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6d7d609e0c698792dd564b6ab7f12cfe9732e58b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to do a partial screen recording on OSX with quicktime I am using multi-screen: I am using the primary screen of my MBP plus two external monitors via displayport
When I start the screen recording, it is the message I see on my screen
I go on to select an area for recording
It is where I get stuck: there is simply no way I can start the recording after the selection. I clicked, tried to access the Quicktime app, tried some key combination. But nothing will get the recording to start.
How can I start a the screen recording for part of the screen?
A: You can record a selected area of your screen as follows:
*
*Open the Quicktime Player app
*Choose File -> New Screen Recording or CtrlCommandN
*Now select the area you want to record
*Press the button in the middle of you selected area that states: Start recording
*To stop, there will be a squared stop button that appears in the menu bar
As your screenshot is missing this button, you might want te restart Quicktime Player or reboot your machine.
| Q: Unable to do a partial screen recording on OSX with quicktime I am using multi-screen: I am using the primary screen of my MBP plus two external monitors via displayport
When I start the screen recording, it is the message I see on my screen
I go on to select an area for recording
It is where I get stuck: there is simply no way I can start the recording after the selection. I clicked, tried to access the Quicktime app, tried some key combination. But nothing will get the recording to start.
How can I start a the screen recording for part of the screen?
A: You can record a selected area of your screen as follows:
*
*Open the Quicktime Player app
*Choose File -> New Screen Recording or CtrlCommandN
*Now select the area you want to record
*Press the button in the middle of you selected area that states: Start recording
*To stop, there will be a squared stop button that appears in the menu bar
As your screenshot is missing this button, you might want te restart Quicktime Player or reboot your machine.
A: As soon as you drag the square, a button should appear in the centre of that area.
Click to Start.
To Stop, there will be a button that appears in the menu bar
A: I had this same problem, it was caused by trying to drag the quicktime window between spaces. Instead, it needs to be re-assigned via the dock icon (Right Click -> Options -> Assign to This Desktop).
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c971aa821c0bf3249f6d2d057858c1d292aa93cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make inactive when I close application window by Command + W When I open an Excel file from Finder and close the Excel window by Command+W. The active window remain Excel.
Is there a way to make Finder active window when I close Excel?
If I close the Excel window by Command+Q, the Finder become active but I prefer to keep Excel in memory.
A: I'm not sure you can really have both…
Telling Excel to close a window doesn't tell Excel to quit. It doesn't actually tell it anything other than you closed a window. It sits there waiting for you to tell it what to do next; it can't guess what your next action is going to be.
Of course, if you Quit it, then it goes away & the last-used app will be frontmost.
Clicking the desktop is the quickest way to bring the Finder to the front.
| Q: How to make inactive when I close application window by Command + W When I open an Excel file from Finder and close the Excel window by Command+W. The active window remain Excel.
Is there a way to make Finder active window when I close Excel?
If I close the Excel window by Command+Q, the Finder become active but I prefer to keep Excel in memory.
A: I'm not sure you can really have both…
Telling Excel to close a window doesn't tell Excel to quit. It doesn't actually tell it anything other than you closed a window. It sits there waiting for you to tell it what to do next; it can't guess what your next action is going to be.
Of course, if you Quit it, then it goes away & the last-used app will be frontmost.
Clicking the desktop is the quickest way to bring the Finder to the front.
A: You can do this with Keyboard Maestro.
Create a macro group just for Excel, then create a macro that executes upon ⌘W which closes the window and switches focus to Finder.
A: Update 1
Based on the comments made by ironsand to grgarside's answer. Step 6 should be changed to:
tell application "System Events" to set activeApp to name of application processes whose frontmost is true
if length of activeApp is not 0 then
tell application (first item of activeApp) to activate
end if
My Answer to Posted Question
This can be done by creating a Service using the Automator application. However, you will not be able to use the the COMMAND+W key. I would suggest using the CONTROL+W key since Excel has not yet assigned this key to any function.
*
*Open the Automator Application and click on New Document.
*Select Service and click Choose.
*Select File->Save from Menus and save service as "Close and Activate Finder". You should see the following window. (Hint: "Open Image in a New Window" for a better view.)
*Drag "Close Excel Workbooks" to "Drag actions or files here to build your workflow" window. In the pop up window, click on "Don't Add".
*Drag "Run AppleScript" to "Drag actions or files here to build your workflow" window.
*Add the text line activate application "Finder" after the text line (* Your script goes here *).
The window should now appear as shown below.
*Under "Service receives selected" choose "no input".
*Change "any application" to "Other...". In the pop-up window, choose "Microsoft Excel". The window should now appear as shown below.
*Select File->Save from Menus.
*Select Automator->Services->Services Preferences... from the Menus. Find "Close and Activate Finder" at the bottom of the available services.
*Click twice on the word "none" to the right of "Close and Active Finder". Enter the CONTROL-W key. The window should now appear as shown below.
*Quit System Preferences and Automator applications.
*Test using the Finder and Excel applications.
A: What is the point of having Excel running without a document open? So that it opens the next document faster? If so, then make sure you have lots of memory (RAM) and then quit using CMD-Q instead of closing the window using CMD-W.
When you have lots of RAM, modern operating systems cache or preserve most or all of the application in memory for when you need it next. This make starting the application next time super quick.
You can see this when you startup your computer. Any large application you start takes a while to come up. If you close it and then re-open it, it is very quick. This is because most of it was still in memory, kept close at hand, so to speak.
But, should you load an application that needs lots of memory, the system may remove Excel from its cache and the next time Excel needs to startup it will be slower…
A: ⌘+W, ⌘+H is closing the active window and then switching to the previously active application with most decent applications.
Most of the time this will be much more efficient than a switch to the Finder because we tend to go back to what was just interrupted before.
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00fd3469bb45f39e14c19f9f4b7ff6449f6f431f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a Java IDE for iPad which can compile and run Java locally? I'm about to have a coding session with some buddies. Problem is, one doesn't have a laptop. He's pretty new to programming so I was going to set him up something either on a rickety laptop or my iPad with a bluetooth keyboard / mouse.
Is there any app that would give me these capabilities:
*
*Java IDE
*compile java locally
*run java locally
A: There are web-based IDEs that support Java like IDE One and CodeBox that should work from an iPad. Obviously there are limitations with both but they might suffice.
This is my immediate thought, because I believe Apple have rules against people creating apps that include their own runtime. Which I'd assume you'd require if you wanted to compile Java code directly on an iOS device.
| Q: Is there a Java IDE for iPad which can compile and run Java locally? I'm about to have a coding session with some buddies. Problem is, one doesn't have a laptop. He's pretty new to programming so I was going to set him up something either on a rickety laptop or my iPad with a bluetooth keyboard / mouse.
Is there any app that would give me these capabilities:
*
*Java IDE
*compile java locally
*run java locally
A: There are web-based IDEs that support Java like IDE One and CodeBox that should work from an iPad. Obviously there are limitations with both but they might suffice.
This is my immediate thought, because I believe Apple have rules against people creating apps that include their own runtime. Which I'd assume you'd require if you wanted to compile Java code directly on an iOS device.
A: use PICO COMPILER APP on AppStore, works well, but you cant use SWING components as far as i am aware
A: You can use iDos and if you are running iOS 8.4 or less you can easily use iFunbox and add dos Java compiler in the iDos app on your phone and use it. Note app sandbox is only available until iOS 8.4. If you are using 8.4 or above you have to go for online compilers, only there is no option available there.
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ad719e9806954d13197a4b761985b0dbb88786e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Creating a new desktop on one monitor creates a desktop on all monitors Additionally shifting my desktop on the one monitor I created (with 2 monitors plugged into my MacBook Pro) shifts every desktop. I don't want this feature how do I turn it off?
I just want to be able to create one desktop on one monitor and keep all the rest of my monitors desktops the same.
A: Try System Prefs > Mission Control > Displays have separate spaces.
| Q: Creating a new desktop on one monitor creates a desktop on all monitors Additionally shifting my desktop on the one monitor I created (with 2 monitors plugged into my MacBook Pro) shifts every desktop. I don't want this feature how do I turn it off?
I just want to be able to create one desktop on one monitor and keep all the rest of my monitors desktops the same.
A: Try System Prefs > Mission Control > Displays have separate spaces.
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619446c8f0687a55437b52bc07d63c81024f519d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can OS X be installed on the ssd part of the fusion drive? I am looking at purchasing a mac mini and need to decide on a storage option.
I want either an ssd or the fusion drive however I am not sure whether OS X can be installed on the SSD part of the fusion drive which is one of the main reasons that i want an SSD.
A: Yes, there's a way to install OS X on the SSD. It's called "install OS X on the Fusion Drive."
The Fusion Drive automatically puts the most frequently-used files on the SSD. When there are vital system files that your hard drive needs to access in its every waking moment, there's really no reason why the Fusion Drive would ever demote it to the HDD.
| Q: Can OS X be installed on the ssd part of the fusion drive? I am looking at purchasing a mac mini and need to decide on a storage option.
I want either an ssd or the fusion drive however I am not sure whether OS X can be installed on the SSD part of the fusion drive which is one of the main reasons that i want an SSD.
A: Yes, there's a way to install OS X on the SSD. It's called "install OS X on the Fusion Drive."
The Fusion Drive automatically puts the most frequently-used files on the SSD. When there are vital system files that your hard drive needs to access in its every waking moment, there's really no reason why the Fusion Drive would ever demote it to the HDD.
A: Short answer is no.
Fusion drive has its own algorithm to determine which individual file goes to which drive, based on frequency of access. It doesn't offer any interface to configure the location of files. Moreover, it doesn't even list out which file belongs to which drive. In fact, the only way to know where a file is, is to read the file while the user monitor data flow from both drives.
I don't see why you need to force the entire copy of OSX onto SSD. Frequently used portions of the system, such as start up routine, are most definitely on SSD. There is no reason to have the icons file of some hidden app that an user never use also forced onto SSD.
If you want the entirety of system files on SSD against all, you will need to run the two drives desperately, in the lame way. Then you can put /Appications and /Users in appropriate drives.
If you want to put certain files always on HDD. you can create a partition on HDD, outside of Fusion Drive. Files on this partition will never end up in SDD. Vice versa does not apply.
A: I just loaded my OS X onto the SSD part of my Fusion Drive without any problems. During setup it asked me which drive I wanted it installed on and I picked the SSD part.
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108d9bddfddde10d612484655bccaceaef727268 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to convert Core Storage partition to HFS+? I just got my new Macbook Pro, I tried to make two new partitions using Disk Utility but I could only create one. After googling I found out that I can't create more than one additional partition in the CoreStorage and I need to revert it back to HFS+ in order to do that.
So, is it safe to Convert from CoreStorage to HFS+? What is the advantages/disadvantages of CoreStorage over HFS+?
And in case I converted CoreStorage to HFS+, can I convert back to CoreStorage if I needed to?
| Q: Is it safe to convert Core Storage partition to HFS+? I just got my new Macbook Pro, I tried to make two new partitions using Disk Utility but I could only create one. After googling I found out that I can't create more than one additional partition in the CoreStorage and I need to revert it back to HFS+ in order to do that.
So, is it safe to Convert from CoreStorage to HFS+? What is the advantages/disadvantages of CoreStorage over HFS+?
And in case I converted CoreStorage to HFS+, can I convert back to CoreStorage if I needed to?
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7c03692b426f05e9914760a0b817451a8ff68f2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the difference between Trailer and Movie when creating a new one in iMovie? The problem is as it is on the image below?
A: The Trailers methodology was designed for brief (~1 minute) movies, and it provides lots of pre-designed visual and audio templates (background music, essentially) to help make the process simpler.
These links may help: How to create iMovie 10 trailers, Apple's convert trailers to movies, and How to Create a Movie Trailer in iMovie.
| Q: What is the difference between Trailer and Movie when creating a new one in iMovie? The problem is as it is on the image below?
A: The Trailers methodology was designed for brief (~1 minute) movies, and it provides lots of pre-designed visual and audio templates (background music, essentially) to help make the process simpler.
These links may help: How to create iMovie 10 trailers, Apple's convert trailers to movies, and How to Create a Movie Trailer in iMovie.
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3f0bdb55f5f5318bbe4b4ebacc4e30a8c1123269 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a maximum number of files supported/recommended in Photos.app? With the new OS X Photos app released in OS X 10.10.3, is there a hard limit to the maximum number of files (either photos or videos) that the app will support? Or is there a limit to the maximum size of the library? Or are there recommended limits defined by Apple?
Basically, how well will Photos handle large libraries, and is there a certain point where it would be smart to split a library into multiple libraries?
A: My Photos library has about 60,000 photos and about 1,600 movies. The total size is about 560GB. About 30,000 photos are uploaded to iCloud and can be browsed by all my devices and desktop machines. So far no problems and interaction is fluid. With old iPhotos it was annoyingly slow to view the library in its entirety and had to split it into yearly libraries. New Photos does not seem to slow down with library size. It's face recognition is also quite a bit better.
| Q: Is there a maximum number of files supported/recommended in Photos.app? With the new OS X Photos app released in OS X 10.10.3, is there a hard limit to the maximum number of files (either photos or videos) that the app will support? Or is there a limit to the maximum size of the library? Or are there recommended limits defined by Apple?
Basically, how well will Photos handle large libraries, and is there a certain point where it would be smart to split a library into multiple libraries?
A: My Photos library has about 60,000 photos and about 1,600 movies. The total size is about 560GB. About 30,000 photos are uploaded to iCloud and can be browsed by all my devices and desktop machines. So far no problems and interaction is fluid. With old iPhotos it was annoyingly slow to view the library in its entirety and had to split it into yearly libraries. New Photos does not seem to slow down with library size. It's face recognition is also quite a bit better.
A: There is no confirmed limit, according to Apple. You can add large libraries, and the only limit is your hard disk free space.
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108ac3ed8132fb37616c71bc352de252cf08d6b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to slow down video, but not sound on the clip in iMovie? I have a clip I want to show with slow motion. That clip has a soundtrack, but I need to slow only video without sound? Is it possible?
A: Split the audio from the video with Detach Audio (⌥⌘B), then you can retime the video independently.
| Q: How to slow down video, but not sound on the clip in iMovie? I have a clip I want to show with slow motion. That clip has a soundtrack, but I need to slow only video without sound? Is it possible?
A: Split the audio from the video with Detach Audio (⌥⌘B), then you can retime the video independently.
A: You can right click on the clip you wish to edit, and then detach the audio. You can now manipulate the video without affecting the sound.
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43644606c290634dc0dcde77d51d32f0669c5bd5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to join split clips back in iMovie? After I split clip, now I have two parts of one clip. However my split was very useful, now I prefer to join it back, but my option to join clips is greyed out. Why?
A: In order to join clips you will need to hold down shift and click on the two clips you want to join, making sure that both clips are highlighted in yellow (I am using iMovie on Yosemite). See attached photo.
| Q: How to join split clips back in iMovie? After I split clip, now I have two parts of one clip. However my split was very useful, now I prefer to join it back, but my option to join clips is greyed out. Why?
A: In order to join clips you will need to hold down shift and click on the two clips you want to join, making sure that both clips are highlighted in yellow (I am using iMovie on Yosemite). See attached photo.
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347a5ec73afd2878278e8e728a1ea3cc06fe9d2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does AppleCare Protection work overseas? (MacBook Pro 13 inch) If I buy an apple laptop overseas can I get the apple protection back in UK?
If I buy the laptop and Apple protection abroad, if something has gone wrong will it be protected when I am back in UK.
A: Apple Inc.
The AppleCare Protection Plan provides global repair coverage.
So yes, you are fully covered.
| Q: How does AppleCare Protection work overseas? (MacBook Pro 13 inch) If I buy an apple laptop overseas can I get the apple protection back in UK?
If I buy the laptop and Apple protection abroad, if something has gone wrong will it be protected when I am back in UK.
A: Apple Inc.
The AppleCare Protection Plan provides global repair coverage.
So yes, you are fully covered.
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bc150e314ccd3c71ed346664d0397679379d526b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Find which Chrome Tab is using Significant Energy Under the Energy Monitor in Yosemite, it shows Chrome having the highest energy impact. Is it possible to figure out which Chrome tab is the one that is consuming the most energy?
A: Right click the table headers (App Name, Energy Impact, etc.) and check Process ID. Now you can see the PIDs associated with that Energy Impact values.
Next, click the 'customize/options' button in Chrome (it's the triple horizontal stripes button next to the URL bar) and go to More Tools > Task Manager, which brings up Chrome's internal task manager. In there you'll find the different Chrome threads (including running extensions and open tabs) with their names and PIDs.
You can then cross reference the PIDs between Chrome's task manager and Yosemite's Activity Monitor.
| Q: Find which Chrome Tab is using Significant Energy Under the Energy Monitor in Yosemite, it shows Chrome having the highest energy impact. Is it possible to figure out which Chrome tab is the one that is consuming the most energy?
A: Right click the table headers (App Name, Energy Impact, etc.) and check Process ID. Now you can see the PIDs associated with that Energy Impact values.
Next, click the 'customize/options' button in Chrome (it's the triple horizontal stripes button next to the URL bar) and go to More Tools > Task Manager, which brings up Chrome's internal task manager. In there you'll find the different Chrome threads (including running extensions and open tabs) with their names and PIDs.
You can then cross reference the PIDs between Chrome's task manager and Yosemite's Activity Monitor.
A: This isn't an answer to your specific question... but I think I have a pretty good solution for you for tabs eating up memory :) After putting in real work and time with 4 different browsers over the course of about 6 days, noting my device's performance under normal working conditions, and being flexible with workflows in each browser, I came back to Chrome.
I continued searching high and low for an answer to my dilemma with no luck because my 2017 Macbook Pro was... about to be tossed out my fifth story apartment. I ultimately came up with my own little solution, implementing two wonderful plugins. They also added some benefits that I didn't even know I needed, which is something that'll help you automatically saving your windows' state of tabs, while also along you to save collections of tabs manually.
I don't know how I've survived this long...
"Chrome Tab Hoarder" and "Memory Efficiency" Achievements Unlocked!
Confession - I knew my memory issues were caused by the fact that I had 15 browser tabs open. I can have triple that open now, no problem.
Get the Toby Chrome extension to automatically save any and all browsing window states whether your computer stroked out or you quit Chrome on purpose. It's even better than what I was originally searching for because you can save (and edit at any point) Collections of tabs. This is by far my most used and favorite thing that I've discovered in 2020 (along with my web design software, Figma, and upgraded web development workflow).
The perfect companion extension for Toby is called The Great Suspender. It will cause you to yell at the sky screaming profanities a lot less because your computer will run SO much better. Suspended tabs use significantly less energy and memory. If you have tabs open and don't use them within 30 minutes, it'll stay there in your tabs, but be suspended and not use resources. When you click on the tab, it reloads. It won't suspend any tabs that have input fields with information in them or ones that actively play videos or sounds. You have options to not suspend any tabs from a particular domain, particular URLs (I don't suspend Gmail, ClickUp, and some others), customize the amount of time before suspending a tab, etc
I hope this helps some people! It may sound like a lot but give it an honest couple of days and see what you think, especially those of us who are tab hoarders .
I literally have 46 tabs open right now between two different windows - oops My 3-year-old MacBook Pro has that plus Photoshop and 6 other open apps. My embarrassing number of tabs (let's not talk about it) wasn't even a possibility before, neither was saving them.
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62017ff937e9473e04cb755bdefeb02c8358cd02 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I teach Siri how to spell my child's name correctly in texts? When I text my husband something like "I picked up Hailey from school and am on my way," Siri always misspells my daughter's name as Haley (with no "i"). I have an entry in my contact info identifying who my daughter is, but when I'm dictating a text or other message, that appears to be irrelevant.
I'd like to teach Siri that any time I refer to my child's name it should always be spelled a certain way. I feel foolish sending messages with my own child's name misspelled.
A: One possible solution, though it may backfire if you ever do want to spell Anne with the e…
Go to Settings > General > Keyboards > Shortcuts & add a new shortcut from the + key, top right.
Add -
Phrase Anne
Shortcut Ann
I haven't tested it for this particular instance, but it's worth a try.
| Q: How can I teach Siri how to spell my child's name correctly in texts? When I text my husband something like "I picked up Hailey from school and am on my way," Siri always misspells my daughter's name as Haley (with no "i"). I have an entry in my contact info identifying who my daughter is, but when I'm dictating a text or other message, that appears to be irrelevant.
