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31a11bb69afc91e9d8d544621767a4017496f2b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 Can't open 'Install OS X Yosemite.app' I'm trying to install OS X Yosemite through 'Install OS X Yosemite.app' downloaded from the Internet. When I try to open it by double clicking it, nothing happens. When I use the terminal I get the following message:
$ open /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app.
A: I mysteriously got this on Yosemite for the Calendar app. Launching the actual binary worked for me.
bash$ /Applications/Calendar.app/Contents/MacOS/Calendar &
There did not seem to be a permissions issue that could be fixed with chmod.
The symptom I got originally was "The application "Calendar.app" is not open anymore" when attempting to click calendar reservations in Mail.app.
| Q: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 Can't open 'Install OS X Yosemite.app' I'm trying to install OS X Yosemite through 'Install OS X Yosemite.app' downloaded from the Internet. When I try to open it by double clicking it, nothing happens. When I use the terminal I get the following message:
$ open /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app.
A: I mysteriously got this on Yosemite for the Calendar app. Launching the actual binary worked for me.
bash$ /Applications/Calendar.app/Contents/MacOS/Calendar &
There did not seem to be a permissions issue that could be fixed with chmod.
The symptom I got originally was "The application "Calendar.app" is not open anymore" when attempting to click calendar reservations in Mail.app.
A: That would seem to imply the executable within the package isn't actually executable.
Where did you get it from?
If not Apple, I'd leave it well alone. If it was from Apple, try this in Terminal
chmod +x /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/MacOS/InstallAssistant
A: I had this error with Pentaho 8. This command solved it for me:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine '/Applications/Pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/Data Integration.app'
OSX will "quarantine" files that are downloaded from untrusted sources.
You can see if this is your problem by listing the xattrs.
cd /path/to/your/ApplicationName.app
xattr -l Contents/MacOS/*
If you see "com.apple.quarantine" then that's your problem.
A: I had this error when attempting to run an application from an ssh terminal while the screen was locked. The app complained that the user did not have permission to open a GCWindow.
Unlock the screen by logging in, and my app now launches fine.
A: As commented by @Matt Vukas in the currently accepted answer, it appears that a good thing to check might be simply changing the permissions of the file that gets executed within the .app directory.
# Note: change YourApp to the app name (in both places!)
chmod +x path/to/YourApp.app/Contents/MacOS/YourApp
This command worked for me with a MacOS build that was exported from Unity (the game development engine).
A: I got the same error when trying to run an app on my system. Following the @tripleee answer (trying to launch the app's binary) gave me a more instructive message:
wsee$ cd /Applications/someapp/Contents/MacOS
wsee$ ./someapp
2022-02-16 11:34:06.010 someapp The application with bundle ID XYZ is running setugid() which is not allowed. Exiting.
Sure enough, when I checked the setuid bit was set (bolded in example below):
wsee$ ls -l
drw**s**r-xr-x@ 3 wsee staff 96 12 Jul 2021 someapp
When an executable has its setuid bit set then it will be run as the file owner no matter which user launches it. In the above example, if user Bob launches someapp then it will run with the effective user id of 'wsee' even though it is Bob running the app.
Setuid (aka set-user-ID-on-execution and SUID) presents a serious security risk when used on executables owned by root, because if a vulnerability exists in the executable then an attacker might be able to execute code as root, giving them limitless control over the system.
Removing the setuid bit was a simple matter of running:
chmod u-s someapp
A: What helped me with this error message under macOS Mojave 10.14.6 was to move the .app file from the Downloads directory to the /Applications directory.
Then I could start the .app file without problems.
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d8d00b1f8b83e6e9dfb04210041be4a35d0f71a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: osx trackpad gesture to switch between chrome tabs Is there a trackpad gesture to switch between Chrome browser tabs? I understand there may be one for Safari.
A: You can use Better Touch Tool to assign custom gestures to any application. Here's an example how You this would look like in BTT (tip tap gestures to switch tabs):
| Q: osx trackpad gesture to switch between chrome tabs Is there a trackpad gesture to switch between Chrome browser tabs? I understand there may be one for Safari.
A: You can use Better Touch Tool to assign custom gestures to any application. Here's an example how You this would look like in BTT (tip tap gestures to switch tabs):
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0530f02bd2fc83f2372cb5e05cfb9b638026894e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I turn off 'Find My iPhone' after selling the phone? I just sold my old iPhone 4s, but it was still logged in to 'Find My iPhone'. How can I log it out without having the phone? I have changed the password and told the person who bought it to see if they can log it out, but it isn't working.
A: You can remotely remove the phone from your account using the iCloud website. Apple has a page with instructions on how to remove your device from Find My iPhone.
| Q: How can I turn off 'Find My iPhone' after selling the phone? I just sold my old iPhone 4s, but it was still logged in to 'Find My iPhone'. How can I log it out without having the phone? I have changed the password and told the person who bought it to see if they can log it out, but it isn't working.
A: You can remotely remove the phone from your account using the iCloud website. Apple has a page with instructions on how to remove your device from Find My iPhone.
A: Log into the Find My iPhone part of the iCloud website.
Select your device from the drop-down list at the top of the screen.
Click on "Remove from Account".
This should remove your account from the device and enable the new owner to use it.
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37bc41e7a8ac9b95bd38308fbf5f9c42de04676c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I force iOS Reminders to sync? Reminders on iOS is often out of sync with Reminders on my other devices and iCloud. How do I force it to sync?
A: Opening up the calendar and allowing it (or forcing) to sync will do the trick, though oftentimes imperfectly.
To force calendar to sync, open it up and the tap "Calendars" at the bottom, then swipe down.
As far as "imperfectly" goes, I mean it doesn't seem to sync all tasks all the time. I haven't figured out what the pattern is there, but it seems that it's usually recurring tasks that have issues.
| Q: How do I force iOS Reminders to sync? Reminders on iOS is often out of sync with Reminders on my other devices and iCloud. How do I force it to sync?
A: Opening up the calendar and allowing it (or forcing) to sync will do the trick, though oftentimes imperfectly.
To force calendar to sync, open it up and the tap "Calendars" at the bottom, then swipe down.
As far as "imperfectly" goes, I mean it doesn't seem to sync all tasks all the time. I haven't figured out what the pattern is there, but it seems that it's usually recurring tasks that have issues.
A: Unfortunately, from what I can find, there isn’t any way to manually sync reminders between devices; it just happens. There are some things that you can do, however (assuming you are on iOS 8.3 and OS X Yosemite 10.10.3):
*
*Make sure that both your iOS devices and your Mac are synced with the
same iCloud account. On your iOS account, go to Settings > iCloud and
make sure that Reminders is on. Then go to your Mac and go to System
Preferences, then click on iCloud and make sure that Reminders is on.
*If Reminders is on, turn them off on both devices. I personally like
to wait about 5 minutes before turning them back on. Things should reset and start working again.
These are the only solutions that I have right now. If I think of more, I'll edit this answer and add them.
A: I found that adding a dummy item in a list on my iPhone initiates a sync, i.e. it fetches changes from other devices. Similarly, adding items in my iPhone updates my iMac and iPad instantly. The issue seem to be the iPhone not initiating sync without local changes on the iPhone. Note that on your iPhone, sync will not happen until after you press Done (or possibly pressing return is enough) or select another list.
A: Rebooting the MacOS device is the only thing that works with any reliability.
A: After a reset, creating one test entry in each of the reminders in iOS forced the sync/download in my case.
A: With iOS 14.6, check under Settings > Reminders > Accounts > Fetch New Data. In my case the device had somehow disabled these settings — maybe a bug in a recent iOS update? Anyway I turned on iCloud push and my reminders updated.
A: Reminders have to be synced manually. Go into settings, find reminders and press synch all reminders. Then reminders will synch.
A: Just swipe down! On your iphone, it will update everywhere else.
A: you can refresh the reminders on iPhone by going into calendar and tapping on calendars and pulling down to refresh. I know it does not seem intuitive for reminders at all, but it works
A: Invite a person to a shared list or create a shared list and it will update all reminders. This works 100% of the time for me and my family.
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97ee18e7044c09cd344538392b0df8319ec6c83d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Getting coordinates for frequent locations? In iOS, if “system services” are active in privacy, my “frequent locations” are recorded, but I can only see, for each of them, a fragment of a map and a quite generic description: the name of a road, for instance, which is less than useful for a long, out-of-town road without specific nearby points of reference. Is there a way to get more useful data, such as latitude and longitude?
A: There is nothing directly on the iOS device to provide the coordinates. Through the iOS developer sdk you can access the CLVisit class which has the following properties:
coordinate- which will give you the geographic coordinates
horizontalAccuracy- gives the horizontal accuracy of the above coordinates
arrivalDate- date arrived to location
departureDate- date departed location
There is also a CLFloor class which has the following property
level- which will give you a value for the floor. 0 bring ground floor, 2 being 2 floors above the ground floor, etc.
| Q: Getting coordinates for frequent locations? In iOS, if “system services” are active in privacy, my “frequent locations” are recorded, but I can only see, for each of them, a fragment of a map and a quite generic description: the name of a road, for instance, which is less than useful for a long, out-of-town road without specific nearby points of reference. Is there a way to get more useful data, such as latitude and longitude?
A: There is nothing directly on the iOS device to provide the coordinates. Through the iOS developer sdk you can access the CLVisit class which has the following properties:
coordinate- which will give you the geographic coordinates
horizontalAccuracy- gives the horizontal accuracy of the above coordinates
arrivalDate- date arrived to location
departureDate- date departed location
There is also a CLFloor class which has the following property
level- which will give you a value for the floor. 0 bring ground floor, 2 being 2 floors above the ground floor, etc.
A: If I understand your question correctly, you're looking for something to provide maps, frequently visited places, and perhaps navigation. Have you looked at Waze?
It holds favorite and frequent locations, and quite a bit more.
It seems to be the app of choice for navigation these days. (My kids told me that).
It boasts a community of users who let each other know when there is traffic, problems and faster routes.
From their site: "In preparation for major events, or when unforeseen disasters happen, the Waze community updates the map with road closures and other obstructions, so everyone can bypass traffic and save time.".
For planning without the "social aspect", Apple Maps is much better these days, and Google Maps of course, is great.
Here is a shot of some of their settings, to give you an idea:
Oh, it's free, but has adverts you can pay to remove.
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b9873ea29d63bb715c2237295bca773871389f61 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: `lookupviewservice` eats a lot memory After a while, lookupviewservice will occurred and use more than 2G memory (even more than this after a few days). I have to end the process manually, but after a while, it comes up again, even though I have never used the Dictionary app.
What is this caused by? There might be memory leakage with this app, but how can I prevent this?
My laptop is Macbook Pro with 10.10.2.
A: I have the same problem. As I don't care about the Dictionary lookup service I disabled it. In System Preferences : Trackpad : Point & Click, I unchecked "Lookup & data detectors" and also "Force click and haptic feedback". Then I force quit the LookupViewService processes which Activity Monitor showed using a lot of Real Mem. Hope this helps.
| Q: `lookupviewservice` eats a lot memory After a while, lookupviewservice will occurred and use more than 2G memory (even more than this after a few days). I have to end the process manually, but after a while, it comes up again, even though I have never used the Dictionary app.
What is this caused by? There might be memory leakage with this app, but how can I prevent this?
My laptop is Macbook Pro with 10.10.2.
A: I have the same problem. As I don't care about the Dictionary lookup service I disabled it. In System Preferences : Trackpad : Point & Click, I unchecked "Lookup & data detectors" and also "Force click and haptic feedback". Then I force quit the LookupViewService processes which Activity Monitor showed using a lot of Real Mem. Hope this helps.
A: this is the osx feature,search what is the word means in Dictionary by click 3 fingers.
I think it's a bug of 10.10
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faf01ba647ee8b38bc3bd36f5404a5821d1804d7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk? I am booting my macbook through an external usb drive. At system preferences - startup disk when I try to select my internal harddisk it says:
You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk.
What could be the issue with the internal drive or how can I fix it?
A: The first thing I'd try is resetting the NVRAM:
*
*Shut down your Mac.
*Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P,
and R. Turn on your Mac.
*Press and hold the ⌘+Option+P+R keys immediately after you
hear the startup sound.
*Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup
sound for a second time.
*Release the keys.
...and see if that solves your problem. If it doesn't, I'd start worrying about a hardware fault.
| Q: You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk? I am booting my macbook through an external usb drive. At system preferences - startup disk when I try to select my internal harddisk it says:
You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk.
What could be the issue with the internal drive or how can I fix it?
A: The first thing I'd try is resetting the NVRAM:
*
*Shut down your Mac.
*Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P,
and R. Turn on your Mac.
*Press and hold the ⌘+Option+P+R keys immediately after you
hear the startup sound.
*Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup
sound for a second time.
*Release the keys.
...and see if that solves your problem. If it doesn't, I'd start worrying about a hardware fault.
A: I had the same issue when I was adding a new external HD to boot from. My original boot drive started giving me this error. It was still usable, and I could boot from it if I held the option key down during startup and selected it, but could not select it from Sys Prefs without getting an error. I tried all the Disk Utility things to no avail. It was only when I reset the NVRAM with the cmd, option, p & r solution that everything went back to normal.
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85ad492c8d345a41d0e30b74a1673aebb28ba408 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Natural Scroll Direction: On with trackpad, Off with mouse I already tried this:
Changing trackpad scroll direction with AppleScript in Yosemite
But it didn't work.
What I need is when I use the internal macBook Pro trackpad, natural scroll direction is enabled, and when I use an external mouse, it is disabled.
If this is impossible, how about the following alternative: when I plug in a mouse switch to "non-natural" scroll direction, and when I disconnect the mouse switch back to natural.
A: Try this:
Go to Accessibility settings for Mouse & Trackpad in System Preferences.
Tick the
"Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present"
option.
Then, with your mouse connected, go back to your Mouse settings in the System Preferences and adjust scrolling accordingly.
| Q: Natural Scroll Direction: On with trackpad, Off with mouse I already tried this:
Changing trackpad scroll direction with AppleScript in Yosemite
But it didn't work.
What I need is when I use the internal macBook Pro trackpad, natural scroll direction is enabled, and when I use an external mouse, it is disabled.
If this is impossible, how about the following alternative: when I plug in a mouse switch to "non-natural" scroll direction, and when I disconnect the mouse switch back to natural.
A: Try this:
Go to Accessibility settings for Mouse & Trackpad in System Preferences.
Tick the
"Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present"
option.
Then, with your mouse connected, go back to your Mouse settings in the System Preferences and adjust scrolling accordingly.
A: I got frustrated about this too. I found scroll reverser but it didn't seem to work reliably and other report it doesn't work at all on Catalina. I decided to develop my own app to fix the issue called UnnaturalScrollWheels, it also allows to disable scroll acceleration and modify the number of lines each wheel click scrolls.
https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels
A: Hi just found a great app that totally fixed this and so simple! You can set the scroll direction for each device separately.
SCROLL REVERSER
http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
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fd8361290f09fae006e42e91159c028fc444fd29 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing iterm2 Terminal Color Is there a way to bold the color of the current active terminal tab in iterm2? I do not see an option to do that on the appearance tab of preferences. I know I can change the tab style, but I still want a really bold appearance.
From the above picture, I want the middle tab to be of a bold color (orange or some other bright colors) when it is active.
A: iTerm2 build 2.1.4 on OS X 10.11.4 has that capability built in:
View > Tab Colour:
Clicking one of the colours has the following result (Inactive):
(Active)
| Q: Changing iterm2 Terminal Color Is there a way to bold the color of the current active terminal tab in iterm2? I do not see an option to do that on the appearance tab of preferences. I know I can change the tab style, but I still want a really bold appearance.
From the above picture, I want the middle tab to be of a bold color (orange or some other bright colors) when it is active.
A: iTerm2 build 2.1.4 on OS X 10.11.4 has that capability built in:
View > Tab Colour:
Clicking one of the colours has the following result (Inactive):
(Active)
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333ccb94cdf137f1d3be399c14e4030c569038f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you lengthen the amount of time that Time Machine keeps hourly backups? Time Machine keeps hourly backups for 24 hours by default before purging for daily backups and I'd like to extend this further (to a week of hourly backups). Is there a way to change the backup retention policy config to allow for this? There doesn't seem to be an option in the UI.
Failing this, I'll have to install something else and I'd rather stick with Time Machine because of a fairly large initial backup (millions of files, TB's of data, already under backup with Time Machine)
A: The answer is this isn't easily done. Apple doesn't expose the timing which means it's likely to change if you apply any updates to the system or the change might even break backups so they don't run.
I've left a comment asking about the use case. I've employed scripts to get around this in several cases for customers, but I'd need to know more about your actual use case before providing an alternate solution that would work even with the default Time Machine scheduling.
| Q: How do you lengthen the amount of time that Time Machine keeps hourly backups? Time Machine keeps hourly backups for 24 hours by default before purging for daily backups and I'd like to extend this further (to a week of hourly backups). Is there a way to change the backup retention policy config to allow for this? There doesn't seem to be an option in the UI.
Failing this, I'll have to install something else and I'd rather stick with Time Machine because of a fairly large initial backup (millions of files, TB's of data, already under backup with Time Machine)
A: The answer is this isn't easily done. Apple doesn't expose the timing which means it's likely to change if you apply any updates to the system or the change might even break backups so they don't run.
I've left a comment asking about the use case. I've employed scripts to get around this in several cases for customers, but I'd need to know more about your actual use case before providing an alternate solution that would work even with the default Time Machine scheduling.
A: One such script / app BASED on Time Machine is one called rsnapshot (which is legal on apple products afaik (license wise) and you CAN set timing and frequency rather easily..
A: There is no way for the user to change the backup retention policy of Time Machine, and I'm not aware of any third-party apps exist that extend it with that kind of configurability either.
The third-party apps that do exist can only flip Time Machine on and off for you to achieve a less frequent backup schedule than hourly. There is one on the AppStore called TimePreserver to manually back up your backups, but it cannot be run as a scheduled service.
You could potentially write a maintenance script to run periodically that would open the Time Machine server and copy off the hourly backups for safe keeping elsewhere. But then to recover that information, it's unclear to me whether it would be as simple as copying the hourly backup files back to the Time Machine server and trying to access them via the Time Machine client interface. This is something that you might test before writing the script.
You could also try preserving the hourly backups on the server-side by doing something similar with your own Linux-based Time Machine server or Time-Machine compatible NAS. You'd just have to create your own way to keep hourly backups from being deleted (an hourly maintenance script that copies them to a separate location or manages file permissions or something).
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8ac7c7fca562cb3531467dd66a19df8e1f5772af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? I just want the red line to appear on words. But autocorrect is terrible and ruins most everything I say. So I just want spell check only. But when I turn off autocorrect then spell check turns off also. How do I fix that?
I'm on iOS 8.3 on a 5S.
A: Settings ➙ General ➙ Keyboard:
Turn off Auto-Correction
Make sure Check Spelling (at the bottom of that same screen) is on
Your iDevice will no longer automatically correct misspelled words, but it will highlight them for you. As far as I know this is the only way to have spell-checking on without the Auto-Correct feature.
| Q: On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? I just want the red line to appear on words. But autocorrect is terrible and ruins most everything I say. So I just want spell check only. But when I turn off autocorrect then spell check turns off also. How do I fix that?
I'm on iOS 8.3 on a 5S.
A: Settings ➙ General ➙ Keyboard:
Turn off Auto-Correction
Make sure Check Spelling (at the bottom of that same screen) is on
Your iDevice will no longer automatically correct misspelled words, but it will highlight them for you. As far as I know this is the only way to have spell-checking on without the Auto-Correct feature.
A: Turn on autocorrect, then turn on Check Spelling. Then turn off autocorrect again. That might turn on spell checking without autocorrect.
A: Go to your keyboard settings and add "English" to your keyboards. The red line will detect misspelled English words.
A: I tried all above but it didn't work - finally turned off predictive and turned on and now my spell check is working
A: Predictive was off. Turned it on and now I have my spell check back. And I turned auto correction off.
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1c99c6559bd910b1ffab96ad3e31075561a8d11e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to list audio card IDs from terminal I am developing a script which deals with sound recording.
As user potentially can have multiple sound cards attached, I would like to give him/her a chance to select desired one. The software I use for actual recording asks for numeric "Device ID".
Is there any way to retreive list of Device IDs along with soundcards' names from command line (terminal)?
A: system_profiler is the tool in mac OS to show hw or sw configuraion.
Get the datatye you want to look for using --listDataTypes.
$ system_profiler -listDataTypes | grep Audio
SPAudioDataType
Then fire the command,
$ system_profiler SPAudioDataType
Audio:
Intel High Definition Audio:
Audio ID: 128
Headphone:
Connection: Combination Output
Speaker:
Connection: Internal
External Microphone / iPhone Headset:
Connection: Combination Output
Internal Microphone:
Connection: Internal
S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Output:
Connection: Combination Output
HDMI / DisplayPort Output:
Connection: Display
Devices:
Built-in Microphone:
Default Input Device: Yes
Input Channels: 2
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Current SampleRate: 44100
Transport: Built-in
Built-in Output:
Default Output Device: Yes
Default System Output Device: Yes
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Output Channels: 2
Current SampleRate: 44100
Transport: Built-in
| Q: How to list audio card IDs from terminal I am developing a script which deals with sound recording.
As user potentially can have multiple sound cards attached, I would like to give him/her a chance to select desired one. The software I use for actual recording asks for numeric "Device ID".
Is there any way to retreive list of Device IDs along with soundcards' names from command line (terminal)?
A: system_profiler is the tool in mac OS to show hw or sw configuraion.
Get the datatye you want to look for using --listDataTypes.
$ system_profiler -listDataTypes | grep Audio
SPAudioDataType
Then fire the command,
$ system_profiler SPAudioDataType
Audio:
Intel High Definition Audio:
Audio ID: 128
Headphone:
Connection: Combination Output
Speaker:
Connection: Internal
External Microphone / iPhone Headset:
Connection: Combination Output
Internal Microphone:
Connection: Internal
S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Output:
Connection: Combination Output
HDMI / DisplayPort Output:
Connection: Display
Devices:
Built-in Microphone:
Default Input Device: Yes
Input Channels: 2
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Current SampleRate: 44100
Transport: Built-in
Built-in Output:
Default Output Device: Yes
Default System Output Device: Yes
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Output Channels: 2
Current SampleRate: 44100
Transport: Built-in
A: I have found out that typing system_profiler SPAudioDataType -xml does the job and lists all necessary information. It is solved :)
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9cf89d2562d9ade4f99b19eb89e7b939cb6e2ab3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to access Greek symbols on macOS from a basic keyboard without copy/paste? I write mathematical computer code.
