Required: Contacts App for iPhone 5c (IFTTT Compatible) I have iPhone 5c (iOS8). I recently added a recipe from IFTTT that lets me store any new contacts I add on my iPhone to a spreadsheet on my Google Drive account. I'm also using an app called "Connect" that is a contacts manager and dialer app. It also lets me group my contacts and call with only a swipe.

My problem is that this connect app doesn't trigger the IFTTT Recipe, that's only triggered when I add a contact via the default ios contacts app (icon). I'm using connect-app by default, and so all contacts don't get updated to the spreadsheet when I add them.

Therefore, I'm posting this question to request for an ios app that could let me add contacts easily with grouping/speed-dialing, and also trigger the IFTTT recipe. The recipe only triggers when adding contacts via the default contacts app. I require these contacts as a backup, cause Google doesn't keep deleted contacts older than 1 month of deletion.

That's mostly all.
Thanks for any help.

The IFTTT recipe gets information from a specific source (channel) that is defined in the recipe. In this case I assume that you use a recipe which imports contacts to a spreadsheet on Google Drive and then it only imports contacts from the contacts application (the built-in one).

From what I am aware of there isn't any application currently that offers this synchronisation with Google Drive via IFTTT other than the iOS built-in one.


How to mirror MacBook Pro screen to Apple TV? I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5 and I would like to mirror its screen to an Apple TV via AirPlay. Is it possible? And if yes, how can I do it?

If your MBP is early 2011 or newer and there's an Apple TV on the same wifi network as you, you should see an icon that looks like a TV in the menu bar. Click it and you'll get a dropdown menu listing all the available Apple TVs (in case there's more than one). Click yours and you should be good to go!

If your MBP is older than early 2011, you'll need a third-party utility of some sort. If you're willing to shell out $15, I've heard great things about AirParrot.


Coming from a Windows Server world, how does one connect workstations to an Apple server? I have a number of workstations on a LAN with a new OS X Lion Server. The server is "set up," in that there are user accounts on the server, among other things, but I actually don't know how to connect the individual workstations to the Lion Server.

In the Windows world, this would be called "Joining the domain" and, depending upon setup, could include setting up home directories, directory redirection to the server, policies related to mapping certain drives, among any number of things.

Any help is appreciated. :-)

The server admin tools and associated documentation will walk you through how this works on Mac OS X. There are even worksheets that help you work through the myriad possibilities before you set up OS X Server.

It depends on how the server was "set up" so perhaps you can find out whether yours expects to control the user accounts and have the clients control themselves with a local policy file pointing to the server or if the server expects to set up the mac clients as well.

Hit the books and do know you can ask more specific questions later of one specific item is holding you up.

I prefer using System Preferences directly from the client until I'm comfortable with the specifics for each site...


How can I bundle different installers from third party vendors to ease end-user installation process I have to deploy a few packages to all our users working from home (private iMacs/Laptops)
Is there a way to bundle multiple installers and Java JRE for them? What about authorizations and custom options for example?

pkgbuild and productbuild
Apple provide two command line tools for creating installer packages on macOS:

pkgbuild
productbuild

These tools handle authorization. Options are handled by the distribution file passed to productbuild.
autopkg
autopkg is an open source tool popular with Mac administrators:

AutoPkg is a system for automatically preparing software for distribution to managed clients. Recipes allow you to specify a series of simple actions which combined together can perform complex tasks, similar to Automator workflows or Unix pipes.


Use different memory capacity RAMs in mac mini I have a mac mini with 2GB RAM and want to buy another stick (since mac mini only have to memory slots) of 4GB (all other specs are the same), will it cause a problem?

Thanks,
Matt

You need to find out what RAM your computer is capable of handling before you just start putting RAM into it, even if the speeds are the same, it's never to much trouble to be careful and do a bit of research to make sure things go smoothly.

Thankfully there are a lot of websites that have already tested these things for you so that you don't make any mistakes.  I usually go to:

http://www.crucial.com/store/drammemory.aspx

They have a system scanner service that will scan your system and check your settings, it will redirect you to a page where you can buy RAM, you don't have to obviously, but it will show you all the RAM configurations that your system supports.  It will let you know the max RAM capacity, if you don't see 4GB as an option, then it doesn't support it.

If you don't want to use the scanner you can also just input your make model year and cpu to get the same results, though the scanner is usually more accurate if you aren't sure which machine is yours. They do tests to make sure the RAM is compatible and list all the speeds and configurations for the RAM so you know which ones to get.  Make sure everything matches up before hand.

Knowing these things will help you find out if the RAM you have or are about to purchase will work so that you don't waste your time.  I hope this information helps you out.


MacBook erased by thieves but still shows on FMM My MacBook Pro was stolen yesterday and I received an email that it was being erased. FMM now shows it was locked. It went online twice and I was able to see the approximative address. I wasn’t able to do anything because the only option on FMM was the sound—all others are greyed out. Does this mean that my Mac is locked and it rendered useless to the thieves? Is there a way they can unlock it without going to the Apple store to reset it? I alerted the police but so far they have not done anything about it.

To answer your actual questions, if they did not erase the hard drive and you did not encrypt it using FileVault, they could simply reboot in Recovery Mode and open a root terminal to change the password to your user account and have full access to the file system.

Regardless of whether or not you were using FileVault, I believe if they remove and re-insert the memory, it will unlock automatically.  Sorry for your loss. This is probably one of those times that it would benefit you to "know a guy," and by "guy," I mean a vigilante badass.

It depends on your police jurisdiction (or more specifically, how helpful the cops are and how well you know them), but I have heard of friendly cops tracking down a stolen iPhone using Find My iPhone and getting it back to the rightful owner within the same night, but in most cases, they have bigger issues to worry about, especially if you live in a big city.


iPhone 7 iOS 10.3.3 Contact missing after logging into iMessage on Mac I have an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.3.3 and after I login to iMessage on my mac, alot of my contacts are missing, but the funny thing is, if search for the name in iMessage on the iphone the contact appears, however it does not appear on iMessage on my mac when search for name.

How do I get these missing contacts back? They appear not to be gone forever as I can still search for them in iMessage on my iPhone.

I accidentially figured this out myself poking around with the same issue. My contacts are stored on my company's servers. So I changed the default contacts to my iPad and this fixed the issue. I then put my contact default back to my company's server and it still works.

Go to Settings > Contacts
Look at the Default Account value and note what it is. You will need this for the last steo.
Change the Default Account (hopefully you have more than one) to iPad
- Or, just switch it to someting other than what it is.
Check your messages and see if the names show up instead of phone numbers
Go back to Contacts and put the default back to whatever it was orginally.

This worked for me, hope it works for others.
Good Luck


Configure Socks Proxy iPhone I am currently in China and I would like to bypass the censorship. (Mostly for Google and Netflix)

I have a linux host in France that I could use for the SSH tunnel (let's call it user@domain.fr)

In my Mac Book Pro, I typed the command line
ssh -ND 9999 user@domain.fr, I configured my socks proxy, and everything worked fine.

First idea: I tried to follow this tutorial

My Pac file is :

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
     return "SOCKS domain.fr:9999";
}

I put the file proxy.pac in my linux host via scp command. When I checked the URL of the file with Mobile Safari, it displayed the code written above, so I guess it can access it.

Then I configured the iOS device (Proxy Http -> Auto -> URL...) but it didn't work. What's strange is that I can still access non-censored website (like Apple), but I can't access censored-one (Facebook, Twitter) I would have thought that configuring the Http Proxy to Auto would affect the whole Web Browser.

Anyway, I wonder if that's because I need an authentication to access my host. And if that's so, how could I make it work?

Second idea: : I tried port forwarding with this tutorial
Since my basic needs are Google and Netflix, I used Termius and configured the port forwarding as followed :

Port Forwarding > Local
Host : domain.fr:22
Port from : 9998
Destination : google.com
Port to : 80

Port Forwarding > Local
Host : domain.fr:22
Port from : 9999
Destination : netflix.com
Port to : 80

Then I tried to access via localhost:9998 and localhost:9999.

For Netflix, I have a Http Status 404 : the requested resource is not available.
For Google, I have a Http Status 404 : the requested URL was not found on this server.

With the said configuration the HTTP traffic is routed to the proxy. But there is a catch, then DNS lookup which is not an HTTP protocol will fail.


Adding a new contact in iOS 8 merges it with a homonymous old contact I have in my iPhone iOS 8 and old contact called Salvador. This old contact has his mobile, and some notes, and that is fine.

Today I select a phone number from my call history and select the add a new contact option. I enter the name contact as Salvador and add a note to this new contact.

The problem is when I recall from my contact app the Salvador name, it only appears once (I'm supposed to have an Old Salvador and the new Salvador as a contact) when I select the Salvador contact the info inside is a combination of the phone and notes of the old Salvador and the phone and notes of the new Salvador.

Why is this happening?

You cannot have more than one contact with the same name in your iPhone so it sounds like your iPhone is merging them together. Try adding a last name/nick name to have them as two separate contacts.


Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS? Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS ?

I would like to be laptop free

There are two, both from Facebook. It's available in the Messages section of Facebook app, as well as the standalone Facebook Messenger app. The standalone app uses a denser interface, and would be an improvement if you were going to use this heavily, but the section of the complete app isn't much worse.


What are the benefits of iPhone jailbreak? Some days ago I read a news that said iPhone Jailbreak is legal. So I get 2 question in my mine.

before this news jailbreaking was illegal?(if yes why? "because when we buy something we can do anything we want with that product )(and if no then what was this news for?)
what is the benefits of jailbreaking? (are all iPhone applications was reachable through iTunes app store?)

I Jailbroke my iPhone 4 as soon as the jalibreak was released and had my iPhone 2G Jailbroken before that.

For me it's not about illegally installing applications, it's about intsall tweaks and applications which Apple can't or won't allow into their App Store, for example:

Winterboard:     Complete themeing system.
SBSettings:      Easily enable/disable settings from within
any application.
Infinifolder:        Remove the 12 Application limit from iOS4 Folders.
QuickReply SMS:      Reply to SMS messages directly from the message
alert with a popup keyboard and then
instantly return back to what you
were doing.
Cyntact:     Show contact pictures in Contacts.
BossPaper:       Rotating wallpapers (Was available before iOS 4 allowed
them)
Categories:      Allowed Apps in folders years before iOS4 did!