I'd like to teach Siri that any time I refer to my child's name it should always be spelled a certain way. I feel foolish sending messages with my own child's name misspelled.
A: One possible solution, though it may backfire if you ever do want to spell Anne with the e…
Go to Settings > General > Keyboards > Shortcuts & add a new shortcut from the + key, top right.
Add -
Phrase Anne
Shortcut Ann
I haven't tested it for this particular instance, but it's worth a try.
A:
Siri isn't the brightest bulb in the box and she often misunderstands
unusual words and names. Fortunately, you can teach her how to speak
properly by adding phonetic pronunciations to your contacts.
How do you do this? Watch this video or follow these
instructions:
*
*Open up your uniquely-named contact and tap the Edit button up top.
*Scroll down to the bottom of the contact page and find the area that
says "Add New Field."
*From your options, choose "Phonetic First
Name" (or "Phonetic Last Name," depending on which one is the
problem).
*Enter in the phonetic version of the problematic name and
tap Save. Now when you ask Siri to recognize or say a name, she'll
get it right.
Source: Teach Siri to Correctly Recognize and Pronounce Names in Your Address Book
A: My son's name is spelled Zach… and not Zack as Siri likes to do… here's how to fix it.
Open the contact for this person, press the Edit button, scroll to the bottom and press "+" next to Add Field, select Nickname. Here type in the spelling that you want Siri to use. Press the Done button and try Siri again.
A: I figured it out! In contacts under the name, write the name in quotation marks. Then Siri knows you "are to be called that". It worked for me after I did the shortcut you described here. In other words, first change the shortcut from Haley to Hailey, then put "Hailey" under her name in your contacts.
A: I've found (with iOS 16.0 at least) that Siri understands a particular spelling if you say the letters.
So it works to say in a text message:
"I picked H-A-I-L-E-Y up and I'm on my way"
I know it's not a workaround you'll want to use every time you mention your daughter, but it might come in handy in some cases.
(NB: use the normal English letter names - so to get Hailey say 'aitch-ai-eye-ell-ee-why'. The NATO phonetic alphabet doesn't seem to work)
A: I've done it for both of my girls unusual names. I added them as keyboard shortcuts so when I type jai then Jaida automatically pops up and ay brings up Ayanna. I also taught Siri the correct way to pronounce both their names and added the phonetic spelling, which helped with talk to text recognition.
A: If you make a contact with the person's name and then add the phonetic name on the contact it will work. I just did it.
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fc722d681d28851d895bc035a04c9729cea1cd6b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Random emails missing from IMAP inbox with Apple Mail in Yosemite I am using Apple Mail with three IMAP mail accounts (not Gmail etc. but from my hosting provider).
I'm finding that I regularly need to close and reopen Mail to find emails I'm searching for that are not showing up in the inbox. They reappear after the restart where I expect them to be. Not the biggest issue but it's happening a lot.
What is causing this?
| Q: Random emails missing from IMAP inbox with Apple Mail in Yosemite I am using Apple Mail with three IMAP mail accounts (not Gmail etc. but from my hosting provider).
I'm finding that I regularly need to close and reopen Mail to find emails I'm searching for that are not showing up in the inbox. They reappear after the restart where I expect them to be. Not the biggest issue but it's happening a lot.
What is causing this?
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5d4edf1952dc49700cbd10154225efbddaa826fa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: USB Devices Disabled when no devices are connected using iMac 5K OS 10.10.3
When there are no USB devices connected to iMac, it keeps showing this.
I tried SMC resetting, booting through Safe Mode, and nothing is working to make this alert go away.
Has anyone had the same experience?
A: *
*None of apple technical support instructions worked.
*Called for Apple Care Service
*Technician came with a brand new mother board
*Replaced and problem fixed.
So basically it was hardware failure, which can't be answered here since the board was taken.
| Q: USB Devices Disabled when no devices are connected using iMac 5K OS 10.10.3
When there are no USB devices connected to iMac, it keeps showing this.
I tried SMC resetting, booting through Safe Mode, and nothing is working to make this alert go away.
Has anyone had the same experience?
A: *
*None of apple technical support instructions worked.
*Called for Apple Care Service
*Technician came with a brand new mother board
*Replaced and problem fixed.
So basically it was hardware failure, which can't be answered here since the board was taken.
A: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
I just want to say I have the same problem, and Apple Store says it is indeed a hardware problem (and quite pricey to fix).
One USB port never works now, the other one is on and off - that message just pops up now and then.
Solution: If it becomes worse, I will get a thunderbolt->USB adaptor.
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c71c71417e5d50d60a61f41f5a82c88bae7537c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I clear All OS X notifications with 1 click? I have notifications in the OSX Notification Center, as for most of my apps I am using the setting, "Show in Notification Centre: 10 Recent Items"
This is a good setting but rather than have a very full Notification Center, I would still like to clear it from time to time with 1 click.
I am using Yosemite 10.10.3
A: Another option, which uses Keyboard Maestro to run an Applescript is detailed here: http://genuinecuriosity.com/unnotify
I have it mapped so that I hit Command Option 0 to clear all open alert dialogs.
Basically, I have created an Applescript to click the first button on all open alerts (typically Close), and does that until all alerts are cleared. You can use the Applescript directly through Keyboard Maestro (as described in my article), or you can create a Service with Automator (this is a little more finicky due to Accessibility permissions requirements).
The full Applescript is included in the article, along with a screen grab showing the setup in Keyboard Maestro.
| Q: How do I clear All OS X notifications with 1 click? I have notifications in the OSX Notification Center, as for most of my apps I am using the setting, "Show in Notification Centre: 10 Recent Items"
This is a good setting but rather than have a very full Notification Center, I would still like to clear it from time to time with 1 click.
I am using Yosemite 10.10.3
A: Another option, which uses Keyboard Maestro to run an Applescript is detailed here: http://genuinecuriosity.com/unnotify
I have it mapped so that I hit Command Option 0 to clear all open alert dialogs.
Basically, I have created an Applescript to click the first button on all open alerts (typically Close), and does that until all alerts are cleared. You can use the Applescript directly through Keyboard Maestro (as described in my article), or you can create a Service with Automator (this is a little more finicky due to Accessibility permissions requirements).
The full Applescript is included in the article, along with a screen grab showing the setup in Keyboard Maestro.
A: I know this was originally for Yosemite, and I'm not sure the answer there, but given the question is 3 years old, and I just found it while looking for the same thing with Mojave, I thought I'd mention the answer I found.
on the very right of the menu bar, click on the 3 lines, this brings up a window with Today / Notifications tabs. If you select the Notifications tab, you can click the X to the right of Today to clear all the notifications for a given day. a few clicks and you'll have all the old ones cleared.
A: I don't know a way to clear every notification with a single button, however you can clear all of one app's notifications by moving your mouse to the right of the app's header and clicking the small x button that appears there.
To clear them all, I simply move the mouse to the topmost app's x button and rapidly click which removes all of the notifications relatively quickly.
A: I ended up creating an Automator script to do this and mapping it to a global hotkey.
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Notification Center"
set theWindows to every window
repeat with i from 0 to number of items in theWindows
try
set this_item to item ((number of items in theWindows) - i) of theWindows
click button 1 of this_item
on error
-- nothing
end try
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end run
A: Here's solution that requires the Terminal, but it works with Big Sur. This is useful in particular if you have dozens of notifications from the Finder that can't be quickly closed using other approaches.
From Terminal:
ps -e | grep /NotificationCenter | grep app | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9
This is similar to Joey's answer, except it does it all in one command. ps -e gets a list of running processes. The grep filters the list to those containing /NotificationCenter. This list still has too many items because the grep command itself ends up finding itself. We exclude it by running another grep on the output of that list. The awk command prints the first column, which is the process id that we need to restart. Xargs takes the output of the previous command and feeds it to its arguments, namely, "kill -9" which is the unix command to exit a process.
The practical outcome is that the NotificationCenter.app is stopped. Launchd (the system process that launches other system processes) notices that Notification Center went away, and reinitiates it. When it comes back, all the messages in its queue are lost and your notifications are cleared.
A: The small X in El Capitan is in the notification window. Open the Notification pane by sliding in from the right on the mouse or clicking on the notification center icon in the upper left corner. Each application's notifications are grouped together and there is a little X on the right side of each application's header. Click that X and the notifications all go away.
A: This SIMBL app does the trick nicely.
chuckhendo/NotificationClear: SIMBL bundle to add a "Clear All" button to Notification
(https://github.com/chuckhendo/NotificationClear)
Just install it using mySIMBL.
w0lfschild/mySIMBL: SIMBL plugin manager for macOS
(https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL)
Once installed, you can just open the notification center, then click "Clear" on the bottom.
A: tell application "System Events"
tell process "NotificationCenter"
set numwins to (count windows)
repeat with i from numwins to 1 by -1
click button "Close" of window i
end repeat
end tell
end tell
Copy and Paste the above code into AppleScript Editor
Enable Script Editor in Accessibility
A: Just go into the activity monitor and force quit the notification center...
A: Alt-click usually works to perform one operation on multiple things.
A: This answer suggests that on Big Sur in its current release there is no satisfactory way to dismiss notifications with a single click (or keyboard shortcut). Instead, this answer explains alternative ways to dismiss them that are not noted elsewhere in this thread.
Two-finger swipe right on the notification group works on Big Sur with the Macbook's trackpad (not sure about Yosemite). It also works with left-click and drag to the right. I assume this would work with an Apple Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad as well.
This doesn't "clear" all notifications permanently. They will still show if you open the notification sidebar. They will also show if another message comes through; instead of seeing 1 notification it will show N + 1 notifications available.
This thread is similar to Dismiss MacOS Big Sur notifications with keyboard.
A: Run in Terminal:
killall NotificationCenter
A: Change the annoying notification app in the notifications preferences, from "alerts" to "banners". Banners are automatically dismissed after few seconds.
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2eb21d18dba0ba352e9240a7d2855b67b5313a0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you get the Apple Watch out of Power Reserve mode? I got it into power reserve but can't figure how to resume normal mode. I have tried tapping and pressing the screen and holding both side buttons.
A: You can hold the Digital Crown and Side Button at the same time for 6 seconds and then wait until it shuts down and turn it back on. This is force shutting it down and won't damage or effect your watch.
| Q: How do you get the Apple Watch out of Power Reserve mode? I got it into power reserve but can't figure how to resume normal mode. I have tried tapping and pressing the screen and holding both side buttons.
A: You can hold the Digital Crown and Side Button at the same time for 6 seconds and then wait until it shuts down and turn it back on. This is force shutting it down and won't damage or effect your watch.
A: You can bring your Apple Watch back to normal functioning mode by pressing and holding the side button, the same way that you do when you wish to power it on.
This command will only work if you plugged the Watch in, or if there is sufficient battery juice available.
A: FYI
I charged my watch to 100% and then put it in power reserve.
I couldn't get it to come out no matter what.
Then I saw the comment about pressing both side "devices" (button and rocker switch).
Was the only way to get t to come out of power reserve.
A: Just hold the digital crown and the side button for 5 seconds or so.
That should work if your Apple Watch is charging.
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b6d0479d892bf27eb49cbbc004aaf5509e14813f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I check where the file in .Trash was removed from? I've some files appearing in Trash folder. How do I check from where they were removed?
I've Tried 'Get Info', but it doesn't tell me from where it was removed. The only option I've is 'Put Back', but again, to where?
How do I check this on OS X 10.9?
A: Based on the previous information, the information about original location is stored within DS_Store file. In older version of OS X it was just a plain text and now binary format and it's undocumented by Apple, however there is a tool created by Wim L which can reads it.
Written in perl Mac::Finder::DSStore project provides routines for reading and writing the .DS_Store files generated by the OS X.
Using examples/dsstore_dump.pl would attempt to dump a store file's records in a more human-readable format.
Example usage:
$ perl dsstore_dump.pl ~/.Trash/.DS_Store
&makeEntries("foo.png",
ptbL => "Users/username/Desktop/",
ptbN => "foo.png"
),
See: dsstore repo at hhhh.org and older repo at GitHub
| Q: How do I check where the file in .Trash was removed from? I've some files appearing in Trash folder. How do I check from where they were removed?
I've Tried 'Get Info', but it doesn't tell me from where it was removed. The only option I've is 'Put Back', but again, to where?
How do I check this on OS X 10.9?
A: Based on the previous information, the information about original location is stored within DS_Store file. In older version of OS X it was just a plain text and now binary format and it's undocumented by Apple, however there is a tool created by Wim L which can reads it.
Written in perl Mac::Finder::DSStore project provides routines for reading and writing the .DS_Store files generated by the OS X.
Using examples/dsstore_dump.pl would attempt to dump a store file's records in a more human-readable format.
Example usage:
$ perl dsstore_dump.pl ~/.Trash/.DS_Store
&makeEntries("foo.png",
ptbL => "Users/username/Desktop/",
ptbN => "foo.png"
),
See: dsstore repo at hhhh.org and older repo at GitHub
A: You can isolate things a little if you don't mind using terminal.
The trash in finder is an overlay of trash from each mounted volume and each user. Furthermore, you can see the filename of the file and search using spotlight to see if there are similar files or use spotlight to search in Time Machine to find where the file was before it was trashed.
The pragmatic way to solve this is to drag the file to your desktop and then open/inspect/file it accordingly. (Or to just let Finder put it back and then use spotlight to find it).
To use terminal:
ls -la ~/.Trash
sudo ls -la /.Trashes
If you're not familiar with sudo and that it can delete anything with no recovery, I'd recommend not using sudo and asking follow on questions to learn more about terminal.
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f0ad9f14ba0e0c956d843e0d5a390e3e766c6ff7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: networkd - PAC Evaluation error just a FYI,
Mac OS X 10.10.3 was throwing the error below. I didn't find much just googling around and wanted to post what fixed the issue in my case.
5/4/15 6:30:18.410 AM networkd[209]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupComplete:proxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=308 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 308.)"
The cause was a mal-formed PAC file. Our network admin accidentally put a parentheses inside a quote. The system completely disregarded the proxy until the syntax error was fixed.
| Q: networkd - PAC Evaluation error just a FYI,
Mac OS X 10.10.3 was throwing the error below. I didn't find much just googling around and wanted to post what fixed the issue in my case.
5/4/15 6:30:18.410 AM networkd[209]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupComplete:proxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=308 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 308.)"
The cause was a mal-formed PAC file. Our network admin accidentally put a parentheses inside a quote. The system completely disregarded the proxy until the syntax error was fixed.
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6b7a9ed8e3caef35e1bc6c28f7e684f8c3dc1cc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Backing up Photos library to external hard drive Regarding Photos and its file structure, if I want to back up my photographs to an external hard drive, what files do I identify to be copied over? That is, if I back up the Photos Library, am I actually protecting the pictures themselves (or just links to them)?
A: If you started a new library from scratch - read: did not convert from a previous iPhoto or Aperture library - then the Your Library Name.photoslibrary bundle contains everything.
Exception: If you are using a referenced library (Photos menu > Preferences > General > Importing: "Copy files" box is not checked) then you need to back up the folder(s) where your actual photos are located as well.
If you did convert from a previous library, and have not removed it, you should back up both to be safe (though theoretically backing up just one should back up everything).
| Q: Backing up Photos library to external hard drive Regarding Photos and its file structure, if I want to back up my photographs to an external hard drive, what files do I identify to be copied over? That is, if I back up the Photos Library, am I actually protecting the pictures themselves (or just links to them)?
A: If you started a new library from scratch - read: did not convert from a previous iPhoto or Aperture library - then the Your Library Name.photoslibrary bundle contains everything.
Exception: If you are using a referenced library (Photos menu > Preferences > General > Importing: "Copy files" box is not checked) then you need to back up the folder(s) where your actual photos are located as well.
If you did convert from a previous library, and have not removed it, you should back up both to be safe (though theoretically backing up just one should back up everything).
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d5d8e84aa0acd7277acd5c97a317b1b4a9deb4d8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable WebEx Assistant on startup for Mac? How do I disable WebEx Assistant on startup for Mac? I dont want to remove the application completely, but I dont want it to launch automatically at startup.
A: Try System Prefs > User & Groups > Your name > Login Items.
Select it in the list & click the - button underneath
If it's not listed there, then check either /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or /Library/StartupItems/ to see whether it has an entry in there.
It's safe to remove items from there - though they will continue running until the next reboot.
If you want to be able to restore functionality in future, zip the file in situ then trash the original.
| Q: How do I disable WebEx Assistant on startup for Mac? How do I disable WebEx Assistant on startup for Mac? I dont want to remove the application completely, but I dont want it to launch automatically at startup.
A: Try System Prefs > User & Groups > Your name > Login Items.
Select it in the list & click the - button underneath
If it's not listed there, then check either /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or /Library/StartupItems/ to see whether it has an entry in there.
It's safe to remove items from there - though they will continue running until the next reboot.
If you want to be able to restore functionality in future, zip the file in situ then trash the original.
A: I tried removing this from the user's Login Items, but it re-appeared each time I started the app. I could not find it in any of system or user launch or startup .plist files.
Then I noticed that the "Preferences" menu, where this sort of thing would normally be configured was grayed out. So I went looking for Webex plist file itself.
Turns out if you look at ~/Library/Preferences/com.cisco.webexmeetingsapp.plist you'll find a key called PTLaunchAtLogin.
I used a text editor and changed it to "false". If the file is not readily editable directly and Xcode it's installed on your Mac, simply double click the .plist file and toggle the key to "false".
Problem solved.
<key>PTLaunchAtLogin</key>
<false/>
A: There are multiple locations where an application can place configuration to achieve autostart or "automatically restart" if stopped. Some don't autostart but setup a scheduled daily start.
I'm using a (commercial) tool to detect those and disable such behaviour: Lingon X. It's basically a GUI for launchd. I especially like the feature that it alerts me if something is added or modified.
A: DaveANP has this pegged. I had already tried the accepted answer of removing from login items, but it kept reappearing there. Yet another reason to use another platform for meetings.
~/Library/Preferences/com.cisco.webexmeetingsapp.plist was not readily editable directly, but opening in Xcode made it trivial to set this boolean to FALSE.
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2a7ccf011178b34e84d123b914c775b92010acfc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Incorrect resolution while external display connected I have an Dell external display which has the best resolution @1440*900.
My laptop is 2015 13 inch rBMP MX840. The problem is that when I connected this external display into the Mac, it cannot show correct resolution, it only shows some general old 4:3 ratio resolution such as 1280*1024 etc.
I tried to use a utility called Display Menu but I still cannot see the optimised resolution. Here I post one screenshot of all resolution shown in that tool.
Any idea to solve that issue? The correct resolution can be shown when I use my old MBP which comes with a non-retina display. By the way, I am not using Apple official Thunderbolt-VGA converter.
| Q: Incorrect resolution while external display connected I have an Dell external display which has the best resolution @1440*900.
My laptop is 2015 13 inch rBMP MX840. The problem is that when I connected this external display into the Mac, it cannot show correct resolution, it only shows some general old 4:3 ratio resolution such as 1280*1024 etc.
I tried to use a utility called Display Menu but I still cannot see the optimised resolution. Here I post one screenshot of all resolution shown in that tool.
Any idea to solve that issue? The correct resolution can be shown when I use my old MBP which comes with a non-retina display. By the way, I am not using Apple official Thunderbolt-VGA converter.
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e1bda641ff9e974badd537b5089edd0cf959dbc4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to prevent "Look Up" functionality from showing link previews? As you know Apple just updated the look up function and added previews of the link you highlighted. As a non-native I often use look up to see the meaning of a word. When the word appears as a link, or within a link highlight shows the preview instead of dictionary.
I was wondering if there is a way to switch between them or disable preview options.
A: No definitive answer, but I do have a workaround for you.
Select the link including a whitespace before or after it, then use the look up function on the whitespace part of the selection.
Update: you can also look it up by selecting it and then right clicking a few pixels next to it (see picture). I find the quickest way to do this is right clicking the link to select it, than right clicking again right next to it to make the 'Look up' function appear.
| Q: How to prevent "Look Up" functionality from showing link previews? As you know Apple just updated the look up function and added previews of the link you highlighted. As a non-native I often use look up to see the meaning of a word. When the word appears as a link, or within a link highlight shows the preview instead of dictionary.
