id
stringlengths 40
40
| text
stringlengths 29
2.03k
| original_text
stringlengths 3
154k
| subdomain
stringclasses 20
values | metadata
dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
352d10f086b0ab24ee9439d79012d5c1877f90b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get Launchpad to see apps on an external disk? I have a large Firewire disk permanently plugged into my Mac mini. Whenever possible, this external disk is where I install any new apps. How do I get these apps to show up in Launchpad?
A: I just figured this out. All I had to do was drag the folder containing the apps to the Launchpad icon on the dock.
| Q: How do I get Launchpad to see apps on an external disk? I have a large Firewire disk permanently plugged into my Mac mini. Whenever possible, this external disk is where I install any new apps. How do I get these apps to show up in Launchpad?
A: I just figured this out. All I had to do was drag the folder containing the apps to the Launchpad icon on the dock.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 73,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5681",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19056"
} |
c5d0feeef67c5c67fd9f7a625469826e1e0bfc71 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mount .NRG image file on OSX 10.6 I have a Nero Disk Image(.nrg) File and I would like to mount it on OSX to copy it's contents. I've tried to rename to .iso and to use NRG2ISO with no luck.
Any tips ?
A: Had the same experience as the OP. Tried using nrg2iso, tried renaming the file to .iso and also tried the dd command from that MacRumors thread. Nothing worked.
However, I then found nrg4iso which worked perfectly! The project has been abandoned since 2007 but it still works.
| Q: Mount .NRG image file on OSX 10.6 I have a Nero Disk Image(.nrg) File and I would like to mount it on OSX to copy it's contents. I've tried to rename to .iso and to use NRG2ISO with no luck.
Any tips ?
A: Had the same experience as the OP. Tried using nrg2iso, tried renaming the file to .iso and also tried the dd command from that MacRumors thread. Nothing worked.
However, I then found nrg4iso which worked perfectly! The project has been abandoned since 2007 but it still works.
A: dd variant not work for me. So, i find another one with poweriso:
http://www.poweriso.com/download.php
Use:
./poweriso convert ~/Desktop/image.nrg -o ~/Desktop/image.iso -ot iso
A: A little googling led me to this thread on MacRumors.com
It appears that if the ISO is a single session CD image you can just knock the first 600 bytes off with a terminal command and it'll be readable as an ISO (change file type to .iso after performing the command).
I'd recommend making a backup of the .nrg file before trying this though!
$ dd if=image.nrg of=cdrom.iso bs=512 skip=600
(↑ credit to balamw on macrumors forums)
Also, If you're just looking to extract pictures from the disk, File Juicer may also be worth a look!
A: With .nrg images from audio CDs, the solutions proposed in the other answers do not work (e.g. failing with Source is a Nero DAO (Disk at once) with 1 session(s) ).
However, the commercial Deamon Tools are now available for Mac OSX. Using these, you can mount the .nrg as an Audio CD.
A: There are not many options on Mac for this purpose. I think AnyToISO is good freemium choice. Its freemium version supports up to 870 MB.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 292,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5682",
"question_score": "10",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19065"
} |
923874b9df73b846e56c898301fe5b8255ba9009 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you pronounce the clover-like key (⌘)? How do you pronounce the clover-like key ⌘ ?
A: As above, "Command" is the usual name. For some context, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key
| Q: How do you pronounce the clover-like key (⌘)? How do you pronounce the clover-like key ⌘ ?
A: As above, "Command" is the usual name. For some context, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key
A: I usually say "command", but I've also heard it pronounced doily
A: It was originally known as the "Places of Interest" symbol used in Northern Europe on maps and such.
Here's some history on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John%27s_Arms
But when I tell people to press it I say "command".
A: This is usually called the "command" key. Others just call it the "apple" key...
A: It's called the Command key, abbreviated as Cmd.
Common nicknames are "clover" or "butterfly".
The symbol is based on one used on signs in Swedish campgrounds to note a place of interest; Susan Kare of the original Mac team located it in a international symbol dictionary while looking for something to replace the Apple logo, which Steve Jobs felt was being overused. (The whole story is on Folklore.org.)
On the Apple II, the keyboard featured open-Apple (an outline) and closed-Apple (filled in) keys beside the space bar. On early Macs, the same key had both the Command symbol and an Apple logo printed on it, and so some people carried over the terminology and continued to call it the Apple key.
On newer Macs, the Apple logo has been removed, and the key features only the command symbol and the text "command".
A: In Sweden you often hear runa (rune, which is somewhat related to the historic origin for the use on Swedish road signs) or kringla (pretzel, based on the shape) for this symbol when used in Mac context.
A: When I worked at Apple (1992-1997), quite a large proportion of the engineers called it "the propeller key". The suits almost always called it "the command key", and viewed the engineer's nomenclature as being disrespectful or merely irreverent.
A: It used to be called "Splat", but sadly that has fallen out of use.
A: I've been a Mac user since 1988, and I've always called it (and heard it referred to as) "butterfly."
A: I call it the "church" key
A: I call it "mela", which just means "apple" in italian.
A: Actually the use of the Butterfly Key was in retaliation of IBM, and of the slavery early programers associated with Big Blue(IBM) as an oligarchic company bent on suppressing of new ideas and of the casual freedoms that the Bay Area was known for so they did away with the oppressive "Command Key" and thus gave it a splat, butterfly or whatever you want to call it.
The idea was to be liberated and not controlled. Which is funny since Apple literally controlled every aspect of their early computer architecture and squashed any freedom to developers to give the Mac OS the power or the programs it needed.
But the Butterfly is a statement, not a reality.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 485,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5684",
"question_score": "32",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19070"
} |
89d9173d1afc4edfa713d36cfdcdf2659acee86b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Lion - Finder: Difference of "Sort by", "Clean Up By" and "Arrange by" There is an option in the Finder.
Right click in the background of a finder window, the new toolbar icon or
cmd+j. To change the view of the sorting/arranging I can choose between
"Sort by"
"Clean Up By"
"Arrange by"
It seems they do the same.
Anyone knows the difference of them?
A: If you select "clean by" the icons will be sorted into the order you choose, but you can still slide them around.
If you select "arrange by" the icons will always snap back to a sorted grid and you will no longer be able to slide them around.
| Q: OS X Lion - Finder: Difference of "Sort by", "Clean Up By" and "Arrange by" There is an option in the Finder.
Right click in the background of a finder window, the new toolbar icon or
cmd+j. To change the view of the sorting/arranging I can choose between
"Sort by"
"Clean Up By"
"Arrange by"
It seems they do the same.
Anyone knows the difference of them?
A: If you select "clean by" the icons will be sorted into the order you choose, but you can still slide them around.
If you select "arrange by" the icons will always snap back to a sorted grid and you will no longer be able to slide them around.
A: Clean Up By is only available in icon view. If Arrange By is not set to None, it doesn't seem to do anything until you change Arrange By to None. If Arrange By is set to None and Sort By is set to Snap to Grid, it arranges icons so that they are aligned on a grid. If Arrange By is set to None and Sort By is set to anything else, it sorts icons and changes Sort By to None.
The Arrange By modes were added in Lion. They group items under sections like this in different view modes:
List views cannot be sorted by clicking the headings when items are arranged by some attribute.
When items are arranged by some attribute, Sort By affects the way items are sorted inside the categories in some cases, but in other cases it's disabled.
Sort By doesn't group items under sections. The Sort by mode is changed when for example clicking the list headings in list view. The Arrange By menus change to Sort By when holding option:
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 295,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5687",
"question_score": "13",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19089"
} |
2dc20a1947dcbd40dfc597aaad4b233ce77970bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does Mail do when it sends Windows friendly attachments? What does Mail do to the file or files differently when it sends attachments that are Windows friendly?
A: According to http://www.ncmug.org/tips/mail_attachments.html:
By default, Mail assumes your recipient is also a Mac user and therefore includes the resource forks (if any) of attached files. Normally a Mac user sees such attachments as a single file, whereas a Windows user sees two individual files - one containing the data fork of the file and the other containing the resource fork.
When you choose "Windows Friendly" attachments, Mail strips the resource fork so that Windows users receive just one file, not two (one of which would be unusable anyway). In most cases - at least for files created with modern applications - all the crucial parts of files are in the data fork; as long as the filename has the correct extension and they have an appropriate application, Windows users can open the file.
| Q: What does Mail do when it sends Windows friendly attachments? What does Mail do to the file or files differently when it sends attachments that are Windows friendly?
A: According to http://www.ncmug.org/tips/mail_attachments.html:
By default, Mail assumes your recipient is also a Mac user and therefore includes the resource forks (if any) of attached files. Normally a Mac user sees such attachments as a single file, whereas a Windows user sees two individual files - one containing the data fork of the file and the other containing the resource fork.
When you choose "Windows Friendly" attachments, Mail strips the resource fork so that Windows users receive just one file, not two (one of which would be unusable anyway). In most cases - at least for files created with modern applications - all the crucial parts of files are in the data fork; as long as the filename has the correct extension and they have an appropriate application, Windows users can open the file.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 163,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5688",
"question_score": "15",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19090"
} |
97cdefd2704962711a61a2e151d4d03dc5f9775b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What can cause the volume keys to not work but show the prohibitory sign instead of changing volume? When i try to reduce my mac book volume it suddenly shows that this isn't possible, even the icon in the menu bar is (grey inactive)
This happens sometimes since i installed lion os
A: The first thing to check is the selected output device in System Preferences. To do that, open System Preferences and click on "Sound".
Next, go through each of the tabs to verify that you don't see any obvious settings. I've seen this before on Snow Leopard, and although I'm now on Lion, I don't think this changed much.
I don't remember what the setting were, but it was fairly obvious to me what to change.
| Q: What can cause the volume keys to not work but show the prohibitory sign instead of changing volume? When i try to reduce my mac book volume it suddenly shows that this isn't possible, even the icon in the menu bar is (grey inactive)
This happens sometimes since i installed lion os
A: The first thing to check is the selected output device in System Preferences. To do that, open System Preferences and click on "Sound".
Next, go through each of the tabs to verify that you don't see any obvious settings. I've seen this before on Snow Leopard, and although I'm now on Lion, I don't think this changed much.
I don't remember what the setting were, but it was fairly obvious to me what to change.
A: Check inside the headphone jack. Is a red light showing? If so, the MacBook might be trying to output optical audio. Make sure nothing is stuck in there - lint, dust, etc. Plugging in and then removing headphones may also help. If the red light stays, best to bring it in for service.
A: I have experienced this issue starting with my new install of Lion. I haven't been able to find the cause of the issue but I do have a quick way to reset the audio system and get back volume control.
Open Activity Monitor (Its in Applications/Utilities)
Make sure it is set to All Processes, look for coreaudiod, click "Quit Process" then "Quit". Wait a few seconds and you should have volume control back.
If your a terminal buff a quick sudo killall coreaudiod should whip it into shape.
A: As you suggested, I cHecked inside the headphone jack and found a red light showing. Plugging in and then removing headphones solved the problem. Thank you for the advice.
A: When I had to use Force Quit to close a stuck Premier Elements 9, it somehow reset the audio. Go to System Preferences → Sound → Output and re-choose Internal Speakers to get the sound going again, as well as the buttons on the keyboard to control the speakers.
A: I personally tried most of the listed above. What I ended up doing before I did anything too crazy (i'm not super techy) is I just put in my earbuds again and took them out. I didn't have a read light going near the headphone jack, but it did the job. Now I have control again! I hope that helps you, my friends!
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 416,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5689",
"question_score": "9",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19094"
} |
c32e8ba9f8ea68188f3c6232089ca12e8c804d8e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: New thunderbolt MacBook Air and external monitors Does the MB Air with thunderbolt only connect with Apples Thunderbolt monitor?
What are the options for third party monitors with DVI or VGA?
A: They're the same as for other computers with Thunderbolt:
*
*DVI/VGA/HDMI with cheap passive Mini DisplayPort adapters (audio is included over HDMI, assuming your adapter supports it)
*dual-link DVI with a more-expensive active Mini DisplayPort adapter
*any native DisplayPort monitor (many mid-to-high-end monitors already have them)
*any Thunderbolt monitor (all one of them currently announced)
You can use any Mini DisplayPort adapter that you might already have, or any that are available for purchase. I have my brand-new 2011 MBA hooked up with a Monoprice MDP->DVI adapter right now.
| Q: New thunderbolt MacBook Air and external monitors Does the MB Air with thunderbolt only connect with Apples Thunderbolt monitor?
What are the options for third party monitors with DVI or VGA?
A: They're the same as for other computers with Thunderbolt:
*
*DVI/VGA/HDMI with cheap passive Mini DisplayPort adapters (audio is included over HDMI, assuming your adapter supports it)
*dual-link DVI with a more-expensive active Mini DisplayPort adapter
*any native DisplayPort monitor (many mid-to-high-end monitors already have them)
*any Thunderbolt monitor (all one of them currently announced)
You can use any Mini DisplayPort adapter that you might already have, or any that are available for purchase. I have my brand-new 2011 MBA hooked up with a Monoprice MDP->DVI adapter right now.
A: The MB Air has a Thunderbolt port but you can also just plug in a Mini DisplayPort with an adapter to a pretty much any monitor or TV you want. You can use a number of adapters such as Mini DisplayPort -> DVI or HDMI.
Mini DisplayPort to DVI on Monoprice
Mini DisplayPort to DVI on Apple Store
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 181,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5690",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19098"
} |
5d855ef8e38d6816e4e7caa82c2407c2fc2c31ac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will Terminal show a progress bar when I copy with "cp"? Is is possible to display a progress bar when copying files in Terminal using cp?
A: You can use rsync instead.
rsync --progress /copy/from /copy/to
| Q: Will Terminal show a progress bar when I copy with "cp"? Is is possible to display a progress bar when copying files in Terminal using cp?
A: You can use rsync instead.
rsync --progress /copy/from /copy/to
A: During cp, CtrlT displays the current percentage (on macOS at least)
A: If you are copying large files or directories using cp, you can open up 'Activity Monitor', go to the 'Disk' tab and look for the process 'cp'. Here you can keep track of how many bytes have been written since the last boot, giving you a rough idea of the progress. (OS X 10.10).
Hope that helps!
A: #!/bin/sh
strace -q -ewrite cp -- "${1}" "${2}" 2>&1 \
| awk '{
count += $NF
if (count % 10 == 0) {
percent = count / total_size * 100
printf "%3d%% [", percent
for (i=0;i<=percent;i++)
printf "="
printf ">"
for (i=percent;i<100;i++)
printf " "
printf "]\r"
}
}
END { print "" }' total_size=$(stat -c '%s' "${1}") count=0
It's not perfect, but it works... drop that in a directory path and name it something similar..
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 184,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5696",
"question_score": "44",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19121"
} |
26ef014f52a6055b4413cf3dfe4b3f5f29ac9ee2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does my Time Machine backup disc need to be dedicated? I have an external HD that's about 60% full. The remaining space is more than enough for a Time Machine backup of my hard drive. If I enable Time Machine using that disc, will it erase my existing files, or just use the free space?
A: If you want an encrypted backup, Time Machine will erase the contents on the drive as part of the encryption process. (It is a full disk encryption.) In that case, yes, you'll need a dedicated blank drive.
| Q: Does my Time Machine backup disc need to be dedicated? I have an external HD that's about 60% full. The remaining space is more than enough for a Time Machine backup of my hard drive. If I enable Time Machine using that disc, will it erase my existing files, or just use the free space?
A: If you want an encrypted backup, Time Machine will erase the contents on the drive as part of the encryption process. (It is a full disk encryption.) In that case, yes, you'll need a dedicated blank drive.
A: No, it does not. It creates a Backups.backupdb/ directory for itself and leaves your other files untouched.
However, if (on Lion) you want to encrypt your backup it uses the same full-disc encryption as FileVault, and I think your other files on the disc will also be subject to that. (I haven't tried this myself.)
A: It will require you to erase the disk if it doesn't like the format of the disk. In this case, I have an ExFAT disk that has 7.5TB and even unencrypted, it requires me to erase it. It requires HFS+ or AFS.
If I click "Don't Erase" then it takes me back to the home screen and nothing happens.
A: It will just use the free space but it won't backup the files on that disk as stated on the relevant Apple support document
Time Machine works best if you use your backup disk only for Time Machine backups. If you keep separate files on your backup disk, Time Machine won’t back up those files, and the space available for Time Machine backups will be reduced.
A: No it will not erase your existing files. Time machine will create a folder on your external hard drive called Backups.backupdb. This will contain your time machine backups. Once your disc space is full, time machine will start erasing old backups however so it can always store your most-recent backup.
A: If the disc was formatted for Windows/PC use, it would need to be reformatted and formatting it for Time Machine will erase all data.
"Time Machine can’t back up to an iPod, iPad, or iPhone, or a disk formatted for Windows. If you connect a disk formatted for Windows, it can be reformatted (permanently removing all data) to a Mac filesystem format and used as a backup disk."
Backup disks you can use with Time Machine
A: The drive needs to be in HFS+ format first. However if you select the drive in Time Machine, it will still want to erase it first — therefore — create a folder on the drive called: Backups.backupdb
Then when you go to select the drive for backup, it will see the existing Backups.backupdb folder on it, and validate it as a Time Machine backup drive, and continue with using the drive as a backup destination.
A: I created 3 1G partition on my 3G external drive. One is for Time Machine, one for general use and otherfor Carbon Copy Cloner. All 3 partitions work fine. No data has been deleted.
A: It doesn’t have to be, but for the cost of a second drive, I’ve never ever regretted keeping the backup simple and using a second external for scratch.
You want to backup your files in most cases so storing them on the main backup volume is backwards. Even if you don’t care about the files, putting them on a dedicated scratch disk reduces the risk of a mistake to the backup volume.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 589,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5697",
"question_score": "14",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19125"
} |
7f77399570899877c1f681b89dd3eb84f0ebc88e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to force the next boot to be a recovery mode boot with a bluetooth keyboard? I wanted to test the new recovery mode in Lion and can't find a way to enter that mode using a bluetooth keyboard.
There are steps how to get a single user mode or safe boot using sudo nvram boot-args
I was wondering if anyone has uncovered how to get into recovery mode without having a hard wired USB keyboard. As described in the comments - this iMac is older than the ones that make bluetooth available at boot time which is why I'm looking to write something before the reboot progresses to a point where bluetooth is not available to override the default boot selection list.
A: This model seems to respect the option key only - so that will get me to the startup manager and I can select the Recovery HD.
I have not had luck getting command R to work but it's clearly meant to work as well - perhaps that's for newer macs with better bluetooth hardware (or my mac is just cranky and not working as designed)
| Q: Is it possible to force the next boot to be a recovery mode boot with a bluetooth keyboard? I wanted to test the new recovery mode in Lion and can't find a way to enter that mode using a bluetooth keyboard.
There are steps how to get a single user mode or safe boot using sudo nvram boot-args
I was wondering if anyone has uncovered how to get into recovery mode without having a hard wired USB keyboard. As described in the comments - this iMac is older than the ones that make bluetooth available at boot time which is why I'm looking to write something before the reboot progresses to a point where bluetooth is not available to override the default boot selection list.
A: This model seems to respect the option key only - so that will get me to the startup manager and I can select the Recovery HD.
I have not had luck getting command R to work but it's clearly meant to work as well - perhaps that's for newer macs with better bluetooth hardware (or my mac is just cranky and not working as designed)
A: At least, on macbook pros (10.9 -> 10.14.6) you can run the command
sudo nvram recovery-boot-mode=unused
And the macbook pro will boot into recovery when you restart, the flag will be removed from nvram so you boot normal the next time after it.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 236,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5700",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19140"
} |
1ff99611e8b70a85f85e61c518bbcc0ff87cd6af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I disable Mac OS Lion asking if I really want to open a downloaded file? I already tried this:
cd ~/Downloads
find . -print0 | xargs -0 xattr -d com.apple.quarantine
But it doesn't seem to work under Mac OS X 10.7 (aka. Lion) anymore:
xattr: ./cabin/Cabin-Bold.otf: No such xattr: com.apple.quarantine
A: I haven't tested this under Lion but
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
and then restarting should totally disable this functionality.
| Q: How can I disable Mac OS Lion asking if I really want to open a downloaded file? I already tried this:
cd ~/Downloads
find . -print0 | xargs -0 xattr -d com.apple.quarantine
But it doesn't seem to work under Mac OS X 10.7 (aka. Lion) anymore:
xattr: ./cabin/Cabin-Bold.otf: No such xattr: com.apple.quarantine
A: I haven't tested this under Lion but
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
and then restarting should totally disable this functionality.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 75,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5701",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19141"
} |
91c12aa02ac151efb3873850805f2ff95a3afc28 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is fine volume adjustment possible in macOS? Question broadened, as this still works in 2021
On previous versions of Mac OS X pressing ⌥+⇧+volume+ would adjust the volume by quarter increments. This seems to have been removed in Lion.
Is there any way to do fine volume adjustment now?
A: I don't have a keyboard shortcut or AppleScript for you, but I did notice - and others seem to confirm - that the slider you can use when you click the volume icon in the menu bar moves much more smoothly in Lion than it did in previous versions of OS X. As I recall it used to sort of jump from level to level, sort of like how it did when you pushed the volume buttons on the keyboard. Now it slides easily between increments.
| Q: Is fine volume adjustment possible in macOS? Question broadened, as this still works in 2021
On previous versions of Mac OS X pressing ⌥+⇧+volume+ would adjust the volume by quarter increments. This seems to have been removed in Lion.
Is there any way to do fine volume adjustment now?
A: I don't have a keyboard shortcut or AppleScript for you, but I did notice - and others seem to confirm - that the slider you can use when you click the volume icon in the menu bar moves much more smoothly in Lion than it did in previous versions of OS X. As I recall it used to sort of jump from level to level, sort of like how it did when you pushed the volume buttons on the keyboard. Now it slides easily between increments.
A: I don't have enough reputation or else I would have entered this as a comment to Nathan Greenstein's answer.
I turned his information into a simple command line script to adjust the volume:
#!/bin/bash
usage()
{
echo 1>&2 "Usage:" "$0" "[relative volume change in the range -100..100 (default -2)]"
exit -1
}
case $# in
0)
VOLCHANGE=-2
;;
1)
VOLCHANGE=$1
;;
*)
usage
;;
esac
## Check the VOLCHANGE parameter.
if ! ( echo "${VOLCHANGE}" | egrep '^-?[0-9]+$' > /dev/null )
then
echo 1>&2 "ERROR: Bad volume adjustment parameter:" "${VOLCHANGE}"
usage
fi
osascript -e "set volume output volume ((output volume of (get volume settings)) + ${VOLCHANGE})"
echo "New volume:" $(osascript -e 'output volume of (get volume settings)') "(adjusted by ${VOLCHANGE})"
A: You can do precise volume adjustment with AppleScript, controlled on a scale of 0 thru 100.
set volume output volume 0 --mute
set volume output volume 100 --100%
set volume output volume 27 --27%
You can get the current volume (also 0 thru 100):
set currentVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
So, you can write a little script to increment the volume by 2% (approximately what one quarter square used to be):
set currentVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
set volume output volume (currentVolume + 2)
You can make one for decrementing by changing that plus sign to a minus sign:
set currentVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
set volume output volume (currentVolume - 2)
If you want to get the volume sound like usual, add the following line:
do shell script "afplay /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/volume.aiff"
You can save this as a script or app, and bind it to a mouse or keyboard button (if your driver lets you), give it a keyboard shortcut (as a Service or with another app), or put it in your menu bar (with an app like FastScripts).
A: ⌥+⇧+F11 and ⌥+⇧+F12 were restored in 10.7.4.
A: To get much finer sound volume control I use soundflower from http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/. You have to restart after installing it. Then go to preferences/sound/output and choose soundflower(2ch). Start soundflower from the applications folder, click on the flower symbol in the top pannel and soundflower(2ch) built in output. Then go to Audio setup and change the master for soundflower(2ch). This way you can get the global sound less loud or you can amplify it.
A: There's also a way to make the volume decrease in 1/4 steps by default. There's a tool you can install called Karabiner, and it already has this logic built in.
So just install it, open the preferences, search for fine grained volume controls, click it, and bam! It just works. What's great is that it switches it so the typical fine-grained keyboard command is now used for large volume steps, and just pressing the volume key will increase/decrease it by a 1/4 step.
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/index.html.en
A: You can also change the output volume exactly as a percentage (for example 20%) with the terminal via Apple Script.
osascript -e 'set volume output volume 20'
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 640,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5703",
"question_score": "46",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19146"
} |
f931d59f8407105c5b5fd13e86eac442a020e310 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does Xcode 4.1 installation ask me to close iTunes when it isn't open? I am trying to install xcode 4.1 with lion. Apparently at 3/4 of the installation problem, it says to close itunes, which is not open. How can I fix the problem?
A: Use Activity Monitor, and locate the iTunes Helper process and kill it. As per an Apple support discussion and several other sources.
Update: The latest Xcode installer has been fixed and this should not be an issue now.
| Q: Why does Xcode 4.1 installation ask me to close iTunes when it isn't open? I am trying to install xcode 4.1 with lion. Apparently at 3/4 of the installation problem, it says to close itunes, which is not open. How can I fix the problem?
A: Use Activity Monitor, and locate the iTunes Helper process and kill it. As per an Apple support discussion and several other sources.