I frequently need Greek letters such as ø
My current workflow is terrible: hold down OPT and run my finger across the three rows of the keyboard:
œ∑´®†¥¨^øπ“‘«
åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ
Ω≈ç√∫~µ≤≥÷
... And see if I can find what I'm hunting for.
Failing that, typing 'alpha Unicode' into Google hope for some symbol I can copy and paste.
I discovered that in system settings -> keyboard -> keyboard, I can "show keyboard and character viewers in menubar".
The character viewer looks like it will come to the rescue, but ... no Greek symbols! ARGH!
What can I do?
A: An alternative - if you know the symbol is in the Opt keys somewhere but just cant remember
Show Keyboard Viewer, then if you hold Opt it will show you the alternatives. You can either complete from the keyboard or click with the mouse to insert at the current carat
| Q: How to access Greek symbols on macOS from a basic keyboard without copy/paste? I write mathematical computer code.
I frequently need Greek letters such as ø
My current workflow is terrible: hold down OPT and run my finger across the three rows of the keyboard:
œ∑´®†¥¨^øπ“‘«
åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ
Ω≈ç√∫~µ≤≥÷
... And see if I can find what I'm hunting for.
Failing that, typing 'alpha Unicode' into Google hope for some symbol I can copy and paste.
I discovered that in system settings -> keyboard -> keyboard, I can "show keyboard and character viewers in menubar".
The character viewer looks like it will come to the rescue, but ... no Greek symbols! ARGH!
What can I do?
A: An alternative - if you know the symbol is in the Opt keys somewhere but just cant remember
Show Keyboard Viewer, then if you hold Opt it will show you the alternatives. You can either complete from the keyboard or click with the mouse to insert at the current carat
A: Tested on OSX 10.15+
View steps on imgur
First, add the input source
*
*Navigate to System Preferences > Keyboard:
*Under the Input Sources tab, hit the "+" to add a new source:
*Add the desired input source, in this case, Greek:
Next, setup shortcuts for switching
*
*For the most commonly used alternative input source, it's convenient to allow switching by pressing and holding Caps Lock:
*Under Keyboard > Shortcuts, the system has a default shortcut of ^Space (Ctrl-Space):
*If you keep holding Ctrl after pressing ^Space, you will get the input source selection menu:
A: One particular alternative: if you're using the text editor vim, then you can enter almost any Unicode character by using its digraphs feature.
For example, a lower-case alpha (α) is CtrlK, a, *; and a capital lambda (Λ) is CtrlK, L, *. You can run :digraphs to see the full list.
And of course you can then select, copy, and paste them from vim into other apps. (That's probably not the most efficient approach; but if you use vim it's worth knowing about.)
A: Here's the neatest trick I've found for easily getting the Greek letters when I need them. In System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts I have Select the previous input source mapped to cmd-space:
and then in Input Sources I have my standard keyboard and the Greek keyboard:
Now whenever I hit cmd-space my keyboard switches over to Γρεεκ (or vice-versa):
The Greek letters map to the English letters in a much more rational way than what you get with holding option and hunting/pecking. The one caveat is that cmd-space is natively mapped as a shortcut for something else, but considering that I can't even remember what that something else is it wasn't very important.
Edit:
For completeness, it turns out that cmd-space is normally a shortcut that brings up a Spotlight search bar.
A: In the top left-hand corner of the Character Viewer, there’s a gear icon. The first option is “Customise List…”.
This gives you a selectable list of all the character sets available in the sidebar. If you scroll down, you’ll find Greek as one of the options:
I don’t have a Mavericks machine to hand to check, but I’m fairly sure this feature existed before Yosemite.
A: υσε υνιγoδειτ.νετ via unicodeit.net Online Demo
It can also be downloaded and installed on a Mac, and put into a Service so it is easily accessible within Keynote and Pages.
This tool permits to enter greek letters, but also any mathematical, chimical or physical notation.
A: There is also https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ which is a
[…] Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor for the macOS
Screenshot from their website:
As the problem owner does not want to write greek proze, but wants to use (greek) symbols to express math in a programming language, he could try use Ukele to modify/augment/re-map his current US keyboard with extra math symbols, so he does not need to change language every time he switches from math-mode to Python or Julia or whatever. This also allows for mapping other math symbols, like ∂ ∜ or ≨, symbols that the Greek community have not added to their alphabet.
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f3d08b64c5344bad92697561fb4fcc2f7d53ac05 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How many external monitors does the iMac 27" with 5k display support? Specs indicate just 1. Has anyone connected more than 1 monitor successfully? How many can you connect in total?
A: From Everymac…
In addition to the internal display, this model can support an external display up to 3840x2160 via Thunderbolt 2 (4K UltraHD). Third-parties have discovered that it also can support two simultaneous 27-Inch Thunderbolt displays at 2560x1140 each in lieu of a single UltraHD display.
I'm tempted to think that 2560x1140 is a typo & ought to be 2560x1440
| Q: How many external monitors does the iMac 27" with 5k display support? Specs indicate just 1. Has anyone connected more than 1 monitor successfully? How many can you connect in total?
A: From Everymac…
In addition to the internal display, this model can support an external display up to 3840x2160 via Thunderbolt 2 (4K UltraHD). Third-parties have discovered that it also can support two simultaneous 27-Inch Thunderbolt displays at 2560x1140 each in lieu of a single UltraHD display.
I'm tempted to think that 2560x1140 is a typo & ought to be 2560x1440
A: At least 2, and likely no more.
The Retina 5K iMac can support an external 4K (UHD) (3840x2160 @60Hz) monitor AND a second external monitor up to at least 1920x1200 (60Hz) at the same time.
This is the setup I am currently using. No special tricks needed. Machine: Core i5 3.5 GHz, Radeon R9 M295X 4GB VRAM graphics card (BTO upgrade), 16 GB RAM, Yosemite 10.10.5.
I have the internal display set to scaled ("Looks like 2880 x 1620") and the 4K display set to 3840x2160 in Display Preferences. These settings likely result in a reduction in performance vs. using the "Best for Retina" settings.
User interface animations (e.g., Mission Control) can be a little slower with these external displays running, but frankly it's not that snappy even without the external displays, if I have a lot of windows open. Hopefully El Capitan should fix this. I don't do anything graphics-intensive, so can't comment on gaming/pro apps performance.
Things I've done to improve UI performance:
*
*System Preferences > Accessibility > Check "Reduce transparency"
*Deactivate the Mission Control Animation with the following
command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -int 0; killall Dock
*
*To set Mission Control animations back to defaults:
defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration; killall Dock
*Used an app such as QuickRes to turn off the OSX Retina/HiDPI mode on the 4K display. Since I'm running it at native resolution, Retina/HiDPI pixel-doubled drawing puts pointless effort on the GPU (i.e., it doesn't serve to make anything appear crisper on screen).
FWIW, this document from Apple says that the Retina iMac can support two Thunderbolt displays (2560x1440). It also says that each Thunderbolt port can only support one display of any kind, and so that would limit the iMac to two displays total. It also suggests that the Retina iMac can support a 4K display (using MST) AND a Thunderbolt display at the same time (see footnote 5 in the table describing number of supported Thunderbolt Displays). That configuration is likely the maximum number of pixels the machine can put out across two displays (or possibly 4K & 2560x1600).
If you want to have more than 2 monitors, you can always use USB adapters utilizing DisplayLink's chipsets. I've used these to good effect on my Retina iMac.
A: I have 2 Dell 27 inch 4k monitors connected to my iMac 27 Retina with 4GB AMD, I can if it was readable run all three at max resolution and 60hz without issue.
A: The Late 2015 iMac 5K with AMD 395X can support two external 4K (UHD) displays (at the full 3840x2160 res) with the builtin iMac display set to 5120x2880 FYI. This is the configuration that I am currently running (with 10.11.2), using two LG 27MU67 displays attached via DisplayPort-to-miniDP cables on each of the iMac's thunderbolt ports.
A: Take a look at this Article (4 screen set-up),
http://www.zdnet.com/article/making-it-work-four-displays-on-a-monster-imac/
where he has three additional screen connected ....
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d88c6f8213c534e7c309ecf4bbebcd97f6261454 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the shortcut for Show/Hide Playlist in VLC? I checked VLC's preferences but it seems that Show/Hide Playlist is the only player's button that doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X version. Is there any way to control that?
A: Window Menu > Playlist…
Opt ⌥ Cmd ⌘ P
| Q: What's the shortcut for Show/Hide Playlist in VLC? I checked VLC's preferences but it seems that Show/Hide Playlist is the only player's button that doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X version. Is there any way to control that?
A: Window Menu > Playlist…
Opt ⌥ Cmd ⌘ P
A: Control+L
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756ac37666fa0949ae5ecd6a8f160e468ed7780e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enable Quick Look for text files without the .txt extension Doing Quick Look on .txt files is very convenient (select in Finder and press space).
Is there a way to enable Quick Look for other text files which don't have the .txt extension (e.g., .strings files)?
A: QLStephen is a more general solution that works for all kinds of text files.
| Q: Enable Quick Look for text files without the .txt extension Doing Quick Look on .txt files is very convenient (select in Finder and press space).
Is there a way to enable Quick Look for other text files which don't have the .txt extension (e.g., .strings files)?
A: QLStephen is a more general solution that works for all kinds of text files.
A: People can develop plugins to allow Quick Look to support more file types. You can find Apple's Quick Look documentation here.
Luckily though Timac (aka Alexandre Colucci) has already created one. You can find Timac's Quick Look plugin for strings files here.
Just download the compiled plugin, copy it to your /Library/QuickLook folder and run the qlmanage -r command in the Terminal to refresh the Quick Look plugin cache and you should now be able to view previews of files with ".strings" extensions. He even made his plugin capable enough to read .strings files that aren't plain text; some .strings files are in a binary format.
He also supplies the source on his blog, at the same link above, which should help point you in the right direction if you wanted to create a plugin for other similar files that you want Quick Look to recognise.
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2c20982baa1cd196ae1f0dd3a8aa990f5e6637cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Accountsd using lots of CPU constantly This dreaded issue started at some time after upgrade to OS X (Yosemite) 10.10.3. accountsd uses about 60% CPU constantly, making the laptop hot and noisy.
I'm not using iCloud at all.
Killing it doesn't help, because it starts again quickly.
Probably related question, but it's about iOS: iPhone: What is `accountsd` and why is it using 80% CPU?
A: You could try using the Console application to see if accountsd has recorded any errors. Just open Console and enter "accountsd" in the search filter in the top-right corner of the window.
accountsd doesn't just deal with iCloud accounts. It appears to handle all of the accounts listed in the "Internet Accounts" pane of System Preferences. You could try disabling them all, then enabling them one by one to see which one is causing the issue.
| Q: Accountsd using lots of CPU constantly This dreaded issue started at some time after upgrade to OS X (Yosemite) 10.10.3. accountsd uses about 60% CPU constantly, making the laptop hot and noisy.
I'm not using iCloud at all.
Killing it doesn't help, because it starts again quickly.
Probably related question, but it's about iOS: iPhone: What is `accountsd` and why is it using 80% CPU?
A: You could try using the Console application to see if accountsd has recorded any errors. Just open Console and enter "accountsd" in the search filter in the top-right corner of the window.
accountsd doesn't just deal with iCloud accounts. It appears to handle all of the accounts listed in the "Internet Accounts" pane of System Preferences. You could try disabling them all, then enabling them one by one to see which one is causing the issue.
A: In my case, a Gmail account password had changed (I had left a company but wanted to keep checking my mail in case of emergency.)
@Alistair's Console solution sorted me out right away.
The bigger mystery is why a borked account login needs to chew up 100% CPU (???), perhaps someone who works at infinite loop can enlighten us?
Wanders off, muttering to himself something incoherent about Apple developers
A: Check the console, in my case it showed the following:
23/05/2015 09:43:16.689 icbaccountsd[16967]: SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 329
I had Google Chrome open with Google+ running and it appears there's something polling related to adding people to circles. Quitting Chrome fixed it. I suspect restarting will fix it only for a while, though.
A: Date September 29, 2020 Catalina 10.15.7 installed
I had the same problem - noisy fan and very high cpu - 600+ - registered in Activity Monitor. The solution I have found is to disable 'commerce' in the activity window. 'commerce' is just that it seems - everything Apple does to 'smooth' purchases on its platforms. With commerce disabled, my iMac is running fine. Haven't restarted yet though so I imagine it will restart commerce so I'll need to disable it again. Needs an Apple fix.
Up date: I have now restarted and - yay! - so far no return to abnormal over use. 'commerce' is running again, too, as I expected - but all is - so far - fine
A: My gmail account was also the culprit. It seems that around the Yosemite upgrade and/or adding my gmail credentials to iCloud keychain things got confused. I use 2-factor authentication on Google and had been using an app-specific password.
I ran the keychain access application, searched for "google" and "gmail" and deleted all the relevant entries. Yosemite then asked for my Google password, and I was able to authenticate with 2-factor rather than using app-specific passwords. Still had to set an app-specific password in the Mail preferences--not sure if that's intended. But all is well now.
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a8a89055aa4125029edda9ce2fca15740049ca58 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to suppress the Delete From All Devices confirmation in the Photos app? I installed Yosemite 10.10.3, which comes with the new Photos app. Seems nice so far...
When deleting a photo on my MacBook, a warning message is shown:
I don't need to see this every time I delete a photo. I can't see any settings to suppress this message - are there any known workarounds?
A: Command+Delete avoids the confirmation dialog.
| Q: How to suppress the Delete From All Devices confirmation in the Photos app? I installed Yosemite 10.10.3, which comes with the new Photos app. Seems nice so far...
When deleting a photo on my MacBook, a warning message is shown:
I don't need to see this every time I delete a photo. I can't see any settings to suppress this message - are there any known workarounds?
A: Command+Delete avoids the confirmation dialog.
A: If you delete the photo or photos using the right-click context menu rather than the keyboard shortcut then this confirmation sheet is not shown.
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8adacde0c8766ff8315152e52b7d43bbc2566632 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to select which version of Swift to use in Xcode? There's an update for Xcode 6.3 and it includes a new version of Swift (1.2). If I update, do I have to migrate all my Swift code to 1.2 or can I select an older version of Swift?
A: You have to migrate all your code to Swift 1.2 if you're using Xcode 6.3. If you go to Edit > Convert > To Latest Swift Syntax, it will help find many of the changes. However, there's still a lot of manual editing to do.
In the long run, it will serve you better to keep your Swift code at the latest version so that future migrations are easier and so that you can take advantage of future enhancements to the language.
| Q: Is it possible to select which version of Swift to use in Xcode? There's an update for Xcode 6.3 and it includes a new version of Swift (1.2). If I update, do I have to migrate all my Swift code to 1.2 or can I select an older version of Swift?
A: You have to migrate all your code to Swift 1.2 if you're using Xcode 6.3. If you go to Edit > Convert > To Latest Swift Syntax, it will help find many of the changes. However, there's still a lot of manual editing to do.
In the long run, it will serve you better to keep your Swift code at the latest version so that future migrations are easier and so that you can take advantage of future enhancements to the language.
A: You can select which version of Swift you'd like to use in Xcode 7.3 via the following: (Menu) XCode > Toolchains > (select your version)
A: You can install multiple toolchains for Xcode to use - wrote a small how-to here: https://medium.com/@pardel/using-old-versions-of-swift-in-xcode-4dd46644a257
TL;DR - Download & install old Swift toolchains from: https://swift.org/download/#releases
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533da9d1e5afed1aa698a52267f0a88cdc3590b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: App-specific sound output devices I am looking for a control / app for sound output control which has function that allows me to have selective sound output for any app that plays sound or music.
Examples:
*
*I am playing music in iTunes and I want it use my AirPort Output for the sound. The rest of sound / voice / music from my MacBook can use the internal speak or headset to play it.
*At the same time, I can play my Spotify on my living room AirPort, my iTunes to my bedroom and watch YouTube on my MacBook.
A: You may be able to do what you want with the Blackhole audio driver if you can stand a little tinkering: https://existential.audio/blackhole
A little more user friendly option is some of the commercial apps from Rogue Amoeba: https://rogueamoeba.com/ Check out Soundsource or Loopback. There is a try before you buy.
| Q: App-specific sound output devices I am looking for a control / app for sound output control which has function that allows me to have selective sound output for any app that plays sound or music.
Examples:
*
*I am playing music in iTunes and I want it use my AirPort Output for the sound. The rest of sound / voice / music from my MacBook can use the internal speak or headset to play it.
*At the same time, I can play my Spotify on my living room AirPort, my iTunes to my bedroom and watch YouTube on my MacBook.
A: You may be able to do what you want with the Blackhole audio driver if you can stand a little tinkering: https://existential.audio/blackhole
A little more user friendly option is some of the commercial apps from Rogue Amoeba: https://rogueamoeba.com/ Check out Soundsource or Loopback. There is a try before you buy.
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2cd2e7832a7a4904d53c6469e025b736343d77d2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is my Time Machine backup encrypted or not? As you can see, I use Time Machine to backup on drive "Data" on "ZRH" which is a Time Capsule. To the best of my knowledge, I selected "Encrypt backups" when I configured this backup a few weeks ago. But as I have a look into the configuration, the box "Encrypt backups" is not checked.
I wonder whether my backup is actually not encrypted or whether this is just sort of a "bug" in the configuration menu that the checkbox does not show the actual encryption state.
I have File Vault enabled.
(Trial and error is not an option in this case, since it's a 500 GB backup which would take forever to rebuild.)
It would already help if a few of you could just have a look into their backup configuration and check whether the checkbox is checked for encrypted backups.
A: I deleted the old backup and created a new one, with encryption on:
Yes, the checkbox in the above screenshot is displayed as checked if the backup is encrypted.
| Q: Is my Time Machine backup encrypted or not? As you can see, I use Time Machine to backup on drive "Data" on "ZRH" which is a Time Capsule. To the best of my knowledge, I selected "Encrypt backups" when I configured this backup a few weeks ago. But as I have a look into the configuration, the box "Encrypt backups" is not checked.
I wonder whether my backup is actually not encrypted or whether this is just sort of a "bug" in the configuration menu that the checkbox does not show the actual encryption state.
I have File Vault enabled.
(Trial and error is not an option in this case, since it's a 500 GB backup which would take forever to rebuild.)
It would already help if a few of you could just have a look into their backup configuration and check whether the checkbox is checked for encrypted backups.
A: I deleted the old backup and created a new one, with encryption on:
Yes, the checkbox in the above screenshot is displayed as checked if the backup is encrypted.
A: Make sure the driver is partitioned in GUID format. If you do elect to reformat it as GUID, this will erase your data. Also, network backups can only be encrypted before the first backup is carried out.
Hover over the greyed out checkbox and I think you should be able to see an explanation.
A: I know it is an old message but the answer can still be useful.
In the screenshot above there is a disk named "Data" in the "Available Disks". Click on it and it will be possible to enable encryption. This works at least in Sierra (not sure about earlier systems). Beware that encryption may take a lot of time. But you can eject the drive to pause encryption and reconnect to resume it automatically.
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9c5741f2c687ec2a7b290ccd2aaf1b7c1158f63f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where else can I download the legacy Java SE 6 runtime? I just upgraded to OSX Yosemite.
I am trying to open my Adobe Flash CS6 app, but it says
To open "Flash" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.
A simple google search yields this page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6604985
There are several links there - however, they all lead to the same site: a downloads page from Apple that offer the required Java SE runtime. The page is the following:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
But it cannot be viewed, since it has a redirect loop.
Where else can I download this?
A: Go to https://www.apple.com/support/ then search for DL1572
See Apple Knowledgebase pages often blank
EDIT - or in this case, not… as it doesn't seem to fix it
Update:
Original KB link appears to be working again.
Would appear to have been an Apple issue, now resolved.
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
| Q: Where else can I download the legacy Java SE 6 runtime? I just upgraded to OSX Yosemite.
I am trying to open my Adobe Flash CS6 app, but it says
To open "Flash" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.
A simple google search yields this page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6604985
There are several links there - however, they all lead to the same site: a downloads page from Apple that offer the required Java SE runtime. The page is the following:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
But it cannot be viewed, since it has a redirect loop.
Where else can I download this?
A: Go to https://www.apple.com/support/ then search for DL1572
See Apple Knowledgebase pages often blank
EDIT - or in this case, not… as it doesn't seem to fix it
Update:
Original KB link appears to be working again.
Would appear to have been an Apple issue, now resolved.
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
A: The problem appears to be that the page is set to redirect to itself.
Using the Live HTTP Headers plugin for Chrome shows the following code being returned by the server.
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Cache-Control: no-siteapp
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:08:55 GMT
Location: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_GB
Server: AkamaiGHost
Essentially telling it to redirect to itself. Not sure though whether this is a problem on Apple's server or Akamai's.
A bunch of their download pages seem to be broken right now. Even the main download page has this redirect issue at the moment.
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8a7eab09c2ec2780906322cd753516f1baf474af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple TV Black screen (OS X Yosemite ) I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) and also a third generation Apple TV. Lately, especially after 10.10.3 update for OS X Yosemite, I am having mirroring issues.
I have checked all the links, forums etc on google and still no luck.
The problem is basically, my ipad 2/iphone 5 can successfully mirror to Apple TV, but when I try to mirror my MBP, it only shows black screen with audio..
I cannot control the apple tv settings from my menu bar on MBP either. It does not let me choose whether to extend my desktop or mirror built-in display.
On web, I read forums with similar questions but they are generally left unanswered or did not work for me.
Thanks in advance xxx
A: In cases where something appears to work, but it is not following your commands:
*
*Logging as different user and try again, to check if your profile/permissions needs repairs.
*Open Disk Utility located in your utility folder, and use the Repair Permissions.
| Q: Apple TV Black screen (OS X Yosemite ) I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) and also a third generation Apple TV. Lately, especially after 10.10.3 update for OS X Yosemite, I am having mirroring issues.
I have checked all the links, forums etc on google and still no luck.
The problem is basically, my ipad 2/iphone 5 can successfully mirror to Apple TV, but when I try to mirror my MBP, it only shows black screen with audio..
