Need to replug my Magic Keyboard after each shutdown Each time I restart my 2018 Mac mini running Mojave after a complete shutdown, I have to connect my Magic Keyboard (to USB) to be able to type my login/password.

Once it's done, I can unplug it and use it via Bluetooth.

Question; is it a "feature" for some security reason? Or is it a bug? (keyboard battery is at 100%).  How can I get it to retain the Bluetooth connection across reboots?

On my iMac running Catalina I can enter my password after reboot using the bluetooth Magic Keyboard without connecting it via cable. Although you run a different version of MacOS on a different machine it seems to me that this is rather a bug than a feature. Does it also appear after reboot or only after complete shutdown?

I have two ideas you can try to fix the problem: First, reset your SMC. If this doesn't solve the problem reset your bluetooth controller.

If both things don't work, connect the keyboard to another Mac to see if the problem is the same. If it is, I would order a new Magic Keyboard or go to an Apple store.


Safari 8 Not Showing Network Requests when using the web inspector/develop tools I have a feeling that I may have toggled some settings, but I can't find it anymore.

Basically I am trying to monitor requests sent from my webapp. The usual method is Inpect Element -> Timelines -> Network Requests, where Safari gives me a graph and a list of all the requests made.

Now I can see the graph, but I can't see the list of the requests made.

Here's a screenshot illustrating where I'd like to see the requests:

Deselect timeline (between 10 and 12 seconds)


Macbook Pro 2016 unable to restart due to Google Chrome I just received a 2016 Macbook Pro 15 touch running Sierra and after installing a bunch of apps and restarting I received the error message

Your Mac hasn't restarted because "Google Chrome" failed to quit. To continue restarting, quit "Google Chrome".

Chrome then becomes unresponsive and all you can do is force quit. So I decided to do a clean install of Sierra and immediately install Chrome after setup completed to ensure it was Chrome and not some other app. However I get the exact same results. I can't see anything obvious related to this issue in the console either.

Is this likely a hardware issue? I assume it must since I would expect there to be hundreds of google search results for this error if everyone had the same issue.

If Google Chrome is the only program that gives you this problem it is most likely a software issue with Google Chrome. Ensure that you have the latest version installed - or even try installing Google Chrome Canary to see if it includes a fix.


Why are my earbuds making dolphin noises? What I'm hearing...

Of the three vocalizations dolphins produce, my iPhone 6 earbuds have started making two: whistles and clicks. This clip is the closest I could find to the sounds I'm hearing. Now of course, these noises only approximate dolphin-y noises. The whistle sounds more electrical, the clicks more mechanical, than the organic noises of actual mammals. But they do share many aural traits with dolphin vocalizations, so it's a quick way to explain what I'm experiencing. Some of the traits held in common are pitch, note length, and note frequency. I'll visualize their amplitude over time with some rudimentary ASCII charts.

Time →
Amplitude ↑

Whistle (pitch is high):

_--````````````------________

Clicks (pitch is Mid-range):

_- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _-

What I've learned so far...

These noises are noticeable when there's no other audio. I usually hear them before I make a phone call or start listening to a podcast.
The whistles stop if I unplug my standard-issue earbuds, letting the cord dangle. The clicks pretty much stop then as well.
Jiggling the cable—whether it's plugged in to the iPhone or not—does nothing to influence the noises. I've tried jiggling the cable at all the junctures where I suspect a weak connection might form without avail.
My attempts to decipher the language of dolphins have yielded no clues into a semantic interpretation of these noises. (Okay, this last one's a joke. But my question is genuine, asked in good faith.)

What I'd like to know...

What is the explanation for this phenomenon?

It's not a driver/software/audio card issue, because the dolphin noises don't occur with other headphones or when playing music through the speaker (via Buscar above). It's probably a bad ground (via soulshined above), but without stripping the wires and testing each connection, it's impossible to say for sure.

I went to the Apple Store with a Genius Bar appointment for another issue (cracked iPhone screen) and asked them about it. Apple replaced my headphones for free.


How to synchronize iPhone with new Mac without losing data? I've upgraded my workplace with a new Macbook, but I've run into several problems. One of these problems is iPhone synchronization.

Previously, I synchronized my iPhone with a PC notebook. Now I want to sync it with my new Mac, but I don't want to lose all my app data or re-upload all the music, videos, etc.

Is there any possibility for me to sync with my Mac and not reinstall apps and re-upload music? I know I can use an iPhone file manager (my iPhone is jailbroken) to search all the saves and then reinstall all the apps and then transfer the saves back to phone, but it'll take too much time. Is there a more elegant way to do it?

You can move your iTunes library from your PC to your Mac.  As long as the persistent id is the same it won't erase the iPhone.

You could also just edit the Mac iTunes library to have the same persistent id your PC library did.

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=2137


After beta testing your app in TestFlight, do you have to re-upload for public release? After beta testing your app in TestFlight, do you have to re-upload the app build for the Apple Review Team for Public Release or can you release the build for release right away to the App Store?

No you dont need to re-upload binary go into test flight section & switch off testflight testing. After this you can release that version.


Can a thief change my Apple ID and password on a stolen iPod touch? I can't locate my iPod and I know it is being used and has Wi-Fi but when I try to locate it's saying incorrect ID or password. Can a thief change or erase your Apple ID and password? The thief picture has now replaced mine when I look on my girlfriend's iPod.


Move photos to a new iPhone without iCloud I've got 24GB of photos on an iPhone 8 Plus that I'd like to move to an iPhone X. Normally, I believe I can just backup on iTunes and restore to the new device. Unfortunately, I am on iOS 12.3.2, which is available only for iPhone 8 Plus.

I tried to restore to iPhone X, but it said I need to update iOS, iOS 12.3.2 is not available for any other device.

I looked at downgrading the iPhone 8 Plus back to 12.3.1, but I do not have access to a 12.3.1 backup from which to restore photos.

Are there any other options for cloning the camera roll between iPhones? (I'd prefer not to use iCloud because it's 24GB of data).

NOTE: I have tried to import photos from the iphone to the MacOS photos app,  but that is not an exact clone of the cameraroll. My 'Favorites' tags did not transfer. Has this changed recently?

Just modify some value, you can restore the high version backup to the lower version device, it is usually work in minor version updates.
First of all, open the device backup folder in finder and quit itunes, you can see a file name Info.plist. Get a plist editor e.g xcode, change the Product Version 12.3.2 to 12.3.1 Build Version 16F250 to 16F203, save the file then you can restore it to iPhone X.


Is memory or storage in the 2018 Mac mini replaceable by the user after purchase? The tech specs of the Mac mini 2018 is unclear if the RAM or SSD can be upgraded by the user.

You can find a guide on iFixIt, summarized on MacRumors.com: 2018 Mac mini Teardown: User-Upgradeable RAM, But Soldered Down CPU and Storage
Memory: Yes*
Apple specifically mentions on the Apple Website that the Memory are SO-DIMM sockets (2666MHz DDR4 SO-DIMM).

Mac mini features high-performance 2666MHz DDR4 SO-DIMM memory

*However, the warranty is voided if upgraded by the user as the modules are no longer directly accessible from the bottom but instead involve removing the antenna plate, fan and mainboard.
Storage: No
Storage is (like on the MacBooks) soldered onto the logic board and therefor non-replaceable (you would need to replace the entire logic board).


Why is this specific video on Youtube not playing sound on my Macbook Pro? Why isn't this video playing with sound on Youtube on my Macbook Pro?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1ld1uGpXA

Ya'll are downvoting this post for no reason.

The sound on that SPECIFIC video does not work. All other videos seem to have sound, just not that one. I have tried opening this video in all browsers on my Macbook Pro (mid 2014), but it doesn't work on any of my browsers. The browsers I have are Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and FireFox. I tried opening that video in Incognito mode/private browsing and it still doesn't have sound.

Here's a video I recorded and uploaded to Youtube showing my issue:

https://youtu.be/tdjaezqizgU

That's an interesting question! There's a pretty simple answer - there's only sound recorded onto the left channel.

You should first check your sound output settings and see if you have the balance set to the center. Go to System Preferences--> Sound--> Output tab. Then check your balance.
You can play around with dragging left or right and anyone can recreate the issue by dragging the Balance all the way to the "right" when playing that video.

If you have your sound output in the center on the Balance, then you should try playback of your audio through your internal speakers instead of through the HDMI connection to your display (or other sound output).
That way you can isolate if the problem with your Display itself or in its settings.

If you find the problem only happens on your external display, see if you can adjust the sound settings on it and see if there's different audio selections.


No devel block is defined for automake? Error when using Homebrew I'm getting an odd error that google seems to only have a handful of (unhelpful) results for.

When I use homebrew to try and install some dev libraries or tools, it's coming up:

brew install -v --devel --fresh  automake autoconf libtool wget libimobiledevice
**Error: No devel block is defined for automake**

Any ideas on how to fix this or what I'm doing wrong?

This is because libmobiledevice is no longer on --devel branch, remove that and you should be all set.

brew install -v --fresh libimobiledevice


Lion Terminal remembers sudo password after quitting I've been using Lion since its release, and I noticed today, for the first time, that Terminal did not prompt me for a password when I typed in a sudo command, if I close and reopen Terminal within the five-minute window, but wait longer than five minutes after reopening the application to enter another sudo command.

Is it being cached somewhere as a result of Lion's new "remember the state of the application" feature? Can I turn off this setting? It seems rather insecure.

I've also tried using the Command + Option + Q combination, as well as exiting Terminal before quitting the application, to no avail (also within the five minute timeout window).

For the record, I don't recall seeing this behaviour before I updated to 10.7.1, but I may be wrong.

Can anyone else replicate this for me and confirm my suspicion, before I log a bug with Apple?

EDIT: Apparently my question isn't clear. I want to know if this is normal, or a bug:

Issue sudo command. I am prompted for a password.
Close Terminal before sudo timeout takes effect (within five minutes).
Open Terminal again, and wait more than five minutes before issuing sudo again.
Issue sudo command. I am not prompted for a password.

