Spotlight does not find file I have the file Rprofile.site in /Macintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/

Searching 'Rprofile.site' in Spotlight does not find the file, and I have to manually go to the folder containing the file.

I'm on a Mac book pro using 10.8.2

Is there a way I can find the file using Spotlight?

The problem is some folders are intentionally left out from the global spotlight search on the menubar.

For example, /Library and /Users/*/Library, one of the ways to search in these directories is to navigate to these directory in Finder, and search in the Spotlight field in the upper-right corner.


A mysterious "Other…" user has appeared on my login screen I know this is often caused by enabling the root user, but checking the Directory Utility app — as instructed in other threads on this topic — has shown me that this user isn't at all enabled.

Only software I can think of that can be responsible for this is NoMachine which I use for remote access. But I just want to rule out malware at this point and figure how the hell can I get rid of this "user" (when I click on the its avatar I'm prompted to enter both a username and a password)

Most likely you have recently installed an app that utilizes a new user account.
NoMachine is one example. if you delete it, other... icon will be gone.


Is there a iOS player app that display composer id3 info and play Apple Music songs? The current (iOS 9.2.1) Music iOS app doesn't seem to show the current played song's composer name. I need an app that show that information, and which work playing Apple music songs. Is there any?

You can try MyAudioStream audio application for iPhone and iPod. A nice music player and audio streamer to playback or beam music that you have stored on PC, MAC any UPnP/DLNA server wirelessly and transfer to any wireless speakers, AV receivers. I have at home PC with Serviio installed, like a server and stream the songs to my device from there wirelessly.


Setup Exchange account on Mail.app on only one mac I want to configure an exchange account on a Macbook. But Apple sets it up as an "Internet account" and sets that up on every mac associated with that apple id.

Is it possible to configure it only on the one mac?

I want to access Mail and Calendar on this one mac. I want nothing to go back to iCloud and sync on my other macs.

I finally found the answer on a different question:
Preventing iCloud from syncing internet accounts in OS X Mavericks

To summarize, you disable Keychain access on your mac, and then add the exchange account.


Store video on iPad and play video without using native iOS 5 Videos app Is there a combination of 2 applications which would allow me to transfer videos from my computer to my iPad and play the video files on my iPad without involving the native iOS 5 "Videos" application?

I dislike the native iOS 5 "Videos" application because it doesn't allow organizing video into a file structure, and "Videos" only allows viewing a thumbnale of the video.  I don't want to see a thumbnale - just text.  I have 40-50 videos at a time, so the root folder in Videos gets cluttered.

"File Browser" and many other file utility apps will copy video files from my computer to my iPad.  But I can't find a player which will play the videos from a file browser.

Looking for a combination of 2 applications which would allow me to transfer videos from my computer to my iPad and play the video files on my iPad without involving the native iOS 5 "Videos" application.

Get Air Video from the App store. Install the client on your Mac and point it to the directory with your videos. The iPad client will give you the option of streaming it or saving it on the iPad


macOS Catalina external displays are black but I can move the cursor on them I just updated to macOS Catalina. I have two external displays that only show a black background. I can see the cursor moving on them, but no windows or dock. If I try to move windows from my MacBook Pro on the screens, I only see the cursor on the external display.

Any ideas on how I might resolve this??

I just had the same problem. In order to fix this, go to System Preferences->Security&Privacy->Privacy, scroll down the left list until you find ScreenRecording and make sure DisplayLinkUserAgent is checked. After you check it, restart your machine and everything should be ok.


How to sort column by numbers in Numbers? I would like to sort a column in ascending or descending order by number of objects in Numbers. However, despite setting the 'data format' as 'number' it doesn't understand the right order.
This is the ascending order of the column in Numbers:
1 apple
1300 oranges
16000 peanuts
671 mangos
91 potatoes

When I want it to be in this order:
1 apple
91 potatoes
671 mangos
1300 oranges
16000 peanuts

Please, see screenshot:

I think by adding a word to each number you've forced it to sort strictly alphabetically, which does make 1, 1300, 16000 etc 'correct'. Removing the letters should revert to natural sorting.
Moving the words to a separate column should fix it. An easy way to split the numbers out for searching is to add a column between B and C and set =LEFT(B2, SEARCH(" ", B2) - 1) as a formula there.


Unable to access WhatsApp web on Safari for iPad WhatsApp Web (https://www.whatsapp.com/) works as epxected on Firefox running on Ubuntu Desktop and Safari for macOS.  At one point in time, Whatsapp web functioned on the iPad Safari browser.

Attempting to summon it on an iPad doesn’t return the desktop website. Summons are invoked by long tapping the reload button in the address bar and tapping on Request Desktop Site.

What can be done to summon and return the WhatsApp QR code on Safari running on iPad? The goals is to use WhatsApp Web in Safari on iPad.

With the latest edition of iPadOS which will be released on September 30th (source), Safari has been turned into a "desktop-class browser" (Apple) and therefore WhatsApp Web can be used on iPad.

I have tried it on the Safari browser on the current iPadOS beta and WhatsApp Web works like a charm.


Can Microsoft RDC client use retina scale resolution on the MacBook Pro? I'm using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection tool with my MBP retina to connect to a Win7 system, but I can't get the resolution over 1440 x 900, even in full screen mode. Is this a limitation, or am I doing something wrong?

Changing the Retina display scaling didn't seem to make a difference.

I tried Cord instead, and while that seems to support other resolutions, the quality seems terrible.

Go to RDP settings, add the full screen resolution of your Mac (eg. 2880x1800 or a scaled version thereof, eg. 1920x1200, 2160x1350, ...).

Go to connection and choose that resolution and enable scaling.  Looks exactly like Jump


Retina monitors and old Mac Pro I have an Early 2009 Mac Pro with one DVI out, one Mini DisplayPort out, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics card. I'm wondering if my Mac will support retina graphics, and if so, are any of the LED monitors labeled as "4K" basically retina displays? (I'm not interested in Apple's monitors)

I am not sure about the GT120. However, per this post, yes can get full 4K resolution (3840x2160) @ 30Hz with the Radeon 5770 and an ACTIVE Mini DisplayPort to HDMI connector that supports 1.1 and not just 1.2. However, this will get you the full resolution, and not the 300dpi screen doubled "Retina" (aka HiDPI mode) experience. If you download SwitchResX it will list possible options for you.

I can confirm this worked perfectly to get both 3840x2160 and 1920x1080 HiDPI (Retina) with a Mac Pro, Radeon 5770, an Acer B286HK, and a regular mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable.


Configure proxy on mac I followed this tutorial to set up a proxy using an AWS instance. I was able to do so, and upon running this command:

ssh -L 3128:localhost:8888 -i /path/to/yourkey.pem ubuntu@xxx.xxx.xxxx

I am able to connect to the instance. However, my mac still doesn't use this machine as a proxy (checked this from my IP, it was still the same as before using a proxy).

I have checked Auto Proxy Discovery in the Proxy Settings on my mac, but that still didn't help. Any help resolving this would be highly appreciated.

Auto Proxy Discovery works either via DHCP or via DNS queries to find out where to fetch a special file called "wpad.dat" or "proxy.pac".

Further reading: Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol

Neither your localhost nor the remote AWS instance is configured as valid proxy in your DHCP or DNS-server (if you run any of them at all - most routers don't count because you can't configure DHCP options and/or it's only a DNS-proxy server).

You have to configure the proxy manually - either in the browser settings or in System Preferences > Network > choose interface > Advanced... > Proxies.


Can't start any VMs using VMWare Fusion v3 on Mac OS X, nor upgrade to v4 The flop:  I was running a linux VM under VMware Fusion 3 on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard laptop.  The VM was located on an external hard drive.  The laptop battery died and the system went down.

The turn:  After plugging in the AC adapter and starting up the laptop (WITHOUT the external hard drive plugged in).  Fusion complained about the missing VM file(s), so I closed the VM and Fusion.  I then reinserted the external hard drive and tried to start the VM.  Fusion froze for a couple minutes, then I got an 'internal error' from Fusion.  So I closed Fusion and tried again - same thing.  Then I restarted the laptop - same thing.  Then I tried starting a different VM (located on my laptop's HD) and Fusion froze for a bit and then said "The connection timed out."  I rebooted and tried starting a local VM again - same thing.  So now I can't start ANY VMs...

The river:  After hopelessly searching the Internet for solutions, I decided to upgrade to Fusion 4, to see if that would solve my problem.  Turns out I can't even do that.  When I try using the 'Upgrade from v3 to v4' option in the DMG, I get an error message:  "A virtual machine is running with an older version of VMware Fusion."  Despite the fact that VMware Fusion is NOT running, nor are any VMs (verified by running 'vmrun list' from CLI).

So...what to do, what to do.  Any suggestions?

Fusion uses lock files to prevent multiple processes from modifying the same files at the same time, as could happen if you tried to run to copies of Fusion (say version 3 and version 4) at once.  When Fusion quit abnormally, as it did when your laptop battery died, it left behind the lock files and you need to clean them up manually.

See this support article for how to clean up Fusion lock files.  If that doesn't solve it, do a Spotlight search including system files for files whose names end in .lck and if they look like they belong to Fusion, delete them.


Spotify automatic startup mystery Trying to get rid of Spotify's startup at login time I found an interesting behavior: while its plists are not present in any of the known locations such as Library/LaunchAgents and Library/LaunchDaemons and it's also not set to Open at Login either in the Dock or during logout, it still manages to start up somehow.

I've created a new test user, started the app just once, was greeted with a login prompt, closed the app and it decided it would start ever since. I've tried deleting the entire contents of the user's home folder in the Terminal while running as another user (rm -rf /users/testuser/*), but Spotify would start anyway.

Wonder how they do that? It's pretty easy to check by downloading and running the app, there's no need to even create an account.

The point of the question is to understand the mechanism rather than actually stop it from opening (there's a switch in the app).

A lot of functionality, like login items, extensions/kexts, LaunchAgents or other Helpers can be packed into the application bundle these days.

If you look closely at the content of the Spotify.app, by right- or control clicking it and selecting "Show Package Contents", you'll find a "Library" folder enclosed in the Content's folder.  Within it there is a LoginItems folder, containing the login item.
    /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/StartUpHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/StartUpHelper

This "StartUpHelper" will launch Spotify at login.  This seems to be the application's default behaviour.