Update: The latest Xcode installer has been fixed and this should not be an issue now.
A: There is also a bug in the Install Xcode 4.1 in regard to detecting that iTunes Helper is running. This has been fixed with Install Xcode 4.1.1 which you can get as a delta Update from the Mac AppStore.
A: I encountered this problem with Xcode as well. The solution I found was that iTunes was open in another account. iTunes must be quit in all acounts to complete the installation. Also make sure that you quit iTunes(command q)not just close all the windows. Those are the two most likely reasons for that error message.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 181,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5707",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19161"
} |
64ee45f1cc70588b1856b05d8114df27076d4f10 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Backing up Time Machine to an external disk also used by other machines - no sparsebundle? I moved to using an external disk (a Drobo) on 1 machine as a Time Machine backup for all of my machines. I've got 2 of the machines backing up perfectly, but the problem is with the machine that the drive is connected to.
When I start the backup of the directly connected machine, Time Machine creates the folder structure /Backups.backupdb/[computer name]/ instead of just creating another sparsebundle file.
Should I care? If yes, then how do I make Time Machine create a sparsebundle?
A: The sparsebundle is how Time Machine backs up using the network method. The Backups.backupdb method is how it backs up when the drive is hooked up locally therefore you can't make it create a sparse bundle if its connected locally because that's the way time machine works. If you want it to make a sparse bundle you have to backup through a network. It should not make a difference to you since you'll be accessing it through time machine without having to worry about files etc.
| Q: Backing up Time Machine to an external disk also used by other machines - no sparsebundle? I moved to using an external disk (a Drobo) on 1 machine as a Time Machine backup for all of my machines. I've got 2 of the machines backing up perfectly, but the problem is with the machine that the drive is connected to.
When I start the backup of the directly connected machine, Time Machine creates the folder structure /Backups.backupdb/[computer name]/ instead of just creating another sparsebundle file.
Should I care? If yes, then how do I make Time Machine create a sparsebundle?
A: The sparsebundle is how Time Machine backs up using the network method. The Backups.backupdb method is how it backs up when the drive is hooked up locally therefore you can't make it create a sparse bundle if its connected locally because that's the way time machine works. If you want it to make a sparse bundle you have to backup through a network. It should not make a difference to you since you'll be accessing it through time machine without having to worry about files etc.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 188,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5712",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19179"
} |
39008148a80332f3601a16633283e6b6539ef83a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is Wine X11 not creating a window on my Mac? I have the wine software on my mac and I have a little problem here:
I try running my windows executable and I get this error in the console:
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126
I have my DISPLAY set to 0.0 and WINEPREFIX set to x.
Please show me how to fix this with exact code/steps because I am new to this.
Thanks!
A: You don't have X11 installed on your computer. It is available on the OS X install CD.
| Q: Why is Wine X11 not creating a window on my Mac? I have the wine software on my mac and I have a little problem here:
I try running my windows executable and I get this error in the console:
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126
I have my DISPLAY set to 0.0 and WINEPREFIX set to x.
Please show me how to fix this with exact code/steps because I am new to this.
Thanks!
A: You don't have X11 installed on your computer. It is available on the OS X install CD.
A: See this SuperUser question DISPLAY on OSX is not 0.0 . It is set by the startup and you should not set the variable manually.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 172,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5724",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19224"
} |
fc6cf77cf219a90fa34c5d09b0bcc078eb005fc1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption? Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that you cannot even get to the partition table without decrypting it?
And if not, is there any support for reading File Vault disks on Windows, Linux, or, for that matter, Snow Leopard ?
A: Yes. FileVault2 is volume based so you can have an encrypted Mac OS volume and an unencrypted Windows bootcamp partition for instance. The Recovery partition is also not encrypted.
FileVault2 requires Lion to decrypt/decode the drive. It doesn't work with Windows Linux, or previous versions of Mac OS X. I recommend John Siracusa's Lion review for more detail. You can also listen to his 5by5 podcast for some additional insights.
| Q: Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption? Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that you cannot even get to the partition table without decrypting it?
And if not, is there any support for reading File Vault disks on Windows, Linux, or, for that matter, Snow Leopard ?
A: Yes. FileVault2 is volume based so you can have an encrypted Mac OS volume and an unencrypted Windows bootcamp partition for instance. The Recovery partition is also not encrypted.
FileVault2 requires Lion to decrypt/decode the drive. It doesn't work with Windows Linux, or previous versions of Mac OS X. I recommend John Siracusa's Lion review for more detail. You can also listen to his 5by5 podcast for some additional insights.
A: John Siracusa's detailed Lion review covers the new FileVault disk encryption feature in great detail:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/13#lion-file-system
To summarise, the new system is "volume" based. This means that not all volumes can be or are encrypted. The Lion recovery partition for example is not encrypted. Non Mac volumes are also not encrypted (FAT, NTFS, ExFAT, etc).
From John's description it does appear you can have multiple encrypted volumes. Whether or not they can use different passwords is unknown to me. Some use of the diskutil command may be necessary to achieve this if possible.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 249,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5725",
"question_score": "11",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19226"
} |
4fb43c40d73e22a8b65f36dccf0414319811ea33 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to select multiple app icons in Launchpad to move them? Is it possible to select more than one app icon at a time in Launchpad and then drag them to a folder?
A: Multiple selection is not implemented in LaunchPad. A work around: Drag individual icons into a folder (to make the first folder drag an icon over another and drop). Then move the folder to the new location and unpack it.
| Q: How to select multiple app icons in Launchpad to move them? Is it possible to select more than one app icon at a time in Launchpad and then drag them to a folder?
A: Multiple selection is not implemented in LaunchPad. A work around: Drag individual icons into a folder (to make the first folder drag an icon over another and drop). Then move the folder to the new location and unpack it.
A: This kind of operation doesn't seem to be available. Based on how the interaction between the waggling icons and the gui is, I don't even think it would be possible with a reasonable usability.
Apple has chosen to reproduce the same feel as it is on iOS devices so that everybody familiar with that - extremely easy, btw - workflow can achieve the same in Lion.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 141,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5730",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19247"
} |
d78e3e97b538a244f0133061f189cadb4f5482f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can You Stop the Migration Assistant Midway Through? Can the Migration Assistant be stopped midway through? I began the wireless transfer from a Mac Mini to a new MacBook Air last night. It still says it's going to take 40 hours. Unfortunately, I can't wait that long, and the process is taking up both of my computers.
In case of catastrophic failure what recourse do I have, as the MacBook Air doesn't have a system restore disk?
A: Pressing Command + Q on both machines will exit the migration assistant.
I have a feeling that it copies all files to temporary location before installing them/creating user accounts. So you should be fine. Depending on how far in you might have problems.
| Q: Can You Stop the Migration Assistant Midway Through? Can the Migration Assistant be stopped midway through? I began the wireless transfer from a Mac Mini to a new MacBook Air last night. It still says it's going to take 40 hours. Unfortunately, I can't wait that long, and the process is taking up both of my computers.
In case of catastrophic failure what recourse do I have, as the MacBook Air doesn't have a system restore disk?
A: Pressing Command + Q on both machines will exit the migration assistant.
I have a feeling that it copies all files to temporary location before installing them/creating user accounts. So you should be fine. Depending on how far in you might have problems.
A: The obvious answer is the migration is not supposed to be stopped, but you might disable the network or otherwise halt the machine that is sending the data.
It should be fine since it's just sending data.
The receiving mac might handle the interruption well or not. Something was working on the mac to start the migration assistant - so you should be able to get back to that state fairly easily.
There are specific steps to clean up based on what part of the transfer was in progress.
Safest is to go back to a sane backup and attempt migration again with a faster connection or more time.
Post what happens here or as a follow on question - it's pretty easy to clean up the user accounts if they are the part that got interrupted (instead of apps, system settings, or random non-user files being transferred)
Half a user is usually what you end up with and that's not good in general.
A: I would just stop the process , format the disk, reinstall lion , and migrade using some other method.(Format and Reinstall should take like 40 mins since Lion is downloaded). If you don't have a TM backup disk and need to do it over wifi you can connect the machines to the router using ethernet cable that should probably speed up the process quite much.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 353,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5731",
"question_score": "8",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19248"
} |
0d3421dfa8d2d96d4e373ec20361e5a1c7bfbaf6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make locator.updatedb run daily on Snow Leopard w/o hacking /System/Library? On Snow Leopard, the locate database is updated once a week by a launchd job, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist. I'd like to make the updater run daily, but AFAIK it's considered very bad form to edit anything in /System.
What's the best way to change its StartCalendarInterval so it runs once a day?
A: The way I understand it, that System folder launchd job does nothing but execute /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb itself.
So simply create your own launchd job executing /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb that runs once a day.
As a sidenote, here's a Super User answer which recommends using mdfind -name <filename> instead of locate so that you can use the Spotlight database which is continually updated.
And this Ask Different answer has more info on creating launchd jobs if you need more help with that.
| Q: Make locator.updatedb run daily on Snow Leopard w/o hacking /System/Library? On Snow Leopard, the locate database is updated once a week by a launchd job, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist. I'd like to make the updater run daily, but AFAIK it's considered very bad form to edit anything in /System.
What's the best way to change its StartCalendarInterval so it runs once a day?
A: The way I understand it, that System folder launchd job does nothing but execute /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb itself.
So simply create your own launchd job executing /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb that runs once a day.
As a sidenote, here's a Super User answer which recommends using mdfind -name <filename> instead of locate so that you can use the Spotlight database which is continually updated.
And this Ask Different answer has more info on creating launchd jobs if you need more help with that.
A: The problem with 'locate' and with Spotlight is that it doesn't search every file. It used to be possible to work-around this by updating the updatedb as root, which would warn you that was a potential security hole (i.e. anyone with read access to the database could get a list of every file in any user's $HOME) but since most Mac users are the only user on their computers, that was not a huge concern.
I finally got so fed up that I wrote my own script which will:
*
*make a plain-text index of every file, link, and directory
*search that index using egrep
*offer to restrict searches to $HOME or the current directory if certain arguments are given
*if nothing is found in the index, offer to update the index, or search with mdfind
You can download the script here [Dropbox link]. It should be fairly easy to understand how it works just by reading through it.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 300,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5735",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19263"
} |
95b1735fcff9fd44289ceb2e2fde7a13bb7a15f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can command-line commands be made insensitive to order of filenames and options? I'm new to Mac usage. It seems that most commands trip over options given after the file names. In linux, which I've used for years, it doesn't matter. On Apple, it does. Is there some setting somewhere or some hack to make commands like ls behave "normal"?
dwilson 0====> ls -l p*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dwilson owner 184 Jul 29 13:57 poo.c
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dwilson owner 133 Jul 29 13:57 poo.h
dwilson 0====> ls p* -l
ls: -l: No such file or directory
poo.c poo.h
dwilson 1====>
A: The reason for this is that Mac OS X uses BSD utils (which have a specific order to their parameters), whereas Linux uses the GNU utils, which can accept arguments in any order.
You can download and compile the GNU coreutils package, which should provide you with the utilities you're used to; I would recommend just getting used to the BSD utils, however, as you'll otherwise have problems moving to other systems. The BSD method works fine on GNU systems, but the GNU method is less portable.
| Q: Can command-line commands be made insensitive to order of filenames and options? I'm new to Mac usage. It seems that most commands trip over options given after the file names. In linux, which I've used for years, it doesn't matter. On Apple, it does. Is there some setting somewhere or some hack to make commands like ls behave "normal"?
dwilson 0====> ls -l p*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dwilson owner 184 Jul 29 13:57 poo.c
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dwilson owner 133 Jul 29 13:57 poo.h
dwilson 0====> ls p* -l
ls: -l: No such file or directory
poo.c poo.h
dwilson 1====>
A: The reason for this is that Mac OS X uses BSD utils (which have a specific order to their parameters), whereas Linux uses the GNU utils, which can accept arguments in any order.
You can download and compile the GNU coreutils package, which should provide you with the utilities you're used to; I would recommend just getting used to the BSD utils, however, as you'll otherwise have problems moving to other systems. The BSD method works fine on GNU systems, but the GNU method is less portable.
A: The example you have given is normal. I know of no *nix environment that will take flags/options after the file list for ls
Some commands are just different versions from whichever *nix environment you are coming from. You can fix things like this by using alias or other shells.
A: If you are using MacPorts (and as a Linux connoisseur you probably are), you can install GNU coreutils with:
sudo port install coreutils
and then make sure to add the coreutils path to your path:
export PATH=/opt/local/libexec/gnubin:$PATH
[Sources: TJ Luoma comment to the accepted answer and this blog post.]
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 287,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5741",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19284"
} |
9208483f692a8e4137a1400eae6231674d07b57a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Should I be concerned if the helpd process is eating RAM after an upgrade to Lion? Hallo, I've recently upgraded to Mac OS Lion from Snow Leopard on my 2009 Unibody Macbook. Now, checking in activity monitor I often find a strange process named helpd taking large parts of the memory ~400 MB.
What is it? Is there any solution for it?
A: I hope the fine author of Lingon doesn't disapprove of me using his app to answer this, but here are the reasons why helpd will run.
(the daemon of help)
It's hard to tell if this is one of the processes that needs to run a bit the first time it starts and then it will happily update itself more rapidly when needed (like /Applications being changed) as well as early every Sunday AM.
The virtual memory system should keep the RAM fine, so unless you see it constantly - it's just taking the RAM it needs to serve your help menu with fresh and up to date documents.
You can also disable that launchd job if it's causing you grief until you can isolate why.
| Q: Should I be concerned if the helpd process is eating RAM after an upgrade to Lion? Hallo, I've recently upgraded to Mac OS Lion from Snow Leopard on my 2009 Unibody Macbook. Now, checking in activity monitor I often find a strange process named helpd taking large parts of the memory ~400 MB.
What is it? Is there any solution for it?
A: I hope the fine author of Lingon doesn't disapprove of me using his app to answer this, but here are the reasons why helpd will run.
(the daemon of help)
It's hard to tell if this is one of the processes that needs to run a bit the first time it starts and then it will happily update itself more rapidly when needed (like /Applications being changed) as well as early every Sunday AM.
The virtual memory system should keep the RAM fine, so unless you see it constantly - it's just taking the RAM it needs to serve your help menu with fresh and up to date documents.
You can also disable that launchd job if it's causing you grief until you can isolate why.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 190,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5742",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19288"
} |
6719e8b8591e40e6963158a6048c988b782bdd92 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why would Mail's message counts not match Gmail's? I have Mail 4.5 on 10.6.7 and a Google apps account.
My total message counts for each folder in Mail don't match the counts I see in the GMail web UI.
I don't have any custom labels or folders. I've tried rebuilding the mailbox in Mail, syncing the account, and switching the message view to "threaded". No dice.
Inbox, Sent, and Trash have always been off and Mail always shows more.
*
*Inbox: 62(GM) / 78(Mail)
*Sent: 88(GM) / 117(Mail)
*Trash: 199(GM) / 262(Mail)
A: Gmail counts all mail of a thread to 1 mail. Your version's Mail app not.
| Q: Why would Mail's message counts not match Gmail's? I have Mail 4.5 on 10.6.7 and a Google apps account.
My total message counts for each folder in Mail don't match the counts I see in the GMail web UI.
I don't have any custom labels or folders. I've tried rebuilding the mailbox in Mail, syncing the account, and switching the message view to "threaded". No dice.
Inbox, Sent, and Trash have always been off and Mail always shows more.
*
*Inbox: 62(GM) / 78(Mail)
*Sent: 88(GM) / 117(Mail)
*Trash: 199(GM) / 262(Mail)
A: Gmail counts all mail of a thread to 1 mail. Your version's Mail app not.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 109,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5746",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19306"
} |
6409da4a4b7d48f6173ca0e79a5ca5686c6ec1af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is Apple's Screen Sharing tool secure? I've been using Apple's screen sharing tool to connect from a client to an Xserve for a while and it's just occurred to me that doing so might be quite a bad idea!
I know VNC is inherently insecure and that it is possible to tunnel it over SSH, but does Apple's Screen Sharing tool use any secure transport protocol? If not then surely I've been typing in server passwords on my client and they have been transported over the network in plain text.
Anyway, I now use the Server Management tools and SSH when possible, but I'm sure there will be times when I still need to use VNC.
A: From here:
Mac to Mac screen sharing, using the username/password, is done in a secure manner.
Using a VNC client and the "VNC viewers may control screen with password" is not secure.
| Q: Is Apple's Screen Sharing tool secure? I've been using Apple's screen sharing tool to connect from a client to an Xserve for a while and it's just occurred to me that doing so might be quite a bad idea!
I know VNC is inherently insecure and that it is possible to tunnel it over SSH, but does Apple's Screen Sharing tool use any secure transport protocol? If not then surely I've been typing in server passwords on my client and they have been transported over the network in plain text.
Anyway, I now use the Server Management tools and SSH when possible, but I'm sure there will be times when I still need to use VNC.
A: From here:
Mac to Mac screen sharing, using the username/password, is done in a secure manner.
Using a VNC client and the "VNC viewers may control screen with password" is not secure.
A: john, are you looking for a solution for business or personal use?
for personal use, most of the free hosted solutions are acceptable. most of them use SSL.
if it is for business, i won't agree on putting all of my company's data in the third-party cloud server. I would deploy a screen sharing appliance behind the own firewall to have a private cloud. Have you taken a look at Bomgar and RHUB? They are both cross platforms. Bomgar's functions are more sophisticated, but RHUB's pricing is 10% of Bomgar.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 241,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5749",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19318"
} |
7cb1d866915366a897609393051621e4ac6dd774 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Managing and removing startup processes on OSX Lion My Startup Items for my username (i am admin) shows only dropbox - yet a look at my processes (in activity monitor) shows other helper processes from Adobe, Lexmark, etc, etc.
Where can I see and manage these processes that are being launched on startup?
update
I found a couple in LaunchAgents - Steam and VirtualBox. I've just looked at my activity again and "Seagate Drive Gauge" is showing - I have checked the programs, is there any way to find where this process is being launched from!? LaunchDaemons doesn't exist and startupitems is empty.
update 2
Great stuff, found the PID and looked it up on ps, and it is:
/Library/Application Support/Seagate/Seagate Storage Gauge.app/Contents/MacOS/Seagate Storage Gauge -doautolnch /
BUT - how do I find where that is being called from?
A: Some sandboxed (or App Store) applications also add "login item bookmarks" to /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.$UID/overrides.plist:
$ /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print _com.apple.SMLoginItemBookmarks:com.dayoneapp.dayone-agent' /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist
book 0(UserslaurTorrents
Day One.apContentsLibrary
LoginItemsDay One Reminders.app $4HXh?kld ????$A????H???A?1M?$5DF7A03E-A7FB-3E80-B61D-F10CD8BF7B5D?/?0c75ae904b0f99cb3a794e7360629c822a0f4a14;00000000;0000000000000020;com.apple.app-sandbox.read-write;00000001;01000002;0000000000641712;/users/lauri/torrents/day one.app/contents/library/loginitems/day one reminders.app??????D|@l 0 ? ? ? ? 0 <???????D
You can disable the login item bookmarks with commands like sudo defaults write /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.$UID/overrides.plist com.dayoneapp.dayone-agent '<dict><key>Disabled</key><true/></dict>'.
| Q: Managing and removing startup processes on OSX Lion My Startup Items for my username (i am admin) shows only dropbox - yet a look at my processes (in activity monitor) shows other helper processes from Adobe, Lexmark, etc, etc.
Where can I see and manage these processes that are being launched on startup?
update
I found a couple in LaunchAgents - Steam and VirtualBox. I've just looked at my activity again and "Seagate Drive Gauge" is showing - I have checked the programs, is there any way to find where this process is being launched from!? LaunchDaemons doesn't exist and startupitems is empty.
update 2
Great stuff, found the PID and looked it up on ps, and it is:
/Library/Application Support/Seagate/Seagate Storage Gauge.app/Contents/MacOS/Seagate Storage Gauge -doautolnch /
BUT - how do I find where that is being called from?
A: Some sandboxed (or App Store) applications also add "login item bookmarks" to /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.$UID/overrides.plist:
$ /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print _com.apple.SMLoginItemBookmarks:com.dayoneapp.dayone-agent' /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist
book 0(UserslaurTorrents
Day One.apContentsLibrary
LoginItemsDay One Reminders.app $4HXh?kld ????$A????H???A?1M?$5DF7A03E-A7FB-3E80-B61D-F10CD8BF7B5D?/?0c75ae904b0f99cb3a794e7360629c822a0f4a14;00000000;0000000000000020;com.apple.app-sandbox.read-write;00000001;01000002;0000000000641712;/users/lauri/torrents/day one.app/contents/library/loginitems/day one reminders.app??????D|@l 0 ? ? ? ? 0 <???????D
You can disable the login item bookmarks with commands like sudo defaults write /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.$UID/overrides.plist com.dayoneapp.dayone-agent '<dict><key>Disabled</key><true/></dict>'.
A: Take a look at the following folders:
*
*/Library/StartupItems
*~/Library/StartupItems (if you have one)
*/Library/LaunchDaemons
*/Library/LaunchAgents
*~/Library/LaunchAgents (if you have one)
You should be able to figure out what the StartupItems do by name, but Google them if you're curious.
You can figure out exactly what the Launch Daemons and Launch Agents do by peeking inside their plist files. They'll usually contain a path to something, like a software updater.
As for removing the ones you don't want:
If you see something for a program you've deleted or uninstalled, by all means get rid of it.
If you see something for a program you do still have installed, be careful. These startup items can be as unimportant as an autoupdater or compatibility check, but it's entirely possible that the parent app needs the Item, Daemon, or Agent to run.
So, here's my advice: If you see something from an app(s) (or drivers, etc.) you do have installed, check that app's preferences to see if it lets you disable the function that requires the startup item. If it does, go ahead. If it doesn't, it's there for a reason; don't delete it.
If you really want to play with removing apps' startup stuff, do so carefully and at your own risk. Move the folder or plist to your desktop, restart, and test the app thoroughly. Even if you find it works without its startup item/agent/daemon, keep a copy so you can restore it if something goes wrong.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 442,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5750",
"question_score": "11",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19319"
} |
80f03cd713ea1823e9fc426652b1bfec3b88bc88 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Access Time Capsule's files from iPhone Is it possible to access Yime Capsule's files from iPhone? On my Mac I'm simply connecting to afp://10.0.1.1/ and I have my data.
But on my iPhone, when I try to connect (e.g. from Safari) I get an error.
Is it possible to browse AFP servers from iOS? Or maybe there's a way to enable WebDAV on it?
A: It is not possible to access server shares from Apple's iOS. iOS does not have a Samba or AFP client, and thus, cannot handle these requests.
Time Capsule uses modified AirPort Extreme firmware and supports AFP and SMB file-sharing protocols.
Unfortunately, this is the extent of your capabilities of accessing files on Time Capsule from iOS. Sorry :(
| Q: Access Time Capsule's files from iPhone Is it possible to access Yime Capsule's files from iPhone? On my Mac I'm simply connecting to afp://10.0.1.1/ and I have my data.
But on my iPhone, when I try to connect (e.g. from Safari) I get an error.
Is it possible to browse AFP servers from iOS? Or maybe there's a way to enable WebDAV on it?
A: It is not possible to access server shares from Apple's iOS. iOS does not have a Samba or AFP client, and thus, cannot handle these requests.
Time Capsule uses modified AirPort Extreme firmware and supports AFP and SMB file-sharing protocols.
Unfortunately, this is the extent of your capabilities of accessing files on Time Capsule from iOS. Sorry :(
A: Oplayer HD is a great app. I use it just for watching videos of any format and last time I used it I saw it also had automatically connected to my data folder on the time capsule. Meaning I can download movies onto the time capsule and then watch them from my IPad. super convenient. Oplayer doesn't open every file, but more than you would think.
A: It is possible with 3rd party software.
There are dozens of apps in the App Store for browsing afp/smb network shares, including Time Capsule internal drive.
Some apps focus on video, some focus on documents, some trying to do both.
A: Use file browser on iTunes it'll do the job
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 242,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5755",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19334"
} |
506fd2355ea59e5bc34e96100940f8a49b8230c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get my audiobooks to show up under the Audiobook section? I have audiobooks copied to my iPhone that I didn't buy on iTunes. How can I get them to show up in the Audiobooks section?
It's annoying having them mixed with music, because I usually use shuffle.
A: It's easy to tell iTunes that an audio file is an Audiobook. That will automatically put it in the right section, and not play it when shuffling.
Select the tracks you want to mark as audiobooks and go to File-> Get Info-> Options. Set Media Kind: to Audiobook.
| Q: How do I get my audiobooks to show up under the Audiobook section? I have audiobooks copied to my iPhone that I didn't buy on iTunes. How can I get them to show up in the Audiobooks section?
It's annoying having them mixed with music, because I usually use shuffle.
A: It's easy to tell iTunes that an audio file is an Audiobook. That will automatically put it in the right section, and not play it when shuffling.
Select the tracks you want to mark as audiobooks and go to File-> Get Info-> Options. Set Media Kind: to Audiobook.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 100,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5760",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19343"
} |
9e9cfe0d83fcac29a63151c14bec684db53822f5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Open Finder window from current Terminal location? If I am in a specific path in a Terminal window, how can I open that same window in a new Finder window?
