 GB memory and it shows only 3 GB allocated to Python
Remainder of memory apparently not allocated to anything
Should a single application be able to suck that much memory s.t. the rest of OSX becomes vulnerable / non stable?

Have a look in the Console log. You will likely see that it's a Python-internal issue. Most likely a recursion or some exhaustive memory allocation. Python and other languages use a limited stack/heap to store runtime data (like the call stack). If that is exhausted they simply croak and do not ask the OSX to provide more memory.


Short-circuit power outlet with two macbook chargers and one cable So if I connect the two converters for a MacBook (with a USB-c cable between) to two power outlets. What will happen? See the picture.

Nothing will happen.

You are not directly connecting anything from the mains side of the power adapter to the USB side of things.  The low voltage side (USB) actually isolated from the high voltage side.  The highest amount of voltage being passed is +/- 5V which is more of a data sense connection.  It’s looking to see if there is a device making a request to be charged.  Since power adapters don’t make this request by design, it will never send higher voltage.

Now, it's not fair to say absolutely nothing will happen as it's conceivable that you might blow the USB controller (the chip that does the negotiation). However I would bet that the engineers designed the circuitry to be one way only. I don’t have access to the schematics, but I would bet there are diodes on the 5V connection’s to ensure a one way connection - they are there on the older MagSafe adapters so it only makes sense they would still be there on the newer  USB adapters (see above link)

From a pragmatic point of view, engineers would design to accommodate this sort of behavior - they design things to fail safe to the user not fail to protect itself.  That said, don’t do it because the shock you'll get is the one that comes from having to replace two previously perfectly good power adapters.


Which App saves and restores window size/position on relaunch of an app? Is there an app that saves (when I quit the application) and restores the window size and position of an application the next time I start it?

I found apps like Optimal-Layout, Breeze and Simple Window-Sets but all of these apps only give the option to save states for specific apps or globally.
What I would need is an app that saves the size and position of a window by its title.

For example:

I use iTap mobile RDP quite often. The application starts up with a little window showing the bookmarks I've created. Once I double-click on one of the bookmarked sessions the actual RemoteDesktop window appears. But the application always opens it at the upper left corner of my main monitor. I have to move the window to the second monitor every time I open a RemoteDesktop session. I've seen the same behavior for a lots of apps.

I would like to have an app that recognizes the title of the window and moves it to the position where I closed it the last time.
I would also like to avoid manually clicking something in the menu-bar or keyboard shortcut to restore a windows position. It should be some kind of "Window Watcher" which checks a windows title when its created and restores the position and size.

Does anyone know an app like this?

Ask the developer of iTap mobile RDP to add that as a feature.  Normally it is up to the application to keep track of its own windows.


sudo and some other system commands not working with platypus I am making a shell script that works great on its own, but does not work correctly when packaged with Platypus. It does not want to execute sudo, and a few other system commands. Are there any work arounds to this?

Note: This is when you select the "Run with Administrator privileges" option. Also, this is an answer-it-yourself question, since I would imagine someone else out there would have this issue as well.

You can also use the osascript to launch the application. This ensures sudo access.

osascript -e "do shell script \"/path2/shellscript.sh $*\" with administrator privileges"

You can put this in another shell script to call your script. Or directly run your required command within the quotes.

This is better since you don't have to rely on /usr/bin/sudo being run recently or not


iWork Numbers evaluate string I have a cell with the following content 2262/4121. I want to have a cell next to it that contains the result of that expression. Is there a function for that?

You can use the VALUE() function for that. Its only argument is the cell that you want to evaluate

From the documentation:

  The VALUE function returns a number value, even if the argument is formatted as text. This function is included for compatibility with tables imported from other spreadsheet apps.

  VALUE(source-string)
  source-string: Any value.

  Notes
  You’ll never need to use the VALUE function in a new table, because numbers in text are automatically converted for you.

  Only the formatted text is converted. For example, if you type the string $100.001 into a cell, the default format will display only two decimals ($100.00). If VALUE refers to this cell, it will return 100, the value of the formatted text, not 100.001.

  If the argument can’t be returned as a number value (does not contain a number), the function returns an error.

  Examples
  =VALUE(“22”) returns the number 22.