I was wondering if there is a way to switch between them or disable preview options.
A: No definitive answer, but I do have a workaround for you.
Select the link including a whitespace before or after it, then use the look up function on the whitespace part of the selection.
Update: you can also look it up by selecting it and then right clicking a few pixels next to it (see picture). I find the quickest way to do this is right clicking the link to select it, than right clicking again right next to it to make the 'Look up' function appear.
A: Three-finger taps only preview full links in Safari. In other browsers, the gesture looks up the tapped word in Dictionary.
One option, then, would simply be to use a different browser – though, of course, there are many other factors influencing that decision.
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1a1cbe16409bb0df65b16f87e1bf2774d3ef61a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Page width in iBooks Is there anyway to make the maximum page width in iBooks larger than 560 px?
I am using iBooks in Yosemite as an EPUB reader but find it frustrating that text columns' maximum width seems to be fixed at 560 px (see image).
EPUBs are basically HTML files and after some examination I realized that maximum width setting is something defined in iBooks, not the EPUB files themselves. Other EPUB readers work just fine (with no max width setting), but if possible I would like to use iBooks with a slightly larger page width.
Is there any sort of hack to get this done?
| Q: Page width in iBooks Is there anyway to make the maximum page width in iBooks larger than 560 px?
I am using iBooks in Yosemite as an EPUB reader but find it frustrating that text columns' maximum width seems to be fixed at 560 px (see image).
EPUBs are basically HTML files and after some examination I realized that maximum width setting is something defined in iBooks, not the EPUB files themselves. Other EPUB readers work just fine (with no max width setting), but if possible I would like to use iBooks with a slightly larger page width.
Is there any sort of hack to get this done?
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623ac235e220229c526e4b49744993296916b4d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sidebar folder shortcuts all disappeared after update I've just updated from 10.10.1 to 10.10.3 and now all of the folder shortcuts on my sidebar have disappeared, e.g., 'Desktop', 'Downloads'. Does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks
A: Try Finder prefs > Sidebar - Cmd ⌘ , - they may just have become unchecked…
Any that are still missing after that - previous customer entries etc, can be restored by selecting the appropriate drive/folder/app in any Finder window & hitting Opt ⌥ Ctrl ⌃ Cmd ⌘ / or File Menu > Add to Sidebar
Perhaps Time Machine would have an older version?
The prefs are at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
If you navigate there then enter Time Machine, it may have an older version you could recover
| Q: Sidebar folder shortcuts all disappeared after update I've just updated from 10.10.1 to 10.10.3 and now all of the folder shortcuts on my sidebar have disappeared, e.g., 'Desktop', 'Downloads'. Does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks
A: Try Finder prefs > Sidebar - Cmd ⌘ , - they may just have become unchecked…
Any that are still missing after that - previous customer entries etc, can be restored by selecting the appropriate drive/folder/app in any Finder window & hitting Opt ⌥ Ctrl ⌃ Cmd ⌘ / or File Menu > Add to Sidebar
Perhaps Time Machine would have an older version?
The prefs are at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
If you navigate there then enter Time Machine, it may have an older version you could recover
A: I was able to use time machine and my sidebar got completely restored.
*
*Navigate here
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
*
*Selected that file
*From the time machine menu select "Enter Time Machine"
*Time machine will take you right to the file you highlighted. The only thing it will be TODAY'S version of that file.
*Using the meter on the right side of the screen, select a date PRIOR to the problem. Give it time. It has to search backwards.
*Once it brings you to the file (you may have to scroll down to find it). Select that file ONLY and hit restore. It will ask you for permission to restore. Have it replace the current file.
*Once it's done, restart your machine.
*And once you restart, your side bar should return!
A: The date on my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file is from May 2019. Years old. Yet once again Finder dropped all my lovingly created shortcuts in sidebar. So I cannot restore.
Also, when i add new aliases to sidebar the file does not update… so how can I save this file for restoration at a later date. I think I'm going to have to Applescript this SOAB to save a plist file and restore a plist file with the locations and then recreate the sidebar links one by one. Tedious in the extreme. Apple, if you are reading this, this has been a known issue for a decade. Get it together please.
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eee7f56c343085d4dd920f320e32c3562348ea0b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Order of the VPN connections in the VPN menu Is it possible to change the order of the VPN connection in the OS X VPN Menu?
A: Rename them ;). They are ordered alphabetically. If you put a white space (edit: or any other name that precedes in the alphanumeric order) in front of the second VPN's name in System Preferences > Network (by selecting the VPN Service and clicking on the cog symbol below the services: click "Rename Service..."), then un-tick and re-tick "Show VPN status in menu bar", the order will change.
| Q: Order of the VPN connections in the VPN menu Is it possible to change the order of the VPN connection in the OS X VPN Menu?
A: Rename them ;). They are ordered alphabetically. If you put a white space (edit: or any other name that precedes in the alphanumeric order) in front of the second VPN's name in System Preferences > Network (by selecting the VPN Service and clicking on the cog symbol below the services: click "Rename Service..."), then un-tick and re-tick "Show VPN status in menu bar", the order will change.
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03fda69d93903c6f09095cb3976e133e27d58c72 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you trash items on new Mac Photos? IPhoto had a trash bin, I need to delete images when and if I want, but I can't find the bin on the new Photos? The whole new system is freaking me out, I preferred the old.
A: Hit the delete key while a photo is selected or while viewing a photo. To recover photos, a "Show Recently Deleted" option is available in the File menu. On this screen you can permanently delete a photo or recover it within 30 days.
| Q: How do you trash items on new Mac Photos? IPhoto had a trash bin, I need to delete images when and if I want, but I can't find the bin on the new Photos? The whole new system is freaking me out, I preferred the old.
A: Hit the delete key while a photo is selected or while viewing a photo. To recover photos, a "Show Recently Deleted" option is available in the File menu. On this screen you can permanently delete a photo or recover it within 30 days.
A: If you don't want to wait 30 days...
*
*Select a photo
*Press the "Delete" button
*Confirm delete
*Select "Album" from the top of the window (see screenshot)
*Double click on "Recently Deleted" album to open it
*Select "Delete All"
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100935764e7d8d1c3ebf65ab2ebb934df9426c23 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Quicktime record screen without the overlay I'd like to record part of my screen, but the QuickTime screen recorder dims the rest of the screen while it records (the gray in the screenshot below).
How can I turn this dimming off so I can use the rest of my computer normally while recording.
A: start recording. hold option key and press quicktime icon at dock. dimming disappears.
| Q: Quicktime record screen without the overlay I'd like to record part of my screen, but the QuickTime screen recorder dims the rest of the screen while it records (the gray in the screenshot below).
How can I turn this dimming off so I can use the rest of my computer normally while recording.
A: start recording. hold option key and press quicktime icon at dock. dimming disappears.
A: The screen dimming can't be disabled, but what you could do is record the whole screen and then import the finished recording into iMovie and crop it (instructions) to only contain what you want it to.
Instructions, in case of link rot:
*
*In the timeline, select the clip or photo you want to crop.
*To show the cropping controls, click the Cropping button.
*Click the Crop to Fill button.
An adjustable frame appears on top of the clip in the viewer.
Note: This frame is constrained to a 16:9 aspect ratio.
*Move and resize the frame until you’re satisfied with the result.
*To apply the crop, click the Apply button in the cropping controls.
A: OK. I got a solution here by using mutiple desktops in mission control on Mac.
Quicktime will only dim one desktop at a time. Just create a spared desktop dedicated to Quicktime, and keep your work in a sperate desktop.
Here is my set up: I have two monitors, one for work(Monitor 1), one for screen recording(Monitor 2).
On monitor 1(working monitor):
1.use "Control + Up" key to bring up this multiple desktops interface:
*Create a new "desktop" by click on the plus icon(screen top right)
*Launch your QuickTime only on this new desktop. and Start screen recording on your 2nd monitor.
*Back to Monitor 1, use "Control+ Left " to go back to your working desktop. It won't get dimmed.
A: You can use the dimmed area as normal, the dimming is to show what is being recorded. I did look in the preferences files of Quicktime and there is no listed toggle to disable that.
One thing that will be different is screenshots include the dimming as it is a overlay that is almost top layer but below the screenshot layer.
A: This is not possible with QuickTime. There is a reason it is called Screen recorder.
It will record whatever screen is on top (even if you switch it) it will now keep recording the new window.
You can not fix it to a specific window and move on letting it record that same window.
A: I found a simple solution to prevent QuickTime ScreenRecorder from dimming your desktop (e.g. when in fullscreen Keynote Presentation mode). After you start your screenrecording, and go into fullscreen mode with Keynote, hit the lock button on your touchbar to put your monitor to sleep. Then wake up your computer and the screen will no longer be dim. You'll have to edit out that first 5-10 secs from the screenrecording, but this was easier for me than the solutions proposed above.
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05963083cc7409b86154fd6c632fd4934a738c0c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to get a public URL for individual iCloud photos? I understand it's possible, through the Photos app and iCloud, to create a sharing stream of photos. What I am wondering is if it's possible to get a public URL from any given photo in iCloud.
My end goal is to use the URL in a shell script that would replicate CloudApp or Dropbox screenshot sharing, only using iCloud storage. Can't seem to find anything on the web that explains if this is/isn't possible.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated :)
A: There is no way to get the URL from the Photos app that I am aware of. However, you can create a public album (see screenshot) which will then give you an album URL. You could scrape that page for image URLs. Psuedo Xpath to do so: //div[@class="view image-view canvas-image-view"]
(Note that the page is written in such a way that only the photo[s] visible on-screen are present in the HTML code, so your script would need to scroll through the window to scrape all the necessary URLs.)
| Q: Is there a way to get a public URL for individual iCloud photos? I understand it's possible, through the Photos app and iCloud, to create a sharing stream of photos. What I am wondering is if it's possible to get a public URL from any given photo in iCloud.
My end goal is to use the URL in a shell script that would replicate CloudApp or Dropbox screenshot sharing, only using iCloud storage. Can't seem to find anything on the web that explains if this is/isn't possible.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated :)
A: There is no way to get the URL from the Photos app that I am aware of. However, you can create a public album (see screenshot) which will then give you an album URL. You could scrape that page for image URLs. Psuedo Xpath to do so: //div[@class="view image-view canvas-image-view"]
(Note that the page is written in such a way that only the photo[s] visible on-screen are present in the HTML code, so your script would need to scroll through the window to scrape all the necessary URLs.)
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1e4b3a2bdcaa1e729b6f604d02a518a810a9d8fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make truly single spaced bullet items in Keynote Although I have selected
Spacing 1.0 - single
in the Text Style, we can see that there is still large space between each bullet item. How to compact them?
A: Notice the disclosure arrow "▶︎" beside Spacing? There you can reveal the paragraph spacing.
Change the Before Paragraph and After Paragraph to 0 pt or the desired amount.
Hope this helps!
| Q: How to make truly single spaced bullet items in Keynote Although I have selected
Spacing 1.0 - single
in the Text Style, we can see that there is still large space between each bullet item. How to compact them?
A: Notice the disclosure arrow "▶︎" beside Spacing? There you can reveal the paragraph spacing.
Change the Before Paragraph and After Paragraph to 0 pt or the desired amount.
Hope this helps!
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dd042ce9c83b5f170a4af06a3dedfca6b7ab26c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to restore a stolen iPhone 5 after being found? My iPhone 5 was stolen and I erased and removed it via iCloud.
After three days I found it and want to active it again.
What is the procedure for recovering the content and activating it again?
A: If you backed up your iPhone using iTunes (stored on your computer) or iCloud (stored in iCloud), restore from backup.
When your iPhone has sufficient charge to turn on, you probably see the "Hello" screen. The following Apple Support article describes how to restore your iPhone from iTunes backup or iCloud backup: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204686
| Q: How to restore a stolen iPhone 5 after being found? My iPhone 5 was stolen and I erased and removed it via iCloud.
After three days I found it and want to active it again.
What is the procedure for recovering the content and activating it again?
A: If you backed up your iPhone using iTunes (stored on your computer) or iCloud (stored in iCloud), restore from backup.
When your iPhone has sufficient charge to turn on, you probably see the "Hello" screen. The following Apple Support article describes how to restore your iPhone from iTunes backup or iCloud backup: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204686
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1ba6b0f68ebf8b145164de76870ed06a2506fc8f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: pkg file extracting instead of installing? Recently I noticed my pkg updates are being extracted rather than installed. (for example the MS Office update wanted to extract the file)
Is there a way to ensure that pkg files are installed?
A: Most obvious cause would be that some other app has taken over the .pkg extension - maybe a file compression utility.
Find any .pkg file & Cmd ⌘ i to Get Info.
Where it says Open with, select Installer, then Change All
| Q: pkg file extracting instead of installing? Recently I noticed my pkg updates are being extracted rather than installed. (for example the MS Office update wanted to extract the file)
Is there a way to ensure that pkg files are installed?
A: Most obvious cause would be that some other app has taken over the .pkg extension - maybe a file compression utility.
Find any .pkg file & Cmd ⌘ i to Get Info.
Where it says Open with, select Installer, then Change All
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53966f6be9fa333ce6fac53b99fb8b9680f316c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Watch - Can third-party apps update the activity app's exercise ring? Third party apps usually have their own "record your exercise" button. Will the exercise ring be able to reflect data recorded by these apps, even if the automatic trigger for the Watch to consider something to be "exercise" is not tripped?
A: This will be possible using watchOS 2.
| Q: Apple Watch - Can third-party apps update the activity app's exercise ring? Third party apps usually have their own "record your exercise" button. Will the exercise ring be able to reflect data recorded by these apps, even if the automatic trigger for the Watch to consider something to be "exercise" is not tripped?
A: This will be possible using watchOS 2.
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11157a752f9d16b01164b8d046d7e0d9a9313d7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will my apps be removed from the App Store if my developer account expires? Will my apps get taken down on the App Store if I allow my developer account to expire?
A: Yes, your app will be deleted from the App Store until you renew your subscription.
| Q: Will my apps be removed from the App Store if my developer account expires? Will my apps get taken down on the App Store if I allow my developer account to expire?
A: Yes, your app will be deleted from the App Store until you renew your subscription.
A: Yes - all your apps will be removed from their respective App Stores if your developer program membership expires.
If your Apple Developer Program membership expires, you will still have access to iTunes Connect. However, your apps will no longer be available for download on the App Store and you will not be able to submit new apps or updates.
Source: https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/itunes-connect/
Attempting to log in to iTunes Connect will show the following message, but all of the services are still accessible.
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c95caea4408861c59e21b5aeffa7d877ad734104 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: On OS 9.2.1, how can you access shared files from windows computers? I'm a total newbie Mac user. I got a Powerbook 3 Pismo off of ebay, got OS 9.2.1 installed, and enabled file sharing. Web browsing is working and I have an IP address.
How do I access the shared folder from my windows 8 machines?
A: Mac OS 9 has no built-in support for Windows file sharing. There were third-party file sharing applications for Mac OS to allow access to Windows networks, and there were also Windows server tools which could allow Mac access to Windows servers. One tool I remember using was DAVE, from Thursby software. It used to be a Windows networking kit for Mac, but has morphed into something else now. If you found an older version it might work, but I doubt it would be compatible with the latest Windows.
I'd recommend looking for an FTP server for your Windows machine and a FTP client for your Mac.
| Q: On OS 9.2.1, how can you access shared files from windows computers? I'm a total newbie Mac user. I got a Powerbook 3 Pismo off of ebay, got OS 9.2.1 installed, and enabled file sharing. Web browsing is working and I have an IP address.
How do I access the shared folder from my windows 8 machines?
A: Mac OS 9 has no built-in support for Windows file sharing. There were third-party file sharing applications for Mac OS to allow access to Windows networks, and there were also Windows server tools which could allow Mac access to Windows servers. One tool I remember using was DAVE, from Thursby software. It used to be a Windows networking kit for Mac, but has morphed into something else now. If you found an older version it might work, but I doubt it would be compatible with the latest Windows.
I'd recommend looking for an FTP server for your Windows machine and a FTP client for your Mac.
A: Not a specific answer to the question, but one alternative is to use a FAT32 formatted USB stick. This is compatible with OS 9. Setting up an FTP server to migrate files back and forth is handy in the moment, but going back and forth between the two systems to turn on the server, connect, move files probably takes longer than just putting on the USB stick.
A: Aside from the aforementioned Thursby DAVE, which surprisingly is still an active commercial product, another option would be Connectix DoubleTalk, which is apparently abandonware obtainable from the Macintosh Garden.
Unlike DAVE which provides both client and server SMB functionality, DoubleTalk is only a SMB client, not a server, so you'd need to perform your file-transferring from the old Mac's end with that -- i.e., Windows won't be able to see any shares on the Mac, but the Mac would be able to find and access shares on Windows. I found this write-up explaining the process.
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a53356ecda35e5d84d534775a3b760b9cf1392a9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Kernel: "Previous shutdown cause: -62" I have a late 2013 27" iMac running Yosemite, and it randomly shuts off every now and then. I tried everything Reset SMC. Diagnostics, reformat Macintosh HD but still occurs and running out of options.
A: If this is new behavior, blame it on Yosemite, file a report, and update whenever available. I'm on Beta 3 or 4, and am just now occasionally logged out at random. Earlier glitches have been fixed, as will this one.
| Q: Kernel: "Previous shutdown cause: -62" I have a late 2013 27" iMac running Yosemite, and it randomly shuts off every now and then. I tried everything Reset SMC. Diagnostics, reformat Macintosh HD but still occurs and running out of options.
A: If this is new behavior, blame it on Yosemite, file a report, and update whenever available. I'm on Beta 3 or 4, and am just now occasionally logged out at random. Earlier glitches have been fixed, as will this one.
A: In general shutdown cause -62 means:
Watchdog timer detected unresponsive application, restarting the system.
So you're advised to troubleshoot your system for any stuck application, startup item and any loading preferences. So try to clean up your system, or reinstalling macOS also may help.
Related: Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere?
A: Remove externals for now and do a Safe Boot. See Apple Support page on Kernel Panics for more info, procedures.
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01f7334251fd3c025d5e9f07049120e6dc10bc31 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will video and photo editing wear out a 2015 macbook pro's SSD significantly? I plan on buying the latest 2015 13" Macbook pro while travelling for video and photo editing (among other activities such as programming). The SSD size will probably be 256 or 512gb along with a 2TB WD passport external I own.
Will transferring a large amount of video clips to the SSD and deleting after completion regularly wear out my Macbook pro's lifetime significantly or only by an unnoticeable time?
A: SSD's have been found to be quite durable. That article goes into depth with respect to SSD issues, and they performed hardware tests upon several manufacture of SSD.
| Q: Will video and photo editing wear out a 2015 macbook pro's SSD significantly? I plan on buying the latest 2015 13" Macbook pro while travelling for video and photo editing (among other activities such as programming). The SSD size will probably be 256 or 512gb along with a 2TB WD passport external I own.
Will transferring a large amount of video clips to the SSD and deleting after completion regularly wear out my Macbook pro's lifetime significantly or only by an unnoticeable time?
A: SSD's have been found to be quite durable. That article goes into depth with respect to SSD issues, and they performed hardware tests upon several manufacture of SSD.
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59144a95fc9ad2d85f3b767dd3cd1581fdf4678d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to renice by process name? I am trying to Launch a process using NICE but this process is starting other process by itself and they are not affected by the priority of the main process ( main process has the correct nice but sub process priority is set to default)
So I am trying to renice those process while they run.
I tried
renice n -p $(pidof <process name>)
but it is not recognised by MacOS (it is probably linux specific ?)
so how can I do that?
you can find a related discussion here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30062340/starting-process-with-nice-command-macos-leaves-the-process-priority-at-0#comment48287323_30062340
thanks.
A: You can use pgrep instead of pidof on OS X. Using your example from earlier, the following should work:
renice n -p $(pgrep <process name>)
That said, a child started after the parent has had their priority changed should inherit the parent's priority.
| Q: How to renice by process name? I am trying to Launch a process using NICE but this process is starting other process by itself and they are not affected by the priority of the main process ( main process has the correct nice but sub process priority is set to default)
So I am trying to renice those process while they run.