This is normal, and an inherent consequence of the way sudo handles its 5-minute don't-need-to-reauthenticate window.  When you authenticate to sudo, it records your account as having authenticated.  Because the authentication is tied to your account (not a Terminal session or something like that), it's still valid if you quit & reopen Terminal, log out & back in, or even switch to a different session type (e.g. console login vs. SSH session vs. cron job running as your user ID, etc). I'm not certain offhand if it survives a reboot -- if not, it's because there's a step in the system startup process that wipes the timestamp files.

BTW, you can clear your own timestamp file with sudo -K.


iMac keyboard for programming. Is that comfortable or I should buy another one? I'm planning to buy an iMac next month. I'm a software developer. I usually use the Microsoft Keyboard for my programming tasks, It has a great ergonomics. I tried iMac's keyboard in the store but didn't get a chance to sit down and use it for an hour or so to understand if that works for me. Anyone is using it for heavy programming and can tell me if that is comfortable for hours of coding ?

Thanks :)

I personally use it everyday for my programming job. The thing I like the most about it is that the keys are low profile, so it's easy to glide your fingers across. That said, I have used a mac keyboard for the last 5 years, so I got used to it. You can only try to see if it fits you.


How can I view a list of system and application keyboard shortcuts? I often find applications that use conflicting keyboard shortcuts and it is difficult and time-consuming to determine which shortcuts are conflicting.  Are there any applications or commands that can show in a human readable format all active shortcuts?

EDIT 1: This is NOT a duplicate of this question.

The suggestions to use KarabinerEventViewer simply do not display the application/command called on a given key combination.

The exact combination that I cannot determine is CMD+OPTION+/.

EDIT 2: Why is CheatSheet not suitable?

It simply displays an overlay with the keybindings for the application in focus.  It also doesn't help for applications without a window (background apps).  This doesn't help my use case as the keybinding I am debugging doesn't launch an application window.  Think about how Spotlight or Alfred renders a search component for a given key combination.

Try the utility CheatSheet.

It appears that after downloading the utility, press the Command key a little longer than usual and you are then presented with the currently active keyboard shortcuts. Check out the software below

https://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/


Does the Lion App Store have a debug menu? I like using the debug menu on the Snow Leopard App Store app by enabling it with

defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true

Does the same toggle work on the Lion version of the app?

The debug menu is available in the Lion app store, with the same command as you posted.

I don't see any other hidden prefs of interest:

NSWindow Frame Preferences" = "-1 53 1289 1005 0 0 1920 1058 ";
ShowDebugMenu = 1;
WebKitUserStyleSheetEnabledPreferenceKey = 1;
availableUpdates =     (
    );


Can I customize ANSI colors in Terminal without extra tools like SIMBL? I noticed that colors in the Snow Leopard Terminal.app aren't that great (using the Pro theme, but the other themes are worse).

There seems to be no easy way to customize the colors, and googling only showed weird workarounds involving SIMBL and forcing the terminal to 32-Bit.

Is that still the case, or is there a way to change the colors in Snow Leopard's Terminal.app? My shell is zsh, not bash if that makes a difference.

Clarification: I'm referring to the ANSI Colors like Green, Red, Blue etc. By default, the Terminal looks like this:

These colors aren't that great, I want them look like this:

I have found a 64-Bit compatible SIMBL/TerminalColours plugin, but if I can avoid having to use SIMBL, that would be my goal. I know that there are alternative terminals like iTerm, but I want Terminal.app.

Terminal.app has these colors hard-coded into it. Internal methods like +[NSColor(Terminal) vtRedColor] use hard-coded floating-point constants to set the colors.

As you noted, there are SIMBL plugins that can patch this but you've already noted their current limitations. SIMBL has been updated to support 64-bit applications, so you should contact the authors of the plugins to request that they rebuild them to support 64-bit. There's also another SIMBL plugin to consider.

The only other option for Terminal.app is to write a feature request at http://bugreport.apple.com and hope that somebody at Apple is enticed to add color customization to Terminal.app for Lion.


Move Photos and Videos from an iPhone 4 to PC I have an iPhone 4 that does not update anymore, works deadly slow, and has zero free space on it. For some reason (subject for another question), I has to use it and, to make using it more comfortable, I want to free some space.

I found that decent amount of space is occupied by photos and videos, that I cannot afford to loose, so I want to move these photos and videos to PC, i.e. to copy them from iPhone to PC, and then remove them from iPhone.

I've connected iPhone to PC via USB cable, and Windows (I also have MacBook, but tried on Windows; let me know, if on MacBook my task is easier to solve) recognized it as external USB drive with two folders:

one folder named DCIM, and
another named something like File Transfer

In these two folders there were more than a hundred photo and video files. I successfully moved all of them to PC, so now, Windows does not see any files on iPhone.

The problem is that iPhone still has zero free space and if I tap on Photo icon in it, I still see lots of photos and videos there.  So my goal was not achieved.  I don't know whether photos I still see on iPhone and photos I now have on PC are the same or not.

Could you help me?

You need a way to transfer original photos and videos from your iPhone to your PC. First copy/import them from your iPhone to Windows, then proceed to delete them from within the Photos app on your iPhone.

To copy/import using a Mac, connect your iPhone to your MacBook, and use a macOS built-in app called Image Capture. Upon launching, Image Capture will list your iPhone in the left pane. Selecting it will display all the photos and videos available on your iPhone. Simply select the desired ones and drag them into a folder of your choosing to copy them to your Mac. Once copied, you can also delete them from the iPhone using the Image Capture app.

For computers running Windows, you can download a 3rd party app called iExplorer to easily browse through and transfer all your photos and videos from your iPhone to your PC.

Developers of iExplorer have shared a tutorial article listing instructions on how to transfer photos from your iOS device to PC:

Copy Photos from iPhone or iPod to PC or Mac

Note: No affiliation whatsoever to the developer of iExplorer.


Is the iPad 2 any better at handling large PDFs than the original iPad was? We know that iPad 2 performance is higher than the performance of the original iPad  (Safari, Games, etc).

But whether iPad 2 user experience is better in opening and reading heavy-weight PDFs than original iPad?

UPDATE: Consider heavy-weight pdf is a magazine or pdf book with a large number of illustrations, so there is almost no scripts, flash, etc — just pure text with links and images (e.g. pdf files about 80Mb).

The iPad 2 is most likely to be faster than the original iPad as it has the newer A5 processor, which is dual-core and faster than it's predecessor, the A4. The iPad 2 also has 512MB RAM, which is 2 times more than the original iPad. This means that the rendering of the images will be faster, and more parts of the PDF can be stored in memory for a longer period of time, ensuring a smooth read.

This article also shows the difference between the speed of the PDF rendering and other factors in a 3rd-party app, but clearly shows that the iPad 2 is definitely faster.


Remap curved quotation marks in OS X? So, the default key combinations to manually insert curved quotation marks (“” and ‘’) in OS X are:

option + [ for “
option + ] for ‘
option + shift + [ for ”
option + shift + ] for ’

Possibly due to muscle memory and the mental association with the keys ([ being an "opening" symbol and ] being a "closing" one) I find this specific setup very confusing, so I'll always get it wrong when inserting curved quotation marks manually. And have to try all combinations until I get the right quote.

What I would like to achieve is the (IMO) more intuitive setup:

option + [ for “
option + ] for ”
option + shift + [ for ‘
option + shift + ] for ’

What setting/file/app I need to fiddle with to remap these characters? Is there a special keyboard layout I can download that will do this for me? Thanks in advance.

PS: I'm aware of the "smart quotes" feature, but I'd like to have more fine grained control, that's why I want the manual insertion to be intuitive for me.

You can use KeyRemap4MacBook with a private.xml such as this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <item>
    <name>Manual Smart Quotes</name>
    <identifier>ManualSmartQuotes</identifier>
    <autogen>
      __KeyToKey__
      KeyCode::BRACKET_RIGHT, VK_OPTION | ModifierFlag::NONE,
      KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, ModifierFlag::OPTION_L | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L
    </autogen>
    <autogen>
      __KeyToKey__
      KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, VK_OPTION, | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L,
      KeyCode::BRACKET_RIGHT, ModifierFlag::OPTION_L
    </autogen>
  </item>
</root>


NTFS-3G partition name contains increasing number When using NTFS-3G using OSXFuse installed via Homebrew, my Windows drives are mounted but contain a number that is increased every time the volume is mounted:

These numbers don't seem to be limited. I have to regularly delete all the unused mount points. I'm assuming this problem could also occur because of insufficient permissions for some process, but I'm not sure for which or how to verify this.

/Volumes/ has the permissions 777 and owner root:admin.

The annoying effect of the changing mount point is that I cannot make links to a particular path on the Windows drive. At the next restart it will have changed...

Using OSXFUSE with version 2.7 on the Mavericks this working.

Since I can not post more than 2 links, read a tutorial I posted and solved my problem in this link!

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/119


iPod Nano (7th gen) Bluetooth connection keeps dropping When I use my iPod Nano (7th generation) with SwageU Bluetooth headphones, the connection keeps dropping with a double beep.  Both devices are charged.  I haven't had a problem using these headphones with an iPad.  Which should I blame, the iPod or the headphones?

First I'd try a simple restart (hold down the sleep/wake button and home button until the screen goes dark and release when you see the Apple logo)
Unpair the Bluetooth headphones from everything. The manufacturer should have instructions on how to unpair them from everything at once, or you can manually unpair them from all your devices individually.
Turn Bluetooth off and back on on your iPod.
Get a $10-$15 Bluetooth speaker from Wal-Mart and see if it will work with your iPod.

Check out this Apple Support link for additional help.


How do I adjust Homepod stereo balance? I have a stereo pair of homepod set up in a normal hifi set up, that is I sit between the speakers and the speakers an I are in a triangle.

music Volume is clearly unbalanced - a center sound is louder on the right speaker.
I physically swapped the speakers several times to rule out a hardware issue.
My room is not symmetrical
I have tinnitus in my left ear so sound should adjust for this disablement.

How do I configure things so that central sounds sound from the middle to me?

Other than moving your speakers around about all you can do is play with the balance and the equalizer to adjust the sound to your liking.  There is a free app named eqMac which lets you apply an equalizer to your mac. It also has sensitive settings for the balance. You can adjust the balance to get the appropriate settings for your home pods. Maybe this balance adjuster does a better job than the internal one.


