How to display only selected invisible files on mac osx 10.+? I have a question. Is that possible or not i really don't know.

I use Yosemite. And i ran this command via terminal.app

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;killall Finder

this command show all hidden files on my mac. but i just want to make visible only, .htaccess files . Is that possible ? Or not ? Thank you so much.

You can either show all hidden files or none, there is no in-between.

The only way that I know of to easily access dot-files is to create a link to a visible file. For example, you could create a link from ".htaccess" to "htaccess.txt" and then "htaccess.txt" would be visible

Here's a way to make those link for all of the .htaccess files in the current directory and all subdirectories in Terminal:

find . -type f -iname .htaccess -execdir ln -s {} htaccess.txt \;


Have Siri tell me when something is ready Is there a way to set a reminder or an event so when that event's time comes the iphone will say something like "your eventA is ready, keep in mind the traffic".  Where that phrase is something i can control?

As of right now SIRI can only be initiated by you. You can tell SIRI to remind you about something and you will get a notification about it but there is now way to have SIRI come on and say anything.


Is there a way to block email tracking services on Apple's Mail app OTHER than blocking all remote images? Any extensions? I work in an industry context where I deal with numerous promoters who all love to include click tracking software on their emails (both for opening message/links), for example via MailChimp, Constant Contact, or YAMM.

Doing some preliminary research online, practically every solution within Apple's Mail is just to disable remote image loading. This isn't a convenient option for me as I'm dealing constantly with emails where I need to see information contained in formatted images etc.

Are there other solutions, extensions, hacks, anything to help block other parties' tracking services?

In Gmail there are very capable browser extensions, but I'd like to keep everything in Apple Mail if possible.

I don't have an answer to your question. However I do have information that relates to this issue.

Even though you might have images turned off on your mail, apparently Spotlight follows the urls during the indexing process, which negates the advantages of having the images turned off.

So, you might want to turn off spotlight indexing of your mail. :(

Link below.

https://lifehacker.com/disable-email-search-in-spotlight-to-avoid-message-trac-1678528323


Is it possible revert iTunes backup from Time Machine? My iPhone went wrong and last time I didn't backed it up in iTunes, but earlier I do. And earlier I used often Time Machine. Do you think it is possible get back and revert an iPhone application?

Is iTunes backup part of the Time Machine saving scope?

I found that iTunes backup is stored on this path:

/Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Air/2016-12-05-113511/Névtelen/Users/kukodajanos/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

But subfolders are hashed. So how to revert? I have a newer Mac, not restored from this back. How can I choose the right version of iTunes backup?

The folder named with 40 random chars in Backup folder is your iOS backup (40 cahrs is the UDID of your device).

You will need to restore the "cd84f21616..." folder back to default iTunes backup folder: users/user/Library/ApplicationSupport/MobileSync/Backup.

After this, you should see your backup in iTunes and be able to restore it.


Delete Bootcamp Partition and recover Disk Full Space I have a problem with my Bootcamp partition. I decided to delete it because I don't use Windows anymore. I went through Bootcamp Assistant, tried to uninstall Windows but didn't work that way.

So I formated with Disk Utility my 40 GB Bootcamp Partition and it's now empty.

Now, I struggle in reuniting the 2 partitions and have my full 128 GB space back.
--> I tried to follow this tutorial but in vain :

I deleted my Bootcamp partition but can't resize my OS X partition

I unmounted both volumes and I'm stuck at the 2nd step of the tutorial :

gpt add -b <disk0s4 start position> -t windows /dev/disk0

It says " No space available".
Does anyone know what's going on here?

The output of sudo gpt -r show disk0:

    start       size  index  contents
        0          1         PMBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  147408336      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
147817976    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
149087512        744
149088256   87627736      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
236715992     262151
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header

The linked method to create a fake Boot Camp partition doesn't work because the former partition is no empty space but an HFS volume (disk0s4). The gpt command won't add partitions in allocated disk space.

To resize your main partition (disk0s2) to the full ~120 GB, boot to your main macOS volume, delete the second HFS+ volume and expand your main partition:

diskutil eraseVolume Free Space disk0s4

Try to expand the main volume:

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 R

If the R size option fails try to use a real size like 120g or the percentage 100% (on some external disks this may fail because of some 2 TiB limit).

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 120473m

or more exactly:

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 120473067520b

or

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 100%


To install Busybox in OSX I am thinking initramfs -filesystem in this thread.
I run unsuccessfully brew search busybox and no including package in Google clearly.
Busybox is included in Linux by default but not in OSX.
Different internals so not necessarily possible in OSX.

How can you install busybox in OSX?

initramfs is something that is very specific to the Linux boot process (it's designed to make the kernel module loading process as flexible as possible) - you won't find an equivalent for OS X.

BusyBox, however, is available for Mac OS - see this Github repository for example.

That said, I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve as Busybox is simply a set of small utilities that provide core Unix command line functions (ls, cp, etc). It's commonly used in boot environments and embedded systems due its wide platform support and small size.


Trying to understand inconsistent web access In a library with an iPad and a MacBook Pro (MBP) on unsecured WiFi.  Websites in Safari on the iPad are showing no problems.

On the MBP, Safari says “server unexpectedly dropped connection” for every website tried.

On Firefox, it’s connection timed out.

Tor is able to connect to directory server but unable to establish connections to any of the entry nodes it offers. The log shows the connection failures are of three different types.  All are on port 443, and my browsing is always https when possible.  But https is working on the iPad.

Ping takes 40-100 milliseconds to echo the same domains that the web browser cannot reach.

Hard to imagine library staff having any reason for device detection, if even the ability to implement it.

Devices forty centimeters apart, so probably on the same router.

What would cause this inconsistency?

UPDATE: Both devices have behaved as expected everywhere else as long as I’ve owned them.  I risked reprimand :-) by transferring the Cat-5 cable from their Windows box to the MBP.  en0 became active, but would not connect even to their router.  Prefs said that I had a self-assigned IP address, but the menu said using DHCP, and renewing the lease got a 169.x.x.x address which I would never manually assign, and is weird because their WiFi router is 172.16.110.1 according to trace route.

DNS was resolving host names on both devices.
Safari has no extensions installed, yet when I change https to http, it gets changed back.  Firefox has “https everywhere” but turning it off does not fix the problem.  Tried to check port 80 in shell but there is no telnet executable!

sftp times out on the command line.  No ftp executable either (grr).  Finder connected to the ftp port and displayed contents, but then announced connection interrupted—and about 1.5 seconds later entire screen went gray; had to reboot.  Second try, Finder gets the spinning pizza, and won’t do anything else, not even shut down on the menu bar.  Relaunch from the dock killed the Finder and it did not come back.  That sounds like something wrong with the MBP but still, the WiFi access worked fine many other places.

In case the above is too confusing or doesn't say everything:

No problems noted on the iPad.
MBP could do ping, traceroute, DNS, and whois
MBP could not do http, https, smtp, imap, exchange, or sftp
tor could contact its directory servers via port 9001 but could not use the addresses found on port 443.
although the shell could not invoke ftp, Finder could, and displayed the known contents of the remote directory.  However, something about doing so caused Finder to crash the O.S. and to not work properly until the fourth reboot.

There's a lot in this question that revolves around misconceptions and this answer is an attempt to address them to give a more holistic view of how things work.
Connectivity

On the MBP, Safari says “server unexpectedly dropped connection” for
every website tried.
On Firefox, it’s connection timed out.

Your connection isn't browser dependent.  If your connection doesn't work, it's not going to work for any browser.

Ping takes 40-100 milliseconds to echo the same domains that the web
browser cannot reach.

This is not indicative of anything other than one device can connect (iPad) while one cannot (MBP).  A ping time of 40-100ms is well within what's considered "normal."

sftp times out on the command line. No ftp executable either (grr).
Finder connected to the ftp port and displayed contents, but then
announced connection interrupted

Like  your browser, CLI tools like sftp, scp, ssh, etc. aren't going to connect if there's no connection.  The spinning "pizza" (aka spinning beach ball of death) is Finder waiting for the result of the connection - either you get a directory to display or it times out.  This is entirely normal.
As for FTP and Telnet, those were removed because they are grossly insecure.
DNS Issues

DNS was resolving host names on both devices.

DNS is cached locally.  This is how you can be disconnected, but when you attempt to ping an address you've already been to, it will immediately resolve but give you a host not reachable or timeout error message.
The main point here, is that this is not indicative of anything.  To see if DNS is working correctly, you need to use a tool like dig or nslookup to actually query the DNS server directly.

Tor is able to connect to directory server but unable to establish
connections...

Same thing.  DNS is cached, but when you attempt to actually connect to a server, it can't because you're not connected.
Ancillary Assumptions
A few other minor details that need to be cleared up:

Hard to imagine library staff having any reason for device detection,
if even the ability to implement it.

Yes they do and, they most certainly do; in that order.  WiFi is not an unlimited resource and every organization must implement controls to ensure access for everyone.  They may require registration of your device, they may have a captured portal that asks for certain info, or they may look at traffic, but they can and do detect devices and filter content.
It could be as complex as device authentication mechanisms and device detection or as simple as they ran out of IPs on that particular subnet.  However, the next statement gives us a clearer picture:

I risked reprimand :-) by transferring the Cat-5 cable from their
Windows box to the MBP. en0 became active, but would not connect even
to their router. Prefs said that I had a self-assigned IP address, but
the menu said using DHCP, and renewing the lease got a 169.x.x.x
address which I would never manually assign, and is weird because
their WiFi router is 172.16.110.1 according to trace route.

Not just reprimand, but depending on the organization and how their AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) is written, you could have been banned and had a police report filed for "interfering with a government owned computer/network".  (I know, I write and update these things).
However, your results (getting a self assigned IP) tells us something very important - they use some sort of authentication to allow computers onto the network (probably RADIUS).  If it works on their Windows machines, but not on your MBP, it's a safe bet they have something preventing foreign computers from accessing their network  (so, yes, they have a reason and the ability to implement device detection).

