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Q: How can I configure my keyboard to be backlit at the login screen? I recently had to reinstall Lion. Now, when I boot the keyboard is not backlit when at the login screen. It used to be backlit when at the login screen.
I'm using a Macbook Air 11" July 2011 model. In System Preferences I have the checkbox: Automatically illuminate keyboard in low light checked. The setting for Turn off when computer is not used for: is set at Never.
A: It appears that the problem is related to FileVault. When I turned FileVault off and rebooted in safe mode the problem went away. I could change the brightness of the screen and the keyboard at the login screen. Volume controls worked too. Now that I've turned FileVault back on the problem is back.
| Q: How can I configure my keyboard to be backlit at the login screen? I recently had to reinstall Lion. Now, when I boot the keyboard is not backlit when at the login screen. It used to be backlit when at the login screen.
I'm using a Macbook Air 11" July 2011 model. In System Preferences I have the checkbox: Automatically illuminate keyboard in low light checked. The setting for Turn off when computer is not used for: is set at Never.
A: It appears that the problem is related to FileVault. When I turned FileVault off and rebooted in safe mode the problem went away. I could change the brightness of the screen and the keyboard at the login screen. Volume controls worked too. Now that I've turned FileVault back on the problem is back.
A: Have you tried turning up the keyboard backlight brightness at the login screen, logging in and restarting to see if it will keep your setting? Typically, the setting for the backlit keyboard is stored in the PRAM. Once setting the brightness to your desired level, it should retain the setting after a restart providing you don't reset the PRAM. Give it a shot.
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567ad82d7351373dfb790239b40c40836c194d5e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find the task manager in Mac OS X Lion? Where can I find a task manager in Mac OS X Lion? I want to see the processes that are currently being run, and I can kill any process I like.
A: It's called Activity Monitor. You can find it in this folder: /Applications/Utilities/
| Q: Where can I find the task manager in Mac OS X Lion? Where can I find a task manager in Mac OS X Lion? I want to see the processes that are currently being run, and I can kill any process I like.
A: It's called Activity Monitor. You can find it in this folder: /Applications/Utilities/
A: A short way to do this is using the cmd + space to open Spotlight and then type in Activity Monitor (you should get the right suggestion very quick). I like this, because it's very fast.
You can also use this to start other apps or open files.
A: Look for the apple/Mac icon (perhaps top left). There will be an option for "Force Quit." Use that.
A: There are many ways to find mac task manager.
Easiest one is to use spotlight. Just type Activity monitor i.e mac task manager.
If you wish to just force quit an app or process. You can just use this shortcut: Alt + Command (⌘) + Esc
Source: Mac Activity Monitor
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031f5897f58e5e054805d9b894167e62b1524627 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Time Machine back up to an external HD connected to another Mac? Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up to an external hard drive connected to a Mac on same wifi network?
A: The answer by Ian C. is correct. However, one small (but important) detail has been overlooked (one that took me a good hour to figure out!).
If the drive is not showing up in Time Machine on your Source Machine (the machine you want to back up), do the following:
*
*Open 'System Preferences' on the Target Machine (the machine that has the External Drive attached).
*Click 'Sharing' then 'Options'.
*Untick 'Share files and folders using SMB'
*Make sure 'Share files and folders using AFP' is ticked.
Now go back to your Source Machine and your External Drive should show up in the list of Time Machine Backup Disks!
| Q: Can Time Machine back up to an external HD connected to another Mac? Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up to an external hard drive connected to a Mac on same wifi network?
A: The answer by Ian C. is correct. However, one small (but important) detail has been overlooked (one that took me a good hour to figure out!).
If the drive is not showing up in Time Machine on your Source Machine (the machine you want to back up), do the following:
*
*Open 'System Preferences' on the Target Machine (the machine that has the External Drive attached).
*Click 'Sharing' then 'Options'.
*Untick 'Share files and folders using SMB'
*Make sure 'Share files and folders using AFP' is ticked.
Now go back to your Source Machine and your External Drive should show up in the list of Time Machine Backup Disks!
A: If the Mac is running OS X Server (In 10.7, not sure if this is available for 10.6) then you can turn on Time Machine Server, which does exactly what you need. There's no need to run any of the other server tools if you don't want. this is the only officially supported way to do this that I know of.
A: I am running High Sierra on the source and target machines and ran into some difficulties with this process but then got it to work. I didn't bother with SMB vs. AFP as noted above (left them both turned on), but what I discoverd on the System Preferences, Sharing screen is that in addition to the Options button which has general choices about sharing SMB and AFP, you can two-finger click on the Shared Folder itself in the Shared Folders list and then choose Advanced Options from the context menu to get other options that apply to that particular share only. Specifically, there is a checkbox for 'Share as a Time Machine backup destination" and a sub-choice to limit the size of backups. Once I set those parameters and went back to the source machine, the share was visible as a valid backup destination.
A: Yes. I've been doing this since Snow Leopard. All my MacBook Pros in the house do their Time Machine backups to an external USB drive that's hanging off an iMac running the standard OS X install (i.e. not Server). At the time of writing the iMac has been upgraded to Lion as has one of the MacBook Pros.
First, configure your target machine (the one with the USB drive attached):
*
*Format the drive as OS X Extended Journaled. Give it a useful name. I use 'Remote Backups'.
*Go to System Preferences -> Sharing
*Make sure File Sharing is turned on and has a check mark next to it
*Under the 'Shared Folders' list click the + button and add your newly formatted USB drive to the list of shared folders
*Select the drive in the list and under 'Users' make sure everyone shown has read/write access to the drive.
Now you need to configure your source machine (the one you want to keep it's Time Machine volume on this drive):
*
*Open Finder on the machine. Find your target machine and click on it. Mount the drive on this machine.
*
*If you're asked for a user name and password use the user name and password on your target machine that you used to login and setup the share. Make sure you save this user name and password to your keychain
*Go to System Preferences -> Time Machine
*Click Select Disk...
*The list should include the mounted drive, select that. Pick your encryption options and hit the Use Backup Disk button
You're now all set up to use this remote drive as your Time Machine backup location. When Time Machine runs you'll see this drive appear as a mount on your system, and when it's done the mount will go away.
If you browse this drive from the target machine you'll see sparsebundle files, one for each machine that's doing a Time Machine backup to this drive, on the disk. These are the actual "disks" that Time Machine is using on each machine to keep the incrementals. If you click on one, it should mount and you should be able to browse it like normal.
If you have a complete disaster and need to do a fresh OS X install and recover from Time Machine you can point the recovery process at the remote drive and it will ask you to pick a sparsebundle from the drive to recover from. Or, and this is what I recommend, you can unattach the drive from your target and attach it via USB to your machine and do the restore over USB which is much faster.
I can confirm that complete restores from Time Machine backups kept in this manner work well. I've had to do two of them in the past few years on machines that keep their backups this way and both went smashingly well. Browsing Time Machine history in the Time Machine viewer can be a bit laggy, but it does work.
A: If your backups are really important and you need a much more stable system for doing backups either remotely, wirelessly, online or an external drive, then I describe the best way how to do this below.
A hard drive used for Time Machine backups requires an HFS+ journaled partition which gets corrupted and unmountable very easily. Your signal getting cut off, a cable getting detached, the power going off, or your computer crashing during a backup is all it could take to have big problems. Often Disk Utility cannot repair the disk and you lose all your stored data.
This is why using Time Machine over wireless is risky (time capsules are expensive but do seem to be more reliable); be really sure that you have a good, reliable WiFi signal and set up your router to use a channel different than any other WiFi sources. (The free program WiFi Scanner is great for analyzing WiFi interference.)
My backup hard drive had a habit of mysteriously disconnecting without properly ejecting numerous times and I have lost files; most of my video, graphics, and photos which take up more storage then my laptop can hold.
I do video editing and design and for my situation I need something more reliable and flexible. It's worth it to me to spend a little extra money on this software because losing data had cost me in more ways than one. Here is an excerpt from their website:
This is the most flexible and reliable online backup solution for OS X, compatible with most Internet servers: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV. It even supports offline backups to external drives.
xTwin preserves Finder info, resource forks, ACLs, Privileges and comes with an elegant user interface and a powerful assistant. It also provides numerous high-end features like AES-256 encryption, efficient bz2 compression, powerful exclusion rules and scheduler, support for splitting large files during network transfers, network-error recovery, individual digital signature for backed up files, multi-cores machines optimization and more.
It has a powerful Backup Assistant to make it even easier to create or update backups.
xTwin is designed to be very reliable and handles small or very large data sets (hundreds of gigabytes and dozens of thousands of files). It is made to be impervious to network errors or even interrupted backups.
I use xTwin with an external USB teradrive. HFS+ Journaled formatting is so easy to corrupt and lose your data with but Time Machine requires it. So far the best solution I believe is to use xTwin with NFTS formatted drive. I learned that NFTS is much more stable and a lot easier to do data recovery with. Disk Utility does not come standard with this format, but you can get software such as Paragon which adds this option into disk utility.
It is much more important to me to have reliable backups than versions and the cool time machine way of accessing older files.
I will stick with this until Apple proves they have made a more stable filing system for backups.
A: I had the same issue with TM not recognizing/mounting a TM-formatted NAS volume. After 2 days of reading forums and tinkering, my solution was a variation on the SMB - AFP issue. As I have not seen my issue & solution explained elsewhere, I am posting it here.
Running 10.7.5 on a MBA. Backup destination is a Synology DS214play, running DSM 5.0 with native TM-support.
We also have Mac Mini's running 10.6 and the process for pointing TM to the Synology NAS was very straight-forward which ruled out a problem with the Synology NAS. This was the major source of confusion. The different OS versions seem to create a subtle, but crucial difference in how TM handles this.
On the MBA (10.7.5), mounting the drive through finder and setting it to always re-mount during start-up was straight-forward. I paid attention to the SMB / AFP formats when setting everything up on the partition on the NAS. When mounting the drive on the MBA, it recognizes and displays only the drive name ("DiskStation"). In the background, it was defaulting to an smb format despite me having specified the afp format on the destination drive.
Solution: instead of selecting and mounting the drive with a mouse-click, manually enter the IP address of the destination with an afp-prefix. TM then instantly recognized the destination volume. Somewhere between 10.6 and 10.7.5 something was changed causing TM to default to adding an SMB-prefix to the destination volume. Tricky because it is then hidden. Hope this helps.
A: It works even though Apple support told me it wouldn't.
Important step that I missed:
Open Finder on the machine to be backed up. Find your target machine and click on it. MOUNT the drive on this machine—i.e. make sure that the back up drive on is visible on your Finder sidebar as a separate entity (File Add to Sidebar).
I also portioned my backup Mac with a 500G partition for the backup to ensure no corruption etc. on the backup Mac with other applications.
A: Not possible that I know.
Only if connected to AEBS (Airport Extreme Base Station)
or server as far as I know
see : https://help.apple.com/machelp/mac/10.7/help/index.html?lang=en#mh15139
GreetZzz
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16afc1758249839956598afe837c1351006e4d55 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I remotely send an SMS message through my Mac from my iPhone? Is there an application for Mac OS X which would allow me to remotely send SMS messages through my iPhone? Ideally, just a simple application or maybe a full screen remote application like TeamViewer.
I prefer a free solution.
A: You can use myPhoneDesktop.
This solution has an iPhone and Mac (or Windows) client and sends a push notification from the Mac app to the iPhone with the information for a call, text, URL, text or an image. The iPhone app then opens the data sent to it by the Mac app.
The iPhone app costs $4.99 in the App Store and the Mac app is free. myPhoneDesktop requires an account to be set up, but it is free.
| Q: How can I remotely send an SMS message through my Mac from my iPhone? Is there an application for Mac OS X which would allow me to remotely send SMS messages through my iPhone? Ideally, just a simple application or maybe a full screen remote application like TeamViewer.
I prefer a free solution.
A: You can use myPhoneDesktop.
This solution has an iPhone and Mac (or Windows) client and sends a push notification from the Mac app to the iPhone with the information for a call, text, URL, text or an image. The iPhone app then opens the data sent to it by the Mac app.
The iPhone app costs $4.99 in the App Store and the Mac app is free. myPhoneDesktop requires an account to be set up, but it is free.
A: Apple has actually just released this app which should do just that. It works only with ios5 and mac os10.7.3. Its called messages. It is a beta version of an app that will be on mountain lion.
I downloaded it from http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/messages-beta/
A: Depending on your use case, you could send SMS messages using Google Voice for free. Google allows you to port your mobile telephone number for a fee if keeping the same number is important. You would then be able to send SMS messages directly from your desktop, or anywhere else you have an internet connection and web browser.
If applicable, could you explain why you'd like to send the SMS through your iPhone instead of directly to the recipient?
A: Maybe your mobile phone service provider has a web interface you can use to send text messages? I was also looking for a way to send SMS messages via iPhone on my Mac, and then found out that my service provider has this function they call "Web SMS": you just log in on their website, and can send messages from your phone number. If your service provider has something like this, it's a lot simpler than installing special apps on both Mac and iPhone.
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d21919f1b3921a1afe2b437dc66aa592d53b11c2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I modify a package from the Mac App Store? I used to hack at apps on my Mac all the time (change the icons/sounds etc... in the resources folder of the package). I have tried with apps downloaded from the App Store, but it no longer seems to be possible. In fact, even creating one empty file will stop the app from launching. I assume that Apple are doing some kind of one way hash of the application folder, and checking if it has changed.
Is it possible to either bypass the code-signing check or be more sophisticated about modifying apps that are signed and downloaded from the Apple Mac App Store?
A: It depends upon the app. For example, I've been able to replace the icon of djay (bought it in the MAS) with the one from Cyberduck, and djay launches just fine (except it's got a rubber duck as its icon now :-))
If the developer does an integrity check at start time, you're out of luck.
| Q: How can I modify a package from the Mac App Store? I used to hack at apps on my Mac all the time (change the icons/sounds etc... in the resources folder of the package). I have tried with apps downloaded from the App Store, but it no longer seems to be possible. In fact, even creating one empty file will stop the app from launching. I assume that Apple are doing some kind of one way hash of the application folder, and checking if it has changed.
Is it possible to either bypass the code-signing check or be more sophisticated about modifying apps that are signed and downloaded from the Apple Mac App Store?
A: It depends upon the app. For example, I've been able to replace the icon of djay (bought it in the MAS) with the one from Cyberduck, and djay launches just fine (except it's got a rubber duck as its icon now :-))
If the developer does an integrity check at start time, you're out of luck.
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ce655646c49ccc125467d01276934907d4bfd733 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X right click/context menu via keyboard Is it possible to access the right click/context menu of the currently selected item (not the item under the mouse) by way of using a keyboard shortcut?
If not, is there any way to achieve this, either by Applescript or utility?
A: There is no way in general on the Mac to determine the screen coordinates of the current insertion point. So there is no way to automate a click at the current insertion point.
In some apps, there might be a way to get the coordinates via AppleScript, or it might be possible to get them using some sort of private API or other system hackery, but there is no general solution to this problem that is supported by Apple APIs.
