What does this blue dot in the Dock in Mojave mean? I have this pale blue dot above Firefox (I have seen in on other apps also.)

I have only noticed this in Mojave.

What does it mean?

My Dock is in the vertical position.

Here is is in the horizontal position:

More info from Dock:

$ defaults read com.apple.dock.plist | grep "file-label"
                "file-label" = Siri;
                "file-label" = Launchpad;
                "file-label" = Safari;
                "file-label" = Mail;
                "file-label" = Contacts;
                "file-label" = Notes;
                "file-label" = Reminders;
                "file-label" = Maps;
                "file-label" = Photos;
                "file-label" = Messages;
                "file-label" = FaceTime;
                "file-label" = Pages;
                "file-label" = Numbers;
                "file-label" = Keynote;
                "file-label" = News;
                "file-label" = iTunes;
                "file-label" = Books;
                "file-label" = "App Store";
                "file-label" = "System Preferences";
                "file-label" = iTerm;
                "file-label" = Downloads;
                "file-label" = "Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub";
                "file-label" = "Activity Monitor";
                "file-label" = Firefox;

I've seen instances in the past when certain app icons appear incredibly small in the Dock, to the point that clicking on them does nothing. The icon in your screenshot looks very similar to the Twitter icon, so if you're a Twitter user it could be that.

Regardless, I would start with restarting the Dock as a first step. To do this:

Now open Terminal (usually located in Applications > Utilities)
Enter this command killall Dock
Press enter

Once you've done that, use your Mac for long enough to know if this has resolved the issue. If it hasn't, then you can do a reset and restart of your Dock as follows.1

To reset and restart the Dock, follow these steps:

Go to Finder
Press and hold the option key down
Now go to the Go menu
Select the Library option to open the User's Library folder. You can let go of the option key now.
Go to the Preferences folder (i.e. within the Library folder)
Find and move the com.apple.dock.plist file to the Trash
Now open Terminal (usually located in Applications > Utilities)
Enter this command killall Dock
Press enter

Once you've done that, use your Mac for long enough to know if this has resolved the issue.

1. IMPORTANT: After doing this you will need to re-add any non-default icons (i.e. apps) that you've added to the Dock. Before proceeding you may want to take some notes (or a screenshot of your Dock) as a reminder of what you had there previously.


Excel File Saved in Auto Recovery Please Help I have been working on an Excel document for 6 hours and it has saved in an auto recovery file that I cannot access.

I have reassured that I need to go to finder and select go. However I have a macbook pro and there is no go option in Finder.

Please help

If you have Office 2011, do this:

Go to the Finder, and press Alt (or Option) while selecting Go from the menu at the top
This will make the Library folder visible (if you don’t press Alt you won’t see it and you have to keep Alt pressed or it will vanish)
Next go to the following folders: Application Support > Microsoft > Office > Office 2011 AutoRecovery

When you see the Office 2011 in this view you will be able to locate your file.


How do i customize the "title" on the first page of Wiki Server 4 on OS X Server Mountain Lion? How do i customize the "title" on the first page of Wiki Server 4 on OS X Server Mountain Lion?

The title says "OS X Server" and i want it to say something else... How can i do that?

Ok... i did some digging around... and struck gold.
The digging part is not for the "faint of heart" since the Terminal is your best friend and some coding knowledge is involved. Suffice to say my trip in Wiki Server 4 land led me through Ruby on Rails code.
I was surprised to find that i'm able to read ruby code, and i don't know Ruby at all.
After looking through Model Views and Controllers i figured out the solution was simpler than i anticipated.
To modify the title on the first page you need to edit a .strings file.
You need to use the download version (not the mac app store app) of TextWrangler or some other editor that allows Authenticated Saves (save files as other users).
Make sure the Wiki service is off... the slider in the server app is off.
The location of the file depends on your language locale that you use:
/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/collabd/coreclient/locales/en.lproj
where "en" can be either de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, zh_CN, zh_TW depending on your wiki language.

First()
you need to right click on the file and "Get Info" and adjust the permissions temporarily for "Everyone" to "Read and Write".

Open the file in TextWrangler and find the key general.os_x_server and under it you can modify the string "OS X Server" to anything you want "My own company Wiki".

Save()
the file.

Second()
you need to right click on the file and "Get Info" and adjust the permissions temporarily for "Everyone" back to just "Read".

Move()
the slider in the Server App to On again for the wiki.

Enjoy!!!


How can I view images from iPhoto in Finder? On my MacBook, with 10.7.3, if I go to ~/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary, no images show in the Finder, though it does say "size 4.01GB". If I double click on iPhotoLibrary, iPhoto opens up — is this the only way to view images and drag files, etc? Can't I view them in Finder?

The iPhoto (and Aperture) library is now a package — it's still a folder on disk, but in order to view its contents, you must explicitly choose File > Show Package Contents in Finder (or you can right-click on it).


iCal loads, but quits after a few seconds I added a calendar from my Google account in Ical and now it quit about 3 seconds after loading.

I have tried the solution described here:  https://discussions.apple.com/message/3680441#3680441
but I don't even have user's Library > Application Support > iCal

OS X 10.6.7

You could try the same solution in the post you linked, but the calendars are stored in a different location (and format) in Snow Leopard. The calendars are stored as sub-folders of ~/Library/Calendars in Snow Leopard.

If you have multiple calendars, you can check the date each folder was created to see which one would be the Google calendar.


Where are the latest drivers for the Intel HD Graphics 4000? Strangely enough, I haven't been able to find any official website or webpage that hosts the official Intel HD Graphics 4000 latest drivers for OS X (10.9, to be specific).

Where are the drivers hiding?

The drivers for Intel GPU HD4000 are modified by apple and the revisions are delivered to you bundled in software updates.

If you want a access to specific driver open the installation package from 10.9 with specific tools for that and get it from there.


How can I extract locally stored Notes from iOS without enabling the cloud? A family member has been using an iPhone since around 2012 and regularly uses the Notes feature to store various things to remember. At some point, syncing of notes was no longer supported by Apple as they decided that everything should be on iCloud. Said family member does not want anything on the cloud.

A few upgrades of the OS later and we're now in a situation that they have these multiple notes on the device, but are ONLY accessible on the device. Though I presume they're all getting backed up as part of the phone's backup process on iTunes, I'm imagining that they're stored in some binary format (PostgreSQL?) and not easily extracted if they decide one day to switch to Android. The only way out, it appears, is to COPY every note to either an email or to an iCloud note which neither is very appealing.

Is there any way to do this? Preferably, it would be ideal if the notes would sync with their laptop's Notes application like it used to a few years ago, but I'm assuming that Apple won't change that back.

This is a frustrating problem, and many folks are not happy with Apple's decisions regarding this direction of iCloud only syncing.

While you can use Airdrop to copy individual notes from iPhone to the notes app on the Mac, that entails copying each note which you have already said is onerous (I would agree if there are many notes). The advantage this process has is that it's free, and it moves the notes into the Notes app on the Mac.

Since this iPhone isn't synced anywhere in the cloud, there are several commercial apps that you can run that allow you to control your sync options with your iPhone. These have been made popular by Apple restricting what you can and cannot do between an iOS device and a computer.

Two that I have tested, and offer free trials, are SyncIOS and iMazing.

Both of these are generally well reviewed and easy to use. Both have limitations of their free trials and cost around $35 USD to unlock their full potential.

But even these programs don't actually support syncing of notes between Mac and iPhone. You can see and read the existing notes on the phone, but you have to export them to the desktop and then manually import them into Notes. Note here, SyncIOS allows you to actually create new notes from within the app on the iOS device!

So Notes, images, music and even voicemails are easily accessible, and you can back them up as well on your local desktop. Both apps come in Mac and PC versions and both require a USB connection to the iPhone or iPad.

For my money, iMazing is a more polished, feature rich app and it can easily access existing backups from iPhones or iPads. But either of these fine apps will meet the basic needs you mention in your post.


Missing Safari-plugin for audio/MIDI I am using Mac OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) on a late 2012 27" iMac, running Safari 7.0.1 and I always install all new software updates.

But now I have a problem with midi-files that are embedded in websites (like wikipedia, take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality as an example). When I click on one of those midi-files I expect to hear music. But instead I get an error message telling me that there is no plugin for content of the type "audio/midi".

Where can I download the missing plugin?

I am not really shure, but I believe that playing midi files from a website was no problem in previous versions of OS X. Is this a bug in Mavericks?

EDIT 1 (Nov 2014):

This question is almost one year old and has more then 10,000 views, but is still left without an useful answer. And midi is still not supported by Safari 8 and Yosemite.

I do NOT want to download outdated software to use a widely used feature that was supported for many years and is neither a security risk nor any other harm to any computer, just because Apples developers are too reluctant and lame to continue supporting such a simple file format. And I do NOT want to download files and later open them with some other software.

What I want is this:

A plugin for Safari that I can install additionally to any other plugins (meaning: leave the newest Quicktime-plugin as it is and additionally install a new midi-plugin that is independent from Quicktime) to be able to hear music when I click onto a link to a midi-file in a html-document like this.

EDIT 2 (Dec 2014, when starting the bounty):

12,000+ views and still no useful answer.
To win the bounty please post a link to a site where you can download a plugin for Safari that is independent from Quicktime, that can be installed without replacing Quicktime to make it possible to play music that is encoded in Midi-files, like Quicktime did in previous times, just by clicking on a link to a midi-file.

EDIT 3 (May 2015):

20,000+ views and still no useful answer.

I can't believe, that there is really no plugin for Safari (or other browsers running on an iMac; OS X) that is able to play midi-music.

As with any other audio file that is linked in a website, I just want to click on it and do no other extras to hear the music that is stored in this file.

Hey, this worked already 20 years ago, in 1995, in the first days of Internet. This can't be so hard in 2015!