I cannot control the apple tv settings from my menu bar on MBP either. It does not let me choose whether to extend my desktop or mirror built-in display.
On web, I read forums with similar questions but they are generally left unanswered or did not work for me.
Thanks in advance xxx
A: In cases where something appears to work, but it is not following your commands:
*
*Logging as different user and try again, to check if your profile/permissions needs repairs.
*Open Disk Utility located in your utility folder, and use the Repair Permissions.
A: I had this problem with two teachers:
1) I un - replugged the ATV - that fixed the first one.
2) Other teacher was recently upgraded to MacBook Air, then it worked for about a week before getting black screen, but audio ok. She could get it to work from her iPad, iPhone, and I could get it to work from my MBPro.
For Teacher 2 I changed the resolution IN THE APPLE TV. Did not help to change resolution in computer until after I found that using 1080p HD - 50Hz (TV Resolution) from ATV Audio/Video from menu was the resolution that worked.
A: There seem to exist a multitude of possible reasons for this bug. Mine was having Duet Display installed. After some fruitless googling I followed a hunch and found this FAQ on their website:
Some customers are reporting issues with AirPlay when Duet is
installed and they mirror or extend their desktop to an Apple TV. We
have consulted with lead engineers on Apple's Airplay team and they
are aware of the issue with 3rd party display applications but a fix
does not seem likely in the foreseeable future.
So there's that. In case of Duet Display this means deinstalling the app. Simply quitting the app won't cut it. Fortunately they made it really easy and added a Deinstall option to the app menu. It's just too bad Duet and Airplay cannot co-exist.
EDIT: To extend on the symptoms I experienced, Airplay worked flawlessly out of iTunes. When activating Airplay mirroring or screen extension, the Apple TV only showed the black screen but played the mirrored audio.
A: I was having this same issue. I just restarted my MBP and now AirPlay is working fine.
A: This answer works for me.
*
*Download and run uninstall for Air-Parrot http://support.airsquirrels.com/article.php?id=8
*Manually deleted the following files:
APExtFramebuffer located at: System/Library/Extensions
AirParrotDriver located at: System/Library/Extensions
AirParrotDriver located at: /Library/Extensions
*Restart
I found the answer here : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5952624?tstart=0
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1e76e3bef83af8c33968ffb98fef5280dbfd082f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to find .bashrc or .zshrc? I just got a MacBook Pro and am in the process of trying to get GNU commands installed. I'm following this guide, but I don't know how to do:
Then add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc:
export PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
I did a cd; ls -a and I don't see any files called .bashrc or .zshrc.
Additional Info:
Running Yosemite 10.10.3 on a MacBook Pro. Already have Xcode installed. Total newbie at this.
A: To know which shell are you using, use the following command:
$ echo $SHELL
It will return something like:
/bin/bash
or
/bin/zsh
After you know the shell, if the file .bashrc or .zshrc doesn't exist in your home directory (echo $HOME to find out), just create it.
If you are using bash, you may have a file called .bash_profile where you can put your export command instead (don't know in zsh).
| Q: How to find .bashrc or .zshrc? I just got a MacBook Pro and am in the process of trying to get GNU commands installed. I'm following this guide, but I don't know how to do:
Then add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc:
export PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
I did a cd; ls -a and I don't see any files called .bashrc or .zshrc.
Additional Info:
Running Yosemite 10.10.3 on a MacBook Pro. Already have Xcode installed. Total newbie at this.
A: To know which shell are you using, use the following command:
$ echo $SHELL
It will return something like:
/bin/bash
or
/bin/zsh
After you know the shell, if the file .bashrc or .zshrc doesn't exist in your home directory (echo $HOME to find out), just create it.
If you are using bash, you may have a file called .bash_profile where you can put your export command instead (don't know in zsh).
A: Create your .bashrc with your text editor & add any files you want. Go to terminal and type in: ls -a It will show some hidden files.
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b0bd5ee82c58566fb0fef43ed75f4f4103fb7a40 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS - Lower volume before playing video Sometimes I want to play a video but I'm in a meeting or a place where I can't afford to wait for the video to start to then quickly press the volume buttons to make it softer.
Is there any way I can mute the audio for a video before playing it? It seems like a valid scenario.
A: You can lower volume without playing the video.
from another answer:
The control center works (swipe up from bottom of screen and slide volume slider as desired).
In iOS 9 at least, you can also go Settings -> Sounds and under the Ringer and Alerts section, turn off "Change with Buttons", then use the volume buttons on the side of the phone to adjust the media volume. You can leave this option off to always have media volume control with the hardware buttons if you are OK with the ringer volume being just off or on at a preset level using the silent toggle switch on the side of the phone.
| Q: iOS - Lower volume before playing video Sometimes I want to play a video but I'm in a meeting or a place where I can't afford to wait for the video to start to then quickly press the volume buttons to make it softer.
Is there any way I can mute the audio for a video before playing it? It seems like a valid scenario.
A: You can lower volume without playing the video.
from another answer:
The control center works (swipe up from bottom of screen and slide volume slider as desired).
In iOS 9 at least, you can also go Settings -> Sounds and under the Ringer and Alerts section, turn off "Change with Buttons", then use the volume buttons on the side of the phone to adjust the media volume. You can leave this option off to always have media volume control with the hardware buttons if you are OK with the ringer volume being just off or on at a preset level using the silent toggle switch on the side of the phone.
A: While there should be a better way to choose which volume to use, and changing the settings option of Change with Buttons to Off, there is a much easier way to control the volume of the media you’re watching instead of paying attention in meetings at work.
Simply put (I assume you need it simple since you obviously have a low attention span), turn your privacy on. On the iPhone, it’s the little switch over the volume buttons on top left side of phone.
Then, you can open your dancing piglets video, set the volume while it’s playing, then turn your privacy off again.
There. Have a good meeting. Hope they don’t ask you any questions that aren’t about princess penelope and the piglets of penzance.
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6828998080b7609d2788a1ad5407331f1656fdbc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 30hz vs 60hz 4K output I am currently using a MacBook Pro 13" 2015 model with a Samsung U28D590 UHD display.
Currently I am using the HDMI port of the monitor with a mini-displayport to HDMI adapter and receive 4K 30hz output. The display is kind of laggy at the moment, with noticeable input lag with the mouse being the main issue.
When I switch to a lower resolution it returns to 60hz output and it is much smoother (less pixels) and the mouse input lag is gone.
My question is if I just use a displayport cable and receive 4K 60hz output, will this input lag disappear?
A: Most likely, yes. The only caveat being that OS X 4k @ 60hz support has been buggy for all of Yosemite.
You'll need a high quality Mini-displayport to Displayport cable. Look for DisplayPort 2.0.
| Q: 30hz vs 60hz 4K output I am currently using a MacBook Pro 13" 2015 model with a Samsung U28D590 UHD display.
Currently I am using the HDMI port of the monitor with a mini-displayport to HDMI adapter and receive 4K 30hz output. The display is kind of laggy at the moment, with noticeable input lag with the mouse being the main issue.
When I switch to a lower resolution it returns to 60hz output and it is much smoother (less pixels) and the mouse input lag is gone.
My question is if I just use a displayport cable and receive 4K 60hz output, will this input lag disappear?
A: Most likely, yes. The only caveat being that OS X 4k @ 60hz support has been buggy for all of Yosemite.
You'll need a high quality Mini-displayport to Displayport cable. Look for DisplayPort 2.0.
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c85fa785ff04f625ae9aedeba2163745d49b08ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac camera not working even after sudo killall VDCAssistant I ran sudo killall VDCAssistant, SMC and resets and still it shows my camera isn't connected. I have recently updated OS X to Yosemite and it was going fine for a month or two but now my Photo Booth and Skype isn't working.
| Q: Mac camera not working even after sudo killall VDCAssistant I ran sudo killall VDCAssistant, SMC and resets and still it shows my camera isn't connected. I have recently updated OS X to Yosemite and it was going fine for a month or two but now my Photo Booth and Skype isn't working.
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f229bcc1f2df2c1f26330bdc90609f7614bed35c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to show/hide invisible files and folders from Service menu? How to show/hide invisible files and folders from Service menu?
By default files and folders whose name start with . is invisible. In order to show them, you can use the following command in Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true; killall Finder
To restore the default state, in which those files are hidden, use the following.
defaults delete com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles; killall Finder
How can I toggle the status of AppleShowAllFiles key without launching Terminal?
A: Apologies if this is a little off-topic from your question, but, in macOS Sierra you can toggle showing hidden files right in the Finder with Shift+cmd+.
| Q: How to show/hide invisible files and folders from Service menu? How to show/hide invisible files and folders from Service menu?
By default files and folders whose name start with . is invisible. In order to show them, you can use the following command in Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true; killall Finder
To restore the default state, in which those files are hidden, use the following.
defaults delete com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles; killall Finder
How can I toggle the status of AppleShowAllFiles key without launching Terminal?
A: Apologies if this is a little off-topic from your question, but, in macOS Sierra you can toggle showing hidden files right in the Finder with Shift+cmd+.
A: *
*Launch Automator
*Choose Service for new document.
*From "Actions" menu, choose Utilities > Run Shell Script. Double click it in the menu, or drag and drop it into the right pane.
*Make sure "Service receives" is set to no input in Finder
*Add the following shell script into the Run Shell Script
S1=`defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles`
C1='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean'
# spaces within brackets are important
if [[ $S1 == '1' ]]; then
$C1 false
elif [[ $S1 == '0' ]]; then
$C1 true
else
# does not exist
$C1 true
fi
killall Finder
*Save it with an appropriate name such as "ToggleInvisible"
*Make sure in System Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > General, the service you created is shown and ticked.
*Now go to Finder and click Finder menu > Services > "ToggleInvisible" (or your choice of name) to see the effect.
Or if you prefer, choose Application instead of Service at the beginning in Automator.
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d824e031708db9135027ac50a74a47734281a05a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable moving a window by its edge adjacent to scroll bar? In Mac OS X Yosemite, I find that the scroll bar is a small target for the mouse, and sometimes when I wish to scroll, I end up moving the whole window by grabbing its edge to the right of the scroll bar. This is never the behavior I desire.
How can I disable the ability to move a window by grabbing anything other than its title bar?
A: I try scrolling with scroll bar because there is a scroll bar. Sometimes it's better than scrolling with mouse. (smooth scrolling)
To change, go to System Preferences: General settings -> Show scroll bars -> Always
| Q: How to disable moving a window by its edge adjacent to scroll bar? In Mac OS X Yosemite, I find that the scroll bar is a small target for the mouse, and sometimes when I wish to scroll, I end up moving the whole window by grabbing its edge to the right of the scroll bar. This is never the behavior I desire.
How can I disable the ability to move a window by grabbing anything other than its title bar?
A: I try scrolling with scroll bar because there is a scroll bar. Sometimes it's better than scrolling with mouse. (smooth scrolling)
To change, go to System Preferences: General settings -> Show scroll bars -> Always
A: Apple says this is by design. No use trying to complain about it. See an example post in their forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7491958
"It's not a bug but a deliberate design feature that was introduced a few versions of OS X ago." This reply is from years ago, already, so they do not intend to fix it at least for a while it seems.
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c6fdd83df01016a149d029adc1f1fd789b80b84b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhoto won't open When I tried to open iPhoto, it says that I needed to update to the latest version.
Im using OS X Yosemite system.
When I search on App Store it says that "The item you've requested is not currently available".
A: iPhoto and Aperture are not supported any more and have been removed from the app store.
From wikipedia (here):
On April 8, 2015, Apple released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which includes the new Photos app. iPhoto and Aperture were discontinued and removed from the Mac App Store.
The successor app Photos was just released – on the corresponding page at apple.com you'll find further information about this release.
| Q: iPhoto won't open When I tried to open iPhoto, it says that I needed to update to the latest version.
Im using OS X Yosemite system.
When I search on App Store it says that "The item you've requested is not currently available".
A: iPhoto and Aperture are not supported any more and have been removed from the app store.
From wikipedia (here):
On April 8, 2015, Apple released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which includes the new Photos app. iPhoto and Aperture were discontinued and removed from the Mac App Store.
The successor app Photos was just released – on the corresponding page at apple.com you'll find further information about this release.
A: I just went through this with a friend of mine. We found and installed iPhoto from the App Store under Purchases.
A: 1) Launch the terminal (don't be afraid, type "terminal" on spotlight or in /Application/Utilities/Terminal(.app)
2) type :
/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Found this at
http://www.simplehelp.net/2015/05/01/how-to-install-iphoto-in-yosemite-os-x-10-10/
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06f1de562edbb9c4e311a77d1f8c550c7b6d24c6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Display preferences pane could not be loaded I am running OS X 10.10.3 and I tried to rotate the internal display of my Macbook Pro using this rotation trick. After I selected the 180 degree rotation, the screen rotated properly but all the rotation options were grayed out so I closed the System Preferences to try the process again.
When I go to my OS X Display preferences I get the error "Display preferences pane could not be loaded".
How do I reorient my Macbook display back to the standard orientation without erasing everything on the hard drive and reinstalling OS X?
A: I encountered this problem and could resolve it this way:
*
*boot the Macbook in safe mode (press "shift" key while the Macbook boots with the "Apple" logo)
*go in the Preferences pane -> Display : it should work
*reboot the Macbook
Hope it helps
| Q: Display preferences pane could not be loaded I am running OS X 10.10.3 and I tried to rotate the internal display of my Macbook Pro using this rotation trick. After I selected the 180 degree rotation, the screen rotated properly but all the rotation options were grayed out so I closed the System Preferences to try the process again.
When I go to my OS X Display preferences I get the error "Display preferences pane could not be loaded".
How do I reorient my Macbook display back to the standard orientation without erasing everything on the hard drive and reinstalling OS X?
A: I encountered this problem and could resolve it this way:
*
*boot the Macbook in safe mode (press "shift" key while the Macbook boots with the "Apple" logo)
*go in the Preferences pane -> Display : it should work
*reboot the Macbook
Hope it helps
A: This is so old, and I guess they've fixed it in El Capitan. One of the worst bugs I've ever ran into, because once it's triggered you'd struggle to fix it while your screen is upside down, especially if you don't have any peripherals handy. So, here are the steps just in case some unfortunate souls run into this.
* Assuming you're doing this on MacBook, or otherwise you know you're dealing with your main display. If you know better, run fb-rotate without parameters for help message.
Manually
*
*Go to https://github.com/CdLbB/fb-rotate
*Instead of following the instructions at the top to download the source and compile, you might want to scroll down, download the binary and run it directly. There's certainly risk, but your screen is now upside down so.
*Follow the links, download fb-rotateNEW2.zip and extract it.
*Open your favorite terminal such as Terminal.app
*Go to where you've extracted it e.g. cd ~/Downloads/fb-rotateNEW2/
*Run: ./fb-rotate -d0 -r0
Easy way
Copy the following single line and paste it into Terminal.app (Note the link and names might change, so if it fails fall back to the manual steps above. If you don't see 'done' at the end of the output it failed):
cd ~/Downloads && curl -LO http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6347985/Modbookish/Downloads/MacFlip/fb-rotateNEW2.zip && unzip fb-rotateNEW2.zip && fb-rotateNEW2/fb-rotate -d0 -r0 && echo done
If you're still getting the display preference pane error:
Open system preferences -> hold option/alt key and click on its dock icon -> force quit -> re-open it
That should fix it.
I managed to find the answer and fixed this like a real engineer, flipping my mbpr one way to type, another way to read, so proud of myself after this. God bless.
A: According to this page, this is a known bug in OS X. The Apple Forums suggest reinstalling OS X; I tried reinstalling but I still couldn't access the Display Preferences to rotate my display.
I did find a solution that worked within OS X 10.10.3. What I did was connect the Macbook via HDMI to my TV. I found that I could access the Display Preferences and select the proper rotation for the internal display.
One thing that I noticed after I fixed the rotation is that you can access the display preferences from another place apart from the System Preferences:
In the Apple Menu -> About This Mac -> Displays -> Displays Preferences
A: I have the same issue. I'm waiting for my Time Capsule before I will backup + reinstall.
Until then I used the following tools to get around:
*
*cscreen to select primary monitor and change resolution
*
*http://www.pyehouse.com/cscreen/
*Display Rotation to rotate the monitor back to normal and thus relieving me of a headache.
*
*http://www.magesw.com/displayrotation/
Of course this is not a long term solution (because my settings menu still doesn't work), but if someone doesn't have time to do a reinstall right away, this might help.
A: Open terminal, then type this code in. It should work.
cd ~/Downloads && curl -LO http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6347985/Modbookish/Downloads/MacFlip/fb-rotateNEW2.zip && unzip fb-rotateNEW2.zip && fb-rotateNEW2/fb-rotate -d0 -r0 && echo done
A: Plug your computer into a TV with an HDMI cord and it will allow you to open display preferences. This solution worked for myself and is easy and quick.
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ceef2187871c5079f0ce97c0360361db4f034100 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to find out process owner of unidentified windows? I have an odd error that I have not been able to associate with an application or PID properly.
In Windows, there is Process Explorer with the very handy target function that allows you to click it and then select a window to find the owner process:
Is there a way to do something similar in OS X that will allow me to find a seemingly orphaned window's owner such as this:
I have terminated every single process that can be terminated with the window manager running in OS X and yet I can still not isolate the owner.
A: I was also trying to figure this out and ended up using the solution described here. It's a Python script which lists all the processes with all the windows that belong to them and their coordinates on the screen. So it is not as easy to use as the Process Explorer on Windows, but it can get you the answer your are looking for. It helps if you can move the window to a place on your desktop with easily recognizable coordinates.
| Q: How to find out process owner of unidentified windows? I have an odd error that I have not been able to associate with an application or PID properly.
In Windows, there is Process Explorer with the very handy target function that allows you to click it and then select a window to find the owner process:
Is there a way to do something similar in OS X that will allow me to find a seemingly orphaned window's owner such as this:
I have terminated every single process that can be terminated with the window manager running in OS X and yet I can still not isolate the owner.
A: I was also trying to figure this out and ended up using the solution described here. It's a Python script which lists all the processes with all the windows that belong to them and their coordinates on the screen. So it is not as easy to use as the Process Explorer on Windows, but it can get you the answer your are looking for. It helps if you can move the window to a place on your desktop with easily recognizable coordinates.
A: *
*Download and install Xcode.
*When installed open Xcode.
*In the menubar go to Xcode > open Developer tool > Accessibility inspector
*In the Access..Inspector menu go to Inspection > Enable point to inspect
*Click on anything to see the result
It does not give you the process name, but it does give you the parent's application name
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3e8e1f6688835d9b7ec5e6031354a8049b358b23 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to have iTerm2 hotkey window slide up and down instead of fading I'm using iTerm2, and my hotkey window used to slide down and then back up. A while ago, the animation changed to having it fade in and out. Is there any way to get it to go back to sliding? I prefer that animation.
A: Sorry, I had to take that out because it didn't work well on Mac OS 10.10. It is generally unhappy about windows being outside the bounds of the screen and it led to some ugly problems.
| Q: How to have iTerm2 hotkey window slide up and down instead of fading I'm using iTerm2, and my hotkey window used to slide down and then back up. A while ago, the animation changed to having it fade in and out. Is there any way to get it to go back to sliding? I prefer that animation.
A: Sorry, I had to take that out because it didn't work well on Mac OS 10.10. It is generally unhappy about windows being outside the bounds of the screen and it led to some ugly problems.
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863cd2dff20f123159011b2e427e174c781fb6e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do disable control by iPhone headphones? I have bought 2 iPhone headphones from Amazon, good quality earphones with 5-star reviews, but unfortunately there seem an issue where it randomly initiates commands.
Music forwards, music rewards, Siri asks me if I have a question, all features that would be normally initiated by pressing your headphone buttons.
So the headphone mostly make listening music on the iPhone impossible, because of all the random control features being initiated.
How can I disable these headphone controls? The quality of the audio is pretty good and I'd like to keep using these headphones.
A: This is trivially accomplished by removing the third pin from the connectivity. You could buy an adapter for this purpose if you don't want to change headsets or get what appears to be a faulty switch in it repaired.
*
*http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Headset-Adapter-Smartphone-smartphone/dp/B0046FMRGA/
Basically the green plug goes into your phone and the headphones go to the black end of the cable.
| Q: How do disable control by iPhone headphones? I have bought 2 iPhone headphones from Amazon, good quality earphones with 5-star reviews, but unfortunately there seem an issue where it randomly initiates commands.
Music forwards, music rewards, Siri asks me if I have a question, all features that would be normally initiated by pressing your headphone buttons.
So the headphone mostly make listening music on the iPhone impossible, because of all the random control features being initiated.
How can I disable these headphone controls? The quality of the audio is pretty good and I'd like to keep using these headphones.
A: This is trivially accomplished by removing the third pin from the connectivity. You could buy an adapter for this purpose if you don't want to change headsets or get what appears to be a faulty switch in it repaired.
*
*http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Headset-Adapter-Smartphone-smartphone/dp/B0046FMRGA/
Basically the green plug goes into your phone and the headphones go to the black end of the cable.
A: I have found the easier and best fix for this problem.
I had the same issue with a new pair of Sony headphones and spent hours researching online to try and find how to stop the inline controls from randomly start/stopping my music, and by setting off Siri.
Heres the super easy fix....
Take the lightening to 3.5mm adaptor that came with your iPhone.
Look carefully into the 3.5mm plug end and you will see that there are 4 small silver dimples inside the white plastic hole.
The first silver dimple is set about 1mm into the hole and easy to get it.
This is the one which sends the signal from the headphones back to the iPhone.
Simply cut up a tiny piece of sellotape into a strip about 2mm wide and about 20mm long.
Poke the long thin end into the hole se that it covers the top of the dimple.
Don't push the strip of sellotape in too far otherwise you could block a different connector as well.
Wrap the end of the sellotape that sticks out, over the top of the connector which means that you can grab it and remove in the future if you ever need to.
Now push your headphones into the socket which will push the sellotape against the silver dimple and the sellotape prevents the signal getting though.
Voila the inline controls no longer work!!
Enjoy
Antony
A: You can't disable controls...you can just return headphones to Amazon
A: Instead of risking damaging your phone or earbuds any further, I have a simple and easy way to fix this. So simply take some scotch tape and a knife of some sort and cut it to the length of the first metal band on the headphone jack:
So in this case it would be the Microphone band. Simply wrap the tape around it, make sure that you only use 1 layer as putting to much on can stop the jack from entering the phone.