It is, apparently, quite a common UI gesture on Windows, but it is not something you can do on the Mac.
| Q: OS X right click/context menu via keyboard Is it possible to access the right click/context menu of the currently selected item (not the item under the mouse) by way of using a keyboard shortcut?
If not, is there any way to achieve this, either by Applescript or utility?
A: There is no way in general on the Mac to determine the screen coordinates of the current insertion point. So there is no way to automate a click at the current insertion point.
In some apps, there might be a way to get the coordinates via AppleScript, or it might be possible to get them using some sort of private API or other system hackery, but there is no general solution to this problem that is supported by Apple APIs.
It is, apparently, quite a common UI gesture on Windows, but it is not something you can do on the Mac.
A: I was also looking for this kind of feature and found a good alternative.
Most context menu items in OS X can also be found in the top menu bar, and you can access this with a keyboard shortcut. By default it's set to ctrl+F2, however this often doesn't work. You can change the binding on the Keyboard preference pane.
This this post has more details http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57591609-263/access-menus-via-the-keyboard-in-os-x/
A: For files in the Finder, you can reach an "Actions" menu (not the built-in context menu) with Alfred's File Actions feature.
This is only in the paid version of the application, but I have it because of this and other functionality that really makes it worth it. For instance, one of the actions you can choose is "Email to..." and then start typing and choose a name read directly from your Contacts, press enter, and the "compose email" window is opened up with the recipient and subject filled in and the file attached.
With these and other features, it's not the same as the context menu, but I've never needed to access a file's context menu since I installed Alfred, so I think it accomplishes the purpose of this question, at least for the Finder.
A: The context menu can primarily be opened by a right mouse click (or a control click) only.
However, if you want to right click on a specific area on the screen without using the mouse, you may use Mouse Keys from Universal Access settings in System Preferences. With it, you can control the mouse by using the keyboard number pad. When activated, a right mouse click then can be achieved by Ctrl+5 on a keyboard with a numpad or Fn+Ctrl+i on a laptop. This will allow you to 'right-click' your word.
Go to System Preferences --> Universal Access --> Mouse --> Enable Mouse Keys (ON)
Found on: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11238186/1919382
A: One could probably write an Applescript that moved the mouse over the selected item and do a right-click. Other than that, no, I don't believe there is a way.
A: The latest version of BetterTouchTool has an action you can trigger: "Open Current Finder Selection with Specific App," and another one: "Open Active/Selected Folder with Specific App."
This handles all my use cases for right clicks in Finder, personally. I use ⌥' to open the active/selected folder in the Terminal, and a gesture (two finger swipe up from bottom of trackpad) to open the current Finder selection in Adobe Bridge. Works perfectly.
A: It's far from appealing, and there really is no concrete way of doing this, but if your left with no other options this can work quite well (in macros that is).
Hold Cmd+F5 (turns voiceover on)
Press Tab
Press Space
Press Esc
Press Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+Space
Select menu item "Show menu"
Hold Cmd+F5 (turns voiceover off)
It's a really really messy system, and it doesn't work consistently. But sometimes it is the only option which works well enough to be useful...
A: I was actually looking for this shortcut to do quick grammar checking on a selected word in gmail. Usually, painted the word (option+shift+left arrow) and then right click to see the options (and I hate using mouse).
For this particular case, there's Chrome shortcut, which is [cmd + shift ; — or — cmd :] to display grammar check. Then you can cycle through suggestions using arrow keys.
That did the work for me for that specific issue.
Hope it helps.
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a3c152589fc473213ad1d476e758d24d1635dfc8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is an quick way to create a new blank file in Lion? In Windows, one can create a new file using Right Click -> Add New -> Type of File. Is there an analogous action in Lion?
I just want to create a new blank file on my Desktop.
A: A simple drag-and-drop solution works for me.
Create a folder called "New documents". In this folder, save a blank document of each type you want. In my case, I have a blank TextEdit document (.rtf) and a blank TextMate document (.txt).
Lock this folder (select, cmd-I, click 'Locked').
Put the folder in the Dock.
Now, whenever you want a new document, you simply drag it from this Dock folder to wherever you want it. Because the "New documents" folder is locked, the original won't be deleted; rather, the Mac will make a copy for you.
| Q: What is an quick way to create a new blank file in Lion? In Windows, one can create a new file using Right Click -> Add New -> Type of File. Is there an analogous action in Lion?
I just want to create a new blank file on my Desktop.
A: A simple drag-and-drop solution works for me.
Create a folder called "New documents". In this folder, save a blank document of each type you want. In my case, I have a blank TextEdit document (.rtf) and a blank TextMate document (.txt).
Lock this folder (select, cmd-I, click 'Locked').
Put the folder in the Dock.
Now, whenever you want a new document, you simply drag it from this Dock folder to wherever you want it. Because the "New documents" folder is locked, the original won't be deleted; rather, the Mac will make a copy for you.
A: To-Do's
If you just want to create a To-Do list, you might look at third-party solutions like:
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*NotesTab (free) which 'rests' in the menubar and has a beautiful GUI.
*Wunderlist (free) which provides sync between OSX, Win, iOS and Android
However, if you want to use a feature provided by OSX, try Stickies. It's Apple's program for taking notes. Very minimalistic and fast.
*
*format how you like
*edit with hyperlinks
*drag and drop pictures
*export as *.txt
*use ⌘+N to create a new note
*use ⌥+⇥ to create a list within the stickie
*
*with right-click you get to customize the list
*
Contextual Menu item
There used to be NuFile which added the Windows-like feature to OSX. Unfortunately, the software hasn't been updated in years. There is commercial solution available now:
Neu
This applications adds "Create Document..." and "Create And Open
Document..." menus to various places, including the main menubar, the
Dock, and the Services menu that the Finder shows when you right-click
on something. You can also trigger Neu from any application using a
special key combination.
A: Another option is to assign a shortcut to a script like this:
tell application "Finder"
set selection to make new file at (get insertion location)
end tell
A: If you're not adverse to using a 3rd pary app, then Document Palette sounds like what you need.
EDIT: This looks like its been discontinued by the developer. However, I managed to grab it from here and it seems to work just fine on Lion.
Document Palette, a free application from Cold Pizza Software, gives Windows switchers and long-time Mac OS X users searching for yet another way to save time, the ability to create new documents in the Finder with a quick keyboard shortcut...
Document Palette runs in the background and is invoked by hitting Command + Control + Option + N. Doing so brings up a semi-opaque bezel (much like the built-in Application Switcher) containing document icons from which you can choose to create new documents. By default, a plain text, rich text and HTML file are available, but you can add your own document types simply by dragging a document into the Document Palette application list window.
A: You can also use the Evernote, http://www.evernote.com/, to manage your To-Do list, which can also be synced between devices.
A: (I just re-read the question and am uncertain whether this post applies. My answer below is a solution for simple To-Do creation. If this question is really about creating a blank text file, though, my solution doesn't apply. Perhaps the original question could be clarified?)
I use LaunchBar, in conjunction with Wunderlist and a little Applescript. This is a fluid action for me now: Cmd-Space, then "AW", Space, and my To-Do text.
For those not familiar with LaunchBar, Cmd-Space brings up LaunchBar itself, "AW" is a shortcut to my "Add to Wunderlist" script, "Space" brings up a text field, and the contents of that field go to my Wunderlist task list.
The Applescript is really simple, it just takes a string and emails it to Wunderlist. It looks like this:
on handle_string(the_string)
set sendemail_string to "/usr/local/bin/sendemail -f [email protected]
-t [email protected] -s "
set gmail_string to "smtp.gmail.com:587 -xu [email protected]
-xp myemailpasswordgoeshere -m "
do shell script sendemail_string & gmail_string & the_string
end handle_string
This script DOES make your email password available in clear text in the script itself. I have a disposable Gmail account that I use only for this purpose, so I'm not that bothered if the account is compromised.
This system may be a bit more technical than many would like, but it allows me to use Wunderlist (which I love). If you're already a LaunchBar user, I think you'll like it too.
A: Neu is a simple application that makes it easier to create new documents in the Finder, without you having to open an application first.
http://www.elegantchaos.com/neu (demo available)
$10 on the Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neu/id405033825?mt=12
A: This script will add an item to your context menu (tested on OSX Mavericks) and is VERY easy to install:
https://github.com/OscarGodson/New-File
To install on Mavericks:
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*download the script
*Open New File.workflow
*I was prompted to either install or open -- choose to install.
That's it.
You will only see the 'New File' option when you right click the parent folder or another file. Sometimes it is under 'Services' menu item.
A: I am using XtraFinder plugin for Mac OS's built in Finder. It has most of the features including create new file in finder options.
A: Provided that you have a terminal open:
*
*Type cd (with a trailing space)
*Do you see the blue folder icon in the Finder title bar? It is draggable - so drag that folder icon into the terminal window after the cd and press enter to switch to that folder.
*Type echo some very important note > mynewfile.txt
The echo command achieves two tasks: creating a file and adding text to it.
To add some more text to an existing file use echo more text >> mynewfile.txt.
Warning: if you do echo some text > existingfile.txt on an existing file the original contents will be lost! Therefore it is safest to always use >> (append) instead of >, because >> will create the file if it does not exist.
To paste multiline text from the clipboard to a new file:
*
*In Terminal type cat > newfile.txt.
*Paste the text.
*Press Control+d.
Note: the icon in the title bar of most apps, including text editors, and apps like Pages, TextEdit, Preview, etc is draggable which means it can be dragged into the Terminal, into any app with editable content, into form fields on web pages, into chat windows of your favorite messenger or address bars in web browsers. Also if you select the URL in the browser address bar (e.g. ⌘+L) you can then drag and drop it into any editable field. And if you drag the icon right to the left of the address bar into a rich text field (i.e. Pages or Notes) you will get a nice link with the page title.
A: There is an affordable App store app "New File Here": https://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/new-file-here/id777221999?mt=12
It works nicely, and also has built in templates, which could come in handy.
What I'm missing: You have to point on a folder (not in the empty space in the finder), keyboard shortcut.
A: This really annoyed me and I could not find a viable solution anywhere.
Nothing worked for me so I created my own solution.
What I wanted it to do.
1: Command + n to create a new file ( with any extension eg. file.php .htaccess info.json etc... )
2: The active finder window should be the location for the file to be created. ( Even Desktop. Most solutions fail to create files on desktop. )
3: The input text prompt should be active after pressing the hotkey. (The normal method to prompt with workflows does not focus to the input text causing you to have to go to your mouse to click on the input field and focus on the text every time you create a new file.)
( How it works: The workflow finds the active finder instance and runs a shell task to simply touch the filename relative to the current path. Thus files that already exist will not be modified or overwritten. )
https://github.com/SplicePHP/workflows
(Currently only has New File in there and will add some more workflows later.)
Download and install Keyboard Maestro or something like it.
Create a group called Finder Macros and only have these items triggered if finder is active.
Now create a new hotkey for command + n and point it to the NewFile.workflows file downloaded from my repo.
That's it. Enjoy never thinking about this issue again.
A: I'm using an app called Easy New File Creator
You can download and install it for free. (no need to buy full version)
This is how its preferences look like:
After configuring it's preferences, customize the finder by selecting its extension at System Preferences > Extensions > Finder and select box besides Easy New File Creator Extension which looks like this
Now when you right click (or control+click) you'll get options like this.
By selecting on New File Here, you can create a new file there itself.
While creating new file name the file according to your requirement.
(If you want to create a python file, name it Untitled.py)
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47e7c408ba869554d42a8a08e2cede06bc9ba8c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What (un-)documented multitouch gestures exist in Lion and common applications? Safari allows to go back to a previous website using the two-finger-swipe gesture. All of the standard multitouch gestures are very nicely documented in the More Gestures section of the Trackpad system preference:
I was looking for a similar gesture in Finder. During my research I stumbled upon a MacWorld article to discover:
*
*Use ⌥ + three-finger-swipe to go back/forward in finder.
Question:
This feature is not documented anywhere I looked.
*
*Are there any other gestures implemented in Lion and common applications (e.g. iLife) besides those in the System Preferences?
*Are these "hidden" gestures documented by Apple in a help file or knowledge base so I can look for them as I wish to learn more?
Let's collectively maintain an answer listing of which apps have specific functions controllable by gestures or gestures and keyboard keys.
A: The best resource I have regarding gestures in OS X is: http://www.danrodney.com/mac/multitouch.html
| Q: What (un-)documented multitouch gestures exist in Lion and common applications? Safari allows to go back to a previous website using the two-finger-swipe gesture. All of the standard multitouch gestures are very nicely documented in the More Gestures section of the Trackpad system preference:
I was looking for a similar gesture in Finder. During my research I stumbled upon a MacWorld article to discover:
*
*Use ⌥ + three-finger-swipe to go back/forward in finder.
Question:
This feature is not documented anywhere I looked.
*
*Are there any other gestures implemented in Lion and common applications (e.g. iLife) besides those in the System Preferences?
*Are these "hidden" gestures documented by Apple in a help file or knowledge base so I can look for them as I wish to learn more?
Let's collectively maintain an answer listing of which apps have specific functions controllable by gestures or gestures and keyboard keys.
A: The best resource I have regarding gestures in OS X is: http://www.danrodney.com/mac/multitouch.html
A: Not really a gesture in itself, but I have found that certain gestures (at least on my Magic Trackpad) do not require the requisite amount of touches for the duration of the gesture, just during the initiation, for example starting a 2 finger scroll will happily continue if you then lift one of those fingers off the surface and continue scrollng with 1 finger, giving a more iOS feel to the movement.
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dedfc4ee1c47d224df7f3a021dc7f562a2b752a0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I extract the *.icns from the Get Info dialog? Previously, I've changed the icon of an application before by manually replacing the icon file .icns located in loremipsum.app/Contents/Resources/loremipsum.icns.
This time, I've downloaded some beautiful icons which are folders with the needed icon and not simple .icns files.
How can I get access of the the *.icns file?
A: You can mark it in the Get Info dialog, go Edit → Copy, switch to Preview, and select File → New from clipboard.
| Q: How can I extract the *.icns from the Get Info dialog? Previously, I've changed the icon of an application before by manually replacing the icon file .icns located in loremipsum.app/Contents/Resources/loremipsum.icns.
This time, I've downloaded some beautiful icons which are folders with the needed icon and not simple .icns files.
How can I get access of the the *.icns file?
A: You can mark it in the Get Info dialog, go Edit → Copy, switch to Preview, and select File → New from clipboard.
A: There's no need to edit a resource bundle. You can copy the icon from an existing folder, file or application by selecting it and choosing Get Info from the Finder File menu or by using the keyboard shortcut ⌘ + i.
Select the icon file in the upper left hand corner by clicking on it once. The copy the file. I use ⌘ + c for this. Now Get Info for the application you want to use the icon for. Select it's icon, and paste the new icon into the application using ⌘ + v.
A: You can use the free iCondubber, which is a sort of universal icon manager/converter.
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de7905acdb976d25e05ae8c84b5f0e76719a5528 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to mark an item as Unread in Safari Reading List? Sometimes I want to keep an item in the Unread section of the Safari 5.1.3 Reading List after I have read the item. The All section is too cluttered to use as a place to quickly find items. I realize I am trying to use the RL beyond what it was intended to be used for. Nonetheless, is there a way to mark an item in the Safari RL?
