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1513e308d74a0275a7363f5f9f8109f7acbe5b2d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder? I am totally new to "iMovie" so I would like to ask you if it's safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder (as it appeared from nowhere, maybe it was result of opening "iMovie")?
Thank you in advance.
A: That is the default name of your first project. If you haven't done any work with it, you should be able to delete it.
| Q: Is it safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder? I am totally new to "iMovie" so I would like to ask you if it's safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder (as it appeared from nowhere, maybe it was result of opening "iMovie")?
Thank you in advance.
A: That is the default name of your first project. If you haven't done any work with it, you should be able to delete it.
A: Yup, you are safe to delete it, just as long as you didn't add anything important to it.
A: *
*go to project library and you will see the first video you created
*click it and go at the top screen
*click on file and then "move to trash"
That's basically it
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7e64b9b83f521b04788349fc6ea9c760eb1a1b17 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What affects the order of applications in Lauchpad? When opening Launchpad I've noticed that every page has different amount of applications laid out. Also, they doesn't seem to be ordered by any criteria (name, usage frequency or size). What are the sorting parameters for applications in Launchpad?
A: On a clean install, the core Mac OS X apps are originally ordered alphabetically. Newly installed apps will be appended at the back on an empty spot starting with page 2 (they will never be appended on page 1, even if there is room available, but you can ofcourse drag them there).
Apps can then be arranged manually, and they should remain in the order you sort them. However, I have noticed quite some buggy behaviors, mainly apps changing position after a reboot, and MAS updates pushing apps of the page.
I hope these will get ironed out in a coming update.
| Q: What affects the order of applications in Lauchpad? When opening Launchpad I've noticed that every page has different amount of applications laid out. Also, they doesn't seem to be ordered by any criteria (name, usage frequency or size). What are the sorting parameters for applications in Launchpad?
A: On a clean install, the core Mac OS X apps are originally ordered alphabetically. Newly installed apps will be appended at the back on an empty spot starting with page 2 (they will never be appended on page 1, even if there is room available, but you can ofcourse drag them there).
Apps can then be arranged manually, and they should remain in the order you sort them. However, I have noticed quite some buggy behaviors, mainly apps changing position after a reboot, and MAS updates pushing apps of the page.
I hope these will get ironed out in a coming update.
A: I'm not sure there is a fixed order. When I first started LP, they were in alphabetical order. I moved some around, combined some together, moved some to page 2 and vice versa. That new order has stuck over many shutdown and startups, even through the SU.
When I add a new app, it shows up on page 2. I move it to page 1 and it stays there. It can be tricky to get them exactly where you want, as each time you move one, another moves as well. It's kind of like trying to solve 2 Rubik's Cubes at once.
Hope this helps, even though it is just my experience and not a hard fast rule.
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9be55dbe8b684ec69deac70bd36f389a8661cee7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Delete a purchased file from ITunes Download Queue without downloading file This is related to an earlier question, but the advice there doesn't work for me. My disk space is full. Whenever I open iTunes, it tries to download some purchases that I don't want anymore (old Lost episodes) that I haven't wanted for years. All that I want to do is cancel these downloads. Deleting them in itunes doesn't work. The recommended advice on an earlier question is to finish downloading them, then delete them, but I can't do this for diskspace reasons (there are about seventeen episodes, so it's not practical for me to sit there and slowly deleted enough diskjunk to download an episode at a time, then delete the episode - and even if it were, it seems rude to hog this much bandwidth.) Any other solution?
A: In iTunes Downloads folder (open Terminal, type: open ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Downloads/), delete list.plist file to remove the queued downloads.
Then restart iTunes.
You may also want to delete other files in there too since they are certainly not needed.
(From my answer, https://discussions.apple.com/message/24479839#24479839)
| Q: Delete a purchased file from ITunes Download Queue without downloading file This is related to an earlier question, but the advice there doesn't work for me. My disk space is full. Whenever I open iTunes, it tries to download some purchases that I don't want anymore (old Lost episodes) that I haven't wanted for years. All that I want to do is cancel these downloads. Deleting them in itunes doesn't work. The recommended advice on an earlier question is to finish downloading them, then delete them, but I can't do this for diskspace reasons (there are about seventeen episodes, so it's not practical for me to sit there and slowly deleted enough diskjunk to download an episode at a time, then delete the episode - and even if it were, it seems rude to hog this much bandwidth.) Any other solution?
A: In iTunes Downloads folder (open Terminal, type: open ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Downloads/), delete list.plist file to remove the queued downloads.
Then restart iTunes.
You may also want to delete other files in there too since they are certainly not needed.
(From my answer, https://discussions.apple.com/message/24479839#24479839)
A: I had a download (a Lost episode in fact) that wouldn't stop downloading. Even though it was already in my library, it would download every time I checked for purchases and then error out at the end of the download.
I don't remember everything I tried, but a tried a LOT of things to get it to stop. The only thing that eventually worked for me was contacting iTunes Support: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/
They had the item removed from my queue within a couple hours. It will probably expedite things if you give them the exact episode names and numbers as they appear in the iTunes Store.
A: Remove Them from Store=>Purchased Playlist
iTunes 10.7.0.21 on my Windows 7 machine seems to automatically download only those items in the Store=>Purchased "playlist". In my case, deleting a movie from Store=>Purchased stopped it from being added to the download queue automatically.
To download purchased items that have been removed from Store=>Purchased, go to Store=>Purchased=>Download Previous Purchases and find the item there.
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ea250bddcd5756df9a88593af19ca225a8ce610d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Startup items no longer load in Lion When I first upgraded to Lion, my startup items loaded as normal. Now however, no startup items load (even though they all appear in the startup items preference pane as normal). I thought maybe it had something to do with Lion's behavior of saving the system state on restart, but that's not it.
Anyway to debug the startup process and see if it is getting stuck somewhere or aborting somewhere?
A: Looking in the console log is the first place to look for launchd errors to debug the process.
I use Lingon to look into the actual launchd configuration files - it automates finding the files and editing the plist files.
You can look in your (now hidden) ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory to make sure the items are enabled.
Lastly ( or perhaps firstly ) try deleting all the items from the account pane, reboot and add them back to see if that helps.
| Q: Startup items no longer load in Lion When I first upgraded to Lion, my startup items loaded as normal. Now however, no startup items load (even though they all appear in the startup items preference pane as normal). I thought maybe it had something to do with Lion's behavior of saving the system state on restart, but that's not it.
Anyway to debug the startup process and see if it is getting stuck somewhere or aborting somewhere?
A: Looking in the console log is the first place to look for launchd errors to debug the process.
I use Lingon to look into the actual launchd configuration files - it automates finding the files and editing the plist files.
You can look in your (now hidden) ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory to make sure the items are enabled.
Lastly ( or perhaps firstly ) try deleting all the items from the account pane, reboot and add them back to see if that helps.
A: Something changed between the point where it worked and then did not work. Unless you can remember what that was and undo that change, you have to resort to some other method of recovery.
There is a software glitch somewhere. It could be a corrupt preference (.plist). Try booting in Safe mode. That does a Repair Disk during the startup process, so it takes longer than usual. Safe boot will then present a login screen when completed. Select Restart to reboot normally, which gets all of the functions back that Safe boot disables. See if that cures your problem.
Another possible cure is to reset PRAM (see your Help menu in Finder). You have to be very quick to get this to work. It resets a lot of things, including software switches. I have used it successfully when a Safe boot did not fix a problem.
A: The actual problem on this one was that my keyboard had shorted out and it thought the "shift" key was stuck down. Because of this, it was bypassing any user-defined startup items on startup. Now that I got my keyboard replaced, the startup items show up again. So a bit of an odd answer to this one, but good suggestions in the other answers as well for someone that might be experiencing this.
Thanks for Lingon suggestion, nice program!
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643d0dfefc14a2e7ea1162c5d0a89a4940bc154f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Send specific traffic through VPN based on the domain I'd like to access Hulu and similar sites from outside the US, so I'm using blackVPN via PPTP. Works great, no major problems.
Is there any way to use the (consisting) VPN connection only for a small list of domains like *.hulu.com or *.youtube.com, while not having the other traffic sent through the VPN?
Thanks in advance!
— Ben
A: You're looking for static routes and the 'route' command. 'man route' from the shell for full info, but something like route -nv add -net 66.22.138 -interface tun0 (or whatever your VPN interface is) should route traffic bound for hulu.com over the VPN.
You'll probably want to establish a default gateway so that you are assured of routing your traffic correctly.
route add default 192.168.1.1 would add a static route for your router. Replace 192.168.1.1 with the actual IP address.
Note that these settings will not survive a reboot. If they work for you, you'll want to put them in a launch agent file.
| Q: Send specific traffic through VPN based on the domain I'd like to access Hulu and similar sites from outside the US, so I'm using blackVPN via PPTP. Works great, no major problems.
Is there any way to use the (consisting) VPN connection only for a small list of domains like *.hulu.com or *.youtube.com, while not having the other traffic sent through the VPN?
Thanks in advance!
— Ben
A: You're looking for static routes and the 'route' command. 'man route' from the shell for full info, but something like route -nv add -net 66.22.138 -interface tun0 (or whatever your VPN interface is) should route traffic bound for hulu.com over the VPN.
You'll probably want to establish a default gateway so that you are assured of routing your traffic correctly.
route add default 192.168.1.1 would add a static route for your router. Replace 192.168.1.1 with the actual IP address.
Note that these settings will not survive a reboot. If they work for you, you'll want to put them in a launch agent file.
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a7e5b5834e7dda83a5a52b1a91fd62ce1ab654b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the canonical name for the "sunburst" waiting animation? Is there an accepted name for the spinning animation that's displayed when one needs to wait for an indefinite amount of time? It looks like this:
A: The technical term for it is a Throbber.
| Q: What's the canonical name for the "sunburst" waiting animation? Is there an accepted name for the spinning animation that's displayed when one needs to wait for an indefinite amount of time? It looks like this:
A: The technical term for it is a Throbber.
A: The canonical name is the "asynchronous progress indicator" but in most user documentation it is described as "a progress indicator (that looks like a spinning gear)". The Apple Publications Style Guide (non-Apple source!) is a nice reference for learning what Apple considers the correct terms for writing about these details correctly.
The four specific types of generic progress indicators that Apple provides to developers are:
*
*asynchronous progress indicator (spinning gear)
*determinate progress bar (moving bar)
*indeterminate progress bar (spinning striped cylinder)
*spinning wait cursor (colored pinwheel)
I'm writing a short postscript since many confuse the spinning gear with the colored pinwheel:
The colored pinwheel is colloquially known as the spinning pizza of death or SPOD cursor due to user frustration when it appears to signal a hung process. It is the worst indicator for the user to see since it means the programmer either didn't or couldn't keep the main program responsive. We as users have no clue what part of the program is waiting for something to progress, only that it's stuck.
A: It is called the "Asynchronous Progress Indicator". You can read more about it, and other elements of Mac OS X, in their OS X HIG Guidelines.
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de5e67d7ec50f6b1790457a4860938396a522f06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Did the calculator widget break in Lion? I seem unable to send a "clear" button press from the number pad on my standard apple extended keyboard (aluminum) to the calculator widget in Dashboard on Lion. The regular calculator app works as expected. Strangely, nothing on the internet seems to indicate a known bug.
A: I wrote a fix for this bug. Check my article for details.
| Q: Did the calculator widget break in Lion? I seem unable to send a "clear" button press from the number pad on my standard apple extended keyboard (aluminum) to the calculator widget in Dashboard on Lion. The regular calculator app works as expected. Strangely, nothing on the internet seems to indicate a known bug.
A: I wrote a fix for this bug. Check my article for details.
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ad757e613b519ccd613b6de57c19b7810d1d41a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone virtual machine I would like to run some iPhone applications on my MacBook and be able to use them with the mouse.
Is there some way to run an iPhone emulator via Parallels Desktop or any other virtual machine?
A: AFAIK there's no iPhone emulator besides the one that comes with iOS SDK.
| Q: iPhone virtual machine I would like to run some iPhone applications on my MacBook and be able to use them with the mouse.
Is there some way to run an iPhone emulator via Parallels Desktop or any other virtual machine?
A: AFAIK there's no iPhone emulator besides the one that comes with iOS SDK.
A: It looks like there is an emulator in the making, just started through Kickstarter: iEmu: an open-source iOS device emulator - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmwdotme/iemu-an-open-source-ios-device-emulator
A: XCode and the iOs SDK come with an iPhone simulator. Of course, you'd need the source code to the programs you want to run to be able to use it.
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0b79ba99a9ccd7a55bb9975990217f4b851d8a06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Listing all Openmeta Tags and associated Files Some month ago I started using openmeta tags to manage my files. Is there a tool which shows all openmeta tags on my mac and the files tagged with these tags?
A: Some suggestions:
Tags
By CASEapps.
*
*Lists all created tags and files associated with them
*Can tag
*Easy search filtration
*QuickLook
Leap
By Ironic.
*
*Lists all created tags and files associated with them
*Can tag
*Easy search filtration
*Ratings
*Heavier/more feature rich interface
TagLists
By Ali Rantakari
*
*Free
*Tags & Tag searches for file lists must be made manually
*
*ie. doesn't list created tags, which was what you were after
*
*but hey, the price is right!
| Q: Listing all Openmeta Tags and associated Files Some month ago I started using openmeta tags to manage my files. Is there a tool which shows all openmeta tags on my mac and the files tagged with these tags?
A: Some suggestions:
Tags
By CASEapps.
*
*Lists all created tags and files associated with them
*Can tag
*Easy search filtration
*QuickLook
Leap
By Ironic.
*
*Lists all created tags and files associated with them
*Can tag
*Easy search filtration
*Ratings
*Heavier/more feature rich interface
TagLists
By Ali Rantakari
*
*Free
*Tags & Tag searches for file lists must be made manually
*
*ie. doesn't list created tags, which was what you were after
*
*but hey, the price is right!
A: Nifty Box was a great free, scriptable application.
I wrote some nice AppleScripts that could go through tags and color certain files.
Links (added by grahamperrin): http://web.archive.org/web/20120623015606/http://www.nifty-box.com/ … discontinued on or before 2012-06-23.
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b6bec4bc87416887e190a515a65523368f8bb497 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What breaks if I delete the folders named Public and Sites? The default home folder on Mac OS X has folders named Public and Sites.
I never use them, so what will possibly break if I delete them?
A: As an alternative to deleting them, you could consider hiding them in the Finder instead. To do this, launch Terminal then enter this command:
chflags hidden ~/Public ~/Sites
If you ever want to make them visible again, you would use this command:
chflags nohidden ~/Public ~/Sites
| Q: What breaks if I delete the folders named Public and Sites? The default home folder on Mac OS X has folders named Public and Sites.
I never use them, so what will possibly break if I delete them?
A: As an alternative to deleting them, you could consider hiding them in the Finder instead. To do this, launch Terminal then enter this command:
chflags hidden ~/Public ~/Sites
If you ever want to make them visible again, you would use this command:
chflags nohidden ~/Public ~/Sites
A: Nothing unless you use Web Sharing, and it'll just moan at you if you switch that on.
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b45cdafe5024cb57a386175f17ea97945f84d4e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an app embedding the Flash player? Is there an app embedding the Flash player? I don't want to install the flash player in osx. I just want to use this app when I need it. Does it exist?
A: Google Chrome comes with its own instance of Flash that runs only when it needs it and only within the scope of Chrome. I have uninstalled Flash from all my Macs and simply turn to Chrome when I really need Flash for something.
| Q: Is there an app embedding the Flash player? Is there an app embedding the Flash player? I don't want to install the flash player in osx. I just want to use this app when I need it. Does it exist?
A: Google Chrome comes with its own instance of Flash that runs only when it needs it and only within the scope of Chrome. I have uninstalled Flash from all my Macs and simply turn to Chrome when I really need Flash for something.
A: Google chrome both includes and updates it's own Flash plugin. You can also setup a command key shortcut for opening your current safari page into Chrome for the instances when you actually need Flash. See here for more info.
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583d1df0ba21e5a0d49df10e5e60b37028852c15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why would I disable swap file in Mac OS X? I came across a thread about installing an SSD drive in MacBook Pro.
Someone in the comments also recommended to disable the swap file but didn't say why:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
sudo rm /private/var/vm/swapfile*
I wonder why one would want to disable the swap file in Mac OS X.
Does it increase performance? Stability?
Any downsides?
Finally, does it make any sense to disable swap file when not using SSD?
A: I'll be the naysayer here: I disabled swap on my late 2008 unibody macbook pro and it improved performance noticably: Less waiting, faster switching between applications.
Mind you, I keep an eye on my free memory and I have 6GB installed. The few times that I hit the memory limit, the system crashed :-D
On my new MacBook Air I wouldn't dream of disabling swap, it's already fast with it enabled and it only has 4GB to begin with.
Another good reason people disable swap on an SSD is because they get tiny SSDs and need all the space they can get. In any case, don't do it.
| Q: Why would I disable swap file in Mac OS X? I came across a thread about installing an SSD drive in MacBook Pro.
Someone in the comments also recommended to disable the swap file but didn't say why:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
sudo rm /private/var/vm/swapfile*
I wonder why one would want to disable the swap file in Mac OS X.
Does it increase performance? Stability?
Any downsides?
Finally, does it make any sense to disable swap file when not using SSD?
A: I'll be the naysayer here: I disabled swap on my late 2008 unibody macbook pro and it improved performance noticably: Less waiting, faster switching between applications.
Mind you, I keep an eye on my free memory and I have 6GB installed. The few times that I hit the memory limit, the system crashed :-D
On my new MacBook Air I wouldn't dream of disabling swap, it's already fast with it enabled and it only has 4GB to begin with.
Another good reason people disable swap on an SSD is because they get tiny SSDs and need all the space they can get. In any case, don't do it.
A: My experience is similar to w00t's. I have disabled the swap file on SL and Lion because the performance increase works for me. Wired usage does get out of control after a week or so but a simple reboot fixes that. I do not have a SSD but a slow 5400rpm disk. SSD lifespans aren't actually as bad as people try to make them out to be though. If you're doing it simply because you're afraid of wearing out your SSD please see: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/2 and http://communities.intel.com/thread/21717?tstart=0 Intel rates their drives for over 20GB a day, every day, for up to 5 years on a 80gb drive. Bigger sized drives will last even longer. The average user doesn't even use 10GB/day.
I make sure to monitor my 4GB memory usage with iStat Menus and use an Automator script with the "purge" bash command (requires Xcode to be installed) to clear out inactive memory and open up more free memory frequently. The few times I have had apps with memory leaks use up all the RAM, I did have to do a hard reset. The rare occasions of that happening and the speed up in general makes it worthwhile to keep the swap file disabled for me. I realize that I can't have as many apps open at once because of this as stated by others but I'm able to work with that.
A: Just throwing in my 2 cents for those who wish to disable swap BECAUSE of small SSDs: the sleepimage uses far more disk space.
And, for those concerned about the limited life of the SSD (particularly those with MBA's and hard-wired SSD chips that CANNOT be replaced), if your computer sleeps many times per day, the rewriting of the sleepimage may be a concern. My laptop sleeps a half dozen times/day easily. That writes 48GB of data to my SSD daily.
The solution in each case is to disable hibernation, and then delete the sleepimage file that is as large as your installed RAM (8GB in my case).
The downside risk: if your battery dies while your laptop is sleeping, your current state will be lost. This will be equivalent to a forced hard restart. No physical harm to the laptop, just a loss of productivity. If you disable hibernation, then run your battery low and can't charge, just have the code handy to enable hibernation!
To disable hibernation, in the Terminal, the command is as follows:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
To enable hibernation, the command is as follows:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
To delete the last sleepimage to free up SSD/HDD space (only makes sense if you turn off hibernation, else a new one will take up that space next time your computure sleeps):
sudo rm -rf /var/vm/sleepimage
Source: man pmset
A:
wonder why one would want to disable the swap file in Mac OS X.
Does it increase performance? Stability?
Any downsides?
I suppose people would do it for an SSD drive because those drives don't have the same lifetime as standard magnetic spinning-disk drives. There are a more limited number of write cycles, so presumably using them with a swap file would use up these cycles more quickly.
Finally, does it make any sense to disable swap file when not using SSD?
If you have a lot of RAM, this would possibly speed up performance, but it's not a good idea in general. If you do run up against the memory ceiling, things are going to get flaky.
Also, wired memory isn't released when it becomes invalid, it is only released when a page out event is triggered, which won't happen if Virtual Memory is disabled. So it won't take long for all your memory to be gobbled up even if it is no longer used.
A: Disabling swap does increase performance. For example I regularly use Aperture and when swap grows performance worsens and when it goes beyond 1Gb I have to restart OS to clean it and restore performance. Note: machine has 6GB of RAM and NOT all of it occupied, about 3GB is free, but 1G is swap significantly degrades performance.
A: I've been disabling swap on machines for many years, both on OS X and other UNIX variants.
I use a tool to alert me when memory is running low, and never worry about my system crashing.
My iMac has 12GB, and with swap disabled I almost always have 4GB free, even with multiple development tools, apps, browsers etc. open
A: The reason they disabled the swap file is likely paranoia about SSDs having a maximum number of writes per block. Swap files can be written to frequently, possibly causing disk fragmentation (as well as file system fragmentation) and, eventually, possibly causing the disk to fail sooner.
That said, this is definitely a case of premature optimization. It is almost always a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE idea to disable your swap file. The swap file is there for when your running programs consume more memory than you have physically installed. If you disable it, you may not be able to run as many programs at the same time (and the limit is far lower than you'd expect) or you may have issues (like freezing and having to hard-reboot the machine) when you run out of memory.
The latter I've experienced (with the swap file enabled) when running out of disk space. I had a 120 gig drive with ~3 gigs free. While playing Civilization IV (a large, full-screen game), the system ran out of hard drive space (~50 megs free) and presented the "kill apps now" window. This was hiding behind the full-screen game, so the system just locked up. If I hadn't been able to ssh in from another Mac to kill several apps remotely, I'd have had to hold down the power button.
A: The primary reason to disable the swapfile isn't speed - it's disk space.
If one is a user who routinely runs within 5 GB of a full drive, disabling swap will stop the constant nagging of running out of space; I routinely wind up with a 4+ GB swapfile from routine browsing.
The speed improvement is astounding on older machines; it's not that impressive on SSD equipped modern machines. (Under OSX 10.0 on an iMac, using virtual memory halved the speed of many operations, including copying files between drives).
A: You have two great answers that explain why this is a bad idea in almost all cases where the system can write to a storage device.
The reason you can disable swap is so the system can run on read only media such as a CD, DVD, locked network image using NetBoot or a read only USB fob like the new Lion installer or recovery fob that ships with some macs that lack optical drives.
Having virtual memory means that the system can run substantially faster and use less RAM when many programs use the same common library code. Each program thinks it has a private copy of all the code it needs, but when virtual memory exists, the system has a nice way to map the same physical RAM to different programs.
Disabling swap prevents the mac from using a tiny portion of your drive as a cache for some memory that has been calculated but the program wasn't smart enough to write those results itself to a proper cache.
If you have a backup and time to experiment, why not turn it off and see how your experience changes.
I would keep my swap on even if I knew for certain I had to pay for a new drive annually. The speed up that swap gives me is HUGE. This is not always so, and at times when the system is thrashing or paging - you can have the opposite. Many people choose to run without swap so that they get a memory allocation error rather than let their mac start paging since that can slow down a machine when things aren't running smoothly.
Your case with a SSD could be different, so do let us know if you try it.
A: The repeating pattern here is this:
Those who HAVE disabled swap file experienced improved performance (with sufficient physical RAM)
Those who have NOT disabled swap space are certain that it will not work, and something terrible will happen, and are ardently advising that you not do it.
This is due simply to two things:
*
*Outdated ideas about the scarcity and high cost of physical RAM which are no longer valid
*A really poor swapping mechanism in MacOS causing use of swap files when there is sufficient physical RAM.
A: Just a personal experience.
Memory Amount |
4 GB | Don't disable it, Mountain Lion itself boots with about 1 GB.
8 GB | Do if you don't run apps that requires more than 1 GB of memory, in short, virtualization software, Photoshop, and stuff.
16 GB or more | Do it! Even Xcode or Final Cut won't use more than 4 GB of memory, at least as I've seen. Just don't run too many virtual machines though.
A quick note: If your Mac uses integrated graphics, its memory is shared with your main memory with kernel_task. Thus, you will have to subtract that amount from your total usable.
SSD users, it's satisfying to have more space, but it's important to know that virtual memory thrives on SSDs, you can get whole lot of performance gain from it. Does it hurt the SSD? Yes, but you will long replace your Mac before you notice.
