Uninstall Anaconda from macOS Big Sur I've some question about uninstalling Anaconda from macOS Big Sur. I was wondering if someone can please help me figure it our what to do.
I followed the instruction on the official website (https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/uninstall/) plus some other guides, but I'm note an expert and I didn't reach my goal.  That's what I did:
1) conda install anaconda-clean
2) anaconda-clean --yes
3) rm -rf ~/.condarc ~/.conda ~/.continuum
4) rm -rf ~/anaconda
5) conda remove -n myenv scipy
                         *PackagesNotFoundError
6) conda remove scipy
7) conda remove scipy curl
                         *PackagesNotFoundError
8) rm -rf ~/anaconda3
9) rm -rf ~/.anaconda_backup
10) export PATH=”/Users/MYUSERNAME/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

At the end I've deleted the application throwing it in the trash and emptying it.

I'm not sure I did the right steps, maybe you can give me some advice. However, I didn't delete everything because I have still a folder in /opt path, /opt/anaconda3. I'm sure another folder was in /user/MYNAME, but I think I've deleted it, because I can't see it anymore, even in the hidden folders.
Then, if I run
conda list

lots of other packages are still available:
# packages in environment at /opt/anaconda3:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf    0.1.0                    py37_0
anaconda-clean            1.1.0            py37hecd8cb5_1
anaconda-client           1.7.2                    py37_0
[...]
zlib                      1.2.11               h1de35cc_3
zstd                      1.4.5                h41d2c2f_0

Also, conda still run in my terminal as I see (base) every time I open it, here an example:
(base) MYUSERNAME@MacBook ~ %

I also post the content inside .bash_profil, because maybe It can be related with "my terminal (base) problem":
# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/opt/anaconda3/bin/conda' 'shell.bash' 'hook' 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/opt/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/opt/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup
# <<< conda initialize <<<

I just wanted delete all the packages and files related to Anaconda.
Thanks in advance

This is a specific example of a common problem. Installers and applications that spray files and detritus all over the filesystem and rely on users to run many scripts, all changing weekly with version upgrades quickly becomes an intractable problem. You should be able to reclaim the 5 GB of space easily without worrying about some stub files and mostly empty config files.

Open the Terminal.app or iTerm2 terminal application, and then remove your entire Anaconda directory, which has a name such as anaconda2, anaconda3, or ~/opt. Enter rm -rf ~/anaconda3 to remove the directory.

If you’ve deleted the main program and the main folders (which I repeat above), I would say you’re good. Set up Time Machine so you’re backing up going forward and next time you want to install similar tool chains and environments, be sure you have a backup so you can roll back if that install gives poor results. Unless there’s a large file lying around you won’t gain anything cleaning up hundreds of files and other tools let you find folders and large files to clean them together.

In the unlikely event you have some issue caused by the leftover files, it’s less complicated and less time consuming to erase and reinstall a Mac and get your documents and apps reinstalled than it is to reconstruct what anaconda installed and surgically reverse every remnant left on the filesystem.
Worse, if you rm the wrong thing, you may delete more than you bargained for.

How can I make 'rm' move files to the trash can?

A safer bet is to substitute open for rm and you do need to recognize -rf or any flags passed to rm and delete them. Use the command line to open the folders rather than removing them is my advice if you don’t get exactly the syntax of the commands you are copy and paste into terminal. The writer of those guides assumes you know what the commands do or you won’t blame / sue them if you make an error and delete your home folder and all your pictures and documents.


Conflicting Settings in OSX Server Profile Manager (Groups and Users/Devices) please help me understand what happens if you have nested groups in Profile Manager and you apply conflicting Settings. Which Setting will be Carried oft?
E.g.:
I have the following groups:

All
|-Teachers
|-Students

So Teachers and Students are nested in All.
When you activate a Setting or configure a payload in All. And you deactivate the Setting in Teachers: how will a User belonging to teachers be configured?

And what Happens if you additionally change this users' settings conflicting with the above.

I found the answer to this question myself accidentially.
Please check this site for a more detailed explanation. There is no single answer to this

Condensed:

  Some settings, such as controlling which items are opened at login, are cumulative because no one particular setting overrides another — any number of items can be opened at login.
  Some settings are inherited from workgroups to the user level or from within nested workgroups. Settings with only one ultimate outcome — such as the position of the Dock onscreen — use an order of priority to override the same setting for different account levels. The prioritization of conflicting preferences to override the same setting also applies for inheritance. The order of inheritance and overriding preferences is

Workgroup (the least specific level)

Device group

Device

User (the most specific level)

For example, a preference set at the workgroup level can’t override the same preference set for the computer group, computer, or user level. In this sense, a preference set for the user always wins when overriding other levels.


Is there an option to inspect live variable data like in Visual studio? When I set break points in Visual Studio, I can inspect variables to see what they are set too: int's, string's, array's, etc..

Is there an option similar in XCode to help with debugging?

Yes - open Xcode's help and search for Debugging with Xcode - there are links to WWDC videos, and ample documentation to get you going.


What are these ports on a 20th anniversary Mac? Yesterday I found a Twentieth Anniversary Mac in my Nonna's basement. Apparently it's been there since 2002. I was very curious about this and I Googled it and found that it was a special edition.

On the rear and side are some ports I'm not familiar with. I wonder if anyone can explain them?

The rear has 6 ports and I don't know what ports 3, 4, and 5 are for? There's also a large port on the left hand side that I'm not familiar with.

Can anyone help?

Wow, that's a find!

Actually, there are more than six ports on the rear, there's also a cover you can open to reveal a whole heap of other ports (e.g. Serial ports, ADB port, etc).

However, to explain the ports in your question:

Port 3 is a SCSI port
Port 4 is a TV Tuner port
Port 5 is a FM radio port
the port on the left side you refer to is a PCI slot (Note there's actually a comm slot above this as well).

Below are some images I've taken from the Twentieth Anniversary Mac Service Source:

IMPORTANT NOTE

This model actually has a switch to select the appropriate voltage for your country (see below), so make sure you have the correct voltage selected for your location.

If your location is not listed, then select whichever is appropriate (e.g. if you're in Australia then select 230v).

[EDIT]

Finally, as per IconDaemon's comment below, you can access the service documentation directly for yourself.


Will a mac ssd (it already have the os x) boot on a pc? So I broke my macbook and I believe that the ssd is still alive with latest os x on it. If I take out the ssd and put it into a pc will it boot?
I saw that apple forbid using their os on a non mac machine.

No, it won't boot natively, nor will it even mount on a Windows machine without a 3rd party translator 'plugin' to be able to read HFS+ or APFS.
Further, if it's APFS then I think only Paragon make a translator - APFS for Windows
They also do one for HFS, but I think there are other alternatives - HFS+ for Windows

Depending on what the macOS version was will depend on which of those you might need. HFS was default until Sierra, since then it's been APFS.


Make iPhone use GPS-only location services The question is as simple and clear as it sounds.

When celullar data and Wi-Fi are turned off on my iPhone 6, location services work great and I get my location in a moment with a precision of 1-2 meters.

However, if I turn my celullar data on, it takes 10-15 seconds to get my location and, usually, it is pretty incorrect (+- 200 meters and it randomly moves around while I am standing at the same place). As some of my friends have the same problem, it looks like it is mobile network operator issue (Altel 4G, Kazakhstan).

Why does iPhone prefer to use cell network-based or wifi-based location services while GPS is doing good? How can I turn off cell network-based and wifi-based location services, so it uses only GPS services and doesn't work at all if GPS is not available.

Now, I have to turn my celullar data off in order to get my precise location and turn it on later. However, it makes playing some games involving both location services and celullar data impossible.

The iPhone's systems are optimized for battery life. From the chip design to the OS, battery conservation takes precedence over all.

GPS chips are massive power consumers. Read these answers for more information on GPS chip power use. Due to this, the iPhone will always prefer to find its location with wifi/cell tower triangulation, then refine with GPS.  The phone will often quickly cycle the GPS chip on and off, confirming location as needed. (remember, computers think in microseconds or smaller)

Since the iPhone is not a dedictaed GPS, you likely will never find a way to force it to become one. You might try an iPhone GPS application, many of which seem to 'force' the GPS chip (and drain the battery).

For more, learn about Assisted GPS, which explains how GPS works on your phone, including iPhone. This may also explain why your carrier might be a challenge, as it might not be providing you with Mobile Station Assisted data.


Why are my mom's contacts on my iPhone? Why are my mom's contacts on my phone, and how do I delete them?

We have different iCloud accounts and different phone numbers and different email addresses.

I need help on how to remove them from my phone without deleting them from her phone

It appears if your device was previously used with you mom's iCloud account, and her contact information was not removed from the device before you signed in with your iCloud account. This will merge the contact data from both accounts.

Unfortunately, there is no way to automatically detect which contacts were yours or which ones were your mom's.

A simple solution is to manually delete all the contacts that do not belong to you. First, ensure that your phone is using your account for contacts, otherwise you will be deleting your mom's contacts on her iCloud account. Go to Settings > Your Name > iCloud > Contacts and check if Contacts is on and the account is yours. Then, open the contacts app and tap edit on the contact you would like to delete. Finally, scroll to the bottom and press Delete Contact then Delete Contact on the popup again.

If you happen to use Time Machine on a separate macOS device and use iCloud sync, you could try to recover your old contacts list, delete all your contacts, then re-import the original contacts from the Time Machine backup.

To prevent this from happening in the future (as I have done this many times myself on accident), make sure you completely erase your device before signing in with a new iCloud account.


How to simulate slow internet connections on the mac What's a good software solution to slow down internet connections on the mac for testing and simulations?

My primary need is when testing code in the iPhone / iOS simulator, so slowing down the connection for specific applications or processes would be great.

Apple’s official tool to slow down the network connections on you Mac for testing purposes is Network Link Conditioner

Additional Tools for Xcode [version].

Additionally, iOS has similar function accessible from within Xcode and iOS 6 or later.