The few short weeks I had my iPhone 4 without it being Jailbroken I found it hard to use as I'd got so used to the small tweaks I'd installed my Cydia, most of them I had purchased.-


AppleScript: How to un-hide the file extension of a screenshot? set filePath to "/Users/Me/Desktop/" & "Screenshot" & ".png"

do shell script "screencapture -mx -T1 " & filePath

tell application "Finder"
    set extension hidden of (filePath as POSIX file) to false
end tell

The above code produces the error:

  Finder got an error: Can’t set extension hidden of file "Macintosh
  HD:Users:Me:Desktop:Screenshot.png" to false.

You were close! You need to use file in front of (filePath as POSIX file), e.g.:

set filePath to "/Users/Me/Desktop/" & "Screenshot" & ".png"

do shell script "screencapture -mx -T1 " & filePath

tell application "Finder"
    set extension hidden of file (filePath as POSIX file) to false
end tell


Bash Return 'Command not found' for all command I am learning Linux command from terminal,

It feedbacks 'command not found' for every command even though executed successfully.

$ > foo.txt
bash: prompt_git: command not found
$ umask
0022
bash: prompt_git: command not found

How to solve such a problem?

The problem you are having is caused by a bad setting in your .bash_profile file.

One of the shell variables PS1 or PROMPT_COMMAND contains a call to prompt_git which is not (at that point) in your PATH. PS1 defines the prompt you see in the terminal and PROMPT_COMMAND is run every time the prompt is displayed.

Edit the file and remove the command and it will resolve your problem.

If you wish further help then please post the definitions of PS1 and PROMPT_COMMAND from your .bash_profile file.


Audio interfaces just broken on my iMac? For the past year I've owned two audio interfaces. Semi-recently I obtained a wonderful new iMac and I love it. I own a M-Audio Fast Track and a Focusrite 2i2 and although I love this new iMac I'm having extreme issues with these audio interfaces. When I talk or record anything the audio stutters and sometimes just cuts out completely. It's the same case for both devices. I've had this problem since before I upgraded to OSX Mavericks and I don't know if it related to my installation of Adobe Premiere Pro. I can't use my audio interfaces at all with Premiere so I just use it as an audio device for other editing software. Anyone else have the same problem or anybody have some suggestions?

I had trouble getting my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 to appear as an option in Adobe Premiere Pro CC on a Mac running Mavericks. It showed up in Audition, just not in Premiere.

Go to Audio Midi Setup in the Utilities folder on your Mac (or just search for Audio Midi Setup in Spotlight) and look for Adobe Premiere Pro in the list. There should be a check box to add the audio interface there. Then be sure to quit Audio Midi Setup. I think it doesn't stick unless you quit.

Then go into Premiere Preferences > Audio Hardware and choose System Default Input/Output. This should make it work. It did for me!


how do you load the US Department of Defense Certificate into an iPhone? How do you load the US Department of Defense SSL certificate (or any SSL certificate) into  iOS?

Firstly you'll need to obtain the SSL certificate, sending it to you via email or grabbing it from a web. Once opened (tapping on it from the email attachment, for instance) an installation process will start.

On the Install Profile screen, tap on Install.

A warning message saying that Installing this profile will change settings on your iPhone will appear. Tap Install now.

If your device is Pin Protected you'll be prompted to enter it.
You'll, then, be prompted to enter the certificate's password. Tap on the Next button on the top right corner of the screen, once the password has been entered.

The certificate will be installed, and a screen with the new certificate will be show.


SSD Boot drive and encrypted HD Have an SSD installed in my MBP's optical bay. All works well other than being unable to directly log on to my main home folder, which I think is due to the fact they this folder (still on the HDD) is filevault 2 encrypted (workaround is log into a second "test account", log out and the I can successfully log into my main user account).

I really don't need to have filevault turned on, but cannot find a way to turn it off now that I boot off the SSD.  Is it possible?  Advisable?

Anticipatory thanks,
Dave

If you have an external drive where everything is backed-up, the easiest thing would be to erase the HDD choosing Mac OS Extended (Journaled) then restore from the backup.


About photos going onto other Apple products Have about 2000 work photos on my Mac mini which I do not want on my iPhone 5 or my iPad Air....but I would like photos I take on either of those to appear on my Mac mini.....how do I configure in settings so I can do this?

In the iCloud settings of the Mac minis turn on photos. They will both sync photos.

To not have the photos synced to the phone simply don’t have the photos option enabled in the iCloud settings.


What's the new font used on Yosemite Do you have any idea what's the new topygraphy used in Yosemite ?

on Mavericks it used to be Lucida Grande/Helvetica but it looks like it has change on Yosemite.

Closing the gap to iOS, they ditched Lucida for Helvetica Neue all the way.


How do I stop using iCloud for document storage and use it only for email? I do not want iCloud to back up my files from my computer. I only want to use iCloud for e-mail.

How do I do this?

Go to System Preferences -> iCloud (it's in the third row), and uncheck the iCloud Drive option:

It will ask you if you want to keep a copy of the files currently in iCloud, so you can immediately store them somewhere else if you want to. And you have to delete those files manually in iCloud to free up space, e.g. via https://www.icloud.com/.


How can CapitalOne on iOS read my credit card? I was using the CapitalOne app and got asked to verify my identity as an added step before being shown my full credit card number, but today I got offered a new verification option: Tap one of my other cards against my phone to verify my identity.

I followed the instructions and sure enough, all I had to do was tap my card and my identity was verified. Is this based on a new iOS capability, and how does it work?

The Capital One credit card has NFC capability, and similarly modern iPhones have NFC capabilities. This is how the phone and card communicates with eachother.

App developers can use NFC through Apple's "Core NFC" framework, which has been available for developers since iOS 11. So that's not really "new".

iPhone 6 and newer have NFC chips, but you'll need an iPhone 7 or newer for apps to be able to use NFC through the Core NFC framework.


User specific hosts file in Mac OS X I'm working on an OS X 10.6.8 machine, for which I do not have superuser privileges.

I'd like to imitate the effect of adding an entry to the hosts file, i.e. have a certain domain resolve to a certain ip.

Is it possible to add configuration to my home directory to achieve this? Is there any other way to do this?

unfortunately the answer is no. Here's another answer to a very similar question. It's not the same question, but the answer is the same:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5007150/62653

As a side note, you might be interested in this blog post. It won't solve your problem, but is quite interesting nonetheless (the domain name for this address, and the blog title is a bit unfortunate, but it is a genuine blog entry on cocoa dev).

http://niggazpullintriggaz.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/how-i-managed-to-edit-etchosts-without.html


How can I show the battery as a percentage on my iPod Touch? On the iPhone, to show the percentage of battery left, I can go into Settings > General > Usage and toggle "Battery Percentage" on.

My daughter's iPod touch doesn't have a Usage category.  Is there a way on the iPod touch to display the battery percentage?

No iPod Touches can show the battery percentage at the top of the screen (unless you jailbreak them). There are apps in the App Store that will show the battery percentage when you run them, but obviously not all the time.

There's a discussion thread here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1013295


Installing Packages through Recovery Mode Alright so at this moment my Mac only boots in recovery mode and I need to install a package (.pkg) before attempting to reinstall the OS. The package is located on a usb drive named "Package".

I have been looking into several ways to do this but so far had no luck.

I tried running the installer command through terminal:

installer -pkg /Volumes/Package/FirmwareUpdate.pkg -target /

But got an error claiming the install failed because the installer can't create the folder "//Install.6733yhGK6"

I also tried directing the target to Applications as so:

installer -pkg /Volumes/Package/FirmwareUpdate.pkg -target /Applications/

But only get "Error trying to locate volume at /Applications/"

Can anyone help me?

I haven't tried installing a package from Recovery, so this might not be the entire solution, but I've spotted something for you to try differently:

When you're in recovery, / is the root of the Recovery volume, not your own Mac's volumes. Recovery volumes are read only and you can't install things to that, not that I think you're wanting to anyway.

In recovery, your normal volumes are mounted to folders within /Volumes/. List that folder (ls /Volumes) to see the names of the volumes that are mounted, and choose the correct volume for -target.


External disk drive no longer visible when using Parallels My MacMini Late 2012 has a 1Tb external USB drive, which I use as the main data store (the internal 256Gb SSD being too small).

I have been running parallels on this Mac for years and both native Mac drives were visible... I think it listed each twice in Windows Explorer for some reason.

Just today I really need to access large (several GB) files but now the external drive is not visible (of course). I found this but it doesn't help: http://kb.parallels.com/en/118147

MacOS 10.10.5, Parallels 13.

Take your drive to another computer and Cloud your files.


tar cvfz command not writing on iCloud Drive folder I am trying to link up (create a copy) of a folder in the User's Libraryinto the iCloud Drive folder, so that it will be synchronised across computers should I need to change machine. For your knowledge, this folder contains app settings that are not easily accessible if I had to do a format or system reset.

Operating the tar cvfz command on the Users/< username >/Mobile\ Documentsfolder does perform some action in Terminalbut it doesn't actually create any copy of the desired folder.

To test if I was doing something wrong I changed the destination folder to the Downloadsfolder and, magic, it worked.
Have I to assume that one doesn't have permissions to write to the iCloud Drive directory from the Terminal?

All of this is being attempted on a 2016 15" MacBook Pro with macOS 10.12.6.

You need to place the file in this folder instead:

~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

This is where you can place generic files, similar to saving them in "iCloud Drive" in the Finder.

Also you seem to have the order of arguments to tar wrong, so that you're really creating a file named "z" instead of "Avid_Backup.tgz" that you thought you were saving to.

The commands thus needs to be:

  tar -cvzf "~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Avid_Backup.tgz" "~/Library/Application\ Support/Avid/Sibelius"


How to take a screenshot of the front window from the command line? The screencapture utility has a -w switch which allows capturing the front window, but only after highlighting the window and getting a click from the user.