From there just put it in your phone (depending on what tape you use it may seem like it didnt actually go in but just test it out and see if it works)
Enjoy!
A: I had the exact same problem, but I fixed it by plugging in a different pair, to confuse your phone, then switch back. Just borrow a friend's headphones for a sec to do that. Hope it works for you. I just found this out on accident a few minutes ago.
A: I have a similar problem, I use an aux extension cable. It disables all input from the headphone buttons. The one is have is really long, so it's a little inconvenient, but I'm sure you can find a short one.
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99e8753eee45399f13840c735952dc45e0912466 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get cell value by address string in Numbers In Numbers 3.5.2 I manage to get a cell address sting (I compute it based on some data). Now when I have it, how can I get the value behind that address without copying the result of my function to the another cell and adding = before it?
A: There's the INDIRECT function, which returns the contents of a cell or range referenced by an address specified as a string.
example:
INDIRECT("B2")
Here's Apple documentation about Numbers.app functions.
| Q: Get cell value by address string in Numbers In Numbers 3.5.2 I manage to get a cell address sting (I compute it based on some data). Now when I have it, how can I get the value behind that address without copying the result of my function to the another cell and adding = before it?
A: There's the INDIRECT function, which returns the contents of a cell or range referenced by an address specified as a string.
example:
INDIRECT("B2")
Here's Apple documentation about Numbers.app functions.
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a0a1c55a857bc269ac18d6bc46ea7c19e21a338f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sometimes Mail.app doesn't automatically apply rules, although all rules are active I have a pack of rules, which are intended for automatically marking as read & deleting messages when some criteria is met. They work fine when applied manually, but sometimes they are not applied automatically when new messages are received and I have to run them manually. And as I wrote, all rules are active. Is it possible to fix this behavior?
Probably related: Rules in Mail randomly don't apply
upd.: All rules that I have are simple and not using AppleScript or anything similar.
A: What i did was to delete all the rules.
Quit Mail.
Restart mail.
Create and apply rules again.
Alternatively, you can right click on a particular email, and choose apply rules (if there are rules already configured, of course).
| Q: Sometimes Mail.app doesn't automatically apply rules, although all rules are active I have a pack of rules, which are intended for automatically marking as read & deleting messages when some criteria is met. They work fine when applied manually, but sometimes they are not applied automatically when new messages are received and I have to run them manually. And as I wrote, all rules are active. Is it possible to fix this behavior?
Probably related: Rules in Mail randomly don't apply
upd.: All rules that I have are simple and not using AppleScript or anything similar.
A: What i did was to delete all the rules.
Quit Mail.
Restart mail.
Create and apply rules again.
Alternatively, you can right click on a particular email, and choose apply rules (if there are rules already configured, of course).
A: As I wrote on the Apple forum, if you have rules that run AppleScripts, it may help if you add 'Stop evaluating Rules' to those rules, as I suspect that Applescripts won't always run if further rules keep getting evaluated.
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23cba0e402a87277ae94b4cbb64f5c8872b07498 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Export or save safari history on iPad without iTunes or iCloud or computer is there a way to export or save safari history right on the iPad using an app maybe?
I don't want to move the history over to another device, but just want to see the full list of history (that's not yet deleted) because the regular history section you can pull up on the left side of screen in safari is too narrow to read the entire URLs.
| Q: Export or save safari history on iPad without iTunes or iCloud or computer is there a way to export or save safari history right on the iPad using an app maybe?
I don't want to move the history over to another device, but just want to see the full list of history (that's not yet deleted) because the regular history section you can pull up on the left side of screen in safari is too narrow to read the entire URLs.
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43f8e679446e41f721357483ee0dc4ac9a84510b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Downloading old Safari point releases (Ex: 8.0.4) I am attempting to build VMware Fusion images with each recent point release of Safari. I've had success with the versions bundled with OS X updates (10.10.1, 10.10.2) but I am not sure if it's possible to download a point release that has been superseded by a release in an OS X update. I've found version history with knowledge base documents for each version, but haven't found a way to download them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history
Example:
*
*10.10 shipped with Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25)
*10.10.1 had Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25.1)
*Safari 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 were in security updates - KB HT204421 and HT204424
*10.10.2 had Safari 8.0.3 (10600.3.18)
*Safari 8.0.4 was in a security update - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204560
*10.10.3 has Safari 8.0.5 (10600.5.17)
A: Check oldapps.com and oldversion.com. Be careful with these downloads, I haven't had an issues yet but install at your own risk.
| Q: Downloading old Safari point releases (Ex: 8.0.4) I am attempting to build VMware Fusion images with each recent point release of Safari. I've had success with the versions bundled with OS X updates (10.10.1, 10.10.2) but I am not sure if it's possible to download a point release that has been superseded by a release in an OS X update. I've found version history with knowledge base documents for each version, but haven't found a way to download them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history
Example:
*
*10.10 shipped with Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25)
*10.10.1 had Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25.1)
*Safari 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 were in security updates - KB HT204421 and HT204424
*10.10.2 had Safari 8.0.3 (10600.3.18)
*Safari 8.0.4 was in a security update - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204560
*10.10.3 has Safari 8.0.5 (10600.5.17)
A: Check oldapps.com and oldversion.com. Be careful with these downloads, I haven't had an issues yet but install at your own risk.
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27f52feb91d3b74c136329084c45db6e5f0a8562 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is Xcode with Swift on Mavericks possible? My school computers have OS X 10.9.4 on them but they don't want to update them because of incompatibility with their Music class software. From what I see on Apple's website Xcode 6.4 and 6.3.1 both need Yosemite. Is there another version of Xcode that I can download somewhere so I can code using Swift?
A: A quick search for Xcode at the Wikipedia give you the answer. With the OS X version 10.9.4, you are able to install Xcode 6.2 and below.
On Xcode 6.2 you can code in Swift, but I'm afraid is not the latest Swift version.
This is the table where you can find out the requested information.
| Q: Is Xcode with Swift on Mavericks possible? My school computers have OS X 10.9.4 on them but they don't want to update them because of incompatibility with their Music class software. From what I see on Apple's website Xcode 6.4 and 6.3.1 both need Yosemite. Is there another version of Xcode that I can download somewhere so I can code using Swift?
A: A quick search for Xcode at the Wikipedia give you the answer. With the OS X version 10.9.4, you are able to install Xcode 6.2 and below.
On Xcode 6.2 you can code in Swift, but I'm afraid is not the latest Swift version.
This is the table where you can find out the requested information.
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f230aa2d5dd19dd7eb145b9d7c8bda59cdec9247 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to share photos from Photos.app to Flickr retaining title, description and tags? In the new Photos.app application, the export of photographs to other services is via the OS X extensibility feature. Sharing one picture to Flickr shows the picture's filename as the title and empty description and tags even though the pictures had these three fields filled in the 'Info' window. This metadata was exported fine with iPhoto which had its own sharing mechanism so this issue is either with Photos.app or with the extensibility feature of OS X. How can I upload pictures from Photos.app to Flickr without having to retype all the metadata for each one of them?
A: Nearly a year later you would expect Flickr integration to have improved. As of February 2016 I have the exact same experience. To investigate further I opened this forum thread:
https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157665235195925/
| Q: How to share photos from Photos.app to Flickr retaining title, description and tags? In the new Photos.app application, the export of photographs to other services is via the OS X extensibility feature. Sharing one picture to Flickr shows the picture's filename as the title and empty description and tags even though the pictures had these three fields filled in the 'Info' window. This metadata was exported fine with iPhoto which had its own sharing mechanism so this issue is either with Photos.app or with the extensibility feature of OS X. How can I upload pictures from Photos.app to Flickr without having to retype all the metadata for each one of them?
A: Nearly a year later you would expect Flickr integration to have improved. As of February 2016 I have the exact same experience. To investigate further I opened this forum thread:
https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157665235195925/
A: I contacted Apple about the inability of Photos to upload titles etc. After admitting there was a problem, the technician told me they would get back to me! No news since then.
Photos seems to be a very inferior software compared to iPhoto. I guess we will have to wait for an update with "improvements". The glitches and mistakes in the "improvement" may be even worse! Lol!
A: have you tried Flickr Uploadr?
you can download it from here: https://www.flickr.com/tools/
I just tried... it automatize the uploading but as far I'm see did not export tags and titles.
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78409b5bc6305613fb62581c3579afcce1f43a7e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Podcast App not downloading episodes to IPhone for about the last week my podcast app on my iPhone 6+ has been preparing to download episodes but not downloading. Ian on iOS 8.3
This is serious I need to listen to Hansel minutes and history of revolutions!
I have tried shutdown app, clear download, logging out of iTunes etc.
Any suggestions
A: I had the same problem. I restarted the phone, cancelled the pending downloads and then started the downloads again and it seems to be working. Feel like I'm working with a Microsoft product :(
| Q: Podcast App not downloading episodes to IPhone for about the last week my podcast app on my iPhone 6+ has been preparing to download episodes but not downloading. Ian on iOS 8.3
This is serious I need to listen to Hansel minutes and history of revolutions!
I have tried shutdown app, clear download, logging out of iTunes etc.
Any suggestions
A: I had the same problem. I restarted the phone, cancelled the pending downloads and then started the downloads again and it seems to be working. Feel like I'm working with a Microsoft product :(
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e59a960102226ea0f23ec80e55b4b26b05de02f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Merging iPhoto libraries I am currently running MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) with Yosemite 10.10.2
For iPhoto I have a current library and 2 older libraries and now wish to:
*
*Merge all three into one iPhoto library
*Remove duplicates
How can I accomplish this?
| Q: Merging iPhoto libraries I am currently running MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) with Yosemite 10.10.2
For iPhoto I have a current library and 2 older libraries and now wish to:
*
*Merge all three into one iPhoto library
*Remove duplicates
How can I accomplish this?
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7f6a2ce267e05f4d856a4ffb1f42ee4ed5d056fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is the accountsd process eating so much CPU? Why are the accountsd and securityd processes using so much CPU on OS X 10.10.3?
I am on a Early 2011 Macbook Pro.
What are these processes for? Is it safe to kill them? The machine has only been up 4 hours so has been rebooted recently.
A: I had similar issue with accountsd using 44 % CPU. The following steps solved the issue.
In Calendar.app > Preferences > Accounts... I disabled and enabled the account that Mail and Calendar kept trying to access.
| Q: Why is the accountsd process eating so much CPU? Why are the accountsd and securityd processes using so much CPU on OS X 10.10.3?
I am on a Early 2011 Macbook Pro.
What are these processes for? Is it safe to kill them? The machine has only been up 4 hours so has been rebooted recently.
A: I had similar issue with accountsd using 44 % CPU. The following steps solved the issue.
In Calendar.app > Preferences > Accounts... I disabled and enabled the account that Mail and Calendar kept trying to access.
A: I had a Gmail account that was closed still signed into my Mac's system preferences.
Once I removed the account, accountsd went from 83% CPU to 0.01 after 30 seconds, my CPU temp went down from 183F to 106F, and my fans stopped running at high speed.
I agree with most in regards to a Gmail account being the common denominator.
A: Could you please try to log out of all you iCloud Services, reboot and login again.
I have the same issue, which occurs randomly. I'm suspecting iCloud or my Mail accounts in System Preferences. From time to time systems preference pane is asking me to enter my google passwords, which I decline to do.
A: In Mail.app's application's preferences, I deselected "Accounts > Advanced > Automatically Detect and Maintain Account Settings" on two Google accounts, and CPU usage returned to normal.
A: I run into the same problem yesterday on Catalina 10.15.6 and after having tried many different things, I could finally solve the problem by resetting the NVRAM (Non-Volatile Random Access Memory) with the command
alt+cmd+p+r
upon starting (I also posted a question for that issue there: process in /System/Library/Frameworks/Accounts.framework/Versions/A/Support/accountsd taking almost all ressources of computer)
Note: I previously tried the following (as indicated in this post) but it didn't work:
*
*I deleted all the account in `system preferences > Internet accounts' (didn't work)
*I rebooted 2x the machine in safe mode by holding shift (didn't work)
A: This issue appeared with macOS Catalina for me, and only if I have the Mail app open without an internet connection.
Going to Mail->Window->Connection Doctor->ShowDetail, it looks like there's an infinite loop running, which tries to connect to the mail server.
The only temporal solutions are to either disable the account which is causing trouble (via Mail Preferences) or to quit the Mail app when I'm offline.
EDIT (about one year after original post): The issue has disappeared for me, without me changing anything on my system.
Apparently either Apple or the email provider have fixed the issue.
A: I had the same issue on macOS Catalina 10.15.7. I tried many solutions mentioned here but none of them solved the issue.
In my case OnyX app helped. I went to Maintenance and run with the following options (probably not all of those are needed). OnyX is available at https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
A: *
*The fix for this on Mojave is to install the 10.14.6 Supplemental Update - build 18G6032
*The fix for this on Catalina is to install the macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update - build 19H2
After the reboot - check for build versions and that no OS updates are available. You don't need to delete any accounts or keychains or internal database files if you can patch your Mac with the Apple fixes.
The same problem still exists in 10.15.5. Some people have data in iCloud that triggers accountsd to loop. I followed the instruction from: https://waal70blog.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/accountsd-and-secd-high-cpu-usage-on-catalina/
You will see a folder that looks like a keychain under ~/Library/Keychains/ and you need to replace the xx...x part with that keychain.
Solution: sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Keychains/xxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxx and reboot.
Another set of triage steps is published at this site that lists many details from the perspective of people that administer Macs professionally.
*
*https://mrmacintosh.com/catalina-10-15-7-update-accountsd-using-400-if-using-icloud-mail/
A: It sounds like that there is a bug in the file indexing of iOS. Sometimes, accountsd gets stuck in an indefinite loop while indexing the files in the computer (for Spotlight use). The way to solve it is to reset the indexing on your laptop:
*
*Go to System Preferences-> Spotlight-> Privacy
*add (+) your hard disk (most probably "Macintosh HD") in the "Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations" list.
This will erase your previous index file and should solve your problem with the high usage of accountsd. However, Spotlight won't work any more. If you don't need it, don't bother to follow the rest of the instructions.
But if you need Spotlight back, remove Macintosh HD from the list by selecting it and clicking the - button. Do this over the night or sometime that you don't need your laptop for few hours as it is going to reindex your files and takes a lot of computer resources.
A: What worked for me (macOS 10.15.7) is signing out of Apple ID and restarting. Logging into Apple ID brought the issue back so from reddit the following terminal command permanently fixed the issue
sudo -v
killall -9 accountsd.iCloudHelper
defaults delete MobileMeAccounts
mkdir ~/Library/Accounts/Backup
mv ~/Library/Accounts/.sqlite ~/Library/Accounts/Backup/
killall -9 accountsd.iCloudHelper
sudo reboot
My symptoms were accountsd at 300%, no apps open, slow spotlight.
You can also check in Console application to see if accountsd has recorded any errors. Just open Console and enter "accountsd" . This is taken from an answer on a different thread, and probably the best place to start.
I tried the answers posted in this thread but none worked. At the time of my post they included:
*
*Quit Mail
*Remove Google accounts from Mail, Calendar (need to resync after reconnecting)
*Add Macintosh HD to Spotlight privacy so it would not be indexed (HDD will need be indexed again by spotlight)
*Delete all passwords in ~/Library/Keychain (Deletes passwords locally, but can resync from iCloud)
*Signing out of AppleID (deletes all iCloud files on machine)
A: Per someone else's suggestion on a similar thread, I deselected the Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Automatically Detect and Maintain Account Settings and the CPU dropped back to normal range. I have 3 google, 1 yahoo, and iCloud accounts. Hopefully this fix will stick. I had run Disk Util multiple times for same issue, and there seem to be continual permissions errors popping up, so not sure if another underlying process or this was it. Good luck!
A: I got accountsd to quiet down by exiting and restarting the Mail app. It went from around 60% CPU to 0% CPU. No reboot was required.
I'm not sure what triggered its bad behavior, but I was looking at my accounts and provisioning profiles in Xcode for a very long time.
A: In the Mail app, go to Window > Activity and try to cancel everything it is doing. That solved it for me
A: Unchecking Calendars and Messages in my Google account solved it for me. It is no loss to me, regardless, as I only use Google for some mail at the moment (which I left selected). As to why this was an issue with Google, and why it only became an problem recently, I am at a loss.
A: I met this problem when I just updated to 10.13.6, too. And I happily find this problem disappear after I restart my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).
A: I solved increasing the space on iCloud.
A: I tried all solutions. None worked. In the end, I had to remove all Google Accounts from Catalina and use in the web browser instead.
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8ca648dea507008516bf895fbe176f53e1020f15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Flickr backup/sync with new OS X Photos app Searching for a solution how to use the 1 TB free flickr storage to sync my photo library. I use the new Apple OS X Photos app and don't want to sync with iCloud (just 5GB free storage).
A: Use the FlickrUploadr application available at this link (which is visible at the bottom right of Flickr's Camera Roll feature).
| Q: Flickr backup/sync with new OS X Photos app Searching for a solution how to use the 1 TB free flickr storage to sync my photo library. I use the new Apple OS X Photos app and don't want to sync with iCloud (just 5GB free storage).
A: Use the FlickrUploadr application available at this link (which is visible at the bottom right of Flickr's Camera Roll feature).
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38f32a50b37390ef7eb00b49a6ef771835d3b670 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCloud Calendar sync error 400 on OS X 10.10.2 I've been using Calendar with iCloud for a long while without any problems. Now, I have a permanent error displayed in Calendar:
The request for account “iCloud” failed.
The server responded with “400” to operation CalDAVAddSubscriptionCalendarQueueableOperation
I've searched around online and have tried all of the proposed solutions, but none of them seem to fix the problem. What should I try next?
A: Lets try this to Reset your iCal operations.
Back up calendars and Disable calendars in iCloud Preferences :
Go to:
*
*~/Library/Calendars
*/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CalendarAgent
*/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist
Move all to the desktop.
Restart.
| Q: iCloud Calendar sync error 400 on OS X 10.10.2 I've been using Calendar with iCloud for a long while without any problems. Now, I have a permanent error displayed in Calendar:
The request for account “iCloud” failed.
The server responded with “400” to operation CalDAVAddSubscriptionCalendarQueueableOperation
I've searched around online and have tried all of the proposed solutions, but none of them seem to fix the problem. What should I try next?
A: Lets try this to Reset your iCal operations.
Back up calendars and Disable calendars in iCloud Preferences :
Go to:
*
*~/Library/Calendars
*/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CalendarAgent
*/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist
Move all to the desktop.
Restart.
A: I am running Yosemite 10.10.5 to make this happen I had to first Show All Hidden files by:
1) Open Terminal and type the command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
2) Hit Return
3) Mouse over the Finder icon, hold option, right click and relaunch finder
4) Open a new Finder window and navigate to:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/
5) Locate the two files: com.apple.iCal.plist, com.apple.CalendarAgent
6) Move them to the desktop and restart
This is different than the instructions above in that the location of the folders you're looking for may or may not be in the same place depending on which specific version of OS X you're running. This is the only place I was able to find the files.
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ccbe8aced3801dd08232fa67b6ac3325ae58911e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mouse not working correctly on Mac login screen For some reason when my mac is at the login screen, moving my external USB mouse will cause the cursor to only move up and down. Once I am logged in, the mouse functions normally. Does anyone know the reason/fix?
Steps I have taken:
*
*Reset SMC/NVRAM
*Reinstalled OS
*Tried another USB Port
Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.3
with iHome wireless USB mouse.
I tested it and mouse works fine without problems on my Windows PC.
A: I'm assuming this is a USB mouse with a cord? I have seen issues with those not recognizing properly until login when connected through the USB ports on a keyboard, or on laptops. I've always accounted it to the mouse needing more voltage than the USB port is delivering until the user is logged in. This seems to be the case with older mice more often than newer ones.
| Q: Mouse not working correctly on Mac login screen For some reason when my mac is at the login screen, moving my external USB mouse will cause the cursor to only move up and down. Once I am logged in, the mouse functions normally. Does anyone know the reason/fix?
Steps I have taken:
*
*Reset SMC/NVRAM
*Reinstalled OS
*Tried another USB Port
Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.3
with iHome wireless USB mouse.
I tested it and mouse works fine without problems on my Windows PC.
A: I'm assuming this is a USB mouse with a cord? I have seen issues with those not recognizing properly until login when connected through the USB ports on a keyboard, or on laptops. I've always accounted it to the mouse needing more voltage than the USB port is delivering until the user is logged in. This seems to be the case with older mice more often than newer ones.
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db831e7fb917fb692ce0228181222046cee852cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Photos app unable to export video I recently uploaded some videos into Photos after compressing them in Handbrake.
Now, when I try to export the video back out of the Photos app, it gives me an error:
Does anyone know 1) why I can't export some videos and 2) how to fix it? I don't want my videos to be forever locked in the Photos app.
A: Select File < Export < Export Unmodified Original. This will avoid having Photos try to transcode your video.
| Q: OS X Photos app unable to export video I recently uploaded some videos into Photos after compressing them in Handbrake.
Now, when I try to export the video back out of the Photos app, it gives me an error:
Does anyone know 1) why I can't export some videos and 2) how to fix it? I don't want my videos to be forever locked in the Photos app.
A: Select File < Export < Export Unmodified Original. This will avoid having Photos try to transcode your video.
A: I get this issue on some movies and in the end copied tehm out of the Photos folder where they are held as mov files.
A: After spending quite a while on the phone with apple it got solved by switching the settings from optimize storage to download originals.
Doesn't make much sense that it should be necessary, but it worked.
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8e1ce1265e0e7dbd25b5b81f019208f9afcc250d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: After migrating to iCloud Photo Library can the iLifeAssetManagement folder be deleted? Before iCloud Photo Library and Photos.app in OS X 10.10.3, we had iCloud PhotoStream. iCloud PhotoStream synced its photos to the ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement folder (and subfolders). Even though PhotoStream only synced 1000 photos, that folder could get rather large, but you had to live with it.
Now that iCloud Photo Library exists, and everything is stored in the cloud (and the cloud copy is "the truth"), I'm assuming that the iLifeAssetManagement folder is no longer used and can be deleted. Does any one know for sure if that's true?
In my case, the folder hasn't had changes since I upgraded to iCloud Photo Library, which would indicate it's not being used.