Older versions of Xcode before version 4.3.2 embedded a copy of this tool. This SO thread documents some history of the tool in a similar manner to the iOS simulators and developer documentation.
There are 11 built in profiles from a Lossy Edge network with 400ms delay to a cable modem. If you need other limits, you can create custom profiles with your own settings or you can also use ipfw yourself as described in Craig Hockenberry's article slow ride, make it easy It also mentions the Speed Limit panel by Mike Schrag that is a smaller download than Xcode, but has fewer options than Apple's tool.
It slows down the entire network stack, so you can't throttle on a per app basis without doing things like install lion in a virtual machine and set that VM with a throttled stack.


How to backup an iPhone when the screen is broken, the home button is broken, and it says "Unlock iPhone to use accessories?" I'm trying to backup my old and (very) broken iPhone so I can restore it on a new phone. The home button is broken, and the top half of the screen is broken (so I cannot enter my password). I also cannot access the menu you get when you swipe up, and Touch ID doesn't work. I have tried plugging it in to do a backup from iTunes, but I get the message "Unlock iPhone to use accessories" when plugging it in. I do not have "Hey Siri" enabled and I can't use the home button to activate Siri (I read about a trick to sign in using Siri). My phone is connected to WiFi and to Find My iPhone. I have access to a Mac and PC.
It is an iPhone SE model A1723.
Is there any way I can back it up still (iTunes, iCloud, or some other method) to restore it onto a new phone? If there's any more relevant info I forgot to add, let me know. Thanks in advance!

There is no way to back an iPhone up to a Mac or PC with iTunes, or to initiate an iCloud backup, without a working screen to input the lock code, unless you have used the iPhone with the same computer and iTunes before so it is already trusted.
Your best bet might be to take your phone and computer to a 3rd party Apple device service shop and ask if they can please attach a used screen with working touch for a bit so you can do the backup. They might be willing to do that for a few pieces of cheddar cheese...


How to make my late 2011 MBP compatible with USB 3.0? Maybe an ExpressCard?

Is that the way I should do it?

My ports look like this:

Thunderbolt Dock

You can use a Thunderbolt dock / docking station. I have added one to my 2011 Mac mini which has no USB 3.0 ports.

There are many docks available and most of them offer USB 3.0 ports.

Keep in mind that, as far as I know, all docks require an external power source (wall plug), but there are some that don't need one.

Please let me know if this answers your question.

This is the product I use:

Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock for about $200, the predecessor of this version:

http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F4U085/

Pay attention whether or not a Thunderbolt cable is included. A single cable costs between $30-50.

Thunderbolt to USB adapter

Instead of a Thunderbolt dock you can also buy a TB to USB 3.0 adapter. Kanex produces one that also supports eSATA. However, you won't be able to connect any devices that need to draw power to operate. Think external 2.5" HDDs/SSDs or USB hubs:

Kanex Thunderbolt to eSATA + USB 3.0 Adapter, $80


How to enable an unsupported HP Thunderbolt dock on macOS Catalina I have an HP Elite Thunderbolt 3 dock, and it will only charge my Mac. Any monitor or other external device it won't recognize.
I found an article by 9to5mac but tried it without success on macOS Catalina. I also tried this solution without success as well.
Does anyone know of any resource how to let macOS use docks which it lists as unsupported?

Super smug answer, I'll add some less smug information - I have both HP Elite and G2 120W TB3 docks which worked 90% perfectly in 10.15 (with the unsupported patch installed) - sound, USB3.0, thunderbolt passthrough/USB-C video, networking and charging. The only thing that didn't work was the Displayport based outputs (and VGA I assume but I never tested that). They're all based off pretty standard chipsets and don
t need any drivers is MacOS.
So yes everything you say is correct but if you jump across to Bootcamp it all works so its all in Apples court really.
The unfortunate current situation is that from what I can tell there is no patches available for Big Sur to enable Thunderbolt so on my Elite I only have USB-C pass through video (quite happily doing 4KP60) and charging.
Lets hope something comes out in the future as there are lots of the HP docks turning up on eBay that are exlease and never used.


Mac (OS X 10.9.2) no longer saving screen shots When I try to take a screen shot (Command + Control + Shift + 4) I hear the camera shutter sound but no image appears on my desktop.

I Googled the problem and tried to change the saving location using the terminal command line as such:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/

but this did not change anything.

Would anyone know what I can do to fix?

When I try to take a screen shot (Command + Control + Shift + 4)

That's the problem. The shortcut to put a screenshot on the desktop is just Command + Shift + 4 (or 3).  Don't press the control key; when you do, it copies to the clipboard instead.  That's why you're not getting a file on the desktop.


Can I use two additional Apple Thunderbolt Displays at 60 Hz with my MacBook Pro Mid 2014? Which is the maximal refreshment rate for two connected Thunderbolt Displays? I want to connect them via Mini-Display-Port to the Thunderbolt Ports of my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014. I want to use the maximum resolution (2560 px) on both TB Displays. Is it possible to run them both at 60 Hz and max. resolution?

According to Everymac

  This model supports a simultaneous maximum resolution up to 2560x1600 on two external displays via Thunderbolt. Alternately, it can support a single display up to 2560x1600 via Thunderbolt and a single 1080p display at up to 60 Hz, 3840x2160 at 30 Hz, or 4096x2160 at 24 Hz via HDMI.

…so I'd say 'yes'.


How do I turn off the Screen Saver? Can't believe that I have to ask this question, but...

How to I disable the screen saver on my 2014 MacBook Pro, running MacOS Sierra 10.12?

I have a need occasionally to keep the screen display on, but I might not use it for 20 minutes at a time. I want to disable the screen saver, but the button to adjust the time (I presume it has a 'None' option) is disabled.

How can I enable that dropdown, in order to change the 'Start after' time? Or is there somewhere else I should change it?

I know that I can use hot corners to disable screen saver, but that's too hacky - if I forget to put the cursor in the corner, it doesn't do it, and I only know when the screen saver comes on - which is frustrating.

Check out this discussion: Screensaver "start time" option grayed out

The system administrator has probably set the screensaver timeout in a user profile. You can't change it without removing the profile, which will probably cause you to lose network access.

Check if you have a profile (overriding your personal settings) by Apple > System Preferences > Profiles

("Profiles" is in the bottom right)

if you have a profile, one of these files has its settings: ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ look for a file with a long name that begins "com.apple.screensaver". There may be two such files. Move the one without the word "slideshow" in the name to the Trash.

It most probably applies to your problem too...


My iPod Nano seems to have been lost in post! How do I contact Apple? I posted my iPod Nano to Apple two weeks ago, under their replacement service, but the "check repair status" says that they still haven't received it. Does anyone know a number or an email address I can use to chase this up?

Any web site in the UK  has to provide contact information. Apple has a comprehensive one.

  Sales Support
  Check the status of a current Apple Online Store order. To make changes to an existing order, contact Apple Store Customer Service at 0845 600 1683 (low rate). Lines are open Monday-Friday 08:00-21:00, and Saturday-Sunday 09:00-20:00.


Any harm done in Symlinking ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync to an external drive? I'd like to reclaim the many GBs that this directory is currently eating up. Any reason I shouldn't symlink it to an external drive?

Judging from some quick tests I ran, you should be fine. iTunes finds the symlinked folder without problems (not given, as it has – or maybe had – bugs following symlinks inside its media folder) – the worst that happens is iTunes showing no backups when the link destination (i.e. the external drive) is not available.


Force contacts to sync with iCloud right now I just updated a contact's phone number in the Mac Contacts app.  Now I want to call them on my iPhone (4S), but my iPhone does not have the new number.  Both the Mac and the iPhone are configured to sync to my iCloud account.  How do I force them to sync now, one after the other, so I can make this call?

I assume it's a little late for your phone call, but for anyone else with this problem you can force both the OS X and iOS Contacts apps to sync with different methods.

OS X
Close (and reopen?) the Contacts app.

iOS (8)
Touch Groups on the top left, then drag down until the spinner at the top fills up.


My text messages are received by my wife's iPhone and iPad My wife receives my SMS text messages on her iPhone and iPad. How can I change this?

I do not get her messages on my device

If you're sharing an AppleID for iMessage this is expected behavior.  You can also double check to make sure you don't have any conflicting settings.

From iMessage settings, verify Text Message Forwarding:

Navigate to Settings (app) > iMessage > Text Message Forwarding

Then verify your send and receive addresses:

Navigate to Settings (app) > iMessage > Send & Receive

Those are the 3 pieces that would be causing an issue on your end.


How do I repair movies with "invalid public movie atoms"? I've got a movie file that gives me the following error every time it opens in any QuickTime based player:

  The movie could not be opened.
  An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie.

Is there any tool I can use in 10.5 on my PowerBook to fix the file?

And please, don't suggest using VLC; it can play the file, but it can't fix it.

Ideally I want to avoid re-encoding the streams.

I recommend using the free app HandBrake to re-encode the movie, which will hopefully fix the problem.

Open HandBrake and it will automatically ask you to select a source (otherwise, you can use the Source toolbar item). Select the problematic movie and click Open.

Make sure the Presets panel is visible by clicking the Toggle Presets toolbar item. Then, under Apple, select the Universal preset.

The default settings should be fine, but you can tweak them if you like.

Click the Start toolbar item to begin. HandBrake will chug away and re-encode the file. That's likely to fix any problems with the encoding.


An iPad using my email address I received an notice on my iPhone saying, "iPad is now using ####@hotmail.com". This is my email address but I don't have an iPad. What does this mean? Thank you.

If the notice were a pop up, then someone knows your Apple ID and password and entered them into another device.

If it's an email, you will want to check first that it's from Apple and perhaps log into http://appleid.apple.com to check that your account is secured, perhaps changing the password if you feel that is warranted. If you do this, make sure you also change the password to your email, as someone could use that to reset your Apple ID password.

Basically, Apple wants to make sure you know every time you set up a new device with your Apple ID since if you didn't allow it, someone else will then have access to your messages, your apps, etc...

Worst case, you can contact Apple Support if you can't resolve this as they might have better advice specific to your situation and be able to assist in locking / recovering control of your account. Also, if you use the same password here as you use on any other account - they could be compromised as well so you might want to change any account that uses your email and that password going forward.