Support for playing .mid files in Safari was removed in 10.8. The QuickTime plugin from 10.7 or 10.6 still works in 10.9 though. See https://discussions.apple.com/message/23948316#23948316.

Copy /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin from a 10.7 or 10.6 installation to ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ on your 10.9 or 10.8 installation.
Run these commands:

f=~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/QuickTime\ Plugin.plugin/Contents/Info.plist
defaults write "$f" CFBundleName 'QuickTime Plugin.plugin2'
defaults write "$f" CFBundleIdentifier 'com.apple.QuickTime Plugin.plugin2'
defaults write "$f" WebPluginMIMETypesFilename com.apple.quicktime.plugin2.preferences.plist

Save this file as ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin2.preferences.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>WebPluginLocalizationName</key>
    <string>en_US</string>
    <key>WebPluginMIMETypeFilteringVersion</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
    <key>WebPluginMIMETypes</key>
    <dict>
     <key>audio/mid</key>
     <dict>
         <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
         <array>
          <string>mid</string>
          <string>midi</string>
          <string>smf</string>
          <string>kar</string>
         </array>
         <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
         <string>MIDI</string>
         <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
         <true/>
     </dict>
     <key>audio/midi</key>
     <dict>
         <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
         <array>
          <string>mid</string>
          <string>midi</string>
          <string>smf</string>
          <string>kar</string>
         </array>
         <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
         <string>MIDI</string>
         <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
         <true/>
     </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Quit and reopen Safari.

After that you should be able to play .mid files in Safari, but you have to allow websites to use the plugin manually:

You can also play .mid files with VLC or QuickTime Player 7.


Managing Virtual Macs on a closed network I have a lab of VMWare virtual Macs on a network with no Internet access.  What options do i have for managing these Macs, other than one at a time?  I am looking at ARD and JAMF at the moment...

Apple Remote Desktop turns out to be the answer.  It is important that ARD have a separate administrative user account, and I recommend that the account be hidden from users' view.


Extention enable PHP In my PHP.ini, the extensions are not uncommented.

;extension=php_curl.so

But in phpinfo(), I can see that curl (by example) is enable and in my code I can use it.

But I can't understand why curl is enable, someone can help me?

My conf :

PHP 5.5.34
OS X El Capitan 10.11.5

Extensions can be loaded into PHP two ways. Either statically at compile time, or dynamically at run time.

Statically loaded extensions are included in the PHP binary at compile time, and does not require an extension= line in php.ini to load it.

Dynamically loaded extensions are not included in the PHP binary, but are saved as dynamic link libraries (.so files on OS X). They require a extension= line in php.ini to load it at run time.

The short answer to your question: Your cURL extension is statically compiled with the PHP executable, therefore it works even though you haven't got a extension=php_curl.so line in php.ini.


Are there any specific configurations for SSD's on mac? A couple of months ago, I bought an SSD for my MBP. At that time, I remember to have stumbled upon a blog/article suggesting a few options to activate/deactivate.

I cannot find that page again. What are the things to activate/deactivate?

PS : for example, I remember desactivating something about spotlight indexation.

Thanks,

EDIT : (Irrevelant to the question)

A little feedback about the SSD experience. Well I bought my MBP about a year ago. I work in IT sector and create a quite a lot websites. I had the "classic" hdd before it (250go). After a few months, the disk started to make noise. Clicking and ticking. My Mac being absolutely critical, (without it I can't work) I decided to take no risk and to buy an SSD for two reasons :

First of all, it's shock resistance. I have to move around a lot and my MBP follows me everywhere. And thus is shaken from time to time.
Secondly beacause of the performance gain.

There are a few other reasons but they were not really decisive in my case.

Such as noise reduction. Working mostly with a headset noise or not, I won't hear it.
Battery is supposed to last longer since SSD are less power consuming. In my case, I haven't seen any changes about it. It is not lasting longer or running out of power earlier than before. No changes about that.

Let's say, SSD is a total change. You can buy a new processor three fo four times faster than the one, you had before, double your ram, chagne your motherboard, do whatever yo want. Nothing is going to provide the same performance boost as an SSD.

Even now, nearly 8 months later, performance is still present and not impacted by usage.

It sounds like you found this blog post. Looks like he changes hibernate to mode 0 (so it doesn't create a sleep image file), mounts the drive in noatime mode.
A note on TRIM, if you have a sandforce controller in your SSD, like the OWC drives and many (most) of the OCZ drive, it's not recommended to enable TRIM. It can cause instability and these newer controllers are supposed to do  much better cleanup. Intel drives are supposed to benefit quite a bit from TRIM though.


Why does my Logitech C920 camera turn off and on again during recording with Photo Booth? I have a Logitech C920 external webcam connected to my MacBook Air (13 inch, 2020) via a USB Type-C Hub.
I've been using it successfully to record videos using Photobooth until couple of days ago I upgraded the operating system to BigSur 11.1. Thereafter I started to experience following problem: In the middle of a recording, the blue indicator light on the webcam turns off and on again, and in the resulting video there are a couple of black frames.
I thought that maybe some device attached to the USB hub is getting too much power, so I removed all the devices (the mouse and the mobile router) from that hub so that the camera was the only one connected to the hub. This did not solve the problem.
I then downloaded and installed the Logitech settings app and currently I have following settings:

Yesterday I turned off Auto focus and it seemed that it helped. However, today I again had those flashes.
I record videos that are between 6 and 15 minutes long. The problem gets worse towards the end of a video.
What can be the cause of this problem and how can I fix it?
Update 1: Here is a video where between 00:04 and 00:05 you can see how the blue indicator light of the camera turns off and on again.
Update 2: Today I tried to record a 10-minute video using the built-in camera and I had the same effect as with the external one.

I'd first connect the camera directly, not via any hub. I have the same C920 & it can be sensitive to that. (Hmm, of course that may not be possible on USB-C… which would make eliminating the hub itself as a cause much tougher.)
Secondly, I would watch Activity Monitor whilst the recording is running, see if you can spot any jump in activity even on an unrelated process.
Thirdly, ensure as much as possible that any other user-controlled process isn't going to need resources at the same time. Video recording is resource-intensive, so try not to share the task with anything else that may be greedy.
Lastly, check you have lots of disk space so that you're not choking the process at write. As the issue increases with recording duration, this may be high on the list. Potentially video write & virtual memory may start to compete for the same space.


iCloud for Automator and services Since Mavericks, Automator is now able to store services (.workflow) in iCloud.

The problem is that services are not available in the Services menu or contextual menu (right-click) when I store them that way.

Am I missing something? I don't see the point of iCloud for Automator if I have to duplicate the services to ~/Library/Services in order to use them.

You can save services anywhere, not just iCloud or the correct Service location. Because of this, I used to save services in my Dropbox and symlink them on multiple Macs. With the advent of iCloud, I use this instead, saving my services in iCloud then symlinking them on multiple machines.

Also, iCloud in Automator is not just for services — it'll sync all the Automator files, including workflows and applications.


Xcode/WatchKit - how do I run the regular app on iPad/other devices? Could anyone please tell me, now that I have added a WatchKit target to my application, if it is possible to just run the main target on devices which don't support the watch (i.e. the original part of the app which worked on iPads and iPhoneOS < 8?).

Xcode keeps telling me I can no longer run the main app target (not the watchkit target) on my iPad because:

Ineligible Devices : My iPad (Apple Watch not supported)

Does this mean I will have to keep two versions of my project- one for WatchKit apps and one for non-WatchKit apps?!

All I want to do is run and debug the main app, part of a larger project which includes a Watch interface, on a device which cannot pair with an Apple Watch. Apologies if this has been asked already, some Monday google-foo couldn't find an answer; also please feel free to edit the question if it seems unclear.

Turns out this is a completely non-issue.

Restart the device.

Answered here to keep the keywords for search, in case (like I did) others assume that it's a WatchKit issue, not a device/xCode connection issue.


How do you enable the app-context-dependent touch bar for Photoshop on the new 2016 rmbp How do you enable the app-context-dependent touch bar for Photoshop on the new 2016 rmbp?

I've just updated to the latest CC software 2017.0 releases - and not seeing the custom touch bar. A Google search yields a ton of news article demonstrations without actually telling you how to enable it.

A corollary question is - which are the context-specific touchbar apps?

You run Photoshop CC 2017 Version 18.0.1?

From the release note:

  Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop - Photoshop now supports Touch Bar,
  the multitouch display at the top of the new MacBook Pro keyboard;
  Touch Bar support in Photoshop is currently a technology preview
  feature

Adobe said it is an experimental feature. It could be that this functions is not turned on automatically.

You can turn it on here: Preferences > Technology Previews > Enable Touch Bar


Modifier keys when working remotely are broken / lazy I work a lot from home, using screen-sharing to control my remote Mac mini from my (local) MBP laptop, or my customers' machines using ARD (or even TeamViewer).
Recently I've started having problems with the modifier keys (ShiftOptionControlCommand ) - maybe since upgrading to macOS Sierra, but I'm not sure.
The problem
It seems to me that the transfer of the modifier key state to the remote machine has changed - and has become "lazy".
By this I mean:

Before: As soon as I pressed a modifier key, this was immediately reflected on the remote machine.

Now: The state of the modifier key is only changed on the remote machine when I also press a normal key.

This means that...

trying to perform a mouse action (click / drag) with modifier keys does not work anymore
modifier keys get stuck in a particular state until I press another key to free them up
doing remote work has become very difficult.

The question is:
It seems to be a bug/defect.  Does anybody have a fix/workaround to this weird modifier key behavior?

I've been using MBP for quite a while and researched such problems often, as I come from the Windows world, so generally I need to do some modifications to get used to it.