Is there any way to capture the front window non-interactively using some shell command?

The -l option allows capturing a window by ID. It is only shown in the help message and not on the man page.

I don't know any way to find the window IDs that would work with all applications though. This doesn't work with Preview, Activity Monitor, or Chrome:

screencapture -l $(osascript -e 'tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to id of window 1') /tmp/screencapture.png


Can I have multiple mice & keyboards for one Mac? I would like to control two cursors with two mice in the same time, as well as have two keyboards for separate control and text input.

My goal is to have two users on one computer, so I can let my brother to play/chat anything while I do my job. If we have two monitors, then I don't need to buy a new computer.

If you know of some software that can do this, please let me know.

You can achieve something very close to this with a virtual PC solution. I tried it with Parallels. For simplicity I'll assume you run Mac OS X on the "real" computer and Windows in Parallels (of course you can run another OS too, I just picked one to keep the story simple).

In the Parallels settings, you can choose which USB devices should be connected to the Mac and which to Windows. If you connect your external keyboard and mouse to Windows, you get a warning that this will disable input from them on the Mac, but this is exactly what you want. Be sure to disable mouse pointer synchronization (in version 5 it's called "SmartMouse"), otherwise you won't see the Windows mouse pointer.

Now you can use the external keyboard and mouse only in Windows, and the main keyboard and mouse anywhere. This is also useful if you want to override something your brother is doing :-)

Doing this in a Mac only environment is currently not possible because it would require changes in the window manager, which is part of the OS. There is a project that does this for the X window manager, but this will not work to control every window on your Mac. TeamPlayer is software that allows you to control Windows with multiple mice, but with the exception of their own programs, you control the computer in turns: only one mouse can give real clicks, the others must wait for their turn.

A complete solution is Userful, but this runs only on Linux, because, as I said, it requires modifications at different places in the software stack and only Linux is open enough to allow this. Microsoft created a similar project: Windows MultiPoint Server, but this is targets to schools and I doubt you can get it. And of course, it only runs on Windows.


"Mount" network share as a volume via SSH? There is a remote server that I can connect to only via SSH, and storage space have been allocated for me in that server.

Is there a software that lets me "mount" a network share via SSH so that I can use it as if it is a local folder?

I strongly prefer cross-platform and Free (as in Freedom) solutions, but anything you can think of I'd love to know.

Thank you!

Use HomeBrew to install fuse4x and sshfs

The commands to install are:

brew install sshfs

when you run it, it gives two other commands that I needed to run in order to install the fuse4x kernel extension. Run them.

Then, to mount the ssh filesystem

mkdir ~/mymountdir
sshfs username@hostname:/home/thedir ~/mymountdir

it will ask you for your password.


Apps for (very!) simple spreadsheet purposes Is there any way to do simple offline spreadsheets (rows, columns, plus, minus, multiply, divide, sum of range) like below without using monsters like Excel, Numbers, Google, Open Office, etc.?

I have to be able to use the arrow keys to navigate around like you do in a spreadsheet, type to add values and (simple!) formulas, and have the tables update instantly as necessary.

I noticed Linux has a text-based fossil called "SC" which would be perfect for my purposes, but it's not on Homebrew. Emacs packages would be OK as long as they don't require learning LISP.

CATEGORY 1   Item A   Item B   Item C
Feature A    YES      NO       YES
Has B        Blah     Blah     Sure
Value C      84       36       N/A
...

CATEGORY 2
X            1        77
Y            2        99
Z            3        ..
SUM          6        ...

Numbers provides customisation to its UI which allows you to strip most of the features from the main window, leaving you the most basic of functionality.

The toolbar is customisable (right-click on toolbar and choose Customise Toolbar). You can use this to remove features you don't wish to use so that they do not show on the toolbar. You can also go further by hiding the toolbar completely.
The inspector on the right can be hidden from the View menu (View → Inspector → Hide Inspector). All that's left is the main window with the spreadsheet.

Hiding the toolbar and inspector gives you a window that looks like the following. UI can't really look more basic than that!


Assign spotlight short cut to different keys By default in Yosemite Spotlight shortcut is assigned to ⌘SPACE, but change language is also ⌘SPACE so for a multilingual person it turns out to be a tough choice which one to use. I am wondering if there is a way of assigning a different short cut as ⌥SPACE for a spotlight or the language switch?

I know I can disable language switch and only use 'next language' as ⌥⌘Space, but I am looking for an easy 2 keys solution

just go to Preferences -> Keyboard. There you select the Shortcut tab and on the left Spotlight. Here you can enable/disable shortcuts and also customize them. Just click on the Shortcut on the right so it becomes selected and then press the new combination of keys you want to assign to it.

Hope that resolves your problem.

Best regards


How can I make reminders appear on my lock screen? I just upgraded to iOS 10, and I see that there's a Reminders widget on my lock screen. I added a couple of test reminders to the Reminders app, but they don't appear on my lock screen. If I touch the Reminders widget on the lock screen, I'm taken to the Reminders app (after logging in), and there my reminders are visible. What do I have to do to get my reminders to show up on my lock screen?

The Reminders widget only shows upcoming reminders. That is, those with a date/time set for them, and that date/time is still in the future. If you set reminders without a date/time, they will not show in the widget.


Finder Window when Uploading or Opening Files Missing Items For some reason, my file window when I am opening a file/folder or uploading something the sidebar is missing a lot of items which makes navigating to my destination a pain. What am I missing? My normal finder window is fine and isn't missing any items. I tried to go into the library>preferences>and deleting any com.apple.finder.plist like in another thread but I didn't find any files like that in my library. I searched my entire mac for them and didn't find any.

I'm using El Capitan.

When finder is the current app, hit  command  and  ,  at the same time. Click the Sidebar tab. You can then select the things you want to show up in window. If they are already selected, try un-selecting them and re-selecting them.

Edit: As @NetherLinks mentioned, a few good answers are over at "File Open" dialog is missing sidebar items. Try them if mine doesn't work.


Upgrade SATA connection on MBP 3,1 When replacing my HDD in my MBP 3,1 with a SSD (SATA3), I noticed that the SATA1 cable can be fully removed.

Thus I thought, that it might be possible to replace the SATA 1 cable by a SATA 3 cable in order to boost my SSD use.

However, I do not know whether this is supported by the Logicboard... Any idea?

My best suggestion is that you try. Worst case it will downscale to SATA1/2 speed if it's all it can handle.

The easiest way to determine if your board will support the speed of SATA3 is to have a look at your Serial ATA settings in system information and check your link speed. It will show the supported speed and negotiated speed.

I have a MBP 6,2 which does support SATA3 on the board. I know my MB 3,1 only support SATA1, however it was always a low spec model compared to the MBP range and it may have been limited to save cost.


Making the macOS Special Character Popup Menu Appear Everywhere I find macOS' special character popup menu (the one invoked with a long press on some keys) an incredibly useful feature.

For some reason, it seems to work only in Adobe's Illustrator and Photoshop (I use the latest versions for both).

Is there any way to add this menu/functionality to other applications?

I'm using High Sierra. Thanks!

I don't recall coming across a way to customise this on an application by application basis, but something that may work as a bit of a workaround is using the Character Viewer in the menu bar.

More specifically:

Go to Apple > System Preferences
Select the Keyboard preference pane
Ensure you have the Keyboard tab chosen
Select the third checkbox to show the keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar
Now your menu bar will have an icon looking like this:

Now, regardless of the application you're in, you can select the Show Emoji and Symbols option from the menu bar
Now the characters you're looking for are listed under the Latin category on the left.
Now you can just double-click on a character to insert it into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

TIP: - Once you start using this, your frequently used items will appear within the Frequently Used category. You can also select particular characters and click on the Add to Favorites button so they're easier to find/use.


Can TextEdit save as plain text? When I try to save a new file in TextEdit, I always get a popup saying I can't save with ".txt" at the end of the file name.

I want to save a plaintext file, but TextEdit insists on saving as .rtf instead. It also lists .doc, .odt, .html, and some others.

How can I save a TextEdit document as plain text?

The format menu has a toggle to switch things for you.

Pressing shift + command + T will toggle the document to plain text mode.

You can also set the default format in the preference pane for the app.


Apple IOS update 8.4 question I recently updated my iphone to ios 8.4  How do I shuffle my offline music the way I used to before the update ?

I don't know how you used to shuffle your music before, but apparently there is a way to restore the 'shuffle all songs' functionality present on earlier versions, if that is what you mean:

http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/shuffle-all-songs-apples-new-music-app-ios-8-4-0162796/

(EDIT: The two methods in that page are:

While a song is playing, use Siri and say "shuffle songs".
Create a 'smart playlist' containing all your stuff, because you can still shuffle within a playlist.

)


GPU disable on boot was successful for months – but cannot execute sh /force-iGPU-boot.sh anymore from Single User Mode I am new to this platform and hope that you can help me out with this one.
I had this common GPU issue on a 2011 MBP that I was able to solve with the super detailed post by the user "LаngLаngС" (thanks so much!) as found here:
GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen
Unfortunately a new problem occured that prevents me from running the script. I'll explain:
To solve the GPU issue I everything as written in LangLangC's post and I also had the executable sh script on my desktop – so when I had to boot the Mac again, I did this in single user mode with CMD + S, and then typed "sh /force-iGPU-boot.sh" and then reboot. This would boot my machine always as normal with the internal GPU.
So far so good – until yesterday. When trying to reboot again from Single User Mode, I got this new prefix "sh 3.2#" and the lines looked different. It says that the volume is "read only"-. When I try to execute "sh /force-iGPU-boot.sh" it says, file or directory not found. I cant run "sudo" commands as it says "command not found". When I try to remount with "mount -uw" it doesn't work – it always says "device is write locked.
When I type exit or reboot the system actually seems to boot "normal" – if there wasn't the GPU issue! Meaning that if I cannot run the script "force-iGPU-boot.sh" from the single user mode, I cannot boot the GUI Mac OSX properly. Unfortunately I also cannot execute the sudo commands. I also tried to boot the Mac in target mode and "repair" the drive with the disk utility of another Mac, but that never worked either.
I was googling a lot and tried a lot but nothing worked yet. Since I am not very familiar with these kinds of issues, I was hoping to find an answer here, where I found the first answers to my GPU problem.
Basically my "new problem" is that I cannot run the automated script that I saved on the desktop or the sudo commands from the single user mode.
Hope you can help me! Many thanks in advance.
This is the output of sw_vers: https://ibb.co/g41TtQQ
Best,
Alex

I would suggest disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection) by rebooting your laptop into Recovery Mode by holding down Cmd+R while booting, and then opening the Terminal and running the following command:
csrutil disable

Now close the Terminal window and reboot into single-user mode, and try your commands again.