Note: This is the opposite of opening a Terminal from Finder.
A: open .
As a nice addition, add an alias in .bash_profile or .bash_aliases if you have one.
alias finder='open'
Then you can use finder . which I think is more intuitive.
| Q: Open Finder window from current Terminal location? If I am in a specific path in a Terminal window, how can I open that same window in a new Finder window?
Note: This is the opposite of opening a Terminal from Finder.
A: open .
As a nice addition, add an alias in .bash_profile or .bash_aliases if you have one.
alias finder='open'
Then you can use finder . which I think is more intuitive.
A: If you have autojump installed, you don't even have to type the full path to the directory. You can simply type jo partialdirectoryname, and autojump will open a new Finder window in the specified directory.
I love this method, because you don't have to remember the entire directory name. Autojump keeps a list of most commonly used locations, and automatically knows which directory you're referring to, even if you only give it part of the name.
A: Typing open . in Terminal will open the current working directory in a Finder window.
But there is also an alternative version
open `pwd`
A: Typing open . in Terminal will open the current working directory in a Finder window.
A: Stretch goal!
To expand on the answer above (because the more appropriate related question is marked as a dupe and can't receive new answers)...
I've added a function to my ~/.bash_profile to handle revealing a file or directory:
# Reveal a file or directory in Finder
reveal() {
# grab the first arg or default to pwd
local basedir=${1:-${PWD}}
if [[ -f "$basedir" ]]; then
# ..we passed a file, so use its containing directory
basedir=$(dirname "$basedir")
fi
# basedir is a directory in now, so open will activate Finder.
# The argument is quoted to accommodate spaces in the filename.
open "$basedir"
}
…one liner:
reveal() { local dir=${1:-${PWD}}; [[ -f "$dir" ]] && dir=$(dirname "$dir") || true; open "$dir"; }
To install the function:
*
*paste/save it into ~/.bash_profile
*source ~/.bash_profile or open a new terminal/tab
The context for my use is that I'll be browsing around using ls with tab completion, then when I find what I'm looking for, I can reveal (or cd or subl) the most recent arg, like:
ls dir/subdir<tab tab>
subsubdir anotherdir
ls dir/subdir/anotherdir
reveal !$
Thanks to @nohillside, @Ed Randall, and Community for improvements!
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 385,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5768",
"question_score": "189",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19375"
} |
a185a872a055e583b8c834459d8c215192516b9b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the partition table for my hard drive? I have an external hard drive with Master Boot Record partition table.
I wish to change that to GUID so that I can modify the partition on the fly next time. How do I do that? Is it possible to do with disk utility?
(Similar to this, but I have an external hard drive)
A: This is done the same way with external or internal drives.
Start your Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility). In the left pane, select the disk for which you wish to change the partition table (select the disk, not one of its partitions, disks are at the "top levels" in the tree view in the left pane).
In the right pane, select the "Partition" tab. You must repartition your drive in order to change to GUID, so in the "Partition Layout" dropbox select "1 partition" (or however many you want).
Click on the "Options..." button right below the list view showing your partitions and select "GUID partition table". Adjust your partitions as needed and hit "Apply".
| Q: How do I change the partition table for my hard drive? I have an external hard drive with Master Boot Record partition table.
I wish to change that to GUID so that I can modify the partition on the fly next time. How do I do that? Is it possible to do with disk utility?
(Similar to this, but I have an external hard drive)
A: This is done the same way with external or internal drives.
Start your Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility). In the left pane, select the disk for which you wish to change the partition table (select the disk, not one of its partitions, disks are at the "top levels" in the tree view in the left pane).
In the right pane, select the "Partition" tab. You must repartition your drive in order to change to GUID, so in the "Partition Layout" dropbox select "1 partition" (or however many you want).
Click on the "Options..." button right below the list view showing your partitions and select "GUID partition table". Adjust your partitions as needed and hit "Apply".
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 185,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5770",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19388"
} |
df3540d7af52858433ffe23e5da9260c09b41987 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I set up an IRC server on OS X for my local network? Is there a nice way to set up an IRC server for my wireless home network, running on an old Mac Mini?
On other forums people have recommended compiling IRCD-Hybrid for OS X. I have Homebrew installed and it contains a formula for ngIRCd; would that work?
Or should I give up and just use the Bonjour functionality built into iChat?
A: Since you have Homebrew installed, ngircd is very simple to install and configure.
Install ngIRCd
$ brew install ngircd
Add /usr/local/sbin to your PATH
$ vi ~/.bash_profile
edit the config file (very easy to follow, even for a beginner, as the defaults are just fine for everything.) Note the path may be different for you to homebrew / ngircd version folders.
$ cd /usr/local/mxcl-homebrew-697d2ae/Cellar/ngircd/17.1/etc/
$ vi ngircd.conf
Here's a sample config file, should you need it.
Verify your config, if you like:
$ ngircd --configtest
Then simply start the server:
$ ngircd
| Q: How do I set up an IRC server on OS X for my local network? Is there a nice way to set up an IRC server for my wireless home network, running on an old Mac Mini?
On other forums people have recommended compiling IRCD-Hybrid for OS X. I have Homebrew installed and it contains a formula for ngIRCd; would that work?
Or should I give up and just use the Bonjour functionality built into iChat?
A: Since you have Homebrew installed, ngircd is very simple to install and configure.
Install ngIRCd
$ brew install ngircd
Add /usr/local/sbin to your PATH
$ vi ~/.bash_profile
edit the config file (very easy to follow, even for a beginner, as the defaults are just fine for everything.) Note the path may be different for you to homebrew / ngircd version folders.
$ cd /usr/local/mxcl-homebrew-697d2ae/Cellar/ngircd/17.1/etc/
$ vi ngircd.conf
Here's a sample config file, should you need it.
Verify your config, if you like:
$ ngircd --configtest
Then simply start the server:
$ ngircd
A: There are a couple packages available via MacPorts. If you haven't used MacPorts it's just like yum or apt-get on Linux.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 192,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5776",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19411"
} |
cc89f15e7a2be8798dfd2cf51d6e1fe74322a17c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Understanding what is being downloaded Using iStat (which provides a small graph in the menubar showing the present upload and download speeds), I notice once in a while that something is being downloaded, without any action on my part. Since I allow most of the programs to download all the updates, any of them, plus MacOSX updates, plus Dropbox etc. may be the culprit at any given time. But is there a quick way to understand what exactly is being downloaded at a given moment (for instance, to stop it if the case might be)?
A: There are different ways of doing this. The easiest way is to use an application designed for this purpose like Little Snitch which has the option of showing a window that displays what files are being downloaded/uploaded and to where.
| Q: Understanding what is being downloaded Using iStat (which provides a small graph in the menubar showing the present upload and download speeds), I notice once in a while that something is being downloaded, without any action on my part. Since I allow most of the programs to download all the updates, any of them, plus MacOSX updates, plus Dropbox etc. may be the culprit at any given time. But is there a quick way to understand what exactly is being downloaded at a given moment (for instance, to stop it if the case might be)?
A: There are different ways of doing this. The easiest way is to use an application designed for this purpose like Little Snitch which has the option of showing a window that displays what files are being downloaded/uploaded and to where.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 137,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5778",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19421"
} |
c207c245d96df1672831d79bce2f4d8055cab7aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the clip length with the iMovie 2011 trailer presets? I'm trying to prepare a trailer with nice presets incoming in iMovie 2011...
Can I change the storyboard or alter clip length? If so, how?
A: Yes, you can do this. I'd recommend using the storyboard shot list to get as much of the trailer done as you want following the recommended settings/lengths.
Then, when you are ready to take more control, use the File->Convert to Project menu option. This will transition the Project settings to the normal iMovie project version and you can change clip durations using the "Clip Adjustments" popup. You can also drag more event footage into the project/change or add transitions, etc. just as you would a normal project.
| Q: How do I change the clip length with the iMovie 2011 trailer presets? I'm trying to prepare a trailer with nice presets incoming in iMovie 2011...
Can I change the storyboard or alter clip length? If so, how?
A: Yes, you can do this. I'd recommend using the storyboard shot list to get as much of the trailer done as you want following the recommended settings/lengths.
Then, when you are ready to take more control, use the File->Convert to Project menu option. This will transition the Project settings to the normal iMovie project version and you can change clip durations using the "Clip Adjustments" popup. You can also drag more event footage into the project/change or add transitions, etc. just as you would a normal project.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 127,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5784",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19435"
} |
7ca3812d956dfecf8446ec533a7d2072f14ccf1e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I show the Dock in full-screen mode? This one took me awhile to discover, but you can show the Dock while in Lion's new full-screen mode:
Place your cursor to the side where you currently store your Dock (right, left, or bottom), so that it's sitting on the last pixel of that edge. Then lift your finger and push towards the edge again, holding it in the push. Voilà, the Dock appears.
Small thing, but I found this particular interface just brilliant. It prevents the Dock showing up accidentally, which could be a common problem in full-screen mode, given that, well, we're using the entire screen all the way up to that edge that normally triggers the Dock.
A: The answer you posted in the question (unorthodox, yes) is correct: you have to move the mouse toward the edge of the screen in a separate motion.
But also, note that you don't have to lift your finger. You can just move the mouse to the edge of the screen, pause, and give it a little extra nudge.
| Q: How do I show the Dock in full-screen mode? This one took me awhile to discover, but you can show the Dock while in Lion's new full-screen mode:
Place your cursor to the side where you currently store your Dock (right, left, or bottom), so that it's sitting on the last pixel of that edge. Then lift your finger and push towards the edge again, holding it in the push. Voilà, the Dock appears.
Small thing, but I found this particular interface just brilliant. It prevents the Dock showing up accidentally, which could be a common problem in full-screen mode, given that, well, we're using the entire screen all the way up to that edge that normally triggers the Dock.
A: The answer you posted in the question (unorthodox, yes) is correct: you have to move the mouse toward the edge of the screen in a separate motion.
But also, note that you don't have to lift your finger. You can just move the mouse to the edge of the screen, pause, and give it a little extra nudge.
A: In order to get the Dock to appear for full-screen app, rest (don't click) your finger on the mouse anywhere on the screen, while swiping to the bottom of the screen. The Dock will then appear immediately when you hit bottom.
Note that none of the other methods described here work reliably for me, but this one does every time.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 241,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5786",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19444"
} |
9fcf111550aa9095f7dbcd7d5c2aa09e3ea35fa5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Google Chrome bug in OS X Lion Is it just me or is there a right-click bug for Chrome in OS X Lion? I first noticed that double finger tapping the trackpad didn't show any menu when in chrome (either on a link or on anything).
I thought it was a problem with my trackpad settings in OS X Lion but I checked the Finder and Firefox and right-clicking DOES work. Was it broken together with other mouse gestures in OS X Lion?
Is there a current fix for this?
A: Looks like it was one of my plugins: Mouse gestures. I was wondering why it was working on my speed dials page(the right click) and when I turned off gestures, right click suddenly worked.
| Q: Google Chrome bug in OS X Lion Is it just me or is there a right-click bug for Chrome in OS X Lion? I first noticed that double finger tapping the trackpad didn't show any menu when in chrome (either on a link or on anything).
I thought it was a problem with my trackpad settings in OS X Lion but I checked the Finder and Firefox and right-clicking DOES work. Was it broken together with other mouse gestures in OS X Lion?
Is there a current fix for this?
A: Looks like it was one of my plugins: Mouse gestures. I was wondering why it was working on my speed dials page(the right click) and when I turned off gestures, right click suddenly worked.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 126,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5790",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19451"
} |
e0edd21658ece4ba4fbd081adc4c80963d7d2df1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to mount an NFS share I'm trying to access my (Synology) NAS share through NFS and always get the same issue.
First, I activated NFS support in my NAS:
Then I set the permissions on the NAS:
My MBP has the IP 192.168.1.109.
From there it seems OK. a showmount -e 192.168.1.2 shows the list:
Exports list on 192.168.1.2:
/volume1/video 192.168.1.109
/volume1/homes 192.168.1.109
But unfortunately, my mount always fails:
GroundControl:/ ludo$ sudo mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.1.2:/volume1/homes /Volumes/home
mount_nfs: can't mount /volume1/homes from 192.168.1.2 onto /Volumes/home: Operation not permitted
The /Volume/home directory is created upfront.
Trying with a non-existing share on the NAS, for example /volume1/qwerty gives a Permission denied error, which is OK.
But what is this Operation not permitted error?
Trying through DiskUtils>NFS Mounts gives the same result.
What did I miss?
A: Or just use the "resvport" option with the mount command.
mount -o resvport nasbox.local.com:/try /mnt
| Q: Unable to mount an NFS share I'm trying to access my (Synology) NAS share through NFS and always get the same issue.
First, I activated NFS support in my NAS:
Then I set the permissions on the NAS:
My MBP has the IP 192.168.1.109.
From there it seems OK. a showmount -e 192.168.1.2 shows the list:
Exports list on 192.168.1.2:
/volume1/video 192.168.1.109
/volume1/homes 192.168.1.109
But unfortunately, my mount always fails:
GroundControl:/ ludo$ sudo mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.1.2:/volume1/homes /Volumes/home
mount_nfs: can't mount /volume1/homes from 192.168.1.2 onto /Volumes/home: Operation not permitted
The /Volume/home directory is created upfront.
Trying with a non-existing share on the NAS, for example /volume1/qwerty gives a Permission denied error, which is OK.
But what is this Operation not permitted error?
Trying through DiskUtils>NFS Mounts gives the same result.
What did I miss?
A: Or just use the "resvport" option with the mount command.
mount -o resvport nasbox.local.com:/try /mnt
A: Finally found the solution in an old forum thread.
My solution was to mount with "-P" to force the use of a reserved port number, as described in mount_nfs(8) page.
The solution is then to use the -P option to the mount command.
Now works like a charm (but doesn't fix my initial issue!)
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 208,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5796",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19466"
} |
583ae536d4aef4f88ba19f72928976975ba3f496 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't enable File Sharing under OSX Lion So I've upgraded to Lion, but now I can't enable File Sharing, when I press the checkbox, it simple shows the "correct" symbol and in less than half of a second it removes it again.
This happens the same for the 2 checkboxes under the Options... as well.
What can I do to enable File Sharing again?
A: It turns out it's not only me, but following this amazing tutorial everything whent smooth and worked out nicely...
| Q: Can't enable File Sharing under OSX Lion So I've upgraded to Lion, but now I can't enable File Sharing, when I press the checkbox, it simple shows the "correct" symbol and in less than half of a second it removes it again.
This happens the same for the 2 checkboxes under the Options... as well.
What can I do to enable File Sharing again?
A: It turns out it's not only me, but following this amazing tutorial everything whent smooth and worked out nicely...
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 85,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5798",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19469"
} |
c248c527ebb2915f073a8eec76569f9a92eac28e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: NFS, AFP, SMB... Advantages and drawbacks on a Mac OS system Struggling to fix several issues since I switched to Lion (see here and there), I came across several ways of connecting network shares to my MBP: NFS, AFP, SMB, CIFS (maybe others).
What are the differences between all these protocols and what is the one giving the more advantages to a MacOS system?
A: I tend to see AFP and SMB/CIFS as end user methods, NFS can easily be used on OS X as an autofs system for automatically mounting everything from one or more file server.
Generally AFP and SMB/CIFS you need to use Finder, but NFS you can simply jump to /net and start visiting any host.
AFP is going to support Apple's resource forks and attributes natively, SMB/CIFS will by default dump these attributes into a new folder .DS_Store everywhere.
The document Mac OS X Server File Services Administration has a useful chapter titled "Understanding File Services" which also introduces the differences.
| Q: NFS, AFP, SMB... Advantages and drawbacks on a Mac OS system Struggling to fix several issues since I switched to Lion (see here and there), I came across several ways of connecting network shares to my MBP: NFS, AFP, SMB, CIFS (maybe others).
What are the differences between all these protocols and what is the one giving the more advantages to a MacOS system?
A: I tend to see AFP and SMB/CIFS as end user methods, NFS can easily be used on OS X as an autofs system for automatically mounting everything from one or more file server.
Generally AFP and SMB/CIFS you need to use Finder, but NFS you can simply jump to /net and start visiting any host.
AFP is going to support Apple's resource forks and attributes natively, SMB/CIFS will by default dump these attributes into a new folder .DS_Store everywhere.
The document Mac OS X Server File Services Administration has a useful chapter titled "Understanding File Services" which also introduces the differences.
A: I'm writing this comment in 2016, Apple defaults now to SMB, however MacOs performance remains abysmal in SMB. On Gigabit ethernet, it's generally 40% slower (50 to 75 MB/s in SMB vs 80 to 120 MB/s in AFP or NFS). With 10GigEthernet, it's even worse: SMB tops at 250 MB/s, while AFP reaches happily 1 GB/s and maxes out the link.
I'm making comparisons using high-end linux storage servers from various client machines. A comparable Windows or Linux client maxes out 1 GgigE link on SMB (100-120 MB/s), and reaches 800 MB/s or more with 10 GigE. It's really MacOS SMB client implementation that sucks rocks.
A: Essentially, NFS is the Unix way of doing network shares, AFP is the Apple way, and SMB/CIFS (they're basically the same thing) is the Microsoft way. AFP will generally work best with a MacOS system (except that most third-party implementations are currently struggling to catch up with a change made in Lion where an older and less secure authentication method was dropped) because it's better integrated with OS X authentication and with Time Machine.
A: The link (Mac OS X Server File Services Administration) returns a damaged file when trying to open. Tracked it down to this:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/FileServerAdmin_v10.6.pdf
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 373,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5799",
"question_score": "9",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19470"
} |
336624f7c163e8fc906402ecf36c9b7d51ff283a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I convert a HFS+ volume to HFSX (case sensitive) without extra software tools? After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion with added volume encryption along the way, my boot partition wasn't case sensitive any more. Is there a way to convert it back to being case sensitive without reformatting? I know that iPartition claims to be able to do this, but I'm a little hesitant to shell out money for a tool that I'd probably use exactly once.
A: Sadly, no.
Your money or your time surely will soon be spent.
| Q: Can I convert a HFS+ volume to HFSX (case sensitive) without extra software tools? After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion with added volume encryption along the way, my boot partition wasn't case sensitive any more. Is there a way to convert it back to being case sensitive without reformatting? I know that iPartition claims to be able to do this, but I'm a little hesitant to shell out money for a tool that I'd probably use exactly once.
A: Sadly, no.
Your money or your time surely will soon be spent.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 93,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5803",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19486"
} |
0d591be5b4e6c504c159b431e2ad79af4eae4ddf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the transfer speed of AirDrop? Tried transferring 4gb file yesterday and seems to be taking such a long time. Anyone knows the transfer speed?
It may help to say that I'm using last year's AirPort Extreme.
EDIT: Two years later, I wonder: what about in 802.11ac? If the laptops supports 802.11ac but the router does not, what will the speed be?
A: Just tested the theory of faster AirDrop speeds between computers in different networks and it is true. The difference in speeds were from 1MB/s to approx. 5MB/s. So 500% increase. I saw a transfer of 8.58 GB go from an expected 2,5 hours to about 33 minutes.
When you transfer files be on different networks or on none at all.
| Q: What is the transfer speed of AirDrop? Tried transferring 4gb file yesterday and seems to be taking such a long time. Anyone knows the transfer speed?
It may help to say that I'm using last year's AirPort Extreme.
EDIT: Two years later, I wonder: what about in 802.11ac? If the laptops supports 802.11ac but the router does not, what will the speed be?
A: Just tested the theory of faster AirDrop speeds between computers in different networks and it is true. The difference in speeds were from 1MB/s to approx. 5MB/s. So 500% increase. I saw a transfer of 8.58 GB go from an expected 2,5 hours to about 33 minutes.
When you transfer files be on different networks or on none at all.
A: I have been noticing varying speeds between my laptops (Macbook Pro 13' 2010 and Macbook Pro 13' 2011). Sometimes the speed is quite fast, and sometimes it is awfully slow.
I suspect that if the two computer are connected on the same wireless network, the speed is slow (as the files travel through my contemptible router).
On the other hand, if the Macbooks Pro are not connected on the same network, the transfer seems to be way faster.
I have not thoroughly tested this so we would need confirmation.
A: AirDrop works outside of whatever WiFi networks are around and doesn't need a base station. It is like a mesh network where all the devices just talk between each other. If nothing else is "sharing" the road - you get the full speed. The further away you are or the more interference, the slower it gets. AirDrop will work by passing the data from Mac to Mac so it will get the file there (although slower) if it has to jump once or twice along the way.
That being said, for two close machines, the transfer speed should be the max wireless speed between your two machines. Hard drives are almost always faster reading and writing than WiFi speeds, so the radio link is generally the slowest.
However, all of that is just theoretical. You can check your actual speed by opening Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor
Click the Network tab on the bottom and you should see stats about how fast the data is being sent and received. Detach from WiFi base stations to let AirDrop get all the hardware if you want the fastest transfers - leave it on if you need internet while dropping that large file.
A: I just tested with a friend's MacBook Pro and mine. Found it to be around 30x faster. If you connect to the network, it sends data through the router. So disconnect both computers from all networks and see for yourself.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 458,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5812",
"question_score": "22",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19517"
} |
b5d2c6f79b88012ebf2b15d61a260002c29c8433 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add info to Dock/Menubar from Shell in macOSX I'm working on MacOSX environnement, but I would like to tweak it a bit.
I have a few bash scripts I used in Linux to retrieve infos such as IP, average ping and so, that I would like to be displayed in a persistant place. (I.E. the doc, or the menu bar).
I did not found any documentation on this topic, can someone provide a few link or the name of the correct man page to read about that?
thanks
A: I just found this: https://github.com/stretchr/bitbar.
Works like a charm.
| Q: Add info to Dock/Menubar from Shell in macOSX I'm working on MacOSX environnement, but I would like to tweak it a bit.
I have a few bash scripts I used in Linux to retrieve infos such as IP, average ping and so, that I would like to be displayed in a persistant place. (I.E. the doc, or the menu bar).
I did not found any documentation on this topic, can someone provide a few link or the name of the correct man page to read about that?
thanks
A: I just found this: https://github.com/stretchr/bitbar.
Works like a charm.
A: The Dock and menu bar are both for use by applications only. Dock icons are managed by the NSDockTile class, and items on the right side of the menu bar are managed by NSStatusItem. If you want to display this information in one of those places, you'll have to create an application to do so. (If you can't convert your bash scripts to C/Obj-C, you can use NSTask to run them.)
A: How about a small tool: shellwrangler? - http://shellwrangler.com
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 180,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5816",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19539"
} |
afb3538acfad2a5dff07ce6c70625666b5fdf347 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using "+Left/Right" to move between words in an editing window I've recently switched to a MacBook as my main platform for doing work. Previously, I was an all-Linux sort of person (I now run Linux under VMware). But there are still a few UI differences that are driving me crazy, and one of them is this:
I am used to being able to use ctrl+→/← when in a web form, or even in most editing apps, to move left and right by a whole word. However, on my MBP those keys switch between desktops in Spaces. And where MacOS tends to use the ⌘-key for common control-isms (like ctrl+C, etc.), ⌘+← and ⌘+→` do start-of-line and end-of-line, respectively.
Is there a modifier for moving by words, under MacOS?
A: *
*⌥← and ⌥→ move word backward or forward
*⌥⇧← and ⌥⇧→ move word backward or forward and modify the selection
*⌥⌫ and ⌥⌦ delete word backward or forward
The same shortcuts with ⌃ substituted for ⌥ are used to navigate subwords in some editors like Xcode and TextMate.
A reference of the standard text editing shortcuts: hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html
| Q: Using "+Left/Right" to move between words in an editing window I've recently switched to a MacBook as my main platform for doing work. Previously, I was an all-Linux sort of person (I now run Linux under VMware). But there are still a few UI differences that are driving me crazy, and one of them is this:
I am used to being able to use ctrl+→/← when in a web form, or even in most editing apps, to move left and right by a whole word. However, on my MBP those keys switch between desktops in Spaces. And where MacOS tends to use the ⌘-key for common control-isms (like ctrl+C, etc.), ⌘+← and ⌘+→` do start-of-line and end-of-line, respectively.
Is there a modifier for moving by words, under MacOS?
A: *
*⌥← and ⌥→ move word backward or forward
*⌥⇧← and ⌥⇧→ move word backward or forward and modify the selection
*⌥⌫ and ⌥⌦ delete word backward or forward
The same shortcuts with ⌃ substituted for ⌥ are used to navigate subwords in some editors like Xcode and TextMate.
A reference of the standard text editing shortcuts: hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html
A: Recently updated by Apple for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:
Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines: Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts
… driving me crazy … I am used to being able to use ctrl+→/← …
I highly recommend adopting the shortcuts given in the guidelines. There'll be a period of craziness whilst you learn the norms, but ultimately it'll make for a better overall experience of the operating system.
There may be user-friendly ways of re-mapping things — on a system-wide or per-application basis — but my personal experience of remapping things (years ago) is that eventually, despite best intentions, there'll be some unexpected conflict or muddle, after which you could find yourself not only choosing to learn the norms, but also extracting yourself from a muddle (making painful the deferred learning).
A good example of potential for muddle: Terminal in Lion now follows HIG (Human Interface Guidelines), which is good. You might be able to remap things for Terminal but — depending on your uses of Terminal — I imagine the risk of something going horribly wrong.