  =VALUE(RIGHT(“The year 1953”, 2)) returns the number 53.


iPhoto "A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported" Every Time I launch iPhoto I get the following error message twice... 'A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported, would you like to import it now'

So i Click yes and then it appears again, after clicking yes again it goes away and lets me into iPhoto its not the end of the world but gets pretty annoying as it never imports anything and is just pointless and time wasting. Its been appearing on every load of iPhoto for about 6 months now any ideas ?

Open your iPhoto Library package by Control-clicking on it and selecting "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu. Look for a folder titled "Importing" or "Import" (NOT Auto Import") and see if it has any photos in it. If it does move it to the Desktop (do not move or rename any other folder/file while in there). Launch iPhoto and the message should be gone.

Check that folder to see if the photos are any you don't have in the library or want. If not, then delete. If so, import again.


Is it possible to control the CPU core clocks on macOS? I would like to have any direct control of CPU core clocks. Is this possible on new MacBooks and macOS ?

I use Intel Power Gadget and Macs Fan Control tools for monitoring the CPU and fans speeds on MacBook Pro 2018 with i9.

Underclocking in Mathematica

While running some specific calculations in Mathematica it happens that the CPU gets underclocked from 2.9G to 2.3G in serial and even to 1.5G during parallel computations. This might be Mathematica related, but so far I see no reason for underclocking so heavily. At the start of computation the Turbo Boost is acting, the clock speed is higher and then after about a minute it abruptly reduces, simultaneously after the CPU temperature touches 100C. The average temperature is probably 80C, but with Turbo Boost adjusting the clock, at some point temperature touches 100C and the CPU gets underclocked. The temperature reduces to ~60C, but until the end of computation this process never gets higher CPU nor Turbo Boost. After some more time (5-10 minutes) it will underclock for the second time, although the temperature is stable.

However, if I run another application on the side, the Intel Power Gadget can read higher core frequency (it shows just the average or the maximum, not per core/thread). Also the total core power increases, but only while this second process is running, as if the Mathematica process is forbidden to use CPU on higher clock. It's like the OS does not allow higher CPU frequency for the "dangerous" thread, although the temperature can decrease eventually to <50C.

Mathematica task is long but does not change in nature, it multiplies big matrices over and over again just with different numbers.

All of this is followed with fans running on higher than default speeds, because I increase them with the Control tool. I am absolutely sure the system could support higher CPU frequency during this, but it does not go for it. My suspicion is on OS, since CPU does not even reach to throttle and there is a clear process preference. Increasing the process' priority did not make a change.

I am not sure about what is happening here, which is the reason I give longer description of the problem. Also because there might be a different solution to it other than changing the frequency manually, especially if this is impossible to do.

There are a few variables of unknown quality and quantity.

The i9 MacBook Pros were known to provide strange behaviour due to potentially high power consumption, temperature but not performance output, throttling. Not only the machines are new, so is the OS Mojave. All this can then be amplified by a bug in the software to run. Even Mathematica is not perfect. In this case it seems that the task is single-threaded and pretty taxing for the one core that has to handle this. Internal management of the Intel chip may then take over what is not in Apple's control, given the hardware conditions and designs chosen.

While there might be some reason to hope for further updates to the MacBook Pro's firmware, the macOS Mojave's handling of this or Mathematica to squish bugs or provide workarounds, that is unsatisfying as it does not provide you to try something on your own.

Some fixes are said to have been delivered for this as of 10.3.6 supplemental update and presumably also rolled into 10.14. As it is unclear whether these are installed or not, make sure you have the latest versions of all software. Although presently these fixes are known to improve things generally and considerably, they fail to deliver improvements for exactly Mathematica.

Even if mentioning disasterous thermal design will attract downvotes, this is just another case. Case, cooling system and an i9 just are not he perfect mix.

The generally known ways to tinker with these settings –– although in no way a guaranteed fix for the current problem at hand –– are the following options:

Disabling TurboBoost with TurboBoost Switcher
Volta: Ultimate Power Control for Mac**$**
VoltageShift (explanation)

Background:

  Apple MacBook Pro 2018: Much more performance with a few clicks
  The new MacBook Pros have problems with the performance utilization of the Coffee Lake processors. We show why Apple's power management fails and how you can fix it with just a few clicks.

  2018 macbook pro runs faster if you limit the cpu via software
  Further fueling the dumpster fire that the 2018 Macbook Pro is turning out to be, notebookcheck.net has discovered that by manually limiting power consumption you can actually get better performance.