A: As you've suggested, the Reading List has fairly limited functionality. While you can't mark a page unread directly from the All list, a simple solution is to open the page and add it to the Reading List again.
| Q: How to mark an item as Unread in Safari Reading List? Sometimes I want to keep an item in the Unread section of the Safari 5.1.3 Reading List after I have read the item. The All section is too cluttered to use as a place to quickly find items. I realize I am trying to use the RL beyond what it was intended to be used for. Nonetheless, is there a way to mark an item in the Safari RL?
A: As you've suggested, the Reading List has fairly limited functionality. While you can't mark a page unread directly from the All list, a simple solution is to open the page and add it to the Reading List again.
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115a3fd86e04a6743ed1701fac6160a58c836fa2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is Thunderbolt backwards-compatible with mini-DP for both input and output? How compatible or not is the new Thunderbolt connection?
If I have a MacBook Air with Thunderbolt, can I use my existing mini-video cable to connect it to a VGA overhead projector?
If I buy a new Cinema Display with Thunderbolt, can I connect my existing Mac Pro to it?
Are there special cables, convertors needed, or are there any fundamental incompatibilities?
A: Your existing Mini DisplayPort cable (VGA adaptor, etc.) should allow your Thunderbolt equipped MacBook Air to connect to a projector (assuming it worked previously with a Mini DisplayPort output) but, as with all things presentation, you'll want to test the setup in advance if possible.
According to Apple's specs, the Thunderbolt Display requires a:
Thunderbolt-enabled Mac computer, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac
Your existing Mac Pro can't use the monitor.
| Q: Is Thunderbolt backwards-compatible with mini-DP for both input and output? How compatible or not is the new Thunderbolt connection?
If I have a MacBook Air with Thunderbolt, can I use my existing mini-video cable to connect it to a VGA overhead projector?
If I buy a new Cinema Display with Thunderbolt, can I connect my existing Mac Pro to it?
Are there special cables, convertors needed, or are there any fundamental incompatibilities?
A: Your existing Mini DisplayPort cable (VGA adaptor, etc.) should allow your Thunderbolt equipped MacBook Air to connect to a projector (assuming it worked previously with a Mini DisplayPort output) but, as with all things presentation, you'll want to test the setup in advance if possible.
According to Apple's specs, the Thunderbolt Display requires a:
Thunderbolt-enabled Mac computer, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac
Your existing Mac Pro can't use the monitor.
A: *
*A Projector connected to a Mini DisplayPort adapter, connected to the Thunderbolt port of a MacBook Air should work as expected.
*I don't think that the Mac Pro can currently (officially) drive a Thunderbolt Cinema Display.
You may find this article informative.
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a99bff86262ba860b6830c19997b7f22ab0e2a42 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Recovering all my old settings, apps etc ... from removed hard drive I recently had the hard drive replaced (by apple) in my iMac (Snow Leopard). I still have the removed hard drive, which obviously has all my old data etc ... on it. I did not create a time machine backup.
I would like to transfer everything from my old hard drive to the new one, so in effect the mac would b returned to its previous state, albeit with a new hard drive installed.
I have tried migration assistant but it didn't transfer over any of my existing apps or settings.
Could anyone please assist as to the best method to do this, any advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Noel
A: Resolved the above by booting from install disk and using disk utility restore function.
Made sure everything was erased and formated correctly (mac extended journaled) on the new internal drive. Restored using the old drive as the source.
Slower process, but everything is as it should be. All applications, settings etc ... all correct.
| Q: Recovering all my old settings, apps etc ... from removed hard drive I recently had the hard drive replaced (by apple) in my iMac (Snow Leopard). I still have the removed hard drive, which obviously has all my old data etc ... on it. I did not create a time machine backup.
I would like to transfer everything from my old hard drive to the new one, so in effect the mac would b returned to its previous state, albeit with a new hard drive installed.
I have tried migration assistant but it didn't transfer over any of my existing apps or settings.
Could anyone please assist as to the best method to do this, any advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Noel
A: Resolved the above by booting from install disk and using disk utility restore function.
Made sure everything was erased and formated correctly (mac extended journaled) on the new internal drive. Restored using the old drive as the source.
Slower process, but everything is as it should be. All applications, settings etc ... all correct.
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7a75bd6ca26905771ba582b5bd8ebe2e27f922fb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: the iCloud IMAP server "p01-imap.mail.me.com" rejected the password for user xxxxxx I reset my Apple ID (@me.com - Only have ONE account) as Apple asked me to update my information with a more strong password. I can login just fine into iCloud mail from the web and check, see my emails but as soon as I launch the Mail app this window keeps popping up over and over telling me that my password was rejected for user by the iCloud IMAP server. I have removed iCloud from my Mac and add it all back without any complains or issues but as soon as I launch the Mail application under my @me.com account this window pops-up. I don't know what else to do and so far I haven't been able to solved the problem. Any ideas? My machine is a 2011 MBP with OS Lion.
My Mail Application configurations under Incoming Mail Server shows: p01-imap-mail.me.com and Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): iCloud (iCloud).
A: It should be in the format p01-imap.mail.me.com, it looks like your missing the 'mail' part.
| Q: the iCloud IMAP server "p01-imap.mail.me.com" rejected the password for user xxxxxx I reset my Apple ID (@me.com - Only have ONE account) as Apple asked me to update my information with a more strong password. I can login just fine into iCloud mail from the web and check, see my emails but as soon as I launch the Mail app this window keeps popping up over and over telling me that my password was rejected for user by the iCloud IMAP server. I have removed iCloud from my Mac and add it all back without any complains or issues but as soon as I launch the Mail application under my @me.com account this window pops-up. I don't know what else to do and so far I haven't been able to solved the problem. Any ideas? My machine is a 2011 MBP with OS Lion.
My Mail Application configurations under Incoming Mail Server shows: p01-imap-mail.me.com and Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): iCloud (iCloud).
A: It should be in the format p01-imap.mail.me.com, it looks like your missing the 'mail' part.
A: Had the same issue. Went into my could preferences (preferences panel) It told me my account was suspended for security reasons. Had to reset PW and then all worked again.
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fe706d105e1ba4f9b5f78fd11e8114f28963da67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Locking my machine causes my network Connection to sleep Is there a way to lock my screen but not sleep my network connection? I step away from desk quite a bit and I lock the screen pretty much every time. When I come back I always from stepping away for like 5 minutes it seems like my machine has to reacquire an IP. This via ethernet. This is on a 2010 13' unibody macbook pro running Lion.
A: If your MacBook is plugged in I would try the following.
*
*Change the Engery Prefs to not spin down the disk or sleep the computer when it's plugged in.
*Activate the Screen Saver to turn on at a hot corner.
*Set the Screen Saver prefs to require password to log back in.
Now see if activating the Screen Saver causes you to loose your assigned IP.
The alternate method is to manually assign an IP to your MacBook while you're at work.
| Q: Locking my machine causes my network Connection to sleep Is there a way to lock my screen but not sleep my network connection? I step away from desk quite a bit and I lock the screen pretty much every time. When I come back I always from stepping away for like 5 minutes it seems like my machine has to reacquire an IP. This via ethernet. This is on a 2010 13' unibody macbook pro running Lion.
A: If your MacBook is plugged in I would try the following.
*
*Change the Engery Prefs to not spin down the disk or sleep the computer when it's plugged in.
*Activate the Screen Saver to turn on at a hot corner.
*Set the Screen Saver prefs to require password to log back in.
Now see if activating the Screen Saver causes you to loose your assigned IP.
The alternate method is to manually assign an IP to your MacBook while you're at work.
A: User Geraard's answer in this forum posting might help. The suggested settings changes seems to have fixed his problem:
*
*Click the Apple Icon at top left of your screen.
*Select System Preferences.
*Select and open Network
*At the lower right select Advanced
*This will bring up the
PPPoE screen with a menu bar showing TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, Proxies, PPP
*Select PPP to access the drop down menu and then you can make
changes. On the SECOND LINE PROMPTS: I change the value from 0 minutes
to 999 minutes. This cured the Pop-up Message to Reconnect that was
happening.
Apple support seems to concur:
If you keep disconnecting from the Internet
If you have to redial your dial-up modem Internet connection after not
using your computer for a few moments, or reconnect your PPPoE
connection, your computer may be set to disconnect automatically
when the connection is idle.
*
*Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Network.
*Select your modem port (internal or external) or your PPPoE configuration from the Services list, and then click Advanced.
*Click PPP, and then make sure the “Disconnect if idle for __ minutes” checkbox is not selected, or if it is selected, increase the
number of minutes before that the computer will remain idle before
disconnecting.
With luck, this setting change will solve your problem.
A: Late answer, but in case anybody finds this via Google, as I did, entering the following in Terminal worked for me:
cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources;
sudo ./airport en1 prefs DisconnectOnLogout=NO
This changes the system pref that tells Airport to disconnect when the session is suspended (locked).
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4643b5e401a040a6f1dbbaf52e6ea4e6793159c2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does turning on WiFi on iPhone use battery? Does turning on WiFi (without connecting to any wireless network) use battery?
A: Yes, turning on features will use more power. According to Apple, you can save power by turning off WiFi if you're not using that feature:
Optimize Your Settings
Depending on how they are configured, a few
features may decrease your iPhone battery life. For example, the
frequency with which you retrieve email and the number of email
accounts you auto-check can both affect battery life. The tips below
apply to an iPhone running iOS 5.0 or later and may help extend your
battery life.
and more specifically:
Turn off Wi-Fi: If you rarely use Wi-Fi, you can turn it off to save
power. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and set Wi-Fi to Off. Note that if you
frequently use your iPhone to browse the web, battery life may be
improved by using Wi-Fi instead of cellular data networks.
The same principle is true for all other features (bluetooth, push email, etc.). Turn off what you don't need to conserve power.
| Q: Does turning on WiFi on iPhone use battery? Does turning on WiFi (without connecting to any wireless network) use battery?
A: Yes, turning on features will use more power. According to Apple, you can save power by turning off WiFi if you're not using that feature:
Optimize Your Settings
Depending on how they are configured, a few
features may decrease your iPhone battery life. For example, the
frequency with which you retrieve email and the number of email
accounts you auto-check can both affect battery life. The tips below
apply to an iPhone running iOS 5.0 or later and may help extend your
battery life.
and more specifically:
Turn off Wi-Fi: If you rarely use Wi-Fi, you can turn it off to save
power. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and set Wi-Fi to Off. Note that if you
frequently use your iPhone to browse the web, battery life may be
improved by using Wi-Fi instead of cellular data networks.
The same principle is true for all other features (bluetooth, push email, etc.). Turn off what you don't need to conserve power.
A: Interestingly enough some people have found turning on WiFi to actually cause them to have better battery life. This is very much dependent on how you use it, but the people that I know who have experienced this say they are in strong wifi buildings with weak 3g signal. Having all of their email going over WiFi has saved them battery life.
But apart from that, all of the other guys are right, it will pull more power since you aren't actively connected but still pulling for networks.
A: Yes. Your phone will be polling periodically for available networks, which will use battery. Even you set it to not ask to join networks, the radio is powered up and that takes some amount of power to do.
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ffa8328cbda0b4a7cef98b3dbe8db7160ff97172 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Rotating a video in QT player 10 I'm trying to rotate an iPhone 4S vid 90degrees Counter Clockwise.
I've seen lots of posts and answers that say there is an 'Edit > Rotate Left' option in Quicktime Player. I can't see it! I have QT Player 10.0 on Snow Leopard.
Could someone help me out? I've tried various other apps, and even though some of them have worked, none have managed to rotate it in a format that can then be synced back to the iPhone (for editing work in iMovie iOS app and Vimeo app).
Notes: I don't have iLife or QT Pro, just QT Player :/
Thanks!
A: Using QuickTime Player 10.1 on OS 10.7.3, I see this option in the Edit menu. My guess is that it appeared either in Lion or in the 10.0 > 10.1 QT update. Open Software Update and check if the QuickTime Player 10.1 update is available for Snow Leopard.
| Q: Rotating a video in QT player 10 I'm trying to rotate an iPhone 4S vid 90degrees Counter Clockwise.
I've seen lots of posts and answers that say there is an 'Edit > Rotate Left' option in Quicktime Player. I can't see it! I have QT Player 10.0 on Snow Leopard.
Could someone help me out? I've tried various other apps, and even though some of them have worked, none have managed to rotate it in a format that can then be synced back to the iPhone (for editing work in iMovie iOS app and Vimeo app).
Notes: I don't have iLife or QT Pro, just QT Player :/
Thanks!
A: Using QuickTime Player 10.1 on OS 10.7.3, I see this option in the Edit menu. My guess is that it appeared either in Lion or in the 10.0 > 10.1 QT update. Open Software Update and check if the QuickTime Player 10.1 update is available for Snow Leopard.
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4c4487b15d6f7f2e83fdeff4822aae54563d9568 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using tmux and pbpaste, pbcopy, and launchctl I have discovered that tmux breaks pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl.
Is there a good way to make it play nice with these tools?
A: Okay, I found a solution...
Chris Johnsen has a good writeup of what causes this problem on github.
His tools work, but a better solution, if you have homebrew installed to:
brew install reattach-to-user-namespace
Then in your ~/.tmux.conf add these lines:
set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh" # or bash
bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
bind C-v run "reattach-to-user-namespace pbpaste | tmux load-buffer - && tmux paste-buffer"
The first line ensures your shell can talk to pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl now with no worries.
The second line lets you copy the tmux paste buffer into the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-b control-c (replace control-b with your tmux prefix key).
The third line will directly paste the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-v. As a side-effect it copies the Mac's paste buffer into tmux's paste buffer.
I'd prefer if I could nuke tmux's paste buffer entirely and have it paste directly into the Mac`s paste buffer, but... oh well.
| Q: Using tmux and pbpaste, pbcopy, and launchctl I have discovered that tmux breaks pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl.
Is there a good way to make it play nice with these tools?
A: Okay, I found a solution...
Chris Johnsen has a good writeup of what causes this problem on github.
His tools work, but a better solution, if you have homebrew installed to:
brew install reattach-to-user-namespace
Then in your ~/.tmux.conf add these lines:
set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh" # or bash
bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
bind C-v run "reattach-to-user-namespace pbpaste | tmux load-buffer - && tmux paste-buffer"
The first line ensures your shell can talk to pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl now with no worries.
The second line lets you copy the tmux paste buffer into the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-b control-c (replace control-b with your tmux prefix key).
The third line will directly paste the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-v. As a side-effect it copies the Mac's paste buffer into tmux's paste buffer.
I'd prefer if I could nuke tmux's paste buffer entirely and have it paste directly into the Mac`s paste buffer, but... oh well.
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a5b8f5a1702c35af1df0dcfceae0e44c095ec12c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Icons on the desktop may slow down Mac? When I ask a question about if I run too many process will slow down my Mac for Magican measured my Mac is high CPU usage. A Mac user tell me the icons on the desktop may still influence the performance of my Mac. Is this true?
