iCloud storage recovery not deleting photo albums Can I delete camera  roll and free up iCloud storage without deleting photos in my albums ?

No. The camera roll is and is not just another album. Delete that and you delete all your photos, (though I don't believe it can be deleted), but I believe the albums will remain and be empty. Albums don't store extra copies of photos. When you create albums, these aren't filled with distinct copies of photos, but something similar to aliases or links — at least conceptually. Conversly, Deleting photos from albums does not actually delete the photos from your camera role. You have to delete photos by deleting the photos from your camera role. Albums don't really take up any space, or a very tiny amount of space... maybe dozens of kilobytes. Once an album is empty, it can be deleted.

On your iPhone, under Settings app/iCloud page, turn off photo syncing. Because there is no way to access iCloud other than in the background autosyncing, this should erase your photos from iCloud and leave them on your iPhone.

If you don't have your own computer, buy a largeish usb thumb drive and find a friend with a Mac and have her download iExplorer, connect your iPhone to her Mac with a sync cable, and have her transfer your photos to the usb thumb drive for you. Alternatively, if you have an iPhone 5, the Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader (or usb version w/usb thumb)and a decent sized SD Card, 32-128GB, and a thumb-sized usb SD Card Reader for good measure. Use this combination to connect the SD Card to your iPhone and transfer your Photos to your SD Card periodically, to back them up or free up space on your iPhone. SD Cards are more expensive than USB thumb drives, but the advantage is the data is far more "durable," as these cards are water-proof and nearly indestructable, while usb thumb drives are notoriously unreliable afa massive data corruption.

Apple's Camera Connection Kit was not fully compatible with iPhone 4, but I am seeing evidence that the new lightning camera adapters are compatible with iPhone 5. If anyone knows otherwise, please comment.


"Glitched" pixels, El Capitan, formula box in numbers Today I installed El Capitan on my Macbook Pro and noticed some weird graphical effects when I was editing my numbers document:

I know that this is entirely software-related, otherwise the screen shot tool couldn't have captured it, and it turns on and off randomly, with mouse-overs and hovers.

Does anyone know a possible cause and fix of this?

My Macbook:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
OSX El Capitan Version 10.11

My Display:

Built-in Display
15.4-inch (2880 x 1800)
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

Well, it doesn't happen to me anymore so if anyone else is having this problem I'd recommend:

restarting your computer (I did this)
Updating your OS (I am updating every time as soon as a new update comes out)


Ubuntu on iMac: graphics I have just got a new iMac 14.3 with 21.5″ display. It has Intel i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT750M graphics card with GPU (Device ID: 0x00fe9). I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on it (dual boot with refit). Everything works fine apart from graphics. It is clear that graphics' not accelerated. I have tried to…

Install NVIDIA drivers from the repository.
Download NVIDIA drivers and install them manually.
Follow instructions here.
Follow instructions here.
Follow instructions here.
Install bumblebee.
Play around with xorg.conf file.
Blacklist nouveau.

As you may guess, nothing worked. The weirdest thing is, that when I boot from a LiveCD, it picks up screen resolution and all the rest correctly, though when I install the system to my Hard Drive it clearly does not have proper drivers. I have checked it with lsmod and it seems that it pick up nouveau drivers in LiveCD mode — everything works fine then, but it does not in the install mode — get crap resolution. Also, I cannot load nouveau drivers manually. In case this is important, I have to boot with acpi=off option, as it does not boot otherwise. Does anyone have any suggestion how can I fix this graphics problem?

The solution is actually very simple: just boot with nolapic instead of acpi=off.


Disabling startup items that run despite being unchecked on the "login items" list I have a number of (background) programs that startup automatically on login even though they have been disabled (unchecked) on the Login Items pane of the Users & Groups System Preferences. Examples include DropBox, ChronoSync Backgrounder, and Boingo.

Q: How can I disable/control these login items that don't respond to the systems preferences settings?
Related sub-questions:

Why do the checkboxes in the login items list not work?
What are all of the places that non-system startup items can be found/controlled?

Current system configuration: MacBook (13in Aluminum, Late 2008), Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50), But this problem existed on Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion.

The checkboxes are not for disabling the application launch, but if checked, the application gets hidden as if you were pressing CMD+H. To disable it, select it in the list and click on the Minus-button beneath that list. By that you remove them. You can't just disable them with OS X tools.

To see a summary of all LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons you can use a software like Lingon or you can have a look at /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchAgents, and /System/Library/LaunchDaemons as well as ~/Library/LaunchDaemons, ~/Library/LaunchAgents, ~/Library/StartupItems, and /Library/StartupItems.


Cannot connect to the internet on my iPhone 4S after upgrading to iOS 5.1 Just updated the iOS to 5.1 this morning and now I cannot connect to the internet. WiFi is not available to me right now...

You will need to re-enter the network settings. Updating iOS seems to wipe these settings.

Go to Settings → General → Network → Cellular Data Network and enter all fields.

To use a VPN connection, Choose Settings → General → Network → VPN and then choose “Add VPN Configuration”. Ask your company’s IT guy for the credentials.


Upgrade nano on Mac OS X I have followed the suggestion in this answer How do you update the default version of Nano on MacOS without using the homebrew package manager?

I have macOS High Sierra.
After the installation I have tried:

$ nano -V

And the output is:

GNU nano version 2.0.6 (compiled 19:06:01, Oct  6 2017)
 Email: nano@nano-editor.org    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
 Compiled options: --disable-nls --enable-color --enable-extra --enable-multibuffer --enable-nanorc --enable-utf8

So I have tried to see where nano is located:

$ which nano

and the output is

/usr/local/bin/nano

Checking the path:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

I don't understand, if the first path is where nano is installed, why the new version is not available.

When running a binary from your shell, the shell stores its path within PATH in a cache and uses that value for future calls to avoid having to research the path each time. If you then install a new version of this binary in a different location the shell won't notice this and keep running the previous version.
If you are running bash

hash -t nano will show the currently used version of nano (if any)
hash nano will update the cache for nano

If you are running zsh

hash -m nano will show the currently used version of nano (if any)
hash -f nano will update the cache for nano


iOS 11 reminder completely broken, not working Yet another major major bug with the simplest app such as reminder. I can't set the reminder for certain time. I can set it, but as soon as I go out, and in again to the Reminder app, it gets resetted and doesn't have the date set to be triggered. Completely useless app. Does anyone know how to set a reminder on an iPhone with iOS 11?

For me, I had to delete the app and re-install it from the App Store.
Then Reminders started working normally.


How to check iPhone logic board? My iPhone 6 got water damaged.

And I checked and found that logic board has short circuit. So I'm planning to buy a logic board from eBay and replace old one. But I want to check it just by connecting iPhone 6 logic board to a battery and a display.

Can I check whether the logic board I just bought is working properly or not?

Technically, all you need to hook up is the LCD/digitizer and battery and you should be able to test.

That said, I don't know how you're going to test it without actually reassembling it because the connectors are so short.  Since you have to reassemble it, do it completely because one of two things will happen:

it will work which means you don't want to disassemble it again to connect the remaining components.
it won't work in which case you must disassemble it again to return it to the seller.

Taking shortcuts in this type of work always leads to a more expensive fix than you originally hoped/planned for.


How to Transfer slo-mo video from one mac to other in photos.app with slow motion edits options? I have a slo-mo video imported from iPhone to my photos app. Now I need to transfer this from photos of my mac to other mac's photo.

I tried by exporting my video as a file in finder and later imported back to the photos app. The slow motion video is working as expected at right timings, but the editing mode is lost. i.e: We cannot alter the timing or frame of the slow motion thereafter.

What can be done if it need to import the video again with the slo-mo frame edit options available.

In Finder:

Create a folder for the media you want to transfer.

In the Photos app:

Select the media that you want to transfer.
In the menu bar, select File > Export > Export Unmodified Original For...
Select Export
Choose folder from step one

Transfer the folder from step one to the Mac where you want to import the photos
In the Photos app on that Mac:

In the menu bar, select File > Import...
Select the folder you exported from step one
Select Review for Import
Follow the dialog.

Enjoy.

(But do note: If you made a modification to the slow motion segment, it will be reset to the default after export. I'd love for this to be amended, but I suppose we're beholden to Apple for that...)


Remove iTunes and Mac App store results when looking for a word I would like to know whether it is possible to remove the Itunes Store and Mac App Store results from the word look-up functionality in El Capitan 10.11.1, illustrated below:

and App Store:

I find the attached look-up results pointless and irrelevant.

As you can see here, you can disable some "Search results" from Spotlight or Look up. You can also uncheck the option "Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Spotlight Look up", to prevent Look up to work as Spotlight does.

This link can also be useful (it refers to Yosemite but the same functionalities are available for El Capitan too).


Other Apple ID is shown when attempting to update apps For some reason another persons Apple ID pops up when I try to do updates on my iPhone 6. Don't have a clue how to fix this or stop it.  The name does not resemble my name at all.

Anyone know what to do?

When you attempt to update an app, you need to log in with the Apple ID that was used to install the app in the first place. If you're being asked to enter a different Apple ID, then this app was installed with this different Apple ID.

You need to uninstall these apps and reinstall them with the intended Apple ID.


Script Wi-Fi SSID switch if on SSID "X" I'm stuck on a script to switch a Mac to a different SSID if its already connected to a certain SSID.

What I need the script to do is:

Check what SSID the Mac Wi-Fi is using

If it is on SSID called "CompanyA" switch to SSID called "CompanyB"
If it is not on SSID called "CompanyA" do nothing.

I can get SSID currently connected to with

networksetup -getairportnetwork en0 | cut -d ":" -f2

and I can switch with

networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 "CompanyB"

But I don't know how to do the if on CompanyA then switch to CompanyB

Test ([) if the output of networksetup is the same as the string CompanyA if so then change the SSID to CompanyB.

curssid=$(networksetup -getairportnetwork en0 | cut -d ' ' -f4-)

if [ "$curssid" = CompanyA ]
then
networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 "CompanyB"
fi


Are all iPhones the same across carriers now? I know that several years ago, some iPhones had CDMA and others GSM, and others yet had both, depending on which carrier the phones were meant to work with.

