Why do I need to "bypass" 169.254/16? In my MacBook's networking proxy settings I have "169.254/16" among the list of domains for which to bypass proxy settings:

What purpose does this serve and why do I need it? Can I get rid of it?

It's on the exclude list because a 169.254/16 address is by definition not external to your network. A proxy server relays your requests to other networks. Proxy servers are much less common today than they used to be, but if you are using one, and you didn't have that exclusion, you could get some very strange results.

If you have the proxy enabled without exclusions, you run the risk of the proxy intercepting a request intended for a device on your network, and trying to relay it to the outside world. The possibility exists that the traffic would never reach its intended target on the local network. So the exclusion is telling the OS not to send traffic that should stay local to a proxy meant for external traffic.

I don't know of any reason why it would compromise your own computer's security either way. You can get rid of it, but I don't any advantage of doing so.


Can't access Mail or Mail setttings on iphone 4 + iOS 6.1.2 Since the upgrade to iOS 6, I've been unable to access my mail on wi-fi, cellular or disconnected.

The symptoms are:

The mail button icon shows '1'
When clicking on te mail app icon, it attempts to open up the app, then it times out and goes back to the home screen
When clicking on settings -> Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, the phone gets stuck and times out then goes back to the home screen.

First, force-quit Mail.app. To do this: Go to your home screen. Double-click the home screen. Locate Mail.app in the bottom bar that appears. Press and hold Mail.app until the icons wiggle. Delete Mail.app from the bottom bar by clicking red X.

Try again to launch Mail. If this doesn't work, reset the iPhone by pressing and holding power and home buttons for 10 seconds. Restart device once it shuts off.


How to manage users access to shared folders from the command line? Using the sharing or dscl commands I can not figure out how to add users associated to shares. The current local-admin account has access to all shares, but I'd like to add a different user account the ability to access some of the AFP shares.

Strangely, I can't even figure out how to list who currently has access to each of the AFP SharePoints.

So, looking for command line solution to the following two questions:

1) how to list current users associated to a particular sharepoint?
2) how to add a user to a sharepoint?

User access to sharepoints will depend on permissions that are set on that sharepoint. You can use the 'ls' command to get that information using Terminal...Newer Mac products (10.4+) will use ACLs to control access to those folders. You can obtain infomation on both the POSIX as well as ACLs applied to folders by using this command:

ls -ale /Path/To/Folder

That command will list the directory contents in list view. Note that you will see the POSIX (legacy UNIX) permissions on the left hand side of each row. The permissions can be deciphered by examining the "Permissions Defined" section of this page. You will likely see output similar to the following:

allyourbasearebelongtous:folder eddie$ ls -ale
total 0
drwxrwxrwx    4 eddie  staff   136 Oct 10 12:17 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 101 eddie  staff  3434 Oct 10 12:16 ..
-rw-rw-rw-    1 eddie  staff     0 Oct 10 12:16 testfile
-rw-rw-rw-+   1 eddie  staff     0 Oct 10 12:17 testfile_acl
 0: group:staff inherited allow read,write,execute,delete,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown
 1: group:everyone inherited allow read,write,execute,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity

You can see that the ACLs are listed out with their indexes (order of evaluation 0-n) on directories/files that have ACLs applied. You may also see that some files do not show ACLs associated with them (files that have ACLs applied show a "+" next to the file name when listed in Terminal). Both ACLs and POSIX permissions are evaluated when users attempt to connect to a sharepoint on the server. If the POSIX or ACLs conflict, you may see somewhat odd/undefined behavior.

For the most part, controlling access to sharepoints should be done by "group". I recommend setting up a group on the machine, adding users that should have access to that sharepoint to that group, and applying an ACL (that will inherit) to that sharepoint so that future files/folders created in that share have the same permissions set. An example of setting that inheritance for a group called "Accounting" on a single folder named "Data" is shown below:

chmod -R +ai "Accounting allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,directory_inherit,file_inherit" Data

Note that it may also be wise to coordinate the POSIX group permissions with the ACLs that are set to ensure secured access to those folders:

chmod -R admin:accounting Data

It may be a good idea to disallow other users into this share (for more strict security) using POSIX permissions. The "0" in this octal permissions mode specifies no read/write/execute permissions for other users (i.e., not admin user or accounting group):

chmod -R 770 Data

After you've setup that ACL on the folder, you can simply add future users to the "Accounting" group, which should then allow them access to the share. To add a user to a group from the command line, you can use dseditgroup. Here's an example of confirming whether or not the user is a member of the group:

dseditgroup -o checkmember -m newuser accounting

If the user is not part of the group, you can add them into it:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a newuser -t user accounting


SSH works locally but not remotely I have remote login turned on, and when I'm at home, I can access the Mac via SSH just fine, by using the local IP address. However when I try to access it when I'm not at home, using the global IP address, it always times out.

Any ideas? Or am I missing something really obvious here?

If all your machines are running Lion or Mountain Lion, and you're using the same iCloud account on them, then you can use iCloud to ssh as described in this blog post from One Thing Well

First, find your Back To My Mac account number by running.

dns-sd -E

Then SSH to another machine like so

ssh -2 -6 username@computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com

You can also add this to your ~/.ssh/config to make it easier

Host mac-remote
User username
HostName computername.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com
AddressFamily inet6
Protocol 2


Is it possible to put a header column on the right of a table in Pages? I only see an option to place the header column on the left side of a table in Pages. Is there an option to make a header column (footer column?) on the right side of a table?

I did not think this would actually work.

Apparently, if you switch to a RTL language before inserting a table, it automatically orients it right-to-left instead of the default left-to-right.

It's annoying that this doesn't help for tables already created, but I'll take what I can get.


Using kdiff3 as default git diff viewer on Mac OS I have kdiff3 installed on my Mac (Version 0.9.97, 64 bit). Here's my ~/.gitconfig:

[filter "media"]
    required = true
    clean = git media clean %f
    smudge = git media smudge %f
[user]
    name = My Name
    email = me@example.com

[core]
    editor = atom --wait
[merge]
    tool = kdiff3
[mergetool "kdiff3"]
    path = /Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
[diff]
    tool = kdiff3
[difftool "kdiff3"]
    path = /Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3

Everything seems to be fine, except for the fact that when I do git diff, I see the output of the console diff. Any ideas on how to solve this?

Don't use

git diff myfile.txt

but

git difftool myfile.txt.


How to skip the tools during installation which I don't want to install from this automated installation list for osx dev tools? https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/blob/master/mac

For example I don't use Heroku so I want to comment out Heroku stuff. But I don't know how to do that. I have forked this script and want to customize it

Comment out the four lines that reference Heroku by adding the pound/hash sign in front of each one, like so:

# fancy_echo "Installing Heroku CLI client ..."
  # brew_install_or_upgrade 'heroku-toolbelt'

# fancy_echo "Installing the heroku-config plugin to pull config variables locally to be used as ENV variables ..."
  # heroku plugins:install https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config.git


How can I disable the Macbook keyboard (from startup) How can I disable the Macbook builtin keyboard which is defective (looks like the Shift key is always pressed). I need this in order to avoid starting with the Shift key pressed otherwise the Macbook always starts in Safe Boot mode.

I have an external keyboard attached now with which I can work in Safe Boot mode.

You can try this to disable the keyboard kext, although I'm not sure if it will work at boot time. Enter this command in Terminal:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext/

To re-enable the keyboard kext, type

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext/

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=433407

To bypass Safe Boot with a stuck Shift key, hold down alt at startup and select the Mac OS X bootable partition.


Reading text on iPad from a distance I have a regular sized 9.7" iPad. I want to be able to read text on it while running on a treadmill, from a distance of 1-2 feet.

From this distance, it is difficult to read as the text is too small. I work around it by increasing the font size. For apps like iBooks, it isn't a problem as there's a setting to adjust font size. However I usually read in a browser (usually Google Chrome or Google Search app). Unlike desktop versions, there doesn't seem to be any setting for changing font size. Google searches have led me to believe that I can change the font size in the iOS Settings app and that these apps should respect that change, but they don't appear to do so.

How do I make the font size changes to read text from a distance.

If you are not adverse to reading articles using Safari, many websites can be viewed in Reader Mode.  From here you can adjust the font size along with the actual font and background color too.


iPad 4 screen cracked It looks like hair got under the screen protector .  If I want to just keep using it, am I in danger?  Or will the screen protector protect me?

There are a number of local third-party repair people who specialize in this sort of problem, and may be able to replace the glass for a lot less than Apple. You may want to search around for people who repair Apple laptop repair, as they are likely to be able to refer you to someone local.


How can I remove songs from the Music app on my iPhone? How do I edit songs that are in the Music app on my iPhone 5?  I need to delete some songs that were automatically synced that I don't want.

iOS 7 has changed the face of the Music app somewhat. The biggest thing that was introduced is that now, all of you iTunes store music purchases show up automatically in the Music.app. This allows you to stream those songs without actually storing them on your device (an excellent option).

As a result you have two options:

You can manage music the old way by opening Settings.app -> Music -> and disabling "Show All Music". This will prevent your purchases from displaying in the music app. To delete any songs that you have on there, you can swipe (from right to left) and select Delete (on the actual songs themselves - this doesn't work on albums).
When "Show All Music" is enabled, I don't believe there is any way to remove songs that were purchased through iTunes. If you are not on wifi, you can go to Settings.app -> Cellular -> disable "Music", which will prevent any songs that haven't been downloaded from streaming over cellular data (and which would prevent those songs from playing if that's your desire).

The following is is for iOS 6

Yes, you can.

To delete single songs in Music.app slide from one direction towards the other on a particular song and select "Delete". You can also use this approach with Playlists, Albums, Artists, etc.

If you seeking to delete or edit playlists you can see those buttons at the top of each playlist.

Keep in mind, unless you make the needed changes on your computer, these deleted songs/artists/albums/playlists with sync back to your iPhone.


Deleted SMSs do not sync between Mac and iPhone I have configured Messages app on my Mac. Any SMS that I receive on iPhone is synced on my Mac. If read the SMS from iPhone it is marked as read on Mac and vice-versa.
But if I delete any SMS from iPhone, it does not get deleted from Messages app on Mac. The same issue is other way round.
What is the issue here and how can I resolve it?
Update 1:
This is how my preferences are set.