A: The answer appears to be "Yes, it can". After a month of the folder not being touched I finally deleted it and it hasn't caused any issue whatsoever. However, if any device using your iCloud account is still using Photo Stream (for whatever reason), you may still need the folder.
| Q: After migrating to iCloud Photo Library can the iLifeAssetManagement folder be deleted? Before iCloud Photo Library and Photos.app in OS X 10.10.3, we had iCloud PhotoStream. iCloud PhotoStream synced its photos to the ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement folder (and subfolders). Even though PhotoStream only synced 1000 photos, that folder could get rather large, but you had to live with it.
Now that iCloud Photo Library exists, and everything is stored in the cloud (and the cloud copy is "the truth"), I'm assuming that the iLifeAssetManagement folder is no longer used and can be deleted. Does any one know for sure if that's true?
In my case, the folder hasn't had changes since I upgraded to iCloud Photo Library, which would indicate it's not being used.
A: The answer appears to be "Yes, it can". After a month of the folder not being touched I finally deleted it and it hasn't caused any issue whatsoever. However, if any device using your iCloud account is still using Photo Stream (for whatever reason), you may still need the folder.
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8374e58a6efaf0a9db9f92ae6b7c7f0d953945f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX (Yosemite) Make 2 sided printing the default for *all* applications I'd like to make double-sided printing the default for all applications. This item tells how to set it for one application, but by experimentation it only affects that application, not others. I Googled, looked in the system prefs, looked on this site - no luck. Is there a setting somewhere?
A: First save your print settings as a preset:
*
*Open a document, then choose File > Print. Click Show Details.
*Choose any print settings you want to save as a preset.
*Click the Presets pop-up menu, then choose Save Current Settings as Preset.
*Enter a name for the preset settings, then choose whether to use the preset for only the currently selected printer or all printers.
Then make that preset as default: hold the Option (alt) key when choosing your preset, and it will become Default.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005034126/http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10768
| Q: OSX (Yosemite) Make 2 sided printing the default for *all* applications I'd like to make double-sided printing the default for all applications. This item tells how to set it for one application, but by experimentation it only affects that application, not others. I Googled, looked in the system prefs, looked on this site - no luck. Is there a setting somewhere?
A: First save your print settings as a preset:
*
*Open a document, then choose File > Print. Click Show Details.
*Choose any print settings you want to save as a preset.
*Click the Presets pop-up menu, then choose Save Current Settings as Preset.
*Enter a name for the preset settings, then choose whether to use the preset for only the currently selected printer or all printers.
Then make that preset as default: hold the Option (alt) key when choosing your preset, and it will become Default.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005034126/http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10768
A: Thank you for that tip about the Option key. I spent some time solving this earlier today and here's another way: in a web browser, enter http://localhost:631/printers in the address box and press Return. After the list of printers is returned, click on the printer in question. It took me quite a bit of poking around to find the setting for single-sided/double-sided as a default (Print Type: under "Finishing Options" tab). I suspect one advantage to this technique is that it sets the default in the printer, where the Option key method may only set it for that print queue. Since deleting and re-creating a print queue is a standard troubleshooting step, the web browser technique might be a better long-term solution.
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b54c6771fb353c42f3e36efa4bbc74b804719a5d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Photo album of the full-resolution photos shared through iCloud Photo Sharing? The photos that are shared through iCloud Photo Sharing shared albums are typically favorites, for example the best photos that you wanted to share with family over the course of several years. Over time these shared albums become valuable because they provide a filtered view of favorites from an otherwise huge and possibly unsorted photo library.
But the shared albums contain only lower-resolution photos unsuitable for prints and are limited to 5000 photos. To save the valuable photo selection and filtering work done for the shared albums for the future: Is it possible to, in any automated way, create albums in the Photos app with the full-resolution photos that have been shared through iCloud Photo Sharing?
An ideal solution could be for example to have a smart album showing all full-resolution photos from the photo library that have also been shared in iCloud Photo Sharing. This would also enable backing up albums with the original photos with Time Machine.
| Q: Photo album of the full-resolution photos shared through iCloud Photo Sharing? The photos that are shared through iCloud Photo Sharing shared albums are typically favorites, for example the best photos that you wanted to share with family over the course of several years. Over time these shared albums become valuable because they provide a filtered view of favorites from an otherwise huge and possibly unsorted photo library.
But the shared albums contain only lower-resolution photos unsuitable for prints and are limited to 5000 photos. To save the valuable photo selection and filtering work done for the shared albums for the future: Is it possible to, in any automated way, create albums in the Photos app with the full-resolution photos that have been shared through iCloud Photo Sharing?
An ideal solution could be for example to have a smart album showing all full-resolution photos from the photo library that have also been shared in iCloud Photo Sharing. This would also enable backing up albums with the original photos with Time Machine.
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2a87647939da3b0910276b61028324f3a3ceb898 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its configuration I want to find a way to share some Microsoft RDP configuration information with my team.
Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its connections and configuration?
A: If you want to share a configuration you can select the target under My Desktops and either right-click and select Export or from the Microsoft Remote Desktop File menu select Export.
The file that contains the information shown in the Microsoft Remote Desktop window, sans any passwords which are stored in your Keychain, is located at:
/Users/$USER/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.mac/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist
| Q: Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its configuration I want to find a way to share some Microsoft RDP configuration information with my team.
Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its connections and configuration?
A: If you want to share a configuration you can select the target under My Desktops and either right-click and select Export or from the Microsoft Remote Desktop File menu select Export.
The file that contains the information shown in the Microsoft Remote Desktop window, sans any passwords which are stored in your Keychain, is located at:
/Users/$USER/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.mac/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist
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07bbfac5795eb3454404c83f979afdbc3ad03e14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How change language of interface in itunes connect I had English language in iTunes Connect, but today it's changed to russian (I'm from Russia) and I cant find where to change the interface's language back to English (Russian localized - bad).
A: Found that very frustrating too (I'm Russian as well). It based on your "preferred language" settings in browser. If you use Chrome, it can be found there chrome://settings/languages, move "English" upper. That's it.
| Q: How change language of interface in itunes connect I had English language in iTunes Connect, but today it's changed to russian (I'm from Russia) and I cant find where to change the interface's language back to English (Russian localized - bad).
A: Found that very frustrating too (I'm Russian as well). It based on your "preferred language" settings in browser. If you use Chrome, it can be found there chrome://settings/languages, move "English" upper. That's it.
A: Maybe something has changed over the time, but the previous approach didn't work for me. My solution (macOS Sierra):
*
*Open "System Preferences"
*Open "Language & Region". There is list of "Preferred language" on the left panel. Click on the button "+" under the list and add English language as primary.
*Reboot you mac.
A: Access link https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/en => It will auto switch language English
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b91c19addf87a00cc9b07ef11101739edbc83a7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding Bounce Message back to Mail in Yosemite Does anyone have an updated version of this workflow for adding a Bounce Message feature to Apple Mail in OSX 10.10.3?
Applescript:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Mail"
repeat with eachMessage in input
bounce eachMessage
delete eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end run
I've followed the guide but do not receive a bounced email into my inbox when testing as a sender.
I'm testing this by attempting to send an email from one gmail account to another. Both accounts are Google Apps for Domains accounts.
A: Apple removed "bounce" from the Mail dictionary.
So "bounce eachMessage" does nothing and the only effect is the message being deleted ("delete eachMessage")
| Q: Adding Bounce Message back to Mail in Yosemite Does anyone have an updated version of this workflow for adding a Bounce Message feature to Apple Mail in OSX 10.10.3?
Applescript:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Mail"
repeat with eachMessage in input
bounce eachMessage
delete eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end run
I've followed the guide but do not receive a bounced email into my inbox when testing as a sender.
I'm testing this by attempting to send an email from one gmail account to another. Both accounts are Google Apps for Domains accounts.
A: Apple removed "bounce" from the Mail dictionary.
So "bounce eachMessage" does nothing and the only effect is the message being deleted ("delete eachMessage")
A: I was looking for that nice Bounce command too, but this is what I found after googling around for a while:
The reason the "bounce" function has been removed from OS X is because it does the wrong thing in the most common use case, which is to try to get spammers to remove you from their mailing list by pretending your email does not exist. The problem is that it's trivial to fake the sender of an email, so bouncing spam usually sends the bounce message to an unsuspecting additional victim; and if the same (innocent!) email address is used to fake the sender for a lot of spam, it would get inundated with bounce messages.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
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b6f9644d8f2ef83c6cd33a51bcebd9caf619a4f5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable Safari in OS X How do I disable Safari in OS X?
The desired effect is the same as in iOS: in iOS, you can easily disable Safari through the Restrictions settings, and the app just hides but is not uninstalled. You cannot search for the app, see an icon, or open it in any way.
I do not want to disable all browsers. In fact, that's the problem. The Parental Controls control all web things. And that's great. But if I want the default browser to be Google Chrome and I want to use a whitelist, then I can't use Parental Controls (at least since Yosemite). The Parental Controls option for a whitelist has been blocking everything from Chrome. Firefox has similar problems, but not as bad as with Chrome. If I use Chrome and Chrome's parental controls, then a user can just open Safari with no restrictions.
A: You could change permissions for Safari.
Open the information window on Safari (from the Finder window, with the Safari application selected, push command+I or right-click), add the desired user, and set permissions to no access.
| Q: Disable Safari in OS X How do I disable Safari in OS X?
The desired effect is the same as in iOS: in iOS, you can easily disable Safari through the Restrictions settings, and the app just hides but is not uninstalled. You cannot search for the app, see an icon, or open it in any way.
I do not want to disable all browsers. In fact, that's the problem. The Parental Controls control all web things. And that's great. But if I want the default browser to be Google Chrome and I want to use a whitelist, then I can't use Parental Controls (at least since Yosemite). The Parental Controls option for a whitelist has been blocking everything from Chrome. Firefox has similar problems, but not as bad as with Chrome. If I use Chrome and Chrome's parental controls, then a user can just open Safari with no restrictions.
A: You could change permissions for Safari.
Open the information window on Safari (from the Finder window, with the Safari application selected, push command+I or right-click), add the desired user, and set permissions to no access.
A: Just open the terminal and type:
cd /Applications
sudo rm -R -f Safari.app
It will ask for your password and proceed to delete Safari from the system. You may want to backup the app before.
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9834257542237b9284c36f8060fee7ba775302a9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "The L2TP-VPN server did not respond" on OS X Yosemite I have a problem with VPN connection on OS X Yosemite
I imported certificates, set them "Always trust" policy and created connection (I set User authentication: Password, Machine authentication: Certificate in "Authentication settings..." dialog). However when I try to connect, I get "The L2TP-VPN server did not respond" error message.
here what I get in /etc/log/ppp.log file:
Thu Apr 23 21:31:30 2015 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Apr 23 21:31:30 2015 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : l2tp_get_router_address
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : l2tp_get_router_address 192.168.1.1 from dict 1
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : L2TP connecting to server '<site>' (<ip address>)...
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : IPSec connection started
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : IPSec phase 1 client started
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : IPSec phase 1 server replied
Thu Apr 23 21:31:42 2015 : IPSec connection failed <IKE Error 22 (0x16) Invalid cert authority>
What can cause that? Is there a way to get more detailed information?
* Same certificates work fine on Windows virtual machine.
| Q: "The L2TP-VPN server did not respond" on OS X Yosemite I have a problem with VPN connection on OS X Yosemite
I imported certificates, set them "Always trust" policy and created connection (I set User authentication: Password, Machine authentication: Certificate in "Authentication settings..." dialog). However when I try to connect, I get "The L2TP-VPN server did not respond" error message.
here what I get in /etc/log/ppp.log file:
Thu Apr 23 21:31:30 2015 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Apr 23 21:31:30 2015 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : l2tp_get_router_address
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : l2tp_get_router_address 192.168.1.1 from dict 1
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : L2TP connecting to server '<site>' (<ip address>)...
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : IPSec connection started
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : IPSec phase 1 client started
Thu Apr 23 21:31:41 2015 : IPSec phase 1 server replied
Thu Apr 23 21:31:42 2015 : IPSec connection failed <IKE Error 22 (0x16) Invalid cert authority>
What can cause that? Is there a way to get more detailed information?
* Same certificates work fine on Windows virtual machine.
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ef651889f642e4260e2465fb4860de4a1962971b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to insert the current date in Notes? In iOS8, is there an easy way to insert the current date (or current date/time) in Notes?
A: [Late Post - posting in case it helps anyone else]
On iPhone (iOS 11+), the "Insert Date Keyboard" provides an easy way to insert the current date in Notes or any other app. If you want to include the current Time in Notes as well, the date format (under advanced settings) would be something like: "yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm"
Note: The app costs a dollar
( Disclaimer: I helped work on this )
| Q: Is there a way to insert the current date in Notes? In iOS8, is there an easy way to insert the current date (or current date/time) in Notes?
A: [Late Post - posting in case it helps anyone else]
On iPhone (iOS 11+), the "Insert Date Keyboard" provides an easy way to insert the current date in Notes or any other app. If you want to include the current Time in Notes as well, the date format (under advanced settings) would be something like: "yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm"
Note: The app costs a dollar
( Disclaimer: I helped work on this )
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80087176c3b41aae306d8f32575001b241e80184 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why isn't Finder updating a folder's contents? Today I had the strange behavior that I added some files to a folder in Finder (that happens to be in dropbox) from Outlook, but Finder did not show them. I could see them from the Open File dialog of Outlook and of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI, but returning to Finder, still not there. Hitting the F5 key to force a refresh, still nothing. Finally, I forced Finder to quit and relaunch, and they showed up. This is OS X Yosemite v10.10.2.
What is going on? Why would Finder not show the new files until forced to restart?
A: I've known it happen if memory was being paged heavily, or if a drive was particularly full.
F5 has no effect on a Mac, btw, it's a Windows command.
The only real equivalent - to a system that really ought to never need to be refreshed under normal circumstances - is to switch view style…
…from list to column then back again, for instance…
Cmd ⌘ 3 then Cmd ⌘ 2
| Q: Why isn't Finder updating a folder's contents? Today I had the strange behavior that I added some files to a folder in Finder (that happens to be in dropbox) from Outlook, but Finder did not show them. I could see them from the Open File dialog of Outlook and of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI, but returning to Finder, still not there. Hitting the F5 key to force a refresh, still nothing. Finally, I forced Finder to quit and relaunch, and they showed up. This is OS X Yosemite v10.10.2.
What is going on? Why would Finder not show the new files until forced to restart?
A: I've known it happen if memory was being paged heavily, or if a drive was particularly full.
F5 has no effect on a Mac, btw, it's a Windows command.
The only real equivalent - to a system that really ought to never need to be refreshed under normal circumstances - is to switch view style…
…from list to column then back again, for instance…
Cmd ⌘ 3 then Cmd ⌘ 2
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ccdeae710434d82232d84813452227eb13315304 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I copy paste on Apple Watch? I need to know if I can select some text and copy it, and then paste it on an Apple Watch.
A: No, there is no such functionality on Apple Watch as standard as there are no text fields for entering text other than dictation.
| Q: How can I copy paste on Apple Watch? I need to know if I can select some text and copy it, and then paste it on an Apple Watch.
A: No, there is no such functionality on Apple Watch as standard as there are no text fields for entering text other than dictation.
A: I realize that this question has already been answered, but I wanted to contribute something I've found useful on the topic.
While you may not be able to copy or paste at the time, there have been many efforts to create keyboards for Apple Watch. For example, a rather intuitive one (though it's not available on the Apple Watch yet) is Lunate, which uses a circular typing interface. There's also Weboard, which is still in development, but plans to use motion sensors to change which row of the keyboard you're viewing when you tilt your wrist, displaying one row at a time.
Those apps aim to be keyboards independently, but there are a host of apps on the App Store that have functionalities like texting and searching the web while offering keyboards, no matter how intuitive. Try tinynote for jotting down notes, WatchWeb for web browsing, Next for Twitter, and eyeFree Messenger for texting. Most options are based on either Morse Code or a list of letters that you scroll through with the Digital Crown.
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09b26201229837ecfdb66862f5a2170238b8974e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I copy a Mac volume using cp? I have researched this for hours. In Single User Mode, I used:
cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup
My external USB is mounted on /Volumes/MyBackup
The issue however is that after 24hrs it still has not stopped copying 300GB of data to an external USB drive. I think it is having issues with symbolic links such as the /Volumes/MacHD volume also having a /Volumes/MacHD and /Volumes/MyBackup I am not sure about this however.
How do I copy a Mac volume using cp? Is cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup correct?
A: If you want to make a faithful copy of the filesystem contents, avoid using cp. Instead, use the ditto(1) command, which preserves hard links, file permissions, resource forks, and HFS metadata. Unlike cp, ditto is meant to preserve as much of that information as possible by default.
It's just a matter of running sudo ditto src dest.
| Q: How do I copy a Mac volume using cp? I have researched this for hours. In Single User Mode, I used:
cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup
My external USB is mounted on /Volumes/MyBackup
The issue however is that after 24hrs it still has not stopped copying 300GB of data to an external USB drive. I think it is having issues with symbolic links such as the /Volumes/MacHD volume also having a /Volumes/MacHD and /Volumes/MyBackup I am not sure about this however.
How do I copy a Mac volume using cp? Is cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup correct?
A: If you want to make a faithful copy of the filesystem contents, avoid using cp. Instead, use the ditto(1) command, which preserves hard links, file permissions, resource forks, and HFS metadata. Unlike cp, ditto is meant to preserve as much of that information as possible by default.
It's just a matter of running sudo ditto src dest.
A: Use rsync for this purpose since cp cannot faithfully reproduce all the files that exist on OS X. The benefits of rsync over ditto and cp are:
*
*interrupted transfers can restart easily with very little cost.
*restarts even resume part way through a large file.
*file exclusion and --dry-run allow easy testing and iterative thinning.
The simplest way to use rsync and preserve most things (permissions, symlinks, edit dates, etc) is to use the -a or --archive flag to archive. To see your progress use -P or --progress
Rsync works as:
rsync options source destination
In your case I would recommend the following:
rsync --archive --verbose --one-file-system --human-readable --progress /from/ /to
Or in short:
rsync -avxhP /from/ /to
Mind the lack of trailing slash in the /to location.
see comments for more useful flags
A: You forgot to make an exclude-files list, and are likely copying things that can't / shouldn't be copied, including bottomless files like /dev/random.
While cp can do the job, there are better tools. Rsync is one, Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper is another. To use a kitchen analogy, you are using a knife to open a can. Rsync is a can opener, Carbon Copy Cloner is an electric can opener. I use rsync regularly, but the settings needed to copy a running operating system are sufficiently complex I've never bothered to do it all myself.
cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup
It looks like all you want to do is make a backup. Your Mac includes Time Machine expressly for this purpose. Open System Preferences -> Time Machine, choose the external disk, turn it on and then leave it alone. It works very well and requires under a minute of your time.
A: You can create a time Time Machine backup from the command line with tmutil, the Time Machine utility. You can set a destination then order a manual backup.
To set the Time Machine backup volume:
sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MyBackup
Then start the backup:
tmutil startbackup --auto
The --auto flag will try to treat it as an ordinary time scheduled backup.
Once you have your Time Machine backup, you can then re-install OS X on your Mac, then import all of your files from the Time Machine backup.
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b2ab2c19f00d0e6a82146da69d77deff12807832 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AppStore formatting is broken My Macbook, Version 10.9.5 Build 13F1077, AppStore is somehow broken. It's like the formatting of it is broken. See attached image. Any idea's about what happened or how to troubleshoot or fix?
As a follow up to inquiries from @d-w @thomas-jones, yes, I am seeing bad formatting on some other Apple web pages. For example:
A: Try opening Terminal and entering the following command to enable the App Store Debug menu:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool YES
Then, quit the App Store (if it was already open), and relaunch it. You should see a new menu after the Help menu labeled Debug. Open it and select Reset Application.
If that doesn't solve your problem, you might need to flush the DNS cache, the commands are listed below.
Yosemite:
sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache
Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
Snow Leopard: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
(to remove the debug menu from the App Store, enter the same command above used to enable it, and change the end from YES to NO.)
| Q: AppStore formatting is broken My Macbook, Version 10.9.5 Build 13F1077, AppStore is somehow broken. It's like the formatting of it is broken. See attached image. Any idea's about what happened or how to troubleshoot or fix?
As a follow up to inquiries from @d-w @thomas-jones, yes, I am seeing bad formatting on some other Apple web pages. For example:
A: Try opening Terminal and entering the following command to enable the App Store Debug menu:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool YES
Then, quit the App Store (if it was already open), and relaunch it. You should see a new menu after the Help menu labeled Debug. Open it and select Reset Application.
If that doesn't solve your problem, you might need to flush the DNS cache, the commands are listed below.
Yosemite:
sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache
Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
Snow Leopard: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
(to remove the debug menu from the App Store, enter the same command above used to enable it, and change the end from YES to NO.)
A: I finally figured it out. In Keychain Access, I selected Preferences, then Reset my Default Keychain. After doing that, I restarted AppStore and it was working normally.
Warning You may loose other passwords stored in the Keychain, so make sure you have a backup of them
A: In case anyone's stylesheet is being blocked by a proxy, Apple seems to host the Mac App Store stylesheet at "s.mzstatic.com". I used the debug menu to download the page source and find out where the stylesheets were being hosted.
So, if you're facing network issues, ask your network admin to unblock *s.mzstatic.com* and you should be good to go.
A: NO.. NO.. No, Nothing to do, It is purely CSS failure on server side on part of apple servers. Look at Apple discussions. Majority or All Macs upto sierra are affected and since these are Obsolete pieces as per apple..they are solving. Wait and watch...
A: Try resetting your computer's Date and Time, the settings are located in Apple Menu > System Preferences > Data & Time. If the "Set date and time automatically:" checkbox is enabled, disable it, and manually set the time and date correctly.
Try loading the App Store again.
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a6b7db65081d37486eff77d5521cd948ef593e6a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: On Mac OSX Yosemite why does my computer download 500MB every day whether I am using it or not? I have Mac OSX Yosemite, 10.10.1 and halfway through last month my computer decided to download about 500MB every day. I even quit all programs and it still downloaded 447MB.
I am seeing this number in the network section of Activity Monitor and the Process name listed is nsurlsessiond. What is this downloading and how do I stop it?
A: nsurlsessiond deals with iCloud & also Spotlight.
*
*for Spotlight - Prefs > Spotlight > Search Results & switch off Spotlight Suggestions & Bing Web Searches.