But I read somewhere that nowadays, all of them come with extensive network compatibility. AT&T told me that their phones are locked but can be unlocked once fully paid off. So it sounds like there is a software lock but perhaps the hardware is universal.

I am looking to buy a T-Mobile phone, get it unlocked, and then switch immediately to using another carrier.

Are all iPhones the same now, in terms of communication hardware/software?

No. In the US, CDMA models can work on GSM but the other way, not so much.

Worse, in the US, Sprint and Verizon are not willing to bring aboard a device from the other carrier despite CDMA and GSM potentially being technically compatible.

The GSM phones when unlocked work across pretty much any GSM carrier.
The CDMA phones when unlocked also work across pretty much any GSM carrier or the specific carrier that the device was assigned to initially. (So I would generally be able to bring a Verizon iPhone from another person to my Verizon account)


Can I use any hardware on MBP retina late 2012 on a MBP mid 2012 (non retina)? My CD drive does not work on MBP 13 mid 2012 and I ended paying over the odds on a late 2012 13” retina which has a screen problem it does not turn on, when connected to external monitor it’s all well. Took it to few technicians and they can’t sort the problem out. I really can’t afford to spend 300 quid on a screen replacement. Any recommendations or guidance will be appreciated, I’m quite new to Mac products so might need some further assistance:)

Displays
As far as your displays go, you aren't going to be able to swap them.  The late 2012 Retina display model uses a 40 pin LVDS connector, while the non-Retina mid 2012 model uses the older 30 pin connector.  I answered a very similar question to this:
Replace MacBook Pro screen with Screen from old MacBook
If you really must have the Retina display, then you'll need to get a new display.
DVD Drive
If your CD/DVD drive doesn't work, is it really necessary to have?  You can remove the DVD and install a SATA caddy that can contain a hard drive for data storage and/or backups or another SSD to create a larger (CoreStorage) volume or a RAID volume; mirrored (for redundancy) or striped (for performance)


Can't delete Alex voice from the iOS simulator I'm working with iOS voices for accessibility reasons. In iOS simulator I've tried to install Alex voice which is one of the most popular English voices. To choose it I downloaded it first. However, after that, the voice looks like something between enabled and disabled.

E.g. for Allison I see that it's not downloaded hence it's not available for me. On the other hand, Samantha is downloaded, so I can navigate further and edit the voice, for example I can delete it. But for Alex I can't neither delete it nor select it to use later.

When I try to press Erase All Content and Settings... for the simulator, sometimes it doesn't change anything, but sometimes it erases Alex voice, but situation returns after downloading this voice. Is there any other way how it Alex can be installed on the simulator?

The only way to fix this bug is a factory reset, which erases everything


Can I change Calendar Event details with AppleScript? I am a seasoned developer, but very new to AppleScript.

I would like to change some of the details of an event in a calendar.

I have found the Library in the Script Editor, and made my way to the Calendar section. I’m not at all sure where to go from here.

In particular, I would like to change a detail which is not listed in the Library, so I’m not altogether optimistic. That detail is the time zone, in particular for the start and finish times. This information is in the ical vevent data which is in the raw data.

So far I am still experimenting with reading what is there:

set calendarName to "Work Travel"
set now to date "Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 12:00:00 am"

tell application "Calendar" to tell calendar calendarName
    set currentEvents to get every event where its start date ≥ now
    repeat with e in currentEvents
        set start to start date of e
    end repeat
end tell

My current system is MacOS 10.12 Sierra.

Shane Stanley has a library that allows you to modify the time zone:
https://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/Script_Libs.html

Update to my original reply:

In fact, your question prompted me to use the library and I found a bug in the time zone modification code, which is fixed now.

To create (or modify) an event you don't need Calendar. Just use this library.

The code here is almost 100% from the examples, I just added the line about the time zone modification:

use script "CalendarLib EC" -- put this at the top of your scripts
use scripting additions

    set d1 to current date
    set d2 to d1 + 1 * hours
    set theStore to fetch store
    set theCal to fetch calendar "test" cal type cal cloud event store theStore -- change to suit
    set theEvent to create event event store theStore destination calendar theCal event summary "A test event" starting date d1 ending date d2 event location "Around here" event description "some notes" without runs all day
    set theEvent to modify zone event theEvent time zone "Asia/Tokyo"
    store event event theEvent event store theStore
    return event identifier for event theEvent

You can find the available time zones this way:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

current application's NSTimeZone's knownTimeZoneNames() as list

The discussion itself is here:
https://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2017/Dec/msg00006.html


Where to install libraries such as hdf5 I'm trying to install HDF5 and SZIP following http://www.ulmer.org/2014/building-hdf5-for-os-x-mavericks/[this description].

However, I'm wondering where to install it (on mavericks). Google didn't show anything, is there any space recommended as a destination directory? Please indicate for both current user and all users.

If you follow those instructions, the package will install everything to /usr/local. This is a recommended place to install user-compiled software because it's already in your PATH, doesn't need elevated permissions, and a lot of stuff breaks if it's not in either /usr or /usr/local . If you open the DEST directory that's created before the pkgutil step, you'll see where everything gets installed. It's the --PREFIX=/usr/local in the configure step that decides the path relative to which things get installed.

Incidentally, both those packages can be found in homebrew which, in my opinion, is a better way to manage these things and you may find more straightforward. After you install homebrew:

brew install szip hdf5


diskutil eraseDisk results in Error: 12: POSIX reports: Cannot allocate memory I'm trying to format my usb drive that is partitioned with FAT32 by the following command in Terminal:

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ UntitledUFS disk1

However, I get this output:

Started erase on disk1
Unmounting disk
Error: 12: POSIX reports: Cannot allocate memory

It could be likely that you are not running the command as admin (Unix root) user.

To run a command with administrator privileges use the sudo command so:

$ sudo diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ UntitledUFS disk1

The error message can lead one astray giving the impression that something else is wrong but it is likely a permissions issue.


Acer UHD4K2K not working through Thunderbolt I have an Acer UHD4k2K monitor hooked up to my Retina Mackbook Pro. I was previously using an HDMI cable (only 30Hz), as that's what came with my monitor.

A Thunderbolt cable that's long enough arrived yesterday and I can't get it to detect the display.

I'm plugging a thunderbolt cable into one of the thunderbolt ports on my Mac (I've tried both) and into the MiniDP port on the monitor. I've tried rebooting, jiggling, etc.

Suggestions?

Got the same setup, and all is working fine here - but some things you will need to take into account:

My ACER didnt ship with an HDMI cable, it came with a Display Port Cable, as i am having the XB280HK Version - and thats the only way that makes sense (technical restrictions on other connection methods, as you stated above) to connect it.
A Thundebolt cable is NOT a Thunderbolt-to-MiniDP cable! Thunderbolt has an integrated Handshaking, and is for Data-Io only - non Apple Products, like the Acer cant make sense of the Thunderbolt Data and wont be able to recognize it as "Display Data"
SOLUTION: Make your life easy and get a third party Mini-DP cable. The thunderbolt PORT will recognize what you want from it and switch mode to be just a mini-dp port. Dont know where you are, but here is one on Amazon USA: http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Gold-Plated-DisplayPort-White/dp/B004CAGDSW/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1416467966&sr=1-2&keywords=mini-dp+cable

Lastly be advised, Not only HDMI has a restriction with the 30 HZ, but also any model of the MacBookPro prior to the IRISPRO Graphic Chipset (introduced late 2013) will not give you more than 30Hz on that resolution... (discrete Graphics aside obviously)

Greetings from Ibiza


Numpad On External KB I use an external apple keyboard with a numeric pad but its number keys don't produce numbers, in fact they produce nothing. The plus, hyphen, enter buttons do work even 0x47 keypad-numlock but it does not toggle on the numeric buttons. This is my keyboard:

  Product ID:   0x0221
  Vendor ID:    0x05ac  (Apple Inc.)

Please advise.

Num Keys did not work because I had Mouse Keys enabled.

To disable it:

Open  Apple menu and choose “System Preferences”, then go to “Accessibility”
Select “Mouse & Trackpad” and untick the option called “Enable Mouse Keys”


Opening/Mounting a .img file How would I do this?

I have attempted double clicking on it (obviously) and I get an error of it saying that its not recognized.

My second though was using Disk Utility (the app) to try and change it from an img to an iso. The same error appeared saying that it was not recognized.

My last idea was to do some research on mounting from the terminal. The command that I used was

mount -o loop userdata.img /mnt/testcache

The result of that was:

mount: You must specify a filesystem type with -t.

After that I just ran out of idea and ran out of search queries to try.

Provided the image is a correct image file supported by OS X the correct command to mount would be hdiutil attach imagename.

Not all files ending with .img are disk images at all, let alone supported by OS X. You can try to use file image name to see what this file actually might be, but even for valid classic image files this may just result in data as an answer.

It would be most helpful to know how or using which software this image was created.


Finder not showing toolbar and sidebar sometimes I'm running OS X 10.8.2 with TotalFinder.

Recently, when launching Finder from dock stacks—for instance, the Downloads folder—by clicking the "Open in Finder", the toolbar and sidebar are both hidden (I have them visible by default).

I can't find an option for that. Is this a bug?

You should check, if you have View -> Show Toolbar option enabled. When toolbar is disabled, there's no option to have sidebar and "Show Sidebar" option in Finder Menu View -> Show Sidebar is grayed out.

Worked for me.


Is there a terminal command to restart an application? I am having issues with Adobe Dreamweaver on my Mac running Yosemite.

I will be in the middle of saving a file to my server and it just locks up. Nothing will happen after that. I try and force quit the application and it closes fine. However, when I try and re-open it, it just bounces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBgQj_4fcIA

I have to restart the Mac 4-5 times a day because of this.

Is there a way to "clear" whatever is happening on a restart through a terminal command?

Its bad enough it locks up like this but if I could quickly clear the application from memory or cache; it would save a lot of time restarting.