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I ran into the same issue with macOS 11.0 and I am not sure if it happened because of Big Sur using the new Messages app. What resolved this was to go to my Preferences > iMessage tab and select the Enable Messages in iCloud option by checking the checkbox. Then, click the button that says sync now and they will sync.
Hope this helps!


HDR photos on iPhone 3GS with iOS4.1 I've just installed iOS 4.1 on my iPhone 3GS, and want to try the new HDR feature in the Camera App... But it doesn't seem to be available.

Is it possible to use it in the 3GS? Do I need to do anything else?

Sorry, the HDR feature added in iOS 4.1 only works on iPhone 4.

  Take great photos that capture a wider range of light intensity using the new high dynamic range (HDR) setting on iPhone 4, which automatically combines multiple exposures into a single HDR image.

If you want to take HDR photos on your 3GS, there's an app for that: Pro HDR.


Uploading pictures on iPhone to Facebook application doesn't work Trying to upload picture from my iPhone to Facebook.  In Facebook app, when I choose a picture and select 'Upload' I should see progress bar as picture uploads.  Instead when I press 'Upload' the upload screen disappears and picture is not uploaded.

I tried closing the app and restarting it again, it still doesn't work. I reinstalled the application and then it will let me upload couple of pictures until it will start failing again.

I have iPhone 4 running OS 4.2.1

Go to Settings->general->Location Services, switch facebook to "ON" and try again.
Hope this helps!


Manually lock screen I would like to lock the computer when not at home but leave the computer unlocked at home.

If I choose to lock the Mac after the screen saver starts I can lock it with control+shift+power but then these settings will also force me to enter the password when I am home.

Is there a way to manually force a lock without locking the screen saver?

If you don't want to reduce the time for a password prompt after the screen saver starts you can use Keychain Access. Start it and in the preferences choose to show the status in the menu bar

You will be then able to lock the screen immediately with Lock Screen:


How to enable/disable grayscale mode in Accessibility via Terminal/App? I'm wondering what would be the process of enabling/disabling the grayscale mode in the Accessibility panel in System Preferences?

I would like to run a simple script, either by clicking on an app in the Dock or by a Terminal command, and have it switch from grayscale to regular mode.

Any ideas?

This requires developer tools to compile an objective C program. The program is based on this Stackoverflow answer.

Create a file called grayscale.c with the following contents:

// clang -g -O2 -std=c11 -Wall -framework ApplicationServices
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14163788/how-does-on-screen-color-inversion-work-in-os-x
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>

CG_EXTERN bool CGDisplayUsesForceToGray(void);
CG_EXTERN void CGDisplayForceToGray(bool forceToGray);

int
main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    bool isGrayscale = CGDisplayUsesForceToGray();
    printf("isGrayscale = %d\n", isGrayscale);
    CGDisplayForceToGray(!isGrayscale);
    printf("Grayscale is now: %d\n", CGDisplayUsesForceToGray());

    return 0;
}

Then run the following command to compile it:

clang -g -O2 -std=c11 -Wall -framework ApplicationServices ./grayscale.c -o toggle-grayscale

Now run ./toggle-grayscale This instantly makes the screen grayscale or not across all applications, but doesn't update the setting in System Preferences.

Tested on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6, clang version Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4).


Attaching 3.5" desktop drive to MacBook SATA I have a mid-2007 MacBook that, according to the Apple Store, has suffered some liquid damage and requires a new logic board to operate correctly, a ~$750 repair I've been told (would normally be around ~$300 were it not for the "liquid damage"). The unit itself works fine - the only problem I've been having is that the system does not recognize the battery and will not charge it. Curiously, the system can still be powered by the battery and even recognizes when the power cord is detached by diming the backlight, but I digress.

Now that this laptop will likely become a desktop, I'm wondering if it might be possible to attach a desktop drive. I recently purchased a 2TB SATA drive and I'm wondering if it's possible to somehow attach it where the current internal drive connects. Obviously the drive itself will not fit inside the device, but as the unit will spend the rest of its days on my desk, that's not really much of an issue.

My main questions are:

Is this possible?
If so, how would I connect the drive? Would a SATA extender cable work?
Is the SATA port on my MacBook capable of powering a desktop drive? Or should I just get a SATA male-to-female cable and see if I can power the drive through other means (a cheap power supply, for example)

The disk I'm referring to is the Hitachi Deskstar HD32000. Though I couldn't find that exact model on Hitachi's support site, these are the power requirements for a similar drive, the 7K2000 (2TB, 7200RPM, SATA II):

  Power

  Requirement +5 VDC (+/-5%) +12 VDC (+/-10%)
  Startup current (A, max.) 1.2 (+5V), 2.0 (+12V)
  Idle (W) 7.5

From what I've read, 2.5" drives require 5V, meaning that my MacBook obviously is capable of producing it. The specs seem to suggest that this drive seems capable of accepting it instead of the typical 12V - is this an accurate interpretation of the power requirements? Or does it need both 12V and 5V?

Just an update - I've successfully connected my 2TB HD to my MacBook's internal SATA data connector. If anyone's interested in doing this themselves, you'll need:

external enclosure with eSATA to power the drive (I'm using a NexStar CX with eSata):

an eSATA to female SATA cable (I got mine from http://satacables.com, see "eSATA DATA Cable Extension Male to Female" near the bottom of the page):

You'll need to cut those plastic tabs off the SATA portion of the cable, leaving only the section with the pins - otherwise, the cable won't fit in the port.
Follow iFixit's steps for removing the keyboard section of the MacBook
Remove the hard drive, connect cable. Since we had to remove the tabs on the cable in order to make the connection, the cable does not latch in place. I recomment taping the table to the bottom of the case where the hard drive was:

Reverse the disassembly steps to put the computer back together, with the exception of the memory cover and the battery. The cable should now poke out of the hole where the battery used to be.
Install the hard drive in the external enclosure, connect the eSATA and power cables, and enjoy.


Deleted a partition with High Sierra, now unable to reclaim space in partition with Mojave I had 2 partitions in my MacBook:
Partition 1 - 200 GB - High Sierra
Partition 2 - 300 GB - Mojave

After deleting the partition 1 I am unable to reclaim disk space associated with it.

Here is the snapshot of diskutil list command executed through terminal:

I tried below command:

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s3 0

But it showed following error:

Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size

Any ideas on how can I reclaim the lost disk space?

The command you are using adds any significant amount of free space immediately after the APFS container partition. The APFS partition container is already at the end of the drive. There is no significant amount of free space to add.

There is approximately200 GB of free space above the APFS container partition. The macOS operation system offers no command or application that would add any of this free space to the APFS container partition.

The easiest solution would be to backup you files, erase the drive, reinstall macOS and reload your files.

Another more complex solution would be to create a new APFS container partition above the existing APFS container partition. You could then either:

Install macOS in the new APFS container partition, then use the Migration Assistant to copy all your files and applications. I have used this solution before.

OR

Attempt to clone the old APFS container partition to the new APFS container partition. I have never tried this solution. Maybe some else could comment or post an answer.

Afterwards, you could erase the old APFS container partition to create free space immediately after the new APFS container partition. You could then use the diskutil apfs resizeContainer command to add this new free space to the new APFS container partition

Creating new APFS container partition would involve several steps. Some of these steps would have to be preformed while booted to macOS Recovery. You should backup your files before attempting these steps. However, once you have a backup, you might as well just erase the entire drive and reinstall macOS. If want me to include the steps to create a new APFS container partition, then post a comment.

I should also note that you do not have a EFI partition on the drive. Since the identifier for the APFS Container disk1 is disk0s3, I assume the removal of this partition took place shortly before posting your question. Apple does state in the documentation, that an EFI partition is necessary for the proper operation of the Mac.

How to Create an EFI Partition

  Note: You should only proceed if you understand the steps given below. Otherwise, you may end up deleting your files.

Because of System Integrity Protection (SIP), you can not enter the commands in a Terminal window. You will first have to do one of the following.

Boot to macOS Recovery which can install El Capitan or a newer version of macOS. Use the csrutil command to disable SIP, then boot back to macOS Mojave. You can then enter the commands in a Terminal application window.
Boot to the macOS Recovery that is already on your drive. You can then enter the commands in a Terminal application window.
Boot to the macOS Recovery over the internet which can install High Sierra or a newer version of macOS. You can then enter the commands in a Terminal application window.

The commands with explanation are given in the following steps. Here, I have assumed the device block size is 512 bytes. In other words, the command given below should return Device Block Size: 512 Bytes.

diskutil info disk0 | grep "Device Block Size"

If you get a device block size other than 512 bytes, then you can not use the commands given below.

Reboot the Mac. The command given below should show the Apple_APFS container disk1 as disk0s1.

diskutil list

The command given below should create an unformatted EFI partition with the identifier of disk0s2

gpt -f add -i 2 -b  40 -s 409600 -t efi disk0

The command given below should FAT32 format the new EFI partition and label new volume as EFI.

newfs_msdos -F 32 -v EFI /dev/disk0s2

Create a temporary unformatted partition between EFI partition and the Apple_APFS container disk1. The linux type was chosen to prevent the partition from mounting. This partition should be assigned the identifier of disk0s3.

gpt -f add -i 3 -b 409640 -s 409600 -t linux disk0

Remove the temporary partition. The will reorder the partition entries in the GUID partition table (GPT) in ascending order.

diskutil erasevolume free none disk0s3

Restart the Mac. This will reorder the identifiers for disk0 in ascending order. You can enter the command given below to confirm this.

diskutil list


How do I restore the audio balance to default? On my iPod Touch, I was playing around with the audio balance setting (settings -> general -> accessibility)

How can I reset the balance setting so that it is precisely at the midpoint (i.e. the default)?

It should automatically snap to midpoint if you manually move it there.


myCloud: Is self-hosting iCloud possible? It seems that Apple is pushing cloud integration all the way now, but also that they have no interest in providing the ability to choose between their own server-side offering (iCloud) and what other companies may have to bring to the table. That seems to make all the nice iCloud client features unusable for certain people (such as Europeans that are forbidden by law to upload certain documents to data centers in North Carolina).