How can one open a specific tab in preferences via Terminal? So I know I can use open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane to open Keyboard preferences. But how can I open the 'Shortcuts' tab specifically?

You can use AppleScript from Terminal using osascript:

osascript -e "tell application \"System Preferences\"" -e "set the current pane to pane id \"com.apple.preference.keyboard\"" -e "reveal anchor \"shortcutsTab\" of pane id \"com.apple.preference.keyboard\"" -e "activate"  -e "end tell"

Replace ‘shortcutsTab’ with one of ‘keyboardTab’, ‘InputSources’, ‘shortcutsTab’, ‘Text’, ‘Dictation’ or ‘keyboardTab_ModifierKeys’ to change the tab it opens.

To find the list of available tabs in other preference panes, use
osascript -e "tell application \"System Preferences\"" -e "set the current pane to pane id \"com.apple.preference.name\"" -e "get the name of every anchor of pane id \"com.apple.preference.name\"" -e "end tell" where ‘name’ is the name of the preference pane.

To select a specific category of shortcut, you can use System Events to select a row from the left table.

osascript -e "tell application \"System Preferences\"" \
          -e   "set the current pane to pane id \"com.apple.preference.keyboard\"" \
          -e   "reveal anchor \"shortcutsTab\" of pane id \"com.apple.preference.keyboard\"" \
          -e "end tell" \
          -e "tell application \"System Events\"" \
          -e   "tell application process \"System Preferences\"" \
          -e     "repeat while not (window 1 exists)" \
          -e     "end repeat" \
          -e     "tell window 1" \
          -e       "repeat while not (row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of tab group 1 exists)" \
          -e       "end repeat" \
          -e       "select row i of table 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of tab group 1" \
          -e     "end tell" \
          -e   "end tell" \
          -e "end tell" \
          -e "tell application \"System Preferences\"" \
          -e   "activate" \
          -e "end tell"

‘i’ is the index (counting from 1) of the row in the left column of the preference pane tab. The new lines (using ‘\’ on the previous line) and white space outside of speech marks are just for formatting and can be omitted.

Be careful of the use of ‘repeat while not’ which waits for System Preferences to open to the necessary page, however this freezes the code until that point, and if System Preferences is preoccupied with something else such as logging in to iCloud which can't be interrupted, this will freeze until you manually quit.


One workout missing from phone Yesterday I did two workouts using my Series 6 AW. One HIIT and one walk. Today, when I look at the fitness app on the phone, only one of the workouts is there, the HIIT. Is there any way to force the other to sync?
I’ve restarted both devices.

It appears that as of today (Oct 23, 2020), this is a known bug.  Apple is aware of the issue but no GM fix has been issues yet.  It's been reported that un-pairing/re-pairing the AW doesn't resolve the issue.
There's a Watch and iPhone OS versions in beta right now, you can try installing one of those to see if it fixes the problem (installing beta OS's has its own risks so be sure you're aware of them before installing).
Otherwise, you'll have to wait until Apple puts the fix out for everyone.


Time Machine on slow drive to be ported to new drive I have an old multi-partitioned external HDD with one partition being used for Time-machine.
I want this partition with Time-machine moved to a new  SSD.
How do I go about copying a "partition"? unix dd? or rsync (don't believe this would work as hard links and sym links used by Time-machine?

Finder knows how to do this, almost nothing else does.
Hard links &/or permissions are the downfall usually.
Don't attempt to manually trim it as part of the copy process, just copy the whole lot. If you need to trim by size or date, do it separately.
Apple guide on copying - Transfer Time Machine backups from one backup disk to another
In brief:
Format HFS+
Set correct permissions system rw wheel rw everyone r
Turn off Time Machine
Drag the entire Backups.backupdb folder to the new drive.
Ask Different guide on trimming for size - Remove unnecessary backups from TimeMachine to get space


How to include iLife with a NetInstall Image of Lion? I've got a NetBoot server set up on Lion server that pushes several NetRestore and NetInstall images.

While I have a NetRestore image that already has iLife '11 on it, I want to have a NetInstall image that has iLife '11 as well. That way, I can do a reinstall of the OS and iLife without having to erase data.

I've found this article that says adding some iLife packages to the workflow with the "Add Packages and Post Install Scripts" automator action, but the guy who answered did this with iLife '09, wasn't completely sure, and used the NetRestore option.

Is there a way to run iLife install scripts with a NetInstall image?

A recipe for deploying iLife 11 using DeployStudio just rolled across my twitter stream, so almost all the credit here goes to Steve Yuroff for the recipe.

It is available on github and lists the package names and checksums for verifying the install.

https://github.com/swy/iLife-11-InstaDMG-catalog/blob/master/iLife11.catalog


Reclaim lost space from Bootcamp Partition First off, sorry I didn't understand you had to use apples bootcamp software to deal with bootcamp partitions. I wanted to stop using bootcamp, so I deleted the partition through disk manager some time ago. Since then I have been trying to get the 400GB space back.

Today I followed this thread:
Cannot delete or merge old boot camp partition in El Capitan

And I deleted the partition that showed up. But the result is that it has simply vanished, I can't reclaim it, because it does not even show up on disk manager or diskutil.

I have the 3TB fusion drive, but only 2.7 GB is available. I'm on a late '12 imac with high sierra 10.13.3.

===== final result ======

I suggest creating the USB flash drive installer, because it takes you 30+ minutes to boot to Internet Recovery. If you want to use Internet Recovery then use the alternate instructions given below.

Backup Macintosh HD with Time Machine to an external drive.
Download High Sierra from the Apps Store. If the download software starts to execute, cancel the execution.
Transfer High Sierra to a USB flash drive. See How to create a bootable installer for macOS.
Restart the Mac and immediately hold down the option key. When the Startup Manager icons appear, choose the installer.
From the menu bar, choose the Terminal application.
Enter the commands given below to create the new Logical Volume Group (LVG)

diskutil  unmount  "Macintosh HD"
diskutil  cs  createLVG  "Macintosh HD"  disk0  disk1

Use the command below to determine the UUID of the new LVG.

diskutil  cs  list

For example, you would look for a line similar to what is shown below.

+-- Logical Volume Group A8CEEF75-6839-4806-B799-97CF0CAABB7C

Enter the command given below to create a new Logical Volume (LV).

diskutil  coreStorage  createVolume  <UUID from previous step>  jhfs+ "Macintosh HD"  100%

For example, drawing on the example in the previous step, you should enter a command similar to what is given below.

diskutil  coreStorage  createVolume  A8CEEF75-6839-4806-B799-97CF0CAABB7C  jhfs+  "Macintosh HD"  100%

  Note: Replace A8CEEF75-6839-4806-B799-97CF0CAABB7C with the UUID you determined in the previous step.

Quit the Terminal and use Time Machine to restore your files.

  Note: The OP has reported a complete verbatim restore works better than selectively restoring files.

Install High Sierra. Be sure to select that you what to keep your files.

Alternate Instructions

  Note: Requires macOS Sierra 10.12.4 or later,.

There instruction require booting to Internet Recovery.

Backup Macintosh HD with Time Machine to an external drive.
Boot to Internet Recovery. At startup or restart, immediately hold down the option+⌘+R key combination.
From the menu bar, choose the Utilities->Terminal.
Enter the commands given below to create the new Logical Volume Group (LVG)

diskutil  unmount  "Macintosh HD"
diskutil  cs  createLVG  "Macintosh HD"  disk0  disk1

Use the command below to determine the UUID of the new LVG.

diskutil  cs  list

For example, you would look for a line similar to what is shown below.

+-- Logical Volume Group A8CEEF75-6839-4806-B799-97CF0CAABB7C

Enter the command given below to create a new Logical Volume (LV).

diskutil  coreStorage  createVolume  <UUID from previous step>  jhfs+ "Macintosh HD"  100%

For example, drawing on the example in the previous step, you should enter a command similar to what is given below.

diskutil  coreStorage  createVolume  A8CEEF75-6839-4806-B799-97CF0CAABB7C  jhfs+  "Macintosh HD"  100%

  Note: Replace A8CEEF75-6839-4806-B799-97CF0CAABB7C with the UUID you determined in the previous step.

Quit the Terminal and use Time Machine to restore your files.

  Note: The OP has reported a complete verbatim restore works better than selectively restoring files.

Install High Sierra. Be sure to select that you what to keep your files.


Searching for lost .pem file in time machine back up I recently had to wipe my apple mac, and I have been using time machine to back up my mac. I would like to retrieve a specific file (a .pem file) which I use to log in to my Uni server.

I have tried all the usual ways to look for it.

Could someone please advise how I could find it? Or tell me if it would be saved by time machine at all??

To retrieve the .pem file you need to locate your backup folder and traverse its directory tree, since it has the exact same structure as what your OS had when it was being backed up.

Some files and directories might have a red sign in the bottom right of their thumbnail, which just means that you need to enable access rights, which can be done like this:

Select the file or directory with the red minus symbol.
Choose Get Info.
A new window will appear, make sure the bottom right lock is open (if closed, click on it).
Click on the + in the bottom left corner.
Another window will appear, find your account and double-click it.
Restore the bottom right lock to its former state (important for security).


Webcam not working after MacOS update to version 11.2.1 I have a 16 inch MacBook Pro. The webcam on it was working fine before the update. But since the update, when I open FaceTime, it shows I guess what is the first frame, and that's it - there's no video feed from the webcam, just a dark, static image of the first frame:

Has anyone else faced this issue? And how do I fix it? I tried restarting the system a couple of times, but that didn't fix the issue.

The webcam is working fine now. So, I want to note down what I did (although, it isn't much, and I'm not sure how or what exactly fixed the issue).
I stumbled across this post, asking a similar question. And I decided to follow along with the only answer in it. So, I shut down my mac, held down the D key, and switched on the mac. I kept holding the D key, and it booted a second time and went into recovery mode or something - it asked me to select a WiFi access point and enter its password. I got scared and clicked on the power button and restarted the system.
And that's it; when I open FaceTime now, it works fine. So, yeah, not sure what happened, but the issue seems to have been fixed somehow.


