Will "set up new iPhone" in iTunes wipe my swapped iPhone? I just upgraded to iPhone 6se at a Sprint store yesterday.  They moved all my data from old phone to new at the store.  Now, when I plug my iPhone into iTunes (v12.5.3.17) on my macbook, it only presents me with options to "set up new iphone" or "restore from backup."  All the backups are old.  If I choose "set up new iphone," will it wipe my device?  I'd prefer not to lose everything I have on my iphone.  Will my iPhone ever be synced to my iTunes again?

No, it won't erase anything.

Allow me to translate that dialog  to idiomatic English:

"I don't know anything about that iPhone you just plugged in.   You have two choices:

Erase it, and then restore it from the back up (of some previous iOS device)?
 Or
Treat it as a new iPhone that iTunes will now keep track of?"

Does that help?


Keyboard and trackpad freezes for a while after sleep in macbook pro 2019 I'm using Macbook pro-2019 13inch with Catalina 10.15, so recently I started facing this issue, after turning my mac on from sleep my keyboard and trackpad doesn't respond even the backlights doesn't turn on, then Bluetooth search for keyboard starts and after some time my keyboard and trackpad starts working back.

I've been running into the same issue, but have been experiencing it since 10.14. I've contacted Apple Support and they had me reset the SMC, I haven't had enough time to see if this is a permanent solution (I doubt it is). There's many troubleshooting steps they'll have you try before they consider servicing the MacBook.

Here's the page with the instructions to reset the SMC Resetting SMC - Apple

My hopes are that this is a simple software patch and will be resolved soon.


Is it possible to "emulate" virtual monitors like Windows does for remote desktop users? I want to remote desktop into macOS, but when I use a client like VNC Viewer on my Windows PC, it only allows me to go up to whatever resolution the macOS machine has (like 2560x1440 on an iMac).
My Windows setup has 3 monitors attached (4K, 2.5K, and 2K). If I use native Windows remote desktop into a tiny laptop with a 1920x1080 monitor, the program still opens up in fullscreen. It basically emulates having 3 monitors connected to the laptop.
I want the same but for macOS. What options do I have in that regard? Bonus points if it can run headless, so I can use it on a Mac Mini or a Mac Pro stashed away in a closet somewhere.

Not using macOS Screen Sharing alone. It isn't really comparable to Windows Remote Desktop in terms of how it works.
Windows RD provides a service to the client, leaving it up to the client to handle the UI rendering.
macOS Screen Sharing / VNC relays screen contents to the client and returns user inputs to the server.


How much data is used during factory reset recovery mode for the Mac OS? I boot my Mac air into recovery mode over internet command+option+R (recovery drive has been deleted/overwritten).

I am using mobile tethering to recover this device, just enquiring as to how much data will be used during this process if anyone can advise? I am unsure of the size of the recovery image it wants to download.

p.s this is my only available recovery method, there are no ethernet ports on the laptop and it will not pick up our business Wi-Fi (we use WPA2-Enterprise which is supported but on a Cisco Meraki account basis, so it's not a case of SSID / Pass).

Each size (Internet Recovery Mode and OS X reinstall) is comparable to the sizes of the respective dmg files containing the Base OS X/full OS X install.

So booting once to Internet Recovery Mode requires the download of about 650 MB and restoring your original operating system – which depends on your MacBook Air model – requires an additional download of about ~4.7 GB (Lion) to ~5.7 GB (Yosemite).

You can't download and install El Capitan directly because the original system of the newest MacBook Air was 10.10.2.


How can I determine what is causing my iPhone to buzz? I recently got an iPhone 4 (with iOS5). I almost never have the ringer on, so the phone is mute and alerts (like incoming calls) come with a buzz. Periodically, while the phone is idle and no call in coming, the phone buzzes. I figure this results from some notification, however no recent notification shows up in the notification finder, nor have I recently received any emails.

How can I figure out what is causing these alerts?

Go to Settings->Notifications on your iPhone and then look in the section Not In Notification Center. If there are any apps listed there, you can see if notification is turned on or off for them. If any are turned on, you can turn them off one by one to see which one is trying to get your attention.

You may also be able to see badge numbers changing on one of your apps which would be a clue that there might be a notification too.


Checkin history of apple source code? https://opensource.apple.com
I see apple source code can be browsed on line. Is there a git repo in which checkin history can be viewed?

No, Apple just publishes the source code as a snapshot with each release of macOS. The dev repositories aren‘t public.
If you want to propose changes regarding the published code (e.g. porting a Linux system call into the Darwin/xnu kernel), use https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/


VMware Fusion upgrade What's VMWare Fusion upgrade policy? I consider buying it, but a new version will probably come out in September alongside OS X 10.11. Will I get a free upgrade, or do I wait until September?

You need to contact the Sales department for VMWare, and come to an agreement with them.

Last year, I had bought Parallels a few weeks before a new version release, but (without my prompting) they simply tossed me an e-mail with authorization to install the newer version.

In general, a Sales department is sensitive to avoiding the impression that they're double-dipping their customers, such as a new customer buying the product, only for a new release to come out a few months later.

From the perspective of Sales, they are happy to complete sales, but they don't necessary have complete control over when a product release will occur.


Hearing an echo of my voice using the Apple headset I'm not sure if it occurred after I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 6 but since some days I hear an echo of my voice when using the Apple headset on phone calls. It also seems that when I simply plug in the headset without calling or listening to music I hear some noise trough the earphones.

The echo is very annoying and it's almost impossible to use the headset for phone calls. Is there any solution or are there any other problem descriptions?

I am having the same exact issue. I have called Apple Care and all they could tell me was to do a soft reset, and a full restore and that the cause would be hardware related. I don't believe it's hardware related since this occurred after the upgrade to iOS 6 so this is clearly a software related problem. They made no other suggestions on how to resolve this issue at this time.

I did however google this and found this post.

This seems to have been an issue even with iOS 5 on the 4S. This only happens when plugging the headset in during a call. If you initiate the call with the headset already plugged in the echo is not there. If you plug the headset in during a call however, in order to get rid of the echo, turn the speaker on and off (with the headset still plugged in) and the echo will go away.


What does the arrow with 2 lines through it mean? In Xcode, a lot of the shortcuts use an arrow with 2 lines though it:

What is the keystroke corresponding to this?

That is the page or scroll up key. On a MacBook the keystroke is Fn-Up Arrow.

“What Do the ⌘, ⇧, ⌥, ⌃, ⎋, ↩, ⇥, ↖ and ↘ Menu Symbols Mean?”

Each symbol corresponds to a key on your keyboard:

⌘ — Command/Apple key

⇧ — Shift key

⌥ — Option/Alt key

⌃ — Control key

↩ — Return key

⇥ — Tab key

⎋ — Escape key

↖ — Home key (Function-Left Arrow on laptops)

↘ — End key (Function-Right Arrow on laptops)

There is a very handy reference at harvard.edu.


Trash will not empty Any tips on forcing the laggards in my trash folder to disappear would be greatly appreciated.
So far no terminal commands or disabling SIP have been successful - any tips?

You haven't said what Terminal commands you've tried, but don't forget that Trash can exist on other volumes besides the one in your home folder. Run this to remove all Trash.

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash /Volumes/*/.Trashes

Be very careful when entering this command


Removing Icloud Account from old phone I have just swapped from an Iphone 6s to an Iphone SE. I reset my old phone and and erased all contents and settings but I forgot to remove my icloud account. I've logged on to my icloud account and looked under 'my phone' but all i can see on there is my new phone. When I go into account settings I can see my old iphone 6s and there is an option to remove it from account. If I do this will that mean that my icloud had been removed? Thanks in advance for your help.

Removing your iCloud account from the iPhone 6S from icloud.com or any other Apple device on Find My will mean that your iCloud account has been removed. Was Find My iPhone enabled on the iPhone 6S? If it was, then that means that the iCloud account was automatically removed when erasing the device (your device should have prompted for your Apple ID and Password). If you still have access to the iPhone 6S and want to make sure that it is removed completely, you should probably set up the phone again and use your Apple ID. Then, remove it from Settings > Your Name > Sign Out (at the bottom) and erase the device (Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings).


Disable media controls on iPhone lockscreen When playing any kind of audio (for example the Music or Spotify app) you see media controls on your lockscreen. They are handy, but also cover the wallpaper I like to see (I can control the music player with my headset). Is there a way to disable those media controls on the lockscreen?

Sorry to say, the answer is no. Although I don't find it intrusive to have the controls there, I wish that it wouldn't blur the background, too. The availability of the same controls in the Control Center makes it redundant.


"err_certificate_invalid" for only one host, on only one device, but in all browsers Currently, when I try to access www.comic-rocket.com on my iPad (iOS 10.2), the site will not load.

Safari simply won't load the page, as if I hadn't even tried to do so.
Chrome and Dolphin will show a "ERR_CERTIFICATE_INVALID" error message. Chrome details it as having received a scrambled certificate.

The issue does not occur on Windows, on Android, or on a friend's iPhone, i.e. it seems to be uniquely tied to my specific device. Update: On a colleagues iPad Pro I can finally reproduce the issue. Probably my friends don't have the latest iOS installed, where StartCom should be removed as valid certificate authority, see jksoegaard's answer.

Is there some way I may solve this, short of fully resetting the device?

I already tried:

Hard-Reset of the device (holding power- and home-button until the device restarts).
Resetting network settings
Resetting "All Settings"
Downloading the certificate on Windows, mailing it myself and installing it from the "Mail" app (doesn't work from Gmail).1
In a related thread2, deleting everything under "Settings > General > Profiles" (may be called "Device management" instead of "Profiles") was suggested. This entry however didn't even exist until I installed the certificate manually (i.e. there was nothing do delete).

Footnotes

1 In order to download the correct certificate, I had to disable my Antivirus temporarily, since it injects its own root certificate. Using "SSL Detective" on iOS, I checked that the certificates received by the iPad and by Chrome on Windows match.
2 Certificate error when using Chrome for iOS with company CA

Your certificate is issued by StartCom. The company has recently endured a number of scandals where they broke the rules governing certificates.

This means that for example new versions of Firefox does not trust StartCom certificates issued after the 21st of October 2016. Your certificate is from 2017.