A: Reputable sources like Macworld indicate that the Finder draws non-generic Desktop icons the same way it draws open windows, and the more of them there are, the more memory and processor time it takes to refresh the Desktop. I have not found any sources that indicate this is a major factor in system speed, but yes, more custom icons on the Desktop take more resources when the computer redraws the Desktop.
| Q: Icons on the desktop may slow down Mac? When I ask a question about if I run too many process will slow down my Mac for Magican measured my Mac is high CPU usage. A Mac user tell me the icons on the desktop may still influence the performance of my Mac. Is this true?
A: Reputable sources like Macworld indicate that the Finder draws non-generic Desktop icons the same way it draws open windows, and the more of them there are, the more memory and processor time it takes to refresh the Desktop. I have not found any sources that indicate this is a major factor in system speed, but yes, more custom icons on the Desktop take more resources when the computer redraws the Desktop.
A: What do you mean with "icons on the desktop"? Having files (docs, pictures, etc) does not slows your machine down though. Now, if you are referring to the apps on your Doc if you have a lot open and depending what apps you have it might. Widgets can slow somewhat the system. You might want to look also into upgrading your memory if your system just came with the minimum. I have a MBP and after upgrading the memory from 4 to 8 GB I saw a huge positive improvement.
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412f60ee24cb378d0b6fd4fd88dfff654b417037 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I lock my screen with a keyboard shortcut?
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a quick way to lock my Mac?
I'm running OS X 10.7.3
Currently I've found what looks like 2 possible solutions:
*
*Hot corner(s) setup in the "Desktop & Screen Savers" preferences
*Create a service with Automator then map a keyboard shortcut in "Keyboard" preferences
I don't like 1 because it requires the mouse, and 2 seems like a bit of a hack. Is there a built in way to do this? Or should I settle for the workarounds?
Thanks
L
A: Does control+shift+eject ( sleep displays ) solve your problem? (if you set authentication for login)
Or you can use Option+Command+eject Put the computer to sleep.
| Q: Can I lock my screen with a keyboard shortcut?
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a quick way to lock my Mac?
I'm running OS X 10.7.3
Currently I've found what looks like 2 possible solutions:
*
*Hot corner(s) setup in the "Desktop & Screen Savers" preferences
*Create a service with Automator then map a keyboard shortcut in "Keyboard" preferences
I don't like 1 because it requires the mouse, and 2 seems like a bit of a hack. Is there a built in way to do this? Or should I settle for the workarounds?
Thanks
L
A: Does control+shift+eject ( sleep displays ) solve your problem? (if you set authentication for login)
Or you can use Option+Command+eject Put the computer to sleep.
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0379987da06a02aa4d60a9cdde33d4725962714e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to Connect Multiple Monitors to a MacBook Air Usually I connect my MacBook Air 11" to a secondary display via the Thunderbolt port.
What do I need to connect it to two external monitors?
A: First generation MacBook Airs could only drive a single display. And the current generation, Thunderbolt-equipped, MacBook Airs do not support more than one external display via the Thunderbolt port. The graphics chip used in these Macs isn't up to the task of driving extremely high resolution display combinations.
Reference:
Unfortunately, this ability is lost on the 2011 MacBook Air, due to the weaker Intel HD 3000 graphics chip and a stripped down Thunderbolt controller.
| Q: How to Connect Multiple Monitors to a MacBook Air Usually I connect my MacBook Air 11" to a secondary display via the Thunderbolt port.
What do I need to connect it to two external monitors?
A: First generation MacBook Airs could only drive a single display. And the current generation, Thunderbolt-equipped, MacBook Airs do not support more than one external display via the Thunderbolt port. The graphics chip used in these Macs isn't up to the task of driving extremely high resolution display combinations.
Reference:
Unfortunately, this ability is lost on the 2011 MacBook Air, due to the weaker Intel HD 3000 graphics chip and a stripped down Thunderbolt controller.
A: As has been mentioned, you couldn't daisy-chain multiple Thunderbolt displays on pre-2012 Airs. Two possible add-ons that'll allow you to connect an additional external display:
*
*Matrox DualHead2Go (in action hooked up to an 11" Air)
*DisplayLink adapter
I've used the latter and they work pretty well for non-intensive applications.
A: Your Air supports the internal display as well as only one ThunderBolt external display. As commented below, the Mid 2012 Air can run two ThunderBolt displays. Physically you can daisy chain as many Thunderbolt Displays as you have money, but the first limitation you will run into is the graphics card.
The official Apple knowledge base article lists the capabilities of all ThunderBolt macs in one place:
*
*http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219?viewlocale=en_US#dispnum
A: What about the Sonnet Thunderbolt expansion products? These appear to be just the ticket: grab a couple of PCIe video cards, throw them in this box and voila: as much real estate as you can afford. Anyone have any actual experience with this approach?
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html
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6fe185cb79834f3de4246ddfd30ab3f13401ac83 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any reasons that prevent Apple Remote Desktop to wake sleeping Macs? Is there any known reason why I cannot wake up sleeping Macs with Apple Remote Desktop?
*
*I have checked the Energy Saver Prefs "Wake for network access".
*I have checked the Sharing Prefs "Remote Login" and "Remote Management".
A: "Wake for network access" refers to the system receiving a special "Wake On Media" or "Wake On LAN" packet from the local ethernet network.
Simply trying to connect with a network application will not wake it up. That's because while the computer is sleeping, it cannot process any network traffic. WOM works at the hardware level of the ethernet card: the card stays powered on and when it sees an ethernet packet with its MAC address and a certain byte pattern, it wakes up the computer.
Because WOM is based on ethernet frames, it generally cannot not work by itself outside of your local LAN. Some routers provide utilities which let you remotely instruct the router to generate a WOM packet, but not typically consumer grade routers.
| Q: Any reasons that prevent Apple Remote Desktop to wake sleeping Macs? Is there any known reason why I cannot wake up sleeping Macs with Apple Remote Desktop?
*
*I have checked the Energy Saver Prefs "Wake for network access".
*I have checked the Sharing Prefs "Remote Login" and "Remote Management".
A: "Wake for network access" refers to the system receiving a special "Wake On Media" or "Wake On LAN" packet from the local ethernet network.
Simply trying to connect with a network application will not wake it up. That's because while the computer is sleeping, it cannot process any network traffic. WOM works at the hardware level of the ethernet card: the card stays powered on and when it sees an ethernet packet with its MAC address and a certain byte pattern, it wakes up the computer.
Because WOM is based on ethernet frames, it generally cannot not work by itself outside of your local LAN. Some routers provide utilities which let you remotely instruct the router to generate a WOM packet, but not typically consumer grade routers.
A: Have you checked this archived kbase article? In my experience, wake-on-LAN has never worked very reliably with ARD 3. At a minimum you need to be on the same LAN subnet.
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7db3ca62c8e59cf61718c08469f702bb9ae984df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a searchable list of applications that support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features? I just upgraded to Lion and I'd like to know what applications support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features. Is there a searchable list of applications that support these features?
Update: This question also includes Mountain Lion.
A: I don't believe that there is a resource showing apps that support one specific Lion feature; but an excellent starter source is Roaring Apps: http://roaringapps.com.
Roaring apps is a group sourced site that analyses apps and how well they do or don't work on Lion. This site had a lot more traffic right after Lion's release and I expect it to get hit again as (Redacted) Lion hits the streets.
It might be worth submitting to that site to see if they'd expand to cover Lion-esque features for more details.
| Q: Is there a searchable list of applications that support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features? I just upgraded to Lion and I'd like to know what applications support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features. Is there a searchable list of applications that support these features?
Update: This question also includes Mountain Lion.
A: I don't believe that there is a resource showing apps that support one specific Lion feature; but an excellent starter source is Roaring Apps: http://roaringapps.com.
Roaring apps is a group sourced site that analyses apps and how well they do or don't work on Lion. This site had a lot more traffic right after Lion's release and I expect it to get hit again as (Redacted) Lion hits the streets.
It might be worth submitting to that site to see if they'd expand to cover Lion-esque features for more details.
A: I contacted the Roaring Apps developer and he has added this feature to his tables:
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1e8bbf1028b33afb641414d690822ee35861f5ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I purchase a replacement screw for my MacBook Pro SuperDrive? While replacing the logic board on my MacBook Pro (15" 2.4 GHz) and I stripped one of the 3.3mm 00 Phillips screws for the SuperDrive. I have found only one source online that had replacements in stock (http://www.impactcomputers.com/), and they wanted to charge me $19.99 + shipping for 5 of them. Are stores like this my only recourse, or does anyone know of a better online distributer of Mac parts?
I have checked ifixit.com and I would like to avoid buying full $60 sets for one replacement.
A: Have you tried ebay? ebay search for "macbook pro screws"
| Q: Where can I purchase a replacement screw for my MacBook Pro SuperDrive? While replacing the logic board on my MacBook Pro (15" 2.4 GHz) and I stripped one of the 3.3mm 00 Phillips screws for the SuperDrive. I have found only one source online that had replacements in stock (http://www.impactcomputers.com/), and they wanted to charge me $19.99 + shipping for 5 of them. Are stores like this my only recourse, or does anyone know of a better online distributer of Mac parts?
I have checked ifixit.com and I would like to avoid buying full $60 sets for one replacement.
A: Have you tried ebay? ebay search for "macbook pro screws"
A: Have you got any old dead computers, or know someone who does? They provide a cheap and ready source of ridiculously expensive to replace parts, including such things as small metric screws.
A: iFixit is a good place for parts. They seem to sell complete screw kits for different models.
Although one screw missing won’t hurt the unit. I repaired a machine recently that is literally held together with celo tape and stickers.
A: You might want to try Other World Computing. They sell Mac parts and kits so they might be able to help you. I have used them in the past and they so far no complaints.
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d033cddb1ba6c4f1c8043ccab689966ef81e0a35 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's a good program to batch resize 100,000 jpg images? The program should run in batch mode to resize all files in a folder and then save new files to different folder. An option for setting jpg quality would be great, too.
A: Several people have mentioned ImageMagick. Here is a recipe:
For simplicity, assume all the files are in one folder (and the folder contains nothing else). Open a terminal window, cd into this folder, then run
mkdir ../resized
for x in *.jpg; do convert -geometry 800x600 $x ../resized/$x
where you replace the 800x600 by whatever size you want.
Advantages include a great amount of flexibility in ImageMagick's convert, such as the ability to select different quality settings for the target image, or setting the resize option by percentages. Or you can use -geometry 800x800, in which case the aspect ratio will be preserved, but the maximum of the width and height will be 800 pixels.
Disadvantages are the obvious ones: It requires a certain familiarity with the command line, plus a willingness to plough through the command line options of convert for the settings you want. This is not a task for the faint of heart.
| Q: What's a good program to batch resize 100,000 jpg images? The program should run in batch mode to resize all files in a folder and then save new files to different folder. An option for setting jpg quality would be great, too.
A: Several people have mentioned ImageMagick. Here is a recipe:
For simplicity, assume all the files are in one folder (and the folder contains nothing else). Open a terminal window, cd into this folder, then run
mkdir ../resized
for x in *.jpg; do convert -geometry 800x600 $x ../resized/$x
where you replace the 800x600 by whatever size you want.
Advantages include a great amount of flexibility in ImageMagick's convert, such as the ability to select different quality settings for the target image, or setting the resize option by percentages. Or you can use -geometry 800x800, in which case the aspect ratio will be preserved, but the maximum of the width and height will be 800 pixels.
Disadvantages are the obvious ones: It requires a certain familiarity with the command line, plus a willingness to plough through the command line options of convert for the settings you want. This is not a task for the faint of heart.
A: I second GraphicConverter. I've been a registered user for 16 years. Its main purpose is batch-processing image editing, and it has a good user interface for designing custom workflows and saving them.
You can also use it in conjunction with Automator, but you probably won't need to.
Here is some information from GraphicConverter's page explaining their batch processing image editing functions.
Batch conversion with additional functions
GraphicConverter offers you sophisticated batch processing which
fully automates repetitive tasks applied to a selection of pictures:
*
*Convert all the selected source pictures easily and quickly into a new format - regardless of whether there are 5 or 5,000 picture files;
you just define the type of conversion and set the details
*During the conversion process you can apply up to 60 additional batch functions such as rotation, resize, change the resolution, etc.
*Automate the removal of the Mac OS Ressourcefork before documents are uploaded if there are compatibility problems when the picture
files are placed in the internet
*Create catalogs in HTML format for publication in the internet and adjust the colors, sizes, etc. to your individual requirements (see
examples)
*Rename a selection of documents according to special criteria quickly and easily
*Join pictures together (e.g. for QuickTime VR)
*Insert or extract IPTC information into or out of a variety of document formats
*and much more ...
A: This is yet another simple, clean and effective batch image resize script.
If you are dealing with graphics and different resolutions a lot, you can use this script and save it with different values for occasional uses.
Do so, by changing this target_width 120 value to your needs and save the script. Now drag your image(s) onto the saved script-file to start resizing your image(s).
Open Script Editor, and create the following new script:
-- save in Script Editor as Application
-- drag files to its icon in Finder
on open some_items
repeat with this_item in some_items
try
rescale_and_save(this_item)
end try
end repeat
end open
to rescale_and_save(this_item)
tell application "Image Events"
launch
set the target_width to 120
-- open the image file
set this_image to open this_item
set typ to this_image's file type
copy dimensions of this_image to {current_width, current_height}
if current_width is greater than current_height then
scale this_image to size target_width
else
-- figure out new height
-- y2 = (y1 * x2) / x1
set the new_height to (current_height * target_width) / current_width
scale this_image to size new_height
end if
tell application "Finder" to set new_item to ¬
(container of this_item as string) & "scaled." & (name of this_item)
save this_image in new_item as typ
end tell
end rescale_and_save
original source
A: I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned the easiest, cheapest, and least technical option:
Automator
First, open Automator, which is in your Applications folder.
Next, choose to create a new workflow:
Next, add the following steps to the workflow by dragging and dropping:
When you run this, Automator is going to:
*
*pop up a window asking you to pick some files (as many as you want)
*pop up another window asking where you want to save the resized copies
*ask you how big you want the resized copies to be. You'll be able to choose either a fixed size or a percentage. All the images will be resized to either that size or by that percentage.
(The "show this action when the workflow runs" checkbox means that the workflow is going to pause, display the option, and allow you to change it then)
Once you do that, Automator is going to churn and burn, and when it's done it'll beep at you.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have an option to choose JPEG quality. However, for the price (free), it's pretty dang convenient.
A: Preview is certainly a good solution for some occasional resizing. There are also other nice free options, such as ImageMagic (command-line utility), Preview or something else plus Automator, etc.
However, if this is a part of your job and you need a true flexibility, a special-purpose application will save you a lot of time, and offer much more opportunities. Many users chose our batch image resizer Resize Sense (http://veprit.com/resizesense) for its outstanding flexibility and convenience.
Disclaimer: I am the developer. You better judge Resize Sense yourself. The introductory video on the product website will tell you exactly what is so special in Resize Sense. There is a free demo version.
A: Graphic Converter
The best for this..
A: I like to use ImageMagick. sips and Automator (which use an identical resizing method) make images look too blurry without additional sharpening in my opinion.