Recently I was curious if any alternative exist for Karabiner, but this similar thread refers also to Karabiner: https://superuser.com/a/263719/594221

Indeed, I haven't found any stable tool like this to workaround such problems.


How can I move the newstand app into a folder? Possible Duplicate:
  Can I put Newsstand into a folder?

How can I create a folder for the pre-installed apps that come on my ipad that I don't use?

You can't.  Perhaps unless you jailbreak your device first.


How do sync programs get around the iOS sandbox? The various iOS sync programs (SugarSync, BitTorrent Sync, etc.) claim to be able to read files anywhere on the phone. I don't see how data from my application -- in my app's sandbox -- can be accessed. How is it that these programs are able to read/write outside their sandbox and get my app's data?

They can't as all 3rd-party apps on a non-jailbroken iOS device are limited by the sandbox, both installed from the App Store and from ad-hoc/enterprise distribution.

Either they are using public APIs to access data 'the iOS way' (structured and anticipated) such as accessing the Camera Roll to import/save photos, or are integrated with an app to share data in a way that the developers of both apps have worked together to make it happen (this doesn't necessarily mean they actually know each other as they could have used a framework, such as the Dropbox framework).


SMTP Issues with Mountain Lion 10.8 BACKGROUND

I upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8 on  7/28/12
I upgraded Xcode from 4.4 to 4.4.1 on 8/8/12

PROBLEM

On 8/9/12, on my MacBook Air, Mail.app refuses to connect to the SMTP service on a server that I frequently use.  Mail.app reliably connects to the IMAP and WWW services running on the exact same server.  Mail.app also reliably connects to 4 or 5 other SMTP servers.

SETTINGS

Incoming Mail is set to use IMAP on 993 with SSL.  No problems with incoming mail.
Outgoing Mail is set to use the default ports, with SSL and Password authentication.

EFFORTS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM

I can telnet to the server on port 587 with no issue.  The server responds as it should.
I can ping the server and connect to it via SSH or WWW.
My iPhone and iPad with the exact same SMTP settings are able to, from the same WiFi network, send mail without issue.
The same problem happens if I use the server's public IP or its domain.
I experience this on my network at work and when connected through a VPN to another network.
I have deleted and recreated the SMTP server in Mail.app with no success.
I have deleted and reinstalled the certificates associated with the server with no success.
I tried to create a new IMAP and SMTP account for the same server using another name and password.  Upon setup, IMAP was found and connected immediately, but the SMTP server was never found.
Using Sparrow, I tried to add an account on the server and also did not get past the SMTP portion.
Connection doctor shows NOTHING as far as attempts to reach the server for SMTP.  All IMAP attempts are logged and attempts to reach the other SMTP servers appear as they should.  But, there is nothing showing for attempts to reach the SMTP service on the server in question.
In my SMTP server settings, I tried manually adding 587 both with SSL and without without any success.  My mail server only accepts on 587.
Restarted Mail, restarted MacBook Air, flushed DNS entries.
Dragged the Mail and Mail Downloads Folders out of ~/Library and tried recreating the account.  Again, it connected to IMAP fine, but stalled when trying to connect to the SMTP server.

I ended up having to go to ~/Library/MailData, edit Accounts.plist,  and remove the keys and value entries related to SSLEnabled. Luckily I had a POP server that was okay to copy from. There were two entries, first the SSLEnabled one and the following entry all good for now.


iPhone 4s Recover from lost lockscreen password I have an iPhone 4s.  I've locked it and forgotten the passcode.  I don't have an iTunes backup to restore from.  When I go through the power+home button loop attached to iTunes and then ask it to "restore" it fails saying "This device isn’t eligible for the requested build".  Any idea how a I reset the phone.  I don't actually want to do an iOs update, but iTunes doesn't seem to give me any other option.

You don't.  You can only install a version of iOS that Apple is still signing.  For the 4S, that would be 9.2.1.


Mac OS Catalina not Downloading I have re installed my mac to fresh El Capitan on my MacBook Pro. Now at the app store it is showing the Catalina version Updates but when I click on Download nothing is happening. I have previously used it but since after the fresh installation download is not working. How can I fix it? After clicking the download button, the download button fades like this but nothing is happening. Internet is working properly as well.

I managed to install it by first upgrading it to Mojave then able to download and install the Catalina.


Can websites be locked down on the iPad? In our network, we use NetMotion to lock down laptops in the field so they can only access what we allow them to access (no ESPN, news, Google) in the truck. As we look at iPad 3Gs (and similar competitors), we want to be sure we keep the same tight control on what websites they visit (and have internal access to network resources at the same time). Is this possible?

VPN isn't really effective unless there is a way for it to be forced on at all times.

apple.com, ipad for business:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/resources/

From disabling Safari completely (allowSafari=false) to functional options:

Enable autofill: When this option is off, Safari doesn’t remember what users enter in web forms.
Force Fraud warning: When this option is off, Safari doesn’t attempt
to prevent the user from visiting websites identified as being
fraudulent or compromised.
Enable JavaScript: When this option is
off, Safari ignores all javascript on websites.
Block pop-ups: When
this option is off, Safari’s pop-up blocking feature is disabled.
Accept cookies: Sets Safari’s cookie policy. Choose to accept all
cookies, accept no cookies, or reject cookies from sites not directly
accessed.

Thereby you can limit the iPad to only apps (and webapps) installed by you.


Turn off encrypted backup on iPhone that has a profile without removing profiles I have iPhones that have profiles on them that were password protected profiles and those passwords have been lost.  So we need to wipe the iphones and was hoping to to a backup first and then restore without the profiles on there.  Problem is, it won't let me do a backup without encrypting first.  I have read that in order to not encrypt the backup you need to remove the profiles, but in this case we can't remove the profiles.
Is there any way to turn this encryption off??

When you have a profile that enforces encryption of backups, you really only have three options:

Live with the encrypted backups and do nothing.
Get someone to remove the profile (or wipe the device along with the profile and start over being careful to not allow profiles that force you into encrypted backups).
Somehow exploit a bug or flaw in the security of iOS and bypass this lock. I would expect you to pay big money or have some assistance from NSA-like organization to accomplish this last item unless someone publishes a weakness in iOS that we could take advantage of to bypass the security your iPhone has configured.

As it stands, you will likely have to remove the profile to bypass the restriction that iOS has on not doing a backup in the manner you wish.


Can my iPhone be wiped when I am connected to my employer's Exchange server? I connected to my employer's Exchange server in order to receive email, calendar, etc...  In the small print of the instructions, it was mentioned that by doing that, the administrators gain the right to remotely wipe my phone.  Note that I own the phone - not the employer.

There are several documents on the internet that provide instructions (while not mentioning iPhone specifically, but rather generic "phone").

Is remote wipe actually possible with an iPhone just by connecting to an employer's Exchange server?

Yes, depending on how things are configured, your employer may be able to wipe your device. The ability to wipe only the Exchange account data was added later as an optional wipe mode.

From another TechNet article:

  Your users carry sensitive corporate information in their pockets every day. If one of them loses their mobile phone, your data can end up in the hands of another person. If one of your users loses their mobile phone, you can use the Exchange admin center (EAC) or the Exchange Management Shell to wipe their phone clean of all corporate and user information. (emphasis added)

In other words, the phone is not "completely erased" -- but all user data is destroyed. I believe this is accomplished on iOS by throwing away the encryption key. The operating system remains, but all user data is gone.

For example:

  In June of 2016 Microsoft announced an update to the Exchange ActiveSync protocol which they called EAS 16.1. Among the improvements in EAS 16.1 was the addition of account-only remote wipes, which allows an administrator to issue a remote wipe for only the Exchange mailbox data on a mobile device. Previously, a remote wipe for an ActiveSync device would wipe the entire device if the user was using a native mail application to connect from the device.


Direct download link for iTunes for Microsoft Windows (not from Microsoft Store) I wish to download iTunes for Windows 10. I am looking for a direct download link on Apple’s website rather than downloading it from Microsoft Store. When I visit Apple Support - Downloads page, and click on the download link, It redirect me to this page:

https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

There it says I need to get iTunes from the Microsoft store.

I cannot use Microsoft Store at work as it is disabled by IT, but I am allowed to install and use iTunes.

Is there a direct download link for iTunes for Microsoft Windows 10 hosted somewhere on the official Apple website?

You can download iTunes 12.9.1.4 for Microsoft Windows using the following direct link(s) on Apple's website:

iTunes for Microsoft Windows (64-bit)
iTunes for Microsoft Windows (32-bit)

The links should work for the time being, however the same may change with subsequent updates to the software.


Restore Firefox & Thunderbird user data from Time Machine I have a fresh installation to which I want to transfer my Firefox and Thunderbird user data. I have my Time Machine backup available from Other backup disk and could in principle restore the hidden Library folder. However, I don't want to migrate everything from my old Library to the fresh install.

Which Firefox and Thunderbird user data folders do I have to migrate to my fresh installation?

The User Data folders for Firefox and Thunderbird are:

/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Firefox
/Users/$USER/Library/Thunderbird

You might also want to migrate the .plist files for them as well:

/Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
/Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.thunderbird.plist

Make sure the applications are close before migrating the folders/files.


Error image slideshow when booting I am booting an imac from a USB drive containing OS X 10.13. I get an infinite slideshow alternating between the following two images, which don't seem to coherently convey anything. I am able to skip the slideshow, but I am having other problems that I think might be more resolvable if I knew what the slideshow was supposed to mean. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure these images are intended to remind you that the computer is trying to connect to a couple of Bluetooth devices, the second of which appears to show the underside of a Magic Mouse. You should be able to remedy this by performing the NVram reset upon restarting, except that when the screen lights at the last startup cycle, you'll have to immediately press and hold "Option" to select your USB drive to boot from again. You may also have to initiate Safe Boot Mode before the NVram reset. These procedures may take a while, especially when booting from a USB drive.