You wrote:

  Otherwise it would start for every new user added to the system.

I certainly have seen Spotify auto-launch on a user created after it had been installed, logging out of the user that created the new account and setting up the new user account from the login screen (alternatively two restarts were needed for Spotify to launch at login in the new user account). Only when Spotify got installed after the user was created, did it not launch at login.

A test in an attempt to explain, why some users will not see the auto-launch of Spotify at login:

I created and set up a new user before Spotify was installed on a different user account and, after Spotify was installed (again in a different user account), tried several logouts/logins and restarts to make sure it didn’t auto-launch at login for this new user. I also noted the user’s DARWIN USER DIRECTORY running the following command...
getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR

I also had a user for whom Spotify auto-launched at login every single time.  Again I noted the user’s DARWIN USER DIRECTORY.
Logged into this last mentioned user I quit Spotify and deleted...com.apple.LaunchServices-231-v2.csstore ...from the Darwin User Directory. Then I copied the same file from the other user’s Darwin User Directory (for whom Spotify didn’t auto-launch at login) over to this user’s directory (in Finder, to make sure the file’s owner would also change).

Then I logged out and rebooted several times into the user, for whom Spotify did auto-launch, but the behaviour stopped and Spotify refrained from launching.

PS. For further in depth information on login items within an application bundle, I’d suggest signing up for a free Developer account and getting acquainted with (some of) the documentation on application design (you don't have to sign up though, just to read the documentation).


Replacement RSS reader for Mountain Lion, integrated with Notification Center? I am looking for a recommendation for a replacement RSS reader for Mountain Lion. I have used RSS feeds in Mail.app for semi-important alerts, like maintenance announcements from my webhost or new posts on rarely updated blogs. I do not want or need a full dedicated "news reader". Occasional messages in my inbox were perfect.

Is there a good, inexpensive RSS reader that I do not have to check separately but that keeps me up-to-date with these kind of occasional RSS updates? Preferably integrated into Notification Center, which would make a lot of sense.

Firstly, in order to integrate into Notification Centre, an app needs to have been purchased from the App Store.  Only App Store apps can use it (same with most iCloud features).  So your search needs to start there.

2 very popular RSS readers are Reeder and NewsNetWire.  Neither have been update to use Notification Centre yet so far as I know, but for sure some of them will be.

It's likely that if you can find an RSS reader that used to use Growl as it's notification method, then it will be modified in time to use Notification Centre instead, but there are so many RSS readers (particularly on iOS, perhaps less so on the Mac App Store) that I can't name a particular app right now.

I quick search for "rss notification" yields no results, but "rss growl" gives 3 hits (Note that for those who are not aware, Growl is in effect a third party tool that has done what Notification Centre will do for years already, and loads of apps already support it):

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cappuccino/id492594411?mt=12

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/monotony/id533978766?mt=12

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/feeds/id458374415?mt=12

The fact that these 3 already support some form of notifications may be indicative they they will be amogst the first to support OS X 10.8 Notification Centre.

However there is another way:

For those apps (not just RSS) that use Growl, there is talk that Growl will morph into a sort of bridge between the Notification Centre and non MAS apps, because it is on the MAS itself, and as such can install notifications into the tray, and it can also poll other apps for Growl notifications and simply pass them on without the originating app needing to know about Notification Centre formally.  See this blog post for info.

It's not happened yet tho, although there is already an app to bridge between Growl and Notification Centre called HISS (See here http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/25/put-growl-in-your-notification-center-with-hiss/) which will punt any grown notification into NC instead, although it's very much Beta, and frankly will be superceded as soon as Growl get their own act together, but at least it is available now.

As such you may be able to roll your own temporary bodge using a combination of an RSS reader as suggested above that supports Growl, installing and using Growl, installing Hiss to pass Growl notifications into the Notification Centre...


Request Mobile Site after requesting Desktop Site Safari I selected Request Desktop Site on a web page and now I want to go back to the mobile version. How?

I Google’d and got 20 results explaining how to get the Desktop version, but none how to go back.

Using Safari on iPad.

This can be done by closing the tab, opening a new one and opening the site again there.


What functionality of iOS can be accessed from the lock screen? I know that in iOS, several parts of the iDevice's functionality can be accessed from the lock screen. This is useful when you don't want to fumble with a password.

But now I'm starting to wonder: what else can be accessed from the lock screen? I know these:

Three-home-button tap to invert screen (when Universal Access is enabled)
Double tap to play music

What else can be accessed from the iOS lock screen?

EDIT:

As Daniel L mentioned,

  "It shouldn't produce a bunch of partial answers; a good answer will
  include a canonical listing (with sources) of what can be accessed
  from the iOS lock screen. There is a right answer to this question."

Please, make your answer a canonical listing (with sources) of what can be accessed from the iOS lock screen.

I'm including the ones mentioned in your answer in the name of having a complete listing in one place.

Toggle music controls (Play/Pause, Previous, Next, Volume) by double tapping the home button.
Take pictures and videos by sliding the camera button.
Invoke accessibility features by triple clicking the home button. Configurable in Settings-> General-> Accessibility-> Triple Click Home. You can configure toggling VoiceOver, toggling White on Black, toggling Zoom, or asking which to do.
Make phone calls by tapping the Emergency Call button and dialing a number. iPhones only.
View snippets of emails, text messages, and other notifications by looking at their  notification preview. Configurable in Settings-> Notifications-> App.
Activate Siri to make calls, send text messages, send emails, get directions, check calendars, etc. by holding down the home button. Configurable in Settings-> General-> Passcode Lock. iPhone 4S only.
Take a screenshot by pressing the home button and sleep/wake button at the same time.
Power the device off by holding down the sleep/wake button.


External Windows bootable drive freezes boot screen I installed Windows on a 128 GB USB drive to run on my 2017 MacBook Air. I boot into it by plugging in the drive, holding Option key and select the Windows drive. It worked really well.

Yesterday, I booted up in to Windows as usual, everything went well, and suddenly, everything froze. I got a Blue Screen Of Death saying stopcode BUGCODE USB3 DRIVER. And as it told me to do, I restarted my Mac.

But now, if I start up and hold the Option key the Windows drive won't appear. And if I plug it in after I hold the Option key, the entire screen freezes for about 30 seconds and then the USB is ejected again.

I am still able to use my other USB to boot up in to Linux but if I boot into macOS, it doesn't even detect the Windows Flash drive. Windows (on another pc) seems to detect it but ejects the flash drive after 10 seconds. And I really don't know what to do.

The Flash drive does the same on other Macs.

How do I resolve the issue?

After the BSOD your mac should restart to "Start Windows Normally" screen hit Enter To Start Windows Normally
Go to device manager (Press Start and type devmgmt.msc and hit enter) and uninstall "unknown device" under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" Tick "Delete the Driver Software for this device."
Now go to your Bootcamp folder i.e. BOOTCAMP_5.1.5621 or BOOTCAMP_5.1.5640 and go to Bootcamp > Drivers > Intel
Now run the file IntelxHCISetup.exe. It will show you the intel usb3.0 setup assistant. do not install or cancel the setup as it will delete the temporary folder in temp
Now go to Start and type taskmgr.exe and hit enter. It will open up Task Manager.
In that you have to select Intel Installation Framework and type Shift + fn + f10 to open right click menu (Right click may not work  unless you finish installing bootcamp fully).
Select "Go To Process", and again press the Shift + fn + f10 key combination to bring up the right click menu
And then select Open File Location, Now copy the contents of the folder to a new location i.e. by creating a new folder in the desktop or any other location
After copying the contents of the folder to a new location go to Device manager and right click the Unknown Device and press the Right click key combination Shift + fn + f10 and select Update Driver Software > Browse my computer for driver software and browse for the folder that you created in Step 8 and click next. It will detect the driver and installs it automatically.

That should solve your problem with the USB Drive.


How to bind ⌘← and ⌘→ to previous and next tab in Safari 10? I'm used to having Command-Left Arrow (⌘+←) and Command-Right Arrow (⌘+→) to switch between tabs, going to the previous and next tabs. I have configured these keys in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts for Safari.app.

However, configuring these shortcuts only works sometimes in Safari 10.1 under macOS 10.12. The behavior is this:

When pressed in a tab with an active text box, the caret moves to the beginning and end of the row instead
When pressed in a tab with history forwards or back, Safari goes forward or back in history instead
Only when pressed on a tab that doesn't have the two above conditions, Safari switches to the previous or next tab

How can I disable the two other behaviors or configure the keys correctly so that I can use ⌘+← and ⌘+→ as previous and next tab shortcuts?

You can use Keyboard Maestro to overwrite that ambiguous behavior in Safari and map ⌘←/⌘→ to switch between tabs regardless of any context (text field, history availability), to make it work just like it does in Chrome.
It's a pretty straightforward macro like "When ⌘← hotkey is pressed, execute “Previous Safari Tab” action" in a macro folder limited to Safari. However, Keyboard Maestro is not free.

Maybe you could also create a free Applescript service to run Window⟶Show Next Tab command (since this command ignores context, unlike the respective keyboard shortcut) and change system shortcut ⌘←/⌘→ to run that service instead (would like need to add Safari to Accessibility to allow a script manipulating menu items).


How do I choose a dialog option with keyboard, but without TAB? I want to choose "Add".

I guess I can enable "Keyboard access" and use the tab key, but there must be a reason developers have it disabled by default. And that answer says there are dialog-specific shortcuts anyway, and I guess that's the "Mac" way to handle it. What are they in this case?

(Tried various combinations of ⌘, ⌥, ctrl, ⇧ and other keys. Only ↵ and ⌘+. choose "Don't Add" and that's it.)

Try  Cmd ⌘   A  or  Cmd ⌘    Shift ⇧   A

They're a bit hit & miss as to which works in any given circumstance, but [key/keys] + [first letter] will usually do it.

btw, you can toggle the Tab behaviour on & off at will with  Ctrl ⌃    F7  even whilst the dialog is open.


How to manage iCloud storage? I don't understand ...

Apple emails my iCloud 5GB is nearly full. From the above screen, it's 833.7MB + 450.2MB, why only 118 MB is left?