Porting Linux shell scripts The command

shell$ ls . -R

works on Linux but not on OS X. This is because OS X command line options have to come before  the arguments,and not just anywhere as in Linux.

In particular, this means that any shell scripts I write on Linux will be unportable to Macs.

 Question  How can I fix this on the Mac?

I can either take care to write portable Linux scripts, or I can install MacPorts so that  ls  and other commands will be picked from MacPorts and not the Apple provided binaries. Is there any better way?

Short answer: whichever suits you.

If your Unix background is mainly from Linux, you’re probably used to GNU commands. As you’ve noticed, they can be different from other Unix/Unix-based operating systems. Depending on how complex your scripts are, you can either:

make simple changes (like using ls -R . instead of ls . -R), which will work in most (if not all) Unix/Unix-based system and not only on GNU-based ones,
or install the GNU utilities from MacPorts if you think that there’d be too many/complex changes, or if you prefer to stick to the GNU commands you’re already used to.

If you want to take some time and write portable scripts, do it. If you think that’s not worth it, then don’t. Just bear in mind that not every Unix/Unix-based system uses GNU by default.


Automatically opening multiple Apps / TABs for certain projects I'm trying to improve my workflow when working on certain projects. Depending on what kind of work I'm doing, I'll want certain apps open with certain configurations.

Example:

For a web development project, I'll want to open iTerm 2, have 2 horizontal panes. The upper pane will go into the frontend folder, the other one will go into the backend folder. Then, I want to have both folders also open up in Sublime Text.

Ideally, I'd like to have an app or a file or a script or something, that does this for me so that I don't have to do this every time I want to work on whatever project:

- Launch iTerm
- Hit CMD-ENTER for fullscreen
- Hit CMD-SHIFT-D for two horizontal panes
- Run "cd to/project/backend"
- Run "subl src" to open "src" folder in Sublime Text
- Run "vagrant up"
- Close Sublime windows I had open last time I quit it
- Hit CMD-ALT-UP to go to upper pane
- Run "cd to/project/frontend"
- Run "subl ." to open new Sublime window here
- Launch Chrome and open up my frontend in a new tab

That's just one example. When I'm working on something else, I might want Sketch and Keynote open with certain files (no terminal at all).

I'm looking for a way to automate these processes. Grateful for any suggestions. Thank you! :)

I would recommend using a 'boot' shell script to do most of what you're describing and bind it to an iTerm2 profile. You can configure a profile to have a specific window arrangement (it is a feature of iTerm2), see iTerm2 > Preferences > Arrangements to save your current arrangement as a preset.

Then, make a new profile that executes a startup script and applies the aforementioned window arrangement as its default arrangement (iTerm2 > Profiles > Open Profiles > Edit Profiles). Ideally, you would bind launching this profile to a shortcut, like Command + Control + D for one-keystroke access.

In said profile, under the General Tab > Command section, the startup command should be a shell script akin to below:

I don't know why it's necessary for you to open up the sublimetext frontend and backend in different terminal windows. Whenever you run subl, it opens the app as a daemon, as subl is just a python wrapper that launches the OS X app.

Sample rough startup.sh script I scaffolded up for ya:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd ~/to/project/backend
open . # open Finder window of backend folder
subl . # open SublimeText instance of backend folder

cd ~/to/project/frontend
open . # open Finder window of frontend folder
subl . # open SublimeText instance of frontend folder

# Launch chrome and navigate to http://localhost:8000/ or wherever your dev location is
open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" 'http://localhost:8000/'

echo 'COME AT ME BRO'

You should change the settings on SublimeText to not remember your window/tab arrangements from previous launch instead of attempting to script it to close all of your windows from before.

Alternatively, you could have subl open a native, .sublimetext-workspace or .sublimetext-project file and achieve more precise results than with subl .


Path with slashes instead of arrows? Before when I right clicked on a file > info > copy path it would ouput a path like

Applications/MAMP

Now it outputs the path with arrows like

Applications ▸ MAMP

How can I change it? Or is there an easy way to copy a file path without these arrows?

Rather than going via Get Info, you can get the path more directly…

Right click, then hold  Opt ⌥ , Copy [xyz] as Pathname

which pastes as
/Users/[me]/Documents/SE Reviews.rtf


Sum yearly totals automatically I am using a simple Numbers spreadsheet to track an expense that only comes up a few times per year. I want to be able to have Numbers automatically add the values that come from each year.

For example,

Column A    Column B    Column C    Column D
DATE          AMOUNT    2015            $500
1/15/2015       $500    2016           $1000
1/15/2016       $500
6/15/2016       $500

In other columns, I would like Numbers to sum all Amounts from 2015. Then below that, sum all Amounts for 2016, etc.

I have tried playing around with SUMIF and SUMIFS and cannot seem to get it right.

Insert a column between column A and B (you can hide this column after).
Fill the cells of this column with the following formulae:

YEAR(A2)

The column should be A for all cells, and the row number should be incrementing, such that the cell being referred to is always the one immediately to the left.
In column D, fill the following formulae:

SUMIF(Year,"=2015",Amount)

Replace ‘Year’ with the column heading for the column you created in step 1.
Replace ‘2015’ with the year that you are looking to be summed for that cell.
Hide the column you created in step 1 (right-click on the column and choose Hide Column).


Where are the temporary passwords located on mac When I try to access my Mac Pro Desktop from my MacBook Pro, it doesn't let me connect to Mac Pro anymore , I think I've changed the password without ticking the box: "Remember this password in my keychain"

The problem is, I cannot find the password in order to connect to Mac Pro Desktop.

I have researched this problem on the forum and have looked at my keychains, on which no item exists relating to this problem. I also created a test account on the Mac Pro Desktop  and tried to connect to the  Mac Pro Desktop as a registered user, but that user name and password was also deemed invalid.

Does anyone know where the passwords which are not saved where they are stored on a Mac or  creating a new password or making the Mac Pro Desktop to see the MacBook Pro  as a new Machine?

When you don't check the ‘Remember this password in my keychain’ box, that's not to say the password is remembered somewhere else, but rather that the password isn't remembered at all.

I'm inclined to believe the problem is elsewhere. This is exemplified by the inability to connect using a completely new account.


How long to hold key combinations when booting a Mac? I can't believe no one has ever asked this, but I can't seem to find it:

How long should you hold down key combinations, such as Command + S, while your Mac is booting? I can get this iMac to boot into safe mode (sometimes), but not Single User, Verbose, or Diagnostic modes, which seems strange to me, thus I assume I'm not doing something correctly.

Do you just hold the keys briefly or hold the keys for longer? If the latter, how long exactly? This iMac just has that gray boot screen, and there's no indication that anything is happening, so I have no way of knowing when I should stop pressing the key combos or if pressing them is even doing anything.

In general, you should hold the key(s) down until they take effect. For single-user and verbose modes, that means hold them until you see text start to appear. For the others, it's generally ok to let go once you see the Apple in the middle of the screen (the Apple is drawn by the booter, which loads after the firmware has detected startup options).

If you have FileVault 2 (full volume encryption) set up, things are a little more complicated, since some key combinations (mainly single-user, verbose, and safe boot) don't take effect until after you've authenticated to unlock the startup volume. It currently seems to do a good job of detecting the key combos before the authentication screen, then having them take effect after you "log in". But if that's not working for you, try holding them down as you press return on the FV2 authentication screen, and keep holding them until you see them take effect.


Create a keyboard shortcut for macOS Share Menu UPDATE: Added screenshots to clarify what the macOS share menu is. This is located on iOS and macOS as an arrow icon on Apple applications (a majority of them). The screenshots are from Safari's share menu.

I'm looking for a way to toggle the Share Menu you can find on many apps such as Mail, Safari, Messages, Finder, etc.

I've looked everywhere for a way to create a shortcut for a specific option on the dropdown. Such as the Message share menu or Reminders. The dropdown application option I want is not an apple native application.

This discussion is exactly what I'm looking for however their resolution was to not create a successfully working shortcut for the Share Menu.

Any help would be appreciated. Per usual, searching anything macOS related gives apple.support results that don't have anything to do with you search keywords therefore that was no help.

You can set the custom shortcuts via System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts

The trick is to specify the exact path to the menu item. For instance if you wish to add a shortcut for Share Messages, you have to write for "Menu Title":

File->Share->Messages


How to set the default font size of a new Stickie? When I create a new sticky the font is horribly small, any ideas on how to change the font please?

Change the font size of a selected Sticky note (⌘ Command T), then go to Window → Use as Default


Macbook Air shutting off on lid close Every time I close the lid of my Macbook Air, it turns off and I have to manually start it later when I open the lid again.

It also doesn't persist some of my settings such as volume level, desktop layouts (order of screens and which applications are full screened), and command line PATH changes such nvm's currently used node version.

Kind of a "you don't know what you don't know" situation. I'm not sure what to terms to use to search for this kind of behavior.

Edit: Adding some extra information as requested. I am on the following:

13-inch Macbook Air from Early 2014
Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

In System Preferences > Energy Saver > Battery, I have "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" checked and "Enable Power Nap while on battery power" unchecked.

I've looked through other potentially relevant areas of System Preferences and haven't found anything that works. I've done some Googling, but haven't found anything that is related and I'm unsure of what other terms I could use to search.

Edit 2: The issue seems to have been resolved. There's nothing in particular that I tried that worked, but it's resolved now. Thanks for reading and responding!