*iCloud, some suggestions…
*
*Disable iCloud Photo Library, Photo Stream & iCloud Photo Sharing from
System prefs > iCloud - Photos [or equivalent, I can't remember the precise layout before Photos app]
*If you have an iPhone, the same settings are in Settings > iCloud > Photos
| Q: On Mac OSX Yosemite why does my computer download 500MB every day whether I am using it or not? I have Mac OSX Yosemite, 10.10.1 and halfway through last month my computer decided to download about 500MB every day. I even quit all programs and it still downloaded 447MB.
I am seeing this number in the network section of Activity Monitor and the Process name listed is nsurlsessiond. What is this downloading and how do I stop it?
A: nsurlsessiond deals with iCloud & also Spotlight.
*
*for Spotlight - Prefs > Spotlight > Search Results & switch off Spotlight Suggestions & Bing Web Searches.
*iCloud, some suggestions…
*
*Disable iCloud Photo Library, Photo Stream & iCloud Photo Sharing from
System prefs > iCloud - Photos [or equivalent, I can't remember the precise layout before Photos app]
*If you have an iPhone, the same settings are in Settings > iCloud > Photos
A: nsurlsessionhd can be disabled with
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
BUT you run the risk of some Apple (and maybe non-Apple) apps not being able to connect to the internet, specifically App Store, iTunes, software updater, etc. If that is the case re-enable by replacing unload with load in the command above.
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659fb23eb816c198b701b4137b47da54716a0896 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why doesn't the Apple Watch activity app count the activity recorded on the iPhone? When walking around with the iPhone and not the Apple Watch the iPhone records steps. However when looking at the Apple Watch activity app the previously recorded steps are not shown there. Why is that?
A: The activity recorded on the Apple Watch is separate from the activity recorded on the iPhone. As such each is recorded as a separate source in health.app. Also only activity recorded on the Apple Watch is reflected in activity.app.
Source: @pbur - Apple Software Engineer
https://twitter.com/wahoo/status/591749264956461058
| Q: Why doesn't the Apple Watch activity app count the activity recorded on the iPhone? When walking around with the iPhone and not the Apple Watch the iPhone records steps. However when looking at the Apple Watch activity app the previously recorded steps are not shown there. Why is that?
A: The activity recorded on the Apple Watch is separate from the activity recorded on the iPhone. As such each is recorded as a separate source in health.app. Also only activity recorded on the Apple Watch is reflected in activity.app.
Source: @pbur - Apple Software Engineer
https://twitter.com/wahoo/status/591749264956461058
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5fc8fe9623bc27943ba5fb3f542beabe649b5007 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why can't I see thumbnails in the finder? Most of the instructions I've found online (this, for example) say all I have to do is select "show icon preview" in the finder view settings. But that doesn't seem to be working. What's the problem here?
This is OSX 10.8.5.
A: A couple of things to try.
Remove the Finder preferences file. The system will automatically regenerate it.
*
*In Finder, press Shift ⇧+Command ⌘+G and enter ~/Library/Preferences.
*Then find com.apple.finder.plist and move it to the Trash.
*Right-click on the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch.
If this doesn't work, ensure that JPG files are associated with Preview. To do this, right-click on one of them and choose Get Info. Under the Open With section, select Preview, and then click Change All. You may need to relaunch Finder with this method too.
| Q: Why can't I see thumbnails in the finder? Most of the instructions I've found online (this, for example) say all I have to do is select "show icon preview" in the finder view settings. But that doesn't seem to be working. What's the problem here?
This is OSX 10.8.5.
A: A couple of things to try.
Remove the Finder preferences file. The system will automatically regenerate it.
*
*In Finder, press Shift ⇧+Command ⌘+G and enter ~/Library/Preferences.
*Then find com.apple.finder.plist and move it to the Trash.
*Right-click on the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch.
If this doesn't work, ensure that JPG files are associated with Preview. To do this, right-click on one of them and choose Get Info. Under the Open With section, select Preview, and then click Change All. You may need to relaunch Finder with this method too.
A: Any chance you have DropBox installed?
If so try this:
Go to /Users/youruser/Library/QuickLook/
and if there is a DropBoxQL.qlgenerator move it to the trash.
Then wait 5-10 seconds, and open a folder where previews weren't working.
DropBox will create a new DropBoxQL.qlgenerator when you login next (either logout/login or on restart) so if you want to prevent DropBox from screwing with your previews again then you'll need to put a dummy file in place.
In terminal run:
sudo touch ~/Library/QuickLook/DropBoxQL.qlgenerator
This will create an empty file owned by root that DropBox can't overwrite (since DropBox is running as your user when you log in).
This hasn't caused any issues I can detect on my Mac Pro (10.11.6) or MacBook Pro (10.12.2) but as always YMMV.
A: From this link: https://www.cnet.com/news/files-in-finder-not-showing-previews/
From the Finder's "View" menu select "Show View Options". Then select the option to "Show icon preview" and close the options window.
A: When a file is not associated with a specific application, it will not show as Icon.
To change that right click on one of those files and select the Get Info, in that window select the Application to use to open, and then select apply to all (Change All).
A: This just happened to me and it was fixed by relaunching Finder:
*
*Alt + Right Click Finder in the Dock > Relaunch
*Cmd+Opt+Esc > select Finder > Relaunch
A: I spent a lot of time trying all of the suggestions above, but nothing worked. Finally I just turned the computer off and started it up again. Now it works.
A: I have OS 10.10.5, and have what sounds like the same problem.
I can see the icons again if I go into Finder -> View and then set the icons to the larger size. I can't seem to get the smaller view to work though.
After trying that, I also found that it I go to Finder -> Show View Options, then I can make the font in the finder window slightly larger and then the icons show up correctly. Then I don't have to make everything as big as the first method makes it.
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f430a63b347b1ad3d821b6029b51dfb22a549b33 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to permanently delete text substitutions? How do I permanently delete text substitutions from System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. I have deleted them several times using the (-) key, but they annoyingly reincarnate themselves after a restart.
A: I have experienced this myself since OS X 10.10.1 and since iOS 8.1.x. I think it is an iCloud syncing bug. Old deleted entries return. Duplicates get created. I haven't attempted to, but I believe the only solution is to contact Apple support. Or wait for it to hopefully resolve itself.
| Q: How to permanently delete text substitutions? How do I permanently delete text substitutions from System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. I have deleted them several times using the (-) key, but they annoyingly reincarnate themselves after a restart.
A: I have experienced this myself since OS X 10.10.1 and since iOS 8.1.x. I think it is an iCloud syncing bug. Old deleted entries return. Duplicates get created. I haven't attempted to, but I believe the only solution is to contact Apple support. Or wait for it to hopefully resolve itself.
A: Indeed a severe annoyance. I spent a lot of time on the phone to Apple and no solution was achieved, only "wait". I ended up doing a simultaneous reinstallation of OS X 10.10.3 and my iOS 8 devices and this has apparently made them go away. I have since upgraded to OS X 10.11 and iOS 9 and they disappeared for several months. However, they have just come back this AM for no apparent reason on startup.
A: Do you have any other Apple devices? Text substitutions get shared between all of your iCloud enabled products. I had a shortcut for my email address (backslash plus the word "email") that kept triggering all over the place, because iOS and OS X "helpfully" ignored the backslash - great when I wanted to plug my actual address in, terrible when "please email that file" got turned it into "please [email protected] that file".
The only way I was able to kill this was to delete the shortcut from all of my Apple products in quick succession - for me that meant iPhone, MacBook Pro, and iPad. You'll need to have all devices you signed in to using your Apple ID handy to do this. You may have to do it more than once for it to "stick". Good luck.
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356a921581bb6d22f9006da9cb17bb233adfc085 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Importing Finder Folders to Albums in Photos app I organize all of my photos into folders. I have years of photos organized properly by year_date_event_name. I would like to import the folders directly into the Photos app as Albums named as the folder name.
I can't seem to even find a way to import the folders as albums, let alone having the folder name used as the album name.
I'm guessing a script would be the best way to do this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
| Q: Importing Finder Folders to Albums in Photos app I organize all of my photos into folders. I have years of photos organized properly by year_date_event_name. I would like to import the folders directly into the Photos app as Albums named as the folder name.
I can't seem to even find a way to import the folders as albums, let alone having the folder name used as the album name.
I'm guessing a script would be the best way to do this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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e651e298deaae1b28624e354fb770bf675eaf357 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable face detection in Photos for OS X I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data inside the Photos Library.
Is there any way to disable this feature in Photos for OS X?
A: Unfortunately, you can only side-step the issue by clicking the Albums tab > Faces, and select each found face & delete it. You cannot bulk select, so this must be done manually for each face.
You should log an enhancement request (or three) at the Photos Feedback page.
| Q: How to disable face detection in Photos for OS X I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data inside the Photos Library.
Is there any way to disable this feature in Photos for OS X?
A: Unfortunately, you can only side-step the issue by clicking the Albums tab > Faces, and select each found face & delete it. You cannot bulk select, so this must be done manually for each face.
You should log an enhancement request (or three) at the Photos Feedback page.
A: Many people say it is not possible to disable that feature. But there might be some workarounds depending on your needs.
If you (and other users of the computer) do not want that feature, you might want to forcibly stop the program that performs the face detection/photo analysis.
The process (or program) responsible for the analysis is called photoanalysisd. you can be a bit bold about it and try to prevent the process from running altogether.
Forcibly stopping the program performing the analysis (2 alternative solutions)
Either: (A) Using an app to forcibly pause the process that performs the analysis
As someone said here you can use an external app to pause the process before it goes nuts and makes your computer heat up.
Or: (B) Forcibly disabling the process for the whole computer
You could go for completely preventing the photoanalysisd process from ever starting up by entering a command in Terminal. The command requires admin privileges and that SIP be disabled temporarily, otherwise you would get a permission denied error.
So you can enter the command in the Terminal of the Recovery Mode (booting with Cmd (⌘) – Option (⌥) – R) or from your user session while SIP is disabled (but do not forget to enable it again afterwards).
In a Terminal, enter the following command
sudo chmod -x /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoAnalysis.framework/Versions/Current/Support/photoanalysisd
If you are running this in Recovery Mode, you might want to disable-reenable SIP all at once with the following:
csrutil disable
sudo chmod -x /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoAnalysis.framework/Versions/Current/Support/photoanalysisd
csrutil enable
Basically, it changes the permissions of the program file and forbids anyone from running it. This way, the system will not be able to start it and it won't be a burden for your CPU anymore.
PS: If you update to a newer version of MacOS, you will need to re-do this B) step, since the permissions will be restored.
PSS: If you ever want to enable it again, you might have lost track of this page... so put a note about it somewhere. At least, know that upgrading to the newest would reset.
PSSS: Note that preventing the process from running might have side effects (even though I do not see any after few years).
Restoring the functionality (if used option B)
You can always restore the permissions and everything would be back to normal with these commands run in Recovery Mode. Note the +x instead of the -x.
csrutil disable
sudo chmod +x /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoAnalysis.framework/Versions/Current/Support/photoanalysisd
csrutil enable
A: Apparently you can stop face recognition by quitting iPhotos, opening a terminal and typing the following (and press enter):
defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0
I guess you'll then need to manually delete all the faces it's recognised thus far.
As for the new "Photos" app, I don't think you can disable the face detection.
A: There is a way to do this now in Photos Version 3.0 (3271.13.150).
In the sidebar select People. Then select all the faces that show up and right click. There is an option to delete/reset all saved face data.
A: You can find the option in View > Hide Face Names.
A: Here is how to remove the "unnamed" for each face in Mac Photos.
Just open Photos and select View and click on "HIDE FACE NAMES"
A: in search type 'face0' all the faces will come up. then select all and delete.
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6aa38aa8d067e199808ae65e793ce6a704caab47 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Chrome-like inline search highlighting in Safari? I just switched over from using Chrome to Safari and I really like it, but I find the search function in Safari very limiting.
Are there any extensions for Chrome-like highlighting in Safari? For those of you that are unfamiliar with it, I'm referring to ability to highlight all instances found on the page. Also, a great feature of Chrome highlighting is when it shows the instances on the scroll bar, so I know where the keyword is most densely (or sparingly) used.
More details on this: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/13651/is-there-a-name-for-the-ui-that-marks-key-positions-in-a-scroll-bar
| Q: Chrome-like inline search highlighting in Safari? I just switched over from using Chrome to Safari and I really like it, but I find the search function in Safari very limiting.
Are there any extensions for Chrome-like highlighting in Safari? For those of you that are unfamiliar with it, I'm referring to ability to highlight all instances found on the page. Also, a great feature of Chrome highlighting is when it shows the instances on the scroll bar, so I know where the keyword is most densely (or sparingly) used.
More details on this: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/13651/is-there-a-name-for-the-ui-that-marks-key-positions-in-a-scroll-bar
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f48c89c34a1c88e51a1b370f77c4e340bfa19562 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lock Screen from Command Line? I have activated the Keychain Menu Bar icon so I can relatively easily click Lock Screen to lock the screen of my MacBook.
Is there a way to do this with a shortcut or via the command line? I know you can lock the keychain via the commmand line, but I cannot seem to find the how to lock the screen as well.
A: Open Terminal and enter the following in a single line:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
There isn’t any confirmation, the desktop is immediately locked and the lock screen appears regardless of what is currently going on with the active user account.
The menu item being used is the same Fast User Switching menu that displays a user name in the upper right corner, and the lock screen shown is identical to what is summoned if one were to select “Login Window…” from that same menu.
You can lock a screen using a keyboard shortcut as well, but using the command line offers two obvious advantages; it can be included within scripts or entered from SSH to remotely lock a Mac.
Source : Lock the Mac Desktop from the Command Line
| Q: Lock Screen from Command Line? I have activated the Keychain Menu Bar icon so I can relatively easily click Lock Screen to lock the screen of my MacBook.
Is there a way to do this with a shortcut or via the command line? I know you can lock the keychain via the commmand line, but I cannot seem to find the how to lock the screen as well.
A: Open Terminal and enter the following in a single line:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
There isn’t any confirmation, the desktop is immediately locked and the lock screen appears regardless of what is currently going on with the active user account.
The menu item being used is the same Fast User Switching menu that displays a user name in the upper right corner, and the lock screen shown is identical to what is summoned if one were to select “Login Window…” from that same menu.
You can lock a screen using a keyboard shortcut as well, but using the command line offers two obvious advantages; it can be included within scripts or entered from SSH to remotely lock a Mac.
Source : Lock the Mac Desktop from the Command Line
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59614c92559d0cd84e601aab879a9a50595758f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to turn off hyperlinks in Notes in iOS so you don't accidentally click them? after you paste a URL in Notes, is there a way to have the hyperlink(?) turned off so you don't click it by accident and be taken to the webpage?
It'd be nice if the URL can be there just as pure text.
A: Go to Edit then Substitutions and uncheck Smart Links
| Q: How to turn off hyperlinks in Notes in iOS so you don't accidentally click them? after you paste a URL in Notes, is there a way to have the hyperlink(?) turned off so you don't click it by accident and be taken to the webpage?
It'd be nice if the URL can be there just as pure text.
A: Go to Edit then Substitutions and uncheck Smart Links
A: At least for iOS 11.2 the following works:
*
*Select the text you want to unlink (or position the cursor “inside” it or directly before or after it)
*Switch to the format keyboard (not the format tool-tip):
*Click “Body” twice on format keyboard:
A: Unfortunately there is not. There are many posts with a google search that reveal the same answer. If you have Pages for the iPad you can remove the links but not on the simple notes app from Apple.
A: use a comma for times (5,15 pm) and dates (10,17,2015), instead of colon (5:15 pm) and slash (10/17/2015) when writing in notes.
A: It's definitely a frustrating issue. What I do is, after pasting the link into Notes, I add either text or punctuation to the end of the link, with no space in between. Typing a few periods is the easiest for me. That changes .html into .html..., which breaks its format. Notes no longer sees it as a viable address, so it will just be text. If you change your mind, or need to use it to get to the webpage, just erase those periods, and it will become a live link.
A: To remove hyperlinks on Apple Notes, go to after the hyperlink (if you have more text after the link), but make sure that the cursor is touching the non-highlighted word. You should now be able to delete the link and re-type it after to make it non-highlighted.
If you only have the hyperlink and no other text, you must memorise it, delete the note, go to a new note and re-write the hyperlink there. If this doesn't work, keep repeating the process until it works.
If you are on Pages, highlight the link, and there should be an option to delete the link.
A: This is probably a recently added function but just in case anyone stumbles on this answer like I did trying to figure it out.
In Apple Notes running in El Capitan (10.11.5) for me, you can right-click on the link and in the menu there is the option to delete the link.
A: For iPad with iOS15.6 go to Notes, simply place the cursor inside the text containing the hyperlink (no need to select the whole text), then touch Aa on top of keyboard once, Title or Heading or Subheading twice will remove the hyperlink, but it will also make the paragraph containing the text Bold.
A: Highlight offender, Right Click > Substitutions > Uncheck Smart Copy and Paste.
A: To remove the hyperlinks, cut the text from the Note and paste into Word for Mac; a small box will appear at the end of the text asking whether you wish to keep the original's formatting, adopt the formatting of the Word doc, or whether you want to keep "text only." Chose text only. The hyperlinks are transformed into simple text. Cut and paste this back into your Note. Hope this helps.
A: I just cut and paste in to a new "Mail" composition, cut that and repaste, clunky but the only way I've found that strips all formatting.
A: Simply edit the text to include periods. Whenever I type in an address or phone number in Notes and do not it become a hyperlink, I simply add periods. Ex.
333.-.333.-.1234.
Mr. Green jeans.
3333. Green Lane.
Garden City. WI. 11111.-.1111
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75fbf0170e333f66d3b65e7a91040421f2d123d7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: createinstallmedia: command not found I am trying to create a bootable flash drive that is named Untitled from my MacBook Pro Retina with Yosemite 10.10.
This is what I am getting in Terminal:
mbp2013retina:~ chris$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found
Can someone help?
A: I use following method.
*
*Format the USB:
*
*Format it, using Disk Utility, as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive, named Yosemite.
*Next run this in Terminal where you can remove the option —nointeraction if you want to get notifications and make decisions yourself about the disk and making the USB installer:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app —nointeraction
*
*Replace Untitled with name of the USB drive (Yosemite)
For additional information, see: Create a bootable installer for OS X
| Q: createinstallmedia: command not found I am trying to create a bootable flash drive that is named Untitled from my MacBook Pro Retina with Yosemite 10.10.
This is what I am getting in Terminal:
mbp2013retina:~ chris$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found
Can someone help?
A: I use following method.
*
*Format the USB:
*
*Format it, using Disk Utility, as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive, named Yosemite.
*Next run this in Terminal where you can remove the option —nointeraction if you want to get notifications and make decisions yourself about the disk and making the USB installer:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app —nointeraction
*
*Replace Untitled with name of the USB drive (Yosemite)
For additional information, see: Create a bootable installer for OS X
A: You just remove the space of os name, once you downloaded in Application Path. Install OS X Yosemite.app to InstallOSXYosemite.app
sudo /Applications/InstallOSXYosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/InstallOSXYosemite.app --nointeraction
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97971d7d4d456c5d62266f21620f4702d6023adc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts via VMware Fusion I use OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and have VMware Fusion 7.1.1 where Ubuntu 14.04 has been installed. Moreover, I have installed VMware tools patches.
Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+C then Cmd+V) worked fine before. I don't know if it is because of the recent upgrade from VMware Fusion 6.x to 7.1.1 or the installation of the VMware tools patches, copy and paste does not work any more. Here are some screenshots of the settings:
Could anyone help?
A: Look under the settings for that particular VM, not the "App Preferences." Each specific VM has it's own settings, and there are granular controls for Host <--> Guest sharing.
I only have Parallels, or I would post screenshots, but it is quite similar, from what I remember of previous VMWare Fusion versions that I used at my old job.
In the "Launch" screen, there should be a gear or some settings button for that specific VM.
Here it is in Parallels, FWIW.
| Q: Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts via VMware Fusion I use OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and have VMware Fusion 7.1.1 where Ubuntu 14.04 has been installed. Moreover, I have installed VMware tools patches.
Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+C then Cmd+V) worked fine before. I don't know if it is because of the recent upgrade from VMware Fusion 6.x to 7.1.1 or the installation of the VMware tools patches, copy and paste does not work any more. Here are some screenshots of the settings:
Could anyone help?
A: Look under the settings for that particular VM, not the "App Preferences." Each specific VM has it's own settings, and there are granular controls for Host <--> Guest sharing.
I only have Parallels, or I would post screenshots, but it is quite similar, from what I remember of previous VMWare Fusion versions that I used at my old job.
In the "Launch" screen, there should be a gear or some settings button for that specific VM.
Here it is in Parallels, FWIW.
A: After a test install of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS in VMware 7.1.1/Mac OS X 10.9.5, then using the following (shortened) guide to download the latest VMware Tools and applying the patches, copy & paste with keyboard shortcuts from the Linux guest (ctrl+c/v) to the Mac host (cmd+c/v) and the opposite direction just works.
1. Checkout the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
2. Download the latest version of VMware Tools into
the vmware-tools-patches folder which should reside in your user folder.
$ cd vmware-tools-patches
$ ./download-tools.sh 7.1.1
3. Untar the tarball, and apply the patches:
$ cd vmware-tools-patches
$ ./untar-and-patch.sh
4. Run the vmware-install.pl installer to install VMware Tools:
$ ./compile.sh
My VM-settings look like this:
Inside the Ubuntu VM I use the "English (Macintosh)" or "German (Macintosh)" keyboard layout.
My advice: trash the folder "vmware-tools-folders" in your user folder (or wherever you have downloaded it previously), download the patches, download the VMware Tools, apply the patches and install the tools like described in the above guide. You don't have to/mustn't reinstall/install the VMware Tools from the VMware Fusion menubar -> Virtual Machine -> Reinstall VMware Tools following the above guide.
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9fc0fb0cdb94a14cb7de0661d8782274441d8f62 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Annoying lag while searching in iOS Safari More or less from iOS 8.2 update I suffer a little, but very annoying, trouble in Safari.
I open Safari, I type in the search bar what I need (web page or something to search on Google) then I've to wait from 5 to 20 seconds to launch the command.
Until the table under the search bar is empty, pressing search button doesn't makes happen nothing!