How can I check how/where the space is consumed?

p.s.  Settings > iCloud > Backup is OFF

Here is the screen from my MacBook:

Here is the Photos app setting:

@Tetsujin is on the right track - iOS 9 was released with some bed bugs that caused iCloud backups of iPhones and iPads to fail, and often left junk around in iCloud.

In the bottom of your second picture this is confirmed in the graph - you can clearly see backup's (in yellow) are consuming the lions share of your storage.  The easiest thing to do is turn of iCloud backup on all your devices and then delete the backups if they still show up in the settings app before re-enabling iCloud backup.  Some people have had to open tickets with Apple to get them to clean out their backups.  Thankfully for me once I updated to the latest version of iOS 9 all I had to do was turn off iCloud backups and then turn them back on and my devices started backing up to iCloud again and my backup storage consumption on iCloud dropped dramatically.

Good luck!


How do you remove icons from the Menu bar? How do you remove icons from the Menu bar?

I'm running OS X Yosemite and I tried Command + Click + Drag to get rid of them but it isn't working.

It depends which icons you are trying to remove. There are two types; software that uses the NSStatusItem API that Apple publicise for third party developers and software that uses their private undocumented NSMenuExta API.

The icons that represent operating system features can be removed by holding down the cmd ⌘ key and dragging them with the mouse. For example, the AirPlay, Time Machine, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi icons. These are implemented using NSMenuExtra.

Other icons, the ones that represent applications you may need to close the application to remove. For example, Dropbox and Plex. Apple provide NSStatusItem for developers to implement them, but unfortunately it doesn't provide all the features of NSMenuExtra, for example dragging to uninstall is only available through NSMenuExtra.


How to open a URL without launching a new safari tab? I would like to write a script (AppleScript or shell script) to open a URL such as

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/station/beats-1/idra.978194965

which then launches iTunes and play a radio station.

The problem is that all the commands I found will first open a Safari tab and then redirect to iTunes for the playback.

Is there a way to not have an empty Safari tab/window left after launching this URL?

Replace your link with this one:

itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewRadioStation?id=ra.978194965

You can open it without open your safari. Of course, only works with iTunes installed.


Register a prepaid sim card to a used iphone 4 Is there a way to register my prepaid sim card to the iphone 4s without using iTunes?

if the phone is unlocked, this shouldn't be a problem. I have a 4s that I use in the US with an AT&T account, and in Europe, with a pre-paid SIM. My phone is unlocked as AT&T allow/enable this after a 2-year contract period. I don't know about other carriers.

Depending on your iPhone software version, it may be possible to unlock the phone with various software. The legality of this is questionable, as is the result. For example, you won't be able to update the iPhone software to iOS7 until another unlock (jailbreak too) is made available.

Hope this helps.


What build flags are available for brew install of gcc? I'm curious as to what build flags are available to me when installing gcc 4.8 using brew.

This question explains how to install gcc 4.8 using brew, but only specifies two possible flags i.e (--enable-cxx and --enable-fortran).

Is there a list of what's available or can someone iterate them for me?

If it matters I am running OS X 10.7.5 on the Intel i5 dual core.

Use brew options. On my machine I get this:

brew options gcc48
--enable-all-languages
        Enable all compilers and languages, except Ada
--enable-cxx
        Build the g++ compiler
--enable-fortran
        Build the gfortran compiler
--enable-java
        Buld the gcj compiler
--enable-multilib
        Build with multilib support
--enable-nls
        Build with native language support (localization)
--enable-objc
        Enable Objective-C language support
--enable-objcxx
        Enable Objective-C++ language support
--enable-profiled-build
        Make use of profile guided optimization when bootstrapping GCC


Air + Lion : plug in USB, keyboard/pad stop working I have a Macbook Air with Lion. "Most of the time" / "Intermittently", when I plug in a USB device, the built-in keyboard/pad stop working. I find this fairly frustrating.

Does anyone know what's wrong?

Interesting situation, I'd try booting to Safe Mode (you can follow the relevant instructions here)

It sounds like there's an issue with your kernel extension caches, which booting to Safe Mode will clear, along with generating new kernel extension caches.

Let us know how you go!


App gets in commandline parameter "-psn_0_nnnnnn", why I installed an app which is compatible with OSX 10.10, on 10.8 app shows warning about incorrect parameter:

-psn_0_176171

Why app shows this? it is installed from Dmg file, it's .app file - on desktop.

Pre to OSX 10.9 apps launced in GUI had a -psn parameter passed to them. This was a Carbon system feature.

From this SO answer some documentation is in Apple's ProcessSerialNumber section of the Carbon Process Manager Reference. This is now marked as a retired document and the methods are noted as removed in OS X 10.9

Thus in 10.8 there is a -psn argument passed on the command line and the app then sees this and seems to be confused. I would note a couple of other things a 10.10 app will make calls to functions not in 10.8 so your app will likely crash later, also I suspect the app is reading the command line and this is not the best was as noted in the first link in in the comment by  Graham Miln


Xcode 4.4.1 version not recognized in Macports? After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I noticed that I can't install ports via Macports. I get the following error:

Error: The installed version of Xcode (3.2.6) is too old to use on the installed OS version. Version 4.1 or later is recommended on Mac OS X 10.8.

I have Xcode version 4.4.1 + command line tools, I tried upgrading ports, and selfupdate, but I still get the same error.

Downloading a new version of MacPorts will be required as noted in Migration - MacPorts since you updated to a new version of OS X and additionally too a new version of Xcode.  The old MacPorts install is now longer compatible with the installed OS and development tools.

Migrating a MacPorts install to a new major OS version or CPU architecture
An installation of MacPorts and the ports installed by it are only designed to work on a single OS release and a single CPU architecture. If you upgrade to a new OS version (e.g. from Leopard to Snow Leopard) or migrate to a new machine with a different type of CPU (e.g. PowerPC to Intel), you may get lucky and have your ports keep working, but in general, things will break. If you are only upgrading Xcode (e.g. 4.1 to 4.2 on Lion) but not the major OS version or CPU architecture, you do not need to reinstall ports as described below.
Reinstall Xcode and MacPorts
After performing either of these types of system upgrades, you will first need to  install the base MacPorts system again, either from the appropriate disk image or from source. If you are upgrading from a prior version of Mac OS X, install the latest version of Xcode for your new OS. This will not be done for you automatically; Xcode is not updated by Software Update, so you must update it manually. For Lion, Xcode is available for free on the Mac App Store (after install you may also need to install "Command Line Tools": XCode->Preferences->Downloads; if upgrading from previous version of xcode you may also need to do 'sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app',  see this SO article). For earlier OS versions, you will find the Xcode installer on the Mac OS X installation DVD or on the Apple Developer web site.

See Installing MacPorts for more information on how to get and install the latest version of MacPorts.


How to extract arbitrary iOS application Data from iPhone 11? I'm running iOS 14.0.1 on an iPhone 11 and I have an appication that is no longer on the App Store. (By the developer, who abandoning the app.)
The app in question was a manga app that let people read and favorite mangas that they liked. I am trying to find a way to get my list of favorite mangas from the app without manually typing out every mangas name (which for me is 2222 mangas long).
Is there a general way to access specific app data on an iPhone that doesn’t rely on knowing exactly how a specific developer made their app?

iTunes File Sharing
Some apps share their documents folder through iTunes file sharing. It's up to the developer to enable this functionality. If this is enabled, you can find the app's documents folder in Finder by selecting your iPhone in the sidebar and choosing the apps tab. Files can be transferred to your computer by dragging them to your desired copy destination.
Backup
Make a local backup of your device in Finder and use an app like iMazing to extract files from the backup.
Jailbreak
If your device is jailbroken, you can access the file system with Filza and share files as you would files in the Files app (AirDrop etc).


Create script to disallow using Mac at night? I want to stop watching too much pornography at night. It'd be useful if I were to create a script to automatically turn off my Mac at 11:00 PM and keep it turned off until 7:00 AM. If I power the computer on at any time between 11 o'clock and 7 o'clock, it should immediately shut itself down again. I also want disabling the script to be difficult to prevent myself from easily bypassing it to watch porn. How do I create this program?

This is what Parental Controls can be used  for.

You can set the times where you can and cannot use the computer.  The caveat is that you cannot be an Admin so you will need to give the reins of control over to a trusted person.

That said, Parental Controls is just one avenue and you cannot rely on tech to address an issue like this.

I say this with the utmost sincerity and with nothing else than the stated goal of seeing you helped:

This is symptomatic of an addictive behavioral disorder and can be something that is very difficult to overcome.  In addition to the tech blocks, I highly suggest you seek out a licensed therapist.


Counting the number of cells which contain a specific character I want to count the number of cells which contain the character “1” in an Apple Numbers table row. When the row of cells include (using a space delimiter between cells),

1234  5671 1 8765 6113 2468

I want it to return a 4, because that is how many cells contain a character “1” in the row.

COUNTIF(B9:J9,“~1”) returns a 0.
COUNTIF(B9:J9,“=1”) returns a 1.
COUNTIF(B9:J9,“*1”) returns a 0.
COUNTIF(B9:J9,“?1”) returns a 0.
COUNTIF(B9:J9,“=”&(1)) returns the number of blank cells.
COUNTIF(B9:J9,“=*1*”) returns a 0.

Any ideas?

Figured it out.

A glitch in the COUNTIF functions prevents it from working with numbers.  This could be easily fixed by the Excel function TEXT() but Numbers doesn't have that function. So...

To solve select B9:J9 and change the Data Format, in the Cell submenu, from Automatic to Text. Then use the function =COUNTIF(B9:J9,”*1*”) to count the amount containing the number.