Is it in any way possible to trick OS X and iOS devices into talking to servers of my choosing other than Apple's, at least for part of the services ? Is there any documentation how iCloud is built? Does it use any standardized protocols at all?

Somewhat. Not exactly.

You can run an Exchange server which will give you push email, calendar and contacts. This can be configured on all your devices (even pre-iOS 5). This is pretty much what you get from the equivalent iCloud stuff.

But there isn't a way to access the Documents in the Cloud or iTunes in the Cloud features without iCloud. (Although you could use Dropbox to store stuff, it doesn't work with iTunes or iWork). This is primarily because Apple wrote the services from the ground up, they aren't using an existing service. So while there are APIs, there aren't standards.

Apple might conceivably open a EU data centre in the future.


Where to view app memory usage in iPod Touch? On my iPod Touch I cannot find where to view app static memory usage (not RAM).

Googled articles point to Settings -> General -> Usage. But Usage is not an option within the General section - it is not appearing. I'm using latest version of iOS.

Where should I go to view the installed app static memory usage?

As reported in this webpage: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201656.

You can go to Settings to see how much storage you've used by following: Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage.

In there you'll see a list of your apps, and how much storage each one uses. Tap an app for more detailed information about its usage.


iPad: upload photos to web storage (Flickr or Picasa) I want to upload photos from iPad to web storage.

I use Google Plus and Dropbox.

But these things have some disadvanteges like:

Dropbox have a limited space
Google Plus doesn't upload a full size photos (but theirs resolutions are pretty good, really)

Now I want to try Picasa or Flickr as alternative and specific web services for photos.

Which app can upload photos on Flickr or Picasa as Google Plus and Dropbox best parts do:
 - Dropbox download full-size photos
 - Google Plus automate upload them via wifi, without connection to laptop

Or maybe I miss something? Maybe there is a more clean iDifferent way?

Have you thought about using Everpix? I've fairly recently started using it to keep a full back up of all my pictures, even the ones I don't want to share through sites like Flickr.

There is an online service, along with iOS apps, take a look at https://www.everpix.com


Can a Thunderbolt iMac use Target Display Mode on a Thunderbolt MacBook running Windows? If I have:

2011 27" iMac (running OS X)
2012 15" MacBook Pro (running Windows 7 via Boot Camp)

and connect the MacBook to the iMac via a Thunderbolt cable, can the iMac use Target Display Mode to act as the display for the MacBook?

According to Apple's FAQ this does not work if the iMac is running Windows but I cannot find a definite answer on if this works if the MacBook is running Windows.

I have tried this and can confirm it does not work. It works fine from OS X --> OS X but not if the MacBook is running Windows.


What photo management application can I migrate to that would preserve iPhoto's face detection data? I've used iPhoto for many years and found that it was suitable for what I wanted to do. Since Apple has discontinued iPhoto and Aperature in favor of their new Photos application, I'm seriously considering switching applications for my photo management since I'm just not happy with the direction they're taking the software. All well and good, but the annoying thing is that I've spent hours of my time working with the face detection feature of iPhoto and I'd hate to lose all the work tweaking the exception cases (i.e. iPhoto couldn't make out who someone was and I had to manually tell it).

For what its worth, I'm still on iPhoto '09 as iPhoto '11 didn't seem like that much of an improvement to me; in fact, the removal of the LAN sharing and obfuscated context menu items (e.g. reveal in finder type functions) stopped me from upgrading.

Are there any applications out there which I can migrate to which would preserve all the face data from iPhoto '09?

I haven't used it yet, but apparently the new Photos app will continue the face detection or 'Faces' work they've had for some time in iPhoto and Aperture:

http://www.cheatsheet.com/technology/how-apple-is-reinventing-iphoto-with-the-new-mac-photos-app.html/?a=viewall


Change podcast show using Siri I'd like to tell Siri change a show while listening to podcasts, while already playing.
Tried many queries like "Change podcast show", "Skip this episode", "Next" and many more, some of them leads to google search, some search the apple music library for some reason and some of them are answered by "Sorry, I couldn't skip this".
Any ideas what command could help me achieveing this functionality?

Apple provides a list of commands that can be used for the Podcast app.  If the command isn't listed here it's probably not going to work with the Apple app.  Third-party apps can use Shortcuts to have Siri perform more tasks so be sure to check with the developer if you use one of those.
Play and subscribe to podcasts
Play your favorite podcast, listen to a new podcast, and subscribe to podcasts. Say "Hey Siri," then say something like:

"Play The Rubin Report."
"Play the latest episode of The Ben Shapiro podcast."
"What podcast is this?"
"Subscribe to this show."

Control playback
Ask Siri to control playback of a podcast that you're listening to. Just say "Hey Siri," then you can say things like:

"Pause."
"Jump back 30 seconds."
"Play it twice as fast."
"Skip ahead 10 minutes."


MacBook Mac OS X Install DVD not loading on new hard drive I have a MacBook Pro 13 late 2008 for which I just replaced the HD with a WD Blue notebook 500GB, 5400rpm, model WDBABC5000ANC-NRSN.  After replacing the HD, powered up the MBP, the screen displayed a flashing folder with ?.  I think this is normal since there is no OS loaded.

I inserted the Mac OS X Install DVD OS X 10.5.5 which came with MBP and restarted holding down C until a grey screen with Apple logo and spinning wheel at bottom appeared.  It stayed like this for 2 1/2 hours so I shut down.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Please be detailed as I am a novice user.

It seems like the install DVD is unreadable for some reason, either the disk is bad (DVDs are less durable than you might think), or the drive is bad (have you attempted to read any other disks lately?).

In any event, the easiest way to get around it is to boot off your old hard drive, and clone it to your new one. You'll need a USB external closure that can take a 2.5" SATA drive (they can typically be had for around $20 or $30). Put your old drive in that, plug it in, and hold down option as you boot. You'll get a selector screen, and  your old drive should be available to boot off of (it will likely be labelled Macintosh HD and have the orange external drive icon). Select that, and your Mac will boot just as it did previously. From here, there are a couple ways to get your new drive working.

Clone Your Old Drive

Unless you really want a fresh install for some reason, this is my recommended method. It will copy your entire system over to your new drive, so you'll get larger capacity, but without the hassle of re-installing everything.

To clone your drive, open up Disk Utility (found in Applications/Utilities, or just use Spotlight). In the right hand pane, you should see your old boot drive, and your new drive. Select your old drive, click the Restore tab, set Source to your old drive, and Destination to your new drive. Then click Restore. This will likely take a few hours, but once you're done, you should be able to restart and boot into your new internal drive.

Fresh Install from USB

If you want to do a fresh install, you can try reading the installation disk to a USB drive, which may be more reliable. You'll need a sufficiently large USB hard drive or memory stick (for 10.5, you may need 8 GB, but it's possible 4 GB will do).

To start, insert the installation DVD and check that you can read it. If you can, then you're good to go, otherwise you'll need to get another copy elsewhere, or a newer version of OS X (or you can try the clone method).

The procedure to copy the installation disk is the same as cloning the hard drives, you just switch the Source to the installation disk, and Destination to your USB drive. Once the copy is complete, reboot and hold option, and select your USB installation disk from the boot menu. You should then see the standard OS X installer and you can proceed as normal.


Do we still need to terminate the display port with Catalina? Thank you for the hint about getting better resolution options by holding down the Option key in the Display Prefs on the Mac Mini.
The hard drive on our network-only Mac died and it lost all of its settings and I couldn't get it back to nearly as large as it used to be.  I also went ahead and upgraded from Sierra to Catalina in the process.  We only use it for QuickBooks, which allows our CPA and Bookkeeper and my wife and I to log in remotely and we were lost when that HD failed.
My only remaining question is whether we still need to terminate the display port with Catalina, or perhaps they snuck a firmware update in there where the cursor doesn't slow down to a crawl? I bought a couple of those from OWC after failing to create my own and still have one plugged in.  Does it still need it?  I haven't had time to extensively test, but just thought I'd ask since I didn't notice a huge difference with it out.
Thanks again for the sharp minds here (Everett) who knew about this option trick. Saved me tons of eyestrain and annoyance!

You should not need to terminate the video port of your Mac mini as support for a headless machine is natively supported by macOS - Remote into Mac Mini after a reboot.  I say “should” because while it is supposed to be supported, I’ve run into instances where it would simply fail without it - notably VNC.
Bottom line is that you shouldn’t need it.  But, does it hurt to have it?  No.  It’s also sufficiently inexpensive that getting one so you don’t have to worry about any issues makes it quite feasible.


Running Ubuntu under VirtualBox vs natively Does anyone have any recommendations on how to use Ubuntu on a Mac machine alongside OS X? It's OK if I switch between them by booting, if that is best.

The two options I'm considering:

Run Ubuntu in VirtualBox
Dual boot into Ubuntu

I suspect #2 has better performance but may involve more hardware driver issues.

Running an OS natively vs running it through a VM both have their strong and weak points.

Running it natively will give you better performance because you aren't running two OS's at the same time. You're native install will have all the RAM and CPU cycles to itself.  If you have extra HD space that you don't mind partitioning to use for the install, its great, just be sure to give yourself enough space in the beginning because expanding partitions can be a pain. There are many guides to installing Ubuntu on your mac all over the web, usually involving rEFIt. This can be a little tricky depending on which mac you have, but if you follow the guides out there carefully, everything should go fine.

Running it in a virtual box can be great though because it is the easiest and most hassle free way to get ubuntu on you mac.  This is what I would recommend.  Having it in a virtual box means that you don't have to partition your drive, it can usually be moved easily between Macs, and it doesn't require you to reboot your machine, you can even delete it if you hate it and no repartitioning to get your space back.  And best of all you can still access the mac side at anytime and switch between both seamlessly.  The downsides of this are usually performance when it comes to heavy things, if you are doing regular things (web surfing, programming, document editing, etc) though then it won't be a problem, if you plan on doing super CPU, RAM, GPU intensive things on your ubuntu side then you might want to consider the native install path.  It is really up to you though. The more RAM the better. Most machines come with 4GB which is good for running OSX Lion and Ubuntu side by side.