Interestingly enough, I recently swapped my 17" Macbook for a 13" Retina. Every time my 17" would run out of battery (while in sleep mode), my computer would go into hibernation. Recently, it has been shutting down completely.

After doing some digging, I found out that because I use an app to prevent my SD card from being ejected (I'm using it as additional storage), it's causing issues with the deep sleep option of macOS.

If the issue comes back, take a look at these links that may offer insights into this.

More on macOS hibernation:
Do MacBooks have a true "Hibernate" option?

A handy (and free) hibernation widget/app:
Can Macs be put in hibernation voluntarily?


Where are environment variables specified when .profile, .bash_login, .bash_profile cannot be found? When I type env at the terminal prompt, I get a dump of all the environment variables.  When I check / or ~, however, I do not see a .profile, .bash_login or .bash_profile.

Where is this being stored in Mac OS X 10.6.7 ?

Thanks,

Scott

It sounds like you are using bash.

bash first runs /etc/profile. /etc/profile (on Mac OS X 10.6.7) runs path_helper(8) which is where your default paths get set. After that it runs /etc/bashrc which doesn't do much. Once the default configuration is set, it moves on to the user login scripts.

bash looks in your home directory for .bash_profile, .bash_login, and .profile in that order. bash will run the first of these that it finds and stop looking.


Folder cannot be deleted from the Launchpad and is not displayed in Finder I have installed a wrong version of Anaconda from python 2.7 on OS X 10.11.1 and to remove it, I deleted its files from the Finder.

Now Launchpad is confused and the Anaconda folder is still there, grayed and cannot be deleted using the mouse controls.

I do not know how to locate it in the Finder or Terminal to manually delete it. Any suggestions?

In the case where only one user has a "broken" layout, you might be able to wait until the system realizes the error and fixes it.

Reboot
Look in your user home folder for an Applications folder - check there or delete it if you don't use user applications
As a last resort, view these various methods for clearing the database and settings files the dock makes to track the icons and organization of the LaunchPad: How to remove an icon from launchpad that does not appear in the Finder?

If you can drag the ghost folder from the launch pad to the dock (either in the applications section of the dock or the folders section), then locating the folder might be easier than messing with nuking the entire database or settings file.

sqlite3 $(find /private/var/folders -name com.apple.dock.launchpad 2>/dev/null)/db/db "DELETE FROM apps WHERE title='Anaconda';" && killall Dock


Apple family sharing from iOS to Mac Can I initiate Family Sharing from my apple ID on an iOS device as the organiser to another account on my Mac so that latter can have the possibility to share the iWork apps i have on my iOS device without buying them from the Mac Store?

Sure you can.

You can set your preferred account as Organiser, with Share my purchases switched on, then invite & add your other account as an Adult (you could set yourself up as a child, but then you'd have to ask yourself permission ;)

From System prefs > iCloud > Manage Family...
First & last are 'me'

One caveat - you need to make sure that the two addresses aren't already associated. I had great difficulty figuring out why adding my second account wouldn't work. It turned out to be [iirc] that each was using the other as the rescue or secondary email address.

As you're setting it up initially you need two devices [or accounts on a Mac] each to be signed into its own account. It took some juggling for me to set this up on a single Mac, but between iPhone & Mac ought to be simpler.

Full setup details at Apple KB: Set up Family Sharing

I'm not sure whether doing this will enable the right to the Mac version of an iOS app. It usually wouldn't, but the iWork suite & Apple's own software in general seems a bit of a special case.


How can I *unlock* a CoreStorage logical-volume without mounting it? I had a damaged disk that's encrypted with CoreStorage / FileVault. DiskWarrior was unable to operate on it while encrypted, obviously (“This is an offline, unavailable Core Storage disk.”); but the diskutil corestorage unlockVolume [UUID] operation both unlocks and mounts the volume.

With a damaged disk like this, I'd really like to avoid mounting the filesystem before working on it — I'd just like to unlock it so I can proceed with recovery tools.

Is there any way to enter the disk's password without causing it to subsequently be mounted by OS X?

Click the Unlock button in the top-right of DiskWarrior and enter the password to unlock the volume


Get url of enbedded flash video on iPad Before you jump on me I know flash is not supported on the iPad. I just want to know how I can get the url (if possible) of these embedded videos.

I haven't used the app, but WebInspector looks like it will show you the source. You might find that the servers are sniffing the user agents, and they don't even send you the link, but you can try the free version (ad supported) before spending any money on the app to be sure it does what you wish.


Is it possible to have 10Gigabit network support on a macOS VM? We're looking to have macOS VMs running on Mac Mini hosts (and maybe Mac Pro hosts once they're out).

Is it possible to have the VMs connected at 10Gig ethernet by using something like a Sonnet 10G Thunderbolt 3 Adapter? Would Parallels support something like this? What if I would plug in several of those adapters, could each VM use a different 10G adapter?

I would start with a trial license (free) of VMWare ESXi to enable hardware support for USB-C and Thunderbolt adapters.

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2017/01/functional-usb-c-thunderbolt-3-ethernet-adapter-for-esxi-5-5-6-0-6-5.html
https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2019/04/new-thunderbolt-3-to-10gbe-options-for-esxi.html

There are many home labs where thunderbolt to 10G Ethernet and 8G Fiber work even when those adapters are not on the official hardware compatibility and support matrix. Newer Mac mini have 10 GB Ethernet built in as well. I’ve never seen a 10 gig link saturate, so we just put several VM on the same hardware in practice.

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/tag/thunderbolt-3

Until we’ve got fast enough NVMe storage, I can’t imagine needing more than one ten gig ethernet adapter unless I was doing rack mounted workstations and enterprise class servers.


Change default highlight format in preview To highlight text in pdf files, I select the text and hit the highlight button:

The default was yellow highlight. Somehow, it got changed to a red underline. How can I change this back to yellow highlight again?

The Preview help mentions:

  Use highlight mode: Click the Highlight button  (so it turns blue), click the down arrow next to the Highlight button, then choose a highlight color, underline, or strikethrough. Now, whenever you select some text, the highlighting style you chose is automatically applied to the text.

So de-select any text in an open PDF. Click the Highlight button - nothing should be highlighted additionally in your PDF now - click the down arrow and choose a color or strikethrough.

You can also determine several different highlight colors in a single PDF with this method (here yellow, pink and underline):


Using Only an External Monitor with a MacBook Air or Pro? This question Use Only External Display With Macbook asks how to use an external display with a Macbook  in clamshell/closed mode with attached peripherals such as external keyboard and mouse.

I would like to know how to use a Macbook (Air or Pro), in its own right (without the use of attached external keyboard and mouse peripherals) that is attached to an external monitor.

On Windows, you can right-click the desktop and select an option to output only to an external display.

In OS X, I believe things to be slightly more complicated, therefore would like to know the precise steps needed to achieve this and indeed once finished with the external display, how to go back and use my Macbook as normal ?

Set the boot-args NVRAM variable to iog-0x0

sudo nvram boot-args=iog=0x0

and restart to apply the changes.

It restores the pre-10.7 clamshell mode behavior where the internal display does not turn back on after you open the lid of a laptop. The laptop will also go to sleep when you close the lid even when an external display is connected.

To undo the changes, run sudo nvram -d boot-args and restart.


What are the tools and/or advantages of developing your app with a Apple Developer Program account? Should I get an Apple Developer program account to develop my application or can I do it without it and then submit it obviously through an Apple Developer Progam?

There's no need to pay for a developer license to use Xcode, compile and run things in the simulator and even to install your software on your devices (macOS, tvOS, watchOS, iOS) for testing and even use as long as you're putting your personal code on your personal devices.

When you do need to pay is when you want one of any of these:

Professional Apple Support / code level incidents from Apple Developer Technical Support
Verified code signing certificate that let you sign code to run on other computers (whether you use the App Store or not to distribute)
iCloud data storage services (sync, core data, cloud data, cloud preferences) for your applications.
Presence on the various App Stores to take payments and list your applications publicly under Apple's sales presence on the official stores.
TestFlight beta testing services where others in addition to you can test pre-release versions of your software.

Go without the paid access until you need one or more of the above services. See this link for more details - https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev7a05c5ce1


What functionality do 'marks' offer in the El Capitan Terminal? Since upgrading to OS X El Capitan, I've noticed a change in the Terminal: Executed lines show an opening bracket on the left, and a closing bracket on the right, as shown in this screenshot:

Similar questions have been asked here:

https://superuser.com/questions/974714/previous-commands-wrapped-with-square-brackets-in-os-x-terminal
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32888295/why-is-a-being-added-to-my-prompt-after-upgrading-to-os-x-10-11
Changes to Terminal in El Capitan
Why is there a left bracket before my bash prompt?
New Terminal behavior after upgrading to OS X 10.11

Some of the questions are referring to these brackets as marks, and the Terminal's Edit menu has a couple of entries related to marks, for example:

Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt and Send Return
Edit > Clear to Previous Mark
Edit > Navigate > Jump to Previous Mark

Is there a summary of what these marks can be used for? I have not seen any reference to this new feature in any of the El Capitan feature overviews.

Marks in the Terminal

The new Terminal marks (available starting with OS X 10.11 - El Capitan) are similar to Bookmarks, which are also available in the Terminal, allowing you to mark window positions and then giving you the option of going back at a later point.

Marks (or Bookmarks) don't refer to your command history, but to the scroll buffer used in the Terminal window/tab.

Marking a Line

By default, every time you press Enter in the Terminal window, the line is marked, which is displayed using an opening bracket at the beginning of the line and a closing one at the very end. This default behavior can be turned off using the Edit > Marks > Automatically Mark Prompt Lines menu entry. When this is disabled, you can still manually execute and mark a command using Cmd+Enter (or with the Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt and Send Return menu entry).

If you have automatic marking enabled and want to run a command without marking it as a prompt, you can do this using Cmd+Shift+Enter (or with the Edit > Marks > Send Return Without Marking menu entry).

Disabling Marks

Automatic marking of lines can be disabled using the Edit > Marks > Automatically Mark Prompt Lines menu entry.