Homebrew Cask: List all formula available for installation After updating the local Homebrew cache by running brew update, I have been using brew search and brew cask search to list all the available formula for installation via Homebrew Core and Homebrew Cask respectively. Note that skipping the argument after search does the trick of listing all the formula available for installation.

While brew search still works, this is no longer the case with Homebrew Cask. Instead, now running brew cask search displays the explanatory text:

  Homebrew Cask provides a friendly CLI workflow for the administration
  of macOS applications distributed as binaries.

followed by a list of available Homebrew commands.

What command one need to run, to get a list of all the formula available for installation via Homebrew Cask?

While it is still possible to navigate to:

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks

and obtain the desired list, I am looking for a solution along the lines of previously working brew cask search.

I am running up-to-date version of Homebrew (Homebrew 2.0.4) on macOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109).

$ brew search --casks

Commands beginning with brew cask have been merged into brew (i.e. brew search, brew cleanup).

You can use the --casks flag in brew search to "display all locally available casks".

$ brew search -h
Usage: brew search [options] [text|/text/]

Perform a substring search of cask tokens and formula names for text. If
text is surrounded with slashes, then it is interpreted as a regular
expression. The search for text is extended online to homebrew/core and
homebrew/cask.

If no text is passed, display all locally available formulae (including tapped
ones). No online search is performed.

        --casks                      Display all locally available casks
                                     (including tapped ones). No online search
                                     is performed.
        --desc                       search formulae with a description matching
                                     text and casks with a name matching
                                     text.
        --macports                   Search for text in the given package
                                     manager's list.
        --fink                       Search for text in the given package
                                     manager's list.
        --opensuse                   Search for text in the given package
                                     manager's list.
        --fedora                     Search for text in the given package
                                     manager's list.
        --debian                     Search for text in the given package
                                     manager's list.
        --ubuntu                     Search for text in the given package
                                     manager's list.
    -v, --verbose                    Make some output more verbose.
    -d, --debug                      Display any debugging information.
    -h, --help                       Show this message.


Is there any way to disable the Home button on an iPad? My professor asked me to help him out to find some information about the iPad.

We are going to buy like 10 iPads to give it out to our senior of the school board and we want only the PDF file that we are going to sync it to be appear on the screen.

I know this is almost impossible without jailbreak, but the iPad wouldn't be able to jailbreak and the people who going to get the iPad they don't really know how to use them, and if they sometime press on the home button they will mess it up and don't know how to get back to the screen that have PDF file.

So I heard of Kiosk Pro but really I don't know how it works and I don't know if they will spend that much of money to buy the license again to this task.

So I want to know some information from you guys if there is any demo app like what Apple does put the iPad 1 beside each of the products to show the specification of the product and have the case cover the home button so no one can go back to home screen?

Thanks.

iOS 6 now has a software feature to block variable parts of the screen and hardware buttons. The feature is called "Guided Access". A PIN is needed to unlock the device afterwards.

How to use Guided Access


When I reset my iPhone, will it deactive my service with my carrier? I have the iPhone 5s that is 16 GB. I deleted many apps and photos, but I still have no storage and memory. My only option is to restart my iPhone completely, meaning to erase all my data and media on it. I'm
wondering if this was disconnect the service with my Verizon carrier...

The phone is connected to Verizon via the SIM card, not the phone itself. So, no, reseting your phone will not deactivate your service.


automator to run AppleScript for a shell script For a selected file in Finder, I like to run a perl script using Services. I created an Automator process that runs an AppleScript:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "/Users/myaccountname/Applications/TeXcount_3_0/texcount.pl \"" & (input as string) & "\""
    end tell
end run

The only problem is that the selected filename appears as something like:

"Macintosh HD:Users:myaccountname:Documents:texfile.tex"

which the perl script cannot understand. How can I make it a UNIX-like filename?

You'll need to get the POSIX path of the input file:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "/Users/myaccountname/Applications/TeXcount_3_0/texcount.pl \"" & ( POSIX path of input as string) & "\""
    end tell
end run

I found the answer over at StackOverflow.


If I authenticate a second iTunes can they browse and watch movies I've bought? I would like to authenticate my sibling's iTunes on his mac so he can watch movies I've bought. I know if I authenticate his iTunes I can copy a file over that I've bought and he'll be able to watch but I want to know if he can just browse my my collection from the cloud and watch what he likes.

Update:

I do have an iTunes account, all my movies/TV shows are in the cloud. I do not have iTunes match as I don't have much of a music collection.

I want to know if an authenticated machine will be able to access my movies and TV shows from the cloud. That is, I do not want to have to download them all on my computer and put them on a massive (300+ movies, 80+ TV shows each with 3+ seasons)  drive and give that to my sibling.

Yes. You can authenticate as many as 5 iTunes computers that you own or control according the the terms of the iTunes store.

There should be a download icon that displays in iTunes when you have purchased some new content that he can download. This process is designed so that a single user with multiple machines can easily download content on all of them (think iMac, Macbook Air, etc.).

Since you mentioned cloud, you will need to subscribe to iTunes Match for this computer to have streaming access / download access to movies that were sold from iTunes. Movies and videos you have in your local library do not get uploaded to the cloud, so you would need to get those to your sibling's Mac or set up a network where you could use Home Sharing or another service to stream content that's not on Apple's iCloud/iTunes CDN.


Keyboard shortcut for Zoom style? I have been trying to look for a keyboard shortcut that would let me toggle the Zoom style from the accessibility menu. I don't think there is one. Can somebody here point me in the direction of how to build one? I can code, but I'm unsure of where to start.

I've written an AppleScript script which toggles the Zoom style:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    activate
    tell application "System Preferences"
        set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
        reveal anchor "Seeing_Zoom" of pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
    end tell
    delay 0.5
    tell pop up button "Zoom Style:" of window "Accessibility"
        click
        if value is equal to "Fullscreen" then
            pick menu item "Picture-in-picture" of menu 1
        else
            pick menu item "Fullscreen" of menu 1
        end if
    end tell
    tell application "System Preferences" to quit
end tell

You can use Keyboard Maestro or any other script launching app to run this script on a keyboard shortcut.


Cannot install Windows 7 64bit with Bootcamp I am having endless issues while trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), i.e. MacBook Pro 10,1.

Firstly, when I try to create the bootable USB, it tells me only 64bit versions of Windows 7 is supported (which the ISO is).  So after a long struggle, I ended up just installing the same ISO in a VM (and verifying that it is indeed 64bit...), and from there using the Microsoft Windows 7 USB Tool to create a bootable install USB.  This is anyway strange since the 10,1 MBP is listed under the 32bit supported section in the Info.plist.

OK, so having the USB, and separately downloaded the support software, I try to continue with the install (the last option).  Now it tells me that it can only install Windows 8...

Any help will be appreciated.  I have never had this much issues on my older MBPs.

Apparently, Apple is in the process of changing how Windows is installed on Mac's. So, what was true 6 weeks ago may not be true at the moment. Also what is true today, may disapper tomorrow.

VirtualBox can be used as a substitute for the Boot Camp Assistant. There two differing philosophies regarding how to do so. Both install using a legacy BIOS and MBR partition table.

The first method can be outlined as follows:

Create FAT formatted partition to install Windows. This also creates
a MBR partition table.
Instruct VirtualBox to install Windows into the partition.
Boot Windows in the virtual world and run sysprep. This prepares
Windows to run in the physical world.
Exit VirtualBox and boot Windows.
Install the Boot Camp Support Software.

The actual steps for for Windows 7 are given here. This has been used successfully on Mac's older than 2012. I am not sure about the 2012 model, because the Boot Camp Support Software has the folder $WinPEDriver$ and the file AutoUnattend.xml. You may need the next method.

The second method uses VirtualBox to simulate a Windows PE. Windows is never installed or executed in the virtual world. The outline follows.

Create FAT formatted partition to install Windows. This also creates
a MBR partition table.
Copy the files on the Windows iso to this partition.
Copy the Boot Camp Support Software to this partition.
Create a small image file to hold the MBR bootstrap code.
Boot from the Windows iso using VirtualBox and run Windows commands
modify both partitions. Quit VirtualBox.
Copy the MBR bootstrap code to the MBR of the internal drive.
Boot the Windows partition and install windows.
Delete the iso files and the Boot Camp Support files. (optional)

I don't know if these steps are given anywhere. The closest would be here for Windows 10. A slightly differ version for windows 7 is given here


"All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working "All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working.

I suspect that this has happened after installing Path Finder 5.7.8.

I suspect you are correct regarding Path Finder being the culprit :). Cocoatech's Path Finder Changelog lists this in it's most recent version (5.8.8):

  Fixed All Files search item in Lion and other saved searches.

Updating Path Finder should resolve this issue.