Is Time Machine sufficient in the case of a reformat? I installed OS X Server 4.0 on top of Yosemite and my VPN got hosed.  I've tried many things to fix the issue including attempted uninstall of OS X Server. Now I am going to re-install the OS.  In preparation for said install, I setup time machine for the first time.

Will time machine be able to restore files after a OS re-install or do I need to consider manually backing up files?  Second, will time machine restore the potentially broken part of my OS as well (considering I ran time machine after the fact)?

Time Machine will be able to restore all files.
Depending on what you want to restore, you may restore the whole partition or only single files or folders.
Setting up Time Machine you may choose which folders or files to exclude from the backup.

Here is an example of the Time Machine UI:

You may navigate with the Time Machine.app in your Time Machine backup similar like the Finder does on your Mac. You have a third dimension representing time though. If you click on the up arrow you'll move backwards in time. This is also indicated on the time scale on the bottom right side.

If you now want to restore just the blue Adobe folder highlight it and click "Restore" and it will be copied to your main volume overwriting any previous file/folder there.


Xcode Hangs at Startup Xcode fails to open on my machine - OS X 10.8.2. It opens the main screen and just hangs there with the spinner spinning becoming unresponsive. If I double click a project, it just hangs sating it is loading.
I tried:

Uninstalling and re-installing;
Removing my project tree;
Deleting some recommended preferences, most of which did not actually exist on my machine to begin with.

Things of note:

This is a new computer. The first time I ran Xcode, it opened fine, though I didn't try using it. The problem appeared when I first opened an existing project.
I created a new user on the machine. When that user is logged on Xcode loads successfully. Apparently it is a user settings issue.

Removing the ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState/directory might help as well.


Click a tab item in system settings using AppleScript in Automator? I'm trying to create a shortcut to start system preferences and open the sound settings in the "in" tab.

So far I have started system preferences and opend up the audio settings, maybe not in the most elegant way possible but for having started with applescript today I'm quite proud.

Anyways, currently this is my "code":

on run{input, parameters}

    activate application "System Preferences"
    delay 0.8
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Systeminställningar"
        tell menu bar item 4 of menu bar 1
            click
            click menu item "Ljud" of menu 1
        end tell
    end tell

    return input
end run

Bare in mind that my system is in Swedish so the "Systeminställningar" means "System Preferences" and "Ljud" means "Audio" and "Ljud in" means "Audio in"

Thanks in advance.

Update: Actually just a few minutes after I wrote this I figured out a way to do (new code):

on run{input, parameters}

    activate application "System Preferences"
    delay 0.8
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Systeminställningar"
        tell menu bar item 4 of menu bar 1
            click
            click menu item "Ljud" of menu 1
        end tell
        delay 1
        tell tab group 1 (*New code starts here*)
            click
            click radio button "Ljud in" of tab 1
        end tell
    end tell (*Ends here*)

    return input
end run

But I still would love some constructive criticism for how to do this better since I'm fairly certain that this is far from effective.

You can use the AppleScript command from the System Preferences application instead of the GUI scripting

tell application "System Preferences"
    -- open the audio pane and select the "Audio in" tab
    reveal anchor "input" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
    activate
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Systeminställningar"
    -- do something in "Ljud in" tab
end tell


Following Mavericks upgrade, Microsoft Word closes silently right after opening After the Mavericks upgrade, I'm seeing Microsoft Word close silently, no error message, about a second after opening. If I open a .docx file directly, the file displays during that one second, so it does seem to start up at least.

Following this tip on answers.microsoft.com, I disabled Microsoft Error Reporting.app, after which the Apple Crash Reporter opens when Word closes. So I guess there are two problems: Word crashes silently, and Microsoft Error Reporting (presumably set up to open instead of Apple Crash Reporter, for Microsoft apps, when enabled) crashes silently.

I used Word without problems shortly before upgrading, so this seems likely to be related to Mavericks.

This is Office:mac 2011, and Word version is 14.3.8.

PowerPoint and Excel open without problems.

This is not all that googleable — am I alone in this? Has somebody found a workaround?

Update:

Logging in as a guest on the same machine and opening Word, it doesn't crash. So this is probably triggered by something in my user profile.
The Apple Crash Report shows the main thread as having crashed on a SIGSEGV:

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000bff45000

VM Regions Near 0xbff45000:
    Stack                  00000000bf745000-00000000bff45000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=COW
-->
    CG shared images       00000000c0003000-00000000c000b000 [   32K] r--/r-- SM=SHM

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   y         0x012a1073 wdGetApplicationObject + 8790819
1   y         0x00790079 wdCommandDispatch + 1425369
2   ???       0x89fffffe 0 + 2315255806

I have several Machines which run MS Office 2011 perfectly fine with Mavericks. I would suspect some corrupt settings or cache is the reason for your problem. Try the following:

try moving the Folder "~/Documents/Microsoft-User Data" somewhere else (f.e. the Desktop) and try starting Word
try moving the folder "~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office" somewhere else (f.e. the Desktop) and try starting Word

In both cases the Folder will be recreated with default settings, so if Word starts without problem again you know the source of your problems. If not you can delete the newly created folders and replace them with your previous one.

Please try that and post some feedback.

Update by asker: removing the above folders didn't help ... but removing ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.Word.savedState did.


how to opn jnlp files automatically after download I need to open JNLP files automatically after download just like in windows how can I do that I'm using OS X Mavericks

You could try this

right click a jnlp file
chose "Open With"
select "Other"
navigate to "System", "Library", "CoreServices"
scroll the list and pick "Java Web Start" (you may need to chose "Enable All Applications" in order to make that choice possible.
tick the "Always Open With" box.

It is not recommended to have a generic set up to open files downloaded from the web.

But you can set up a exception.

Specify the Folder for the jnpl files download.

Then create a Folder action to

1- monitor for new files

2-open them


Recording iOS screen with gestures Is there any way (without using accessibility feature) to record mobile screen with gestures like taps?

I need to record how user is using my app and where exactly he taps.

I found solution with Assistive Touch and new adding new gesture.
But while recording we have additional annoying home button on the screen and also tap circle. This can distract person while using my app.

I am afraid that this is a technical limitation of the apple system.
But I hope I’m wrong.

Try this
http://www.uxrecorder.com/

I can‘t use it - not available in german store


How can I backup all of my files on a Mac? I want to backup all of the files on my Mac. That being said, I do NOT want to do a Time Machine style backup that includes my settings or anything like that. What should I do?

If you want easy, connect a drive, set up Time Machine and forget about trying to micro manage settings. It just runs.

If you really need to invest in a selective backup, I would still recommend Time Machine and it will have a 120 second count down before it starts the first copy. Turn off Time Machine so you have time to go in and configure exclusions for Time Machine.

Exclude System files and applications. (I always exclude those - not sure why that’s not the default other than people might not have good internet to download an installer if they need one.)
Exclude /Library (since you want settings to not be backed up)
Exclude ~/Library and any other folders in the home folder you wish to exclude

If you want to be thorough, show hidden files and also exclude /private - these two tips will help you quickly navigate in the open / select dialog:

How to show hidden files on mac without Terminal
How to change path in Finder by entering the path manually?

This way you get all the benefits of Time Machine like snapshots, local backups, second-disk backups with rotations possible to multiple destinations (third disk or more destinations are supported) and you can carefully control exactly what folders get backed up.

Once your exclusions are set, don’t forget to turn on Time Machine and let it run for the first backup. But really, I recommend backing up everything and not worrying. You’ll save a little space and time once if you exclude System Files so that’s worth it if you decide to do other pruning.


How do I change the default track in iTunes? When I press "play" on the keyboard, iTunes starts up and launches the very first song of the very first album. I like Amy Winehouse, but everyday might be too much.

How can I change that? Ideally, I'd like to have a random song from a specific playlist start.

iTunes starts playing what is currently selected. For me for instance the playlist selected was "Most recently added", so when I hit the play button on the keyboard, the first song from this list starts to play.

The only way I know of to solve your problem is to enable random play in iTunes.
This is easily done by clicking the snaked arrow button next to the cover image in the top view. If it's highlighted blue, random play is on.
Quitting iTunes and hitting the play button again will play a random song from the library.

Drawback: Whenever you changed that (because you don't want to have random play but want to listen to an album) you have to remind yourself to enable it again before closing it.

AFAIK there's no preference setting for that.


Is it possible to restore messages to an iPhone when they're backed up on a computer? I'd like to restore a series of deleted messages (a whole conversation) to an iPhone. The snag is - they're backed up on my computer but not on iCloud.

Is that possible at all?

You can restore the whole backup to your iPhone, which will obliterate/replace all of what is on your iPhone now with the contents of that backup. Unfortunately the restore is an all-or-nothing thing, and replaces all of what is on the iPhone now. Also a big caveat that if you use iCloud Messages syncing, then iCloud will just tell the iPhone to "re-delete" those messages from the phone again shortly after you restore it, since their deleted state is tracked in iCloud. (You can see if you use Messages syncing by going to Settings app > your name > iCloud, and see if the Messages switch is turned on.

Another alternative is to read the messages to your computer out of the backup where they're not deleted. This will at least give you access to the messages on your computer but not restored to the iPhone. There's a few programs to do this. One that I am a developer for is called Decipher TextMessage https://deciphertools.com/decipher-textmessage.html

Honesty disclaimer: I am a developer/owner of the company that I just linked to, so I stand to benefit, financially or otherwise, from my link. ;)


Time Machine failing no error I have periodically used my time machine for years now. The last time I backed up was November 2017 and I started to try and back it up last night and it took ages to "prepare" and started to back up, but then kept failing. When I click the red (i) symbol on my TimeMachine it just says

  Time Machine couldn't complete the back up.

There's no further answer as to why. I ran it a few times and noticed that it now says that the last successful backup was June 2015. So I don't know what happened to the other 2 years worth of backups. It was still saying last back up was November 2017 on previous failures yesterday.

How do I resolve this?

It sounds like you may need to dive into the logs to get some more info.