Screenshot showing formula when cells formatted as text:

Setting the cell format to text:


inifinitely regressing "ls" drive under "Volumes" First of all, I am aware the "ls" command means list all items in a directory.
Yesterday an icon appeared on my desktop with a picture of a drive labeled "ls". Looking in the terminal, I see that it is in the Volumes folder, and appears to contain everything on my mac, including a Volumes folder that contains an ls drive etc etc. I am not sure what to make of this. I looked at my terminal command history to see if I did something, and the only unusual use of "ls" I have it when I accidentally typed "git config ls" instead of "git config list" in the middle of other activity. I am new to git and was following a recipe, so don't know if config could cause something like this.
More info: When I create or alter a file (eg something like a screenshot that automatically saves to desktop), it appears / alters in the version of everything "inside" this ls drive, as though I am currently working inside of it all the time. The file also is accessible through (or a copy is accessible through) the normal path.
> diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         121.1 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +121.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     102.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume ls                      11.1 GB    disk1s5

I think you just accidentally renamed the system volume to "ls", probably by typing it while not realizing the system volume's name was selected. I was able to reproduce your results by just renaming mine in the Finder. To change it back, go to the Finder's computer view (Choose Go menu > Computer, or press Command-Shift-C), select the disk "ls"'s name, change it to Macintosh HD, and press Return.
(Note: it's normal for there to be a symbolic link from /Volumes/systemvolumename to /.)


How to view any folder as if it was desktop There's a folder called "Desktop" in the home directory. By default, when there are no windows on the screen, the contents of "Desktop" are shown over the background. I'm wondering if there's a way to make another folder show up over the background instead, so that I could (for example) have the contents of "Documents" or something like that appear behind my windows.

Right now I can do it by moving the contents of another folder into the "Desktop" folder and moving them back when I'm done, but I feel like there much be an easier way to do this, especially since copying takes a long time with some larger files.

Thanks

From this SO answer:

  Backup your old default Desktop folder

  If you have files in your existing Desktop folder, don’t worry. We’re
  going to back up your existing folder so you can copy your old Desktop
  files to your new DropBox Desktop folder afterwards.

  Simply open a terminal and enter the following command.

sudo mv desktop desktop.bak

  Create a symbolic link to your new DropBox Desktop folder

  The long and short is that we’re telling OSX to create a link to the
  Desktop folder in your DropBox, but to treat the link as if it were
  the default Desktop folder itself. In this way, when you save things
  to your Mac Desktop, they’ll appear on your Desktop as before, but
  actually be stored in your new DropBox folder. Here’s how to do it…

ln -s /Users/your-user-name/Dropbox/Desktop/ ./Desktop

  This worked perfectly for me.

  Credit goes to
  https://ifyouwillit.com/life/auto-sync-your-mac-desktop-folder-with-dropbox/

Please upvote both question and answer on linked Q&A


Table in Keynote with booktabs style When creating tables in Keynote, is there a way to create them with the booktabs style of typesetting?

For those not familiar with booktabs, an example table looks like this:

-----------------------------------------------
                  Treatment A   Treatment B
-----------------------------------------------
 John Smith            1             2
 Jane Doe              -             3
 Mary Johnson          4             5
-----------------------------------------------

The key points are:

No vertical lines (e.g., between columns).
Only three horizontal lines (at the top, bottom, and immediately below the headings), but we don't have horizontal lines between every pair of rows.

I realize I could create a table in external software (e.g., LaTeX), then export to PDF or PNG and import as a PDF or PNG.  However, that wouldn't achieve consistency of style with the rest of the Keynote presentation, and is more work.

Is there a way to achieve this formatting style within Keynote?

Yes, you can create the table and then click on the Format button in the top right-hand corner of the keynote page. In the right sidebar, you have 4 tabs one of which says Cells. Click on the Cells tab and you can define the colors or styles of the lines in the table or select no lines between cells or rows of cells. See the table I created in Keynote below.


My macbook pro trackpad's right side doesn't go down when pressed When I click the right side of the trackpad it doesn't press down. It's stuck, but the left of the button works perfectly. What's the issue here and how do I fix this?

This might sound crazy, but I was having the same issues. I could not figure out what the problem was and it was getting really frustrating. One day I lifted the front and noticed that the battery cover was not flush. So I plugged in the power cord and removed the battery, and I was amazed that the battery was swollen, and in turn not letting the trackpad press down. It was bizzare.

After removing the battery, the trackpad worked perfectly. I don't know if that is your case, but I will be ordering a new battery. A quick search in the Apple Tech website, and it seems this is a common issue with the MacBook Pro batteries. Hope this helps.


How do I get three finger gestures working again in Twitter for Mac after installing Lion? After installing Lion, three finger gestures no longer work in the Twitter for Mac app.  (I've gotten used to swiping left with three fingers to go "back" after—for example—clicking on a person's avatar to see their timeline.)  In the Trackpad System Preferences panel I've disabled three finger drag, and changed "Swipe between full-screen apps", "Mission Control" and "App Exposé" to four fingers to try to eliminate conflicts.  But the three finger swipe still doesn't work in Twitter.

Has anyone been able to re-enable three finger gestures in Twitter for Mac?  How did you do it?

This annoyed me too, and it doesn't seem the solution is entirely satisfying — we'll just have to hope that Twitter for Mac gets updated soon to be better compatible with Lion.

If you have "Swipe between pages" set to "Swipe left or right with three fingers" or "Swipe with two or three fingers", then left/right three-finger swipe gestures will work in Twitter.

If you have Mission Control & App Exposé set to "Swipe up/down with three fingers", then you can hold ⌥ Option to use up/down three-finger swipe gestures with Twitter. (I'm not sure why, but if you have these set to 4-finger swipes, it doesn't seem 3-finger swipes work at all in Twitter.)


Screen doesn't work properly - iPhone SE I have an iPhone SE in almost perfect conditions (I never dropped it). I bought it 9 months ago, but since 3 weeks (and maybe more) the touch screen don't always works, I mean that when I touch, sometimes it doesn't understand that I'm touching, and that's very very annoying. The problem happened at least 1 time per hours and I already tried to clean the screen and restart my iPhone, do you have any ideas?

If you have a screen protector or case on your phone, try removing them as that may be your issue.

Otherwise, it's most likely a hardware issue. Head to getsupport.apple.com to get help from Apple or visit a nearby Apple store.


Application to add lyrics to iTunes library Possible Duplicate:
  Automatically download lyrics

Is there an application that will go through your iTunes library and add the lyrics to the songs? If at all possible, it would be great if it was free.

Check Lyrica 2 (1.99$), Get Lyrical and GimmeSomeTune.


Some App Instances cannot be focused So, assume I have 4-5 instances of an app running on different monitors (in this case, using DisplayLink Manager). Some times, some of the instances cannot be switched to anymore. When I right-click on the Icon in the dock I will see all instances, but with some of them nothing happens when selecting. Even in Mission Control the app instances are shown on the right monitor with the right state, but some of them just cannot be selected (they animate to kind of full screen and then disappear).

I am not sure what causes this behavior, maybe disconnecting the Mac from the dock and then reconnecting. Might the window(s) land off-screen?

In Windows this kind of stuff sometimes happened in multi-screen environments and you could do some trick to get the focus on the app and move it with the keyboard / mouse. In Mac I don't seem to find a way to recover these apps without killing them.

In my particular case killing the app has also the disadvantage that I only see one process in the Activity monitor, so I would have to kill all my running instances every time this happens.

Is this a bug with Mac / DisplayLink Manager with multiple monitors? Is there any way to recover the apps?

So, I don't know if this will work always, but I found one workaround:

Switch to the non-showing instance of the app.
Switch to another instance of the app that shows.
Put this app in full screen
Switch to the non-showing instance of the app -> now it worked for me.

I am not sure if 1-3 have to happen on the same monitor, I will keep trying this out in the next days...


Import images from HTC to Aperture I have a HTC Desire X and I would like to import the images to Aperture (some are on device, some on card). Unfortunately, the device is not connected as mass storage even when HTC Sync Manager is on.

How do you handle this workflow?

According to the manual, HTC Sync Manager allows batch transfer of photos to your computer (page 10).


Notes.app on Mountain Lion: How can I change the default folder view? I use the Notes app with iCloud. The 'Notes' folder under 'iCloud' is set as my default account under Notes > Default Account > iCloud. This ensures that new notes are created in iCloud instead of on my Mac. However, I also have notes folders in the 'On My Mac' section. I actually only use this so that I have a local backup of my iCloud notes.

The problem is that the default view when I open the app is 'All Notes'. This means that my notes are duplicated: I see both the notes in iCloud and the local backup copies. The app doesn't 'remember' the view selected when the app was last closed.

Is there any way of forcing Notes.app to show only iCloud notes by default?

I guess the answer's 'no', then. Will send feedback to Apple about it and hope that it changes in a future update.


Alternative way to move windows around screen In X (Xfree86 on Linux or UNIX) I could move a window around the screen by holding down a modifier key (the CTRL key if memory serves me correctly) and move a window around the screen by dragging it from anywhere in the window (not limited to the title bar.) Is there a similar functionality available in OS X?

MercuryMover
Although it's a paid-for utility (which comes with it's own PrefPane etc), this is a great tool for chucking around your windows. You can also set it up to force windows to certain sizes on a shortcut, which is handy if you want to check out your web pages in a browser at 800x600, etc.
By default, you jut press CtrlCommandup-arrow and you get a little black pop-up window that helps you to move/resize the window that had focus when you pressed the shortcut. (the screen grab includes the PrefPane too).


How can I copy an icon from a .icns file onto another folder or file? I had to erase my hard drive and restore it from backups. The one thing I’m having trouble restoring is the drive’s custom icon. I have a Time Machine backup that includes the .VolumeIcon.icns file that was in the root directory of the hard drive, but this file itself doesn’t have a custom icon, so it’s not possible to do the usual “copy the icon from one file’s Get Info window and paste it into the other file’s Get Info window” routine.

How can I take the icon from a .icns file and “paste” it onto another folder or file?

Using Finder go to the folder where the icns file is located. Open this icns file using Preview. Once the file is open click on select all in the edit menu item. Once you've selected all, open a file in Pages and paste the image in the new or old file.  This file now contains the image.


Can I adjust the sensitivity of 3D Touch? I find that I have to touch more firmly than I would like to activate 3D Touch. Is there a way to make 3D Touch react to a firmer or softer touch?

You can adjust the sensitivity to light, medium, or firm by going to Settings > General > Accessibility > 3D Touch.


disallow allow apps downloaded from In Security & Privacy / General / Allow Apps downloaded from:, how to dis-allow apps again after you have allowed?

I am asking simply because I have installed some software that I would like to stop from having these privileges.

While looking for similar I found this link on here - info about how to reverse 'enable' in Terminal might help?