A: Executive summary
A swap area (called swap partition, swap file or page file) is just a mechanism to augment the physical memory addressable by the OS.
If you are low in available physical RAM, and on today's machine, I would say if you have 4 GB or less RAM. Then you should probably have a swap. But this depends on your workload and how you use your machine.
If you have more than 4GB of RAM, there is a good chance that your system might never use the swap. So if the swap is enable or not, this won't change much.
Although this depends on other factors, the longer your machine will be running the more likely the OS will swap small unused portion of the RAM to the swap eventhough there is plenty of place left apparently. However, often the system use the "free" RAM for file buffers and other stuff, and some workload might make your file buffer use all available RAM.
Background information
Any way what would happen if you disable the swap and your memory is completely used? Well, the next time an application request more memory (like with a malloc or realloc), it will receive an error! If it is properly coded, the application will detect it, but handling such an error and terminating the program gracefully could be a challenge still! However, many developer don't test for successful memory allocation and often the application crashes as soon as this non allocated memory is going to be used. So there is a strong chance that the application will crash, and actually that many application will crash because you have more than one application usually running at the same time. Hopefully, the kernel itself should be immune, but in my experience it was not always the case.
If you have swap, you will have the same behaviour, but you have a higher limit so chances are that you won't reach that limit.
I have personnaly 2 machines with 8 and 16 GB of RAM. My personal usage of these machine should never bring me close to use all of this RAM (today! perhaps in a few years that could be different). The only reason I would hit the physical RAM limits is that a process got rogue and is consuming all the RAM. Having no swap is a relief, the kernel will promptly kill the rogue process as soon as it hit the RAM limit. If you have swap, you will get a painful experience (maybe not on SSD...) as your system will swap and swap and swap and become sometimes totally unresponsive until hopefully your kernel kills the culprit!
Advises
You should not be scared by people telling you something horribly wrong might happen if you remove swap. If you do so, your physical address space will be reduced, much like if you would go from 4 GB of RAM to 2 GB. Would you do such a thing? Then you should not remove the swap. You can however decide to limit it, and that would be wise.
If one thinks his workload might bring him to use close or more than the available physical RAM, or if one needs a lot of I/O (read/write to disks), then swap should be kept.
When swap should be kept, a user should try to set limits to the amount of memory a process can use. On a Linux system, one could use cgroups memory limits to avoid that some process gets out of control, I don't know the equivalent on OS X but that should be the way.
However, if one has more than enough available memory for his workload, then he could safely disable swap or he could keep it. It won't change much even in terms of performance because if the system does not use the swap, then you don't get hit by a performance drop (especially visible on an old rotational hard disk, less so on SSD).
Using the same trick as above to try to set memory limits per process or group of processes is also beneficiary in the case of more than enough available RAM.
My own example
I have an old PC with 1 GB RAM, there I do have a big swap: 4 GB so I can run Firefox and other application on it. I tend to use as little application (or tabs in Firefox) as possible to have a correct user experience though.
I have a small server with 8 GB RAM. There I know exactly my work load and I do not want my server to slow down because a process got rogue and is consuming all memory. There I have no swap and cgroup memory limit enforcing barrier, so applications or services can crash but not the kernel. Btw, this is a Linux machine.
Then, I have my Mac with 16 GB RAM. I am not the sole user of it, and we would not mind waiting when switching user. There we do have swap, it is difficult for me to plan the work load of other users of this computer. Even if I would be the only one I would use swap. I often run several VMs and use memory consuming applications, but not all at he same time, so I would not mind the OS swaping in an unused app so I can get faster disk I/O or launch yet another VM. Althoug up to now, I haven't seen this machine swapping!
A: I just disabled the swap file on my 2011 Macbook air (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) because I was sick of the swap file slowly eating up all my remaining HD space and then having to restart. This way, the idea is that I will just run less programs.
I'll see if that really works, or if I will have to restart anyway to clear the "Wired" memory, but for now it appears to be working well. The one time the memory got really full the computer slowed down just as much it does when my SSD runs out of memory - but it recovered a lot faster as soon as I quit applications. (And I was actually able to quit applications, which I usually am not when the SSD fills up).
I'll see how it goes stability wise, but so far I'm a happy camper. It also forces me to run fewer applications (and Chrome tabs) at a time, which is good for task focus.
A: Some say: disabling swap improves performance.
This is true. Any use of virtual memory is a big slowdown – even a fast SSD is a thousand times slower than DRAM; a disk more like a million times slower. You only need a small fraction of memory accesses to go to swap to make a big difference in run time. If e.g. 0.1% of accesses go to your fast SSD, that theoretically halves your speed. However, multitasking hides this – while waiting for your swap device, the CPU can be kept busy doing something else. So as long as you have a reasonable level of multitasking so something is ready to run when you have a page fault, the performance loss is not that extreme. Too much stuff with high memory demands running at once leads to thrashing: swap activity dominates performance.
But: without swap, if you run out of physical memory, that is like running into a wall. Possibly you can sprint faster if you reduce your weight a bit by not wearing your glasses; the logic of this doesn’t get better if you have really heavy glasses…
A: Why to disable the swap file in Mac OS X ?
Does it increase performance?
YES - because when #OS start use swap it decreasing performance ⬇️ -- BUT under 2GB it is OK ✅
many times I have 15GB file and macos don't know what have to do first , high disk IO , and after reboot windows are in Desktop:1 ❌
Stability? Any downsides?
YES - time to time #macos is freezed with black screen ❌ - BUT restart is stable and fast with full window position restore inside proper Desktops ✅
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278eb0f7ad8d02b3d228cf47e42b234e86fa7c5a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Secondary click and primary click at the same time? Is it possible to do this without owning an external mouse or having the latest multi-touch trackpads?
I need to do this for games originally made for windows, but either run through wine or ported to mac. For the most they doesn't just require this, but also to hold both down for a specific time.
I'm using a MacBook Core 2 Duo, which doesn't have a highly customisable trackpad settings.
A: No you can't. The trackpad only has one physical button, so it cannot detect a primary and secondary click at the same time, neither can any Apple mouse for that matter.
But, two-button mice come cheap...
Alternatively, perhaps the game allows custom keybindings, or has alternate keyboard shortcuts available.
| Q: Secondary click and primary click at the same time? Is it possible to do this without owning an external mouse or having the latest multi-touch trackpads?
I need to do this for games originally made for windows, but either run through wine or ported to mac. For the most they doesn't just require this, but also to hold both down for a specific time.
I'm using a MacBook Core 2 Duo, which doesn't have a highly customisable trackpad settings.
A: No you can't. The trackpad only has one physical button, so it cannot detect a primary and secondary click at the same time, neither can any Apple mouse for that matter.
But, two-button mice come cheap...
Alternatively, perhaps the game allows custom keybindings, or has alternate keyboard shortcuts available.
A: In system preferences/settings (or whatever that is called in English), you can setup that if you click on the right of the trackpad, it will do a right click. I have no idea if that will work as I do not own a game with which I can test that...
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2eeec31b957a74c4eace5c16a7f952433016265d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is users' discussion/chat on Jailbreaking allowed in an Apple-approved app? We have a 'web service' iPhone app where users can generate new content (which is publicly viewable) by uploading texts.
So, wanted to confirm: is it okay if they discuss/chat on benefits or on how to jailbreak?
Will the Apple take action once they find out? Or considering it to be user generated content, it will be ignored?
EDIT:
The app is not specifically meant for discussing Jailbreak. The app has many categories, including a "general chat" category, where it is being discussed by the users.
A: Unless Apple is hosting the user-generated content and the discussion of jailbreaking is in violation of the terms of use of that site, I don't see how Apple could take any action against such a discussion.
There are certainly people using various Facebook, Twitter, and other public communication apps on their iPhones to discuss jailbreaking.
| Q: Is users' discussion/chat on Jailbreaking allowed in an Apple-approved app? We have a 'web service' iPhone app where users can generate new content (which is publicly viewable) by uploading texts.
So, wanted to confirm: is it okay if they discuss/chat on benefits or on how to jailbreak?
Will the Apple take action once they find out? Or considering it to be user generated content, it will be ignored?
EDIT:
The app is not specifically meant for discussing Jailbreak. The app has many categories, including a "general chat" category, where it is being discussed by the users.
A: Unless Apple is hosting the user-generated content and the discussion of jailbreaking is in violation of the terms of use of that site, I don't see how Apple could take any action against such a discussion.
There are certainly people using various Facebook, Twitter, and other public communication apps on their iPhones to discuss jailbreaking.
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88a548087f6809dcb0b1068769262fe6bfa7607a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I convert a .mov into a .gif (or a .apng)? I want to put a .mov file I have as the background for a website. I am guessing the best way to do this would be to convert it to a .gif file but I can't find any programs that do it.
I have tried Handbrake, Graphic Converter and Gif Builder.
A: I've used www.online-convert.com to convert Keynote-exported .mov files in to animated gifs. Quick and simple. And the results were good.
You can see the resulting GIF in the answer I gave to this question: How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote
| Q: How can I convert a .mov into a .gif (or a .apng)? I want to put a .mov file I have as the background for a website. I am guessing the best way to do this would be to convert it to a .gif file but I can't find any programs that do it.
I have tried Handbrake, Graphic Converter and Gif Builder.
A: I've used www.online-convert.com to convert Keynote-exported .mov files in to animated gifs. Quick and simple. And the results were good.
You can see the resulting GIF in the answer I gave to this question: How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote
A: Gif Ninja is a great site for converting videos to gifs. I've used it several times and the gif always comes out great.
A:
Gifski makes it very easy to convert a video to an animated GIF. You just drag and drop a video, optionally trim it, choose dimensions, frame rate, and quality, click "Convert", and then done.
Gifski is free, no watermark, and open source.
The benefit of an app over a web service is that the video stays on your computer.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.
A: For Terminal lover
ffmpeg -i in.mov -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > out.gif
*
*-r 10 tells ffmpeg to reduce the frame rate from 25 fps to 10
*-s 600x400 tells ffmpeg the max-width and max-height
*--delay=3 tells gifsicle to delay 30ms between each gif
*--optimize=3 requests that gifsicle use the slowest/most file-size optimization
You need to install
*
*ffmpeg to process the video file
*gifsicle to create and optimize the an animated gif
brew install ffmpeg
#if cask is not installed
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
#dependency for gifsicle, only required for mountain-lion and above
brew cask install xquartz
brew install gifsicle
Above instructions taken from gist: dergachev/GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
The following error occurred while installing the ffmpeg
Error: The brew link step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink include/libyasm
/usr/local/include is not writable.
For this follow this answer
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/include
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
Transparency
The code above don't keep transparent layers. In order to do that, use:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -f gif -lavfi split[v],palettegen,[v]paletteuse out.gif
A: I've used "jiffy cat" with great results.
http://gfycat.com/
A: Offline solution:
http://www.gifrocket.com is an app for just that! Pretty simple app.
A: Gifify is a node-based converter which uses ffmpeg and imagemagick under the hood.
Installing on Mac:
brew rm --force --ignore-dependencies ffmpeg
brew rm --force --ignore-dependencies imagemagick
brew install ffmpeg --with-libass --with-fontconfig
brew install imagemagick --with-fontconfig
brew install giflossy
npm install -g gifify
Now you can convert a video file with:
gifify clip.mp4 -o clip.gif
You can also set a start and end position in the video and add a text caption:
gifify clip.mp4 -o clip.gif --from 01:48:23.200 --to 01:48:25.300 --text 'nip!'
❗️ It can take several minutes for the conversion to complete even with smaller videos.
A: I don't know much about there conversions but I just converted a short .mov file to an animated gif and if was simple and quick. I used the free app Adapter to do the conversion.
A: I was impressed by https://convertio.co/
I uploaded a .mov, waited a few minutes, and downloaded a .gif. No fee, no fuss, no watermarks.
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c395f177775e65223866280488b2252b30bf0985 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Methods to install X11 on Lion My girlfriend recently ordered a MacBook Pro with Lion installed. For an online class she needs GIMP which depends on X11. What are my options to get it? Is there any Apple-sanctioned way to do the install? Would there be any downside to using the SL DVD from my machine? Or should I just install XQuartz?
A: As a matter of fact Lion DOES ship with X11. There were many doubts, and many believed it wouldn't, but it does.
Source: me. Ive got xeyes running on my Lion iMac right now. :)
Another Source: Apple. http://www.apple.com/macosx/apps/all.html#x11
| Q: Methods to install X11 on Lion My girlfriend recently ordered a MacBook Pro with Lion installed. For an online class she needs GIMP which depends on X11. What are my options to get it? Is there any Apple-sanctioned way to do the install? Would there be any downside to using the SL DVD from my machine? Or should I just install XQuartz?
A: As a matter of fact Lion DOES ship with X11. There were many doubts, and many believed it wouldn't, but it does.
Source: me. Ive got xeyes running on my Lion iMac right now. :)
Another Source: Apple. http://www.apple.com/macosx/apps/all.html#x11
A: I've found this post is very helpful to install GIMP on Mac OS X Lion:
Just go to http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html and download the GIMP 2.6.11 for Leopard version on your Lion. I’ve tried the Snow leopard and Tiger version but that doesn’t work for me.
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bbdfc58946ccffe72565fa31e8d5d1f6698bdb14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cannot eject from Finder (Lion) I cannot eject anything from Finder, either by clicking the eject icon in the sidebar, or by dragging the icon to the trash (it does turn into an eject icon though). I'm using Disk Utility to get around this, but it's frustrating to have to open that up when I'm staring at Finder all day long.
This is a recent development, as it was working fine before. I haven't installed anything new that I can associate with when this started happening.
ETA: I managed to fix this myself. Trashing the Finder and sidebar preferences and then restarting Finder did the trick.
A: If this behavior persists past a reboot, you might need to go down some general problem isolation steps:
*
*Isolating issues in Mac OS X
There used to be an article (it's gone or I can't find it at the moment) that walked you through setting aside the application preferences or testing this behavior in a new user. In your case - it looks like you figured it out, but I wanted to at least mention the official guide in case others have the same symptoms but a different cause.
| Q: Cannot eject from Finder (Lion) I cannot eject anything from Finder, either by clicking the eject icon in the sidebar, or by dragging the icon to the trash (it does turn into an eject icon though). I'm using Disk Utility to get around this, but it's frustrating to have to open that up when I'm staring at Finder all day long.
This is a recent development, as it was working fine before. I haven't installed anything new that I can associate with when this started happening.
ETA: I managed to fix this myself. Trashing the Finder and sidebar preferences and then restarting Finder did the trick.
A: If this behavior persists past a reboot, you might need to go down some general problem isolation steps:
*
*Isolating issues in Mac OS X
There used to be an article (it's gone or I can't find it at the moment) that walked you through setting aside the application preferences or testing this behavior in a new user. In your case - it looks like you figured it out, but I wanted to at least mention the official guide in case others have the same symptoms but a different cause.
A: Easier way than trashing Finder is to restart its service by the following commands:
launchctl stop com.apple.Finder
launchctl start com.apple.Finder
This should fix any glitches associated by Finder.
A: EDIT:
I have found and solved the problem:
The reason why I could not eject from Finder was, because I apparently put a check-mark in Tinker Tool where I shouldn't have.
This is one of the first things I do after freshly installing a macOS, take Tinker Tool, Onyx and so forth to tweak the system to my liking. Since this is a MacBook Air and it doesn't have a DVD drive, I must have thought, let's hide the eject function.
Duh! This also eliminates the possibility to eject everything else, like DMG's, servers and so on.
ORIGINAL POST:
I'm having the exact same issue as OP but under Mojave. And it's also a recent issue that didn't exist from the beginning but I don't know what I have changed since that might have caused the issue.
I cannot eject anything (external drive, network drive, mounted volume) from the Finder by clicking on the eject symbol. I get no reaction whatsoever. I CAN eject from Disk Manager.
Restarting Finder with the launchctl command does not work, neither does deleting the Finder preferences neither in normal nor in safe boot mode. (I don't know what "sidebar preferences" are, but I also deleted desktop and dashboard prefs -- not effect.)
Neither does clicking control, alt or command with the eject button.
I'm flabbergasted as to why this happens and what could be the culprit. And also that it's quite hard to find anything about that issue on the internet.
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70faab3a8812514384ea35c5e2ac3e9b15825aab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How much current/power can be drawn from iPhone 30-pin connector? How much current/power can be drawn from iPhone 30-pin connector by external devices?
I googled it and failed to find some definitive answer for this. some say 50-100mA.
Update: I am aware of MFi program from Apple. Does it mean one must register before getting the official hardware specifications regarding 30-pin connector?
A: Somewhere around 160 mA.
Kineteka sells a 30 pin breakout board and pin 18 supplies the 3.3 volts. I just connected a 500 ohm pot between pin 18 and ground and lowered the resistance while measuring the current. It tops out around 160 mA. Try it!
EDIT:
Kineteka has closed but here are some similar 30 pin breakout boards with which I have no experience: http://www.pc-mobile.net/iphone.htm
| Q: How much current/power can be drawn from iPhone 30-pin connector? How much current/power can be drawn from iPhone 30-pin connector by external devices?
I googled it and failed to find some definitive answer for this. some say 50-100mA.
Update: I am aware of MFi program from Apple. Does it mean one must register before getting the official hardware specifications regarding 30-pin connector?
A: Somewhere around 160 mA.
Kineteka sells a 30 pin breakout board and pin 18 supplies the 3.3 volts. I just connected a 500 ohm pot between pin 18 and ground and lowered the resistance while measuring the current. It tops out around 160 mA. Try it!
EDIT:
Kineteka has closed but here are some similar 30 pin breakout boards with which I have no experience: http://www.pc-mobile.net/iphone.htm
A: I don't know in general, but after iOS 4.2 the maximum current you can obtain through the Apple camera connection kit it's just 20 mA.
A: It's just my personal experience, but I have successfully run an xBee 1 mW module off the iPad (and a 5th generation iPod nano. I did my testing with the nano, cause it's cheaper to replace if I damaged something).
1 mW xBee radios have a claimed current draw of 50 mA.
Sparkfun also have a iPhone-connector GPS, which has a current draw of 75 mA.
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1e61a5eeba4df197a3d59faa3b8fe6c1507eb1d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to recover .profile on Mac OS? I have mis-configured ~/.profile while adding new environment variable. I want to restore my original .profile for my Mac OS, I am not mac expert please help me. None of my shell command is working for me like ls, java, php etc Please help
A: Show hidden files in Finder. Then you can either fix the problem in TextEdit, or simply remove/rename the file. There is no default ~/.profile on Mac OS X, only a global /etc/profile (and you may also have a ~/.bash_profile).
| Q: How to recover .profile on Mac OS? I have mis-configured ~/.profile while adding new environment variable. I want to restore my original .profile for my Mac OS, I am not mac expert please help me. None of my shell command is working for me like ls, java, php etc Please help
A: Show hidden files in Finder. Then you can either fix the problem in TextEdit, or simply remove/rename the file. There is no default ~/.profile on Mac OS X, only a global /etc/profile (and you may also have a ~/.bash_profile).
A: If you still get to the shell prompt, you can use : > ~/.profile to create a new and empty file. Afterwards open a new shell in Terminal (by opening a new tab or window) and your environment should work again.
In addition: When editing .profile (or .bash_profile) it is always helpful to open a shell (terminal window) before you start editing. So even if you mess up the edit, you still have a working shell to fix issues (because .profile is only read once at start so further edits don't impact a running shell unless you source .profile again). And as usual: make backups.
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703236d16446d7a47850ae13991cf60593827b0e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turn off automatic preview in apple mail Is it possible to turn off automatic preview of attachments when composing an e-mail?
NOTE: Yes I know that I can manually ctr+select the attachment and disable preview, but I want this done automatically
A: There is an extension for Apple Mail called Attachment Tamer. It has all kinds of settings, but the most useful is the one that defaults attachments to the icon view.
http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer
It is $15 but well worth it.
| Q: Turn off automatic preview in apple mail Is it possible to turn off automatic preview of attachments when composing an e-mail?
NOTE: Yes I know that I can manually ctr+select the attachment and disable preview, but I want this done automatically
A: There is an extension for Apple Mail called Attachment Tamer. It has all kinds of settings, but the most useful is the one that defaults attachments to the icon view.
http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer
It is $15 but well worth it.
A: To expand on @user43521's answer, there are two ways to solve this problem:
First solution:
If you drag-and-drop files—even images—into Mail.app's compose window, they'll be sent as real attachments (Content-Disposition: attachment).
Second solution:
If you open a terminal and enter this command, it will always make attachments real attachments:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
You only need to do this once. To revert to normal behavior:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no
The Viewing portion of this is very confusing; this affects how your outgoing mail is sent. If you receive mail with inline attachments, they'll be displayed as expected. In fact, it's even more confusing than that, because regardless of this setting, both inline and attached images that you receive will be displayed inline.
A: In Terminal, type:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
If you want to turn it off again, use
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no
You may need to restart Mail after running this to change the behavior.
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152182ad26756ca061e686679058234d4931f224 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Upgrading RAM/HDD in latest MBP I planning to buy a 13 inch MBP this month. Is it a good idea to stick to the standard 4GB of ram and 500GB harddrive, and upgrade it myself to 8GB/1TB? This would save me about $350. I have experience opening/repairing laptops, but I never had a MBP.. would this void my warranty?
A: that's an excellent idea. Apple clearly overprices hardware upgrades.
And don't worry, it's super-easy to do (be sure to buy a Philips #00 and a T6 torx screwdriver) and it doesn't void your warranty!
for detailed step-by-step guides you can go to ifixit.com .
| Q: Upgrading RAM/HDD in latest MBP I planning to buy a 13 inch MBP this month. Is it a good idea to stick to the standard 4GB of ram and 500GB harddrive, and upgrade it myself to 8GB/1TB? This would save me about $350. I have experience opening/repairing laptops, but I never had a MBP.. would this void my warranty?
A: that's an excellent idea. Apple clearly overprices hardware upgrades.
And don't worry, it's super-easy to do (be sure to buy a Philips #00 and a T6 torx screwdriver) and it doesn't void your warranty!
for detailed step-by-step guides you can go to ifixit.com .
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76b779c7fb157a42423ed68a01fbdb2f3dfe4d5e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to disable MacBook trackpad under Windows 7? Is it possible to disable trackpad when running Windows 7 on Macbook Air/Pro? Anyone with this setup can confirm that it's possible?
(I don't use this setup yet, I'm just thinking about it, and want to make sure it supports my needs).
A: Well, good news. I figured out how to stop that annoying errant cursor from suddenly moving my typing to an unintended place.
Ignore all you have read above.
On the Start bar at the bottom on your screen, far right find the Boot Camp icon.
Click it
See "Boot Camp Control Panel..."
Click it
Click Yes to allowing to proceed
See at the top tabs "Trackpad"
Click it
unclick Tap To Click
click OK
Voila!
Now touching the track pad won't move the cursor...only pressing down to "click" it will.
| Q: Is it possible to disable MacBook trackpad under Windows 7? Is it possible to disable trackpad when running Windows 7 on Macbook Air/Pro? Anyone with this setup can confirm that it's possible?
(I don't use this setup yet, I'm just thinking about it, and want to make sure it supports my needs).
A: Well, good news. I figured out how to stop that annoying errant cursor from suddenly moving my typing to an unintended place.
Ignore all you have read above.
On the Start bar at the bottom on your screen, far right find the Boot Camp icon.
Click it
See "Boot Camp Control Panel..."
Click it
Click Yes to allowing to proceed
See at the top tabs "Trackpad"
Click it
unclick Tap To Click
click OK
Voila!
Now touching the track pad won't move the cursor...only pressing down to "click" it will.
A: You can disable it in System -> Hardware as far as I remember.
A: Go to Device Manager, expand Human Interface Devices, find the Apple Multi-touch device, right click it, choose disable. Done!
A: Start > Control Panel > Devices and Printers > Apple Keyboard/Trackpad > Right click, Properties > Hardware > HID- Compliant mouse, MICE and OT.. > Properties > Anable/Disable//
You must disable the both Mice and ot.. becouse one is for the click's and one is for the mouse movement.
Greetings,
Georgi.
A: Via Control Panel you can't. Although you can disable the "touch click", and that way the click is made by "clicking" the trackpad, thus reducing accidental clicking.
There are 3rd-party tools for disabling it easily, or when a mouse is connected, but the few I tried (Trackpad++ and TrackpadMagic) didn't work for me (MBA Mid2011 + Win7)
A: Disable the first option just like the example:
A: You can disable it in bootcamp control panel.
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27a52748e1d97ff2d57a1ad449133f44b75d701b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to have dual internal hard drives in a 2009 mac mini? I want to have an SSD for the OS, and the existing disk that came with the unit.