Mission control font is aliased in OS X El Capitan I just upgraded my Mac to 10.11 and noticed the aliased font in Mission Control. I tried to include a screenshot of it, hope the issue is clear.

The font was fine in Yosemite. Is anybody facing the very same issue? I could not find a proper setting about it in the System Preferences.

Comparing to my screenshot:

The font in my OS X 10.11 is all OK.

Maybe it means it is bold, why Apple changed the font style.  Maybe it
Maybe be a bug of OS X 10.11. Report it to Apple.


Problems with iOS 10.2 TV App? [Edited for clarity and brevity]

The new TV app in iOS 10.2 is missing critical features of its predecessor Videos app.

The primary flaw is that there's no way to delete videos from within the app (see comments below for kludgey workaround).

Secondary flaws include removal of a "list" view (only "tiled" is available) and a bug in auto-rotate.

Does anyone else...

See the same problems?
Know how to fix them?
Or know of a 3rd party video player app (free or paid) that:
a) Allows quick deletion of played videos from within the app?
b) Provides list view of videos on device?
c) Handles auto-rotate correctly?

To delete a video:

From Home Screen
Tap Settings
Tap General
Tap Storage and iCloud Usage
From Storage Tap Manage Storage
Tap TV app

You will now see your videos in the app and at this point you can hit Edit and delete the videos you no longer want.

Shorter option:
Or you can click into the video and you'll see a Downloaded button.  Click that and you'll see the option to remove the video.


I need help deleting downloaded songs from iTunes using my iPhone 4? I'm trying to figure out how to delete these free songs I downloaded from iTunes using my iPhone? I downloaded them using my iPhone 4. So can I delete the same songs and how?

In the Music app, find the song you want to delete in the list and swipe from left to right on the name of the song. Then tap the Delete button that appears.


What speed does the home network need to be so that Air Play is the same as connected by a cable? If the home network is running 802.11n or 802.11ac, can the Air Play from a Macbook to Apple TV video playback be guaranteed to be the same as if connected by a cable?

There may be 2 Wifi or up to 3 Wifi data streams happening: (1) from the NAS to the Macbook (by Wifi), and then (2) from the Macbook to the Wifi router, and (3) from the Wifi router to the Apple TV. If the video files in on the Macbook locally, then there will be 2 data streams only (the (2) and (3) above).

Besides, is there a monitor tool that can show the data is only at a 33%, 50% or 80% of the max Wifi bandwidth, to show that it is running smoothly in general?

No, you can never guarantee the network connectivity. You could always experience interference from other networks, jammers, etc. which temporarily block signal reception. Similarly with a cable you could have defective cables that aren't working perfectly.

In general you can achieve network speeds with 802.11ac that well exceed the speed of a 100 Mbps cable connection and approaches the speed of a 1000 Mbps cable connection (or even exceeds it in optimal scenarios).

If your question is whether or not AirPlay from a MacBook to an AppleTV can work well over 802.11ac - then the answer is yes. However, you'll have to try yourself with your own network components and surroundings to determine if it works well for you - there's no guarantee. Usually it works without any problems.

You can use Activity Monitor to monitor the actual amount of transferred data. You can also hold down the Alt key while clicking the WiFi icon in the menu bar on your MacBook to see extra statistics, including the current estimated transmission rate.


How to stop SilentCleanServer app from running I have an old iMac running High Sierra. Using Activity Monitor I noticed that I have an app named SilentCleanServer running  This program is using some CPU time and it has over 2,000 files associated with it. From looking at other sites this app is from Mobi. I would like to stop this app but can't manage to do so. From Activity Monitor I can quit the app but it immediately restarts. When I try to delete the app it says it can't because app is open. But when I kill it, it restarts before I can delete it. I don't necessarily want to delete the app if I can just stop it from running.

Is there a way to stop this app from restarting?

This Apple Community discussion thread may have the answer:

  Try deleting the "com.imobie.PhoneClean" and "com.iMobie.SilentCleanServer" folders in ~/Library/Application Support.

or

  Theres an underlying silentcleanserver app, which is located once you "show all contents". I uninstalled and its gone!


How to Find What a Particular Keyboard Shortcut Does? How can I find the command triggered by a keyboard shortcut without activating it in any given application?

When I press a keyboard shortcut, the top-level menu is highlighted, but, beyond that, I don't get much information about where the command is located, or what exactly it does. Sometimes I discover a key combination (by accident or guessing) that does more or less what I want but I can't find the details in documentation because I don't know the name of the command.

You can find the name of every shortcut in an app by using a free app called CheatSheet.


Installing an SSD in a MacBook Pro mid 2010 but OS X is on an external USB HDD The HDD in my MacBook Pro failed so I followed some online instructions, and as I had a spare external USB HDD I ended up with the latest OS X Mavericks on the external HDD.

It was all done by Apple over the internet. The MacBook will now only work with the external HDD. I have a new SSD that I want to fit in the MacBook and have all the files on the current external HDD transferred to the SSD. When I restart the MacBook I want it to boot from the new internal SSD.  However, I am a bit stumped with all the various instructions so can someone give me an easy guide i.e. step-by-step?  I want the MacBook Pro configured as if it was new, i.e. with all the necessary software on the SSD. I have Time Machine backups, I have an USB enclosure. The SSD is a Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB. I also have the original discs with OS etc.

Do I install the SSD in the MacBook first and then format it using the original OS disc?

I ask because I have plugged in the SSD using the enclosure and it is not recognised with Disk Utility?  I have also discovered that the existing internal HDD is accessible again and alive but when I try a restore command I get a message: "Cannot restore from source disk"!

I hope I have explained my predicament clearly. References to cloning, carbon copy etc have me lost.

I did this and got  the following.
I did as instructed which was as follows,  and as it all happened so fast I may miss out a bit!  Installed the SSD, ran OS dvd, partitioned the new ssd, then clicked on continue, got an option to restore OS, selected that and used time machine backup.  This tranferred my latest backup to the new ssd, tok about 2 hours.  Mac restarted and booted from ssd. Everything worked. Turned off mac and back on all booted ok. Delighted.  Switched off last night, this morning switched mac back on, would not boot from SSD. Then would not boot from USB HDD.  Put back in OS DVD, checked disk utility, saw samsung ssd, under partition all ok but cant make it start up disk, got error message, partition fail, tried verify disk now and got some information was unavailable during an internal look up. , then tried partition, got error couldnt unmount disk.  I then tried the unmount tab but it says could not unmount, .  I am stuck good and proper. I wonder why it worked for a while and then once left powered off overnight failed.  help??

what I did when my hdd died last week (coincidence):
I replaced my hdd with a smaller ssd and replaced the disk drive with a hdd.
Then I installed a fresh version of osx on the ssd.
After installation I plugged in my dead hdd with my old installation and simply dragged my home folder to my new hdd.
When this was finished i changed the path to my home folder in system settings to my old folder I just copied to my new hdd.
this gave me a brand new instal of osx and 99% of al my data I only had to re-download a few plugins.

You could try this aswel since I am guessing there is a problem with your old osx installation.

So:

Reinstall osx on your SSD
Drag your old home folder on your new drive
change the path to your home folder in system settings


What is difference between network service and network interface I'm a little bit confused about the difference between a network interface and network service. For example, the ifconfig utility documentation talks in terms of the network interface:

  ifconfig en0

While "networksetup" is using network service:

  networksetup -getinfo %network service name%

Can a single network interface have multiple network services?

networksetup is the CLI interface for network settings panel in System Preferences.  From the man page:

  The networksetup command is used to configure network settings
  typically configured in the System Preferences application.

ifconfig is the utility to set up a network interface.  From the man page

  The ifconfig utility is used to assign an address to a network
  interface and/or configure network interface parameters.

What you are seeing is two different methods with different nomenclature for the same thing.

networksetup is specific to macOS where ifconfig is more generic and part of the BSD core

As to your question...

  Can a single network interface have multiple network services?

Yes.  For instance, you can have an alias for that interface.  Using actual System Prefs (because it's visually easier), I created a new service called "Ask Different Demo" to my existing interface "Ethernet"


Mac OS X 10.8 App Store hogs the connection when downloading new OS X I'm trying to download Mavericks from App Store but it's hogging my internet connection.
Is there anyway to set the App Store to download at a lower speed or take fewer connections or whatever to be able at least to open web sites while downloading?

Not really - the OS is designed to do all the network transfer that the routers will allow. From a systems perspective - the network is so slow compared to storage, CPU, memory - that any attempt to hobble that subsystem is really a poor use of the computer.

You would need to have traffic shaping tools on the router or connect the Mac to the router using a slower interface if that would help.

The easy solution is to pause the download until you can allow the download to take what bandwidth it negotiates with your router and the Apple servers providing the download.


Disk Utility Showing 0 Bytes on USB I have a 32GB USB. I recently used dd to write a Linux image to the USB. Somewhere during dd my Macbook froze.

When I plugged it back into the laptop after rebooting it wouldn't show. I left it 20 minutes and it finally said the disk cannot be read.

It shows in disk utility, but the drive name is 0958342385823429 and the info on the drive is as follows:

Name :  Generic USB Flash Disk Media
Type :  Disk

Partition Map Scheme :  Unformatted
Disk Identifier :   disk1
Media Name :    Generic USB Flash Disk Media
Media Type :    Generic
Connection Bus :    USB
Device Tree :   IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14
Writable :  Yes
Ejectable :     Yes
Location :  External
Total Capacity :    0 Bytes
Disk Number :   1
Partition Number :  0
S.M.A.R.T. Status :     Not Supported

I can't format the drive, I've tried partitioning within disk utility and in the terminal using fdisk to no avail. Here's some more information:

fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 0/4/63 [1 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
     Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

fdisk:*1> disk
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 0/4/63 [1 sectors]

sudo fdisk -d /dev/disk1
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0

Can you erase it using diskuitl

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ "name" /dev/disk1

or repartition it.

diskutil partitiondisk /dev/disk1 JHFS+ newdiskname 100%


Replace power supply on late 2005 G5 I recently bought an old G5 to use as a server.  Whilst there the guy had another G5 that I bought for spares.