A: ⌥ + arrow keys will let you navigate by word. As you said, ⌘ + arrow keys will move to the end/beginning of the line or document. Both of these can also be used with ⇧ to select, or the delete key. Furthermore, you can double-click to select a word and triple-click to select a paragraph — and if you double-click-drag or triple-click-drag, you can select multiple words or paragraphs.
Also useful, and perhaps familiar to you coming from Linux:
*
*ctrl A moves to the beginning of a paragraph
*ctrl E moves to the end of a paragraph
*fn ⌫ deletes forwards (and can be combined with ⌘ or ⌥;
you can also use ctrlD which doesn't work with the other modifiers)
*ctrl K deletes to the end of the paragraph (kill)
*ctrl Y pastes that text back (yank)
*ctrl L scrolls so the selected text is visible
*ctrl T transposes the two characters next to the cursor
*ctrl O inserts a newline after the cursor
More interesting shortcuts and uses of the keyboard can be found here and elsewhere on the internet.
A: Try pressing ⌥ + ← or →.
A: Use "Application Shortcuts" in "Keyboard Shourtcuts" of System preferences for assigning a custom key command mapping for system level or individual application. More info can be found by searching for "How to Remap Keyboard Shortcut in OS X".
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 599,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5818",
"question_score": "9",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19544"
} |
d29cf562f6f9382b363b5daf0dcf522d979d411b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I watch 3D movies on my Mac? Can I watch 3D movies on my Mac? If not, can I just watch them normally in 2D (not having 2 pictures side by side).
A: With VLC on Mac OSX the menu options are different from Windows.
VLC v2.1.5 menu options are ...
Window -> Video Effects
When the Video Effects pop-up window is displayed, select the Miscellaneous tab and tick the Anaglyph option.
| Q: Can I watch 3D movies on my Mac? Can I watch 3D movies on my Mac? If not, can I just watch them normally in 2D (not having 2 pictures side by side).
A: With VLC on Mac OSX the menu options are different from Windows.
VLC v2.1.5 menu options are ...
Window -> Video Effects
When the Video Effects pop-up window is displayed, select the Miscellaneous tab and tick the Anaglyph option.
A: According to this Apple document:
Autodesk’s FBX for QuickTime enables QuickTime as a 3D viewing solution that supports content from any professional 3D package. With FBX for QuickTime, digital artists can share, view, and interact with 3D content seamlessly, efficiently, and at no cost. Now available for both Mac OS X and Windows.
So, I'm guessing that's a yes.
If you want to take that 3D movie and convert it to 2D, you can most likely use MPEG Streamclip for that.
A: I tried the suggested VLC technique (on MacOS X) for viewing just one "side" of the 3D movie, but can't get it just right.
Referring to the first answer --- there's no "Tools" menu to start with --- what is the Mac equivalent?
Referring to the last answer --- in the "Video ->Aspect Ratio ->" submenu, there are a few fixed aspect ratios, non of which stretches the single side to the desired proportions, and I haven't found a way to add new aspect ratios to the menu.
Also, I found that the best way to remove one side is using the "crop" tab in the "Window->Video Effects..." dialog, specifying "1024" on the right crop (leaving the rest sides with 0 cropping).
Still this is a partial solution for me in that I can't properly enjoy the movies because of the wrong aspect ratio.
A: Yes. A Mac can display side-by-side 3D content such as 3D content from YouTube and other sources. Furthermore, the refresh rates needed for alternating glasses is easily achieved by Macs produced in the last 10 or more years. The same goes for 3D encoding schemes where half of the screen goes to each eye with a prism or mirror to help the process. Lastly, the encoding that uses color shifting is fine with the resolution for Macs so unless your 3D has some odd requirements that you don't list, the answer is yes.
What you need to see that content in 3D is a 3D display system. I use a pair of Vuzix video eyewear connected to me Mac or, with an alternate Controller (interface box), I can also connect them to my iPhone or iPad and watch 3D content from those as well.
A: Try ATK Player. It presents 3D videos in red-cyan, green-magenta or amber-blue mode. You need a suitable glasses to watch your 3D videos.
A: There are some available color-coded 3D movies available, you need cheap color glasses instead of electric synchronized and extremely costly ones.
Most common is the famous red-and-blue style.
Common cinema movies from like Avatar are displayed in a different brown-and-green color spectrum.
But if you want to watch it 2d, then you just have to download VLC, then open your double movie, then select menu "Video -> Aspect ratio -> *" then here you will select to double the original width.
Now when your video looks ok, you just hold the control key and scroll the trackpad to zoom your screen into one of the 2 videos.
Et voilá!
A: In mac VLC. either go to "windows" tab or press command+E. in that go to mice' tab and click on the Anaglyph.. thats it SBS movie will play in normal 3D
A: There are plenty of tutorials on the web on how to watch SBS 3D movies on your mac, such as using VLC player, however how to watch a SBS 3D movie in 2D on a mac is much harder to find. For that you need another player (VLC for mac will not give you a good Aspect Ratio (AR) because there is no option to customize the AR. Windows version does have custom AR). Instead you could download the free media player Sview http://www.sview.ru/en/download/, there are others that can do the same thing this is just one option.
Once you open the movie in Sview DO NOT ENLARGE TO FULLSCREEN YET.
Start by setting it up like so:
Media > Stereoscopic Format > Parallel Pair
Change Device > Dual Output
View > Stereo Output > Left View
View > Display Ratio > 2.21:1
Now you should see your movie in 2D and in the correct AR. It's time to go fullscreen and enjoy.
A: I found a solution
Window>Video Effects>Crop> Fill the left side with 1000 px
Enjoy
and there is a con... and that is videos will play in 4:3 res if someone can fix that it will be great.
A: hopefully you made it to here. I'm a 3D junkie. First up, no - there is no way to watch standard SBS 3D on mac using VLC, but it is only red and cyan. VLC is safe to download, so no problems there. However, if you have active shutter 3D glasses, it will not work. The best workable alternative is to watch on TV or Projector using a 3D capable blu-ray player. The good news here is there are ways to make 3D movies from 2D movies that make it worth the investment. DVD FAB 12 offers a DVD convertor program that allows you to turn 2D into SBS 3D. It does take a while - like an hour of conversion for 10 minutes of footage. Now you can make your own 3D content. This is the best option because there is very limited 3D content out there. I rip YouTube videos downloaded with 4K Downloader then convert to 3D overnight. This is by far your best option. Try the SONY 3d blu-ray players available from BandHphoto. Pain in the ass, true. But if you love 3D this is totally the way to go.
A: A Mac can display side-by-side 3D content with 3D players, or turn them into 2D files instead.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 1027,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5821",
"question_score": "8",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19556"
} |
7b1adf74af3e3ad9b57f064ae6a90efe18cc081e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to replace Finder altogether? It seems that a rather large group of Mac users considers Finder to be a product that contains a number of conceptual failures and oversimplifications.
It is however not clear whether Finder can be completely replaced with other application.
Is it possible to remove it from the OS, including thing like file open dialogs etc?
A: There's an Apple-documented general overview of the technologies that specifically support kiosk on OS X —
Technical Note TN2062: Creating Kiosks
— with a section Replacing the Finder.
… Is it possible to remove it from the OS,
I recommend not attempting to remove Finder.
including thing like file open dialogs etc? …
Of possible interest, in Apple Support Communities:
*
*preferring to not show the sidebar in expanded save dialogues
| Q: Is there a way to replace Finder altogether? It seems that a rather large group of Mac users considers Finder to be a product that contains a number of conceptual failures and oversimplifications.
It is however not clear whether Finder can be completely replaced with other application.
Is it possible to remove it from the OS, including thing like file open dialogs etc?
A: There's an Apple-documented general overview of the technologies that specifically support kiosk on OS X —
Technical Note TN2062: Creating Kiosks
— with a section Replacing the Finder.
… Is it possible to remove it from the OS,
I recommend not attempting to remove Finder.
including thing like file open dialogs etc? …
Of possible interest, in Apple Support Communities:
*
*preferring to not show the sidebar in expanded save dialogues
A: It is quite easy to remove finder. Just disable the launchd job (making sure to start your replacement or know how to ssh into the mac to launch finder by hand / enable the launchd job)
You will break your mac software if you don't know what you are doing.
It's really as simple as throwing the following two lines inside the <dict> </dict> part of /System/Library/Launch\ Agents/com.apple.finder.plist
<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>
The OS supplies many API - so the file open dialog really isn't finder but a lower level construct. Finder calls those API like any other program, it's just that Finder is expected by the designers to be running all the time.
If you are looking to rip out all API that finder calls or that call finder, the job would be Herculean (Sisyphean if you fail to pull it off).
Most people unhappy with finder run something like PathFinder.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 287,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5830",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19589"
} |
540396f6ff578ac3462736f14537defade1bce06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I charge an iPhone with another device's USB charger? I have a USB car charger from TomTom. Can I use it to charge my iPhone 4, or will that damage my phone?
A: Yes, it works great. The iPhone charges over USB like many other devices. The iPhone can accept more current than the USB specification, so you might have a slower charge than a charger that provides that extra wattage, but the iPhone circuitry is designed to take any normal USB charge and properly handle the charge which includes pausing it when the battery is full.
| Q: Can I charge an iPhone with another device's USB charger? I have a USB car charger from TomTom. Can I use it to charge my iPhone 4, or will that damage my phone?
A: Yes, it works great. The iPhone charges over USB like many other devices. The iPhone can accept more current than the USB specification, so you might have a slower charge than a charger that provides that extra wattage, but the iPhone circuitry is designed to take any normal USB charge and properly handle the charge which includes pausing it when the battery is full.
A: Also, just so you know, because I was curious about this myself, it is safe to charge the iPhone/iPod with the larger 10W iPad AC wall charger. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4327
A: You can charge an iPhone with most any device which has a USB port. USB is designed such that it starts with a small amount of electricity and the device requests more if it wants it – like to charge, for example. I have never heard of a device being damaged by USB power and I sincerely doubt it's possible without some kind of hardware fault to begin with.
In fact, the problem most people find (especially with the iPad) is that the USB port can't provide enough power. This is the cause of the "Not Charging" notification which you get on iPads. I suppose that as the iPhone develops in power (with rumours of the A5 iPad chip coming to the iPhone 5 in September) this may become the case more generally.
As far as iPhones not getting enough juice, it's generally fine. Especially with the 12V cigarette lighter socket to which you are probably referring. The one exception I have found is the USB ports on in car stereos which are designed for memory sticks only (in order to play MP3s loaded on the sticks). Those just aren't built to supply enough power, and won't charge an iPhone (in my experience).
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 332,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5839",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19643"
} |
452f6f6686dae62d79bff91a449c3b703475ef1d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What format for my external drive allows use with Mac and Windows? How can I use my external hard drive on Mac OS so I can modify/edit files on both OS's: Mac and Windows? How should I format it?
A: My answer from a similar question: Best File System for Sharing Between OS X and Windows
If you're working exclusively with 10.6.6 or greater on the Mac side, try exFAT. Native read/write support under Windows and OS X, and none of the file size limits of FAT32. Disk Utility will happily format your drives using it.
It's probably your best option, as it avoids any user-space filesystem drivers, which personally make me a bit uneasy.
XP and Vista support exFAT with appropriate updates: Vista as of SP1, and XP with SP2 and the KB955704 update
Also a good point from the above posters re: MBR vs. GPT on 32bit systems.
| Q: What format for my external drive allows use with Mac and Windows? How can I use my external hard drive on Mac OS so I can modify/edit files on both OS's: Mac and Windows? How should I format it?
A: My answer from a similar question: Best File System for Sharing Between OS X and Windows
If you're working exclusively with 10.6.6 or greater on the Mac side, try exFAT. Native read/write support under Windows and OS X, and none of the file size limits of FAT32. Disk Utility will happily format your drives using it.
It's probably your best option, as it avoids any user-space filesystem drivers, which personally make me a bit uneasy.
XP and Vista support exFAT with appropriate updates: Vista as of SP1, and XP with SP2 and the KB955704 update
Also a good point from the above posters re: MBR vs. GPT on 32bit systems.
A: An MBR partition scheme with a FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) in Disk Utility) volume will allow both OS X (10.4 and up) and Windows (XP and up) to read and write with no additional drivers.
A: If you are dealing exclusively with Windows XP and later (XP and 2003 after an update) and OS X 10.6.5 both systems will be able to read and write exFAT file systems. This will require no additional software to work and will deal with large file and storage sizes much better than FAT32.
A: FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) by Disk Utility; a filesystem originally released in 1977 and updated a few times since, lastly in 1996) really is the only cross platform filesystem that is going to work fully out of the box with Windows and Mac OS X.
Be careful though, if you are using Disk Utility to format the drive, you should make sure to choose the Master Boot Record partitioning scheme (hit the "Options..." button below the "Partition Layout" control on the Partition pane). The default GUID partitioning scheme won't be recognised by 32-bit Windows XP and earlier Windows operating systems and Mac OS X versions earlier than 10.4.
Mac OS X has had support for reading NTFS formatted disk for a few versions, but still doesn't have write support. There are a few third-party products that allow Mac OS X to read NTFS formatted drives but as far as I'm aware the free ones aren't as well maintained as the commercial ones. I'd love for someone to tell me differently. For a while I've been using http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ but as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated since December 2008.
Tuxera (who develop one of the commercial NTFS drivers for Mac OS X) have a list of free NTFS drivers that are developed from the same NTFS-3G source used by Linux to read NTFS drives. http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
A: NTFS is a better filesystem than fat32 and is well supported by many OSes. OSX has several approach accessing NTFS read-write.
The open-source solution is to install ntfs-3g with macports, and modify your system's auto-mount script.
the disk can be formatted with windows, or with ntfsprogs on a mac.
(filesystem operations always envolve risk, and very likely lots of command-line work.)
NTFS is the native windows filesystem. It's open-source drivers work quite stably and reliably. NTFS will work like a charm if you'll ever need linux support.
if you don't feel comfortable altering the system yourself, paid softwares and services can always be found.
i can post my ntfs auto-mount script for mac if you can't find one with google.
A: Using exFAT would be a good idea if the Windows computer runs Vista or Windows 7. This is a “simple“ filesystem yet it supports > 4 Gb files and multi-terabyte partitions.
For compatibility with 32 bits filesystems you still have to use MBR, not GPT.
A: FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) in Disk Utility) is a cross compatible file format although you will be limited to 4GB maximum per single file. Plugins for the mac can also allow it to handle using NTFS volumes, which is a more desirable solution
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 680,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5841",
"question_score": "22",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19658"
} |
19030efb6f2fea1769ebbab61b6001502a87ec3c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to change the Finder sidebar icons I know you can change the icons of files, folders, etc, but in the sidebar folders appear the same. Is it possible to give them a custom icon for the sidebar like the Music, Photo's, Movies, etc folders have?
A: CandyBar should do the trick for you.
| Q: Is it possible to change the Finder sidebar icons I know you can change the icons of files, folders, etc, but in the sidebar folders appear the same. Is it possible to give them a custom icon for the sidebar like the Music, Photo's, Movies, etc folders have?
A: CandyBar should do the trick for you.
A: If you want to use the default Mavericks OS X Finder Icons, go to System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle (right-click > Show Package contents)/Contents/Resources.
*
*Get Info on the folder in finder sidebar.
*Drag the .icns file (e.g. ToolbarDownloadsFolderIcons.icns on to the small icon in Get Info window to the left of Downloads.
A: If you are on El Capitan I think you have to disable SIP first:
1.Restart your Mac.
2.Before OS X starts up, hold down Command-R and keep it held down until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar. Release. This boots you into Recovery.
3.From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
4.At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil disable
5.Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.
6.From the menu, select Restart.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 188,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5842",
"question_score": "7",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19673"
} |
bbd819080640b2742c9a462eecf81b47b3fa3a6a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are my plists in ~/Library/Preferences accompanied by a matching lockfile in Lion? $ cd ~/Library/Preferences
$ ls -1 | grep plist | head -10
AddressBookMe.plist
com.adiumX.adiumX.plist
com.adiumX.adiumX.plist.lockfile
com.apple.AddressBook.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.plist.lockfile
com.apple.BezelServices.plist
com.apple.BezelServices.plist.lockfile
com.apple.BluetoothAudio.plist
com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile
what are these lockfiles for?
A: Apple supplies a Core Foundation Preference Services API to developers that makes it easy for them to manage preferences. Apple uses the same API and these lock files help the system know what programs are writing to the files and it helps the system notify the running program when a setting gets changed.
The system will keep track of a file that's open even if you trash and delete it, but it's probably best to leave these alone (like most of ~/Library) as there's no undo for things that are stored there - they are there to support the "undo" of the rest of the system.
| Q: Why are my plists in ~/Library/Preferences accompanied by a matching lockfile in Lion? $ cd ~/Library/Preferences
$ ls -1 | grep plist | head -10
AddressBookMe.plist
com.adiumX.adiumX.plist
com.adiumX.adiumX.plist.lockfile
com.apple.AddressBook.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.plist.lockfile
com.apple.BezelServices.plist
com.apple.BezelServices.plist.lockfile
com.apple.BluetoothAudio.plist
com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile
what are these lockfiles for?
A: Apple supplies a Core Foundation Preference Services API to developers that makes it easy for them to manage preferences. Apple uses the same API and these lock files help the system know what programs are writing to the files and it helps the system notify the running program when a setting gets changed.
The system will keep track of a file that's open even if you trash and delete it, but it's probably best to leave these alone (like most of ~/Library) as there's no undo for things that are stored there - they are there to support the "undo" of the rest of the system.
A: Lockfiles are used to make sure only one app interacts with a preference file at once. The idea is an app opens the lockfile in an exclusive mode while it opens the plist.
Source:
*
*Lockfiles and other plist file subtypes in OS X Lion
A: Purely guesswork unfortunately, but typically lockfiles are there to stop a file being edited by more than one thing at a time and causing corruption.
However if you run fs_usage on your Mac to watch filesystem activity nothing much seems to touch these files. The Finder seems to read through them all occasionally but that seems to be it, even if you change preference settings in various applications.
A: Have you noticed if you can make settings changes to applications? I'm seeing these lockfiles also and preferences are not being saved to the plist files.
UPDATE: I discovered that a previous ACL was in place that prevented me from making changes to application settings. By removing the ACLs using chmod -R -N on my home folder I am now able to make changes that are saved.
Kent
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 332,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5850",
"question_score": "14",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19696"
} |
648c96c363281be09d2ae87c0293b7312729912b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I determine the speed of a disk drive? I'm looking for a way to determine the read/write speed of a disk drive, either by looking up some system information or running a simple benchmark test utility.
A: Xbench: Comprehensive Macintosh Benchmarking
Freeware benchmarking solution for Mac OS X.
EDIT: The download link is in the right-hand corner.
Main Window
Graphics Test
| Q: How do I determine the speed of a disk drive? I'm looking for a way to determine the read/write speed of a disk drive, either by looking up some system information or running a simple benchmark test utility.
A: Xbench: Comprehensive Macintosh Benchmarking
Freeware benchmarking solution for Mac OS X.
EDIT: The download link is in the right-hand corner.
Main Window
Graphics Test
A: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test performs various tests and tells you how fast your disk is performing.
A: Phoronix Test Suite
I have not used it, but I plan to.
Discovered through the following article:
*
*[Phoronix] Early Benchmarks Of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (2011-03-02, three pages).
Related
OpenBenchmarking.org — an open, collaborative testing platform for benchmarking and performance analysis
… an open, collaborative testing platform designed by Phoronix Media and the developers behind the Phoronix Test Suite, the most comprehensive benchmarking platform for Linux and other operating systems. …
A: I'm a realist and like to see how finder does in duplicating some folders that I have data in. Documents and Music seem to give me a decent mix and you can subscribe to the apple keynote podcast to get some nice large files to test sustained reads and writes.
You can get a nice graph of the speed using Activity Monitor.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 218,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5852",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19702"
} |
bfe141660fa66ab4ce6b7606b1a5a3be8a74b025 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable Safari-only mode? I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for disabling the Safari-only mode?
A: This guest account is tied in with iCloud's Find My Mac service in System Preferences. If you disable that service, the Safari-only mode (and the subsequent Guest account on the login screen) will also be disabled.
| Q: How do I disable Safari-only mode? I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for disabling the Safari-only mode?
A: This guest account is tied in with iCloud's Find My Mac service in System Preferences. If you disable that service, the Safari-only mode (and the subsequent Guest account on the login screen) will also be disabled.
A: It looks like you can disable it wihtout disabling 'find my iphone' by following steps in this article. I doubt that 'find my iphone' will be much use though if the person who steals it can't login, but who knows.
A: You can disable the Guest account at startup in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Advanced (the button at the bottom of the screen. The checkbox says "Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked". I believe that it leaves the iCloud settings unchanged.
This works without changing iCloud.
A: Guest account should disappear when you disable it, (i.e. when you uncheck Allow guests to login to this computer) so your settings must have become slightly corrupted.
To fix them, try reenabling Guest account in the settings, rebooting, then disabling guest account.
A: to disable Safari-only mode and the guest account go to
system preferences
iCloud
and then uncheck (Find My Mac) <-- thats mean you will disable this fissility .
Reboot
Thats all
GL
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 251,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5854",
"question_score": "16",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19705"
} |
81ff78d3c9fc29ec96aacddad4b297c31b468f2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I install Spaces and Exposé on Lion? Like many of you, I'm sure, Mission Control isn't quite cutting it for me in Lion. I much preferred Spaces and Exposé. So, naturally, I tried reinstalling them on Lion. I got Spaces.app, Expose.app, and Expose&Spaces.prefpane from a machine running Snow Leopard, and tried installing them in System Prefs and the Applications folder.
It didn't work. Every time you open up the Spaces and Exposé prefpane, it shows the Mission Control pane. Double-clicking on Spaces.app brought up Mission Control, even if you change the name.
Any idea on how to install Spaces and Exposé on Lion?
A: This is impossible because Mission Control / Spaces / Exposé are actually controlled by the Dock. And you'll certainly have no end of trouble if you try to transplant the Dock between OS versions.
| Q: Can I install Spaces and Exposé on Lion? Like many of you, I'm sure, Mission Control isn't quite cutting it for me in Lion. I much preferred Spaces and Exposé. So, naturally, I tried reinstalling them on Lion. I got Spaces.app, Expose.app, and Expose&Spaces.prefpane from a machine running Snow Leopard, and tried installing them in System Prefs and the Applications folder.
It didn't work. Every time you open up the Spaces and Exposé prefpane, it shows the Mission Control pane. Double-clicking on Spaces.app brought up Mission Control, even if you change the name.
Any idea on how to install Spaces and Exposé on Lion?
A: This is impossible because Mission Control / Spaces / Exposé are actually controlled by the Dock. And you'll certainly have no end of trouble if you try to transplant the Dock between OS versions.
A: You can't, it's Mission Control all the way. I'm actually quite happy with it, and made a pretty seamless transition. What features are you missing? You can do everything with Mission Control that you could do with Spaces and Exposé, with the sole exception of Spaces in rows. You can even assign applications to individual spaces; that option is in the app's dock icon now.
A: I was having the same problem
but all is there,
just need to configure it [ I use the hot corner method]
Mission control Lion Tutorial
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 233,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5859",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19715"
} |
2048476e2db7985df7056c173a507360bfeff4da | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use iBooks on my MacBook Pro I'd love to be able to use iBooks on my laptop. Is that possible? Maybe if I install Lion?
A: No, it's an iOS application. It will not run on OS X.
To read DRM-free e-books on your Mac, there are 3rd party Apps like Calibre. But even they can't read the DRM-encrypted books from the iBooks store.
| Q: Can I use iBooks on my MacBook Pro I'd love to be able to use iBooks on my laptop. Is that possible? Maybe if I install Lion?
A: No, it's an iOS application. It will not run on OS X.
To read DRM-free e-books on your Mac, there are 3rd party Apps like Calibre. But even they can't read the DRM-encrypted books from the iBooks store.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 67,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5860",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19717"
} |
e01b447e11e3dc4f7ce1bc4ab63148af1dba713f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a GUI for OS X LaunchAgents? I'm a web developer by day and a lot of the software I install on my computer (namely databases and web servers) come with an optional LaunchAgent to automate starting/stopping processes on boot. I'm wondering if there's a GUI for these types of services so I can use the LaunchAgent, then kill the services gracefully. Another great feature would be if I could turn off boot on launch and just use the LaunchAgent to start/stop a service as needed.
A: Lingon (MAS link)
It provides a nice GUI for creating daemons/agents, without writing plist file by yourself. You can also use it to delete daemons/agents that you don't want.
| Q: Is there a GUI for OS X LaunchAgents? I'm a web developer by day and a lot of the software I install on my computer (namely databases and web servers) come with an optional LaunchAgent to automate starting/stopping processes on boot. I'm wondering if there's a GUI for these types of services so I can use the LaunchAgent, then kill the services gracefully. Another great feature would be if I could turn off boot on launch and just use the LaunchAgent to start/stop a service as needed.
A: Lingon (MAS link)
It provides a nice GUI for creating daemons/agents, without writing plist file by yourself. You can also use it to delete daemons/agents that you don't want.