Personally, I would recommend trying the virtual box install first, seeing how you like it and how it performs. If everything is great, no need to try the native install.  If not, then those guides all over the internet will lead the way.

I hope that this answer helps you out.


How to create a 10.6.8 recovery CD (not clone of the OS or install environment) Upon Google searching people seem to equate "recovery CD" with full installation.  I have seen methods such as using Disk Utility with the Mac HD as the source and a DVD as the destination.  This clones the existing installation and I do not want that.

What I want is a minimal recovery environment just like the recovery partition but on a bootable CD.  The Macs that I am servicing do not have a recovery partition in place, if they did I'm sure I could disk util the source as the recovery partition and the destination as my CD.

I do not currently have the retail Snow Leopard DVDs.

Snow Leopard does not have a Recovery HD. That feature was introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion. You can't create Snow Leopard recovery disks either — that requires Lion too.

To create a bootable environment, you need to use the OS X installer. For this, you will need an install media to create the bootable partition. See:

How can I download Snow Leopard?


AppleScript to find files by exact name match from an Automator variable I have a workflow that gets the track name of a single track in my mp3 player and stores it in a variable. I then use this in the Spotlight action to find that track in my iTunes Library, but the Spotlight action gives multiple results when I want only want the exact track not all tracks that contains the name.

I need some way or a script to replace this action. All searches gives Terminal commands that I don't understand or how to use with Automator.

Here's an applescript I found that works but is really really slow, it beach-balls the Finder on every loop, Is there a way to speed this up,my library has over 10,000 tracks? thanks
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o14eb19b2459vdo/by%20default%202018-07-19%20at%20Thursday%2C%2019%20Jul%20%2017.55.18.PNG?dl=0

I don't have Snow Leopard, so I'm limited in what I can test as being viable for your system.  Therefore, please bear in mind that the following solution was devised and tested using the following:
System info: AppleScript version: "2.7", system version: "10.13.5"
With that said, I see now reason that this shouldn't work on El Capitan.  It might work on Snow Leopard, but I'm less sure.
My proposed solution is to replace your Spotlight Automator action with a Run AppleScript action:

The code contained in the Run AppleScript is as follows:
    use framework "Foundation"

    property ca : a reference to current application

    on run {input, parameters}
        set MusicFolder to "/Volumes/Media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/"

        set FileManager to ca's NSFileManager's defaultManager()
        set MusicFiles to (FileManager's subpathsAtPath:MusicFolder)'s ¬
            pathsMatchingExtensions:{"mp3", "m4a"}
        set [filename] to input
        set format to "SELF endswith " & ("/" & filename & ".mp3")'s quoted form & ¬
            " OR SELF endswith " & ("/" & filename & ".m4a")'s quoted form
        set filter to ca's NSPredicate's predicateWithFormat:format

        set matches to {}

        repeat with match in (MusicFiles's filteredArrayUsingPredicate:filter) #'
            set end of matches to POSIX file (MusicFolder & match as text) as alias
        end repeat

        return matches
    end run

This will return tracks with the exact filename supplied by the trackName variable in the workflow.  Therefore, had I set trackName in my test run to "Everywhere I Go" (i.e. without the preceding "04"), the search would have returned an empty result.
Also, bear in mind that you may have some tracks that have identical filenames from different folders/albums.  If there are two files in different folders both called "01 Song.mp3", both files will be returned in the search.


iPad hairdryer trick My iPad didn't charge after a complete battery drain, so I tried the hairdryer trick and it worked, but after a few hours it unfortunately automatically turned off again. Is there a permanent fix for this or do I have to do the hairdryer trick every time?

I'd guess a new battery would be a better long-term fix.


Simcity 5 on the new Macbook 12" 2016 Model I bought a Macbook 12" early April 2016 Model the other day and I really want to know if t will run Simcity 5. I tried running 'Can I Run It' but that doesn't work on Macbook's so I need some help to know if my Macbook can run the game before I purchase it. Thank you.

Simcity 5 Requirements:
Processor: Intel Core i5 or faster
Ram: 4GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 650M, 660M, OR 675MX OR FASTER
-These are just the recommended specs and not the minimum specs so these specs can be lowered.

Macbook 12" 2016 Model Specs:
Processor: 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core m3 processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.2GHz) with 4MB L3 cache
Memory: 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 515

Intel Core i5 is a significantly more powerful processor than Intel Core m3. I can't say for sure that it strictly won't work, but it will likely not be very smooth performance at all, unless perhaps you turn all the settings down to their minimum. I've heard even on MacBook Pro's without dedicated graphics (just intel HD) Simcity 5 performance is poor (lots of stuttering), and to the best of my knowledge the MacBook's graphics are not as strong as MacBook Pro's.

All that to say, I would not expect Simcity 5 to work very well on a Macbook at all.


Can I run iOS 5 Apps on my iOS 3.1.3 iPod touch? I have an iPod touch 1G running iOS 3.1.3, and I really want to get iOS 5 Apps on it. Is there a way to do this? Can I do it without using a computer?

You can't run applications made for newer versions of iOS on 3.1.3.  They rely on features, APIs, and potentially even hardware that do not exist on your old iPod.

Here is further discussion on why this is generally not possible - even when you jailbreak an iOS device.


Dictionary + Thesaurus items duplicated How can I remove the duplicated menu items?

They show duplicated in the Dashboard Dictionary widget as well, so I guess they get manifested from some general setting. I am new to Mac, thank you.

Go to the Preferences for Dictionary.app and uncheck everything and restart.  Then go back to the Preferences and check what you want to have showing.


What data is accessible after resetting administrator password with FileVault enabled? I just broke into my boyfriend laptop and reset his password. I'm afraid that he do the same to my laptop.

Will he gain access to my notes and browser bookmarks if he resets my password and FileVault enabled?

If FileVault is enabled it is impossible for anyone without the FileVault password to access the data on your computer including any services like Notes which you may have.

Please note that what you have just done on your partner's laptop may be illegal and I would caution you that this is a public website where you may just have admitted to a crime depending on your location.


How can I retroactively import files into my Itunes library? How can I get Itunes to move everything to my library retroactively. When I add new songs, it copies them to my library but I have a lot of music that I added before I discovered I could enable the auto import to library function. How can I get itunes to go back and copy all of those to the  Itunes auto-organized library?
My files are spread out all over the place, it would be nice to have them in one place.

If you go to File -> Library -> Organise Library you'll get a pop up asking if you'd like to Consolidate Library, that'll move all the files into the iTunes music folder.

Apple Support Document on how to do it.


I can use my watch to ping my phone, but how can i use my phone to ping my watch I have an Apple Watch and one if its most useful functions is that I can swipe up and tap the ping iPhone icon to make my iPhone beep at me. This saves my bacon 4 or 5 times each week when I misplace my phone around the house. But I can’t find how to do the opposite. I sometimes misplace my watch and I want to be able to ping it from my phone, but there isn’t an option that I can find in the Watch app on my phone. I also looked in control center and don’t see an option there. Is there a way for me to ping my watch from my phone? Or is this just something Apple didn’t think of?

Actually, there is a way for you to do this so long as you have Find My iPhone activated in your iCloud settings. If so, do the following:

On your iPhone launch the Find iPhone app
In the bottom half of the screen you should see all of your devices, including your Apple Watch
Tap on the Apple Watch listing
Now at the bottom centre of the next screen you’ll see the word "Actions" - tap on this
Now tap on the Play Sound option
Your Apple Watch will now vibrate and play a sound until you dismiss it

NOTE: You can also do this from other Apple devices, or from logging into iCloud from a web browser on any computer.

For more information, refer to If your Apple Watch is lost or stolen on Apple's website.


How can I retrieve picture files from the Photos App on Mac OS X (Yosemite)? What I am trying to do without success is to find a way to get the files of my photos (edited and original) in their best quality.

So, let me give a heads up first.

I have a DSLR camera and during this time I've imported my pictures to the Mac in two different ways:

automatically, through the Photos App, after plugging the memory card, or
by reading the memory card and saving the pictures to a directory of my own choice.

My problem started when I decided to add my photos to Google Photos (with the best quality available). I stumbled into this problem:

When I try either using the share button inside the App (which is not really an option), or to copy the pictures from the App to a directory (Desktop, for example), the pictures I get are not the best quality ones (a full size picture from my camera ranges from 6 to 14 MB each and the shared/copied versions are around 3 or 4 MB).

Therefore, I tried other approaches:

to go to the Package Content of the Photos App (Finder -> Pictures -> Photos Library -> (right click) -> Show Package Contents -> Masters -> then year/month/day/folder) until I get to the folder that holds the pictures, and
to go to the directory of my own choice (in case I have used the second import approach).

Alright! I got the best original versions! Still needs the edited ones, though.

However, these folders don't have the edited versions of the pictures, so the pictures that I have enhanced in any way will appear in their originals only.

And that's where I got stuck. Up till now, I did not found any other folder (inside the Photos Library) which might contain the edited photos, nor did I find a way to override the originals with the edited versions.

Does anyone have a say on this?

Thank you for your time. I'm open to any clarification.

[Bonus] I suppose this is to be considered a feature, not a bug, however, when deleting pictures that were imported through the App, they go to the "App's trash can" (File -> Show Recently Deleted) and once you've deleted them from there, they are gone for good. However, when the pictures were imported from outside the App, after deleting the pictures in the App, they do not go to the "trash can", they disappear from the Photos App, but stay in their original folders as if nothing had happened. (I'm still trying to figure out a way to get rid of them without having to compare the filenames one by one, but that's another story.)

[Bonus Update] I just noticed that the pictures do go to the "App's trash can", but you have to delete them from the "Photos" view (I was doing that from an Album). However, this does not solve the problem, since the pictures are not removed from the imported folder, even after cleaning the trash can.

When you choose to export from Photo (File>Export), choose TIFF, 16-bit and you should get a full quality, uncompressed, but edited image out of Photo. This is what the settings in the export dialog box will look like:

The reason you haven't found the folder with the edits are that image editing programs such as Photo or Adobe Lightroom perform non-destructive edits as an instruction set that sits in a database that references the original image. Basically your edits just create a recipe that the software then can use to create an output file. If you choose to print, it will give the instructions on how to render the edited image to the printer. The only time you will get an edited file is if you export to a file format such as JPEG or TIFF.