Allow applications downloaded from anywhere in macOS Sierra

Specifically this section:

Granted this is a little overkill, but it does the job reliably. It
can be re-enabled immediately after launching the application with

sudo spctl --master-enable


How do I create a DMG file from a directory? I'm trying to add a few files into a dmg. How do I create a DMG file from a directory?

If you want to do it from the command line, hdiutil will provide more control than Disk Utility over how the DMG is created. As an example, you can use hdiutil like so:
hdiutil create -volname WhatYouWantTheDiskToBeNamed -srcfolder /path/to/the/folder/you/want/to/create -ov -format UDZO name.dmg

See man hdiutil for more details.


ios https incommunicado: Installing PEM certificate I have a test website that ios can't communicate to cause certificate is predictably trash.
I have clicked on lock icon in browser url and have extracted pem chain of cerificates
for that site.
How could I install it into keychain on macos simulator or ios device to
have that https connection trusted? (for testing purposes)
When attempting to drag and drop pem into simulator window:

AirDrop profiles and certificates to iOS works in general.
If the file you send isn’t accepted you might have to prepare a proper configuration profile and sign that to embed arbitrary unsigned or self-signed certs.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209435


How do I maximize a window vertically? Possible Duplicate:
  What Window Management Options exist for OS X?

Is there some keyboard shortcut, mouse gesture, or add-on I can install that will allow me to maximize terminal windows vertically?

When I press the green button on a terminal, it maximizes vertically and horizontally. I want a way to maximize vertically only.

It's not a stock feature of the OS, but you might have some luck with third-party add-on BetterSnapTool, which mimics Windows Aero Snap features.


Change iPad keyboard by modifying system files I want to access the iPad system files on my computer, so that I can modify them to change one of the iPad keyboards to support my language.

However, when I plug the iPad to my Windows 7 PC, Windows opens it as a storage device with only some wallpaper. I can't see any system files.

How do I access the system and content files for the iPad?

Jailbreak your iPad using http://evasi0n.com and you will have total access to the filesystem.


Can businesses send money to users with apple pay? A business with an iOS App needs to pay its users (the users perform work for the business using the app). Can that business pay its users with Apple Pay? Clearly Apple Pay can be used for peer to peer payments, but my searches are not revealing to me whether or not this is available for Business-to-User payments and whether there is an API for this.

Yes. My business has a business credit card that’s activated on Apple Pay and that works for depositing funds into Apple Pay Cash as well as Square Cash. And when Apple Cash is low, the debit card will fund sending monies.

I wouldn’t use it for payroll or large payments, but it works well enough to be super handy. There is no API and the payments are iOS and macOS TouchID /FaceID centric.


No password to log out of find my iphone, no i cloud setting options My friend lost his i phone 6, then found it a year later. Since he has got a new phone and started fresh with a new apple id and password. He gave me that phone to use but i cannot sign out of his find my iphone and he does not remember the password. Online it says i can reset and all that starting by using icloud setting. I dont even have i cloud settings as an option and a recovery account on his part is impossible until he is back in the states. Is there a way to get this logged out andphone reset so i can then log into my accounts?

Your friend needs to pick the easiest of these to accomplish as your friend:

Provide proof they were the first purchaser to Apple and get it unlocked. (Or let you know who purchased it originally). When I’ve done this it’s with my business card showing I am and IT Manager for the company matching the purchase order. When I’ve seen this done personally, they looked up the receipt or people provide a copy of the receipt and a drivers license matching the name on the receipt in person at the store.
Recover access to the account with the forgotten password https://iforgot.apple.com .
Apologize for giving you a locked phone.
Encourage you to learn how to open and desolder and break the encryption chain after you consider if educational and research is justified and it’s not theft or breaking into someone else’s property.

All of these seem super helpful for moving you forward.


I can not explain my disk usage I have a RAID 5 solution with 4 disks of 2TB. That gives me 6TB disk space. Now Disk Utility tells me that my actual usage is 3,5TB and I have 2.5TB free space. But when I add up the disk usage of the individual folders then this does add up to 2TB. So there is a gap of 1.5TB.

I have deleted a very large folder recently. Could that explain it ? That disk utility is not reporting the actual situation ?

EDIT: I have downloaded OmniDiskSweeper and this app gives this list of my disk group:

So my folders add up to 2.0TB. Here is the disk info that my MAC gives me:

As far as I can tell I see a difference of 1.5TB. I am no techie so I cannot explain this.

First of all, empty your trash, reboot & try out disk utility again if you haven't already. If that doesn't do it though you'll have to dig a bit more.

Here's the terminal command for finding hidden files & folders: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES. Put sudo in front of that if it doesn't work - you'll have to enter your user password in this case. Once you've done this restart finder by clicking the apple icon in the menu bar and heading into 'Force Quit...'.

Now if you open Finder, select 'Go' & 'Computer' from the menu bar, go into the drive in question. I would put this into 'list' view and make sure that the size option is on. For any folders that aren't showing their size, highlight them (hold command + click to select multiple) and then hit command + i to pull up the Get Info menu for them. You'll see that under the size field they're 'Calculating Size'. Just keep those windows up & wait for them to finish - for the sizes you're dealing with this could take potentially hours. Add them up again & see if the size is accounted for.

If there's still 500gb or so missing I would recommend to backup & reinstall OS X. You can select only exactly what you want to using Time Machine, see the size before you even finish backing up, and then restore.


Mission Control not working (Mac OS Catalina 10.15) I'm running Mac OS Catalina 10.15 and all of a sudden my favourite feature, Mission Control, has stopped working. It does not work with the touchpad gesture, touchbar, Apple Keybpoard or even my Apple Mouse. I've seen other articles for earlier issues where you update hot corners and/or use "Killall Dock" but none of these made a difference.

Any ideas?

Djuro

Try to restart the Mac's Dock, follow this link fix the problem for me:
https://www.defaults-write.com/fix-for-not-working-exposemission-control/

To solve this problem apply the following defaults write command:
defaults write com.apple.dock mcx-expose-disabled -bool FALSE
Restart the OSX Dock:
killall Dock


iPhone 4 cannot connect to internet after iOS6 update Ever since I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS6, I'm not able to connect to the internet except when I have a WiFi signal to connect to. Any suggestions about the cause or solution?

There are multiple things to check on (in the order you should try them):

Check your settings on "Cellular Data" as they might disappear with the iOS6 update (that's what happened to me anyway)
Try turning on and off your flightmodus
Reset your Network settings
Try rebooting your iPhone
(Restore your iPhone)

Although the latter isn't the ideal solution, it might solve your issue. But only try this in worst case scenario (since it's pretty radically).

Anyhow, if neither of above options solved your issue, you're not alone. I recommend you pay a visit to your Apple Store.


Problems when my mac start Just a little time, my mac has some problems when start. a prohibition logo appear and it's so slow until the system run... My mac run on yosemite 10.10.2

That is a indicator that the Yosemite has a problem with the "boot" sector on your disk. It could be your disk needs repair.

You can confirm that opening your Console (in the utility folder) and type "Disk" in the filter window. If you now see many Disk I/O than that is the problem.

You can try using the disk repair in the Disk utility in your Utility folder.

If that did not help, you should reinstall Yosemite using (holding) the cmd+r after restart.

If the problem is still there, you need a new disk.


MacBook Pro 2011 with fuzzy screen won’t boot I can’t boot into Safe Mode. Also tried recovery mode, but it won’t load. Tried internet recovery mode - no good. ☹ I'm unsure if this is related to the fuzzy screen (see image above).

I've also tried commandS and believe the results were all good.

How can I proceed to try and get this MacBook to boot up into macOS?

Bought MBP from a guy on Facebook 3 weeks ago. Lesson learned!!!

Managed to sort this! Absolute stoked.

Visit here for details

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/198711/MacBook+Pro+2011+GPU+Glitch#answer469270


“All My Files” in Finder: How to list all files on mounted DASD instead of all local files? I understand “All My Files” option in Finder lists local files only. Is there any way to list all files on mounted Directly Attached Storage Device (DASD) instead, please?

Not using the All My Files option, but yes you can, using your own search criteria.

Open your volume in Finder
Search for Any Document:

Set the search location to the name of the drive:

Alternatively, for all files (not just Documents like All My Files) you can set the search criteria by size:

You can change the view to make it match the appearance of All My Files:


user-name@dest-host for MACbookpro I have a directory at a unix machine which I want to copy to my macbook. I login to unix machine using a VPN connection and then try to copy the directory using the following standard command

scp [[user-name@]source-host:]source-file-path [[user-name@]dest-host:][dest-file-path]

my problem is that i cannot figure out the [user-name@]dest-host:] part for my macbook. When i go to my mac system preferences i see two options

Computer name : xxx.local
File Sharing : on
Other users can access shared folders on this computer at afp://xxx.xxx.x.xx/

I have also selected remote login option in service.
I would appreciate if someone can guide me about how to find out [user-name@]dest-host:] for mac os x version 10.7.5

You don't need to specify any host info for your local Mac.

Open a terminal in a folder of choice, and then execute the SCP command - then the Remote files will be copied to this local folder.

See more here: http://www.folkstalk.com/2012/07/scp-command-examples-linux-unix.html

3. Copy files from remote host to local server.

This operation is used when taking backup of the files in remote server.

scp user@remotehost:/usr/backup/oracle_backup.dat .


How to access Mac OS web server from mobile by local name? I want to debug mobile version of my website on my iphone/android. But cannot open it on mobile. I've read some related questions and all they suggest is to add localname to /etc/hosts but I already have it, but still cannot access it from mobile.

Yes - I'm on the same WiFi.

Yes - I can access web server by IP, but not localname.

What did I miss?

If you can get to your web server via IP address but not by hostname that means that you do not have DNS configured. DNS is designed to translate between so-called "friendly names" and IP addresses via a DNS server.

You can't edit the /etc/hosts file on iOS without jailbreaking your iPhone.

What you need to do is be able to manually configure your router (assuming you have a common home router provided by your ISP) to point local addresses to specific local host names. Unfortunately most home routers don't let you modify DNS settings, instead they pass DNS through to the ISP's DNS servers or use a public DNS server.

So what you would need to do is set up a DNS server on your local network to point local IP addresses to specific host names and then set up your iPhone to use that DNS server in Settings > WiFi > [your Wifi network] > Configure DNS > Manual.