  Apparently, Apple elected to ONLY use temperature as a parameter for ramping up clock speeds, which results in the cpu not having enough time to cool down before trying to boost again. This leads to fluctuations that severely harm performance.

  2018 i9 MacBook Pro throttling discussion [merged]
  Reviews are finally rolling in on YouTube. Finally a review compared exporting a video on a maxed out 15” 2018 vs 2017. The 2017 finished exporting it 2 minutes faster because the i9 throttled so bad causing worse performance when compared to the maxed i7 CPU in the 2017 model.

  Tested: Thermal conditions in the 2018 i9 MacBook Pro dramatically hampering performance
  So, Apple can also change the fan speed thresholds to accommodate a CPU load better, by setting them to kick in sooner, and faster than it does at present. This probably won't completely eliminate the thermal situation, but it will lengthen the time it will take to get there at the cost of a louder device when under heavy load. Users can do this with Macs Fan Control, or similar utility.

  We didn't expect a fix from Apple any time soon. But, at least the first steps were taken with a patch on July 24. Time will tell how much of a difference that patch makes, and how well it holds up over time.

  Tests Confirm Apple's Throttling Fix Improves Performance for 2018 MacBook Pro Models [Updated]
  The bug fix came in the form of a supplemental update to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, which many new MacBook Pro owners have now installed on their machines. Multiple MacBook Pro owners and media sites have been testing the new patch, and the results appear to be largely positive -- the throttling issue has been resolved for the most part and the machines are performing better.

Unfortunately, Mathematica is the exception:

  In all other published practice benchmarks with the exception of Mathematica, the results with and without patch fluctuated within the measurement accuracy range. These tests are either completed too quickly, do not require full CPU power throughout, or test the SSD speed.
  MacBook Pro 2018 im Test: Auswirkungen des Throttling-Updates


why are my iPhone4 videos different in size? Some videos I take are square and 640 x 480, while others are 1920 x 1080, data rate changes with size as well, so quality is much better on the larger size - seems to be random - how do i set the size so all vids record the same? preferably the larger size.

Recording videos with Instagram will save them in the lower resolution. To record at native resolution, use the Camera app.


Differentiating Apple products by their MAC addresses Apple has registered a ton of MAC address ranges for its products.  Does anyone know whether it's feasible to reliably identify which Apple product (particularly iPad, iPod, iPhone, and MacBooks) a particular device is in network traffic via specific MAC address prefixes? In other words, is there something about the MAC address of an iPad that is distinguishable from the MAC address of a MacBook, for instance?

No, sorting or determining a pattern in the MAC address isn't a feasible way to map to model of Apple product.

Over years of watching MAC addresses on networks as well as the explosion of devices on the iOS end of things, if there were a nice pattern, it would start showing in deployments with hundreds of devices.

For example, I have one Mac that has data on about 1,000 iOS devices that have been connected over time to that Mac while iPhone configuration utility was running. Looking at the data now, there are no clear patterns to help differentiate between the device types.

This also applies to Macs. Sadly, my data here is in the hundreds and not thousands presently. Yes - a string of MacBooks when ordered together will usually have sequential addresses (more so than sequential serial numbers in fact) - but over time, the iMacs seem mixed in with the Airs and the MacBook Pro.

It could be that there is some encoding present and no-one has stumbled across which bits are coded with model numbers, but a simple sort of the MAC addresses has the devices all jumbled up. Perhaps if you can find someone that runs the mobile device management software for a very large company or school district and see if they are curious enough to see if a larger data set would yield some better results for you.

I haven't seen a case where a Mac and an iOS device share the same smaller block of MAC addresses, but I can't even rule that out for you based on my experience running networks that log MAC address and are in a position to know what hardware is associated with which MAC address over the years.

My guess is the addresses are issued sequentially rather than by final destination. It would make sense to dole out parts of each region to factories that are expected to make 5 or 10 thousand devices in the next month and onle issue more once the existing addresses are consumed. If so, we might have better luck trying to bin the numbers by approximate manufacturing date rather than by where it ends up in a shipping product. Also consider on the Mac end, repairs often give a new MAC address to portables and even desktop Macs when the ethernet controller is replaced.


