Lost PDFs from iBooks on ipad I have just replaced my iPad as the old one was irreparably damaged, I had a lot of PDFs on iBooks is there any way to get them back, I think they were saved under my email address. Can anyone help please.

If the iPad was backed up to iCloud or to a Mac recently you should be able to recover from the backup.

If they were put on there from the Mac and you did not delete them from the Mac then you should be able to put them back.

If they were purchased from the App Store some how, then you should be able to reinstall them from whatever app you bought them with.

  If the only place you had them was on the iPad and it will not turn on
  or you can not connect to a Mac to back it up, then whatever was on
  that iPad is gone.


What does the 2 stand for in "iPhone (2)" in find my iPhone app? Under the 'Find my iPhone' app, one of our phones listed now has a 2 beside it:
iPhone (2)
Listed like the above. What does that mean?

It means you have two devices using the same name. It has to do something to try separate them, so it adds a (2).

This can also happen if a single device is restored or set up as a new device, but is actually the same one. The initial device is preserved but a new one is set up to attempt to differentiate.


Disable f4 key for Launchpad I would like to reassign my F4 button on my mac magic keyboard to something else. Unfortunately, when I try to reassign it, it opens Launch Pad.
Here's my keyboard Shortcuts panel...
I'm able to remove the default action for other keys like the F3 key, but not for this one...
How do I remove this default action so I can setup a new use for that F4 key?

It's not that F4 is set as Launchpad, it's that you have your F-Keys set as 'special function' keys & that special function happens to be Launchpad. (The set of little squares printed on the key next to F4 - each of those icons represent the special functions)

If you look at the first tab of that pref pane - Keyboard - You'll see that box is unchecked…

Once you do that, your 'real' F-Key will come into play, with whatever you set it for in the Shortcuts pane.
Alternatively, you can temporarily swap special function/F-Keys by holding  Fn


How can I see an iPhone Smart Battery Case serial number using macOS console? My iPhone XS Max Smart Battery Case's serial number is extremely difficult to make out due to the color and wear on the fabric.

How do I use macOS Console.app to connect to my iPhone to see what the Smart Battery Case serial number is?

Put your iPhone into the Smart Battery Case.
Unlock your iPhone.
Open Console.app on macOS.
Plug your Lightning cable into your computer.
Plug in the other end of the Lightning cable into your iPhone via the Smart Battery Case Lightning port.
Your unlocked iPhone may ask if you trust this computer. Select Trust and enter your iPhone passcode.
In Console.app, select your iPhone on the sidebar.
Type Accessory Identifier into the Console.app search bar.
In the Console.app window, you will see a number of items under process sharingd with text in the message containing In powersource description.
Select one of these items and look for the line "Battery Case", "Accessory Identifier" :. The serial number for the Smart Battery Case will be listed there.


File selector list not starting at the top When I go to attach a document in mail, I press the attach button, and the file selector dialog opens. However, the list starts 3 or 4 items from the top, so I have to scroll up a little to see the first few (and then back down to see the rest).

Any ideas what would cause this and how I would fix it?

Do you have any third party software installed that messes with the finder dialogs? Default Folder, Boomarang, etc.

When in doubt:

Quit all applications.
Cycle power on the computer.
Repair permissions and repair the disk.
Delete preferences for that application.


Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion? Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?

The text is too small, I would like to see big characters when I create a new note instead.

UPDATE:

<dict>
        <key>FontName</key>
        <string>Noteworthy-Light</string>
        <key>Size</key>
        <integer>20</integer>
</dict>

You can go in "Terminal.app" and write (if your system is in english):

nano /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/DefaultFonts.plist

You will see a long file, but it's easy to understand it's content. You just need to change the ?? value, it is the default font size for each font.

When you are done, just control+O to save then control+X to close.

Restart Notes, select your default font and your font should follow the new default


Can any Apple software create "photo montage" still frame from a video file? I have a video and would like to create what is called a Photo Montage like this: (combining several photos of the same skier like below)

I have searched on the Internet and some definition of "Montage" is different from what's shown here.  I know some Android phone has this feature when taking a video.  But right now I already have a video and like to create this layered time lapse effect on either Mac OS X or iPhone/iOS.

Cool idea! Here's how I'd do it using Final Cut Pro X (or Compressor 4). This won't help if you're looking for something automated. Combination is already been discussed in the comments, so I'll offer more detail on generating stills prior to combining them.

1. How to extract still images from the video using Final Cut Pro X

Here's how to get several stills from a video using Final Cut Pro X. My answer assumes you've imported the video file and added it to a project.

First, add a destination.

Final Cut Pro X doesn't automatically offer you the option of exporting all the frames in a video project. You must "activate" this feature. Open Preferences and select the Destinations panel. Click "Add destination" and choose "Image sequence": Here's what Apple has to say about FCP X destinations.

Second, export or "share" the movie.

Click the "File" menu, select "Share", and click "Export Image Sequence". In the modal export dialogue box, you can adjust file format under the "Settings" tab. I recommend defaulting to TIFF (a lossless format that won't add any compression artifacts).

2. Select the images you want to combine.

Judging from the example above, you're looking for images that are spaced evenly. Perhaps frames 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 will be the ones you need. Pay attention to the quality of each individual shot. If frame 15 is blurry, then try 14 or 16. This could be done using Preview, the Finder, iPhoto, Aperture, or your layer-friendly photo editing software of choice.

3. Combine the images.

As I acknowledged above, I don't have anything to add to the comments already made. Use your layer-competent photo-editing software of choice. Depending on how much the camera moved while filming, you may need to stretch, blend, and rotate each layer.

Considerations

Consideration 1: Interlaced video yields messy stills.

It has been a long time since I've worked with interlaced video, so I don't have much to say. Just know it's an issue with some video cameras, specifically when the resolution is "i" not "p" (e.g., 720i). For example, check out the image on the right:

Consideration 2: Video frames have wayyy lower resolution than still photos.

The bottom line here is that frames extracted from a video will not give you nearly as much detail to work with as still photographs. The resulting "montage"/time lapse will be much lower resolution. (I recognize that the content in question has already been filmed, but for posterity I wanted to point this out.) Unless you're shooting with an incredibly high resolution video camera, like a 4k camera, the number of pixels in one frame of video is much smaller than the number of pixels in a still photograph. 1080p video, the highest resolution on DSLRs, is 1920 x 1080, or 1.98 megapixels. Contrast that to 18 megapixel stills on the same DSLR (e.g. Canon 60D).

Consideration 3: The more the video camera moves, the more difficult it will be to combine your shots.

So use a tripod.


Automator "Set PDF metadata" window size? I have a workflow in automator that "receives a selected PDF file in Finder", then "Open finder items", follow by "Set PDF Metadata"

When running the workflow, "Set PDF Metadata" opens a window that takes some inputs (title, author, and so on), and then requires me to press "Continue" to move on the next step of the workflow.

The window that "Set PDF Metadata" opens is always partially minimized, so I have to manually resize it bigger every time I run the workflow. Is there some way I can specify the size and position that the window should open at?

To replicate this behavior a simple workflow that goes as follows should work:

Get specified finder item, and specify a PDF file
Open finder items (open with default application)
Set PDF metadata, with the "Title" and "Author" boxes checked

Further information and screenshots:
Default PDF application is Preview

OS is MacOS Sierra 10.13.3

Yes, it is possible to set the position and size of the Set PDF Metadata action's window when run from an Automator Service, however it requires a bit of a creative workaround.

I have tested the following and it works for me under macOS High Sierra.

There are two primary components for this process, one being the Automator Service named Edit PDF Metadata, and the other, an AppleScript application that sets the position and size of the Set PDF Metadata action's window.

For the Automator Service, which I saved as Edit PDF Metadata, the image below shows the settings.

Note that the PDF document does not first have to be opened to set the metadata and why there is no Open Finder Items action. If you were doing it the see information in the document as a reference to be used in the Set PDF Metadata action, you can add it back in.

Example code for the Run Shell Script action:

open -a "/Applications/Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app"
echo "$1"

Note that the fully qualified pathname to the app does not necessarily need to be used and the open command could be shortened to open -a "Resize Set PDF Metadata Window". Then it doesn't matter where the Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app is saved, it's found automatically. I've include the fully qualified pathname just so there was no ambiguity.

Next, the desired position and size of the window for the Set PDF Metadata action needs to be determined:

In Script Editor, open a new document with the following AppleScript code, but do not run it yet, just have it ready.

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    get {position, size} of window 1 ¬
        of process "com.apple.automator.runner"

Now in Finder, select a PDF document and right-click selecting Edit PDF Metadata from the Services section of the context menu.

Then position and resize the Set PDF Metadata action's window on the screen as wanted, leaving it on screen for the time being, then back in Script Editor, run the code you prepped to get the desired position and size of the window for the Set PDF Metadata action.

On my system it returned, e.g.: {{870, 280}, {700, 290}}, on my 27" Thunderbolt Display.

Make note of the results for use with the code, which is used next, to create the Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app in Script Editor.

You can now click the Cancel button on the Set PDF Metadata action's window, as it has served its purpose to this point.

Now create the Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app in Script Editor using the following example AppleScript code:

tell application "System Events"
    set i to 0
    repeat until (exists window 1 of process "com.apple.automator.runner")
        delay 0.1
        set i to i + 1
        if i > 30 then return
    end repeat
    tell window 1 of process "com.apple.automator.runner"
        set position to {870, 280}
        set size to {700, 290}
    end tell
end tell

Change the value of set position to and set size to as appropriate and save as an application named Resize Set PDF Metadata Window in the /Applications folder.
Note that on my system 30, in if i > 30 then return, equates to ~5 seconds and is used so repeat until is not an endless loop, if something happens and window 1 of process "com.apple.automator.runner" doesn't appear for some reason.