Devices forty centimeters apart, so probably on the same router.

There's nothing other than getting a list of associated clients from each of the WAPs (Wireless Access Points; not routers) that can confirm this.  WAPs are placed  in physical locations for more than just signal strength, there may be high demand in particular locations so you may have more in one area than another.  Just because a WAP can support up to (for example) 256 clients, doesn't mean it can do so simultaneously.
TL;DR
Your MBP is not connected to the network while your iPad does and is.  If you've confirmed that your WiFi works properly everywhere else but the Library, you need to approach the Library support staff to look into it (maybe they're out of resources or you're actually blocked).  Do not circumvent their systems and/or policies in order to get connected.


Recover Yahoo password that's stored on my Mac I forgot the password to an old Yahoo account as well as the answers to my security questions.  When I try to recover it using keychain, I only find a very long series of letters and numbers that is not the password (I would never come up with that, and even when I try to use it to open my account, it doesn't work).

Now, I don't rely care about the account any more, but the funny thing is that I can still log in on Yahoo messenger from my Mac, which means that the password IS saved somewhere in the machine.

Any idea how I can recover the password itself if it's not in the keychain?

Actually, the password may not be stored on your Mac since most log in services use the password to generate a cryptographically strong (or at least significantly longer) string that acts as a "cookie" to authenticate your client to access the servers that hold your yahoo content.

Unless you used a different program than Keychain to store the original password itself, you have checked the primary source of saved passwords on OS X and might not be able to recover the original password.


I have a Wacom CTE-640 and cannot get it to run properly/find a driver for it I have a Wacom Graphire 4 CTE-640, silver. It reacts as though the pen is always down, no matter how I try to use it. The area responds, but I have to lift my hand completely for the pen to stop.

I am running Mac OS X El Capitan on a MacBook Pro.

I have the same Graphire 4 and MacOS Mojave 10.14.5. The latest official Wacom Driver PenTablet 5.3.3-3 won't install anymore (it thinks that you have an older OS than 10.6).

SOLUTION: I tried all previous drivers until I found the most recent one that works. So the actual latest PenTablet driver that works with MacOS Mojave is the 5.3.0-3 that you can download from here: https://www.wacom.com/en-us/support/graphire-support

Hope this helps!


Problem with WIFI after sleep I have problem with WiFi after sleep on my Macbook Pro 13 2015 Sierra. After sleep laptop is still connected to the network but i can't load websites, ping. I must wait long time or turn of and turn on wifi to resolve problem

The MacBook maybe connecting to wrong server while asleep. Check that you are connected to correct Wifi.  I have this problem on my iMac. After waking, the internet was very sluggish if working at all. For some reason my computer switched its connection to another server without a password. I have to manually change it back to my own wifi.


How can I disable a root certificate in iOS? I want to disable all root certificates in iOS since I'll be using a proxy to access all HTTPS sites.

How do I disable all root certs in iOS?

I don't think that is possible, but I can't confirm for sure. You could deactivate root certificates you added to your phone, but not the ones already in it...
I'll try to find some doc about it.


I need to get the Messages app on OS X Lion (10.7) I would like to start by stating that I am new to this forum, and have never used it before. Patience is appreciated!
All greetings aside, I need help with my Mac Mini.
I have an early 2007 Mac mini that I have running OS X Lion. (the latest version that it supports) I believe that this system is 64 bit, as per this post: is my mac 64 bit or 32 bit?

The point of this is, I need this Mac to run iMovie 11, as well as the Messages application. Now, I would prefer to stick with Lion, execpt, I truly wouldn't mind 'hacking' this system to run something like Yosemite or El Capitan, because I am thinking of doing this in the near future.

Finally, one more thing. As per the guide I quoted above, I think this mini is 64 bit. The problem is, all of the "run Yosemite" or "Run El Capitan" on unsupported macs all make the use of SFOTT. (sixty four on thirty two)

I have tried the Messages beta app, which apparently is no longer supported, (no suprise there!) and would truly appreciate fast responses to this thread.

Here's a screenshot of the specs on my mini:

Thank you everyone!

Your question seems to jump around quite a bit and because of that is a little confusing. Below are some answers that may help.

If you want to confirm whether your Mac Mini is 64 bit, the answer is yes.
Your question title says I need to get the Messages app on OS X Lion (10.7) but your question details say you already have the Messages beta app installed. That is the only official version (albeit in beta) that was released for Mac OS X Lion. In other words you already have Messages installed, so I'm not sure what you're question title is about?
Your question also states I need this Mac to run iMovie 11. iMovie '11 was bundled with all new Macs sold on or after October 20, 2010 or for separate purchase in iLife '11. So, if you want it installed on your Mac Mini, you would have had to have purchased and installed it (as part of iLife '11). It was also available for purchase on the Mac App Store. The good news is that in terms of compatibility, iMovie '11 works perfectly in Mac OS X Lion (10.7).

If what you want to know is something different, then please clarify your question.


Sharing a bank of contacts Is it possible to share multiple contacts in a similar fashion to the way that you would share a single contact from contacts.app? Specifically is there a way to expediently share the list as well as, once received, add the list to the contacts.app on the other persons phone?

You can export a group of contacts.

So first create a group, then add contacts to it. Theres no menuoption for it, but you can rigthclick on the group and select Export vCard-group…

Or you can select desired contacts to export, File -> Export… -> Export vCard-card…

This will give you one vCard-file containing one or more contacts.

Then you can share the vCard file as you wish.


What redundant, on-site, low-downtime backup strategies exist for servers? I'm helping manage a OSX snow leopard server for a small company and one of the first things we did was setup time machine to get backups going.  However, having at least one more of the copy of the data seems prudent. It's starting to keep me up at night.

The thing we like about time machine is that it's so hands free and doesn't interfere.  I realize that we could shut down the server every week and do a full clone of the drive but I'm hoping for something much simpler and without any downtime.

Can anyone recommend simple to manage and cost effective strategies for redundant backups of OSX systems? In our case since we are really bandwidth constrained (low throughput + high cost), online backup isn't a practical solution.  Was hoping for a solution to automatically get the data to another drive located somewhere else within the building.

CrashPlan and TimeMachine have been very helpful for almost all the situations I've seen where one copy isn't enough.

Crash Plan software is very good - watch your java CPU usage until you're comfortable things are running smoothly in incremental mode, but it's as good as any of the other software that's out these days. The software will run on both the sending and the receiving computer elsewhere on your campus/building.

You can of course back up to your offsite storage but once you've got it to the other computer, tapes, off site drive cloning and other non-bandwidth consuming options can work well.

Just watch Java CPU usage when you have large file changes - you can throttle things if needed, but it's pretty self-sufficient with the out of the box settings.


Issue setting environment variable that points to smb Can someone tell me the proper syntax for setting an environment variable that points to a smb volume directory?

What I have tried so far:

TNS_ADMIN=/Volumes/abc
TNS_ADMIN=smb://servername/abc
TNS_ADMIN=/servername/abc

Additional info, I have Oracle InstantClient installed and I'm trying to use SQLPlus. Except, the connection file I need is located in the shared directory located in the aforementioned smb volume.  I'm trying to set the environment variable (TNS_ADMIN) such that it points Oracle to look at the smb volume, where the file is located.  Nothing appears to work.  Looking for guidance on what the proper syntax should be on setting an environment variable that points to a smb volume.  Hope that makes sense.

Open Terminal
Open Finder and navigate to the folder containing the connection file
Drag&drop tns_names.ora into the Terminal window

The path shown is the value you need.


Clone APFS Time Machine volume to 2nd hard drive (Big Sur) I run Time Machine on an APFS formatted SSD and wondered, if it is possible to make something like a backup of my backup.
In practice I would like to copy / clone / get an image of my Time Machine SSD to a 2nd external hard drive from time to time, so that I would be able to restore my backup history to another SSD if anything happens to the Time Machine SSD (corrupt backup, ransomware etc.). Is this somehow possible with disk utility or a 3rd party software?

I'm running 11.2.2 with a Time Machine partition on an external SSD. When I try to use the Time Machine partition as a source in Carbon Copy Cloner (v5.125), this is what I get:
"Copying to or from a Time Machine backup volume is not supported."
In the past, I've used Carbon Copy Cloner to successfully clone Time Machine backups (which is what I believe you want), but the combination of Big Sur and APFS have made that seemingly impossible, for now.


Random Contacts saved in my iPhone 6 For a while now, I have noticed that my iPhone 6 will randomly delete contacts of the people that I know, and other weird contacts of people that I have never heard of suddenly appear at the same time.

I am fairly sure that it is not due to sync with Facebook or Twitter as I have never heard of these people in my life. It has been rather frustrating and confusing to have to re-save those people's contacts several times.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

Check if either

You're logged in with someone else's icloud or email accounts in settings

or

Someone you know (kid, spouse, etc.) is using YOUR icloud account on their device.

Easiest way to tell: change your icloud password and see if anyone screams, and if the problem stops.

Another source of them might be if you share a computer and multiple people sync their phones to it, it might be syncing your phone book with the computers'


iOS screen mirroring via USB to a Windows PC? I want to mirror the screen of an iOS device to a a Windows PC. I only found solutions which either use a VGA-adapter or AirPlay. Because AirPlay uses WiFi I seek for a more stable and independent solution. I stumbled on iTools but it seems it isn't developed anymore. It used a USB connection for showing the screen.
The only things which would suit my needs are either using a VGA/HDMI-adapter or using iOS 8 with Ad-Hoc WiFi and AirPlay. But then I would adapters for Lightning and Dock-Connector. On the other side it won't work for iOS 7 if I use the AirPlay method.
So is there any software which can mirror the screen via USB onto a Windows PC?

The HDMI or VGA adapter that can be purchased from Apple allows mirroring to an external monitor, projector or other display that allows video IN.  Does your PC allow video in via HDMI?  (I'm not aware of any that do, most are video OUT)  There is a 3rd party application called Duet that allows your iOS device to be used as an external or second monitor via USB but I think that is the opposite of what you are trying to accomplish based on your question.  The screenshot shows Duet for Mac but there is a PC version as well.