Your problems are probably caused by this. The iPad likely has newer software/certificate updates than your Windows or Android device.

In time expect that no one will accept your StartCom certificate.

I suggest replacing the certificate with a new certificate!


UI Lag OSX Yosemite (10.10) on Retina MacBook Pro late 2013 I have a late 2013 rMBP, 13" with the following specs:

Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
RAM: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Video: Intel Iris 1536 MB (integrated)

Before upgrading to Yosemite, Mavericks performed fine (everything was quick and snappy). I did a clean install of Yosemite (however, I took a bit of a strange path: reinstalled Mavericks and then upgraded to Yosemite via the App Store).

So, my problem is that the UI lags. Not immediately, but after a while (either using the laptop or have it in sleep mode and then use it) the UI gets laggy. Yosemite eats up all my RAM, and I don't really have that much apps open. Today, I had 3 PDFs open in Preview and was using Safari. Mission control and Expose were very slow and laggy.

I have already tried a PRAM reset, did not solve anything. Also reduced the transparancy, and did not work.
When reading forums, it seems that Yosemite has trouble with the amount of pixels of a retina screen. A friend of mine has a 2014 11" MacBook Air (base model) which runs Yosemite fine.

What do you recommend, should I do a clean install of Yosemite again (this time using a bootable image of Yosemite)? Or is it better to wait for Apple to fix this with an update?

I'm keen for your thoughts on this matter.

UPDATE 19-11-2014: Since the 10.10.1 update, overall stability of Yosemite seems to be improved and I have not yet encountered any lag. Is it solved....?

UPDATE 21-11-2014: Still having UI lag (after clean re-install of Yosemite), though it does occur less frequently with 10.10.1. Preview also performs slightly better, as well as Mission Control and Exposé.

UPDATE 03-12-2014: UI lag is still present, and as said, it occurs less frequently. What is strange however, is that the actual performance of the machine does not seem to suffer under the lag.

I'm experiencing some slowdown after a while even on my MBA. It's exactly how you described it. It's perfectly smooth after booting the machine but eventually, after using it for one day or so the animations (especially launching Mission Control, switching between spaces and full screen apps) get noticeably choppy. I don't think there's anything that can be done about it right now, I made a clean install and even executed an Onyx automation, but the problem persists.  This is clearly an optimization problem in Yosemite and I really hope it will get better with the future updates.


MacBook Pro does not sleep/require password at all I just bought a brand new MacBook Pro: a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports).

And here is the issue: It will not sleep/require password automatically pretty much at all. This is both a battery saving issue and a security issue for me.

My settings are as follows:

Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver.
Disable automatic login
Turn display off after 1 minute when using battery
Turn display off after 1 minute when using power adapter

I've had mixed results, and noticed this behavior is not deterministic. I'm really frustrated that my brand new MacBook Pro is behaving this way, and I'm considering returning it.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Possible System Management Controller (SMC) issue?  Can you try a SMC reset and test your conditions again?

Link here...

What the SMC does.  The SMC is responsible for these and other low-level functions on Intel-based Mac computers:

Responding to presses of the power button
Responding to the display lid opening and closing on Mac notebooks
Battery management
Thermal management
Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS)
Ambient light sensing
Keyboard backlighting
Status indicator light (SIL) management
Battery status indicator lights
Selecting an external (instead of internal) video source for some iMac displays


Changing iCloud id to email: The requested application was not found on this server I am trying out iCloud right now but it keeps telling me:

An Apple ID that is an email address is required to use iCloud.

I am using a non email username(that I use for itunes and the app store) so I followed the link to convert it but going to https://appleid.apple.com redirects me to:

https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/

and gives me the above error. So what should I do now?

Reload the page. The servers are overloaded (this question was posted on the iCloud launch day).


iPhone SE says "connect to wi-fi or cellular to play music" when I AM connected to cellular I can't figure this one out, and I don't often listen to music while out & about so I only just noticed it recently.

iPhone SE, iOS 11.3.  I have both Apple Music and iCloud Music Library subscriptions.

If my phone is connected on the Cellular network, I am unable to play certain songs on a smart playlist that is on my phone.  Anything from the "For You" or "Browse" tabs in Apple Music will work just fine, and SOME songs in the very same playlist, will also work fine.  But most will not play at all and simply say:

"Connect to wi-fi or cellular to play music"

Obviously I AM connected to Cellular, so this is very confounding.  The songs in question are all in my iCloud Music Library, or Apple Music.  Some report an iCloud Status (in iTunes on my Mac) of "Uploaded", some "Apple Music".  There is no pattern that I can discern, all play fine on my Mac but it's completely hit or miss on my phone.

Again to be clear, some music will play just fine.  But some will not for no obvious reasons.  This means it is unrelated to needing to enable cellular data for Music, or anything like that (though I went through all those steps anyway just to be sure).

So far, I have:

Rebooted the phone
Toggled every place there is to toggle related to using cellular data for music
Quit & relaunched the Music app
Googled and found nothing related to this exact issue

I'm stumped.  I don't often listen to music in my car, but today was one of those days when I wanted to and... I couldn't listen to what I wanted to listen to.

Update to iOS 12.1.2
Sign out of iTunes account (Mac iTunes app)
Sign in to your iTunes account
Connect your iPhone to your  (having iTunes app open)
Manage your songs and settings through iTunes

I hope it helps.


Stolen Package with Ipad Pro WiFi only I purchased an Ipad Pro 12.3" for my kid for school, and we purchased it directly with Apple. The carrier claims they delivered it and left it in the porch (we dont have a porch). Then their excuse is that Apple didnt request signature delivery so they left it at the door or porch and they cant do anything. I contacted Apple and they are doing due investigation, but I was pretty much told that they cannot block the device even if I ask for it and having the serial number which is in my receipt. Is there anyone that knows how to do this? I can check the info on the order receipt, but since it never reached us, it has no apple ID on it nor anything. It was stolen BRAND NEW on the package, or delivered to the wrong house.

You are out of luck in terms of locking it out. If you had ordered it from a business or school registered with Apple Schoo Manager it would have been pre-associated with your organization, but as a regular consumer, with no Apple ID ever having been associated with the device, you have no ability to control or tack it.
However, I suspect that Apple will send you a new one and since you had no personal info on the device I would not invest much time into tracking it or locking it.


Cant allow app to control computer anymore I'm developing app now, and when I debug it - I open debug folder and drag app into Preferences->Privacy->Accessibility->List. When I want to show demo, I drag this app to applications folder and remove old app from accessibility and add new one from applications.

Today I can't drag nor add by + this app.

So, I open console. Drag again - nothing. Add via +, see next messages:

25/12/14 16:27:21,228 WindowServer[143]: window 103 is already attached to window a0
25/12/14 16:27:21,824 WindowServer[143]: window 103 is already attached to window a0
25/12/14 16:27:21,837 WindowServer[143]: window 103 is already attached to window a0
25/12/14 16:27:23,602 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[868]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
25/12/14 16:27:25,072 WindowServer[143]: _CGXGetWindowOrderingGroup: Operation on a window 0x103 requiring rights 0x5 by caller System Preferences

In accessibility I already have Automator, Script editor (not checked), Xcode (probably they was meaned in first three lines).

I worry about last one - have no idea what it talks about? Are my rights has been gone somehow? Funny, but I am able to add any other product to that list...

According to this answer I made a select query to Tcc.db, and I see myApp there, despite that I don't see them in window. Actually, I have tried to delete database before writing my question, but still problems have been occured, so I desided then app has no access to mac.

But, when I delete from DB myApp, then select query - all gone, OK.
Then drag again, then select query execute - myApp appeared with same settings as other apps, but still invisible in in privacy.


How do you replace commands in the terminal? I want to be able to type a short command and have that be replaced with a longer one. For example, typing vscode could run something like open -a "Visual Studio Code". I know this is possible in Linux, but is there any way to do this in MacOS?
Thanks in advance!

You should be able to do the same as your were doing in Linux in macOS.
As an example, if using bash, adding
alias vscode="open -a 'Visual Studio Code'"

to your .bash_profile file will let you just type vscode in Terminal  to open Visual Studio Code.

Note: If you are running macOS Catalina, or later, and have not installed a more recent version of bash and are using the default zsh shell, then put aliases in your ~/.zprofile, or the appropriate file for the shell you are running.
Also, you might want to read Visual Studio Code on macOS to add the code executable to your PATH or path, depending on your shell.


Setting Work Schedule with Outlook an half hour boundaries We use Outlook at work for scheduling. By default, the work schedule is 9AM to 5PM. You can easily change this to other hours under Preferences, but you are limited to full hour boundaries. I can't, for example, change my start time to 8:30AM, I can only choose 8AM or 9AM.

Is there is away to set a start time and end time on half hour boundaries?

That is a limitation of the Outlook.

I use a work around.

I have set up a repeating event 7-8:30 for every work day, and marked it as "out of office" status, and Private and named it "do not disturb".

At least in the view now my work day starts at 8:30, and no one can call me in a god forsaken way to early meeting.


How do I avoid Keynote reducing image quality? I want to create an animation in Keynote for a proof of concept. So I create a custom 16:9 document with 1440 x 810 pixel size. Then I add an image with a 1440 x 6395 pixel size. When I first add the image it's downsized so that it doesn't stretch beyond the slide height, but I click the Original size to have it fill the width (and stretch beyond the height).

The problem now is that even though I've clicked Original size, I'm quite sure the image isn't actually its original size, at least not in resolution.

When I set the presentation in full screen this is part of what I see:

When I look at the same area of the image in Finder Preview this is what I see:

So you see, the image in Keynote is undoubtedly reduced in quality.

Does anyone know how I avoid this?

After some research I found that this is a problem that has appeared since Keynote 6, and is probably due to iOS compatibility (limiting PNG original quality to stick up to 4096px height).

A tip however was to import your image as PDF instead, then Keynote won't downsample it.

Here's the result:


Can a Mac OS X DVD that came with a computer be used to upgrade another computer? I have two computers -- the newest, a MacBook Pro, came with OS X 10.6, and the oldest, an iMac, is running 10.5.8.