Process completed immediately after opening Terminal and impossible to add commands Since I have made some changes on my .bash_profile document, when I open my terminal I got this message and I cannot add any command :

Last login: Thu Dec 19 10:02:58 on ttys000

[Process completed]

After trying many things like changing back my bash_profile to what it used to be but nothing worked. I spent a whole day on it. I followed this from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/296871/313842 :

  Go to Terminal icon on Dock, press right click and press New Command
  /bin/bash -x , and reopen Terminal (it shows your problem)
  Go to Preferences → General and set Shells open with to Command, and enter the following: /bin/sh
  Close the Terminal Preferences window
  Open Terminal again (it should work)
  vi /Users/<your_user>/.bash_profile, remove the lines found in step 2
  Go to Preferences → General and set Shells open with to Command, and enter the following: /bin/bash
  Open Terminal, it should work now

Current issue : When I try step 6, I do not find the 2 lines and if I set Shells back to /bin/bash, it shows the original error again :

Last login: Thu Dec 19 10:10:32 on ttys000

[Process completed]

Here is the content of .bash_profile:

# Enable tab completion
source ~/git-completion.bash

# colors!
green="\[\033[0;32m\]"
blue="\[\033[0;34m\]"
purple="\[\033[0;35m\]"
reset="\[\033[0m\]"

# Change command prompt
source ~/git-prompt.sh
export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1
# '\u' adds the name of the current user to the prompt
# '\$(__git_ps1)' adds git-related stuff
# '\W' adds the name of the current directory
export PS1="$purple\u$green\$(__git_ps1)$blue \W $ $reset"

You can find the content of the sourced files on these links:
 - git-completion.bash : https://pastebin.com/Y1X6FdNW
 - git-prompt.sh : https://pastebin.com/zt2pyLce

After bash -l :

MacBook-Pro-de-apple:~ apple$ bash -l
Segmentation fault: 11
MacBook-Pro-de-apple:~ apple$

Problem fixed after following this:

1. Go to Terminal Preferences > Open Shells with : enter "/bin/bash -x"
2. On the terminal : sudo nano .bash_profile
3. Delete the whole content of the bash_profile, then Ctrl + X (exit) Yes, Enter
4. Go to Terminal Preferences > Open Shells with : enter "/bin/bash"

someone guided me to that. For some reason, my .bash_profile was kind of doing a loop...
Apparently, I also had another bash_profile document somewhere else...
I won't be able to give more details for now as the person left but I will add more info here once I got them. Hope this will help others.

Thanks a lot to @nohillside and @klanomath for your help!! I appreciate a lot.


One Contact Receiving My Messages Under An Email, Not My Contact Name My iMessage is working with all iPhone users, except with a specific contact. iMessage is working with this contact, except that he is only able to receive my iMessages as my email address and not from my phone number. I use my email as my ID for both iPad and iPhone. I have my send & receive settings set to only my phone number, so when i try to send an iMessage to this contact, it automatically fails to deliver. Anything i can do about it? Is it something to do with his settings or mine?

iMessage can be configured to send/receive from your phone number as well as any email addresses that you have verified through your account. If your iPhone is configured to start new conversations from your phone number, but continues sending from your email address to a particular contact, you would need to delete the existing conversation with that contact and start a new one.


iPhoneX doesn't alert me when receiving text messages from a particular contact My iPhone X won't alert me when I receive a text from one particular contact. This is happening with only one contact. It vibrates, but there is no notification, and when I open the Messages app, the message that was sent to me appears as if it has already been read. I do not have do not disturb on, and have tried to set a special text tone for this one contact.

I see that you said you do not have "Do not disturb" but there is also a contact specific setting "Hide alerts."

Go to Messages> select the contact that for which you don't receive the notification and make sure the "Hide alerts" toggle is not enabled.


What parts are new when the logic board is replaced by an Apple-certified shop? I need to repair my logic board of my MacBook Pro due to a water spill - I cleaned it with isopropyl but couldn't get it to charge anymore (the indicator of the power supply doesn't turn on; probably a fault in the onewire circuit - so I'm guessing the motherboard).

However, I'm afraid to break it when trying to disassemble the logic board. So instead, I want to get it repaired. They told me it's about 450-500eur to get the logic board replaced.

Does that mean that it's an entirely new logic board? They won't put a refurbished one inside right? They are a very famous Apple-Certified shop so.. Also, I think the CPU is soldered on to it. So does that mean that in this cost, I get a new CPU?

Typically you don't know until the repair is complete.

Apple certified shops will enter case noted explaining to Apple what was done and you can ask the shop for a list of what components were replaced.

Apple supplies the parts, so Apple could have sent the repair shop an entirely new logic board or they could have shipped one that was refurbished / repaired / tested. You can't really know unless you physically inspect the part(s) in question.

Service parts are new and/or refurbished whether you have the repair done at the genius bar, Apple Repair mail in service or third party. It's the same pool of parts.

At 500 eu  - you are likely paying for the individual service part to be exchanged, configured and tested. I would ask about a flat rate repair - that would possibly reduce your initial cost and cover any/all issues and not just the main board.

If you can, get a second quote directly from Apple in your country:

https://support.apple.com/mac-notebooks/repair/service


How to replace hard drive without reinstalling the whole system? I recently purchased a 1TB solid state hard drive Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW.

I hope I won't need to manually reinstall the OS X and all the applications and copying back hundreds of GBs of personal data.

How do I replace hard drive without reinstalling the whole system?

Have you considered cloning your current hard drive? With a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner (which you can use for free for 30 days, I think), and an external interface for your new hard drive (USB, Firewire, etc.), you can clone--i.e. make a bit-for-bit copy of your operating system and installed programs--the drive that's currently in your computer. Then, when you install the new hard drive, the computer should see it as the boot disk and everything should pick up exactly where you left off--just with a lot more storage.


Run untrusted application safely through sandbox-exec command I'm trying to run a potentially untrusted application without the following permissions, through the sandbox-exec command:

file write (to avoid corruption/injection of files)
network (to avoid communicate outside of my network)
process creation (to avoid forks)
access to system data (to avoid system corruption)

Let's suppose I need to run my application MyApp.
I know it's possible to create a profile myprofile.sb such as the following one, but I'm not sure everything is included.

(version 1)
(allow default)
# bullet point #1
(deny file-write*)
(deny file-write-data)
# bullet point #2
(deny network*)
# bullet point #3
(deny process-fork)
(deny job-creation)
(deny process-exec)
# bullet point #4
(deny sysctl-write)
# logging every action possible
(trace "/tmp/myapp_output.sb")
(debug all)

At this point, I run the following command to run MyApp safely:

sandbox-exec -f ./myprofile.sb MyApp

If I run sample commands (e.g. ping google.it or touch /tmp/file.txt), the commands are executed correctly. Why? Am I missing something?

I know it's an old question, but maybe someone finds the answer useful.

The trace operation generates rules in the given output file.

  These rules are for operations that would have been denied.
  (source: Apple Sandbox Guide)

Which means: the operations are not denied by the deny rules if the trace operator is in the profile file.


Applescript Searcher problem The AppleScript code:

on dialogBox(theMessage)
display dialog theMessage default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Search"} default button 2 with title "Pick a search engine"
end dialogBox

dialogBox("Google, YouTube, Wiki, Dictionary, Apple, Adobe, or Google Images")

if text returned of result = "Google" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter Google Search")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=4fJgVJ6SM8yD8QfJjYGICA&gws_rd=ssl,cr&fg=1#q=" & search
end tell

else if text returned of result = "YouTube" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter YouTube Search")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" & search

end tell

else if text returned of result = "Wiki" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter Word")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" & search

end tell

else if text returned of result = "Dictionary" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter Word")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "http://Dictionary.Reference.Com/Browse/" & search

end tell

else if text returned of result = "Apple" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter Apple Search")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "http://www.apple.com/search/?q=" & search

end tell

else if text returned of result = "Adobe" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter Adobe Search")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?term=" & search

end tell

else if text returned of result = "Google Images" then
set search to text returned of dialogBox("Enter Image Search")
tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    open location "https://www.google.ca/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=890&q=" & search

end tell
end if

The Problem:

At the top, it says ("Google, YouTube, Wiki, Dictionary, Apple, Adobe, or Google Images")

I want to make it so it puts a question mark at the end, like so: ("Google, YouTube, Wiki, Dictionary, Apple, Adobe, or Google Images?")

The Google Images has a question mark but when I type "Google Images" in the text box,
it closes. Can someone help so I can type Google Images with the question mark and the program doesn't close?

Add "Google Images?" to the acceptable results for the text returned.

else if text returned of result is in {"Google Images", "Google Images?"} then

instead of:

else if text returned of result = "Google Images" then

This will allow for you to enter both as acceptable answers in your dialog.


MacBook Air 2012 Mini DisplayPort not working with HDTV I'm trying to connect my 2012 11" MacBook Air to my Panasonic p60st60 1080p plasma HDTV using a new Monoprice Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter & 6' HDMI cable.

My TV displays a "No signal" message and my Mac does not show a secondary display option under System Preferences > Displays. I thought it was a handshake issue so I turned off the TV and Mac, turned on the TV, turned on the Mac, but the problem persists.

Any ideas to get this working? Thank you.

I have exactly same set up down to the MBA 2012 + Adapter and Cable.

It has been working flawlessly since.

So far I used it on 3 different TV models.

In your case I would say it is the adapter, they tend to be flaky (what do you expect for $6).

But, you can take a look in the Console and see what the "Windoserver" is doing when you plug in the cable.

If you live in the USA, go to store like Best buy or Walmart, get another adapter and try it. If it works you have your proof. If it does not just return it to the store for full refund.


Order of phone number types when adding a new contact Whenever I'm adding a new contact (iOS 9.3.4, German) and tap "add phone number", the default phone number type is "Home Fax" which is probably the least useful default imaginable. Is it possible to set the default to "Mobile"?

The weird default values continue when I tap the entry to change the type - the list that pops up is ordered "Home Fax, Radio (??), Home Phone, Mobile Phone, ..."  - I would prefer a different order like "Mobile, Home, Work, Work Fax, Home Fax, ..." or something similar, but I can't find a way to change that order.

It appears to be related to the service you are using.

Open Settings, find Contacts, and see what it's set to for Default Account. Apparently the service provides the list of account types.

Mine is set to Exchange, so when I create a new contact, and add a phone, it defaults to Home Fax.