MacOS uses unified logging so the logs aren't stored in a specific file. In Terminal, this command should print all TimeMachine backup failure messages:

log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info | grep 'Backup failed'

However this cuts out quite a bit of information, so you may need to use the broader search:

log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info | grep 'Error'

Running this on my machine showed TimeMachine to be quite noisy so it may take some time to find something useful in the output especially if you have been running TimeMachine for a while

Post back here with any errors you find.


Dock - app name instead of icons? Is there a way to hide the icons in the dock and just show text of the app name instead?

I was curious about what you wanted, but you can't just have "Text" instead of icons, but you can have icons that are "text" :)

check out this link on how one user solved his issue.

http://arctictransfuse.deviantart.com/art/Gill-Sans-Text-Dock-Icons-154466636

the download link is over on the right side.

how to change your icons in OSX http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2493

i think this is what you were going after...


Installed gcc with Homebrew, now how to use that gcc instead of clang? I installed gcc with brew install gcc, but when I type gcc the default behavior is still to use clang.  How do I set things so that typing gcc in the terminal automatically uses the gcc installed by Homebrew?

First, examine your $PATH variable.
echo $PATH

The gcc from homebrew should reside in /usr/local/bin and when that is listed before the Xcode version of gcc/clang, you’re done - the local compilers will be called unless a package is hard coded to the full path of a different compiler than the one you have in /usr/local
If you change the PATH variable - be sure to log out of the shell or rehash the shell as appropriate.
This answer has an elegant solution using aliases as well - so you don't even have to think or care about path if you have more than one gcc installed. It goes deeper to let you choose which version of gcc to call if you happen to install more than one version.


Accessing Internet Recovery I have a late 2012 model iMac that I'm preparing to sell. I want to reset it to factory defaults, so Internet Recovery sounds perfect. However, Cmd + Option + R during boot does not work. For that matter, Cmd + R doesn't either. How can I enter Internet Recovery?

If you hold Option while booting, a screen will show up that gives you the option to boot into OSX or enter into Recovery (or boot into Windows, if you've installed bootcamp). This is Recovery option is the normal kind of recovery that will reinstall your current OS. This is not Internet Recovery.

However, on this screen, if you press Cmd + Option + R, this will boot into Internet Recovery.


How to remove unfinished Boot Camp Partition? When I tried to create a new partition using Boot Camp it suddenly crashed and my computer restarted. Apparently the partition was created because the 50GB I specified during creation are gone from my HDD but the partition never got registered. How can I remove the partition and begin from scratch?

One option is to boot from your Mac OS X Install CD and edit the partitions using the Disk Utility (found in the menu). This can be very handy for removing partitions that just won't die.


iOS how to read bluetoothd service logs in the console? I’m debugging a Bluetooth app on an iPhone. When I connect it via cable to a Mac, I see that Apple logs output from “bluetoothd” service in between my app’s output. The logs contain central/ peripheral events, incoming requests, rssi info, etc.
Where can I find documentation to understand what is happening with bluetoothd ata hardware level?
I’m looking for information like “this hen I see packet X, the connection state is Y”, or “this message means the device has reconnected to a service Z”

Apple does a good job in my opinion with bluetooth and debugging.

https://developer.apple.com/bluetooth/

Specifically, you can use the diagnostic profile to get excellent details and a step by step guide to setting things up to make it easier to understand what the codes mean.

https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/profiles-and-logs/?name=bluetooth

The bluetooth explorer is also far superior to trying to decode raw hex values in my experience. I try to avoid getting into the raw bytes / physical interface unless there’s no other option.


Can someone who's gained access to my iCloud account prevent me from receiving text messages? Can someone use my iCloud account to prevent me from receiving messages on my devices from specific people?

I can get calls from a particular person but no text messages for a few days now.

No.

iCloud has nothing to do with Text Messages (SMS).

iMessages are sent to all your devices, so even if someone was using your iCloud credentials, you would still receive the iMessages.


How to uninstall Xcode IDE without completely removing the dev tools I wanted to enable the developer libraries in Mac (RoR, Perl, gcc etc.) so I installed Xcode 3.2. I am only interested in these command-line tools and will not be using Xcode (or other GUI tools with Mac and iPhone developer bells and whistles that are part of the SDK) at all, as I generally like to use a text editor and the command line.

How do I remove just those IDE tools while still keeping my programming environment intact? I'd rather reclaim the disk space.

As of recent releases of Xcode 4 you can now get the command-line tools as a separate download and installer - it's a much smaller download too: http://developer.apple.com/downloads.

You'll want to uninstall an existing Xcode install with the command:

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

before installing the command-line only tools.


My iPhone front camera won't work (it freezes) I dropped my phone in the water and everything works, except my front facing camera. When I go to change from back to front, it freezes and won't let me go back to the back camera, and it's blurry.

Deleted Pinterest, suddenly works for me


How do you use small caps in Pages? I don't see any obvious options for small caps in Pages, either under styles or text formatting.  Do I need a special font, or does Pages have small caps capability at all?

Maybe this link to the documentation of Pages helps you out?

  Choose Format > Font > Capitalization and choose an option from the submenu.
  Choose Small Caps to change the text to smaller capitals with larger capitals for uppercase letters


Cannot not install application from App Store on macos mojave I am a new Mac user and have purchased a Mac Pro 5,1 running Mojave to learn the basics of macOSX.
After some initial difficulty, I have logged on to the mac, created an appleid, added payment details, signed on to the (Macosx) app store and itunes under mojave.
In the apple App store I selected to install two free apps I use under MS-Windows: Microsoft OneNote and OneDrive. There were a whole array of problems trying to install this way. However, I have now got to the point where app store shows these two applications as "Purchased" but they are not installed on the mac. I have several times tried to redownload the apps but they do not install and no install materials appear in the Download folder. There are no diagnostic / error messages indicating a problem - just no installing occurs.
I cannot find on the mac the apps I have "purchased" (they are free but marked as "purchased" in App Store) in either the Applications folder or in the Launcher. The way I can describe the behaviour it is like I have had my order for the OSX applications accepted by App Store but they haven't been delivered to my mac pro.
I have rebooted the macPro about 4 times and retried the "installation" and nothing installs and there are no error messages from App Store.
Any ideas as how to fix?
Separately - and maybe relevant or not -  I can install apps from outside the app store but cannot install apps from inside the app store. For example, I went to the OBS website, downloaded the install package, ran it, and OBS is now installed and running on the mac - easy.
Thanks.

I installed Catalina using the "Dosdude1 Catalina patcher". The Mac Pro 5,1 (ex 4,1) boots, is stable and I have successfully downloaded 3 software applications from App store. What an amazing achievement that patcher is.


Settings icon deleted accidentaly from iPod touch I was just walking around with my iPod Touch and touched the screen accidentally. The settings icon was deleted and I can't recover it. It's very weird because usually you can't delete default apps icons.

I can't find it in iTunes either (after connecting and sync iPod with iTunes)

I would prefer not to lose my current settings like bookmarks in Safari, mail settings...

The iPod is not jail broken and I would prefer not to jailbreak it.

Accessing the settings is enough. I don't really need the icon.

Thanks.

Are you certain you didn't just accidentally put it in a folder? It's impossible to delete, as you note.

You can determine if the app is still there by sliding springboard to the right until the spotlight search pane is revealed. Type "settings" and if the app is still installed it will appear in the search results; tapping on the result will launch it.

If it still shows up in spotlight then it's there on your device somewhere. The other possibility, if it's not in a folder or you're otherwise just missing it, is that all 11 springboard pages are full of app icons and you somehow accidentally moved your Settings app to the 12th page or beyond. In that case, group some apps into folders and, if necessary, sync with iTunes, at which time the icon will become visible again.


Scrolling or resizing windows are no longer smooth on my iMac Scrolling is no longer smooth on my iMac, neither is resizing windows by clicking the (+) button. This is happening just to my user, I created another user for testing, and everything was smooth with the new account.

I already restarted the computer, and already finished all running programs. Nothing works.

My iMac is mid 2011 i5 2.5 Ghz and 16GB RAM, running OS X Lion 10.7.4

Thanks for any help.

Sounds like something might be stealing all your processor cycles - run Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder) and see if anything stands out as the culprit.


How do I install a Bluetooth mouse with Boot Camp (Win10)? I'm trying to add a Bluetooth mouse to my Apple Macbook using Win10 on a BootCamp partition.

--I purchased the Logitech M557 Bluetooth mouse as it seemed to have a great record for robust installation.
--Mouse works great on my MacBook laptop with MacOS.
--Mouse works great on my HP desktop machine loaded with Windows 10.

I can NOT get the bluetooth system to successfully mate with the same mouse with Bootcamp / Windows 10 on the very same Macbook laptop.  I suspect that I need custom Windows bluetooth drivers for Bootcamp (which I presume should come from the Apple BootCamp folks...)

Via windows device manager, I've removed, added, updated drivers numerous times, all to no avail.  Now, the add bluetooth system sees the mouse, attempts to add it, but fails consistently at:

Bluetooth Mouse M557. Try connecting your device again.

I have no idea what is generating that code, but no matter what I try I get no where.

Anybody been here before?  Are there special Bluetooth drivers for Bootcamp / Windows?

Current driver info (as displayed in Bootcamp Windows)

Device Manager shows four BlueTooth Devices:
Bluetooth Radio
Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
Microsoft Bluetooth LE Enumerator
Microsoft Bluetooth Protocol Support Driver

Bluetooth Radio:
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097 (Serial HCI Bus - Bluetooth Function)
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\BthMini.SYS     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
            C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\bthport.sys     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\bthenum.sys     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
Microsoft Bluetooth LE Enumerator
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\Microsoft.Bluetooth.Legacy.LEEnumerator.sys     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
Microsoft Bluetooth Protocol Support Driver:
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\bthl2cap.sys        File Version: 10.0.16299.15

Try to update your Bluetooth drivers through Intel's website. They do have drivers that you can download.


Cannot log in with Apple ID after performing password reset My wife forgot the password to her Apple ID account. Her Macbook Air (OS X Yosemite) restarted to install some updates. She has her user account set up through her Apple ID account.

Since she forgot the password she reset it from my laptop.

She can log in to iCloud and Apple ID with the new password, but cannot log in with the new password on the Air.