You can install ImageMagick with brew install imagemagick after installing Homebrew or with sudo port install imagemagick after installing MacPorts. Then run a command like this:
mogrify -filter lanczos2 -resize '500x500>' -format jpg -quality 90 -path /tmp/ *.jpg
500x500> makes images wider or taller than 500px fit to 500x500px. 500x would always change the width to 500 px and 500x500^ would make all images at least 500x500px. -path /tmp/ saves the output files to /tmp/ instead of modifying files in place.
Lanczos2 or the 2-lobe Lanczos is very similar to Catrom. Compared to Lanczos (Lanczos3), they are slightly less sharp, produce less ringing artifacts, and produce more Moiré patterns. The default filter for making images smaller is Triangle, which often makes images too blurry in my opinion.
-quality 100 creates files about twice as big -quality 95, which creates files about twice as big as -quality 88.
More information:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/
http://lri.me/shell1.txt
Here's a similar command that uses sips:
for f in *.jpg; do sips -Z 500 -s format jpeg -s formatOptions 80 "$f" /tmp/; done
-Z 500 is like 500x500> in ImageMagick.
If others have less than 100,000 images, you might also use Preview:
Preview used to use the same resizing method as sips and Automator, but it has used a different one since 10.7. I prefer ImageMagick's Lanczos2 though.
I uploaded a comparison of the different options to http://19a5b0.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/imagemagick-osx-resizing/index.html.
A: ImageMagick is a command line interface program and made for this purpose. The use and installation of ImageMagick can intimidating, but this image manipulation package is the most powerfull I have encountered so far. As the installation from source can be a hassle for native OS X users I advise you to use Homebrew.
To install ImageMagick using Homebrew run this oneliner in your terminal:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
Homebrew is now installed, it is wise to follow the installer's suggestions after installation. Now we install ImageMagick using brew.
brew install imagemagick
ImageMagick is now installed and it's convert program can be used for your purpose. To convert a big jpg image to a smaller png image your can run
convert input.jpg -geometry 800x600 output.png
To answer your question "How to resize all files in a folder and save them in a different folder" you can run the following script.
# create output dir
mkdir -p "../resized"
# Convert all .jpg files in the current folder
for image in *.jpg; do
convert $x -geometry 800x600 resized/$x
done
ImageMagick can convert over 100 different image formats, and almost all tricks you can do with Photoshop you can do with ImageMagick.
A: I usually import all of the pictures into iPhoto and then export them to the different sizes. I have done it on batches of 300 or so images, but never on the scale you are wanting. Still, it may be an option.
A: No one has mentioned Apple Aperture.
While by no means the cheapest, it comes with a lot of other things that you may find useful. It basically replaces iPhoto and then some. It does 95% of what photographers commonly use Photoshop for. (It won't do flaming text. :-)
But unless you need the other things Aperture gives you, I second both the ImageMagick approach -- if you're not intimidated by downloading, installing, and running command-line programs, and the Automator approach, which despite @markhunte's claim, is free.
A: I use wine (and XQuartz) and IrfanView. Of course you could also use imagemagick from the command-line. For wine and imagemagick I would recommend Homebrew.
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2e78eb94f475643def68b18735ba13a749fe6ea4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What will happen to iChat in Lion once Messages beta expired? Messages will replace iChat on OS X Lion when installed but it will expire at some point in the future.
What will happen to my Lion's iChat application when Messages expire? Will I be able to use/reinstall iChat again?
A:
...
So there really isn’t a Messages.app. It’s still iChat.app but with some magic causing the Finder to show it as Messages. [...] [T]he magic is in the Bundle name entry in the Info.plist file in /Applications/iChat.app/Contents
...
Why did Apple choose to do it this way? My guess is that Apple wanted Messages to inherit all your old iChat settings so you wouldn’t have to redo everything. Also, because Messages is in beta, Apple wanted you to have an easy way to uninstall Messages and go back to iChat as if you never left. I’m not sure this shallow rebranding was the best way to achieve these goals, but it does seem minimally disruptive.
...
For the complete information I will point you to Dr. Drang post that answers this question, and more, about iChat/Messages.
| Q: What will happen to iChat in Lion once Messages beta expired? Messages will replace iChat on OS X Lion when installed but it will expire at some point in the future.
What will happen to my Lion's iChat application when Messages expire? Will I be able to use/reinstall iChat again?
A:
...
So there really isn’t a Messages.app. It’s still iChat.app but with some magic causing the Finder to show it as Messages. [...] [T]he magic is in the Bundle name entry in the Info.plist file in /Applications/iChat.app/Contents
...
Why did Apple choose to do it this way? My guess is that Apple wanted Messages to inherit all your old iChat settings so you wouldn’t have to redo everything. Also, because Messages is in beta, Apple wanted you to have an easy way to uninstall Messages and go back to iChat as if you never left. I’m not sure this shallow rebranding was the best way to achieve these goals, but it does seem minimally disruptive.
...
For the complete information I will point you to Dr. Drang post that answers this question, and more, about iChat/Messages.
A: In the Messages menu you'll find: Uninstall Messages beta. Choose it and a dialog will ask if you'd like to reinstall iChat. I haven't yet followed through with that but I'm assuming iChat is still stored on the computer somewhere or gets downloaded and installed from Apple's servers.
A: This is pure speculation on my part, the worst kind of Ask Different answer, but it's based on past experience with the Apple ecosystem and supported by the technical answers already provided:
You can rest assured that Apple won't leave Lion users who have downloaded the Messages beta without iChat capabilities. The Message client will either be reverted to an iChat client or, more likely in my view, a non-beta Message client will be made available for Lion.
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ddd6134eb786581ef878416078214a0db014d672 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Grayed-out tracks in iTunes library In my iTunes library there are many tracks that have the cloud with embedded arrow (indicating that I need to download them from the cloud), but which are grayed-out, so that I can't download them, play them, or do anything. Can you tell me what is wrong?
A: You have probably already looked into this, but it sounds like "iCloud Status" is enabled in iTunes, but "iCloud Download" might not be. Go to
View > View Options
and make sure that "iCloud Download" is checked off.
| Q: Grayed-out tracks in iTunes library In my iTunes library there are many tracks that have the cloud with embedded arrow (indicating that I need to download them from the cloud), but which are grayed-out, so that I can't download them, play them, or do anything. Can you tell me what is wrong?
A: You have probably already looked into this, but it sounds like "iCloud Status" is enabled in iTunes, but "iCloud Download" might not be. Go to
View > View Options
and make sure that "iCloud Download" is checked off.
A: Check that "iCloud Status" is being included in your current View->View Options, and see what it says for your greyed-out tracks. For me this shows all my grey songs as "Waiting", even though my iCloud Download icon shows the download arrow -- indicating that these songs never uploaded to the iCloud like they should have (for whatever reason), but that iCloud knew they were supposed to.
And troubleshoot from there...
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742964a17c3dad74fb88d0993e014e1cbd7eadcc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding a new executable to the PATH environment variable? I'm trying to install this library called phantomjs.
The instructions include this line:
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/BuildInstructions
For convenience, copy the executable
bin/phantomjs.app/Contents/MacOS/phantomjs to some directory in your
PATH.
How do I do this?
A: While symlinking the file from another directoy works, I prefer to actually copy/move the file to usr/local/bin, to not have it "twice".
cp bin/phantomjs.app/Contents/MacOS/phantomjs /usr/local/bin
| Q: Adding a new executable to the PATH environment variable? I'm trying to install this library called phantomjs.
The instructions include this line:
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/BuildInstructions
For convenience, copy the executable
bin/phantomjs.app/Contents/MacOS/phantomjs to some directory in your
PATH.
How do I do this?
A: While symlinking the file from another directoy works, I prefer to actually copy/move the file to usr/local/bin, to not have it "twice".
cp bin/phantomjs.app/Contents/MacOS/phantomjs /usr/local/bin
A: The cleanest way to achieve this would be to symlink the binary in the /usr/local/bin directory (which is included in PATH by default). You might need to create this directory if it doesn't exist yet. You can check to see if these directories are already in your PATH by opening Terminal.app and typing:
echo $PATH
This will generate a colon delimited listing of all directories in your PATH.
If the directories /usr/local or /usr/local/bin do not exist yet, execute the following:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
Symlink the binary, replace (/Applications) with the path to phantomjs.app if it differs:
sudo ln -s /Applications/phantomjs.app/Contents/MacOS/phantomjs /usr/local/bin
Now you should have no problems executing phantomjs from the command-line.
A: Going back to the root of your issue, if you are installing phantomjs you can use npm to make it easier.
If you do then you can just run:
npm install -g phantomjs-prebuilt
which will install the binary inside of the proper bin directory.
(the -g flag indicates to npm that the package is to be installed globally)
A: To find out what's in your PATH, open a Terminal window and run this command: echo $PATH . The output is a colon-separated list of directories, the contents of which you can run without specifying the full path.
Since /usr/bin is in my path, I can run the w command simply by typing w instead of the full /usr/bin/w.
Also, you don't have to move the executable into one of the listed PATH directories. Other options include
*
*Leave the executable where it is, and symlink to it from one of the PATH directories
*Add a directory to your PATH by explicitly setting it in a login script for your shell
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1f93eff31d592451997e7ac74ceb4839bd998890 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable visual bell animation in Terminal The title says everything, how can I disable the visual bell animation in Lion?
It is annoying and useless, visual bell should be fast, not fancy!
I don't want to disable the visual bell, just the fadin/fadeout animation.
A: *
*Go to the "Terminal" menu
*Select "Preferences"
*Select "Settings" at the top
*Select "Advanced" at the right
*Uncheck "Visual Bell"
| Q: Disable visual bell animation in Terminal The title says everything, how can I disable the visual bell animation in Lion?
It is annoying and useless, visual bell should be fast, not fancy!
I don't want to disable the visual bell, just the fadin/fadeout animation.
A: *
*Go to the "Terminal" menu
*Select "Preferences"
*Select "Settings" at the top
*Select "Advanced" at the right
*Uncheck "Visual Bell"
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109ede4a82e44416dfda4acd1d073102839430f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Pro will not wake from sleep after installing third party application I installed an application called Air Parrot that uses air play with an Apple tv to mirror or extend the desktop. I noticed that after I installed it, I am no longer able to wake my Mac from sleep. I have to do a hard reset every time. I have also noticed the activity light on the front stays bright and does not dim like it should in sleep mode. I've reset the PRAM and done an EFI Firmware update to no avail.
I have uninstalled the application and ran CC cleaner as well as CleanMyMac. I suspect this app because it is listed in an error log that generates every time I restart my Mac.
Any help would be very appreciated.
A: I have the same problem, and I'm in the process of updating my Air Parrot to 1.1.3 (the newest version), which I think will help.
| Q: MacBook Pro will not wake from sleep after installing third party application I installed an application called Air Parrot that uses air play with an Apple tv to mirror or extend the desktop. I noticed that after I installed it, I am no longer able to wake my Mac from sleep. I have to do a hard reset every time. I have also noticed the activity light on the front stays bright and does not dim like it should in sleep mode. I've reset the PRAM and done an EFI Firmware update to no avail.
I have uninstalled the application and ran CC cleaner as well as CleanMyMac. I suspect this app because it is listed in an error log that generates every time I restart my Mac.
Any help would be very appreciated.
A: I have the same problem, and I'm in the process of updating my Air Parrot to 1.1.3 (the newest version), which I think will help.
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bc9516c3435d2da61a6da4c046ed892a4603ff37 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to run remote applications on OS X like X11 does? Is there any application that can be installed in OS X (Lion) that will allow a person to run applications from the host system on a guest system, displaying only the windows for the application? In other words, can Cocoa applications display their windows on another OS X Desktop than the machine on which they are running?
X11 allows you to run an application remotely without sharing the whole Desktop.
I am currently using VNC (Screen Sharing), but because of screen resolution differences, it isn't ideal.
A: Short answer is no.
Cocoa is not designed as a remote procedure call (RPC)-esque protocol, while X is. You cannot tunnel the interfaces of Cocoa applications like you know it from X11 natively, only using protocols like VNC that transfer the actual bitmap rather than the rendering instructions.
On the other hand, you are able to use remotely running X applications via SSH.
| Q: How to run remote applications on OS X like X11 does? Is there any application that can be installed in OS X (Lion) that will allow a person to run applications from the host system on a guest system, displaying only the windows for the application? In other words, can Cocoa applications display their windows on another OS X Desktop than the machine on which they are running?
X11 allows you to run an application remotely without sharing the whole Desktop.
I am currently using VNC (Screen Sharing), but because of screen resolution differences, it isn't ideal.
A: Short answer is no.
Cocoa is not designed as a remote procedure call (RPC)-esque protocol, while X is. You cannot tunnel the interfaces of Cocoa applications like you know it from X11 natively, only using protocols like VNC that transfer the actual bitmap rather than the rendering instructions.
On the other hand, you are able to use remotely running X applications via SSH.
A: Asking myself a similar question, I've found iRapp and "AquaConnect" seem to offer remote applications served from a OSX device, which is great. I haven't tested them, however, view them and their alternatives.
http://alternativeto.net/software/irapp-terminal-server/
Note that iRapp hands their Lion (10.7) version for free now
http://www.coderebel.com/2013/11/14/irapp-for-osx-10-7-now-free
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7fdc47800825efa4d842ea692e46178cfb2f9c24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get my Google contacts in Gmail on my Gmail app on the iPad? I don't have a Mac or Exchange (which seem to be two ways of doing this.)
When I open the iPad Gmail app (from Google) there are no Contacts and the email "to" field doesn't autocomplete. I effectively can't email unless I've memorized the email address.
I don't want to sync 1000 contacts. I just want to see a contacts link like I do when I use gmail on a computer. It couldn't get much simpler than that.
A: I don't know why everyone seems to over complicate this, you don't need to export contacts and import them somewhere else nor do you need exchange. Steps to sync contacts with your iDevice are as follows:
*
*Plug your device into your computer and open iTunes
*Select your device in iTunes and click the "info" tab
*Check "Sync Contacts" and then "Sync Google contacts"
*Enter your google login info
Done! Contacts will sync with gmail.
| Q: How do I get my Google contacts in Gmail on my Gmail app on the iPad? I don't have a Mac or Exchange (which seem to be two ways of doing this.)
When I open the iPad Gmail app (from Google) there are no Contacts and the email "to" field doesn't autocomplete. I effectively can't email unless I've memorized the email address.
I don't want to sync 1000 contacts. I just want to see a contacts link like I do when I use gmail on a computer. It couldn't get much simpler than that.
A: I don't know why everyone seems to over complicate this, you don't need to export contacts and import them somewhere else nor do you need exchange. Steps to sync contacts with your iDevice are as follows:
*
*Plug your device into your computer and open iTunes
*Select your device in iTunes and click the "info" tab
*Check "Sync Contacts" and then "Sync Google contacts"
*Enter your google login info
Done! Contacts will sync with gmail.
A: Here is how to export your Gmail contacts to your iPad Contacts list, so they will autofill when using the Mail app.
*
*Navigate to your contacts page and choose "Export…" under the More menu.