In order to upgrade from 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion, one has to first upgrade to 10.6, so I thought I could just try the DVD that I got with my other computer to get this first step done.  And it's not working (the installer says "Mac OS X 10.6 cannot be installed on this computer" although the computer appears to satisfy hardware all requirements--I wish this error message was a little more helpful).

Is it because of restrictions of the Mac OS X DVD?  I suppose what I'm doing with it isn't exactly its intended use.

Generally and legally no, since the installer on the DVD is checking for machine specific model identifier for the MacBook Pro that the DVD came with as shown in this workaround .

  Once the file is opened, scroll down about ¾ of a page and you will come across a series of strings named hwbeSupportedMachines.

Now, technically the DVD's that came with Macs included a standard Mac OS 10.x.x Install plus new drivers for hardware specific features for that new model, stuff that would not be known about or included in the 10.x retail install DVD Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers. Which means the OS that came with your Macbook Pro once its installed on the Mac Book Pro should include all it needs to run on the iMac too. You just have to get it there, which you could do via cloning a 10.6 install from the MacBook Pro to the iMac or maybe via installing OS X 10.6 on the iMac via the MacBook Pro using FireWire target disk mode.

Untested Solution if you want go the Upgrade path of 10.5 to 10.8 wihout erasing the iMac

Backup important Data on iMac
Boot the iMac into target disk mode, by holding down the T key while boot the iMac.
Connect iMac to the MacBook Pro via FireWire
Boot the MacBook Pro from its 10.6 Installer DVD
Try to select for installation of OS x 10.6 the hard drive with 10.5 installed on it in the iMac.
Note: This is the untested part, the Restore / Install DVD may not allow upgrades from prior OS X versions.
Boot up the iMac and then upgrade to latest version of OS X 10.6
Install OS X 10.8

Recommended Solution:

This will promote better performance via a clean install to a blank disk thus reducein legacy cruft and other left-overs from old OS X installs and old Applications, etc.

First thing upgrade the MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion, if you have not done so already.

Next back up all your files you want from the iMac, since OS X Lion / Mountain Lion will not be able to upgrade users from Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.8.

Create a boot able Mountain Lion install disk(using a hard drive or usb thumb drive)

Open the Mac App Store, go to purchases and re-download the Install Mountain Lion Installer.
Create a boot able disk drive by extracting the InstallESD.dmg from it to a external drive or partition. See How to create a bootable, backup Mountain Lion install disk
Connect the external drive to the iMac
Start the iMac while holding down the option key. Select the MTN Lion installer to boot from.
Once the MTN Lion installer loads open Disk Utility and Erase the Hard drive in the iMac
Quit Disk Utility
Install OS X 10.8 by selecting Reinstall Mac OS X


How to report spam that appeared in Messages on iPhone that's marked "Text Message" & thus sent via my carrier, NOT Apple, & NOT from a phone #? How do I report spam like this, which appeared in Messages on my iPhone? My carrier is AT&T. As I understand it, we can tell from the screen shot (because of the "Text Message") that my carrier delivered the message via SMS, not over Apple's secure iMessage protocol.  Which means this is a very different situation from Spam on iMessage - What are my options?.  (I think the originator can have whatever email addresses they want appear both above and in the text "Text Message" - they could easily have been, and likely are, forged - the email addresses ending in .ec and .com.)
I've had no success getting cooperation from AT&T.  Just stonewalling and deception.     And the volume is going up.

This kind of thing is almost impossible to block because, as you pointed out, the e-mail address is almost always forged.  I have hundreds of e-mails blocked on my account.  That being said...
How to block someone via the Messages on the iPhone or iPad

Launch the Messages app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
Tap the conversation of the person you're trying to block.
Tap the info button in the top right corner.
Tap the name of the contact.
Tap Block Caller. ...
Tap Block Contact.

This is courtesy of https://www.imore.com/how-mute-block-and-report-imessage-spam-iphone-and-ipad
Or...

How do I stop spam texts AT&T?
To report a spam SMS message received on your iPhone, you can forward the text to the number SPAM (7726). AT&T will reply with a text asking for the phone number of the person who sent the spam text message. Reply with the phone number and that's it.
To block a specific email address
Sign in to your AT&T Mobility account and create a Message Preferences account. Add email addresses to the block list by replying to the spam text with BLOCK in the reply message.

From... https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/971823


Are there any iOS apps that let third-party developers extend functionality? If so, can you give examples? What I'm looking for is any apps that let third-parties write code or modules/"mini apps" for extended functionality that a user can install/execute from within the app.

Nope. As a developer, I know this is not possible unless the "child" app is installed as an app, supports a URL scheme, the "parent" app knows about, and their interaction can be limited to launching each-other back and forth.

Note: the situation with jailbroken devices and in house applications is different, but I assume you don't care about those.


What is happening when my Mac is being optimized after an OS X update? I have just updated to 10.9.2 and after the installation reboot this little message shows up:

What exactly is happening in the background here?

Here's how I would determine what's running when you see messages like that:

Check the battery icon if you have a portable.
Check if Spotlight has queued a large reindex from spotlight
Check Activity Monitor - look in the Energy tab and sort on Avg Energy Impact descending


scp (secure copy) in lieu of vmware disk-sharing Booting down the linux VM, removing the share, disabling sharing,

followed by enabling sharing, adding the share, and booting up the linux Vm

finally followed by reinstalling vmware tools

do not make the shared drive appear under /mnt/hgfs.

My question is: I'd like to use old-fashioned scp to copy a tar archive.

On the linux VM: scp FROM/dir/file.tar ~/.

What should FROM be?

If you're trying to connect from Linux back to your Mac you'll need to make sure ssh access is enable on you Mac first. Go to System Settings -> Sharing and make sure the Remote Login option is check.

This dialog will also tell you the the IP address of your Mac and the account name to use to connect. If your Linux VM's network is set to Bridged you can work with your Mac as if it was any other machine on your network. They both have unique IPs in your local network. So:

From a terminal window on your Linux VM you can now do:

scp <stuff to copy> <your mac user name that users returned>@<ip address of the active interface>:/path/to/put/stuff/at

For example, according to my settings, if I wanted to copy from a terminal window on my Linux VM to my Mac I'd do:

scp myfile.txt ian@192.168.1.99:~/tmp/

That would put myfile.txt from my Linux VM in to /Users/ian/tmp on my OS X host OS.

Similarly, from the Linux VM:

scp ian@192.16.8.1.99:~/tmp/myfile.txt .

Would copy myfile.txt from the Mac back to my working directory on the Linux VM.

If you're trying to connect from your Mac to your Linux machine you need to make certain that the ssh daemon is running on your Linux machine. To start sshd, open a terminal on your Linux machine and type:

sudo /sbin/service sshd start

If it starts correctly you'll see a [START] box. If it fails, well, that's a question for https://unix.stackexchange.com/.

Now you just need to get the IP address for your Linux VM. At a terminal window on your Linux VM type:

ifconfig

The eth0 interface should be your active ethernet interface. Grab it's IP address. That's what you'll use to connect to your Linux VM from a Terminal window on your Mac.

Open a Terminal window on your Mac and type:

scp <local file> <username>@<ip address you got above>:~/tmp/

to copy the file from your Mac to your Linux VM while you're on you Mac.


make a bootable DVD from an ISO Is there an APP to make a bootable dvd i am using snow leopard but i do have access to a lion machine. I have an ISO from a legal copy of windows 7 it is a back up cd and yet i am having a hard time making it boot from the cd, the boot camp installer sees it but when I try and boot from it, it gives me a code 5 which is a non-bootable DVD

the things i have tried

-burned to usb using dd

-burned to dvd

-restored using disk utils

I just want an app that will make it easy and painless and hopefully free so i can just get my bootcamp working... thanks in advance

I think what you're trying to do is simply burn the contents of the ISO to a DVD, but what you need is a program like Disk Utility to copy the ISO bit by bit to the DVD maintaining its bootability. Try this:

Open up Disk Utility.app in your /Applications/Utilites folder.

Click "Burn" in the tool bar.

Navigate to the ISO disk image you want to burn.

Click burn to start the process or click the disclosure triangle to select further options for burning your disk. Faster write speeds are faster (d'uh) but make the operation more prone to failure due to vibration. I suggest you click the check box to verify the data of the disk once it's burned, then pick whether you want the disk to be ejected or mounted once the operation completed.


My downloads hang across the OS I am using MacOs Sierra and downloads across the operating system hang after a few seconds. To successfully download a file, I have to pause and resume the download over and over until it completes. Here's what I have tried:

Changing browsers. Didn't help
Download accelerators. Didn't help
Switching from wifi to wired internet Didn't help
Switching to windows on the same computer Worked

Is there anything else that I should look into?

The next thing is to determine if all network downloads are broken on your Mac or just Apple downloads.

It's possible you have a bad external network route or the networking settings on the Mac are substantially different than the PC. It could also be as simple as the date / time are wrong on the Mac or some other thing that is breaking SSL/HTTPS/TLS or whatever secure connection the Mac is negotiating with the download server.

Is there a reason you aren't using the App Store to do the download? Perhaps bad speeds or remote / heavily filtered internet in your country?


Getting loads of Open error 5's when using Terminal to repair permissions My GF's MBP running on Mavericks broke down 2 days ago.
First I tried to copy the contents of her HDD to an external HDD but got the I/O error time after time.

Then I tried all the basic things like repairing the disk in Recovery Mode and try and verify/repair permissions in disk utility, cause I read that that could also help but that didnt do the trick either.

Now I am trying to repair the permissions through the Terminal and getting alot of detailed I/O errors. Also the progress bar is stuck @ 74% now. It doesnt advance only I get every 20 secs or so a new line with a new error. My original plan to try n save the data on the HDD has become too complicated for my skills so I'm in desperate need of help since it has been awhile since last backup.

I found a (quite easy) way to recover the contents of my HDD.

1) I got myself the MBP from my nephew.
2) Connected it with a FireWire cable to mine.
3) Booted our MBP up in Target Disk Mode (press 'T' when booting up)
4) Our MBP then behaved like any external storage device and the files could copied off just like that.

In that way i got all the important files, photos, and projects of the lady. Hopefully this can help people in the future if they are having similar issues.