Is this possible?
A: There are three possible models of Mac mini that came out in 2009: Early 2009, Late 2009, and the Late 2009 server variant.
The server variant comes with two hard drives already (and no optical drive), so I'm assuming you don't have that one. However, since the server and non-server variants use the same case, it seems a safe assumption that you could fit a hard drive in the space usually taken by the optical drive. Getting the hard drive to be held properly in that spot might be difficult, but maybe one of the optical drive replacement caddies could help.
There doesn't seem (and I don't remember there being) a significant physical difference between the early and late 2009 models, so I think the same assumption would apply.
In any case, be sure to check the iFixit (or similar) teardown before you start and do tell us if it works (or if it doesn't)!
| Q: Is it possible to have dual internal hard drives in a 2009 mac mini? I want to have an SSD for the OS, and the existing disk that came with the unit.
Is this possible?
A: There are three possible models of Mac mini that came out in 2009: Early 2009, Late 2009, and the Late 2009 server variant.
The server variant comes with two hard drives already (and no optical drive), so I'm assuming you don't have that one. However, since the server and non-server variants use the same case, it seems a safe assumption that you could fit a hard drive in the space usually taken by the optical drive. Getting the hard drive to be held properly in that spot might be difficult, but maybe one of the optical drive replacement caddies could help.
There doesn't seem (and I don't remember there being) a significant physical difference between the early and late 2009 models, so I think the same assumption would apply.
In any case, be sure to check the iFixit (or similar) teardown before you start and do tell us if it works (or if it doesn't)!
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9959afe798726bf545ae8bd1c58117dbf27bbac7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Battery indicator is not moving further from 96% I bought a new macbook pro, till the day I bought the battery indicator is not moving further from 96%.
I wonder if there is a problem with the battery because if I unplug my power cable it is still showing 96%.
My previous Mac used to show 100% or "Charged" but in OS X Lion it isn't the same, is it?
A: Over time, a battery will stop holding 100% of its charge. This is normal. After a good 1-2 years of constant use, I have seen this happen on all of my batteries.
| Q: Battery indicator is not moving further from 96% I bought a new macbook pro, till the day I bought the battery indicator is not moving further from 96%.
I wonder if there is a problem with the battery because if I unplug my power cable it is still showing 96%.
My previous Mac used to show 100% or "Charged" but in OS X Lion it isn't the same, is it?
A: Over time, a battery will stop holding 100% of its charge. This is normal. After a good 1-2 years of constant use, I have seen this happen on all of my batteries.
A: You probably need to recalibrate your battery. This will essentially tell the OS what the full charge is and in general make the "% remaining" more accurate. You may also need to reset the SMC
Coconut Battery is a great freeware application to give you more info on your battery health.
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3b5741b4f4598ca3775114c1c1e9b76fdad619ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working "All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working.
I suspect that this has happened after installing Path Finder 5.7.8.
A: I suspect you are correct regarding Path Finder being the culprit :). Cocoatech's Path Finder Changelog lists this in it's most recent version (5.8.8):
Fixed All Files search item in Lion and other saved searches.
Updating Path Finder should resolve this issue.
| Q: "All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working "All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working.
I suspect that this has happened after installing Path Finder 5.7.8.
A: I suspect you are correct regarding Path Finder being the culprit :). Cocoatech's Path Finder Changelog lists this in it's most recent version (5.8.8):
Fixed All Files search item in Lion and other saved searches.
Updating Path Finder should resolve this issue.
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fd52902e920162834521f9276bb86f1b57ee380e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to increase font size of Eclipse globally? I'd like to know how to increase the font size for Eclipse so it adjusts the whole GUI to not look so darn small on my screen.
For NetBeans there is the --font-size switch which can be set in netbeans.conf, is there something similar for Eclipse?
(In case it's useful, I'm on Snow Leopard.)
A: Solution for Eclipse Oxygen at MacOS High Sierra (Dec 2017)
*
*Open terminal and run commands:
cd /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.2.1.v20170809-1435/css
vim e4_basestyle.css
*Add a style:
* {
font-size: 14;
}
*Restart Eclipse to apply changes.
| Q: How to increase font size of Eclipse globally? I'd like to know how to increase the font size for Eclipse so it adjusts the whole GUI to not look so darn small on my screen.
For NetBeans there is the --font-size switch which can be set in netbeans.conf, is there something similar for Eclipse?
(In case it's useful, I'm on Snow Leopard.)
A: Solution for Eclipse Oxygen at MacOS High Sierra (Dec 2017)
*
*Open terminal and run commands:
cd /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.2.1.v20170809-1435/css
vim e4_basestyle.css
*Add a style:
* {
font-size: 14;
}
*Restart Eclipse to apply changes.
A: As far as I know, there's no way to increase the font globally. In Eclipse's Preferences, navigate to General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts.
Dialog font is the font used in the dialogs, and Text Font used in text editors, etc.
I don't know how to increase the font for the rest of the GUI, though.
A: Go to Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts, expand the "Basic" folder and select "Text Font" and change that to whatever size you like.
For Eclipse Neon:
To Increase Ctrl +
To reduce Ctrl -
for Macs, use the command key, not the control key
A: For eclipse luna :
edit
eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.0.1.v20141126-1957/css/e4_default_gtk.css
and add at end of file :
* {
font-size:14;
}
This will make eclipse keep same font if you switch workspaces
A: Inside the Eclipse.app is a setting for the font size. To make the fonts globally larger edit Eclipse.app » Contents » Eclipse » eclipse.ini and remove the line
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
from the file. Save the file and restart Eclipse.
A: I have Eclipse installed in a Linux machine. A while ago I did a Linux update and it messed up the fonts on the entire system. All the fonts got larger. So, I went all over the place resizing the fonts for each application.
Guess what?! On the next Linux update, the fonts got back to normal. However, I had to go back and undo all the font resizing that I had previously done on every application. So, when it came time to reset the fonts in Eclipse, I couldn't remember exactly what I did. I went to the following location:
Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Basic > Text Font > Edit
No matter what I did on this setting, the font remained the same.
I finally figured out what the problem was. I had also resized the fonts on the following location:
Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Structured Text Editors > Structured Text Editor Text Font (overrides default: Text Font) > Edit
Once I edited this setting, the fonts on Eclipse went back to normal.
A: NOTE: For those coming from Google, this change has no effect on later MacOS/Eclipse versions of El Capitan and Mars, respectively. See this related question: Yosemite: How do increase font size of Eclipse globally?
A: You go to colors and font and go to the java drop down and find java editor and edit the size and it should work as it has for me.
A: eclipse on Mac, for the font in the tools bar, you have to go to the system preference->display->resolution, and change the system font.
A: window --> preference-->general-->apperance-->colors and fonts-->basic -->text font
A: Menu: window -> editor -> zoom in/out
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c6fa81e18cf4b6b60c08889b8f7861f535649252 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to remove ~/Library/Mail folders I just traded in Mail.app for Sparrow and want to clear up some space on my hard drive. Is it safe to remove the ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-[mailbox] folders for any mail accounts that I have removed from Mail.app?
EDIT: In response to the two "if by safe I assume" answers. I meant both "won't break Mail if I open it again and re-enable those accounts." and "won't delete the messages on the IMAP server"
A: By safe, I assumed you meant "will this screw up my computer?"
The answer is no, it will not mess up your computer... your computer will be just fine. Mail.app stores it's data in ~/Library/Mail/* Removing this folder will not mess up the way the computer behaves, and if you launch Mail.app in the future, it will simply recreate these folders as needed.
You may however want to back up the files in case you realize that there was something in there that you needed...
| Q: Is it safe to remove ~/Library/Mail folders I just traded in Mail.app for Sparrow and want to clear up some space on my hard drive. Is it safe to remove the ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-[mailbox] folders for any mail accounts that I have removed from Mail.app?
EDIT: In response to the two "if by safe I assume" answers. I meant both "won't break Mail if I open it again and re-enable those accounts." and "won't delete the messages on the IMAP server"
A: By safe, I assumed you meant "will this screw up my computer?"
The answer is no, it will not mess up your computer... your computer will be just fine. Mail.app stores it's data in ~/Library/Mail/* Removing this folder will not mess up the way the computer behaves, and if you launch Mail.app in the future, it will simply recreate these folders as needed.
You may however want to back up the files in case you realize that there was something in there that you needed...
A: By safe, I assume you mean "will not delete message on the server?" That's correct, you can go ahead and delete those - think of the as a "cache" of your emails. As long as you aren't deleting and emptying the trash from within whatever mail client you are using, they will remain on the server.
Do consider a backup before deleting ANYTHING from ~/Library (or any other Libraries on your Mac).
In this specific case, I would explicitly rebuild the mailbox indexes just in case the system will clean them up once you're done deleting things...
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8fa7db1535f91eb5a4fd1f82ef768798e53b0c78 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to upgrade Bash via Homebrew? I'm new to OS X. I'm running OS X Lion on a MacBook Pro. Is it safe to upgrade the bash shell using Homebrew:
$ brew install bash
If safe, how do I make it the default instance of the shell I run through Terminal?
Thanks!
A: I could be wrong here, but as far as I know brew would install it's own instance of bash, since brew works under /usr/local/bin while the system defaults works under /bin (and /usr/bin).
About Terminal, you can make shells open with your own, custom command. Go to Preferences > Startup and select Shells open with: Command (complete path). Simply type the path to your new bash and vuala!
Hope it helps!
BTW: Backup! Best advice in this situations!
| Q: Is it safe to upgrade Bash via Homebrew? I'm new to OS X. I'm running OS X Lion on a MacBook Pro. Is it safe to upgrade the bash shell using Homebrew:
$ brew install bash
If safe, how do I make it the default instance of the shell I run through Terminal?
Thanks!
A: I could be wrong here, but as far as I know brew would install it's own instance of bash, since brew works under /usr/local/bin while the system defaults works under /bin (and /usr/bin).
About Terminal, you can make shells open with your own, custom command. Go to Preferences > Startup and select Shells open with: Command (complete path). Simply type the path to your new bash and vuala!
Hope it helps!
BTW: Backup! Best advice in this situations!
A: Well before you do anything, back up your current file (of course, but always deserves to be said)
sudo cp /bin/bash /bin/bash.3.2.bk
Then create a symlink to the bash executable that Homebrew downloaded. I think it will be in /usr/local/Cellar, like so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.10/bin/bash /bin/bash
Now /bin/bash points to the file in your usr/local directory
A: Binaries in /{,usr/}{,s}bin/ should not usually be replaced with other files. Other programs expect them to be the versions that came with OS X, and they are replaced by OS upgrades.
After running brew install bash, you can change the default shell safely by:
*
*Adding /usr/local/bin/bash to /etc/shells
*Running chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash.
Settings in Terminal or iTerm 2 don't normally have to be changed. Both of them default to opening new windows with a login shell of the default shell.
The default shell can also be changed from System Preferences or with dscl, but all three options just modify /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/$USER.plist.
A: I think it is safe if you just launch
brew install bash
and then add it as your default shell
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash
since you are only modifying your current user. However, I noticed that my default ~/.profile is
if [ "/bin/bash" == $BASH ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
so it needs to be updated. I changed it to
if [ "bash" == $(basename $BASH) ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
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c4d9ffc61ebd1a4e5a1bd07ed9327e4af39e8065 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does my AirPlay stream distort at high volume? I have an airport express connected to basic (but not crappy) speakers. When I run audio directly to them it plays fine, but when I run audio from either my iPhone or Mac to the speakers via AirPlay, I get crackly distorted sound if the volume slider is above about 75%.
Does anyone know why this could be? I have the airport set to extend my current network; could that affect it?
A: Network issues only ever result in the audio cutting out, they can't really change the content.
Distortion means your speakers get overloaded. Turning down the volume is your only option.
The reason your speakers are fine on the Mac is that after the slider in iTunes the sound gets further attenuated by the system volume buttons on your keyboard. If you turn those up far enough you'll get distortion as well.
| Q: Why does my AirPlay stream distort at high volume? I have an airport express connected to basic (but not crappy) speakers. When I run audio directly to them it plays fine, but when I run audio from either my iPhone or Mac to the speakers via AirPlay, I get crackly distorted sound if the volume slider is above about 75%.
Does anyone know why this could be? I have the airport set to extend my current network; could that affect it?
A: Network issues only ever result in the audio cutting out, they can't really change the content.
Distortion means your speakers get overloaded. Turning down the volume is your only option.
The reason your speakers are fine on the Mac is that after the slider in iTunes the sound gets further attenuated by the system volume buttons on your keyboard. If you turn those up far enough you'll get distortion as well.
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df380b64a0af83fe752a3502624078125e2b213d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: share purchased movies with friends Sometimes when I visit friends and don't have my Mac around I still would like to watch some of the movies I purchased on iTunes together with them. How do I do this? Can I share movies with others just as I can share Apps?
A: You can authorize up to five computers to use your iTunes account. If you have not used all five computers and you trust these friends, you could authorize their computer on your account, watch your movie, and then de-authorize the computer.
| Q: share purchased movies with friends Sometimes when I visit friends and don't have my Mac around I still would like to watch some of the movies I purchased on iTunes together with them. How do I do this? Can I share movies with others just as I can share Apps?
A: You can authorize up to five computers to use your iTunes account. If you have not used all five computers and you trust these friends, you could authorize their computer on your account, watch your movie, and then de-authorize the computer.
A: Yes, you can.
Even if your friend's computers are authorized they would still need your password to purchase movies.
If you have used all of your 5 authorized computers you will have to either remove them from each individual computer via iTunes:
Or, log into your account and deauthorize all the computers at once:
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0ea34c2658d2889dca5163c6748ed076e4cece7a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are the downsides to using Time Machine? I hear a lot about the good aspects of using Time Machine, particularly the fact that it's so easy to use that people actually do backups!
What are the downsides to using Time Machine compared to other contemporary backup programs? My particular interest is the disadvantages of using it in a (semi)-managed environment i.e. at a university.
A: One substantial downside to Time Machine is that unlike clones produced with CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, the backups it produces are not bootable.
Disclosure: I have no affiliation with any software company, but for one term in college, I was roommates with the author of CarbonCopyCloner.
| Q: What are the downsides to using Time Machine? I hear a lot about the good aspects of using Time Machine, particularly the fact that it's so easy to use that people actually do backups!
What are the downsides to using Time Machine compared to other contemporary backup programs? My particular interest is the disadvantages of using it in a (semi)-managed environment i.e. at a university.
A: One substantial downside to Time Machine is that unlike clones produced with CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, the backups it produces are not bootable.
Disclosure: I have no affiliation with any software company, but for one term in college, I was roommates with the author of CarbonCopyCloner.
A: In addition to the other downsides noted:
*
*System performance is significantly degraded while preparing and running a backup.
(To mitigate this I generally avoid mounting my backup drive whenever I have a performance-critical process running.)
A: I would like to add some more points here as a drawback of Time Machine:-
*
*Time Machine doesn't give you much control for backup data:- You can tell Time Machine to ignore particular files or folders by adding them to its Do Not Back Up list,
But, you can’t exclude files based on certain criteria e.g all movie files over 2GB in size.
*It Doesn't compress files:- It doesn’t store duplicate copies of identical files, so it doesn’t compress your files.
*Not compatible with FileVault:- Time Machine backs up FileVault-encrypted user folders only after logged out session—and does not permit file-by-file restoration of your FileVault.
A: I agree with your comment that the main advantage of time machine is that it is easy to use and is low maintenance, so users will actually have backups. It works well for incremental backups, but may not provide a permanent archival snapshot of a system on an old date. The reason for this is that it prioritizes recent changes over older data if backup space is limited. The recommended solution is to have a Time Machine drive be several times larger than the sum of the volumes that it is backing up, but this is not always feasible, so it is good to have a secondary mechanism for occasionally archiving critical data.
Time Machine will make it easy for users to recover data, from a local backup, that they recently lost on their boot drive, without the need for I.T. personnel intervention. Without Time Machine this problem typically goes unaddressed and users just suffer in silence. As an I.T. manager you will probably be called upon to assist in storage and recovery of archival data, or may need centralized management tools not provided by Time Machine. So my feeling is that Time Machine would be a great addition, one that would make your Mac users very grateful, but it won't supplant your need for other archival or recovery tools.
A: Here are some of the limitations you have to accept or mitigate if you choose Time Machine:
*
*Time machine requires an apple specific HFS+ filesystem to store backups.
*The backup isn't bootable.
*The backup doesn't record differences inside a file. Large (database) files with tiny changes make each incremental save longer and move more data. This also can eat up storage space faster if these type files are not excluded and potentially backed up another way if they can't be regenerated after a restore (like mail stored on IMAP servers)
*It must be an external drive or an official apple network destination like TimeCapsule or Mac OS X Server to be a supported by Apple.
*It will delete backups according to the official scheule ( hourly backups combine and expire after a day. Dailies expire after 31 days. Weekly backups can be deleted if there isn't enough space to contain the estimated size of the next backup. In odd cases or if there is a bug, you could end up with all the history gone an one copy of the last backup.
*The destination volume must be larger in size than the boot volume.
Once you are aware of these limitations, it's fairly easy to work around all but the first limitation with some planning and/or extra software / hardware. The HFS+ format for storage is pretty inflexible with no realistic mitigation or workarounds.
A: Another thing worth mentioning, rather than which backup application to use, is the entire strategy behind your backup plan and the physical issue: If both your computer and the external drive with Time Machine are in the same location, and the building burns down, you lose both of them, and all your data. So people who are paranoid in a good way would back this up further with a cloud-based solution for backing up a sub-set of their critical data off site (say over the Internet using Carbonite, Mozy, and/or iCloud), or they would have multiple physical hard drives or tape backup systems and they would physically move a backup volume to a remote location (in another building, in another part of town) on a regular basis. Not everybody needs this extra security, but it's worth considering in the larger question.
A: I'll add my answer from my own experience. With time machine:
*
*You can only really backup to one location automatically, be it USB or network, and to backup to two or more locations requires fiddling around in either System preferences each time or with complicated stuff on the command line
*Network linked TM locations e.g time capsules use broadcast protocols to negotiate the connnection, which doesn't scale well on large networks
*For the above reason you can't trivially backup to a network location in a different subnet - which ties in with one of the other comments needing to backup offsite
*You can't change backup schedules easily
*You can't easily anticipate what old backups TM will delete - I've been burned a few times by TM deleting my backup history when I've accidentally included too many files
*It's not trivial to offer large amounts of TM backup space to end users. I'd like to allocate say 8TB for users to do TM backups but what should I use to do that? A mac-mini with a drobo attached??
*It takes a bit of effort to move TM backups between media, e.g Upgrade time machine storage?
*No deduplication, but that may be asking a bit much.
In my work environment we use Commvault Simpana to backup our servers and some desktops. We are able to backup offsite and onsite simultaneously to multiple locations and media, on a schedule we choose. Commvault is a difficult to set up, expensive backup suite so I'm not making a direct comparison here, but it's interesting to explore nonetheless what other backup software offers that TM doesn't. Please feel free contradict anything I've said above with examples, as I'd love to be able to get around some of these issues I've outlined.
A: Time Machine was evil to me. It did not properly prompt me how to deal with the file vault situation. I am forever drag and drop and carbonite. Note: Carbonite does not store pictures and videos in the big format you may have them in so if you want your FULL DATA of your photos (bigger files with more detail) then you need to drag and drop them to an external hard drive and let carbonite deal with all the smaller files. Carbonite does not turn your file vault data into encrypted data that you may NEVER have back again and it is LOST FOREVER!!! Carbonite saves it (even while file vault is running) as perfect just the way you see it except as I said before larger files such as photos and videos.
I hope you all stay away from Time Machine if you have precious data and forget when you had file vault on or off. There are no prompters like a window popping up saying "Please before doing this time machine back up turn off your file vault, log out of your computer and log back in and THEN run the time machine". That would be a very simple window to have pop up don't you think?
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d258660d4878a8f17dd459b82c8585a57117f54b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add signatures to Preview.app in Lion without using the web cam? Is it possible to add a signature e.g. from PDF files or from JPEG images instead of using a web cam? The problem is that I don't have a web cam and I would like to use this feature in spite of that.
A: It appears that at present, that isn't an option. When I created a signature file using the FaceTime camera, I see that first of all, there is no unencrypted graphic file created by Preview. Preview did a new key in Keychain titled "Preview signature privacy", suggesting that the signature files go directly from Preview's camera interface to an encrypted file. There isn't a supported way to add a graphic as a signature, and the encryption makes it difficult to bypass the approved new signature process.
| Q: How can I add signatures to Preview.app in Lion without using the web cam? Is it possible to add a signature e.g. from PDF files or from JPEG images instead of using a web cam? The problem is that I don't have a web cam and I would like to use this feature in spite of that.
A: It appears that at present, that isn't an option. When I created a signature file using the FaceTime camera, I see that first of all, there is no unencrypted graphic file created by Preview. Preview did a new key in Keychain titled "Preview signature privacy", suggesting that the signature files go directly from Preview's camera interface to an encrypted file. There isn't a supported way to add a graphic as a signature, and the encryption makes it difficult to bypass the approved new signature process.
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30903515047e661660195369b55dd1147b5219d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch between mail and safari on iPad 2? When reading email using mail, I always click on a link and it open in safari. But when I want to go back to mail, I need to press the button and then find email. Is there a better way to seamlessly switch back to mail, with a gesture or something?
A: As far as I know there isn't a gesture: but you don't have to find email again. If you double click on the button the lower bar will show all the (open) applications in order of recent usage. Mail should be the first one.
| Q: How to switch between mail and safari on iPad 2? When reading email using mail, I always click on a link and it open in safari. But when I want to go back to mail, I need to press the button and then find email. Is there a better way to seamlessly switch back to mail, with a gesture or something?
A: As far as I know there isn't a gesture: but you don't have to find email again. If you double click on the button the lower bar will show all the (open) applications in order of recent usage. Mail should be the first one.
A: You can use multi-touch gestures to swipe to the last app you used, in this case will be mail.
First make sure Multi-Touch gestures are turned on in the settings panel.
Once this feature is on, you can swipe from right to left with four fingers or more to cycle through the apps you last used.
If you do not want to use that, you can double tap the home button top bring up the last few apps used.
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6123c65dc4fdb521cc3dc546a4fd31a242a1942d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Arrange by exact file type (not just by kind) in OS X Lion Currently .mp3, .aac, .m4r, etc. are all looked as "Music". So when I do an Arrange or Group By in the Lion Finder, all of these files get displayed under the heading "Music". Is there an option to make this arrange by Kind setting respect the exact file type?
A: It sounds like you want to "sort" your files rather than "arrange" them.
*
*In Finder open up the folder you would like to sort by kind (file type).
*Click the Action button (gear icon).
*Choose Show View Options.
*Set Arrange By to None.
*Set Sort By to Kind.
Your files can be sorted more specifically now. There are also a few other tricks to such as holding down the option key while selecting what you would like to sort by, which overrides grouping.
| Q: Arrange by exact file type (not just by kind) in OS X Lion Currently .mp3, .aac, .m4r, etc. are all looked as "Music". So when I do an Arrange or Group By in the Lion Finder, all of these files get displayed under the heading "Music". Is there an option to make this arrange by Kind setting respect the exact file type?
A: It sounds like you want to "sort" your files rather than "arrange" them.
*
*In Finder open up the folder you would like to sort by kind (file type).
*Click the Action button (gear icon).
*Choose Show View Options.
*Set Arrange By to None.
*Set Sort By to Kind.
Your files can be sorted more specifically now. There are also a few other tricks to such as holding down the option key while selecting what you would like to sort by, which overrides grouping.
A: There is a better way that I always use when I need.
I just right click in the Finder window and hold down the 'alt' key. It provides me with the menu item to sort by when I would like :)
So, in this case, I right click in the folder, hold down the 'alt' key, choose Sort By, and choose Kind.
I hope this helps :)
A: Open the folder in a new window, then search for the format: for instance .mp3. Make sure the search is only for the folder you have open.
There you should find all of the mp3-files contained in that particular folder.
A: When in column view, select the folder you want sorted, but no files in the folder. Then right-click the far right (empty) column. 'Sort by' will be one of your options.
It's utterly mystifying to me that there is a 'group' icon but not a 'sort' icon in the finder toolbar.
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2b6c1027527bea90711d66baabc699b2226e7e3d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable "...application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" on certain file types? Is it possible to modify which files Apple's quarantine warning pops up on? Specifically I download hundreds of PHP files (web developer) and I'm tired of seeing "...is a script application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" I don't mind the warning on most downloads, but don't want warnings on scripts I'm opening to edit.