TIFF gives you an uncompressed file, and by choosing 16 bits, the software is actually interpolating to add pixels to your photos as most digital camera sensors produce a 12 or 14 bit image. There isn't much of a point for more, as the human eye has a hard time distinguishing the available gradations of a 16-bit dynamic range.

JPEG is a Lossy compression format, but for even a 5K iMac, if you go for the highest quality, largest file size, you will likely not be able to see a difference between the TIFF and the JPEG version of the file, and you will have a file that is probably 80% smaller, depending on the subject matter.

You also have the option of exporting the Unedited originals (Raw files) using this option as well. There is an option to export IPTC data as an XMP sidecar file.


automounting NFS 4 results in kernel panic Has anyone been able to get a working NFS 4 automount in Mac OS X?

I'm desperately trying to find a way to automatically mount a NFS v4 share from my NAS to my MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.11.6, but keep hitting a kernel panic.

Upon boot/login, the automount works perfectly. And I can manually u/mount the share (mount -o nfsvers=4 nas:/nfs/htpc-media /tmp/foobar) without trouble. But when I put my Mac to sleep, I get a kernel panic about 2 seconds after waking it back up.

NFS v3 works a little better, but it will still occasionally crash after a few wakes. I'd really prefer to run v4 services only.

Here's the client setup:

/etc/auto_master

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master            # Use directory service
/net                    -hosts          -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid,nfc
/home                   auto_home       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers        -fstab
/-                      -static
/- auto_nfs

/etc/auto_nfs

/nfs/media -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=4,soft,intr nas:/nfs/htpc-media

And on the NAS (running Debian Stretch):

/etc/exports

/nfs/htpc-media *(ro,no_subtree_check,insecure,fsid=1)

Stuff I've tried:

turning off firewalls on both ends
using IP addresses instead of hostnames (i.e. 192.168.1.99 instead of nas - rules out DNS issues)
lots of permutations of client mount options
booting Mac OS X into safe mode (rules out kext)
poring through Console to see if there's anything interesting or related
automounting shares from a completely separate server (rules out server misconfiguration)

Am I missing something obvious? Any help would be appreciated. Happy to post crash logs if that'd be useful.

I hit this same problem, mounting NFSv4 volumes on a High Sierra (10.13.3) MacBook Pro, from a known-good Solaris server.

I unchecked the "put hard disks to sleep when possible" option in the Energy Saver prefs, and I haven't seen it since.


What are typical use of using different 'network locations' Usually I'm just using the "Automatic" location in System preferences->Network with my home and work wifi networks configured.

I was wondering what would be the advantage to configure different locations ... What is it useful for ?

If you have a different network setup somewhere, that's the obvious reason to use locations.  For instance:

I use a public DNS provider (like GoogleDNS or OpenDNS).  That means I don't use the DNS server on the local network.  However, when I go into a public WiFi location (a coffee-shop, hotel, etc) this can cause problems.  The issue is that the authorization step to get onto the local WiFi network requires that my browser go to some page.  And to get to that page, I have to use DNS to figure out the IP address.  But, my request to Google's DNS server isn't allowed, since I'm not yet part of the network.

So, I set up a network location called "CoffeeShop" which doesn't specify a DNS server.  I renamed my "automatic" location to be "GoogleDNS".  Now, when I'm at Panera's and want to use their public WiFi, I switch location to "CoffeeShop" and then my DNS query during authorization goes to the local DNS server.  Note that you can quickly switch location under the apple menu (this only shows up if you have more than one location specified).

Enjoy!


iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch? Can I use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch?

I do not know the previous carrier, because the Iphone was reset and has no sim card.

Is there any way I can use it as an iPod touch (without activating it) ?

First of all Im assuming that you are in the welcome menu and you cant pass this screen:

So I know there is a way to activate it with RedSn0w but I dont know if it works with iOS 7 so I would recommend you to check that option.

Or you can UNLOCK it via IMEI and then activate it with any SIM.


How can I stop Mac Mail continually caching attachments? Two problems really:

I'm using Mac Mail version 5.3 on Mac OSX. My Yahoo mailbox is continually fetching new mail i.e. the wheel by 'yahoo is continually spinning. It has been doing this for a few days. I have already tried quitting and reopening Mac mail a few times.
I can see see from Window>Activity that Yahoo inbox is caching attachments. Even if I stop it, it starts again within seconds.

In Preferences, within Mail, in the Accounts tab, for each of your accounts there is an Advanced tab.  There is an option called Keep copies for offline viewing which is a drop-down box. By Choosing All messages, but omit attachments, you can set it to never cache the attachments.


How to enable horizontal split in full screen mode in El Capitan I use my external display in tower mode. I've been using third party software ( like Moom ) to split my screen horizontally when needed. Now that El Capitan supports split screen in full screen mode, is there a way to split screen natively with two apps in horizontal split, in full screen mode.

I searched everywhere and I am able to place two apps side by side but not top and bottom. I have also tried reducing window sizes of apps so that they fit well when in horizontal split mode. But still I never get the option of putting one on top of another.

Is there any other settings I need to enable? I have enabled Displays have separate Spaces

As implemented on iOS 9 and later, OS X 10.11 lets you split the unified full-screen view into two portrait sections with one application on the left side of the partition and a different one on the right.

It's pretty basic, but it also is elegantly minimal with a clear geometry with only one degree of freedom.

My hope is that as more people get used to the mechanics of this, The software can be complicated to allow us to choose a horizontal petition if we desire to work that way instead of only splitting things vertically. Especially if there are compelling apps that work together in a wide but vertically narrow window.

If you have an excellent use case where you could be more productive at your work, please consider polite activism at http://apple.com/feedback


Cmd + PgUp/Down shortcut to navigate through terminal tabs is it possible to make Cmd+Page Up / Page Down shortcut performing switch tab in Terminal?

At the moment I can use Cmd+Shift+[ or Cmd+Shift+] shortcuts to do the thing, but this is horrible for me. I'm using external USB Keyboard and Karabiner, if that may help somehow.

Update:
The answer now reassigns Scroll to Top/Bottom to ⌥⌘PageUp and ⌥⌘PageDown.
This leaves Show Previous/Next Tab free to take over ⌘PageUp and ⌘PageDown.

Assuming your OS X runs in English, you can use this one-liner:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Scroll to Top' '~@\Uf72c' 'Scroll to Bottom' '~@\Uf72d' 'Show Previous Tab' '@\Uf72c' 'Show Next Tab' '@\Uf72d'

If your OS X runs in a language other than English, modify the command to resemble the exact menu item text for your language.


Backing up a Boot Camp partition I see in the Time Machine options that my Boot Camp partition is excluded. I haven't even tried to remove it from the list of exceptions since I have read that Time Machine will not work with NTFS partitions. Assuming Time Machine won't work with said partition, what is the easiest way to back it up?

Ideally, the solution would work like Time Machine. The problem I anticipate is that I would need a second disk (formatted as NTFS) to hold the Boot Camp backup--or maybe I could also bi-partition my external hard drive and make an NTFS partition to store the Boot Camp backup? That way I would not need a second physical disk plugged in.

What are your thoughts on backing up Boot Camp partitions? Thanks.

You should back up your Windows partition while booted into Windows, using Windows-compatible backup software, and you must backup to an external drive that is NTFS-formatted, whether it is over Ethernet, USB, FireWire or whatever else you can work out. Do not try to use a physical hard drive that has one partition formatted for Mac or Time Machine, and another partition formatted for NTFS. Use a completely separate hard drive.

Don't try to back your BootCamp Windows system up using Mac OS X outside Windows. You might figure out how to back up some files, but you will not be able to create a bootable "bare-metal restore" image, like those people in Windows-land call it.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a good built-in Backup utility that can make a full disk image for a full restore, but only to a hard drive that is NTFS-only. They can also do incremental/differential file backups in a separate procedure. And there are many third-party backup software solutions for Windows, such as Acronis.

  Trust me, you will not want to try to do this using an Apple Time Capsule or a drive that has a partition that is formatted for Apple Time Machine. A couple of years ago I actually worked out a procedure for doing this using unsupported features on the Time Capsule, and I regretted it, because it interfered tremendously with my Mac Time Machine files when I needed to do a full restore on my Mac partition on my MacBook Pro.


Active Directory and FileVault Is there a way to set up users on Mountain Lion to be available in the FileVault boot screen if the users are Active Directory users managed through Quest Authentication Services (QAS)?

I would like to have the following working:

User is managed through AD using QAS
FileVault encryption is used for the whole disk, not just the user's home directory
The AD user is used in the FileVault boot screen

Is this possible or does anyone use a similar configuration?

Update

Since I haven't received an answer here, and haven't found a way to use both QAS and FileVault, I have removed QAS (now using a local user account again), and then enabled FileVault 2 for the disk encryption. Logging in with the local user works fine.

The downside is that I have to authenticate separately to some network drives now that previously didn't require authentication due to the AD integration, but that's a small price.

In our work environment, I have our Macs bind directly to Active Directory with no service (like QAS) in the middle. The AD user has a local home folder, we do not use Network Homes. We use FileVault 2 with no issues. The AD user's name shows up on the FileVault screen and they are able to unencrypt their laptop with their normal network credentials. So yes, it should work fine unless QAS is adding something bizarre into the mix.


Safari Reading List not syncing I am a mobile app dev, so asking something as basic as this is a tad embarrassing, but I just don't seem to understand what I need to do to have my Reading List sync between my Apple devices. I have the sync over Wi-Fi setup on each device, have done this while cabled to my MacBook pro, done a sync, am powered, on the same Wifi, even prayed to the moon, but no syncing being done.

I have searched for a clear set of instructions, but with Apple changing the layout of Settings so often, all I have found are hopelessly out-of-date.

Pointers, tips, incantations are welcome! thanks.

On macOS, go to System Preferences → iCloud and check Safari.

On iOS, go to Settings → Apple ID → iCloud and turn on Safari.


Can't ping Mac from PC I have a PC running Windows 10 and a Mac running macOS 10.12.4 both connected to a common home WiFi network.