Reset Logic Pro X installation I was installing Logic Pro X. The installer had to download 2.0GB. As I have slow internet connection, I was cancelling the download and resuming it without problems the last couple of days.

Today, the download was at 1.4GB. After cancelling it and trying to resume later, the installer won't open. I went to Activity Monitor and killed the Logic Pro X process and started the installer again, however all process is now gone and it gets stuck at Installing:

How can I reset the installer so it starts from scratch? Maybe I could delete the 1.4GB data that was already downloaded so it starts from the beginning?

A quick find didn't reveal where those files are:

$ sudo find / -name "*Logic Pro*"

UPDATE: directories that I try deleting:

/Users/jviotti/Library/Caches/com.apple.logic10

You can find the location of your downloaded content by running the following command:

sudo find /private/var/folders -name "com.apple.MusicApps"

You can safely delete this entire folder and attempt to re-download.

If your Logic Pro X is not sandboxed, the content will be located in /Library/Application Support/Logic.


What does unregister really do? Today I lost my iPhone and because of that I proceeded to unregister it from Apple as http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526 indirectly suggests.

What does it really mean to unregister a product?

It removes it as being registered to your name in Apple's system. When you call Apple support from the iPhone, a screen pops up saying your name, the serial number of the phone, and information related to the phones previous issues. When you unregister it, that information goes away and it appears as a device that has yet to be registered. (Unless it is flagged as stolen).


Why does opening AirPort Utility restore my internet connection? My office has a D-Link router hooked up to DSL. Connected to it via Ethernet is an Airport Extreme (6th generation). The Airport Extreme is the wireless router to which my MacBook and other users connect. It's in DHCP and NAT mode, in case that's relevant.

Every once in a while (maybe once every one or two weeks), my internet connection stops working, though the Wi-Fi icon in my menu bar still shows full strength. I used to reflexively disable and enable Wi-Fi, which would reliably fix the problem.

The past few times I wanted to investigate further, so instead of disabling Wi-Fi, I try pinging the Airport Extreme at 192.168.2.1, and I get "Request timeout for icmp_seq". Then I open AirPort Utility. However, the moment I open Airport Utility, everything reliably starts working again, and pings start coming back acked. I'm pretty sure it's the act of opening Airport Utility that's triggering this, as I can wait a variable length of time before opening it. What's going on here?

I'm on an early 2015 13-inch retina MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.1.

Can you try disabling the DHCP and NAT and putting the device into Bridge Mode? Since the D-Link is functioning as the router there's no reason to double NAT (this is generally considered bad) and that's the only thing that's strange about your setup that could be causing this behavior.


iOS diagnostics test gives you new problems? Has anyone gotten software problems after performing the iOS diagnostics test offered by Apple? (where you get a test URL from Apple support)

I can't connect to Gmail on Safari after the test... it keeps reloading.
Logging out nor restarting is helping.
Anyone with similar problems?

Have you tried restarting the device? This will wipe the cache, and perhaps solve your problem.


Changing default font size in Safari using JavaScript I like to decrease the zoom and the font size of Safari for a better overview, I know I can set a default zoom value, but can I set a default font size?

I'm using JavaScript at the moment but I have to do that to each tab.

javascript:var p=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i<p.length;i++){if(p[i].style.fontSize){var s=parseInt(p[i].style.fontSize.replace("px",""));}else{var s=12;}s+=2;p[i].style.fontSize=s+"px"}

Your question doesn't provide a lot of detail, and it's also a little ambiguous (hence the comments you're getting).

Here is an answer assuming you're wanting to do this for your own personal web browsing, rather than as a web developer. This answer also assumes you're trying to only reduce the font size rather than the whole page.

Since there's no way to do this through Safari's preferences, you have two options open to you:

Using a custom style sheet
Installing an extension

Style sheet

If you know how to create your own style sheet, then follow these steps:

Create a style sheet to set your font properties
Go to the Safari > Preferences menu
Select the Advanced tab
In the Style Sheet drop-down menu, select Other...
Navigate to your style sheet and select it
Exit the Safari preferences.

Extension

There are probably many extensions that will achieve what you want. Here are the steps for one that I'm aware of:

Go to: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.sobolev.stylish-5555L95H45
Install the Stylish extension
Restart Safari
Take note that to the left of the address bar you should now see the Stylish S button
Go to: https://userstyles.org/styles/68263/global-font-size
Click on the Install with Stylish button
You've now installed this style

Now, if you need to customise this style, do the following:

click on the Stylish S button I referred to at Step 4 above.
Click on Manage
Under the Global Font Size option click on Edit
This displays the CSS code for this style. Edit it as you need.
Save your changes

Hope this helps.

If I've misunderstood your question, please clarify it.


Is AFP of any value to non-ancient devices? From one person’s tests, SMBv3 is just a hair faster than AFP.

All of the Macs, iPads, and iPhones in our house capable of reading disks are Apple devices that support SMBv3.  We have no devices capable of AFP.

File sharing allows SMB or “SMB and AFP.”  Is there any benefit to enabling AFP?

I am more accustomed to NFS, but speed of disk access is worth switching over.

I personally use SFTP on my home network rather than SMB or NFS, as that allows you to access POSIX file permissions, whereas the others do not. This is a feature offered by AFP, too.

macOS requires POSIX file permissions on users' home directories, so if you plan on having those accessed via the network, SMB is not an option.

Having said that, Apple appears to be phasing out AFP, with no support for APFS volumes (at least not yet). I'd personally stick to just using SMB unless your needs dictate otherwise, in which case, SFTP may be a better choice than AFP simply for its cross-platform support and not being proprietary (though Netatalk provides an AFP solution for Linux).


How to create a bash alias on OS X? I want to create a bash alias on OS X, because I need to type on a really large command.

I've found some answers about the same issue on ubuntu, like this one, but they mention the ~/.bashrc file, which doesn't exist (at least by default) on OS X.

I've found that I can do this by editing the .bash_profile file.

Just added:

alias my_alias='cd /my/really/long/long/path

to .bash_profile, and after reopening bash my alias command worked just fine.


Adding photos to iPhone programmatically without iTunes I'd like to know how to add photos to an iOS device without iTunes nor any "iPhone explorer" programs.

I have the image files, and I have the iPhone "mounted" on a Linux machine, which means I have access to some directories like DCIM and PhotoData.

Now, how do I actually put the pictures in ? I tried dropping them in DCIM but of course it doesn't work and despite the files being there they don't show up in the camera roll. Is there any particular thing to do after copying the files, or a particular file name syntax to follow?

Apple expects you to use iCloud Photo Library. With that service you can login to the iCloud website on the Linux machine, click on Photos and then click on the "Upload" link to select images to upload. Your phone doesn't have to be connected to the Linux machine, just to the Internet via WiFi, and it will sync the new photos. I've done this myself and it does seem to work (not from a Linux machine, but with the Chrome browser).

The alternative would be to buy the camera connection kit or lightning to sd card adaptor and setup an sd card exactly the way it would look if it came from a camera, copying the images from the Linux machine. Note, I  haven't tried this but it should work as long as the directories on the sd card match how they would be constructed if they were created by a camera.


Functionality like iOS's keyboard shortcut functionality I'm not sure if this is a duplicate of another question because naming the functionality in iOS that enables the user to type in a shortcut (like "omy") and have it expand to a whole phrase (like "on my way") as "Shortcuts" was a bad idea, in my opinion.

I'd like to have a way to type in a shortcut and have it expand to a whole phrase, just as one can do so in iOS. Is there any native way to do that? Or would I have to write an Apple Script of some sort? I know of an application called, "Typinator" that does this, but I don't like the idea of spending money if I don't have to.

There are good apps that allow you to set up text expansion with a nice GUI. This is the one I have used and liked:
Dash Expander
Mac App Store Link
Dash Expander handles text expansion very well. I have used it and it works well. The free version:

"...will nag and annoy you every now and then, in order to purchase."

I haven't found these to be that obtrusive. However, as of writing the full version is just $1.99. This also has the ability to set variables. For example, you can set up a boiler-plate thank you note, and just set variables in there that you quickly go through and change to personalize for the recipient.


How to switch to windows that dont belong to any running application? So, I installed an application that runs in the menu bar in OS X Mavericks. When I open that application's window (from the menu bar), there seems to be no obvious or intuitive way to switch back to that window with the keyboard after I've moved focus away from it.

When I try Cmd + Tab, I see the list of running apps (Finder, Chrome). I thought that this window was possibly associated with Finder. However, when I switch to Finder (using Cmd + Tab) and then try to use Cmd + Backtick, the window never receives focus.

I don't think it matters what the application is; I'm betting that this problem would occur with any app that runs in the menu bar and opens a new window. I will confirm this as I continue to install apps. However if you think it matters, the app in this case is called "Spectacle" from spectacleapp.com.

UPDATE:

The same exact issue happens when you open a window like "App Store Help" from the AppStore. The OS basically leaves a window that is orphaned from the Cmd + Tab list or any other keyboard centric way of setting focus.

Have you tried F3 or F9?  One of those should get you in to Mission Control which will show you all your open windows grouped by application.  This works for me with the window for Net Monitor.

If neither of them works, go in to System Preferences -> Mission Control to set up a key or hot corner.


Is otool removed in Mountain Lion? I can't find /usr/bin/otool any more in Mountain Lion.

Does anybody know why otool is removed?
Is there any alternative for otool in Mountain Lion.

In a somewhat-recent version of the Xcode developer tools, the command-line utilities were moved into a separate package. You can either install them from inside Xcode or just download them separately. See my answer here for more details: I installed Xcode but I still don't have gcc in my terminal.


Unable to increase partition size with subsequent blocking partition I can't make my main Macintosh HD partition bigger. It's limited by the partition in the middle, which seems to be frozen, I can't move it down to make space for my main partition. Also I can't seem to delete it. The format of disk0s4 is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Some background, I created a partition to experiment with bootcamp to use windows. Once done I deleted that new partition, it became a no-man's land that neither partition can claim.

As a seperate issue, boot camp assistant has been giving me this error:

Anyone has any ideas? Much appreciated!