Am I the only one with this issue? Is there a way to solve?
A: I had the exact same problem! I got the following solution, courtesy of a call to Apple.
*
*Go to Settings > Safari
*Select "Clear History and Website Data" (note: this will wipe your history on your phone and any devices that sync their Safari data with your phone's over iCloud.
*Change the Block Cookies setting to Always Block.
*Close Safari from the app switcher.
*Change the Block Cookies setting back to Allow from Websites I Visit.
*Enjoy your non-laggy Safari!
| Q: Annoying lag while searching in iOS Safari More or less from iOS 8.2 update I suffer a little, but very annoying, trouble in Safari.
I open Safari, I type in the search bar what I need (web page or something to search on Google) then I've to wait from 5 to 20 seconds to launch the command.
Until the table under the search bar is empty, pressing search button doesn't makes happen nothing!
Am I the only one with this issue? Is there a way to solve?
A: I had the exact same problem! I got the following solution, courtesy of a call to Apple.
*
*Go to Settings > Safari
*Select "Clear History and Website Data" (note: this will wipe your history on your phone and any devices that sync their Safari data with your phone's over iCloud.
*Change the Block Cookies setting to Always Block.
*Close Safari from the app switcher.
*Change the Block Cookies setting back to Allow from Websites I Visit.
*Enjoy your non-laggy Safari!
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9f1bbc57ab5e58d9e08a04116e69d682ef401bd0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the difference between `open (-a) ` and double click in finder/spotlight? I recently installed leksah on my Mac (once directly, once via brew cask).
When I try to open it in Finder, Dock or use spotlight the window flashes open for a second and then closes immediately.
When I open it via terminal using open -a Leksah or open ~/Applications/Leksah it opens just fine.
Other users have experienced the same issue with other apps and other OSX versions as well. Is there a difference in behavior when opening an application using any of these methods? How can one debug what's going on?
A: Well, one difference is that via Command Line, you can pass the file to be opened as an argument, but I guess this is not the difference you are after.
The behaviour you speak of appears to be a bug which can be observed when running Yosemite. The issue is still open: https://github.com/leksah/leksah/issues/37
| Q: What is the difference between `open (-a) ` and double click in finder/spotlight? I recently installed leksah on my Mac (once directly, once via brew cask).
When I try to open it in Finder, Dock or use spotlight the window flashes open for a second and then closes immediately.
When I open it via terminal using open -a Leksah or open ~/Applications/Leksah it opens just fine.
Other users have experienced the same issue with other apps and other OSX versions as well. Is there a difference in behavior when opening an application using any of these methods? How can one debug what's going on?
A: Well, one difference is that via Command Line, you can pass the file to be opened as an argument, but I guess this is not the difference you are after.
The behaviour you speak of appears to be a bug which can be observed when running Yosemite. The issue is still open: https://github.com/leksah/leksah/issues/37
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95ec54c921e1b3d3da5f0c4cb123e72205be0648 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to create a password protected ad-hoc network on Yosemite I just tried to create an ad-hoc network on OS X Yosemite and noticed there are no password options. Are they hidden? If so, is there any way to enable them? Is Terminal an option?
Is it possible to create a password protected ad-hoc network on yosemite? If so, how?
A: As a newer answer for making an ad hoc network that works in Mojave without a internet connection, while searching online, I finally found an answer!
Smoooosher's answer only works with an active connection to share.
To create your own "active" network, in terminal run the 2 following commands.
sudo networksetup -createnetworkservice Loopback lo0
sudo networksetup -setmanual Loopback 172.20.42.42 255.255.255.255
This creates a new network conection that although it looks inactive, it can be shared from the internet sharing preference pane to wifi.
source: https://www.laszlopusztai.net/2016/02/14/creating-a-wi-fi-access-point-on-os-x/
| Q: How to create a password protected ad-hoc network on Yosemite I just tried to create an ad-hoc network on OS X Yosemite and noticed there are no password options. Are they hidden? If so, is there any way to enable them? Is Terminal an option?
Is it possible to create a password protected ad-hoc network on yosemite? If so, how?
A: As a newer answer for making an ad hoc network that works in Mojave without a internet connection, while searching online, I finally found an answer!
Smoooosher's answer only works with an active connection to share.
To create your own "active" network, in terminal run the 2 following commands.
sudo networksetup -createnetworkservice Loopback lo0
sudo networksetup -setmanual Loopback 172.20.42.42 255.255.255.255
This creates a new network conection that although it looks inactive, it can be shared from the internet sharing preference pane to wifi.
source: https://www.laszlopusztai.net/2016/02/14/creating-a-wi-fi-access-point-on-os-x/
A: You can create a password-protected ad-hoc network by sharing your internet connection. To do so:
*
*Go to Apple Menu -> System Preferences
*Go to Sharing preference pane
*Select "Internet Sharing"
*Choose the source port
*Set your connection to be broadcast over WiFi
*Click on WiFi options and set a network name and security
While this is a little more involved than just creating the ad-hoc, it will serve the same purpose as well as having the benefit of sharing your connection. At this time, there is no way to add security to an ad-hoc only network on Yosemite.
Source
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b71c07d4048dfc4a330caae4e1fafc7ebced1574 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't download apps from App Store as get button doesn't start download For a couple days now, whenever I try to download an app from the App Store on my iPhone 5s with iOS 8.3, it brings up the 'use existing Apple ID' or 'create new one' window.
When I select the existing one and fill in my account information it closes the pop up window and starts to download the app (indicated by the circle starting to turn) but after one second it goes right back to the 'get' button.
When I try to download it again it all goes to square one. İt has been driving me nuts! İts like a vicious circle!
A: From the Apple help site at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201400 it recommended
Make sure that your date, time, and time zone are correct. Tap
Settings > General > Date & Time.
My settings were correct. However I turned off the automatic date/time/timezone feature to make the date and time zone setting be manual.
Voila, I could connect to the iTunes/App store. I had turned my phone off and on several times. I really wanted to avoid doing a reset. So I've escaped it for now.
| Q: Can't download apps from App Store as get button doesn't start download For a couple days now, whenever I try to download an app from the App Store on my iPhone 5s with iOS 8.3, it brings up the 'use existing Apple ID' or 'create new one' window.
When I select the existing one and fill in my account information it closes the pop up window and starts to download the app (indicated by the circle starting to turn) but after one second it goes right back to the 'get' button.
When I try to download it again it all goes to square one. İt has been driving me nuts! İts like a vicious circle!
A: From the Apple help site at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201400 it recommended
Make sure that your date, time, and time zone are correct. Tap
Settings > General > Date & Time.
My settings were correct. However I turned off the automatic date/time/timezone feature to make the date and time zone setting be manual.
Voila, I could connect to the iTunes/App store. I had turned my phone off and on several times. I really wanted to avoid doing a reset. So I've escaped it for now.
A: Go to Settings> iTunes & AppStore > Password Settings > slide the "Require Password" switch. This worked for me for free apps.
A: Go to your setting, change your language to some other than your default one, let it respring and after that change back to your default language. After that it should be ok again
A: Whenever there is strange behaviour that doesn't seem to resolve itself, this tends to indicate that the device is hung up with respect to the sequence of steps that it needs to complete.
To force the device to take a fresh start at doing the task, you should restart the device.
A: A solution to many strange iOS problems is to back up and restore the device. I saw this issue on an iPad before, and could find no solution besides restoring it.
A: I'm having the same issue and I'm pretty sure it started with the last iOS update. One workaround I've found has been to purchase the app from iTunes on my computer. Then, go to the Updates tab in the App Store on your phone and click on Purchased items at the top. The app will be available there for download.
The only issue I'm having, and cannot resolve, is that I cannot make any in-app purchases and that's not something that can be done on a computer. Any thoughts on how to solve that?
A: Try changing the Language setting on your phone, then change it back again to your normal language.
Settings > General > Language & Region > iPhone Language
I had a similar problem and after trying various things, the language swap fixed it.
For reference, other possible fixes for problems like this (in rough order of how annoying they are to do):
*
*Kill the App Store:
Double tap the Home button, then swipe up on the App Store app
*Restart the phone:
Hold Home and Power buttons for about 5 seconds until phone reboots and Apple logo appears
*Log out of App store and then sign back in:
Settings > iTunes & App Store > AppleID, then Sign Out
*Reset All Settings:
Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
NOTE: This will delete lots of settings but NOT your data.
A: Look for what has recently changed on your device. I realized I have installed DeDirect and the IAPFree standalone plugin in Cydia (there were updates of the latter in Cydia). I removed DeDirect first but didn't fix the issue. After remiving the IAPFree stuff all went back to normal and AppStore download worked again. Have now reinstalled just the IAPFree standalone plugin and will wait for the next update to come through the Appstore. As a general rule, always think of what has changed since last time it worked. Feedback and let us know if that fixed it for you. Thanks
A: If you are trying to download a free item from the App Store this WILL help.
Settings > iTunes and App Store > Password settings > go from 'always require' to 'require after 15 minutes' > switch the 'require password' selection from on to off .
A: Try changing the Language setting on your phone, then change it back again to your normal language.
Settings > General > Language & Region > iPhone Language
This work me iPhone5 IOS8.3
A: I had a similar problem. Tapping the "Get" button would only cause the button to disappear and reappear silently. After I signed out of the App Store and tried to sign back in, I would get an alert that simply said "Could Not Sign In".
After a bit of troubleshooting, I realized that my home network was blocking access to init.itunes.apple.com. Unblocking this fixed the problem.
In other words, make sure that you're not behind a firewall or proxy that may be blocking certain connections.
A: If you are having trouble downloading or updating apps from the App Store, try using your Touch ID instead of your Apple password. Settings>Touch ID & Passcode then turn on the iTunes & App Store option.
Cheers!
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36496b8effa76269acbe78d71b4e70b25a73cc46 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Applescript play track does not add to "Up Next" I'm having an issue with the play command. It seems that if I use this command to play a song within a playlist, it will play that song and then stop.
What I'm seeing is that it will play that song but the "Up Next" queue will be empty. If the queue is not empty, it will play the next song in the queue and not the next song in the playlist. The only way to get this to work is by manually double clicking on the song.
My goal is to start playing a playlist from a specific song specified by a variable.
Any ideas?
I'm running OS X 10.10 and iTunes 12.
| Q: Applescript play track does not add to "Up Next" I'm having an issue with the play command. It seems that if I use this command to play a song within a playlist, it will play that song and then stop.
What I'm seeing is that it will play that song but the "Up Next" queue will be empty. If the queue is not empty, it will play the next song in the queue and not the next song in the playlist. The only way to get this to work is by manually double clicking on the song.
My goal is to start playing a playlist from a specific song specified by a variable.
Any ideas?
I'm running OS X 10.10 and iTunes 12.
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0153eb9ab00c2cafa6b474671d3760e736ed584c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In sales and trends, why does proceeds divided by sales only = 66% and not 70%? Recently Apple started including "sales" in iTunes Connect Sales and Trends which denotes the total revenue your app has made before Apple takes its 30% cut, while "proceeds" is what you made after the cut is subtracted.
Why is it when I take my lifetime proceeds and divide it by my lifetime sales, I only get 66-67% instead of 70%? What is happening to this other 3-4%?
| Q: In sales and trends, why does proceeds divided by sales only = 66% and not 70%? Recently Apple started including "sales" in iTunes Connect Sales and Trends which denotes the total revenue your app has made before Apple takes its 30% cut, while "proceeds" is what you made after the cut is subtracted.
Why is it when I take my lifetime proceeds and divide it by my lifetime sales, I only get 66-67% instead of 70%? What is happening to this other 3-4%?
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eec0f72eab8a6cd9bfe91ac679b9b4fe93a49433 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is this modifier key? What is the OS X modifier key symbol that looks like the control icon (^) but with the addition of a line over it?
Symbol:
A: This appears to be the enter key symbol:
⌤ is enter
Source
| Q: What is this modifier key? What is the OS X modifier key symbol that looks like the control icon (^) but with the addition of a line over it?
Symbol:
A: This appears to be the enter key symbol:
⌤ is enter
Source
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7cc5780b1229ffacac648a5ff51a2f12c8d7b256 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to clear the Photos icon badge For some reason that is not clear to me, the Photos app icon on the dock of my Yosemite OS now displays a badge (the number 1 in a red circle top right corner)
First of all, I have no idea what that badge is suppose to represent. Second, when I launch the app I have not idea what the thing is that I'm suppose to look at, acknowledge or in some way "touch" so that the badge goes away.
A: If you haven't already, turn on the sidebar - Option-Command-S - then look towards the top and under Shared, click Activity. Likely there is some activity on a shared album or Photo Stream. It may also be someone inviting you to join a shared album or Photo Stream. (I'm not sure how that would show up in Photos, as I haven't had any invitations since Photos was released.)
Either way I'm guessing once you take a look at that area, the badge will disappear.
| Q: How to clear the Photos icon badge For some reason that is not clear to me, the Photos app icon on the dock of my Yosemite OS now displays a badge (the number 1 in a red circle top right corner)
First of all, I have no idea what that badge is suppose to represent. Second, when I launch the app I have not idea what the thing is that I'm suppose to look at, acknowledge or in some way "touch" so that the badge goes away.
A: If you haven't already, turn on the sidebar - Option-Command-S - then look towards the top and under Shared, click Activity. Likely there is some activity on a shared album or Photo Stream. It may also be someone inviting you to join a shared album or Photo Stream. (I'm not sure how that would show up in Photos, as I haven't had any invitations since Photos was released.)
Either way I'm guessing once you take a look at that area, the badge will disappear.
A: Supposing you're talking about iOS, the badge may mean somebody commented or liked one of your photos on a shared folder.
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c4b2d78a9e9ff57cdd689af5d9449dfed0a4fee6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to select a photo from Mac OS photos from an open/attach dialogue box When in messaging apps such Telegram Messenger I sometime want to attach a photo. In these cases I am presented with a dialogue box like the below:
As the photo is invariably in my iPhoto (or more recently Mac OSX "Photos") library, it is very difficult to navigate to the photo I want via this dialogue. I also can't seem to drag and drop from Photos and a copy/paste results in the image file path being pasted rather than the image itself.
Is there an easy way to insert photos into apps of this nature? Note this is not restricted just to messaging apps, but any app that offers importing of photos where one might want to use something from their OSX library.
A: If you scroll down in the sidebar, you should have a "Media" section with a "Photos" item:
When you select that, you are presented with a photos browser, where you can select any photo from the Photos app:
| Q: How to select a photo from Mac OS photos from an open/attach dialogue box When in messaging apps such Telegram Messenger I sometime want to attach a photo. In these cases I am presented with a dialogue box like the below:
As the photo is invariably in my iPhoto (or more recently Mac OSX "Photos") library, it is very difficult to navigate to the photo I want via this dialogue. I also can't seem to drag and drop from Photos and a copy/paste results in the image file path being pasted rather than the image itself.
Is there an easy way to insert photos into apps of this nature? Note this is not restricted just to messaging apps, but any app that offers importing of photos where one might want to use something from their OSX library.
A: If you scroll down in the sidebar, you should have a "Media" section with a "Photos" item:
When you select that, you are presented with a photos browser, where you can select any photo from the Photos app:
A: You'd need to open Photos or iPhoto, drag the file to the desktop, then use the above dialog to open it. (Some applications do support dragging directly from Photos or iPhoto, it just depends.)
Also, you can urge application developers to support sharing extensions which would allow you to use a share sheet in Photos to open the photo in your chosen application automatically.
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37937006a8f25945d64349cfff90b66b9003a02f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCloud Photo Library not optimizing My wife's 16gb iP5 is not optimizing iCPL she is now out of space. What do I need to do to fix this? I've read that if I turn off iCPL on her phone and then delete all the pictures in her photos app including Recently deleted then restart her phone and turn iCPL again it will revert to optimizing again. Is this an acceptable method for fixing this what I consider to be a still in beta Apple app. Very disappointing.
A: I turned iCPL, Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing off in Settings/General/Photos & Camera, rebooted her phone and then turned on all that I had turned off. The phone then showed a spinning gear for about 5 minutes saying "Turning On" and after that I went to Settings/General/Usage/Manage Storage, and saw that her phone regained 2Gb of storage back from only having 388Mb available. I did not have to delete all of her photos after I turned iCPL off.
| Q: iCloud Photo Library not optimizing My wife's 16gb iP5 is not optimizing iCPL she is now out of space. What do I need to do to fix this? I've read that if I turn off iCPL on her phone and then delete all the pictures in her photos app including Recently deleted then restart her phone and turn iCPL again it will revert to optimizing again. Is this an acceptable method for fixing this what I consider to be a still in beta Apple app. Very disappointing.
A: I turned iCPL, Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing off in Settings/General/Photos & Camera, rebooted her phone and then turned on all that I had turned off. The phone then showed a spinning gear for about 5 minutes saying "Turning On" and after that I went to Settings/General/Usage/Manage Storage, and saw that her phone regained 2Gb of storage back from only having 388Mb available. I did not have to delete all of her photos after I turned iCPL off.
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c524536006d222889192fe5fda8a2c8f8e117bd9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I want to make VLC my default player on Mac OS X 10.10.3 I have seen people say to click get info then do something with the 'open with' but when I go to get info there is NO open with option, no options to change at all. I cannot drag the files into VLC like I could before the upgrade either. Please help me out! I am not real tech savvy, but I can do basics and follow instructions. Thanks.
A: Right click on any movie file you have.
Get Info
At the bottom of that window you will see the current app used to open it.
Change to VLC and use the "Change all"
You need to repeat that for all movie files that have different extension.
Normally you would have .fvl, the .mov, and maybe some other formats.
| Q: I want to make VLC my default player on Mac OS X 10.10.3 I have seen people say to click get info then do something with the 'open with' but when I go to get info there is NO open with option, no options to change at all. I cannot drag the files into VLC like I could before the upgrade either. Please help me out! I am not real tech savvy, but I can do basics and follow instructions. Thanks.
A: Right click on any movie file you have.
Get Info
At the bottom of that window you will see the current app used to open it.
Change to VLC and use the "Change all"
You need to repeat that for all movie files that have different extension.
Normally you would have .fvl, the .mov, and maybe some other formats.
A: I just tested a m4v file with VLC Version 2.2.1 and it works fine. (Not sure what type of media files you are trying to open) So here is what I did:
Right click or ctrl+click on the media file
Open with > VLC
The file opened just fine.
To open ALL files by that type:
Use the Get Info option. (in the picture) From there you can select
Change all to use VLC with all files of this type.
I hope this is useful to you in solving your issue.
A: Choose a file in your Finder, left click on :
Choose VLC app and check the 'always open with' box
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f1dee00eec446d3e5bbdb4b0a3edcea440433461 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use SketchUp with a Macbook's trackpad? Sketchup is designed for use with a third mouse button (particularly the pan and orbit functions). Can I emulate the third button for SketchUp using a MacBook's trackpad or user gestures?
A: Yes!
*
*Orbit - Cmd+Ctrl and click/drag
*Pan - Cmd+Ctrl+Shift and click/drag
*Zoom - Two-finger scroll up/down (no click necessary)
| Q: Can I use SketchUp with a Macbook's trackpad? Sketchup is designed for use with a third mouse button (particularly the pan and orbit functions). Can I emulate the third button for SketchUp using a MacBook's trackpad or user gestures?
A: Yes!
*
*Orbit - Cmd+Ctrl and click/drag
*Pan - Cmd+Ctrl+Shift and click/drag
*Zoom - Two-finger scroll up/down (no click necessary)
A: I just discovered that as long as you keep finger contact on the trackpad, you can release the keys and still continue to Pan or Orbit.
If you release your touch on the pad, as happens if you cannot go any further in the limited space, then you have to use the keys again to get into the desired command, at which point you can release the keys and keep Panning and Orbiting.
Thanks for the question. Your post did the same thing thing for me that you wanted: it showed up first in Google search to remind me of the correct keyboard commands. My normal workstation has a 3-button mouse just for SU, but sometimes I'm on a laptop with no mouse, or only a magic mouse.
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43865c4cf9b538c3f89fc3a6cd33ecf70afc97f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to see the content of the "Send to Apple" crash report after closing it? My app crashed, and I just took a screenshot before closing the window.
Instead of the screenshot, I really should have copied the whole log...
I can't reproduce the crash, and really want to see the rest of the details.
QUESTION: Can I get the full details of the Problem Report, even after I have closed it?
Or is it too late, and it is lost forever?
A: Those informations are stored in Console application under Diagnostic and Usage Information. Here's screenshot:
You can also find them in:
~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/
/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/
| Q: Is it possible to see the content of the "Send to Apple" crash report after closing it? My app crashed, and I just took a screenshot before closing the window.
Instead of the screenshot, I really should have copied the whole log...
I can't reproduce the crash, and really want to see the rest of the details.
QUESTION: Can I get the full details of the Problem Report, even after I have closed it?
Or is it too late, and it is lost forever?
A: Those informations are stored in Console application under Diagnostic and Usage Information. Here's screenshot:
You can also find them in:
~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/
/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/
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ad9b703fa171f8d980e81780aca83429af131b43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Show Password" in Keychain Access doesn't work I am having a problem, as a program is requesting my RSA password but my Mac won't let me see it. As I check the "show password" (mostrar contraseña) chechbox, it immediately unmarks itself.
I already tried "Repair" and turning the computer off and on again (as if it ever worked) and of course, it didn't fix it.
Any suggestions?
A: To get the password from your keychain . You can right click on that item of which you need the password and click on "copy the password to clipboard", then you will ask to enter the login password , after that you can paste the password where you want.
PFA:
| Q: "Show Password" in Keychain Access doesn't work I am having a problem, as a program is requesting my RSA password but my Mac won't let me see it. As I check the "show password" (mostrar contraseña) chechbox, it immediately unmarks itself.
I already tried "Repair" and turning the computer off and on again (as if it ever worked) and of course, it didn't fix it.
Any suggestions?
A: To get the password from your keychain . You can right click on that item of which you need the password and click on "copy the password to clipboard", then you will ask to enter the login password , after that you can paste the password where you want.
PFA:
A: Locking and unlocking the Keychain helped in my case. It's the lock icon in the upper left corner of the application's window.
A: I had probably the same problem, I changed my Keychain password to my login password ie. they are equal now.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201609
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330bd33453604c5e492df15ea98a1f3bf70ffb64 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Bluetooth be disabled on the Apple Watch? I understand that the Apple Watch needs a connection to an iPhone for most of its features to work, but am curious if Bluetooth can be turned off on the Apple Watch. Does the Apple Watch provide an option to disable Bluetooth?