Can automation service to get the parent folder path? I already have a service that will create a network file:/// link to a share point over AFP but I would like to have one that does the parent folder of a file.

If I right click a file I would like to have the option to either choose to copy the file path to the file or the files parent folder.

I would prefer that the script be in Shell / bash and not in AppleScript and my dream scenario would be a way to copy both the file path and file path parent folder to the clipboard. Then when I pasted it would look like this:

File Path:
file:///Volume/parentfolder/file.pdf
Parent Folder:
file:///Volume/parentfolder

Preferably I would like to obtain four lines of text in the clipboard in one action, but the second half (parent folder) is the one I lack currently.

Create a new Automator Service, with the following settings:

Service receives selected [files or folders] in [Finder]

Add a Run Shell Script action, with the following settings:

Shell [/bin/bash]               Pass input [as argument]

Replacing all of the default code with the example code below:

toTheClipboard="File Path: file://$(sed 's: :%20:g' <<< "$1") Parent Folder: file://$(dirname "$1" | sed 's: :%20:g')"
pbcopy<<<"$toTheClipboard"

Save the Automator Service, then in Finder, select an item and right-click selecting the service from the Services context menu. The service is also available from the Finder > Services menu.

You can then paste from the clipboard to wherever you want it.

Note: The example code is just that and does not employ any error handling and is meant only to show one of many ways accomplish a task. The onus is always upon the User to add/use appropriate error handling as needed/wanted.


How can I send smtp mail via gmail and osx Lion mailx? I would like to be able to send email from utility/batch/launchd scripts via my gmail account and the mailx client that is bundled in OS X Lion. I cannot find how to configure this. I found http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html#sending which describes doing this for mutt, but I'd rather not have to install mutt. I do have Thunderbird installed and use that to read/send mail (instead of Mail.app).

When I run
   mailx -v -s subject myemailaddress@gmail.com < file.txt
I get no errors, but instead of getting an SMTP transaction log, mailx tells me

Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to <David>.

Worse, there is no /var/mail/David folder, so this report appears to go into a bitbucket.

One way to fix this is to install the official server app in order to re-enable this feature.  You don't have to setup a mail server through the app.  Just installing it will allow use of mailx through the command line.

In the past, you had to buy and install OS X server as a separate product and now it's available from the App Store and gets installed on top of the normal OS.


Disable voiceover on login I bought a used Mac from someone who was using VoiceOver on the login screen.

I don't have any handicap, and I would like to disable VoiceOver, which I personally find annoying.

Strangely, VoiceOver is ONLY on the login screen, and I can't find an option to disable it anywhere on the computer. Also VoiceOver seems to come along with some sort of highlighting and on screen text.

Any help? I am running on Lion.

Being enabled only on the Login Screen you must disable it under System Preferences / Users & Groups. If the preferences are locked, click the lock icon in the lower-left corner of the page and type and administrator password to unlock them. Click Login Options and uncheck the Use VoiceOver at Login Window.

VoiceOver, along with other features of this kind, can be enabled, and hence disabled, under System Preferences / Universal Access.


I accidently overcharged my iPhone 5c and it stopped working. What should I do? For the first time, I left my iPhone 5c charging all night for about 4 hours. In the morning when I unplugged it, it had turned off when it was on when I left it for charging. I tried to turn it on, but the screen won't hitch. At first I thought it got stuck, but it seemed like the battery had been damaged because it won't buzz at all. What should I do?

Theoretically overcharging a device is not possible, as once it reaches the 100% of the battery capacity, it will just stop charging.

Are you sure the device was being charged when you left it? Perhaps you connected the iPhone to the charger but not the charger to the AC?

This will explain why it won't turn on as it would be battery drained.

If this is not the case, going to an Apple Store would be the best option.

It's far more likely you just had a failure, unrelated to charging and need service. If it was overcharging, getting a technician to look at it would be even more important that a simple failure, so have it checked out.


Can't mount a CIFS volume I'm trying to mount a remote volume with cifs. Whenever I try to mount -t cifs ..., I get an error saying mount_cifs can't be found. Where can I find it? Or how do I install it?

I'm using OS X 10.9.2 .

i think you´re looking for mount_smbfs :) or mount -t smbfs ...


Connect 2 Yosemite Macs How can I connect 2 Yosemite Macs (iMac Retina to MacBook Pro) via Thunderbolt for bi-directional file sharing?  I've tried this connection and the computers are not visible to one another.