Before really using the new Automator Service for the first time, you need to add Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app to: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility

With that done, Edit PDF Metadata is ready to used on a PDF document in Finder from the Services section of the context menu. It is also available from the Finder > Services menu as well. Also a keyboard shortcut can be assigned to the service in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Files and Folders

Also note that by default, the metadata added to the selected PDF document is automatically saved upon pressing the Continue button, so there is no need to use the Quit Application action set to Preview with the [√] Ask to save changes check box clicked. That is unless you added the Open Finder Items action, then add back the Quit Application action set to Preview too. (Note that Ask to save changes did not work in my testing.)

NOTE: Use caution with the Rename PDF Documents action, because if the Title check box is checked in the Set PDF Metadata action's window but text box is left blank, it will delete the PDF document upon clicking the Continue button! (This appears to be a bug in this action under macOS High Sierra.) Additionally, if you set the Title to the name of an existing PDF document, while the metadata is changed, nonetheless the target file is not renamed. As always, insure you have proper backups before running automated services upon your files.

The only drawback to this method that I can think of, is that only one Automator Service can be run at a time, this one, otherwise it will not be able to get window 1 of process "com.apple.automator.runner" if there is more than one "com.apple.automator.runner" process running. But how often does one really need to have more then one Automator Service run at a time.

If you do not want to have the Dock Tile for the Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app show on the Dock, then in Terminal use the following command:

defaults write '/Applications/Resize Set PDF Metadata Window.app/Contents/Info.plist' LSUIElement -bool yes

Afterwards, you can use the command with -bool no to have to have the app's Dock Tile show on the Dock.

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and does not employ any error handling and is meant only to show one of many ways accomplish a task. The onus is always upon the User to add/use appropriate error handling as needed/wanted.


Unable to install Homebrew in Terminal I was trying to install Homebrew in Terminal. I have MacOs Catalina 10.15.7. I am the admin of my computer. But i keep getting the following messages.

The error is rather clearly informing you that the command you executed is the old ruby based installer. You should go to the Homebrew website and re-copy the bash based installer from the https://brew.sh website.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"


Can't boot to newly created Recovery Partiton I am using DeployStudio to distribute my Mac images and when I create a new image the recovery partiton seems to be deleted on the new Retinas.  I have followed this in the past, http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/removing-and-rebuilding-a-malfunctioning-recover-hd-partition/, and it worked fine on older models.  On the Retinas it will create the partition but not let me boot to it.  I get the "no" symbol.

That process seems to install a 10.7.2 version of the recovery partition. The Retina MBPs were released with a special build of 10.7.4, so they won't be able to boot off a recovery partition based on the earlier version.

To get a working partition for the rMBPs, try using these instructions with the 10.7.5 (or 10.8.x) installer. Alternatively, if you want to stay on 10.7.4, you could do a clean restore from Internet Recovery on one of the rMBPs to get the default restore partition back, and use that as a source to clone to the others.


iPhone - Showing the road speed limit while driving I am looking for an iOS application that can display the speed limit of the road where I am located. I am mostly interested in the USA, particularly Boston and California. Gratis is better but not necessary.

In the latest version of iOS 11, I believe the speed limit does show up on highways (at least when you're going too fast). Another app that does this is Waze.


Postfix auto start on Sierra for smtp relay Postfix works great when I start it manually.  Can relay off of it from other hosts on my network; telnet to it on port 25 etc.

How do I get it to auto start such that It will always be listening on port 25?

I understand it starts up every minute or so and sends whatever has been manually written to the queue (like with the mail command) but I want it listening for connections on port 25 (Which it does if I start it manually).

I've found a bunch of things online but can't get any to work (they seem to apply to previous versions of OS X).

To get this working on Sierra you have to modify the existing launch daemon slightly:

Disable SIP
Modify /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.postfix.master.plist:

sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.postfix.master.plist

remove the lines:

<string>-e</string>
<string>60</string>

add the lines:

<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>

save the file and exit nano
Reload the launch daemon:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.postfix.master.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.postfix.master.plist

Enable SIP


How to remove files that are on iCloud I have files that are backed up on iCloud that I do not want on my local desktop (they are rather large video files that I rarely refer to). Is there a way to trigger iCloud to clean up space on my laptop?

You can use a feature called optimise storage to store old and unused files on iCloud.

Click the Apple Logo in the top-left
Select About This Mac
Click on Storage in the System Information window
Click details

Then turn on Store in iCloud.

This uploads unused files to iCloud and deletes them from your Mac.

Alternatively, if you have a specific file you want to store on iCloud, go to iCloud.com and upload the file/check if it is there then delete it off your Mac.


Restore emails with Time Machine How do you restore emails from a Time Machine backup?  I am uncertain of how to use Time Machine back up to restore emails from my Google folders.

Open Mail, then a Time Machine backup (click System Preferences > Time Machine > Enter Time Machine) and browse the backups of your emails, scrolling up and down to "travel through time".

If you find a message that you want to restore, you can drag just a single message or a set of emails onto your desktop for import. Additionally, you can export an entire folder by right-clicking the folder and clicking "Export".


What are the advantages of Time Capsule over Airport Extreme with an external hard drive? I would like for someone to outline the differences between buying a time capsule vs. just getting an airport extreme and attaching an external harddrive. The latter seems more flexible (easy to change external harddrive) and even cheaper, yet people are getting time capsules.

What are the pros and cons.

Thanks.

UPDATE

Could you please elaborate on:

How easy is it to setup with an airport extreme. (Apple explicitly mentions you can add a harddrive to airport extreme, but doesn't say anything about time machine. Is there anything more to it?)
What are my options if the Time Capsule harddrive fails and/or I need more storage later.
What are the differences in the router capabilities, e.g. - number of ports, number of supported users, usb jacks, etc.

As above the Time Capsule is the easy solution.

I can only really comment on your second point, I bought one about 3 years ago and 18 months ago the hard drive failed, it seemed to be a known problem as Apple replaced the Time Capsule free of charge even though it was outside of the warranty period. What could not be replaced however was the 18 months of backups as Apple would not have replaced the Time Capsule had I opened it up to get a the drive and try to recover the data. So after that experience I won't be buying another Time Capsule.

If you are not particularly after a router there are now other companies that offer Time Machine compatible network storage, which may be worth looking at.


Mail app, Flagged count always wrong I have a problem with the Mail app. It always shows the wrong count after using it for a while. I already reset my spotlight index and also did the "Rebuild" in the app.

As an example below, it says "2" but no mail is marked (0 would be the right value)

Any suggestions?
I use outlook.com as a mail provider.

Tip: you can go to any folder accessible from your Mac by hitting cmd+shift+G on your keyboard (whilst being in Finder)

According to this answer you can do the following:

• Quit Mail if it’s open.

• In ~/Library/Mail/V7/MailData, delete any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm.

• Your home Library folder is hidden by default. To display it, choose Finder > “Go to Folder” and then enter ~/Library

• Open Mail.

• Mail creates new Envelope Index files. This process may take a few minutes, depending on how many messages Mail is reindexing.


Can Teamviewer be run without installing on a Mac for controlling another machine? In Windows you can choose to just run the executable without installing it but I don't see this option in the Mac installer.
You can run the TV Quicksupport module on the host on Mac without installing but I am asking about the controlling side.
Before I have used TV via a web browser but this option appears to have been deprecated now.
Thank you.

The following is based on information gathered from the TeamViewer web site and running the corresponding downloads for each:

Under Windows, TeamViewer Installation options, using TeamViewer_Setup.exe, are:

Basic installation
Installation to access this computer remotely (unattended)
Run only (one time use)

Under macOS, TeamViewer requires installation to use it.

The, TeamViewer.dmg file contains the Install TeamViewer.pkg, which is an installer, not the TeamViewer.app that gets installed by running the installer package.

Under Windows and macOS, TeamViewer Host requires installation to use it.

Under Windows, the TeamViewer_Host_Setup.exe installs TeamViewer Host.
Under macOS, the TeamViewerHost.dmg file contains the Install TeamViewerHost.pkg file, which is an installer, not the TeamViewerHost.app that gets installed by running the installer package.

Under Windows and macOS, TeamViewer QuickSupport does not requires installation to use it.

Under Windows, the TeamViewerQS.exe can be run directly after downloading it and does not install.
Under macOS, the TeamViewerQS.dmg file contains the TeamViewerQS.app which can just be doubled-clicked to run the application, and does not install.

Under Windows, TeamViewer Portable does not requires installation to use it.

TeamViewer Portable is not available for macOS.


Why does Photos keep using OLD library? I moved my full photo library from a hard disk "MonsterHD" to an SSD "SieraBoot: to get more performance. I copied the whole directory with all the bits and pieces over (preserving the original one as a fallback.) Then I launched Photos (latest versions of everything) with OPT key down and set up the new location as the photo library. I also clicked "use as system library".

I now want to unmount the old hard disk and it is not allowed because "some apps are using" the drive. When I ask the OS who is doing that, it is revealed that some Photos related processes are still hanging on to the old copy.