From the command line, the same can be achieved using

defaults write com.apple.Terminal AutoMarkPromptLines -bool NO

Hiding Marks

If you want to use the mark functionality, but don't want to see the brackets at the beginning and end of the line, you hide them using the View > Hide Marks menu entry. This will keep the below functionality intact, but will no longer show the brackets.

Jumping between Marks

Once a line has been marked, you can quickly jump to the previous mark using Cmd+Up or to the next one using Cmd+Down. Similar options are provided for Bookmarks, and for selecting to the next/previous mark:

Manually Marking a Line

In addition to the automatic marking, you can also manually add marks by selecting a line in the terminal output using the mouse, and then selecting the Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt menu entry (or Cmd+U).

Use Cases

The Marks functionality is useful if some of your executed commands produce lots of output, and you quickly want to scroll to the position where you entered the command. Pressing Cmd+Up will take you there. Pressing it repeatedly will take you further up, while pressing Cmd+Down will take you back down again. The target location is conveniently highlighted as you jump/scroll around.

Selecting Content

The same marks functionality can be used for selecting Terminal output. Pressing Cmd+Shift+Up will select the content up to the previous mark, while Cmd+Shift+Down will select down to the next mark. This is useful when wanting to copy log output or other content from the Terminal.

This functionality is also available from the Edit > Navigate menu while pressing the Shift key:

Summary

Having used this for a couple of days now, I find it incredibly useful. Scrolling up through hundreds of lines of output to find the beginning of the command's output has suddenly become a lot easier.

I wonder why this new feature isn't mentioned more prominently - I haven't seen it in any of the El Capitan walkthroughs. The Terminal help currently does not provide any details on this feature either.


How to set default homepage in safari 6? Since downloading mountain lion and safari 6 I have lost the ability to set my home page.  in safari preferences there is the ability to tell it what you want for a home page but it does not take.  instead I always get this:  http://d3.zedo.com/jsc/d3/ff2.html?n=790;c=3603;s=2952;d=16;w=1024;h=768.  I want to know how to get rid of this and get my preference working instead.

Two options come to mind:

Reset Safari (in Safari menu), restart the application and try again
Quit Safari, rename ~/Library/Safari to ~/Library/Safari.old and try again

If the second options work, quit Safari again and copy Bookmarks.plist from Safari.old to the newly created Safari folder.


Execute a custom script when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap? Apple new feature of OS X 10.8 in new Macs "Power Nap" checks email and does make backups.

Is it possible to execute a custom script (bash, AppleScript,...) when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap mode? For example pull a git repository or download files.

As far as I know, it's not possible.

The reason is that Power Nap doesn't have an API that 3rd party apps can hook into (so apps could trigger a wake event or be notified when one occurs).

Whether this will remain like that in the future depends upon Apple. It would be interesting to see if there's a simple way to detect when one is in power nap mode, but doesn't seem to be available afaik.

If you leave a script that pulls from git every minute, in theory, since Power Nap is really a power on without graphics and audio state, maybe it would get executed (if it was running before). untested.

More info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11692367/2684


Audio Interface is not showing up in System Preferences Output Input Running Catalina OS. Unfortunately when plugging in my Focusrite Saffire 6 interface it is not recognized in System Preferences > Sound > Output Input. Very frustrating. I am using the correct high speed USB cable and the interface is showing up in my USB tree (About this mac > System Report > Hardware > USB) but only 'Internal Speakers' shows up in System Preference Output and Input. I can't find anything online about how to get the mac to recognize the interface. Only an article about deleting temp files which I did to no success. Also downloaded drivers for the USB 1.1 driver even though I am pretty sure I am running 2.0.

Unfortunately, Focusrite doesn't support Saffire 6 any longer with MAC Catalina 10.15.x. They stopped after the 10.15 update. It's useless to me now.


Where did the "sync" button go in iTunes 11? Ever since it supported devices, iTunes has had a "sync" button, which seems to have vanished from version 11. Where did it go? How do I sync my iOS devices with iTunes now?

The sync button is on the bottom right of the iTunes window when you are viewing a device.

Connect a device or two, and you will see controls to click in the top right to view the iOS device. Also option-command-s will toggle the traditional sidebar - now with more color than (immediately) before.

Selecting the device will bring up a mostly familiar interface. You can also search on sync in the iTunes help menu. This update has changed the default views to look flatter and focus more directly on one main view, but menu commands, key commands and buttons are there to get to sync settings as usual.


Can AppleScript be able to click the menu extra of a 3rd-party app? Many 3rd-party apps have small menu icons at the top-right corner of the menu bar such as Evernote, iStat, Parallels Desktop and so on.
I tried to write some AppleScripts to click those menu icons, but all failed.

Take "PD" for example:

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Parallels Desktop"
        get properties of every menu bar item of every menu bar
    end tell
end tell

I can get multiple menu items such as "Apple", "Parallels Desktop", "File", "Edit", ..., "Help", which are apparently the top-left menus of PD.
Besides, a menu extra is also obtained and is described as follows:

{minimum value:missing value, orientation:missing value, position:{1338, 0}, class:menu bar item, accessibility description:"", role description:"menu extra", focused:false, title:missing value, size:{30, 22}, help:"", entire contents:{}, enabled:true, maximum value:missing value, role:"AXMenuBarItem", value:missing value, subrole:"AXMenuExtra", selected:false, name:missing value, description:""}

After verifying the position by Accessibility Inspector, I can confirm that this menu extra is the menu icon I want to click. Then I write this:

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Parallels Desktop"
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
    end tell
end tell

or replace the "click" statement with:

perform action "AXPress" of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2

or with:

perform action "AXShowMenu" of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2

All of the above codes return the same result: missing value, and no menus show up at all!

As for the System UI Elements such as "input text", "date and time", "wifi", "battery", "VPN", the click method works. BUT for 3rd-party apps, it doesn't work.

So, how to click those 3rd-party menu extras via AppleScript?

Thank you so much!!

I was having an issue getting AppleScript to click on the menu extra of iTeleport Connect until I tried the following:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTeleport Connect"
tell (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2)
    click --  This click appears to be the important addition that allows you to drill down to the other items
    click menu item "Connect" of menu 1
end tell
end tell


Does gatekeeper not check apps stored in /Applications/? So I am not sure if this is supposed to happen but applications in '/Applications/' do not appear to be checked by Gatekeeper (As I previously asked and self answered about having to 'reset gatekeeper to default') the many exceptions I had added for various applications are now gone. However applications I know are not signed are still allowed to run.

After a manual check:

I manually checked things because I wanted to be certain that I hadn't made some sort of mistake. spctl says it's rejected but it can still open. Tor Browser shouldn't be allowed to run with my current ruleset that doesn't have a gatekeeper exception and with me only allowing apps from the App Store. If I download the Tor Browser Bundle from the Tor Project's website and try to open it I'm denied. Is gatekeeper not checking apps in /Applications/, or since I've run in the past - is there a separate exception list outside of gatekeeper, if so how would one reset that list as well? (Note: I did a reboot after the reset to default to be safe and the question still remains). Since I reset gatekeeper the apps hash is no longer exempt.

If I remember correctly executables are only checked by Gatekeeper if they have the quarantine filesystem attribute attached. And the quarantine filesystem attribute is (optionally) added by applications which download files from the internet.

So if Gatekeeper is not checking files it could be because the quarantine attribute has already been removed (after a successful check) or because they were downloading using an application that doesn't apply them in the first place (for example I think some torrent applications don't apply them, whereas most if not all web browsers do).

For example I just downloaded Firefox using the Safari web browser so if I run ls -l@ Firefox\ 54.0.1.dmg to show any attached file system attributes I get the following, which includes the quarantine tag...

-rw-r--r--@ 1 alistair  staff  59438170  7 Jul 00:23 Firefox 54.0.1.dmg
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDownloadedDate          53
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms         203
    com.apple.quarantine          61

This is why you see people suggesting removing the quarantine tag as a way to get around the Gatekeeper security prompts.


Automator: action/service on right click on an url I keep doing the same thing over and over:

Copy a url
Run a script with the url as a parameter

  php myscript.php --url "URL"

I'm pretty sure Automator can help here, but I'm completely stuck to understand how. My idea was to create a service: right click on the url > service > myscript.

How can I do that, or is there another solution out there?

Edit:

Here is what I tried, create a service with an URL as input.

Unfortunately, the service does not even show up when I right click.

Seems like "Service receives selected URLs" only works with Internet actions. Fortunately you can use the "Get Specified URLs" Internet action to relay the service input to your "Run Shell Script" action.

For example, I used the following automator service to open a selected link in a non-default browser. In my case Firefox but you can use Chrome or another browser.

Remove any address from the "Get Specified URLs" action so that the list is blank as in the screenshot above. Don't forget to "Pass input: as arguments" In the "Run Shell Script" action if you're using the "$@" notation.


I can screen share but not "connect" - I have Mavericks installed on my iMac & Macbook. I cannot "connect" to my Macbook from my iMac but I can screenshare with no problem. I have the appropriate sharing boxes checked on both machines.

What is the issue? Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Enable file share and make note of the address displayed.

To connect in file sharing follow this instructions.

If your "connect" applies to control the other computer then enable the Remote Management.

Set the allowed user (or all)

Make a note of the "address" provided.

Start the Remote Desktop Connection app.

Enter the other computers information previously noted (on that computers remote settings).

It is something like the "Other users can manage your computer using the address 10.5.50.86"


opening file from text wrangler to terminal I'm sure this is a very basic question, but I'm just beginning to learn programming and I've gotten to a lesson where I have to create a file in text wrangler, save it to the desktop (called test.txt) and then copy it into the terminal. I then have to use the "less" command to view the file. How do I get that file from my desktop into the command line? and I'm using a mac fyi..

Open up Terminal.

Your Desktop is at ~/Desktop (the ~ is a shortcut for your home folder) so cd ~/Desktopreturn to go there then less test.txtreturn

By the way, if you are going to use TextWrangler and Terminal you might want to visit http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/ and download the TextWrangler command line tools which allow you to open a file in TextWrangler from the command line, among other things.


"not supported on this architecture" error (git) I'm trying to install the Gitx Git client on my friend's mac and it seems to install fine but when I run it I get the following error:

You cannot open the application "GitXStable" because it is not supported on this architecture.