From the Apple documentation regarding cable:

  Use the Lightning to VGA Adapter with your iPad with Retina display, iPad mini, iPhone 5, and iPod touch (5th generation) with Lightning connector. The Lightning to VGA Adapter supports mirroring of what is displayed on your device screen including apps, presentations, websites, slideshows, and more — to your VGA-equipped TV, display, projector or other compatible display in up to 1080p HD.
  It also outputs video content - movies, TV shows, captured video- to your big screen in up to 1080p HD. Simply attach your Lightning to VGA Adapter to the Lightning connector on your device and then to your TV or projector via a VGA cable (sold separately).

Apple Store Link

Duet:

UPDATE:  This may or may not be useful, but this article mentions a method that may suit your needs.  From the article:

  Apowersoft Phone Manager
  It is completely compatible with iOS and Android operation system. To learn how to display iPad on computer, get started with the following steps.
  Download this tool and connect iPad to computer through USB cable.


TimeMachine inconsistant with backed up data. How do I access earlier data from the backup - they ARE there, Time Machine just doesn't show them This is a bit difficult,. I will try to explain in detail, please excuse if it get's a little long.

Outlook 2011 crashed, and I was advised to reinstall. That was a mistake, all my local folders in which I had a lot of mails sorted by projects and other criteria disappeared.

Luckily I had a Timemachine backup on our network connected Timecapsule.

I found the backup, which was a .dmg file and copied it to an external USB harddisk and brought everything home, hoping to be able to reconstruct the missing bits.

Well. I doubleclick the .dmg file and up pops a disk image with the wellknown Backups.backupdb folder on it.

In this folder, I see everything … backups all the way back to Nov 22 2012

Wohoooo …. I start TimeMachine. And nothing happens. Nothing at all. It doesn't launch.

I check the settings, and Time Machine ask if I want to use the "new" disk as my backup target, and I can select if i want to replace the old target or use both. I select "Use both".

Since I'm at home and not on the business network, TimeMachine cannot access the TimeCapsule and makes a backup to the external usb HD.

I let it run, and again truies to launch TimeMachine, and whoa … there it is with stars and galaxies and all … except, it only goes back 5 minutes. It will not go back to the date I want/need.

Looking at the USB harddisk, I still have only one file there … Peters backup.dmg … doubleclicking this file results in a disk image on the desktop called Time Machine Backups.

This disk image contains the Backups.backupdb folder and yes … there it is. All of it. backup folders back to Nov 22 2012 with the most recent being just 5 minutes old …

And still, when I launch TimeMachine all I can access is the latest backup.

I think you can actually go in and get the files you are looking for without using Time Machine per se. Just open the .dmg file and navigate to the files you want and copy them elsewhere.


OS X Color Picker: Removing a Colour Swatch I am running OS X El Capitan, and any solutions I have found are out of date.

I can add a colour to my swatch drawer by dragging it. However, how do I remove a colour?

All the articles I have read suggest dragging an adjacent white cell onto the colour, but the empty cells are no longer white and and attempting to drag an empty cell does nothing.

Thanks

You can actually just drag & drop them to your desktop trashcan.

This works in High Sierra, I'm not sure if it does for previous versions.


Meaning of MAC terminal command prompt I was wondering if anyone could explain the meaning the command below in mac terminal:

dhcp-74-148:~

Noticed it for the first time today and just wondering what it meant.

Thanks

That line is called command prompt.

dhcp-74-148 is you hostname that you received from dhcp server.

~ is where you currently are (which directory) - tilda means you are in your home folder, /Users/[username]

: just separates hostname from current directory.

You can change format of command prompt by changing $PS1 variable.
And - if you're interested - check out some bash shell tutorial for more information.


MBP mid-2012 with SSD, does not hibernate Specs: 15" MBP mid-2012. Upgraded to Gskill 16GB RAM. Mountain Lion 10.8.2 installed in 128GB Plextor M5 Pro SSD in the optibay.

Problem: My MBP doesn't hibernate anymore. Whether when battery runs out (0%) or when I manually force it to hibernate.

I prefer to hibernate instead of "normal sleep" because I want all my work preserved but have the MBP to power off immediately to conserve battery. I don't mind having to wait for it to resume and I don't mind about the write cycles. I also need hibernate so I can resume when my battery runs out.

Things that I have tried:

Run sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 and pmset sleepnow. This will turn off the MBP's display with the sleep indicator turned on for ~15 seconds. After this, the indicator light will then turn off. But, after ~30 seconds the light will turn back on and start blinking/pulsing as if the MBP went to "normal sleep" mode. When I hit a key, the login screen will appear immediately without showing the gray screen with the progress bar at the bottom like in a typical resume from hibernation.
Run sudo pmset -a standbydelay 10 then put MBP to sleep. Mac will sleep (pulsing indicator light) and then after 10 seconds the light will turn off. After ~30 seconds, pulsing light will come back again instead of staying powered off and hibernated.
Manually force hibernate using apps like "SmartSleep", "DeepSleep", etc. Still encountered issue.
No USB device plugged in, turned off bluetooth, turned off "Wake for network access", unmounted HDD in main bay. Still encountered issue.
Deleted /var/vm/sleepimage and let computer generate a new one. Used "Restore Defaults" in Energy Saver. Repaired permissions is Disk Utility. Still encountered issue.
Tried putting /var/vm/sleepimage on the other HDD and tried hibernate and resume. The gray screen with progress bar at the bottom appeared but MBP crashed/turned off and went straight to a normal boot.
I waited for the battery to drain to 0% and for the MBP to turn off itself. When I connected the adapter and turn the MBP on, it will boot as if it was from a full shutdown. It lost my previous work/machine state.
I cloned my SSD to the normal HDD installed in the the main bay using Carbon Copy Cloner and booted from it. Then I forced the MBP to hibernate and it successfully hibernated. The gray screen with a progress bar at the bottom appeared and resumed to my previous desktop.

That means I know for a fact that when I boot my OS X installation from a normal HDD, hibernate is working. I'm running out of things to try. Final straw might be to transfer the SSD to main bay and put the normal HD in the optibay, or to reinstall Mountain Lion (both options I don't want to do).

Anyone else also experiencing this and/or knows how to fix this? Or is hibernate really broken for MBP with SSD? Has anyone with MBPs with SSD tried hibernating and resuming successfully? Can someone else please try and confirm if this is isolated? MBAs and rMBPs are not counted because they have different hardware.

Thanks!

I've the same problem using late 2008 Macbook Pro running 10.8.3 and have decided to keep the HDD in the shock mounted area due to superior protection.

I've got a Sandisk SSD installed in the optibay and the original HD in the main bay. Deep sleep worked fine with just the hard disk installed. Now that I've cloned it and boot from the SSD instead, the Macbook refuses to go into deep sleep. Instead it sits there in normal sleep mode with the white light on the front of the machine flashing.

I tried moving the sleep image to the HD but got the same crash that you experienced. Mind you, the man page for pmset does state that it has to be on the root drive!

I'm reluctant to swap the disks round because the main bay offers better shock protection for hard disks with the rubber mounts. Looks like I'm stuck with the problem unless Apple fix things.

As it stands, you need to choose either sleep compatibility or shock protection when connecting a SSD and HDD to a MacBook Pro.


How to open files from Finder into existing instance of Sublime Text 2? I would like to be able to go into Finder and open files into an existing instance of Sublime Text 2, which has a side menu with all open files.  However, when I hit Open With -> Sublime Text 2.app, it opens a whole new instance of Sublime, which is not what I want.  I can certainly accomplish grouping of my documents in a single instance if I open them within the application but that requires more steps and time, i.e. is not always  as convenient as opening them from Finder.

As shown in this answer on SuperUser, you can set this behaviour by changing the open_files_in_new_window setting in Sublime Text to false. (Note that it's recommended that you override the setting in the Settings - User file rather than changing it in Settings - Default.)


Text message vs iMessage on iPhones iMessage boxes are blue, but I noticed at certain times when I text other iPhone owners the messages are green and show as text messages therefore unable to show the read stamp.  I understand that this can happen when there's not I messaging available for whatever reason that  I'm not too sure about but does this also happen when someone blocks a person?

No: blocking will actually generally result in your phone sending as an iMessage that doesn't get delivered. Any number of things could still be happening to send as text. You or the other person may have sending/receiving as SMS enabled or iMessage disabled. You or the other person may not have a proper internet connection for a number of reasons. iMessage servers may be down–which, although incredibly rare and usually noticeable, has happened on a few occasions when AWS servers are down or other problems occur.


What happens to an icloud.com address when you delete the Apple ID? If I delete an Apple ID account that is registered with an address@icloud.com, what will happen to the icloud.com email address and its availability?

Specifically, I am interested in deleting that account, but may wish to re-register it and claim the same email handle.

Will the email handle be immediately put back in to the available pool, will there be a delay, will it never be allowed for re-registration... ?

If I delete an Apple ID account that is registered with an address@icloud.com, what will happen to the icloud.com email address and its availability?

According to the support article How to delete your Apple ID account, the icloud.com email address is deleted, that is, messages associated to that address are deleted and you can't use the address to send or receive email:

  What happens to my iCloud mail and messages when my Apple ID is
  deleted?

  When your Apple ID is deleted, all of your iCloud email and
  messages are permanently deleted as well. Any messages sent to you via
  iCloud (Mail and iMessage) are not delivered.

About availability, a couple of years ago I asked Apple to delete one of my Apple IDs and support told me (at that time, you could only make such a request on the phone) that the email address associated with my Apple ID could not be reused as an Apple ID. So I'd conclude that the email address can't be reused.

Specifically, I am interested in deleting that account, but may wish to re-register it and claim the same email handle.

In this case, Apple recommends that you deactivate your account instead:

  If you aren’t planning to use your account for now but may consider
  returning to it in the future, we recommend temporarily deactivating
  your account (where available) instead of deleting it.