The closest problem I've found is here, this is a FAT partition.
Unable to increase Macintosh HD partition size with data in a subsequent partition

iPartition

For all my partitioning, I use and recommend iPartition. It will allow you to resize partitions without deleting any data. It will automatically move partitions if necessary to allow resizing into free space that is located after the partition.

  iPartition’s ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when necessary, makes iPartition the easiest partitioning tool that you’ll ever use.


Customise Touch Bar for a specific application So I've been using the MacBook Pro with Touch bar for a week and the Touch Bar seems pretty convenient. However, I haven't found an option to customize the Touch Bar for a specific app.

For example, whenever I code via jetBrains phpStorm, I'm used to having the F[0-12] Buttons (which aren't displayed in the keyboard anymore in favor of the Touch Bar). I know that if I'm holding the fn button, I'll be able to see the F[0-12] Buttons. But I want them to be displayed by default without the need to hold the fn button.

Is there a way I can achieve this?

Assuming I understand your question, you can set your Touch Bar to show the function keys as its default display on an app by app basis.

To do this:

Go to Apple > System Preferences
Select the Keyboard preference pane
Click on the Shortcuts tab
In the left sidebar, select the Function Keys option
On the right-hand side click on the plus + button
Select the JetBrains PhpStorm app
Add the app

Now, whenever you are using the JetBrains PhpStorm app, the Touch Bar should display all the function keys.


Why were my notes deleted when I permanently deleted emails on gmail site Why were my notes deleted when I permanently deleted my emails from gmail account.  Can I get my notes recovered? My notes on Apple phone were lynced to Mac I am told.? Can you help

If you were syncing your Notes via your Gmail account (and not via iCloud) then Gmail treats them like a plain text email. If you delete your email, then you also deleted the notes.

Restoring from backup is your only bet - either a Time Machine backup or by recovering lost email.


How to download past purchases from old Apple ID without waiting 90 days to switch back to new Apple ID? On my old laptop, I used a shared Apple ID to purchase music on iTunes. It was a little tedious because it was connected to my sister's bank account, so I had to send her money before each purchase I made, so that her account wouldn't overdraw.

That laptop died, and now I have a new one with a new Apple ID connected to my own bank account. However, some of my purchased songs were lost, so I temporarily logged into iTunes with my old Apple ID to re-download them. Right when I was about to download, iTunes warned me that I would need to associate my new laptop with the Apple ID, and that after you associate a device with your Apple ID, you can't associate that device with another Apple ID for 90 days.

I really don't want to be stuck on my old Apple ID for 90 days, is there a better way to do this?

There is no way to lift the 90 day hold without contacting Apple support. You might not get much traction there, but it's worth a try.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204074

Turning on iTunes Match, Family Sharing, or Automatic Downloads, or when you download past purchases on your computer, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, that device becomes associated with your Apple ID.

You can avoid most of this by having a backup (eliminating the need to download past purchases) and the other items are easy to not inadvertantly turn on.


Can't draw in Notes app I am running iOS 13.3 on an iPhone 11. On the notes app, it seems like I have access to the drawing tools, but I can't actually draw anything. I can select the pen, highlighter/marker, pencil, eraser, ruler, and color chooser. I can adjust thickness and opacity on the drawing utensils. However, I can't actually draw anything.
Possible solutions that I've already tried are:

Checking that this isn't a color issue (i.e. accidentally coloring black on a black background).
Restarting the app.
Restarting my entire iPhone.
Changing the location of my note from my iCloud folder to my iPhone.
Checking that this problem persists over many notes.

Is there a trick or step to get notes on iPhone to have a finger use the markup drawing tools?

Shortly before submitting this question, I found what I believe is my answer. I hope this can help somebody later.

On the Notes app, you can't draw in an area with text. This not only means that you can't draw over text, but also that you can't "make" a space to draw in by clicking enter/return many times. If you go to the end of your document and open the drawing tools, you will see a horizontal line separating the text-section from the available drawing-section. By default, at the bottom of every document/note there is a drawing section. It is in this drawing-section that you can actually draw.

If you would like to insert a drawing in the middle of your note, you can double-tap a blank line where you would like to insert the drawing, and then click "Insert Drawing". If you try to double-tap or tap-hold in the middle of a paragraph, you won't see the "Insert Drawing" option.

After you click "Insert Drawing", you will see your new drawing section. Note that if you would like to resize your drawing section, just tap the little circles on the left-side and drag up or down.

When you are done drawing, your drawing section will be treated like a picture. You can delete by either tap-holding it and selecting "Delete" or "Cut", or you can go to the text-section just after it and continue hitting backspace/delete.


Does FaceTime on iOS 14 allow you to share your screen? I know it is possible to do so on macOS, through Messages, but is it possible to do something similar with FaceTime on iOS or iPadOS? Or does one need to use another app for this, like Zoom?

You need another app. To see which apps are available, you can hold the record button in the control center.


Does guest information stay saved? If I am using a friends computer as a GUEST and then sign out. Can my information still be seen by the owner of the computer or does it get deleted???
Like I did t want them to see what I was researching ect ??

No, guest data is not permanent.

From Apple docs

  Files created by a guest are stored in a temporary folder, but this folder and its contents are deleted when the guest logs out.


Change network location automatically based on network Possible Duplicates:
  Can the built-in OS X “Location” feature auto select locations based on wireless networks?
  Can I automate location changing so I don't have to drive the choice manually?
  Start/stop internet sharing from a script?

Is it possible in Mac OS X to somehow make it change the network location from a custom location profile to automatic when leaving the home network without having to manually adjust the settings in system preferences?

Although not automatically, a shorter way to go is in the menu: apple->Location and then choose your location,.


Debounce MacBook pro Keybboard Is it possible to debounce a MacBBook keyboard via a script? I have the obbbnoxious double "b" problem wherein my keyboard inserts two "b" characters abbout half the time (also occasionally the r and i characters, but less often). The keyboard is bbuilt into the case, which makes the replacement a cool $1015 ($680 for parts, and $335 for labor). Hence, I'm hoping for a software solution.

Without knowing if Apple Techs fully evaluated the state of your system (you seem to have asked someone the repair cost), in the past batteries will swell and cause odd keyboard behavior before proceeding to various other bad effects including:

  Warping the back cover
  Leaking acid into the internals

Not saying I am right or wrong, but you have a chance to get ahead of this if it is true.


What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory? The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing

Taken from my answer at Server Fault:

Mac OS X Memory Jargon:

Wired : This refers to kernel code and such. Memory that should not ever be moved out of the RAM. Also know as resident memory.

Shared : Memory that is shared between two or more processes. Both processes would show this amount of memory so it can be a bit misleading as to how much memory is actually in use.

Real : This is the "real" memory usage for an application as reported by task_info() - a rough count of the number of physical pages that the current process has. (RSIZE)

Private : This is memory that a process is using solely on its own that is used in Resident memory. (RPRVT)

Virtual : The total amount of address space in the process that's mapped to anything - whether that's an arbitrarily large space for variables or anything - it does not equate to actual VM use. (VSIZE)

Active : Memory currently labelled as active and is used RAM.

Inactive : "Inactive memory is no longer being used and has been cached to disk. It will remain in RAM until another application needs the space. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later." - Mac OS X Help

Free : The amount of RAM actually available without any data.

The best documentation I know of (and have been able to find in followup research) is Apple's own Managing Memory article on their developer website.

Other worthwhile sources: Darwin-dev mailing list: [1], [2] and an old article on MacOSXHints. Additionally Mike Ash has posted a good layman's introduction on his blog


coconutBattery indicates iPhone 6 problem My iPhone 6 with ios 11.2.1 seems to lose charge too quickly. I connected my iPhone to my iMac and ran the app coconutBattery. the app reports the charge on my phone and the charge capacity. It also reports the design capacity. There is a bar graph which shows a red bar indicating charge current is at 42%. It seems even when my phone is completely charged, it reports full charge capacity is 819 mAh whereas design capacity is 1810 mAh or 42% as reported. This would explain why iPhone discharges so quickly. My question is, is there anything I can do to fix this?  I have included the coconutBattery window.

The issue here is that coconut battery shows that the design capacity is 45% and that app is probably correct.

This means that the battery is dying and needs to be replaced.

This can be done by Apple or a third party.

This question happened to be the first I read  on the way home after getting my battery replaced at an Apple Store. They need the phone for 2-3 hours. So book an appointment on line or as I did turn up and see if they have a spare slot, they will message you when they do (in my case after an hour). It cost £79.


Freezing, disk i/o problems iMac I have a desktop iMac with Snow Leopard installed on it. Every few minutes, I get freezing and

"kernel disk0s2: I/O Error"

in my console. I did some research, and found that my hard drive (a WD I had for only a year) may be failing. I've had failed hard drives before, and this doesn't seem like a failure because the hard drive is working quietly (there's no clicking noise at all even during the freezes) and I get a verified SMART status in Disk Utility. Are there any alternative theories to the kernel disk0s2: I/O Error in console or is it definitely an impending hard drive failure? Could it be due to overheating? WD drives get really hot. Any theories?

That is definitely the sign of some failure related to your HDD. The SMART status is not real helpful in many cases either; for instance if you have bad blocks it probably won't detect them.

My recommendations would be back-up everything, then reformat the drive and see if the problem persists - or send it back to WD, since your HDD should be covered under warranty.


Why does my iPhone power off when the battery is down to 30%? Today I was walking using my iPhone 6S running iOS 9.3 as a pedometer and it shutdown.

When I got home and plugged it in, it said 30% capacity.

That seems strange. I would expect it for 2% or 5% to preserve RAM, but 30%? Maybe there is a setting I don't know about.

My question is: Why does my iPhone power off when the battery is down to 30%?

Edit: this is not a duplicate of the low battery crash as I witnessed the low power shutdown and it was not a crash.

This is usually for one of three reasons:

Aging battery. Lithium ion cells chemically age and peak power output decreases as does total charge available to supply at various voltage levels.
Abnormal or failed / out of tolerance battery. Same as above, but the voltage and current is below spec for the battery age.
Bad calibration or hardware. I've never seen that be 30% off, though. After the battery is drained completely, charge the phone back to 100% completely (and for good measure, leave it on the charger for another hour or two). An iPhone can draw more power than a perfect battery can provide due to defect or damage. It might not be the battery.