Ideas?

Intel application on a PowerPC Mac. Or vice versa. See if you can find an "Universal Binary" version of the application, which will run on either platform.

This link has a Universal Binary version: http://frim.frim.nl/GitXStable.app.zip


Why do settings disappear? Mail, usuallly Long-time Mac user, curious why, from time to time, Mail settings just plain disappear.

I only discover this when Mail suddenly can't connect. Have to input passwords again.

And not the same password or place (several email accounts.) Could be the server p/w missing, or the POP3. One of life's little mysteries, has persisted since at least Lion.

The keychain entries are fine, the keychain and in fact whole system well-maintained. So where do they go? What erases them and why?

Here is the explanation from my provider's tech support:

  We think you should turn off [automatically manage connection
  settings]; there should never be any reason for it to use different
  ones. You always want it to stick with the recommended port 587
  (etc.), no matter what.

  The trouble with that feature is that if your ISP connection stops
  working for a second, and Apple Mail can't connect, it will think "oh,
  the settings might be wrong, so let's try a different port". It tries
  something else at random, and maybe it works, because your ISP
  connection is working again. But Apple Mail wrongly assumes the port
  setting was the trouble -- so it saves the new setting! And then
  you're using something weird that only works on certain networks,
  etc., when it would have been better to keep the original "works
  everywhere" port number.

  Apple Mail is the only program we know of that does anything like
  this, and it's not a good idea, really; it's designed to help people
  if their mail server company changes things, but can cause problems in
  other cases. We've even seen cases where it randomly changes the
  settings to something that can never possibly work on any servers,
  although it's not supposed to.

As evidence for this explanation, when I turned it off and it revealed the port settings, they were different for each account (but all were wrong).


Adjust horizontal scrolling speed on a mouse or trackpad independent of the vertical speed I have recently bought a Logitech M510 as my main mouse switching over from a magic mouse. I didn't realize missing horizontal scrolling would be such an issue, but apparently it is.

Now a mac does support horizontal scrolling by holding shift + scrolling, this is however amazingly slow.

I have the Logitech Control Center installed, which offers a few extra options, but nothing regarding the horizontal scroll speed. The scrolling speed options offered there only affect vertical scrolling.

Can the vertical speed be one setting and the horizontal speed another?

You can make the horizontal scroll speed faster and independent by overriding the native ⇧+scroll function with SteerMouse's feature to define a custom relationship between inputs, scroll speed, and direction. You can even assign a scroll speed acceleration value if you want to combine slower and faster scroll speeds for enhanced precision.

Here's how to set it up:

In the SteerMouse preference pane, select the "Mouse" tab.
Switch the "Horizontal scrolling" option from "Tilt" to "Roll" (Fig. 1). This should be enough to let SteerMouse take over the handling of horizontal scrolling, which is what is invoked when you use the native ⇧+scroll function, so if you don't wish to make further scroll speed adjustment, you can stop here.
Select the "Scroll" tab (Fig. 2).
Click the "Roll Horizontally" button.
Make any further acceleration and sensitivity adjustments. You can also invert the horizontal scroll direction (Fig. 3).


How do I force Safari to show me Google search result pages in history? Safari's history doesn't seem to include Google search result pages.

Steps I go through which re-create this issue every time:

Search for anything from Safari's omnibar.
Visit a result (by clicking it).
Optional step: do anything else in Safari.
Hit ⌘+Y to load up the history.
Enjoy not seeing that intermediary Google results page in the list.

This is really frustrating.

How can I force Safari to show me Google search result pages in history?

I'm using Safari 11.0 (13604.1.38.1.6) and macOS High Sierra 10.13.

Click History > Search Results SnapBack or ⌥⌘S via keyboard shortcut


samples on Garageband on the iPhone? Is it possible to import samples into the iPhone version of Garageband?

I have see that its possible to do this on the iPad & mac version but I am not sure if I can do it on the iPhone.

Yes, you can import audio files into the iPhone version of Garageband.

Here are the instructions from Apple.


Faster alternative to ShakesPeer? I've used ShakesPeer for it's clean and Mac-like interface. But the downloads are really slow. Is there a faster alternative to ShakesPeer?

Preferably having at least the same features as ShakesPeer itself if not more. Also preferable if the software follows the Apple Human Interface Guidelines.

I haven't tried these but Jucy and EiskaltDC++ are two DirectConnect clients that work on mac.  However, neither appears to use a mac interface.

source: http://alternativeto.net/desktop/shakespeer/?sort=likes&platform=mac


Has App Store download size limit over Cellular data changed from 150 MB in iOS 12? I downloaded a 200 MB app over Cellular data today. Then I tried another 300 MB app, with no warnings whatsoever, and the download completed successfully. Final I tried a 1.2 GB download which failed with the popup warning message.

I understand that App Slicing has appeared since iOS 9. The actual download size is different from the indicated size. But after downloading, I checked in Setting app → General → → iPhone Storage, and the two apps are over 150 MB(198 MB and 211 MB). And they are new download not updates.

Is the size displayed incorrectly or has the upper cap for downloading new apps over Cellular data changed?

PS:I downloaded that two app before but uninstalled it.
Another assumption is that the downloaded content is actually less than 150 MB but there is a process of decompression?

No. The upper cap for downloading new apps over mobile data connection is unchanged from Apple. It's still at 150 MB. There is no official word from Apple after last revising the upper cap to 150 MB. This is the warning that I get (Indian App Store, accessing over 3G data connection in India) when attempting to download an app of size 2 GB.

However, the related Apple support document, If you can’t download or update apps, or if apps get stuck mentions the following in fine print.

  Connect to Wi-Fi

  If you’re using cellular data or Wi-Fi and have issues with an app, try to connect to another Wi-Fi network. You can use cellular data for apps up to 150 MB* in size.

  Get more help

  If you still have issues with apps on your device, contact Apple Support.

  *Depending on your country or region, and your carrier, the download limit might be higher.

The restriction is in place not due to some limitations in iOS, but to guard the mobile service providers network against congestions. From the statement it appears that some service providers must have worked with Apple and are offering a higher download size cap.


Web browser or extension to move multiple tabs between windows in a single action In Safari, I'd like to be able select multiple tabs at once, and move them all to an open or new window. Looking for extension (or magic Safari invocation) that can do this, I find no viable solutions.

Since Safari lacks this feature, is there any browser on OS X that does a better job of this, out of the box, or with an extension.

You might run a script like this in AppleScript Editor:

tell application "Safari"
    set w to window 1
    set namelist to name of tabs of window 1
    repeat with i from 1 to (count namelist)
        set item i of namelist to (i & " " & (item i of namelist)) as text
    end repeat
    set answer to choose from list namelist with multiple selections allowed
    if answer is false then return
    make new document
    repeat with i in (reverse of answer)
        move tab ((word 1 of i) as integer) of w to beginning of tabs of window 1
    end repeat
    delete tab -1 of window 1
end tell

This moves the current tab and all tabs right of it to a new window:

tell application "Safari"
    set l to tabs of window 1 where index ≥ (get index of current tab of window 1)
    make new document
    repeat with t in (reverse of l)
        move t to beginning of tabs of window 1
    end repeat
    delete tab -1 of window 1
end tell

Both scripts reload each tab though.

I normally just copy the URLs of tabs as text:

set text item delimiters to linefeed
tell application "Safari" to URL of tabs of window 1
set the clipboard to result as text

I can then for example copy part of the lines and run open $(pbpaste).


Sharing mac clipboard with vim inside terminal I use vim inside terminal and trying to share the mac clipboard with vim.

Compiled vim with xterm_clipboard support and installed XQuartz.

MacBook-Air:web-ui nagakirank$ vim --version | grep xterm_clipboard
+xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save

Nagas-MacBook-Air:web-ui nagakirank$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-ltuLWk/org.macosforge.xquartz:0

But,am not able to get Mac clipboard content inside vim using "+" register "+y.

Now,clueless on why it's not working..Need pointers on how to debug this?

Try building Vim 7.3 with the clipboard feature enabled. Starting in Vim 7.3, +clipboard uses the OS X pasteboard directly (via the * or + register, as you expected).

It probably is possible to use +xterm_clipboard with an X server configured to convert X’s selection to and from the OS X pasteboard, but it would probably be more problematic than the direct +clipboard solution.

As an example, the MacPorts build of the vim port that I have currently installed (vim @7.3.661_0+huge+perl+python27+ruby+tcl) has +clipboard, -xterm_clipboard, and can access the pasteboard through * and +.

Also, if you happen to be running Vim inside tmux you will probably need my wrapper program to reenable pasteboard access inside tmux sessions; this only applies to +clipboard access: X-mediated access might still work OK—as long as you keep DISPLAY updated—but still seems unnecessarily cumbersome to me.


Would it violate the TOS to install a third party hard drive? Is it a violation of apples terms of service to
  replace the factory installed hard drive with a larger third party
  one?

I understand that it is a violation of the terms of service to install OSX on non-apple hardware and I was wondering if installing a third party hard drive would be a violation. If so would I need to buy a first party hard drive directly from apple, or is it completely taboo to poke around inside an apple product?

Simply put can you replace the hard drive of an Apple laptop with a third party hard drive?

Done all the time. Apple does not make drives, so really all drives are non-Apple hardware.

The TOS restriction is targeted at complete clones - main board, case etc.

Various Apple models over the years have considered the drives to be user-replaceable - they just slide out without any tools. The pre-cylinder Mac Pro and XServes are good examples. Various laptop models made the drive very easy to change - one screw and it pops right out.


Updated my jailbroken iPhone 4s to 6.1.3, stuck in Recov. loop My iPhone 4s was jailbroken, I think at 5.something or 6.0. I wish I remembered. I tried to update it to 6.1.3 via my phone in the settings menu. It restarted and told me to connect to iTunes.

I connected to iTunes to restore and got a 3194 error. I tried tinyumbrella but I cant kick my phone out of recovery mode. I went into DFU mode and used tinyumbrellas "fix recovery" options with no luck, iTunes returned a 21 error. I went back into DFU mode and tried to restore my phone through iTunes again, but now that I'm in DFU mode, I'm getting a 1600 error.