If you still decide to delete your Apple ID, make sure that you sign out of all your devices to avoid issues with apps that use your Apple ID account or iCloud. After your account is deleted, you can't sign out of iCloud or turn off Find My iPhone Activation Lock on your devices. If you forget to sign out, you might not be able to use your device when your account is deleted.

Will the email handle be immediately put back in to the available pool, will there be a delay, will it never be allowed for re-registration... ?

As commented above, Apple support told me the email address couldn't be used  as an Apple ID again, so re-registration doesn't seem to be possible.

You may want to contact Apple support to confirm this.


Safari memo keeps popping up on iPhone Every so often when I double click the home button on my iPhone6 (to switch between apps or close apps) I see a memo along the bottom saying something like Safari – From "Your Mac Mini". My Mac Mini is my desktop computer an my iPhone6 is my mobile device, but I don't use or open Safari on either of them. I've clicked the memo before and it's usually just a random site I've recently visited on Chrome.

What are these memos for/about?
How do I stop them from happening?

You are (perhaps inadvertently) using Handoff between your iPhone and your Mac Mini. This Support Page at Apple describes the Handoff setup process.

Extracted from the Support Page:

Turn Handoff on or off

Note: If you don’t see a Handoff option on your device, it doesn’t work with Handoff.

On your Mac: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click General,
then select “Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices”
(below “Recent items”). To turn it off, deselect the option.
On iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch: Go to Settings > General > Handoff,
then tap to turn on Handoff. To turn it off, tap the option.


How to pass the endless verifying status on iMessage or FaceTime activation when phone number is wrong? My iMessage continues to show Verifing status on iPhone 4S (iOS 5.1).

The phone number displayed at iMessage verifing screen is wrong (old one)
The Settings > Phone displays the correct number
iTunes shows correct number
The phone can successfully send or receive SMS messages

I already tried the accepted answer from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3401647?start=0&tstart=0 but it does not work.

I assume you changed phones/data plans and restored your iPhone from backup?

The only time I encountered quite important problems with my iPhone's setup was when I made a backup (in iTunes) sold my iPhone (3G) flew to a new country bought a new iPhone (4) with a new provider and setup the new iPhone by restoring restoring from backup. From that point my network settings went bad and I experienced numerous issues (visual voicemail, FaceTime and internet access were not working properly or at all).

To solve the problem I had to restore the iPhone and then setup the iPhone as a new iPhone. It was the only thing that worked for me. You could try that.


Xcode and iOS SDK in iPad Air I am a web developer looking to get started with apps for iPhone and iPad.

I have only an iPad Air 16GB. Can I install Xcode 5 and iOS SDK in the iPad for testing, while I code using a Windows PC?

You cannot install Xcode on iPad Air. You need to have a Mac to develop for iOS devices using Xcode and iOS SDK.


2nd Generation Apple TV to get UI/1080p update? Now that the Apple TV has been announced and is available, will Apple be releasing a software update for the 2nd generation Apple TVs? I'd like to know if the new UI will be supported on my ATV and whether or not 1080p support will be made available as a software update or if it is dependent on new hardware/processing.

Pretty sure that there are hardware differences allowing support for 1080p, not present in prior gen Apple TVs. So if that is the case, then a software update can't add in that support. We will not know for sure until we can see the spec and a complete teardown of the new Apple TV. We might be in luck for a UI update, though.
So according to ars techinca's Hands-on and questions answered: third-gen iPad, third-gen Apple TV

Apple TV
First let's start with the Apple TV. The device looks the same as the second-generation device and, in fact, the new interface that Apple touted during the event will also be coming to the second-generation version via software update. The only thing new about the third-gen Apple TV is 1080p capabilities plus a more direct link into iCloud for photo syncing. If all you want is the new and improved interface (which I do like, as an Apple TV fan), you'll be able to get it from Apple on your second-gen device without having to pay anything.

And as for hardware changes that's a yes to according to the same article as well.

We asked whether the third-gen Apple TV had the same A5X processor as that in the new iPad (as was previously rumored), but an Apple spokesperson told us that it has a "single-core version of the A5" and it's not the same as what's in the iPad. The CPU is capable of handling 1080p HD video.


How to review an app from iTunes? In iTunes I went to Library / Apps  and found the app but the only menu items are 'get info', 'show in windows explorer' and 'delete'. I want to write an review.

Search for the App in the iTunes store (OS X or iOS as appropriate) and then look for the stars to rate and then write a detailed review. You should be asked to sign in to your Apple ID and you must have purchased the app to write a review. If you received a gift or promotional copy, you might not be able to write a review in some cases.

The Write a Review text is below the ScreenShots section so you may need to scroll the content up to see the link to submit a review.


Permission denied for symbolic link I'm creating a symbolic link with the following applescript:

on run
    do shell script "rm /usr/bin/ant" with administrator privileges
    do shell script "ln -s /Users/hordine/software/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant" with administrator privileges
end run

The symbolic link is created but when I try to execute ant -version from a terminal window, I get a permission denied error.

How can I create this link so that I DO have permission to execute it later?

Do a chmod on the symlink to give you the rights.

do shell script "chmod 755 /usr/bin/ant" with administrator privileges


iMac 27' powering off without reason I have been the owner of an iMac 27' for the past 3 years. I have had the problem of the machine automatically powering off (for no reason at all) since almost day 1. After trying everything, including having the local iCentre change almost every part, I am still struggling with this problem.

On the UPS display which I have attached to the same mains the iMac is attached to I have started noticing that the voltage input fluctuates between 230v and 237v (I believe that in our country the voltage should be 240v). Does anybody know if the iMac has an inbuilt mechanism to shut off automatically as a protection mechanism when voltage fluctuates?

Did anyone encounter the same problem? Do you recommend any particular UPS / stabilizer?

Update: My error message is 'Previous shutdown cause: 0'

Voltage fluctuations are normal.  I am assuming you are in the UK or Europe.  If so, your voltage should be between 220V and 240V so everything is within range.  Besides, the UPS is designed to "smooth out" these voltage fluctuations so your power is clean coming into your Mac.

What is key to finding out what your issue is what the shutdown code is in your system log.

In Terminal, type the following command and paste the output to your question

syslog | grep shutdown

You should get something like "Previous shutdown cause: X"

Based on your error message as "Previous shutdown cause: 0" means there was a power loss.

You said that you have a UPS; it's very easy to test whether it is working or not:  just unplug it from the wall while your Mac is powered.  If it continues to run, your UPS is good.  For the record, I doubt it's your UPS because you would know if you were having power outages, but it's always good to test.

Once you have confirmed your UPS, take a look at this post:  iMac randomly shuts down  I believe it will answer your question as to why your iMac is powering off; basically your iMac's power supply failing.


How to bring up the iTunes podcast video window? I'm using 12.1.2.27 iTunes and I'm listening to The Dan Bejamin Hour podcast, which, has video. I know because I have listened to this podcast before and there are video windows pop up when I start listening and I can see Dan there.

But I have once closed it and then now it does not shows up when I play anymore.

So is there a way, a secret menu or some shortcut to bring up the video window again?

After an hour or so of fiddling and I realize that the TED podcast has the word "with video" attached to it and so I tried searching the store for the video version and boom! There it is, the version of the same podcast I've been listening to but with video. Playing episode in that podcast pops open the video window just fine.

So in case anyone else stumbling onto this:
Make sure you are subscribing to the version of the podcast with video.

You can tell quickly by looking for the little monitor icon next to the episode title:

Sorry for the trouble guys.


Force a link to open in Safari instead of the in-app browser I have an issue with QR Readers. I encode a URL within a QR Code. When read by many iPhone App they will open the URL within a WebView within the app.

I want to open a vCard there, which those internal things just won't do - page stays blank but when opened directly in Safari everything works great.

Here is my example:

If you visit vcard.nikb.de in Safari it will bring up a VCard
If you scan the QR below (which opens the site mentioned) it won't open...

So my question is: Is there any way to get out of the WebView and open Safari?

This is not possible, unless the app was designed to explicitly support opening Safari (with a button for instance).  You can't modify an app's internal messaging to its own webviews on stock OS iOS devices, for app security reasons if nothing else.


Securely wipe all user data from iBook G4 / OSX 10.4? I have unearthed an old working iBook G4 which I'd like to clean and then give away. I don't have a copy of 10.4 on hand to install. And I'm not terribly interested in wiping the installed applications off of it, more so I just want to make sure there's no application user data left on it.

At this point all I can think of is to just create a new user, and delete all trace of the existing user from /Users/. I personally have very little experience of 10.4 however, and only got involved in Mac since 10.6, so I'm concerned about things I might be missing.

You can take your 10.6 knowledge and apply it down all the way to 10 as the big changes in user level data and file system changes arrived at 10.7 and later.

The easy way out, is boot the Mac in target disk mode and connect it via FireWire to any Mac and zero the drive, secure erase, etc... The recipient will likely be able to order a 10.4 replacement disk for less than $25 online and set up the OS as desired.

Also your plan to just make a shell user account and delete the old user accounts would work well for light protection. Better to copy movie files or other data over all the empty space then delete them to prevent a simple undelete from recovering files only deleted by the OS.

Maybe examine the system keychain for any wireless passwords you don't want escaping, but most things of a sensitive nature are in the user home folder.


How can I turn my top menu bar and all the window bars dark? Is there a way to invert the colors on the menu bar at the top of the screen, as well as the title bars of all the windows is OS X? I have a lot of Terminals open usually, and the the light menu bar stands in the way of the vibe I want.

You can do this with Obsidian Menu Bar:

  Obsidian Menu Bar

  A hack that makes your OS X menu bar black. And yes, it blends.
  Ready for 10.9.2!


MacBook won't shut down What could be the reasons for my MacBook (early 2009) not shutting down. When issued the shutdown command it won't go pass the hiding of the icons on the desktop. It doesn't freeze (as I can still press the power button to invoke the shutdown dialog and press the button again). It just won't do anything at all. Fixing permissions didn't help as well as resetting system management controller.