When she tries to log in she is greeted with this message:

  "This account uses an iCloud password to log in. If you need to change
  the password, use another device to change it at appleid.apple.com."

To anyone still needing help, this is what was done to fix this issue.

If you reset your iCloud email and password online that does not update your icloud account on your computer with the new email address.

You need to login to your iCloud account online and set your primary email back to the original one (your computer is still using this email) reset the password if you would like.
Now restart your computer and you should be able to log back in.
Once you are logged in, go back to iCloud website and change back to your new email.
Before you log off your computer go to Setting>iCloud and remove the old iCloud account and add the new iCloud account.

That should be all you need to do.
Now your computer is using the new email and you should be able to login using your new password.


Does the Mac support multitouch screens in any way? I love using touch with Windows 7 and 8. Especially on Windows 8, the touchscreen finally feels like it's respected just as much as the keyboard and mouse.

So, naturally, I'd want to carry this experience over to the Mac. I've used a Macbook/MBP trackpad, but those aren't the same. They are not nearly as large and usable as a full touchscreen.

So: Does the Mac support touch screens in any way?

One way to get something close, is to use your iPad as a secondary display to your Mac.  In this way you are able to extend your normal desktop onto the iPad and input using touch.

See this answer on a different question for more details


Command + Delete (Move to Trash) command doesn't work I have this problem for a long time, and I don't know how to fix it. When I press Command + Delete key sequence, it doesn't work.

When I use the key sequence, I hear a beep.

It was working before I reinstalled macOS, but now it isn't. I can see the shortcut in menu, but I cannot use it via keyboard.

Check System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts to see if command-Delete was remapped to something, or to use Restore Defaults.


iTunes & Radio Section with AppleScript I have an HomePod and I want to listen Radio in iTunes on morning. So far it's not possible to set an alarm using a playlist or a radio in the HomePod settings.

So I decided to use iTunes on my Mac applescript in calendar (to launch it every day).

I found a way to target the HomePod using this command in AppleScript :

tell Application "iTunes"
 set current Airplay devices to Airplay device "kitchen"
End tell

My problem is the radio. There is a Radio section in iTunes where you can find Beats 1 but other radios selected by Apple. I want to play one of this radio.

I try many ways but couldn't find a nice way to do it...

I tried :

 play track myRadio of playlist myRadio

or
    source myRadio"
    play myRadio

Nothing work.. I would like to know how to access the Radio section in iTunes. Which is a spacial kind of section.

I found away to do it but It's not reliable :

open url (and use the radio Url from iTunes)

Using the script I was able to get the object's information :

 get name of current track
 --> "Name of currently payed track iTunes selected"
 get name of current playlist
 --> "Name of my radio station"

Thanks

Try this:

open location "itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/station/listen-in-apple-music/idra.686227433?cmd=AddStation"


Can the default contact store for Mountain Lion be iCloud? I'm struggling to manage duplicate contacts and would like to entirely and permanently disable the "On My Mac" category for contacts.

I never, ever want a contact to be added to a Mac and not be stored in iCloud.

Have I missed a setup step since I'm ending up missing contacts on my iOS devices when my Mac decides to store things locally instead of globally.

You missed a step when setting up iCloud.

On each Mac, you can set the default account to be iCloud in the general preferences.

Now, you'll need a short clean up to migrate all your incorrectly filed contacts.

Select Accounts and temporarily disable each iCloud / Exchange / online account.
Then export all the "On My Mac" contacts to a vCard file and delete them (you have a backup of your Mac and if paranoid, a full export of all contacts before you delete things, no?)
Once things are clean, enable the default account, check that it's set like above, and drag the contacts onto the "All bike@whatever"

Import all the contacts, even if there are duplicates as you can then have Contacts look for duplicates and merge / update existing contacts as needed.
Once you've deleted all contacts from On My Mac and deselected it as the default, Contacts should hide that group from view and simplify your contacts going forward.
At this point, optionally enable other cloud contact sources and re-verify the default account.


Launch iTunes and iPhoto when external USB drive is connected Is there a code that I can just copy an paste into Terminal or Automator? If not what is the best Application to download?

You can do that very easily using ControlPlane, a free (open-source) application:

  ControlPlane, a fork of MarcoPolo, brings context and location sensitive awareness to OS X. With ControlPlane you can intelligently reconfigure your Mac or perform any number of actions based on input from a wide variety of evidence sources [...]

from: https://github.com/dustinrue/ControlPlane

It's very easy to set-up. You define a "context", select a rule (or multiple rules):

And link an action to it:


Handoff and Instant Hotspot with El Capitan on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)? after upgrade to El Capitan, I don't get Instant Hotspot and Handoff to work (I am particularly interested in the possibility to make phone calls using my iPhone 5 from my Mac). It was working on Yosemite.

Now I saw on Apple Support that info about the compatibility:

  Handoff and Instant Hotspot

  Handoff and Instant Hotspot are supported by the following Mac models,
  and require OS X Yosemite:

MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later)
MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
iMac (Late 2012 and later)
Mac mini (Late 2012 and later)
Mac Pro (Late 2013)

Now I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) and it does not seem to be mentioned here.

My Question: can I use Handoff and Instant Hotspot with my MacBook Pro Retina?

Becauese I can't seem to be able to set it up (enabled in System Preferences -> General -> Allow Handoff is enabled) in FaceTime.

Turn off Bluetooth on your Mac
Delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
Turn Bluetooth back on


Why is kernel_task using so much CPU? I have a Macbook Pro Retina with the following hardware:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed:    2.4 GHz
Number of Processors:   1
Total Number of Cores:  2
L2 Cache (per Core):    256 KB
L3 Cache:   3 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Boot ROM Version:   MBP111.0138.B15

I recently updated to OS X El Capitan; I have had the same problem occur to me twice now and it's getting me mildly concerned.

I randomly have CPU usage spikes from kernel_task, the highest of which I have seen was 660% CPU. This is frankly an unacceptable and unnatural setting for my CPU (I typically have a total usage of about 2-3%). The highest I've screenshot is this:

The first time, I did not record what I had open. The next time, however, I was ready, and this is the exact list of what I had open:

Two YouTube video pages (using the processes Safari Networking with a max of about 44% CPU, typically stabilized at 8-10% and https://www.youtube.com, which got to around 51% CPU max, typically around 10-12%)
Messenger. Doubtful that this had an effect, but, hey, you never know.
Skype. This dude was running at a consistent 50% CPU usage.

It is worth noting that I had to close both YouTube windows to actually gain enough control of my computer to open Activity Monitor. None of the aforementioned processes were spiking, just kernel_task.

Also worth noting is my fans - the fans were on maximum, blowing cold air. Even though kernel_task was spinning at 660% CPU, there was no actual heat being produced, as far as I could see.

It's at this point where I force shut down the computer - I had about .5 frames per second (1 frame every 2 seconds, was looking at the clock) and was getting nowhere when it came to even attempting to fix it.

If there is a bug related to this that I have missed, or some wacky thing with OS X in general that I'm missing, please let me know, as this is extremely frustrating and more than a little disturbing.

You have classic symptoms that thermal issues are causing kernel task to preemptively use up CPU to prevent overheating. If you haven't reset the SMC, try that one time. If the System Management Controller is actually stuck, the response to changing thermal measurements might lag or leave blowers on higher than they should be.

kernel_task hundreds of % CPU yet cpu frequency is being lowered
CPU usage is too high with Yosemite and an external monitor
kernel_task consumes 500% CPU on AC power, sometimes
MBP early '11 kernel_task over 300% when unplugged
MacBookAir kernel_task at 300% and rising

The answers above all point to things you can do to measure swap, processes, etc... but focus on thermal sensors (hardware issue) or external temperature (environment) which you can cool artificially to remove the slow down that's designed to manage heat.

If you can't measure the case temperature accurately with an infrared thermometer, try software like https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ to check on the individual temp sensors and correlate them with the "spikes in CPU usage" by kernel_task. Also, resetting the SMC one time might be worth your while. If it's stuck, the response to changing thermal measurements might lag or leave blowers on higher than they should be.


Can I work on iMovie online?: ie upload a library to googledrive or etc and work on it from any Mac? I will be traveling without my Mac, but need to continue my editing. Can I edit using iMovie online? I would want to upload an entire (huge) library to googledrive or etc and work on it from any Mac, maybe in a desktop-rental place.
If that is not possible: can I save a project online and then download it to use in my library?
For example, I would take along a Mac, but I don't want to chance losing the edited versions if the Mac and any external HDs I bring along are stolen/damaged. If I don't need to import new events (nor move events, nor projects from event to event) while editing, can I save the newly-edited projects online somehow, so that even if all is stolen I can have the edited project back when I return home and re-connect any Mac to the backup HD with the iMovie library on it, so that iMovie will load with the project I had edited while travelling?

I'd recommend Dropbox. You'd be able to edit files locally with Dropbox, and then it would handle syncing them to the cloud. You'd just have to make sure you left your computer on long enough to allow it to finish syncing after you made changes.

I'm unsure if Google Drive works the same way - but I use Dropbox for something very similar to your scenario and it works great. I can edit files at home or at the office, and they sync across so I don't have to worry about transporting things back and forth.


Why does opening an email from Sent mailbox not show the complete thread it belongs to in iOS Mail app? I have an email account configured via IMAP in iOS Mail app, with
the Organize by Thread and Complete Threads toggles both turned
on in Mail settings.
Thanks to the latter, when I open an email from the Inbox or Archive
mailboxes, it is shown in the context of its thread, with the preceding
and following emails also being shown above and below the opened one.
However, when I open an email from the Sent mailbox, the thread view
does not activate, and only that singular email is displayed.
Is there a technical reason why Sent is being treated differently
from Inbox and Archive in regards to threading? Is it possible to
enable the thread view for emails opened from Sent, as well?
From my experience, this behavior persists both on iOS 13 and 14.
(Perhaps it dates all the way back to the introduction of the thread
view in Mail?) And, as far as I can tell, it does not seem to be
specific to the email provider.
Unlike iOS, in Mail.app on macOS, viewing an email from the Sent
mailbox does show the full thread it belongs to.