You're using cs6 that uses Java 6 and Yosemite I believe is Java 8. You could try installing java 6 but it isn't supported and neither is DWcs6. Unfortunately that's the way of it. I don't know if you have a creative cloud account. They provide all updates. If not you could try the Java route or another FTP client. :/
Edit::
Correction. I forgot since o have to install Java for dev purposes. Yosemite doesn't come stock with it. BUT I found this. It may help. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


How can I have a fixed order of the menu-extras? Like the OSX menu items for wifi, battery... I would like to be able to have a permanent order of the third-party menu bar items.

I do not want to mix OSX with third-party menubar items, I simply want them to always appear in the same order.

Setting an order for the menu extras to launch in the startup items does not do the trick.

You can hold command while drag and drop it to change the order. I don't know it will remember the order or not though.


What does "Add to Library" and "Remove from Library" mean in Podcasts? They're just podcasts. Episodes should be either downloaded or not downloaded, and podcasts should be either subscribed to not subscribed. But it seems an episode can be "in your library" without being downloaded, and a podcast can be "in your library" without being subscribed. What does that even mean?

(I'm referring to Podcasts on both Mac OS and iOS.)

If you stop listening to a show for a while, Apple Podcasts might pause your subscription. The shows and downloaded episodes stay in your library, but new episodes might not be updated. To continue getting new episodes, subscribe again.

and

  New episodes won't download to your device, but episodes that are already in your library won’t be deleted.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201859#more

To me, this looks like a sweet spot with a collection of all relevant material, since you can search in your library separately(not globally) and it is synced across devices.

Also, not verified, but autoplay might be using library too.


Download old version of Mac OSX legally as Apple Developer? I have an Apple Developer license, and an old MacBook that I want to use only as a build server for developing Phonegap applications.

The Mac is too old to get anything newer than 10.9, but in order to use correct IOS SDK, it needs 10.9 or newer.

I was able to find and upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6 with no problem, but I can't seem to find Mavericks as a complete install or update file.  Unless I am missing something.  I looked in the developer downloads, but all those downloads seem to be upgrades only for people who already own 10.9.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

I never owned any version of OSX that I can go back and get the installer for as this computer was a gift that had never been updated beyond 10.4. My intention is 'pure'.  Seems like I should be able to do this somehow.

Thanks

Log into your account and navigate to the summary account overview page:

https://developer.apple.com/account/#/overview/

Select Downloads
Scroll the page so you can see additional downloads at the bottom
Uncheck all but OS X category
Search for 10.9 and grab the combo you want.

At that point, open a case with developer support and ask them to send you a redemption code for 10.9 for your Mac App Store account.


Is there a way to receive push notifications translated from a foreign language? I have multiple apps which I get notifications from but they are all in Hebrew. I was wondering if there is a way to let the notification go through a process in which something like Google Translate translates the push notifications and then I receive them. Is that possible?

No, that is not possible on the iPhone as a user.

However, the developer of the app can add automatic translation as a feature. This would require the messages to be translated in their backend before being sent as push notifications to your phone.


Detecting Jailbreaking I jailbroke my iPad several months ago, and then could not open the Bloomberg app that I use for work. ("Device has been jailbroken.") I figured that work>jailbreaking (duh) and restored my iPad. I tried to open Bloomberg once more, and it said "Device has been jailbroken."

What does jailbreaking do that is irreparably detectable?

As far as I know, only iBooks has the power to truly block a jailbroken device. It does this by writing an unsigned executable to the root of the system. If the device is locked (not jailbroken) it can't run. But if the device is jailbroken the executable is run and iBooks quits (crashes). But this is Apple's proprietary app and third party software isn't given this level of control. In fact, all third party apps are sandboxed and can't touch anything outside of their respective installation directory.

So what it's it looking for? Rumors claim it looks for Cydia. But again, that would require the app have access to the system as Cydia isn't installed in your user's installation directory (/private/var/mobile/Applications) but rather at the system root
(/private/var/stash/Applications). And even if that were true, it would mean that once you wipe your jailbreak, it should work as expected. In this case, that doesn't look to be the case (unless it has saved the device state in the app's preferences).

But there is still one file that maybe it can access:

/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.saurik.cydia.plist

Additionally, this file is carried along with your backups whether the device is jailbroken or not once it has been created.

Either that or the app simply queried your device's state when jailbroken and has saved that information, carrying it over even after you removed the jailbreak (as mentioned above). However, if you've uninstalled and reinstalled the app after the jailbreak, then you needn't worry about that. But if you have any preference files left over from the jailbreak, you might have to clear them out. Either re-jailbreak and remove them via ssh or reinstall iOS but choose rather than setting up your device using a backup, start clean.

This doesn't look like the only app that checks for a jailbreak. Time Warner Cable and Skype both have a history of doing this. Unfortunately still no credible information on how they achieve this. Since they are bound to restrictive APIs like all third party apps in the App Store, I don't think it's all that sophisticated.


Possible to use the same ssd for a Windows and a Mac laptop via different partitions? So my main laptop is a MacBook which runs on a Samsung 850 evo ssd, has 2 partitions- one runs El Capitan and other is formatted as exfat.

My questions is - how can I use this very ssd to run Windows 10 on my other (HP) laptop off the exfat partition?

Situation as of now - I have a bootable usb of Windows 10 but it asks for a cd disk, and I can't seem to find a way to use the usb.

What I fear is that by using a recovery cd to install Windows, the program might overwrite over all my existing data. What I want is to just install Windows on the exfat partition

I understand that unlike Mac, Windows has to be installed separately for each and every computer, I can't use some other laptops ssd to boot this laptop.

Any help or comments are appreciated. Thank you!

Edit: Im gonna use the ssd as an internal ssd on the HP laptop,  not as an external with an enclosure. Its my fathers old work laptop and i have standing instructions to not to edit anything on it (but the damn thing is  running windows 7), since there will come a day when he'll have to return it. This is why i wanna 'preserve' the partition with el capitan. I will not be connecting-disconnecting it again and again. Jist twice. I have since formatted the partition in NTFS.

**so my ultimate question is this : I have a drive with two partitions,  I want to install windows 10 on just one while the other partition remains untouched. Since its too messy to install windows on 1 device and then port it to other,  I have inserted the ssd in the new laptop.  How do I move forward with the installation? **

I think this might be a better fit for Super User as it's mainly about PC/Windows rather than Mac.

However, as a rough guide -
you'd do far better to clone the Mac's boot & recovery partitions to a spare drive using something like Carbon Copy Cloner then let the Windows installer [from a PC] just break the whole darn thing - which it will, it will insist on NTFS & will probably set up its own EFI & recovery partitions; and Windows won't boot easily if it's not at the beginning - then use the Mac to restore the 2 Mac partitions afterwards to the end of the disk.  This will likely need 3rd Party software, such as Paragon Hard Disk Manager

Windows also is not truly portable like macOS, so each time you move it to a different machine it will either crash/fail or require re-authorisation from Microsoft. Windows is also not too keen on booting from a removable drive.

Ultimately, I think buying a second SSD would be simplest & safest.


applescript: commands to maximize (green button) an iTerm window Assuming I am opening an iTerm window with the following AppleScript:

tell application "iTerm"
            set win1 to (create window with default profile)
        repeat until exists win1
            delay 0.01
        end repeat
        tell current session of current tab of current window
            write text "watch -n1 " & "'"  & "kubectl get pods | grep -i " & input & "'"
            split horizontally with default profile
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

What code snippet should I use so that win1 gets maximized (as in clicking on the green window button)?

edit: regarding the proposed solution indicated in the question that is supposed to be duplicate, I have changed my snippet as follows:

    tell application "iTerm"
            set win1 to (create window with default profile)
        repeat until exists win1
            delay 0.01
        end repeat
        tell application "System Events"
            perform action "AXZoomWindow" of (first button whose subrole is "AXFullScreenButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)
        end tell
        tell current session of current tab of current window
            write text "watch -n1 " & "'"  & "kubectl get pods | grep -i " & input & "'"
            split horizontally with default profile
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

However this now opens a new terminal window and no further command executes.

The perform action command is going to go the the frontmost window that meets the criteria of the the given command. As such, you need to use the activate command after tell application "iTerm" so win1 will be frontmost when the perform action command is triggered.

tell application "iTerm"
        activate
        set win1 to (create window with default profile)
    repeat until exists win1
        delay 0.01
    end repeat
    tell application "System Events"
        perform action "AXZoomWindow" of (first button whose subrole is "AXFullScreenButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)
    end tell
...


Image Capture OS X 10.6 won't read from iPhone Image Capture on Snow Leopard says the "iPhone is locked with code", and asks to unlock it before importing images. The most weird thing is that it can import just fine using iPhoto and it syncs through iTunes. Seems it is a problem with Image Capture, any ideas?

If anyone could try to send the Image Capture.app to me to test with, that would be great. Thanks!

With ImageCapture closed, look in ~/Library/Preferences for com.apple.Image_Capture.plist and com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2.plist and move them to the Trash. Preferences files often become corrupt, and this is the first, easiest step.


Install Ubuntu on Yosemite I created a bootable thumb drive using the instructions here: How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X. I installed the 32bit and 64bit version.

I got a MacBook Pro (15" End 2011) Processor 2,2 GHz Intel Core i7 Storage 16 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB & AMD Radeon HD 6750M, 128 GB SSD

When I boot the Mac and press alt I can select the USB drive. Then it starts GRUB and I can select "Install Ubuntu".

Then black screen appears and the Ubuntu sound appears and then nothing happens.

What can I do?

This may not be the answer you are looking for but I thought I'd boot it out there just in case. Assuming you have sufficient RAM (6 - 8GB) it might be easier to install Ubuntu (or any Linux dist.) in a virtual Machine. Parallels and VMWare Fusion are the two big commercial virtualization apps, but I have found that the free (and frequently updated) VirtualBox is easier than doing a dual boot system with the added benefits of it being quite easy to have both running at the same time.

As virtualbox is free you could try it and see if it suits your needs...


MacOS Catalina how to change windows size without buttons? I have a big problem with Adobe After Effects launched on macOS Catalina:

Yesterday I worked with a second Display in 2K resolution and, like in Adobe programs, you cannot open them in a fully new Desktop so I just pressed the + button to fill the rest of my desktop size.