I can't guess what is hanging up, but I can show you how to determine where the shutdown process is hanging.

You will need to boot your mac verbosely by holding Command-V when you hear the post chime. Then open a terminal and type this command to force a shutdown.

sudo shutdown -h now

This will let you see step by step how the operating system is closing things off. Once the loginwindow closes and your normal mac graphics window disappears, you will see the verbose commands and can tell us exactly where this is hanging so it's not a guess what step is failing.


Port forwarding on Airport Express IPv4 I'm facing an error with port forwarding on my Airport Express.

I am using the Airport utility application for this and when I go to the network tab and I can see the port settings, then I click +(ADD). I get a small window where I can write the ports but I need to add my IPv6 address which I don't have because I'm on IPv4.

Is there a way to port forward with IPv4 ?

Thank you

IPv4 port mapping will only be available if the AirPort Express has its router mode set to DHCP and NAT. You can check router mode setting in Network tab of AirPort Utility.

If you happen to have the router mode set to one of the other settings, then you may have another device on your network running NAT and port mappings would need to be configured on that other device. Another option would be do disable NAT on other network devices and enable it on the AirPort Express so that you can manage port mappings on the AirPort.


How can I find the bottleneck in my media server setup? On seemingly random occasions, streaming media from iTunes on a Mac mini to my Apple TV (3rd gen, latest software) will result in slow buffering of movies. The catch? There's no consistency to when it happens, and I don't know how to diagnose it when it does.

I've tried restarting the Mac, wireless box and Apple TV at that point, and it almost never makes any difference (as in, it stays pretty slow). When it's working fine, movies start playing inside of twenty seconds and don't pause to buffer at any point. Since I know the Apple TV is capable of streaming and playing back these sorts of files without issue, so I suspect a network issue, but I have no way to verify that.

My main suspicion, due to the seemingly random nature of the problem, would be slow wifi speeds. Here's where I get annoyed. Older versions of the airport utility had a panel where you could see the speed at which devices were talking to the base station. In 6.0 up, it's not there any more. In any case, I've tried playing with wireless channels, but it doesn't make any discernible difference. The settings screen of the Apple TV indicates 4-5 signal bars whenever I check, but I have no idea how reliable that is or what it actually means. Is there any way to see this info?

I'd happily get some powerline ethernet adaptors, but I don't want to waste my time if the wireless speeds I'm getting are fine and the problem is elsewhere! Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Extra (but possibly irrelevant) details:

The files in question are almost always 10GB+ 1080p files, all ripped and remuxed the same way. They're stored on a 4-drive RAID enclosure connected by FireWire 800.

The network is an 802.11ac AirPort Extreme that's in charge of everything — DHCP, etc etc. The Mac mini is connected to the Extreme via Ethernet directly (no switches), and the Apple TV is connected via wi-fi.

It could be

other wireless devices on your network using wireless bandwidth
a wireless device connecting at a speed that is forcing other connections to a lower-speed protocol
wireless devices not on your network but using an interfering channel
another process on the Mac Mini using network bandwidth

Signal strength and signal quality do not always go hand in hand. Think about somebody shouting in a tunnel—the volume is there, but the clarity will be drowned out by an echo.

One test would be to set up a new SSID and password and connect only the Apple TV and your streaming computer to it (temporarily) and see how that goes.


"The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." How do I access info on USB flashdrive? Same message with other computers. Worried that I may have ejected incorrectly. Is there a way to retrieve the information on my USB flashdrive?

Since my HD was initialized with a Mac, I was able to use Disk Utility's First Aid functions to first verify and then repair the volume.


How to recover data from Safari Sessions extension after clearing history? I use Sessions to keep track of browsing sessions in Safari.  I was having some trouble with invalid cookies and I cleared my web history.  Now all of my saved Sessions are gone. Is there any way to recover the data?  Where does Sessions store it's data?  I may have a backup.

If you go to Sessions "Help" (in the gear menu), there are two questions relevant to your issue:

  Why did my saved sessions disappear when I reset Safari or cleared its
  history?

  The option to remove website data, available when either resetting
  Safari or clearing its history, will delete extension data without
  warning. Some third-party cache cleaners may do the same. It is
  recommended to take care when using these tools, as any data so
  deleted can only be recovered from a backup.

and more importantly for you:

  How do I recover Sessions data from a Time Machine or other backup?

  If you are familiar with the command line, try using the
  sessions-export script. This is the recommended procedure.
  Alternatively, it is possible to physically replace the database file
  with a backup. The .db file under the directory
  ~/Library/Safari/Databases/safari-extension_yoo.david.sessions-deub45nr9t_0/
  can be replaced by a recovered file if the latter is renamed to match
  the file it replaces.

So, if you have a backup, it should be as easy as a copy and maybe a rename.


How to fix a Macbook Pro trackpad where the mouse pointer is randomly moving? The trackpad on my Macbook Pro just started acting oddly. It's randomly clicking (which might cause me to switch programs), right-clicking and even once my screen even showed the swiping animation as if I was trying to switch to a different desktop.

Part of me fears that this is some sort of joke hacking attempt (I know of a USB device you plug into someones computer and it randomly moves their mouse and types on their keyboard), but there is nothing plugged into my machine and I just turned off the Wi-Fi and watched as this web page tried to close, the mouse right clicked twice, highlighted a word and clicked "Paste and Match Style" in the Chrome right-click menu.
Also as I've been typing (with my Wi-Fi turned off) the mouse has randomly been clicking inside this question and changing where I am typing.

I just plugged in a USB mouse which seems to work fine but the trackpad is now nearly useless. I can't even move the mouse cursor more than a few centimeters with it.

Is this a common issue?
EDIT
I think it is dying actually. I can now click but not move at all with the trackpad, while a regular mouse works fine.
EDIT 2
And now it seems to be working again. I turned on the option for "Ignore Trackpad when Mouse is plugged in" under Universal Access. I cleaned the trackpad with rubbing alcohol, I whined and complained for a few minutes to my dog, turned off the "Ignore Trackpad" setting, unplugged the USB mouse, and the Trackpad appears to be working mostly normally.
If I run my finger across it at the top or bottom portion of the mouse, it works, but there is a line horizontally across it (almost exactly where a physical trackpad button would end on the old trackpads) that is "dead".  The mouse stops moving, or moves sluggishly when hitting that spot and that "spot" goes across the whole trackpad.

This was driving me crazy, too. It just started happening yesterday, but was dangerous as the cursor kept selecting everything--making selection rectangles especially on the desktop, opening programs I didn't want to open on the dock, and generally jumping around like a drunk rabbit.

Searched forums, read about others saying this happened to them after updating their Mac software, etc., etc. Got so frustrated I literally slapped the trackpad with my open palm. And what do you know -- that fixed it! Now my trackpad is working perfectly again. Must have been something pinching or pressing against the underside of the trackpad.

Don't know if you're all going to believe me 'cause it sounds ridiculous, and if you do believe me I don't know if you're willing to do it. But I swear on my soul it's true and I'm posting this solution for all to see because I want to help.


Applescript and Fantastical I trying to add a Fantastical event with AppleScript. Aparently the Fantastical Suite is quite simple as there is only one verb.

parse sentence v : parse sentence
    parse sentence text : sentence to parse
        [notes text] : Notes to add to the event or reminder
        [add immediately boolean] : If true the sentence is parsed and immediately added to the calendar.

I've managed to parse the sentence but I unable to set the notes and add immediately parameters. Can anyone help?

I don't have Fantastical but does this work?

parse sentence "my sentence" notes "my notes" add immediately true


What are "Write Only (Drop Box)" permissions? I noticed under Sharing & Permission in folder/file info that I have a weird third type of permissions. Next to Read & Write and Read Only, I also have the option "Write Only (Drop Box)".

I was hence wondering what these permissions are. Are they related to the Dropbox app?

These users may only save files to your dropbox, but cannot read the content (maybee even not see the file itself) of already existing files.

As opposed as to "Read only" where they can only read existing stuff but not save new files.

It has nothing to to with dropbox.com.

This is a OSX/macOS own sharing system


Can't use Boot Camp with drive already partitioned I'm running OS X Yosemite on a recently formatted 2010 MBP.

When I formatting the drive / installed Yosemite, I partitioned it with one partition called OS X and another partition simply called Partition.

I would like to install Windows 7 onto Partition and I'm under the impression I need to use Boot Camp in order to do that... it's been many years since I last did this however.

When I try to start Boot Camp, I receive the following error:

  The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended
  (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for
  installing Windows.

I was expecting to be able to view the partitions using Boot Camp, am I misunderstanding something? Do I need to re-partition my harddrive?

Or can I just insert my Windows disc and boot from Partition when starting up my Mac?

To do it the 'easy way', fully utilising Boot Camp, you need to start with one single volume on the Mac [ignoring the hidden volumes].

Boot Camp will then repartition for you & set up Windows on that new partition. Removal is then just as simple, using Boot Camp.

Boot Camp does more than just partition the drive, it sets Windows up in such a way that it is unaware it's being 'fooled' into thinking it's in charge of the drive.

Resist the temptation to ever change the volume structures any other way; tears will ensue ;-)

Best way to go right now would be to remove that extra partition in Disk Utility & extend the main one back to the entire drive, then let Boot Camp re-partition in its preferred way.

It can be done other ways, but none of them are as simple.


Changing the dictionary used by OS X Dictation Is there any way to alter the dictionary used by OS X Dictation, i.e. add/edit/remove a word? I use OS X 10.10 a.k.a. Yosemite.

OS X Dictation will let you dictate people in your Contacts. Make sure any words you wish to say are included in Contacts (you can place multiple words in the first name or last name fields) and providing you have enabled Enhanced Dictation the words should be available immediately. When dictating, if an alternative word is available, the word will be underlined in blue and selecting an alternate word will, over time, allow it to learn the word as a preferred dictation result. I have not tested deleting a contact and seeing whether the word would remain in the dictation repertoire.