You are correct, the sent mailbox behaves differently than all the others in my testing with iCloud and O365 and Fastmail IMAP.
I wouldn’t presume to speak for Apple when they decided how to implement those switches, but their intent is very clear and easy to reproduce. Perhaps someone familiar with IMAP standards or other mail clients can see if this is typical for sent to be strictly ordered by time or that was just one team’s decision when they coded the app.
I see no configuration profile or setting to make sent work like inbox with respect to threaded treatment of mails.


Why can’t one develop apps on a mobile platform? I would like to try to create iPhone apps on an actual iPhone. Why isn’t this supported by Apple?

I suspect this will be considered off-topic for the site, but nevertheless…

As it currently exists, Xcode is completely incompatible with iOS. Presumably at some in the future there will be some way to develop at least with Swift on iOS.

The only real answer is, of course, that no one who knows the answer to this can or will say, so there can be no real answer to this other than "Xcode doesn't run on iOS" which doesn't explain why Apple hasn't made it possible to develop for iOS on iOS before now.


Contacts missing when trying to send iMessage For new message, when I type next to "to", very few of my contacts show up even though I have been texting them for years??? Only their emails are showing up for the majority. Randomly, a few contacts will have a mobile number I can pick to message. Some contacts don't show up at all even though they are marked as "favorites"--all very bizarre. Sending a group text is next to impossible because none of my contacts mobile numbers are showing up.

Also would help to know if this specific device is the same one that's been in use for "years", and whether you've been icloud synching your contacts or not.

I think there’s a simple solution - create an actual Contact for them.


What is the "keep alive taking too long to send" error indicating? Since yesterday I am encountering WiFi drop outs with my Airport Express.
I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and have a 1st generation A1264 Airport Express.

The drop outs are mainly noticeable as the music over Airplay is interrupted.
In the console I see the following error that repeats itself every drop out:

13/11/16 3:01:51.527 PM coreaudiod[274]: 2016-11-13 03:01:51.527435 PM [AirPlay] ### Keep alive taking too long to send (5 seconds)
13/11/16 3:01:55.136 PM coreaudiod[274]: 2016-11-13 03:01:55.135959 PM [AirPlay] *** Sent futile retransmit to 10.0.1.1:6001 for seq 31771, latest 32840 (1 total)
13/11/16 3:01:55.138 PM coreaudiod[274]: 2016-11-13 03:01:55.137672 PM [AirPlay] *** Sent futile retransmit to 10.0.1.1:6001 for seq 31772, latest 32840 (2 total)
13/11/16 3:01:55.138 PM coreaudiod[274]: 2016-11-13 03:01:55.138033 PM [AirPlay] *** Sent futile retransmit to 10.0.1.1:6001 for seq 31773, latest 32840 (3 total)

I have restarted my laptop and my Airport Express, but the errors keep appearing.

When I monitor the throughput of my WiFi signal I see the following (screenshot shows 2 drop outs):

What might be causing this issue? And how can I diagnose this further?

I have "solved" the issue by factory resetting my Airport Express.
This does seem a bit of a sledgehammer approach, so everyone is still welcome to post a real solution.


Apple Care + Diagnostics Does anyone know what's involved with the diagnostic test for iPhone for the Apple Care+? I'm thinking about getting it, but I want to know what's involved.

They just send a code in form of a text to your phone, you accept the code and send it back. That's all.


Why is iTunes unable to recognize the content on my iPhone during sync? When iTunes mounts my iPhone (this has also happened with my iPad), it's unable to recognize any of the content on the phone, so any changes to what it should sync are added on top of everything that it lumps into the "other" category, as if it doesn't recognize the data that's already on the device.

What's going on, and how do I fix it? I'd like to sync my phone without iTunes forgetting everything that's on it every time.

Screencap: All usage is "other", even though it's definitely not.

Screencap: Audio accounts for 4.9GB of its usage anyway – it seems like it just doesn't recognize the audio that's already on the device.

If you previously tried to sync your iTunes with your iPhone but the sync did not effectuate until the end (failed or incomplete sync) this could have corrupted your iPhone Library file which contains all the listings of your iPhone media tracks/playlists, etc.

iTunes sync would first deal with this file deleting and then updating it after which it will add/remove tracks physically on your device. If a previous iTunes sync failed to execute correctly or was interrupted, iTunes would have deleted or corrupted your iPhone Library file while keeping the tracks physically on your iPhone. An iTunes sync could fail due to many reasons - USB cable damaged, USB slot on computer or device damaged, manual abrupt unplug, etc.

This would result in iTunes failing to see your iPhone tracks the next time you connect your iPhone since iTunes used the iPhone library file solely to recognize the content on your iPhone.

On your iPhone, on the other hand, you could continue seeing and be able to play the tracks normally.

If you have all of your iTunes tracks already loaded in your iTunes library, simply reset your iPhone to factory settings via iTunes and let iTunes fully sync with your iPhone. This will sort the issue out.


How to move this window? I just updated Filezilla, but now it moved strangely out of the screen bounds. CF screenshot.

I haven't found any way to make it appear entirely: the upper bar is unreachable and the app edges can only resize it! Anyone knows?

Thanks.

Quit Filezilla, go to ~/.filezilla/ and open filezilla.xml with a text editor. Search for name="Window position and size", enter appropriate values and save the file.
On my 1200p x 1920p monitor it looks like this: <Setting name="Window position and size" type="string">0 10 33 1463 920 </Setting>

(I don't know what the leading 0 means but 10 is the distance to the left, 33 is the distance to the top, 1463 is the x-size and 920 probably should be the y-size of the window; my real y-size was about 1045)


Can't sync contact & calendar to iOS 4.1 device since Mavericks update I just installed Mavericks. I have an old iPhone 3GS and it is running iOS 4.1.

Since updating to Mavericks, iTunes syncs everything but Address Book and Calendar, however under OS X 10.8 everything was syncing fine.

Do I need to do something special to make it sync above things?
Am I the only one with the issue?

Additional information: It seems like there is no option in iTunes for contacts and calendar synchronization either. It is like it just disappeared.

In order to sync contacts and calender, you have to use iCloud now.

With iTunes 11.1.2 and OS X Mavericks they(Apple) disabled the option to sync locally according this Document.

  Note:   These instructions apply only if you use OS X v.10.8.5 or earlier. If you use OS X Mavericks v.10.9 or later, your contacts, calendars, and other info are updated on your computers and iOS devices via iCloud. For more information, see iCloud Help at icloud.com.


How to prevent app from auto starting I know there are Login Items under Users & Groups and /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons under Library, System/Library and Users/FooUser/Library. And then there's right click on Dock icon -> Options -> Open at Login.

What other methods are there for apps to auto-start? The reason why I'm asking is because the Spotify App (downloaded from http://www.spotify.com) keeps starting up whenever I restart my Mac, even though I made sure there is no corresponding entry in any of the above mentioned places.

There are two places for LaunchAgents to be called from:

/Library/LaunchAgents - this launches a process at login for every user
~/Library/LaunchAgents - this launches a process at login for a specific user.

The Spotify startup plist is found in the latter; the com.spotify.webhelper.plist allows you to open Spotify via the web.

Issue the command launchctl list | grep -i spotify and you should find (up to) two plists that are loaded:

$ launchctl list | grep spotify
-       0   com.spotify.client.startuphelper
9087    0   com.spotify.webhelper

To unload them, you can uncheck the option in Advanced Settings
 (Command,)

Or...

You can issue the command:

$ launchctl unload com.spotify.client.startuphelper.plist


Using `say` to create my own audiobooks I like the idea of being able to select a bunch of text and have it saved as an audio file and/or simply read back to me using OS X's default say functionality. It's almost like I can create my own instant personal audiobooks anytime I like. The problem is; the default voices, and more specifically, the robotic speech patterns, can get become quite unbearable to listen to. Is there a solution or an alternative available to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance.

Optional Voices in OS X

OS X includes support for numerous languages, take a look at the Other Languages section of Speaking with a French accent – OS X say. The optional voices include alternative English speakers:

  To discover the full list of voices and associated languages:

  Open System Preferences.app
  Select Dictation & Speech
  Select System Voice > Customize…

Customising Synthesised Speech

Apple's development documentation includes Techniques for Customizing Synthesized Speech. This is a technical document aimed at developers but it includes a section on Use Embedded Speech Commands to Fine-Tune Spoken Output that offers a way to embed additional statements within your text that influence the synthesised voice.

Cepstral: Buy Professional Voices

You can also purchase additional voices for use with OS X. Voices are available from Cepstral:

  CereVoice text-to-speech is available for Apple Mac OS X, bringing CereProc's high-quality voices to computers running Apple's OS X: 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite and 10.11 El Capitan (Intel Macs only). CereVoice can replace the default Mac voices with a wide range of other accents and languages.


Clean tag shows in iTunes app but not in Music app - iPhone 6, iOS8 Edit: I do in fact see a [E] tag for explicit songs downloaded from iTunes, but as the title states, I want to see a [C] tag for clean songs downloaded from iTunes.

I have edited some song meta data using mp3tag to make the [Clean] tag show up in iTunes. This worked perfectly, but after syncing the songs to my iPhone, the tag does not show up in the Music app.

I figured it was an issue with how I added the tag, but then today I downloaded one of the free songs of the week, which displays a [C] in the iTunes app on my phone. I downloaded it and went to it in the Music app, but it does not show the [C] tag in any playlist, in the song tab, or in the Artist tab (navigating to the song on that tab). It also does not show a [C] or [Clean] on the Now Playing screen.

How do I get the tag to show up in the Music app? Or does the Music app simply not show the [Clean] tags (and only shows the [Explicit] tags)?

Going along with Stuart H's comment, I believe the music app for iOS only looks for explicit tags on a song because they can be used for setting restrictions on the device, clean tags are unnecessary because the songs are considered to be clean unless an explicit tag is found. So having a tag for every song would be pretty useless and clutter up the UI.


How to completely remove Garage Band from macOS? I have GarageBand taking 2.46 GB space on my system even after I deleted the app. Couldn't find any other files when searched via spotlight.