Today I want to work with Full HD Display and I cannot change my size of Adobe After Effects! It's beyond my desktop!

How to bring it to original sizes or move program which allows me to drag and resize it manually?

You haven't specified the version involved, but you should be able to hold the option key and double click the bottom edge of the window to resize it.


Looking for a combined Clock/News/Weather/Calendar iPad app I'm looking for an app I can leave running and that shows me all necessary info at 1 glance without any need for interaction.

Ideally, it should contain

a clock
good, concise news
weather forecast
list of my next appointments
subjects of my unread emails

Other people might also like

rss feeds
twitter feed

I already searched for such an app for half an hour and found nothing. Well except for a Dashboard app that was rejected by Apple because it was expandable and looked like the os x dashboard.

There are alternative calendar apps, there are weather apps that show the time, there are twitter apps, rss readers, email apps. Surely somebody has combined all of them?

Can somebody pinpoint me to such apps, or explain why they don't exist? Thanks.

Consider Panic's Status Board app: it includes configurable modules for everything you've asked for.


Extract links from email based on the anchor text, not the href I am putting together an Automator workflow that will allow me to bind a hotkey to a Smart Mailbox listing and effectively automate the task of clicking "Unsubscribe" in emails which have that text string.

So far, I've been marginally successful if the actual URL has the word "unsubscribe" in it. What I would like to do, instead, is find where the word Unsubscribe appears and instead grab only those URLs. So in HTML terms, imagine I am finding a link by its text and then acting on the href

When I use content I get only the contents of the email but when I use source I get links. Basically I need a way to map the content to the source.

I hope that makes sense. This is what I have so far:

on run {input, parameters}
set theSource to {}
tell application "Mail"
    repeat with aMessage in input
        -- source or content
        set end of theSource to aMessage's source & return
    end repeat
end tell

return theSource as text
end run

Automatically execute html in an email.

I'm not familiar with Smart Mailbox and what language it uses but below is a VBA script for Outlook that searches for the text "Click" which is a href to a URL, extracts the URL and executes it in Internet Explorer as a weblink.

The code is very messy with very little documentation but it uses the Split Array functionality of VBA to break out the lines of the email message and then extract the correct string after double quotes ""(Chr(34)) using array positioning ie. array urltag(1) - first element in array urltag.

Hope this helps someone.

LaunchURL(itm As MailItem)

Dim bodyString As String
Dim bodyStringSplitLine
Dim bodyStringSplitWord
Dim targetline
Dim urltag
Dim splitLine
Dim splitWord
Dim intCount As Integer
Dim Fail As Integer
Dim Beforecurrent As Integer
Dim Aftercurrent As Integer
Dim Found As Integer

Fail = 0
Found = 0

bodyString = itm.HTMLBody ' Mailitem.body vs Mailitem.HTMLBody  - oMailitem.body
bodyStringSplitLine = Split(bodyString, vbCrLf) 'vbCrLf has no meaning in HTML?

For Each splitLine In bodyStringSplitLine
    bodyStringSplitWord = Split(splitLine, " ")

    For intCount = LBound(bodyStringSplitWord) To UBound(bodyStringSplitWord)
    'For Each splitWord In bodyStringSplitWord ie find out how many iterations to do.

    If intCount > 2 Then
    Beforecurrent = intCount - 1
    Aftercurrent = intCount + 2
    Else
    Beforecurrent = 1
    End If

        If bodyStringSplitWord(intCount) = "click" Then

            targetline = bodyStringSplitWord(Aftercurrent)
            urltag = Split(targetline, Chr(34))
           'i = MsgBox(urltag(1), vbOKOny) test box remove apostrophe to uncomment

            Shell ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" & " " & urltag(1))
           'Shell ("cmd" & " " & "/k" & " " & "echo" & " " & bodyStringSplitWord(Aftercurrent) & " " & Fail & " " & Beforecurrent)   test box remove apostrophe to uncomment

        Found = 1

        Exit Sub
        Else:

        Fail = Fail + 1

        'Shell ("cmd" & " " & "/c" & " " & "echo boo hoo") Test box remove apostrophe to uncomment

        End If
    Next

Next

Set itm = Nothing

End Sub


Vim/Emacs keybinding for `Preview.app` Does anybody have ideas about using emacs/ vim key binding for Preview.app to browser pdf files and how?

As @tty suggested, using Karabiner is brilliant. I made some extra rules.

You can navigate using HJKL and zoom using FDER. Read the file for more information.

Here is my private.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <appdef>
    <appname>PREVIEW</appname>
    <equal>com.apple.Preview</equal>
  </appdef>

  <item>
    <name>Vi Navigation in Preview</name>
    <identifier>private.preview.vinav</identifier>
    <only>PREVIEW</only>
    <uielementrole_not>AXTextField, AXTextArea</uielementrole_not>
    <modifier_only>
        ModifierFlag::NONE,
        ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::NONE,
        ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::NONE,
    </modifier_only>
    <appendix>Navigate using the HJKL keys</appendix>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::J, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::K, KeyCode::CURSOR_UP</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::H, KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::L, KeyCode::CURSOR_RIGHT</autogen>
  </item>

  <item>
    <name>Vi Zoom in Preview</name>
    <identifier>private.preview.vizoom</identifier>
    <only>PREVIEW</only>
    <uielementrole_not>AXTextField, AXTextArea</uielementrole_not>
    <modifier_only>
        ModifierFlag::NONE,
        ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::NONE,
        ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::NONE,
    </modifier_only>
    <appendix>Zoom using E/R: out/in</appendix>
    <appendix>Zoom to fit: F</appendix>
    <appendix>Zoom to 100%: D</appendix>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F, KeyCode::KEYPAD_9, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::D, KeyCode::KEYPAD_0, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::R, KeyCode::KEYPAD_PLUS, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::E, KeyCode::KEYPAD_MINUS, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
  </item>
</root>


Buying a new imac, which memory should i get? For the new imacs that just came out, which memory upgrade should I get?

This:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226095

or:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428

The apple site shows that it's using 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB ram. Would the 1600 ram work as an upgrade or would it be incompatible? And what's the speed difference between the two, is it noticeable?

Thanks.

Those are desktop DIMMs, you want the laptop DIMMs.
Try this search instead. or this search which starts a the Mac search below.
1600 would work, but it wouldn't be
much faster as they would run at the lower frequency, but might have better latency.


How can I use iCloud's 5 GB space with a 64 GB iPod? I am trying to understand iCloud backup and how the data from a 64 GB iPod might fit in a 5 GB account.

I just updated to iOS 5 and the latest iTunes. Now, when I sync, I get a choice to backup to iCloud (instead of backing up to the computer). I see it offers me 5 GB of space, but my as stated my iPod is 64 GB.

Does this mean I need to pay for 64 GB of space to be able to use iCloud? What is 5 GB going to do for me?

Also, I have an iPhone. Is it 5 GB per device or 5 GB per Apple ID? I use the same Apple ID on all of my devices.

A fairly good article to check out in this case is iCloud: Backup and restore overview

You receive 5 GB per iCloud account, but you can have separate iCloud and iTunes Store accounts setup, thereby sharing music and apps, while keeping the backups apart.

From the article:
What is backed up:

You get unlimited free storage for:

Purchased music, TV shows, apps, and books

You get 5GB of free iCloud storage for:

Photos and videos in the Camera Roll
Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)
App data
Home screen and app organization
Messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS)
Ringtones


When did this option in the WiFi network selection appear? I don't recall seeing this option before in the WiFi network selection. Is it configurable?

OS X version 10.13.4

In High Sierra when you Hold the Option key and click on the WiFi Icon it will show you this.

The Disconnect from (current WiFi) shows when you use the Option key.


Factory reset for MBA 2011 I want to sell my MBA 2011 (13"). So, of course, I want to wipe the SSD to reset it to the factory settings.

The MB came pre-installed with Lion (but without restore media) and I purchased ML from the AppStore. Now, as far as I know, it is not allowed to pass on a copy of OSX that was bought off the AppStore (correct?). Also, if I try to re-install ML from the restore mode (CMD+R on boot), it asks for my apple id which I definetely do not want to enter here.

So, I seem to need to downgrade to Lion. I tried internet recovery (CMD+ALT+R on boot) but to no avail - it failed with a "-2002F" error.

What should I do?

I actually called Apple Support and they told me that it is not legal to sell an OSX version purchased in the app store.

The technically correct solution is indeed to (after backing up your data, unlinking the iTunes account and removing the mac from "find my mac" service) wipe the start volume ("Macintosh HD") and to do an internet recovery by pressing CMD+ALT+R on boot.

The error I encountered apparently was because of maintenance work on Apple's servers -- apparently sunday is not a good day to rely on them.

I was able to restore Lion on my MacBook without having to enter my apple id.

BTW: Internet recovery works, but is really slow, so be prepared for that.


Is it possibe to upgrade and re-jailbreak (in order to unlock) a 3Gs running on 4.1? I have a locked 3Gs running 4.1 and it's pretty annoying not be able to install anything on it anymore (most apps nowadays require at least 4.3)

I can not unlock it officially because i bought second hand two years ago and can't reach the person i bought it from :s

So i would like to know if it will be possible to jailbreak it (to be able to unlock it) after upgrading it, or should i just leave it at 4.1 and use the basic functions ?

Modem firmware : 06.15.00

Thanks

You're a few weeks too late.

There was the Evasi0n jailbreak, which worked on iOS 6.0 - 6.1.2, but iOS 6.1.3 killed it.


USB C to Thunderbolt What about USB C to Thunderbolt via Apple supplied adapter with USB C, HDMI and USB. Then you could go from HDMI to Thunderbolt?
Could this work?

No.

Thunderbolt is a protocol for combining PCI express data with DisplayPort video protocols. (i.e. super high speed - low latency protocol for display, networking, data and power transfer)

USB is a serial protocol for increased speeds and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 and 1.1 It doesn't include PCI express or DisplayPort but does have data and power transfer capabilities.