MacBook Pro on any wifi stays connected but won't load pages after a few minutes This started happening a couple weeks ago and I am at a loss. The issue has been happening on every wifi I have connected tom: my phone via tethering, my university's guest and student wifi, and third party wifi at a coffee shop.

This is what happens: After a reboot and connecting to any wifi it will work for between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, then it still says that it is connected but no web pages will load (tested in safari and chrome.)

What I've tried:

• Reseting PRAM

• Reseting SMC

• Removing all known wifi networks

• Creating another user account (same issue)

• Changing DNS IP addresses

• Reinstalling the OS (while preserving user data)

• Tethering to phone's network via BlueTooth with wifi off (same issue, stops working after a few minutes)

And finally I have tried installing windows 10 with bootcamp. When booted into windows the issue does not appear, so because of this it seems to me that it is not a hardware issue. So I am really lost, does anyone have any other ideas I could try?

I had faced same. Sometimes cable connected to wifi card becomes loose which can cause this issue.

Can you check once what RSSI you are getting when you are scanning the the Wi-Fi network? Usually macOS at -70 dBm RSSI shows very less connectivity but windows works fine.

Click on "Apple" icon.
Select "About the mac"
One window will pop-up then select "System Report"
One another window will pop-up. Select "Wi-Fi" under "Network" option.

you will get all the network list. All the scanned network will have a field "Signal/Noise", where you will get your RSSI value.


Terminal backslash input repeated in output I'm using zsh on a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.10. When I type in certain commands, such as this one:

cat myfile | awk -F $'\t' '{print $8, $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1,1n | awk '{if ($1 > 50) sum += $1} END {print sum}'

, then part of the command is repeated before the actual output of the command. The output in this case looks like:

    " '{print $8, $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1,1n | awk '{if ($1 > 50) sum += $1} END {print sum}' : myusername2525

Does anybody know how to get of the jumbled output? It kind of looks like a format string vulnerability or something similar to me.

The problem is the $ in the first awk statement in the chain:

awk -F $'\t' '{print $8, $9}'

The -F option for awk sets the record separator for your input. If you're really expecting the separator to be a dollar sign followed by a tab character you should move the dollar sign in to the single quotes like so:

awk -F '$\t' '{print $8, $9}'

Leaving the $ outside the single quotes means it's being interpreted by the shell as a variable reference. This is what's leading to your weird output. If you aren't expecting a dollar sign in the field separator, only a tab, change the awk call to:

awk -F '\t' '{print $8, $9}'

Based on what you've said, the above appears to be what you want.


How to get a complete list of all applications installed? Using OSX 10.8.4., I am having a hard time finding a complete list of all software applications installed on my Mac.  Of course, the Launchpad only shows the list of those that have an app shortcut created, excluding those that do not.  I also tried holding down the Option key while in the Apple Menu to change About This Mac to System Information, then Software-->Installations but that still was not a complete list.

How do I get a complete list of all applications installed?

Try:
About This Mac > More Info > System Report > Software

.

Not only "Installations" ... but the others may give you some info, too.


Notepad++ alternative with the ability to search in folder I am looking for an alternative program on macOS, like Notepad++ with two abilities:

To write and edit program code,

and

Search specific string in a folder full of text files.

Atom is another great editor that has the features you are looking for, with the added benefit of being free and open source.

A good comparison of Atom and Sublime Text 3 can be found here


Could the recently announced Mac Minis power a theoretical 5K Retina display? I'm curious, assuming that the Thunderbolt bus has sufficient bandwidth, would the Iris Pro graphics be capable of driving a 27" retina display?

Doesn't look like it.
Best info I can find says it can do 3840x2160 resolution at 30Hz
Everymac hasn't been updated to include them yet, this was from zdnet - http://www.zdnet.com/new-improved-slower-mac-mini-7000034795/


MacBook Pro Retina and Windows 8 I am running my Windows 8 RP on my MacBook Pro Retina. Everything's going smooth, but I have problems with my keyboard and trackpad drivers because I can't make any changes to them since BootCamp control panel won't start (some error with insufficient privileges for the startup disk).

Now, are there any possibilities to configure my keyboard (F-keys) and trackpad (tap to click and so on) without using Boot Camp Assistant?

Sounds funny, but Control Panel only works in user mode, but the .exe file is marked to require Admin rights.

Follow this guide and it will work (trust me).

Start Notepad and paste the following (see ** comment below):

  runas /trustlevel:0x20000 "C:\Windows\System32\AppleControlPanel.exe"

Save the file as "BootCampControlPanel.cmd".
Create a shortcut to this file and save it in the start menu or on your desktop.
Right click the shortcut file. Select properties. Click "Advance..." and check "Run as administrator".
Use this shortcut to start the Control Panel (the icon tray icon still does not work)

So basically we run a Command Prompt in Admin mode, and use this to start the applecontrolpanel.exe in user mode (sounds weird I know, but it works).

** 0x20000 might be different on your machine. From a command prompt run "runas /showtrustlevels" and use the hex number for (Basic User).


iPhone 6 plus - weird horizontal lines on screen, won't stay in DFU mode for updates, iTunes stuck "waiting for iphone" I need help with fixing an iPhone 6 plus.

The user(my mom) accidentally booted the iPhone into recovery mode(not sure, but she says she's holding both power and home button) and leave the phone on as she didn't know how to exit recovery mode. After exiting recovery mode, it started to reboot, horizontal lines appeared on screen, pixels flashes, and the phone showed no sign of booting up. iTunes said the phone had some problems, and told me to update it. So far so good. But as iTunes was preparing the phone for update, display screwed up again and iTunes was stuck waiting for the phone.

As far as I know, the phone was using ios 9. It's just a guess though, and I do not know the exact sub-version.

Has anyone experienced such problem? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Problem solved- it seems that the battery has been over-drained and a long recharge is needed- I left it charging overnight and it comes to life again after 8 (12 actually, has been charging it before asking this question) hours. This could explain the lines on display- low voltage.


Cannot import .ics file events from email to iPhone calendar (iOS10.1.1) Unable to import events (36 total) from an .ics file I emailed to myself.  I used to see "Add All" as an option when viewining the .ics events. Now, all I see where "Add All" used to be is "Done".  If I tap any of the individual 36 events, I have an option to add to calendar as an individual event, but can no longer add numerous events from one .ics file with one click.

Not accusing, but, this seems to be occurring since updating to iOS 10.1.1. Anyone else experience this?

Once imported iOS seems to remember the filename and hides "Add All" to prevent a second import (which would duplicate the events).

When you're sending yourself a new set of events, try using a different filename (add a timestamp or something similar).

(the same thing happened to me with a web generated set of events under iOS 9)


iPhone 6 keyboard freezing when typing on iOS 8 (com.apple.TextInput.kbd) I had an iPhone 5 before upgrading and its keyboard never froze on iOS 8, but with my iPhone 6 it is happening all the time. I already redefined my keyboard dictionary.

Bringing up console I see a error on TextInput:

Nov 18 11:19:27 GBFGabriel-iPhone-6 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.TextInput.kbd) <Notice>: Service only ran for 1 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 3 seconds.

Anyone has any idea why is this happening/how to fix this?

With a little more digging I found that the problem was with the kbd process using tons of memory when I tried to write something. Google search with "kbd process" bring me a lot of useful links:

iOS & iCloud: Broken iCloud data causes kbd process to crash constantly and drains battery

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5521035

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1615584

What did worked for me was turning iCloud drive off and on again.

EDIT:
So it turned out I was dumb enough to turn iCloud Drive off and don't turn it on again!
Been using it this way for some 2 months.

But I've got the solution! (Mac only) I was digging through my iCloud files at ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ and found that there is a folder with the same name of the evil process.

~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~TextInput

I opened it up and decided to read some files, unzip here, convert plist there (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15179410/how-to-open-icloud-cdt-file) and voilá: in just one file, the process kbd tried to insert a word 147 thousand times. This entry was a correction from "mongolao" to "mongolão" (southern Brazilian idiom in Portuguese for a vulgar use of the word "retarded"), ironic. As there were lots of these files, I think with myself that the problem is that somehow the kbd process fell into a loophole, and I decided to delete all the content of the com~apple~TextInput folder.

Waited a few minutes for my mac to upload the changes, turned iCloud Drive off and on again on my iPhone and...... working! If I don't come back here to edit this answer it means this was it! (or I forgot something really stupid again)

Oh, and don't even try to boot up Finder to do this, be a good stackExchange user and only use Terminal. (Pro tip: Yosemite breaks the iCloud folder in Finder)

EDIT 3 (3 months later):

tldr: run the following on your Mac's terminal:

cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~TextInput
rm -rf *


Why won't the New York Times "skimmer" web site run in Fluid? Fluid is an application that enables a single web site, normally viewed through a web browser, to be displayed in Mac OS X as an application.

I want to have http://nytimes.com/skimmer in a separate process, but it won't run properly in Fluid. It has a few of the links on the bottom right, but the page stays blank.

Information about Times Skimmer.

  Times Skimmer is a browser-based application that offers a new way to read The Times online. The application provides the experience of spreading out a newspaper and paging through it.

More information. It's entirely HTML5-based, and the New York Times considers it to be an "experimental beta" project.

Unfortunately, Fluid doesn't seem to work with that site (either to do with the HTML5 or the caching). However, Prism (http://prism.mozillalabs.com/started/) works the same way as Fluid (separate process, dock icon, etc.), and presents the content perfectly. It doesn't have many features, such as User Agents, Preferences, or Themes, but for something like Skimmer it looks great!
Hope this helps you,
Charlie


Apple Mail generating Mail[378]: No worthy mechs found. What is it? I know it's Apple mail because the PID of the running Mail is 378

378 ??        44:44.93 /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail -psn_0_28679

In the Syslog file I'm getting is:

Mail[378]: No worthy mechs found

Does anyone have any idea why this shows, or what this is.

I'm running postfix and dovecot on 10.10.3

I just solved this problem (on a system that was NOT running postfix) by changing the authentication method on one email account from Password to MD5 Challenge-Response.