FYI, Quarantine can be completly disabled with:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
and can be removed from existing files with:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/foldername
A: If you download files from the internet into the ~/Downloads folder, you could assign a folder action to ~/Downloads via Automator:
Open Automator
Create a new Folder Action
As the action, drag over "Run Shell Script"
Assign the following shell script:
for f in "$@"
do
test "$f" == *\.php && xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine $f
done
| Q: Disable "...application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" on certain file types? Is it possible to modify which files Apple's quarantine warning pops up on? Specifically I download hundreds of PHP files (web developer) and I'm tired of seeing "...is a script application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" I don't mind the warning on most downloads, but don't want warnings on scripts I'm opening to edit.
FYI, Quarantine can be completly disabled with:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
and can be removed from existing files with:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/foldername
A: If you download files from the internet into the ~/Downloads folder, you could assign a folder action to ~/Downloads via Automator:
Open Automator
Create a new Folder Action
As the action, drag over "Run Shell Script"
Assign the following shell script:
for f in "$@"
do
test "$f" == *\.php && xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine $f
done
A: Building from @Daniel's answer, you could do this from a shell:
find /path/to/your/app -name '*.php' -exec xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine {} \;
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7f66a75751dbd84b7561296d0052c3c695ff4213 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Internet sharing through WiFi disconnects I am currently using an iMac running Lion and am having problems sharing my internet through WiFi.
The iMac is connected to the internet through ethernet and I share that connection through WiFi to my iPad and iPhone.
The WiFi icon in the menu bar will randomly switch from the sharing icon (grey with an up arrow) back to the normal WiFi icon. At this point my iPad and iPhone no longer see the network.
When I go into my sharing preferences in Lion, the "Internet Sharing" box is still ticked and it says its connected, but I have to stop it and start it again for it to actually work. Any help would be appreciated.
A: The first step is to know why the connection is failing, so you might need to look in the console log for messages that speak to en1 / link down / AirPort and such. I don't see a good troubleshooting article from Apple to start things out, but feel free to comment here or edit the answer yourself as we narrow down the when and then finally the why.
| Q: Internet sharing through WiFi disconnects I am currently using an iMac running Lion and am having problems sharing my internet through WiFi.
The iMac is connected to the internet through ethernet and I share that connection through WiFi to my iPad and iPhone.
The WiFi icon in the menu bar will randomly switch from the sharing icon (grey with an up arrow) back to the normal WiFi icon. At this point my iPad and iPhone no longer see the network.
When I go into my sharing preferences in Lion, the "Internet Sharing" box is still ticked and it says its connected, but I have to stop it and start it again for it to actually work. Any help would be appreciated.
A: The first step is to know why the connection is failing, so you might need to look in the console log for messages that speak to en1 / link down / AirPort and such. I don't see a good troubleshooting article from Apple to start things out, but feel free to comment here or edit the answer yourself as we narrow down the when and then finally the why.
A: Here are a few hints which may help in understanding your problem.
*
*In a Terminal or xterm window type:
egrep 'Shar|boot|natp' /var/log/system.log
If you don't feel at ease reading the output of this command,
just paste it here.
*When your InternetSharing is faulty check your Wi-Fi icon in
the menu bar.Is it displaying as a set of grey or black arcs?
*When your InternetSharing is faulty, open
System Preferences > Network.
Is your Ethernet "Connected" with a green light?
Is your Airport "On" with a yellow light?
Is there any other interface active or connected?
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71552f0609449f0118646e7b554e41840c944d75 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to restore backed up contacts to my iPhone 4? A couple of days ago all the contacts from my iPhone 4 disappeared.
I am not sure how to restore them using iTunes. I am afraid that if I plug the iPhone to my computer it will sync the other way around and delete whatever I had stored as a back up on my computer…
Any of you know how to get those contacts back on the phone?
Thanks!!!
A: If you have sync'd your iPhone very recently, but just before the disappearance of the contacts, then you should be ok. The first part of each iTunes sync process is a backup.
I would make sure the Address Book data in the Mac is backed up. I would then connect the iPhone, open iTunes, and sync.
If still no joy, then restore (an option in iTunes) the iPhone from an earlier backup to get them back, and then update the apps as needed.
If your iPhone is jail-broken or otherwise hacked, don't try the above until you have proven beyond a doubt that no haerm will be done.
| Q: How to restore backed up contacts to my iPhone 4? A couple of days ago all the contacts from my iPhone 4 disappeared.
I am not sure how to restore them using iTunes. I am afraid that if I plug the iPhone to my computer it will sync the other way around and delete whatever I had stored as a back up on my computer…
Any of you know how to get those contacts back on the phone?
Thanks!!!
A: If you have sync'd your iPhone very recently, but just before the disappearance of the contacts, then you should be ok. The first part of each iTunes sync process is a backup.
I would make sure the Address Book data in the Mac is backed up. I would then connect the iPhone, open iTunes, and sync.
If still no joy, then restore (an option in iTunes) the iPhone from an earlier backup to get them back, and then update the apps as needed.
If your iPhone is jail-broken or otherwise hacked, don't try the above until you have proven beyond a doubt that no haerm will be done.
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8fa4bb68055601ba16ced05322869c2ab8e58433 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I edit content on an FTP server through Finder? Is there any way around the read-only access that Finder strictly allows so I can get write access to a FTP server through Finder?
A: You can use MacFusion, which allows to connect to a FTP server through a filesystem device.
MacFusion requires MacFUSE, or OSXFUSE with the compatibility layer for MacFUSE.
*
*Mount files and documents as a "Volume" in the Mac OS X Finder.
*Work with your files using your favorite Mac OS X applications directly. No manual upload or download needed!
*Support for SSH (Secure Shell) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers.
*Uses your machine's native configuration for SSH, including support for private keys and custom settings.
*Quickly connect to a any server using the Quick Connect dialog, accessible from Macfusion's optional menu item.
| Q: Can I edit content on an FTP server through Finder? Is there any way around the read-only access that Finder strictly allows so I can get write access to a FTP server through Finder?
A: You can use MacFusion, which allows to connect to a FTP server through a filesystem device.
MacFusion requires MacFUSE, or OSXFUSE with the compatibility layer for MacFUSE.
*
*Mount files and documents as a "Volume" in the Mac OS X Finder.
*Work with your files using your favorite Mac OS X applications directly. No manual upload or download needed!
*Support for SSH (Secure Shell) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers.
*Uses your machine's native configuration for SSH, including support for private keys and custom settings.
*Quickly connect to a any server using the Quick Connect dialog, accessible from Macfusion's optional menu item.
A: Try Transmit.
With the new Transmit Disk feature, you can now mount any of your favorites in the Finder itself, even if Transmit's not running. These volumes are real: drag files to your SFTP server, save a small graphic to your Amazon S3 bucket directly from Photoshop, or roll your own iDisk-like backup volume. It's all possible in T4.
A: No you can't get around the read-only access, but here are some great FTP clients:
Cyberduck
A great free FTP client. This is my go-to application. Anytime I need FTP access, I use Cyberduck. It's not quite as lightweight as Fugu, but it adds a lot more functionality than Fugu. I like the Growl integration with Cyberduck.
Fugu
Awesome little free FTP client. As I noted above, this is a lightweight FTP client. It is great for simple FTP transfers and browsing. I do like the dual panel navigation.
Last, but not least, you can use the CLI. Just type ftp [email protected] at the prompt. If you've used the command line before, you know that ls lists directories, cd changes directories. Example: ls ~/Desktop lists the contents of your Desktop (the "~" is a shortcut for your home folder). cd ~/Desktop changes to current directory to your Desktop. To download files, you can use mget or get. Here's the Apple man page on FTP.
A: No, but you can use any one of many third-party FTP clients, some of which are free.
FileZilla. Open-source and cross-platform
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9a4fa22a6fca83d022527544a0e18ceda04b9f3f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I import photos from my iPhone when using iPhoto in full screen mode on Lion? In non-full screen mode your iPhone shows up in the left side bar under the 'Devices' area. In full screen mode there is no left side bar. I tried File -> Import to Library... but there's no iPhone listed in the Finder window that opens up.
How do you import photos from your iPhone when iPhoto is running in full screen mode on Lion?
A: Use iCloud’s Photo Stream feature. As you noticed, you can’t access an iOS camera device connected via USB from iPhoto in full screen mode (in fact, iPhoto will leave full screen mode when you connect such a device). Photo Stream however is available in full screen mode (in the “All Albums” section). You can even setup iPhoto to automatically import photos from Photo Stream (sorry for the German screenshot, but you’ll get the idea).
| Q: How do I import photos from my iPhone when using iPhoto in full screen mode on Lion? In non-full screen mode your iPhone shows up in the left side bar under the 'Devices' area. In full screen mode there is no left side bar. I tried File -> Import to Library... but there's no iPhone listed in the Finder window that opens up.
How do you import photos from your iPhone when iPhoto is running in full screen mode on Lion?
A: Use iCloud’s Photo Stream feature. As you noticed, you can’t access an iOS camera device connected via USB from iPhoto in full screen mode (in fact, iPhoto will leave full screen mode when you connect such a device). Photo Stream however is available in full screen mode (in the “All Albums” section). You can even setup iPhoto to automatically import photos from Photo Stream (sorry for the German screenshot, but you’ll get the idea).
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2f4948cd3d643818ec2acee46e590fdfb991a02b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: App that turns the menubar black/dark? Is there an app that can change the color of the menubar? I saw one that I'm pretty sure wasn't Nocturne.
A: LeoColorBar (Free)
Allows you to change the color of the menu bar.
MenuShade (Free)
Allows you to dim the menu bar.
Here's a tutorial on changing the menu bar to black.
| Q: App that turns the menubar black/dark? Is there an app that can change the color of the menubar? I saw one that I'm pretty sure wasn't Nocturne.
A: LeoColorBar (Free)
Allows you to change the color of the menu bar.
MenuShade (Free)
Allows you to dim the menu bar.
Here's a tutorial on changing the menu bar to black.
A: MenuBarFilter - "iOS-like dark menu bar for OSX"
http://eece.github.com/MenuBarFilter/
A: not an app, but you could use obsidian menubar by Max Rudberg. it's an installer that changes menubar's pngs and substitute os x's black menubar icons (as well as some 3rd party ones) with white ones.
see more infos here or download it directly from Max's website
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be51b145931419031c9534c0e2e9f41b7381664e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent accidentally quitting an application? I use Adium, but if I set a "Quit Confirmation" in the advanced preferences, it cancels log out. If I don't, it is way too easy to quit it, since it gets focused between apps sometimes.
Is there any way I can have a "Quit Confirmation" show up when I try to quit Adium, except when I am logging out or shutting down the OS?
A: You can do the following to make it a little bit harder to quit Adium by accident. I think this should solve your problem.
Start by opening System Preferences > Keyboard.
*
*Click Keyboard Shortcuts in the pillbox above.
*Make sure you have Application Shortcuts selected in the left bar.
*Click the + button to add a new shortcut.
*Select Adium from the Application dropdown.
*Type "Quit" in the menu title field.
*Put your cursor in the Keyboard Shortcut field and type Command-Option-Q
*Click Add
And you're done. You can close your System Preferences because the Quit command in Adium has been remapped to a less-likely-to-be-accidentally-typed shortcut.
| Q: How can I prevent accidentally quitting an application? I use Adium, but if I set a "Quit Confirmation" in the advanced preferences, it cancels log out. If I don't, it is way too easy to quit it, since it gets focused between apps sometimes.
Is there any way I can have a "Quit Confirmation" show up when I try to quit Adium, except when I am logging out or shutting down the OS?
A: You can do the following to make it a little bit harder to quit Adium by accident. I think this should solve your problem.
Start by opening System Preferences > Keyboard.
*
*Click Keyboard Shortcuts in the pillbox above.
*Make sure you have Application Shortcuts selected in the left bar.
*Click the + button to add a new shortcut.
*Select Adium from the Application dropdown.
*Type "Quit" in the menu title field.
*Put your cursor in the Keyboard Shortcut field and type Command-Option-Q
*Click Add
And you're done. You can close your System Preferences because the Quit command in Adium has been remapped to a less-likely-to-be-accidentally-typed shortcut.
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0da8fc84f176252d8002aa76bc5a1b2160ca5f73 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: is there an application to manage bookmarks? I hate the in-built book mark managers of all browsers, it quickly becomes too messy and important links are hard to find
Is there desktop application which deal with bookmarks? something that has multiple options of fitters: categories, folders, tags and more
For example the task manager, omnifocus, is as simple or as complex as you want it to be, is there anything like that for bookmarks
A: Take a look at Xmarks. It stores the bookmarks on an Xmarks-server, so they are available from everywhere. It's compatible with Safari, IE, Firefox and Chrome.
| Q: is there an application to manage bookmarks? I hate the in-built book mark managers of all browsers, it quickly becomes too messy and important links are hard to find
Is there desktop application which deal with bookmarks? something that has multiple options of fitters: categories, folders, tags and more
For example the task manager, omnifocus, is as simple or as complex as you want it to be, is there anything like that for bookmarks
A: Take a look at Xmarks. It stores the bookmarks on an Xmarks-server, so they are available from everywhere. It's compatible with Safari, IE, Firefox and Chrome.
A: In addition to the other answers posted here, I suggest looking at a few different online bookmarking sites:
*
*http://diigo.com
*http://pinboard.in
*(and yes) Delicious.com
Most of these services have add-ons or extensions to access the bookmarks. :)
(I really like diigo.com)
A: Try URL Manager Pro. It's been around for a very long time, and is still under active development. It has received excellent reviews. It's Lion-compatible, and is also available in the Mac App Store.
A: I created a different kind of bookmarking app for Mac: http://fetching.io
In addition to all the bookmarking features, it saves a full copy of every web page you visit then let's you easily search your index to re-find pages later. It' a totally different way of doing things. You don't have to remember to save anything since everything is saved and super easy to find later, even months or years later.
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126a86577f50f066f17d5576c47202f7a77f1b4e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Problem booting from a DVD: How do I eject the DVD? I tried to install Windows 7 on Bootcamp, but the Windows 7 boot CD has a boot problem about code 5.
The Windows 7 installation DVD is in the DVD driver. How can I eject the DVD from the drive, and boot normally?
A: If it's an Intel based Mac, you can press either F12, or Eject, or the Mouse button on startup.
| Q: Problem booting from a DVD: How do I eject the DVD? I tried to install Windows 7 on Bootcamp, but the Windows 7 boot CD has a boot problem about code 5.
The Windows 7 installation DVD is in the DVD driver. How can I eject the DVD from the drive, and boot normally?
A: If it's an Intel based Mac, you can press either F12, or Eject, or the Mouse button on startup.
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34895a51986a322e3a6ae56c3bee0f66d4be9450 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Resizing a window to a specific size, for screen recording? I want to record an application window for a demo/tutorial, and I'd like the video to be a particular resolution.
Is there a trick/tool already installed in Lion that allows me to take a window and resize it to a specific resolution? For instance, take a window and resize it to 1280x720 in preparation for a HD 720p video recording?
If not, is there a tool I can get from the internet that will do this for me?
It just occured to me that perhaps Automator would help me here, but I'm not able to find an action to resize a window. An Automator script is OK as well.
Basically, any free/cheap tool/trick/script that would do this.
A: You could try an AppleScript like this:
set the_application to (path to frontmost application as Unicode text)
tell application the_application
activate
set bounds of window 1 to {1, 1, 1281, 721}
end tell
| Q: Resizing a window to a specific size, for screen recording? I want to record an application window for a demo/tutorial, and I'd like the video to be a particular resolution.
Is there a trick/tool already installed in Lion that allows me to take a window and resize it to a specific resolution? For instance, take a window and resize it to 1280x720 in preparation for a HD 720p video recording?
If not, is there a tool I can get from the internet that will do this for me?
It just occured to me that perhaps Automator would help me here, but I'm not able to find an action to resize a window. An Automator script is OK as well.
Basically, any free/cheap tool/trick/script that would do this.
A: You could try an AppleScript like this:
set the_application to (path to frontmost application as Unicode text)
tell application the_application
activate
set bounds of window 1 to {1, 1, 1281, 721}
end tell
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1c7a8ce1b33adbe623255bb9c7943e6c641f45b6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why can't I download the latest Boot Camp installer when first configuring Boot Camp? I have a white Macbook that is released near the end of 2007, with an Intel Core 2 Duo. And now that I want to try installing Windows XP or Windows 7 on it to see how robust it is running Windows, with Boot Camp Assistant, it tried to "download files needed" but it always says "The Windows Support Software is not available"
without any further info. This Macbook is running Snow Leopard already. Is there a way to complete the process of installing Windows 7 using Boot Camp?
A: You should be able to select the option "I have already downloaded..." this will let you continue with the Boot Camp partitions and then install Windows from the disc.
You should install Boot Camp within Windows from your Snow Leopard Install CD and then you can update Boot Camp by downloading the Updates from support.apple.com.
I had this issue with my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro at first.
| Q: Why can't I download the latest Boot Camp installer when first configuring Boot Camp? I have a white Macbook that is released near the end of 2007, with an Intel Core 2 Duo. And now that I want to try installing Windows XP or Windows 7 on it to see how robust it is running Windows, with Boot Camp Assistant, it tried to "download files needed" but it always says "The Windows Support Software is not available"
without any further info. This Macbook is running Snow Leopard already. Is there a way to complete the process of installing Windows 7 using Boot Camp?
A: You should be able to select the option "I have already downloaded..." this will let you continue with the Boot Camp partitions and then install Windows from the disc.
You should install Boot Camp within Windows from your Snow Leopard Install CD and then you can update Boot Camp by downloading the Updates from support.apple.com.
I had this issue with my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro at first.
A: My best guess is that Apple dropped support for Boot Camp downloads under Snow Leopard.
My advice is to upgrade to Mountain Lion (or install it in a external drive) and try to download the Bootcamp-provided Windows Drivers from Mountain Lion's Boot Camp Assistant.
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afb6e4d42d2bcc886619ed0ff17b6ed31b8ef8c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where do I find the logs for OS X authentication attempts? I'm on a personal computer, with Lion running and only a single user account on the computer. Is there a log file for authentication attempts (both for login attempts and password protected screensaver aka sleep mode)?
Mostly interested in the unsuccessful attempts. Is it possible to also see the passwords that were used to make those unsuccessful attempts?
A: It's found in the secure.log (the path is /var/log/secure.log) and the entries would look something like this:
authorizationhost[5917]: Failed to authenticate user <cksum> (error: 9).
It does not log password attempts (the password they tried to use), just the actual unsuccessful (or successful) login attempt.
Additionally, to focus your search exclusively for failed login attemps, open Terminal.app (found in Utilities folder) and run the following command:
sudo grep 'Failed to authenticate' /var/log/secure.log
| Q: Where do I find the logs for OS X authentication attempts? I'm on a personal computer, with Lion running and only a single user account on the computer. Is there a log file for authentication attempts (both for login attempts and password protected screensaver aka sleep mode)?
Mostly interested in the unsuccessful attempts. Is it possible to also see the passwords that were used to make those unsuccessful attempts?
A: It's found in the secure.log (the path is /var/log/secure.log) and the entries would look something like this:
authorizationhost[5917]: Failed to authenticate user <cksum> (error: 9).
It does not log password attempts (the password they tried to use), just the actual unsuccessful (or successful) login attempt.
Additionally, to focus your search exclusively for failed login attemps, open Terminal.app (found in Utilities folder) and run the following command:
sudo grep 'Failed to authenticate' /var/log/secure.log
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dd3d1fc6250635e7b1440e2c7fe8a6dafa134b31 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use Bento for Mac as the database for a database-backed website? I'm looking to create a website on my Mac, with content coming from a database also on the Mac. The website is static, and I'll probably need to write some scripts that will periodically (1) create new HTML pages on my Mac based on new content in the database, (2) sync the HTML pages on my Mac to the web server on the Internet using SFTP.
Can this be done using Bento, or should I be looking into Filemaker Pro instead?
A: Bento isn't well-suited for your needs, in my opinion. It's possible to export information from Bento into a variety of formats, including text files, Numbers, or Excel. But it doesn't have the hooks needed to be queried by a Website creation tool. As you mention, FileMaker Pro does have that ability. Here is their web publishing page.
This may be overkill for you, but if you're familiar with SQL databases, you might also take a look at Sequel Pro.
| Q: Is it possible to use Bento for Mac as the database for a database-backed website? I'm looking to create a website on my Mac, with content coming from a database also on the Mac. The website is static, and I'll probably need to write some scripts that will periodically (1) create new HTML pages on my Mac based on new content in the database, (2) sync the HTML pages on my Mac to the web server on the Internet using SFTP.
Can this be done using Bento, or should I be looking into Filemaker Pro instead?
A: Bento isn't well-suited for your needs, in my opinion. It's possible to export information from Bento into a variety of formats, including text files, Numbers, or Excel. But it doesn't have the hooks needed to be queried by a Website creation tool. As you mention, FileMaker Pro does have that ability. Here is their web publishing page.
This may be overkill for you, but if you're familiar with SQL databases, you might also take a look at Sequel Pro.
A: As far as I know, there would be no way for scripts to directly access the data in a Bento database, so you would need to manually export that data every time you need to update the website. If you don't have too many sets of data, or if the site doesn't need to be updated too frequently, this might work well for you.
Also, Bento is fairly limited when it comes to building relational databases. It can handle flat databases and very simple relationships, but lacks the ability to set up complex relationships between tables. If you don't need complex relationships, and manually exporting your data is acceptable, then Bento would be a viable option that's relatively inexpensive and fairly easy to learn and use.
On the other hand, FileMaker Pro is very scriptable, allowing for almost complete control through both its own internal scripting language as well as through AppleScript. It also handles much more complex relationships. Of course, this advanced feature set also comes with a higher learning curve (and price tag). However, FileMaker does have a large and active community of users that are very helpful, and there are plenty of tutorials and sample databases to help get you up to speed.
While FileMaker does have built-in web publishing, there is a limit of 5 concurrent users unless you get FileMaker Server, or host your database on a 3rd party FileMaker hosting service.
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8b27190002adf332ba20a794934850b581228130 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Move all events from one iCal calendar to another I would like to consolidate several iCal calendars. So, I'm wondering if there is a way to move all events from one iCal calendar to another. I'm not interested in changing the time, etc. of any of the events, as asked here, and I'm not interested in simply deleting all the events in my calendar, as asked here.
I'm running iCal Version 5.0 (1535) on OS X 10.7.
A: *
*Select one of the calendars you want to merge
*choose File->Export...->Export
*Make sure the filename matches the calender you've chosen above. The calendar will be exported to a .ics file
*Choose File->Import...->Import and find the file you've just saved.
*ical will ask you to which calendar it should add the events. Just select the another one of the calendars you want to merge.
*repeat until all calendars are merged.
| Q: Move all events from one iCal calendar to another I would like to consolidate several iCal calendars. So, I'm wondering if there is a way to move all events from one iCal calendar to another. I'm not interested in changing the time, etc. of any of the events, as asked here, and I'm not interested in simply deleting all the events in my calendar, as asked here.
I'm running iCal Version 5.0 (1535) on OS X 10.7.
A: *
*Select one of the calendars you want to merge
*choose File->Export...->Export
*Make sure the filename matches the calender you've chosen above. The calendar will be exported to a .ics file
*Choose File->Import...->Import and find the file you've just saved.
*ical will ask you to which calendar it should add the events. Just select the another one of the calendars you want to merge.
*repeat until all calendars are merged.
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05b57011fb06d1ceafda498cac47a5672210b33c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a legal way to get a US App Store account from outside the US? I noticed that many useful applications are unavailable in Russian App Store, as US Store seems to be the primary target for developers. I wonder if there is any legal way to obtain a US Store account (I'm interested in iPhone and Mac Apps, no music) if I don't live in the United States.
A: I'm not sure if using a fake address would be legal.
Technically, you can create an account in the US Store using an iTunes Gift Card and a fake address/phone number. You can buy iTunes Gift Cards in eBay (some sellers will expedite things by sending activation codes by email).
If you're only interested in free Apps, you can create an account without the Gift card. There is an Apple support document describing the process.
Regardless of payment, Apple asks for a valid US address to establish an account, so the legality of this depends on where you live.
| Q: Is there a legal way to get a US App Store account from outside the US? I noticed that many useful applications are unavailable in Russian App Store, as US Store seems to be the primary target for developers. I wonder if there is any legal way to obtain a US Store account (I'm interested in iPhone and Mac Apps, no music) if I don't live in the United States.
A: I'm not sure if using a fake address would be legal.
Technically, you can create an account in the US Store using an iTunes Gift Card and a fake address/phone number. You can buy iTunes Gift Cards in eBay (some sellers will expedite things by sending activation codes by email).