Lacie Big 5 10tb to be used as external hard drive but want security so: ZFS Raidz? I've just bought the Lacie Big 5 10th and I want to use it as an external hard drive for my files. I was thinking of making it raid1 but then I heard about ZFS and Raidz. so that I can easily change/upgrade individual drives as time goes on

What matters to me is at least 5tb but a real safety for my files. Anybody can help me figure out what I need and how to do it?

thanks!

Do RAID 0 or RAID 6 and just user HFS+ if you're on a Mac.

I think it's best. Although I don't think RAID 6 is an native option in Disk Utility.


What is the difference "FTP on the Go" and "FTP on the Go Pro" for iOS? What is the difference "FTP on the Go" and "FTP on the Go Pro" for iOS? and which is better?

Looks like the main difference is that the Pro version is universal. That means it will work on iPhone and iPad whereas the normal version only works on iPhone.

From the website:

  Optimized for iPad, but also runs perfectly on an iPhone or iPod touch.
  View many files at once in the tabbed viewer. This lets you easily copy between files, compare, etc.
  Switch between browsing and full-screen viewing or editing with just a tap.
  Quick-scrollers let you scroll through files or folders super fast.


File contents remains in terminal after exiting Vim? I'm using the stock terminal with zsh and vim. After I exit vim, the file contents remains in the terminal. Ideally, only the previous history would be in the terminal when I exit vim (such as the behavior I've seen with linux/bash).

How can I accomplish that?

Update

I'm running os x Yosemite 10.10.1

I tried glenn jackman's suggestion below, but still no dice.

Additional information:

echo $TERM produces ansi

I also tried in bash with the same results.

I also tried removing .vimrc completely with the same results.

Try adding:

if &term =~ "xterm"
    let &t_ti = "\<Esc>[?47h"
    let &t_te = "\<Esc>[?47l"
endif

to your ~/.vimrc

Ref: https://forums.vandyke.com/showthread.php?t=3431


Oops! Terminal is opening all applications with texteditor after Open with:/Change All I messed up. I was opening a text file with no visible extension and macOS defaulted to opening it as an executable. I changed it to open with TextEdit then did the "Open with:"/"Change All..." via the info menu.

Now, I'm trying to open a program through terminal and it's opening that program through TextEdit. How do I change it back to opening all non-extension files as .exe files?

Okay, I should have waited two minutes before posting. I went back to the original file that didn't have an extension, right click, info, Open With..., then chose terminal (under utilities). That fixed it.


iTunes connect not showing apps Once clicking on apps in the iTunes connect home page, the information page shows up.

to

Is this usual, if so, how do I enable in-app purchases

You can not enable apps in the latest version of iTunes. All apps are now downloaded and managed from the iPad or iPhone.


My iPad's MAC address seems to have changed with the iPadOS 14 update. Is this normal? I was looking at my Ubiquiti UniFi controller webpage and noticed that my iPad Pro 10.5 was seen as a new device. I went to the Insights tab and saw that it has two entries, with two different MAC addresses.
Why has the MAC address changed? Does this sort of thing happen usually and I have only noticed it this time because of the UniFi controller webpage?

Shortly after posting the question, I found out that there is a new feature in iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS that changes the MAC address to an individual private one for every wifi network. I think I will be turning it off for my own wifi networks.
It seems to be turned on by default.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211227


Booting from another mac's hard drive My Macbook recently developed a video card problem, and I got another Macbook, both running Yosemite (though perhaps different subversions). I got my old hard drive out and connected it to my new computer to try to use as a start disk (with an enclosure). However, when I try to boot from it, the new computer brings up the "No Access" symbol. Is it possible to boot from the disk? If not, can I clone it onto the new computer?

An installed OS X can be specific to older models. People that administer Macs professionally call this situation "forked" and no one likes to be "forked" by surprise.

Boot the new Mac to the setup assistant (or if you have made an account there already consider making a new test user account and backing up everything on the new mac that you need to save). Then you can run the Migration Assistant and put the old Mac in Target Disk mode (TDM) instead of booting the old OS from the new Mac.

TDM works over USB-C, FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, you can connect them so that one of them appears as an external hard disk on the other. This is called “target disk mode.”

Connect the two computers with one of the above cable types.
Start up the computer to be used as a disk in target disk mode:

If the computer is off, start it up while holding down the T key.
If the computer is on, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Startup Disk, and then click Target Disk Mode.

When the computer has started up, a disk icon appears on the desktop of the other computer.

Transfer files by dragging them to and from the disk.
Eject the disk by dragging its icon to the Trash.
While you drag, the Trash icon changes to an Eject icon.
On the computer you used as a disk, push the power button to shut it down, and then disconnect the cable.

Source: Apple KB - https://support.apple.com/kb/PH10725


Can I use a single macOS Mojave installer app on both iMac and MacBook I have both an iMac and a MacBook Pro. When I want to upgrade to macOS Mojave, do I have to download the installer in both machines? Or is it possible to copy it over to the other device and use the same installer?

Yes.  You can copy the installer to the other machine as it's "universal" to the Mac platform.

However, my suggestion would be to create a USB Installer instead.  This way you can download it, "move" it to the USB and then remove it from your installation.

You will need an 8GB USB flash, formatted with a GUID partition and HFS+.  Then execute the following command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USB\ Installer --nointeraction --downloadassets

Where /Volumes/USB\ Installer is the name of the USB flash drive you've inserted.


File Save dialog unreadable I just updated my iMac to Mojave, and am still trying to setup my preferences.

I tried dark mode, but did not like it (half of me apps seem to ignore it anyway).

I switched to light mode, but this too has problems.
The File Save dialog shows a list of Directories and existing files, but the latter are very light grey, almost indistinguishable from the background.

I have searched the Preferences menu, but can't seem to find any setting to set normal contrast levels like in High Sierra.

Can you supply a screenshot? Greyed-out files in file dialogs usually mean that those items can't be selected. For an Open dialog, greyed files are ones than can't be opened by the app.

For a Save dialog, it's normal for existing files to be greyed out, because you're not going to select them, you're creating a new file. (However, you can actually select them to inherit their filename.)

There should be no difference in Light Mode between Mojave and previous versions of MacOS.

There are settings in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display that increase the contrast and Reduce Transparency, which you may have previously used.


Numbers : Conditional Highlighting with decimal I have a cell, the value is 90.90,

I setup a continual highlighting for different value, one is suppose to be greater than or equal to 99.90.

however I don't get this one to work as 99.90 is automatically change to 99.9 (even though the cell remain to 99.90)

How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance

I tried this and even though 99.90 is changed to 99.9 in the conditional highlighting rule, it works perfectly even if the value in the cell is 99.90.


slim black object on 1st generation macbook air case This is just a curiosity: what is that slim black part (see picture) in the Apple Macbook Air 1,1 (Early 2008) case?

According the Apple's user manual it is the Infrared Receiver.

http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA394/en_US/MacBook_Air_Users_Guide.pdf

The "Sleep Indicator Light" is next to it on the left.

The MacBook beneath it has the same configuration.


How to show app window When I change from one running application to another, I no longer see the topmost (or any) window from the new app. I now have to select a window from the menu bar.

This is a new and unwelcome behavior. Until semi-recently, switching to another running app would bring up whatever window was last open. I suspect this is a setting somewhere, but I don't know what or where. Can someone suggest how to change this to the previous behavior?

On MacBook OS X 10.8.2

I discovered that using command tab to switch to another running app, then using command ↑ (up arrow) displayed the window for the newly active app. To my surprise, I could then get an open window when I changed apps without having to repeat the command-up. I have no idea why this worked or how I got into the situation in the first place.


Why is Mail app taking ages to setup my new Apple ID? I'm sitting here creating an Apple ID through the Mail app on OS X Yosemite, wondering why it's been taking an inordinate amount of time to finish.

Is it normal to take this long for it to finalize account creation, or should I just go and close the app and start again? I'm tempted to just close it and retry, but I'm not sure if doing so will mess anything up.

I don't think closing the window "messes up" anything.
Either your Apple ID is created, or it's not!
Check if you can login using your Apple ID in related services like iTunes Store. If you can't login, then there was an error on Apple's side and you can repeat the process again. On the other hand, if you can login, then your Apple ID is already created and ready to use.

The reason this kind of problems happen is mostly because of poor error handling. My best guess is timeout error which is very common, but the application (Mail.app in this case) doesn't know how to properly handle the error (and notify the user).

In your case, something caused the server's response (whether it be success or error) to not reach you, but the client side, is still waiting for server's response.


Formatting an External SSD for Mac I know this seems like a basic question, but I’ve looked around online a bit and found different answers to this. I’m getting an external SSD for my 2018 Mac mini, and I’m using it to store music files and Logic projects and such. I want to make sure I get as much speed out of this drive as possible, so what would be the best way to format it? I currently use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) on my external HDD, but I’ve read around that using the APFS would be better for an external SSD. I’ll also be using a Time Machine backup drive to backup this external SSD, so I’m not sure if using the APFS system on the new SSD would interfere with the backup drive.

If anyone could help me with this I would really appreciate it.

Apple recommends using APFS for SSDs. You cannot use APFS with a Time Machine Backup Drive. If you are planning on using it for two things, storing files, and Time Machine, then I would recommend partitioning the SSD and then making the one for storing your music, etc. APFS and to use Time Machine, simply go into Time Machine Preferences and then select the partition meant for Time Machine. Time Machine will automatically format the partition as HFS (macOS Extended).


Terminal-App: What’s in front of colon and why does it change with a different network? When I open the terminal-app, there is this default code. However, it changes depending on the network:
This is how it looks like in my local coworking office:
Last login: Thu Aug 13 14:49:57 on ttys000
HUAWEI_P20-12345678:~ user$

This is how it looks like at home or with wlan disconnected:
Last login: Thu Aug 13 14:51:36 on ttys000
MyMac:~ user$

I don't know what a HUAWEI P20 should be? I have an iPhone and I can't believe that the coworking office has a cellphone as router?
Did my computer get hacked?
What does this line mean and what difference does it make?
Furthermore, what does ttys000 mean?
btw, MyMac is obviously the name of my computer and I replaced my username with "user".