A: Apparently Apple Watch has Airplane Mode, which turns off both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
[To] Turn on Airplane Mode. Swipe up on the watch face, swipe to the Settings glance, then tap the Airplane Mode button. The Connected status at the top of the screen changes to Disconnected. Or open the Settings app settings icon, then tap Airplane Mode. When Airplane Mode is on, you’ll see [Airplane mode icon] at the top of the screen.
Source: Apple Watch User Guide.
| Q: Can Bluetooth be disabled on the Apple Watch? I understand that the Apple Watch needs a connection to an iPhone for most of its features to work, but am curious if Bluetooth can be turned off on the Apple Watch. Does the Apple Watch provide an option to disable Bluetooth?
A: Apparently Apple Watch has Airplane Mode, which turns off both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
[To] Turn on Airplane Mode. Swipe up on the watch face, swipe to the Settings glance, then tap the Airplane Mode button. The Connected status at the top of the screen changes to Disconnected. Or open the Settings app settings icon, then tap Airplane Mode. When Airplane Mode is on, you’ll see [Airplane mode icon] at the top of the screen.
Source: Apple Watch User Guide.
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a8d489a759121ffae13da4e140c1098a9b2dd70f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How am I able to export all of my applications' names on my Mac into a CSV or TXT file? How am I able to export all of my applications' names on my Mac into a CSV or TXT file? I am currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3.
A: In a Terminal:
mdfind kMDItemKind="Application" > ~/Desktop/apps.txt
This will create a file named apps.txt on your Desktop, containing the full paths for everything that OS X considers to be an "Application" on your system.
This is might be a lot more than you want. You can limit the search to a given folder by adding -onlyin <dir>, so:
mdfind -onlyin /Applications kMDItemKind="Application" > ~/Desktop/apps.txt
will limit the search to the /Applications folder (and its subfolders). Note that you might also have apps under ~/Applications, i.e., inside your Home folder.
| Q: How am I able to export all of my applications' names on my Mac into a CSV or TXT file? How am I able to export all of my applications' names on my Mac into a CSV or TXT file? I am currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3.
A: In a Terminal:
mdfind kMDItemKind="Application" > ~/Desktop/apps.txt
This will create a file named apps.txt on your Desktop, containing the full paths for everything that OS X considers to be an "Application" on your system.
This is might be a lot more than you want. You can limit the search to a given folder by adding -onlyin <dir>, so:
mdfind -onlyin /Applications kMDItemKind="Application" > ~/Desktop/apps.txt
will limit the search to the /Applications folder (and its subfolders). Note that you might also have apps under ~/Applications, i.e., inside your Home folder.
A: *
*Within Finder, open the application folder
*Select All (command+A) and then Copy (command+C)
*Open a new document in TextEdit
*Now go to Edit > Paste and Match Style (or use optionshiftcommand+V)
*Save the text file
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2d0b6d228e326c98802e9e818ef345c4ddb7055c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Paste To Match Style App Shortcut I have to copy and paste a lot of stuff and it bugs me when the formatting is copied over, In pages there's a way to paste using the destination formatting but the keyboard shortcut is 4 keys long which annoying.
Is there anyway to change the in-app shortcuts or generally just swap them around so cmd + V will paste and match the style?
I've already looking in system preferences but I can't see anything like this
A: App Shortcuts defined in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts override the default shortcuts.
Therefore, you can set up the shortcuts so that Paste is ⌥⇧⌘V and Paste and Match Style is ⌘V, as this will override the standard shortcuts.
| Q: Paste To Match Style App Shortcut I have to copy and paste a lot of stuff and it bugs me when the formatting is copied over, In pages there's a way to paste using the destination formatting but the keyboard shortcut is 4 keys long which annoying.
Is there anyway to change the in-app shortcuts or generally just swap them around so cmd + V will paste and match the style?
I've already looking in system preferences but I can't see anything like this
A: App Shortcuts defined in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts override the default shortcuts.
Therefore, you can set up the shortcuts so that Paste is ⌥⇧⌘V and Paste and Match Style is ⌘V, as this will override the standard shortcuts.
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87fd160fe23a81a0e96b2d01680b8df55ba9273e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Time Machine doesn't see my WD My Passport 2 TB using USB 3.0 I have Yosemite 10.10.2 on my Early 2008 24". Time Machine has been backing up to my WD external hard drives for years. I just purchased a new 2TB My Passport using USB 3.0. It's formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The device shows up on by desktop and it does store files that I drag into it. However, Time Machine does not recognize it.
Any thoughts? Is it Time Machine or the 3.0 USB?
A: The following command line, using tmutil, will force Time Machine to use your mounted disk as its destination. If the disk is mounted as /Volumes/MyBackupDisk, run:
sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MyBackupDisk
Use sudo tmutil setdestination -a /Volumes/MyBackupDisk if you want to add to existing Time Machine drives
P.S. tmutil is very useful, also for deleting backups and working over the "operation not permitted" error.
| Q: Apple Time Machine doesn't see my WD My Passport 2 TB using USB 3.0 I have Yosemite 10.10.2 on my Early 2008 24". Time Machine has been backing up to my WD external hard drives for years. I just purchased a new 2TB My Passport using USB 3.0. It's formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The device shows up on by desktop and it does store files that I drag into it. However, Time Machine does not recognize it.
Any thoughts? Is it Time Machine or the 3.0 USB?
A: The following command line, using tmutil, will force Time Machine to use your mounted disk as its destination. If the disk is mounted as /Volumes/MyBackupDisk, run:
sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MyBackupDisk
Use sudo tmutil setdestination -a /Volumes/MyBackupDisk if you want to add to existing Time Machine drives
P.S. tmutil is very useful, also for deleting backups and working over the "operation not permitted" error.
A: This article is quite old, but I think is probably the reason…
The partition map scheme describes how the drive stores its volumes. Drives originally set up for use on Windows usually use the Master Boot Record (MBR) scheme, as opposed to the Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme, the default for PowerPC-based Macs, or the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme, the default for Intel Macs. Although OS X supports MBR, there’s a catch: Mac OS Extended volumes can be no larger than 512GB on a drive partitioned with the MBR scheme. So if you have, say, a 750GB or 1TB drive, you must repartition it to use the GPT or APM scheme before it can work with Time Machine.
Source: Macworld - Time Machine tips and troubleshooting
Apple's KB doesn't seem to quite be so explicit - OS X Yosemite: Disks you can use with Time Machine
You would need to go to Disk Utility & check the drive is formatted as not only Mac OS X Extended, but that the underlying structure is GUID [most 3rd party drives will arrive as MBR/NTFS usually for Windows]
You can only change from MBR to GUID by completely erasing the drive & starting over…
Select the drive itself [not the volume]. Bottom right it will tell you the partitions scheme.
If it is not GUID, then > Partition. Select a Partition layout [not current], then Options… & set to GUID Partition Table.
A: I faced a similar issue where Time Machine was not detecting my first partition on a WD 1 TB disk but showing the 2nd partition available for backup. I erased the 1st partition by using Disk Utility and reformatted it to Apple native partition type. As soon as it finished doing that, it asked me whether I want to use this as a backup drive. I selected that and now Time Machine was able to pick this up :)
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5b2fe7c9ba1758e4283d45a69159acb6616073ec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: as of 4/2015 OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located? After I updated my Kindle for Mac app 2 mos. ago I can no longer find the azw book files on my Mac to convert them so I can read them on my KOBO ereader. I use to find them in a My Kindle Content file but that has disappeared. I have Ult. DRM & Calibre but they won't work without the azw files, and I can't find them on my mac anymore. Can anyone help me?
The answers on this site about this are years old & do not apply to my problem.
A: The answer to OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located? indicates that Kindle books get stored in ~/Documents/My\ Kindle\ Content. If this folder doesn't exist or is empty, you can open Terminal and run
find ~ -name '*.azw' -print
to search for them within your user folder.
| Q: as of 4/2015 OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located? After I updated my Kindle for Mac app 2 mos. ago I can no longer find the azw book files on my Mac to convert them so I can read them on my KOBO ereader. I use to find them in a My Kindle Content file but that has disappeared. I have Ult. DRM & Calibre but they won't work without the azw files, and I can't find them on my mac anymore. Can anyone help me?
The answers on this site about this are years old & do not apply to my problem.
A: The answer to OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located? indicates that Kindle books get stored in ~/Documents/My\ Kindle\ Content. If this folder doesn't exist or is empty, you can open Terminal and run
find ~ -name '*.azw' -print
to search for them within your user folder.
A: In order to access the Kindle Content folder, the actual folders you need to navigate through will be visible. In Finder, click on either the Boot Drive on your desktop, usually your only drive, or on the Boot drive, or the item in your left hand panel that corresponds to your User name, and then navigate to the correct path is as follows:
~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/
Once you have access to your Kindle content, you can then copy the files to another folder to be processed for conversion, or whatever you plan to do with them. Once you've found your content folder, you can then go into Preferences in the Kindle App and change your destination folder.
A: Kindle.app now uses the Apple Sandbox functionality.
This means that it can only affect and see files in a subdirectory under ~/Library/Containers. The .azw files are in ~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content
This directory is shown in the Kindle app in Preferences->General as the value of Content Folder and it appears that this can be changed there.
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12c791ca864318907bcba51b7b3b22d12f0a2f0c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do set a custom minimum tab width in Safari 8? In Chrome when I have many tabs open it simply reduces the width of each tab. I'm trying Safari for the first time in years and am not enjoying the tabs that get smaller towards the edge. Is there a clever tab setting or tab management extension? (Glims no longer works). I've spent >1 hr with my friend google but appear to be asking the wrong question.
| Q: How do set a custom minimum tab width in Safari 8? In Chrome when I have many tabs open it simply reduces the width of each tab. I'm trying Safari for the first time in years and am not enjoying the tabs that get smaller towards the edge. Is there a clever tab setting or tab management extension? (Glims no longer works). I've spent >1 hr with my friend google but appear to be asking the wrong question.
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0a8b8e31b91b5ab439ca402c4c39fc4bf7d9362b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X terminal "open" command and keeping focus on the command line I appreciate the "open" terminal command to launch OS X apps. When invoking the open command for any purpose, it is overwhelmingly likely that I will have at least one other command I would like to type into the terminal before tending to the application I have just summoned.
How do I keep focus on the terminal when using the open command?
A: Use the -g flag.
From the man page:
-g Do not bring the application to the foreground.
Example: To open the folder at your current path, behind the current Terminal window:
open . -g
As a side note, it is often better to manually peruse the documentation for new commands, as the verbiage may be different from what you expect:
i.e. "Do not bring the application to the foreground." vs. "Maintain terminal window focus."
| Q: OS X terminal "open" command and keeping focus on the command line I appreciate the "open" terminal command to launch OS X apps. When invoking the open command for any purpose, it is overwhelmingly likely that I will have at least one other command I would like to type into the terminal before tending to the application I have just summoned.
How do I keep focus on the terminal when using the open command?
A: Use the -g flag.
From the man page:
-g Do not bring the application to the foreground.
Example: To open the folder at your current path, behind the current Terminal window:
open . -g
As a side note, it is often better to manually peruse the documentation for new commands, as the verbiage may be different from what you expect:
i.e. "Do not bring the application to the foreground." vs. "Maintain terminal window focus."
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7c7036d8671ab6aedccab849d350400d895dcbd8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does Photos.app store its library and files? I switched from iPhoto to Photos and now one feature that was important to me is missing: "Show referenced files in Finder".
For example, that feature was useful to me for selective sharing. Also for other things, like complete Library backups, I think it is very important to know how Photos.app works and where it stores the files.
A: After looking for it, I found it. Quite obvious actually, it is next to the former iPhoto Library.
~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary
Researching a little more, because both libraries report the same size, the import from iPhoto to Photos changed all original files to hardlinks.
So either library contains a pointer to one file on disk, thus saving disk space.
For a full backup, I think it is sufficient to backup ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary.
| Q: Where does Photos.app store its library and files? I switched from iPhoto to Photos and now one feature that was important to me is missing: "Show referenced files in Finder".
For example, that feature was useful to me for selective sharing. Also for other things, like complete Library backups, I think it is very important to know how Photos.app works and where it stores the files.
A: After looking for it, I found it. Quite obvious actually, it is next to the former iPhoto Library.
~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary
Researching a little more, because both libraries report the same size, the import from iPhoto to Photos changed all original files to hardlinks.
So either library contains a pointer to one file on disk, thus saving disk space.
For a full backup, I think it is sufficient to backup ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary.
A: If you go to the following path /Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary, then right click on Photos Library.photoslibrary and select ShowPackageContents.
Then you can select the masters folder and backup the original photos.
Hope this helps.
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ccf973a9166a4bc9dddfd8114803c42e8965b7d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Removing an application from homebrew-cask Homebrew-cask provides the possibility for users to conveniently install the applications with GUI, I want to confirm that: while I try to uninstall a software which was installed by homebrew-cask, will it remove those Application Supports, Caches, or related files too?
By the way, If I manually update a software (which was installed by cask) without using command provided by cask, will it corrupt the cask function (such as updating that software in the future with cask again)?
A: For full remove try:
brew cask zap any_program
Manual update should not corrupt anything. It updates the same program copy which was installed by cask.
| Q: Removing an application from homebrew-cask Homebrew-cask provides the possibility for users to conveniently install the applications with GUI, I want to confirm that: while I try to uninstall a software which was installed by homebrew-cask, will it remove those Application Supports, Caches, or related files too?
By the way, If I manually update a software (which was installed by cask) without using command provided by cask, will it corrupt the cask function (such as updating that software in the future with cask again)?
A: For full remove try:
brew cask zap any_program
Manual update should not corrupt anything. It updates the same program copy which was installed by cask.
A: To remove an application cask via Homebrew-cask, run this command: brew uninstall --force --cask <cask_name>
A: No, uninstalling from brew-cask’s uninstall command will not remove the files in Application Support, Caches, Preferences etc. For that you’ll need a third party app, like AppCleaner or iTrash. I just delete one app this way and it didn’t even remove the symlink it made to the ~/Applications/ folder.
Though homebrew cask is an easy solution for installing app, it’ not perfect. On the man page of brew-cask you can read about the problems with uninstall command. You can use the zap command that does a little more than uninstall but that too has limitations, see the man page.
I don’t know if updating app will corrupt, have never tried it. You might have to fetch information for the cask using the command, or even re-install it with fetch —-force.
A: Additionally to @user14492 answer, which is right, check out the last line of the following paragraph, that answer your last question.
Updating/Upgrading Casks
Since the homebrew-cask repository is a Homebrew Tap, you'll pull down
the latest Casks every time you issue the regular Homebrew command
brew update. Currently, homebrew-cask cannot always detect if an
Application has been updated. You can force an update via the command
brew cask install --force. We are working on improving this.
It is generally safe to run updates from within an Application.
Source: How to Use Homebrew-cask.
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f9c15a5952f4a6de3aea8cfbbcfaaa1908547ed8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Show list of clients of wifi hotspot Mac OS X I have MacBook Air and I access internet using ethernet to USB adapter. Now I'm sharing Wi-Fi to my other devices, but I want to know the information about all clients of my hotspot. Not only mac address, but names and time they're connected too. Is there a way to do that or an app?
A: I get the list using arp command at Terminal.
first, get your WiFi sharing interface name, I get it by typing ifconfig on terminal.
It should be something like bridgexxx, for me, it's bridge100
Then type this on terminal:
arp -i interfacename -a
for me the command was like:
arp -i bridge100 -a
it shows the internal ip addresses and mac addresses of the devices connected.
| Q: Show list of clients of wifi hotspot Mac OS X I have MacBook Air and I access internet using ethernet to USB adapter. Now I'm sharing Wi-Fi to my other devices, but I want to know the information about all clients of my hotspot. Not only mac address, but names and time they're connected too. Is there a way to do that or an app?
A: I get the list using arp command at Terminal.
first, get your WiFi sharing interface name, I get it by typing ifconfig on terminal.
It should be something like bridgexxx, for me, it's bridge100
Then type this on terminal:
arp -i interfacename -a
for me the command was like:
arp -i bridge100 -a
it shows the internal ip addresses and mac addresses of the devices connected.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/183087"
} |
a0373f1d91144db916c2beb2a1381d4d4bb9ed79 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I restore icons in Finder? So yesterday I tried opening one of my apps an the Dock just froze completely. I tried every tip I could find online like Command+Option+Escape and killall -KILL Dock, but nothing fixed it. I was finally forced to restart my MacBook Pro. Now, my Finder looks like this:
How do I fix Finder?
A: You can reset OS X's icon cache with the following commands. Just copy and paste each into a Terminal window and then reboot your Mac.
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;
sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store
Source: Clearing the Icon Services cache in Yosemite
| Q: How do I restore icons in Finder? So yesterday I tried opening one of my apps an the Dock just froze completely. I tried every tip I could find online like Command+Option+Escape and killall -KILL Dock, but nothing fixed it. I was finally forced to restart my MacBook Pro. Now, my Finder looks like this:
How do I fix Finder?
A: You can reset OS X's icon cache with the following commands. Just copy and paste each into a Terminal window and then reboot your Mac.
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;
sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store
Source: Clearing the Icon Services cache in Yosemite
A: For high sierra, restarting in safe mode did the trick for me.
Choose Apple menu > Shut Down.
After your Mac shuts down, wait 10 seconds, then press the power button.
Immediately after your Mac starts (some Mac computers play a startup sound), press and hold the Shift key.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple logo and progress indicator.
To leave safe mode, restart your Mac again, but don’t press and hold any keys during startup.
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25617?locale=en_US
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7d44b34137a618c54726b548d9aedbaafcf3e072 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite 10.10.3 asks for google password every week with 2 factor authentication I have two factor authentication enabled on my google account and I was really happy when Apple finally started to support that.
However there is a slight nuisance: OSX keeps asking for a password every week or so and I have to reenter the security code for two factor authentication.
The "Never ask on this device" option is nowhere to be found. What is going on?
A: As far as I know, Google still considers some apps (including Apple's) to be less secure, as they call them. As a solution to be safe, they can force you to reauthenticate from time to time.
My solution, that I'm happy with so far, is to use their App Passwords for every single app that is less secure and does this annoying reauthentication step.
| Q: Yosemite 10.10.3 asks for google password every week with 2 factor authentication I have two factor authentication enabled on my google account and I was really happy when Apple finally started to support that.
However there is a slight nuisance: OSX keeps asking for a password every week or so and I have to reenter the security code for two factor authentication.
The "Never ask on this device" option is nowhere to be found. What is going on?
A: As far as I know, Google still considers some apps (including Apple's) to be less secure, as they call them. As a solution to be safe, they can force you to reauthenticate from time to time.
My solution, that I'm happy with so far, is to use their App Passwords for every single app that is less secure and does this annoying reauthentication step.
A: I've been searching for a solution to this for a long time and haven't found something suitable. As noted by @michal, Google was requiring App Passwords for different apps in OSX but as of 10.10.3, that requirement has been removed.
Note: If you have iOS 8.3 on your iPhone or OSX 10.10.3 on your Mac, you will no longer have to use App passwords to use 2-Step Verification.1
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} |
dc9c8f0639318f3bdae3099132e5523c7e1d3114 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change font size for PDF Text Annotation in Preview This should be dead simple: how to customize the font including face, style and modifications. But those configurations are nowhere to be seen.
So ... where is this hidden Preview/pdf toolbar / icon, whatever that allows setting the font ?
Here is what I see on the menu.
Right clicking on the textbox itself brings up the following - note that no way to change any text font/size. This is absurd.
A: In Yosemite, click the toolbox icon. The tool bar will show all the editing and annotation tools. One of them is the font configuration.
| Q: Change font size for PDF Text Annotation in Preview This should be dead simple: how to customize the font including face, style and modifications. But those configurations are nowhere to be seen.
So ... where is this hidden Preview/pdf toolbar / icon, whatever that allows setting the font ?
Here is what I see on the menu.
Right clicking on the textbox itself brings up the following - note that no way to change any text font/size. This is absurd.
A: In Yosemite, click the toolbox icon. The tool bar will show all the editing and annotation tools. One of them is the font configuration.
A: On my Preview in Mavericks it is right below the main menu bar, where I can select the Font and the size.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/183306"
} |
acafa9419736e4ddb2aa25ac657f08b4bd177199 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make app notifications ring as loudly as the phone I have a the IFTT app set up to send me very important ios notifications. I need it to wake me up at night. How can I make the notification sounds max loudness and ring for as long as a phone ring?
A: The phone ringing is, technically speaking, a notification sound, and uses the same volume setting as all other notifications (called Ringer Volume).
As far as notification tone length, you would need to contact the app's developer. You cannot set custom tones (at least, outside the app) for 3rd-party iOS apps like you can with Phone, Messages, etc.
| Q: Make app notifications ring as loudly as the phone I have a the IFTT app set up to send me very important ios notifications. I need it to wake me up at night. How can I make the notification sounds max loudness and ring for as long as a phone ring?
A: The phone ringing is, technically speaking, a notification sound, and uses the same volume setting as all other notifications (called Ringer Volume).
As far as notification tone length, you would need to contact the app's developer. You cannot set custom tones (at least, outside the app) for 3rd-party iOS apps like you can with Phone, Messages, etc.
| apple | {
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"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/183316"
} |
8476dd8921d15458af8f604330c7d5fb3d076a65 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Photo captions not showing up on photos when viewed slideshow mode in Photos.app The captions I added to my photos in iPhoto are not showing up when I play slideshows in Photo. I can still see that the information is there when I click on a photo's Info in the album view.
Is there a way to have the captions show up in slideshow mode in Photos.app?
A: There are no settings for this, and it does not appear to be possible.
This is further confirmed by MacWorld's article on "4 things iPhoto can do that Photos can't (yet)".
| Q: Photo captions not showing up on photos when viewed slideshow mode in Photos.app The captions I added to my photos in iPhoto are not showing up when I play slideshows in Photo. I can still see that the information is there when I click on a photo's Info in the album view.
Is there a way to have the captions show up in slideshow mode in Photos.app?
A: There are no settings for this, and it does not appear to be possible.
This is further confirmed by MacWorld's article on "4 things iPhoto can do that Photos can't (yet)".
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/183322"
} |
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