A: To accomodate people that find this thread and just want to quickly create a new job: This very simple launchd online editor does the trick: http://launched.zerowidth.com/
A: This seems to be exactly what you are looking for: LaunchControl
A: I found this article: https://foliovision.com/2014/01/os-x-scheduling-tools
Lingon looked very slick.
A: Lingon X will do what you want. Please note, an earlier answer suggested Lingon, which is a version of this app that doesn’t have as many capabilities and is available from the App Store. For full functionality you’d want Lingon X directly from the developer.
A: launchAgents are there to run in the background in conjunction with their respective Daemon, i.e. they have no GUI but you can load & unload them using terminal using:
launchctl unload -S Aqua /Library/launchAgents/"launchAgent's name"
"lanuchAgent's name" : enter the file name of the Agent you want to load/unload.
/Library/launchAgents in OS X that is the default folder for Agents
to load just replace unload with load
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 281,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5865",
"question_score": "29",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19740"
} |
4fdef33d675375adb1751a56afddaf8c7fcf7bb9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mirror iPad 2 screen on Mac I would like to know if there is a possibility to display the iPad 2 screen on my Mac?
You know, silmilar to the Steve Jobs presentations.
Thank you for your help.
A: Not on your Mac, but you can use and HDMI or VGA cable to a separate monitor that will then mirror the iPad2 display.
| Q: Mirror iPad 2 screen on Mac I would like to know if there is a possibility to display the iPad 2 screen on my Mac?
You know, silmilar to the Steve Jobs presentations.
Thank you for your help.
A: Not on your Mac, but you can use and HDMI or VGA cable to a separate monitor that will then mirror the iPad2 display.
A: If you can get a Mac app that can receive AirPlay streams you should be able to use AirPlay mirroring, the same way you would for an apple TV.
AirPlayer http://ericasadun.com/ftp/Macintosh/ is one example of this but it doesn't seem to work for me.
A: Reflector should fulfill your needs.
AirPlay mirror your iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or iPad 3 to any Mac running OS X 10.6+, wirelessly.
Reflector is a paid app ($14.99 for each computer), with a trial.
A: There is also AirServer ($14.99) which will allow you to do exactly what you need and much more (streaming of all kinds of content including music, movies, photos, YouTube,...)
A: Yes. If your device is jailbroken, then you can use apps like Veency to mirror. Actually there are lot of apps available in cydia.
A: You'd need a composite cable from Apple to get the input to your monitor. You might need a converter from composite to draw input.
You would need a HDMI slot to use your Mac as input AFAIK
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 238,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5868",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19751"
} |
b8c782f703183562c2d44ba1db72cee9cc73d426 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Find which RAR file is bad I have a RAR I downloaded made up of multiple files. When trying to extract it, it tells me the data is incomplete, something bad with one of the files.
Considering I had to download multiple large files, is there a way to find out exactly which of the files I should re-download?
A: Look at MacPar deluxe it checks each part - and if the parts include .par files it can recover from some errors
| Q: Find which RAR file is bad I have a RAR I downloaded made up of multiple files. When trying to extract it, it tells me the data is incomplete, something bad with one of the files.
Considering I had to download multiple large files, is there a way to find out exactly which of the files I should re-download?
A: Look at MacPar deluxe it checks each part - and if the parts include .par files it can recover from some errors
A: UnRarX also has an option to test archives without extracting them.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 95,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5872",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19767"
} |
ab7d77e4bccf255137a4a797ecbdf2a499a58fd3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why my application icons wiggle when I press ALT key in Launchpad? I tried Launchpad first time today and went through the common modifier keys & their combinations to see if some hidden options appear.
When I pressed ⌥ ALT all the apps started wiggling. What does it mean?
A: Wiggle is the edit mode. (so you can delete or uninstall the apps that came from the app store)
Holding alt is the quickest way to enter edit mode.
| Q: Why my application icons wiggle when I press ALT key in Launchpad? I tried Launchpad first time today and went through the common modifier keys & their combinations to see if some hidden options appear.
When I pressed ⌥ ALT all the apps started wiggling. What does it mean?
A: Wiggle is the edit mode. (so you can delete or uninstall the apps that came from the app store)
Holding alt is the quickest way to enter edit mode.
A: If you click and hold them they also start wiggling. It lets you drag them around, to re-arrange them, and also delete apps from the Mac App Store.
A: When they are wiggling you can rearrange them AND delete/remove apps that you yourself have downloaded. System apps (like iOS) cannot be deleted.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 133,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5877",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19777"
} |
9f1a552fbf36ba701b511f547cbe19900017da75 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Swiping trackpad no longer wakes Macbook Pro from sleep in OS X Lion Since upgrading my Late 2010 MacBook Pro to OS X Lion, I noticed that swiping my finger across the trackpad no longer wakes it from sleep mode. Clicking the trackpad or pressing a key on the keyboard does still wake it up as expected.
I can't seem to find any related options in System Preferences, so is there another way to re-enable this feature?
A: No, I'm afraid Apple has removed this functionality from OS X Lion. Clicking the trackpad or pressing a key on the keyboard is now the only way to wake your Mac from sleep.
| Q: Swiping trackpad no longer wakes Macbook Pro from sleep in OS X Lion Since upgrading my Late 2010 MacBook Pro to OS X Lion, I noticed that swiping my finger across the trackpad no longer wakes it from sleep mode. Clicking the trackpad or pressing a key on the keyboard does still wake it up as expected.
I can't seem to find any related options in System Preferences, so is there another way to re-enable this feature?
A: No, I'm afraid Apple has removed this functionality from OS X Lion. Clicking the trackpad or pressing a key on the keyboard is now the only way to wake your Mac from sleep.
A:
Keyboard presses and mouse button clicks can wake a sleeping
computer. Mouse movement alone will only wake a sleeping display.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1776
A: This is actually a feature to prevent accidental movements of the mouse or trackpad effect your Mac from waking up to easily.
For me this was a great feature because i use an external monitor with my macbook. If i had my macbook lid closed but forgot my mouse on, a slight movement of my desk would cause my macbook to wake up, but since the lid was closed only the external monitor would work until i go into display settings and click "detect displays". this was really annoying because all the windows that were on my MacBooks screen before would be moved over to my main monitor and get thrown all over the place.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 250,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5883",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19798"
} |
20100401f570c2e0d1c8992ef6518022ba3ff5a9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Ping all IPs in LAN How would I find out all the devices on my LAN by pinging them all in terminal? What would the code be?
A: Or ping the broadcast address
ping -c 3 192.168.1.255 | grep 'bytes from' | awk '{ print $4 }' | sort | uniq
| Q: Ping all IPs in LAN How would I find out all the devices on my LAN by pinging them all in terminal? What would the code be?
A: Or ping the broadcast address
ping -c 3 192.168.1.255 | grep 'bytes from' | awk '{ print $4 }' | sort | uniq
A: Probably the easiest way to do this is to use a command line utility called nmap. You can download the binaries from the main site. Alternatively, if you have Homebrew installed, you can use that to install nmap from a terminal by typing brew install nmap
Once you have downloaded and installed nmap, you need one other piece of information about your LAN - what block of IP address are used for machines on it. The easiest way to find that out is to run ifconfig -a inet from a terminal. When you type that in, either your en0 or en1 network interface should have an inet entry (ignore the inet address for lo0). It's the IP address next to that you're interested in. Here is an example output from my machine:
$ ifconfig -a inet
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=27<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4>
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
On my network, my machine has the address 192.168.0.6 on interface en1.
NOTE: depending on how many machines you have on your network, pinging them all could take a very very long time. In the following examples, I'll assume you have less than 256 devices on your network and that they are all in the same subnet - likely to be the case if this is a home network.
If your inet looks like 192.168.N.N (where each N is a number between 0-255) then the following command will try to ping addresses 192.168.N.0 to 192.168.N.255 on your network, and report any machines which respond (you need to use sudo so that nmap can use ICMP pings). Fill in the N sections with the matching number in your inet address:
sudo nmap -sn -PE 192.168.N.0/24
For example, if your inet address was reported as 192.168.1.100, you should type: sudo nmap -sn -PE 192.168.1.0/24
If your inet address looks like 10.N.N.N, use this, again filling in the N sections with your own reported numbers:
sudo nmap -sn -PE 10.N.N.0/24
And finally, if it looks like 172.N.N.N, use this:
sudo nmap -sn -PE 172.N.N.0/24
Searching Larger Networks
If you want to expand your search to include more machines, you have to adjust the number after the slash in the address section for the command. In the three commands above, I've specified /24. That means nmap will use the first 24 bits of the IP address you've specified and automatically generate the other numbers (in the first example nmap uses 192.168.N as the exact part, as each group is 8 bits). So to search more addresses decrease the number after the slash. /24 will search 256 address, /23 will search 512 address, /22 will search 1024.
Every time you decrease the number by 1, twice as many addresses are searched - this is why decreasing it too much can make the search take a very very long time. For example, to search all 192.168.N.N addresses, you would specify 192.168.0.0/16 - but that will have to ping 65536 machines. Assuming 0.25 pings per second, that would take 4 hours to complete...
I don't actually know how many pings per second nmap can send, but if you try a full scan, you may have to leave it overnight, or at least have a long coffee.
Those nmap Options
Just so you know, here's what the other nmap options I specified mean:
-sn (No port scan)
-PE (ICMP ping echo)
As the "no port scan" option may hint at, you can do all sorts of very funky things with nmap, such as checking to see what ports are open on a machine (to tell what services they are probably running) and it can even guess which OS the target machine is running with a pretty decent degree of accuracy. If you need more advanced things like that, check the nmap docs. I'd link to them, but I'm not renowned enough to post more than 2 links yet.
A: If everything is turned on, responsive and in one subnet then something like 'ping 192.168.1' for a few seconds followed by 'arp -a' should give you a list of all the devices with ip address and MAC address.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 768,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5891",
"question_score": "7",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19829"
} |
c3b97770484397bcc76a4c765442459886f8e25f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: architectual drawing board for OSX What would be the "best" drawing tool for OSX that both lets me quickly and freely lets me sketch out ideas for software architectures but also refine and "prettify" these sketches so they can be used in a specification document or book. Sort of a bit like Microsoft Visio but better. With all the predefined shapes and cliparts but also with a little bit more freedom in drawing, layout and design.
A: OmniGraffle is very popular. A quick Google search just now also came up with yEd which I found interesting (and it is cross platform).
I don't know your definition for "prettiness" but back in the days when I used Visio I was surprised how much visual effect you could achieve with simple vector graphic tools and a bit of fine tuning. If the built-in tools are not sufficient you can always switch to a pure bred vector graphics program and add a few eye candies.
| Q: architectual drawing board for OSX What would be the "best" drawing tool for OSX that both lets me quickly and freely lets me sketch out ideas for software architectures but also refine and "prettify" these sketches so they can be used in a specification document or book. Sort of a bit like Microsoft Visio but better. With all the predefined shapes and cliparts but also with a little bit more freedom in drawing, layout and design.
A: OmniGraffle is very popular. A quick Google search just now also came up with yEd which I found interesting (and it is cross platform).
I don't know your definition for "prettiness" but back in the days when I used Visio I was surprised how much visual effect you could achieve with simple vector graphic tools and a bit of fine tuning. If the built-in tools are not sufficient you can always switch to a pure bred vector graphics program and add a few eye candies.
A: A colleague of mine was playing with Gliffy recently. It's web-based, so usable from OS X.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 180,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5897",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19865"
} |
52d6d9cec62e1cd20e8e1f1cbae7e5ffec7b72ae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to automate FTP in Terminal? I want to add an FTP command to my crontab to automatically download a file. How do I do this?
A: The easier way to do this is with wget. For example:
Ian-Cs-MacBook-Pro:ianc ian$ wget ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/welcome.msg
--2011-08-02 19:48:00-- ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/welcome.msg
=> `welcome.msg'
Resolving gnjilux.cc.fer.hr... 161.53.74.67
Connecting to gnjilux.cc.fer.hr|161.53.74.67|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not needed.
==> SIZE welcome.msg ... 1462
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR welcome.msg ... done.
Length: 1462 (1.4K) (unauthoritative)
100% [======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1,462 --.-K/s in 0s
2011-08-02 19:48:03 (63.4 MB/s) - `welcome.msg' saved [1462]
wget supports options to supply a user name (--user=user) and password (--password=password) if anonymous FTP access isn't available. And a --quiet mode so it's cron-friendly and doesn't fill up your local inbox without messages for successful downloads.
| Q: Is it possible to automate FTP in Terminal? I want to add an FTP command to my crontab to automatically download a file. How do I do this?
A: The easier way to do this is with wget. For example:
Ian-Cs-MacBook-Pro:ianc ian$ wget ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/welcome.msg
--2011-08-02 19:48:00-- ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/welcome.msg
=> `welcome.msg'
Resolving gnjilux.cc.fer.hr... 161.53.74.67
Connecting to gnjilux.cc.fer.hr|161.53.74.67|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not needed.
==> SIZE welcome.msg ... 1462
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR welcome.msg ... done.
Length: 1462 (1.4K) (unauthoritative)
100% [======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1,462 --.-K/s in 0s
2011-08-02 19:48:03 (63.4 MB/s) - `welcome.msg' saved [1462]
wget supports options to supply a user name (--user=user) and password (--password=password) if anonymous FTP access isn't available. And a --quiet mode so it's cron-friendly and doesn't fill up your local inbox without messages for successful downloads.
A: The BASH script below will work
#!/bin/bash
remotefile="/path/to/ftp/server/file.png"
hostname="ftp.server.net"
username="ftpuser"
password="ftppass"
ftp -in $hostname<<EOF
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
binary
get $remotefile $HOME/temp/file.png
quit
EOF
A: You may use curl which is available under Mac OSX already and can (for non-anonymous ftp) use logins stored in .netrc (so the password doesn't show up in a ps listing)
Plain vanilla anonymous ftp
curl ftp://your.server.name/path/to/file.tar.gz > ~you/Downloads/file.tar.gz
Using .netrc
curl --netrc ftp://your.server.name/path/to/file.tar.gz > ~you/Downloads/file.tar.gz
Specify user/password directly (visible in ps afterwards)
curl --user "user:password" ftp://your.server.name/path/to/file.tar.gz > ~you/Downloads/file.tar.gz
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 237,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5902",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19880"
} |
89fd32ec60954046963e32539f293f03893a3a62 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you hide users from Login and Fast User Switching under OS X 10.7 Lion? Historically, it was possible to hide users from the login screen. In pre-10.5 times, one simply changed a userid to < 500 and:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool YES
Since ~10.5, the sequence is:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUserList -array-add
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWOTHERUSERS_MANAGED -bool false
However, I am unable to get my admin account to hide from the window in 10.7 using FileVault 2. Has anyone else had a similar experience and does anyone know how to make this work properly?
A: This change didn't get implemented/respected/carried forward in Lion 10.7 initial release build. It's an open bug with no ETA on a fix or resolution.
| Q: How do you hide users from Login and Fast User Switching under OS X 10.7 Lion? Historically, it was possible to hide users from the login screen. In pre-10.5 times, one simply changed a userid to < 500 and:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool YES
Since ~10.5, the sequence is:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUserList -array-add
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWOTHERUSERS_MANAGED -bool false
However, I am unable to get my admin account to hide from the window in 10.7 using FileVault 2. Has anyone else had a similar experience and does anyone know how to make this work properly?
A: This change didn't get implemented/respected/carried forward in Lion 10.7 initial release build. It's an open bug with no ETA on a fix or resolution.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 126,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5906",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19890"
} |
ef5d2e3345c253051727b5223ff83de0cb09557d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the .plist.lockfile introduced in Lion?
Possible Duplicate:
Why are my plists in ~/Library/Preferences accompanied by a matching lockfile in Lion?
Since upgrading to Lion, I have noticed that Lion is placing lockfiles that correspond to the plist in ~/Library/Preferences. For example, in this folder I have both com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.finder.plist.lockfile.
Any idea what these files are there for? I know what lockfiles are in general, but I dont understand why they may have been introduced in Lion.
| Q: What is the .plist.lockfile introduced in Lion?
Possible Duplicate:
Why are my plists in ~/Library/Preferences accompanied by a matching lockfile in Lion?
Since upgrading to Lion, I have noticed that Lion is placing lockfiles that correspond to the plist in ~/Library/Preferences. For example, in this folder I have both com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.finder.plist.lockfile.
Any idea what these files are there for? I know what lockfiles are in general, but I dont understand why they may have been introduced in Lion.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 80,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5907",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19891"
} |
94da5e1324eb173b92f0e9f76917ede1b7af5e8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to list all available .plist keys on a certain domain application by defaults command? I want to know all keys (property list) which available on certain domain application, as example I could list available key for com.apple.dock by entering this command:
$ defaults read com.apple.dock
but somehow the output of this command only showed the active property list key, and yet not all available key for com.apple.dock listed there.
Anyone can help me on this?
A: This is not a trivial task, if I recall correctly people run the strings utility at the command-line against an Application, and look for things that match a structure similar to com.domain.FeatureName. (com.apple.iTunes, ch.cyberduck.CyberDuck, com.panic.Coda, etc.)
The likely easiest way to manage these overrides is by a System Preferences Pane by the name of Secrets. Using this installs a Preference Pane into System Preferences, and gives you an interface into choosing an application and changing their settings to your particular preference.
| Q: How to list all available .plist keys on a certain domain application by defaults command? I want to know all keys (property list) which available on certain domain application, as example I could list available key for com.apple.dock by entering this command:
$ defaults read com.apple.dock
but somehow the output of this command only showed the active property list key, and yet not all available key for com.apple.dock listed there.
Anyone can help me on this?
A: This is not a trivial task, if I recall correctly people run the strings utility at the command-line against an Application, and look for things that match a structure similar to com.domain.FeatureName. (com.apple.iTunes, ch.cyberduck.CyberDuck, com.panic.Coda, etc.)
The likely easiest way to manage these overrides is by a System Preferences Pane by the name of Secrets. Using this installs a Preference Pane into System Preferences, and gives you an interface into choosing an application and changing their settings to your particular preference.
A: Found a website dedicated to these Mac OS X defaults write commands, some handy commands for Mac OS X Lion & Mountain Lion.
http://www.defaults-write.com
A: There really isn't a notion of "available" keys. The application is free to read whatever keys it wants. Most people discover "secret" defaults keys by using strings to look through the application binary to see what keys it will try to read.
A: Most people here want to do everything via the command line, but I have a more practical suggestion.
These two programs described below list a great deal of the known command-line customizable features of Mac OS X applications, sorted by application or function. The advantage is the list of functions is provided for you; you don't have to go searching Google to find out what the functions are and the command-line sequences needed to modify each one.
There are several freeware or commercial applications that provide a graphical user interface listing most all of the customization options that can be modified via the Terminal. To activate any of these features, using these progams I'm describing, you do it within the application's GUI and you have no need to use the command line at all. You don't need to know anything about defaults write or .plist files.
Two of these apps are:
TinkerTool
which is free, and
MacPilot
which has just been updated with new Lion features, and costs US $20.00.
These are programs that I own and use.
Download the free TinkerTool and the trial version of MacPilot and and click through all the tabs to see all the myriad features you can customize. There are too many to list here.
Update
Developer Frederik Wiker has released freeware apps (donations accepted) for creating defaults write customizations specific to Lion and Mountain Lion; many of them also work fine for Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9) as well.
Download these and see what customizations are available to you.
Lion Tweaks
Mountain Tweaks
A: Perhaps a fairly long explanation how things work might clear up your and others' search for these "hidden" preferences.
Most applications will read their preference files once when they start and the defaults tool exists to ensure the preference files are a valid structure and don't contain syntax errors. (It also allows the system to change how the keys are stored and people don't have to know the implementation details and can use the defaults command to do all the reading and writing.)
English language style and grammar guides ensure the words I type here are meaningful to the average english speaker, and standardizing the defaults system sets a framework so everyone knows what to expect. The preference list formatting is far more rigid and mathematical than a human language, but the concepts are similar.
The the Mac OS X user defaults system is a key value store (or database if you prefer).
You can write anything into these preference key value stores, a Shakespeare sonnet, numbers, a shopping list. If the program is coded to look for a specific key, it will read the value stored. If it's not looking for that key - it's value sits there unused and unread.
This brings up how to know what values a specific program might be looking for when they start up. It boils down to you either have to know the value or reverse-engineer the program.
Many tools exist to look into a program and try to figure out what strings (the keys) are embedded, such as strings and dbx/lldb as well as linking in your own library to dump the internal structure of a specific program.
In practice, some things that are needed for testing are added in this "hidden" way so that you can't look over the program's preference pane and see these new features that are not ready for broad use. In a way, it's not at all simple to get a comprehensive list unless the author of that program releases the source code or otherwise documents these settings publicly.
When you read the defaults store for a particular app - you are just reading the "book" that was written when the app created it's default set or the settings that shipped with the Mac OS X. That is why you don't receive the exhaustive list of things that are realistically possible to change with that application.
A: As far as I know an application will only store a new key if it differs from its defaults, at least that's what my apps do.
This is not something that can be controlled easily as it is part of the User Defaults framework, as the app only tell user defaults what needs to be stored and it takes care of the rest.
I don't think that the information you are looking for is going to be easily obtained, sadly. It could be nice though to have access to this.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 980,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5910",
"question_score": "20",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19899"
} |
52bf700583c17e9c11d0c8bd9d9f5e598d7bdbcf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is iPad a multi-tasking device? Is the iPad 2 a truly multi-tasking device? e.g. Can I listen to some kind of audio formats (not via iTunes) in the background while surfing on Safari ?
A: iOS devices could always play play audio in the background. From iOS 4, 3rd party apps may also run in the background, but the multitasking ability is restricted. Applications which aren't running are frozen to save CPU and battery life. However there are 7 background API's which may execute in the background :
*
*Background audio
*Voice over IP
*Background location
*Push notifications
*Local notifications
*Task finishing
*Fast app switching
See here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_(Apple)#Multitasking
| Q: Is iPad a multi-tasking device? Is the iPad 2 a truly multi-tasking device? e.g. Can I listen to some kind of audio formats (not via iTunes) in the background while surfing on Safari ?
A: iOS devices could always play play audio in the background. From iOS 4, 3rd party apps may also run in the background, but the multitasking ability is restricted. Applications which aren't running are frozen to save CPU and battery life. However there are 7 background API's which may execute in the background :
*
*Background audio
*Voice over IP
*Background location
*Push notifications
*Local notifications
*Task finishing
*Fast app switching
See here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_(Apple)#Multitasking
A: Of course you can. Audio is normally played through the Music(iPod) app which can run in the background whilst you browse safari.
Give it a try.
A: It's even better than that. If you start playing an audio source in safari you can go to another app and it will usually keep on playing.
A: See Ars Technica's review of iOS4 for information on iPad multitasking.
A: iOS (like the Mac OS) is based on BSD Unix. The OS can 'truly' multitask - and it has done from day one. A lot of processes run under the hood, even whilst your device is 'sleeping'.
As already stated here, Apple have recently opened some of this kind of functionality to developers with a selection of APIs.
A: This has been possible ever since the first iPhone. When people used to say iOS couldn't multitask, but this wasn't exactly true. You've always been able to quit an app and return to it, and if it was well-coded, it'd return to it's previous state at the time of ur last use of it. People complained applications can't operate in the background, but music was always an exception to this.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 309,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5912",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19907"
} |
4ce58c76ff68ad0345607a3704ceec2fb5463386 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: DNS gone after wakeup I'm having problems with the DNS resolution after a wakeup from sleep.
The system I'm running is Mac OS X Lion 10.7, and I am properly connected to my Wifi.
When I issue a ping google.com in the Terminal, it just works. But going through any browser or Application that requires internet access, they all can't resolve the hostname.
I can solve this issue by going to System Preferences > Network Settings and I deactive/activate my Wifi. After that everything works again.
Where else can I look into to solve this permanently?
| Q: DNS gone after wakeup I'm having problems with the DNS resolution after a wakeup from sleep.
The system I'm running is Mac OS X Lion 10.7, and I am properly connected to my Wifi.
When I issue a ping google.com in the Terminal, it just works. But going through any browser or Application that requires internet access, they all can't resolve the hostname.
I can solve this issue by going to System Preferences > Network Settings and I deactive/activate my Wifi. After that everything works again.
Where else can I look into to solve this permanently?
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 97,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5913",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19908"
} |
e35a57ad14cc3976a9f76c72f2908468fce8f34f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fix not working ⌘ ⎋ shortcut in Lion 10.7 I have a new MacBook Pro 15" early 2011 and use Lion.
*
*For "Launchpad" I can't use the Shortcut F1.
*For "Move focus to menu bar" I can't use the Shortcut Cmd+Esc (⌘+⎋).
Simply said, there are functions, which are not working with one specific Shortcut. I can assign it, but it does not work.
The Shortcuts works for all the other functions and the one function works with all the other Shortcuts.
Sometimes when I wildly clicked around and restarted, the shortcut Cmd+Esc (⌘+⎋) worked with "Move focus to menu bar" one time.
What could I do to fix the bug?
A: Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> and assign and enable the shortcuts you want.
| Q: How to fix not working ⌘ ⎋ shortcut in Lion 10.7 I have a new MacBook Pro 15" early 2011 and use Lion.
*
*For "Launchpad" I can't use the Shortcut F1.
*For "Move focus to menu bar" I can't use the Shortcut Cmd+Esc (⌘+⎋).