~ lsof | grep MonsterHD
CleanMyMa 333 pitosalas   11r      DIR                1,6         68 77730300 /Volumes/MonsterHD/.Trashes/501
photoanal 425 pitosalas  txt       REG                1,6      32768 77294131 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb-shm
photoanal 425 pitosalas    3u      REG                1,6   12193792 77294128 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb
photoanal 425 pitosalas    4u      REG                1,6          0 77294130 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb-wal
photoanal 425 pitosalas    5u      REG                1,6      32768 77294131 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb-shm
photolibr 458 pitosalas   17w      REG                1,6        453 77730301 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db.lock
photolibr 458 pitosalas   18u      REG                1,6  492240896 77257923 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db
photolibr 458 pitosalas   19u      REG                1,6     147704 77257925 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db-wal
photolibr 458 pitosalas   20u      REG                1,6      20480 77257926 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/RKAlbum_name.skindex
photolibr 458 pitosalas   21u      REG                1,6   31117312 77257927 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/RKVersion_searchIndexText.skindex
photolibr 458 pitosalas   22u      REG                1,6      20480 77257928 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/RKMemory_title.skindex
photolibr 458 pitosalas   23r      DIR                1,6        612 72274925 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary

Any tips on what may be going on? I want to decommission that hard disk totally and I don't want to break my photo library!

It looks like you did everything you should.

I have many times made a new photos library, set it as the system library and then rebooted so you're on the proper path there. My hunch is you have iCloud turned on for that library as well and need to resolve that.

I would turn off photo stream and shared photos and restart one time to see if that resolves. If not - you'll need to disable iCloud photo library and walk away from the broken local library or try rebuilding the affected library.

Worst case, contacting Apple support sometimes helps. They often know of edge cases like this where things get stuck and can advise you some hidden tricks to get the libraries unstuck.


How to get Mail.app to show email addresses? In 10.7's Mail.app, it shows all recipients as a blue bubble with a name in it.  In order to see the email address, I have to click on the right side of the bubble, to get a pop-up menu.

This is a big pain, especially when I have more than one recipient.  I can only see one address at a time.

Is there a way to get Mail.app to show me actual email addresses, either in addition to or instead of the "name" it's using?

Open Mail.app, then go to Mail in the top menu > Preferences > Viewing > Uncheck "Use Smart Addresses".

This should display the full name of the contact plus the email address.


Which format for external disk for performance? I'm using OS X Mavericks and just got a new external hard disk. I don't need to share it with a PC (so no need for FAT) but I do want it to have better I/O performance.

I'm a bit confused by the options:

Journaled
Journaled, Encrypted
Case sensitive, Journaled
Case sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted

Which one should I use? Thanks.

None of the HFS flavors will offer any performance benefit that's measurable. For that reason, go with the default format disk utility gives you and look to optimize elsewhere.

I have seen encryption slow down some storage medium such as slow USB flash and I would expect journaling there to also be more of a slowdown than on storage with fast cache or more responsive write service times.

I suppose journaling could in some rare circumstances (bizarre edge cases) slow things down as you need to journal certain actions, take the action, and then journal that the action is complete. However, the journaling is for rare events like file creation, file deletion, etc... - some metadata operations are journaled, not all data writes like other filesystems allow which can cause a large performance impact.

Journaling does make it easy to roll the filesystem back to a known state if the system crashes or the drive gets disconnected without changes flushed, so you can save hundreds of seconds to several minutes at the next reboot / mount by journaling.

For best performance, keep the drive approximately 70% full at most as portions of the disk are much slower for random access and the OS uses the fast part of the drive first.

So, in order of fastest to slowest speed transfer:

Connection type: Thunderbolt2 > Thunderbolt > Fiber Channel > SAS > USB 3.0 > FW 800/400 > USB 2.0

Storage Medium: Specialized SLC/MLC Flash with high speed controllers > PCI Prosumer SSD > 15k HDD > Consumer SSD > 10k/7.5k HDD > Fast Small FLASH > 5k HDD > Consumer USB flash storage


A suspicious 'installer' was executed on my macbook. What would be the safest course of action? My brother just tried to download and install a cracked application from some fishy website. In my own Macbook.

Needless to say, the suspiciously small installer didn't install the application (even though it said it was successful), and it apparently "didn't do anything at all".

I'm not sure what are the proper steps to take at this point. What would be the most reasonable course of action for me? Would reinstalling the OS be overkill?

I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.5. I haven't shutdown/restarted the computer in fear that some irreversible changes would execute when rebooting.

Run something like Malware Bytes (formerly Adware Medic), try and find out what the actual filename of the item installed was and search the internet.


Show all x-axis markers for Numbers' bar graphs With Numbers' bar graph, I'd like to show all x-axis markers of my table, or at least selected few with all the columns present.

but only a few is displayed when there are many. The only way to show more is to drag to enlarge the chart, but this makes the chart unreadable if I attach it in a post.

How to I achieve what I want without resizing the graph or cut down my data columns?

Select the chart, then in the Format inspector, choose Axis → Category (X) and under Category Labels choose Show All Category Labels.

All the columns are always present in the graph regardless of this option, however they will be unlabelled.


Download app on someone else's device? If I sign into someone's ipod to download something, using my ID & password and forget to logout, will I be able to locate the device using Find My iphone?

Not unless your Apple ID has been logged in for use with Find My iPhone. Chances are this hasn't happened, since the iPod can only be associated with a single Apple ID  at a time for the purposes of device registration and Find my iPhone.


How to remove a non-existant iCloud mail account from mail? I have been having problems with my iCloud account not syncing properly with my iOS devices, so I wanted to reinstall the iCloud account.

The first thing that I wanted to do was to remove my old iCloud account, which worked for everything except for Mail.

When I try to deactivate the iCloud mail setting, it says:

  iCloud Mail couldn’t be disabled from the iCloud Preference Pane.

  Open Mail and remove your iCloud account from Mail preferences.

However, when I do that, Mail does not have an iCloud account, so it cannot be removed.

Here is what I have tried till now, without success:

I tried to add the iCloud mail account into mail.app so that I could remove it.

Adding the account “worked”, as in it didn't fail, however the account still does not show up on my list of accounts, and so still cannot be removed.

I have restarted my computer

I didn't expect this to work, and it didn't.

I have repaired disk permissions.

There were a few errors (aren't there always??), but this didn't help.

I have searched the web for others having the same problem.

I didn't find anyone with the same issue, nor did workarounds for other similar issues help.

In response to the comment on the question. I have a lot of (almost 6000) 'ACL found but not expected' messages. I have been led to believe by various internet searches that these are harmless.

I know this is an old question, but since it was one of the first hits on a google search I thought it could use an answer that worked for me. I had a similar problem to this - I had a duplicate of my iCloud account that I couldn't remove, and I received the same message about having to delete the account in system preferences. Deleting the account from there didn't seem to help, so I was searching for possible solutions, and an answer to a similar question put me on the right track. You can see my description of the fix on that post (How to remove 'phantom' iCloud account from Apple Mail) , but I'll repeat it here:

First, I logged out of iCloud in system preferences, and let it delete all the relevant local copies of iCloud data.

Next, go to the Library folder in finder. You can do this by holding 'option' and clicking the 'Go' item in the menu bar, then selecting Library.

In this folder, go to a folder called Mail. In this folder, you'll find Mail/V2/. In Mail/V2/ there are a number of folders corresponding to the accounts you have added in Mail. It's easy to tell which is which. There's also a folder called MailData - I'm using Yosemite, and the folder MIGHT have a different name/structure in other versions, but regardless of version you should be able to find a file called Accounts.plist.

First I deleted the folders that corresponded to the accounts I wanted to purge. Next, I opened Accounts.plist in a text editor – it doesn't matter which one you use, but your life will be slightly easier if your editor of choice can highlight matching tags in xml type files.

The part you're looking for begins with the following:

<key>MailAccounts</key>
<array>

The next thing you'll see is a <dict> tag. This is the beginning of an individual account 'object'; all information for each account will be between <dict> and </dict> tags. Find the 'block' that seems to correspond to the account you don't want, and delete everything from the <dict> to the </dict>, including the tags themselves. Be careful though, because there's another set of tags nested inside containing info about the vendor of your email account - you want to be sure you're selecting the matched outer pair.

Having done this, I was able to load up Mail again, and the unwanted accounts were gone. The remaining accounts were working fine. I then went back to the iCloud preference pane, logged into my account again, and checked the box for Mail – it worked, and I now have a fully functional iCloud mail account, and no duplicates.


Is there a tool to auto-restore network shares? I log on to my work VPN very infrequently. Whenever I do that, I have to painfully re-connect manually to all the network shares I use there.

Is there a tool (preferably with a UI) that can help me with this small but persistent inconvenience?

(Alternatively, is there a way to keep network shares in finder and re-connect to them with one click?)

Sidekick by Oomph

I use an app called Sidekick.  It mounts my drives, printers and other network devices automatically.  I have multiple configs for multiple networks and it automatically mounts what I need based on the network it senses.


Find my iPhone unknowingly turned off I recently saw that "Find my iPhone" was turned off on my phone. I am 100% sure that I have never disabled Find my iPhone, and I believe it should be enabled by default. Does anyone know of a particular reason why this may have been disabled?

In order to disable "Find My iPhone" you'll need to know both the AppleID password as well as any device pass code. It cannot really be done accidentally by just tapping once or by someone that lent your device for a minute to call someone.
There's also nothing in iOS that automatically disables "Find My iPhone" for you.
However, contrary to what you write, it is actually disabled by default. So most probably you have never enabled it.


Macbook screen bottom half black The display shows up fine if I connect to an external display.

Is this a hardware problem that can only be fixed by replacing the entire screen? It's no longer on warranty (1.5 years, no AppleCare), and the customer support told me it'd cost $128 for a diagnose and $600-800 for replacement of screen, which I thought it'd be more worth just buying a new one.

Just to put this in as an answer...

You can see the broken bit, bottom right on the picture; the scratch might be a red herring, but the dark blob is a broken LCD.


Add a Proxy to your computer via terminal How would I add and activate a proxy for my computer via terminal (without going into System Preferences.) Can I do that with scutil --proxy somehow?