I tried
renice n -p $(pidof <process name>)
but it is not recognised by MacOS (it is probably linux specific ?)
so how can I do that?
you can find a related discussion here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30062340/starting-process-with-nice-command-macos-leaves-the-process-priority-at-0#comment48287323_30062340
thanks.
A: You can use pgrep instead of pidof on OS X. Using your example from earlier, the following should work:
renice n -p $(pgrep <process name>)
That said, a child started after the parent has had their priority changed should inherit the parent's priority.
A: There are multiple correct answers, here an answer let suits your train of thought.
Run this oneliner:
renice 10 -p $(ps -ax | grep -i [p]rocessname | awk 'NR==1{print $1}')
What is does:
*
*renice 10, this will make your process run with the nicety of ten, the nicer, the higher the number.
*-p expects the process id
*ps -ax lists all running processes with there name and PID
*grep -i [p]rocessname only matches the processes with 'processname', case insensitive. the brackets will prevent to match the grep process itself.
*awk 'NR==1{print $1}' will fetch the 1st instance (NR==1) of the first column ($1)
You already gave a good example of command substitution.
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82bae1e0e4750f86596c91abccba6627f3d87c27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add a margin to a table cell in Pages? How do I change Cell margins and padding? I'm not seeing any options for these anywhere.
Is that possible with Pages?
A: In the format pane, go to text, layout and adjust text inset.
| Q: How can I add a margin to a table cell in Pages? How do I change Cell margins and padding? I'm not seeing any options for these anywhere.
Is that possible with Pages?
A: In the format pane, go to text, layout and adjust text inset.
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ac67eebb94be505f12353b84d22425a5f5f4d5e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite randomly switches audio output to displayport Ever since upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite I'm experiencing this annoying bug, where OSX switched the default audio output to external display connected via DisplayPort. This display has no speakers nor audio port of any kind.
Is there a permanent work around for this? Can I somehow blacklist a device as audio output?
System info:
A: System Preferences builds a preferred list for your audio outputs and inputs based on which ones you pick over others.
To work around this you will need to manually select the audio output you would rather use once when the undesired one is available and again when it isn't. This method will work in most (but not all) cases.
| Q: Yosemite randomly switches audio output to displayport Ever since upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite I'm experiencing this annoying bug, where OSX switched the default audio output to external display connected via DisplayPort. This display has no speakers nor audio port of any kind.
Is there a permanent work around for this? Can I somehow blacklist a device as audio output?
System info:
A: System Preferences builds a preferred list for your audio outputs and inputs based on which ones you pick over others.
To work around this you will need to manually select the audio output you would rather use once when the undesired one is available and again when it isn't. This method will work in most (but not all) cases.
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94e360d1c9c91a2a2494fb4fd99019fafabcd83e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I set the "Exercise" goal for my Apple Watch Activity app? The Apple Watch Activity allows for setting an overall "Move" goal, but I don't see how to change the green "Exercise" goal from the default 30 minutes. Is there a way to accomplish this?
A: You aren't limited to one time around the ring in the Activity app. You get a double arrow for 1 hour of exercise, for example. You also receive awards for doubling or tripling the exercise ring.
You can use the Workout app to set whatever exercise goal you like. And you get a custom ring to fill in that app, based on target calories, distance, or time.
| Q: Can I set the "Exercise" goal for my Apple Watch Activity app? The Apple Watch Activity allows for setting an overall "Move" goal, but I don't see how to change the green "Exercise" goal from the default 30 minutes. Is there a way to accomplish this?
A: You aren't limited to one time around the ring in the Activity app. You get a double arrow for 1 hour of exercise, for example. You also receive awards for doubling or tripling the exercise ring.
You can use the Workout app to set whatever exercise goal you like. And you get a custom ring to fill in that app, based on target calories, distance, or time.
A: Most of the answers in this thread are incorrect. As of posting this, you can not change the exercise goal. As stated in the first answer this is set firm.
Additionally, the exercise ring always has a double-arrow. The icon does not change.
A: watchOS 7 enables changing the green Exercise Goal.
Apple Watch > Activity app > Scroll to Bottom > Change Goals
*
*https://kirkville.com/change-activity-goals-on-the-apple-watch-in-watchos-7/
*https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/09/24/mcelhearn-watchos-7-goals
A: No there is no way to accomplish this.
From Apple - Apple Watch
You close the Exercise ring when you reach the globally recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day. And you don’t even have to do it all at once, which means you’re more likely to fit it into your day.
From all searches I have performed I have not found any possible way to change it and the above quote suggests that 30 minutes is the amount Apple has fixed on (the call it "recommended").
A: You open the activity app on your watch, then use force touch to adjust your daily goals. However, you can only modify the daily move goal (calorie goal), but not exercise or stand goal at this time.
A: On your watch, press hard on the activity screen in the activity app. You can increase/decrease the daily calorie burn goal. Doesn't look like you can change any other as of yet.
A: I know exactly what you mean...When setting up the Apple Watch, they ask you whether you want the 30 min. for MOVE to be easy, medium, or strenuous. But once it's been set up there is no way to change it to either of the other levels.
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3c419438f2d06dc8318e9db68cf3983beff7065c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make Instagram photos shared to Facebook visible to my friends by default? When I share photos from Instagram to Facebook (using the Instagram app on iOS), by default they get "Only Me" sharing visibility:
That doesn't seem very useful to me - I'd rather my friends saw them. In fact, Instagram's help page says that is what is supposed to happen.
How can I fix this? How can I make these photos visible to my friends by default?
A: As Andrew Ferrier stated in the comments to the question, this is indeed a part of Facebook's privacy settings. Here is how you set it to share to "Friends" by default:
*
*Go to your Facebook.com.
*Find the page to edit your Instagram settings.
*
*this should be on YourLinkToTimelinePage/app_instapp
*or you should be able to find it at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
*or in the timeline menu under your profile picture, find it in More
*Change your App visibility and post audience setting to Friends
This setting controls who on Facebook can see that you use this app. It also allows you to choose the audience for posts the app makes on your behalf.
Hope this helps you.
| Q: How can I make Instagram photos shared to Facebook visible to my friends by default? When I share photos from Instagram to Facebook (using the Instagram app on iOS), by default they get "Only Me" sharing visibility:
That doesn't seem very useful to me - I'd rather my friends saw them. In fact, Instagram's help page says that is what is supposed to happen.
How can I fix this? How can I make these photos visible to my friends by default?
A: As Andrew Ferrier stated in the comments to the question, this is indeed a part of Facebook's privacy settings. Here is how you set it to share to "Friends" by default:
*
*Go to your Facebook.com.
*Find the page to edit your Instagram settings.
*
*this should be on YourLinkToTimelinePage/app_instapp
*or you should be able to find it at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
*or in the timeline menu under your profile picture, find it in More
*Change your App visibility and post audience setting to Friends
This setting controls who on Facebook can see that you use this app. It also allows you to choose the audience for posts the app makes on your behalf.
Hope this helps you.
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700d58c04d15daa84cd14a2c93db0d2f4c0e811d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to display project name in minimized Xcode? When Xcode project window is collapsed to dock it shows name of the current file:
Is there any way to customize Xcode, so it will show project name in the dock, or "project_name - file_name"?
| Q: How to display project name in minimized Xcode? When Xcode project window is collapsed to dock it shows name of the current file:
Is there any way to customize Xcode, so it will show project name in the dock, or "project_name - file_name"?
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a330b64382472f98b0e02c14593fdae6b22a1f62 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Watch - Getting weight lifting to count towards "move ring"? Is there any way to get exercise like weight lifting to count towards the "move ring" of the activity app. I realize it will count a small amount just from moving the wrist around, but some days I would like most of my calorie burn to come from weights and the basic app doesn't seem to cover this.
A: *
*Make sure you are using the Workouts app on the watch as this will make the heart rate monitor get your heart rate more often. Therefore, it won't miss any spikes from lifting and moving about.
*Make sure your watch is securely fitted so the heart rate monitor can get an accurate measurement!
*Lastly, it's a bit hard for a device on your watch to know that you are using weight resistance, etc. so don't expect much. Perhaps we'll see some updates from Apple about this, here's hoping!
| Q: Apple Watch - Getting weight lifting to count towards "move ring"? Is there any way to get exercise like weight lifting to count towards the "move ring" of the activity app. I realize it will count a small amount just from moving the wrist around, but some days I would like most of my calorie burn to come from weights and the basic app doesn't seem to cover this.
A: *
*Make sure you are using the Workouts app on the watch as this will make the heart rate monitor get your heart rate more often. Therefore, it won't miss any spikes from lifting and moving about.
*Make sure your watch is securely fitted so the heart rate monitor can get an accurate measurement!
*Lastly, it's a bit hard for a device on your watch to know that you are using weight resistance, etc. so don't expect much. Perhaps we'll see some updates from Apple about this, here's hoping!
A: It doesn't seem like the Move ring can be filled with that sort of activity, though it would be nice. However, I don't do any weight lifting myself, but I do remember that just doing what may have been simplified bicep curls close to my body was able to fill it a little, and actually significantly upped the distance I had gone that day, as though the watch thought I was running.
For the time being, you're right that you'll have to use third party apps. This may help. It offers a few different options. I didn't read very far down, but it looks like you can use either Gymaholic or Fitlist based on personal preference, though Fitlist seems more popular in the thread.
Right now, third party apps won't be able to fill the "Move" ring. However, with the release of watchOS 2 this fall, you may have more luck. Developers will then be able to access health data on the watch, using sensors such as the heart rate monitor, etc., and creating their own haptic buzzes. I'm not positive that this new openness for developers will cover the Activity app, but it might. Time will tell.
There's also this, which again is not guaranteed. You can never quite know with rumors regarding Apple.
I suppose all of this adds up to say that for now, you'll have to use third party apps and their nonnative services, meaning that the Activity app will not be integrated with your weightlifting. But after a bit of waiting, come fall, you'll almost definitely see a whole bunch of native fitness apps pop up in the App Store, with weightlifting apps likely being among them.
A: Select and run an "Other" workout type. When you're done with the workout, choose "Name Workout" and then select one of the other activity types such as "Strength Training".
Once you've done this, "Strength Training" will appear as a top-level option for your next workout
At the end of an Other workout, you can choose a name for your workout from a list of options. This can help categorize different types of activity, like dance, strength training, or cross training.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204523#endorpause
A: I set the workout to other when lifting. It's something
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0691e2075a69546f261ff6fe21c22d1e82b69399 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Scaling different amounts on each axis in Keynote In Keynote it's easy to build an animation wherein you scale or rotate an item uniformly on horizontal and vertical. But is there a way to scale an object only on the vertical axis?
This is on the latest version of Keynote (6.5.3).
A: I don't think you can do it through the usual Actions applied to the object, but you should be able to get what you want using Magic Move.
Get your slide the way you want it, then duplicate it.
In the second copy, scale the object to the new stretched out size (deselect Constrain proportions to stretch the vertical axis).
Then click back on your first slide and in the Animate tab, choose Magic Move.
When you play your slide and go to the next, it should scale your object to its new vertically stretched size.
| Q: Scaling different amounts on each axis in Keynote In Keynote it's easy to build an animation wherein you scale or rotate an item uniformly on horizontal and vertical. But is there a way to scale an object only on the vertical axis?
This is on the latest version of Keynote (6.5.3).
A: I don't think you can do it through the usual Actions applied to the object, but you should be able to get what you want using Magic Move.
Get your slide the way you want it, then duplicate it.
In the second copy, scale the object to the new stretched out size (deselect Constrain proportions to stretch the vertical axis).
Then click back on your first slide and in the Animate tab, choose Magic Move.
When you play your slide and go to the next, it should scale your object to its new vertically stretched size.
A: This question is a bit old, and what the OP wants may not even pertain to this, but there's a simpler trick I use to turn an object around. This assumes the object can be reversed (i.e., a graphic, text box, or shape; a table can't do this):
*
*Apply a "Flip" to the object's Build Out property.
*Create a reverse version of what you want to flip by...
*Change the Build Out to none
*Change the Build In to "Flip"
*Adjust the Build In of the reverse to apply WITH the previous build (the Build Out)
*Make sure the Build Out of the original object and the Build In of the reverse have the same timing or things will get kind of weird.
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a85678a3e9dc124d3e1a151248e013a004135841 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: SaaS subscription across iOS, Android and Web We have three different forms of distribution for our SaaS (Web, Android and iOS) all currently reviewed and in-store in their free form ($0).
Our business model is focussed around a single subscription across all platforms and was hoping to use our existing system of Stripe > Webhook to updates all services of a users status.
Heads down in the development has overlooked the very confusing, constantly changing and expensive (70/30 split!) guidelines that Apple publishes.
We've developed blindly as looking at apps like Dropbox and many others offer the same subscription / account across all platforms.
My questions is how are they doing it? IAP? External subscription? From the guidelines you are not allowed to link to a 'Buy / Subscribe' button.
A: You're not allowed to link to an external payment method, but saying that the app requires payment outside of the app is fine.
For example, mentioning in the app description that the app “requires a valid subscription to x” is acceptable, whereas having a link inside the app to “purchase your subscription here” is not unless that purchase is through IAP.
| Q: SaaS subscription across iOS, Android and Web We have three different forms of distribution for our SaaS (Web, Android and iOS) all currently reviewed and in-store in their free form ($0).
Our business model is focussed around a single subscription across all platforms and was hoping to use our existing system of Stripe > Webhook to updates all services of a users status.
Heads down in the development has overlooked the very confusing, constantly changing and expensive (70/30 split!) guidelines that Apple publishes.
We've developed blindly as looking at apps like Dropbox and many others offer the same subscription / account across all platforms.
My questions is how are they doing it? IAP? External subscription? From the guidelines you are not allowed to link to a 'Buy / Subscribe' button.
A: You're not allowed to link to an external payment method, but saying that the app requires payment outside of the app is fine.
For example, mentioning in the app description that the app “requires a valid subscription to x” is acceptable, whereas having a link inside the app to “purchase your subscription here” is not unless that purchase is through IAP.
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d4e96b083f8a2ab640a8a1bce680b62274a07358 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make spotlight open new instance of application instead of going to application I recently moved from Windows to OSX, and find it frustrating that typing Chrome, Sublime Text or Terminal in Spotlight do not allow me to open a new window, but instead takes me to an open window of the application.
There's the option of running open -n "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/" from terminal but, that defeats the purpose of Spotlight. I'm also aware of Alfred, which is not a solution for me.
Is it possible to change the behaviour of Spotlight to suit this?
A: Found a solution using flashlight, which allows you to create custom search terms for spotlight.
*
*Install Flashlight
*Enter the Flashlight app
*Click New Plugin > Run an Automator Workflow
*Edit contents according to needs - mine is:
*Click Edit Workflow
*Remove notification and add Run shell script
*Add command that fits needs - mine is:
*Test your command works by clicking Run in the Automator window.
*Close Automator and the window for the new plugin in Flashlight
*Searching for any of the keywords in Usage examples input to the Flashlight plugin will allow you to run the script.
| Q: Make spotlight open new instance of application instead of going to application I recently moved from Windows to OSX, and find it frustrating that typing Chrome, Sublime Text or Terminal in Spotlight do not allow me to open a new window, but instead takes me to an open window of the application.
There's the option of running open -n "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/" from terminal but, that defeats the purpose of Spotlight. I'm also aware of Alfred, which is not a solution for me.
Is it possible to change the behaviour of Spotlight to suit this?
A: Found a solution using flashlight, which allows you to create custom search terms for spotlight.
*
*Install Flashlight
*Enter the Flashlight app
*Click New Plugin > Run an Automator Workflow
*Edit contents according to needs - mine is:
*Click Edit Workflow
*Remove notification and add Run shell script
*Add command that fits needs - mine is:
*Test your command works by clicking Run in the Automator window.
*Close Automator and the window for the new plugin in Flashlight
*Searching for any of the keywords in Usage examples input to the Flashlight plugin will allow you to run the script.
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f016e1821e2918ae78c543c2cebb1a6f2f105cb1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does the Apple Workout app "save" completed workouts? The Apple Watch Workout app offers an option to "Save" a workout when it has been completed. Where are such saved workouts saved?
A: You can view all your past workouts (per day) on the iPhone Activity app! It gives you all the same information you see when you save the workout on your watch.
You can also view past workouts in the Health app (Workouts data in the Fitness section).
| Q: Where does the Apple Workout app "save" completed workouts? The Apple Watch Workout app offers an option to "Save" a workout when it has been completed. Where are such saved workouts saved?
A: You can view all your past workouts (per day) on the iPhone Activity app! It gives you all the same information you see when you save the workout on your watch.
You can also view past workouts in the Health app (Workouts data in the Fitness section).
A: The Activity app on your iPhone has it (iOS 10 & watchOS 3).
*
*Open Activity on your iPhone
*Browse to the day
*Hit workouts at the bottom
*Select the workout
For my Indoor Run, it has the type, time, active & total calories, distance, total time, average heart rate and average pace (also split out by mile). Doesn't have maximum heart rate, though.
A: In Health app go to health data at the bottom and scroll down to workouts. You can add them to your dashboard from there or just tap show all data and it's in there.
If you add them to dashboard when you click the graph it has individual workout details.
A: If you go to the Health app, and go to "Workouts" - you can click on that graph and go to "show all data" - and it will give you all the specifics on each of your watch workouts.
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7fbda910d5474041bd9de0e387c0f706cdf89d67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I select which city appears in Glances for the Apple Watch World Clock app? When I enable Glances for the World Clock app on my Apple Watch, I see (only) the city that with the largest positive offset from UTC, not the one I want to see.
How do I select which city appears in Glances for the Apple Watch World Clock app?
A: The city that shows is the one at the top of the list in the World Clock watch app and the World Clock section in the Clock app on my iPhone (which can be set the iPhone app: click Edit and then drag).
| Q: How do I select which city appears in Glances for the Apple Watch World Clock app? When I enable Glances for the World Clock app on my Apple Watch, I see (only) the city that with the largest positive offset from UTC, not the one I want to see.
How do I select which city appears in Glances for the Apple Watch World Clock app?
A: The city that shows is the one at the top of the list in the World Clock watch app and the World Clock section in the Clock app on my iPhone (which can be set the iPhone app: click Edit and then drag).
A: The glance that he is referring to is the one you get when you swipe up from the bottom of the watch face. This ends up being your top most entry as set on your iPhone, and you cannot scroll through your other world clocks.
However, if you click on a World Clock complication from the watch face, you actually are taken to the World Clock App, in which you can scroll through all your world clocks. *Both the order of the clocks and the clocks that are available* to your watch, are set by the World Clocks app on your iPhone.
So, if you want to add, remove, or reorder cities on your watch, you have to do so on your iPhone.
First, launch the Clock app on your iPhone, then click on "World Clock" in the lower-left corner.
*
*To add a new city, click on the plus button in the top-right corner, and select your new city.
*To change the order in which they appear, click edit in the top-left corner, then drag the little drag-handles that appear on the right side of each entry.
*To remove a city, click edit, and then click the little red minus button on the left side of each entry.
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dc021b5a152c28534e488bccdc22211edd77379f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Menubar and Finder icons missing Since about 5 days ago all system icons in the Finder sidebar (folders, disks), the Finder Menubar (view options, buttons, back and forward) and in the display menu bar (spotlight, wifi, bluetooth) have disappeared:
When I log in as a different user or as a guest, the problem does not present itself. Also note that it's not just system icons, Alfred.app and Flux.app are missing from the menu bar too.
I've reset the pram, started in save mode but nothing seems to fix it.
Any help would be appreciated :)
A: Two options I can think of:
1) Clear the Finder's icon cache, from Terminal, & reboot
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
2) Or run the latest combo updater (rather than the delta), from https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1804?
| Q: Menubar and Finder icons missing Since about 5 days ago all system icons in the Finder sidebar (folders, disks), the Finder Menubar (view options, buttons, back and forward) and in the display menu bar (spotlight, wifi, bluetooth) have disappeared:
When I log in as a different user or as a guest, the problem does not present itself. Also note that it's not just system icons, Alfred.app and Flux.app are missing from the menu bar too.
I've reset the pram, started in save mode but nothing seems to fix it.
Any help would be appreciated :)
A: Two options I can think of:
1) Clear the Finder's icon cache, from Terminal, & reboot
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
2) Or run the latest combo updater (rather than the delta), from https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1804?