But honestly that is a lot of trouble, I'd just use the IP address.


Upgraded to OS X EI Capitan and my Canon MG2240 will print but not Scan I have uploaded the latest printer Driver for the 2240 ( mcpd-mac-mg2200-11_7_1_0-ea17_2-2.dmg ).

Not sure where to from here

Kind regards

Alan

It sounds like you may need to install software to run the scanner, which Canon seems to call "software" instead of "drivers."

This link will take you to the page where you can select what looks like a safe download. (Note: this link does NOT initiate a download.)

Just scroll down to the Scan Utility.


Best CAD system for Mac I need a 3D CAD system for Mac, but as I am student now, I haven't got the opportunity to buy AutoCAD. So, can you recommend some good 3D CAD software on Mac? I found one - Autodesk Inventor, but when I saw that it is "Free" I don't believe it, as it is Autodesk, or it is really free?

AutoCAD for Mac is free for students, along with several other Autodesk apps. Software Downloads Software license terms are for 3 years.

Education Community
Free Software for Students in the Education Community
More than 35 software products are available for free* download from the Education Community—each with a 36-month license. Start the academic year off right by downloading the 2013 Autodesk® software that professional architects, engineers, and digital artists use to push the boundaries of design. You want to change the world. We want to help you do it.

See Autodesk Education Community - Free Software for Students


Postfix Not Accepting Commands on OSX Lion - Timeout Occurs I am building a web application on my MacBook Pro which needs to send email. When the application attempts to send, the connection times out. I am running postfix and I I followed the directions found here.

To troubleshoot the server, I used telnet to manually connect to localhost on port 25. I was able to connect to it successfully, but I received no response as I typed commands. Here is a transcript.

Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro:LaunchDaemons bbrame$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
helo bbrame
mail from: ben@benbrame.com
rcpt to: ben@benbrame.com

I connected to working mail server and typed the same commands. The mail server gave a response to each command I typed as expected.

Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro:~ bbrame$ telnet smtp.newnorth.net 25
Trying 66.133.129.10...
Connected to relay.glb.frontiernet.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net ESMTP Postfix
helo bbrame
250 relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net
mail from: made_up_email@frontiernet.net
501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax. See http://postmaster.frontiernet.net

The mail log on my MacBook shows that it recognizes when I connect, but doesn't register any subsequent commands.

Dec  1 18:53:50 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/postscreen[21354]: CONNECT from [127.0.0.1]:56145
Dec  1 18:53:50 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/postscreen[21354]: WHITELISTED [127.0.0.1]:56145
Dec  1 18:54:08 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/smtpd[21359]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/submit.cred: No such file or directory
Dec  1 18:54:09 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/master[21176]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 21359 exit status 1
Dec  1 18:54:09 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/master[21176]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

Any guesses why the connection is timing out?

Thanks!

The last three log messages turned out to be the culprit. Googling for them turned up this page;

In order to fix the problem your console is displaying, you should:

Create a submit.cred file in /etc/postfix directory (sudo touch /etc/postfix/submit.cred will do).
Create a header for that file: sudo echo "submitcred version 1" >> /etc/postfix/submit.cred
Add as many lines as the number of users you want to enable to submit mail, in the form hostname|user|passwd: sudo echo''hostname|username|password" >> /etc/postfix/submit.cred
Give the file the appropriate permissions: sudo chmod 600 /etc/postfix/submit.cred

Once you've done this you could restart postfix and everything sould run smoothly.

I created the file /etc/postfix/submit.cred and set the permissions to 0600. Everything started working after that.


Disk space not reporting correctly Trying to do a manual backup of a 64Gb iPhone to an Mac Book Pro running Mountain Lion, iTunes stated that there wasn't enough disk space.

I deleted enough files so that Finder reports almost 95Gb free.

iTunes still states that there isn't enough space. On closer inspection, Disk Utility reports only about 20Gb free.

I've repaired disk permissions and verified and fixed the disk, booted in Recovery mode, but the reports are still the same.

I should have enough space, but clearly something is wrong here. Can someone please tell me what I can do to get the reporting correct and consistent?

If you have automatic Time Machine backups on:

Try to disable automatic Time Machine backup

Wait 5 minutes,
Then try again

When you're done enable Time Machine again


Unknown "Icon?" file in Dropbox Stack I have a shortcut to my Dropbox folder on my dock. Occasionally, a file called "Icon?" will appear when I click on the Dropbox folder on my dock, as shown below.

Does anyone know why this file keeps appearing, and how to stop it from appearing again? I've tried deleting it, and it disappears for a while, but then eventually it comes back again. When I try opening the file, it just leads to a blank file in TextEdit. When I try to look directly in my Dropbox folder, by opening it directly in Finder, the file is nowhere to be found either.

If it helps, I am on the latest version of Sierra, on a mid-2012 rMBP.

Have to recently turn on visibility for hidden files?
I see this file from time to time in my Dropbox too, however this file exists in every directory on macOS, it's just normally hidden. If you don't have hidden files turned on it's likely just an error with the Dropbox sync. See this really in-depth answer on Super User:
https://superuser.com/questions/298785/icon-file-on-os-x-desktop


Send args to Firefox when launching from terminal Additional arguments on start of Google Chrome from Terminal app are send in a following way:

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app   --args -myArgs="ARGS"

What is the syntax to sending arguments to Firefox?

Tried the obvious:

open /Applications/Firefox.app   --args -myArgs="ARGS"

This runs the Firefox, but the args are not set.

In order to pass arguments to an application opened by the open command, use both the -a and the --args options.

Example: open -a Firefox --args -private-window

From the open man page: open [ −a application] file ... [ −−args arg1 ...]


What does it mean when a size is greyed out in Finder? Some sizes are greyed out in Finder in El Capitan. How come? What does it mean?

This is likely due to Finder still calculating the size of the item shown, such as by still enumerating the contents of a folder or package.  ACL also cause this:

Files Greyed out in Finder - Potential extended attributes issue??


Safari Developer Menu Disabled Why would my "Show Safari Develop menu" option be grayed out and not clickable? I've tried to find steps to enable it, but they all simply say click on the checkbox. Do I need to log in and change permission settings somewhere?
Safari Version 13.1.2 (14609.3.5.1.5) running on a Macbook Air
macOS Mojave version 10.14.6 (18G6020)

Testing under a fully updated macOS Mojave 10.14.6 with Safari 13.1.2 when toggling the Show Develop menu in menu bar checkbox at Safari > Preferences… > Advanced, there are two PLIST files that get modified. One file having one key modified and the other file having three keys modified, i.e.:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker.plist

ShowDevelopMenu

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

IncludeDevelopMenu
WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey
WebKitPreferences.developerExtrasEnabled

The value of all four of these keys are a boolean, and when the Show Develop menu in menu bar checkbox is checked, the value is yes, true or 1 depending on how one is reading the settings.
In Terminal the defaults read ... command will return 1 or 0, or if the key isn't present it errors out with a message.
The example shell script code, further below, was tested and works under normal circumstances, however, it may not work on an inactive Show Develop menu in menu bar checkbox. That said, you really have nothing to loose but a few minutes of time giving it a try.
Notes:

Important! In order for this example shell script to work you'll need to, at least temporarily, add Terminal to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access, and Terminal should be closed when you do.
When the example shell script is run, Safari should be closed as well, however, as coded it will close it if it's open. It will also open it after the changes have been made.
Because of other OS security measures, (sandboxing), the com.apple.Safari.plist file needs be copied to /tmp/, modified there, and then moved back. The shell script, as coded, handles this. The com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker.plist file is modified in place.
As coded, the two PLIST files get backed up with a .bak extension, however the shell script can only be run one time unless the n is removed from cp -avn for both files, which will then overwrite the original backups!
As coded, it will output debugging information (set -x) and this is in case you have an issue you can copy and paste the output from Terminal for troubleshooting if need be. So, if there is an issue, do not close the window until it's copied and pasted elsewhere so I can see it.

To use the example shell script code:

Open Terminal and run the following compound command:
touch sdmcb; chmod u+x sdmcb; open -e sdmcb

Copy and paste the example shell script code into the opened sdmcb document, then save and close it.

Back in Terminal use the following command to run the shell script:
./sdmcb

That's it, this will either work or it won't, it's the only thing I can think of trying, sans booting to macOS Recovery and deleting the two PLIST files which may remove a setting that's causing it to be inactive to begin with, if it's even in those two files.

Example shell script code:
#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -x

[[ $(ps x | grep '[S]afari.app') == ""  ]] || killall Safari; sleep 2
cd "$HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences/" || exit
cp -v 'com.apple.Safari.plist' '/tmp/' || exit
cp -avn 'com.apple.Safari.plist' 'com.apple.Safari.plist.bak' || exit
defaults write '/tmp/com.apple.Safari.plist' "IncludeDevelopMenu" -bool 'yes'
defaults write '/tmp/com.apple.Safari.plist' "WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey" -bool 'yes'
defaults write '/tmp/com.apple.Safari.plist' "WebKitPreferences.developerExtrasEnabled" -bool 'yes'
mv -v '/tmp/com.apple.Safari.plist' .
cd "$HOME/Library/Preferences/" || exit
cp -avn 'com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker.plist' 'com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker.plist.bak' || exit
defaults write "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker.plist" "ShowDevelopMenu" -bool 'yes'
killall cfprefsd
sleep 3
open -a "/Applications/Safari.app"


Are there any car chargers that will turn my iPod off when the car is turned off? My car has an auxiliary input, which I connect my iPod to with a stereo patch cable.  The problem is when I get out of my car I forget that the iPod is still playing and when I come back I'm not at the spot I left off.  Is there an iPod car charger/adapter that will turn my iPod off when my car is turned off?  It would be nice if it turned iPod back on when I started it up again, but that's not a must-have feature.

You may want to look in the direction of Bluetooth audio.  I recently used a loaner 328i while my BMW was being worked on.  The car had BMW's iDrive setup with Nav and Bluetooth for phone and audio.

After pairing my iPhone with the car, it worked just as you're asking (with the added perk of not requiring a cable).  On returning to the car, without removing the iPhone from my pocket, my music picked right up where it left off.  Nice.