In the Network Preferences panel there should be a listing for thunderbolt bridge. If there is not click on the "+" button at the bottom of the left-hand pane and add it to both Macs.

You can leave the setting on DHCP and they should both get an IP address in the range of 169.254.x.x. Make sure each is different.

You should now be able to go into terminal and ping the other Mac from each. Once you have verified that, just go into the Finder's "Go" menu and "connect to server". Enter the IP address of the other Mac, it should ask you for your username and password, enter the appropriate username and password from the other Mac, and you are connected.

You should be able to do the same with an ethernet cable between both Macs as well.


iPhone 7 won't force reset My iPhone 7 has been disabled from too many password attempts. I try to do a force/ hard reset but the apple logo just fades on and off. IS there anything I can do? I really don't want to have to go to the store since it is so far away from where I live. Any other ideas?

You can try putting it into DFU mode. A google search should turn it up.

Steps to DFU Mode:

Plug your iPhone into your computer and open iTunes. It doesn’t matter if your iPhone is on or off.
Press and hold the Sleep / Wake Button and Home Button (iPhone 6s and below) or the volume down button (iPhone 7 and above) together for 8 seconds.
After 8 seconds, release the Sleep / Wake Button but continue to hold the Home Button (iPhone 6s and below) or the volume down button (iPhone 7 and above) until iTunes says “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.”iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode
Let go of the Home Button or volume down button. Your iPhone’s display will be completely black if you’ve successfully entered DFU mode. If it’s not, try again from the beginning.
Restore your iPhone using iTunes.

Source


OS X 10.9: where are password hashes stored I think on previous versions of OS X, password were stored in the /etc/shadow file.

Nevertheless, this file doesn't appear to exist in the later versions of the operating system - specifically OS X 10.9 which is the first of the non-cat named OS releases.

Does anyone know where the password hashes are stored on OS X Mavericks?

Starting with Lion, OS X introduced a shadow file per user that is a plist dictionary that contains password hashes and other GID/UID/kerberos and open directory type keys.

The shadow files are stored on the filesystem at /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users. They are in plist format so you'll need to use the plutil command to view them or use the defaults command to extract/write specific keys if desired. Only the root user has access to the files.

To view the contents of a shadow file for a user:

sudo plutil -p /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/<username>.plist

To get the hash:

sudo defaults read /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/<username>.plist ShadowHashData|tr -dc 0-9a-f|xxd -r -p|plutil -convert xml1 - -o -

Where <username> in the above examples is the user you're looking for the hash for. You want the <data> section that corresponds to the <key>entropy</key> key in that plist output.

To continue on to try and crack the password see this tutorial.


Is the feed that comes from Apple's RSS feed generator out of sync with the app store? For example...

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/toppaidapplications/limit=25/xml

Right now, for me, that feed shows Camera+ as being the number 3 app paid app. However, on the iphone app store at this moment, Camera+ is number 4 and Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots is number 3. In the feed Puss in Boots is like 8 or 9.

The timestamp on items in the feed appears old. I thought maybe it was some sort of caching issue on my end, maybe it is, but I've tried running this from a clear browser.

Also if I go to http://feeds.appstorefeeds.com/appstorefeeds-TopPaidiPhoneApps it shows Camera+ as being number 3. Still caching maybe? I don't know. Anyone have any insights?

The "appstorefeeds.com" website is not associated with Apple. That appears to be a third-party site that creates its own feeds. My best guess is that it creates these feeds by scraping Apple's own feeds periodically. This type of operation is not something that can guarantee that all updates to Apple's own feeds will be updated live to "appstorefeeds.com".

Not even within Apple's own website infrastructure you get that type of live syncing. I have seen Apple's website out of sync with what is displayed in the charts within iTunes. If you want the closest to the latest information, you should probably check from within iTunes. Hope this helps.


E-Mail on iPad and E-Mail on Computer not connected I have my Hotmail account setup on my iPad and everything is working. However whenever I go to my computer and login to my Hotmail account all messages are unread even though I read them on my iPad. This never happened before. How can I fix it?

Hotmail uses the POP protocol. This protocol only allows to download mails from the server. Therefore it does not sync mail for example to mark them as read.