Mac network settings
Firewall: disabled, IP: 192.168.1.18, Subnet: 255.255.255.0

Windows network settings
Firewall: disabled, IP: 192.168.1.14, Subnet: 255.255.255.0

Ping Results

Mac->Mac (other) = success
Mac->PC = success
PC->PC = success
PC->Mac = fail

When monitoring tcpdump via Terminal on the Mac it is showing that the computer is receiving the ping, but the PC is not receiving a reply.

I had similar problems, tried lots of things and finally tried not only to shutdonw my checkpoint VPN client but also delete all profiles and one would'nt delete as it had some firewall settings enforced...sounded scary so I removed checkpoint completely and viola ping works :)    https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/6627-i-have-endpoint-installed-on-my-system-and-want-to-uninstall-it-because-a-virus-has-masked-it-from-view-i-cant-find-it-on-the-launch-pad-or-in-the-applications-library-how-can-i-locate-it-to-uninstall-on-my-mac


Trying to compile thttpd 2.27 on Mac OS X 10.11 I'm trying to compile thttpd 2.27 on Mac OS X 10.11 from source, but when I issue:

./configure

It shows:

creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one

I try to search online, someone said I should copy some files from /usr/share/libtool/config* but the path does not exist in Mac OS X 10.11.

How can I resolve this problem?

p.s. I have Xcode (with Command Line Tools), Homebrew, libtool, automake  and other build tools installed, but I still can't configure & compile this.

You have at least two options:

Install MacPorts. Install thttpd with this command:

sudo port install thttpd

I am not using MacPorts and this is untested.
Download config.sub.diff and config.guess.diff and put them into thttpd source directory. Execute these commands to patch the config files:

patch -R < config.sub.diff
patch -R < config.guess.diff
./configure
make

It will compile the source. You may now consider to install compiled binary.

[Original source of diff files is here.]


Why is OSX telling me I can't open a document from an unidentified developer? I thought this feature was only for apps, not for documents.

This is a C# script file, and I've told it to open it with Visual Studio Code. I can open VS Code with no problem, so it doesn't seem to be the permissions on that.

This answer applies if you set the app for that particular document, not for all documents of that type (e.g. by using Get Info on the document, and changing the "Open with" pop-up menu, but not clicking the "Change All" button).

There are two critical pieces here. First, if you set a document to open in a particular app, what it actually does is attach some metadata to the file (think of it like sticking a post-it note onto the file) that says to open it with that particular app. Second, if a document is quarantined (because it was downloaded from the internet, or created by a sandboxed app, or some other reasons), it's considered untrusted, and the gatekeeper security policy will be applied to anything like executable in the file.

These two features can interact in an unfortunate way: that "open with" note is an instruction about what to do, and therefore (sort of) executable code, and therefore the gatekeeper security policy applies to it (even though you created the note, it's "part of" the untrusted file, and therefore untrusted). Thus, double-clicking a document (with "open with" metadata) can get you the untrusted app warning/error.

Fortunately, as long as you want all files of that type (.cs in this case) to open in the same app, there's a solution: in the Info window, Open with section, select the app you want (e.g. Visual Studio Code), and then click "Change all". This removes the metadata from the file, and instead makes an entry in your Launch Services preferences saying that you prefer to have files of that type open in that app. Since the setting is now a personal setting rather than a note attached to an untrusted file, the problem goes away.


Cannot restore due to older version of iOS I got the iPhone 6s this afternoon and tried to restore the backup from iPhone 6 which is on iCloud. 6s could not restore the backup because 6 was running iOS 9.0.2 and 6s was not. I set it up as a new phone (both have the same name) and upgraded to iOS 9.0.2.

Is there a way to use the old phone's backup?

Now that you've upgraded the phone, you should be able to go in to Settings > General > Erase All Content and Settings.    This will reset the phone like new, except having the latest version installed.    When it restarts, you'll be able to restore from your newer backup.


Can I make the UI text on iPhone/iOS smaller? I have pretty good eyes, and I'd like to be able to see more than 5 emails at a time in the list view. I realize I can reduce the number of preview lines, but I want to keep the preview and just make everything smaller. Seriously, the from labels are huge.

Sorry, but no. As of iOS 5, there's no method for the user to adjust font/interface sizes unless the app gives you a specific control for it. iOS Mail does have a setting for minimum font size, but it only applies to the body of the message, not the message lists.


Mail attachment quarantined on iphone I am having trouble with an email attachment that I received. I use an icloud email account and am accessing it from the Mail app on my iPhone. The attachment is a PDF file but when I try to open it, the file only contains this message:
"Trend Micro Antivirus has quarantined the previously attached file, if this is a genuine file please contact Consortium Group to have it unblocked."

I do not have any sort of antivirus protection on my phone or on any of my devices. It would seem odd to me if the sender's antivirus would quarantine an outgoing message. So I am struggling to work out where the message was quarantined.

The attachment has also been renamed to:
"TREND_MICRO_ANTIVIRUS_QUARANTINED_ATTACHMENT.TXT"

I don't really want to ask the sender to resend the email because this is rather important and I don't want to seem incompetent and cause a hassle. So that would be a last resort but I may end up with the same result...

I don't know who Consortium Group are or how to contact them. Do they actually have the pre-quarantined attachment that I am after or do they just modify their filters to allow it to be resent correctly?

Any ideas on how to retrieve the attachment? Any clue as to at what stage and why it was quarantined?

This has nothing to do with your iPhone, or your competence. You received a txt document, in place of the original document, so the original was never sent to you, or rather, it was restricted, by a security tool, from leaving the originators network.

This is very likely a Data Loss Prevention tool (possibly from Trend Micro) that sits on the originator's network, that is preventing the emailing of this document. These tools 'sniff' the contents of an email and attachment, and if they find strings similar to things like social security numbers, membership numbers, or other sensitive corporate data, they will remove the attachment and not allow it to be sent. They also can be set more generically, like not allowing any Excel document to be sent.

You will need to contact the originator, and explain that a security tool on their network is removing the attachment. They will need to ensure that the attachment meets their company's security standards before the system will allow it to be sent.


Windows Laptop as Secondary Monitor for Macbook Air (Preferably Wired) I have a Macbook Air and an HP Stream 13 and I am wondering if it is possible to use the HP Stream 13 as a secondary monitor (a more mobile solution to a secondary screen). I currently own a Mini DP to HDMI cable and I would prefer a wired connection since the HP Stream's wireless cards aren't the best.

This question already has an accepted answer on stackoveflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11067470/how-to-use-windows-laptop-as-external-monitor-for-macbook-pro

It requires downloading the following software:

MaxiVista on PC
ScreenRecycler (for Mac)

It seems like Maxivista.com has migrated to https://www.sharemouse.com/ (Since MaxiVista has been discontinued and replaced by sharemouse)

Here's a website that still has a version of MaxiVista available: https://maxivista.jaleco.com/


Just installed new screen on iPhone 5s, getting weird ghosting/burn effect My wife's iPhone 5s screen cracked and for the holidays I had a friend of mine install a new screen on her phone. The only problem is, there's some weird issues going on. First, the outer edges of her screen are lighter than the center, and second, on dark screens you can see burned in images of her keyboard. She already shut it off for a while and did a soft reset and that didn't fix it.

[Update] Just noticed that the image 'burned in' changes frequently. For instance, if I have Facebook open then go directly to an all black image, I'll see remnants of Facebook. If I have Google open then go directly to a black image, I'll see remnants of Google. There's also a dead pixel on the left side.

Any recommendations?

There's not much you can do aside from having the screen replaced again, maybe checking the connectors on the inside.

What I'd do is just buy a new screen online, but make sure that I get a good one. Usually, the old you-get-what-you-pay-for applies to iPhone parts, so my advice would be to spend a little extra and get a nice digitizer assembly (screen) and be sure to buy it from a US, UK, Canadian, or Australian seller. Usually, I buy them for around $50.

When you get the new screen, have your friend put it on and have him return the faulty one for a refund.


Screen-Lock Breaks Uploads I've noticed that when uploading long-ish videos to social media, if the device goes to autolock, invariably I'll see the upload failed. Not a problem if one is continuously using the device so screen-lock doesn't activate, but if the file is taking over an hour...
How can I stop screen-lock from breaking my uploads?

UPDATE:
Adding feedback from @Tetsujin:
Apparently the developer of the app themselves can disable Screen-lock from activating while there's on-going activity. However, if they don't, the following is a hack to stop Screen-Lock from activating and busting your uploads.
In "Settings,":
"Display & Brightness" > "Auto-Lock" and choose "Never"
Don't forget to restore the previous value to something more reasonable after your upload completes or you'll run your battery flat quickly.
It's a bit counter-intuitive that just because screen-lock kicks-in, your connections should all break.  If we say Screen-Lock is to stop an unattended phone being abused, it doesn't necessarily follow that you want all your uploads to be killed...


Siri's voice on macOS Sierra is not natural One thing I've noticed while using Siri on macOS Sierra is that Siri's voice is not natural (not even close to natural, it sounds like the default system voice of my Mac). How can I get Siri on macOS to sound as high-quality and natural as Siri on iOS?

I have downloaded Samantha voice for Mac before. I even tried deleting Samantha's voice and redownloading it, but Siri's voice is still like a robot!

When I change Siri's voice to Male (or any other accent or language) and then revert it back to Female, the voice gets better (still not the Siri I have on my iPhone), but then again after a few moments, it's back to default system voice.

What is going wrong here?

I had the same problem but figured it out. First of all, it does take some time for the high quality voice to silently download in the background, and get enabled. But for me, weeks went by and the low-quality voice remained. Here's why:

It has to do with your App Store System Preferences. I had all the checkboxes under "Automatically Check for updates" disabled, including "Install System Data Files and security updates". (This is to avoid any surprise bills when I'm tethering with my phone). Well, it turns out, when this is disabled, it won't download the voices from Apple's CDN (example URL: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/06/40/031-72924/0p9g9iuul9uaojp42eatzq4 b3zr38r4dgw/CustomVoice_en_GB_martha.pkg)

I haven't narrowed it down to this one checkbox (I enabled all of them) but I'm pretty sure it's the culprit. After enabling these checkboxes, I toggled Siri off and on a couple of times and watched the console - finally it downloaded and installed the voices and placed them in System/Library/Speech/Voices . You can keep an eye on System/Library/System/Library/Receipts to see when it actually installs the voices. Mystery solved (for me anyway).