You can use networksetup.

See man networksetup for a full list.

Run this command via terminal.app

Example: setting http proxies.

sudo networksetup -setwebproxy Wi-Fi proxy.yourdomain 9090

sudo networksetup -setproxybypassdomains Wi-Fi website1, website2, website3

Replace Wi-Fi with the approiate service name (wifi, ethernet, ..).


Macbook SSD Formatting Problem I just got my Macbook here, and I got a USB with Yosemite 10.10.

I opened up the Macbook, took out the old one, and put the SSD inside.

My SSD fits perfectly (Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB).

Then I plug the USB thumb drive in, and then boot the computer up, and holding the ALT (OPTION) key down. Then I came into the drives that I can boot from. I couldn't see my SSD there, then I took the thumb drive(8GB), and then I began to install Yosemite, after I choose the language, I need to choose where I need to install Yosemite. The hard drive, didn't show up there either.

I get in Disk Utility and find out that my hard drive, isn't formatted, I just want to format it to Mac OS Extended Journaled, I chose it, and clicked erase and when I did that, I got this error:

Erasing the disk failed, Erasing the disk failed with error:

Formatting the file system failed.

I translated the error from Danish, so it could be worded differently on the English version of Disk Utility.

You have to format the SSD without using it as your primary disk.

If you're able to run Mac with the old disk, connect the SSD via external enclosure and format it (or make a clone of the running HDD).
After this swap the disks, boot form installer and install OS on SSD.


Standard (ISO 8601) week number in Calendar.app? Is there a way to have Calendar.app display its week numbers using the standard ISO 8061 week definition?

The standard says a week starts on Monday, and the first Thursday of the year defines the first week. So at the end of 2015, the standard week of 2015-12-28 to 2016-01-03 is Week 53. In contrast, Calendar.app in Yosemite & Mountain Lion shows Week 1.

I'm wondering:

What definition of week is Apple using? Perhaps simply the First of January is always Week 1?
Is there any way to change this default behavior to show standard weeks?

Calendar System

System Preferences in Yosemite 10.10.5 (and all later OS X releases, through El Capitan 10.11.3)  lets you change the calendar system used across apps. The default for a United States install is Gregorian. To get behavior compliant with the ISO 8601 standard, change to ISO 8601.

Choose System Preferences > Language & Region > Calendar (popup menu) > ISO 8601.

Below are screen shots of Apple’s Calendar.app, before and after switching between Gregorian calendar and ISO 8601 calendar. I added the "Gregorian"/"ISO" labels.

Note the week numbers shown on the left. Weeks 52 & 1 changed to weeks 52 & 53. In a standard week, January 1st of 2016 is in Week 53. In ISO 8601 notation for weeks, that would be the week 2015-W53, and January 1st 2016 would be 2015-W53-5 with the weekday number appended.

For more info, see an entire Wikipedia article dedicated to ISO week date.

CAVEAT I do not know the ramifications of changing your Mac calendar system from Gregorian to ISO 8601. I searched support.apple.com but found no documentation.


Drive does not stay mounted I created an encrypted RAID 0 disk following Why doesn't FileVault work on a RAID volume? on a WD My Passport Pro

$ diskutil cs createLVG TimeMachineLVG disk5
Started CoreStorage operation
Unmounting AppleRAID set at disk5
Adding disk5 to Logical Volume Group
Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group
Switching disk5 to Core Storage
Waiting for Logical Volume Group to appear
Discovered new Logical Volume Group "67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595"
Core Storage LVG UUID: 67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595
Finished CoreStorage operation

$ diskutil cs createLV 67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595 JHFS+ TimeMachine 100% -stdinpassphrase
Passphrase for new volume:
Started CoreStorage operation
Waiting for Logical Volume to appear
Formatting file system for Logical Volume
Initialized /dev/rdisk7 as a 4 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 311296k journal
Mounting disk
Core Storage LV UUID: 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE
Core Storage disk: disk7
Finished CoreStorage operation

So far so good. The drive can be listed and seems to be there

$ diskutil list
...
/dev/disk7 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS TimeMachine            +4.0 TB     disk7
                                 Logical Volume on disk5
                                 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

The size is correct and is marked as Unlocked and Encrypted

Now when I try to mount it, I get no errors but nothing happens:

$ diskutil mount /dev/disk7
Volume TimeMachine on /dev/disk7 mounted

$ mount
/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk6 on /Volumes/External (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

On the console I see:

2015-11-18 15:28:07.000 kernel[0]: hfs: mounted TimeMachine on device disk7
2015-11-18 15:28:07.896 mdworker[12530]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.897 mdworker[12542]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.897 mdworker[12544]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.901 mdworker[12543]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.941 fseventsd[59]: Events arrived for /Volumes/TimeMachine after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
2015-11-18 15:28:07.941 fseventsd[59]: creating a dls for /Volumes/TimeMachine but it already has one...
2015-11-18 15:28:08.373 mds[75]: (DiskStore.Error:3239) vsd:0x7ffb9e04d000 DiskStore bringup failed.  AA5ED57E-162E-45E1-B2EF-10A3F609C68B
2015-11-18 15:28:08.000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on TimeMachine on device disk7
2015-11-18 15:28:08.611 fseventsd[59]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd/0000000007afdf62 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd
2015-11-18 15:28:08.611 fseventsd[59]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd/0000000007afdf62 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd

What could the reason be?

I tried to reproduce your environment using a VM (Mavericks 10.9.5).

I didn't get the same log errors as you did, but it didn't work neither: the (pre-)encrypted Logical Volume just doesn't mount properly.

I solved the problem in my VM by deleting the whole Logical Volume Group and rebuilding it but with an non-encrypted Logical Volume.

Then open the Time Machine preference pane, choose the Logical Volume as Time Machine backup volume and enable encrypted backups.

You will be asked to enter the passphrase twice and to enter a hint.

Alternatively you may try to mount the volume (after unlocking it) with

diskutil mount 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE


How can I switch between language input sources using Alt-Shift on Catalina? I tried a couple of Karabiner scripts available online, but none is working.

Also, it looks like there is some confusion about what is Alt on mac keyboards. Although semantically, this is the ⌥ key, ⌘ key is positioned where Alt is on Windows keyboards.

So I would rephrase the question:

-- How can I switch between language input sources using ⌘+Shift on Catalina?

Punto Switcher works. Unfortunately, its main job is automagically converting Russian to English and back, and the UI is, AFAICS, only in Russian.

Still, it can map Cmd+Shift to input source switcher.


How to disable phone calls and text messages in iOS / on iPhone? I don‘t use mobile phone call and text messaging any longer but I need to keep cellular data / internet running since FaceTime, WhatsApp replace sms and cellular calls with better quality.

To implement that strategy I currently use a secondary sim card from my father. The upside is that it’s entirely free, the downside is that I get his phone calls, too. I plan to move to an individual solution some time in the future, this setting was to test whether or not pure-internet communication mode would be feasible.

Is there any way you are aware of to entirely and cleanly switch off the phone and text-message functions of the iPhone without affecting any other functions?

Some carrier can provide sim card that cellular data only.
Mainly used  for iPad notebook and IoT device .
You can use it for your iPhone to get the results you want.


Background time tracking application I've a bad memory, therefore I can't recall where I spent my time during last day, last week and definitely not last month.

However I still need to log my hours and generate reports to track the projects evolutions and time spent in each feature.

Ok, nothing new so far. Problem is I used ManicTime and I loved, it silently collected all my info day after day and when I had to check where I spent my hours in certain day, I simply check by hour by day and it was perfect.

But on mac... I found a huge list of application that or doesn't do a proper tracking (harvest, timings, tyme) or doesn't give me reports I want like RescueTime.

Is there any application that silently does the job? As I work with multiple virtual machines, cross platform support is a big plus.

Timing for Mac tracks down your activity in the background without using timers: https://timingapp.com


Screenshot Dimension When I go to About This Mac --> Displays, it shows I have a Built-in Retina Display with 2560 × 1600 display. However, when I try to take a screenshot with command + shift + 3, the dimensions for that picture turns into 2880 × 1800. However, if I use command + shift+ 4 and drag the mouse all the way to the bottom right, the dimensions show 1440 × 900, but it turns into 2880 × 1800 if I save it. Which one is the actual size of my screen/screenshot?

Your screen may be a physical size unrelated to the numbers above.
Your screenshot size is easily checked in Preview app - open the saved file and get info.

How can I stop my retina display from taking 2x sized screenshots?

Your on screen pixel approximation is controlled by the displays system preferences. What you choose there affects the retina size vs rendered size vs reported size.

Scaling all UI elements when using an external monitor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202471

Based on how much reading and programming you do these links may be more or less technical than desired. Hopefully it helps set the stage for more leaning if needed.


Problems apps synching with iCloud and memory running out I have an iPhone 6 and an iPad 4 mini linked to the same iCloud account, and have set synch settings in the usual way to backup photos and apps to the iCloud. I have storage plan of 50 GB, and currently using 37 GB from that. The app I use most the time on iPhone is Whatsapp.

The problem seems to be that iPhone local storage is running out, and I keep receiving warnings, even though the iCloud has plenty of space. I am not sure what to do to fix this. I checked all settings and tried to research it online, but still no answers. I suspected that the Whatsapp might be keeping the data locally (e.g. photos/videos), even though the iCloud has backed them up, but I am not sure.

Here are screen shots of the situation.

The problem is the local storage on the phone. The middle picture showing device backups isn't a problem - you have plenty of space in the cloud.

If you can't figure out how to prune what's app - you can try their support and/or deleting the app and letting the storage stabilize over a day.