Simply said, there are functions, which are not working with one specific Shortcut. I can assign it, but it does not work.
The Shortcuts works for all the other functions and the one function works with all the other Shortcuts.
Sometimes when I wildly clicked around and restarted, the shortcut Cmd+Esc (⌘+⎋) worked with "Move focus to menu bar" one time.
What could I do to fix the bug?
A: Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> and assign and enable the shortcuts you want.
A: I've realized that the ctrl-Fn shortcuts only work if I tick the option to use the function keys as "normal function keys".
This option is in Systems Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard.
I believe it is unticked by default (ie the Fn keys work as shortcuts for brightness, sound level, and music playing). Once ticked, Ctrl-F2 works like a charm. Alternatively, you can leave this option unchecked and instead hit CTRL+fn+F2 and the intended function will work fine.
A: With mountain lion the bug seems to be fixed.
Now I have no problem assigning the hotkeys as desired.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 233,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5914",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19913"
} |
ba2c16a64a3222fdfaae725bd726d1166f1c136f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to create an encrypted volume on an external drive or flash drive How do you encrypt an external hard/flash drive connected to my Mac in Lion 10.7? Preferable something with a strong encryption as FileVault.
A: The best way to do this is via Disk Utility in the Application/Utilities folder.
Review pictures for better understanding
Select the disk you want to encrypt
Choose the format method as in the picture, making sure you choose the option with Encryption
Next time you connect the disk, you will be asked to enter password.
| Q: How to create an encrypted volume on an external drive or flash drive How do you encrypt an external hard/flash drive connected to my Mac in Lion 10.7? Preferable something with a strong encryption as FileVault.
A: The best way to do this is via Disk Utility in the Application/Utilities folder.
Review pictures for better understanding
Select the disk you want to encrypt
Choose the format method as in the picture, making sure you choose the option with Encryption
Next time you connect the disk, you will be asked to enter password.
A: You can create an encrypted volume using Disk Utility:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1578
Also, see here for information on FileVault:
Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption?
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 122,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5915",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19918"
} |
8e1b5d99e33b0331753eabeb42351d2ce2319992 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Force macbook to sleep when lid closed and external monitor connected in Lion I know you have heard this before, but is there any app/hack that makes the computer behave like Snow Leopard when closing the lid?
I don't want to hear about this being a duplicate question, as I want a solution not an explanation.
Only post here if you have a solution that makes the macbook behave like in Snow Leopard when closing the lid.
A: This worked in 10.7 and 10.8 with my MacBook Air:
sudo nvram boot-args=iog=0x0
After restarting, it should restore the pre-10.7 behavior:
*
*Closing the lid puts a laptop to sleep even when it is connected to an external display
*If you then wake the laptop up and open the lid, the internal display doesn't turn on
To undo it, run sudo nvram -d boot-args or hold ⌥⌘PR on startup.
| Q: Force macbook to sleep when lid closed and external monitor connected in Lion I know you have heard this before, but is there any app/hack that makes the computer behave like Snow Leopard when closing the lid?
I don't want to hear about this being a duplicate question, as I want a solution not an explanation.
Only post here if you have a solution that makes the macbook behave like in Snow Leopard when closing the lid.
A: This worked in 10.7 and 10.8 with my MacBook Air:
sudo nvram boot-args=iog=0x0
After restarting, it should restore the pre-10.7 behavior:
*
*Closing the lid puts a laptop to sleep even when it is connected to an external display
*If you then wake the laptop up and open the lid, the internal display doesn't turn on
To undo it, run sudo nvram -d boot-args or hold ⌥⌘PR on startup.
A: I had this issue too, and came up with this script that monitors your lid state and puts the machine to sleep when lid is closed: https://github.com/pirj/noclamshell
A: In previous versions of OS X, you would go to ~/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration to find a file called com.apple.PowerManagement.plist. In that file you would find ways to tweak things like the old "clamshell" mode. I have not looked in Lion yet to see if this still exists, but if the file is still there, you may want to take a look at what it allows you to control. Hope this helps.
A: Not sure if it will still work with Lion, but on SL I use InsomniaX when I want to close the lid and prevent my mbp from sleeping. Check out the following links for similar programs:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22211/insomniax
http://alternativeto.net/software/insomniax/
A: I made a LaunchAgent which does this.
The source code can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Tyilo/Lid-sleep
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 301,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5918",
"question_score": "15",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19932"
} |
b34c32b1d9a30f30f6ee25d620d24d22c70dc362 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable mobile Youtube redirection on iPad? When I click a Youtube link, say, in the newly released Skype app, the iPad will open the link in Safari, which will load the mobile site. Also in Twitter's built in browser the mobile site is displayed. This sucks, because the site is slow and often fails loading a video at all.
Is there a way to stop Youtube redirecting to m.youtube.com on iPad?
A: In short: no, you can't stop it. It's Google re-directing you.
You can work around it though. You can scroll down to the very bottom of the page and tap the "desktop" link, which will take you to the full desktop version of the site. If what you want is the YouTube app to open, then all you can do is copy the name of the video from safari into the YouTube app.
I know what you mean about it not loading the videos. It's annoying!
| Q: How do I disable mobile Youtube redirection on iPad? When I click a Youtube link, say, in the newly released Skype app, the iPad will open the link in Safari, which will load the mobile site. Also in Twitter's built in browser the mobile site is displayed. This sucks, because the site is slow and often fails loading a video at all.
Is there a way to stop Youtube redirecting to m.youtube.com on iPad?
A: In short: no, you can't stop it. It's Google re-directing you.
You can work around it though. You can scroll down to the very bottom of the page and tap the "desktop" link, which will take you to the full desktop version of the site. If what you want is the YouTube app to open, then all you can do is copy the name of the video from safari into the YouTube app.
I know what you mean about it not loading the videos. It's annoying!
A: Mobile seems to work better for me on my iPad, yet they keep redirecting me to the desktop version. I clicked it once to check messages because apparently you can't do that on mobile anymore.
They seriously discriminate against non desktop users. We can't watch half the videos because of restrictions. We can't even check messages now the app is dreadful it randomly changes quality of video to the lowest possible definition in the middle of a video. It seriously puts me off! My advice for you, however, tell YouTube you want it to redirect you to mobile version. 99.9% of the time they do the opposite to what you ask, so it should work!
A: I've been stuck the other way around and was looking how to prevent from redirecting to desktop on mobile and found following answer in te thread We've redirected you to the desktop website. Return to mobile YouTube.:
Switch to Mobile:
https://m.youtube.com/?app=m&persist_app=1
Switch to Desktop:
https://youtube.com/?app=desktop&persist_app=1
Save both links as bookmarks and you'll be able to switch that way.
A: Go to Settings, tap on General, tap on Restrictions, enable Restrictions if you haven’t already, and disallow YouTube.
Doing so has the dual benefit of redirecting all YouTube links to the mobile website and hiding the native app on the device, clearing up more space for apps you actually want to use.
A: Try YouTube link on chrome instead of safari also enable open links in chrome setting in YouTube app of iPad.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 411,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5919",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19935"
} |
cc3338262e874da6403e744cddf2edb15b702a58 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I read the full Lion EULA? I haven't been able to find this via Google. In particular, I am interested in reading about whether or not a Snow Leopard license is a prerequisite for installing Lion, and the new virtualisation rules.
Does anyone have a link to this?
A: After Lion is in installed, the license (EA0730 revised 2011-06-01) is amongst the documentation:
/Library/Documentation/License.lpdf
| Q: Where can I read the full Lion EULA? I haven't been able to find this via Google. In particular, I am interested in reading about whether or not a Snow Leopard license is a prerequisite for installing Lion, and the new virtualisation rules.
Does anyone have a link to this?
A: After Lion is in installed, the license (EA0730 revised 2011-06-01) is amongst the documentation:
/Library/Documentation/License.lpdf
A: All Apple's hardware & software product agreements can be found at: http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
Here's straight link to Lion's agreement.
Answers to your particular interests can both be found under § 2. B:
[…] you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:
(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control;
[…]
(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 190,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5920",
"question_score": "11",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19939"
} |
7cacd6d0c6780cb793ee5cb7b86d1de6a3b108d8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I upgraded to Lion. Where's my TRIM support? I upgraded to Lion a couple of weeks ago, looking forward to the promised TRIM support on my 2009 MacBook Pro. It seems that the upgrade hasn't enabled it. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing so in the disk manager. Am I missing something?
A: Have you booted into recovery mode and try "repair disk" using Disk Utility to ensure updated drivers on the SSD? It should have happened at installation, but several lion installs silently failed to make even a Recovery HD for me.
It's a guess, but I could see Disk Utility perhaps correcting that oversight.
I would certainly open a ticket with Apple Care - you get 90 days of phone support with any purchase and can even schedule a call back from the web site I linked. It might initially warn you about pay per incident, but later on you can select this exemption:
| Q: I upgraded to Lion. Where's my TRIM support? I upgraded to Lion a couple of weeks ago, looking forward to the promised TRIM support on my 2009 MacBook Pro. It seems that the upgrade hasn't enabled it. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing so in the disk manager. Am I missing something?
A: Have you booted into recovery mode and try "repair disk" using Disk Utility to ensure updated drivers on the SSD? It should have happened at installation, but several lion installs silently failed to make even a Recovery HD for me.
It's a guess, but I could see Disk Utility perhaps correcting that oversight.
I would certainly open a ticket with Apple Care - you get 90 days of phone support with any purchase and can even schedule a call back from the web site I linked. It might initially warn you about pay per incident, but later on you can select this exemption:
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 160,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5923",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19949"
} |
1edc5972bc093445d525fc18c6fdcb79be31294d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What happened to the Finder window 'jellybean' in OS X Lion? Before I updated to Lion, whenever I would mount a disk image (.dmg) the Finder window that would pop-up would always have a little 'jellybean' in the top right corner that would expand this window into a 'full' Finder window with the left-side panel, thus allowing quick and easy access to be able to eject the disk image.
I do not know if this feature has been completely removed from the OS or if its just disabled. Is there a way to get this back? I miss the jellybean!
A: Note that the lozenge or "jellybean" as you call it used to show and hide the toolbar. Pre-Lion, it did exactly the same thing as the cmd-opt-T keyboard shortcut, and this shortcut remains in effect in Lion.
Lion adds a new cmd-opt-S shortcut which toggles only the sidebar (which is in any event displayed only when the toolbar is already present).
| Q: What happened to the Finder window 'jellybean' in OS X Lion? Before I updated to Lion, whenever I would mount a disk image (.dmg) the Finder window that would pop-up would always have a little 'jellybean' in the top right corner that would expand this window into a 'full' Finder window with the left-side panel, thus allowing quick and easy access to be able to eject the disk image.
I do not know if this feature has been completely removed from the OS or if its just disabled. Is there a way to get this back? I miss the jellybean!
A: Note that the lozenge or "jellybean" as you call it used to show and hide the toolbar. Pre-Lion, it did exactly the same thing as the cmd-opt-T keyboard shortcut, and this shortcut remains in effect in Lion.
Lion adds a new cmd-opt-S shortcut which toggles only the sidebar (which is in any event displayed only when the toolbar is already present).
A: It was removed completely in Lion.
To eject disk images I normally just drag the icon in the window title to the trash. Quick and simple. You can also right click on the window background and eject it via the context menu.
A: The jellybean was removed completely in Lion. However, keystroke Opt-Cmd-T or menu option View - Show Toolbar will achieve the same thing.
I miss the jellybean too!
A: You can also eject with a keyboard shortcut:
*
*Select the Finder window of the disk image (click the background to deselect anything).
*Press Command+E to eject the disk image.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 265,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5924",
"question_score": "16",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19951"
} |
6a772116b206e4c9701ac061cc2bd20d0561db07 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is iTunes 64 bit running as 32 bit application under Windows? I've downloaded the 64 bit Version of iTunes and I'm wondering why it's running as a 32 bit application under Windows 7 (of course 64 bit)?
Any Ideas?
A: The 64-bit version of iTunes you downloaded contains 64-bit drivers for Windows 7, however the application itself is still a 32-bit application. You should see your iTunes installed in (default) C:\Program Files (x86)\ and the iPod helper files installed in C:\Program Files.
| Q: Why is iTunes 64 bit running as 32 bit application under Windows? I've downloaded the 64 bit Version of iTunes and I'm wondering why it's running as a 32 bit application under Windows 7 (of course 64 bit)?
Any Ideas?
A: The 64-bit version of iTunes you downloaded contains 64-bit drivers for Windows 7, however the application itself is still a 32-bit application. You should see your iTunes installed in (default) C:\Program Files (x86)\ and the iPod helper files installed in C:\Program Files.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 84,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5929",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19975"
} |
3ed428e61d9a4c8e635de8c19f1c7be3e843e10e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 'which' location different from executable location I'm trying to install ruby/rubygems on the latest version of 10.6. I used MacPorts to install ruby after noticing that my version was old. ruby was installed into /opt/local/bin.
I changed .bash_profile and added:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
When I echo $PATH, I get:
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin
So when I type which ruby I get:
/opt/local/bin/ruby
Which works correctly. However, when I type which gem I get:
/opt/local/bin/gem
When using gem -environment I get (gem is in the above directory):
-bash: /usr/bin/gem: No such file or directory
I'm completely open to uninstalling everything and starting over if necessary. I'm just not sure why it's still trying to grab it from /usr/bin!
A: The default gem is a function and they get called before $PATH and also before the command hash.
Try playing with hash (or clearing it with hash -r ) to see if your path isn't getting a say in which gem to call.
type gem will confirm whether yur gem is really a function...
| Q: 'which' location different from executable location I'm trying to install ruby/rubygems on the latest version of 10.6. I used MacPorts to install ruby after noticing that my version was old. ruby was installed into /opt/local/bin.
I changed .bash_profile and added:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
When I echo $PATH, I get:
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin
So when I type which ruby I get:
/opt/local/bin/ruby
Which works correctly. However, when I type which gem I get:
/opt/local/bin/gem
When using gem -environment I get (gem is in the above directory):
-bash: /usr/bin/gem: No such file or directory
I'm completely open to uninstalling everything and starting over if necessary. I'm just not sure why it's still trying to grab it from /usr/bin!
A: The default gem is a function and they get called before $PATH and also before the command hash.
Try playing with hash (or clearing it with hash -r ) to see if your path isn't getting a say in which gem to call.
type gem will confirm whether yur gem is really a function...
A: What a mess. I ended up removing all versions of ruby and MacPorts and compiling 1.9.2 from source. Everything is working fine now.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 193,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5932",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19982"
} |
dbcc1e65bbd4f3cbcf5103202557aebe41efdadf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Store Macbook Pro DVI and VGA Adapter questions - what is in the box? The company I work for recently ordered me a Macbook Pro and I received the shipping confirmation today. Among the machine configuration there is listed the following:
*
*DVI Adapter 065-0106 None
*VGA Adapter 065-0108 None
What do these lines mean? Does it mean that these adapters are not part of the configuration? If not is there still a way for me to hook up an external monitor that has a DVI or VGA input?
A: The video out on MacBook Pro uses a Displayport / Thunderbolt port. To hook up to a VGA or DVI cable, you need an adapter. Alternatively you could buy a cable which has Displayport on one end and DVI or VGA on the other. The adapters don't come as standard so you'll need to buy one in an Apple store, online or use a third-party cable.
| Q: Apple Store Macbook Pro DVI and VGA Adapter questions - what is in the box? The company I work for recently ordered me a Macbook Pro and I received the shipping confirmation today. Among the machine configuration there is listed the following:
*
*DVI Adapter 065-0106 None
*VGA Adapter 065-0108 None
What do these lines mean? Does it mean that these adapters are not part of the configuration? If not is there still a way for me to hook up an external monitor that has a DVI or VGA input?
A: The video out on MacBook Pro uses a Displayport / Thunderbolt port. To hook up to a VGA or DVI cable, you need an adapter. Alternatively you could buy a cable which has Displayport on one end and DVI or VGA on the other. The adapters don't come as standard so you'll need to buy one in an Apple store, online or use a third-party cable.
A: Apple always put these lines to confirm they are or are not in the package, don't worry. You will be able to connect to every monitor or projector on the planet with the right adaptor. :-)
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 195,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5936",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19992"
} |
f3c690b19890b23ac82bd25b860b04b86ba8d010 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I see in iTunes how much time is left in audio books and podcasts? When listening to audio books and podcasts iTunes and iPods/iPhones remember the last position.
How can I see this piece of information in iTunes without playing the podcast? (It is displayed on my iPhone as "xx minutes left" in the list of podcasts.)
A: In iTunes, when a podcast is playing, you can click the top bar where it says how long the podcast is. Clicking that will change the total time into the time remaining.
| Q: How can I see in iTunes how much time is left in audio books and podcasts? When listening to audio books and podcasts iTunes and iPods/iPhones remember the last position.
How can I see this piece of information in iTunes without playing the podcast? (It is displayed on my iPhone as "xx minutes left" in the list of podcasts.)
A: In iTunes, when a podcast is playing, you can click the top bar where it says how long the podcast is. Clicking that will change the total time into the time remaining.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 93,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5937",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20003"
} |
4c1b06b4e36e6acfa5d690902248545dcdb4a3e7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I create a shortcut to open a specific application on OS X? I want to create a keyboard shortcut to i.e. open Firefox while I am working in another application. I know I can use ⌘ CMD+T when I am in Firefox to open a new tab.
I haven't found a way to create that kind of shortcuts in System Preferences.
Any ideas?
A: Alfred
Alfred, in its Power Pack version, can map shortcuts to applications, among many other features.
| Q: Can I create a shortcut to open a specific application on OS X? I want to create a keyboard shortcut to i.e. open Firefox while I am working in another application. I know I can use ⌘ CMD+T when I am in Firefox to open a new tab.
I haven't found a way to create that kind of shortcuts in System Preferences.
Any ideas?
A: Alfred
Alfred, in its Power Pack version, can map shortcuts to applications, among many other features.
A: If you do not want to use third party apps.
Then you can use Automator (Services ), and the Built in keyboard shortcuts.
Here is how in an answer to a similar question.
Very simple.
In Step 3, of creating the service.
Set it to 'any application' .
i.e, set Service receives to: 'no input' in 'any application' (Do this by using the drop downs at the top.)
A: Karabiner-Elements (10.12 and later)
Karabiner stopped working in 10.12 due to changes in the kernel architecture, and Karabiner was rewritten as Karabiner-Elements which uses a new JSON format for the configuration files.
You can now add a rule like this to karabiner.json (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/json.html):
{
"from": {
"key_code": "t",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"right_option"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"shell_command": "open -aterminal"
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
This makes a short press of the right command key open Emacs:
{
"from": {
"key_code": "right_command",
"modifiers": {
"optional": [
"any"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "right_command",
"lazy": true
}
],
"to_if_alone": [
{
"shell_command": "open -aemacs"
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
Karabiner (10.11 and earlier)
Save a file like this as private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_Safari</name>
<url>file:///Applications/Safari.app</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_iTunes</name>
<url>file:///Applications/iTunes.app</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_EMACS</name>
<url>file:///Applications/Emacs.app</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>custom</name>
<identifier>custom</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F11, KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_Safari</autogen>
<!-- change the right option key into an extra modifier key -->
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::OPTION_R, KeyCode::VK_MODIFIER_EXTRA1</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::I, ModifierFlag::EXTRA1, KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_iTunes</autogen>
<!-- make a short press of the right command open Emacs -->
<autogen>__KeyOverlaidModifier__ KeyCode::COMMAND_R, KeyCode::COMMAND_R, KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_EMACS</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Alfred 2
If you have bought the Powerpack for Alfred 2, you can create a workflow like this:
Hotkeys have a short delay by default, but you can reduce the delay by changing the "Trigger behaviour" option from "Simulate modifier keys released" to "Pass through modifier keys (Fastest)":
Automator services
Open Automator, select "Service" as the type of the document, change "Service receives" from "text" to "no input", add a "Launch Application" action, and save the service. Then assign a keyboard shortcut for the service from "System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services".
I don't recommend this option, because at least on my system, there is at best a delay of around half a second before an application is focused by a keyboard shortcut created using this method, and the delay is often even longer. There has also been a bug since 10.7 where the keyboard shortcuts for Automator services don't always work until you hover over the services menu from the menu bar. (Edit: it's now 8 years after I wrote this answer and the bug still hasn't been fixed.) Also the keyboard shortcuts for services are not available in some applications like Emacs.
A: Get Quicksilver, http://www.blacktree.com/, it will allow you to set keyboard shortcuts to open apps. There are actually more many more apps that do this (Alfred, Keyboard Maestro etc etc.)
Mac OS X actually has a built-in way of doing that, but it doesn't work for Firefox, because it doesn't support services! http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090903085255430
Update Jan 2012: Blacktree no longer updates Quicksilver--the developer went to Google and has released Google Quick Search Box. Quicksilver lives on, but it has a new home at qsapp.com.
A: As of macOS Monterey, you can set up a global hotkey via the Shortcuts app. This will either launch the app or switch to it if it's already running.
Use the Open App option and under settings, pick a shortcut from 'Run with'.
Works together nicely with a hyper key.
A: There are plenty of good options here but I wanted to add my personal favorite which I've been using since 10.5 and still works on 10.11.2: Spark 3.
http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php
It's freeware and extremely easy to set up. Here's the developer's description:
Spark is a powerful, and easy Shortcuts manager. With Spark you can
create Hot Keys to launch applications and documents, execute
AppleScript, control iTunes, and more... You can also export and
import your Hot Keys library, or save it in HTML format to print it.
Spark is free, so use it without moderation!
Here's a screenshot of the interface:
A: To open the Terminal with a keyboard shortcut without any third-party software:
*
*Open Automator (⌘ + Space, then type Automator)
*Go to File -> New
*Select Quick Action (or Service, depending on your Mac version)
*Where it says Workflow receives, select no input:
*
*In the Actions column, search for Run AppleScript and drag it to the right column
*Paste this in the script area:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Terminal"
do script ""
activate
end tell
end run
PS: Remove do script "" if you don't want a new instance of the terminal every time you press the hotkey.
*
*Click on File -> Save and name it anything you want
*
*Now close Automator and open System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
*In the left column, click on "Services"
*Scroll down to the very bottom, you should see the script you just saved. Click on none to assign a hotkey to it.
One important thing to consider, though, is that the hotkey must be unique across all applications. If you assign a common hotkey, such as ⌘ + T, and try to open the terminal while browsing, it will conflict with most browser's hotkey to open a new tab, so it won't work. That's why you should try a shortcut that won't conflict with any app.
I've chosen ⌘ + ⌥ + F12. Works pretty well.
Update
If you're using iTerm2 + Oh My Zsh, just replace Run AppleScript with Launch Application in Automator, and select iTerm.app from the list.
A: I found Apptivate the easiest to use. You just select an application and you assign a global shortcut. That's it.
A: I know Alfred has already been mentioned, but I thought I'd say a little bit about choosing shortcut keys. It was not obvious to me at first what would be a good set of shortcuts that was (a) easy to remember, (b) easy to use, and (c) did not conflict with other system or application shortcut keys.
I ended up using the "alt" key as the basis, and generally relying on keys that can be triggered by the left hand, and choosing descriptive letters (e.g., x for Excel). this allows you to have the mouse in the right hand and the shortcut keys triggered with the left.
Another benefit of using Alfred Hotkeys to activate an application is that if an application is hidden, it will be unhidden.
Here's a screen shot of how I have it configured:
A: Thor
There is a nice clean open source app for this called Thor. It enabled you to assign global shortcuts to applications.
Download the binary from the App Store here https://itunes.apple.com/app/thor/id1120999687?ls=1&mt=12. The project page is here https://github.com/gbammc/Thor.
A: If the Application is Terminal, this already has shortcut keys configured in Preferences:
New Terminal at Folder ^+⇧+T
New Terminal at Tab Folder ⌥+^+⇧+T
A: Tested on macOS Monterey
*
*Open the shortcuts app
*Click on + (new shortcut)
*In the right sidebar search and double-click/drag run AppleScript
*Paste script
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Terminal"
activate
reopen
end tell
end run
The best thing is you can assign the keyboard shortcut within the same app itself.
*Navigate to shortcut details in the right sidebar.
*You can find Add keyboard shortcut
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 1310,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5941",
"question_score": "66",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20010"
} |
6109af2d62cf2f5a8bb405f1fa77073be3988e22 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion I followed the simple instructions on Homebrew's homepage:
Paste this at a terminal prompt:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
But I get the following permission errors. What is the proper way to install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion?
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/Formula/...
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/...
Press enter to continue
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod o+w /usr/local
mkdir: /usr/local/Cellar: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/etc: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/include: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/lib: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/Library: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/sbin: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/share: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/var: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/.git: Permission denied
Failed during: /bin/mkdir /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/Library /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/var /usr/local/.git
$
A: Try this: sudo /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)".
| Q: Can't install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion I followed the simple instructions on Homebrew's homepage:
Paste this at a terminal prompt:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
But I get the following permission errors. What is the proper way to install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion?
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/Formula/...
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/...
Press enter to continue
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod o+w /usr/local
mkdir: /usr/local/Cellar: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/etc: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/include: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/lib: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/Library: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/sbin: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/share: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/var: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/.git: Permission denied
Failed during: /bin/mkdir /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/Library /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/var /usr/local/.git
$
A: Try this: sudo /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)".