If you want to fix this you have to configure your Hotmail account to uses the IMAP protocol which allows the synchronising... But this is really tricky to do.  :

If it's not done : Migrate your Hotmail account to Outlook.com
On the iDevice : Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Other
Add Mail account
Add a fake mail account (if iOS detecte a @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com it will suppose it is POP only)
You'll get an error (normal, you added a fake account)
After this you'll have 2 tabs : IMAP and POP, file the IMAP tab with the following infos :

Incoming mail server :

Host Name : imap-mail.outlook.com
Port : 993
SSL : yes

Serveur sortant :

Host name : smtp-mail.outlook.com
Port : 587
TLS : yes


American Apple TV in Europe Does my Apple TV bought in America work in european countries? Like Spain and Portugal? Does the video format change in anyway? Or will everything work just fine?

Yes it will. I use an American AppleTV in a Latin American country and it works just fine as long as your TV have the required HDMI input.

However the content your AppleTV will show varies from country to country, as the iTunes catalog of Movies and TV Series is region specific. You can check what movies and series you will be able to buy or rent using Tunes on your computer. The same content will be available on your AppleTV.

You also might want to try Netflix if its available there.


Can I add a room number to an event's location? Suppose I have an event at a building of which the location can find the address so I get a nice travel time estimate. Problem is, the building contains an awful lot of rooms and I'd really like to add the room number to the location (as that shows up in my overview).

So how can I add the room number to the location without the automatic travel time estimates breaking?

I guess you can't since Calendar always auto-completes to something without additional room/extra info. Alternatively put the room in the notes.


What's wrong with my screen? The screen anomaly doesn't look like other dead pixels I've seen before. Does anyone know what's causing this? It's a 15" MBP, early 2011, hi-res, matt display. You can only see it on light backgrounds.

It's likely a pressure mark where the panel has been hit by something


Unable to mail from command-line - public/pickup: No such file or directory Attempting to send mails using mail(1) from the macOS terminal shell results in the following message and the mail is not sent.

postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

I have checked for the directory where I think it should be and it's there:

root# ls -ld /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup
prw--w--w-  1 _postfix  _postdrop  0 Dec 31  2016 /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup

I've read that Postfix is launched ephemerally to send mail but I don't know how - I have no idea how Postfix is configured on macOS. I know Postfix from Linux but am unfamiliar with macOS.

I'd just like to fix this so my script can send email its output.

Pertinent system details:

  System Version: macOS 10.12.6 (16G29) (Sierra)
  Kernel Version: Darwin 16.7.0

Sending mail from the command line involves two things.

Open the Apple mail app (/Applications/Mail.app only) and make sure your default account can send mail (or be sure you configured internet accounts preference pane to provide Apple mail credentials for sendmail )
Send the mail without making any command line or Unix changes.

How to send an email from command line?

Step 1 is missing and assumed in the linked question / selected answer. Also, if you don’t want to send mail from an account you enter in your mail app, grab a stand alone install of sendemail as it’s quite easy to set up with your smtp server of choice:

How to send email from OS X command line


Why is "Users" file size so big? Why is "Users" file so huge? I am Migrating my Time Capsule's copy of my Air hard drive back to my Air with brand new Hard drive installed.

The /Users folder is so big because that's where all the user data is stored. All the pictures, library files, movies, etc.


My username not displaying in Favorites on the left I have a setting that whenever I open up Finder, it would open my username files.

However, it does not show within Favorites. Why does it not show there? How can I add my username there?

Finder → Preferences (⌘,) → Sidebar and enable the option for your home folder.

It's enabled by default, so perhaps you removed it accidentally, either by dragging it off the window or right-clicking and choosing Remove from Sidebar?


iPhone 3g; iOS 4.2 to iOS 5 performance? Features aside, should I expect a performance increase in general or the reverse?

Sorry, but the Wikipedia article for iOS 5 indicates that iOS 5 does not support the iPhone 3G.


how to restore complete Safari sessions I've been trying out Safari Restore and Sessions for a few days and I find they both remember the tabs from the previous session, but only the last page I looked at in each tab. There is no history for the tabs, ie, I can't click the Back button. "Reopen all windows" in the History menu does the same thing.
Firefox and Chrome remember the entire session, so it's as if I never shut down. How do I get Safari to remember the actual session and not just the last page I looked at?
Safari 5.0.4, 10.5.8

Obviously this wasn't a solution at the time you asked the question, but if you're looking for more basic, it's now built into the latest version of the operating system.