Is there any way to find these files and remove them?

On a fresh install of Sierra 10.12.2, the GarageBand files are:

/Applications/GarageBand

/Library/Application Support/GarageBand

/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for GarageBand

/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.GarageBand_AppStore.bom

/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.GarageBand_AppStore.plist

/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0325_AppleLoopsGarageBand1.bom

/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0325_AppleLoopsGarageBand1.plist

~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.STMExtension.GarageBand

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.STMExtension.GarageBand

Delete those and you should be GarageBand free.

Notes:

You might want consider also removing /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple and /Library/Application Support/Logic (those loops aren't GarageBand-specific — Logic Pro uses them, for example).
If you're comfortable with the command line, you can delete this list programmatically. I recommend using the tool trash. First copy the above list and save it in a new file. Then run

xargs trash <pathtothefile

For example if you save the list on your Desktop as garageband-files-to-delete.txt, you'd run

xargs trash <~/desktop/garageband-files-to-delete.txt

(this may require sudo. you could also use rm -rf instead of trash, but that's dangerous).


iTunes 10.3 thinks it's a version below? No ping, locked out from iphone sync my iTunes thinks it's a version below for some reason

I have 10.3 installed (Finder says so, iTunes > About says so) but when I try go into ping it gives me the "See what you're missing, upgrade to 10.3" message - I hadn't worried about this too much before but I just updated my iPhone to the OS 5 beta and now iTunes is not letting me sync at all leaving me with a fairly useless and unsyncable iPhone and crippled iTunes.

I have tried re-installing iTunes (Yes I even deleted all the preference files) I have tried iTunes on another account on my macbook and it gives the same error.

Please help, I need to sync my iPhone!

Here is a screenshot of the Ping message: http://cl.ly/470n472Q2C442b2k0w3Z

Screenshot of the iphone sync message: http://cl.ly/0s3Z1q2g2Y0a29280V0W

Thanks

You're in troubles. :(

How you updated your iphone to IOS5-beta without iTunes 10.5? Asking because iTunes 10.5 is only for developers now.

from the: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/06/apple_says_devices_updated_to_ios_5_beta_cant_be_restored_to_earlier_versions.html

In releasing several pieces of pre-release software -- iTunes 10.5, Apple TV 2 beta, Xcode 4.2 Preview and Lion Preview 4 -- to its developer community, Apple on Monday warned testers of its new iOS 5.0 software that any devices updated to the beta cannot be reverted or downgraded to previous versions.

You need iTunes 10.5 - developer release yet - whats mean register yourself as developer for 99USD/year.


OSX - find out what starts a process I am trying to find out what starts the Autodesk service "AdSSO-v2", which starts together with AutoCAD on my Mac.

(I would like to deactivate it because it drains my battery with average CPU usage of 10% but it does not seem to be required to run the actual AutoCAD process)

I can find the process:

launchctl list |grep -i adsso
1102    0   com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x1000000e.AdSSO-v2

But I can't find any Autodesk or Adsso-v2 plist anywhere in

  ~/Library/LaunchAgents
  /Library/LaunchAgents
  /Library/LaunchDaemons
  /Library/StartupItems
  /System/Library/LaunchAgents
  /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

What else could I do to find what launches the process?

Any hint wold be appreciated. Maybe there is a way?

Greetings, Chris

You could try Activity Monitor located in the Utilities folder.
Select View > All Processes then filter on AdSSO-v2. When you found it, select it then click the Info button (or ⌘-I). In the window that pops up select the third tab. (Open files and ports). You will see a list of files and where they are located. The culprit may be in that list.

If that doesn't work try selecting Autocad and do the same.


Cannot update to XCode 6.0.1 When I press update or update all buttons in app store on my OS X it shows a loading animation and does nothing. Before this it was asking for more space. I have freed a space and now it is 8.88Gb available. That should be enough right?

That should be enough space. Try downloading Xcode from the Apple Developer Downloads section. You may have more luck there.


Will I still receive push notifications if I remove an app? If I download an app on my iPhone and it automatically appears on my iPad and I delete it from my iPad that means no notifications should pop up on my iPad anymore because I deleted it - even if I use it on my iPhone, correct?

That is correct—the device won't be delivered notifications if you remove the app.


Automatically move messages to a mailbox in Mail.app This in on macOS 10.15.3, Mail.app version 13.0.

I often receive marketing emails, or order updates from an online purchase, etc. which I move into different mailboxes in Mail.app. Over time, Mail.app learns which mailbox I usually move these kind of messages to. In my MacBook Pro 15" with touch bar, it even shows a 'Move to "SOME MAILBOX"' icon on the touch bar. On other messages which I usually leave in the inbox, it merely shows 'Move to...' without suggesting a mailbox.

Is there a way to make Mail.app automatically move these messages when they're received to the suggested mailbox, without having to manually press this icon in the touch bar?

Note: I know there's a conventional "Rules" tab in Preferences, as well as the Gmail filters feature (all my emails use Gmail). Once upon a time I had enough patience to try to set up these rules for specific senders, etc. Unfortunately, over time, these rules get obsolete as senders change the email they're sending from, and the rules need updating. It's just too much hassle so I've given up on this route. Mail.app does a great job of classifying emails with the feature mentioned above, all I'm looking for is a way to automate the process.

If you have a Gmail account, try going to gmail.com and making the specific senders go to a new folder. This should sync and do it on the Mail app to. I am not aware of any method to make it go to a new inbox.


Visibility Issues with Mail and iCal in OS X Lion I recently installed Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.3) on my early 2008 MacBook. I know many of the color changing options in Mail and iCal have been taken away (probably due to app syncing or Cocoa issues). I can live with this as long as the result is legible.

In Mail, the list of Mailboxes is listed in a light blue color, with black letters which turn a transparent white or silver when selected - difficult to read. My work-around has been to list my more frequently used Mailboxes in the toolbar, but I have too many Mailboxes to put them all up there. Any suggestions?

In iCal, I can live with all of the ugly artificial leather stuff, but my main issue is the definition between dates and days in each view (Day, Week, or Month) is so light it is almost invisible. Only when an entry is made is the data legible but the times and dates above and below are not. Again, any suggestions? Do I need to upgrade my laptop to get a higher resolution?

It seems like the contrast on your display is too low for you. If you can adjust the contrast on your monitor, try increasing it. If you cannot change the contrast (such as the internal laptop displays), fuss around in the color calibration utility (go to System Preferences > Displays > choose the window on the monitor you want to change > Color tab > Calibrate… and follow the instructions). Make sure Mail and iCal are visible behind the calibration window so you can see if your changes are sufficient. I'd suggest using Expert Mode and paying especial attention to the vertical sliders on the left.

To answer your final question regarding resolution, upgrading to a higher-res machine would not help. Apple's machines are usually fairly standardly calibrated from the factory, so a higher resolution would simply make the pixels smaller, not easier to distinguish, and might even make things worse.


How can I share a single page of the pdf or other documents in iOS? From time to time I need to share a single page from a pdf on iPhone or iPad into some chat in a fast way.
The shared page is supposed to be printed, so it should be of good quality.
I open pdf's from the "Files" app in a standard viewer.
The fastest way I know is to take a screenshot and remove black borders, but the resulted image has pretty poor quality.
There are many tools which can split pdf into parts, but it is way too long operation when you need to share a page on a call.
I believe there should be some fast way of one-page sharing similar to printing only the range of pages.

The trick with "Print" on iOS

On opened document click Share -> Print
In Printer Options select Range and choose pages you need to share
Now you need to scroll pages carousel to the chosen pages (this part is most annoying when you have 10+ pages, and the hell for 100+)
Pinch out one of the chosen pages (you can't pinch unchosen pages, this is why you should scroll to the first chosen one)
You will see another preview screen with only chosen pages with the Share button
Now you can share these pages wherever you want

pros: shares one or multiple pages in original quality
cons: pretty tricky for big documents


Effective power text message my brother sent my friend an effective power message and his phone turned off completely. His phone doesn't work at all and supposedly it's on "boot loop" where the screen only shows the apple logo and it is staying like that. Any ideas on how to fix his phone?

You can try hard rebooting the device. Hold the power button and the home button for 10 seconds or longer. If you phone does not have certain buttons ie force touch home button/ iphone X please use this article to figure out how to hard reboot your phone.

If you cannot break out of the boot loop and you cannot hard restart your phone, take it in to an apple specialist and if it is an issue with the Operating system they will certainly help you fix it.


Double tap to drag no longer works I used to have the double-tap-to-drag working, where I would tap the trackpad, let go, then tap-and-hold and it would begin dragging.

I temporarily disabled the Tap to click setting in System Preferences, and now after I reenabled it, I no longer have double-tap-to-drag. Tap to click does work, it's just the dragging that no longer works. I don't see any setting to enable double-tap-to-drag. Is it automatically supposed to work when Tap to click is enabled?

I've tried it with Three finger drag both enabled and disabled, but nothing works.

Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options… and check “Enable dragging”.


Unexplainable large number of cycles of MacBook Battery My battery is a year old, but it has 189 cycles. Why is this? I always use my MacBook with the charger plugged in and very rarely without the charger.

I disagree with the previous answer. The Apple battery is designed to be discharged infrequently, for instance around once a week - this is how to get optimal life out of it (see here) - you can safely operate it on charge for about a week before needing a discharge. Provided you exercise the battery occasionally, it'll be fine.

Also, the battery does not cycle when it is on charge - Matt Love is incorrect. A cycle is defined as the battery dropping below 50% and returning above it - which doesn't happen when running from a charger. Approximately one cycle a week will give you optimal longevity before replacement. My battery is a little over two years old, and on 1-3 cycles a week I still get 80-85% of the original battery life out of it.

Letting it die down as often as possible will not improve longevity - this is a common misconception but in the case of Lithium Ion batteries, more cycles = less life.


Calendar setting on my iphone 5s How do I set up my iphone 5s so that it shows all my calenders (home and office) but does not put my home calendar entries on my calendar at my office?

You can set a default calendar for new entries added on your iPhone.

To do so on your iPhone, go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Default Calendar (at the very bottom). There, choose your Home calendar and all new entries will be added to that calendar by default.