If you're only interested in free Apps, you can create an account without the Gift card. There is an Apple support document describing the process.
Regardless of payment, Apple asks for a valid US address to establish an account, so the legality of this depends on where you live.
A: I have a US mailing address, and US Bank information. With this, I can purchase through the app store when I'm overseas (which is quite often). These are linked to my Apple ID.
Hope this helps.
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b17ec2550f65c8b168be24f4558a3a6266fa544a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restart OS X GUI I need to restart the WindowServer (OS X's GUI);
I know this can be achieved using the command sudo killall -HUP WindowServer
but this closes all your open applications. Is there a way to restart the WindowsServer without it quitting all your open applications?
A: The WindowServer is responsible for drawing all Windows and Windows Content for all Programs (incl. Finder), so it would not be possible to kill the Process without killing all Applications.
You can read about the Window Server in the Apple Technical Note TN2083 for OSX 10.5.
Even though it is announced in that Document that Apple plans to change the Behaviour in future Systemversions, it's in your list of required OS's.
| Q: Restart OS X GUI I need to restart the WindowServer (OS X's GUI);
I know this can be achieved using the command sudo killall -HUP WindowServer
but this closes all your open applications. Is there a way to restart the WindowsServer without it quitting all your open applications?
A: The WindowServer is responsible for drawing all Windows and Windows Content for all Programs (incl. Finder), so it would not be possible to kill the Process without killing all Applications.
You can read about the Window Server in the Apple Technical Note TN2083 for OSX 10.5.
Even though it is announced in that Document that Apple plans to change the Behaviour in future Systemversions, it's in your list of required OS's.
A: There is no way to restart window server without closing all apps; logging out & then back in is the best option
A: You can also try:
killall -KILL Dock
A: killall Finder # what should work
killall SystemUIServer # what to run in addition if it does not
If any of the two do not restart (finder sometimes does not automatically reboot in my experience), then run these commands after the initial set:
open -a Finder
open -a SystemUIServer
This set of commands (specifically killall Finder) is almost exactly like taskkill /IM explorer.exe within the MS-DOS command line.
A: If this is to restart the GUI without quitting all applications (to solve UI jitter, a duplicate mouse cursor, etc...) I found turning off the display works as well.
This earlier question has some information on how to do this.
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7c3a34a908bec1d8ab81ad0e90e6ef8af2a3712a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Simplest way to record voice on Macbook Air I'm looking for the simplest way to record voice -- a two people conversation -- with a Macbook Air. The goal is then later to listen to it on the Mac and transcribe it.
A: Open QuickTime Player and select File -> New Audio Recording from the menu. This is a new feature (not sure whether it was in Lion, Snow Leopard, or an independent QuickTime update). Previously your options were:
*
*Get a QuickTime Pro key ($29.99)
*Third Party, commercial: Voice Candy ($12.95)
*Third Party, open source: Audacity (free)
| Q: Simplest way to record voice on Macbook Air I'm looking for the simplest way to record voice -- a two people conversation -- with a Macbook Air. The goal is then later to listen to it on the Mac and transcribe it.
A: Open QuickTime Player and select File -> New Audio Recording from the menu. This is a new feature (not sure whether it was in Lion, Snow Leopard, or an independent QuickTime update). Previously your options were:
*
*Get a QuickTime Pro key ($29.99)
*Third Party, commercial: Voice Candy ($12.95)
*Third Party, open source: Audacity (free)
A: The simplest way is to use either Quicktime (simply choose File>New Audio Recording) or a free and open-source app like Audacity. Your MBA has a built in microphone, so all you need to do is click record and then start your conversation.
If you do this regularly, it way be worth investing in a USB mic that has better sound quality than the built-in mic on your Macbook. Something like the Samson Go Mic is fairly well regarded for field recordings, dictation, and interview recordings.
Lastly, transcription can be a huge pain without software that supports easy pause/resume/rewind capabilities. There are a couple free ones out there, like Transcriptions or more expensive commercial solutions. (Hint: Get a foot pedal!)
Sound-to-text technology is getting increasingly more accurate (though not foolproof as anyone who uses Google voicemail transcription knows), so depending on the quality of your source material and the time you spend training, you can also eliminate a large chunk of the manual transcription with something like MacSpeech Scribe
A: Scenario 1: You're both in the same room
Open up QuickTime Player. Select File -> New Audio Recording.... Make sure the source is set to Built-in Microphone (see screen shot below). Hit the big red Record button. Talk away.
Scenario 2: You're using Skype or something like it to converse
This is a little trickier but not impossible. You'll need the SoundFlower app from Cycling '74. If you're using Skype you'll set it's audio output to be the SoundFlower input. Then in QuickTime you'll set the audio input to be SoundFlower's 2-channel output. This routes the audio from Skype in to QuickTime. Record as above.
A: The simplest manner is to open Photo Booth and record a movie.
I count 4 clicks:
*
*Keyboard command for Launchpad
*Click Photo Booth
*Click the movie control (lower left)
*Clock record
As long as you have space for the video, you can review the recording quite easily and delete it.
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b18da9e662cd2b3cd0d848691586424528dbe4c3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do full-screen applications change their order in Mission Control? How are fullscreen apps organised? This is usually my workflow:
Dashboard / Desktop / Safari / Pages
I sometimes go to Pages and type some things and go back to Safari, and then I find that it becomes like this:
Dashboard / Desktop / Pages / Safari
It has shifted location for some reason.
Why?
A: Mission Control automatically rearranges your spaces according to how recently you accessed them. Desktop 1 is always Desktop 1 though. You can turn this behaviour off by going to System Preferences -> Mission Control and unchecking the Automatically rearrange spaces based on the most recent use option. This will keep your additional desktops and full screen apps in the order you start them or place them via the Mission Control view.
| Q: Why do full-screen applications change their order in Mission Control? How are fullscreen apps organised? This is usually my workflow:
Dashboard / Desktop / Safari / Pages
I sometimes go to Pages and type some things and go back to Safari, and then I find that it becomes like this:
Dashboard / Desktop / Pages / Safari
It has shifted location for some reason.
Why?
A: Mission Control automatically rearranges your spaces according to how recently you accessed them. Desktop 1 is always Desktop 1 though. You can turn this behaviour off by going to System Preferences -> Mission Control and unchecking the Automatically rearrange spaces based on the most recent use option. This will keep your additional desktops and full screen apps in the order you start them or place them via the Mission Control view.
A:
Uncheck it if you must :). Then it will retain 'as launched/created' order.
A: Since the 10.7.2 update, all Desktops can be reordered, but Desktop 1 and Dashboard. It seems that the overall order is based in usage, the most used is moved to the left side.
If what you want is to keep an specific order, try what ghoppe suggested here:
*
*Turn ON automatic-ordering (System Preferences > Mission Control > Automatically Rearrange Spaces)
*Command-Tab through applications on each space until you get the
order you want (they will automatically reorder themselves.)
*Turn OFF automatic-ordering.
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c3f3e79b7e2e2eeaaaa7e19581dd8b5f84b67e10 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Thunderbolt to VGA I'm buying a new MacBook Pro tomorrow, but I'm unsure on which adapter to buy for a VGA adapter. Is it the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter? The MacBook Pro doesn't say it has a Mini DisplayPort, only Thunderbolt. So am I going to buy the correct one?
A: Yes.
Thunderbolt is Mini DisplayPort for all purposes. (Note: not all practical purposes, all purposes.) Technically, Thunderbolt is PCI Express and DisplayPort multiplexed, the upshot being that every Thunderbolt port is a MDP port and can be used exactly the same as a normal Mini DisplayPort port. This fact is unchanged as you travel down the daisy-chain of Thunderbolt devices (assuming you have any).
| Q: Thunderbolt to VGA I'm buying a new MacBook Pro tomorrow, but I'm unsure on which adapter to buy for a VGA adapter. Is it the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter? The MacBook Pro doesn't say it has a Mini DisplayPort, only Thunderbolt. So am I going to buy the correct one?
A: Yes.
Thunderbolt is Mini DisplayPort for all purposes. (Note: not all practical purposes, all purposes.) Technically, Thunderbolt is PCI Express and DisplayPort multiplexed, the upshot being that every Thunderbolt port is a MDP port and can be used exactly the same as a normal Mini DisplayPort port. This fact is unchanged as you travel down the daisy-chain of Thunderbolt devices (assuming you have any).
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45ebd1bac9f314ce5c4aaafd5078edae0127b6d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use the Sites folder for whatever I want? Not realizing that OS X creates a ~/Sites folder when you enable web sharing, I started putting my sites for MAMP within a ~/Sites directory, which did not exist on my new laptop. Is this ok, as long as I don't enable web sharing? Even if I did enable it, would something happen to the other files I put in there?
A: It's fine, just realize the built in apache server will share the files you have placed there unless you change the apple supplied httpd.conf should you start up web sharing.
| Q: Can I use the Sites folder for whatever I want? Not realizing that OS X creates a ~/Sites folder when you enable web sharing, I started putting my sites for MAMP within a ~/Sites directory, which did not exist on my new laptop. Is this ok, as long as I don't enable web sharing? Even if I did enable it, would something happen to the other files I put in there?
A: It's fine, just realize the built in apache server will share the files you have placed there unless you change the apple supplied httpd.conf should you start up web sharing.
A: Any files you put in the ~/Sites folder will be treated the same way most web hosts treat the files. HTML, images & scripts (scripts may need special changes to htaccess & httpd.conf) will be served normally from http://my-Mac-name-here.local/~jjeaton/ .
So, like a typical webserver, whatever files you put in there will not be changed unless you youself edit/move/delete them.
You should also double check the permissions so that only you have read/write/execute permission and group & others only have read/execute.
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1d164f5d81c51a63cdb6123f55cb69bcb23b1558 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I check my Mac's RAM? I know there is MemTest86+ for PCs, but what can I use to see if my RAM is actually good in an Apple product? Whether it's a MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro? What symptoms would show that RAM is bad?
A: I've had bad RAM that still allowed the machine to boot - a stick of memory in my Mac Pro apparently failed gracefully overnight.
The first step would be to check system profiler to see if the memory is being recognized. If indeed it is, there's a version of MemTest for OS X: http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/memtest-mac-ram-test/
| Q: How do I check my Mac's RAM? I know there is MemTest86+ for PCs, but what can I use to see if my RAM is actually good in an Apple product? Whether it's a MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro? What symptoms would show that RAM is bad?
A: I've had bad RAM that still allowed the machine to boot - a stick of memory in my Mac Pro apparently failed gracefully overnight.
The first step would be to check system profiler to see if the memory is being recognized. If indeed it is, there's a version of MemTest for OS X: http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/memtest-mac-ram-test/
A: Kernel panics, the black screen & beeps (referenced elsewhere), or weird crashes that you can't attribute to anything else all can be caused by bad RAM.
I use Rember which provides a GUI interface to Memtest. It was suggested to me by a tech support rep at One World Computing as their approved way of checking for a bad module before returning ram for exchange. I didn't want to waste their time and resources if my problem, periodic kernel panics, wasn't, as I suspected, caused by a memory upgrade. It turned out that the memory was to blame.
Memtest and Rember will sometimes find problems that Apple's Hardware Test won't and I highly recommend using one of them if you're looking for bad memory modules.
A: Some signs of bad RAM also include black screen 3 beeps in 5 seconds, this may happen continuously, You can use the method that EpiGrad mentioned or alternatively you can test it with Apple's Hardware Test, if you still have the OSX Disc, insert disc, hold down d on start up memory test should be one of the main categories listed, unless it has been updated since i last used it.
A: It's not as exhaustive as MemTest and Rember, but there's a userspace utility called memtester. You can call it by using memtester 4G. Call memtester to see other options as well.
You should also be able to call memtest86 from a LiveCD for Ubuntu or most other operating systems. Give it a try.
A: I would highly recommend using memtest. It's a proven tool and often catches things that the built-in macOS tools will not. It's also worth noting that for best results, you should probably run it single-user mode. Test as much available memory as the program will let you, and run a few loops to be sure.
If you relied on the Rember UI for memtest in the past (the developers haven't updated it in 7+ years), I've written a UI for memtest just like rember, but built for the modern cocoa runtime (rember uses a ton of deprecated macOS). It's free and open source, available here: https://memoria.vsanthanam.com
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cf0d05f19fd54ef45cd59fff385a819a13d21ee6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create audiobook from mp3 files? How do I transfer a folder containing mp3 files to my iPod/iTunes to be recognized as an audiobook?
A: I use iTunes 10 in Windows 7.
*
*Select the tracks.
*Right-click and select Get Info.
*Open the Options tab.
*Set:
Equilizer Preset = Spoken Word
Media Kind = Audiobook
Part of a compilation = No
Remember position = Yes
Skip when shuffling = Yes
Gapless album = No
*Press OK.
Also, make sure the correct track numbers and disc numbers are set for each track.
| Q: Create audiobook from mp3 files? How do I transfer a folder containing mp3 files to my iPod/iTunes to be recognized as an audiobook?
A: I use iTunes 10 in Windows 7.
*
*Select the tracks.
*Right-click and select Get Info.
*Open the Options tab.
*Set:
Equilizer Preset = Spoken Word
Media Kind = Audiobook
Part of a compilation = No
Remember position = Yes
Skip when shuffling = Yes
Gapless album = No
*Press OK.
Also, make sure the correct track numbers and disc numbers are set for each track.
A: I used to do the method that Hand-E-Food used. It works fine, but you still end up with a ton of individual mp3 files. This was a pain for me because of the way they showed up when I plug them into my car stereo.
After a bunch of looking around, I found AudioBook Builder. It takes all the mp3 files and converts them into a single .m4b audiobook file. Assuming you are on a Mac, it's worth a look.
The app is available directly in the App Store. I've only used it a few times, but that's only because I don't have that many audio books. It was quick and easy and more than worth the price for the hassle it saved me.
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c703ca536e8663b6659447f5b93015508a57d832 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I make invisible files (like bash profile) visible in the finder? question is in the title. There's some files that most Apple users don't need access to, but if you program you do need access to. in particular the bash profile. anyone know how to make these visible in the finder?
i'm using a macbook pro 10.6.8
A: All you need to do is set the AppleShowAllFiles preference to "true." From terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true
If you'd like to reverse the change, enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false
For the changes to take effect, either restart the Finder or logout and back in.
| Q: How do I make invisible files (like bash profile) visible in the finder? question is in the title. There's some files that most Apple users don't need access to, but if you program you do need access to. in particular the bash profile. anyone know how to make these visible in the finder?
i'm using a macbook pro 10.6.8
A: All you need to do is set the AppleShowAllFiles preference to "true." From terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true
If you'd like to reverse the change, enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false
For the changes to take effect, either restart the Finder or logout and back in.
A: I've gotten very attached to an utility which makes toggling "see invisible files" trivial; I highly recommend it to anyone else.
TotalFinder: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/. At time of writing, the author is asking $18, but he also gives away free license (for a number of reasons).
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fc67cf2d0d7da3e28c1c3ac446feed6f0bb63275 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I configure my computer to run an AppleScript at a specific time? Caveat: without using iCal Since upgrading to Lion, I have seen a sleight decrease of productivity when it comes to using iCal. As a result, I am trying alternatives such as BusyCal. The application seems great, however I cant set an alarm to run a script as I could in iCal.
Hence, I want to become independent from iCal and have an AppleScript run everyday without having to keep iCal running. Any idea of how to do this?
A: In recent versions of OS X launchd is preferred to cron. Here's an excerpt from man crontab under Mavericks:
Darwin note: Although cron(8) and crontab(5) are officially supported under Darwin, their functionality has been absorbed into launchd(8), which provides a more flexible way of automatically executing commands.
You can control launchd using the built-in launchctl but many people (including me) use a GUI called Lingon.
UPDATE: I now use LaunchControl instead of Lingon. It's a lot more powerful, though the interface is more complicated.
| Q: How can I configure my computer to run an AppleScript at a specific time? Caveat: without using iCal Since upgrading to Lion, I have seen a sleight decrease of productivity when it comes to using iCal. As a result, I am trying alternatives such as BusyCal. The application seems great, however I cant set an alarm to run a script as I could in iCal.
Hence, I want to become independent from iCal and have an AppleScript run everyday without having to keep iCal running. Any idea of how to do this?
A: In recent versions of OS X launchd is preferred to cron. Here's an excerpt from man crontab under Mavericks:
Darwin note: Although cron(8) and crontab(5) are officially supported under Darwin, their functionality has been absorbed into launchd(8), which provides a more flexible way of automatically executing commands.
You can control launchd using the built-in launchctl but many people (including me) use a GUI called Lingon.
UPDATE: I now use LaunchControl instead of Lingon. It's a lot more powerful, though the interface is more complicated.
A: You can run a cronjob using crontab.
So basically, to run a cronjob, you will need to type nano ~/crontab in Terminal. This will create a new file called "crontab" in your home folder, and open up a simple text editor in Terminal. Type:
* * * * * osascript ~/Desktop/theScriptToBeExecuted.applescript
This will run an AppleScript named "theScriptToBeExecuted.applescript" located on your desktop, every minute. The five "*" before the osascript command specify the time. Here's a table to show you what each field stands for:
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)
So to run the same command at one minute past midnight (00:01) of every day of the month, of every day of the week, type this in the file:
1 0 * * * osascript ~/Desktop/theScriptToBeExecuted.applescript
If you need more info, check out this article on cron.
To save the file that you're working on, type Control+X (exits), then Y (tells Terminal that you do want to save the file), then Enter Now type at the prompt cron ~/crontab This tells cron that it should be looking at the crontab file, if your file is named "crontab" in your home folder.
Another alternative is Cronnix It's a GUI for crontab.
Script Timer is similar, but it runs specified AppleScripts at specified times. It's a little easier to use, but it costs $12. I would recommend just going with Cronnix (free) or crontab (also free!)
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a545ba9a73cb749f5b4f4953713552b7122428dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to export safari's reading list on Safari 5.1? Subject sums it up. Just curious if there is a trick to be able to export your reading list from Safari, any format. Where on the HD is the info stored? bookmarks.plist?
A: You can convert it into XML in a Terminal/command window using:
cd ~/Library/Safari/
cp Bookmarks.plist Bookmarks.plist.xml
plutil -convert xml1 Bookmarks.plist.xml
| Q: Is it possible to export safari's reading list on Safari 5.1? Subject sums it up. Just curious if there is a trick to be able to export your reading list from Safari, any format. Where on the HD is the info stored? bookmarks.plist?
A: You can convert it into XML in a Terminal/command window using:
cd ~/Library/Safari/
cp Bookmarks.plist Bookmarks.plist.xml
plutil -convert xml1 Bookmarks.plist.xml
A: Yes. The file is called Bookmarks.plist and it is located in ~/Library/Safari/. This houses not only your Reading List bookmarks, but all your bookmarks.
You'll want to look for entries under the key ReadingList. They will look something like this (file viewed in xCode 4):
Unfortunately, the plist file is stored as a binary, and you'll either have to open it using xCode or another tool that can handle binary plist files.
A: You can't export from Safari but you can import from Chrome
Here it is on Google support: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96816?hl=en
Alternatively you can open the Terminal application on a Mac (search it in Launchpad if you can't find it) and paste this:
/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 -o - ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist | grep -E -o '<string>http[s]{0,1}://.*</string>' | grep -v icloud | sed -E 's/<\/{0,1}string>//g'
Hit return and it will list all your Reading List links as text which you can copy and paste elsewhere.
A: In OS X Yosemite, go to ~/Library/Safari/ReadingListArchives
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0a1a804084f4675cee324d49768730e276ebc9a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I export an MS Outlook .pst file to Apple Mail? I want to export an MS Outlook .pst file to Apple Mail. How can I do this?
A: Do it via an IMAP server, which you can install on the Mac. I used dovecot, created an account on it, added that account to Outlook and just moved it all over. Then in Mail, I created the same account, and copied everything over.
I prefer this method because it completely preserves all the properties of each message, including attachments. Exporting and importing through another method (including Thunderbird) doesn't preserve everything properly.
| Q: How can I export an MS Outlook .pst file to Apple Mail? I want to export an MS Outlook .pst file to Apple Mail. How can I do this?
A: Do it via an IMAP server, which you can install on the Mac. I used dovecot, created an account on it, added that account to Outlook and just moved it all over. Then in Mail, I created the same account, and copied everything over.
I prefer this method because it completely preserves all the properties of each message, including attachments. Exporting and importing through another method (including Thunderbird) doesn't preserve everything properly.
A: You can use Outlook2Mail. It can export mails, contacts and calendar entries.
But there are a few caveats:
*
*12,95USD
*Only U.S./English versions of Windows and Outlook are supported at this time. Little Machines does not guarantee the successful conversion of non-English characters, languages other than English and date formats outside of the United States.
*You need a computer which is still running Outlook to export. You can't just copy the PST to your Mac and convert it.
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b95190df62babc411e9f096eb9b7ddc10017816b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use the Airdrop network to access a computer? I'm using airdrop to transfer files and stuff to another macbook. Looking at the output of ifconfig, I can see that airdrop creates a VNIC to communicate with the other computer.
Is there a way I can use that connection as a full fledged AdHoc network connection, i.e ping the other computer, use normal file sharing etc.?
Because even though I can use airdrop while being connected to another wifi network (i.e the network card can connect to an adhoc connection as well as an infrastructure connection simultaneously), if I use an adhoc network through the wifi icon in the top bar, I am disconnected from the other wifi connection.
A: Yes, the VNIC created when an AirDrop window is open can be used by any application. AirDrop simply runs Bonjour (mDNS/DNS-SD) on that interface to discover peer and the TLS to transfer files. Any network application that can be configured to use a specific interface and supports IPv6 should work.
For example, pinging (replace X with whatever the interface number is in use, see ifconfig for example): ping6 -I p2pX ff02::1
| Q: Use the Airdrop network to access a computer? I'm using airdrop to transfer files and stuff to another macbook. Looking at the output of ifconfig, I can see that airdrop creates a VNIC to communicate with the other computer.
Is there a way I can use that connection as a full fledged AdHoc network connection, i.e ping the other computer, use normal file sharing etc.?
Because even though I can use airdrop while being connected to another wifi network (i.e the network card can connect to an adhoc connection as well as an infrastructure connection simultaneously), if I use an adhoc network through the wifi icon in the top bar, I am disconnected from the other wifi connection.
A: Yes, the VNIC created when an AirDrop window is open can be used by any application. AirDrop simply runs Bonjour (mDNS/DNS-SD) on that interface to discover peer and the TLS to transfer files. Any network application that can be configured to use a specific interface and supports IPv6 should work.
For example, pinging (replace X with whatever the interface number is in use, see ifconfig for example): ping6 -I p2pX ff02::1
A: AirDrop is limited to the sending and receiving of file only, and cannot be hijacked for any other purpose. It's one of those "Do 1 thing well, and nothing else" tools. There may be other software available to create a virtual NIC whilst leaving your existing connection uninterrupted (you may be able to manually create one using the command line and iifconfig tools or similar) but the only way I can think to allow you to have a multi-homed macbook is to have multiple genuine network adapters, and as such a USB dongle for your ad-hoc connections. Not perfect, but better than trying to bend AirDrop to do something it isn't designed to do.
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26b905686a598af38ac6afcf342457ed4cf1c00c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I am not able to see or use cut/paste in lion I upgraded to lion on the day it was released. After that I updated my system twice even then I am not able to see any cut paste option as specified here.
Mine is still:-
Note: Command+Option+V is not working for me. Nothing happens :(
A: You have to press the Option key BEFORE clicking Edit on the Menu. This will dynamically change the menu to show the "move" option.
| Q: I am not able to see or use cut/paste in lion I upgraded to lion on the day it was released. After that I updated my system twice even then I am not able to see any cut paste option as specified here.
Mine is still:-
Note: Command+Option+V is not working for me. Nothing happens :(
A: You have to press the Option key BEFORE clicking Edit on the Menu. This will dynamically change the menu to show the "move" option.
A: Assuming you have tried (Command ⌘ + C) and (Command ⌘ + V), as sometimes it will not show in the edit menu, try a P-RAM reset on the computer. Turn your computer off, then turn on while holding Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + P + R, the computer will turn off and on, wait for four charms before releasing. Hopefully this will resolve your issue.
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d326fe2443a47d4251f982fddf5da6a4dd4a1d34 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Playing CoD: Modern Warfare on a Macbook Pro 13" (Mid-2009) I have a mid-2009 MBP (13"/ 2.53Gzh/ 8GB). I installed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on it at the weekend only to find the on-board GPU can't cope with it.
I'd like to do a bit of gaming on it, but am concerned that modern titles are going to be too much for it. Can anyone suggests workarounds to let me game on my otherwise lovely laptop?