*Choose All Contacts, and use the vCard format.
*Open the downloaded file.
*When Address Book asks if you're sure you want to import them, choose yes, and quit Address Book when it's done.
*Select your iPad in iTunes and navigate to the Info tab.
*Turn on Sync Address Book Contacts if it isn't already, and customize the settings how you like.
*Sync your iPad with iTunes.
Done! I did notice from your question, though, that you're using the Gmail app. This fix will only work if you use Mail.app; for more information regarding setting that up, see this Apple help article.
Also: if you're running Windows, replace steps 3 and 4 with the instructions on this page.
A: You don't need to have Exchange.
You have to add an Exchange Account in the Mail-Settings with your GoogleAddress and password.
*
*Add an Exchange Account
*Username is [email protected], password is password, Server is: m.google.com and Domain is empty
*Now you can sync your Contacts and Addresses to the iPad, too.
Your GMail App takes the contacts from the address book, and the
address book gets its contacts now from Google.
A: I had the same problem and didn't want to sync the contacts since its a shared ipad. If you just need an occasional contact, you can access your contacts directly via this link:
https://www.google.com/contacts/#contacts
A: I figured a way around it. To recap, even if you sync your google contacts on iphone, if you create a new contact on your phone or even receive a new email and want to add them as a new contact, you cannot. It won’t recognize the new email address in autofill in the “to” field because it is not yet added to gmail contacts. If you are using gmail app you cannot add new contacts. Instead, what I did is go to https://www.google.com/contacts/#contacts
and copy new contact from your phone or from the new received email and add to your google contacts. To make things easier each time, you can save this page to your safari favourites. Just press the share button at the bottom (when you are changing tabs) and press add to favourites. Now every time you open a new tab you can instantly access google contacts to manually add new contacts. I went back to check and lo and behold it pops up in the autofill in the “to” field. Cheers.
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77399c36513785301f9cb9b5e26bec57e64f1a78 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I look up the Unicode # for a given character on Lion? How do you find the Unicode number representation for a given character in Lion?
On Mac OS X 10.6 when hovering the mouse cursor over for example the ⌘ symbol in the "Character Viewer" a tool tip would be displayed containing something like:
Unicode: 2318
UTF8: E2 8c 98
That behavior appears to no longer work on Lion's "Character Viewer"
A: The code points should be shown in the right sidebar if you've enabled the Unicode category from the Customize List… sheet.
| Q: How do I look up the Unicode # for a given character on Lion? How do you find the Unicode number representation for a given character in Lion?
On Mac OS X 10.6 when hovering the mouse cursor over for example the ⌘ symbol in the "Character Viewer" a tool tip would be displayed containing something like:
Unicode: 2318
UTF8: E2 8c 98
That behavior appears to no longer work on Lion's "Character Viewer"
A: The code points should be shown in the right sidebar if you've enabled the Unicode category from the Customize List… sheet.
A: Right click on the character, select the one choice from the popup menu: Copy character info. Then paste somewhere. Not as easy as it used to be.
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bb630787ba21bef9bf4acc844afb917b6ecb96dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to tell open file dialogs to hide invalid file types? One of the most annoying things about working on my Mac is when I am using an open file dialog from any application. For some reason beyond me it shows all the files that are invalid to open greyed out. Then any files that are of the correct kind, or folders, are in black, and mixed in. Of course I can sort by kind, but it still doesn't make any sense to have to wade through all the files I cannot open. I could kind of understand it if I could force it to open one of these other files, but I cannot even select them.
Is there a way to tell the open dialog to only show me folders and valid files to open?
A: Spoke to the Apple Geniuses today. They said it wasn't possible. Best I could come up with was to group the files by type.
| Q: How to tell open file dialogs to hide invalid file types? One of the most annoying things about working on my Mac is when I am using an open file dialog from any application. For some reason beyond me it shows all the files that are invalid to open greyed out. Then any files that are of the correct kind, or folders, are in black, and mixed in. Of course I can sort by kind, but it still doesn't make any sense to have to wade through all the files I cannot open. I could kind of understand it if I could force it to open one of these other files, but I cannot even select them.
Is there a way to tell the open dialog to only show me folders and valid files to open?
A: Spoke to the Apple Geniuses today. They said it wasn't possible. Best I could come up with was to group the files by type.
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4ec2dc38ae913d7f621852b5640ad70ce5d21619 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change bash version with homebrew I have used homebrew to install the newest version of bash on my local system. I have added a symbolic link from: /usr/local/bin/bash to /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash and added the line: /usr/local/bin/bash to /etc/shells
When I load my terminal I am still getting the older version of bash, also when i execute the command: /etc/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash my prompt changes to bash-4.2$ but when i do bash --version it still says I am in version 3.2. Does anyone know what step I am missing?
A: You'll need to change your account's login shell from System Preferences, Users & Groups. You need to access the Advanced Options by right-clicking on your username and changing your shell to /usr/local/bin/bash. Once you've done that, restart Terminal.app (to make sure no old sessions with the wrong shell are left hanging around) and you should be set.
You can do the same using dscl:
dscl . -change /Users/<username> UserShell /usr/local/bin/bash
| Q: How to change bash version with homebrew I have used homebrew to install the newest version of bash on my local system. I have added a symbolic link from: /usr/local/bin/bash to /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash and added the line: /usr/local/bin/bash to /etc/shells
When I load my terminal I am still getting the older version of bash, also when i execute the command: /etc/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash my prompt changes to bash-4.2$ but when i do bash --version it still says I am in version 3.2. Does anyone know what step I am missing?
A: You'll need to change your account's login shell from System Preferences, Users & Groups. You need to access the Advanced Options by right-clicking on your username and changing your shell to /usr/local/bin/bash. Once you've done that, restart Terminal.app (to make sure no old sessions with the wrong shell are left hanging around) and you should be set.
You can do the same using dscl:
dscl . -change /Users/<username> UserShell /usr/local/bin/bash
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98db9af48b271840dd076252287c108e802b1087 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I speed up new Terminal tab loading time? How can i speed up the terminal startup in Lion?
I'm not referring to the startup of the Terminal application, but to the startup terminal windows, like when i open a new tab.
I don't have anything in my .bash_profile file and i run rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl every 4 hours (which clear those files that usually make terminal slow ).
Currently, when i open a new tab, it takes 3-4 seconds until i can run something.
A: It is all about investigating the cause. You can see what's being done while the process starts by inputing bash -x which will print out the process of starting up the shell.
Personally, I only notice the delay between activation and de-activation of the app and in the first tab created after a period of activity. It always makes me think that it is about memory pages being moved around.
| Q: How do I speed up new Terminal tab loading time? How can i speed up the terminal startup in Lion?
I'm not referring to the startup of the Terminal application, but to the startup terminal windows, like when i open a new tab.
I don't have anything in my .bash_profile file and i run rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl every 4 hours (which clear those files that usually make terminal slow ).
Currently, when i open a new tab, it takes 3-4 seconds until i can run something.
A: It is all about investigating the cause. You can see what's being done while the process starts by inputing bash -x which will print out the process of starting up the shell.
Personally, I only notice the delay between activation and de-activation of the app and in the first tab created after a period of activity. It always makes me think that it is about memory pages being moved around.
A: In my case, after trying the above on my work machine without success, I found that the culprit was Active Directory. The fix was to go into Directory Utility and edit the AD service settings (double-click on "Active Directory") to enable "Create mobile account at login":
This apparently causes the AD credentials to be cached locally, so the system no longer has to go out to the server every time it tries to validate your password.
You can get to Directory Utility with Spotlight or via the "Login Options" section of System Preferences / Users & Groups (select the "Edit…" button next to "Network Account Server"):
A: What I needed was changing from login shell to command /bin/bash -il
in iTerm's Preferences > Profiles > General > Command.
I needed the option -l (Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login shell) added in order to set environmental variables from ~/.bash_profile
A: .hushlogin
Create an empty file in your home folder called .hushlogin; this will significantly decrease the time it takes for a Terminal.app tab to appear.
You can create the .hushlogin file in Terminal.app using the following command:
touch ~/.hushlogin
The file will take effect immediately.
You can learn more about the .hushlogin file and the login process in general in the login manual.
Quietening the login process
When you create a new Terminal tab, you are going through the login process. The process involves fetching various information about your previous login session, message of the day, and displaying system messages. This can be the source of significant delays. Try hushing these messages to see if the delay disappears.
A: Reduce your history to something between 4 and 10 thousand lines and perhaps try quitting and discarding all saved windows. I have seen both make a difference on slower machines - especially ones without SSD for storage.
A: Short Answer:
The problem is caused by a (potentially) expensive ASL system log lookup. To see this in action, run sudo fs_usage | grep 'asl.*login' in a Terminal window, then open a new Terminal window.
To solve the problem, configure Terminal to launch a non-standard shell:
*
*Create a symlink to your preferred shell. E.g.: sudo ln -s /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash
*Open Terminal Preferences and select the "General" tab.
*Select "Shells open with: Command" and enter the symlink you created in step 1. E.g. "/usr/local/bin/bash".
Note 1: You may also need to add bash and -bash to the process list at "Terminal Preferences > Profiles > Shell > Ask before closing".
Note 2: /usr/local/bin is writable in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) Rootless mode.
To verify the fix:
*
*Open a new Terminal window.
*"Last Login:" should not be displayed at the top
*Open the inspector (Command + I) and select the Info tab.
*The command should read login -pfq username /usr/bin/bash or login -pfql username ...
Important: If the login command does not include the -q parameter, then you have not fixed the problem.
You can also use sudo fs_usage | grep 'asl.*login' to verify that /var/log/asl is not accessed when opening a new Terminal window.
Details:
There are a number of bugs at play here.
The actual cause of the slowness is /usr/bin/login, which by default will display the date of your last login. To get this last login date, it searches the ASL (Apple System Log) database at /var/log/asl/. These log files can be very heavily fragmented and it's this file fragmentation that causes the delay when opening a new window or tab. (Bug 1)
The only way to suppress the ASL search for last login is to pass the -q parameter to /usr/bin/login. The .hushlogin file will also suppress the "Last Login" display, but it does not suppress the expensive ASL search. (Bug 2)
Terminal always uses /usr/bin/login to launch each new window/shell. There is no option to launch a shell directly nor is there a way to directly control the parameters passed to /usr/bin/login (Bug 3).
As it turns out, Terminal will pass the -q parameter to /usr/bin/login when it is configured to use a non-standard shell. (Bug 4)
The -q parameter is what we need to avoid the problem, hence the symlink to /usr/local/bin/bash.
A: OK I have a similar conclusion to Darren, though slightly different profiling mechanism (NB slow login can still occur in Yosemite).
Here's a way to tell what is actually running when you start a new login window, using the OS X sample profiler command.
Find out what command a normal login executs
$ ps -ef | grep login
You'll seee something like login -pfl username /bin/bash -c exec -la bash /bin/bash
Create a script file name profile_login.sh with the following contents by adding a
-c ""
to the end of the discovered command to request that bash return immediately, with contents like this:
login -pfl username /bin/bash -c exec -la bash /bin/bash -c "" &
sudo sample $! -mayDie # sample the above command
Make it executable
$ chmod u+x profile_login.sh
and run it using sudo (sample command requires it)
$ sudo ./profile_login.sh
OK so go ahead and run it. For instance by executing the purge command first. On my box, I got a large output graph. Looking for the "biggest numbered branches" (typically at the top) I saw the following two biggest offenders:
One from something called pam_start which appears to opening pam auth lib images
+ ! 1068 pam_start (in libpam.2.dylib) + 132 [0x7fff97295ab0]
+ ! : 1066 openpam_dynamic (in libpam.2.dylib) + 120 [0x7fff97293d14]
+ ! : | + ! 1042 coresymbolication_load_image(CSCppDyldSharedMemoryPage*, ImageLoader const*, unsigned long long) (in dyld) + 143 [0x7fff66725411]
+ ! : | + ! : 1042 mach_msg_trap (in dyld) + 10 [0x7fff6674a472]
and that is sometimes followed by another offender getlastlogxbyname
+ ! 583 getlastlogxbyname (in libsystem_c.dylib) + 212 [0x7fff92b3ef7a]
+ ! : 566 asl_file_open_read (in libsystem_asl.dylib) + 143 [0x7fff8c27030d]
+ ! : | 566 __open_nocancel (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10 [0x7fff97b39012] + ! : | 566 __open_nocancel (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10 [0x7fff97b39012]
So basically, there are two offenders. One is pam (some type of authentication system) and the other it the asl "detect your latest login" stuff. So apparently just deleting your /private/var/log/asl/*.asl files is not enough. The pam loading is much more expensive on my machine, anyway [SSD]. Feel free to run the above script and see if your system is the same. Interestingly, the source code for these method calls seems to also be available online, for instance openpam_dynamic
If I follow Darren's answer, and replace my "shells open with" preference to something other than /bin/bash, I then see the following lines used to start new terminal tabs:
$ ps -ef | grep login
... login -pfql packrd /bin/bash -c exec -la bash /usr/bin/bash
So if I now use the same sample trick on the new login command
login -pfql username /bin/bash -c exec -la bash /usr/bin/bash -c "" &
sudo sample $! -mayDie
a much smaller stacktrace is generated, the biggest offender being:
+ 8 pam_end (in libpam.2.dylib) + 190 [0x7fff97294ebb]
+ ! 6 coresymbolication_unload_image(CSCppDyldSharedMemoryPage*, ImageLoader const*) (in dyld) + 143 [0x7fff6e0f634f]
I think this is because the login "-q" parameter is now being used. Apparently this parameter skips both loading the pam modules and looking up the last login time (both offenders). According to the docs of the login command, touching the ~/.hushlogin file should do the same thing, but apparently this no longer works [at least for me with 10.10].
So, in summary, removing /private/var/log/asl/*.asl is not enough (in my experiment, it only accounted for at most 1/3 of the actual slowdown, though if you had mores files there it could account for a greater percentage I'm sure).
Anyway using similar scripts, you should be able to tell what's causing your local machine to bog down, and see if the above fix applies to you. Feel free to comment here.
UPDATE: seems that coresymbolication_load_image can still take tons of time, even when login -pfql is invoked (presumably some pam authentication module or other is having to "dial out" to a central login server or some odd, so has to wait for a response from a 3rd party). So the only real workaround I have found is to use iTerm2, and change the preferences -> profiles -> general -> Command to /bin/bash instead.
A: For those with with slow startup times but none of the above work,
my .zprofile was littered with eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" repeated 50x.
So profiling was giving me super fast speeds and the terminal took 4 to 10 seconds to load.
You can access this file at ~/.zprofile\
Remove all the lines and it'll immediately be an instant prompt again.
Good luck!
A: Just run:
sudo creatbyproc.d
sudo newproc.d
in separate terminals and open the new open to see what is being executed during that time.
If nothing obvious, try the following:
sudo dtruss -an Terminal
This will print all your details which are happening on tab loading time.
A: Open /etc/profile and add the line PATH="" so it looks like this:
if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
PATH=""
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi
A: The problem for me was that the active directory domain server was invalid.
Changing it then rebooting the mac fixed it.