DisplayPort can carry HDMI signals since it is basically a more capable / flexible standard. HDMI cannot accommodate DisplayPort though. Think of a pickup truck and a motorcycle. You can put some motorcycles in some trucks, but generally never the reverse.

USB Type-C is a physical connector that can be used for USB as well as Thunderbolt 3 protocols which is confusing to say the least to many. The DisplayPort embedded over USB 3.1/Type-C is something that's ready today and makes it less necessary to have thunderbolt for many video applications today on the newest hardware.


Buying US iTunes card from UK I have a US iTunes account and a friend - also from the US but currently in the UK - wants to send me an iTunes gift card.

My question is: can he buy this card valid for the US Store with his US credit card but from his UK location. Is this possible?

And will it be sent to me digitally as I am also not in the US right now.

Yes that would be possible. You don’t have to be in the same country as your account is for.

You just can’t use an American dollar voucher on an English account as they use pounds.


Can an iPhone backup folder be retrieved after deletion on Windows? I accidentally deleted my iPhone backup file from the backup folder.

Where are other places a backup could be stored for someone using Windows and iTunes?

You sould use some file recovery tools to recover deleted files. Operating system do not delete exact files. Only delete the file references. If you're lucky, OS do not replace your old file's partition with a new file; so you can recover.

iOS only backs up to iCloud and to iTunes, so unless you have another copy of that backup or another computer the device has synced to, you might be left with data recovery on the PC.

Is the iOS device still around to make a new backup?


Time Machine is Determined to Delete Old Backups to Make Space it Doesn't Need Okay, so my machine suffered a power loss this morning, and when Time Machine went to back-up it seems to have decided it can't trust the usual event log that it uses:

02/10/2014 14:56:43.351 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

It then proceeds to do a deep-scan, which is understandable I suppose.

02/10/2014 14:56:43.428 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
02/10/2014 15:04:58.809 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Finished scan
02/10/2014 15:10:53.693 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Found 402101 files (1.8 TB) needing backup
02/10/2014 15:10:53.747 com.apple.backupd[63107]: 2.16 TB required (including padding), 1.04 TB available

However, the required space estimate is far too high; my back-up volume's total size is only 3tb, and the total data on Macintosh HD is around 2tb, this means that if I let Time Machine continue to run it's going to delete all of my backup history and then fail with a warning that it can't backup because there isn't enough space.

This is clearly wrong however, as the back-ups on the disk are valid, and should be matching most of the files found on Macintosh HD.

Is there a way I can get Time Machine to recognise this and adjust its estimate accordingly? If not then I'm going to have to start fresh with a new back-up, but that will take days to get up to date again!

[edit]
I've just tried using tmutil associatedisk -a and tmutil inheritbackup to no avail, after an even longer deep scan it just starts trying to discard old backups again.

It turns out my particular problem wasn't covered by other, similar cases, so I'm going to post my own answer describing the actual issue I had, and the solution I found to it.

In my case it appears that somehow my last "complete" Time Machine backup was in fact corrupted somehow; when I looked inside it I found that the contents of my user folder were missing, so Time Machine was in fact correct in thinking that it needed to backup everything from my user folder again.

To solve this I needed to delete the last "complete" backup on my Time Machine drive. To do this I opened my Time Machine volume in the Finder, and navigated inside the Backups.backupdb folder, my computer name and then found the folder with the most recent time and date. After taking a quick look at some of the largest folders I saw that my user folder (the biggest on my system) was empty.

To fix this problem I then ran the following command in Terminal:

sudo tmutil delete "/Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb/MyComputer/2014-10-01-175432"

Of course you will need to replace the part in quotes with the correct path to the corrupted backup. You can also do this easily by instead typing sudo tmutil delete (with trailing space at the end) and then dragging the folder onto the Terminal window to have it add the path for you (it may include backslashes, this is normal). You'll need to run this command using an administrator account and enter its password, since only an administrator can alter Time Machine's backups.

For anyone experiencing a similar issue to what I was seeing, I would now highly recommend giving your latest backup a quick check to make sure that you aren't experiencing the same problem I was; although the chances of this corruption occurring seems extremely low (Time Machine would have to be forcibly interrupted or crash for it to occur, though having your Time Machine volume disconnect may do it), it doesn't take long to give your latest backup a quick check, but it can save you a lot of time before you go ahead and try other possible solutions.

If you aren't experiencing the same problem I did then I recommend trying the following links:

Time machine wants to backup too much
TM is doing a full backup for no good reason
My backups seem too large


Install Latest OS X version with Internet Recovery This is on a 2012 MacBook Air.

I just used Disk Utility and erased the SSD, booted into Internet Recovery, connected to the network and let it do its thing. Its prompting me to install Lion. From this point, how can I perform a fresh install of 10.9.4?

Do you have a Mavericks recovery partition? Or is Internet Recovery your only option?

From OS X: About OS X Recovery

If you use the Recovery System stored on your startup disk to reinstall OS X, it installs the most recent version of OS X previously installed on this computer.
If you use Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X, it installs the version of OS X that originally came with your computer. After installation is finished, use the Mac App Store to install related updates or later versions of OS X that you have previously purchased.

Source

To reinstall Mavericks, you can either create Mavericks recovery media or install Lion and upgrade to Mavericks.


Locking cells in numbers Is there an easy way to lock individual cells or a group of cells in Numbers to prevent the data in the cell from being changed?

The short answer is, no, however you can lock a table.

To lock a Table, select it and then, from the Menu bar, click: Arrange > Lock

The longer answer is, if you want to protect* a cell or concurrent group of cells, do the following:

Overlay the target cell or concurrent group of cells with a rectangular shape.
Open the Inspector, click the Graphic tab, move the Opacity slider all the way to the left (0%).
Lock the shape in place, from the Menu bar, click: Arrange > Lock

This allows the contents of the cell or concurrent group of cells to be seen but not able to be modified unless the graphic shape is unlocked and either moved out of the way manually, set it to the back from the Arrange menu or remove it.

To relock the cell or concurrent group of cells bring the graphic shape back to the front from the Arrange menu or manually move it back, if it was moved, and then lock it again the Arrange menu.

Note: * While the method proposed herein keeps one from directly mouse clicking a cell under the translucent shape, it does not stop one from clicking into an adjacent cell that is not under the translucent shape and tabbing to a cell underneath, then modifying it. This method is meant as a workaround to keep one from using the mouse directly on a cell underneath and as a reminder the cell(s) in question is(are) meant not to be modified as easily as any wide open cell.


cannot add shortcut to switch to desktop 2 when apps are fullscreen on 10.8.4 I am running 10.8.4 and would like to switch to different desktops using keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately for me, I only see "Switch to Desktop 1" and have not way to add a shortcut to switch to desktop 2.

If I have have 4 desktops, I have to scroll through all 3 of them if I want to go from desktop 1 to 4.

UPDATED QUESTION
Sorry - This question has become a little convoluted suddenly. I am able to desktops using CTRL + # shortcut only if the apps is not full screen. If I have full screen apps, I cannot use the short cut (perhaps because it is not longer a "Desktop" then). I use my editor, browser and terminal all the time in fullscreen mode - I just want to switch to them using one shortcut - I could do this in older version of osx, but not in 10.8.4 :(

Full screen apps do not count as a desktop.

So if you set up looks something like the above, you can not switch to desktop 2 because there isn't one. What you have is one Desktop and two spaces.

If you want to be able to switch between full screen apps, without cycling through each space you could change your Mission Control settings.

By checking the highlighted box you can switch full screen app spaces by using the command+tab keyboard shortcut.

Also, in order to create a shortcut for Desktop 2 you need to have at least two desktops running open before you open System Preferences.


Backing up app data from two different devices to the same iCloud account Let's say I have an app that can back up to iCloud Drive, like WhatsApp, on iPhone #1. I back it up to iCloud Drive. However, if I have the same app, WhatsApp, on iPhone #2 which is connected to the same iCloud account, will I be able to back it up to iCloud Drive as well, or will my #1 backup be overwritten?

The backup will be overwritten.

Your Apple ID is what's used to sync data between devices.  It will take the most-recent change as what should be backed-up.  iCloud will think that you want the most-recent change to be shared across devices and it will populate that change to all devices with that same Apple ID.

The way around this would be to use Dropbox or something similar as the backup.  That way you can specify separate folders for the backup and prevent one from overwriting the other.


AppleScript & Javascript change text colour on safari I'm not sure if this is possible but let's say I have a few variables :

var1 "text1'
var2 "2018"
var3 "demo@apple.com"

Can I make Applescript to found every instance of this text on Safari (any tab) and change the colour of the text? (

  "document.getElementById("foundhtmlhere").style.color = "#ff0000";"

or

  document.querySelector("td > a").style.backgroundColor = "red";

--

I'm sure there is a better option, perhaps using JavaScript String search() / selector but I'm still have to go through this.
I guess I can search within the body using this, then maybe using text delimiter ? I'm a bit lost

 tell application "Safari"
    tell document 1
        set body to do JavaScript "document.body.innerHTML"
        set body to do JavaScript "document.getElementsByTagName('body').item(0).innerHTML"
    end tell
end tell
return body

You can use the window.find('someString', false or true) command to search some string in the text of the document.

The second parameter of the command, if true, specifies a case-sensitive search.

Use the document.execCommand('HiliteColor', false, someColor) command to change the background color of the founded text.

Here's the sample script, tested on Sierra.

set myList to {"text1", "2018", "demo@apple.com"}

tell application "Safari"
    -- to change the color,  set the 'document.designMode' to on
    -- get the scroll position of the document, because the 'window.find()' command change the scroll position when it select the founded string
    set scrollPos to do JavaScript "document.designMode = 'on'; [window.pageXOffset.toString(),window.pageYOffset.toString()]" in document 1

    repeat with thisText in myList
        do JavaScript "var sel = window.getSelection();
                sel.collapse(document.body, 0);//------    To start at the beginning of the document, not after the selectioned text
                while (window.find('" & thisText & "', true)) {document.execCommand('HiliteColor', false, '#ff0000');}
                sel.collapseToEnd()" in document 1
    end repeat

    -- restore the scroll position
    do JavaScript "document.designMode = 'off';  window.scrollTo(" & (item 1 of scrollPos) & ", " & (item 2 of scrollPos) & ")" in document 1
end tell


Burned magsafe dc in board ports: Replace, even if working? I have noticed that two of the pin plugs on my magsafe dc in board, the ones, which are for power are blacked. As far as I know, this is due to moisture.