If I change the Default Account to iCloud, it defaults the phone type to Phone.


ssh fails: image not found [preauth] When I try to SSH to my computer, ssh fails with this error:

Mothership:~ kuyan$ ssh kuyan@localhost
Connection closed by ::1

This also happens when I attempt to SSH to my user from another computer.
This message appears in Console when I attempt to connect:

12/12/12 3:44:30.468 PM sshd[2576]: fatal: ssh_sandbox_child: sandbox_init: dlopen(/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib, 261): image not found [preauth]

Relevant information:

I'm using a different version of sshd than OS X provides, installed via brew install openssh - but this error occurs with both versions.
/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib exists:

Mothership:~ kuyan$ ls /usr/lib/libsandbox*
/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib /usr/lib/libsandbox.dylib

Here's my /etc/sshd_config. The relevant line seems to be UsePrivilegeSeparation: when uncommented and set to yes instead of sandbox, everything works A-OK.
Though I'm not using MacPorts, the error I'm getting is essentially the one here.
sshd version: OpenSSH_6.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011

dtruss shows:

2892/0xdc8e:  stat64("/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib\0", 0x7FFF500DA5F0, 0x7FFF500DB500)        = -1 Err#2

which is ENOENT (No such file or directory) and the reason is probably that chroot already happened.  If you are so foolish as to experiment by

sudo mkdir -p /var/empty/usr/lib
sudo cp /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib /var/empty/usr/lib

You will move the crash to the next shlib not under /var/empty/

sshd[3256]: fatal: ssh_sandbox_child: sandbox_init: dlopen (/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib, 261):
Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib\\n  Referenced from: /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib\\n  Reason: image not found [preauth]

If you persist with this madness

sudo cp /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib /usr/lib/libMatch.1.dylib /var/empty/usr/lib/

sshd will start to work again at least for SSH keys, passwords still don't work.

You can also edit /usr/local/etc/sshd_config changing

UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox

into

UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

But outside of debugging purposes I don't suggest trying any of this.


iPhone 5s internet not working Well, Monday night i went out to hangout with some friends and my iphone 5s cellular internet was working fine, midway into the night a few hours after hanging out my cellular data internet completely shut off, I usually have LTE but now not a single icon was in place of where the LTE one originally was. Is there a way to fix this? and no i havent went over my data plan. It does work on wifi as well.

First, go to Settings > General > About, and wait to see if the "Update Carrier Settings?" Dialogue box appears.

Then, hard reset your phone by holding down the Home and Power button until you see the Apple logo.

If that doesn't resolve your connectivity issue:
Go to Settings > General > Reset, and tap "Reset Network Settings". Enter your passcode if you have one set.

Tap "Reset Network Settings" again. This will cause your phone to restart, and you will lose all stored Wi-Fi passwords.

However, it usually resolves problems like this. Back up your phone first if you aren't sure you remember all of your Wi-Fi passwords.


iOS located photos without Wi-Fi/cell network Last week I was in another country and had no connection to internet nor to my operator. I had the Airplane mode turned on the whole time and took a lot of photos. Yesterday I came back home and connected again to Wi-Fi. All the photos I took are located in the exact same streets/city/country they've been taken.

How is this possible? How does iOS knows where I was if I didn't have any connection till yesterday?

The iPhone has GPS. This doesn't require Wi-Fi or cellular towers and isn't disabled when you turn on Airplane mode.


Maltese language in iOS devices I would like to type in Maltese (using Maltese letters) from my iPad and iPhone. Unfortunately, the Maltese langauge is not listed with the default European languages on iOS devices. What can I do?

I don't know for sure whether the extra characters required for Maltese (ċġħż) might all be available in the layout for another language or not.  It would be kind of tedious to check.  But there are a couple apps, Unicode Map and UniKey, which let you create a sort of custom keyboard layout using any Unicode characters which can be used for copy/paste, etc.

You should also search the app store on Maltese to see if anyone has created a keyboard for that for copy/paste or email, etc.  I see there is an app called 1Hand Mail/SMS Maltese Keyboard that may be useful.


Endless spinner when trying to update Xcode in App Store I'm trying to update Xcode on my Mac mini.

When I click the Update button in the App Store, a spinner appears, but nothing else happens.

I have seen this before, and I think that possibly upgrading of the App Store fixed it.  There's no App Store update this time.

I am trying an OS upgrade to EL Capitan.  Is there anything else I should check?

Here's what I had to do

Upgrade OS X to the latest

This stopped the eternal spinner - instead the spinner showed for a second, then nothing happened
In the past, updating the App Store itself helped

Go to the Updates tab and click UPDATE ALL

App Store asked me for my credentials then ran all upgrades, including Xcode


SSD totally bricked after installing in different laptop I've never had this issue before:

I had an OWC ssd in my 2009 macbook pro, and I put it into a 2008 aluminum macbook.  It worked perfectly.  Then, I took it out and put it back in my macbook pro, but the computer wouldn't start up.  It wouldn't even get past the grey screen (not even an apple logo!).  Now it won't work in either computer.

I've tried starting up in recovery mode: nada.

I put it in my external HD enclosure and connected it to my macbook air.  Nothing is showing up in the disk utility or in disk warrior (and yes, the enclosure works OK, I checked the SATA cable, etc, etc).  I'm at a loss for what to do next.

This is more than likely a hardware problem with the SSD. Specifically, the SATA input/or SSD controller, based on the following:

The problem occurred after swapping the drive out from one machine into another.
You have connected the SSD to three different SATA cables (two internal, one external). None have recognized it. This rules out a bad SATA cable.
The drive is not recognized in any form of recovery. This rules out a corrupted filesystem.
The drive does not even mount when connected externally. This rules out a corrupted partition scheme and is a common symptom of physical failure.

All of the above point to physical failure of the drive.

First, I’d clean the SATA input on the drive using 99% isopropyl alcohol (not 91!%), then test again using the mentioned enclosure.

If it still isn’t mounting, at all, check the drive’s warranty and contact the manufacturer for a replacement, if applicable. Best of luck.


If "STOP" Is typed do this Would it be possible For example would it be possible for me to code a very simple repeat code but say If I just typed STOP that it would end the program here is my beginning code for the repeat.

set x to 1

repeat while x is 1
    tell application "Finder"
       activate
       make new Finder window
    end tell
end repeat

and so for example if STOP is entered set x to 2 or something?

Thank you

No - Applescript is not multi-threaded in the sense that you can set up two things to happen at one time.

To do what you want, you'd need another language that could open a window so the user could type characters to be interpreted and change the signal variable to exit the loop. That language would handle multiple threads and communication between the two processes so that the setting of the new X value would be visible to the other thread running the loop.

If you'd rather stick to AppleScript, you could probably do what you want by using the existence of a file to keep the loop running:

if file "semaphore" of application "Finder" exists then
   -- continue processing...
end if

This is documented at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/conceptual/ASLR_fundamentals.html

Search for the section titled Direct Parameter or use the semaphore string to locate the snippet I copied above. Then you could have the user delete the "chosen" file - maybe putting it on their desktop and call it "keepRunning" or something so they trash it when the script should stop running.


Fixing Netbeans 7.3 freezes (on startup) on OSX Mountain Lion Macbook Air I encounter the following issues with my Netbeans 7.3 installation on my OSX Mountain Lion Macbook Air.

When launching the app, it bounces in the Dock for about 2 minutes before it simply stops. When you click on the icon nothing happens and when you right click on it, OSX says the app is not responding.
After Force Quitting Netbeans, I am successfully able to get the "loading" message to come up while it attempts to open. 8 times out of 10, it loads properly but other times it simply hangs while trying to load modules.

Has anyone else encountered issues like this? Are there any known fixes out there? For reference, here's what Java version I am using:

java version "1.7.0_21"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_21-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.21-b01, mixed mode)

Here was the problem:

Netbeans is slow because the antivirus program I have installed was scanning the application as it tried to open. If you turn off your Antivirus software, it will boot at a "normal" speed.


Mac running slow and some applications don't open in standard mode, but in safe mode it works well I have an issue on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid 2010, macOS Sierra).

Some applications won't open, or don't work as expected, and generally I see the spinning pinwheel and macOS is really slow.

Also, often when I shut down I see a black screen, but not completely turned off, so I have to shut down by pressing the power button for 3-4 seconds.

Sometimes applications like Google Chrome or Final Cut Pro don't work well, often freezing up or not opening.

But all these issues disappear if I boot up in safe mode (applications work well, restarting and shutdown always work, no frozen apps, etc).

I tried to:

follow the guidelined to isolate the issue on this article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 but I don't have any login items.
create a new user profile, but the issue isn't fixed.

My question is: What differences are there between safe mode and standard mode? What can I disable to isolate the issue?

One place to start is testing your Startup/Login items, as it's likely to be something that's getting loaded during normal startup (e.g. a Startup/Login item, a font you've installed, etc) that's causing the problem.

So I would:

Startup normally
Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups
Select the Login Items tab
Take a note of your Login Items
Now remove all of them by highlighting them and clicking on the - button below
Restart your computer

Now your Mac will boot up without those login items loading. Test this and see if the problem persists.

If the problem does persist, I'd then remove any fonts you've installed yourself.
If the problem goes away you know one (or more) of the Login items were causing the problem. You can then go back and add them back one by one until you've identified the culprit.

Let me know how you go.

[EDIT]

I forgot to answer your question about what the difference is between booting into Safe Mode and booting normally. In a nutshell, booting into Safe Mode:

doesn't load Login Items and any custom fonts you've installed (which is what my answer above is based on)
ensures that only macOS kernel extensions are loaded
runs a number of additional checks during startup (e.g. verifying/repairing your drive's directory, etc)
deletes various caches

The last two can result in your system effectively repairing itself if your problems are related to corrupted caches or directory issues. In your case, since the problems didn't go away after previously booting into Safe Mode, the problem is most likely related to Login Items or 3rd party kernel extensions.


Creating second Developer Account Is it better to create new Apple ID for my developer account, or is it ok to use my existing one?

And what are the rules regarding names (like can I use nickname or I have to use my real one)?