Once you know how much free space of the 16 GB is available without over half being taken by WhatsApp - you can then document that and re-download that one app.

Things won't work well until you free up a GB of space and it looks like WhatsApp is the only possible solution to your current jam.


What options to mirroring iPad display to Windows 10 PC that balance cost and performance? I would like to record a lecture for my maths students. I want to write it on my iPad, mirror the iPad to my PC laptop, and use OBS on my PC to combine the image of the iPad with the input of my video camera (+ my voice).
I am aware of these methods:

Make a zoom call to myself

Use LonelyScreen ( not free, works well )

Use Apowersoft

Use Itools4. ( This is via a USB cable, but unfortunately it lags)

Please comment on the value / performance of your solution. Even though my budget is currently limited, this will be of good use to everyone to cover all options so everyone can shop at their budget to get the best performance at their price point.
Are there better/alternative ways that don't have a lag?

There is a free app called LonelyScreen that will mirror an iPad or iPhone by turning your PC into an AirPlay receiver like a TV (currently a free trial)
I’m not affiliated with the developer and I actually found it by doing a Google search.  I haven’t tested it yet because I don’t have a PC and I was afraid to try boot camp until I started researching it on this site.  But I am going to go for it because this software sounds cool.
I got the instructions from https://www.howtogeek.com/247573/how-to-mirror-your-iphone-or-ipads-screen-on-your-windows-pc/


Wrong device name displayed in iTunes Whenever I sync on any computer my 3G iPhone, it will recognize and sync but doesn't show my original name for the phone. How do I replace it?

In the iTunes source list, select the device, then click on its name again and hold the mouse button down until the device name becomes editable.


How Do I Target an Airport Extreme Shared Disk for Time Machine? It looks like Apple may have changed something since I last configured this...

Some time ago (maybe two years?), I bought an Airport Extreme and plugged an external hard drive into it.  From my laptop it was simple to configure Time Machine to use that shared disk as the storage.  It created a sparesebundle and it's been happily backing up ever since.

Now I have a new disk to use.  So I removed the old one and installed the new one and prepared for that initial very large backup over the network.  However, it would appear that there's no option to use this shared disk for backup purposes.

When I enter Time Machine preferences and opt to select a disk, there are no disks listed:

Even though there are actually two network drives (and the local drive) mounted:

In this case, "Backup" is the drive shared from the Airport Extreme.

If I opt to "Set Up Other Time Capsule" it takes me to the Airport Utility (6.1) in which I find no options mentioning any kind of Time Capsule setup.  It lets me share or un-share the disk, that's about all I can find.

I also tried downloading Airport Utility 5.6 to see if the older interface had some familiarity for me to set up the disk for Time Machine, but again all I seem to be able to do is share or un-share it.  I can't seem to tweak anything that would result in the Time Machine Preferences actually seeing the target disk.

Has anybody run into this issue before?  Is there something simple that I'm overlooking?  The driving factor in getting a new disk was to increase the size so that I could use the same disk for automated backups from my Linux box (which would mount the share and run some simple cron jobs using tar for incremental backups), which mounts the share just fine (the last mount point in the list):

Ultimately, how can I use a disk shared from my Airport Extreme as a storage target for Time Machine in OS X 10.7?

Edit:  To add some clarity, the hard drive in question was formatted on my Mac.  It was given a single partition and formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and is 3 TB in capacity.

I've searched around on the internet and people who are experiencing the same symptoms all seem to be using some off-the-shelf NAS.  The general theme is that the firmware for each such NAS needs to be upgraded to support updated protocols.  However, the controlling device in this case is an Airport Extreme which, to my knowledge, is fully up to date.  So I can't imagine why anything would be unsupported in this case.

I was previously using the same setup with just a different external hard drive.  That worked fine.  Time Machine could mount the drive and perform the backups all by itself.  All I did was swap out the drive with a new one, and now Time Machine can't use it.

I've also just noticed that when Time Machine tries to start a backup, the "Name" of the target device get appended with a number.  It started with "-1" and then I tried to de-select and re-select the target disk, not it has a "-2":

Update: Just to test, I've removed the drive from the Airport Extreme and plugged it directly into my MacBook Pro, and it's currently in the process of backing up without problem.  I'll try re-adding it to the Airport Extreme after and see if perhaps it can back up (maybe the problem was in the creation of the sparsebundle on the file system? it's worth testing).

Try using the following Terminal command then restarting System Preferences (if it's open):

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1


AppleScript: How to get time without seconds? Alternatively, how to remove text in middle of string? If you use the following code:

set CurrentTime to (time string of (current date))

The CurrentTime will be set in the following format:

12:02:38 PM

However, I want CurrentTime to be:

12:02 PM

So, I want to remove the characters in the 6, 7, and 8 positions in the string.

How can this be accomplished in AppleScript? Thank you.

Here is an AppleScript subroutine I found doing a Google search that does what you asked.

on getTimeInHoursAndMinutes()
    -- Get the "hour"
    set timeStr to time string of (current date)
    set Pos to offset of ":" in timeStr
    set theHour to characters 1 thru (Pos - 1) of timeStr as string
    set timeStr to characters (Pos + 1) through end of timeStr as string

    -- Get the "minute"
    set Pos to offset of ":" in timeStr
    set theMin to characters 1 thru (Pos - 1) of timeStr as string
    set timeStr to characters (Pos + 1) through end of timeStr as string

    --Get "AM or PM"
    set Pos to offset of " " in timeStr
    set theSfx to characters (Pos + 1) through end of timeStr as string

    return (theHour & ":" & theMin & " " & theSfx) as string
end getTimeInHoursAndMinutes

set CurrentTime to getTimeInHoursAndMinutes()


Photos Library: .photoslibrary file taking double of storage space in Photos app and Document Folder As you can see in the screenshot below the Photos app is using 53,1 GB of the total Disk Storage, but also the Documents Folder has a .photoslibrary file of 50,34 GB. I tried deleting the file from the Documents folder, but then I neither had the photoslibrary in Documents nor any photos in the Photos app. Also, there was round about 100GB more of available storage (both storages of 53,1GB and 50,34GB were gone). When I copied the photoslibrary file back in the Documents Folder, the 100GB were there again (Same Phenomen as before).

What can I do to avoid having two Files using double of the needed storage?

The reality is that there isn't two files taking up the double storage. The storage is only used once.

The view you're looking at is just confusing, since the "Fotos" and "Fotos-Mediathek" is really one and same.

You can open your home folder in finder and select the list view (command 2) and then calculate all folder sizes. Let finder add up all the space and you can verify you don’t have double space used.


Safari stops working when attached to a corporate network My work MBP is in a corporate network which has heavy security. For the last few months Safari has been driving me crazy. It will work for a period of time, then just stop. No matter what web page I ask for (Public like Google or StackOverFlow, or the companies own confluence or other servers) the blue progress bar goes to around 10-15% then just stops. The web page never loads, never times out. Just nothing.

Chrome doesn't have the same problems. But I'd rather use Safari. I'm guessing this could be an issue with the corporate proxies, but I don't know how to debug it. Sometimes restarting Safari gets it working again for a while, sometimes I have to restart the machine to get it back. Am on Mojave.

Any advice? Corporate IT has no idea even though there's hundreds of Macbooks in here now.

Corporate IT has no idea even though there's hundreds of MacBooks in
  here now.

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion because setting a policy like "blocking Safari" wouldn't be something that decided on by rank-and-file employees; IT management knows.

There are security products on the market that go well beyond deep packet inspection where IT can can use analytics and heuristics to determine what software you're using and block it. Since it seems to take Safari a few moments to stop working, this sounds most plausible.

  Any advice?

Yes.  Talk to IT.  Ask them why they allow Chrome and block Safari (there may be a valid reason for it.)


iPhone 4 regularly using its 3G connection too much I have recently started using my iPhone near a stereo set which picks up the radio signals from calls and 3G connections, making me very aware of when the phone emits anything.

The phone currently makes about 10-20 "wakeups" per minute, which is enough to make me place it a couple of meters away so the speakers won't pick up anything. Though this is annoying in itself, I'm more concerned about if this is normal for an iPhone. I'm always connected to a WiFi router, so if it's an app trying to get Internet access – it's doing it wrong. Each wakeup lasts for about one second but sometimes (far less often) it blasts away for two or three seconds.

Is there anything I can do to find out what's causing the activity? I don't really want to uninstall my apps one by one to find the possible villain.

Edit: To clarify, I simply want to know why it's using the 3G/EDGE connection when it really should be using the WiFi.

I find that an Edge connection is much NOISIER in terms of what electronics pick up than 3g is. BTW, a low or intermittently low signal condition is liable to eat battery. When the phone tries to regain signal, it steps the antenna up to higher power. If it's doing that over and over, it can be costly to battery levels.


Video files organizer for mac I'm looking for an app to organize my video files (movies, series, etc.) much like iTunes does with music. I'd like it to have series support (separating seasons and ordering episodes) and to have an option for adding posters/covers to every movie/series.

Is there something like that?

I'd rather if it was a free app, but I'm not limited to that.

Forgive me if I've missed something, but iTunes organizes video files and meets all of your stated requirements as of the time of this posting.

You can add images to the file's metadata, set the season, and set the episode by right-clicking on the file, selecting 'get info', and entering the data in the appropriate spaces.

iTunes will display files' artwork and split seasons.  It even has different views available in a menu in the upper-right corner of the window.


Can Safari receive desktop notifications from YouTube or Facebook? Since switching from Chrome to Safari, I've noticed that I no longer have an option to enable desktop notifications from YouTube or Facebook. For example, going to YouTube's settings > account notifications would yield this on Chrome:

from which I could turn on desktop notifications. On Safari, I only see this:

Likewise, going to Facebook's notification settings would reveal an option to receive desktop notifications on Chrome, but not on Safari. Is there any way I can enable them?