Right now everything is working fine, however would it make sense to change the in board? Can the in board damage the magsafe or something else because of the condition it is in? Can I assume, that it will fail soon or is very likely to fail completely?

I ran diagnostics and it came back with 0 issues. However, I would rather fix it, than be surprised by it stopping to work at the worse moment.

Also should I only change the DC in board, or rather the i/o board? On some images it looks like, the DC in board is part of the i/o board.

This is what my dc in board looks like:

Specifics will depend on your model, but in general it is quite difficult process for inexperienced person.

It consist of 20+ steps and without experience a lot can go wrong.

So the choice is yours, leave it as as and hope for the best or do it.

Here is an example of the process involved.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1342+MagSafe+Board+Replacement/1676


Why is OS X Maverics upgrade size the same as a fresh install? I have OSX 10.7 that came installed on my MacBook by default, and decided to upgrade to 10.9 Mavericks.

The download is ~5GB in size, if I have a network disconnect I am worried it will begin form the start. Is there a way I cam download the upgrade of smaller size or do I have to get new installation in any case, and then how should I have a resumable download?

You seem to have two questions here…

  Why is OS X Mavericks upgrade size the same as a fresh install?

There's only one installer. Unlike Windows, there's a single OS X installer that is able to install on and/or upgrade any machine capable of running Mavericks, from any prior version of OS X all the way back to 10.6.

  Is there a way I can download the upgrade of smaller size or do I have to get new installation in any case, and then how should I have a resumable download?

No, the OS X Mavericks install is the single installer available — there's no smaller copy.

The Mac App Store does support resumable download, so don't worry about your internet connection dropping. It will pause/resume the download automatically.


Can I install 10.9 over 10.8 and maintain windows xp boot camp functionality? I have an iMac with 10.8.5 running fine with Windows XP installed with Boot Camp that works both as native boot and with Parallels. I want to install 10.9 over 10.8 (not clean install) and I have read that XP cannot be installed from 10.9. But will the existing functional XP/Boot Camp installation survive the upgrade?

When I recently installed OS X 10.9.1 over 10.8.5 on my mid-2010 Mac Mini running Windows XP in Boot Camp, XP continued to work fine in Boot Camp.  I don't run Parallels, and I don't have your exact configuration, so I can't guarantee results.  Additional information: I had originally installed XP in Boot Camp when my Mac was running Snow Leopard, and I subsequently upgraded to Lion, then Mountain Lion, then Mavericks.  Microsoft is stopping security patches for XP in April 2014, so if you use XP on the network, you may want to install a newer version of Windows.


How will Mail handle an SMTP server port number change? Our email provider is making a change soon to our SMTP servers, changing the port number to 587 and blocking ports 25 and 465.

Our clients who use Apple Mail have the "Automatically manage connection settings" box ticked, which hides the usual Port & TLS / SSL & Authentication options.

I am assuming that having that box ticked will handle this change by detecting the port numbers that don't work, then trying the other common port numbers, but I'm not sure if it is safer to disable it & add in the settings manually.

Does anyone have any information about how Mail will handle a change like this, if the automatic option is set?

There might be two things that you have to do:

It should work automatically without any intervention after the port upgrade. But to make it smooth, you might need to re-add your account in Apple Mail.

You can manually modify and add specified port too but it depends upon your email provider. However, in most cases, it should go automatically.


OS X Server bound to Active Directory, but OS X Clients who are logged in as AD users prompted for username when connecting to OS X server file shares OS X Server bound to Active Directory, but OS X Clients who are logged in as AD users prompted for username when connecting to OS X server file shares

The OS X server appears to be bound to AD with no problem.
This OS X server is ALSO running Apple's Open Directory (as we have a number of Mac workstations still on OpenD. that have yet to be migrated to ActiveD.)

Windows AD users can browse the OS X File Server shares no problem

However, the Mac OS X Workstation users who are logged onto their Macbooks as AD users get prompted for username+password when they try to browse the OS X Server file shares.  They can only connect using an Open Directory username+password.  They CAN NOT connct using the Active Directory credentials.

These same Mac workstation users can browse all the Windows domain file servers without needing to enter username+password.

Any idea why the OS X Server is not treating an OS X AD file-share client the same way as a Windows AD file-share client?

Ok, to answer my own question, it appears that if the Mac client uses AFP to connect to the MAC OS X Server, then it will not use AD.

If I instead browse the the Mac OS X server using SMB  (eg, connect to: smb://servername )  - then it will connect as an AD user (with no prompting for username/password) and will list all the shares that AD users have access to.


Any way to add 4K support to a late 2012 iMac? I have this late 2012, 27" iMac (model iMac13,2) and I want to connect that to a 4K UHD TV because I am willing to create 4K stuff.

Apparently this iMac is unable to output 4K resolution, right?

If this is true, my question is: is there something I can attach to one of its thunderbolt ports (an external video board or something) that can make this iMac support 4K for cheaper as possible?

Your model iMac offered three graphics card options:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

In terms of graphics memory these cards provided 512MB, 1GB and 2GB respectively.

Strictly speaking all these cards are capable of a maximum digital resolution of 4,096 x 2,160. However, your model iMac was only capable of 2,560 x 1,440 internal resolution, and up to 2,560 x 1,600 for external displays.

I'm not sure for the exact reason of the apparent discrepancy, so I can't guarantee there'd be absolutely no way to achieve what you want. However, I very much doubt it'd be economical to achieve.


Why is "Devices" under bluetooth greyed out? I only see an option that allows me to select d8-30-62-42-10-25. Why is that? How can I connect to my other bluetooth devices?

The label "Devices" is always grayed out, if that's what you're asking. Just like "Bluetooth: on" is grayed out. But here's what you can do to connect.

1.) Click the bluetooth icon in the menu bar while pressing the option key: ⌥ + click.

2.) Hover the mouse over the device that you want to connect, and click remove. This should refresh any old bluetooth logs.

3.) Then connect again.


Saving a Safari page as a PNG image Is there some way in Safari, possibly via a third-party extension, to save the running contents of a Web page as a PNG image?

I understand I could print the page to PDF and use Preview to export it as a PNG image. However:

I’d prefer not to create a temporary PDF file and then manually open Preview to export the PDF contents to PNG;
I’d like the contents to be running instead of paginated, i.e., no page breaks;
When the PDF file contains multiple pages, Preview seems to export the current page only to PNG.

I don’t have any experience with OS X automation but I suspect it could be used for this, though I want conditions 2 and 3 to be met.

I’m running Safari 5.1.1 on OS X Lion.

Not sure when it got added, but certainly in Safari 12 you can do this without any extensions. You need to enable the Safari Developer menu (tick in advanced settings).  Now you can select "Show Web Inspector" in the "Develop" menu which will open a window showing the page source.  Hover your cursor over the  tag and right click it. Then, select the "Capture screenshot" option and save when prompted.
If you only want a specific element, just right click on the appropriate bit of html.  If you are not sure, as you hover over the code the corresponding screen element is highlighted blue.
Of course, I'm now wondering if this could be apple scripted...


Mac Mini - New SSD - Randomly restarting I've had my 2011 Mac Mini for a while. About a year ago the internal HDD decided to give up. Oh well.

I just now finally got around to being able to replace the hard drive. I decided to go with an SSD (a Samsung 850 PRO, got it from Amazon here). Installed OS X 10.10.4 (have an application that is broken on 10.10.5+ unfortunately).

So after all of this I've been using it for about a day. Over that day it has seemingly restarted itself several times while it was idle and nobody was looking (meaning the monitor was off and nothing was connected over VNC, but apps, mainly chrome, were running - nothing uncommon and that I haven't used on other Macs with no issues).

The only clue I can see (not that I exactly know what I'm looking for) is in Console. I get an error message stating kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: -128.

I did have previous errors with this machine where it would randomly restart every once and a while, where I couldn't figure out a rhyme or reason, but these were way more infrequent and happened no more often or differently than other Macs I have. Certainly not 3 or 4 times in a day.

Shutdown cause -128 is "hardware" related; most times, I have noticed it's related to memory.

What you can try:

NVRAM and SMC Reset.  Hold CommandOptionPR for about 20 seconds while turning on from a powered off state.  The boot chime should sound about 3 times; then release and boot normally.  To reset the SMC, shut down, unplug your Mac mini for 30 seconds, then plug back in and restart.
Reseat the memory modules (you may have inadvertently caused a bad connection when replacing the drive)
Run Apple Hardware Test (AHT).  Hold the D key while booting from a powered off state with the AC adapter connected.   Make sure you run the extended tests.

If your memory tests come back with errors, remove one module and try again.  Make sure you tests each module individually in each slot individually.  You want to see if the problem (if it exists) stays in the same location (slot is bad) or moves (memory is bad)


How to fix Mountain Lion that is very slow after sleep by timeout? I have updated to Mountain Lion on Mac Mini (mid 2011), and now my Mac is very slow after sleep. I am waiting for several minutes before the next selected program is working properly.

I have tried:

resetting SMC,
check disk and permissions,
disable disk hibernation
but have no result.

When I put it to sleep manually everything okay (in 1 minute), but when it going sleep by timeout I have hyper-lags and slow and low-low-low performance.

I recommend you start 'Activity Monitor' (found in Applications/Utilities') before you let the Mac go to sleep. If an Application shows a high CPU-load it could be the culprit.

In you case it's probably the 'Safe Sleep' function, the equivalent to the Hibernation Mode in Windows, which creates a temp. file on your HD to ensure a correct wake-up - even after a power loss. The file is usually the same size of the RAM and is probably the cause of you problems.

Can you give more details to the RAM- and HD-Size?