A: I restarted my laptop into safeboot by holding the shift key. Then I logged in while holding the shift key. After a restart the icons were back.
The whole procedure is described here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6738097?start=0&tstart=0
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9319e6d89492de396cf8258cc293dec1c3c65e98 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I lengthen the time text to speech pauses after it reaches a full stop ("period") Not permanently but longer than the usual default time that's say half a second. It would be nice if a string of symbols like ".", "..", "..." or "....." lengthened the default pause time after a full stop in proportion to the number of symbols. Personally I would find this very useful after a paragraph is completed and before the new paragraph starts - or perhaps there is already a way to get the program to distinguish between end of paragraph and end of sentence?
A: Use the following after the word to tell your mac to take a break for 1000 milliseconds after that word:
[[slnc 1000]]
"The silence command causes the synthesizer to generate silence for the specified number of milliseconds. You might want to insert extra silence between two sentences to allow listeners to fully absorb the meaning of the first one. Note that the precise timing of the silence will vary among synthesizers."
You can change the number of milliseconds.
Hopes this answers your question.
More information on https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/FineTuning/FineTuning.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004365-CH5-SW11
| Q: How can I lengthen the time text to speech pauses after it reaches a full stop ("period") Not permanently but longer than the usual default time that's say half a second. It would be nice if a string of symbols like ".", "..", "..." or "....." lengthened the default pause time after a full stop in proportion to the number of symbols. Personally I would find this very useful after a paragraph is completed and before the new paragraph starts - or perhaps there is already a way to get the program to distinguish between end of paragraph and end of sentence?
A: Use the following after the word to tell your mac to take a break for 1000 milliseconds after that word:
[[slnc 1000]]
"The silence command causes the synthesizer to generate silence for the specified number of milliseconds. You might want to insert extra silence between two sentences to allow listeners to fully absorb the meaning of the first one. Note that the precise timing of the silence will vary among synthesizers."
You can change the number of milliseconds.
Hopes this answers your question.
More information on https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/FineTuning/FineTuning.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004365-CH5-SW11
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b8cbf9a67e04aae48cdaede551b3ba884688e3bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable "always on" USB power on Macbook Pro I am operating my MacBook Pro early 2015 within a Henge dock (HD03VA13MBPR) , connected to two external displays and external speakers. Both displays and speakers get power from a power distributer that offers a switch via USB. Whenever the USB has power, the monitors stay on. Take off USB power, and the displays shut down.
Now, that setup worked perfectly on my other computer, where USB Power could be configured. On my new powerbook the displays stay on. The USB Port seems to be "always on" during sleep mode.
How can I disable the "always on" function of the USB port while the MacBook is in sleep mode?
A: This seems not to be possible. I solved the situation now with the help of my dell external displyay. The USB-Hub there can be configured to shut down as soon as the display ist switched off. So the second display and the active speakers are connected to the power plug that can be switched off/on by USB power. This will allow with the klick of one button to switch all other devices off/on.
| Q: How to disable "always on" USB power on Macbook Pro I am operating my MacBook Pro early 2015 within a Henge dock (HD03VA13MBPR) , connected to two external displays and external speakers. Both displays and speakers get power from a power distributer that offers a switch via USB. Whenever the USB has power, the monitors stay on. Take off USB power, and the displays shut down.
Now, that setup worked perfectly on my other computer, where USB Power could be configured. On my new powerbook the displays stay on. The USB Port seems to be "always on" during sleep mode.
How can I disable the "always on" function of the USB port while the MacBook is in sleep mode?
A: This seems not to be possible. I solved the situation now with the help of my dell external displyay. The USB-Hub there can be configured to shut down as soon as the display ist switched off. So the second display and the active speakers are connected to the power plug that can be switched off/on by USB power. This will allow with the klick of one button to switch all other devices off/on.
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7142b40ba2e1755843c9308e252685d04383d98e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Printer deamon creates hundreds of symlinks Today I stumbled over hundreds of symbolic links in my OS X /tmp folder.
> …
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27eaca409 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27ed23fcd -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27ef71a19 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
…
I can delete them, but after minutes the folder is stuffed with those links.
Only when I remove all printers, the symlinks will not be created.
Is it normal? How can I prevent it?
| Q: Printer deamon creates hundreds of symlinks Today I stumbled over hundreds of symbolic links in my OS X /tmp folder.
> …
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27eaca409 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27ed23fcd -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27ef71a19 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
…
I can delete them, but after minutes the folder is stuffed with those links.
Only when I remove all printers, the symlinks will not be created.
Is it normal? How can I prevent it?
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4372342188f40dfe3a35d063aec8699adcdb8185 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: “Couldn’t create temporary file” error when erasing free space on startup disk When I tried to erase space on Disk Utility, it couldn't create a second temporary file for my startup disk.
A: Ran into the same issue while erasing free space on El Capitan. I was doing it from the terminal, and this was likely the error you ran in to:
Error: -69847: Couldn't create temporary file
Underlying error: 1: POSIX reports: Operation not permitted
As @Tetsujin mentioned, there is a solution in this question — though, in this case, I think the easiest solution is to run the operation via the command line, with sudo. From a terminal window, you should be able to do:
sudo diskutil secureErase freespace 0 "/Volumes/[Disk Name]"
This isn't the accepted answer in the linked issue, but it's one of the answers...and way easier than all the other solutions.
The 0 in the command specifies that you want to overwrite the free space with zeros...there are other "more secure" options, although there are arguments that erasing free space may not be necessary at all, when you have a solid state hard drive.
| Q: “Couldn’t create temporary file” error when erasing free space on startup disk When I tried to erase space on Disk Utility, it couldn't create a second temporary file for my startup disk.
A: Ran into the same issue while erasing free space on El Capitan. I was doing it from the terminal, and this was likely the error you ran in to:
Error: -69847: Couldn't create temporary file
Underlying error: 1: POSIX reports: Operation not permitted
As @Tetsujin mentioned, there is a solution in this question — though, in this case, I think the easiest solution is to run the operation via the command line, with sudo. From a terminal window, you should be able to do:
sudo diskutil secureErase freespace 0 "/Volumes/[Disk Name]"
This isn't the accepted answer in the linked issue, but it's one of the answers...and way easier than all the other solutions.
The 0 in the command specifies that you want to overwrite the free space with zeros...there are other "more secure" options, although there are arguments that erasing free space may not be necessary at all, when you have a solid state hard drive.
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1a78e2cc0359a478c053d7e49103ea601b224e1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is my MacBook Pro Retina fan failing? My MacBook Pro Retina 15" (Mid 2012) has what sounds like a failing sound. I've uploaded a recording to Dropbox however it's hard to hear.
The best I can describe the sound is that it sounds as if the fan is vibrating more then usual. There's a sort of buzz coming from it.
I know the best bet is to take the laptop to an Apple shop, but the closest one to me is an hour away, so wanted to make sure. Also, it still is under warranty, but without hearing the noise, what other tests can be done to check if it functions properly?
(Also, the battery needs replacing, which was confirmed by the Apple Store. When that is done, are the same fans put back in? I'm not sure what's glued to what inside).
A: If they are replacing the battery and it is under warranty, just tell them the fan is buzzing and they will look at it while replacing the battery. It may just be something got in there and it's clanking around which could be solved by compressed air, but it could be failing.
| Q: Is my MacBook Pro Retina fan failing? My MacBook Pro Retina 15" (Mid 2012) has what sounds like a failing sound. I've uploaded a recording to Dropbox however it's hard to hear.
The best I can describe the sound is that it sounds as if the fan is vibrating more then usual. There's a sort of buzz coming from it.
I know the best bet is to take the laptop to an Apple shop, but the closest one to me is an hour away, so wanted to make sure. Also, it still is under warranty, but without hearing the noise, what other tests can be done to check if it functions properly?
(Also, the battery needs replacing, which was confirmed by the Apple Store. When that is done, are the same fans put back in? I'm not sure what's glued to what inside).
A: If they are replacing the battery and it is under warranty, just tell them the fan is buzzing and they will look at it while replacing the battery. It may just be something got in there and it's clanking around which could be solved by compressed air, but it could be failing.
A: Have to tried installing SMC Fan Control?
You can look at fan speeds and alter the speeds as well, which would help you verify their functionality/status.
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0ad1e7c50cc1e7d523e1e06511bb163092ee0428 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to delete an app from iTunes Is it possible to delete an app from my Apple account; (not from my phone, from my apple account)?
A: No, once you've downloaded a paid or free app, it is registered as bought on that account.
| Q: How to delete an app from iTunes Is it possible to delete an app from my Apple account; (not from my phone, from my apple account)?
A: No, once you've downloaded a paid or free app, it is registered as bought on that account.
A: Once bought, you cannot 'remove' it from your account. However, you can hide it from view by clicking the 'x' which appears on hovering the mouse above the app (in win/Mac). It cannot, however, be done individually from an iDevice.
A: When you download an app, wether it's paid or not, it's called purchasing an app, and when you do that, the app will be "signed" with your Apple ID, after that, there's no backward step, you can't undo that. Although you can hide it as sohith said. That's it. Good Luck! :)
A: Go to App Store click on Purchased -> Not on this iPad/iPhone. Slide the app you want to hide to the left then click Hide (that's in red).
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a373fba512959dfcafd666335f702ea2c583b378 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Separate multiple comma separated values in Numbers One of the CSV files I'm using has lumped the address into one single cell, separated by commas.
For example: 12 Fairy Tale Lane, Wonderland, Oz, Neverland
I need to separate these into Address 1, Address 2, Address 3 and City columns
A: Here is a suggestion from https://discussions.apple.com/message/26532955#26532955
In order to import comma-separated CSV into Numbers.app properly, you need to set the decimal separator to period in System Preferences. If decimal separator is set to comma, Numbers.app can only import semicolon-separated CSV.
*
*Quit Numbers.app;
*Set the decimal separator to period, temporarily, in System Preferences; [/Language & Region/Advanced]
*Launch Numbers.app, import the CSV file and save the resultant Numbers file;
*Quit Numbers.app;
*Reset the decimal separator to the original (presumably, comma) in System Preferences;
| Q: Separate multiple comma separated values in Numbers One of the CSV files I'm using has lumped the address into one single cell, separated by commas.
For example: 12 Fairy Tale Lane, Wonderland, Oz, Neverland
I need to separate these into Address 1, Address 2, Address 3 and City columns
A: Here is a suggestion from https://discussions.apple.com/message/26532955#26532955
In order to import comma-separated CSV into Numbers.app properly, you need to set the decimal separator to period in System Preferences. If decimal separator is set to comma, Numbers.app can only import semicolon-separated CSV.
*
*Quit Numbers.app;
*Set the decimal separator to period, temporarily, in System Preferences; [/Language & Region/Advanced]
*Launch Numbers.app, import the CSV file and save the resultant Numbers file;
*Quit Numbers.app;
*Reset the decimal separator to the original (presumably, comma) in System Preferences;
A: CSV files are just plain text files; you could use something like BBEdit to edit, search, replace and then save the file.
In CSV you can also encapsulate values in between "
So your CSV file should in fact look like: "Address 1","Address 2","Address 3" please note: no space after the coma and before the opening double-quote.
Bonus: while editing your CSV, you can also use the vertical editing mode in OS X: press option key and click-drag-vertically to select a column of text. Once the column selected you can start typing: it will write what you type on all the lines. It's like magic!
However, by experience, I would advise you to get to the source of the CSV file and make it use the double quote.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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f64561a417074ac289f8f96a109819abc3380f15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Getting the Mac to read PDF files aloud I tried previous suggestion to have my MacBook to read PDFs with speech. I tried Edit -> start speaking in Preview. I also tried the regular way of of using a shortcut key preset in System Preferences for a highlighted section. Nothing happens.
I checked to make sure it reads using other documents and/or screen text.
My eyes need a break and I would like to get speech to read aloud the PDFs. What other suggestions do you have?
A: Preview voice reading will happen after selecting the text you require to be read first / as mentioned above it needs to be selectable and recognisable text - then proceed with previous steps: Edit -> Speech -> Start Reading
Hope this helps
| Q: Getting the Mac to read PDF files aloud I tried previous suggestion to have my MacBook to read PDFs with speech. I tried Edit -> start speaking in Preview. I also tried the regular way of of using a shortcut key preset in System Preferences for a highlighted section. Nothing happens.
I checked to make sure it reads using other documents and/or screen text.
My eyes need a break and I would like to get speech to read aloud the PDFs. What other suggestions do you have?
A: Preview voice reading will happen after selecting the text you require to be read first / as mentioned above it needs to be selectable and recognisable text - then proceed with previous steps: Edit -> Speech -> Start Reading
Hope this helps
A: A command line solution:
*
*Install homebrew. See https://docs.brew.sh/Installation for details.
*Launch Terminal and run:
brew install xpdf
pdftotext file.pdf - | iconv -t UTF-8//IGNORE | say
A: I use Read2Text application, to copy/paste pdf encoded text into it and it reads my files. It's a hassle to copy pages and pages into it, but for now as mac read won't do this, this is what i do, and it does the job.
A: For me, the speech > start speaking feature only worked when I selected all the text in the PDF (cmd + A) first.
A: VoiceOver can only read PDFs that are actually text-encoded. If they are simply image files, it has nothing to "read." You can use Acrobat Pro or another PDF application like Abbyy FineReader or ReadIRIS with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to "read" the graphics and convert them to text. Then you can use VoiceOver to speak if for you. OCR isn't perfect, but it's enough where you'll be able to understand it.
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29a16fc84676a3593ffbf1ac3f6c2dfd62e3892b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an emulator for the Apple Watch? I was wondering if there were any simulators that I could download that would emulate the functionality of an Apple Watch?
I know the watch was just released, but is there something that simulates its functionality?
A: You can simulate the Apple Watch using the latest version of Xcode on the Mac AppStore.
To run a watch app, you run the app on the iPhone Simulator with an Apple Watch target (the target is added in the Xcode project). The Watch Simulator then starts automatically.
You will need the source code for both the iPhone and watch apps.
| Q: Is there an emulator for the Apple Watch? I was wondering if there were any simulators that I could download that would emulate the functionality of an Apple Watch?
I know the watch was just released, but is there something that simulates its functionality?
A: You can simulate the Apple Watch using the latest version of Xcode on the Mac AppStore.
To run a watch app, you run the app on the iPhone Simulator with an Apple Watch target (the target is added in the Xcode project). The Watch Simulator then starts automatically.
You will need the source code for both the iPhone and watch apps.
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b24895672347663a3c5e9746580da202ddb736e4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to show dot underscore ._ files? I want the OSX to show all kind of hidden files including ._ files too. I do not know exactly what I did, but I am successful in seeing .DS_STORE files, but not ._ files. Any idea how to achieve that?
A: Open up terminal, and write:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
This makes you see dot files and hidden files in a grayish tint. You open . files with right click open. I do not know why you cannot just double click them though. If it is a problem, ask a separate question on that.
Just a little bonus:
You can hide files by issuing:
chflags hidden /path/to/file
and unhide by issuing:
chflags nohidden /path/to/file
| Q: How to show dot underscore ._ files? I want the OSX to show all kind of hidden files including ._ files too. I do not know exactly what I did, but I am successful in seeing .DS_STORE files, but not ._ files. Any idea how to achieve that?
A: Open up terminal, and write:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
This makes you see dot files and hidden files in a grayish tint. You open . files with right click open. I do not know why you cannot just double click them though. If it is a problem, ask a separate question on that.
Just a little bonus:
You can hide files by issuing:
chflags hidden /path/to/file
and unhide by issuing:
chflags nohidden /path/to/file
A: The issue is that zip files just contain one string per path whilst OS X paths point to a file and also metadata and resource forks. When HFS+ directories are zipped OS X tools will put this metadata and other info into ._ files in the zip if copying to another file system. See this Ask Different question
I think (but have not found a reference) that when an OS X aware tool unzips an archive with ._ files in it will reapply them as metadata or resource forks i.e. the opposite action to the one that created the ._ files
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7d5479c4298618d154ca2b89c3b2a68172aeaf89 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Configure iPhone to send smaller pictures as e-mail attachment? A friend has an iPhone whose camera she uses with the default settings of 2592x1936 pixels, which is pretty big when attaching pictures in e-mails. The files are very big and I need to scroll down/right to view the whole picture.
I don't own an iPhone, and was wondering if it's possible to reconfigure it to:
*
*Save local pictures as eg. 1024x768 (it's big enough when viewing pictures on a computer)
*After saving a picture locally, making a smaller copy, eg. 640x480, and send that smaller copy as an e-mail attachment?
Can the iPhone do this, or is there an application that can do this?
A: You do it right at the point of sending an email…
right after you hit send, this screen appears…
| Q: Configure iPhone to send smaller pictures as e-mail attachment? A friend has an iPhone whose camera she uses with the default settings of 2592x1936 pixels, which is pretty big when attaching pictures in e-mails. The files are very big and I need to scroll down/right to view the whole picture.
I don't own an iPhone, and was wondering if it's possible to reconfigure it to:
*
*Save local pictures as eg. 1024x768 (it's big enough when viewing pictures on a computer)
*After saving a picture locally, making a smaller copy, eg. 640x480, and send that smaller copy as an e-mail attachment?
Can the iPhone do this, or is there an application that can do this?
A: You do it right at the point of sending an email…
right after you hit send, this screen appears…
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ac03b533ce949f4e55bc5ff297456ed6e3f61bf8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Display Slack notifications on both screens I'm using my Macbook while it's connected to a larger display. I'm mostly working off the larger display. Is there a way for notifications to be displayed on both screens simultaneously? I'm specifically concerned about Slack, but if there's a way to do this for all applications, knowing how that works would be much appreciated.
A: No, notifications are always only displayed on on the display designated 'primary'. (The one which has the white menu bar line on it in System Preferences → Displays → Arrangement)
| Q: Display Slack notifications on both screens I'm using my Macbook while it's connected to a larger display. I'm mostly working off the larger display. Is there a way for notifications to be displayed on both screens simultaneously? I'm specifically concerned about Slack, but if there's a way to do this for all applications, knowing how that works would be much appreciated.
A: No, notifications are always only displayed on on the display designated 'primary'. (The one which has the white menu bar line on it in System Preferences → Displays → Arrangement)
A: You can also move the white bar and make the desired monitor as primary, and receive notification on that monitor.
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0efb877ad0858a99309679631d0dd44c2f646871 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's happens to credit in the non-Organizer account when you turn on Family Sharing? I, my wife and my three kids all have apple devices and IDs. However, some of my kids have credit balances from gift cards.
If I turn on Apple Sharing, can those gift balances still be spent?
A: Yes. Gift balances are preserved.
In fact, I use a gift balance to avoid charging the family organizer for my primary Apple ID. I want to pay for my apps and be part of the family to share apps and calendars and reminders easily.
This lets me use my Credit Card to buy gift cards (usually at a substantial discount from Costco) and/or use Apple Pay and Passbook to load my store credit at Apple Retail Stores without needing a physical gift card at all.
| Q: What's happens to credit in the non-Organizer account when you turn on Family Sharing? I, my wife and my three kids all have apple devices and IDs. However, some of my kids have credit balances from gift cards.
If I turn on Apple Sharing, can those gift balances still be spent?
A: Yes. Gift balances are preserved.
In fact, I use a gift balance to avoid charging the family organizer for my primary Apple ID. I want to pay for my apps and be part of the family to share apps and calendars and reminders easily.
This lets me use my Credit Card to buy gift cards (usually at a substantial discount from Costco) and/or use Apple Pay and Passbook to load my store credit at Apple Retail Stores without needing a physical gift card at all.
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0f2cb54baad1f708e9f4ac87e82422c014a72cc5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does the Apple Watch really identify "you"? In several places in the iOS Apple Watch settings app, important functionality depends on "you" wearing the watch. Critically under the settings for unlocking the watch without requiring a passcode (Security > Unlock with iPhone):
When this is on, unlocking your iPhone will automatically unlock Apple
Watch — as long as you're wearing it.
Does the Apple Watch really form a signature for recognizing a specific user (analogous to fingerprint recognition), or should the above read "as long as someone is wearing it (in BT range of your iPhone)"?