A: OnLive actually works surprisingly well on those little MBPs, I was using it for a while as I'm not a particularly hardcore gamer so don't mind the graphics not looking amazing.
| Q: Playing CoD: Modern Warfare on a Macbook Pro 13" (Mid-2009) I have a mid-2009 MBP (13"/ 2.53Gzh/ 8GB). I installed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on it at the weekend only to find the on-board GPU can't cope with it.
I'd like to do a bit of gaming on it, but am concerned that modern titles are going to be too much for it. Can anyone suggests workarounds to let me game on my otherwise lovely laptop?
A: OnLive actually works surprisingly well on those little MBPs, I was using it for a while as I'm not a particularly hardcore gamer so don't mind the graphics not looking amazing.
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a0d618bd87a27bc0c5e4a3c67d2b0e16e014726d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does Keynote decide which display to appear on? The scenario: I go into class, hook up my laptop to the projector using mini-display port adapter, and fire up Keynote. Keynote opens with it's window on the projected display, showing off the hidden slides or completed builds or slide #42. I'd rather have it open on the laptop display so the only thing my audience sees is the title slide. I then spend two minutes trying to get a mouse over the titlebar so I can pull the window back to my laptop display.
I'm not sure this is a Keynote specific question. I just don't end up using other apps in the classroom.
So, how can I control which display an application will open on when started?
A: More recent versions of keynote don't have that preference.
Instead: start the presentation. On the presenter notes screen you'll see these icons:
Click on the one that's second from the right (that looks like 2 screens being switched :-)
| Q: How does Keynote decide which display to appear on? The scenario: I go into class, hook up my laptop to the projector using mini-display port adapter, and fire up Keynote. Keynote opens with it's window on the projected display, showing off the hidden slides or completed builds or slide #42. I'd rather have it open on the laptop display so the only thing my audience sees is the title slide. I then spend two minutes trying to get a mouse over the titlebar so I can pull the window back to my laptop display.
I'm not sure this is a Keynote specific question. I just don't end up using other apps in the classroom.
So, how can I control which display an application will open on when started?
A: More recent versions of keynote don't have that preference.
Instead: start the presentation. On the presenter notes screen you'll see these icons:
Click on the one that's second from the right (that looks like 2 screens being switched :-)
A: In Keynote's prefs, under the "Slideshow" tab, there's a pair of radio buttons to set which display to do the presentation on, and which to do the "presenter view" on. Took me a while to find it too, but there it is!
A: I did a google search finding this thread because I had the same issue as Bill Nace. I didnt find the answer anywhere so I thought I would share how I resolved it after trial and error.
Keynote seems to open the presentation on the display with the highest resolution.
Since my 'projector' display was the largest resolution when I would open a new keynote file it would open on that screen and then I would have to drag it back to the 'laptop' screen for any editing before starting the presentation. I increased the 'laptop' screen resolution and the keynote files started opening on that screen.
A: Keynote uses the primary display as the display for the audience view. The secondary display is used to show a "presenter view" which shows the current and upcoming slides, an elapsed time timer and anything else you've set up the presenter view to show (to customize this view go to Play -> Customize Presenter Display...). You can turn off the Presenter Display on the secondary monitor by going to Preferences..., clicking on the Presenter Display tab and unchecking the Use alternate display to view presenter information option.
If you want the audience view to appear on the project you need to make the projector display the primary display before you play your Keynote presentation. To change which display is primary and which is secondary, connect your Mac to the projector and then goto to System Preferences -> Displays. Click the Arrangement tab in the settings box on the primary display. Drag the white strip, which represents the menu bar, from the display that is your MacBook, to the display that is the projector. This makes the projector your primary display while it is connected to your MacBook. When you disconnect, the primary display designation returns to the MacBook automatically. Next time you connect to the projector you shouldn't have to go through this -- the MacBook should remember that you liked the projector to be the primary display in this setup.
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89b07de47032c74b58e8dca45c70855b86f6778f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I enable fine volume control via a keyboard shortcut in Lion?
Possible Duplicate:
Is fine volume adjustment possible in OS X Lion?
Is there a way to re-enable the fine volume control using
shift + option + volume
It has been removed in Lion, but I use it often.
Maybe there is a globals pref that works?
A: Yes, you can do some modifications & scripting to get the effect.
See instructions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jrgxx/how_to_quarter_step_volume_adjustment_in_lion/
| Q: How do I enable fine volume control via a keyboard shortcut in Lion?
Possible Duplicate:
Is fine volume adjustment possible in OS X Lion?
Is there a way to re-enable the fine volume control using
shift + option + volume
It has been removed in Lion, but I use it often.
Maybe there is a globals pref that works?
A: Yes, you can do some modifications & scripting to get the effect.
See instructions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jrgxx/how_to_quarter_step_volume_adjustment_in_lion/
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b51699c5287ba198f6a8acb4a7fe18d3bf8188f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are my events disappearing in iCal after upgrading to Lion and how can I fix it? I have several calendars synced using MobileMe and after upgrading to Lion it is often the case that a day's worth of newly added events all disappear. This generally happens when I am in another application. Often, if I re-add the same event later, the old events re-appear, giving me duplicates. However, if I never re-add the events, the old ones never come back.
The events that are missing from my Mac still appear on my iPhone, but attempting to re-sync does not bring the events back to my Mac.
I have tried clearing my iCal cache and preferences while the events are missing, but this does not seem to bring them back.
So, why are my events disappearing in iCal and how can I fix it?
A: iOS 5 and iCloud should be coming out tomorrow. There should be improvements in this area. Hopefully this will help you. I know it is not what you would want to hear, but I have seen disappearing content like you describe. Especially with Exchange, and OS 10.6.x
| Q: Why are my events disappearing in iCal after upgrading to Lion and how can I fix it? I have several calendars synced using MobileMe and after upgrading to Lion it is often the case that a day's worth of newly added events all disappear. This generally happens when I am in another application. Often, if I re-add the same event later, the old events re-appear, giving me duplicates. However, if I never re-add the events, the old ones never come back.
The events that are missing from my Mac still appear on my iPhone, but attempting to re-sync does not bring the events back to my Mac.
I have tried clearing my iCal cache and preferences while the events are missing, but this does not seem to bring them back.
So, why are my events disappearing in iCal and how can I fix it?
A: iOS 5 and iCloud should be coming out tomorrow. There should be improvements in this area. Hopefully this will help you. I know it is not what you would want to hear, but I have seen disappearing content like you describe. Especially with Exchange, and OS 10.6.x
A: MacWorld just has an article: How to make Lion's iCal less annoying, where the last Q&A is about the MobileMe sync on Lion's iCal, maybe can solve your problem.
A: I've had the exact same problem (except under Snow Leopard, so I don't think it's specific to Lion). I asked about this on Apple's Support Communities but did not receive any useful responses. However...
I use VPN (Cisco's VPNClient, specifically) to log into my employer's internal network. I noticed that this dissappearing problem only happens to events that are added to iCal while VPN'd to work. I suspect that something is being blocked when my Mac tries to sync with MobileMe. Possibly the event is getting to MobileMe (which is why it shows up on my iPhone) but that a confirmation is not making it back through? Now I only add events while not using VPN and the problem has not re-appeared.
Are you using VPN?
A: I have this problem with BusyCal/Snow Leopard, and they tell me it is a known MobileMe bug. They didn't know whether iCloud would do better.
A: Ok, When you create an event on your iTouch or iPhone you must specify what calendar to use in the event setting. Depending on what calendar is synced with iCal that is the one you will choose.
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5c0d67a346871a484b577a160a447f3e3174fdc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is possible modify the App Store purchased listing (delete or hide some/unhide other hidden apps)? I have an application listed in my bought applications. I prefer to not see or hide some apps I have purchased in the list of purchased apps. Is there a way to do this? Can I reverse this and unhide these hidden apps at a later date?
For example:
A: Not on any version of the Mac App Store and iTunes App store for iTunes versions older than 10.5
It appears you can now hide iOS App Store purchases in the recently released version of iTunes.
And you can see them once they're hidden as well as un-hide them if you wish.
| Q: Is possible modify the App Store purchased listing (delete or hide some/unhide other hidden apps)? I have an application listed in my bought applications. I prefer to not see or hide some apps I have purchased in the list of purchased apps. Is there a way to do this? Can I reverse this and unhide these hidden apps at a later date?
For example:
A: Not on any version of the Mac App Store and iTunes App store for iTunes versions older than 10.5
It appears you can now hide iOS App Store purchases in the recently released version of iTunes.
And you can see them once they're hidden as well as un-hide them if you wish.
A: No, Apple has not provided a way to do this on either the Mac or iOS app stores.
Please file a bug report with Apple at http://bugreport.apple.com/. You can copy and paste the bug report I filed regarding this issue from here: http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=1338401 and be sure to note that it is a duplicate of rdar://10115627.
Apple encourages duplicate bug reports as it helps them prioritize issues. This is one I'd love to see resolved.
Here's a copy of the bug report I filed:
Summary:
Since the addition of the "purchased" tab in both the iOS and Mac App
Stores it is trivial for anyone using your device to view a full
history of every app ever purchased on your account. This does not
seem in keeping with Apple's otherwise impeccable record with regard
to protecting their customer's privacy.
Steps to Reproduce:
*
*Open App Store
*Click Purchased along the top of the window
*Scroll
*You will not find a delete feature to remove items from this list
Expected Results:
A delete button that will allow for the permanent removal of an
application from purchase history.
Actual Results:
No way to delete items from the list.
Notes:
It would be fine if deleting an application produced a warning
indicating that if the purchase record is removed the user will have
to pay the next time they want to acquire this application.
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264e8df763f6a122650ab279ccaf8f9e77081c7f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is the coreaudiod daemon using 5% or more CPU? Every time I listen to music on iTunes or VLC, I notice that the process coreaudiod causes an unusually high CPU usage (5% or more).
Are you having the same issue? What's the reason for such a high CPU usage?
*
*Recent OS X updates have not changed this observation. Restarting (or killing the process so it respawns) doesn't fix the problem. After a couple of seconds, CPU usage of coreaudiod goes above 5% again.
*It's important to note that using line out makes the problem go away and coreaudiod's CPU usage goes down to 1%-2%.
A: A tab in google chrome running WhatsApp keeps the system awake; in particular, coreaudiod is running.
See https://webdiary.com/tag/coreaudiod/
| Q: Why is the coreaudiod daemon using 5% or more CPU? Every time I listen to music on iTunes or VLC, I notice that the process coreaudiod causes an unusually high CPU usage (5% or more).
Are you having the same issue? What's the reason for such a high CPU usage?
*
*Recent OS X updates have not changed this observation. Restarting (or killing the process so it respawns) doesn't fix the problem. After a couple of seconds, CPU usage of coreaudiod goes above 5% again.
*It's important to note that using line out makes the problem go away and coreaudiod's CPU usage goes down to 1%-2%.
A: A tab in google chrome running WhatsApp keeps the system awake; in particular, coreaudiod is running.
See https://webdiary.com/tag/coreaudiod/
A: The high CPU usage of coreaudiod is due to the ambient noise reduction software working (surprisingly, even when the built-in microphone is not in use).
Go to System Preferences > Sound > Input and uncheck the Use ambient noise reduction box.
Then, either reboot or run this one-liner to reload coreaudiod, and you should see coreaudiod CPU usage drop to 1% or less.
A: This appears to be a know issue, and hopefully will be fixed in an update in the future.
For now though, there are one or two things you could try (it goes without saying that make sure all software is updated to its highest stable version)
*
*First of all, restart your computer.
*Second of all, install Onyx. Install and open, and click on the 'Cleaning' tab. Under that, make sure, on the 'System' section, that the 'Audio Components' option is checked. Click execute, and let it do it's thing.
*Then open Disk Utility, select your startup volume, and repair all disk permissions. Let it run, then close all apps and restart again.
I hope this helps relieve the problem in some way, but I cannot guarantee it, having not been afflicted with it myself, however this is the course of action I take whenever my CPU usage is higher than I would expect it to be due to a process.
A: This is indeed due to Google Chrome browser continuously using the microphone to listen for the hotword 'OK Google'. While unchecking noise reduction in the system audio preferences will decrease CPU usage (in my case from 12% to 8% coreaudiod) this does not fix the underlying issue.
To completely resolve the issue open Google Chrome -> Settings -> Search -> and disable 'Enable "OK Google" to start a voice search'.
My coreaudiod CPU usage went from 12% to zero.
A: Seems like creating the folder Library/Preferences/Audio worked for at least some people. Have you tried it?
A: Certain applications appear to be triggering this problem when interacting with the microphone. The problem goes away a minute or two after the problem applications are closed.
Problem applications
These applications need to be restarted in order to restore normal CPU usage. They do not release their hold on the microphone properly.
*
*HipChat after first time camera/mic are used, such as when opening preferences (see HipChat forums)
*Boom by Global Delight Technologies (reference)--as far as I can tell, this shouldn't be using the microphone
Background applications
These applications could be running in the background while using your microphone.
*
*Any VoIP application such as Skype or FaceTime
*Adobe Flash in a web browser
*Virtualization software such as VMware, VirtualBox, or Parallels. These will likely "listen" to your microphone whenever you have a virtual machine running, even if that virtual machine doesn't seem to be using the microphone at the moment. Most virtualization software allows you to disable audio hardware virtualization, which should solve this, although some may not be granular enough to disable the microphone without also disabling the speakers.
*Specialized audio software such as that developed by Akai Pro (example report for EIE Pro with Logic X)
*Voice search/recognition software, including Google Chrome's "Ok Google" voice search capability (reported as partially fixed by Chrome developers: Chrome will stop listening when switching users)
A: This could be audio plugins that run under core audio.
A: I just had the same issue on 10.8.4.
Quitting Boom.app seems to have resolved it for me.
I think Boom uses similar technology as AirFoil, so it might be worth quitting or uninstalling anything that somehow captures and modifies or redirects the audio-stream.
Perhaps the app afflicting you saves state per output device, and it's state for your built-in speakers is borked somehow.
A: Disabling "Google Voice Search Hotword (Beta)" extension in Google Chrome helped... OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks
A: Here in 2020, I had a couple of clones of iOS Simulator running an (otherwise idle) app. coreaudio was taking about 18% CPU, and quitting the Simulator dropped it to zero.
A: I found that killing Flash fixed the problem for me.
I rebooted yesterday to see if that would fix the problem, but by this afternoon, coreaudiod had accumulated 6 hours of CPU time. I have not used any audio apps (VLC, iTunes, etc.).
I turned off "ambient noise reduction" and there was no impact - still at 8-10% CPU. I noticed Flash running with a much lower CPU (~1%), but I did not realize that I was visiting any Flash-based websites. I killed Flash, and coreaudiod disappeared from Activity Monitor. When I re-enabled "ambient noise reduction" there was no impact - coreaudiod still gone. (This all on OS X 10.9.)
A: Some people claim this helps:
$ sudo launchctl unload /system/library/launchdaemons/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod.plist
$ sudo rm -r /Library/Preferences/Audio/
$ sudo mkdir /Library/Preferences/Audio
$ sudo chown -R _coreaudiod:admin /Library/Preferences/Audio
$ sudo launchctl load /system/library/launchdaemons/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod.plist
For me it turned out the cause was this HipChat issue.
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3f4f5dcb2eeeac92450bf72e80ae7e23c4a18062 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to obtain glyphs from the "Apple Symbols" font in Lion? I'd like to make use of the special iOS symbols found in Apple Symbols font, e.g. the "Reload" and "Action" glyphs. In Snow Leopard, I could obtain and insert them via the "special characters" pane where I could show (and select!) all the symbols of any given font. In Lion, however, this feature seems to be missing (said pane now only contains some given character ranges) and when I preview the entire font repertoire in font-book, I can't select and insert text from the preview area.
Is there a way to obtain those symbols in a copyable form (i.e. to insert them into another application) on Lion?
A: Snow Leopard's CharacterPalette.app still works on 10.7:
Those "iOS symbols" shown in the screenshot above are glyph variants that are specific to Apple Symbols. For example the turned arrow icon is a variant of Ꮿ. There doesn't seem to be any way to show them in 10.7's Character Viewer.
You could also use Font Book to save a PDF file for all characters in a font:
| Q: How to obtain glyphs from the "Apple Symbols" font in Lion? I'd like to make use of the special iOS symbols found in Apple Symbols font, e.g. the "Reload" and "Action" glyphs. In Snow Leopard, I could obtain and insert them via the "special characters" pane where I could show (and select!) all the symbols of any given font. In Lion, however, this feature seems to be missing (said pane now only contains some given character ranges) and when I preview the entire font repertoire in font-book, I can't select and insert text from the preview area.
Is there a way to obtain those symbols in a copyable form (i.e. to insert them into another application) on Lion?
A: Snow Leopard's CharacterPalette.app still works on 10.7:
Those "iOS symbols" shown in the screenshot above are glyph variants that are specific to Apple Symbols. For example the turned arrow icon is a variant of Ꮿ. There doesn't seem to be any way to show them in 10.7's Character Viewer.
You could also use Font Book to save a PDF file for all characters in a font:
A: PopChar X
costs €30, which is expensive, but it will do what you need. You can download a trial version.
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c3a7befcfe1cc85684f7bb133431e6ee4e6e18a3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Bluetooth Magic Trackpad not recognized after sleep When I put my MacBook Pro (2011, 13") to sleep and wake it up again, the Magic Trackpad doesn't get recognized. I have to turn Bluetooth off and back on again to get the trackpad to work. It shows up in the Bluetooth menu at the top of the screen, but telling it to reconnect doesn't do the trick.
I have a USB keyboard, so I don't know if the same problem would be true of the keyboard.
Why might this be? Is there a way to have Bluetooth automatically restart when I wake the computer?
EDIT: I should mention that this has only happened since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion last week.
A: Try re-pairing the trackpad. Go to System Preferences then Trackpad then Setup Bluetooth trackpad... Select the trackpad and then Unpair. Then select it again (using your built-in trackpad) and select Pair.
| Q: Bluetooth Magic Trackpad not recognized after sleep When I put my MacBook Pro (2011, 13") to sleep and wake it up again, the Magic Trackpad doesn't get recognized. I have to turn Bluetooth off and back on again to get the trackpad to work. It shows up in the Bluetooth menu at the top of the screen, but telling it to reconnect doesn't do the trick.
I have a USB keyboard, so I don't know if the same problem would be true of the keyboard.
Why might this be? Is there a way to have Bluetooth automatically restart when I wake the computer?
EDIT: I should mention that this has only happened since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion last week.
A: Try re-pairing the trackpad. Go to System Preferences then Trackpad then Setup Bluetooth trackpad... Select the trackpad and then Unpair. Then select it again (using your built-in trackpad) and select Pair.
A: You might want to check the batteries again. I had the exact same issue with fairly new batteries that looked like Duracell but not Duracell. After trying a few recipes from Google search and calling Apple support to no avail, I thought I'd resort to the final technique of shaking and knocking the trackpad. That's when I heard a rattling noise inside the battery chamber. Sure enough, the batteries (Power Source AA from Costco) were about 1/2 mm shorter than the standard AA batteries, resulting in a loose connection. Can you believe that!?
The trackpad is working fine after replacing the batteries with Duracell (or other standard AA batteries). I hope this is the issue in your case.
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d0ea75dfc978def0cd4ee09d37056ee1a5e71c26 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Transfer from iPad 1 to iPad 2 I understand that backing up in iTunes then restoring the backup to the new device should transfer everything.
But thinking specifically about the case of upgrading my iPad 1 to an iPad 2: Are there any issues I should be aware of if backing up from an original iPad 1 and then restoring to an iPad 2?
A: It'll eat all your apps souls? Aside from that you should be fine, the process works pretty well.
| Q: Transfer from iPad 1 to iPad 2 I understand that backing up in iTunes then restoring the backup to the new device should transfer everything.
But thinking specifically about the case of upgrading my iPad 1 to an iPad 2: Are there any issues I should be aware of if backing up from an original iPad 1 and then restoring to an iPad 2?
A: It'll eat all your apps souls? Aside from that you should be fine, the process works pretty well.
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96643efec720a8ac41d4e80c34c6571c943f2d79 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why folders keep shifting their positions? I bought a new MacBook Pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I also installed newest version of Mac OS X, Lion (updated).
Yesterday, I turned on my computer and noticed that some of the folders on my desktop were rearranged. Today, the same thing happened again. I would like to ask you what the possible problem could be?
I did not touch any of the ".DS_Store" files.
A: If you do not have auto arrange turned on (and it says "Arrange by: None", please try the following things.
1) If you are only experience problems on the Desktop, but not in any other finder window, please delete the preference file com.apple.desktop.plist from your user/library/preferences folder
2) If that does not solve problem, delete the .Ds_Store files in any folders you are having problems with, including the Desktop and let Lion recreate them
3) Lastly, as I mentioned in your other thread, this does seem to be a known problem in Lion. Please keep an eye on this thread and this thread for other solutions and/or possible resolution in a future Lion update.
| Q: Why folders keep shifting their positions? I bought a new MacBook Pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I also installed newest version of Mac OS X, Lion (updated).
Yesterday, I turned on my computer and noticed that some of the folders on my desktop were rearranged. Today, the same thing happened again. I would like to ask you what the possible problem could be?
I did not touch any of the ".DS_Store" files.
A: If you do not have auto arrange turned on (and it says "Arrange by: None", please try the following things.
1) If you are only experience problems on the Desktop, but not in any other finder window, please delete the preference file com.apple.desktop.plist from your user/library/preferences folder
2) If that does not solve problem, delete the .Ds_Store files in any folders you are having problems with, including the Desktop and let Lion recreate them
3) Lastly, as I mentioned in your other thread, this does seem to be a known problem in Lion. Please keep an eye on this thread and this thread for other solutions and/or possible resolution in a future Lion update.
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d3d3707f06910933e09d531b3c5afdfe4dfeedd2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why can't I use the GNU Debugger (GDB) programming utility on Mac as a standard user? I can only use the GNU Debugger (GDB) when authenticated as an administrator.
When I launch GDB as a standard user, after giving the GDB command "run", a dialog requests me for a user name and password of a user in the "Developer Tools" group.
The problem is that I already am in the "Developer Tools" group, so I do not know what else to do...
Thank you!
Platform:
*
*MacOS X 10.7.1
*GCC 4.2.1
*i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)
*GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1705)
*This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin".
A: Are you positive you are in the Developer Tools group?
Try running this command
sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership <username>
That should add your user account to the group.
| Q: Why can't I use the GNU Debugger (GDB) programming utility on Mac as a standard user? I can only use the GNU Debugger (GDB) when authenticated as an administrator.
When I launch GDB as a standard user, after giving the GDB command "run", a dialog requests me for a user name and password of a user in the "Developer Tools" group.
The problem is that I already am in the "Developer Tools" group, so I do not know what else to do...
Thank you!
Platform:
*
*MacOS X 10.7.1
*GCC 4.2.1
*i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)
*GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1705)
*This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin".
A: Are you positive you are in the Developer Tools group?
Try running this command
sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership <username>
That should add your user account to the group.
A: I had the same problem, it wouldn't run, except as root/sudo, which meant I couldn't use it with eclipse, which meant I lost 5 working hours debugging the problem. Here are my results.
Firstly, gdb generated a similar error message when executed under my user account.
Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 4667: (os/kern) failure (0x5).
(please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))
I tried code signing it by creating a certificate using Keychain, then marking the certificate as trusted for code signing. Then applying it to the executable from the command line.
codesign -s gdb-cert /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/7.6.1/bin/gdb
codesign --verify --verbose /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/7.6.1/bin/gdb
codesign -d --verbose /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/7.6.1/bin/gdb
That didn’t work
I tried adding my user account to the procview, procmod, and _developer groups (probably insecure, but I only deploy my code to github, and don't use the machine for personal use, so I can live with that)
sudo dscl . append /Groups/procmod GroupMembership bryanhunt
sudo dscl . append /Groups/procview GroupMembership bryanhunt
sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership bryanhunt
That didn't work
Finally, I tried changing the executable's group and group sticky bit.
sudo chgrp procmod /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/7.6.1/bin/gdb
sudo chmod g+s /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/7.6.1/bin/gdb
That worked
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8d8bf20905f07259156d027042abc7945d1ac8c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a native way to keep a window always on top in Snow Leopard? How can you keep one window always on top? I saw that there are several third party solutions, but is there absolutely no way to do it natively?
A: There is no "native" way to do this. Your existing solution, Afloat, is the only one I've ever heard of (and works quite well).
| Q: Is there a native way to keep a window always on top in Snow Leopard? How can you keep one window always on top? I saw that there are several third party solutions, but is there absolutely no way to do it natively?