The 'spares' G5 is a newer model with better GPU / CPU etc so I intend on swapping them over.  The main issue I have is that the power connector on the newer G5 is the rectangular design and I don't have a plug for it.

My decision was to remove the PSU's from both machines and swap them over.  I've dont this plenty of times with normal pc's in the past and haven't encountered any problems but I recently read that the power supplies in G5's are very specific.

Before I can any further I'd like some advice on the above.  hopefully someone might've attempted similar.

The model numbers are: CK337084NVA & CK60903YUV0

Many thanks for any help!

For anyone else:  Don't tear apart the G5 without knowing with absolute certainty the PSU will fit.  These two were different.  Mission is a fail.


Google Chrome pages go black Every so often, when I open a new tab in Google Chrome and go to a site, the page appears with black squares where the content should be.  The browser's UI is still visible, and when I mouseover where the links should be, the cursor changes from a pointer to a hand icon, but nothing on the page itself is visible. Any subsequent pages visited have the same effect, as does opening new tabs.  Restarting Chrome gets rid of the problem.

This only happens intermittently, otherwise I'd add a screenshot.

I'm on the latest version of Chrome, it's been happening for months.

Chrome Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit)

OS X Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67)

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)

There are a number of possible causes for this (e.g. an extension you have installed is running amuck).

However, the first thing I would try on your particular model of MBP is to turn off hardware acceleration in Google Chrome. To do this, follow these steps:

Launch Google Chrome
Go to Chrome > Preferences (or just press the command, keyboard shortcut
At the bottom of the page, click on Show advanced settings...
Look for the System subheading in the new settings that appear
Uncheck the Use hardware acceleration when available option
Restart Google Chrome

Unfortunately, since your issue is intermittent it may not be obvious if this has resolved the problem. But what I can say is that this fixes the problem for many users I've helped (especially on mid-2010 and early-2011 MBP computers).


Default Settings in Mac OS X How can I reset all settings for the system preferences in Mac OS X? I'm using lion.

I found this post, from the official Apple Support Forums, regarding the exact question, after a quick google search on the topic:
Official Apple Support Forum

  I have been able to accomplish this via the following method. I may
  not be the best idea given it deletes the account while logged in, but
  worked for me.

  1) Do all of the necessary installations, etc. just as under Snow Leopard, using your setupacctname account.

  2) Once that is done, BEFORE restarting in single user mode:
       sudo su
       dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership setupacctname
       dscl . -delete /Users/setupacctname
  3) Reboot into single user mode (Hold Command-s at startup)
  4) Check the filesystem: /sbin/fsck -fy
  5) Mount the filesystem: /sbin/mount -uw /
  6) Remove the setupacctname directory: rm -R /Users/setupacctname
  7) Remove or rename .AppleSetupDone so you get the language choice

 cd /var/db/
 mv .AppleSetupDone .RunLanguageChooserToo   or

 rm .AppleSetupDone

  8) Delete miscellaneous files (unnecessary, but useful if you're imaging the drive):

 rm -R /Library/Caches/*
 rm -R /System/Library/Caches/*
 rm -R /var/vm/swapfile*

  9) Shutdown or restart


How to add smbutil as a lookup mechanism for hostnames There are a bunch of computers on my network that are not on the DNS server. They broadcast their name using Samba or are Windows Workgroup machines.

When I run either ping or try to access them over the browser, it does not work.

However I am able to do a smbutil lookup thathost and get their ip address.

What should I do to get Mountain Lion to add smbutil as a mechanism to resolve hostnames when other mechanisms, i.e. DNS, Bonjour, /etc/hosts fail?

I like the mdns service discovery tool: dns-sd

So to check for SMB shares:

dns-sd -B _smb._tcp

You can then parse the instance names to get other details to look up like IP address and then check other services on that host with a tool like nmap


Reference image in Numbers? I have found that I can add images to cells as background in Numbers in various sheets.

I'd like to reference these images in these cells from another sheet.

Is this possible?

I don’t believe it is possible to reference the image in a cell of another table but you can simulate the effect with an appropriately filtered overlapping table.

One solution is to copy each of your images into a row or column with formulas in each cell deciding if the picture should be shown and use filter/sort options to show only the chosen sets. The formula results can be made transparent so only the image is seen. Conditional highlighting with custom transparent background can also be used to knock some sets out of view while preserving absential space so the images line up as they should, or alternatively to have a toggle switch to show/hide the picture.

Here are some tips I’ve found useful:
If your images change frequently it’s helpful to use the same formulas for all cells using col() or row() as index holders for one dimension and a reference to header column or row as an index in another dimension. This minimizes maintenance time when new images are added. In this example, the 11 columns with olive-toned headers are all separate tables of one column and many rows. The formulas in each cell checks if a given title (represented by the position index) is present in a column of a book display (in the yellow table identified by the number in each olive header row) and the tables are then filtered for true values.

BTW, Here is the formula in each picture cell:
CHOOSE(IFERROR(MATCH(LOOKUP(ROW()−1,Paperback Lookup::Table 1::$A,Paperback Lookup::Table 1::$B),CHOOSE(A$1,Book Plan::B,Book Plan::C,Book Plan::D,Book Plan::E,Book Plan::F,Book Plan::G,Book Plan::H,Book Plan::I,Book Plan::J,Book Plan::K,Book Plan::L),0)^0,2),TRUE,FALSE)


iMovie for OS X removed from OS X? I had already installed iMovie on my Mac. Now after some months I wanted to create a new movie, but I couldn't find iMovie in OS X again.

When I look in the App Store I can see iMovie available now for $15.

Now I am very confused. Could it really be that Apple uninstalled iMovie and now I have to pay for it? Or is this a different version?

Apps don't disappear automatically. If you have iMovie '11 (version 9.x, gold + dark grey icon), the Mac AppStore will show the current version of iMovie (version 10.x, purple-coloured icon) as a new item because Apple charges for major version upgrades (e.g., version 9.x to 10.x), unless the user has a voucher from purchasing a new Mac.


A window manager that re-sizes and re-arranges ALL the windows for a given application with one keyboard shortcut? I have done research on Ask Different to see if this has been posted and to the best of my knowledge nothing this specific. I reviewed this but that question is more general.

So imagine that I have 10 (or more) Evernote windows and I want, with one shortcut,  for all of them to be resized to half the monitor to the left. And then I have 6 terminal windows and want them all resized to a quarter screen to the upper right (different shortcut).

PS: What I currently use is SizeUp and it works great BUT in the case of the 10 Evernote windows, I'd have to use the keyboard shortcut 10 times.

After testing Stay, I think it does what you want. Just launch your desired apps and store all open windows. You can then restore them on Stay's menu bar icon, with a shortcut key or have them restored automatically, when you launch each of the apps in question, or change displays.
I emailed Matt, Stay's dev and this is what he had to say about automatic restoration when launching apps and window title pattern matching:

Stay does indeed have an option to restore windows when launching apps. It’s the checkbox labelled "Restore Windows as applications are launched” in Stay’s preferences window.
Stay does its best to restore windows that it hasn’t seen before, but which are similar to windows that have been stored in Stay. When you store a window in Stay, it actually stores a set of attributes that it can use to identify that window, rather than a reference to the specific window that’s being stored. So if Stay sees another window that has the same identifying attributes, it will restore that window with the same size and position.
There are situations where this approach doesn’t actually work all that well in practice though, and as such, Stay has a feature designed to help with this called window title pattern matching. There’s documentation on this feature available here:
http://cordlessdog.com/stay/documentation/window-title-pattern-matching
The basic gist of it is that you can control how Stay identifies your windows by telling it how to identify windows by their titles. The simplest use case is to set a pattern of .* (period asterisk) on a stored window, which will make that stored window match all of an application’s windows.


Does an iTunes iOS device backup include everything on the device? Does an iTunes iOS device backup include all of the application data on the device? I assume it doesn't include a second copy of your iTunes data as this is already on your Mac anyway. But I downloaded a lot of videos with the TED app on my device, while the size of the device's backup (*) seems comparatively small. Are these not included in the backup? If so, what other data might not be included? Is there a way to know what exactly is included or not (other than restoring from the backup)?

(*) = the folder ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

The backup contains:

All your settings
Application data except data marked as "cache" or not to sync.

Since iOS 5 there is a possibility for the developers to exclude some items from the backup.

There are ways to explore your backup, but I don't think this could give you definitive answer, wether your backup is complete or not. Developers should make sure that they don't exclude items from backup that cannot be recreated in some ways (download, rebuilding & etc). Some movie players offer to disable backups for their content, but this is configurable.

Because TED content can be downloaded at any time, probably the developers decided to not backup video content. Check the app for settings.


Bluetooth Speakers for Apple TV (4th Generation) Volume Control I'm in the market for speakers for the Apple TV 4th Generation. I'd like to be able to control the volume level of the speakers via the Siri Remote. If this works via IR or Bluetooth, either option is fine.

(I'm kind of annoyed the the AppleTV does not use it's own volume control like on the iPhone when it does not have a valid audio device that it can find.)

Please, only reply if you know for sure that the speakers do work with the Siri remote once you've paired the speakers with the AppleTV.

I think Bluetooth will do. The volume can be controlled using the Siri remote. Also, it won't have the problem of sound lagging with AirPlay.
The only problem is that the Apple TV doesn't have a disconnect option for the Bluetooth speakers (this is a problem if you are sharing the same speakers among your computer and your Apple TV). Once you have connected with your Apple TV, there are two ways to disconnect them:

connect the Apple TV with another Bluetooth speakers so that the first pair will disconnect.
forget the speakers (but need to pair again next time)


MacBook Pro (2012 - MD101LL/A): Superdrive to SSD swap? Does anyone know if it's possible to swap out the "Superdrive" optical drive on this model and replace it with an SSD?

Apple MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.5 13" (Identifiers: Mid-2012 13" - MD101LL/A)

Basically, I am hoping to put two SSD drives into this, using one SSD drive as a windows install (kinda ghastly i know - yet, game dev software). With the RAM maxed out and  dual SSD drives, opinions on as to whether this model would be fast enough to run Unity, Second Life, 3d Studio Max, etc…

Yes, it is possible to replace the optical drive with hard drive / SSD.
You can follow this guide.