If you go to your Messenger messages on Facebook, at the bottom, click on "show in Messenger". Then click on the gear icon and go to settings. You can enable notifications there, but I don't know if this will also enable Facebook messages, it will ask you if you want to receive messages from "facebook.com", so I guess it should work.
Most websites ask you if they can send messages the first time you open that website, but for some reason Facebook and YouTube don't do that.


Booting from Windows USB Key Overwrote EFI - Mac No Longer Boots I'm using a macbook pro running Yosemite. I was trying to create installation media to install linux on an SD card, and I used a USB key that had a bootable windows installation on it. I thought I had overwritten it, and booted from it, expecting the linux installation to boot up. Instead, the old windows OS started up, and after I shut it back down, it kernel panicked every time it tried to restart. After glancing around, it appears that the windows installation added an MBR boot partition where it shouldn't have been, and overwrote the normal EFI scheme.

I cannot paste output directly, as the only way to boot from the computer in question is to boot with a yosemite install drive, but currently the partition map is one "disk0" with no partitions, of the full size of the hard drive, and then various other disks representing the Yosemite install disk. I've tried to use dd to copy the EFI scheme from the Yosemite Install "disk1s1" to the hard disk "disk0s1" but it returns "Operation not Supported."

Let me know if I can give any more information. Thanks!

If your EFI is not working, you will need to restore it.

Download from here for your model.

Then follow the procedure described here.


Hold Shift to temporary change keyboard layout in Mac OS On a PC with multiple keyboard layouts, you can temporary switch to English by holding the Shift key.

Can I achieve this behavior on a Mac natively or with a third party extension?

I especially need this for Hebrew.

In MacOS Sierra, you can switch to US and back via caps lock if your other keyboard is for a non-Latin script (with some exceptions like Greek and Cyrillic).

There are certain Apple input sources like Hebrew PC which switch to Latin Qwerty via the Shift key.


How do I forcibly unpair my Magic Keyboard from my Mac, so that I can pair it with my iPad? I have a Mac, and a Magic Keyboard paired with it.

I now want to use the keyboard with my iPad. To do so, I first need to unpair it from the Mac.

But what if the Mac isn't with me right now? Is there a way to force the Magic Keyboard to unpair itself from whatever device it's currently paired with, perhaps by pressing some key combination?

Some articles say to hold the power button down for three seconds, but the keyboard doesn't have a power button to hold down.

PS: The reverse direction is easy — getting a Magic Keyboard that is paired with an iPad to pair with a Mac. Just plug it in to the Mac, and it will pair. This question is about the opposite: the keyboard is already paired with my Mac. How do I force it to unpair itself from the Mac?

No - the pairing record on the Mac will remain until you remove it from that Mac. It's a sleeping dog situation when the Mac isn't nearby.

You can get a factory wipe of Apple's Bluetooth keyboards using this debug feature in macOS: - https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/15291/5472

Hold shift and option (only) when clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar of the Mac
Select Factory Reset for each device you wish to reset


Getting error when update mac os from Mavericks (10.9.5) to El Capitan (Latest version) I want to update my mac mini OS from Maverics to EI Capitan.

When i click on Get button at that time it will give a error message. For better understanding i attached screen shot of the error message.

Also i attached screen shot of the mac mini configuration.

I tried with removing cache folders from the /private/var/folders path but not working.

In above path i found folders, which name is 7s and zz. Also remove the folder which name is com.apple.appstore for remove the temporary files.

Please provide appropriate solution for upgrade the mac os.

After formatting mac OS solving the issue.
Do reinstall OS 10.9.5 (Maverics) from safe mode of mac OS.
After reinstalling upgrade OS EI Capitan from app store, this is the only solution which i done in my case.


How can an AppleScript droplet give me a list of names of Finder items? I want to get a list of file names (not paths, just the filenames without extension) of some dropped items in AppleScript.

I can get the droplet to reveal each item's names incrementally, but what I really want is a list, each text item separated by a line break. Then I can pass this list to my next action.

Can anyone help? This seems so simple and I feel like I've dealt with far more complex things in AppleScript before!

One solution I've found is rather more complicated than I thought it would be.

I'll paste it here for anyone interested in doing the same thing, and in the hope that someone has some simpler solution!

on open Dropped_Files
    tell application "Finder"
        set theList to {""}
        repeat with i from 1 to count of Dropped_Files
            set NameOfFile to name of (item i of Dropped_Files)
            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
            set NameOfFile2 to (NameOfFile as string) & return
            copy NameOfFile2 to end of theList
        end repeat
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
        set the clipboard to theList as string
    end tell
    nextStage(theList)
end open

on nextStage(theList)
    set songList to "Macintosh HD:Applications:Automator stuff:01b iTunes Scripts:SongLust.txt"
    tell application "TextWrangler"...

And so on to the bit that pastes it into TextWrangler.


Is tree view available in Finder in Lion? I've seen on several forums that people use a tree view for their folders in Finder but I can't find anywhere how to switch to it.

Is the tree view available in OSX Lion?

The way items are shown in Finder can be configured through the folder's Toolbar, which gives four default options:

Icon View - Which is the regular layout of icons.
List View - The items are shown in a list-like and can be navigated as a tree.

Columns View - Items are displayed through columns which show the file's path.

CoverFlow - Items are shown with the regular coverflow efect.

Note: While in a folder, you can switch through these options by doing Command + the option's number (1 is the icon's view, 2 is the list view, etc).


How can I make preferences boxes open in correct display with SecondBar? I've just started using SecondBar to provide a menubar for applications that I display in an external monitor. It's a big help, except for one thing: dialog boxes (like Apple Menu -> System Preferences, or Firefox's add-ins) open in the main display.

Is there any way to make dialog boxes open in whichever display the menubar was clicked from? So that if I use the main Mac menu bar for apps in my main display, the dialog opens in the main display, and if I use the SecondBar menu in my external display the dialog opens in the external display?

I'm not familiar with how SecondBar works, but it looks like it's just a hack that duplicates the menubar on an external monitor. There's no operating system support for a second menubar so no support for determining which menubar was clicked and which monitor to open the dialog in.

Perhaps the developer of SecondBar could somehow intercept the command and redirect the dialog, but I really doubt this low-level jiggery-pokery is possible.


Toggle default between Imessage and Text for specific recipient? My wife currently has no roaming data available and so I need to text her rather than imessage.  I know I can hold down on the blue imessage and choose Send as Text, but is there a way to toggle my phone to default to sending as a text until she has roaming availability?  And then toggle it back to default for imessage?

I have XR, she has 7+, both fully updated.

is there a way to toggle my phone to default to sending as a text
  until she has roaming availability?

No.  This is not possible.

There is no way for your iPhone, Mac, or even Apple's iMessage servers to know whether your wife's phone is roaming or not.

Roaming is a carrier function designed to allow the user to seamlessly use their home carrier services on a different carriers network.  The phone doesn't notify any other phones it's not on its home network.

  roaming refers to the ability for a cellular customer to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive data, or access other services, including home data services, when traveling outside the geographical coverage area of the home network, by means of using a visited network.

If roaming is an issue, you should use a 3rd party app like WhatsApp or have your wife turn off roaming altogether.


Extracting photos out of very old iPhoto Library to import directly into Apple Photos on El Capitan I have many many photos on a very old version of iPhoto (pre 9.0) that's proving a pain to upgrade into Apple Photos on El Capitan.

Question is - can I simply copy the "Originals" and "Modified" folders that are inside the iPhoto Library out into the Pictures directory itself, and then import these into Apple Photos directly?

EDIT

Also - if I do this, will the copy necessarily take up twice the space in my hard disk, or will disk level de-duplication help to reduce the disk used? If it takes up twice the space this may not work as the photos take up more space than I have free at the moment.

You can, but you'll lose metadata such as albums and you might end up with duplicated photos if you import both the modified and the original.

Instead, you can use the iPhoto Library Upgrader to prepare the library for import into Photos directly. This Apple tool takes your pre-'09 library and allows it to be imported into Photos. For more information on how to use the iPhoto Library Upgrader, see Using the iPhoto Library Upgrader tool.

Pre-'09 is v7.x and earlier. v8.x and later can be imported directly with Photos without this tool.


Using an app purchased on home Apple ID on Mac using a work Apple ID I want to purchase Final Cut Pro on my home computer Apple ID, but then use it on my work computer, which is normally logged into a separate work only Apple ID.

How can I do that?

At minimum, you need to consult with your boss. Together you should decide if you should contact you employer's lawyers, Apple's legal department or both.  If you do not follow the rules, you put yourself and your employer at risk. I found the following quote on the macOS appstore:

  You can install apps on every Mac authorized for your personal use

https://www.apple.com/ca/osx/apps/app-store/

Read the legalese:
https://www.apple.com/legal/

You could contact apple legal.
https://www.apple.com/legal/contact/

You would need to logout from your work ID on your work computer and log back in with your personal ID.  You would download and install the software.  You would log out of your personal Apple ID then log back into your corporate Apple ID. To get updates, you would log out, log in and log out.


Where are ethernet/internet/networking configuration files/settings stored on OS X 10.6 Someone I know has an ethernet configuration profile that works on the university network I'm on. As I am on 10.8 I do not have the option of configuring these files so I'd like to copy his Configuration Profile.

Where are these located on OS X 10.6?

Ps. I'm using a Macbook Air with a USB ethernet plug if that matters.