Why will my MacBook Pro (15" Late 2016) not power on after disabling 'Boot on Lid Open'? I wanted to disable the boot/power on by opening the lid. To do so, I entered the below command in the terminal
sudo nvram AutoBoot=%03

Post that, I shut down the laptop by going to the Top Left Apple icon. After shut down, I closed the lid. I opened the lid and Voila, it showed the battery indicator 100% on the screen and then the screen went dark. Reasonable, but not for me. This is where my problem starts, as my laptop won't start anymore.
I have taken the below troubleshooting steps.

Press the Power Button
Press and Hold the Power Button from 3-10 seconds, (tried all)
Tried resetting NVRAM
Tried resetting the SMC, ^ Control ⇧ Shift ⌥ Option ⦿ Power for 10 seconds.
( I am not sure about SMC reset, as the power was not turning on)
Opened the back lid, disconnected battery connectors for 60 hrs, hoping SMC would reset. Plugged in the charger, and opened the lid, it showed no battery in red on the screen. No power on until now
Removed the charger, connected the battery, opened the lid and we are back to square one. It shows the battery percentage and the screen goes dark.

I am looking for solutions to start the laptop. I don't know what I have done wrong, a simple command to disable the boot on by opening the lid and I am stuck with my MacBook Pro not starting.
PS: Apple Service Centre are closed, as we are still in lockdown. I am posting a question after a long time, apologies for any improper format.

The setting is stored in NVRAM, so resetting that should undo the new nvram setting. Unfortunately in this case, NVRAM is persisted like something written to disk, so neither SMC nor disconnecting the power can undo the setting.
Try using the automatic power on as part of the NVRAM reset. With the Mac having shut down after showing the battery indicator, hold ⌥⌘PR then connect the power cord instead of pressing the power button. Keep holding the keys for at least 20 seconds.


Is there an app or setting to lock an iPad in a Presentation mode, so other apps can't be accessed? Not really an iPad user so thought I would ask here.

As an organisation we want to place some presentations on iPad minis
(much in the way that iPads are used in the Apple Stores as information sources next to other products).

We want the user to be incentivised to view the entire presentation so ideally we don't want them to be able to leave the presentation.

Are there any applications that allow presentations to be locked?
Ideally, presentations would be built in PowerPoint or HTML/CSS.

I appreciate any input you can provide.

The Apple-sanctioned method to accomplish this is the use of the Guided Access feature in iOS6. Settings > General > Accessibility > Learning > Guided Access.


Suddenly some folders are unreachable from my external hard drive I have a MacBook Pro and I partitioned the internal SSD into two parts (150GB and 50GB). One of them (the 50 GB part) contains a bootcamp with Windows 8.1. I also have an external hard drive, which is 1 TB with both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connections. I partitioned this into to two parts also (500GB and 500GB). One of them is formated for Windows and the other is for Mac.

Since I don't have too much space on the bootcamp internal hard drive (50 GB) I installed MSVC2013 on the external hard drive's Windows part. After the installation I learned that I didn't save too much space, but it worked and I had no problems with it. Since I didn't need it anymore I uninstalled it, but then for some reason I had to install it again. For some reason when MSVC2013 was uninstalled I changed the external hard drives Windows partitioned part's driver letter to a different one. When I tried to install MSVC2013 again it didn't let me, since it wanted to install it to the same place where it was before and I couldn't change the installation path, because it was grayed out. I read it in some forums that this is a "normal" behavior from MSVC2013 and to change the installation path you need to format the whole OS. Formating at that time was not an option for me, so I thought I create a small partition from the external hard drives Windows partition with the driver letter what MSVC2013 wants. I created the partition with Disk Managment in Windows and the installation was able to finish. MSVC2013 worked again.

After all this I went back to the Mac part of my internal hard drive and I realized that now on the Mac side it doesn't recognize the Mac part of my external hard drive. In the Mac's Disk Utility it shows the part, but it is grayed out. So I went back to Windows to see if the Mac part of my external hard drive is recognized there and I learned that it is. So I thought I make a fast copy of all my data of the Mac part of the external hard drive and then the strange thing happened.

Some of my files were able to be copied and some were not. The folders which were not copied were unreachable. This is the error message what I get when I try to access them.

Anybody has any suggestion how could I reach these folders? All help would be much appreciated!

This piece of software recovered all my lost files!

Data Rescue 3 External Drive Recovery
By PROSOFT Engineering, Inc.


About USB-C Dongles and Hubs I'm looking to get a USB-C Hub like the one in the image, there are several of those.

What I understand is that all of these hubs, no matter the brand, they take out 2 USB-C in exchange for 2 USB Type-C and several USB Type-A and SD Card slots, etc.

The little Lightning icon means that it is the port used to charge the MacBook... but my question is this:

Can the other USB-C (not the one with the lightning icon) be used to send video to an external display? Example: With a USB-C to DisplayPort cable (not 4K)

From the product description at Amazon for Lenovo USB C Hub, Aluminum Type C Hub Adapter for MacBook Pro 13" and 15" 2016/2017, Thunderbolt 3 Port, USB-C Port, SD and Micro SD/TF Card Reader and 2 USB 3.0 Ports, Grey it states:

  The Thunderbolt 3 USB-C port supports data transfer, video output, and charging while the standard USB-C port only supports data transfer and does not support USB-C video output or USB-C charging.

BTW The port with the lighting icon is the port referenced in what's quoted above.

Other mentioned product description/specifications include:

  Color:Grey
  This 6-in-1 Lenovo USB Type-C Hub expands your 2016/2017 MacBook Pro capabilities while on-the-go.
  This adapter only applies to 2016/2017 MacBook Pro 13‘’and 15‘’.
  Only one hub is included, power adapters, SD/TF memory cards, cables or other accessories are not included.
  The Thunderbolt 3 USB-C port supports data transfer, video output, and charging while the standard USB-C port only supports data transfer
  and does not support USB-C video output or USB-C charging.
  Compatible displays and cables are required to achieve maximum video resolution.
  One USB-A port supports a charging output of up to DC5V/900mAh and two USB-A ports support a total charging output of DC5V/1.5A. USB-A
  port is not recommended for charging.
  SD and TF card slots can be used simultaneously.
  Specifications:
  Brand: Lenovo
  Product Type:USB C Hub
  Model: C608
  Interface:USB 3.0 Type-A port，Thunderbolt 3 USB-C port，Standard USB-C port，SD/TF card slot
  Tips
  For best performance, devices connected to this hub should not exceed total current of 900mA maximum. Otherwise, output current may
  become unstable or disconnected.
  Below devices are often rated as follows for your reference:
  Mouse: 100mAPortable hard disk: Max. 500mA
  USB 3.0 portable hard disk: Max. 900mA
  Keyboard: Max. 500mA

  Please double check the current of your devices before connecting to
  the hub.


Can hard-drive benchmark apps damage your hard-drive? I want to measure the read/write speed of my hard-drive.
I came accross this page recommending Blackmagic Disk Speed Test.

There is a frame saying this:

  Note: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test puts hard drive under extreme stress during data write and read operations, therefore it’s recommended to save your work before conducting the tests.

Now my question is: Could that 'extreme stress' on my hard-drive damage my hard-drive?

Disk benchmarks perform many read/write operations to measure the performance of your disk. It is recommend to save any work as high amount of those operations may cause some applications to slow down and crash by being unable to load/save data from/to your disk.

  Can benchmark app damage your disk?

No, however if your HDD or SSD has been extensively used over its lifetime then it is likely that its health status has decreased, making it more likely to fail. Keep in mind that it would be nothing but a coincidence if it would fail during the benchmark.


Front Row and iTunes "watched" flags out of sync The watched flag and playback positions in Front Row are no longer in sync with iTunes. Is there any way to resynchronize them?

If it matters, I would rather iTunes' positions replace Front Row's.

These two questions on Apple Support were not useful.

The Cause

I recently crashed, presumably while iTunes was writing the iTunes Library and upon restart, it was "imported", with the damaged copy saved elsewhere. I still have the same iTunes Library identifier because my iPod and iPad sync as usual (rather than complaining that they're synced with another library as happens when you delete and rebuild iTunes Library.xml).

I cannot help with your original question, but you may be interested to know that Front Row was quietly removed from Lion, so if you have any imminent plans to upgrade, then it may be worth bearing in mind that you could be wasting your time trying to fix this.


Does iPhone's new HEVC video format also halve file size for 720p and 1080p? I've learnt the HEVC format halves storage space of recorded 4K videos.  Does it also halve the space if you record in 1080p and 720p?

Yes, iOS 11 supports lower resolutions HEVC resolutions as well.

Please note that the bit rate reduction will be lower at lower resolutions. The setting Settings > Camera > Formats is a global setting an will affect video and photo capture at the same time.

Source: Wikipedia/TK Tan; Marta Mrak; Vittorio Baroncini; Naeem Ramzan (2014-05-18)


iPad 2, iPhone 4s and iMessage I have an iPad2 and an iPhone 4s. My daughter has an iPhone 4, my son has an iPod 4th generation, and my husband has an iPhone4s. We all share the same iTunes account but all have our own emails.

I sent an iMessage to my dad on my iphone4s and it went to my son and daughter at school, my husband at work and my iPad at home. How do I unsync so that it does not go to all devices?

I want to be able to message from my phone without sending it to everyone in my family, as well as send from my iPad and not have it go to all other devices. This started when I got a new iPad.

Change the email address in the Settings app under Messages:


Disable spellcheck and autocorrect in Notes forever I've googled plenty of guides about disabling spelling and grammar in mac's Notes, and while unchecking the items in the edit menu works fine for the note I'm currently on, it turns back on for each new note and requires me manually disabling it each time.

I would like it to never check spelling and grammar in Notes, and not substitute incorrect spellings (not swapping out for smart quotes and the like would be a bonus). Is there some way to permanently disable these features for just the one app?

To be clear I don't want to disable it system-wide, only in Notes.

Edit>Spelling and Grammar>Correct Spelling Automatically

This worked for me. It is sometimes unclickable, if that is the case click a note and write something in this. This action will make it clickable.