Command + F1 did not shows the more... in IntelliJ IDEA When I view my pom.xml in IntelliJ IDEA, an error is shown:

  Dependency "org.springframework:spring-web:4.2.2.RELEASE" not found   more... (⌘F1)

However, when I use ⌘ + F1, it doesn't show more information.

Which way the F-Keys respond is dependant on this pref

System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard > Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys.

Unchecked, your F-Keys will change screen brightness, turn the volume up & down etc.
With it checked they become regular F-keys.

Holding  Fn  will temporarily flip this default for that one keypress.


Stopping a macports installed mysql daemon I'm trying to reset my root password on a macports installed MySQL on OS X. But none of the ways to do this that I can find works, for various reasons. One reason common to all is that I can't stop the mysql deamon.

As I understand it, I should be able to stop it with

sudo launchctl stop org.macports.mysql5

Which makes absolutely no difference. No error message, nothing. Is launchd really this sucky, or do I misuse it? Reasonably it should give me an error when it fails, but nope, nothing.

Trying to kill the processes with kill -9 just makes them restart again, so that doesn't work either.

I also tried

sudo launchctl unload org.macports.mysql5

But that gives me this error:

launchctl: Couldn't stat("org.macports.mysql5"): No such file or directory

(And I must confess I don't understand what "Unload configuration files and/or directories" means, which is what the Unload command apparently does according to the little docs I can find).

So, what now?

The correct answer is

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist

And you start it with

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist

Thanks to kh13org for the pointer.


Window opens but immediately disappears. This happens with multiple apps Recently, I've run into problems with Notes, Mail, Messages, and iTerm. All of these are in my dock along with several other apps. Normally if I click on one of these it opens and works fine. Sometimes, however, one of these will open but the window will immediately disappear. I'll have to fiddle around with menu items like "Open New Viewer Window", "New Note", "New Message" or in case of iTerm I may be able to right click and see a window name I can select. Bottom line is these apps open but the window disappears. Does anyone have a clue why this happens?

If you once had them in full screen mode, by pressing the green plus sign(+) in the top-left corner, it may be reopening them into new full-screen views, which is called Mission Control.

To check, do any of the following:

On a trackpad, swipe left or right with three or four fingers. On a Magic Mouse, swipe with two fingers.
Press the Control key and the Right or Left arrow key.
Enter Mission Control, move the pointer to the top edge of the screen to show the Spaces bar, then click a space.

Let me know if that resolves it!


How can I record from my Nikon Coolpix S8200 direct to photobooth? I went to the Nikon site and installed S-VCNXSP-160500MF-ALLIN-ALL, but those are just transfer and editing stuff, I want to record from photobooth the raw live video.

Is it possible?

I think you're probably going to need Camera Control Pro 2 - the only one of their suite that isn't free. Though if you buy it from a retailer, not direct from Nikon, it's about ⅓ the price.

I have a Nikon D5500 & also a Logitech HD Pro C920 webcam - neither of which are natively supported by QuickTime.
Using an app called Webcam Settings it can persuade the Logitech to show as a source for QuickTime/Photo Booth etc - but it can't persuade the Nikon to show at all.

It's perfectly happy recording from Camera Control, though, including Live View to the Mac & also file transfer.


Can I view hidden files and directories from the Open or Save As dialog boxes without making them visible in the Finder? I know you can use Terminal to switch on/off hidden files in OS X and already use these commands.

What I want to know is if it’s possible to just do this from WITHIN the Open or Save As dialog boxes so I can navigate and access hidden files when I need to. I seem to find myself using Terminal to switch hidden files on/off a few times a day, but this is getting monotonous.

What I would like is to just be able to do this while saving or opening files but without affecting the Finder afterwards. That way I wouldn’t need to use Terminal all the time to switch it off/on again. I just don’t like seeing the hidden files normally when in the Finder, but do need to regularly see them when opening/saving files.

Is there an Apple Script or some way of doing this?

I mainly need to do this when using MS Office programs, so a Visual Basic macro would suffice too. But a native Apple solution would be preferable as I do sometimes need to be able to do this in Text Edit too.

You don’t need an Apple Script or Visual Basic macro to do this as you can do it using a simple keyboard shortcut from within the Open or Save As dialogue windows. Using MS Word as an example:

In MS Word go to File > Open… or File > Save As…
When the window opens press the shift⌘ .  keys to toggle the display of hidden files on
Now you’ll be able to see hidden items and, if supported by the application you’re using, select them as well

Not only does this approach have no effect on the Finder, it also automatically toggles hidden files off again once you've saved or opened the file. In other words, the next time you’re in one of those dialog windows you won't see hidden files unless you want to (in which case you'd just use the shortcut again).

NOTE: The above keyboard shortcut also works within the Finder to toggle hidden files on or off more generally. Of course, if you’re using it within the Finder then the setting remains until you change it again.


How to succesfully create a bootable Windows installation USB stick on Mac? This should be a trivial one; unfortunately, it isn't. I've been trying to create a bootable USB stick for Windows 10. The bootcamp tool seems easy to use, but it always stops with the following message:

Your bootable USB drive could not be created.
There is not enough space available on the disk.

I've tried with too different USB sticks, a KINGSTON USB 2.0 16Gb stick and a Corsair USB 3.0 32Gb stick. I first tried to do this on MacOS 10.12, no luck, and then took this experience as an incentive to upgrade to MacOS 10.14, yielding the same result.

The Windows version I downloaded from Microsoft is the newest October update. The filename is:

Win10_1809Oct_EnglishInternational_x64.iso

The bootcamp tool doesn't allow any customization of the process, I don't think there is anything I could do different. I have difficulties to believe that bootcamp is just broken.

I've also tried to create the USB stick both with dd and Etcher, both yielding no error, but the stick wasn't bootable in the end. Etcher even warned me about this and suggested to use bootcamp instead. Instructions how to make the USB stick bootable would be welcome.

I found a guy who told a work around how to create, in the "right way", a USB bootable for both (on bootcamp and windows machine). The "Answer 1" works for me. I hope it helps you too.

Boot Camp Assistant fails to create the USB installer from the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

See ya!


Newly-upgraded Mavericks machine hangs on startup I just upgraded to Mavericks on my 2.8 quad desktop, and now it won't fully boot.  It gets to the Apple logo, then hangs. I tried safe boot but got the same result.  Where to next?

1) You have a backup, right?

2) Boot into the recovery partition: hold option before apple logo appears, select recovery hd.

3) Run disk utiity form the recovery hd, select your boot partition (usually macintosh hd), and hit verify disk. It will probably find errors on the partition.

4) If disk utility finds errors, hit "repair disk" in disk utility. If it succeeds, you should be able to boot normally. If it fails, reformat and reinstall.

If disk utility doesn't find errors... try reinstalling without reformatting.


Suddenly I'm requested to restore my iPhone to factory settings I have an iPhone 4 loaded with unmodified iOS 6. I use it (for two years now) with a virtualbox running Windows XP with iTunes (10.7 currently).

Everything works just peachy most of the time, and when it doesn't I can usually find the fault and correct it quickly.

Earlier today I was synchronizing my iPhone, and it seemed to have worked fine, or so I thought. I wanted to re-synchronize after updating an app via iTunes, and suddenly the software tells me it cannot read my iPhone and that I must restore it to factory settings before I can use it again.

My last backup was two weeks ago, and I fear that deleting it would mean that I cannot restore any data if I end up resetting the phone.

What I already tried:

I checked the iTunes and the cable with my girlfriend's iPod Nano. Everything works great.
I tried to reboot my virtual machine.
I tried to reboot my iPhone.
I tried to reboot my virtual machine after rebooting my iPhone.
I tried to see if there are any "bad" files somewhere that I may delete, some incomplete transfers or so.
I tried to meddle within the log files, but I wasn't sure which ones to check or what to do.

The iPhone works perfectly fine, by the way.

Please help me.

What should I do to correct this, and if I do end up restoring factory settings what happens to all the texts/photos/music/etc. I have on my iPhone right now?

(I have a traumatic experience from the upgrade to iOS 6...)

Edit: Quite some time later, my iTunes still insists that I need to restore my phone. I tried to delete all the previous backups and remove iTunes and whatnot, but nothing helped. I tried to connect it to other iTunes and they all tell me the same thing: I must restore the phone to factory settings.

However, being a "cunning" Linux user I decided that I should try and see if I can access the phone from the Linux part of the computer, and indeed I can. Being able to browse through the files it hit me that it might be possible to fix the problem through manual tempering with some file (or removing some leftover files).

Is it possible to do that at all? If so, is there a guide or some hint on how to find out what needs to be corrected?

Firstly I would sign up to iCloud if you haven't and then use the over the air backup to backup your iPhone (You get 5GB free!) then once this is done, you will be able to reset the phone should you want / need to.

Have there been any updates to your Virtual Box since your last sync? If not, it could be that iTunes can not see its XML file needed for device synchronisation; also ensure that all of the helper services are started on your machine.

Failing the above and assuming you follow the first recommendation, try resetting and restoring from iCloud.

Best of luck


Accidentally tried to set time to 1969 on iPhone 6 and crashed I am currently using iOS 9.2. I've had my iPhone 6 for a year now and have never experienced such a crash. I am a novice coder and am aware of 32 bit time restraints.

Being as curious as I am I was wondering how Apple handled having to restrain users. I was scrolling quite quickly and reached an arbitrary date in 1970. I then gave it a good hard scroll downward and reached mid-summer in 1968. My phone then crashed graphically and after about a second it shut down. It tried to boot up again and is now in a reboot loop. It displays the apple logo for about 15 minutes and then the screen turns off and starts all over again.

I've tried twice with Apple chat and haven't reached a resolution yet. I am now about to be redirected to a senior technician but I don't know how much they'll help. I've already tried to "soft" reset by holding the power and home buttons. It just starts over again. I've also tried to use the iTunes restore functionality. When it is about to finish restoring, the final stage of "verifying firmware" comes up and freezes everything. My phone then starts the reboot loop again as if nothing happened.