Safari in Lion does seem to remember the history for each tab when it restores on re-launch. If you were using 10.5.8 because you use PPC hardware, or don't want to buy the upgrade, this doesn't help, but it if Lion is a viable choice, it does seem to work very smoothly.


How do I get rid of "weknow.ac"? I somehow got this annoying 'weknow.ac' file in my MacBook while updating some Flash player. I tried several ways to get rid of it like checking extensions and by installing Malwarebytes. Nothing worked so far.

Did anyone face this problem?

It sounds like the Flash update you installed was fake, I would suggest you immediately stop using secure sites like online shopping and banking.

Personally I am probably a bit paranoid, so I would be worried about any other stuff that has been installed and would be looking to do a Anti Virus scan and backing up all my data and reinstalling the operating system.

However looking online it appears that these fake Flash installers typically just install a few browser extensions and a security profile.

The extensions you seem to have handled, but the security profile requires a little more work....

Go to System Preferences.
Click Profiles.
The list will include an item "AdminPrefs".
Select this and click the remove - button in the lower left corner.

This will remove the security profile, you should then check all browsers, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera (if you have these installed) and remove the extension/verify it is removed.

Then finally finish up by resetting the browser settings for these browsers, to avoid repeating this information I'll reference this article for that:
https://www.bugsfighter.com/remove-weknow-ac-mac/

Again I would be mindful that while this is how you are able to remove this malware, I would personally be concerned and would be looking to backup and reinstall my operating system.


After iPhone photo import to Photos app on macOS, how can I tell if all photos successfully imported? Photos app for macOS seems to have known bugs. Examples: here, here, here, here. Some bugs like photos going into 'not responding' mode; photos app continually finding 'new items'; and photos not believing it has imported photos when it had, can be worked around by reattempting the import - by simply force quitting photos and restarting it, then  clicking on 'Import all new items'.
The problem is, after importing said new items, the 'Import all new items' turns blue and clickable again. So photos app never seems satisfied that it has received all the imported items.
I will be deleting the drive of the device from which photos are being imported, so it is absolutely essential to be certain that all files have indeed been imported.
Question
How can I know with certainty that all the photos on a device have been imported successfully to photos on macOS?

Sidestep the issue - use Image Capture.
If you plug in any phone or SD card etc it will display the contents.
I set mine to delete on import. Import can be to a folder, or to Photos etc.
You can watch the list of photos go down as they are imported.


Earthed (Grounded) Stubby Plug for MacBook AC Adapter Much hay has been made of the apparent grounding issue while using the stubby plug on a MacBook AC adapter.

While I understand it is completely safe to have a bit of grounding flowing through the user, those of us who live and work in the tropics would love to find a grounded (earthed) stubby plug adapter.

I see no reason this shouldn't exist, given that the longer cable is grounded via the metal stump on the AC adapter, but I haven't found one.

Notably, I am in Australia, where the plug head doesn't fold over anyhow, but I'd also love a US version.

I have only just discovered this problem with a 2017 MacBook Pro. I get a tingling feeling from the MacBook and realised that the earth part of the apple UK 13 amp plug is a dummy (not connected with the circular locking spur on the charger unit) but I noticed on my early MacBook Air that there was an earth connector on the apple plug and so I swapped it and now I do not have the tingling problem. I do have it on the Air with the new "improved" apple plug.


How do I remove a dmg from a bootable USB flash drive? I created a bootable flash drive using the instructions on Ubuntu's website using OS X 10.6, but it was for the wrong version of Ubuntu. Now, I want to remove the dmg from the flash drive, but diskutil isn't letting me remove it.

Open the USB drive in Finder and delete the contents that way. Then empty the Trash before ejecting the USB drive.


Protect a folder from access The folders: desktop, documents, downloads, network volumes and more are protected by Catalina.
Can I protect a folder in the same way as the one so that it is asked whether an application is allowed to access, for example, / usr / local /?
I am happy about every answer
Thanks in advance

I'm not aware of any method to apply the protection of ~/Documents etc to other directories.
If your primary objective is to protect access to a set of sensitive files it might be easier to create an encrypted DMG with Disk Utility and mount this only while you need to access these files.