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e860d45d3963b87b927e312ef49ed72083dc7b63 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In Spotlight search results, how do I find which folder contains a specific file? In OSX Spotlight, how do I find in which folder a document is? It used to be that hovering the mouse over the doc would show the folder. I miss that functionality!
A: Hold option and command for a second. (Edit: On 10.9 and later, hold command only.) It'll show you the path. Well, part of the path. It's really not as useful as it used to be.
Other than that, command-R (or command-return) will reveal the original file, just as with the previous version.
And, of course, you can Show All In Finder. If you have the status bar showing, it should show the path there as well. (And in a slightly better form.)
| Q: In Spotlight search results, how do I find which folder contains a specific file? In OSX Spotlight, how do I find in which folder a document is? It used to be that hovering the mouse over the doc would show the folder. I miss that functionality!
A: Hold option and command for a second. (Edit: On 10.9 and later, hold command only.) It'll show you the path. Well, part of the path. It's really not as useful as it used to be.
Other than that, command-R (or command-return) will reveal the original file, just as with the previous version.
And, of course, you can Show All In Finder. If you have the status bar showing, it should show the path there as well. (And in a slightly better form.)
A: With OS X Yosemite's new Spotlight search, if you hold down ⌘ with a file selected the path bar will be displayed which shows you the path to the file:
A: If you want the path in a copyable form:
*
*press ⌘ + i
You'll get the standard File Info dialog.
Update: In Yosemite, for some reason, the dialog opens behind other windows, so might not be visible. Also the path is displayed as ▸ Users ▸ user ▸ Downloads ▸ somefilename which is not as useful as in previous versions.
Drag and drop
If you need to copy the path for example to terminal, you can drag-and-drop a file from Spotlight directly into the terminal window - you will get the full path inserted at cursor position (same way as if you drag a file from Finder).
A: You might want to try the following:
*
*Search for and highlight the file in Spotlight as usual.
*Hold down cmd (command) and press Enter (return).
This should open the file's containing folder, and works in all recent versions of OS X.
A: If you need the complete path of a file or folder, you can also just drag it from Spotlight into a terminal window or a plain text TextEdit.app window.
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958723a85edb2cc94d3be27f56ce9221b6c05742 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Possible to access/restore past versions of Notes in iCloud? If I mistakenly delete or otherwise mess up a Note that is stored in iCloud, is there a way to restore a past version of the Note?
A: Assuming you have 2 devices, let's say an iPhone and iPad, there is only one thing you can do:
*
*delete something on your iPhone
*as soon as you notice, enable airplane mode on your iPad
*unlock iPad & open notes
*copy note to somewhere else
*turn off airplane mode
*copy note back to notes
Other than that, there unfortunately doesn't seem to be anything you can do.
| Q: Possible to access/restore past versions of Notes in iCloud? If I mistakenly delete or otherwise mess up a Note that is stored in iCloud, is there a way to restore a past version of the Note?
A: Assuming you have 2 devices, let's say an iPhone and iPad, there is only one thing you can do:
*
*delete something on your iPhone
*as soon as you notice, enable airplane mode on your iPad
*unlock iPad & open notes
*copy note to somewhere else
*turn off airplane mode
*copy note back to notes
Other than that, there unfortunately doesn't seem to be anything you can do.
A: Whoo hoo. Found a great solution for this issue in this question
Notes.app - how to access history?
You can use Time Machine to recover notes by restoring the 3 .sqlite
files in
~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/ Quit Notes.app
Restore those 3 files If you use iCloud, disconnect from Wifi so the
notes aren't synced from your iCloud devices when you re-open
Notes.app Re-open Notes.app
So just make sure your time machine is up to date and that you open notes regularly on your Mac.
A: Short answer is no :(. That is, unless you can get to the note before iCloud updates it, but that would not be much time at all.
Not that they are in the same class, but one can do that with Time Machine. It allows one to go back through, and it has saved and kept track of the changes that have been made to documents.
A: This isn't an ideal solution, but when you have notes that you absolutely need to recover, this will do. I was able to recover partial aspects of the note I had written a day later.
*
*Open Terminal
*Run:
cd ~/Library
grep -r "[Some string you remember from your note]" ./
*A lot will come up. Apen any file that has a match in TextEdit (you can ignore most of them i.e the ones that are from the Calendar app etc as your note probably will not be there)
*When I did this my notes were in several pieces scattered across the file. Try to piece together the different chunks, pasting the pieces in their own new text files and saving them as .html
*Open the html files in your browser - you should be able to see the content
*Piece together your content
Again, not ideal, but this just saved me on a note that got wiped, but really needed!
A: Here is one tricky way that worked for me.
The local database actually stores the history version. However, the UI might not show all the historical version. So the first step is to check if the database still contains the hidden historical version that you are looking for.
To do that, you can click on the top right search bar, and search for some keywords that you can remember the historical version has but not in the latest version.
For instance, if your historical version contains a keyword "Summary", but you accidentally deleted the last section which contains "Summary", then searching for keyword "Summary" would still return the doc you wanted to recover. Meaning, when you search for keyword "Summary", the search result shows the doc you want to recover contains it, however, you can't find it. That means the Search functionality not only visits the latest version, but also visit the historical versions. That gives you chance to recover!
Once you have confirmed the text you want to recover exists in the historical version, now is time try a trick to force recover.
Step 1. open ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.app.notes/
You should see three files:
*
*NoteStore.sqlite-shm
*NoteStore.sqlite-wal
*NoteStore.sqlite
The sqlite-wal file is the write ahead logs, it keeps the latest changes.
The sqlite file is a snapshot of an old verison.
Check the modified date of these two files, if your changes happen between the modified date of these two files, then you might be able to recover.
Step 2. Quit Notes app
Step 3. Make a backup of these three files first (VERY IMPORTANT). Also make a backup of your important notes.
Step 4. Delete the sqlite-wal file, again make sure you have made a backup of the above three files before deleting it.
Step 5. Turn off WIFI
Step 6. Open Notes app
Find and check your note, and see if it's the historical version.
Step 7. Recover the latest version
Once you've made a copy of the historical version of your doc. Now you may want to recover the notes to the latest version again. Simply replace the three files with the original backup.
*
*NoteStore.sqlite-shm
*NoteStore.sqlite-wal
*NoteStore.sqlite
WARNING. better to do the above steps with WIFI off, so whatever change made won't be synced to iCloud.
A: View → Show Note Activity
If the changes you want to roll back are small, you can trace back changes to a notes with View → Show Note Activity. When you select a history item in Note Activity, it highlights changes associated with that edit.
While you can't directly restore a version, this feature gives what you need to identity and manually redress small, unwanted changes. This answer applies to the aforementioned question, Notes.app - how to access history?.
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364bbc84143b2f00ebd5b6d40d512bf71a01b17b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fully 'uninstall' an app on OS X So, I've been a Mac user for about seven or so months now. And one thing I've been wondering is how to fully remove an application..
I know a lot of times applications leave extra junk on your computer; and, deleting the app from the applications directory doesn't fully remove it. I'm just wondering how I can 'search for and destroy' the files the apps leave behind.
A: If you buy the app from the Mac App Store, you can completely uninstall it using Launchpad. Click and hold to start the apps wiggling, then hit the X by the app you want to delete.
For apps installed outside of the Mac App Store, I use AppZapper.
| Q: How to fully 'uninstall' an app on OS X So, I've been a Mac user for about seven or so months now. And one thing I've been wondering is how to fully remove an application..
I know a lot of times applications leave extra junk on your computer; and, deleting the app from the applications directory doesn't fully remove it. I'm just wondering how I can 'search for and destroy' the files the apps leave behind.
A: If you buy the app from the Mac App Store, you can completely uninstall it using Launchpad. Click and hold to start the apps wiggling, then hit the X by the app you want to delete.
For apps installed outside of the Mac App Store, I use AppZapper.
A: I use AppTrap. I it is free and installs a pref pane. Whenever you move an app to the trash, it asks you if you want to move all files associated with it to the trash. It works really well, and I highly recommend it.
A: 01) You can manually un-install your application(s), but that requires solid knowledge of your file system for once and depending on the software it sometimes does not make much sense, since some software is deeply nested within your system. (also sometimes requires root access.
02) you can use software of course, that actually enables you to see where every single file related to your installed application is located on your system. That makes sense for beginners and even advanced users.
From experience i can suggest the following:
CleanApp or
TrashMe (recommended)
iTrash or
AppDelete or
AppCleaner (i can't say much about them)
some are available for trial, so you might want to test them, before you purchase!!
A: If the app is a driver or some kind of system hack, then you better read it's documentation or contact it's tech support team to find out how to uninstall it.
For most apps, simply quit the app and drag it to the trash.
Most mac apps won't create much extra "junk". It will leave a few configuration files/etc around, but they're usually really small and you want them to be there, incase you ever decide to install the app again.
If you really want to get rid of it all:
Open Finder, and bring up the Go menu. Hold down the Option key to make the Library menu item visible, and click on it.
Type the name of the app into the top right search box (eg: "TextMate"), and when it suggests "Filename contains: textmate" in the menu, click on that. By default, it will search "This Mac", click on "Library" to only search the folder you were in before doing the search.
Make sure everything you see is actually related to the app, and move it to the trash. When a file is selected, the "Path Bar" at the bottom of the window will tell you where the file is, which can help figure out what app it belongs to.
Be careful, modifying anything in a Library folder can screw up your system. Don't do it at all unless you have a backup to restore to incase something goes wrong. It's usually pretty safe though, most files in the Library folder in your user's home folder will be re-created as necessary, if something important has been deleted.
You might also want to search your entire system instead of just ~/Library, but if the app installs anything elsewhere in the system then that's a pretty good sign that you should be checking the documentation for the correct uninstall procedure and/or contacting their tech support, to make sure it is actually safe to delete those files without screwing up your system.
If you are the type of person who regularly installs random apps from the internet and then deletes most of them... then you should either test these apps in a virtual machine or at least using the "Guest" account feature (where pretty much everything is deleted as soon as you log out).
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36d0558b8e2f6c872b99095ca443bf162a39904a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I reset Notification Centre badge counter for Messages? The new Messages beta app (based on iChat) is stuck with one incoming message.
Can I somehow reset the badge?
A: The correct answer to this issue isn't to message all your contacts.
First close the Messages app.
Then simply open up Activity Monitor and quit the Dock process to restart it.
Here's how it looks:
Your badge count should be reset after that.
PS: You can access Activity Monitor from Spotlight (⌘ Space) by simply typing its name and pressing Enter.
Edit: update thanks to @JjP and @Toland H
| Q: Can I reset Notification Centre badge counter for Messages? The new Messages beta app (based on iChat) is stuck with one incoming message.
Can I somehow reset the badge?
A: The correct answer to this issue isn't to message all your contacts.
First close the Messages app.
Then simply open up Activity Monitor and quit the Dock process to restart it.
Here's how it looks:
Your badge count should be reset after that.
PS: You can access Activity Monitor from Spotlight (⌘ Space) by simply typing its name and pressing Enter.
Edit: update thanks to @JjP and @Toland H
A: Sometimes you may miss reading a message from a friend. And sometimes Messages may not pull up the previous conversations as it should (it is still in testing and I hope those bugs are worked out for the final product).
I would suggest sending a test message to all the previous contacts you've IM'ed. It'll pull up the respective conversation thread and hopefully kick off the unread message from your notification badge.
A: Before you kill Dock you need to close Messages to make it work. I had this issue on Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8.2). When Messages was open and I killed Dock it didn't help. But when I closed Messages and then killed Dock, the badge was gone and after opening Messages the unread messages appeared so I could read them.
A: Go to Terminal and write:
osascript -e 'quit app "Messages"'
osascript -e 'quit app "Dock"'
open -a Messages
That's all
A: Try to restart the dock. In the Terminal located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app type:
killall -KILL Dock
A: Click and hold on the Messages icon in your dock. A context menu appears with unread messages. Navigate to the previously unlisted and unread message that way. Then "read" it.
A: I'm not certain how the badge works, but I suspect the bug isn't on your computer, it's on apple's iMessage server somewhere in the cloud.
To fix it, you would have to have access to their servers, which you don't have.
Basically, the solution is to stop using beta software if you are worried about glitches like this one.
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1720e69ab115f998cdc8728d9b95c49db582b7f5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Desktop Background is blank I change my background in system preferences and it says my background is a picture, but my desktop is still a blank gray. How can I fix this?
A: Try opening Terminal, type killall Dock and press return. Dock controls the desktop background in Lion.
If it's still grey after that, try rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop then killall Dock
| Q: Desktop Background is blank I change my background in system preferences and it says my background is a picture, but my desktop is still a blank gray. How can I fix this?
A: Try opening Terminal, type killall Dock and press return. Dock controls the desktop background in Lion.
If it's still grey after that, try rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop then killall Dock
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0f8ef369ee2f18c33d38bd18823f75ad0b1fad46 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I go invisible in Messages (OS X)? I am using Messages for OS X and Google Talk. I'd like to be able to go invisible in Messages. How can I do this?
A: You don't get invisibility using Apple's Messages app on OS X. According to Google, their client also does not support invisible status, so perhaps it's a limitation of their API and only something you can set using their web app. They get to serve you ads when you are on the web, but not on a client so perhaps that was a factor in deciding to code that function in one place over the other.
Apple's Messages app on OS X will set an invisible status for AIM accounts, but not for Google Talk, so it's less like a Messages oversight as an account/API design issue from Google.
| Q: How do I go invisible in Messages (OS X)? I am using Messages for OS X and Google Talk. I'd like to be able to go invisible in Messages. How can I do this?
A: You don't get invisibility using Apple's Messages app on OS X. According to Google, their client also does not support invisible status, so perhaps it's a limitation of their API and only something you can set using their web app. They get to serve you ads when you are on the web, but not on a client so perhaps that was a factor in deciding to code that function in one place over the other.
Apple's Messages app on OS X will set an invisible status for AIM accounts, but not for Google Talk, so it's less like a Messages oversight as an account/API design issue from Google.
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a8c2247111cb07f30d38f8e6021d8790fa1cd0cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restoring Lion/iCloud iCal from Time Machine Well I managed to delete my calendar, which was being synched via iCloud with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Can I repopulate my iCal calendar from a Time Machine backup? ~/Library/ contains a folder called Calendars, but its contents look complicated and I don't dare simply restore the Calendars folder from yesterday's Time Machine backup.
Thanks.
A: From what I can tell, Time Machine doesn't allow you to restore iCal calendars through the iCal app. And actually, you should be able to restore that calendars folder.
While the directory contents are complicated, iCal should translate them back to what you had before. The only other thing I would bring over just to be on the safe side is your iCal's list file, located in ~/Library/Preferences. It should be called com.apple.iCal.plist. I would recommend moving this from your Time Machine backup to the same directory on your Mac.
That should do it for you.
| Q: Restoring Lion/iCloud iCal from Time Machine Well I managed to delete my calendar, which was being synched via iCloud with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Can I repopulate my iCal calendar from a Time Machine backup? ~/Library/ contains a folder called Calendars, but its contents look complicated and I don't dare simply restore the Calendars folder from yesterday's Time Machine backup.