My iTunes is on the latest version (12.3.1) This is an iPhone 6 16GB and I am running iTunes on a Mac.

If you know how to help me please help as I have been trying to resolve this for hours.

Edit: I ended up having to go to the Apple Store because my phone was still under warranty. They accepted it but clearly seemed as though they were not knowledgeable that such issue could occur.

You can't restore out of this problem, even with DFU restore. A bug with 64-bit devices renders them ‘bricked’ if you set the date to 1970-1-1.

Take your device to an Apple Store for them to reseat the battery, or you can try reseating the battery yourself. You could also put it in a drawer and eventually the battery will drain to a point where the date setting is lost and it should then power up properly. At this point, don't charge it and seek hardware service if you can't wait out this situation.

The bug is discussed on /r/apple: Changing Time & Date settings to Jan 1, 1970 will permanently brick 64-bit iOS devices


Command + Tab sometimes does not switch to maximized window of app in another Space An app (such as Firefox) is opened and maximized on another Space. I'm on a separate Space, and then when I hit Command + Tab, to switch to Firefox, I can see its menu is displayed at the top of the screen, but it does not switch to the corresponding Space, and I can't see the app window.

Is there a way I can achieve the desired?

On your Mac, go to System Preferences → Mission Control and see if When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application setting is enabled.


Center an element which is "inline with text" In Pages it is possible to center an element (such as an image, a table, etc.) whose "Object Placement" has been made "Move with Text" and "Text Wrap" setting into "Inline with text"? When I click the image, table, or chart, I see no option in the format styles panel to center the element.

The only way I can see myself doing this is by adding spaces or tab characters before the image or table, but this doesn't seem like a nice way to do it (although it should be okay as long as the page size/margins stay constant). Is there a better way to do so?

Use the text formatting for the paragraph containing the image rather than the image itself.

Click beside the image to move the insertion point to the paragraph, then use the format inspector to set the alignment.


Time Machine: Back up separate files to separate drives? Time Machine allows the use of multiple backup drives. However, any exclusions of files applies to all backup drives.

I would like to backup some files to one drive, and other files, to another drive. Is this possible within Time Machine?

This isn't possible with Time Machine. You can use Time Machine for one drive, then use an alternative backup solution for the other files to the other drive.


Why does OS X's Apache server give different results using real and virtual addresses? I'm developing a WordPress site on my Mac, running OS X 10.6.4. I'm using OS X's built-in Apache server to run the site locally during development. I've set up WordPress and connected it to OS X's MySQL with no problems. The site seems to work fine, and I can post, edit, etc.

The WordPress installation is in a folder called ~/Sites/mysite.dev.

I've also customized my .hosts file and Apache's httpd-vhosts.conf file, to redirect requests for mysite.dev to this folder. So when I enter http://mysite.dev in a browser window, the site loads. No problems here.

So I can access the site, in a browser, from two different addresses, http://mysite.dev, and http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/.

Here's what's weird: When I go to http://mysite.dev, the WordPress site loads normally. When I go to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/, WordPress can't find any posts from the database: It gives me the "Sorry, no posts met your criteria" message (which is built into the theme for when a search for posts returns nothing). N.B.: Apache processes the PHP code normally in both cases -- but in one case WordPress can get posts from MySQL, and in the other case it can't.

My first thought was that this was a problem with WordPress's configuration, so I changed the WordPress URL to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/, but this made no difference.

I don't understand why using the two addresses produces different results. Any help appreciated.

(Here's why I care, in case you're wondering: I want to preview the site in BBEdit's web preview window, and BBEdit will only load the site via the http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/ address.)

This is not a problem with OS X or Apache. A redirect doesn't change any PHP code behavior and since you apparently get response from the code, nothing is wrong with the server setup. The problem lies in the way Wordpress reads the domain name from the request (which is the only thing that should differ) and what it does with it.


OSX Froze, Fails to Boot in any Configuration In the middle of working like a charm, my MBP locked up. After a bit, I did a hard power off. Here's the timeline since then

Reboot. Got to user screen just fine, logged in. Applications all started up, but beach balled as soon as I moused over them. Everything stopped responding. Wait. Another hard power off
Reboot. Eventually apple logo turns into the deadly circle with a slash through it. Hard power off
Reboot into single user mode. CMD + s on power up. The terminal output finds my SSD, but goes into an endless loop trying to mount and resulting in:

disk0s2: media not present

...

hfs_mountroot failed: 6

cannot mount root, errno = 19

Hangs in this loop forever. Hard power off
Single User mode is the only of the boot options that gets anywhere now
I've cleared the P Ram, tried to boot into recovery mode, safe mode, and tried booting from the recovery drive. Nothing gets anywhere but a gray screen.

Basically it all points to a hard drive failure. I installed a new top-of-the line SSD about 6 months ago, and with a couple million hours for a MTBF, I feel odd to be about 5000 standard deviations away from that average.

I'm wondering if anyone has any more advice for me to try before I swap the drive out and reformat it.

Sorry to say it does sound like a drive failure. Does it have a recovery partition? Try booting with COMMAND-R held down see if it boots there, maybe that part of the drive is still functional and Disk Utility can do some repairs...

But honestly, I would contact the seller or manufacturer and see about a warranty replacement.


Turn off NVIDIA on Windows 8.1 Bootcamp Has there be a successful attempt to turn off the NVIDIA graphic card and use the Intel one?

I know that in Linux, it is possible to turn off one graphic card and use the other (using vgaswitcheroo).

I am running Windows 8.1 Bootcamp on MB Pro 10.1 and experience overheating due to this issue.

If you are trying to disable the nVidia graphics card, you can do the following:

Reboot into safe mode. If you don't know how to, refer to here for more information. Make sure that the Mac is configured to boot from Windows in the Boot Camp Control Panel.
After booting into safe mode, open Device Manager by pressing Win+R, and then typing devmgmt.msc.
Expand Display Adapters
Right click on the nVidia driver and select Disable. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT DISABLE THE INTEL HD GRAPHICS OR IRIS PRO
Reboot the Mac into Windows 8.1
If it boots normally, great. If it screws up, do steps 1-3 and select enable.

Note that this will DISABLE your discrete graphics, so that means that you cannot use it until you re enable it in Device Manager.


Observing what Spotlight's mdworker is indexing for diagnostic purposes There has been a history of people reporting mdworker processes taking up lots of CPU time on older machines, but apart from vague suggestions to just re-create the entire Spotlight index, I could not find any diagnosis information.
My (modern) machine has no performance issues, I would just like to understand the reason for the "Service exited due to SIGKILL" messages that flood my system logs:
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.00000000-0300-0000-0000-000000000000[6763]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[141]

Are there any logs I could use to find out what is actually going wrong; i.e. whether the indexing processes are stuck at a certain file? Is there a way to increase the messages' verbosity?
A bit of system information: This is happening on an iMac running Catalina (10.15.6), with just a few hundred GB of files. For testing purposes, I limited Spotlight categories (through System settings) to apps and contacts only, but that did not seem to make any difference. The machine has no directories where files might change constantly, no directories with excessive numbers of files and, as far as I know, no totally unusual file formats on it.

I’m not sure whether there’s a more detailed log generated by mdworker or mds themselves. You could use fs_usage to see what files they are reading though, run the following in Terminal:
sudo fs_usage mdworker mds

As it says in the man page: “The fs_usage utility presents an ongoing display of system call usage information pertaining to filesystem activity. It requires root privileges due to the kernel tracing facility it uses to operate. By default, the activity monitored includes all system processes except […]. These defaults can be overridden such that output is limited to include or exclude a list of processes specified by the user.”
Here’s a short sample of the output you'll get (I ran this in a narrow window, use a wider one to get the file paths in more detail):
11:07:49  fsgetpath         resourceLog.plist    0.000029   mds
11:07:49  getattrlist       resourceLog.plist    0.000089   mds
11:07:49  listxattr         resourceLog.plist    0.000042   mds
11:07:49  getattrlist       resourceLog.plist    0.000164   mds
11:07:49  getattrlist       resourceLog.plist    0.000029   mds
11:07:54  exit                                   0.000118   mdworker

The exit calls correspond to the messages “Service exited due to signal” in the “system.log”:
Aug  8 11:07:54 […] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.single.[…]):
  Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by mds[114]

For some more information on fs_usage, there’s an (old) article on ‘macobserver.com’ titled “Mac OS X: Using fs_usage as a Troubleshooting Tool”.


Can I change my OS X theme? Some of my friends said that OS X sucks because you only have to choose one theme on every device that have OS X. I searched, but I didn't find any feasible solution just one little thing that cost money (and I didn't want to risk it).

Is there a easy way to change OS X themes that is free? Please don't tell me that the theme doesn't need to be changed; I really want something like Ubuntu that can change anything, I really love my Ubuntu desktop (KDE and Gnome).

If OS X doesn't do this, are there any 3rd-party utilities that can?

Out of the box there is no themeing capability in Mac OS X, you can however modify some of the colours used by Mac OS X in the Appearance Preference Pane in System Preferences.

If you're serious about themeing however there are 3rd party applications you can get to help with this:

CandyBar - manages and changes icons.
ThemePark - does most everything else. If you're interested in available themes that work with ThemePark check out MacThemes

Otherwise a fairly good resource is the forum at MacThemes.


Charging 7th generation iPad using MacBook Pro 61W USB-C Power adapter When I'm not at home, I'm used to charge both my MacBook Pro (2017) and my iPhone 8 with the MacBook charger for convenience. I have recently bought a 7th generation iPad, and I would like to know if I can charge this device too with the MacBook Pro power adapter, without damaging its battery.
From what I know, the iPhone 8 supports Fast Charging, while the iPad does not, but can it be charged anyway with this MacBook Pro power adapter?
Charger output: 20.3V, 3A or 9V, 3A or 5.2V 2.4A.

I would like to know if I can charge this device too with the MacBook Pro power adapter, without damaging its battery.

Yes. It would be safe to use your MacBook Pro 61W power adapter to charge your iPad.
It is your device that actually determines the power it receives, not the charger.
However, the Apple Support document on Fast charging doesn't mention 7th generation iPad. So while it is possible to charge your iPad, you may not be able to fast charge it.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208137


In Applescript, search the web How would I have Applescript display the first one or two options in a google search in a display dialog window? Is there a way to create a functional browser through applescript?