A: I just struggled with the same problem, but instead of manually entering any commands†, I used gist: 768518 to do the dirty stuff for me. Worked like a charm—and you won't need any sudoing!
The aforementioned gist (aptly described as "Fix permissions on /usr/local for Homebrew") only fixes the permissions, i.e. it doesn't install Homebrew despite the fact it is a fork of the installation script.
†) other than the required $ chmod a+x fix_homebrew.rb and $ ./fix_homebrew.rb of course
A: the official oneliner from brew.sh is this...
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
why would you like to use a outdated gist version and not the original script???
A: Github has a beautiful app for Mac that eliminates the painful commandline process (if the commandline is not your thing that is ;-))
A: try these, these works for me..
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 274,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5942",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20012"
} |
de1bbfec5dba8332504f8dae305eeb9287c9396a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Speeding up iMac (early 2006 I have an early 2006 iMac, the first with Intel CPU and now I am looking for speeding it up a little. I maxed out the RAM (2G) and my only other option is to install an SSD drive there.
*
*First of all, I would like to know if this is a good idea to speed up my iMac?
*Shall I take my iMac to the service for this installation or I can try this on my own at home?
*Would it be possible to keep the current primary hdd as a secondary hdd in the machine or there is no space inside?
A: *
*SSD will make everything feel faster, but it's kind of pricey. Your internal HD is probably wearing out anyway, so it's not a bad idea to substitute it. If price is an issue you can buy one of the new 7200rpm with 32/64MB of cache, and do a clean install. Before moving your data into the new HD, install your Applications. This way they will reside in area of the disk which can be retrieved faster.
| Q: Speeding up iMac (early 2006 I have an early 2006 iMac, the first with Intel CPU and now I am looking for speeding it up a little. I maxed out the RAM (2G) and my only other option is to install an SSD drive there.
*
*First of all, I would like to know if this is a good idea to speed up my iMac?
*Shall I take my iMac to the service for this installation or I can try this on my own at home?
*Would it be possible to keep the current primary hdd as a secondary hdd in the machine or there is no space inside?
A: *
*SSD will make everything feel faster, but it's kind of pricey. Your internal HD is probably wearing out anyway, so it's not a bad idea to substitute it. If price is an issue you can buy one of the new 7200rpm with 32/64MB of cache, and do a clean install. Before moving your data into the new HD, install your Applications. This way they will reside in area of the disk which can be retrieved faster.
A: You can speed up your iMac with CPU&Memory and SSD upgrades.
*
*SSD upgrade is cheaper, easier and more efficient overall:
You will need an SSD, some patience and skills with screwdriver and this link on how to take apart your iMac (search for 17" if yours is 17") and get to HDD. You may also use 2.5" to 3.5" bracket for an SSD but it's totally optional.
a. Now you may use your leftover drive by putting it into USB or FireWire 3.5" external enclosure. I would recommend FireWire 400 (or 800 if you plan to use it later) one if you want best experience, or USB2 if you need cheapest one.
b. Alternatively (or additionally) you may add any internal 2.5" SATA HDD in place of optical drive. Here is link on how to replace ODD. You will need a 12.7mm caddy with PATA to SATA converter. If you are going to install OS on it then switch automatic sleep off because it will hang. No problem with using it as a data drive though.
*You may upgrade CPU to 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo T7600 Socket M. Here is ebay listing for them. After this you will be able to upgrade memory to 3GB with a help of this unofficial firmware and additional 2GB SO-DIMM DDR2-667 memory module. I believe you should search for it because there is no link guarantee because of legal constraints.
I hope you still find it useful.
A: I am writing this (in March 2014) on my 2006 iMac with an ssd drive that I am using as the boot drive through the USB connection. It is pretty quick as long as I don't have many applications open and gets the job done. I followed the directions here to get the ssd drive to work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onorIa2b5oA
it is a 21" mac and I have a monitor on the side. Forget about stutter free streaming movies but for web stuff it works great.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 518,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5945",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20019"
} |
2b260e9a2ddea68614e81f495c64c624c11cb5aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I remove the Parallels icons from Launchpad in Lion? I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and after an upgrade to Lion I got a whole bunch of Windows app icons on Launchpad:
They look ugly and don't have a remove button.
They also don't exist in my Applications folder so I can't delete them from there either.
How do I get rid of them?
A: The original LaunchPad Cleaner would clean up the icons, but running parallels would undo the cleaning. The updated LaunchPad Cleaner V2 corrects that reversion and works to more permanently clean these parallels icons from the LaunchPad view.
Two other workarounds options are also available:
*
*upgrade to the build that supports Lion, as suggested by patrix (free for v6 users);
*disable Windows application integration by right-clicking Parallels icon in Dock, selecting Configure... for the running machine and unchecking Share Windows applications with Mac in Applications section:
Of course this will also make these shortcuts unavailable on Mac.
| Q: How can I remove the Parallels icons from Launchpad in Lion? I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and after an upgrade to Lion I got a whole bunch of Windows app icons on Launchpad:
They look ugly and don't have a remove button.
They also don't exist in my Applications folder so I can't delete them from there either.
How do I get rid of them?
A: The original LaunchPad Cleaner would clean up the icons, but running parallels would undo the cleaning. The updated LaunchPad Cleaner V2 corrects that reversion and works to more permanently clean these parallels icons from the LaunchPad view.
Two other workarounds options are also available:
*
*upgrade to the build that supports Lion, as suggested by patrix (free for v6 users);
*disable Windows application integration by right-clicking Parallels icon in Dock, selecting Configure... for the running machine and unchecking Share Windows applications with Mac in Applications section:
Of course this will also make these shortcuts unavailable on Mac.
A: I had the same issue initially. After upgrading to the latest version of Parallels (which also solved the virtualization issue), all Windows applications were moved to ~/Applications (Parallels) at the first start of Parallels and the icons now don't show up in Launchpad any longer.
A: I had Windows XP installed using Parallels.
I got rid of the Parallels trial as I bought VMWare instead.
In order to clean up my LaunchPad I found that I had to find the following directory: "Windows XP Applications" and delete it.
To find where the directory was I typed into spotlight "internet explorer" without the quotation marks.
NOTE: To open the containing folder of "internet explorer" I held down the Command key and click on "internet explorer".
I then dragged the folder "Windows XP Applications" that was containing "internet explorer" to the Trash Bin.
Then I opened a terminal session and typed the following:
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db
sudo killall Dock
That cleaned up my LaunchPad.
Note it took about 10 to 15 seconds to for LaunchPad reindex the correct applications.
Doug
A: Launchpad-Control is what you're searching for
http://chaosspace.de/dev/launchpad-control-hide-apps-from-launchpad/
A: To delete for ever, simply go to Finder -> Applications -> My Bootcamp Applications.
Remove all links in there, and Launchpad will automatically remove them.
Normally, the links will still come back if you do a refresh reset, but this method should work.
A: I found a way to remove those annoying icons.
Download Launchpad Cleaner2. since it's a tryout it lets you only delete the first page and the default icons, like Safari.
So what I did was gathered all the Parallels icons into 3 folders and name them Safari2, then Launchpad Cleaner took it as default and I was able to delete them.
A: In your Application directory, there's a folder for virtual machine windows programs (it's hidden, or somehow not easily accesible). You can do a global search for the program name ("internet explorer" i.e), and go to the containing folder. Finally, remove the folder entirely.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 502,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5947",
"question_score": "11",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20024"
} |
998f49e26498b0cbf215ac4cd7713dd934590c54 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Unable to load the Parallels driver" after upgrade to Lion I have Parallels Desktop 6 (6.0.11994) installed and after an upgrade to Lion, whenever I start Parallels, I get these two messages:
Then Parallels Virtual Machines window appears but neither of them can be started.
How do I fix this?
A: You don't have the Lion compatible version of Parallels installed! The current version is 6.0.12094.
You can download the latest version from Parallel's download page or use Check for Updates... in Parallels Desktop menu.
| Q: "Unable to load the Parallels driver" after upgrade to Lion I have Parallels Desktop 6 (6.0.11994) installed and after an upgrade to Lion, whenever I start Parallels, I get these two messages:
Then Parallels Virtual Machines window appears but neither of them can be started.
How do I fix this?
A: You don't have the Lion compatible version of Parallels installed! The current version is 6.0.12094.
You can download the latest version from Parallel's download page or use Check for Updates... in Parallels Desktop menu.
A: There are several solutions to this problem.
The easiest, and permanent solution is to upgrade the Parallels to the latest build.
The upgrade is free for existing version 6 users.
The official KB article says:
Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac (build 12094 and higher) is compatible with Lion.
To upgrade, go to the download page or click Check for Updates... in Parallels Desktop menu:
If you don't yet want to upgrade, you can use a workaround below:
*
*Launch AppleScript Editor (it's in Utilities folder)
*Create a new file (File > New)
*Copy and paste this into the editor:
do shell script "for x in prl_hypervisor prl_hid_hook prl_usb_connect prl_netbridge prl_vnic; do
sudo kextutil -q \"/Library/Parallels/Parallels Service.app/Contents/Kexts/10.6/$x.kext\"
done" with administrator privileges
do shell script "open -a \"/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app\""
*Select File > Save, call it Parallels Desktop Launcher, put it in the Applications folder and set type to Application:
The new launcher will appear in your Applications folder and you will be able to use it to start Parallels. You will need to enter your password once before the start because the script needs administrative privileges.
Note that there are also other problems with Lion incompatibility in versions prior to 6.0.12094 and this only fixes startup. I also had a problem with Parallels virtual machine window being only briefly visible during Spaces transition, as if it were above all windows in the system. Apparently, I had Coherence mode set by default, and there seem to issues with it on the older versions. I fixed the problem by clicking the red Parallels icon in the menu bar and choosing Exit Coherence:
To fix the same issue with Parallels configuration window not appearing, I had to change Assign to from None to All Desktops.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 377,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5948",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20029"
} |
37e0fc3bd38baabfa8f77c92ade31b614636ee0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I enable a notification that a pop-up has been blocked in Safari? QUESTION: Just wondering how to enable an alert message notifying me that a pop-up has been blocked?
I know Firefox has that feature(and other related pop-up options), but I don't use Firefox... also preferably avoid 3rd party apps.
I have Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
A: Better Pop Up Blocker does trigger an alert in Safari when a popup is locked.
And it also improves the effectiveness of Safari's blocking.
But - the alert behaviour does not work in Lion! Snow Leopard only. If the dev updates it for Lion it should do what you request.
| Q: How can I enable a notification that a pop-up has been blocked in Safari? QUESTION: Just wondering how to enable an alert message notifying me that a pop-up has been blocked?
I know Firefox has that feature(and other related pop-up options), but I don't use Firefox... also preferably avoid 3rd party apps.
I have Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
A: Better Pop Up Blocker does trigger an alert in Safari when a popup is locked.
And it also improves the effectiveness of Safari's blocking.
But - the alert behaviour does not work in Lion! Snow Leopard only. If the dev updates it for Lion it should do what you request.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 113,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5954",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20048"
} |
c4076e5bb396db96a6a1b146e552686aa7185124 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to reload autofs on Lion without restarting? I'm trying to get my host machine running Lion to automount an NFS export on my CentOS VM.
I was able to get this working on a system running Mac OS 10.5 by modifying /etc/auto_master and then restarting the autofs service per the instructions in http://alanlam.blogspot.com/2008/06/restart-autofs-in-leopard-without.html:
sudo service com.apple.autofsd stop
sudo service com.apple.autofsd start
However, in Lion, the service command appears to be missing.
How do I reload the autofs service in OS X Lion without restarting?
A: You can use launchctl instead of service:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.autofsd
You should not need to restart autofsdt manually; launchd will notice that it has stopped, and immediately start another instance.
| Q: How to reload autofs on Lion without restarting? I'm trying to get my host machine running Lion to automount an NFS export on my CentOS VM.
I was able to get this working on a system running Mac OS 10.5 by modifying /etc/auto_master and then restarting the autofs service per the instructions in http://alanlam.blogspot.com/2008/06/restart-autofs-in-leopard-without.html:
sudo service com.apple.autofsd stop
sudo service com.apple.autofsd start
However, in Lion, the service command appears to be missing.
How do I reload the autofs service in OS X Lion without restarting?
A: You can use launchctl instead of service:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.autofsd
You should not need to restart autofsdt manually; launchd will notice that it has stopped, and immediately start another instance.
A: this works for me:
sudo automount -vc
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 126,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5956",
"question_score": "13",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20050"
} |
6cd663e2dbf241608861c9c4e739637a5585da13 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does the oleophobic effect of the iPhone screen wear off over time? Unlike predecessors, the iPhone 4 has a screen that is more resistant to smears and smudges.
Is this a property of the glass itself, or is it a coating that will wear off over time? If it wears off, how long does that take?
Update: Some answers address cleaning the screen. I've never cleaned by phone except by wiping it across my shirt or pants-leg.
A: I've had an iPhone 4 since the day it came out. After the first year or so the oleophobic property has completely gone: it's now no different to my old iPhone 3G screen in terms of finger smears. I've never cleaned it with any sort of chemical agent but I've also never kept it in a case that covers the screen, and it spends a lot of time in my jeans pocket. So the answer is yes, under some conditions it certainly does wear off over time. Your mileage may vary, of course: kept in a case, or carried in a bag or purse where the screen doesn't get rubbed, it should last much longer.
| Q: Does the oleophobic effect of the iPhone screen wear off over time? Unlike predecessors, the iPhone 4 has a screen that is more resistant to smears and smudges.
Is this a property of the glass itself, or is it a coating that will wear off over time? If it wears off, how long does that take?
Update: Some answers address cleaning the screen. I've never cleaned by phone except by wiping it across my shirt or pants-leg.
A: I've had an iPhone 4 since the day it came out. After the first year or so the oleophobic property has completely gone: it's now no different to my old iPhone 3G screen in terms of finger smears. I've never cleaned it with any sort of chemical agent but I've also never kept it in a case that covers the screen, and it spends a lot of time in my jeans pocket. So the answer is yes, under some conditions it certainly does wear off over time. Your mileage may vary, of course: kept in a case, or carried in a bag or purse where the screen doesn't get rubbed, it should last much longer.
A: Unfortunately, yes, the coating does wear off over time. Apple has this to say:
Please note that the ability of this coating to repel oil will
diminish over time with normal usage, and that rubbing the screen with
an abrasive material will further diminish its effect and may scratch
your screen. —Apple
However, and this is good news, there are aftermarket alternatives to re-apply an oleophobic coating. Aculon is in the business of applying lipophobic protection (among other types) to a range of devices. I'm not sure how well they work or how much they run but a solution does indeed exist.
And for the curious bunch among you, here's what Bill Nye (The Science Guy) says on how the substance works:
The new 3GS iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly
any, prints—fingerprints. The glass screen is coated with a polymer,
a plastic that human skin oil doesn't adhere to very well. People in
the chemical bonding business like to call the finished surface
"oleophobic."
Such a lovely Greek cognate may sound like it means "afraid of oil."
And, it does, but it also connotes (or carries with) "aversion" or
"not-like-to-be-around-tivity," if I may. Instead of sticking to the
bonded-plastic surface of your new phone, the oil from you fingers or
cheekbone or tip of your nose stays more or less together as its own
smooshed droplet.
The Applers were able to do this by bonding this oleophobic polymer to
glass. The polymer is an organic (from organisms) compound,
carbon-based. The glass is nominally inorganic, silicon-based… solid
rock. The trick is getting the one to stick to the other. Although it
is nominally proprietary, this is probably done with a third molecule
that sticks to silicon on one side and to carbon-based polymers on the
other side. Chemical engineers get it to stay stuck by inducing
compounds to diffuse or "inter-penetrate" into the polymer. The
intermediate chemical is a "silane," a molecule that has silicon and
alkanes (chains of carbon atoms).
If you'd like—and I hope you will—take a moment and think about
droplets, like water droplets, on a surface. Deep in the droplet,
water molecules stick to each other. On the surface though, they stick
to each other as well, but they also have to opportunity to stick or
not to stick to the surface they're resting on. When they stick, say
to the nylon fibers in a bikini strap, the swimsuit feels wet (or so
I'm told). When they don't stick to the surface they're resting on,
they bead up, like in the car wax commercials.
Well, the polymer that the 3GS iPhone screen is coated with doesn't
let the oil of your skin stick to it very much. So, you don't leave
fingerprints. The key is in the intermediate compounds, the silanes
that hold the plastic to the glass.
So grab a hold of one, and for a change, watch almost nothing happen.
It's chemistry. —Gizmodo
A: I have owned an iPhone 3GS for one whole year and then an iPhone 4 for a year and a half. In both cases, the oleophobic coating has never rubbed off, and I use my iPhones a lot!
I would say that this coating is very well bonded to the glass.
A: It depends if you clean the screen of the phone with strong alcoholic solutions. Some alcoholic solutions wear off the Oleo-phobic coating.
A: As they say, your mileage may vary. I would say that it all depends on the cleaning solution you use.
I had an iPhone 3G that I used for quite some time and cleaned regularly with the cleaning kit by iClear (The only one that Apple sells at its stores). I cleaned the iPhone about once a week and it kept the screen in excellent condition.
For my iPhone 4, I have been using the cleaning kit by Monster sold at Best Buy (also weekly) and it has not kept my phone as well as the cleaning kit by iClear. This tells me that the oleophobic coating may actually diminish over time with the wrong cleaning solution.
Hope this helps.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 885,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5959",
"question_score": "7",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20085"
} |
fc06221fb4b89e96872f53ad5da39064585f17fd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac Pro: Any way to recognize a bootable USB on startup? I have a Mac Pro 2,1 2x6-Core [email protected] GHz and am trying to boot from several ISO images written to USB sticks. I have tried the dd-based methods as recommended by Ubuntu, with no luck. In every case the stick fails to be recognized at boot time. I have also tried booting from a rEFIt CD (which I can do) but the loader there doesn't identify the USB stick in the front of the machine.
Is it possible the MacBooks are so different from the Mac Pros that these instructions wouldn't apply? Does anyone have a reproducible method for creation bootable USB sticks on a Mac Pro and then booting from them?
A: I don't know much about booting Linux on a Mac, but you should be able to start up with the option key. It may take awhile to start up, but you should get a screen that allows you to choose what disk to boot from. Hope that helps!
EDIT: Check out this Apple Support Doc here.
| Q: Mac Pro: Any way to recognize a bootable USB on startup? I have a Mac Pro 2,1 2x6-Core [email protected] GHz and am trying to boot from several ISO images written to USB sticks. I have tried the dd-based methods as recommended by Ubuntu, with no luck. In every case the stick fails to be recognized at boot time. I have also tried booting from a rEFIt CD (which I can do) but the loader there doesn't identify the USB stick in the front of the machine.
Is it possible the MacBooks are so different from the Mac Pros that these instructions wouldn't apply? Does anyone have a reproducible method for creation bootable USB sticks on a Mac Pro and then booting from them?
A: I don't know much about booting Linux on a Mac, but you should be able to start up with the option key. It may take awhile to start up, but you should get a screen that allows you to choose what disk to boot from. Hope that helps!
EDIT: Check out this Apple Support Doc here.
A: If your volume isn't showing in the Startup Manager but is showing in the startup disk preference pane, then it's likely the image just needs a Folder Mode bless.
This will modify that filesystem on the USB drive to ensure that other macs see it as ready to go when booting with option pressed to get to the startup manager.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 242,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5960",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20091"
} |
08d4005bab82dec59666f135b938439724ce126f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Open Self Extracting .exe I have a self extracting exe file that is password protected, does anybody know of a program that will open this? If I need to I can just run bootcamp, but it would be convenient to not have to do this.
A: Some self-extracting files can also just by unzipped using the command line 'unzip'. Just open Terminal, change into the directory with the .exe, and try running unzip -t filename.exe. You should see a listing of the files in the .exe. If you don't, then this approach won't work. If you do, you can make a directory and then extract the files, something like mkdir extracted && unzip /path/to/file.exe
| Q: Open Self Extracting .exe I have a self extracting exe file that is password protected, does anybody know of a program that will open this? If I need to I can just run bootcamp, but it would be convenient to not have to do this.
A: Some self-extracting files can also just by unzipped using the command line 'unzip'. Just open Terminal, change into the directory with the .exe, and try running unzip -t filename.exe. You should see a listing of the files in the .exe. If you don't, then this approach won't work. If you do, you can make a directory and then extract the files, something like mkdir extracted && unzip /path/to/file.exe
A: Ok, this is how I solved the problem. Following bmike's advice, I went to the App Store, searched for and installed Stuffit. When you open Stuffit, it opens for you a target where you can drag and drop the file compressed as a Windows executable. At least for the file that I've got, that pretty much did the trick.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 175,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5961",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20093"
} |
76d9775ca633bc9c7d5b5bc4740c047b3be507f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: X-Mailer header mapping to actual version of mail.app used to send message When email is sent using Mail.app a Apple Mail (x.xxx.x) X-Mailer header is added to the message. Is there a way to determine which actual version of the app was used to send the messages? In Lion Version 5 the header is (2.1244.3).
Is there some sort of formula that determines what the numbers in the header are? Is there any way to determine the version mappings from older versions?
A: Simple answer - no, there is no easy way to tell from just the number.
However, I did a Google Image search for screenshots of the "About Mail" window, and found the following correlations between Mail version numbers.
*
*Mail 14.0 = 36554
*Mail 5.2 = 1257
*Mail 5.0 = 1244
*Mail 4.3 = 1081
*Mail 4.0 = 1075
*Mail 3.6 = 936
*Mail 3.5 = 930
*Mail 3.4 = 928
*Mail 2.1 = 752
If you're wanting to match to versions of the OS:
*
*Big Sur: 365xx
*Lion: 12xx
*Snow Leopard: 10xx
*Leopard: 9xx
*Tiger: 7xx
"About Mail" images found on these (and other) pages:
*
*http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/mac/Apple-Mail-Settings.cfm
*http://gseis.ucla.edu/administrative-support-units/educational-technology-unit/etu-documentation/email-apple-mail
| Q: X-Mailer header mapping to actual version of mail.app used to send message When email is sent using Mail.app a Apple Mail (x.xxx.x) X-Mailer header is added to the message. Is there a way to determine which actual version of the app was used to send the messages? In Lion Version 5 the header is (2.1244.3).
Is there some sort of formula that determines what the numbers in the header are? Is there any way to determine the version mappings from older versions?
A: Simple answer - no, there is no easy way to tell from just the number.
However, I did a Google Image search for screenshots of the "About Mail" window, and found the following correlations between Mail version numbers.
*
*Mail 14.0 = 36554
*Mail 5.2 = 1257
*Mail 5.0 = 1244
*Mail 4.3 = 1081
*Mail 4.0 = 1075
*Mail 3.6 = 936
*Mail 3.5 = 930
*Mail 3.4 = 928
*Mail 2.1 = 752
If you're wanting to match to versions of the OS:
*
*Big Sur: 365xx
*Lion: 12xx
*Snow Leopard: 10xx
*Leopard: 9xx
*Tiger: 7xx
"About Mail" images found on these (and other) pages:
*
*http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/mac/Apple-Mail-Settings.cfm
*http://gseis.ucla.edu/administrative-support-units/educational-technology-unit/etu-documentation/email-apple-mail
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 194,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5963",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20098"
} |
8ee83c063cd531b13c574e47dbe3f8c9fa353fae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is a .apple extension? What is a .apple extension? I am recovering some files and I recovered several files with the .apple extension.
A: What does the terminal command file f0009024.apple show you about the files have.
It's highly unlikely they are truncated Apple Single or Apple Double files, but that's the only guess I have at the moment.
| Q: What is a .apple extension? What is a .apple extension? I am recovering some files and I recovered several files with the .apple extension.
A: What does the terminal command file f0009024.apple show you about the files have.
It's highly unlikely they are truncated Apple Single or Apple Double files, but that's the only guess I have at the moment.
A: To decode AppleDouble, try this AppleScript
on run
tell application "Decode AppleFile"
activate
set outputFile to decode file "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:encoded:SomeFile.hqx"
-- set outputFile to decode file "Macintosh HD:encoded:%aFile" data fork file "Macintosh HD:encoded:aFile" end tell tell application "Finder"
activate
select outputFile
move selection to folder "Macintosh HD:decoded"
end tell
end run
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 114,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5965",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20101"
} |
30f4856fb5f86b45839588ca37324692789a02e2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I replicate Windows End/Home key? How can I replicate Windows Home/End keys to use to jump to the end of a line or use Shift to highlight to the end or start of a line
A: The shortcuts you're looking for are listed on this very handy article in the Apple KB. Hope it helps.
| Q: How can I replicate Windows End/Home key? How can I replicate Windows Home/End keys to use to jump to the end of a line or use Shift to highlight to the end or start of a line
A: The shortcuts you're looking for are listed on this very handy article in the Apple KB. Hope it helps.
A: With MacBook Air (the 2012 model at least) the best solution I found was the free KeyRemap4MacBook utility -- it lets you change the keyboard in many ways, and I settled with "fn + cursor left/right" for Home/End and "fn + up/down" for PgUp/PgDown.
(See also a related question with the same answer.)