A: There is no "native" way to do this. Your existing solution, Afloat, is the only one I've ever heard of (and works quite well).
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c6ff4dcd9be4d5372f1341f66356d66dc00444cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to get Terminal on Lion to start up cleanly (without the buffered history)? How can I prevent Terminal from showing me my old output when it starts?
I would like it to always start with a clean window.
A: Besides setting the preference to always suppress Resume, you can also control this when quitting by pressing the Option modifier key, so that "Quit …" becomes "Quit and Discard Windows". e.g., you can type Option-Command-Q to quit without saving state. You can also press the Shift modifier when an application is opening to prevent it from restoring state for Resume.
There is also a Terminal preference (without UI) for controlling how many lines of the scroll-back to restore, which you can set to zero, although it still restores the display contents:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal RestoreScrollbackLines 0
| Q: Is there a way to get Terminal on Lion to start up cleanly (without the buffered history)? How can I prevent Terminal from showing me my old output when it starts?
I would like it to always start with a clean window.
A: Besides setting the preference to always suppress Resume, you can also control this when quitting by pressing the Option modifier key, so that "Quit …" becomes "Quit and Discard Windows". e.g., you can type Option-Command-Q to quit without saving state. You can also press the Shift modifier when an application is opening to prevent it from restoring state for Resume.
There is also a Terminal preference (without UI) for controlling how many lines of the scroll-back to restore, which you can set to zero, although it still restores the display contents:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal RestoreScrollbackLines 0
A: You can change terminal only with this one command to write a new preference for that specific app.
defaults write com.apple.terminal NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
This is general, so of course, substitute safari or quicktimeplayerX or whatever in the com.apple.terminal portion of the command as needed. This setting switches the default save behavior upon quitting that one app. You'll find many of the other apps that work well with this setting by searching on NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows.
Of course, you should issue this defaults command after closing all windows and then quitting the application to ensure the settings are read the next time Terminal starts.
A: There seems to be one case where disabling NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows does not work: When the Terminal is killed by killall Terminal, and probably also when it crashes or when it is forced quit.
I use killall Terminal regularly, but when the resume kicks in, it messes up my bash history. Basically, commands from the session after the resume will not be saved. Normal saving behaviour is only restored after I quit and reopen Terminal.app. It appears, though, that completely disabling any resume features fixes bash history:
chmod a-rwx ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.Terminal.savedState
Thanks to willWorkForCookies’s answer to How to prevent one app from saving/restoring any Saved State.
A: The only way to do this is to completely disable the resume feature in Lion
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/20/how-to-disable-lions-resume-feature/
A: You can actually deactivate "save state" on per-app basis, have a look at https://faqintosh.com/risorse/en/sys/swapsaveability/
HTH
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52e75dda0797352e5747486683b6447f99fd3666 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Internet Sharing failing on Mac OS X Lion Server Before I upgraded to Lion Server, I was running 10.7.1
I setup Internet Sharing in the preferences
(Share from Ethernet 1 to Ethernet 2).
After the upgrade, sharing doesn't work unless I take the following steps
*
*Login
*Turn off Internet Sharing
*Turn Internet Sharing back on
So the question is can I have Internet Sharing on and running even if no one is logged in?
Thanks
A: The answer is yes.
I'm typing you this answer through an InternetSharing
connexion provided by an iMac running MacOS Lion (10.7.3) where no one is connected:
me -> MBP ………Wi-Fi……… iMac ………Ethernet……… Internet
10.6.8 10.7.3
I'm using such a connection for professionnal use
since MacOS 10.4 with no one connected (on the Mac running InternetSharing). This connection was used by 5 other Mac (10.4, 10.5,
10.6) and might be considered as a nearly professional grade network.
When you login when your InternetSharing is faulty, could you type
in a Terminal or xterm window:
ifconfig -a
ps ax | egrep '(bootp|natp)'
My first blind guess is that your main Ethernet connection was shut down
under the responsability of your Energy Saver tuning.
| Q: Internet Sharing failing on Mac OS X Lion Server Before I upgraded to Lion Server, I was running 10.7.1
I setup Internet Sharing in the preferences
(Share from Ethernet 1 to Ethernet 2).
After the upgrade, sharing doesn't work unless I take the following steps
*
*Login
*Turn off Internet Sharing
*Turn Internet Sharing back on
So the question is can I have Internet Sharing on and running even if no one is logged in?
Thanks
A: The answer is yes.
I'm typing you this answer through an InternetSharing
connexion provided by an iMac running MacOS Lion (10.7.3) where no one is connected:
me -> MBP ………Wi-Fi……… iMac ………Ethernet……… Internet
10.6.8 10.7.3
I'm using such a connection for professionnal use
since MacOS 10.4 with no one connected (on the Mac running InternetSharing). This connection was used by 5 other Mac (10.4, 10.5,
10.6) and might be considered as a nearly professional grade network.
When you login when your InternetSharing is faulty, could you type
in a Terminal or xterm window:
ifconfig -a
ps ax | egrep '(bootp|natp)'
My first blind guess is that your main Ethernet connection was shut down
under the responsability of your Energy Saver tuning.
A: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1228469
is my Forum post. You can't get credit for copy/pasting my own post back to me.
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05b92dd7a4d109ba0de374a66d017a2a0b35a83f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can an AppleTV wake a Snow Leopard Mac for playing back iTunes content? Is it possible to have an Apple TV wake a WiFi connected iMac running Snow Leopard for playback of iTunes content?
I vaguely remember a new revision of the AirPort routers supporting this through Bonjour Sleep proxy, but I couldn't find real details on this on apple.com, other than a support document. I couldn't quite follow the final flow from the users perspective.
A: You have to setup your mac to wake from sleep on the wifi. It all depends on the model of your machine whether its capable of doing this or not. You can read more about setting this up on your mac at the following KB article at Apple.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774
| Q: Can an AppleTV wake a Snow Leopard Mac for playing back iTunes content? Is it possible to have an Apple TV wake a WiFi connected iMac running Snow Leopard for playback of iTunes content?
I vaguely remember a new revision of the AirPort routers supporting this through Bonjour Sleep proxy, but I couldn't find real details on this on apple.com, other than a support document. I couldn't quite follow the final flow from the users perspective.
A: You have to setup your mac to wake from sleep on the wifi. It all depends on the model of your machine whether its capable of doing this or not. You can read more about setting this up on your mac at the following KB article at Apple.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774
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025b1a71157aac4d5365fdb41cd3d28254ac7344 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where is nmblookup in Lion? I'm trying to call nmblookup in a Terminal on Lion, but it's not available. How can I lookup NMB hostnames from the Terminal now?
A: Samba is no more part of OS X: Lion has an own implementation of the protocol. It was dropped because Samba moved to a stricter license (GPLv3) which gives Apple problems with the publication of the software on the App Store.
Edit
Here you can find some more information: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services.html
nmblookup was removed along many other command line tools:
[...]reducing the number of commands and subcommands from over a
hundred to just 19[...]
Thanks to cksum for the hint
As Ingmar answers you can use smbutil lookup
| Q: Where is nmblookup in Lion? I'm trying to call nmblookup in a Terminal on Lion, but it's not available. How can I lookup NMB hostnames from the Terminal now?
A: Samba is no more part of OS X: Lion has an own implementation of the protocol. It was dropped because Samba moved to a stricter license (GPLv3) which gives Apple problems with the publication of the software on the App Store.
Edit
Here you can find some more information: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services.html
nmblookup was removed along many other command line tools:
[...]reducing the number of commands and subcommands from over a
hundred to just 19[...]
Thanks to cksum for the hint
As Ingmar answers you can use smbutil lookup
A: On OS X 10.7 (Lion):
smbutil lookup <hostname>
Example:
$ smbutil lookup NAS1
Got response from 10.21.0.133
IP address of NAS1: 10.21.0.133
A: run the following command:
which nmblookup
It should output the following:
-bash-3.2$ which nmblookup
/usr/bin/nmblookup
This is on 10.6.8
A: The nmblookup utility should be in /usr/bin. Check your $PATH to see if it has been included by typing echo $PATH at the system prompt. If it does exist in your path, then you can run the command which nmblookup, as suggested by @Lyken. Otherwise, to find a command that is not located in your path, type the following commands at the system prompt.
cd /
find . -name "<name>" -print
There is also the whereis command, however, this only checks the standard binary directories for the specified program.
The alternative to nmblookup is nslookup. This is also located under /usr/bin.
Note that I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
A: If you must have nmblookup you may install samba3 via MacPorts and probably brew, I don't use brew so I'm not completely sure.
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718a962f142132a312d05fb359093cef16109c0b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Windows 8 on the iPad? I was just watching the Windows 8 keynote and Steven Sinofsky said 8 will be able to run on ARM CPUs, which are also used in iDevices.
So I'm curious, would it be possible to run 8 on an iPad, similar to how iDroid works?
A: Yes it is possible but it will not be easy. You will probably need to jailbreak your iPad and follow similar procedures when installing Android.
| Q: Windows 8 on the iPad? I was just watching the Windows 8 keynote and Steven Sinofsky said 8 will be able to run on ARM CPUs, which are also used in iDevices.
So I'm curious, would it be possible to run 8 on an iPad, similar to how iDroid works?
A: Yes it is possible but it will not be easy. You will probably need to jailbreak your iPad and follow similar procedures when installing Android.
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5b7506713d5c3105de90902db31b9528f192221b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Installing Windows 8 Preview on a Mac? I'm just wondering if anyone has figured this out yet. VMWare throws an ugly "internal monitor error" and there are apparently some graphics driver issues on the 2011 Macbook Pros.
A: Just my luck, VMWare Fusion 4 came out today and I was able to install Windows 8 on that. Boot Camp still has the graphics driver issues, but that's probably not going to resolve itself until Apple gets around to doing an update.
The latest Virtual Box also installs Windows 8 with no issues.
| Q: Installing Windows 8 Preview on a Mac? I'm just wondering if anyone has figured this out yet. VMWare throws an ugly "internal monitor error" and there are apparently some graphics driver issues on the 2011 Macbook Pros.
A: Just my luck, VMWare Fusion 4 came out today and I was able to install Windows 8 on that. Boot Camp still has the graphics driver issues, but that's probably not going to resolve itself until Apple gets around to doing an update.
The latest Virtual Box also installs Windows 8 with no issues.
A: Have you tried running it in VirtualBox? I haven't tested this but I had this working with the first beta of Windows 7 back in 2008 and that worked first time! Well, the install did ;)
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ed30b316db1b3eb9d33975a3fb6a936cc1a9eca1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to reopen last windows when you launch TextMate in Lion? I know TextMate isn't Lion optimised, but is there any way to do this?
A: As mentioned in the troubleshooting section you can achieve this by entering the following into your Terminal.app:
defaults write com.macromates.textmate NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool NO
| Q: Is there a way to reopen last windows when you launch TextMate in Lion? I know TextMate isn't Lion optimised, but is there any way to do this?
A: As mentioned in the troubleshooting section you can achieve this by entering the following into your Terminal.app:
defaults write com.macromates.textmate NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool NO
A: The latest build of TextMate 2 does this!
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57cbc368e864f9e17c65d63d2940b77ac51e8b4c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to keep the text selection in Terminal.app when typing In Terminal.app, when I select some text and start typing again, the text selection is gone. I personally find this very annoying. Is there a way to make Terminal.app keep the selection when I type?
A: So, I decided to give iTerm2 a spin after I hadn't looked at it in quite a few years. I have to admit that (with a little tweaking) it's actually a lot better than Terminal.app in many major and minor aspects. I have yet to find something that Terminal.app does better. So I guess that I'll just stick with iTerm2.
| Q: How to keep the text selection in Terminal.app when typing In Terminal.app, when I select some text and start typing again, the text selection is gone. I personally find this very annoying. Is there a way to make Terminal.app keep the selection when I type?
A: So, I decided to give iTerm2 a spin after I hadn't looked at it in quite a few years. I have to admit that (with a little tweaking) it's actually a lot better than Terminal.app in many major and minor aspects. I have yet to find something that Terminal.app does better. So I guess that I'll just stick with iTerm2.
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5aaefdb2d21a8cd3f0aa8ced3182e474399fdbbf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do I need to install the Boot Camp update in Mac OS X and Windows 7? I'm running Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on a 2010 Mac Pro running Lion.
Every so often I'm prompted to download and install the latest update to the Boot Camp software under Windows but this doesn't ever seem to update the installed version of Boot Camp. I also get prompted to do this when in OS X.
Should I update both or one of them? And if the latter, should I do one before the other?
A: I would update them both and I don't think you need to do one before the other. I have not had any problems updating one before the other and I manage large networks of Macs.
| Q: Do I need to install the Boot Camp update in Mac OS X and Windows 7? I'm running Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on a 2010 Mac Pro running Lion.
Every so often I'm prompted to download and install the latest update to the Boot Camp software under Windows but this doesn't ever seem to update the installed version of Boot Camp. I also get prompted to do this when in OS X.
Should I update both or one of them? And if the latter, should I do one before the other?
A: I would update them both and I don't think you need to do one before the other. I have not had any problems updating one before the other and I manage large networks of Macs.
A: I found a thread related to Display Drivers in Windows that stops the 3.2 and 3.3 Updates from installing correctly.
The core point is that if there are other display drivers showing in device manager other than the default display adapter (users reported issues and resolution after removing VNC or LogMeIn Mirror display adapters).
The original discussion is here Bootcamp 3.3 fails to install
A: Boot Camp essentially consists of 2 functions.
One is the capability to provide for dual booting, doing the legwork required to get Windows to boot from the Mac EFI BIOS for want of a better description, performing the relevant partitioning etc (note you can do this yourself). This portion is really the Boot Camp Assistant part, namely an executable Mac program.
The other part of a collection of drivers for Windows systems that allows your Windows install, once completed, to gain access to all the functions your hardware has to offer, so making sure your Facetime camera works, providing a sensible (well, sort of sensible it can be argued) keyboard mapping and trackpad driver, and various other bits and bobs. For example a recent update in this area allowed bootcamp installations to not fall over and die at the sight of a Filevault 2 protexted Mac filesystem...
When an update to bootcamp is available, it could be an update to the assistant program that you won't really need once you have already installed Windows, or updates to the driver packages etc. Depending on what type of update, this may or may not increase the version number of the BC Assistant. Some are large, some are small. One Bootcamp assistant update did nothing except remove the Beta tag that it had when Tiger first introduced bootcamp. Others are very large, such as the one that provided Windows 7 drivers for all your hardware. Some are small but very important, such as the FileVault update.
You may as well update whenever you see one available. if you are worried, give it a week and see if a poo storm erupts on the internet after release.
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041b26539b31bbc10e0a3d83ddcc122f4544e557 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I manually limit the %CPU used by a process? I would like to limit the amount of CPU time dedicated to certain processes (e.g. Firefox, Safari, ...).
I can't understand why such programs, even when not used (nothing loading, no animations, running in the background, ...), are so resource hungry. Why must a browser eat 50% or more of my CPU? Can I limit it to 10%?
A: The link that Nicholas Smith posted doesn't work anymore. So I found one other app that does the trick for the people who are searching it again. the app calls Apppolice.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/49836/apppolice
| Q: Can I manually limit the %CPU used by a process? I would like to limit the amount of CPU time dedicated to certain processes (e.g. Firefox, Safari, ...).
I can't understand why such programs, even when not used (nothing loading, no animations, running in the background, ...), are so resource hungry. Why must a browser eat 50% or more of my CPU? Can I limit it to 10%?
A: The link that Nicholas Smith posted doesn't work anymore. So I found one other app that does the trick for the people who are searching it again. the app calls Apppolice.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/49836/apppolice
A: This is based off a previous answer, but adding the trap for ctrl+c to make sure the process being throttled gets left in a continue state, and adding set -e so this script will exit cleanly if the process itself exits:
trap ctrl_c_fn INT
function ctrl_c_fn() {
echo "caught CTRL-C, exiting"
kill -SIGCONT $pid
exit
}
echo "enter process id"
read pid
echo "press Ctrl-C to exit"
set -e
while true; do
kill -SIGSTOP $pid
sleep 0.009
kill -SIGCONT $pid
sleep 0.001
done
A: There is a simple one-liner for doing all that:
ps axu | grep Chromium | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | sudo xargs -n 1 -I'{}' sh -c 'cputhrottle {} 10 &'
Write your app name instead of Chromium and desired percentage instead of 10 and you're good to go!
A: Use cpulimit
brew install cpulimit
and use as cpulimit -l (Number of threads x 100) -p (PID)
cpulimit -l 200 -p 947
where 200 means two threads.
A: cputhrottle is the tool you need. You can install it with Homebrew.
You can monitor a series of processes by name by running the Bash script below. I'm not quite sure how to turn this into a login item since cputhrottle requires superuser permissions. Run it as a script, in an Automator workflow, whatever:
# Get the Process/App names from Activity Monitor and put them here
apps=("AppOne" "AppTwo" "AppThree")
# Set the respective limits here
limits={30 40 50)
while true; do
for app in ${apps}; do
for limit in ${limits}; do
for pid in $(pgrep ${app}); do
sudo /path/to/cputhrottle ${pid} ${limit}
done
done
done
done
[Edited]
I've added a different version for this script (a bash script), which might be useful for people looking for limiting the CPU for multiple applications.
This new script also allows you to specify a list containing the application name and the CPU limit for it.
The main difference is that you can add cpu limit per application, and it will run only once per application. I've also added the option for killing all cputhrottle processes.
The script assumes that both cputhrottle and pidof are installed before running it.
#!/bin/bash
if [[ $EUID > 0 ]]; then
echo "Please run this script as root/sudo"
exit 1
fi
# Pass --kill as argument to kill all running cputhrottles
if [ $1 = "--kill" ]; then
echo "Looking for running cputhrottles..."
pids=`pidof cputhrottle`
for pid in ${pids}; do
echo "> Killing PID ${pid}"
sudo kill ${pid}
done
echo "Done!"
exit 0
fi
declare -a applications
# Syntax='application;max-cpu'
applications[0]='Chrome;40'
applications[1]='Firefox;50'
applications[2]='pycharm;40'
applications[3]='webstorm;40'
applications[4]='Safari;35'
for i in "${applications[@]}"; do
app=(${i//;/ })
app_name=${app[0]}
cpu_limit=${app[1]}
printf "\nLooking for ${app_name}...\n"
pids=`pidof ${app}`
for pid in ${pids}; do
echo "> PID=${pid}, CPU=${cpu_limit}"
sudo cputhrottle ${pid} ${cpu_limit} &
done
done
printf "\nDone!\n"
echo "Run this script passing '--kill' as argument to remove all cputhrottles."
Source:
*
*https://gist.github.com/golimpio/692145a19666582f84e0e66bb5dd2b2b
A: this sh worked for me
echo "enter process id"
read pid
echo "press Ctrl-C to exit"
while true; do
kill -SIGSTOP $pid
sleep 0.009
kill -SIGCONT $pid
sleep 0.001
done
A: The script Dimitri wrote does work well (on macOS), but it keeps running with errors after the application is closed. I changed it to make it finish (with an error message about PID not found):
echo "enter process id"
read pid
echo "press Ctrl-C to exit"
while kill -SIGSTOP $pid; do
sleep 0.009
kill -SIGCONT $pid
sleep 0.001
done
A: I just found CPUSetter, which, for me, is better than any of the previous options.
This app comes with additional control over hyperthreading, number of used cores, preference of physical CPU and separate power-related settings.
A: This is my final script, keep clean the command cputhrottle
only execute new one if doesn't exist
#!/bin/bash
###
# setup cputhrottle if doesn't exists
###
set_service_cpu_limit(){
service_pid=$(pgrep $1)
limit=$2
if [[ ! -z $service_pid ]]; then
service_cpu=$(ps aux | grep "sudo cputhrottle $service_pid $limit" | grep -v grep | wc -l)
if [[ ! $service_cpu -gt 0 ]]; then
sudo cputhrottle $service_pid $limit &
fi
fi
}
###
# main loop
###
while true; do
set_service_cpu_limit bzfilelist 2
set_service_cpu_limit bztransmit 2
sleep 0.5
done
A: I use AppPolice. It is a bit unstable and clunky but since there are no other options and the problems are minor I think it is a decent solution. Works on Catalina.
A: You can indeed! There's CPUThrottle, which allows to specify a PID to restrict.
Note, they're trying to use that much for a reason, it's a useful tool but whether it'll make it better or worse for you on a day to day will be something you discover.
A: Its not exactly what you wanted, but, in regards of google drive and chrome this what did the trick for me:
Google Drive ("Backup and Sync")
*
*de-prioritize:
for f in $(pgrep 'Backup and Sync'; pgrep 'FinderSyncAPIExtension'); do renice +20 -p $f; done
*set back to normal:
for f in $(pgrep 'Backup and Sync'; pgrep 'FinderSyncAPIExtension'); do renice 0 -p $f; done
Chrome
*
*de-prioritize all current processes:
for f in $(pgrep 'Chrome'); do renice +20 -p $f; done
*set back to normal all current processes:
for f in $(pgrep 'Chrome'); do renice 0 -p $f; done
A: Although not a direct answer to the OP's question, if you're having an issue with a particular process taking up too much of your CPU time, and making your computer unusable, and you don't mind how long that process takes to finish the task it's working on, you can use the renice to alter the priority of that process, making it behave nicely (hence the name).
First, you need to find the PID of the process that's using up the CPU resources. You can either do that in Activity Monitor, or in Terminal.app with the ps command - e.g. to find the PID of the Safari browser, type:
MacBook:~ ps -ef | grep Safari
501 17452 263 0 11:36pm ?? 4:15.60 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
The second line above is the output, and the PID is 17452 in this particular case.
Then, the next task is to change the priority of the process (let's say it's Safari we want to make behave nicely). To do this, in Terminal.app type:
MacBook:~ renice -n 10 -p 17452
The -n option changes the nice level by adding 10 to the current value (0 by default). The range of values are -20 to 20, with lowest value meaning highest priority. As an ordinary user, you can use values 0 to 20. To assign a negative value, you need to have root privileges (e.g. use sudo command). Read more about nice and renice by typing man nice and man renice in Terminal.app.
nice and renice don't limit the percentage of the CPU available to a given application per se, they do however allow to change the scheduling priority, or in other words how much of the CPU time a process will get. This is all relative to the CPU load on your system, so if the system is under utilised, you most likely won't see any difference.
A: cputhrottle (refer to fny and Nicholas Smith's answers) works on macOS 10.15 as long as you sign the executable.
You can do so simply and quickly by following the steps listed here: https://web.archive.org/web/20191223180139/https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/PermissionsDarwin
You can download cputhrottle here: http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html
A: This script is what I use: this code runs the app at full speed when the screen is locked else it runs at about 50% of the speed. On my M1 Pro MacBook Pro this works great for an app that normally takes 800% CPU. The computer remains responsive while the app is running in background.
#!/bin/bash
PID=$1
if [ "$PID" == "" ]; then
echo "no process id given! Use something like:"
echo " ps -ef|grep whatever"
exit
fi
# exit if any command fails
set -e
# continue running when we exit this script
trap 'kill -CONT '$PID'; exit' EXIT HUP TERM INT
status=none
prevstatus=none
while true; do
if [ "$status" != "$prevstatus" ]; then
date
echo $status
prevstatus=$status
fi
if python -c 'import sys,Quartz; d=Quartz.CGSessionCopyCurrentDictionary(); print d'|grep "CGSSessionScreenIsLocked = 1">/dev/null; then
if [ "$status" != "running" ]; then
kill -CONT $PID;
status=running
fi
sleep 1;
else
if [ "$status" != "stopped" ]; then
kill -STOP $PID;
status=stopped
else
for _ in {1..10}; do
sleep 0.05;
kill -CONT $PID;
sleep 0.05;
kill -STOP $PID;
done
fi
fi;
done
A: Some others have mentioned App Tamer and the fact that AppPolice is free. That's great, and if AppPolice meets your needs, you can be happy!
But if you use your computer professionally, the time you've lost on processes sucking down resources is probably vastly higher than the tiny cost of AppTamer.
All the options that AppTamer offers that AppPolice does not are there for a reason.
AppPolice requires you to configure each process individually. The only thing it can do globally is stop throttling. (Which could be done by closing it anyway.)
AppTamer on the other hand can distinguish before foreground and background apps, so that you can throttle an app in the background but give it full power in the foreground. Browsers, for example.
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52524f8c2e9055b492e44f0685b9e80b304f0ea7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there any native tools for SVG conversion on OS X? How can I convert SVG image to something raster? Are there any native [command-line] tools on OS X that can do that? I am able to open them in Safari or Firefox, but doing "Save as..." only proposes original (.svg) or web-archive formats and no rasterized image format.