The string you see at the beginning of every line of Terminal is not a function of the Terminal application but a feature of any shell on any Unix system.
This string is defined as PS1 = Prompt String n°1.
On most shell this string is defined as containing your hostname as you can get it with the basic command hostname.
Of course, your hostname depend on your method of connection, your ISP, and how your computer name can be established from your DNS servers (Domain Name System).
When your computer doesn't have a connection established to the Internet, this name is its local name as you have defined it in System Preferences > Sharing > Computer Name:.
The last component of the line showing you how you connected
the last time you did is the terminal from which you were
connected on your Mac. Each shell session has a virtual terminal on which your shell commands are runs. This is the final part of the terminal name you were using as shown with the command tty.
If the Last login: information looks right to you, then it means your computer wasn't pirated and used by
a criminal.


Macbook Pro Retina Screen Shot problem -- again Judging by the comments to my question, I should maybe paraphrase my question. Original post below.

The problem:

If I take a screen shot on my Retina Macbook, with a display resolution of 2560x1600, the saved file cannot be opened on the same machine at resolution 2560x1600, but needs to be rescaled to 50% (at least in Preview and XnViewMP).

My questions:

Why is this the case? Why can't I open a screen shot at 100% on the display the screen shot was taken of?
Is there a real solution for this? By "real solution" I mean, not a workaround that simply rescales the image to 50%, and as a result, will make it look somewhat blurry?

(Old version)

I'm aware that this problem -- of screen shots taken on a Retina Macbook looking bad due to some "resolution mismatch" -- is a known problem. It's been covered for example here.

However, I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on, because right now I don't even understand what causes this problem:

If I take a screen shot on my rMBP 13' at a screen resolution of 2560x1600, the file that is saved has the same resolution, but opening it on the same machine, it looks a lot worse.

It seems that opening the 2560x1600 file on the same machine/display can only be done by scaling the image down 50%, to 1280x800.

Now, I understand that the blurriness I see is due to the rescaling of the image (to 50% of the file resolution), since rescaling (never?) works absolutely perfect.

Here's what I don't get: I can see how opening a Retina display screen shot on another (non-Retina) display would lead to this problem. But I don't see why, on the same machine and display, the screen shot I just took needs to be scaled to 50%.

Could anyone take a moment and explain why that's the case?

P.S. I realize that there are some workarounds which all seem to involve rescaling the image "on the go", as described for example here, or by using apps that do it for you (e.g. RetinaCapture).

However, none of these solutions solve the problem described above: that the rescaled image will look (slightly) worse than what I see on the screen, and of which I want a 1:1 screen shot.

(EDIT) Okay, just figured something out: When opening the 2560x1600 screen shot with an app called 'Acorn' (which I just downloaded, only trial mode), it looks perfect. So it seems to be somehow related to the image viewer. I tried before Preview, XnViewMP and Gimp -- on all of these the, the image is scaled down to 50% to display it entirely. Anyone knows what the difference is, and if I can set any of the above programs to perform like Acorn?

(EDIT 2) A comment by user duozomo in this A.SE question suggests that the problem is due to different image viewers using different parameters for "screen pixel per image pixel". Can anyone confirm this? And if so, is there a known list of which programs use which parameter for this?

A Retina display's default resolution is 1440x900. I believe the screenshot feature takes a screenshot of what the monitor "seeds", so a 2560x1600 resolution of a 1440x900 screen.

I'd have a look at RetinaCapture, an app designed to take screenshots on a Retina Mac.


Parsing dates in Mavericks I'm sure this used to be valid:

$ date -d"2013-10-12T09:23:28+0100" +%h
usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
        [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

But it seems not to be in Mavericks. Indeed, the example for parsing dates in man date also doesn't seem to work:

$ date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s"
Failed conversion of ``Thu 31 Oct 2013 21:05:29 GMT'' using format ``%a %b %d %T %Z %Y''
date: illegal time format
usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
        [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

Any ideas on a workaround?

Here are two date commands that work on Mavericks to convert/extract time from date strings:

mac:~ me$ date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d %T" "2013-10-12 09:23:28" +%s
1381584208
mac:~ me$ date -j -f "%Y/%m/%d %T" "2013/10/22 10:45:00" +%h
Oct

It's not entirely clear what you seek, but hopefully these workable examples bridge the gap for your needs.


How do I download an app to an iPad that asks for another user's password? Probably going to sound wordy to explain but I've got an issue where my Apple ID is signed into my iPad but when I try to download an app it requests my ex girlfriends password for her Apple ID. When I'm using anything else on my iPad it requests my password and it's no problem.

Does that make sense and can anyone help?

The app was downloaded / bought using your ex-girlfriend Apple ID; delete and re download the app in question.


Location of "start at login" items? I have quite a few apps (Glui, Wunderlist, Cobook) that startup at login (which I do not want them to). I do not have them among the user's login items and when I created a new test user, these apps do not start.

I also checked in LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons (both system and User) and can't find these items there.

Where else can I look? I tried removing all the com.apple.loginwindow.* items from ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost and still these items start at login.

The following list might help you to disable some program at startup :

Those in System Preferences » Accounts » Login Items (actually, these include the ones from 1.)
The login hook for loginwindow described here, read current value with defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
Some of those specified as part of a launchd script (or otherwise managed by launchd). List all with sudo launchctl list. See man launchctl for details.

Regarding the launchd lists, you can see their definition files in the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons subdirectories of your system's Library directories:

/System/Library (you probably shouldn't touch these)
/Library/ (usually for all users)
/Users/yourname/Library (your own programs)

In the latter two libraries, check for anything suspicious. It's usually XML, so you can open and read them.


Thunderbolt 2 Dock - Display stops working after waking from sleep I recently bought a used Elgato Thunderbolt 2 dock off ebay and everything seems to be working fine apart from this display issue.
Here are some details of the issue:

The monitor is connected to the dock through the HDMI port of the dock.
Upon waking from sleep, the display flashes (the flash that occurs when a display is connected or disconnected) and the monitor no longer works and displays a 'No Signal'.
To get the display to work again via the dock, the mac has to be restarted.
Ethernet, USB ports and headphone/microphone ports of the dock work  when this issue occurs.

Some steps I've taken in an attempt to solve/isolate the issue:

Connecting a display directly from the mini display-port/thunderbolt port of the Macbook works.
Reconnecting the display and thunderbolt cable does not fix the issue.
Power cycling the dock (taking out the power adapter and putting it back in) does not work.
Using the second thunderbolt port on the Macbook does not work.
Disconnecting the HDMI cable from the dock and using the second thunderbolt port on the dock to connect a display via a mini-displayport adapter does not work.
Using another Macbook (a different model, more specifically a Macbook Air) works fine.
SMC and PRAM resets have been done already. Does not make a difference.
Looking at the console, multiple log entries appear which seem to suggest that the HDMI port is being reconnected multiple times:

My Macbook Details

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
List item
OSX Mojave 10.14.6
Intel Core i7 2.8 Ghz
16 GB DDR3
1TB SSD/Flash Storage
Intel Iris Pro/AMD Radeon R9 M370X

I've recently done a clean install, coming from the OSX catalina beta. So suggesting this again is out of the question.
Any help is appreciated.

The actual problem was the thunderbolt cable itself. The cable was cracked on both ends, meaning that a good connection could not be established between the dock and macbook. Purchasing a brand new thunderbolt 2 cable from apple has solved this issue completely.


How can I find my lost iPhone 7 Plus? I lost my iPhone yesterday and I didn't turn on mobile data, so I couldn't use Find my iPhone to locate it. I have tried to call many times, but no one answers and the phone keeps ringing. That means my iPhone is still active with my SIM card. Does anybody know how can I locate my iPhone? (I use a Vodafone SIM card and I purchased my phone on plan.)

There's no way you can locate your device without it connecting to the internet. You can go to this link and enable the lost mode. I am not sure if your phone was locked, if it was then there's no way it can have internet unless it is unlocked. If it was not locked and it gets internet access then the lost mode will be enabled and you can get the phones location. Also the phone will be locked after that.

Once you enable Lost Mode, you will also get an option to enable 'Notify me when found', enable that option as well.

If your have not enabled Two-factor authentication for Apple ID and if you have any other apple device then I suggest you enable it by following instructions on this link. Because now there are high chances of someone trying to hack your apple id to use the phone.


Automating Quicktime Image Sequence creation in Mountain Lion I have 69 folders of jpegs I want to turn into 69 quicktime timelapse movies.  Rather than doing this one-at-a-time in Quicktime 7 Pro (Open Image Sequence, select first frame, choose 30 fps as the frame rate, wait for frames to assemble, save result while selecting "as reference movie", change the name of the resulting Quicktime from "Untitled.mov" to the corresponding jpeg folder name, repeat) -- is there an easy way to automate this?

Automator with some AppleScript will do this nicely. The frames need to be named consistently — blah1.jpg blah2.jpg blah3.jpg … blah50.jpg etc. Each sequence you want to be a movie should be in its own folder.

Open Automator and create a new workflow.
Add the Get Specified Finder Items action and add each folder containing the sequences to the action.
Add the Run AppleScript action, with the following code:

on run {input, parameters}
    repeat with theFolder in input
        tell application "Finder" to set theSequence to first item of folder theFolder as alias
        tell application "QuickTime Player 7"
            activate
            open image sequence theSequence frames per second 30

            set nameSequence to (theSequence as string) & ".mov"

            tell document 1
                with timeout of 500 seconds
                    save self contained in nameSequence
                end timeout

            end tell
        end tell
    end repeat
end run

Run it, and you'll get a .mov in each folder. Let me know if you have any questions.