Apple really needs to add a warning message or an override when you enable Siri if it's not going to be able to provide the high quality voice. It took hours of real digging to figure this out.


How to install Git Extension on MacOS? I need to install GitExtension on MacOS, but I can't find any info about this.

I found this link

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/

after download I get compressed folder there is inside .exe file. I can't execute .exe file on macOS...

So, maybe someone uses Git Extension on his laptop, please share an experience or maybe an alternative way should be used?

Here's some other Git visual front-ends for macOS you might consider:

Sourcetree (free)
Github Desktop (free)
Fork (free evaluation, $49.99 after that)
GitKraken (Free Personal)


Renaming a populated iMac Snow Leopard external HDD a possibility? I want to place my iMac Snow Leopard Users Folder on a separate external HDD. It is already populated with data in my Documents, Downloads etc., and Media Folders. My problem is I have already named the HDD using Disk Utility. Is it possible to rename the disk without having to erase the data it contains, Just the name?

Select the drive (just like any other file/folder) and press enter, and rename it just like any other file/folder


I can't install “lockfile-progs” which is necessary for “log check” by HOMEBREW on YOSEMITE I have upgraded my Mac OS X to 10.10, Yosemite, but things go wrong. For other commands, I've succeeded to re-build those programs.

However logcheck, which is installed by homebrew can't work well since the lockfile-progs is a prerequisite. The error message is:

fatal: lockfile-progs is a prerequisite for logcheck, and was not found.

But I can't find the way to install the lockfile-progs to Yosemite. Is there any advice for this situation?

This appears to be a bug; you should report it to Homebrew.


Apple Pay Peripheral I use an iPhone 5S, as I was unable to wait until the 6 came out (my screen was destroyed on my old phone). Is there any peripheral which allows me to use Apple Pay on my phone?

No. You can't put an NFC chip into a 5s, even with external hardware.


Where are my iPod videos after I sync to iTunes? I did sync my iPod with iTunes, but I can't see where are my videos on iTunes (videos I recorded using the iPod). Any hint?

iTunes doesn't sync videos/photos back from your device. The Photos tab in iTunes for the device is only for syncing photos/videos from an iPhoto/Aperture library or folder to your device. It doesn't sync the other way — from your device to the library/folder.
You need to use something like iPhoto/Aperture or Image Capture.

 Transfer images and other items from your device
Transfer images, video clips, and MP3 sounds to your computer from many cameras and devices that contain a camera, such as your iPhone. Once you transfer the items, you can delete them from the device.

Connect your device to your computer, then turn the device on.
If the device is locked with a passcode, enter it.

In Image Capture, select the device in the Devices list.

Use the buttons at the bottom of the Image Capture window to view the thumbnails as a list or as icons to change the size of the thumbnails, or to rotate or delete images.

From the Import To pop-up menu, choose where to save the images or which app to use to open the image.

To import only some of the photos, select those photos, then click Import. To import all the photos, click Import All.
Choose AutoImporter from the “Connecting this [device] opens” pop-up menu to transfer images from a device to your computer whenever you connect it to your computer.

Select “Delete after Import” to remove the items from the device after transferring them to your computer. You can also select individual items on your device, then press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Source: OS X Image Capture Help


Single keystroke shortcut to undo autocorrect Is it possible to quickly revert an autocorrect with a single keystroke or combination?  As described in Shortcut to revert autocorrect change , the "correct" way to do it is:

backspace
wait
down-arrow
enter
space

This is far too slow, and I often reflexively hit Command-Z instead, which has other unintended effects.

Are there other options, ideally without the use of backspace, arrows, or waiting?

Any advice welcome, Thank you!

Try this:

↑ up arrow after you type the word that autocorrects, but before hitting the spacebar.

This should dismiss the autocorrect without making the change in the first place.


Can't boot Macbook Pro 2018 (possibly Little Snitch/Mojave related) I have a Macbook Pro 2018 15" running Mojave (latest update). After updating to the latest Little Snitch and restarting my machine it now fails to boot.

I boot up and can enter my password (I'm running FileVault so I'm not sure if this is the HD unlock login or actual account login). Once I've entered my password the loading bar appears and gets to about 75% before the screen goes blank (black but with backlight), with no cursor.

If I try to boot in safe mode, the same thing happens, but instead of a completely blank screen I see the white loading spinner (on black background). After a few seconds a see the cursor blink briefly but then then it reverts to a blank screen and the process starts again (with the spinner showing, curosr blinking briefly etc. ).

I've tried:

Reinstalling the OS from recovery
Starting in verbose mode (no useful info I can make out)
Starting in safe mode (above)
Clearing PRAM/NVRAM
Clearing SMC
Running first-aid on the boot drive
Removing the Little Snitch kext file via this link: https://forums.obdev.at/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11217&start=15

It feels like there is something wrong with the Windows Server (which is mentioned in the above Little Snitch article) and that there has been an issue building the kernel while updating Little Snitch but I'm not sure how to diagnose further and/or fix it.

SOLVED: MacBook Will Not Start Up After macOS Update

I have a MacBook pro running MacOS Mojave.

For the past year or so, every time a new MacOS update rolls out, and is attempted to be installed on my MacBook, it ends up displaying the circle slash (Prohibitory Symbol).  Rebooting still produces a prohibitory symbol.  I’m still able to boot into recovery mode (command-R at startup), however running disk repair on my MacBook HD does NOT solve the problem.  I have also tried:

specifying the startup disk (problem still persists);
attempting to start in safe mode (problem persists);
doing the NVRAM reset (problem persists).

In the past, the only way I was able to get around the problem, is by re-formatting my HD, installing latest version of Mojave OS, and then migrating all my data from my Time Machine backup.

This happened again the other day with the recent Mojave 10.14.2 update.
My computer automatically installed the update overnight, and in the morning, my screen was showing circle slash.  This time I did some more research, and discovered that the issue may be caused by unsigned kernel extension (KEXT) files existing on my HD.

Kernel Extensions are pieces of code that extends the capability of the base kernel of an operating system. The kernel typically manages Input / Output (I/O) requests, and in macOS the file ends in .kext.

Starting with Yosemite, kernel extensions must be code-signed by the developer with Apple authorization or macOS won’t load them. Sometimes these un-signed kernel extensions cause this headache after a macOS update.

Using terminal command in Recovery Mode, you should be able to resolve this problem by removing unsigned kext extensions from location:/Volumes/<your system's drive name>/Library/Extensions/ [not to be confused with /System/Library/Extensions/].

After I removed the following KEXT files from the /Volumes/<your system's drive name>/Library/Extensions/ directory, my MacBook booted up properly, and finished installing the Mojave update:

BJUSBLoad.kext (Creator: Canon)
CIJUSBLoad.kext (Creator: Canon)
ParagonSnapshot.kext (Creator: Paragon)
ufsd_NTFS.kext (Creator: Paragon)
VDMounter.kext (Creator: Paragon)
LittleSnitch.kext (Creator: LittleSnitch)

FURTHER DETAILS:

This article (MacBook Will Not Start Up After macOS Update, How-To Fix)
provides some helpful information regarding:

In that article, the section titled “Un-Assigned Kernel Misfiring” explains how to boot into Recovery Mode and launch Terminal utility.  However, one problem with that article is that the kextstat command is not available in Terminal utility running in Recovery Mode.

As a work-around, these are the steps I took to solve the problem:

Boot to Recovery (with command-R or command-shift-R if you don't have recovery partition)
First, pick Disk Utility, select your main disk and Mount it; this is required if your disk is encrypted and requires a password to be mounted
Now select Disk Utility -> Quit; then Utilities -> Terminal
Begin typing in Terminal following commands:

cd /Volumes/
cd <your system's drive name>
(Note: If your system drive has any spaces in it’s name, then put the name in single quotes.  For example, my MacBook boot drive is called “MacBook HD”, so the command I would type is: cd ‘MacBook HD’
cd library
cd extensions
cd ls (Note: first letter is a lower case L)

After you type ‘ls’, you should see a list of KEXT extensions like this:

ACS6x.kext                CIJUSBLoad.kext
ATTOCelerityFC8.kext      CalDigitHDProDrv.kext
ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext   HighPointIOP.kext
ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext  HighPointRR.kext
ArcMSR.kext               PromiseSTEX.kext
BJUSBLoad.kext            SoftRAID.kext

The KEXT extensions listed above are all ones properly signed by Apple.
These KEXT extensions can remain, but if you have other KEXT extensions listed, chances are that some or all of those others are causing the issue.

If you see any of these extensions (listed below), you should be able to safely delete them in order to fix your problem.  I’d recommend removing each extension, one at a time, then rebooting to see if it worked, and if not, repeat steps above and delete next one.  Based on my limited research, the ones I’d recommend deleting first are:

ParagonSnapshot.kext (Creator: Paragon)
VDMounter.kext (Creator: Paragon)
LittleSnitch.kext (Creator: LittleSnitch)
ufsd_NTFS.kext (Creator: Paragon)

While in Terminal (in Recovery mode), to delete (or remove) a desired KEXT extension (eg., LittleSnitch.kext) type:

rm -r <full name of extension>

(eg, rm -r LittleSnitch.kext)

Once complete, quit Terminal and restart your Mac.


Oldest laptop to have App Store My sons have iBook G4 laptops and are wanting to upgrade to a Mac that has App Store and iTunes so they can manage their iPods. Can someone please tell me what is the oldest laptop to have those capabilities?

The first appearance of the Mac App Store was 10.6.6 Snow Leopard.

Any Intel-based Mac will accommodate Snow Leopard. A list of Intel-based Macs can be found here and at Apple's detailed system build versions for Intel Macs. So the original MacBook Pro from February 2006 would be the oldest portable that can run the Mac App Store.

Depending on which iOS device they have, you might need Lion or even Mountain Lion to run a version of iTunes for some newer devices like the iPad mini or iPhone 5.