Psps. I know one can create profiles with the ipcu, but I haven't been able to make one that works for ethernet unfortunately.


Advice to minimize memory usage in iPod Touch 2G with iOS 4.2.1 Since I updated from iOS 4.0 to iOS 4.2.1 my iPod Touch consumes less memory but still would like to hear some more advices about how to reduce memory leak in my device?

Usually I use Free Memory apps to free up some amount of memory, that is only thing I know.

Note, my iOS it doesn't have multitasking features.

Free Memory apps are a rip off and really dont make your ipod any faster. Try rebooting your device 2 times in a row. And disable any Notifications you have. Disable Bluetooth. And if you aren't using WiFi turn it off.


Share a keynote in slideshow mode only I have a client who has asked me if we can distribute electronic copies of a Keynote presentation I prepared for him in "slideshow-only" mode, such that other people can only view (not edit) the presentation and so that they'll always see the animation when they flip through it.

The animation is the biggest sticking point, he is concerned that people will normally just open the file and flip through it in editor mode.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this with a keynote presentation? Bonus points if you also know a good way to share it with Windows users.

Use iWork.com embedding  :)

Since January (Keynote 5.0.5), iWork lets you embed your published presentation and play them in Safari (link contains a demo). Follow the instructions there!

Note that not all transitions will be available, so it won't be a “pixel-for-pixel” in all cases, but I guess it's the best alternative we can get, and it will be 100% compatible with Windows (with the limitation that a recent WebKit browser is required).


Unable to view mounted volume in Finder I am unable to access data on mounted volumes in Finder on OS X Mavericks.

Assuming I mounted a volume by plugging in an external USB disk.

What works:

The volume is listed in the Finder sidebar
I can access (read+write) it under /Volumes/MyDeviceName/
I see it being listed properly when calling mount from the shell

What doesn't work:

I cannot click on it in the Finder sidebar
When I open /Volumes with Finder, MyDeviceName is not visible
When I try to open /Volumes/MyDeviceName it says The folder can't be found.

This problem doesn't only occur with external USB devices, but also with TrueCrypt Volumes, etc. I thought it might be an NTFS problem, but it also occurs with other file system types.

I've tried to reset the Finder preferences by deleting com.apple.finder.plist, as per suggestion by other threads, but this has not solved the issue.

I managed to fix the issue, which appears to have been a bug or incompatibility with Tuxera NTFS driver (which makes NTFS writable) and Mavericks.

I updated the dependency and it worked. This threw me at first, since I also experienced the issue with non-NTFS volumes. Now however, everything works fine.


Using the -Bless Command on Multiboot Macs with 10.11 El Capitan As part of our standard deployment, we tend to deploy multiple OSs on Macs, from 10.7 to 10.11. However, with the new SIP (System Integrity Protection), the -bless command no longer works properly.

I need the Macs to boot to each OS during the initial configuration to properly name the OS for Active Directory binding and then do the actual binding.

I've tried to use the "csrutil disable" command recommended in some other places, but that requires booting into the Recovery OS and that change is stored in the NVRAM, so it's local to whatever machine I'm using. Meaning that it won't be part of the 10.11 image deployed.

In the end, I need to be able to script multiple -bless commands, telling the Mac to boot to different OSs on separate partitions on the internal hard drive. It's critical to the image process.

Does anyone have any idea on how to do such a thing?

I've had good luck using AutoDMG and munki's crgateosxintallpkg scripts with 10.11 in beta. I haven't done the work yet on the current build, but i think these SIP issues and bless changes were fit in by Apple before release so you shouldn't have issues using these tools.

Are you running into a specific error? What MDM or deployment framework are you using? If you have scripts, it might be easier to adopt one of the standard tools than re-working yours, but both are on github so you can see how they are handling SIP/bless if you need that level of detail.

https://github.com/MagerValp/AutoDMG
https://github.com/munki/createOSXinstallPkg
Automate Yosemite Upgrade
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=334
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205054

The last link is Apple's official word on how you will need to script your client Mac to trust the netboot server and the commands needed to navigate the SIP changes for distribution of 10.11 images.

In a nutshell, you can list the "blessed" netboot servers as opposed to blessing the image itself.

csrutil netboot add 10.0.10.10
csrutil netboot list


Living with notifications in a many-tabbed world I like notifications. I also like having many browser tabs open. When my browser is fully zoomed on my main screen, notifications can cover the rightmost tab. When I'm in a busy chat or other notification-heavy situation, they cover it constantly, and I have to move the window to get access to click the tab.

I'm looking for a better way to have my cake and eat it, too – is there some way to have the notifications, but not have this situation? For example, I don't ever really want to interact with the notifications, so if I can click behind them, that would be fine. What do you suggest?

I would use IFTTT + Pushbullet/iOS/other push notifications.

Add every channel you need to IFTTT.
Make if %message% then send a note to Pushbullet OR to IF Notifications.
Enjoy!


Press and hold for accents does not work everytime I am a German User, but i am using a US Keyboard and the US Extended Keyboard Layout. Sometimes I need to use German Umlauts, and I usually rely on the "press and hold for accented characters" feature of OS X.

However, this is not always available. I cant seem to find a pattern in this behavior. Sometimes I log in, and it works flawlessly, sometimes it doesn't work at all and just repeats the character I press for a long time.

I switched to different keyboard layouts (US, US Extended, US International PC) and different "Preferred Languages" in the "Language and Region" settings.

I also tried the defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true setting, but also no luck.

I have the same problem on different Macs; at work and at home.

How do I configure this feature correctly?

When it stops working, does ps -ef|grep PressAndHold include a line for /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/MacOS/PressAndHold? If it doesn't, try to run open -a PressAndHold. Or if it does, killall PressAndHold;open -a PressAndHold might also be worth a shot.

You could also try to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist. Normally defaults read com.apple.HIToolbox should show com.apple.PressAndHold under AppleEnabledInputSources and AppleSelectedInputSources.


Is there a way to see iTunes sync info on the iPhone? Let's say I have a few of my favorite artists who I've told my iPhone to sync, even though those songs might not be in any playlist.

Is there any way, when I open up my iPod (now "Music" in iOS 5) to see who those artists are?  Or maybe there are specific albums I've sync'd; is there a way to see those albums listed anywhere?

In other words, instead of just my playlists, and all the artists and albums that are on my phone, is it possible to see who the specific artists are that I've checked in the music tab in iTunes when syncing to my iPhone?  Or even the specific albums I've checked?

EDIT

Here's the use case, in case that prompts any workarounds.

I have my main "At Work" playlist, with my thousand or so favorite songs ever.  Every once in a while though I might want a change of pace, and might want to browse through the albums and artists I like enough to sync in toto.  "Ohh, Robert Cray sounds great right now".  Currently, my "Artists" tab is full of every single artist anywhere in my iPhone, mostly because they have a song or two in the work playlist.  I'd love to get a separate list of the artists and albums whose checkbox I checked in the iTunes Music tab to specifically sync.

You could create a smart playlist that excludes files that are already included in another playlist.

So, in your case if you generally sync a playlist called "At Work" whcih contains what you normally sync, but then also throw a few others into the sync too, you could create a smart playlist that looks for any ticked track that is not already in the "At Work" playlist.  Call this "Adhoc" or something, and add this to your sync list, and you should have a new playlist that shows anything that wasn;t part of your original sync list.


Create a symbolic link do navigate with cd Is it possible to create a symbolic link to easier change directories? like

ln -s /Users/mles/Documents /usr/local/bin/d

so I can cd d instead of cd ~/Documents?

The problem with creating a symbolic link in that manner is that you are limited to where the symbolic link is created.  It also adds to the problem if you have a directory ../d/.. somewhere on your system.
There are a couple of ways to solve this....
Create an Alias
In terminal, you can create an alias by issuing the command
alias cdd='cd ~/Documents'
The benefit here is that it will work anywhere without having to add it to your PATH.
To make it permanent, add the command to your .bash_profile in your home directory.
Make a variable cd-able
Also, in your .bash_profile add the following
shopt -s cdable_vars
export Docs=$HOME/Documents

Now, when you type cd Docs it will expand out HOME to whatever your user directory is plus the directory you specified. (/Users/yourusername/Documents)
Personally, I did this with a variable called icloud as follows:
export  icloud=$HOME/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

Now, I can reference my iCloud documents location without having to remember that lengthy path.


How to restore Mac partition I'll preface this question with the obligatory "I did something stupid"...

I wanted to factory restore my 2012 MacBook Pro.  I did Command-r, and later Command-Option-r, but both times Reinstall macOS failed after a while.  (I did not write down the exact failures but, in hindsight,  it may have been connectivity problems).

I then went into Disk Utility and saw Restore.
I guessed that restoring from "OS X Base System" into my main partition would at least take me back to the original OS version and I could upgrade from there.

Apparently, I was wrong.

Regular reboot now takes me into macOS Utilities and Disk Utility shows that my disk now has just one partition, a 500GB "OS X Base System".

I can't do a Reinstall OS since the only partition is in use, and I can't shrink the partition either.

Do I have any way forward from here?  (If it helps: I have other computers here and various USB drives. But I don't have any other Macs).

I was ignorant. I simply needed to use Command-Option-R.


How to install Xcode from downloaded package I recently uninstalled all dev tools from OS X after having issues with gcc and realizing both Xcode 3 and 4 were installed - but not before saving an Xcode package file to the desktop. It's over 3 GB and I assumed that in some way I could use that to re-install it.

How can I use it to re-install Xcode?

The purpose for re-installing is so that I know for certain that the latest version of Xcode is being used for any future attempts at compiling code which I call from the terminal (for a local build of Google's V8).