This is very easy:

Get some text to search for. You can use "Ask for text". Or something like the following:

display dialog "What do you want to search for?" default answer ""

Make a Google search URL. I used this snippet:

on run {input, parameters}
    return "https://www.google.com/search?q=" & input
end run

Get the contents from the webpage. I used "Get text from webpage", which is the easiest way by far. It's also possible to simply get the source of the page and use regexes to extract the data from there.
Decide how to display the data. A quick and dirty way to do this is:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "System Events" to display alert "result:" & input
    return input
end run


What is the best icon creator for mac? I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac?

If you have access to Photoshop, then I highly recommend Iconbuilder from Iconfactory. Back when I doing this, Iconbuilder made the creation of resources for a variety of platforms a snap.


iTunes 11 doesn't remember to show cloud purchases On this particular computer, I use iTunes 11 only with my cloud purchases – I don't have any music stored locally. Very often (but not always), when I launch iTunes, it comes up with an empty library because the preference setting to display cloud purchases is switched to off.

I keep switching the preference back on, yet it keeps disabling itself again in the future. Is there any way to get it to stick?

Update: even weirder, sometimes when this happens the checkbox to show or hide cloud purchases (in Preferences > Store) actually disappears. Literally, I go into Preferences and it simply isn't there. If I quit and relaunch multiple times, eventually it comes back and then I can reenable it. I'll take a screenshot the next time this happens.

I had this exact problem so I telephoned Apple support and the first thing they told me to do was to check the same setting on my other devices. I discovered that my iMac had the option in preferences un-checked and it seems that this was over-riding the option on my MacBook Air.

This has worked for me, so I suggest that you check the preferences on any other devices you have and make them all the same. This is probably a bug that Apple need to sort out because if you want the option on one device but not the other then you will cause the conflict.


iMessages no longer mirrored on iPhone when phone is unavailable (and other device isn't) The usually behavior for iMessages has always been (or always seemed to be striving towards) to mirror messages, even after they have been received by another device.

For instance, if my Macbook is turned off, and I receive iMessages on my phone, those messages will then be added in bulk next time I turn my Macbook on.

I like this behavior.

However after a recent iOS update (I can't pinpoint which one), this behavior has stopped being the case on the iPhone.

For instance, when I go to sleep, I put my iPhone on airplane mode - but my Macbook stays on in my office. During my sleep, if it receives messages, these will never make it to my iPhone, even after it is taken off airplane mode. This contrasts with prior behavior (before, when I woke up and turned airplane mode off, I would receive all messages that had been sent while I was asleep).

Has anybody notices this behavior? Is there something to do about it? If it's a bug, how I can best report it?

I had the same problem of text messages which used to mirror on my MacBook suddenly stopped. Apparently, in a recent IOS update, they added the ability to turn this feature off. This worked for me: On your iPhone go to Settings:Messages:Text message forwarding and make sure your computer is listed and it's turned on.


Macbook Pro.[Mid-2012] Sound isn't working Suddenly, My MBP sound isn't working. I have tried couple of way to resolve the problem but nothing is working. Here is some of the screenshot:

No, input or output sound. I would like to know

1) How can I resolve this?
2) Can you suggest any software, that can route my sound in iPad/iPhone.

Update:

After running this command :

kextstat > ~/Desktop/kexts.txt

I got only this com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily But, didn't found com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC

Update - 2:

As Buscar suggested to check for AudioAUUC.kext file in my /System/Library/Extensions. Yes, I found AudioAUUC.kext file in that folder. As you can see in the image No indicates, it's not loading.

LOG UPDATED: http://pastebin.com/Qgj0WcpC

New Log: http://pastebin.com/R2RPZZZN

Update - 3:

As suggested to Resetting the PRAM didn't worked. I was able to update SMC and not EFI Firmware. It's showing an error:Software is not supported on my system.

However, I also tried to load and unload Apple High Definition Audio (HDA)AppleHDA.kext. But, while loading this error are showing

1/24/15 8:29:57.000 PM kernel[0]: Sound assertion in AppleHDACodecGeneric at line 1280
1/24/15 8:29:57.000 PM kernel[0]: Sound assertion in AppleHDACodecGeneric at line 1580
1/24/15 8:29:57.000 PM kernel[0]: Sound assertion in AppleHDACodecGeneric at line 1073
1/24/15 8:29:57.000 PM kernel[0]: Sound assertion in AppleHDACodecGeneric at line 1073

Update - 4:

As you can see com.apple.audio.sandboxhelper is missing.

update - 5:

I tried all the things, you said to do. But, still I can't hear any sound. I tried ioreg -i. But, i couldn't find anything called AudioAUUCDriver. You can check here

http://pastebin.com/8uC6jLn7

Update - 6:

Guys, I can hear sound through a application called PocketAudio. My microphone and speaker both are working!! I just want to know, is there any problem in my hardware or in OS? If I buy a wireless headphone, should it work?

Something killed your coreaudio drivers, or the sound hardware/motherboard.

I would suggest to do following order of investigation (Fixes)

Open Activity monitor and look for following: (use sort by "Audio")

If found use terminal to reset the coreaudiod

sudo killall coreaudiod

Copy/paste following in Terminal to find out if the audio drivers are loaded

kextstat > ~/Desktop/kexts.txt

That will output a text file to your desktop. Use any text editor to search for "Audio"

You should have the

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily   com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC

As reported the result is: AudioAUUC.kext is not been loaded?

Lets try to load it manually using Terminal sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AudioAUUC.kext/

UPDATE:

Based on new information I would suggest following (still trying to find out why your Audio is not loading in the profile.

Resetting the PRAM. Hold Down Cmd-Opt-P-R

Keep Holding until you have hear the "startup sound twice". If you do not hear the system sound then, you are on mute or your sound card is broken.

To un-mute use sudo nvram -d SystemAudioVolume

Test for start up sound!

If not run ioreg -i and look for the AudioAUUCDriver  <class AudioAUUCDriver, id 0x1000003af, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 5> (use Edit - Find AudioAUUCDriver)


iMac 17" 2nd monitor question I have a 17" iMac that I want to hook-up a 2nd monitor to. I bought an adaptor on eBay, but the plug does not match the back of my computer. It's not a Thunderbolt or FireWire. Not sure what kind of adaptor I need or what it is called. I have a photo, but not sure how to post it here.

Unless you bought a very old iMac, its external display port is most likely mini-DVI. If you have something as old as a G4 (the "desk lamp"-looking iMacs), it may be a mini-VGA port. A helpful resource for identifying your model and seeing details of its capabilities is everymac.com - those are the only options I see for any of the 17-inch iMac models.


What if I download a different IPSW for a different Device? I've always been doing research on how to download a firmware for a different device. What i'm trying to say is: What will happen if I download a firmware that is not meant for my device? I downloaded the iPhone 4s iOS 6 IPSW to for my iPhone 6s. Will it not work? Will it brick the device? Will it still work anyway but will the display be stretched? No, i'm not trying to make a duplicate question, I just want to know is going to happen.

Nothing is going to happen. It won't take the IPSW file and give an error, something like:

  The iPhone "name" could not be restored

You should just get the iPhone 6s IPSW file. Another note: You can't get iOS 6 on an iPhone 6s. The lowest version is iOS 9 for iPhone 6s.


Automator rename finder item date and time I want to use automator to create a project folder with a Automator service, but i like to add the month and year (with two decimals) not the day, month and whole year.

want i can creatie is item_29022014 but i like to create a file named: 'item_0214' where the first two numbers (02) are the month and the last two numbers (14) are the last to numbers of the current year(2014).

Can i download some add-on for automator? Or do i need a custom script for this?

Check the answer found here

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/52535/clean-up-file-names-using-automator

I changed the bash script code to include the date code.

shopt -s extglob
dcode=`date '+%m%y'`
for f in "$@"; do
   f1="${f%.*}"
   f2="${f##*.}"
   if [ "$f2" == "$f1" ] ; then
       echo "$f" "${f1}_${dcode}"
   else
       echo "$f" "${f1}_${dcode}.${f2}"
   fi
done

The code will should work even with files that do not have extensions.

Replace the commands echo with mv to actually get the code to do anything.

Hope that helped.


Change File Open Dialog to have Date Updated/Modified instead of Date Added For the Finder app the Date Modified is shown as desired:

However in the File Open dialog it is not:

How can the File Open dialog be adjusted to show Date Modified instead of Date Added ?

Just the same as in the Finder - right click anywhere on the header bar [Name, Size, Kind etc] & you can add or remove data types as you wish

You can then drag the columns into your preferred order & sort by clicking any header.


How can Skype track downloaded file on the file system? Using Skype 7.37 on OS X El Capitan, observing this highly unusual behaviour:

I receive a photo in a Skype chat.
I click "Reveal in Finder", Skype places the photo in my Downloads folder as it is configured to do.
I move the file to eg. Dropbox.
I click "Reveal in Finder" again - Skype correctly opens the Dropbox folder!
I move the file again to eg. Desktop and rename it by appending "test" or such.
I click "Reveal in Finder" again - Skype correctly opens Desktop!!!

In steps 4 and 6 I was totally expecting Skype to download the photo again and store it into Downloads.

Can anyone else replicate this behaviour? How is Skype able to do this?

I don't use Skype but I suspect the fact it came from Skype is stored in one of two places. To find out, copy a Skype download to your Home directory and start Terminal. If your file is called, say, photo.jpg, you would run:

mdls photo.jpg

to list the metadata and something in there will refer to Skype or its bundle identifier.

Alternatively, run:

xattr -l photo.jpg

and see if Skype is listed in its WhereFrom attribute.


iPad Pro 9.7-inch model and Apple Pencil I just got both a few days ago, and I really love it! I've been using it to take handwritten notes in my Calculus 2 class, but I noticed something that worries me...

I'm not applying a lot of pressure on the screen when writing, but the Pencil sometimes causes the screen to do that "liquidy" thing... you know, when you press your screen really hard and the color gets blotchy? (Whatever it's called.)