A: As far as I can tell its just means as long as it's connected via bluetooth and in range. There isn't a Touch ID scanner on the watch or anything like that so I don't think that it forms an knid of "signature" to you.
| Q: Does the Apple Watch really identify "you"? In several places in the iOS Apple Watch settings app, important functionality depends on "you" wearing the watch. Critically under the settings for unlocking the watch without requiring a passcode (Security > Unlock with iPhone):
When this is on, unlocking your iPhone will automatically unlock Apple
Watch — as long as you're wearing it.
Does the Apple Watch really form a signature for recognizing a specific user (analogous to fingerprint recognition), or should the above read "as long as someone is wearing it (in BT range of your iPhone)"?
A: As far as I can tell its just means as long as it's connected via bluetooth and in range. There isn't a Touch ID scanner on the watch or anything like that so I don't think that it forms an knid of "signature" to you.
A: It’s unlikely even the Apple Watch series 6 is trying to differentiate one human wrist from another.
*
*resting heart rate, ECG traces, walking gait analysis from the accelerometer, blood oxygen levels and pulse profiles, recovery heart rate and calculated VO2 max calculations all might be very personal and tell which wrist a watch is on, but I see no reason or need that Apple is collecting or trying to identify us with watch sensors.
I interpret the watch being connected to you as it can tell that the clasp is secured to a living human wrist and then can detect when the strap comes off that living human. Apple calls this feature Wrist Detect
So, if you were to put the watch on your friend and then authenticate Apple Pay - they could use your pay token for as long as the battery lasted and the device doesn't detect removal from their wrist. Similarly, that friend would now unlock your Mac as if you were wearing the watch.
I suppose Apple could try to determine if you have an extensively dark sleeve tattoo, but I haven't heard reports of that changing pairing and only that it can affect accurate pulse measurements with some tattoos.
A: The documentation only uses you to mean a person. The documentation is written with an owner in mind, so it refers to you, the reader, but not so specific as to your singular identity. It is not possible to uniquely identify people through the wrist.
Any specific identification magic largely comes from communication with the paired iPhone.
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45eeb7476657b8296b2f5f3efe989e19228807fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite keeps adding Spaces without apparent input I am using a Mac Mini with Yosemite, and I noticed that the Spaces desktops keep increasing. I delete them to keep one desktop for each of the monitors I am using, and I end up with 26 of them on the main monitor.
What is causing this, and how can I fix it?
| Q: Yosemite keeps adding Spaces without apparent input I am using a Mac Mini with Yosemite, and I noticed that the Spaces desktops keep increasing. I delete them to keep one desktop for each of the monitors I am using, and I end up with 26 of them on the main monitor.
What is causing this, and how can I fix it?
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3ad082dffcc944b109ee92bece30ae4cf6aab4df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I export my system preferences? Is there a way for me to export my system preferences on my Mac for quick install on another machine?
An example of what I am trying to accomplish is, when I start a new job, I would like to import my settings and have my system preference work without having to manually configure all of my custom settings.
I am most interested in exporting settings for :
*
*Trackpad / Mouse
*Keyboard
*Dock
*dashboard (I like to disable it)
A: I wrote some scripts to backup and restore Mac preferences. It does both System and Application preferences.
You can grab them here: https://github.com/clintmod/mac-preferences-backup
They're pretty simple. I just loop over the domains from running defaults domains and then call default export [domain] [plist file path].
Then to restore I just loop over all the plist files in the dir and run default import [plist file path]
You can modify the config.py file if you want to backup to a different dir. The default dir is ~/Dropbox/MacPrefsBackup.
| Q: How can I export my system preferences? Is there a way for me to export my system preferences on my Mac for quick install on another machine?
An example of what I am trying to accomplish is, when I start a new job, I would like to import my settings and have my system preference work without having to manually configure all of my custom settings.
I am most interested in exporting settings for :
*
*Trackpad / Mouse
*Keyboard
*Dock
*dashboard (I like to disable it)
A: I wrote some scripts to backup and restore Mac preferences. It does both System and Application preferences.
You can grab them here: https://github.com/clintmod/mac-preferences-backup
They're pretty simple. I just loop over the domains from running defaults domains and then call default export [domain] [plist file path].
Then to restore I just loop over all the plist files in the dir and run default import [plist file path]
You can modify the config.py file if you want to backup to a different dir. The default dir is ~/Dropbox/MacPrefsBackup.
A: There is no specific way of doing this, but this is how I do it. My setup is redundant but it works the best for me and nothing is ever lost.
TL;DR: Make sure you have homebrew installed. Then run the following.
brew install mackup
mackup backup
brew install clintmod/formulas/macprefs
macprefs backup
But I recommend you read the docs of these two tools
*
*Mackup
*MacPerfs
Peace! ✌️
A: I updated my answer because all of it was wrong:
You will want to use an applescript for your preference setups. Here is the code for some of them and screenshots of the actual plist so you get an idea of the options possible. IF this does not apply straight away, you might need to restart the computer. Don't forget to save applescript as an Application. NOT script
Trackpad/Mouse
In here, it varies. It is either com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse for mouse, com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse for bluetooth mouse, and com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad for trackpad
tell application "Terminal"
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.AppleHIDMouse Button2 1"
end tell
The example above changes right click to be left click as well
Keyboard
Unfortunately, I could not find a preference for keyboard. I will keep on searching though.
Dock
tell application "Terminal"
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock autohide YES"
end tell
This was just an example. Switch autohide with whatever option and YES with value or boolean. Booleans are YES and NO (unlike in scripts "true" "false") I put a picture on the end so you can see all the possible options for all the options.
Disable Dashboard
I also could not find how to. Though it is presumably in com.apple.spaces
Dock options:
Mouse:
Bluetooth Mouse
A: If you cannot find an app/applet that does this, you might need to hack it yourself through Terminal. Take Bluetooth Trackpad for example:
Run:
defaults read com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad
I get:
{
Clicking = 0;
DragLock = 0;
Dragging = 0;
TrackpadCornerSecondaryClick = 0;
TrackpadFiveFingerPinchGesture = 2;
TrackpadFourFingerHorizSwipeGesture = 2;
TrackpadFourFingerPinchGesture = 2;
TrackpadFourFingerVertSwipeGesture = 2;
TrackpadHandResting = 1;
TrackpadHorizScroll = 1;
TrackpadMomentumScroll = 1;
TrackpadPinch = 1;
TrackpadRightClick = 1;
TrackpadRotate = 1;
TrackpadScroll = 1;
TrackpadThreeFingerDrag = 0;
TrackpadThreeFingerHorizSwipeGesture = 2;
TrackpadThreeFingerTapGesture = 2;
TrackpadThreeFingerVertSwipeGesture = 2;
TrackpadTwoFingerDoubleTapGesture = 1;
TrackpadTwoFingerFromRightEdgeSwipeGesture = 3;
USBMouseStopsTrackpad = 0;
UserPreferences = 1;
version = 5;
}
These are my settings for external trackpad. You get find the same results by opening
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.plist
but simply copying and pasting the .plist file to a new computer doesn't change the settings. You have to use import (and export) options.
defaults export com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad ~/Desktop/Test.plist
Move Test.plist to the new computer, and:
defaults import com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad ~/Desktop/Test.plist
A: There's not exactly an export function. You can find (most) preferences in the library. If you hold alt/option and select "Go To" in the Finder menu bar, you can open the user library. There's a folder named preferences which contains the corresponding files. Named like com.apple.xy.plist, where xy is 'dock' for example.
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c28d75e95f214d97058a4eeb87dd1682443213cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to hide icons on the dock of apps that are running on other spaces? I was wondering if it is possible to hide icons on the dock of apps that are running on other spaces. Also I would like the app-switcher to show only the apps that are working on the current desktop I'm using.
Do you have any idea?
| Q: Is it possible to hide icons on the dock of apps that are running on other spaces? I was wondering if it is possible to hide icons on the dock of apps that are running on other spaces. Also I would like the app-switcher to show only the apps that are working on the current desktop I'm using.
Do you have any idea?
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bab685eebd1c26fa1ece9659e48deeda77e3f9bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Image border in Preview app Whenever I have a sprite frame, and I open it in Preview app, I can't see the exact edges of the image because the background of an image is transparent. Therefore, I can't see if there is any padding around it. Is it possible to turn on image borders in Preview app?
A: You can toggle "Show Image Background" in "View" menu (⌥ alt+⌘ cmd+B). This will produce "chess" pattern instead of the clear color. Example (I've set white color around this rectangle to be transparent):
| Q: Image border in Preview app Whenever I have a sprite frame, and I open it in Preview app, I can't see the exact edges of the image because the background of an image is transparent. Therefore, I can't see if there is any padding around it. Is it possible to turn on image borders in Preview app?
A: You can toggle "Show Image Background" in "View" menu (⌥ alt+⌘ cmd+B). This will produce "chess" pattern instead of the clear color. Example (I've set white color around this rectangle to be transparent):
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6f1c4bf3513e63ba2ad3c40828528f85b518c089 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Erase partition without recreating one? I've got an external USB hdd that I wish to use entirely as a TrueCrypt volume. There was one pre-formatted partition, so I'm trying to erase that with Disk Utility. But no matter what I do or try, whenever I Erase the partition (or the entire disk), it keeps automatically re-creating a new partition.
How do I just erase the partition, without recreating one, thus leaving the entire disk empty (i.e. without even one partition) ?
A: To remove all entries from the GPT and MBR tables, open the Disk Utility application and do the following.
*
*Select your disk.
*Select Partition tab.
*Set Partition Layout to "1 Partition".
*Set Format to "Free Space".
*Click on the Option... button and select "Master Boot Record".
*Click Ok to close the pop up window.
*Click the Apply button.
The image below was made just before clicking the Apply button.
| Q: Erase partition without recreating one? I've got an external USB hdd that I wish to use entirely as a TrueCrypt volume. There was one pre-formatted partition, so I'm trying to erase that with Disk Utility. But no matter what I do or try, whenever I Erase the partition (or the entire disk), it keeps automatically re-creating a new partition.
How do I just erase the partition, without recreating one, thus leaving the entire disk empty (i.e. without even one partition) ?
A: To remove all entries from the GPT and MBR tables, open the Disk Utility application and do the following.
*
*Select your disk.
*Select Partition tab.
*Set Partition Layout to "1 Partition".
*Set Format to "Free Space".
*Click on the Option... button and select "Master Boot Record".
*Click Ok to close the pop up window.
*Click the Apply button.
The image below was made just before clicking the Apply button.
A: If you are comfortable with command line:
*
*Run diskutil list
*In the output, identify the disk you want to erase all partitions from. It will be something like diskN (N being a number).
*Run sudo diskutil unmount /dev/diskN. It might say diskN was already unmounted or it has a partitioning scheme so use "diskutil unmountDisk" instead, no worries.
*Run sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN. It should say something like Unmount of all volumes on diskN was successful.
*On the command line type sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskN bs=1 count=1024, double-check you have replaced N with the correct number as an error here could be catastrophic, then run.
*Veracrypt will now be able to create an encrypted volume on that entire disk (I just tried now).
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b968d8d1f37dd55051672a378dc5751eea518c4e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a splitter for the Thunderbolt on my MacBook Air? My Macbook Air has only one Thunderbolt port, but I need to connect both to my internet cable and also to my VGA monitor. I have an adapter to do each, but obviously I can use only one at a time. What do I need to buy to be able to connect both the cable & the monitor?
A: You're looking for something like a HengeDock: http://hengedocks.com/pages/vertical-macbook-air
| Q: Is there a splitter for the Thunderbolt on my MacBook Air? My Macbook Air has only one Thunderbolt port, but I need to connect both to my internet cable and also to my VGA monitor. I have an adapter to do each, but obviously I can use only one at a time. What do I need to buy to be able to connect both the cable & the monitor?
A: You're looking for something like a HengeDock: http://hengedocks.com/pages/vertical-macbook-air
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bb83699609d9fed5f2e35a892e72343a02f26292 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Running Say Command When Mac Is Logged Out What would happen if I (remotely) ran a say command on a Mac that's logged out? Would the command run? Or wait until the user logs in to run?
A: You would either have to wake the computer first, or you'd be locked out if the settings in system preferences disallowed you from such a thing.
| Q: Running Say Command When Mac Is Logged Out What would happen if I (remotely) ran a say command on a Mac that's logged out? Would the command run? Or wait until the user logs in to run?
A: You would either have to wake the computer first, or you'd be locked out if the settings in system preferences disallowed you from such a thing.
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f0b75f8efe592c9a57d649dd766c86caca5d73ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a Terminal command that will list the current admin account? Does anyone know of a terminal command which lists the current administrator account?
A: Users who have administrative privileges on OS X belong to the group admin. There's no straight forward way to list members of a group as OS X uses Open Directory to manage these things and it's a bit convoluted as a result.
Here is a shell function that will give you all the members of a group. It was taken from this SuperUser.com Q&A:
members () {
dscl . -list /Users | while read user; do
printf "$user "
dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "$user" -G "$*"
done | grep "is a member" | cut -d " " -f 1;
};
Save that in your ~/.bash_profile or just cut and paste it to a bash or zsh prompt and then you can run:
members admin
and you'll get a list of accounts that have administrator privileges on the machine.
| Q: Is there a Terminal command that will list the current admin account? Does anyone know of a terminal command which lists the current administrator account?
A: Users who have administrative privileges on OS X belong to the group admin. There's no straight forward way to list members of a group as OS X uses Open Directory to manage these things and it's a bit convoluted as a result.
Here is a shell function that will give you all the members of a group. It was taken from this SuperUser.com Q&A:
members () {
dscl . -list /Users | while read user; do
printf "$user "
dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "$user" -G "$*"
done | grep "is a member" | cut -d " " -f 1;
};
Save that in your ~/.bash_profile or just cut and paste it to a bash or zsh prompt and then you can run:
members admin
and you'll get a list of accounts that have administrator privileges on the machine.
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f9504e331a96d7756c1aeec1bab21e68d22e584b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use iphone or android as external mic for macbook using bluetooth Is there a way I can use an iPhone/Android phone as an external microphone for my Mac? Ideally without a cable i.e. bluetooh/wifi.
Edit:
Since this hasn't been answered yet, I would be okay with using cables too if people know how to do that.
A: Using a cable, your iPhone can be an audio source by using the built-in Audio MIDI setup. Plug in your phone and click enable.
Next make sure your mac is set to use the device for input.
Then on your phone select audio output to Dock connector. Now any audio from your phone will be sent to your Mac. To use it as a microphone you now need to use an app that lets you feed back your mic. There are many apps that do that, I use https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microphone-free-vonbruno/id1070812067?mt=8 since it is free and simple.
| Q: Use iphone or android as external mic for macbook using bluetooth Is there a way I can use an iPhone/Android phone as an external microphone for my Mac? Ideally without a cable i.e. bluetooh/wifi.
Edit:
Since this hasn't been answered yet, I would be okay with using cables too if people know how to do that.
A: Using a cable, your iPhone can be an audio source by using the built-in Audio MIDI setup. Plug in your phone and click enable.
Next make sure your mac is set to use the device for input.
Then on your phone select audio output to Dock connector. Now any audio from your phone will be sent to your Mac. To use it as a microphone you now need to use an app that lets you feed back your mic. There are many apps that do that, I use https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microphone-free-vonbruno/id1070812067?mt=8 since it is free and simple.
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9175b156408d9d3883c626186d4aefb1ecf7f1f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Higher kernel_task CPU usage when playing audio through Thunderbolt Display I noticed today a higher kernel_task CPU usage when playing audio through Thunderbolt Display from my Macbook Pro (early 2011) on OS X Yosemite. Although the CPU usage is not very high (15 - 20%), it certainly gets the fans spinning fast enough to get my attention. I would not expect this as a normal behaviour.
I've tried Spotify, iTunes and playing a YouTube video in Safari and got the same results. Here is an example when playing a song from iTunes through the internal speakers (I get the same values with headphones):
And here is the kernel_task usage when playing the same song through my Thunderbolt Display:
I have tried both SMC and PRAM resets, but to no avail. What could be causing this? Does anyone else experience this behaviour?
| Q: Higher kernel_task CPU usage when playing audio through Thunderbolt Display I noticed today a higher kernel_task CPU usage when playing audio through Thunderbolt Display from my Macbook Pro (early 2011) on OS X Yosemite. Although the CPU usage is not very high (15 - 20%), it certainly gets the fans spinning fast enough to get my attention. I would not expect this as a normal behaviour.
I've tried Spotify, iTunes and playing a YouTube video in Safari and got the same results. Here is an example when playing a song from iTunes through the internal speakers (I get the same values with headphones):
And here is the kernel_task usage when playing the same song through my Thunderbolt Display:
I have tried both SMC and PRAM resets, but to no avail. What could be causing this? Does anyone else experience this behaviour?
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3702bdb9062c9129caf2eae282fea3d30418397c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop sharing call history between two iPhones? My husband and I both just upgraded to iOS 8.3. Now I notice that if I have a missed call it shows up on his notice screen and all my calls show up in his recent call history (and vice versa).
Both phones don't ring and they don't need to be near each other or connected by Wi-Fi. We do share an iTunes account.
How do I stop sharing call history between the two phones?
A: Looks like Apple added a feature called "Handoff" Turning that to off should stop call history from syncing.
Settings --> General --> Handoff
| Q: How do I stop sharing call history between two iPhones? My husband and I both just upgraded to iOS 8.3. Now I notice that if I have a missed call it shows up on his notice screen and all my calls show up in his recent call history (and vice versa).
Both phones don't ring and they don't need to be near each other or connected by Wi-Fi. We do share an iTunes account.
How do I stop sharing call history between the two phones?
A: Looks like Apple added a feature called "Handoff" Turning that to off should stop call history from syncing.
Settings --> General --> Handoff
A: If you are on the same Apple ID that is going to happen.
You can set up your own Apple ID, including @icloud.com email address for free and then link it with your husband's account for the purchasing of apps, music, etc., using Family Sharing
4 people in my household are on iDevices and each one has their own Apple ID or iCloud address...but it is all linked to one account and we use family sharing.
Just make sure your husband doesn't set it so that he has to "approve" every purchase you make! ;)
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e594af40eb4bcd1746346eda1e47e604e802adeb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Automator - How to know what I can do with Automator in each app I'm new to AppleScript and Automator, I've reached to stop and play next and previous track in Spotify, here's what I use inside the AppleScript:
tell application "Spotify" to playpause
for play/pause^.
tell application "Spotify" to next track
tell application "Spotify" to previous track
for next and previous track^.
My question is, how can I know what else I can do with Spotify (or any other app) and automator, what any other word can I write instead "playpause", "next track" and "previous track". Thanks.
A: Automator and AppleScript are two very different things.
*
*For Automator actions for a specific app, search for the name of the app in the Actions search bar.
*For AppleScript, open the Script Editor, then open the dictionary of the app by pressing ⇧⌘O and selecting the app. Apps not in the list probably don't have an AppleScript dictionary.
| Q: Automator - How to know what I can do with Automator in each app I'm new to AppleScript and Automator, I've reached to stop and play next and previous track in Spotify, here's what I use inside the AppleScript:
tell application "Spotify" to playpause
for play/pause^.
tell application "Spotify" to next track
tell application "Spotify" to previous track
for next and previous track^.
My question is, how can I know what else I can do with Spotify (or any other app) and automator, what any other word can I write instead "playpause", "next track" and "previous track". Thanks.
A: Automator and AppleScript are two very different things.
*
*For Automator actions for a specific app, search for the name of the app in the Actions search bar.
*For AppleScript, open the Script Editor, then open the dictionary of the app by pressing ⇧⌘O and selecting the app. Apps not in the list probably don't have an AppleScript dictionary.
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68b3745ecff2b830ccfd856960e27c40e8a74bc1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Outlook for Mac 15.9 missing ribbon I have installed a fresh copy of Outlook for Mac v15.9 twice now and after a few days of use the ribbon disappears from all of the windows (main window, email window, etc). When I select View > Ribbon in hopes that it will turn it back on, nothing happens.
How can I get this crazy ribbon back so I am no longer using the menu to send and reply to emails?
A: I've had the same problem using the 2015 Outlook preview on a Mac.
Quitting (using the shift alt delete equivalent) and restarting the programme gets the ribbon back every time for me.
| Q: Outlook for Mac 15.9 missing ribbon I have installed a fresh copy of Outlook for Mac v15.9 twice now and after a few days of use the ribbon disappears from all of the windows (main window, email window, etc). When I select View > Ribbon in hopes that it will turn it back on, nothing happens.