Edit:
if you check your activities as i mentioned before, did you notice any activity in
/var/vm/

There should be a file called 'sleepimage', which you can remove. It will be rebuild if needed.

You should check your Power Management Settings in the Terminal via pmset

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

The default should be "hibernatemode 3", meaning that RAM contents is written to the disk upon sleeping. To test if the reading of the sleepfile is causing your sluggish behaviour you can disable 'safe sleep' with

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Please try that and post your observations.


Is it possible to use Gmail properly via Outlook 2015 for Mac? I'm a long-term GMail user. I tend to access my GMail via the GMail website or the Inbox app on my phone, but I find it convenient to be able to access GMail via Outlook 2015 for Mac, too. I have another email account that I access via Outlook, so it would be good to have everything in one place.

Every time I try to set GMail up on Outlook, it doesn't work correctly. I've followed many different tutorials, but something always fails to work: I end up with multiple drafts in my inbox when I login via gmail.com, for example, or deleting an email in Outlook doesn't cause the email to be archived on gmail.com.

Has anyone got Outlook 2015 (or any version of Outlook, for that matter) working properly with GMail? What settings should I use?

Interestingly enough, I was just searching for a good mail app, and found that there is a new Gmail desktop app coming out in the next week. I'm going to try it, because I'm not quite satisfied with the other mail apps, and I like google's formatting. To manage multiple email accounts, you may consider having your other emails forwarded to your gmail account. That's what I've been doing. It's a temp fix for what you're looking for, but may help. I hope so.

Log in to your other email that you'd like to forward and follow similar instructions.


Implications of using a USB SSD drive to run VM images off I'm running VMware Fusion on my Apple Macbook Pro (15 inch, Mid 2012, OSX 10.10.2), and have several VM images that are stored on an external USB3 disk (WD Passport).

The external disk is fine for regular usage, but the performance difference between running a VM from the external drive compared to running it from the internal SSD is huge. As my SSD is limited in size, I'm unable to host all of my VMs on it, and constantly moving VMs between the external disk and the SSD is quite time-consuming.

Here's a screenshot of test using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test software on the USB drive:

Therefore, I was looking at external SSD disks, specifically for running my virtual machines. AFAIK, I have the option between using a flash disk (such as the VisionTek 120GB USB 3.0 Pocket SSD Drive) or buying an internal SSD drive and sticking it in a USB enclosure (e.g. the Inateck USB3 HDD Enclosure with UASP). Other interfaces are not really an option: the MacBook does not have eSATA and anything with a Thunderbolt connector is prohibitively expensive.

From what I've read, the USB controller does not support TRIM, which is less than ideal. However, TRIM should be supported when using the USB Attached SCSI (UASP) protocol instead of the Bulk-Only-Transport (BOT) protocol.

Here's what I'd like to know:

Is it true that UASP offers TRIM support? If so, what do you need to do to enable it (if anything)? E.g. do you need to run something like Chameleon SSD Optimizer to enable TRIM on the external disk?
How can I determine if UASP is supported on my MacBook Pro? I've read the instructions here, but this means I would need a UASP enabled device first in order to check if it is recognised as such. I'd prefer knowing if it'll work before ordering the hardware.

In closing: two screenshots from the USB and Extensions section from the System Information app:

USB 3.0 supports UASP which allows for TRIM

Re: enclosures - If you're using an external enclosure, the chipset must be able to pass through TRIM commands to the drive.  So without that, everything is a moot point.  And when connected in this manner, I would venture the drive would probably not even be recognized by the system as an SSD.

Question - can't you just upgrade your internal SSD to a larger capacity?


Using Skype in TV mode on a Mac Mini I've got my mac mini hooked up as a media centre - using Plex - and it's great!

I control everything with a Logitech Harmony One.

One thing I've wanted to get going is Skype on the TV.  I have a webcam I can hook up to the Mac Mini, however the Mac version of skype does not seem to contain a 'couch mode' that can be controlled via a remote.

Is there any way to install Skype on my Mac Mini, and make it easy to use with a remote?

I have much the same setup as you and therefore ran into much the same dilemma, so the following may not answer your question, but it might help!

I began by using Remote Buddy's "Virtual Mouse" function to use my Apple Remote to navigate around Skype using the directional buttons to move the mouse around (once contacts are set up, its mostly moving and clicking). However, I'm the first to admit this is a bit clunky and not exactly ideal. (I realise you're using a Harmony One, as opposed to an Apple Remote, which doesn't appear to be officially supported, but it looks as though its possible to pair it with Remote Buddy).

In the end, I gave in a bought a Logitech diNovo Mini which is good enough for when I need a keyboard and mouse. And you can also use it for some Couch-friendly surfing too :)


Will installing Mountain Lion require a complete refresh of my Time Machine backup? I currently have my Time Machine backup on my network and access it wirelessly.  This means a complete backup of half a terabyte of data can take a significant amount of time.  So, I'm concerned that when I upgrade to Mountain Lion, I will be forced to start from scratch on my backup. A secondary concern is the possible loss of previously backed up information.

There is absolutely no requirement to start from scratch, the fact that a lot of OS files will have changed just means that the next run will be large, but the historical data you have already is good to stay around.

In fact, starting afresh is a really bad idea, because you will (assuming you use the same disk) lose all your historical files and the ability to revert to previous versions, or retrieve deleted files etc.

As things stand, keeping using the same store will allow you to even revert back to Lion if you so desired, the worst that can happen is the new OS install changes being large enough to fill your backup disk and force the removal of some of your older backups, but even so it's worth keeping with the same backup.


Can't copy text from iBooks? Using The Swift Programming Language 2.2 from iBooks, i can't seem to copy the text (many lines of code from inside the book) to then test.

Does anybody know why this is happening? In the past I have been able to copy the text from the book however now it is not letting me (it's greyed out).

For example

Here is another example of what I mean.

Highlight the passages you wish to copy.

Then go into the show notes area by clicking the show notes icon in the toolbar.

Select the passages you want to copy. Go to edit > copy.


iOS 11 App update size information My iPad has just been updated to iOS 11. The new app store doesn’t seem to show the download size of each update any more.

As you can see in iOS 10, the size is really easy to spot in both the list and details view.

How can I find out the size of the updates so I don’t use too much data?

You will need to click each app icon to get to the full description, then scroll down to where it shows the size.


Refreshing the category of an Automator service I'm trying to use Automator to create a simple service (open selected file in MacVim). Originally I (incorrectly) specified that the service accepts selected text as input. I have changed it later to accept selected files or folders but it is stuck in Service preferences under Text and not under Files and Folders, and also does not appear in Finder. Is there some way to refresh/reload the category of a service?

The following steps solved the problem for me:

Export the workflow from Automator (e.g. to Desktop).
Click on the exported workflow. A dialog appears asking whether you want to open it or install it. Choose Install.
Another dialog appears asking whether you want to overwrite the existing service. Choose Overwrite.

Now the service appears in the proper category.


Any way to get the last times the screen was unlocked in macOS? I'd be immensely grateful if someone helped me get the last screen unlocks (such as by going to the Apple menu > lock screen).  With unlock I mean when you lock the screen then you have to unlock it by entering the password.  I guess this is registered in some log file or there's some Terminal command to get this.

I guess this must be possible because, when you use parental controls and you set up a time limit for a user, if the user locks the screen, the time on lock screen doesn't seem to count against the allowed time, which seems to imply that lock screens are registered in some log file??

The following is in a screenshot of an excerpt from the terminal output after running the High Sierra code listed in @JBis's answer:

It appears different versions of macOS use different logs to repersent this. None of which, I have found, show a different log for a "login" or an "unlock". I have answered the next best thing: How to find all logins/unlocks. The following terminal commands will show you the date in time in which a login or unlock occurred.

With the help of this answer, and spending an hour looking through logs I figured this out:

P.S. You can additionally use the helpful --last tag to limit to a specific time relative to now. For example --last 5m would only be the last 5 minutes, --last 5h would be the last 5 hours, and --last 5d would be last 5 days.

macOS Mojave

Check for blocked unlock attempts (Invalid password or Touch ID):

log show --style syslog --predicate 'process == "loginwindow"' --debug --info | grep "LUIAuthenticationServiceProvider activate]_block_invoke"

Explanation: The command will look through the logs and find ones that are from the process "loginwindow" and contain LUIAuthenticationServiceProvider activate]_block_invoke.

Check for valid unlock attempts (Valid password or Touch ID):

 log show --style syslog --predicate 'process == "loginwindow"' --debug --info | grep "LUIAuthenticationServiceProvider deactivateWithContext:]_block_invoke"

Explanation: The command will look through the logs and find ones that are from the process "loginwindow" and contain LUIAuthenticationServiceProvider deactivateWithContext:]_block_invoke.

macOS High Sierra

WIP

Check for blocked unlock attempts (Invalid password or Touch ID):

...

Check for valid unlock attempts (Valid password or Touch ID):

log show --style syslog --predicate 'process == "loginwindow"' --debug --info | grep "LAClient evaluatePolicy:options:uiDelegate:reply:]_block_invoke"

macOS Sierra

Check for blocked unlock attempts (Invalid password or Touch ID):

log show --style syslog --predicate 'process == "loginwindow"' --debug --info | grep "Verify password called with PAM auth set to YES, but pam handle == nil"

Check for valid unlock attempts (Valid password or Touch ID):

log show --style syslog --predicate 'process == "loginwindow"' --debug --info | grep "SecKeychainLogin result: 0, password was supplied"


Can I choose when Siri speaks on my Apple Watch? If I’m in a loud or quiet place can I choose whether Siri on my watch speaks aloud?

Yes in settings on the watch:

Tap Settings > General > Siri.
Choose: Always On, Control with Silent Mode, or Headphones Only.

Apple also points out your voice needs to download over WiFi to the watch when you select or change it on your iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205184


Game Cube Controller to USB I just digged out my old Game Cube with a few controllers. Also, I found an adaptor on eBay which claimed to do this but is NOT Mac compatible.

Do you know how to connect them to my Mac?