The AppleScript code is adapted from this post at the Macworld Hints forum.


Slow-mo video is not slow motion after uploading to Google Drive I took a slow-mo video from my iPhone 6 Plus. When I uploaded it to Google Drive the video was without slow-mo. Why is this so? Is this a bug?

I have faced this issue also when uploading the slow-mo video on Hike and WhatsApp.

Slow-mo videos are videos recorded in a higher framerate. To make them slower, Photos plays them back at a lower framerate. This is nothing to do with the file and everything to do with the playback of the file. When you upload the file elsewhere, it's still in a higher framerate, but you're playing it back at this higher framerate. If you want to watch it slower, use Photos to adjust the playback speed.


How to reliably keep network share connected for a specific user using automount? I've got a Synology NAS and a Mac mini running Plex and XBMC, which streams content from the NAS. The MM frequently loses the connection to the NAS, for several reasons (e.g. after updating/rebooting the NAS, network problems, OS X problems).

After trying several solutions for this issue, I finally came across the built-in automount tool, which is supposed to reconnect network drives when the connection is lost. I set it up, and it seemed to work. But there's one annoying problem:

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but automounted shares seem to enter some kind of not-really-connected state from time to time. When the share is traversed, it immediately connects. That's fine, but the share is mounted only for the user who accessed it.

I've got two user accounts: TV, which runs Plex and XBMC and needs to access the share, and Admin, which I use for management tasks. Occasionally, I use the Admin account to connect to the NAS as well, but I'm using the Finder for that. There's no need for a permanent connection.

For some reason I don't understand, sometimes, the automounted share is mounted for the Admin account. Which means the TV account is unable to access the share (Permission denied). I can umount the share with Admin and ls it with TV to mount it for the latter, but after some time, Admin has the permissions again.

How can I fix this? How do I have to set up the permissions so that TV is the only account who can access the automounted share?

Here's what my automount files look like:

auto_master

Permissions: -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel

+auto_master      # Use directory service
/net              -hosts     -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home             auto_home  -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers  -fstab
/-                -static
/-                auto_nas   -nosuid,noowners

auto_nas

Permissions: -rw-------  1 root  staff

/NAS -fstype=smbfs,soft smb://TV:@192.168.1.56/Files

/NAS (the mount point)

Permissions: drwx------@   1 TV  wheel

The MM is running Yosemite (10.10.3).

Assuming you do NOT want to enable the "root" user login feature and loosen up file and directory permissions enough to potentially open up your system to a significant security attack vector (and I am assuming exactly that...), as of today, Feb 7, 2017, there is no way to accomplish what you describe :(

At least not for AFP / SMB / CIFS shares (those are the only three I have tested, you may have other luck with NFS volumes but I don't run those on my network so can't confirm).

There appears to be two potential root causes.  One is that sometime around Yosemite, there was some modification to the difference between using direct vs. indirect automounting functionality that caused intermittent failures when an auto mounted share was accessed by more than one user.

As of Sierra, this functionality is completely broken since the owner of the special /Volumes directory was made to be the "root" user and that user will take over ownership automatically if another user is granted ownership of any folders or files in that directory at some point.  Bugs have been filed, feel free to comment and share your outrage.

In the comment section over on this blog post discussing several examples of using automount (and a few of its limitations) user "Mark" provides a complete analysis of this issue with respect to sharing auto mounted folders across multiple users.

TL;DR - it was broken somewhere around 10.10 and despite being discussed across many forums Apple has not yet acknowledged the bug or committed to a fix.

  I think there is something going on with 10.11 that breaks the procedure > for mounting AFP shares into user directories. I am trying
  to mount afp://user:pass@myserver.local/Music to /Users/me/Test

  auto_master has the line: /- auto_afp -nosuid

  auto_afp has the line: /Users/me/Test -fstype=afp
  afp://serveuser:servepass@server.local/Music

  The server mounts beautifully, but clicking on the server icon in
  /Users/me gives the error “The folder “Test” can’t be opened because
  you don’t have permission to see its contents.”

  After working the problem through, I see that this is a permissions
  problem. The mount point has the owner and group and permissions:
  drwx——@ 1 root wheel 364 31 Dec 10:01 Test (Actually, it’s interesting
  — if I empty out my auto_afp file and reboot, this returns to a
  regular directory with owner/group/permissions drwx——+ 18 me staff 612
  31 Dec 10:01 Test)

  So the problem here is that autofs is mounting the share with root
  privilege, and my user cannot actually use the share. From my reading
  on the web, this appears to be a relatively new problem — perhaps El
  Capitan related?

  For comparison, when I do the following (as a user, not as a system
  user or using ‘sudo’): Create a new folder from the finder at
  /Users/me called ‘Test3′ then from the terminal enter: mount -o nosuid
  -t afp afp://serveuser:servepass@server.local/Music /Users/me/Test3

  then the server mounts beautifully (albeit with the finder name
  “Music”, which I would prefer to change), and has the following
  user/group/permissions: drwx——@ 1 me staff 364 31 Dec 10:21 Test3 and
  I am able to see and manipulate the contents.

  So in summary, the problem is: How can I get autofs to mount a network
  AFP share and map it into a user directory so that the user can access
  it and manipulate its contents? Historically, I think this is exactly
  how autofs is supposed to work, but it seems that the ownership of the
  mapped folder by ‘root wheel’ prevents it now from being of any real
  use.

  One more matter, while I’m at it: I have fallen back to the simple
  goal outlined above, but my longer-term goal is to map an external
  music folder to EACH user. auto_afp should look like this:

  /Users/me/Test -fstype=afp
  afp://serveuser:servepass@server.local/Music /Users/her/Test
  -fstype=afp afp://serveuser:servepass@server.local/Music /Users/him/Test -fstype=afp
  afp://serveuser:servepass@server.local/Music

  I know that I can make this mount in each users’ login items, but
  that’s not actually good enough to achieve my long-term needs. Long
  term, I need this folder mounted at boot by autofs to make it
  available for cloud backup.

User "Ben" commented, confirming this analysis and echoing that at least as of the time he shared his comment, there was no fix:

  Using an indirect map doesn’t help either. This functionality seems to
  be fundamentally broken in OSX going back to at least Yosemite… I’ve
  dug through 3 years worth of posts of people having this same issue
  and as far as I can tell, there’s simply no way to share a mount point
  across users… what an huge, infuriating, unbelievable fail.

  Thanks apple!

NOTE : I do not recommend this for any network so will not provide detailed instructions on how to do so here, but one other user on that same comment board indicated that enabling the root user login and using that to access his system would allow this to work as expected:

  One option is to enable root, and logon as root. Once you do that it
  all starts working. Crap option, I know, but my use case is a media
  server on an isolated network. Only option until I can see until apple
  gets it head out of its arse.

This is strongly discouraged by everyone, Apple, Security Experts, etc so I do think it is a viable path around this problem.  We will have to wait until Apple releases a fix.


Using bluetooth PAN with iPad Air I have Mac Book Pro running Mavericks and my iPad Air with iOS 7. I want to share it's internet via bluetooth and use it on my iPad. I followed this tutorial, but when I click on Advanced, I don't see any tabs sharing about internet. Why is that? I have given screenshots showing my settings :

When I try to open something in my iPad Safari, it says iPad is not connected to internet.

it seems that you your macbook pro is running mavericks but is not supporting it natively (guessing so because "allow bluetooth devices to wake this computer" is greyed out)

you can try to

on your MacbookPro; in BluetoothSettings, "connect to Network" your already paired iPad.

AT THE SAME TIME

on your iPad, in the Bluetooth Section of your General Settings, click on your Paired Device , e.g.. Macbook Pro.

you really should try to tap simultaneously; then normally, it connects.
with my iPad, this generally works very well.

with the above Settings that you already installed, e.g. Internet Sharing active via Bluetooth Pan and Bluetooth Pan active,

Your Internet sharing should be succesful;

sometimes certain dongles and OsX'es just don't work very well together.

If you use a ThirdPartyUSB BluetoothAdapter, you might need to deactivate the Internal Bluetooth Adapter.
To to do so, download HardWareIOTools via Apple Developer for your Xcode and use the Bluetooth Explorer Utility. (select "HCI Controller")

if you have certain adapter, you can also use ethernet on your iPad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKp02y4JXVs


Can a child post an app to the app store? I am 11 years old, and I have made an app I want to post to the App Store. Is there any way to do that, or do I have to use my mom's account? (I have an Apple id because of Family Sharing)

The Apple discussions thread can i be an apple developer under 18? is exactly what your are looking for :

  No. An adult would have to do that for you. To have a developer
  account you must be 18 or older.

…

  You can always start a corporation and the individual age restriction
  is not relevant anymore.


Using Swedish keyboard as English ANSI on macbook pro I have got a macbook pro late 2015 with MacOS High Sierra on it. It has a Swedish keyboard.
How can I use it as an English ANSI type? There are problems with replacement some keys and it doesn't comfortable for my work. MacOS recognizes this keyboard as ISO and it is impossible to change it in system preferences.

How can I fix this problem?

If you are talking about the fact that the ISO keyboard puts characters on the key next to the Z that you want on the key to the left of 1, then I think the best thing is make a custom layout with Ukelele or Karabiner.

(I am assuming you have already set your Input
Source to US or ABC instead of Swedish, right?)


I can't add videos to my video playlist after upgrading to iOS 5 I want to add a compatible video to my videos app on my iPhone (using iOS 5),  but when I sync my iPhone with iTunes, the video doesn't show up on the device.

The video is already added to the iTunes library, and in the "video" section of the used space, there is video content, but there's nothing in my video playlist on the phone itself.

Did I miss something? Is there something I don't know about the usage of separated video and music folders on iOS 5?

It is very annoying and it took me some time to figure it out. Before iOS 5 it could be done in the device itself, in the ipod app.

Now you can still do it in, but only in Itunes: on the lft hand side just create a playlist and drag videos from the "Movies" section into the playlist created, then sync itunes with the device, and you are done.