How can I get this crazy ribbon back so I am no longer using the menu to send and reply to emails?
A: I've had the same problem using the 2015 Outlook preview on a Mac.
Quitting (using the shift alt delete equivalent) and restarting the programme gets the ribbon back every time for me.
A: Confirmed, quitting the application (File --> Quit) and restarting brings back the ribbon. Annoying.
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c74b9e1821c27576c5d8a5e604b2937dd0090f12 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do app windows not extend to bottom of screen? I run OS X 10.10.3 and occasionally notice (must've been there forever, it's not very obtrusive, but occasionally annoying) that windows which are maximized but not in full screen leave some space at the bottom. I changed the desktop background to a garish green and added the red frame to illustrate the issue (it still gets muted by the window's drop shadow, so it's not always easy to see in practice).
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
I guess my question is whether this is intentionally designed like this and if so, what the reason could be and how to avoid this. It seems nonsensical to me.
| Q: Why do app windows not extend to bottom of screen? I run OS X 10.10.3 and occasionally notice (must've been there forever, it's not very obtrusive, but occasionally annoying) that windows which are maximized but not in full screen leave some space at the bottom. I changed the desktop background to a garish green and added the red frame to illustrate the issue (it still gets muted by the window's drop shadow, so it's not always easy to see in practice).
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
I guess my question is whether this is intentionally designed like this and if so, what the reason could be and how to avoid this. It seems nonsensical to me.
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c37cf84e4099f4db9ef035c8329c57967cdeeec9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: step counter, how do I add steps to the dashboard? I closed the step counter by accident and now I can only see floors and miles. I cannot find the page where I can re-open the step counter to add to dashboard.
A: open health app - tap Health Data at the bottom, search for steps in the top search field - tap Show on Dashboard
| Q: step counter, how do I add steps to the dashboard? I closed the step counter by accident and now I can only see floors and miles. I cannot find the page where I can re-open the step counter to add to dashboard.
A: open health app - tap Health Data at the bottom, search for steps in the top search field - tap Show on Dashboard
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d41ad7d609f20e7ebd8c66442d2fe6a58947eae0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Pro shows machine name as Mac-mini in public key When I checked my public key, it shows ssh-rsa mykey [email protected]
But I'm using macbook pro. Also hostname is correct. My old machine was mac mini.
A: My guess is that your old keypair got copied over to the new machine (possibly when you restored from a Time Machine backup or even just manually copied over your user directory).
Either way, that string at the end is just an identifying string; it won't affect your ability to use the key from your new machine as long as you are using the matching private key to connect to servers on which that old public key is installed. That said, if the username on your local machine doesn't match the username on the remote host, you'll have to specify the remote host username when trying to connect via SSH.
If you really want to, you can generate a new keypair and upload the new public key to servers you need to access; that new public key will have your MacBook Pro username and MBP identifier appended to it.
| Q: MacBook Pro shows machine name as Mac-mini in public key When I checked my public key, it shows ssh-rsa mykey [email protected]
But I'm using macbook pro. Also hostname is correct. My old machine was mac mini.
A: My guess is that your old keypair got copied over to the new machine (possibly when you restored from a Time Machine backup or even just manually copied over your user directory).
Either way, that string at the end is just an identifying string; it won't affect your ability to use the key from your new machine as long as you are using the matching private key to connect to servers on which that old public key is installed. That said, if the username on your local machine doesn't match the username on the remote host, you'll have to specify the remote host username when trying to connect via SSH.
If you really want to, you can generate a new keypair and upload the new public key to servers you need to access; that new public key will have your MacBook Pro username and MBP identifier appended to it.
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1041851b1c10883023f80c7adf737cd1554e3ab0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does an iPhone rename itself with (2) My son's find my iphone page, when I looked today after his phone number it has (2) - right after it. Yesterday it did not, and none of our other devices have that. Just wondering what that stands for?
A: That occurs when your Wifi network, or another Wifi network he's been connected to, think that there are two devices with the same name. It will then rename the device with a (2) or (3), etc. This is actually a bug in the software that Apple has used with the latest iteration of Yosemite and the Airport Extreme.
You can resolve this by shutting down your Airport Extreme, renaming your son's iPhone removing the (2), then turning the Airport Extreme back on.
| Q: Why does an iPhone rename itself with (2) My son's find my iphone page, when I looked today after his phone number it has (2) - right after it. Yesterday it did not, and none of our other devices have that. Just wondering what that stands for?
A: That occurs when your Wifi network, or another Wifi network he's been connected to, think that there are two devices with the same name. It will then rename the device with a (2) or (3), etc. This is actually a bug in the software that Apple has used with the latest iteration of Yosemite and the Airport Extreme.
You can resolve this by shutting down your Airport Extreme, renaming your son's iPhone removing the (2), then turning the Airport Extreme back on.
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c4705a810e1340ddf54069e2fa55ee96f6793156 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get my windows (UK Layout) keyboard to work on Mac? How do I get my windows keyboard to work on my Mac? I want to be able to bind the keys so it's like I'm using a windows computer, i.e. ctrl maps to command, but I've tried everything to no avail. Also, how would I map the symbols to the correct places, for instance \ is where ` should be, etc.
A: *
*To change the modifier keys, go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard and choose Modifier Keys….
*To map the keys to the correct places, go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Input Sources, click the + and choose British PC.
*To ensure that your keyboard is identified correctly, go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Change Keyboard Type and follow the instructions to allow OS X to identify the keyboard.
| Q: How do I get my windows (UK Layout) keyboard to work on Mac? How do I get my windows keyboard to work on my Mac? I want to be able to bind the keys so it's like I'm using a windows computer, i.e. ctrl maps to command, but I've tried everything to no avail. Also, how would I map the symbols to the correct places, for instance \ is where ` should be, etc.
A: *
*To change the modifier keys, go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard and choose Modifier Keys….
*To map the keys to the correct places, go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Input Sources, click the + and choose British PC.
*To ensure that your keyboard is identified correctly, go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Change Keyboard Type and follow the instructions to allow OS X to identify the keyboard.
A: You can visualise how your windows keyboard is configured by showing the 'Keyboard Viewer'
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Enable 'Show Keyboard, Emoji & Symbol Viewers in menu bar' -> go on menu bar -> click on the new icon -> Show Keyboard Viewer
And after that, you can reMap your keys with this really great soft :
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
By this way, you can easily revert your ReyMap to use the native Keyboard when you want.
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7cd3805fd14239b5d39cab888b58e02328da80e1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Replacement for MercuryMover It looks like my favorite OS X "window management" app, MercuryMover, is becoming abandonware. I'm looking for a well-supported alternative. I like MercuryMover because it is keyboard-driven, has a HUD that shows me the dimensions and position of the window I'm moving, and has a standard preferences screen for adding custom sizes and positions instead of a text-based configuration file.
Any suggestions for an alternative?
A: The site has a general options list as well for the window management category at: What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
For your specific requirements of keyboard, HUD and non-text preferences, I would select either divvy or moom. The former is one I've selected for several clients and they have enjoyed it and adopted it easily. Moom is also awesome and has some nice gestural / mouse / trackpad workflows.
*
*http://mizage.com/divvy/ ----- Divvy on the Mac App Store
*http://manytricks.com/moom/ ----- Moom on the Mac App Store
I linked above to the free trials and web sites first with a Mac App Store link to follow.
| Q: Replacement for MercuryMover It looks like my favorite OS X "window management" app, MercuryMover, is becoming abandonware. I'm looking for a well-supported alternative. I like MercuryMover because it is keyboard-driven, has a HUD that shows me the dimensions and position of the window I'm moving, and has a standard preferences screen for adding custom sizes and positions instead of a text-based configuration file.
Any suggestions for an alternative?
A: The site has a general options list as well for the window management category at: What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
For your specific requirements of keyboard, HUD and non-text preferences, I would select either divvy or moom. The former is one I've selected for several clients and they have enjoyed it and adopted it easily. Moom is also awesome and has some nice gestural / mouse / trackpad workflows.
*
*http://mizage.com/divvy/ ----- Divvy on the Mac App Store
*http://manytricks.com/moom/ ----- Moom on the Mac App Store
I linked above to the free trials and web sites first with a Mac App Store link to follow.
A: BetterSnapTool is quite handy!has all kind of configuration options and works just like windows 7-10 management, where you snap app windows on the side to or to the top to maximise the current application window and has a menu bar icon where you can access all kinds of options.I think this is the website for more info, but App Store is more informative.bettersnaptool
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4b7f419c0fb3e4fc3331b6a12ec5cd23e6d740a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Stop Photos.app from opening when any device is connected I know there are thousands of iterations on this question, but I can't find one dealing with Photos.app from 10.10.3+.
I just want to stop it (or anything else) from opening ever. None of the answers I've found for Image Capture or iPhoto work anymore, as far as I can tell.
To be clear, I know I can go into Image Capture and change the setting per-device, but I am regularly plugging in random devices I've never used before, and I want to turn this behaviour off globally.
Is there a way to do this?
A: Simplest might be to use RCDefaultApp - old but still works on Yosemite & is free.
It installs as a Control Panel, called Default Apps.
Set Media > Camera to 'Ignore'
I actually set everything to Ignore, I prefer to do these things manually.
| Q: Stop Photos.app from opening when any device is connected I know there are thousands of iterations on this question, but I can't find one dealing with Photos.app from 10.10.3+.
I just want to stop it (or anything else) from opening ever. None of the answers I've found for Image Capture or iPhoto work anymore, as far as I can tell.
To be clear, I know I can go into Image Capture and change the setting per-device, but I am regularly plugging in random devices I've never used before, and I want to turn this behaviour off globally.
Is there a way to do this?
A: Simplest might be to use RCDefaultApp - old but still works on Yosemite & is free.
It installs as a Control Panel, called Default Apps.
Set Media > Camera to 'Ignore'
I actually set everything to Ignore, I prefer to do these things manually.
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971838e5ac6d4ab2c62eec5cd607dfaaa640911a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Certain applications seem to ignore font smoothing at low sizes Certain applications seem to disable ALL font-smoothing (including AA) at certain small font sizes. This is by far most annoying in mathematica.
When I have to export to HTML or rasterize text for any other reason, the images are exported using the computer font smoothing. So, when I export to HTML, equations with fractions or exponents are rendered weirdly.
Is there any way to fix this? Is it a problem specific to the affected applications? Or is it an OS X issue?
I know there used to be a setting which controlled the minimum size below which font-smoothing would be disabled. I seem to recall setting it to the max, but now the setting no longer exists.
| Q: Certain applications seem to ignore font smoothing at low sizes Certain applications seem to disable ALL font-smoothing (including AA) at certain small font sizes. This is by far most annoying in mathematica.
When I have to export to HTML or rasterize text for any other reason, the images are exported using the computer font smoothing. So, when I export to HTML, equations with fractions or exponents are rendered weirdly.
Is there any way to fix this? Is it a problem specific to the affected applications? Or is it an OS X issue?
I know there used to be a setting which controlled the minimum size below which font-smoothing would be disabled. I seem to recall setting it to the max, but now the setting no longer exists.
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b45f3c1279a2c8d774f0cddbc78928772faea13f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enable spell check for various languages in Chrome I use Yosemite with Chrome version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit). When writing in a text area the spell checker correctly detects English and French, but does not detect Spanish, and so it marks as wrong correctly written Spanish words:
I don't know why it happens. English, French and Spanish are set in Chrome:
and also in the Mac preferences:
Is there any setting to have Chrome/MacOS detect Spanish like it does for French and English?
A: I do not use Chrome (often) and Firefox is my favorite browser.
So I added Spanish to the Spell check and if I right click and select it it works just fine.
One drawback is it applies to the whole text so I can not spell check just a single word.
If you want to do that in Chrome:
Under the Edit tab select the Spelling and Grammar-> Show
Now select Spanish
| Q: Enable spell check for various languages in Chrome I use Yosemite with Chrome version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit). When writing in a text area the spell checker correctly detects English and French, but does not detect Spanish, and so it marks as wrong correctly written Spanish words:
I don't know why it happens. English, French and Spanish are set in Chrome:
and also in the Mac preferences:
Is there any setting to have Chrome/MacOS detect Spanish like it does for French and English?
A: I do not use Chrome (often) and Firefox is my favorite browser.
So I added Spanish to the Spell check and if I right click and select it it works just fine.
One drawback is it applies to the whole text so I can not spell check just a single word.
If you want to do that in Chrome:
Under the Edit tab select the Spelling and Grammar-> Show
Now select Spanish
A: The place where you set spell check is System Preferences/Keyboard/Text/Spelling. Go to the Setup item there and check the boxes for all three languages you want, and then set it to Automatic. Automatic doesn't always work perfectly, however. Below is the result I get with just boxes for English, French, and Spanish checked and set to Automatic.
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8b8b68081754816105c0efbd4faa9495bc314add | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How are edited photos stored in new Apple photos app? In Aperture I understood the process to be that changes made in post processing where stored as "instructions" (not sure of real term) to be applied to the original and in that way saved space for storage over iPhoto where it appeared to me that a duplicate copy of the photo was made.
I'd like to understand what the new Photo does. I would bet the same as iPhoto?
A: For Photos.app, don't consider the edits necessarily edits. While looking through the file architecture one day, I found that what they're doing is storing the original and simply adding layers of "edits" which are much more like layers of removable filters.
The original stays 100% in tact until you export it to a separate file where Photos will process those layers into an image.
The only way you would lose originals and be stuck with the edited versions is if you specifically, in this order:
*
*exported your edited version
*deleted the photo from Photos.app
*deleted your Photos.app Trash
*put the exported version back (technically for the first time) into Photos.app.
| Q: How are edited photos stored in new Apple photos app? In Aperture I understood the process to be that changes made in post processing where stored as "instructions" (not sure of real term) to be applied to the original and in that way saved space for storage over iPhoto where it appeared to me that a duplicate copy of the photo was made.
I'd like to understand what the new Photo does. I would bet the same as iPhoto?
A: For Photos.app, don't consider the edits necessarily edits. While looking through the file architecture one day, I found that what they're doing is storing the original and simply adding layers of "edits" which are much more like layers of removable filters.
The original stays 100% in tact until you export it to a separate file where Photos will process those layers into an image.
The only way you would lose originals and be stuck with the edited versions is if you specifically, in this order:
*
*exported your edited version
*deleted the photo from Photos.app
*deleted your Photos.app Trash
*put the exported version back (technically for the first time) into Photos.app.
A: Photos.app uses non-destructive edits, meaning that yes, essentially a set of instructions for applying edits is stored alongside the original bitmap, as opposed to duplicating the bitmap with the edits applied. Most likely it is stored as metadata within the file as opposed to a separate file. You can revert to the original at any time.
You can also duplicate the image as a kind of "snapshot" - any edits made to the point of duplication will be applied to the duplicate image (again, non-destructively), but both the initial image and the duplicated image are still pointing to the same bitmap on disk. Any further edits made to either image will not be reflected in the opposite image, and you can revert either to the unedited original at any time.
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5c7722b4b51dfc9ea7c4cc5648c116c9ef71e30b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Command line to disconnect or connect 802.1x authentication I have been searching for a terminal command line to disconnect or connect 802.1x authentication, but not the network interface. I was searching some help pages and it showed command lines to export and import 802.1x settings/certificates but not disconnecting and connecting.
A: This button is tied to the eapolclient. When it's connected, you can disconnect it by killing the eapolclient process:
$ ps ax | grep eapol
83601 ?? Ss 0:00.05 /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/EAPOLController.bundle/Contents/Resources/eapolclient -i en0
$ sudo kill 83601
When I do this the GUI button switches to show it's disconnected. The bad news is, I don't know how you can start it again :(
Perhaps you can achieve the same by turning the interface off/on:
sudo ifconfig <interface> down
sudo ifconfig <interface> up
| Q: Command line to disconnect or connect 802.1x authentication I have been searching for a terminal command line to disconnect or connect 802.1x authentication, but not the network interface. I was searching some help pages and it showed command lines to export and import 802.1x settings/certificates but not disconnecting and connecting.
A: This button is tied to the eapolclient. When it's connected, you can disconnect it by killing the eapolclient process:
$ ps ax | grep eapol
83601 ?? Ss 0:00.05 /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/EAPOLController.bundle/Contents/Resources/eapolclient -i en0
$ sudo kill 83601
When I do this the GUI button switches to show it's disconnected. The bad news is, I don't know how you can start it again :(
Perhaps you can achieve the same by turning the interface off/on:
sudo ifconfig <interface> down
sudo ifconfig <interface> up
A: Disconnecting from WiFi Networks
sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/local/bin/airport
sudo airport --disassociate
Run these commands in Terminal. Your WiFi will disconnect, while the AirPort Network Interface remains enabled.
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32b10341fda61cecb0cf1fd07b20a1cf30aae1e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install LP_solve solver on Yosemite? I want to install java based "lp_solve" LP solver on my MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite. I tried to follow the instructions given here. But when I run sh ccc.osx, it is not creating the liblpsolve55.dylib and liblpsolve55.dylib. I need help installing this solver. Or maybe suggest me a similar solver which is easy to install on OS X Yosemite.
A: The easiest way is doing it using homebrew. You just need to type the following couple of commands in a terminal window:
brew tap brewsci/science
brew install lp_solve
If you don't have homebrew installed, just type the following to install before the previous commands:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
| Q: How to install LP_solve solver on Yosemite? I want to install java based "lp_solve" LP solver on my MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite. I tried to follow the instructions given here. But when I run sh ccc.osx, it is not creating the liblpsolve55.dylib and liblpsolve55.dylib. I need help installing this solver. Or maybe suggest me a similar solver which is easy to install on OS X Yosemite.
A: The easiest way is doing it using homebrew. You just need to type the following couple of commands in a terminal window:
brew tap brewsci/science
brew install lp_solve
If you don't have homebrew installed, just type the following to install before the previous commands:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
A: What's your problem in specific? Any error messages?
I just tried to compile it and I didn't run into any problem:
$ cd lpsolve55/
$ sh ccc.osx
$ ls bin/osx64/
liblpsolve55.a liblpsolve55.dylib
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af4b5aeb8b90890f3ef76c33bd11a2b94e19746f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: how to use different port for dns on Yosemite? According to https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/resolver.5.html
you should be able to set a different port for dns, ie:
example, 10.0.0.17.55 specifies that the nameserver at 10.0.0.17 uses port 55.
but:
sh-3.2# networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet 185.37.37.37.54
185.37.37.37.54 is not a valid IP address. No changes were saved...
** Error: The parameters were not valid.
what gives? how can I fix this?
A: So, the reason for this was that my ISP is filtering DNS requests on port 53. What I did in order to circumvent this hideous action by Vodafone was to install dnsmasq on my mac and add this line to the dnsmasq.conf file:
server=208.67.222.222#5353
as you can see I'm now happily using open dns' DNS on port 5353
| Q: how to use different port for dns on Yosemite? According to https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/resolver.5.html
you should be able to set a different port for dns, ie:
example, 10.0.0.17.55 specifies that the nameserver at 10.0.0.17 uses port 55.
but:
sh-3.2# networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet 185.37.37.37.54
185.37.37.37.54 is not a valid IP address. No changes were saved...
** Error: The parameters were not valid.
what gives? how can I fix this?
A: So, the reason for this was that my ISP is filtering DNS requests on port 53. What I did in order to circumvent this hideous action by Vodafone was to install dnsmasq on my mac and add this line to the dnsmasq.conf file:
server=208.67.222.222#5353
as you can see I'm now happily using open dns' DNS on port 5353
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72c7d2b0aaf6f012330741bfe5589adab491f160 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Convert *stereo* .mov to mono .mp3? I need an easy way to take a stereo .mov file and convert it to a mono .mp3 or similar formatted audio file.
I use Ecamm's Skype Call recorder to record interviews, which I send out for transcription. The call recorder creates an .mov file with 2 channels--one for each side of the call. The transcription software only plays one channel, so the audio sounds like it's one sided.
I do this a lot, so I'd like a simple, one-step way to merge the channels and convert the file.