I'm individual not a company, and will be creating an individual account.

Is it better to create new Apple ID for my developer account, or is it ok to use my existing one?

I would recommend creating a new one. Apple doesn't seem to care either way, but it's usually a good idea to separate the two accounts.

  And what are the rules regarding names (like can I use nickname or I have to use my real one)?

You have to use your real name. This is for identification and since the agreement is legally binding, I wouldn't risk it (plus, do you really want DenverCoder9 to show up on your banking records?).


Whats the 35mm focal length equivalent of an iPhone 5s? It seems a bit wide, my guess is about 25mm (35mm equiv) or so. A Google search didn't find anything useful.

Also, any info on usable ISO ranges?

There is a great study of iPhone camera in this article.

How does the iPhone hold up against a serious camera?


Where can I find a pricing guide for used Apple devices? I am looking for a pricing guide for used Apple laptops, desktops, and iOS devices. Does anyone have a recommendation on where to go to find a guide like this? Preferably a free guide.

http://www.everymac.com has estimated current price for every model
(It's at the bottom of the table).
I'm not sure where they are getting those from though.


How do I handle HDR photos in Aperture 3? What plugin do you guys use to handle HDR photos in Aperture 3 ?

There are two choices available right now:

Photomatix
Hydra

You should try both and see which matches your “taste” better :)


iPhone 5 can't restore even when using DFU mode I got this AT&T iPhone 5 purchased overseas for $800 plus tax.

As soon as I got it, I tried to restore it to bypass the activation screen required by AT&T. But restoring didn't go smooth as planned. Now the phone is stuck in recovery mode. And every time I place it in DFU mode, then restore with iTunes I get an error 21, if not in dfu mode 1603,1604, 1611 errors come out.

When restoring using DFU mode, what I notice is that iTunes has the loading label ‘preparing to restore iPhone’. The device on the other hand turns off, and comes up with the Apple logo and the daisy/spinning wheel. The wheel spins for about a quarter only and get stuck, and soon after reboots and goes back to Apple logo. After that is the popular iTunes and USB logo. Then, iTunes gives an "iPhone cannot be restored. An unknown error occurred (21)" something error. The process repeats every time I try to restore in DFU mode.

I've tried almost everything online relating to this issue: device off and hold home button while connecting the lightning connector and wait for the iTunes logo and USB to show up before releasing home button, for example. Done it for countless times, in 4 different computers.

I've tried it on 2 PCs with Windows 7 64-bit, a MacBook Pro and a Windows XP. The IPSW file I'm using is the 6.0.1 for GSM which is appropriate for my GSM device.

Been stuck for almost a week now, will be really sad if this is a hardware failure, it would mean additional expense for warranty.

Any other suggestions I should try for a fix? I really want to start using this device.

I'm not really sure if we are in the same boat. I had been stuck in DFU mode after restoring my iPad to iOS 6.1 without activating it. I have tried using iTunes in restoring the firmware but it was stuck on the iTunes and usb logo just like you. What I did was to use redsn0w to restore my iPad. You can use it without jailbreaking your phone. Hope this helps.


How to switch the Apple ID when update the mac's softs? When I update the softs of my Mac, there only can use the previous AppleID, but I want to switch other Apple ID, how can I do that? I can not click the Apple ID textfield.

From the Menu Bar select Store > Sign Out. Now select Store > Sign In...


Boot Camp can't see new internal SSD I have a 15-" MacBook Pro Retina from mid-2014 which came with a 250-GB SSD (which I will henceforth refer to as "the old SSD"). I've bought a 1-TB Aura SSD (which I will henceforth refer to as "the new SSD") and installed it. I've also restored/migrated my stuff from TimeMachine and downloaded the driver that OWC provides in order to make the new SSD compatible with Boot Camp.

I now want to make a partition on the new SSD to install Windows 10. I've been told I need to use Boot Camp because Disk Utility (which I've used before to partition and erase discs) can't make a bootable partition for Windows. (If this is incorrect, I'd much rather use Disk Utility than Boot Camp, but in what follows I'll assume it is true.) (Mind you, I've never used Boot Camp before, so please bear with me if I'm doing things wrong.)

My problem is that Boot Camp can't see the new SSD, only my external drives. I've tried restarting from the old SSD (which now lives inside a USB case and can thus be connected to my Mac as an external drive), but that doesn't help.

Here are two screenshots of the Boot Camp window (sorry, I've got three things showing there and only two can be seen at a time):

The SeaGate drive is an external drive I use to store stuff that doesn't fit in my internal SSD; I don't want Boot Camp to touch that. "Mac HD" is the old SSD. I'm not sure what "OWC Envoy Media" is, but googling it returns images of the old SSD's new case, so I'm guessing it's also the old SSD.

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

Boot Camp wants to create a media with Windows drivers for installation later in the process (where you may not be able to reach Windows Update for drivers), and the images you show is where to store them.  Not where to install Windows.

This is described in the Boot Camp instructions that you were urged to print out and follow carefully very early in the process.  You may want to restart the process and do this.


How do I log into my child's OS X account (under parental control) without knowing the password? My child (single-digit age) and I share the same Mac Mini. She has an account under parental control. However, she doesn't want to give me her password.

How can I log into her account? Both from (1) she is not logged on; or (2) she is logged on but locked the screen.

Thanks!

Technically, you can reset her password.

From a privacy point of view, you have to be clear with your policy. If you let her have an account with her own password, you implicitly agree that you should not log into her account without her approval. The solution is then to ask her to type her password so that you can use her account.


When replacing an expired Enterprise Distribution certificate, do I have to resign the whole App? Our Customer has an Enterprise Distribution certificate. We are signing their Apps and distribute them to their devices via Airwatch MDM.

Their Enterprise Distribution certificate is about to expire in January 2016. I have generated a new Enterprise Distribution certificate valid till December 2018. With this new Enterprise Distribution certificate I was able to generate a new Provisioning Profile.

I'm able to exchange the Provisioning Profile of all Apps with Airwatch without having to touch them.

However as the certificate has changed, is there a way I do not have to resign the apps with the new certificate? Is it possible to generate a new certificate with the same old private key?

No - spoofing the key signature would be equivalent to bypassing the chain of trust entirely. You'd probably be able to sell that exploit to bad actors and governments for a lot of money.

You will need to re-sign the apps and likely increment the version numbers on them before pushing them out since Apple doesn't re-sign things for you dynamically as they do with App store downloads.


Non-existing URLs redirect to "searchguide - level 3" in Safari I typed a URL in Safari to check whether a domain name had been registered or not, and was redirected to this page:

(here I made the test with "http://fegiuebnfuybzh.com", a random string of letters and a domain I believe no one owns).

The URL I was redirected to is:

http://searchguide.level3.com/search/?q=http%3A//fegiuebnfuybzh.com/&r=&t=0

I couldn't find much recent information about this website, and I definitely never gave my computer access to this service knowingly.

I can see that the home page has a "settings" link:

I do not want this service to be present in my computer at all, even with "off" settings, so this aren't what I'm looking for.

How can I make Safari display the regular "the address couldn't be found" text page, and get rid of this nasty "level 3"?

One reason could be that you are using Level3’s DNS servers (4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6) which will redirect you to their search engine for any unknown domain name.

Change it back or choose one of Google's public DNS server, for example 8.8.8.8

Found this answer here


Blaupunkt 4k LED TV as external monitor for MBP mid 2012 retina issue I initially connected the MBP 2012 retina 2.7 GHZ to the 4k display it showed me 3840x2160 correctly. But when I was optimising some display settings I changed to 1080p after that I no longer get the 3840x2160 option at all.Yet I could still load into my Windows with the 4k at 30 hz. It would be great to know how can get the 3840x2160 resolution option back.

It would be interesting if anyone could tell me if they have successfully shot upon 4K with 60 hz on mid MCP retina. If so would be great to know how you accomplished it.

Your system supports following resolutions:

You can use 4K displays and Ultra HD TVs at the following resolutions and refresh rates via the built-in HDMI port.

3840 x 2160 at 30 Hz refresh rate

4096 x 2160 at 24 Hz refresh rate (mirroring is not supported at this resolution)- MBP 2013 and up.

Thus no 60Hz is possible.


"Get" Button On App Store Is Blurred Out For Almost EVERY App I have been having an issue lately with my app store app. When I go to buy an app, I've found that nearly every app I try to buy has one thing in common--the "get" button is blurred/greyed out. When I try to press on the "get" button when it is like this, it has no reaction, therefore, I cannot buy the app that I want. It is absolutely FRUSTRATING and I want to know how to fix it. Who knows--one day, I may need an extremely important app for a serious reason and I won't be able to buy it. And I don't want that. Is the reason for this perhaps because my father has enable restriction on my IPad? Is the way to fix it for him to put in the restricions code? But whatever the reason or way to fix it is, I want answers, and I hope you can give them to me.

Most probably the download apps restriction has been enabled. Ask whoever enabled this to disable this restriction either temporarily or permanently. I would also check that you are signed into the correct region in App store settings and that your account is verified and has no outstanding payment issues.

To check go to;
Settings > General > Restrictions

Hope this helps.


OS X Mavericks - Have to pull mouse down on full-screen app to see dock Updated to Mavericks yesterday, pretty happy with the speed boost it brought, but I've run into one problem:

Whenever I'm running a full-screen app, for example mail, and I want my dock to show, I really have to pull the mouse down. Just "throwing" it down to the bottom of the screen with a one-finger swipe no longer does the trick; I have to keep my finger on the trackpad to get the dock to show.

I asked a colleague and he noticed the same thing, only in a full-screen app, is there a way to turn this "feature" off, or is this a bug?