It was hard to go back to the "line-in" cable from the headphone jack when my car repairs were finished.

On review, I realize you were asking about car chargers as opposed to a more significant car audio change.  I have a Monster FM adapter for iPod that provides the feature you are talking about.  It is an older model, not compatible for charging iPhone 4, but it works well with my iPod touch 4th generation.

Here's a link to the current model on Amazon

An excerpt from one reviewer indicates:

  As a final detail, I'll point out a feature that may be unique to the
  iCarPlay. When you turn off the car, the device stops charging the
  iPod. What I was delighted to discover is that when this happens, the
  iCarPlay sends a signal to the iPod to pause itself. This is simply
  good, smart, considerate design - it takes the onus off the user to
  remember to pause the iPod to avoid having the iPod battery run down
  for no reason.


How to install 10.4 on a partition on a Macbook Pro that was been upgraded to 10.6.8 10.4 was the original OS.  I have software that wouldn't run on 10.6.8 which I didn't realize until after I'd upgraded to 10.6.8.  I made a partition but restart/"option" won't recognize it.  How can I run the software that requires 10.4?

When I try to reboot, it's as if I'd never made the partition, even though it's on the desktop as a second hard drive.

Why can't I access the partition as an option when I reboot?

You’ve made the partition, but it won’t be bootable until you install OS X on it. Boot from the install media CD holding C on boot, choosing the new partition as the destination for the install. Once OS X is installed on the partition, it will appear alongside your existing install in Startup Manager when holding alt/option on boot.


How do I remove Cisco Anyconnect from the Dock? I am unable to remove Anyconnect from dock. It persists like Finder. On checking ~/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist I don't find Anyconnect listed in it. Is this setting stored somewhere else from where I can remove?

I am using Mavericks.

Typically you quit a program and then drag the dock icon out of the dock if it remains. The dragging needs to be a few inches outside the dock and pause until you see the cloud animation arrive around the icon before releasing the mouse.


Remotely Access WD MyCloud EX2 Using Finder We recently purchased a WD MyCloud EX2 NAS storage drive in my office. On our local network, we're able to use Finder>Go>Connect To Server, mount the drive, and access files simply through finder. This is all good, but we would like to access this remotely as well. We have the option to do this, but we are forced to download WD's software, and I was hoping there was some way to accomplish this simply through finder like when we're on the local network.

I'm not super network-saavy, but could this be accomplished with port forwarding or something of that nature? Please help! Thanks.

Your router needs to forward the required ports to your NAS.

AFP: 548, 427
SMB: 445

Then you can connect to your NAS the same way you do now, but you'll have to use your EXTERNAL IP. If your external IP is dynamic (regularly changing), I'd recommend using a service like dyndns (which keeps track of your IP and binds it to a domain).


Modifier Keys Across USB Does anyone know of a way to get modifier keys to work across USB devices in OSX?

I have a USB footswitch that sends a left control key.  It sends the signal as expected but does not register shortcuts.  Pressing it and then pressing "left" does not trigger the appropriate shortcut, but when I hit control and left on built in macbook pro keyboard it works as expected.

I found the following on the kinesis website:

  Note: Modifier actions from one USB device cannot modify the input of
  a second USB device due to limitations designed into the Apple
  operating system. Example: Shift, Control, Command, or Option
  keystrokes programmed into the footswitch cannot modify the input of a
  separate USB keyboard or mouse. However, a key sequence like ‘Cmd-W’
  or ‘Cmd-Shift-left arrow’ will work on a Macintosh if the entire
  sequence of keystrokes has been pre-programmed into the footswitch.
  (Footswitch can only be programmed on a Windows PC).

This explains what I am experiencing.  I tested it by trying the same thing with an external usb keyboard.  I would press the left control on the external usb keyboard and the "left" arrow on the built in keyboard and it would not register.  BUt when hitting the "left" arrow and the control key on the usb keyboard it registered as expected.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I ended up creating my own "keyboard combiner". It lets me use the Kinesis Savant Elite Triple Foot Pedals for shift, alt, and command modifiers on a Mac.

https://github.com/davidbkemp/KeyboardCombinerArduinoSketch/wiki

It is quite easy to assemble, but I cannot guarantee that it will work for you. It certainly does not work with some pedals and some keyboards. For the Kinesis pedals, you will initially need to configure them to act as shift, alt, and command keys, and that means using a PC to do the initial configuration.


How to determine what kind of Safari plug-in for streaming video is missing? Platform: Yosemite 10.10.4; MacbookPro 15" Retina (mid-2015).
I can't succeed to open properly certain video streaming sites, like in following link example:
http://www.freeintertv.com/view/id-1006/Germany-Financial-0-1
I even don't know what to Google, since only "Missing Plug-In" appearing error message (in frame where video was supposed to be played) doesn't point what exact element is missing. Trying the same action in Chrome (on same MBP) gives also "This plugin is not supported" error message.
Sites which demand Flash player plug in which didn't play in the past - I installed Flash and they work fine - means that probably what's missing is not Flash, but I am not sure. Please advise how to manage the issue.

If you click on the "Missing Plug-in" message in the Safari window it should display a pop-up message that says. This is telling you that you need a plugin that allows you to view WMP (or Windows Media Player) content.

  This page contains content of “application/x-ms-wmp” type. You do not
  have the plug-in required to view this content. This page may have the
  plug-in for you to download and install:

  http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/

  Do you want to open the page?

  [Cancel] [OK]

If you click on OK it will then attempt to load that page which, after being redirected a few times, should lead you to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/personalize-windows-media-player. Unfortunately this page is not very helpful but there is a link to "Get other versions".

If you click on "Get other versions" it takes you to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/download-windows-media-player which near the very bottom, beside "Mac OS X" has a big purple "Get it now" button.

If you click "Get it now" you are taken to http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/overview.htm which offers the Flip4Mac plugin as mentioned by Tetsujin in the comment above. Previously Microsoft used to subsidise/sponsor/pay Telestream to distribute Flip4Mac for free but stopped as of May 2004. In theory if you are just wanting to play WMV videos (like the one on that site you linked above) then the 5.95 USD Flip4Mac Player should be enough.

However in my own testing if you purchase and install the Flip4Mac plugin within Safari it still does not work with this site. You just get an error "The operation couldn't be completed. The file is not a movie file. (-2048)" I don't think this is a problem with the plugin necessarily because it works fine on other sites. It just doesn't work for me on this particular site.

I get the same error in Chrome. Even after enabling the soon to be removed NPAPI plugin support that is required for this type of plugin as described here https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213033.

So that is how you determine which plugin is required to play video on that site. Sorry I didn't have a more positive answer for you. Hope this helps in some way.


How does USB-C on the MacBook connect to multiple devices? It seems that the new USB-C connector is good for charging, good for HDMI output, good for connecting to new devices that use USB-C connectors, and good for older USB devices like an old scanner, printer, external hard drive, and video capturing box.

I suppose the older devices can be connected by using a USB-C to multi-port USB hub.  However, I wonder how this USB-C connector can be connected to multiple USB-C devices, HDMI output, and older USB devices?  For example, let's say an HDMI output adaptor is plugged into the Macbook, then how do you charge the Macbook, and how can another USB-C device as well as an older USB device be both plugged in?

Although Apple named it USB-C, it's officially called USB Type-C.

USB Type-C does not allow daisy chaining like Thunderbolt or FireWire.
That being said, you will need a USB Type-C hub.

USB Type-C Hub

A USB Type-C hub will likely have:

One USB Type-C DFP (Downstream Facing Port) connecting to the host.
Multiple USB Type-C UFP (Upstream Facing Ports) connecting to devices or another hub.

or

Multiple USB Type-A UFP (Upstream Facing Ports) connecting to devices or another hub (USB Type-A are the old USB ports).

USB Type-C hubs will need to comply with the USB 3.1 specifications. USB 3.1 provides backwards compatibility to older USB standards, therefore you would be able to add older USB devices with the use of an adapter or if the hub provides older UBS Type-A ports.

Example: USB Type-C hub

With a USB Type-C hub, you could add multiple USB Type-C devices, for example 2 USB Type-C monitors, as long as the host can drive/support them. In that sense, USB Type-C hubs work just like 'normal' USB hubs.

Example: USB Type-C devices

LaCie announced a USB Type-C external hard drive. If you add this to a laptop with only 1 USB Type-C port (and this laptop also charges via that same USB Type-C port, like the MacBook 12" mid-2015), then you cannot use the hard drive and charge the laptop simultaneously, unless you add a USB Type-C hub (that allows for charging) between the laptop and the hard drive.

Example: USB Type-A devices

You could add a USB Type-C to USB Type-A hub or adapter. For example an Apple USB-C to USB, USB-C to HDMI or USB-C to VGA adapter. Thereby making old USB devices, like a keyboard or a scanner, available to your host.

Note that using a USB-C to HDMI or USB-C to VGA adapter you can simultaneously:

Charge your MacBook
Use HDMI/VGA
Use an old USB Type-A device (this can also be a USB Type-A hub with multiple devices).

USB 3.1 specifications

Please read the USB specifications, including USB Type-C, for more details: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/


Stuck with an old version of MacOS I have a 13-inch, Mid 2010 MacBook and I am stuck with the version 10.11.6, I am not able to  make any upgrade. Currently I am not able to download any app from the App Store (only old versions) and I am afraid, soon I will not be able to update some applications (as Unity, VS and GitHub Desktop). Could you help me with any solution? I do not really want to stick with old version on my applications. The replacing of my Mac is not an option

From the looks of the details on EveryMac.com your Mac will take up to macOS 10.13.x (High Sierra).

Apple's current macOS version is 10.14.x so you are actually in pretty good shape as far as that goes. High Sierra is still getting security updates and most released software will work on the last 2 to 3 macOS versions. Many will work on versions earlier than that.

You should be able to sign into the App Store and download macOS High Sierra. here is a link that will open that up in iTunes, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12

Once you have upgraded to High Sierra that will be the last major revision of macOS that is supported on your Mac. Depending on your needs and the apps that you use you may need to get yourself a newer Mac that supports macOS Mojave (10.14) and later. But IMHO you probably have a couple of years (at least) of life left in your current Mac.