A: These can actually be mapped globally for most applications by creating entries in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
But this guy created a handy little packaged script called Keyfixer that sets up the bindings in the way you describe (with some additional Control and Shift modifiers.) I threw it in my Dropbox and run it on any Mac I have to use. Since the preferences are per-user you don't have to worry about screwing up someone else's keys.
A: I used the following a lot.
⌘CMD+ꜛ: Home
⌘CMD+↓: End
⌘CMD+←: Beginning of Line
⌘CMD+→: End of Line
These I learned the other day from here - very handy for coding and writing, these are emacs bindings which work on Macs.
CTRL+A: beginning of line.
CTRL+E: end of line.
CTRL+U: delete from cursor to beginning of line.
CTRL+K: delete from cursor to end of line.
CTRL+W: erase word to the left.
CTRL+T: transpose characters around cursor.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 264,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5966",
"question_score": "8",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20102"
} |
ca883c4d1a94e4f4760fb6839860ffd687f05ce4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I make the mouse hairpin in the terminal more visible? It often takes me a while to find the mouse crosshair when working with Terminal.app. Is there a way to make it more visible?
A: There's an app available to download called Mouse Locator which will put green markers around your cursor if you press a hotkey. That might help you but I don't know if it's still a working program under current OS X releases.
| Q: Can I make the mouse hairpin in the terminal more visible? It often takes me a while to find the mouse crosshair when working with Terminal.app. Is there a way to make it more visible?
A: There's an app available to download called Mouse Locator which will put green markers around your cursor if you press a hotkey. That might help you but I don't know if it's still a working program under current OS X releases.
A: I've started having this problem also, not sure if it started happening after i got a retina screen or upgraded to mavericks, or im just getting old. My suggestion is to try iTerm2 which have a bit more visible "hairpin".
A: If you mean the blinking cursor, then you need to go into the terminal preferences. Here's a picture to help you better understand
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 143,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5969",
"question_score": "18",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20112"
} |
ada54e1645727143293ac433be3215d9594e5c63 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Finder and the "open" command treat files with .sh or other typical extensions just like .command files? I am looking for a way to inject some more extensions into the OS X launch services database systematically so that when clicked, they execute in the terminal app just like .command files do by default.
Things like .ksh, .sh, and .csh would be nice to start, but I assume once I figure out how to add one, it's easy to do the rest.
An answer specific to Lion or Snow Leopard is fine, so a general-case answer for all OS versions is not necessary. It would be great if this were scriptable and wrote directly to the Launch Services database so I could automate this rather than going to finder on each mac and doing a lot of clicking.
A: If a file is opened with Terminal, and has the execute bit set, then Terminal will execute it.
Get Info on a .sh file and set it to be opened with Terminal, and click the Change All button.
| Q: Can Finder and the "open" command treat files with .sh or other typical extensions just like .command files? I am looking for a way to inject some more extensions into the OS X launch services database systematically so that when clicked, they execute in the terminal app just like .command files do by default.
Things like .ksh, .sh, and .csh would be nice to start, but I assume once I figure out how to add one, it's easy to do the rest.
An answer specific to Lion or Snow Leopard is fine, so a general-case answer for all OS versions is not necessary. It would be great if this were scriptable and wrote directly to the Launch Services database so I could automate this rather than going to finder on each mac and doing a lot of clicking.
A: If a file is opened with Terminal, and has the execute bit set, then Terminal will execute it.
Get Info on a .sh file and set it to be opened with Terminal, and click the Change All button.
A: To prefer Terminal to open .sh files — using the defaults command, without using Finder
In most cases, all that's required should be possible from the command line …
Preparation
Two commands:
defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | grep -B 1 -A 3 public.shell-script
defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | grep -B 1 -A 4 "LSHandlerContentTag = sh;"
If either command reveals an existing preference
Use Xcode or any other suitable property list editor to remove the relevant dictionary from the LSHandlers key within the following file:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
Hints:
*
*defaults, with which I'm more familiar, seems unsuitable for removal of a single dictionary from an array
*removal should be necessary only if (say) the user has previously used Finder to associate .sh files with an application other than the system default
*a Super User answer under How to change default app for all files of particular file type through terminal in OS X? is recently edited to include a script that uses PlistBuddy — credit to Daniel Beck.
Adding to LaunchServices preferences, for Terminal to view and edit .sh files
Two one-line commands.
Depending on your requirements, the first command alone may suffice:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add '{ LSHandlerContentType = "public.shell-script"; LSHandlerRoleViewer = "com.apple.Terminal"; LSHandlerRoleEditor = "com.apple.Terminal"; }'
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add '{ LSHandlerContentTag = "sh"; LSHandlerContentTagClass = "public.filename-extension"; LSHandlerRoleViewer = "com.apple.Terminal"; LSHandlerRoleEditor = "com.apple.Terminal"; }'
For the new preferences to be respected
Modifications to the user domain persistence layer of Launch Services must be acknowledged. For this, least disruptive to the end user will be:
*
*a restart of the operating system.
From the command line, if immediate restart is acceptable:
sudo shutdown -r now
Background
Understanding Terminal.app support for .sh (public.shell-script)
Consider the result of the following command:
defaults read /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Info
*
*under CFBundleDocumentTypes (an array of dictionaries describing the document types supported by the bundle) we see that Terminal is designed to support com.apple.terminal.shell-script
*public.shell-script (the system-declared UTI associated with .sh) is not supported at that level, it appears elsewhere in the property list — under UTExportedTypeDeclarations
Terminal aside for a moment: it's sometimes inappropriate (or simply worthless) to force opening of a document type, by an app that is designed without support for that type.
For Terminal, I imagine no harm in handling the public.shell-script type.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 558,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5971",
"question_score": "7",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20118"
} |
424af1b9500e38fac7277dabbb56189c5d2facb2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the best way to install command line utilities such as GIT? I'm a Windows/Linux guy that just got my Macbook Air. I do web dev, and am currently trying to setup this machine for some on-the-go development.
After some research attempts, I'm wondering: what's the best way to install command line utilities in Lion, such as GIT? Best as in easiest to install, maintain, upgrade etc.
As I understand it, there are some alternatives: macports, homebrew etc. Or in the GIT example, maybe just download the installer from their website.
Thanks.
A: Git's bundled with the free version of Xcode 4 on the app store. That's about as easy and official as it gets in my book. You won't do wrong by choosing homebrew as it's solid and got great momentum plus mindshare presently.
| Q: What's the best way to install command line utilities such as GIT? I'm a Windows/Linux guy that just got my Macbook Air. I do web dev, and am currently trying to setup this machine for some on-the-go development.
After some research attempts, I'm wondering: what's the best way to install command line utilities in Lion, such as GIT? Best as in easiest to install, maintain, upgrade etc.
As I understand it, there are some alternatives: macports, homebrew etc. Or in the GIT example, maybe just download the installer from their website.
Thanks.
A: Git's bundled with the free version of Xcode 4 on the app store. That's about as easy and official as it gets in my book. You won't do wrong by choosing homebrew as it's solid and got great momentum plus mindshare presently.
A: I think it depends on how many tools/libraries you need to install.
If just git then use Xcode 4 which you will need for any port package. If you are doing pure HTML/Javascripy/CSS then the git installer will work.
For python and perl and similar interpreters the the language install tools can be used unless there are complex C/C++ libraries
If only a few others then build into /usr/local
However if you have several things to install or there are complex dependencies then I would use a ports package like Fink, macports or homebrew (which is best is debatable and should be a separate discussion)
A: If it's just git then, by all means, their installation procedure works well. But you know it won't stay like that.
I really prefer homebrew over macports. I brew everyday =) It's super easy to install: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
And it hasn't bitten me yet. Their non-sudo approach rocks. Maybe there aren't always formulas for everything, but I most often take that as a hint. =)
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 307,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5972",
"question_score": "7",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20120"
} |
4f1a7360b8659e0badc7bc5c20ffc3b649730990 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I send files from one Mac to another via Terminal? Is there a way to send a file in Terminal from one Mac to another? If I have a file on Mac A and I want to send it to Mac B via Terminal on Mac A, how do I do this?
A: Enable "Remote Login" in the preferences of the target/remote mac. Then use
scp file user@remotehost:
with user being the short name of the remote user. You will be asked for the password of the user on remotehost.
If you want to avoid using passwords, you can set up ssh key pairs. See here for details.
| Q: How do I send files from one Mac to another via Terminal? Is there a way to send a file in Terminal from one Mac to another? If I have a file on Mac A and I want to send it to Mac B via Terminal on Mac A, how do I do this?
A: Enable "Remote Login" in the preferences of the target/remote mac. Then use
scp file user@remotehost:
with user being the short name of the remote user. You will be asked for the password of the user on remotehost.
If you want to avoid using passwords, you can set up ssh key pairs. See here for details.
A: I use Dropbox. If it's not huge files, that is. Just cp to your Dropbox folder on Mac 1 and Dropbox will sync it to Mac 2.
A: rsync -Pvaze ssh source destination
See man rsync for what the options mean and what other options are available.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 159,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5973",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20122"
} |
9896271e2cc746e6ea2773dbf16fa2b043c4a328 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I trim the first 3 characters in file name with AppleScript? Is there a way to trim off the first 3 character of multiple file names? (or last 3 characters)
A: Here's a shorter script:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with f in (choose file with multiple selections allowed)
set name of f to text 4 thru -1 of (get name of f)
end repeat
end tell
Renaming files is often easier in the shell though:
for f in *; do mv "$f" "${f:3}"; done
Parameter expansion is documented in file:///usr/share/doc/bash/bashref.html#SEC30.
| Q: How can I trim the first 3 characters in file name with AppleScript? Is there a way to trim off the first 3 character of multiple file names? (or last 3 characters)
A: Here's a shorter script:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with f in (choose file with multiple selections allowed)
set name of f to text 4 thru -1 of (get name of f)
end repeat
end tell
Renaming files is often easier in the shell though:
for f in *; do mv "$f" "${f:3}"; done
Parameter expansion is documented in file:///usr/share/doc/bash/bashref.html#SEC30.
A: This code will do it for you:
set whichFile to choose file with multiple selections allowed
repeat with aFile in whichFile
tell application "Finder"
set filename to name of aFile
set name of aFile to ((characters 4 thru -1 of filename) as string) --trim first 3
--set name of whichFile to ((characters 1 thru -4 of filename) as string) --trim last 3
end tell
end repeat
Note that stripping the last three will get rid of the extension. If that isn't what you want to happen, let me know in a comment.
A: Here is an Automator Workflow as a Service that will do what you want it to do.
All you have to do is load this workflow, and duplicate it to a Service and call the Service "Trim First 3" or something, then save it.
Then select a folder and select this service and it will take all files in the folder and trim the first 3 characters of the file name.
Good luck.
Trim First 3 Workflow (downloaded from my icloud account)
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 269,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5975",
"question_score": "8",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20134"
} |
410c5b11ad304adfcea1b3da78600b6ac7172f15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does OS X store your current desktop picture? Where does OS X store your current desktop picture? I read somewhere else that it was in /Library/Caches/com.apple.Desktop. But I don't have that directory.
A: Starting in Lion, I don't think Lion caches desktop pictures anymore (possibly because you can have multiple at a time, for different desktops/spaces).
In that case, use plutil -p to dump the binary plist file in text form using terminal:
plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
The Apple delivered desktop images are stored in /Library/Desktop Pictures , so you can eliminate those (or seek those if you used an Apple picture for one or more spaces). Before Lion, the preference file that controls desktop images is text format any to find out the current image, open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist in a text editor and find the first ImageFilePath property. That will tell you the path to the current desktop image.
| Q: Where does OS X store your current desktop picture? Where does OS X store your current desktop picture? I read somewhere else that it was in /Library/Caches/com.apple.Desktop. But I don't have that directory.
A: Starting in Lion, I don't think Lion caches desktop pictures anymore (possibly because you can have multiple at a time, for different desktops/spaces).
In that case, use plutil -p to dump the binary plist file in text form using terminal:
plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
The Apple delivered desktop images are stored in /Library/Desktop Pictures , so you can eliminate those (or seek those if you used an Apple picture for one or more spaces). Before Lion, the preference file that controls desktop images is text format any to find out the current image, open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist in a text editor and find the first ImageFilePath property. That will tell you the path to the current desktop image.
A: If you just go into system preference, then desktop. you can simple click and drag the little image you have onto your desktop.
A: As of Catalina (MacOS 10.15.5) and Big Sur (MacOS 11.2), I can verify that this is now the location of the desktop background images.
System/Library/Desktop Pictures
If you want to navigate to it, you can press command K and paste the text below in.
file://System/Library/Desktop%20Pictures
1.4 GB too. : [
You'll need to turn off System Integrity if you wish to give write privs to that folder so that you can remove any of these images.
A: In current versions of macOS (at least in Mojave, probably since Sierra, not sure about others) the location of the desktop pictures are stored in a SQLite database located at ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db.
I did not dig into details of the database structure but you can get the file path with this command:
sqlite3 -readonly ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db \
'SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY rowID DESC LIMIT 1;'
A: It does allow you to retrieve the image if that is what you want. Also once you drag it to your desktop you'll know the filename and then you can use Spotlight to search for the original copy, thus finding the location that you stored it in.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 367,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5976",
"question_score": "15",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20136"
} |
564938bdcb7b929ed5f6ee04beecbddcbc399660 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app? I always loved the opportunity to create a standalone version of the Color picker instead of having to look for it between the apps menus.
Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app?
Thank you
A: sudo defaults write Contents/Info LSUIElement -bool false would make it have a menu bar and show up in Dock. However as of 10.7.4 there seems to be no way to open the main window after opening the application.
If you want it to be shown in normal Spotlight results, you could make an alias somewhere like /Applications/Utilities/.
| Q: Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app? I always loved the opportunity to create a standalone version of the Color picker instead of having to look for it between the apps menus.
Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app?
Thank you
A: sudo defaults write Contents/Info LSUIElement -bool false would make it have a menu bar and show up in Dock. However as of 10.7.4 there seems to be no way to open the main window after opening the application.
If you want it to be shown in normal Spotlight results, you could make an alias somewhere like /Applications/Utilities/.
A: In this http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051022020253863 Article, you find the AppleScripts to do what you want. However, the paths seem to have changed at least under Lion. So, to show the Character Palette under 10.7 (possibly older as well), use this AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
open item "System:Library:Input Methods:CharacterPalette.app" of the
startup disk
end tell
As a bonus, the Keyboard Viewer is displayed with this script:
tell application "Finder"
open item "System:Library:Input Methods:KeyboardViewer.app" of the
startup disk
end tell
To create a "Standalone Application" from them, just paste them into the AppleScript Editor, choose File->Save As... and select Application as the type.
A: You can do this without scripting or Terminal or digging around in system folders:
In System Preferences > Keyboard, check the box that says "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar". A new icon will appear right next to the date/clock in the menu bar. It drops down to allow easy access to the character palette at any time. Double-clicking a character will insert it into the previously foreground app.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 282,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5984",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20165"
} |
fe60f7e6183e6e05c208b4e053f7a92ec76f4b27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard shortcut for switching between open windows
Possible Duplicate:
Best app to switch between all open windows (alternatives to Witch)
On Windows and Linux one can switch between open windows by pressing Alt+Tab. On the Mac pressing Cmd+Tab only lets one switch between windows of different applications. In order to switch between windows of the same application one has to press Cmd+` instead.
Is it possible to disable that behavior, and use Cmd+Tab to switch between all windows regardless of whether they belong to the same application?
A: Witch is the way to go. I used it everyday for many years and it never let me down. The support is great and reactive. In addition, it has many option, so you can configure it to your desires and then forget it isn't part of OS X.
| Q: Keyboard shortcut for switching between open windows
Possible Duplicate:
Best app to switch between all open windows (alternatives to Witch)
On Windows and Linux one can switch between open windows by pressing Alt+Tab. On the Mac pressing Cmd+Tab only lets one switch between windows of different applications. In order to switch between windows of the same application one has to press Cmd+` instead.
Is it possible to disable that behavior, and use Cmd+Tab to switch between all windows regardless of whether they belong to the same application?
A: Witch is the way to go. I used it everyday for many years and it never let me down. The support is great and reactive. In addition, it has many option, so you can configure it to your desires and then forget it isn't part of OS X.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 137,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5985",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20169"
} |
7e22306b328b3812cab4d0479a2b784e883dcfd4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are some good methods of recovering key function after a spillage? So a friend just gave me his Macbook Air 1,1 on which he spilt some water. He wiped it away immediately, turned it off and upside down but alas the "l" key is no longer functional. However all the others are.
PRAM reset, no luck. Lifted keycap off, nothing unusual visible but still doesn't work. I'm going to leave it off and evaporating for a little while to see if that changes anything, but any suggestions would be great.
Incidentally, he also is still covered under Applecare. Can we get away with a repair on this? There's no water damage marker is there?
A: Apple are very likely to repair this under Applecare with no charge. I have had several defective keyboards and stuck keys in the past. In all cases, Apple replaced the keyboards for free under Applecare.
Clearly your milage will vary, since if you have damaged the keyboard by misuse they are under no obligation to fix it, but in my experience, Genius bar engineers will always give you the benefit of the doubt.
| Q: What are some good methods of recovering key function after a spillage? So a friend just gave me his Macbook Air 1,1 on which he spilt some water. He wiped it away immediately, turned it off and upside down but alas the "l" key is no longer functional. However all the others are.
PRAM reset, no luck. Lifted keycap off, nothing unusual visible but still doesn't work. I'm going to leave it off and evaporating for a little while to see if that changes anything, but any suggestions would be great.
Incidentally, he also is still covered under Applecare. Can we get away with a repair on this? There's no water damage marker is there?
A: Apple are very likely to repair this under Applecare with no charge. I have had several defective keyboards and stuck keys in the past. In all cases, Apple replaced the keyboards for free under Applecare.
Clearly your milage will vary, since if you have damaged the keyboard by misuse they are under no obligation to fix it, but in my experience, Genius bar engineers will always give you the benefit of the doubt.
A: There are LCI (Liquid Contact Indicators) on the topcase/keyboard of the MacBook Air which are quite sparsely placed. If these are tripped Apple will nearly always decline a repair, especially if the faulty module is the one with tripped LCI's. There's also a chance that there will be signs of liquid ingress on the underside of the keyboard.
Parts with tripped LCI's will not be covered by warranty until replaced.
However, there's a good chance that there won't be any sign of liquid damage. Plus Apple tend to be super nice to their AppleCare customers, so it's worth a punt.
The important thing is to deny all knowledge of a spillage
A: The best method is to take it to someone that knows how to repair keys on the mac. Repair shops generally have spares of the delicate scissors and keys (as they can break on removal) and they will need to remove the key cap to investigate whether the spill was related.
If the sensor contact that lies under the I key is shorted (while wet), you can expect a recovery, but that the liquid will be corroding things.
If the mac is totally dry and still not working, the electronics may need to be repaired.
Repair techs see this hundreds of times in a year - it's not so scary to them, so take it in and ask realistically how the repair would go. If things are corroded, going in to move parts might result in a non functioning machine - so it's a gamble based on exactly what liquid, where it went, how fast it dried and plain old fashioned luck.
Hopefully it's a piece of lint or something preventing the switch so learn how that key comes off and see for yourself or take it in if there are convenient repair options.
A: Or.... Your could take responsibility for yourself. Take it in and tell them that you spilled water on it and ask if there is anything they can do. They may be able to work out something with you. I would like to see your face when they take it apart and show you the LCI evidence of water spillage and see how they treat you then. Sorry to be anecdotal here, but my wife dropped her 2 week old iPhone4 in a full cup of decaf coffee. She took it into Apple to get a new phone, completely expecting to have to buy new one. The genius guy came back out in 5 minutes with a brand new phone. No charge. No hassle. It must have been a good karma day.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 629,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5986",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20170"
} |
2d40fdb91adecdb03f60c53311a12522ffacf8a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to upload a video from my iPhone to Google+? is there a way to upload video from iphone to Google+?
From iphone Google+ app we can upload photos but Video option is only available for Android yet
A: No, there's no way to do that yet. Using external apps won't help either since Google has not released a full API yet with those functions so far.
| Q: Is there a way to upload a video from my iPhone to Google+? is there a way to upload video from iphone to Google+?
From iphone Google+ app we can upload photos but Video option is only available for Android yet
A: No, there's no way to do that yet. Using external apps won't help either since Google has not released a full API yet with those functions so far.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 71,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5990",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20188"
} |
1d270d86706e06857ecd3980a0c2806161834fa4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Finder does not show Path Bar and Status Bar, what to do? I have OS X Lion and when I open a finder window everything seems OK.
But I can't see the Path Bar nor the Status bar.
When I activate one of the bars with View->Show Status Bar or View->Show Path Bar the Finder window gets bigger in height ( growing downwards ), nothing else happens.
Anyone have an idea what I can do to see the Bars?
(The Bars are working in other applications like Safari, ⌘+/ and it pops up)
A: Is it just this you are looking for? Finder > View > Show Path Bar?
Also here: http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/findertip1.htm
| Q: Finder does not show Path Bar and Status Bar, what to do? I have OS X Lion and when I open a finder window everything seems OK.
But I can't see the Path Bar nor the Status bar.
When I activate one of the bars with View->Show Status Bar or View->Show Path Bar the Finder window gets bigger in height ( growing downwards ), nothing else happens.
Anyone have an idea what I can do to see the Bars?
(The Bars are working in other applications like Safari, ⌘+/ and it pops up)
A: Is it just this you are looking for? Finder > View > Show Path Bar?
Also here: http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/findertip1.htm
A: The bug did come from BetterSnapTool. An app for resizing the windows.
A: Remove the Finder plist. You can find it at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.
Then restart. This should reset any strange preferences keeping the Finder from showing the path and status bars.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 155,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5991",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20189"
} |
e2cc9cb16ff14ea7655adb8162b300e7c8caceba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I fix permission issue when I cannot start Mac OS X? I was creating a guest account and to prevent it from accessing the Macintosh HD as in other applications and stuff I assigned it as in "No Access"
When I switched to the guest account everything blocked, I restarted my mac and all I get is a blue screen.
Now, I can't log in, not even in safe mode.
What can I do to fix this?
A: Boot to single user mode by holding command + S right after powering the system on (before the chime & apple logo). Once the system has booted to the command line, type these commands without the leading tick mark. Spaces matter, periods matter, it has to be exact.
*
*/sbin/mount -uw /
*cd /private/var/db
*rm .AppleSetupDone
*halt
The mac should shut off. Now power on - you will get played the normal welcome screen. Make a new user (try not to re-use one of the old names - "rescue account" might be a good choice). You can then go to the preference pane and see what happened to the users.
| Q: How can I fix permission issue when I cannot start Mac OS X? I was creating a guest account and to prevent it from accessing the Macintosh HD as in other applications and stuff I assigned it as in "No Access"
When I switched to the guest account everything blocked, I restarted my mac and all I get is a blue screen.
Now, I can't log in, not even in safe mode.
What can I do to fix this?
A: Boot to single user mode by holding command + S right after powering the system on (before the chime & apple logo). Once the system has booted to the command line, type these commands without the leading tick mark. Spaces matter, periods matter, it has to be exact.
*
*/sbin/mount -uw /
*cd /private/var/db
*rm .AppleSetupDone
*halt
The mac should shut off. Now power on - you will get played the normal welcome screen. Make a new user (try not to re-use one of the old names - "rescue account" might be a good choice). You can then go to the preference pane and see what happened to the users.
A: I had the same issue, I tried the answer that bmike provided, logged in on a new account and repaired my disk permissions.
After that I could login again.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 221,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5992",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20192"
} |
1418f32265a54ebf7af8475e001fb05522cabdfd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will an iPad 2 3G from UK work on a Poland's (or another country's) 3G network? I have the possibility to buy an iPad 2 3G which is written iPad "UK", on the vendor's site. I expect it to have a different charger plug, but that's all.
Being in Poland, will I be able to make it work with 3G cards from Poland?
The broader question is to know if there is a country limitation, or a difference of norms in the 3G matter for the iPad 2.
A: It's not locked to any one carrier so you should be able to insert a Micro SIM card for your local carrier and it will work.
The catch is that there are different sets of GSM frequencies in use, so you should verify that your chosen carrier uses frequencies supported by the iPad. Odds are it will work, but better to be safe.
From the specs page, here is what it supports:
UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800,
1900 MHz)
The broader situation is that the only problematic (less interoperable) 3G iPad is the Verizon-specific model sold in the USA
| Q: Will an iPad 2 3G from UK work on a Poland's (or another country's) 3G network? I have the possibility to buy an iPad 2 3G which is written iPad "UK", on the vendor's site. I expect it to have a different charger plug, but that's all.
Being in Poland, will I be able to make it work with 3G cards from Poland?
The broader question is to know if there is a country limitation, or a difference of norms in the 3G matter for the iPad 2.
A: It's not locked to any one carrier so you should be able to insert a Micro SIM card for your local carrier and it will work.
The catch is that there are different sets of GSM frequencies in use, so you should verify that your chosen carrier uses frequencies supported by the iPad. Odds are it will work, but better to be safe.
From the specs page, here is what it supports:
UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800,
1900 MHz)
The broader situation is that the only problematic (less interoperable) 3G iPad is the Verizon-specific model sold in the USA
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 194,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:5993",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20194"
} |
Subsets and Splits
No saved queries yet
Save your SQL queries to embed, download, and access them later. Queries will appear here once saved.