This seems to be the new gesture in Mavericks.  It used to be that you had to pull the mouse/trackpad down twice in quick succession.  Now you just have to hold the mouse/trackpad down at the bottom of the screen.  I had not figured this one out before reading your post, so thank you.  I have found nothing about this anywhere else. Apparently, this gesture cannot be changed.


How to use the balance on your apple account in app store? Recently I won a $10.00 gift card which I redeemed on Apple iTunes. So now when I open iTunes, to the left of my apple id, I see a $10.00 balance. My problem is that if I try to purchase an app, it asks me to enter my credit card information.

On the form where I am supposed to fill my credit card information, there's a link which says to redeem your gift card click here. Unfortunately, if I try to enter the code of the gift (mentioned at the beginning of this post) it says that the gift card has been already redeemed.

I guess that means that the amount of the gift card has already been credited to my account (as it shows to the left of my apple id on the iTunes program). The question is: how do I spend this balance?

Just buy the app or the song or whatever and it will take from your balance first. I would check your settings to verify this, however.


Optimal method to test an external hard drive? I've got an HFS+ formatted external drive that is starting to act a bit funny, mainly causing my mac mini (finder) to freeze up on occassion when accessing it.

Fearing imminent failure, what is the most comprehensive way to determine the health of the physical drive and the file system?

Verify in Disk Utility indicates the disk is fine, but weird behaviour would indicate otherwise.

Apple's Disk Utility doesn't have false positives but it can miss some errors.

Although it's not cheap Disk Warrior is magic for these sort of problems, in my experience it's fixed all non-physical-damage errors that I could throw at it.

If you're not keen to spend money, and if you've got the hard disk space, copying the contents off, repartitioning your external drive and copying back on on might clear up your problems. Copying the whole disk's contents (starting with what is most valuable to you, in case it dies while you're copying) is probably a good idea anyway, in case your disk is on its death bed.


How can I have Finder doesn't sort strictly by the time metadata and not the grouped filename? See the following screenshot:

This are screenshots from the Chrome/Safari, on OSX 10.12.1.

Notice that this is clearly not in the right chronological order. The last screenshot was taken at 1:09 PM, but it is neither at the top nor at the beginning of the list. This is frustrating, because this forces me to visually search when I want to send a screenshot I just took to a friend.

Is there any way to change my settings so Finder sorts by date?

The toolbar specifies how to group the files and clicking the column name is for sorting the files. If you want to reorder the files, just click the column name directly.

Based on your screenshot, you're grouping by "Date Created" and then sorting by "Name". You can see the group names are "September", "August", etc.

You can fix this: set the grouping (using the toolbar) to "None" and then click on the "Date Created" column name, that should fix your issue.

EDIT: If you're not using the List view, you can press ⌘J to open "View options", then click the drop-down there to Sort by "Date Created". I know it's annoying, but that's how it is.


What happens to deleted texts on iCloud? If i deleted a text from my phone and then backed it up to iCloud, is that text now deleted from iCloud?

I want to tell you that the text is deleted from iCloud.
First, if your iPhone is charging, using wifi and iCloud has enough space for your iPhone to back up the text, the text would had been backed up. And then you set the manual backup, so the text data has been overwritten by new data.


Where are emojis stored on Macs? I saw the iPhone emoji and I want to get a high quality image of it to turn into the space grey color, but I can't find an image on the Internet. Does anyone know where the image file for the emoji is stored?

I am using OS X Yosemite.

Thanks.

Emojis are handled like any other fonts, the corresponding font file is stored in /System/Library/Fonts/Apple Color Emoji.ttc. So there are no images per se which you could reuse (even ignoring any potential copyright problems).
Three options on how to get emoji images (without programming a little tool to parse the font file directly):

use the Character Viewer as described in this answer and a screen grabber to get an image from the emoji you are interested in
use Font Book to look at the characters/glyphs available in "Apple Color Emoji"
use Google Image Search to find bigger image file representing the emoji you need


Recovery when main account corrupt? I had an unfortunate incident with boot camp assistant last night. I was trying to get hold of the windows drivers as an iso and when it asked me where to save to, I just selected my account folder in /users. Imagine my horror when it says it is formatting. No idea why it tries to format a directory, but needless to say it has made a mess.

I now can't login with this account, I get the login prompt and it accepts my pw but after sitting there a while the spinner remains but I get a no entry sign and it just sits there spinning.

Is there anyway I can try and retrieve what was left of my user data?

I have tried to repair the disk. It fails.
I can login as guest fine, but don't think I can get to my files here?
recovery partition boots up fine.
machine has FileVault running.
reset password doesn't show the disk, although disk until can see it.
safe mode boot to main account doesn't help.
I don't have any other user accounts to try.

I think the os is probably ok, but obviously major prob with my profile. Can I mount the machine as a remote disk on my other mac for instance?

Any help much appreciated as my last time machine backup is pretty stale. (been away)

Unfortunately, it's seems not possible to create account from Lion Recovery.

It's a long shot but if you have enough space on your disk, you can create a new partition and use it to install another Mac OS Lion and get back your data (with mounting the "old" partition to do so).

After that you can get rid of the first partition or reset it with your TM Backup and add your "new" data.


cannot create a user account on mac using command line I followed the instructions here to create the user jira:

sudo dscl . create /Users/jira
sudo dscl . passwd /Users/jira
sudo dscl . create /Users/jira RealName "jira user"
sudo dscl . create /Users/jira UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . append /Groups/admin GroupMembership jira

but I got two problems:

first the user appears as not an admin member although I have added them as an admin (and I have rebooted, see here)

second I cannot make this user own their directory, ie when I run

sudo chown jira /var/jira

I get

chown: jira: illegal user name

I cannot login as that user either:

su jira
Password:
su: unknown login: jira

although the jira user appears on the list of users:

dscl . list /Users | grep jira
jira

and

The instructions you're following are rather confused and incomplete; see this ServerFault question for better info. I think the main problem is that you haven't set all of the necessary attributes for the new user (although you've set more than your code fragment suggests!). You're missing:

sudo dscl . create /Users/jira UniqueID 499   # Use some unique user ID number here; numbers below 500 for hidden accounts
sudo dscl . create /Users/jira PrimaryGroupID 20   # This is the "staff" group; add to admins separately
sudo dscl . create /Users/jira NFSHomeDirectory /var/jira   # /var is a good place to hide things; regular users go under /Users
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -t user -a jira admin   # This is the RIGHT way to add a secondary group membership

The problems with your current setup are: the primary group membership of -2 (the "nobody" group), the confusion about whether the home directory is /Users/jira or /var/jira (make sure the NFSHomeDirectory points to the actual location! of the directory!), and that you aren't fully setting the membership in the admin group (appending the user's account name to GroupMembership is only part of it; you should also append their GeneratedUID to GroupMembers, or use dseditgroup and let it handle the details).

EDIT: Kent made a good point that /Users/jira is always the path to the users account in dscl, and might also be the path to the user's home folder in the file system (the NFSHomeDirectory attribute). They're confusingly similar, but don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. In the commands above, I show setting the home folder location to /var/jira instead to hide it. So, to make my example complete, here's how you'd create the home folder:

cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /var/jira
chown -R jira:staff /var/jira

These commands create the home folder; the NFSHomeDirectory attribute tells the user where to find it when they log in. It's important that they match.

Oh, and if English isn't the user's primary language, there are a bunch of other user templates to choose from.


How to reenable System Integrity Protection How do I reenable System Integrity Protection, after using csrutil disable from the Recovery OS?

The opposite of disable is enable, so: csrutil enable

At the present time there is no manual page for csrutil i.e. man csrutil doesn't provide any help, however executing the command without an argument displays its internal help as shown below.

$ csrutil
usage: csrutil <command>
Modify the System Integrity Protection configuration. All configuration changes apply to the entire machine.
Available commands:

    clear
        Clear the existing configuration. Only available in Recovery OS.
    disable
        Disable the protection on the machine. Only available in Recovery OS.
    enable
        Enable the protection on the machine. Only available in Recovery OS.
    status
        Display the current configuration.

    netboot
        add <address>
            Insert a new IPv4 address in the list of allowed NetBoot sources.
        list
            Print the list of allowed NetBoot sources.
        remove <address>
            Remove an IPv4 address from the list of allowed NetBoot sources.
$


How do I go about replacing the LCD on my 2014 macbook air? I have a macbook air which recently began showing the "lines of death" up and down my screen, a common sign of damage to the LCD panel. I can still login and to an extent use the machine, with the exception of doing so blindly. The model number is A1446, and it is a 13 in. screen. How do I go about making this repair myself at home? Or would it be more worth my time (and nicer to my wallet) to get it fixed at a store or other repair center?

NOTE:
I essentially need the repair completed within 24 hours as this machine is a critical part of my work

Also, I dont know the cause of the damage exactly, i went to bed with everything A-OK, and in the morning the LCD wasnt working properly.

I essentially need the repair completed within 24 hours

If you need to ask, you do not have the necessary skills, parts and tools to repair it in that time frame.

Also unlikely any service centre can turn it around in 24 hours.

So your options are:

Get an external monitor. The condition of the internal screen then becomes irrelevant.
Buy a new one, copy your data with Migration Assistant.

Given that the screen is typically the most expensive sub-component, and requires near total disassembly to change, you need to decide between the high repair cost to get an old machine back, or a bit more to get a brand new one with warranty, bigger storage etc. etc.


Update for iPod touch 3rd generation Hi I have a pretty tough question it's because all my friends text with imessage and I feel kinda left out is there a way ANY WAY that I could get imessage on my iPod touch 3G     There is this boy at my school that has it on his touch 3

Yes, you can get iOS 5 on iPod Touch 3G, which includes the iMessage application. However,  make sure that you truly have an iPod Touch 3G and not an iPod Touch 2G, which can only be updated to iOS 4.2.1. According to this link from Wikipedia, iPod Touch 3G can go up to iOS 5.1.1.