I updated iTunes to 11.0.2 (latest) and tried to restore again. Instead of immediately throwing an error, it's now downloading the iPhone software update and has 75 minutes remaining.

Not sure if this will make a single difference when it actually tries to install it, but in the meantime does anyone have ideas?

If you jailbreak then update with the OTA function, your phone will have serious problems. I hope everything works out for you.


Automatically resume Transmission torrents Is there a way to make Transmission on OS X automatically resume seeding/downloading when it's launched?

It does that already.

If you have not downloaded the complete file it will automatically try to reconnect to peers to continue to download.  It may not start back up if...

No peers can be found
Other downloads have been listed (by you) as a higher priority and there is a download limit set.

Another situation may be if you've deleted the torrent file.  I'm actually not sure if the absence of the original torrent file will prevent the download from starting again or not.  But keeping it around until you're done doesn't hurt.

Transmission will also automatically seed the file when the app starts.  It may not restart if you have a max ratio set per file in the preferences -- if you've hit that ratio the file will not reseed.


difference between tty[p,r,s][N] and pts $ ps -ef | grep tty | grep root | grep "-sh"
root 25185 25184  0  Oct 14  ttyp4     0:00 -sh
root 22998 22997  0  Oct 14  ttyp2     0:00 -sh
root 25379 25378  0  Oct 13  ttyp0     0:00 -sh
root  1709  1708  0  Oct 13  ttyrf     0:00 -sh
root 27558 27552  0  Oct 14  ttyp5     0:00 -sh
root 28955 28954  0  Oct  1  ttys5     0:00 -sh
root 12124 12123  0  Oct 13  ttyq9     0:00 -sh
root 16255 16254  0  Oct  8  ttys8     0:00 -sh
root 13731 13729  0  Oct 13  ttyq1     0:00 -sh
root 24695 24694  0  Oct  8  ttys9     0:00 -sh
root 26969 26968  0  Oct  7  ttys7     0:00 -sh
root  3625  3624  0  Oct 15  ttyp6     0:00 -sh
root 22387 22385  0  Oct 13  ttys0     0:00 -sh
root  7946  7945  0  Oct  8  ttysb     0:00 -sh
root  1071  1070  0  Oct  1  ttys6     0:00 -sh

when I log in using SSH I get pts/1 let's saybut I do not understand why there are those root ttys[N]. Somewhere on google I found that it is equivalent to pts but the second question, why two different names for pseudoterminal? And the third question is for the command part of the ps output, is it just a pseudoterminal for sh (shell)?

OS X, like other UNIX-iod systems, implements two systems of pseudo-terminals: the pty system and the ptmx system (links are to the kernel source used in 10.9.5).

They both ultimately offer the same functionality: they let one program (e.g. a terminal emulator) open (the master side of) a pseudo-terminal and subsequently start other programs (e.g. a shell) running “in” (the slave side of) that same pseudo-terminal.

The pty system is older. The device nodes for the master sides of its pseudo-terminals match the pattern /dev/pty[pqrstuvw][0123456789abcdef]. The slave sides use corresponding nodes named with tty (/dev/tty[pqrstuvw][0123456789abcdef]). These device nodes are allocated when the system starts (i.e. they are always present in /dev/).

The ptmx system is newer and uses a single master device node, /dev/ptmx, and uses /dev/ttys[0-9][0-9][0-9] for the slave sides. The slaves device nodes are dynamically allocated (so only the nodes that are still in use exist in /dev/).

Basically, any program that uses the “modern” pseudo-terminal APIs will automatically end up using ptmx-based pseudo-terminals. Programs using the older pseduo-terminal interfaces will use pty-based pseudo-terminals.

In your case, when spawning its children, your sshd used the newer ptmx system (or an interface like openpty that uses it “under the hood”), but the pertinent ancestor of those root shells used the old pty system. If you are curious, you could trace the parent PIDs (PPID, the third column in your output) to find the ancestor program that spawned the line of processes that ended up running those root shells (the leading hyphen indicates that they are login shells).

Also, other systems may use variations on the device names. Some systems might go beyond 0–f for the pty names, and some systems use /dev/pts/<digits> (i.e. in a subdirectory instead of putting them all in /dev and having to use three digits to avoid conflict with the ttys0–ttys9 slave nodes from the pty system).


How do I connect an iPad to a projector? How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable.

If you use a VGA connection, the Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter might be of interest to you.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A


How do I eject the Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup? How do I set Time Machine to eject my external Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?

~/bin/timemachine:

#!/bin/bash

d="Time Machine"  # (change this to match the name of your backup drive)
diskutil mount "$d" && tmutil startbackup -b && diskutil eject "$d"

~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>timemachine_eject</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/username/bin/timemachine</string> <!-- Replace "username" with your username. "~/bin/timemachine" doesn't work -->
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>120</integer> <!-- run every two minutes for testing. -->
        <!-- Change this to a higher number like 43200 (run every 12 hours) once you've confirmed it works. -->
</dict>
</plist>

Make the script executable, unload the default plist, and load the new one:

chmod +x ~/bin/timemachine
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist

Any time you want to make changes to the plist file, you have to unload and load it:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist


force quit download from App Store How can I force quit download from App Store? I wanted to download OS X El Capitan for virtual machine usage (I don't have Install El Capitan.app in Applications for some reason), but my download is stuck:

Looks like this:

I can't reinitiate download, because I am already "downloading". How can I force quit download so that I can start fresh? Maybe the question should be, which activity should I cancel in Activity Monitor?

Go to the App Store and resume any unfinished downloads.

To do that, open the App Store and in the menu go to Store --> Check for unfinished downloads.  Enter your login credentials.  You can see any downloads that didn't complete.  From there you can restart or delete it.


Determine valid iMessage address on a Mac? On my iPhone, I can try messaging someone by tapping on a contact entry or enter a phone number or email address. If the person has iMessage enabled, the text entry field will say "iMessage" instead of "text message", and I'll know if the person can actually receive iMessage.

On my Mac, however, there is no way to tell. I can enter an email address, type in the test and send it, and attempt to send it. If I don't see the status as "delivered", I can guess maybe the other party doesn't have iMessage, but i never know, maybe the person's device is simply off line, or I can wait for a few hours to be sure.

Is there a way to determine whether the address is valid on a Mac like I can on the iPhone?

If it is not an e-mail address registered for the service, it will turn red.

Additionally, you will get an error message when trying to send the message.


What is OLK15message files and how to recover it? Can anyone explain to me what is an OLK15message file, what it has to do with Outlook 2016 for mac? Actually, my outlook mac database got corrupted and someone told me that Outlook Mac stores its database in OLK15 message files. Is that so? If yes then how can I recover OLK15message files in order to restore my Outlook 2016 for Mac?

Please keep the explanation basic as I am not at aware of complex technological terms. Thanks

Apart from OLM files, Mac Outlook creates temporary files in the backend called as OLK file. These contain data exclusively related to individual profiles. It is stored in the identity folder of the respective profile to which it relates. The OLK file only stores the header information of the mails data. For storing message content without attachment Mac Outlook Creates OLK14/15MSGSOURCE.

The location of OLK Files:
[user]/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Data Records/Messages Source

Its recovery is a bit risky one but here's an article that explains how to recover OLK15message files: http://olk15messagerecovery.blogspot.com/


Completely uninstall Adobe CS5 I once installed Adobe CS 5 as a Trial but now I pre-ordered the new suite. I've deleted the Adobe CS 5 suite, and installed the new suite. But whenever I try to open photoshop for example, the Software Setup pops up and tells me my trial of CS 5 has expired and I need to enter a serial.
I don't know if it will accept my CS 6 serial, but I first want to get rid of all (!) the CS 5 files.

I've tried the Adobe CS Cleaner tool, deleting the .cache and .pcd file in /Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD, but it's still asking for a serial... So I'm guessing there are still some files somewhere.

So, how do I delete ALL files of Adobe CS 5, so I can start over with a fresh copy of CS 6?

I'd start with the actual uninstaller rather than the cleaner.

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/uninstall-creative-suite-cs5-cs5.html

Adobe does do deep integration, and I've been known to just walk away from machines with too much adobe on them. If you feel the uninstaller isn't getting things clean enough, you can take it a step further as follows:

Perform a clean install of the OS
use Migration Assistant to bring in the user account rather than setting up a new user on the "clean" Mac
download the uninstaller onto the new admin account

At that point, you can run the uninstaller to clean out any ~/Library plugins that might be installed. It's overkill, but sometimes a clean start is better than trying to let uninstallers find every copy of files that have been zipped, moved, linked, etc...


Apple infinite load. I/O error and even a new HD My mac mini from the 2011 refused to boot. Apple logo and loading image forever..

I tried cmd+s: Went through all the steps from the applejack, tried fsck -fy, all semmed pok,

Tried cmd+v: It wouldn't fully load, got the error Disk02 I/O error (it was the original 1TB disk with two partitions),

So I thought the HD must be done, so I bought one Samsung SSD HD 120GB Sata 3,

Same result.

Thing is that I tried with both drives to install again the mac os x vía USB (I don't have a CD drive) and in both cases I came up with the tipical 'you must reboot your computer' error scereen.

So With the new HD replacing I did same steps, cmd+s and cmd+v provided same results....

Any thoughts?

First I would try doing the NVRAM reset by restarting and holding down Command-Option-P-R until you hear the startup sound a second time. Then I would try an SMC reset. Mavericks and Mountain Lion can be pretty finicky and even strange when new hardware is installed. I've had to reset the SMC on my system with Mavericks 3 times since I started using Mavericks. In my case, it's Mavericks, not the hardware. It's buggy.

The I/O error typically is either a bad drive or cable, so you probably did have a real hardware problem at some point. I'd be inclined to recommend Scannerz (http://scsc-online.com/Scannerz.html) to test it, but you need a working system to use it, and if you can't even get yours to boot, that obviously won't help.

Does the Mac Mini even have a SATA cable to the HD, or is it a connector that sits on the logic board with the HD plugging directly into it?