How to get rid of (base) inside terminal app in 10.14.6? when I get a fresh terminal, my prompt says

(base) ~>

The (base) part is something that seems new.
Was this added during a recent update?
How do I get rid of it?
There is one piece of customization in my dot .profile, namely

export PS1="\[\e[32;1m\]\w> \[\e[0m\]"

I also installed Conda recently, which might be related to that.

How do I remove  (base) ?

It's a conda's environment indicator that none of the "new" environments is active, instead the default one is active. "new" here refers to those created by: conda create --name NameOfEnv python=3.6 or similar.

For getting rid of it, add the line conda deactivate at the end of ~/.bash_profile.

Verify by conda info --envs.


How do I prevent my disk from being bloated? What is "Other" and how do I prevent it from being bloated? I'm having to back up and format my hard drive every year due this happening.  As you can see, I have very little of everything else.  I mainly use some IDE's and web browsers and that's pretty much it. I'm using Catalina at the moment.

If you click the "review files" option to the right of that list it should let you see a break down of your files to help you make decisions and see what is taking up space on your volume.


Is Front Row included with Lion? I was trying to use Front Row on Lion and I couldn't seem to find it. Is it included with Lion?

No, Front Row is not included with OS X Lion. Apple dropped support for it when Lion came out. However, you can get it back by following this 9 to 5 Mac article. You can download the Front Row application here.


How to fill down in Numbers without dragging? I have a 20,000 line spreadsheet in Apple Numbers, and I need to fill a column with data. I don't want to sit there dragging down the fill handle for thousands of rows.

How can I fill the whole column with a value?

Found a way.

Select the column
Deselect the header row (Cmd click on the header
row cell)
Table Menu > Autofill Cells > Autofill Down

This will not infer a pattern. (ex 1,2,3 it will just copy down 1,1,1)

If you’re expect it to interpolate, you have to click-drag.

It will fill down formulas and they will be correct.


iOS 8: Prevent Safari Mobile from reloading tabs by default When switching between tabs in Safari Mobile -- Even within a few seconds -- Safari will automatically reload the tab.

This will happen more frequently between sessions: Switching between Safari Mobile to another app and back will cause every open page ("tab") to reload.

Not long ago, I found a tutorial explaining how to prevent Safari Mobile from reloading tabs while browsing that involved plugging in the iPhone, and making use of Safari Desktop's Development Web Inspector, similar to the method viewable in this tutorial: http://appletoolbox.com/2014/05/use-web-inspector-debug-mobile-safari/

To prevent the Mobile app from reloading tabs by default. However, the above tutorial is only for troubleshooting how a specific webpage appears on the iPhone, and I can no longer find the tutorial to prevent Safari from reloading all tabs each session.

Solutions tried have included:
Closing all other apps
Clearing History and Website Data
Restart
Changing Settings > Safari > Open Links from "In Background" to "In New Tab"
Resetting Network Settings
Clearing available storage space
Reset All Settings
Restore phone from backup

Tabs still reload. This is commonly attributed on the Apple Support and other threads I have read to "Memory Issues" or default behavior for "Memory Allocation":

http://forums.imore.com/ios-8/302019-safari-stop-reloading-my-pages.html

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sick-of-safari-reloading-pages.1807865/

http://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/2gv2rb/does_ios_8_fix_the_constant_tab_reloads_in_safari/

Yet pages are visible and usable in the tab immediately after switching, but then reload anyway. Not good in poor coverage areas.

Is anyone aware of a true solution to prevent this automatic reloading behavior in Safari Mobile?

As you have read, this is down to memory management. iOS will remove background tabs from memory when that memory is required for something else. The device you're using is more significant than the version of iOS. An iPhone 6 with 1GB of RAM will close tabs more aggressively than an XS with 4GB.

As others have mentioned in the comments, iOS keeps a thumbnail of the page in memory so that you know which tab is which. This thumbnail requires much less memory than a full web page rendering context.

Reclaiming memory used by inactive apps/tabs is actually a feature. You wouldn't wan't an app to fail to launch because your phone is out of memory, so iOS automatically makes space for it. For the same reason it's not necessary to "close" apps, as iOS will remove apps from memory when necessary.

Apple doesn't include RAM in the specs published for iOS devices, but wikipedia has a handy summary of iOS device specs.


Apple Configurator 2 - How to edit a profile I am using Apple Configurator 2 to program some iPads. I am able to create a profile but editing that profile once it is made has completely eluded me.

Am I missing something here> How do I edit a profile once it's been setup?

You need to go to File > Open, then select your profile.

(Posting Alex's comment as an answer, as he seems to be inactive since Dec 4, 2015, and I nearly missed the solution as I tend to skip reading the comments.)


Which version of Windows will run on an iMac 24" early 2009 model? I have an iMac 24", early 2009 model with 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM running OS X Yosemite.  I need to setup my Boot Camp and have done a lot of research, learned a lot but still unsure on a couple of points.

Based on my iMac's hardware, Microsoft tech support recommended the 64 bit version of Windows 8.1 Pro.  With Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.3, I tried and kept getting an error message that my Boot Camp only support Windows 7.

I did see that on the Apple's Boot Camp Support site, my iMac model can only run 32 bit Windows 7.  However, on the EveryMac.com, it stated that some users reported success in running the 64 bit version with the correct drivers.

So here's my questions:
1.  Which drivers are they talking about?
2. Is my version (5.1.3) of Boot Camp Assistant the wrong one to use and that's why it failed to install the Windows 8.1 64 bit version?

Ultimately, I like to know which version of Windows (7 or 8, 32 or 64 bit) can I successful install using which version of Boot Camp Assistant?

I'd appreciate any suggestions or advices.

I managed to install Windows 8.1 Pro on my early 2009 24 inch iMac yesterday. Just a disclaimer: I DID NOT USE BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT TO INSTALL. For 2 days straight I troubleshooted boot camp assistant to try to get it to take my Windows 8.1 Pro to no avail. Out of frustration I googled 'how to run windows on a mac WITHOUT boot camp.' After finding a guide online, in a matter of about 30 minutes I had successfully installed Windows 8.1 Pro on my 2009 iMac. Here is the link to the guide....you can ask me any questions regarding this.
See "How To Install Windows 8.1 On Mac Without Boot Camp".


Where does Time Machine store its cache? Mine is sometimes corrupted Whenever a backup is run, Time Machine says "Preparing Backup...". During this stage, it looks for what files have been changed since the last backup by comparing changes in the Event Log (I assume) with its cache of files on the system.

Because of the cache, the Preparing stage is usually quite fast (30 seconds), but for some reason, sometimes when I restart from Boot Camp (Windows 7) into OS X, Time Machine's cache is wiped clean or corrupted. I know this because the Preparing stage takes 10 minutes after booting back into OS X.

So, that's why I'm wondering where the cache is located so perhaps I could determine why it's sometimes corrupted.

There could be any number of different factors involved in why Time Machine is doing a full scan after using Windows/Bootcamp. From what you describe it seems out of sync, as if your system is telling Time Machine 'this volume is not like it was, so do a full scan'. One of the first things that might give you an idea of what is going on would be to open Console immediately after Time Machine kicks in with 'Preparing...'. By observing fseventsd, system.log, and backupd you should be able to get a better picture of what might be taking place. You can type any of those terms in the search box of Console to see a consolidated list of those events.

This article is also an excellent in-depth guide to Time Machine; it covers just about everything you could imagine, so take a look.


Measuring PDF margins, etc. with Preview? I would like to measure the size of the margins and other distances in a PDF without having to print it out. I would like the results in "as printed" units (e.g. inches or cm once printed)

Is it possible to measure PDF margins or other distances with Preview?

If not is there another (hopefully free) application that can?

Update:
I see at this TeX stack exchange post some options for windoze and linux. Any thing like this for OSX?

Found it!

In Preview,

open the Inspector (Command-I)
Select the Crop and Rotate tab, whose icon looks like a small ruler. Change the units as required
Now use the select area tool and the corresponding (printed) dimensions will be shown in the Inspector.

As an alternative, you can also download Free Ruler, which displays a nice ruler on screen, though requires care in both setting the ruler DPI and ensuring that the PDF is viewed at 100% size.


Mac HDD Partition has wrong size after removing Bootcamp Partition Today I wanted to get rid of the old Bootcamp partition of my Mac. I used disk utility to remove the partition, which worked well. However, it seems like Disk Utility failed to correctly extend the main (Macintosh HD) partition, which still has the old size of 260 GB (of 500 GB disk size).

I tried to use the partition dialog, which initially shows this:

Adding a new partition using + and then Apply fails with an "internal error".

First Aid on the drive succeeds, but does not fix the problem. I already tried all these steps in recovery mode, which shows the same views and behaves exactly the same.

Is there a way to fix the drive/partition?

The device in question is a MacBook Pro 15-inch Mid-2012 with macOS High Sierra v10.13.1.

I'm wondering if selecting the "View" button, followed by "Show All Devices" might shed some light here?

Usually when I have trouble partitioning and it involves the drive I'm booted from, I will start up from Internet Recovery Mode or (preferably, for loading times) a version of macOS I've previously installed on an external hard drive or USB. Regular Recovery Mode might be fine as well, but it's still booted from the hard drive you're working on.

Internet Recovery can be started by holding the Option, Command and R keys while the computer turns on (you can let go once a globe icon or Apple logo appears).

Before you're starting up to do this, make sure you have a current backup!!! :)

One other thing I can think of that would stop you doing this is if macOS had to move the Recovery HD partition to be between your Macintosh HD partition and your Boot Camp Partition. It doesn't always have to do that, but if it does, you might have to manually delete the Recovery HD partition via Terminal and then expand Macintosh HD.

I'd suggest you use Apple's "Recovery Disk Assistant" to make a Recovery HD on an USB or external Hard Drive before doing that, in case you need to reinstall later, cause I don't think you can put Recovery HD back on the internal drive without a Major OS upgrade (like 10.12 > 10.13) or a reinstall.

If you run:

diskutil list disk0

in Terminal, it will give you a listing of all the partitions on the  first mounted disk.

If there is a volume labeled "Recovery", and then a unformatted amount after it, that's why you can't expand Macintosh HD, but if it lists empty space and then the "Recovery" after that, then you can probably just expand Macintosh HD with a external hard drive version of macOS or Internet Recovery.

And again, Backup all your files first please!!!!