Testing out the adaptor on a Mac might be your best shot, or you could post a question asking if the sellers can attempt to connect it to a Mac and see if it works. Generally, Game Cube controllers aren't straightforward to use on modern computers, and if the drivers aren't compatible with Macs, they simply have no way of working. I do however encourage you to try, it must be quite cool to use the old GameCube controller with your Mac.

Now, I don't know what you need to do this for, but if it's just for regular gaming, I suggest you buy a cheap USB-controller for this purpose, or use a PS3-controller via Bluetooth.


Macbook Pro TrackPad not clicking I'm using a macbook pro, now the TrackPad could not be "clicked" when I press the bottom right corner.

I couldn't do the "right click" now.

This is awkward.

I know that in System Preference -> TrackPad, I could set the "Tap to click", but then I couldn't use the three fingers swipe to toggle different screens.

Any idea to fix it?

This video recommends resetting the SMC:

Turn off your computer.
Plug in the MagSafe adapter.
Press Shift-Option-Control, on the left side of the keyboard, and the power button, at the same time and hold it for 5 seconds.
Let go of all the buttons.
Turn your computer back on with the power button.

For more information on the SMC reset see this Apple support article


Problem with text messaging on new xs iphone with shared itunes account We just recently got the new iphone xs.  We have a shared account with several devices.  For some reason, when I text my daughter it goes to my husband or vice versa.  The same thing happens when my husband or daughter try to text each other, it comes to my phone and not theirs.  My husband has tried to update every setting but it's very frustrating.  Any thoughts?  I know it's been mentioned setting up separate iTunes accounts for each person, but would it allow us to share already purchased or downloaded music because we have hundreds of songs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!  Thanks. AJ

You can have separate Apple IDs for Messages and FaceTime while keeping the same Apple ID for iTunes & App Store. Create an Apple ID for each person, then log into this Apple ID in Settings under Messages and FaceTime, leaving the existing Apple ID for iTunes and App Store purchases.


Alternatives of BitThief to Download Torrent Files Sequentially I have reasons to modify my Java 6 (legacy) runtime resulting at the torrent client BitThief failed to run. I didn't like the application anyways so I am looking for an alternative. I did a Google search and found a few torrent clients on OSX that supports sequential download but I still like to get some experienced opinions. What I am looking for is a less resource intensive and stable client. Thanks.

PS. I am running OSX 10.10.2.

I highly recommend Transmission (https://www.transmissionbt.com/). Best BitTorrent client on Mac.
There is no sequential download option, but you don't want that, it is not only damaging to the BitTorrent network, but downloading sequentially also should result in slower download speed for you in general.

If it is about streaming the videos you download, aka start watching while downloading, give Popcorn Time a try. It is a streaming client based on the BT protocol and works nicely.


Missing Reminders since upgrade to Catalina beta I am using macOS 10.14.5 and all but one of my reminder lists have gone.

I have macOS Catalina Beta installed on a separate testing partition and all my Reminders are there. But they don't appear on my main partition.

Is there any way I can get them back?

I don't have any iOS devices. And when I go to iCloud via the web, it just says Reminders coming soon. I tried restoring Reminders via iCloud on the web, but after the restore, they still aren't present on 10.14.5

Any ideas?

(Note: This question has also been posted here)

Solution:

Go to https://www.icloud.com/#settings

You can then select to restore Reminders. Restore back to the earliest date available and it will work again (Although you can no longer access them on iCloud via the web or any devices that have been upgraded to iOS 13/Catalina. Your restored Reminders will also no longer Sync with iOS 13/Catalina. See update below for workaround).

This will also cause Calendars to be restored, so before restoring, back up your calendars. You can also install a Google account on your Mac (Go to System Preferences > Accounts and enter your Google details) and copy your calendar events to the Google Account, which will keep them backed up.

UPDATE:
If you want to continue to use your Reminders and sync them between devices while still remaining on Mojave (or pre IOS 13), consider adding one of the following accounts to your devices. All these allow Reminders to continue to work after the upgrade even on Apple systems that cannot be upgraded to the new Reminders:

Yahoo Account
AOL Account
Microsoft Exchange (you need an
organization that provides Exchange accounts to do this, you cannot
set one up yourself).

(Obviously, if you add one of these 3 accounts, you need to add your reminders to these accounts (and not your iCloud account), but you can do that from within the Reminders App. It's really easy to move things between Apple accounts and these accounts, so in minutes you can have everything working again).


Mac Crashes During Boot Camp Assistant Disk Partitioning The other day I was using Boot Camp Assistant to partition my 2015 MBP to dual-boot Windows 10. I came back to discover my Mac was had just crashed and rebooting. I knew this could have gone very badly. Nothing major seems to be broken, however I had to use my old password to login (I changed it only days beforehand, and I haven't needed to use it since). I was using the 64-bit ISO file (stored on my computer) from the Windows website.

I have a few concerns:

I have 256 GB of memory, but my Mac shows I only have 209. Is some missing due to the partitioning?
What do I need to do in order to get Boot Camp Assistant to function properly?
How can I repair any damages that occurred due to the failed attempt?

209 GB usable space is normal for a 256HD.  It has to do with formatted partition sizes plus the hidden recovery partition.  Totally normal.
It will likely crap out again.  Not sure why.  To fix it, you'd need to look at log files (Applications/Utilities/Console) system.log and see if there's any error or at least what its doing.  Fixing it will be a total PITA.  The most direct way to fix it, will be to back everything up, boot from an Internet Recovery (not the local recovery) and totally repartition the drive using Disk Util.  Then put the Mac OS back and your data back.  Then do it again.
Hold Command-R at boot to boot up the hidden recovery partition.  In there, use Disk Utility to check the disk for errors.  Don't format, partition, or erase your disk there - that'll kill all your data.  Hopefully, you have a full backup before starting any of this process.  good luck!


Automator workflow only works when clicking "step" I am trying to write a workflow that will use Shell to apply SHA256 to cells in an Excel spreadsheet.

The Workflow (which may be a bit of a hack) is working, but only when I click through it using "Step" - if I try to Run it or Loop it, the output is not the SHA256 hash but the original input.

Any ideas? As this seems really weird.

EDIT: Thanks to @Graham Miln I eventually got this working in AppleScript alone without Automator.

The behaviour you describe suggests a timing issue. One or more steps are not completing before the next step begins.

Consider combining all the steps into a single AppleScript. You can use the do shell script command in AppleScript to call out to shasum:

-- Get value to hash from clipboard
set myValue to the clipboard

-- Build the command to execute
set hashCommand to "echo -n " & quoted form of (myValue) & " | shasum -a 256"

-- Debug check the command; comment out when it looks good
display dialog hashCommand

-- Execute command and place on clipboard
set myHash to do shell script hashCommand
set the clipboard to myHash

The clipboard is accessible by AppleScript:

display dialog (the clipboard)

As a single AppleScript, you can debug using Applications > Utilities > Script Editor and gain much better insight into what is happening as the script runs.


How do you access network preferences from the Terminal? I can't seem to find how to open the network preferences from the Terminal. What Terminal command will open up the Network preferences window as if having gone by System Preferences > Network ?

Typing

open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Network.prefPane/

works for me on Lion. You can substitute Network.prefPane for any of the preference panes in the PreferencePanes folder. This also switches to the correct pane even if System Preferences is already open.


Alt + left/right on my terminal moves my cursor word by word, however this does not work with backspace. Would there be a way to accomplish this? I use karabiner-elements on sierraOS, but not sure if I can accomplish this in there.

In Terminal preferences → Profiles → your profile → Keyboard, map alt-backspace to ctrl-w (\027).


Installing Mojave on External Drive from Yosemite? How can I install MacOS Mojave on an external drive without updating my internal drive's currently installed OS: Yosemite?
There are a few tutorials floating around but they seem to be out of date, the ones I've found mention running the app store downloader, then opening the contents of the file Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app. I've downloaded the Mojave install files via the Install macOS Mojave.app but the downloaded files were placed on the target volume instead and don't match the file names that the tutorial lists.
The machine I'm using is a MBP113, on macOS 10.10.5.
It is compatible with macOS Mojave.

Make a USB installer by following this tutorial.  I would recommend the terminal method as that's the one I have tried and found reliable.  After you have made the installer, boot to it and plug in the external drive that you wan't Mojave installed on (which I'll refer to as the Mojave drive from now on).  Format the Mojave drive as APFS and GUID partition map with Disk Utility.  Finally, install macOS on the Mojave drive.


Date original picture was taken using EXIF Wizard I received a text with a picture yesterday. I am testing EXIF Wizard. When I saved the pic to my camera roll (iPhone 4) and view it in EXIF Wizard, it gives today's date. How do I get the date the original picture was taken?

You should find good EXIF information, including the date the picture was taken, for pictures you took with the iPhone.

However, the problem you're facing is that the image you're examining is an SMS picture.

SMS picture messages, typically called MMS, don't include EXIF metadata.  When the image is saved to your camera roll the iPhone adds EXIF data, which includes the date the image was saved to the photo roll.

If you look at past saved SMS pictures, you'll find the EXIF info shows the date you received it, not today, nor when the picture was actually captured.

The MMS format does not specify a metadata area, so it's not a limitation of the iPhone - you'll also see this on any phone that can send and receive MMS images.

Ways around this limitation include:

Email images (retains EXIF as it's sent as a JPG)
Save image online (photobucket, imgur, etc) and text message a link
Use iMessage (Not confirmed, but should keep EXIF)

The reason this is the case, and why it's not going to be resolved soon, is that each phone model had a different way of encoding and sending MMS - this flexibility allowed it to go into many different handsets more cheaply than if they stuck to one specification.  Once it reaches the phone carrier, it's converted back to an image. All the information is a simple image, and two phone numbers. The carrier then stores the image, converted to a common format, and sends a note to the destination carrier about the MMS message and where it can be found. The destination carrier retrieves it, reformats it for the target phone (again, probably a different format for a different phone) and then notifies the phone that it has an MMS available. When the user requests to view it, it is retrieved from the carrier's servers and displayed on the phone.

The EXIF meta data is lost very early in the process.

You can find out more about this system by searching for 3GPP Specification.