I mean, is this supposed to happen? Is it detrimental to consistently do it?

Or, am I just paranoid with my new toy?

is this supposed to happen?

With regular pressure of the hand against the screen, no it shouldn't. However, if the way you are writing -- the palm may be directing all pressure to one focused area which may cause this to happen.

Is it detrimental to consistently do it?

Many sources on Google say it's common to see the distortion with pressure but none mention long term functionality issues. I would, however, take it to the Apple store if you have Apple care (or warranty) and get it confirmed by them because:

One site - a user did mention that he got distortion and Apple replaced the iPad, and he didn't get distortion on the new one. (I highly doubt it'll vary with the different devices but its an option).

Also make sure your hands are dry and cool. Heat, moisture, etc. are not good for any screen.

am I just paranoid with my new toy?

Nope! Enjoy your new Apple Device!


How to disable SMS for two factor authentication? Apple will use SMS as a fallback for two factor auth, if an authorized device is not available. Given that SMS security is a dumpster fire, this seems unwise, and I'd like to disable the feature. However, I'd still like to have a fallback if an authorized Apple device isn't available for 2FA. You'd think that's what a recovery code would be for, but I can't seem to find a path to access my Apple ID by using my recovery code instead of an authorized device.

Unfortunately you cannot disable the feature.
Your best bet is keeping the number used completely private. I.e. do not use your main phone number for this - use a number specifically reserved for 2FA codes so that this phone number is not shared with others.
Also I would like to point out that the loophole described in the link you have included has actually been closed shortly after that article was written through a collaboration between T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T.
However it is still true that if you have some other means of providing a second factor than SMS, then you should definitely go for that instead. SMS is the least desirable of all options.


How do I delete my number from iMessage on send and receive from my iMac? When I go to settings, iMessage does not show up under anything and I cannot access iMessage settings straight from the iMessage icon. Please help! There was a previous answer that said you could press command and comma, but when I press this, I get this picture.

Please help! Thank you!

First make sure that iMessage is the active application, i.e. the word iMessage shows on the top left in your menu bar.
Then press cmd+, to access the preferences.

This works for most apps, in your question you demonstrate this for Firefox.


Move the position of or hide the brightness/volume pop ups on high sierra Can I move the mini window that appears whenever I change the monitor brightness or keyboard brightness?

I want it higher on the screen, or (ideally) not there at all.

The suggested duplicate doesn't answer my question because the answers work only on previous versions of macOS, here's what I get:

$ sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper Disabled --bool YES
2018-03-28 14:45:26.589 defaults[16565:159433] Unexpected argument YES; leaving defaults unchanged.

SIP needs to be disabled, then I ran these:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper Disabled -bool YES
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI Disabled -bool YES
sudo reboot

And it's worked, I no longer see the Overlays.


How to enable iOS 4.3+ multitasking gestures on iPad? Apparently Apple enabled multitasking gestures on the iPad in a 4.3 beta but later removed them... However those that managed to get them have maintained them through future updates (at least up to 4.3.2).

This site http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/13/want-new-gesture-controls-in-ios-4-3-on-your-ipad-heres-how/ describes a way to re-enable them if you do a collection of steps and buy an app but that seems a bit drastic for basic functionality.

Are there any other free options to re-enable this feature?

Both the latest Xcode 3 and the latest Xcode 4 allow you to mark an iPad with the latest 4.3.x as being "used for development". You can cancel if asked for your developer program credentials (which cost $99) and still have access to the gesture switch on the iPad.

Xcode 4 is only available presently as a $5 download from the Mac App store or with the $99 paid Mac Developer program as a restricted download. The free developer account (which still allows you to get Xcode 3) is fairly painless to set up as long as you can agree to all the conditions. You can see the various free and paid programs at http://developer.apple.com/programs/which-program/ - it used to be simpler but the free account is still fairly powerful but not on the cutting edge with pre-release

As with anything that is in software development, all things subject to change often and YMMV.


Does iOS 8.3 break audio line out over lightning cable? I have a charger in my car that also has an audio line out (I've used a gsm iPhone 5 with this, currently I use a cdma iPhone 5s ).  For the past several years it has worked great.  I connect the audio out to my car stereo, and connect the lightning cable to my phone.  My phone then charges and plays audio to the car simultaneously.  After updating to 8.3 the phone will only play out of its tiny speaker which is not really audible while driving.

I've tried a "Reset All Settings", and power cycled many times.  I've tried several different audio playing apps.  The tell tale thing I've noticed is that in the past when I connected the device, the audio volume "goes away" because iPhone audio line out doesn't have any volume adjustment option.  Now when I plug in the lightning cable, the volume option never goes away.

I'm considering purchasing bluetooth audio or other solutions, but I'd really like this to just work like it has for years!  Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

--

I realized I have an iPad2 which can also connect to my car audio/charger, and it properly plays audio, and it updated to iOS 8.3?!  Unfortunately there is a hardware difference, because my car charger is the old school 30pin connecter, so it could be that my 30pin to lightning adapter died at the same time iOS 8.3 came out?

The answer is no.  Turns out my lightning adapter partially broke the same day I installed iOS 8.3  I went to the apple store with the adapter and they offered a free exchange for a new one, replaced, and there was once again the sound of podcasts in my car :-)


Seamless title bar and terminal background? How can I make the title (and tab) bar of iTerm 2 exactly the same color as the terminal background so that it's impossible to tell where one starts and the other begins?

How it is at the moment:

What I'd like it to be:

Sorry I don't really know for sure, but there is no option for that I know of. As a last resort you could edit the source code for the interface, you could fork there.

If you wanted you can check the advanced tab in the preferences, but i don't think you'll be successful there.


Even though JRE 8 is installed on my MAC OS Yosemite, the error - " No Java Runtime present,requesting to install " Even though JRE 8 is installed on my MAC OS Yosemite 10.10.3,while running the Android present in tools in sdk - the error - " No Java Runtime present,requesting to install " gets displayed in terminal- how do i solve this issue?

I wanted to install Xamarin test recorder - after installing they asked me to install Android sdk
SDK is downloaded in Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk
Now when I run Android present in tools folder - I get the error - No Java run time
I've installed JRE 8 with get the verified java version from their site
Can someone please help!!

You must install the full JDK, not just the JRE, to get Java support on macOS. For some reason the JRE just installs the browser plugins, not the full Java.

This is the current JDK download page.


What should I do when the menu bar seems frozen/unresponsive? Several times the menu bar on my Mac has frozen and I've had to restart the whole computer. I know that there must be a better way to fix a frozen menu bar than restarting. How can I kill the menu bar via Terminal?

SystemUIServer is the process responsible for the menu bar and any menu extras. You can restart it in Terminal using:

killall SystemUIServer


Grey screen after login - Blue Screen of death from CMD+R Mid-Late 2011 15inch Macbook Pro

7200RPM harddrive
user upgrades
- crucial ram 8GB right after initial purchase
- Corsair ram 16GB since August 2012 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076W9Q5A

Running FileVault2

Came with Lion installed; Currently on Mavericks (Previously Mtn Lion)

Boot up

Login

Hear hard-drive crunching away

Spinner disappears, hard-drive not making noise

Grey screen, left it this way for over 30 minutes, no change

I have tried almost all of these: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1533

Boot with CMD+R

No login needed

Blue screen of death

Boot with C

With Mavericks on USB

Goes to login first
Then same grey screen

Boot with D

Goes to login first
Then same grey screen

Boot with OPTION key

With Mavericks on USB
No login screen
Select USB

Wait
Then same grey screen

Boot with SHIFT

Goes to login first
Then safe boot progress bar

This takes a long time
Then the apple and spinner
Then the "do-do-da" sound of a typical re-start
Then the login screen
Then same grey screen

Boot with CMD+V

terminal output along the lines of:

  bootfile path System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

goes by really fast
Goes to login first
Then lots of terminal output
I have pics but hard to read, could zoom and crop if needed, here is right before grey screen

NOTE: VBoxDrv - I think this might be VirtualBox which I definitely have installed? could be unrelated?

Boot with Option-Command-P-R

Reset NVRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
After reset auto reboots
Then login screen
Then same grey screen

this is where it starts to get good:

Boot with CMD+S

terminal output along the lines of:

  bootfile path System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

goes by really fast
Goes to login first
Then lots of terminal output

Now I have an interactive terminal !!!! Logged on as root

Followed some advice here - https://discussions.apple.com/message/22355542#22355542

rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
rm /Users/<admin_acct>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist

says 'Read-only file system', tried with sudo and same result
also tried chmod 777 on the files but same message

Any ideas what to do next, besides taking to Apple Store (or local apple tech in my case)?

can I go from CMD+S terminal to

Apple Hardware Test
Recovery System
Disk Util

All of my data is backed up on Timemachine and I have been up and running on a different machine for now, so a clean install would be great - thinking this could be a hardware issue though?

UPDATE 1:

From "Single User Mode" CMD+S

Executed: /sbin/fsck -fy which had the following output

Ran it multiple times; it only found issues during the first run, but still no luck - grey screen after login, then ran

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

This allowed me to do writes so then I removed both com.apple.loginwindow.plist files (see above), no change; still hangs when trying to login

UPDATE 2: [SOLVED]

Thanks to @smr

see also: Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install)

Boot into Single-User mode

# Execute the following commands:
/sbin/fsck -fy /
/sbin/mount -uw /
mkdir /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
cd /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
mv /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* .
mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMD* .
touch /System/Library/Extensions
exit

NOTE: this leave the computer with suspect graphics, going to do a re-install; apparently a GPU failure: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/17/2011-macbook-pro-gpu-glitches/

Though I didn't experience the blue screen, this does sound a lot like the issue that I described in Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install) (I posted as a different user since I didn't immediately have my StackExchange credentials handy).

It seems there are an increasing number of people experiencing failure to boot due to the GPU having died. I'm in Australia and we have just (and are still in) a bit of a heat wave which may have exacerbated the problem.

Anyway, it may be worth trying the steps I outlined in the Q&A I referenced above, particularly booting into Single-User mode and moving the ATI and AMD related extensions out of the way.

HIH