A: You can do this with Inkscape:
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --without-gui --export-png=raster-image.png source-image.svg
To change output resolution you can set the DPI value:
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --without-gui --export-png=raster-image.png --export-dpi=200 source-image.svg
Here are more command line options.
| Q: Are there any native tools for SVG conversion on OS X? How can I convert SVG image to something raster? Are there any native [command-line] tools on OS X that can do that? I am able to open them in Safari or Firefox, but doing "Save as..." only proposes original (.svg) or web-archive formats and no rasterized image format.
A: You can do this with Inkscape:
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --without-gui --export-png=raster-image.png source-image.svg
To change output resolution you can set the DPI value:
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --without-gui --export-png=raster-image.png --export-dpi=200 source-image.svg
Here are more command line options.
A: https://cloudconvert.org/svg-to-png - was fastest way for me.
it's not my site.
A: One (wonky) option would be to render it in Safari and take a screenshot of the result, although that's obviously not a good solution.
Sadly there's little SVG support in OS X so far apart from Safari, Preview.app (the obvious choice for image format conversion) can't render it and I'm not aware of any bundled command line tools that can either.
As for third party command line tools, Homebrew makes Cairo's svg2png as well as the ImageMagick bundle easily available.
A: Try Gapplin. It works for me and creates PNG and JPG files from SVG. Simple and effective.
If you have a lot of SVG files to convert, ImageMagick is probably your best bet (available directly from imagemagick.org or via Homebrew).
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91a019ea7e96a45fa89357e1f2fc0e493c7b7df8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you record audio from command line with osx? I've tried ffmpeg but there is no /dev/dsp device.
A: Try SoX or Ecasound.
| Q: How do you record audio from command line with osx? I've tried ffmpeg but there is no /dev/dsp device.
A: Try SoX or Ecasound.
A: I'd recommend looking into MPlayer OSX Extended -- it's a port of the linux app "mplayer" and will let you record from a multitude of audio sources (including streams and remote files).
/Applications/MPlayer\ OSX\ Extended.app/Contents/Resources/Binaries/mpextended.mpBinaries/Contents/mpextended.mpBinaries/Contents/MacOS/mplayer \
http://server.com/stream.pl \
-cache 1024 -ao coreaudio:device_id=49 -volume 65 -ac hwac3, -slave \
-identify -noar -dumpstream -dumpfile ~/Desktop/stream.mp3
See http://www.mplayerosx.ch/ for more information
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90c2c82dbbec6c9febae16568591eb1a5add122a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I Transfer Dashboard Information from one computer to another? How is it possible to transfer all my information from dashboard(in stickies) to my new macbook pro? Is there an easy file just to transfer or do I have to copy and paste them to an email? Also I have 10.6 running on my macbook and 10.7 on my new macbook pro if this makes a difference in how you can transfer them.
A: All of the preferences/info from Apple supplied Dashboard widgets resides in ~/Library/Preferences. Do a search for anything beginning with widget-com.apple.widget - those are all your widgets.
For stickies specifically, copy widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist to the ~/Library/Preferences folder in your new machine, and you'll be all set.
| Q: How can I Transfer Dashboard Information from one computer to another? How is it possible to transfer all my information from dashboard(in stickies) to my new macbook pro? Is there an easy file just to transfer or do I have to copy and paste them to an email? Also I have 10.6 running on my macbook and 10.7 on my new macbook pro if this makes a difference in how you can transfer them.
A: All of the preferences/info from Apple supplied Dashboard widgets resides in ~/Library/Preferences. Do a search for anything beginning with widget-com.apple.widget - those are all your widgets.
For stickies specifically, copy widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist to the ~/Library/Preferences folder in your new machine, and you'll be all set.
A: While it is true that ~/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist contains the data associated with each widget, the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist contains information that causes the individual sticky widgets to be displayed.
If you hope to transfer stickies from one machine to another, both of these files will need to be copied. Note that this will clobber all the widgets on the target machine, not just Stickies. If this is not the desired behavior, some judicious plist editing could merge in just the entries for Stickies.
A: Why not just use the User Migration Assistant? It will transfer everything over from your account on the old machine.
One bit of advice: If your account name on the old machine is the same as your account name on the new machine, it may not transfer. I'd recommend creating and logging on to a temporary administrator account (in System Preferences -> Accounts), rename your account on the new machine if necessary, and run the user migration assistant from the temporary admin account.
A: How many stickies do you have? Why not just copy the text out of the stickies and email it to yourself? Then check your email on the new machine and copy the text back into a new set of stickies.
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45959fc4fa7d9f92dc97503905697ad49c5179ff | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Emoticon keyboard on iphone, not emoji How to have a keyboard that presents shortcuts for common ascii emoticons?
I specifically do NOT want anything that uses the emoji unicode symbols. But instead a keyboard that provides shortcuts for the standard emoticons such as :-), :-(, ;-), B-), :-*, <3, and so on.
Update: so far, it seems there is no way to do what I ask for. So I asked a more specific question asking for SMS apps that support ASCII emoticons.
A: As Apple doesn't allow for third-party keyboards outside of apps, you'd have to find (or make) an app that does what you want and design your own keyboard to do that.
| Q: Emoticon keyboard on iphone, not emoji How to have a keyboard that presents shortcuts for common ascii emoticons?
I specifically do NOT want anything that uses the emoji unicode symbols. But instead a keyboard that provides shortcuts for the standard emoticons such as :-), :-(, ;-), B-), :-*, <3, and so on.
Update: so far, it seems there is no way to do what I ask for. So I asked a more specific question asking for SMS apps that support ASCII emoticons.
A: As Apple doesn't allow for third-party keyboards outside of apps, you'd have to find (or make) an app that does what you want and design your own keyboard to do that.
A: You can set up shortcuts under Settings → General → Keyboards → Shortcuts.
For example you could set up a shortcut as follows:
phrase = :-]
shortcut = sml
A: If you add Japanese Kana or Chinese simplified keyboards there is a smiley face button with a bunch of ascii art smiley faces, but they're not exactly the "standard emoticons" that you refer to.
Eg.
(T_T)\(^-^)
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e3bd81e06debe4ca83c7648e70f9d9e0e2cf2043 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I replace the home button on the iPhone 3G without removing the glass digitizer? My iPhone 3G home button broke so I bought a new one online and all the repair guides require me to remove the glass digitizer, which seems very tough (hair drying glue etc.) and harder than I expected. Does anyone know a way or a guide of replacing it without removing the glass?
A: No - if you can't effect a repair using a clear film or some sort of adhesive with the phone intact, you'll have to totally disassemble the 3G/3GS display unit to get better access to the home button.
The teardown guides from iFixit are accurate - as is your reading of the difficulty of successfully doing the repair and having things work when put back together.
Do check with Apple on the replacement price of that part before you dive in. Last I checked, it was $99 for parts and labor for an entire new display assembly.
| Q: Can I replace the home button on the iPhone 3G without removing the glass digitizer? My iPhone 3G home button broke so I bought a new one online and all the repair guides require me to remove the glass digitizer, which seems very tough (hair drying glue etc.) and harder than I expected. Does anyone know a way or a guide of replacing it without removing the glass?
A: No - if you can't effect a repair using a clear film or some sort of adhesive with the phone intact, you'll have to totally disassemble the 3G/3GS display unit to get better access to the home button.
The teardown guides from iFixit are accurate - as is your reading of the difficulty of successfully doing the repair and having things work when put back together.
Do check with Apple on the replacement price of that part before you dive in. Last I checked, it was $99 for parts and labor for an entire new display assembly.
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55a32eed5a35a26e4e1e1faba56966d4a6a17e73 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use Time Machine to restore to a smaller disk I have used Time Machine to restore my MBP to a larger HDD with great success, but am about to purchase a smaller SSD for it.
With the obvious caveat of not having more data than the SSD can hold, is there anything stopping me from going from a 500GB SATA drive to a 240GB SSD using a Time Machine restore?
It's a 2010 MBP running Lion 10.7.1, if that makes any difference.
A: Yes.
The system is built to accommodate this if possible.
The restore process does a fairly good check before starting to restore to ensure the space is free enough to land the data stored on your specific snapshot in Time Machine.
Time Machine (and Disk Utility restores) work well as long as the "cargo" fits with maybe just a little extra room for overhead. Generally, less space is wasted at the end of files on smaller drives, so the thousands of small preference files pack more tightly on smaller drives.
| Q: Can I use Time Machine to restore to a smaller disk I have used Time Machine to restore my MBP to a larger HDD with great success, but am about to purchase a smaller SSD for it.
With the obvious caveat of not having more data than the SSD can hold, is there anything stopping me from going from a 500GB SATA drive to a 240GB SSD using a Time Machine restore?
It's a 2010 MBP running Lion 10.7.1, if that makes any difference.
A: Yes.
The system is built to accommodate this if possible.
The restore process does a fairly good check before starting to restore to ensure the space is free enough to land the data stored on your specific snapshot in Time Machine.
Time Machine (and Disk Utility restores) work well as long as the "cargo" fits with maybe just a little extra room for overhead. Generally, less space is wasted at the end of files on smaller drives, so the thousands of small preference files pack more tightly on smaller drives.
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3763767ef6d1b55a8aa9038c792195c25bc2d62b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set custom DNS entry for a particular wifi connection Is there a way to set custom DNS settings for a single wifi connection without affecting other connections?
I use my laptop at home and work. When at work I need to type in an IP address of a local DNS server to resolve company resources. I currently do this by pressing the "Advanced..." button on the network preferences page. Unfortunately this setting is global for all of my wifi connections. So when I go home I need to remove the DNS setting.
Can I set the DNS setting to only work while I'm connected to the company's wifi?
A: What you want to do is Add a Network Location for work.
You can then easily switch between them using the Location submenu of the menu.
If you really wanted, you could set up a script to switch locations based on network, but really, how lazy do you want to be? ;)
| Q: How to set custom DNS entry for a particular wifi connection Is there a way to set custom DNS settings for a single wifi connection without affecting other connections?
I use my laptop at home and work. When at work I need to type in an IP address of a local DNS server to resolve company resources. I currently do this by pressing the "Advanced..." button on the network preferences page. Unfortunately this setting is global for all of my wifi connections. So when I go home I need to remove the DNS setting.
Can I set the DNS setting to only work while I'm connected to the company's wifi?
A: What you want to do is Add a Network Location for work.
You can then easily switch between them using the Location submenu of the menu.
If you really wanted, you could set up a script to switch locations based on network, but really, how lazy do you want to be? ;)
A: You can use Control Plane to switch context automatically depending on nearby WiFi networks, location, … or tons of other conditions.
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163981e864168384645c561229b9f82ab04cfe8b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restore default app icons from install disc? I (Candybar) deleted some of my app icons and they are completely gone.
Is it possible to extract the icons for the system applications (e.g. Address Book, TextEdit) from the installation disc?
Alternative can anyone upload the icns files for the following applications:
Activity Monitor*
Address Book*
Adobe Bridge CS5
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Adobe Flash CS5
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Calculator*
Firefox
Google chrome
iTunes
Mail*
Photo Booth*
Safari
System Preferences*
TextEdit*
where asterisk is the system applications.
A: Candy Bar has a restore feature for icons to be returned to the system default.
| Q: Restore default app icons from install disc? I (Candybar) deleted some of my app icons and they are completely gone.
Is it possible to extract the icons for the system applications (e.g. Address Book, TextEdit) from the installation disc?
Alternative can anyone upload the icns files for the following applications:
Activity Monitor*
Address Book*
Adobe Bridge CS5
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Adobe Flash CS5
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Calculator*
Firefox
Google chrome
iTunes
Mail*
Photo Booth*
Safari
System Preferences*
TextEdit*
where asterisk is the system applications.
A: Candy Bar has a restore feature for icons to be returned to the system default.
A: The fix was to open my install disc using Pacifist and extract the icons and put them in the app. I just searched for the app names such as "AddressBook".
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b8f01c67ecab335fa00bae4a4e3e1a9bc584cdc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Chrome putting itself in the Dock whenever it wants. So I have Google Chrome installed on my Mac & randomly it will put itself in my dock, where it normally doesn't reside. It is usually about every two weeks or so, but sometimes its within a few days. It is the only application to do so. It puts itself as the first application (immediately after the finder) regardless of what else is on the dock.
Of note: I rarely use Chrome as I usually prefer Safari or Firefox. I may open it once every few months.
I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this problem. Suggestions?
A: Make sure the chrome auto updates are not running - it could be adding itself back when it checks for updates.
| Q: Chrome putting itself in the Dock whenever it wants. So I have Google Chrome installed on my Mac & randomly it will put itself in my dock, where it normally doesn't reside. It is usually about every two weeks or so, but sometimes its within a few days. It is the only application to do so. It puts itself as the first application (immediately after the finder) regardless of what else is on the dock.
Of note: I rarely use Chrome as I usually prefer Safari or Firefox. I may open it once every few months.
I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this problem. Suggestions?
A: Make sure the chrome auto updates are not running - it could be adding itself back when it checks for updates.
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105b1ed31f4415b4441df201c783961a65b81c0f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change a username? (shortname and home folder) Under Linux, this would be a no brainer. Just go into /etc/password and edit that, and rename the directory in /home.
I want the new shortname and the new home folder to match after the change.
A: Apple's own instructions work quite well. There may be more complex and faster ways out there, but I've never run into an issue (such as incorrect permissions) with these steps.
Mac OS X v10.6 and earlier: How to change user account name or home directory name
| Q: How do I change a username? (shortname and home folder) Under Linux, this would be a no brainer. Just go into /etc/password and edit that, and rename the directory in /home.
I want the new shortname and the new home folder to match after the change.
A: Apple's own instructions work quite well. There may be more complex and faster ways out there, but I've never run into an issue (such as incorrect permissions) with these steps.
Mac OS X v10.6 and earlier: How to change user account name or home directory name
A: In System Preferences, Users & Groups, right click the username in the list on the left and select Advanced Options. Edit the Account name field and click Ok.
Ideally you'll also want to edit the Home directory to match the new username, although this isn't strictly necessary.
A: I really don't like to edit a user in place since it's so simple to delete the user (preserving the home folder) - rename the folder as root - make the new user with the correct short name matching the renamed folder.
The preference pane will see that you already have /Users/newshort and offer to inherit the folder. It does the best job I know of in setting ownership and correcting the ACL needed for your home folder to work as Apple intended.
*
*Check your backup is current - just in case
*Do the delete
*Do the move in terminal sudo -s followed by mv /Users/tester\ \(Deleted\)/ /Users/test
*Do the create
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3f4164e101f7c963c85020d4d2a3babedaf6542d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I extract an ECM archive in Mac OS X Lion? I came across a ECM archive that I need to extract.
The Unarchiver can't handle this format, and I'm not sure about other utilities.
How do I extract ECM in Mac OS X Lion?
A: You can use the ECM tools created by Neill Corlett, the creator of ECM. Just run "unecm" on the file.
There are binaries for Mac here
If that seems intimidating, there is a youtube walkthrough here that uses a GUI and contains links to the tools used.
| Q: How do I extract an ECM archive in Mac OS X Lion? I came across a ECM archive that I need to extract.
The Unarchiver can't handle this format, and I'm not sure about other utilities.
How do I extract ECM in Mac OS X Lion?
A: You can use the ECM tools created by Neill Corlett, the creator of ECM. Just run "unecm" on the file.
There are binaries for Mac here
If that seems intimidating, there is a youtube walkthrough here that uses a GUI and contains links to the tools used.
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2ad1a0411d2e40aa3e921d374cc329875f3c0201 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How Do I Change The Desktop Order in Mission Control?
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to reorder spaces in Lion?
Currently, it doesn't seem possible to just drag and drop the desktops to change their order.
Is there any other way of doing it then?
A: Well i guess you're asking this because mission control 'automatically' changed the order you set up for your spaces.
You can't move them right in Mission Control but what you can do is disable that 'magic automatic ordering' in System Preferences => Mission Control => Disable Checkbox "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use"
Then you can order them again using the Spaces Preference Panel.
Enjoy!
| Q: How Do I Change The Desktop Order in Mission Control?
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to reorder spaces in Lion?
Currently, it doesn't seem possible to just drag and drop the desktops to change their order.
Is there any other way of doing it then?
A: Well i guess you're asking this because mission control 'automatically' changed the order you set up for your spaces.
You can't move them right in Mission Control but what you can do is disable that 'magic automatic ordering' in System Preferences => Mission Control => Disable Checkbox "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use"
Then you can order them again using the Spaces Preference Panel.
Enjoy!
A: Per my answer on a related question (Why do full-screen applications change their order in Mission Control?), there are only two order states with Mission Control. Order generated as Desktop/Full Screen spaces are created, or the default; "Automatically rearranged based on recent use" which I admit that I have no entirely narrowed down exactly when it changes them.
As of this writing, in OS X Lion 10.7.1, there is no way to explicitly order spaces except to remove and re-add them in an order you would prefer, after unchecking the checkbox listed in the screenshot above.
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85ab2c6d0d9a199728c6b3a6c85805440451948d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I obtain older versions of Xcode? How can I obtain older versions of Xcode?
Is there a way that I can freely download a version that only requires OS X 10.6.8? So far this is all I've found on the matter; but, when I click the 'download Xcode 3' link, it simply brings up the page for downloading version 4.
A: To get a free older copy of Xcode that will run on Snow Leopard, create(register) as an Apple Developer at this web site https://developer.apple.com/programs/register/ . You can also turn your current Apple ID into a developer ID by signing in on the link above and following the instructions.
After you create your Developer ID go to https://developer.apple.com/downloads
On the upper left side of the page search for Xcode and just below the search box, uncheck all of the Catagories except Developer Tools (leave that checked).
You will get three pages of results, on the second page you will find Xcode in version 3 for Snow Leopard.
Cheers
rws70
| Q: How can I obtain older versions of Xcode? How can I obtain older versions of Xcode?
Is there a way that I can freely download a version that only requires OS X 10.6.8? So far this is all I've found on the matter; but, when I click the 'download Xcode 3' link, it simply brings up the page for downloading version 4.
A: To get a free older copy of Xcode that will run on Snow Leopard, create(register) as an Apple Developer at this web site https://developer.apple.com/programs/register/ . You can also turn your current Apple ID into a developer ID by signing in on the link above and following the instructions.
After you create your Developer ID go to https://developer.apple.com/downloads
On the upper left side of the page search for Xcode and just below the search box, uncheck all of the Catagories except Developer Tools (leave that checked).
You will get three pages of results, on the second page you will find Xcode in version 3 for Snow Leopard.
Cheers
rws70
A: xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg is the name of the file I am downloading currently.
I registered for free as an apple developer at https://developer.apple.com/programs/register/ and then searched for 'xcode' in the downloads section.
I am on snow leopard, btw.
A: You can download older versions of Xcode here after you've logged into the dev center.
Uncheck all of the options except "Developer Tools" in the Categories section on the left side of the page. Every version of Xcode back to version 1.0 in 2003 is available there.
A: Xcode 3 requires a version of snow leopard (10.6.8) :D. However, do you still have your snow leopard disc? if so, re-install it because xcode 3 comes pre-installed with sow leopard.
A: For what it's worth for anyone else that ends up here; the bundle linked above:
http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20792
Doesn't exist anymore, but there is a way to get 3.2.6 - through developer.apple.com/downloads - after free registration filter for 'developer tools' and type xcode - you should find the xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg others have mentioned. It's 4+ GB though...
It's a shame you can't get it without IOS but for those of us stuck with snow leopard (despite mavericks now being free) 3.2.6 seems neccesary for brew - the package management tool.
A: Go to App Store, click Purcharsed, and check if you see 'Xcode for Snow Leopard' there. I have it there, but maybe it's because I've bought Xcode 4.0 when it was released and there was no Lion yet.
A: it's available!
http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3__final/xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg
XCode for Mac Snow Leopard
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bf7931e150265deb385e5a8bb5f0e15c371f72b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Leopard won't remember default programs Everytime I restart/boot my mac and open up a mail application (thunderbird) or a web browser (firefox or chrome) I am always asked if I want to make it the default. This happens even if I click yes.
So, for some reason osx isn't remembering what I set as the default mail or web browser. I have already repaired disk permissions which didn't fix the problem.
Any ideas?
A: The problem was I was using the root user. Creating a new user sorted everything out!
| Q: Leopard won't remember default programs Everytime I restart/boot my mac and open up a mail application (thunderbird) or a web browser (firefox or chrome) I am always asked if I want to make it the default. This happens even if I click yes.
So, for some reason osx isn't remembering what I set as the default mail or web browser. I have already repaired disk permissions which didn't fix the problem.
Any ideas?
A: The problem was I was using the root user. Creating a new user sorted everything out!
A: Tyr setting it within the Safari or Mail preferences as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1637
A: Try to set default apps with RCDefaultApp
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ec08ea766d240229c22946a11c52aa53af7e1af0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X: Is there an open source screen recorder? I need a screen recorder. However, I try to avoid using closed-source software whenever possible except from major vendors like Apple and Skype.
I am wondering, is there an open source screen recorder for Mac OS X?
Or if not, does Apple include such a thing with the OS? Or how about using Skype? I'm running Snow Leopard.
A: You've answered your own question, but I thought I would flesh it out a bit.
You are correct that QuickTime will record a window, or the whole screen, but it only does so with the version of QT that ships with Lion. It wasn't available in earlier versions of QT or OS X (I'm not sure if the latest QT would do this on an older OS - I don't have one to try it on.)
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it now had that functionality - there really aren't any other free or low cost options.
| Q: OS X: Is there an open source screen recorder? I need a screen recorder. However, I try to avoid using closed-source software whenever possible except from major vendors like Apple and Skype.
I am wondering, is there an open source screen recorder for Mac OS X?
Or if not, does Apple include such a thing with the OS? Or how about using Skype? I'm running Snow Leopard.
A: You've answered your own question, but I thought I would flesh it out a bit.
You are correct that QuickTime will record a window, or the whole screen, but it only does so with the version of QT that ships with Lion. It wasn't available in earlier versions of QT or OS X (I'm not sure if the latest QT would do this on an older OS - I don't have one to try it on.)
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it now had that functionality - there really aren't any other free or low cost options.
A: Kap is a great option. Recently (January 3, 2017) they hit version 1.0.0.
Its great features include:
*
*Export to Gif, WebM, MP4
*Audio recording
*Hiding the mouse cursor and highlighting clicks
*Record a portion of your screen with a custom size and aspect ratio
*"High" FPS recording
A: VLC is an open source media player which also offers screen capture facilities (via File -> Open Capture Device..).
A: Open Broadcaster Software may be a reasonable option. The project appears to be open source and to support macOS:
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
A: Open Source
*
*jScreenRecorder GPL, java-based screen recorder.
*VLC has this as a feature and it's great for playback, streaming and transcoding.
*Capture Me
Closed Source
*
*Jing is great for making screencasts and taking screenshots. There's a free version that does the job fine.
*QuickTime is capable and it comes with OS X.
*IShowUHD
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f2f8f55d1e6f4189df8fdaa06164f27aa23e827e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone Backups on Network drive By moving my iTunes Library to a network drive, will iPhone/iPad backups also be stored on that network drive? (If not, is there a way to set this up?)
A: On a Mac, iDevice backups are stored in strangely (seemingly randomly) named subfolders in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
This is outside of the ~/Music/iTunes folder (standard Library location on Mac OSX).
You'd be wanting to take a copy of all the files and folders within this folder and put them on your network drive. I've not tested if a restore of these items works following a system reinstall and I suspect that iTunes may do some extra stuff behind the scenes to pair these backup folders and files to the devices that they came from.
Backup location on Windows (Assuming system drive is C:\)Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
Windows Vista/Windows 7
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
(edit) Just realised that this probably doesn't fully answer your question, however, I've found this discussion which is along the lines of changing where iTunes reads/writes its backups
| Q: iPhone Backups on Network drive By moving my iTunes Library to a network drive, will iPhone/iPad backups also be stored on that network drive? (If not, is there a way to set this up?)
A: On a Mac, iDevice backups are stored in strangely (seemingly randomly) named subfolders in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
This is outside of the ~/Music/iTunes folder (standard Library location on Mac OSX).
You'd be wanting to take a copy of all the files and folders within this folder and put them on your network drive. I've not tested if a restore of these items works following a system reinstall and I suspect that iTunes may do some extra stuff behind the scenes to pair these backup folders and files to the devices that they came from.
Backup location on Windows (Assuming system drive is C:\)Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
Windows Vista/Windows 7
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
(edit) Just realised that this probably doesn't fully answer your question, however, I've found this discussion which is along the lines of changing where iTunes reads/writes its backups
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