MacBook Air serial number I am seeking to find a Macbook Air serial number from within the backup files created by the Mountain Lion operating system and stored on an external hard drive. Exactly which file do I need to be looking at? I made the presumption that the backup created by time machine would store the uuid to ensure that the physical MAC address (7 layer OSI model) would be the one that received the backed up files of the MacBook Air. Perhaps in Extended Firmware Interface (EFI) folder although I did see a file mentioned; in a post elsewhere which was com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist. The same post also said that a sparse bundle created by time machine contained the hardware UUID (effectively the serial number?).

The UUID is not the same as the serial number.

When you use any Mac, some machine-specific preference files are created in your Library/Preferences/ByHost/ directory.  The filenames are of the form

com.apple.app.UUID.plist

So, if you really want the UUID of a previously used machine, you can probably dig it up from some backups in that way.  I don't know how useful that would be though.

I think TimeMachine stores UUIDs of the filesystem, but not the computer itself.  Checking the logs on one of our servers here, I see several fsUUID and eventDBUUID but nothing for the machine.


Getting "There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server" on an iPhone 6s This issue start appearing after updating to iOS 11.3. The first few times restarting the iPhone solved the problem, but now after trying all of the solutions found here, nothing has worked.

You may want to summarize the solutions you have tried so we don't duplicate something you have already tried.
First reset your network settings: Settings > General > Reset > Reset network settings. Your phone will reboot and you will have to re-enter your WiFi passwords. Try that first.

Failing that, I would try the old backup/recover/restore technique. With the recover step saved as an option if backup/restore does not work.

Essentially you need to back up your phone, backing up locally, to your computer, will be faster and use a password on the recovery so it saves your wifi and other passwords.

Once the phone is backed up wipe the phone: Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings.

When the phone is finished erasing, plug it back into the computer and restore it from the backup you just made.

If that fails you want to put it into recovery mode, which is kind of like a clean install. That link leads to an Apple support article on how to put your phone into recovery mode.


iPhone 4 upgraded to iOS 6 - restore ringtones from iTunes The ringtones show up in iTunes, but iTunes says that it cannot find the songs in order to restore them to my iPhone.

How do I get these ringtones back without having to go and redo it again?

Play the tones in iTunes to make sure they have not been corrupted or moved.

It's most likely that the iTunes library expected the tunes to be stored in a certain directory on the disk and now the file is missing or moved. If there are things moving, you'll have to decide if you need to run a disk repair tool on windows or if someone may have moved folders or files or some other hardware issue is at hand.

It's likely this happened some time ago since if your phone had all the ringtones for months - iTunes wouldn't need to send them, but the restore made it need to actually send the file and now it's missing.


Install OS X on a MacBook Pro with empty SSD I have a MacBook Pro Retina 13.3" which had OS X 10.10. I erased the entire SSD with Disk Manager and tried to reinstall OS X. Unfortunately, my internet connection isn't good so it would take more than two days to download the installation files, so I downloaded the OS X .dmg on another computer and I made an USB bootable device with OS X 10.10 using PowerISO on Windows 7. Now when I try to install it using the C or CMD+R key, it doesn't show up. I only have the option to use Internet Recovery and I can't use it because it doesn't load. After a while it says "apple.com/support -2002F".

Any help, guys? And sorry for my bad english, haha.

Thank you.

⌘R only opens a specific preexisting partition on a hard drive that's already had OS X installed, so it makes sense that it wouldn't get you anywhere. You want to hold down Option as you press the Power button and watch the computer boot up. That tells the computer to list all the drives you can possibly boot from, and then you just select your bootable drive using the arrow keys and Return.


Other than speed, is there a reason that a 10W iPad charger shouldn't charge a new MacBook Pro 2016? Are there any reasons not to use a 10w ipad charger with a USB->USB-C cable to charge a new MacBook Pro 2016? Have the one charger that came with MacBook but would like to be able to plug in at office, home on road, etc. with other chargers. Thx.

A 10W iPad charger should in theory work and you would be correct that it would be a slow charge.   Well, to be accurate, it would be a horribly slow charge - you are getting a charger that is 1/6th (17%) of what is required (61W).

Will there be a problem?  No.

Will it charge?  Slowly.  Molasses in January slowly. From Apple's web site:

  Your Mac will charge from USB-C power adapters not manufactured by
  Apple if they adhere to the USB Power Delivery specification.

Assuming you are using a genuine Apple iPad charger, it should charge since Apple charges adhere to the spec.


Gmail Doesn't Respect Dark Mode System Preference on iOS 13 Given Dark Mode can really enhance battery life, I'm keen to implement it.

Although all my other IOS/IPADOS 13.3 Apps seem to respect the "System Preferences" > "Display & Brightness" > "Appearance" > "Dark", I noticed gMail didn't for some reason.

Google offered this guidance for configuring Dark Mode:

  For iOS 13:

  On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app
  In the top left, tap Menu Menu  and then Settings.
  Tap Theme.
  Choose Light, Dark or System default.

Since the menu item "Theme" was missing in my gMail settings, I gave up trying to configure Dark Mode- wasn't possible to follow the instructions to achieve a correct result.

My gMail settings look as follows:

By chance I noticed my Wife was using Dark Mode in gMail.  Given we have the same iPad Pros (2019 12.9"), I decided to try to implement Dark Mode again.

Doing some comparative analysis, I investigated how our iPad configurations varied.

Below are my Wife's gMail settings. When you compare the below graphic of her correct settings with mine in the previous graphic, remark (2) things:

There is now a menu item titled "Theme" which is not present in my settings
Version Number: Both the Broken AND Working Dark Modes use same gMail version

How else did the two iPads vary?

My iPad uses both gSuite and a personal gMail accounts
My Wife's iPad only has a personal gMail account.

Remarking this difference, I made the following changes to my iPad to mirror the working iPad (my Wife's):

Deleted the gSuite gMail account to exclude possibility there was a Domain permissions issue.  This did not resolve the broken Dark Mode issue
Deleted and reinstalled gMail itself.  This too failed to resolve the fault

So both iPad Pro's use the same versions of gMail, but the iPad with working Dark Mode HAS the "Theme" menu in settings, the other with broken Dark Mode does NOT.

UPDATE:

Was surprised to see Dark Mode magically working on my iPhone's gMail. I had not fiddled with anything lately, but voila, there it was. However, when I checked my iPads, these did NOT have Dark Mode enabled. Checked the versions on the iPads and these had the same one as the iPhone: v.6.0.200412.  So what was different?  I rebooted the iPhone recently, but NOT my iPads.

Upon reboot of the iPads, Dark Mode was now working on gMail on all my devices.

How to get Dark Mode working: (3) Steps

Set Dark Mode as the system-wide preference in: "System Preferences" > "Display & Brightness" > "Appearance" > "Dark"
As @Lulucmy rightly noted in his answer, Google must enable the feature on their side or Dark Mode ain't happening for you.
Reboot the device periodically: Google will not notify you they are enabling Dark Mode. I had periodically closed gMail from time to time since I last updated it 01 May, and Dark Mode was still not working in gMail.  Only when I rebooted my iPhone did the change seem to be effective.

So Dark Mode will respect the global System Preference, but only where Google has enabled it on their side. So I guess patience is also required for those eager to extend their battery life using gMail in Dark Mode.

Anyhoo, my observations on how my own Dark Mode Hell was resolved.  Hope this saves others cycles trying to resolve the issue-


Imaging issue DeployStudio I have got all of it set up and imaging went through without a problem, but at the last stage system log showed an error mounting AFPS volume.

When the system rebooted, a folder with ? mark showed on the screen. I made attempt to boot the system using startup disk and checked disk utility, it shows disc not mounted.

Am I missing something here? Please help.

This isn't directly related to what @fsb suggests because this issue is caused by the fact the machine needs a firmware update, this is part of the usual install process of High Sierra, but if you've been using images it won't have the Firmware update.

There are some steps to try on this website which I myself am trying now...

https://www.amsys.co.uk/deploying-firmware-updates-imaging/


Broken hard drive or operating system My MacBook Pro froze today. When the system is restarted, it goes directly to the OS X Utilities window. None of the alternatives seem to work. I don't have a Time Machine backup, so there is no use running that program. When trying to reinstall OS X I get stuck, because I don't get access to the HD, only the Recovery HD. I also get an error message when running the Disk Utility repair program. Unfortunately, there are important files I haven't backed up? I have two questions?

Is there any hope of restoring the computer with the files and programs intact?
If not, is there a way to access the files and make backups before erasing the disk?

Question 1. see this link for how to.

1- Try a Safe Boot (hold Shift during start up)- (it does do some level of repairs).

2- You can try repairing the disk, using the Disk Utility, start with cmd-r.

3- If that does not work you can try to repair the disk using the Command fsck- fy

To get there start in single user mode (cmd-s) and enter that command fsck -fy to find out if it can repair the disk.

Question 2-

you can use Target disk mode to recover files (you will need second Mac for that)


Emacs 24 and TextExpander snippets not working I am using Emacs (Version 24.0.50 (9.0) -- Cocoa) on OSX Lion. Whenever I type a TextExpander abbreviation, the snippet does not successfully expand. I hear the audio notification from TextExpander indicating that it tried to expand and the abbreviation I typed is erased from the buffer, but the expanded snippet never appears. I have tried this with "--no-init-file" so I know it is not a conflict with my particular Emacs configuration. Some older tips I have found suggest mapping Command-V to 'yank. This does not work for me.

Does anyone know if there is a way to make TextExpander work in Emacs 24?

Note: I know TextExpander works in Aquamacs and I know about textexpander-sync-el, but both of those cause other problems for me and, if at all possible, would prefer a solution that doesn't involve those two things.

I would suggest that even though emacs is running as a Cocoa application, it is not necessarily using a standard Cocoa text input box / field, due to the complexities of a emacs enviroment. So emacs in this case is probably more similar to a X11 program wrapped into a Cocoa gui and does not know how to communicate with TextExpander.
As referenced from TextExpander Support, but anyways contact their support to get the definite answer.

Does TextExpander work with Java, X11, and/or Parallels?
Not at this time. Mac OS X's assistive devices key logging does not support these environments. TextExpander relies on assistive devices key logging to capture keystrokes and so does not work in these environments. We continue to explore ways we might support these environments in a future version of TextExpander.