P.S. Do I even need to re-install at all? I don't understand why double-clicking on this 3 GB Xcode file does seem to load the IDE just fine which seems to indicate it's relying on compilation tools and other components held inside the package, rather than looking for them elsewhere in the system. (Which I imagine should be the case considering the fact that I just *un*installed dev tools from OS X.)

The latest Xcode (4.3) does in fact come in its own stand-alone package, so it will run independently of whatever you have in /Developer. Once installed it lives in Applications like every other app on your system. You will probably find (or have found) that it requests permission to install other parts of itself as required.

If it is not in /Applications, just drag it there - simple as installing any other app. This is a big change from the bad old days of having it in /Developer and having to be careful about removing versions with

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all

(Once you have no need for the old Xcode you can get rid of it like that, and you should do that rather than just putting it in the trash or rm'ing.)

Once the basic Xcode app is available in Applications you can drag it into the dock, again just like any other app. The support applications, like Instruments or FileMerge or OpenGL ES Performance Detective used to live with Xcode in /Developer but now they can be found under the Open Developer Tool > option in the menu bar's Xcode menu.

Some people like to have these frequently-used apps available in the dock; FileMerge for one is useful at times other than when you're running Xcode. You can find them all in the Xcode app bundle, if you navigate to it in the finder and use Show Package Contents in the right-click contextual menu. The stand-alone tools live under Xcode/Contents/Applications and you can drag them into the dock like any app.

Now the basic install of Xcode does not include everything you might need. You should also take a look in Xcode Preferences under the Downloads tab, and at a minimum install the command line tools - it's a smallish download and doing it immediately will save you waiting later. Under Documentation you will find the option to download Documentation bundles for various APIs. If you don't do this then Xcode will go and fetch documents from the web as you require them. It is much faster to have them installed locally.

Xcode is improving rapidly and this change to the way Xcode installs is really helping to simplify updates and moving Xcode to the status of a "normal" app that installs and interacts with the system the way we are used to apps behaving. The last update with this new scheme was a simple 80MB download initiated from the Mac App Store - compare with previous versions where an upgrade meant downloading 4GB and replacing everything!


Can I restore a Snow Leopard backup onto a Lion machine? So I am a little confused and slightly worried, and I was wondering if someone could answer this.

I have a Time Machine backup saved on an external HD for my Mac mini that is running the latest version of Snow Leopard.

If I buy a new computer running Lion, will there be issues with using my Snow Leopard back-up to put my files on the new machine running Lion? Is that even possible? Or do I have to update my old computer to Lion first, and make a back-up before moving to the new computer?

It's not complicated at all. I can't point to a current Lion Apple support doc but I just moved my old snow leopard time machine backup to my new Lion install.

Simply launch Migration Assistant, select your Time Machine backup and select which settings and users to copy. It doesn't care that your backup is a Snow Leopard backup.

For more information here is an article about how to use Migration Assistant in Snow Leopard. It is virtually the same in Lion.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/27921.html


Missing emergency sos on iPhone 5 (iOS 10.2) I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 10.2. The recent update included a setting which allowed users in India to make emergency calls by clicking the sleep/wake button five times. I seem to be missing that setting completely. My question is:

Is it a build issue or a device issue?
Is it not available for the iPhone 5?

I have verified the countries this setting is available in. It clearly states India in them.

Further, are there any solutions you can suggest which could help me resolve this issue?
Thanking you in advance.

Was your phone manufactured in India, or manufactured elsewhere and brought in?  Not sure why it makes a difference, but I read somewhere that it is only available on iPhones made in India.


How can I get curl to resume download after waking from sleep mode? I'm trying to download the wwdc videos using curl .. however, my mac goes onto sleep mode after an hour. Can I resume the half-completed downloads or do I have to re-start?

You could try using wget -c:

-c
--continue
    Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.  This is useful when you
    want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or
    by another program.  For instance:

            wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z

    If there is a file named ls-lR.Z in the current directory, Wget will
    assume that it is the first portion of the remote file, and will ask the
    server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the length of
    the local file.


Unable to Turbo boost Macbook Pro I have MBP 13" 2012, my cpu 2.5 Ghz up to 3.1 Ghz but when I use Intel Gadget, the cpu only reach 2.9 Ghz on render and heavy use situation. Is it possible to make cpu reach 3.1 Ghz by terminal command or by an application ?

3,1GHz is a single core maximum. Like when running prime95 on one core.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html
Intel has a sneaky way of suggesting that it will work on all cores under some conditions but that's just advertising unfortunately.


My screen isn't working, how can I connect to an external monitor? My MacBook Air 2015's screen isn't working so I can't see anything I'm doing. Is there a way to connect it to an external monitor?

EDIT:
The issue has been solved. I tried plugging it into a different monitor and must've done something differently because this time, it just showed up. After a little bit of trial and error, I got the screen to mirror and now it works perfectly with my normal one.

Yes, you can plug an external monitor into the Mini DisplayPort port (the Thunderbolt 2 port) on the MacBook Air. You'll need a Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable, if your monitor supports DisplayPort.

For other monitors, you'll need an adapter, such as a Mini DisplayPort to DVI, VGA or HDMI adapter.


iOS keyboard suggests an old email address I'm running iOS 13.4.1 on an iPad Air 2. When I click on an email form field in Safari, the keyboard suggests two email addresses, one labeled "home" and one labeled "email". The "home" address is the address I use for my Apple ID, but the "email" address is an old email address that I haven't used in over ten years. How did iOS find this email address, and how can I get rid of it?

The old email address still forwards to my main email address, so it's possible that iOS extracted it from my mail, but I have other email addresses that forward to my main address that it doesn't suggest. I couldn't find anything in my iCloud account that's linked to the old address, and I didn't own any Apple products ten years ago. Any ideas?

iOS gets your email addresses and other accounts from two places. The first place is your Contact Card in Contacts. The second is from your Accounts and Passwords settings in the Settings app. In your specific case, go to your Contact card and see if the email with the label "email" is there. If so then iOS got it from there. You can also check in Settings under the Accounts and Passwords section. These are the only two places it could have come from (maybe iCloud Keychain but probably not). Hope this helps!


How to run an installed application as an admin? Background
I'm running Catalina 10.15.7.
I run my macOS system as a limited user (I have admin credentials for admin tasks).
This mostly works fine, but it seems many apps, and sometimes Apple themselves, expect most users to be running their systems as admins.
Problem
Anyway, I had a program installed (Disk Drill), which was running fine, and then prompted me to install an update.  I installed the update, and now when I run the program I get an error window that Disk Drill can only be run by admins and then the app exits.
If I launch a terminal window and switch to the admin user and launch the app from the terminal, it starts just fine.
Question
How do I get this app to run as an admin?
Attempted Solutions
I tried changing ownership of the .app and .app/Contents folder to that of the admin user, but this didn't seem to make any difference.

On macOS the Finder hands off application starts to an admin cleared process named launchd. You don’t really have to do anything to run as admin since all apps run as admin when programmed to do so. What macOS does differently than windows is sandbox details and some files being immutable / read only / protected.
The closest analogous item might be adding the disk drill app to Full Disk Access, but I would check with the vendor and release notes before adding it unless you are sure it’s working correctly or have a backup.
This message isn’t really correct on macOS and wasn’t on OS X before either.


Image on external monitor is off-center I have a 13" retina MacBook Pro and an Acer X223W external display, connected via an official Apple Mini DisplayPort > VGA adapter. The Acer is set to 1680x1050 (its default resolution).

I wanted to adjust the colors on the Acer, so as a start I hit the physical Auto button on the display. As soon as I did this, the image on the display jumped over to the left by about 2". So the image is now cut off on the left, leaving a big black gap on the right.

If I switch the resolution to anything else, e.g. 1440x900, it'll fill the display like normal again. But if I switch it back to 1680x1050, it gets shifted over to the left again.

I tried adjusting the horizontal position of the image with the display's on-screen controls, but (a) it was already set to 50/100 (which should be the center), and (b) the maximum value of 100 doesn't move the image far enough to the right to eliminate the gap. So that apparently isn't the issue.

I also tried:

Restarting/rebooting the laptop
Turning the external display off and back on
Unplugging the Mini DisplayPort > VGA adapter and plugging it back in
Restarting/rebooting with the adapter unplugged, then plugging it back in
Repairing permissions
Repairing color profiles
Using different color profiles (including one downloaded from Acer's website)
Forcing OS X to detect displays (System Preferences > Displays, hold Option and click the "Detect Displays" button)
Resetting PRAM
Plugging the adapter into the laptop's other Thunderbolt port
Switching the arrangement of the displays
Changing which display is the primary
Enabling/disabling mirroring
Resetting the display via the OSD's built-in reset function
Hitting the Auto button again

None of those steps made any difference.

Then I tried plugging the adapter into a different MacBook Pro entirely (non-retina 13"). Amazingly, it does the same thing – the image shifts 2" over to the left at 1680x1050.

I'm running OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 on both MacBook Pros if that's of any relevance, but it seems like the issue is with the display itself since everything was perfectly fine until I hit the Auto button.

Furthermore, if I take a screenshot of the external display, it captures the full image. So that suggests the laptop is outputting the image to the display correctly, but the display itself is showing it off-center.

I've found other forum threads that suggest using a different adapter (e.g. DVI instead of VGA), but given that I've always used this display at 1680x1050 with the same adapter, I know it works...

I'm at a loss as to what else I can try to get the image to reposition correctly. Any help appreciated!

I had the same problem but with an iMac and a second monitor, where the second monitor, on applying a custom resolution, shifted the screen 2 inches right.

Unplugging the monitor from the back of the iMac, and plugging it back in adjusted the shifted screen back into place.