I've tried ffmpeg, which I like, but I'm only getting one channel when I do this:
ffmpeg -i call.mov -ac 1 call.mp3
Any suggestions? I'd like to use ffmpeg if possible, but a GUI app would be fine as long as it's pretty simple to use.
A: Max (freeware) can drop stereo to mono - though I'm not certain if it will take .mov as input (never tested it). You might need to convert it to a distinct audio format first.
| Q: Convert *stereo* .mov to mono .mp3? I need an easy way to take a stereo .mov file and convert it to a mono .mp3 or similar formatted audio file.
I use Ecamm's Skype Call recorder to record interviews, which I send out for transcription. The call recorder creates an .mov file with 2 channels--one for each side of the call. The transcription software only plays one channel, so the audio sounds like it's one sided.
I do this a lot, so I'd like a simple, one-step way to merge the channels and convert the file.
I've tried ffmpeg, which I like, but I'm only getting one channel when I do this:
ffmpeg -i call.mov -ac 1 call.mp3
Any suggestions? I'd like to use ffmpeg if possible, but a GUI app would be fine as long as it's pretty simple to use.
A: Max (freeware) can drop stereo to mono - though I'm not certain if it will take .mov as input (never tested it). You might need to convert it to a distinct audio format first.
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c5d7ea8fcf7d29bb39da2b245a111ad86deed263 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Windows-Logo-Key + Left/Right Arrow -- Keyboard shortcut equivalent on Mac I have both a mac and a PC. One simple extremely useful feature on PCs that I can't find on a mac is the shortcut Windows+RightArrow to maximize the active window, but only take up exactly the right half of the screen (and vice versa with Windows+LeftArrow).
It's extremely useful to be able to quickly do side-by-side comparisons without having to manually resize the windows, but I haven't found a similar shortcut on a mac. Does this exist for mac? Or is there a utility that allows this?
A: If you hold down the green fullscreen button, it gives you the option to split/share the screen with a second window
| Q: Windows-Logo-Key + Left/Right Arrow -- Keyboard shortcut equivalent on Mac I have both a mac and a PC. One simple extremely useful feature on PCs that I can't find on a mac is the shortcut Windows+RightArrow to maximize the active window, but only take up exactly the right half of the screen (and vice versa with Windows+LeftArrow).
It's extremely useful to be able to quickly do side-by-side comparisons without having to manually resize the windows, but I haven't found a similar shortcut on a mac. Does this exist for mac? Or is there a utility that allows this?
A: If you hold down the green fullscreen button, it gives you the option to split/share the screen with a second window
A: BetterTouchTool lets you set up custom keyboard shortcuts to snap windows to the left/right/top/bottom (among other things). You can also create custom gestures, and per-app gestures/shortcuts.
A: Since asking this question many years ago, I eventually stumbled onto Spectacle https://www.spectacleapp.com/. Comes with window management out of the box with similar keyboard shortcuts (not exact, but actually more expressive than those built into Windows)
Highly recommend this for people looking to do window management on a Mac the same way you can on Windows.
A: I'm personally using ShiftIt to accomplish this task which allows many keyboard shortcuts - among them is the ability to do this with Ctrl+Option+Command+Left/Right
A: I use SizeUp for this, which allows you to set arbitrary hotkeys for all of the following functions (and more):
A: I'm using an open source app called Rectangle, https://rectangleapp.com/.
With it, you can use Ctrl ⌃ + option ⌥ + ←/→ for equivalent actions.
There are some other options to explore too.
A: Another app which allows this is Magnet (https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/)
re: Prajwal's answer. There is a downside to the Mac-native approach to tiling two windows, which is that they're treated as a mac fullscreen space, with the advantages and disadvantages that entails. I prefer the addon app approach, personally.
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922256de1e6d44a1ba3d9b630c72145bbb2cfed3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the easiest way to do a screen recording and get a small file? I've used http://screenr.com/ before but for company things it's not appropriate since it becomes public. I need something that lets me record my screen and gives me a small well encoded file that I put into dropbox.
What's my options?
A: Actually, with Mojave, you can just press Command-Shift-5 and select to record either a single screenshot, or a screen recording.
(Picture taken from https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/take-screenshots-in-macos-mojave/ which also offers more details on how it works)
| Q: What's the easiest way to do a screen recording and get a small file? I've used http://screenr.com/ before but for company things it's not appropriate since it becomes public. I need something that lets me record my screen and gives me a small well encoded file that I put into dropbox.
What's my options?
A: Actually, with Mojave, you can just press Command-Shift-5 and select to record either a single screenshot, or a screen recording.
(Picture taken from https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/take-screenshots-in-macos-mojave/ which also offers more details on how it works)
A: Update Jan 2020: You can no longer choose screen recording quality up-front in Mojave, unfortunately. A workaround in QuickTime (without having to download or purchase any additional software, so all done in <1 minute!) is to record your full-fat version - 1 minute averages about 100Mb - then open the movie in QT.
*
*File
*Export As
*480p
This reduced my 107Mb file to 17.7Mb so I could then email it, and didn't need to bother with Dropbox etc.
You can only do this when the QT file is open; you can't perform this file size reduction in eg Finder as the 'Export As' option will be greyed out.
Screenshot showing the steps above:
A: The QuickTime player is too old and is not recommended. It will generate a huge file size video and is not optimized. You can try other video recorders, I would suggest OBS, a free and opensource video recorder come streamer.
Link - https://obsproject.com/download
Screen recording with OBS is pretty straighforward, but you can check this guide for details.
Bear in mind that you can configure different options and file size may vary accordingly. I choose video output resolution of 1440x900 againt my MacBook input resolution of 2880x1800. This will generate decent quality and file size is very low compared to the Quicktime player.
It is available for Mac, Linux and Windows.
A: Quicktime
You can use QuickTime Player to record everything that happens on your computer’s screen or on a portion of your computer’s screen, along with your narration, if you’d like. This is called a screen recording.
*
*In QuickTime Player, choose File > New Screen Recording.
*Choose options for the screen recording from the arrow pop-up menu.
*
*If you want to record yourself speaking as you use the computer, choose an audio input source below Microphone in the pop-up menu.
*Choose whether you want the recording to be medium or high quality. High quality results in a larger file size.
[Edit/update by Helen Ayres: Jan 2020] You can no longer choose screen recording quality up-front in Mojave, unfortunately. A workaround in QuickTime (without having to download or purchase any additional software, so all done in <1 minute!) is to record your full-fat version - 1 minute averages about 100Mb - then open the movie in QT.
*
*File
*Export As
*480p
This reduced my 107Mb file to 17.7Mb so I could then email it, and didn't need to bother with Dropbox etc.
You can only do this when the QT file is open; you can't perform this file size reduction in eg Finder as the 'Export As' option will be greyed out.
Screenshot showing the steps above: [End of edit - Hope I've followed edit protocol correctly folks, as this is my first post, it's a little long for an edit I think; I would have posted a comment underneath but being a newbie, I'm not allowed to yet ;o) ]
*
*If you want mouse clicks to be visible in the recording, choose “Show Mouse Clicks in Recording.”
*If you want to change where the recording is saved, choose Choose, and then select a new location.
*Arrange the computer windows as you want to capture them, and then click the Record button.
*If you want to record only a portion of the screen, drag the pointer to select the portion of the screen you want to record, and then click Start Recording.
To adjust the portion of the screen you selected, drag the small gray circles along the edges of the screen recording rectangle or drag the entire screen recording rectangle to another location on the screen.
*
*If you want to record the entire screen, click anywhere on the screen to start the recording.
4.To stop the recording, click the Stop button, or press Cmd ⌘ Ctrl ⌃ Esc .
Source: Apple KB - QuickTime Player 10.x: Record your computer’s screen
From comments…
If the file sizes are still too large, there is Apple's own excellent Compressor ($49.99) or for a simpler approach, still with many possibilities, you could look at SmartConverter (freeware)
A: You can use the built in QuickTime player to record your Mac screen and then compress its size using the iMovie and its super simple to use and much powerful.
*
*launch iMovie
*click import media
*Click on the imported Item on Left
*Click on Share on top right and choose export
*Choose video quality (Dont Worry about the size shown the actual size will be less than half)
6.With this video quality I was able to compress 207mb of video to just 33mb with almost the same quality
The compressed recording is available here
A: iShowU can do screen recordings. You can ajoust the framerate, resolution and whether it should track mouse movements or not for a smaller file size. It is $29.95.
If you need to convert, compress or crop an existing recording, try Handbrake (it's free).
A: I cheated. At work, we have free access to Amazon Chime (meeting and video conferencing AWS service). I created a meeting with just myself in it, and recorded it. I got a file of 20 MB for a video of 278s, while with QT the best I could get with shitty resolution (480p) was 52 MB for 181s.
The quality of the Chime recording is acceptable for the use I had of if (recording a few chess moves with commentary). Chime is not free, I believe, for people outside the company, but this makes me think that all conference tools that can record meetings must have better performance than QT, otherwise it would be absolutely unmanageable to record and share long meetings.
Whatever comparable tool is available to you, give it a try.
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e2ea7e7b93c18b6147cdd841917bcd9ccd944430 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Xcode odd behaiviour and bad rendering code Recently I'm experiencing some odd behavior from Xcode. It jump up and down on its own, it does not render codes correctly.
Like this screenshot ↓
It's driving me crazy. Have this ever occurred to anybody else?
Is there a solution?
P.S. this problem happens with both Objective-C and Objective-C++ and with every theme I use. (Currently I'm using xcode 6.3)
A: Turn off the Show live issues checkbox in Xcode > Preferences > General (found near the top of the panel).
I was experiencing the same issue. I found this answer through Editor glitch when editing near end of long file in Apple's Developer Forums.
It worked for me running Xcode 7.3 with a 2706 line file. The glitch happened around line 2250.
| Q: Xcode odd behaiviour and bad rendering code Recently I'm experiencing some odd behavior from Xcode. It jump up and down on its own, it does not render codes correctly.
Like this screenshot ↓
It's driving me crazy. Have this ever occurred to anybody else?
Is there a solution?
P.S. this problem happens with both Objective-C and Objective-C++ and with every theme I use. (Currently I'm using xcode 6.3)
A: Turn off the Show live issues checkbox in Xcode > Preferences > General (found near the top of the panel).
I was experiencing the same issue. I found this answer through Editor glitch when editing near end of long file in Apple's Developer Forums.
It worked for me running Xcode 7.3 with a 2706 line file. The glitch happened around line 2250.
A: I think that was a bug at XCode 6. Since XCode 7 I have not encountered this problem.
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15baf60d0aac59602825ba13e4f9d0e2af40169b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to view my apps installed in iPad Air on iTunes I have iPad Air (first generation) with iOS 8.3 installed. I have iTunes 12.1.2.7 installed on my Windows 8 PC.
I have authorized iTunes to access my iPad but I cannot see any apps in my iTunes when I connect my iPad to PC.
I have apps like Amazon and Tumblr but they do not show up in iTunes. Can anyone tell me why is this not working?
A: You need to scroll down the window a little. Then you can see File sharing. There you can see all the installed apps.
| Q: Unable to view my apps installed in iPad Air on iTunes I have iPad Air (first generation) with iOS 8.3 installed. I have iTunes 12.1.2.7 installed on my Windows 8 PC.
I have authorized iTunes to access my iPad but I cannot see any apps in my iTunes when I connect my iPad to PC.
I have apps like Amazon and Tumblr but they do not show up in iTunes. Can anyone tell me why is this not working?
A: You need to scroll down the window a little. Then you can see File sharing. There you can see all the installed apps.
A: Not sure if this is the correct way, but at least this got the apps synced. So here's what I did.
In the "Home Screens" section open any page. Select and drag any icon moving it to another location or folder. Now in the iTunes you will see buttons of "Apply" and "Revert". Click on "Apply" button and it will start to sync all the apps on your iPad Air to iTunes.
If anyone has a better solution do post it as an answer.
A: I found a convoluted path to get an app to appear. I went to the iTunes App Store, selected iPad
In the right column menu I selected Purchased
I suppose I could have chosen "Download All", but I was interested in only one app, so on that app, I clicked the download from cloud icon in the top right corner of the app icon. After waiting for the download icon to disappear, when I return to my iPad and the Apps pane, I see the app listed.
A: Only apps purchased in the iTunes store of PC or Mac not from the app store of the phone are shown in iTunes apps list. The apps listed there are physically downloaded to PC/Mac drive. Therefore you can install those apps onto your iPhone directly from PC/Mac within iTunes program even without the Internet connection. You also can physically delete downloaded apps at the Apps library of the iTunes.
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6bcedb51f69f0c8715a7eed9aa3c9d7c036f6825 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to open multiple Kindle books at the same time? How can I open several instances of the kindle reader at the same time, so that I can have a different book open in each one?
I found this:
Multiple Kindle Windows on PC, Mac
Which suggests using multiple cloud readers, but I want to use the desktop version.
A: I haven't tested this specifically with Kindle, but it works for most apps that don't normally open a second instance...
In Terminal
open -n
(note the space after -n)
then drop the Kindle app onto the Terminal window to auto-fill the path to it & hit Return⏎
back in Terminal, Opt ⌥ ↑ then Return⏎ will repeat that command & should open a second instance.
| Q: How to open multiple Kindle books at the same time? How can I open several instances of the kindle reader at the same time, so that I can have a different book open in each one?
I found this:
Multiple Kindle Windows on PC, Mac
Which suggests using multiple cloud readers, but I want to use the desktop version.
A: I haven't tested this specifically with Kindle, but it works for most apps that don't normally open a second instance...
In Terminal
open -n
(note the space after -n)
then drop the Kindle app onto the Terminal window to auto-fill the path to it & hit Return⏎
back in Terminal, Opt ⌥ ↑ then Return⏎ will repeat that command & should open a second instance.
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d4ae20680467dafd12e19dbd9cfdb43d4359d19c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: WhatsApp Web in Fluid throws JavaScript exception When I'm starting the WhatsApp web client in a Fluid app, this JavaScript exception is thrown:
[Error] TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'e.getDatabaseNames')
U (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 63)
c (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 62)
n (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 6)
(anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 6)
t (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
(anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
t (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
(anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
webpackJsonp (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
global code (crypto_8cbbef38a0cf6ff138dc.js, line 2)
This leads an infinite loading screen.
When I launch WhatsApp Web in Safari e is a IDBFactory, but it looks like the IndexedDB API isn't available in a Fluid app (there e is null).
You have to set either Firefox, Chrome or Safari as user agent to get to the loading screen. I tried playing around with the settings, but nothing seems to help.
I wrote a mail to the FluidApp support, but no answer so far. Does anyone have advice?
A: I don't have a solution that works with Fluid, but Aluxian/WhatsApp-Desktop on GitHub provides an open-source wrapper for the WhatsApp web app which works well and provides similar functionality to what Fluid would.
| Q: WhatsApp Web in Fluid throws JavaScript exception When I'm starting the WhatsApp web client in a Fluid app, this JavaScript exception is thrown:
[Error] TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'e.getDatabaseNames')
U (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 63)
c (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 62)
n (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 6)
(anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 6)
t (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
(anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
t (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
(anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
webpackJsonp (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
global code (crypto_8cbbef38a0cf6ff138dc.js, line 2)
This leads an infinite loading screen.
When I launch WhatsApp Web in Safari e is a IDBFactory, but it looks like the IndexedDB API isn't available in a Fluid app (there e is null).
You have to set either Firefox, Chrome or Safari as user agent to get to the loading screen. I tried playing around with the settings, but nothing seems to help.
I wrote a mail to the FluidApp support, but no answer so far. Does anyone have advice?
A: I don't have a solution that works with Fluid, but Aluxian/WhatsApp-Desktop on GitHub provides an open-source wrapper for the WhatsApp web app which works well and provides similar functionality to what Fluid would.
A: Stumbled upon the same, but I found a very good wrapper for whatsapp that feels very well integrated with OSX look&feel: ChitChat. It being OSS is a great plus for me.
A: Use this , very simple and elegant -
https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat
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93c1c4b1837d4d6687301f95eeaf74258460b1a6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS 8 CNA not triggering I'm in the process of implementing a captive access point and when testing with iOS 8, I don't get shown the captive network assistant.
When I use Android and BlackBerry, they're able to detect that they're on a captive portal. It just seems like iOS which is the odd-one-out, refusing to display any kind of prompting for the user to sign into the network.
My portal is implemented by redirecting all traffic at an IP level to a local server, which then generates a genuine HTTP redirect to our portal.
A: iOS detects captive portals by attempting to access http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html or http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html with the user agent 'wispr'.
Should this page request not return "Success", but still return a HTML page, then it shows the captive portal assistant. Make sure that you are correctly serving your captive portal page to this URL.
| Q: iOS 8 CNA not triggering I'm in the process of implementing a captive access point and when testing with iOS 8, I don't get shown the captive network assistant.
When I use Android and BlackBerry, they're able to detect that they're on a captive portal. It just seems like iOS which is the odd-one-out, refusing to display any kind of prompting for the user to sign into the network.
My portal is implemented by redirecting all traffic at an IP level to a local server, which then generates a genuine HTTP redirect to our portal.
A: iOS detects captive portals by attempting to access http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html or http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html with the user agent 'wispr'.
Should this page request not return "Success", but still return a HTML page, then it shows the captive portal assistant. Make sure that you are correctly serving your captive portal page to this URL.
A:
My portal is implemented by redirecting all traffic at an IP level to a local server, which then generates a genuine HTTP redirect to our portal.
Ok. But you miss another part.
Your page displayed in CNA must content the wispr datas.
Triggering CNA <==needs== [unreachable apple url] + [wispr datas in the html]
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ccaee6ecfa6de9b26e3323c86d4b0f6944cbf836 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can a MacBook's Thunderbolt port be used as an HDMI "in" to view a feed/signal from a video camera? I am a filmmaker who wants to be able to use my macbook as an external monitor for a video camera in a studio-interview type setting. The camera is decent, but its screen is small and I don't have any external monitors handy (money is tight). Is there some software that would be able to receive an HDMI-out signal from my camera and then display it on the macbook screen via an HDMI → Thunderbolt adaptor (I have one)?
So the flow would look like this:
Camera → HDMI Cord → HDMI-to-ThBt Adaptor → Software to look at what the camera is sending → my eyes.
Recording the feed is not necessary.
A: No, not directly. You can buy any number of HDMI capture hardware that connect via thunderbolt or FireWire and use a thunderbolt FireWire adapter.
| Q: Can a MacBook's Thunderbolt port be used as an HDMI "in" to view a feed/signal from a video camera? I am a filmmaker who wants to be able to use my macbook as an external monitor for a video camera in a studio-interview type setting. The camera is decent, but its screen is small and I don't have any external monitors handy (money is tight). Is there some software that would be able to receive an HDMI-out signal from my camera and then display it on the macbook screen via an HDMI → Thunderbolt adaptor (I have one)?
So the flow would look like this:
Camera → HDMI Cord → HDMI-to-ThBt Adaptor → Software to look at what the camera is sending → my eyes.
Recording the feed is not necessary.
A: No, not directly. You can buy any number of HDMI capture hardware that connect via thunderbolt or FireWire and use a thunderbolt FireWire adapter.
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a068a450e3e2fd4a180b3bd675e1923c22693238 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to stop receiving iMessages on OS X when the Messages application is closed? After I quit the Messages application, I will still receive my iMessages on my Mac. I don't want to disable my iMessages completely but I'd like them to stop bothering me when I've closed the application.
A: Yes, you can achieve your desired behavior without disabling Messages on your Mac.
If you turn off notifications for Messages from within System Preferences, you will still receive the messages, but will not be notified that they came in.
You can turn notifications off on the following screen. Simply click on "None", and deselect all the checkboxes, as illustrated below:
| Q: Is there a way to stop receiving iMessages on OS X when the Messages application is closed? After I quit the Messages application, I will still receive my iMessages on my Mac. I don't want to disable my iMessages completely but I'd like them to stop bothering me when I've closed the application.
A: Yes, you can achieve your desired behavior without disabling Messages on your Mac.
If you turn off notifications for Messages from within System Preferences, you will still receive the messages, but will not be notified that they came in.
You can turn notifications off on the following screen. Simply click on "None", and deselect all the checkboxes, as illustrated below:
A: There is no way to leave it on but not receive the messages.
The only real way is to Disable the account (untick "Enable this Account") in the Messages Menu > Preferences > Accounts.
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