Ukelele keyboard not found by System Preferences I'm trying to install a custom keyboard layout I made in Ukelele that makes extensive use of dead keys and Unicode special characters. Ukelele seems to work fine and installation works for test keyboard layouts that contain fancy unicode characters. (By installation I mean copying the file into /Library/Keyboard Layout/, restarting, and checking System Preferences.) But the keyboard I actually want is never appears in System Preferences. I've tried overwriting a test keyboard that was found with the .keylayout file, resulting in the found keyboard vanishing from the list of keyboards in System Preferences. I've tried opening the console log and looking for XML errors and I don't see any; similarly I've run the file through a web service to check the XML which didn't turn up any problems. My best guess is that there's some problem with the XML produced by heavy editing, but I'm not finding it. How do I fix this?

I'm running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and Ukelele 3.0.3.70.
Link to the problem file.

In my opinion, you need a «your_language.bundle» in the /Library/Keyboard Layout/, which contains your "PhysicsType1 (MathPhysics)"

Then
Try pressing the "+" in the System Preferences> Keyboard> Input Sources, and then select the language in the list that appears, select your "PhysicsType1 (MathPhysics)"


Troubleshooting spontaneous logout (window server crash?) After upgrading to Mavericks while running GoTo Meeting (v5.*) I'm suddenly logged out and sent to the login screen.  The behavior is very erratic, and when it happens, it happens repeatedly, enough that I have to stop using GoTo Meeting.

I've searched around for issues on this, but none seem to apply to my scenario.  In the past I've been able to troubleshoot crashes with the kernel dump you get after the restart, but since it's a successful logout I'm not getting any info.  Where else can I look to try and identify the source of this issue?

Update

After some extensive console scanning it appears I do have some crash reports which I've uploaded as a gist.  I'm trying googling random portions of it, but no luck so far.  There isn't anything exception in there that seems to jump out at me as to what the issue might be.  Help!!

In the case of GoTo Meeting, it turns out there is a driver issue on MBP Retinas that have upgraded to Mavericks.

  Machines and Cards Affected:

  MacBook Pro Retina 2012 (NVIDIA GeForce 650M) running Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)
  MacBook Pro Retina 2013 (NVIDIA GeForce 750M) running Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)

  Symptoms

  Mac totally frozen, webcam light on. Hard reboot required to recover.
  Mac goes to login screen; logging back will show you the starting panel, but no control panel.
  When a new session is started, you will be asked to terminate the session you were previously running.

  Workaround #1: Upgrade to GoToMeeting 6.0, build 1259.

  Prevents GoToMeeting from dynamically switching between integrated and discrete video cards on session start.
  Hides webcam viewer for Presenters who are screen sharing with affected machines and cards.

  Workaround #2: Prevent OSX from dynamically switching between discrete and integrated GPUs.

  Download gfxCardStatus, available here.
  Unzip and run the application.
  Click the 'd' icon in the menu bar.
  Select Integrated Only from the menu.
  When finished with a GoToMeeting session,  select Dynamic Switching to restore normal use.

  Note: Using multi-monitor configurations will force discrete GPU usage and neither workaround will avoid this. [Source]


Scroll with mouse in 'less' without clearing the screen When viewing a long file in Terminal with less (or man, which uses less internally), I can use two-finger gesture to scroll up and down the file; it's great. But less on OS X has an annoying problem: When I quit, it resets the screen back to what it looked like before I started less.

% date
Sun 30 Oct 2016 16:18:23 CET
% man less
% (hmm... where did my output go?)

When I quit I want to see the next prompt appear below the last screenful I was viewing in less. I can achieve this by using less -X or setting LESS=-X, which suppresses the terminal initialization sequences. Unfortunately, -X also turns off the mouse-scrolling feature. Is there a way to suppress the screen clearing but still be able to scroll with the trackpad?

As I understand it, this would require using a different set of terminfo settings. I cannot make heads or tails of the whole terminfo infrastructure. Does anyone have a solution? I'm on El Capitan, in case it makes any difference.

This question is nearly identical to a question asked on SuperUser. Here's a portion of the answer:

So there you are: Either you switch to alternate screen and the terminal's hack converts scroll events into keypresses for less, and the normal screen is restored when you quit; or you don't, and then there can't be any magic converting scroll events to keypresses and less doesn't understand the scroll events.
So what could be done? Well, either implement mouse support in less and let it handle scroll events itself (and live with a nondefault click or copy-paste behavior), or implement another weird hack: upon quitting, after reverting to the normal screen, less could for the last time print a screenful of content, repeating whatever was displayed before you quit.


Drag and drop Chrome downloads like any other OS X file? When I've downloaded a file in Chrome for OS X, it sits in a little bar at the bottom of the screen.

Sometimes I want to drag and drop that file directly into a Chrome tab (for example, to upload it somewhere.)

Some websites allow this.

Other websites, however, won't allow this. They only accept files from Finder, not ones dragged directly from the downloads bar.

How can I get Chrome and/or OS X to treat these files from the downloads bar as normal Finder files, so that websites will be unable to differentiate?

I realize that I could, (and I in fact do), just locate the file in Finder and drag it from there. However, I do this often and it would save me time if I could just drag it directly from Chrome itself.

Holding the alt or option key while doing the Drag & Drop action works.

I think since Chrome also handles webpages as links (html) to open them in the browser, it does the same for downloaded files. If you simply hold alt while clicking a link it also downloads the file. So I assume Chrome treats the downloaded "link" as a 'file' when holding that key.

You could also use cmd + Click to "Show In Finder"


sharing internet/vpn with ipfw, can't access google.com over https I am sharing my internet connection / IKEv2 VPN connection over pf via Murus static NAT.  My network architecture is as follows:

internet modem ->
wired router (serving 192.168.1.1/24) ->
Mac mini (192.168.1.2) -> ((en4) 192.168.2.1  ) ->
airport extreme (192.168.2.2) (DHCP, no NAT, serving 192.168.2.0/24)

I am sharing my internet / vpn connection via en4 to 192.168.2.0/24. Sharing internet works.  Sharing the VPN works. I am doing DNS resolution on the router and not forwarding DNS requests through pf.

However, certain sites (namely https://google.com) will not load.  Other https sites will.  ping google.com works fine on client and server. It resolves to different ip addresses on each, although both connections are behind the same VPN and use the same DNS servers.

curl google.com of course yields a 301.  curl https://google.com works fine on the server, but curl -v https://google.com on the client yields the following if you wait long enough:

 stopped the pause stream!
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to google.com:443

The browser just times out.  Both are running LibreSSL 2.2.7.

Wireshark output for the client and its preferred Google IP is pretty colorful, although unintelligible:

Strangely enough, the Safari browser seems to be using the server's Google IP and doesn't show up in this filter (this is from a curl request.)

I have had this working in the past, and am trying again with a different router and one less layer of NAT.  I can't say it's always been snarl-free, but I was definitely able to browse sites like google.com with the shared VPN connection.

It should be noted that turning off the VPN causes the shared internet connection to work just fine.

What next steps do I need to take to figure out why some https connections don't work, and to get this network fully functional?

Selecting "Clamp MSS" in the Murus Static NAT options allows access to https://google.com (and apple.stackexchange.com)!.  There are still issues (can't speed test at fast.com and others) but this does provide the fix.


Run apps/Display long texts on ipod nano? Is it possible to run custom apps or display long text on an ipod nano or a device that's similar to it?

I'll assume that by long text, you mean syncing notes or other text to be read on the iPod. The current generation iPod Nano doesn't contain a notes application, nor does it support apps. There was some news a while back that someone managed to do some hacking on it, but as of now, I haven't heard anything. The iPod Touch would do better for notes and apps than the iPod Nano.


iOS 5 Reminders on weekdays only Is it possible to create repeating reminders for weekdays only?  I don't see this option, but I can't believe something so basic would be left off.

In Reminders.

Select Repeat
Select Weekly
Select Custom
Select the days, e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday


White Screen Hang Mac Pro Reading related posts it seems I have a blend of other's issues.  But the final blow was plugging in a nextbook tablet to download some pdf files, and THEN I booted the old Mac Pro 2008 with Yosemite 10.10.3 or 4, can't recall exactly now since I can't check it.  I 'assume' having the tablet plugged in on boot confused the boot up sequence?

I've tried every startup key configuration in the official Apple list, except trying the few 'over the internet' options i.e. 'Option-D: Apple Hardware Test/Apple Diagnostics over the internet,' 'Command-Option-B Start up from OS X Recovery over the internet,' because my hardwired modem is on the computer I'm using to get help.  I'll power this down and try it now, but if that doesn't work, which isn't likely, it's still in White Screen Hang.  It was also black screen crashing before this and restarting over and over, intermittently... if that may be contributing to this issue.  Thanks.

Already tried NVRAM reset?
I've been surprised by how many problems this "fixes":
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

Turn on your Mac.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys immediately after you hear the startup sound.
Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for a second time.
Release the keys.


Importing Facebook events into Calendar on Mac iOS 6.0 brought iOS calendar syncing with Facebook, which is very convenient. I can see all my Facebook events on my iPhone.

Is there a similar functionality for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? Or is there any other way to import my Facebook events into my OS X Calendar?

Thanks!

I can export my upcoming events to iCal in Facebook. These are the steps that I follow:

Open up https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar
Click on the cog-wheel icon in the upper right corner (shown in the image below)

Click Export. A Facebook prompt window will appear with the following text:

  You can export your friends' birthdays or upcoming events into Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar.

Click on upcoming events. Now iCal will open with a window where you can insert a calendar URL to which you want to subscribe. Leave the filled in text field as is and click on Subscribe.
Now you will have all your upcoming events in iCal.


iMac as a print server for iOS? We have an older-ish network laser printer which unfortunately doesn't support Airprint (previously mentioned) and have been looking for ways to enable our family of iOS devices to print from it.

The best idea I've come up with so far is to purchase an iMac (planned anyway) and physically connect the printer to it - would the iMac then be able to act as a print server for, say, an iPad? I have used print sharing in the past but am unclear as to whether it supports iOS (although it would make sense for it to).

Thanks!

You need an app, like Printopia running continuously on a logged in Mac.