Thanks.
A: From what I can tell, Time Machine doesn't allow you to restore iCal calendars through the iCal app. And actually, you should be able to restore that calendars folder.
While the directory contents are complicated, iCal should translate them back to what you had before. The only other thing I would bring over just to be on the safe side is your iCal's list file, located in ~/Library/Preferences. It should be called com.apple.iCal.plist. I would recommend moving this from your Time Machine backup to the same directory on your Mac.
That should do it for you.
A: This worked for me but I had to clean things up before it actually did work :
rm -fr ~/Library/Calendars
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/*iCal*
cp -fr $TimeMachineHome$/Library/Calendars ~/Library/Calendars
cp -fr $TimeMachineHome$/Library/Preferences/*iCal* ~/Library/Preferences
A: I found another solution using Time Machine. You will have to look deep inside that Calendars folder though. This was the only way I could find that would get around iCloud's penchant for re-syncing my lost calendar back into oblivion.
I think these are the steps that will work. For reference I am using Mavericks with iCloud Calendar syncing.
*
*Close Calendar.
*Move the entire contents of the ~\Library\Calendars folder to a temp folder - both as a backup and for comparison below.
*Stop iCloud Calendar syncing in System Preferences > iCloud
*Enter Time Machine on the now empty Calendars folder.
*Restore the contents of the Calendars folder to a time before you deleted/lost your calendar.
*Now compare the temp folder with the restored Calendars folder to find your missing calendar. I believe it will be in the .caldav folder - a folder in there will not be in your temp folder. You can verify by opening the Events folder inside the missing folder and use Quick-look to view the lost events.
*Copy that Events folder out to your Desktop.
*Open your Calendars application - your iCould synced calendars will not be there, but they are still in iCloud.
*Create a new calendar "On My Mac" - it has to be local - if you turn on iCloud syncing before this step you won't be able to create a local calendar "On My Mac".
*Drag the contents of the Events folder from your Desktop to the new calendar. Wait for the events to copy over.
*Close Calendar.
*Turn iCloud Calendar syncing back on in System Preferences > iCloud
*Open Calendar.
*Calendar should now re-sync all the iCloud calendars back - and - it will copy the new "On My Mac" calendar to iCloud - restoring all you lost events. You can rename the new calendar.
Hope this helps.
A: These answers are all okay and I eventually got the first answer (from Matt Love) to work BUT ONLY AFTER I found that the Library Folder referred to is invisible on the desktop. This had kept me baffled and angry for an hour. You can't find it - either on your Boot Volume or on Time Machine - unless you search for "Calendars" and select the right one. Then, on the desktop you can force Library to reveal itself by selecting "Open enclosing folder". In Time Machine you search for "Calendars" and get a whole heap of items, you just have to keep checking inside each one until you find one that looks something like the old one you've already inspected on the desktop (and, yes, it does look confusing inside!). Time Machine hung repeatedly while I was doing this, which made me even happier! But finally I just restored "Calendars" and it worked. I didn't need to do the extra copying of plist files. This was on a MacBook Core2Duo 2GHz 3G/500G OS10.7.5
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18e75030636f9d1b36fa065bfd3033a61ede24a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to repair damaged mkv file on mac I tried Meteorite. It doesn't work, just keep crashing. Any other way I can fix the damaged .mkv file on Mac?
A: Try extracting video and audio with MKVToolnix and re-muxing with the same tool.
| Q: How to repair damaged mkv file on mac I tried Meteorite. It doesn't work, just keep crashing. Any other way I can fix the damaged .mkv file on Mac?
A: Try extracting video and audio with MKVToolnix and re-muxing with the same tool.
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30409dc08a457e894391f78efbe51e7583449a8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I create a keyboard shortcut to access a specific folder in Finder? I have been using Total Commander as a file manager on Windows for years. There is one feature I miss a lot in Finder: a shortcut to one specific folder.
Saying I have a folder ~/Downloads, ~/Dropbox, ~/Code, ~/Books.
Is it possible to setup a customized keyboard shortcut for each of them?
In Total Commander you could do ctrl+D+1/2/C/B/... etc.
A: Solution using Quicksilver
That's it.
| Q: How can I create a keyboard shortcut to access a specific folder in Finder? I have been using Total Commander as a file manager on Windows for years. There is one feature I miss a lot in Finder: a shortcut to one specific folder.
Saying I have a folder ~/Downloads, ~/Dropbox, ~/Code, ~/Books.
Is it possible to setup a customized keyboard shortcut for each of them?
In Total Commander you could do ctrl+D+1/2/C/B/... etc.
A: Solution using Quicksilver
That's it.
A: As an alternative to Quicksilver, consider Launchbar. It is a religious preference, so rather than discuss why to choose one over the other, I just wanted to make you aware of both.
Another commercial gem is Keyboard Maestro, which is very much overkill for this sort of job (Automator is the simplest approach, as described by @Lri and @gentmatt), but if you are the sort of person who likes keyboard shortcuts to folders, you will probably find a lot to love in Keyboard Maestro.
A: One option would be to create an Automator service and assign it a shortcut in the Keyboard preferences.
tell application "Finder"
reopen
activate
set p to (system attribute "HOME") & "/Downloads/"
set target of Finder window 1 to POSIX file p
end tell
You could also save the script to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder/ with AppleScript Editor and use FastScripts to assign the shortcut.
A: Butler rules for this type of thing and MUCH more.
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a3c23797aa0190633b28d2affc8701305d011df7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does FaceTime take up data or calling minutes when in a Wi-Fi area? I am using FaceTime and calling my friend abroad. I am using an iPod touch, but my friend has an iPhone and is in an area where they have Wi-Fi access. My question is, does that "call" count toward data or voice minutes, or is it unlimited and free as it's all going over Wi-Fi?
A: According to Apple Support:
Check that each person has an active Wi-Fi connection.
Since both parties must use Wi-fi, no cellular data or voice usage will be charged.
More information can be found in this Apple.SE post, as it may be possible to use Facetime over 3G if the phone is jailbroken.
| Q: Does FaceTime take up data or calling minutes when in a Wi-Fi area? I am using FaceTime and calling my friend abroad. I am using an iPod touch, but my friend has an iPhone and is in an area where they have Wi-Fi access. My question is, does that "call" count toward data or voice minutes, or is it unlimited and free as it's all going over Wi-Fi?
A: According to Apple Support:
Check that each person has an active Wi-Fi connection.
Since both parties must use Wi-fi, no cellular data or voice usage will be charged.
More information can be found in this Apple.SE post, as it may be possible to use Facetime over 3G if the phone is jailbroken.
A: No cellular data is supposed to be used when accessing FaceTime in an area with wifi. But in order to be sure of this it's smart to turn off cellular data in your settings to avoid any fishy usage activity.
It's located in Settings>General>Celullar.
A: It is unlimited and free because it is over wifi. Video chat as much as you want for free
A: Unless they our friend's iPhone is jailbroken to run FaceTime over 3G, the call should be free as it's a WiFi only data connection.
A: I just finished chatting with Tracfone via their website's Live Chat feature. The rep said, as long as you're at home using your WiFi, it doesn't cost minutes or data.
I've read online so many different answers regarding this. Some say it's only FREE if using Facetime AUDIO ONLY with your home WiFi. Others say it will cost you DATA if you don't have your DATA turned off when using Facetime and your home WiFi. Still others have said if your DATA is turned off, it will deduct from your minutes even if at your home Wifi.
So the people posting here on Ask Different are correct. Facetime is totally FREE if using your home WiFi.
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17eda366d11a1ae78ad3d2e729b6c3d69f79200f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any harm done in Symlinking ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync to an external drive? I'd like to reclaim the many GBs that this directory is currently eating up. Any reason I shouldn't symlink it to an external drive?
A: Judging from some quick tests I ran, you should be fine. iTunes finds the symlinked folder without problems (not given, as it has – or maybe had – bugs following symlinks inside its media folder) – the worst that happens is iTunes showing no backups when the link destination (i.e. the external drive) is not available.
| Q: Any harm done in Symlinking ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync to an external drive? I'd like to reclaim the many GBs that this directory is currently eating up. Any reason I shouldn't symlink it to an external drive?
A: Judging from some quick tests I ran, you should be fine. iTunes finds the symlinked folder without problems (not given, as it has – or maybe had – bugs following symlinks inside its media folder) – the worst that happens is iTunes showing no backups when the link destination (i.e. the external drive) is not available.
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c8da26bc994de93092ea196cf442d3f16bc90001 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to add a drawer of apps on the dock? There are way too many app icons on my dock. Is there a way to add drawers of apps on the dock so each drawer contains a list of apps?
A: While the Dock doesn't have the concept of "folders" for the apps that are pinned to or running in it, as of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard the Stacks feature can provide something similar.
Dragging the Applications folder from the Finder into the "Stacks section" (right of the white-dashed line) of the Dock will add it as a Stack. You can then click the folder to see something like this:
If you want subsets of your Applications as separate Stacks, you can create folders for each somewhere in your filesystem, and add aliases for the desired applications. (Note that dragging an app from the Applications folder to another folder makes an alias by default. Convenient!)
The results look like this:
All this being said, an alternative if you have OS X 10.7 Lion is to use Launchpad to organize and access your apps, keeping the contents of your Dock as minimal as possible.
| Q: How to add a drawer of apps on the dock? There are way too many app icons on my dock. Is there a way to add drawers of apps on the dock so each drawer contains a list of apps?
A: While the Dock doesn't have the concept of "folders" for the apps that are pinned to or running in it, as of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard the Stacks feature can provide something similar.
Dragging the Applications folder from the Finder into the "Stacks section" (right of the white-dashed line) of the Dock will add it as a Stack. You can then click the folder to see something like this:
If you want subsets of your Applications as separate Stacks, you can create folders for each somewhere in your filesystem, and add aliases for the desired applications. (Note that dragging an app from the Applications folder to another folder makes an alias by default. Convenient!)
The results look like this:
All this being said, an alternative if you have OS X 10.7 Lion is to use Launchpad to organize and access your apps, keeping the contents of your Dock as minimal as possible.
A: I realize this question was asked awhile back, but if someone with a newer OS stumbles upon it, here's another trick you can try.
Add comments or tags to the applications you want to group, making a new Smart Folder in /Applications, and then setting the search criteria to be the comment or tag you chose. Then, save the search, which adds it to your Finder sidebar.
From there, right click on the new Finder sidebar item, and choose 'Add to Dock'. Note that some built-in applications like Safari won't allow you to modify tags or comments. But, that's when you just make an alias and add the tag or comment to it, instead.
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a1060620582be31c2c9180bee3f6f3468de8ff6e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to read .awz ebooks on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)? How to read .awz ebooks (Kindle format) on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)?
Can it be converted to PDF with hyperlinks properly supported?
A: I believe the easiest way to read a Kindle ebook on your Mac is to download Amazon's application for that purpose (either from their site or the Mac App Store). As Thilo points out in the comments, however, a DRMed Kindle title can only be read on the device which downloaded it, so moving the .azw to your Mac won't help. Instead, assuming this is a book you acquired from Amazon's store, you can download another copy and have it sent to the Kindle app on your Mac.
As for converting to PDF, .azw files are DRM-protected Mobipocket files. Assuming you can remove the DRM somehow, there are many resources online that can do .mobi -> PDF conversion.
| Q: How to read .awz ebooks on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)? How to read .awz ebooks (Kindle format) on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)?
Can it be converted to PDF with hyperlinks properly supported?
A: I believe the easiest way to read a Kindle ebook on your Mac is to download Amazon's application for that purpose (either from their site or the Mac App Store). As Thilo points out in the comments, however, a DRMed Kindle title can only be read on the device which downloaded it, so moving the .azw to your Mac won't help. Instead, assuming this is a book you acquired from Amazon's store, you can download another copy and have it sent to the Kindle app on your Mac.
As for converting to PDF, .azw files are DRM-protected Mobipocket files. Assuming you can remove the DRM somehow, there are many resources online that can do .mobi -> PDF conversion.
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44fd3289648c50a07a3f9206909034956b519c5c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary for Dictionary app? For quite a while now, I have been looking for English and Spanish conversion dictionaries (both ways) for Apple's native Dictionary application. So far I have not had any success.
Is there any free, decent quality solution such as "New Oxford American Dictionary" and "Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française"?
Any links or information would be highly appreciated.
A: Look at this link: clasqm's virtual home. Here you can find the requested "eng-esp / esp-eng" dictionaries.
| Q: Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary for Dictionary app? For quite a while now, I have been looking for English and Spanish conversion dictionaries (both ways) for Apple's native Dictionary application. So far I have not had any success.
Is there any free, decent quality solution such as "New Oxford American Dictionary" and "Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française"?
Any links or information would be highly appreciated.
A: Look at this link: clasqm's virtual home. Here you can find the requested "eng-esp / esp-eng" dictionaries.
A: As a follow-up to ccpizza's answer, here's what you need as of today:
*
*Auxiliary Tools for Xcode: http://developer.apple.com/downloads
You need an Apple Developer account to get that.
Once you downloaded it, you can just create a new folder at /Developer/Extras and copy the Dictionary Development Kit folder from the Auxiliary Tools there.
*Python. This might be preinstalled.
*beautifulsoup. Fire up a Terminal and launch this command:
sudo easy_install beautifulsoup4
*pyglossary: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary
Now you can download a dictionary in any format pyglossary can read. All English - X Babylon dictionaries are here: http://www.babylon.com/free-dictionaries/languages/english
Now do what ccpizza said. I had to change the command a bit to
python pyglossary.pyw --read-options=resPath=OtherResources --write-format=AppleDict webster.bgl webster.xml
make
make install
Note that the output name (in this case "webster") will be the dictionaries name in Dictionary.app's toolbar; I used Spanish.xml for the Spanish dictionary. The last command will automatically install the dictionary file, so you can then enable it in Dictionary.app's preferences.
A: The latest MacOS versions already include Spanish dictionaries which can be enabled in preferences in the Dictionary.app (⌘+,).
The answer below is for converting and installing third-party dictionaries from other popular formats.
To create a dictionary for the built-in OS X Dictionary.app you will first need pyglossary to convert to the AppleDict format from the input format which can be ABBYY Lingvo DSL, Babylon BGL, Stardict IFO, etc (see all supported formats).
Once the AppleDict source XML is generated, the Apple Dictionary Development Kit is used to generate the native binary files that the Dictionary.app can use.
Proceed as follows:
Installing dependencies
*
*Install Xcode command line tools:
xcode-select --install
*Install the Additional Tools for Xcode from https://developer.apple.com/download/ (search with )— you'll need to login with your iCloud or Apple Developer account. Mount the DMG file by double-clicking it in Finder, and copy the folder Dictionary Development Kit to /Developer/Extras (as root) (or to ~/Developer/Extras as a normal user as pointed out by richard-möhn):
mkdir -p ~/Developer/Extras/
cp -r '/Volumes/Additional Tools/Utilities/' ~/Developer/Extras
*Install Python 3 via homebrew (OS X comes with Python 2.x preinstalled):
brew install python3
*Checkout the pyglossary project:
mkdir -p ~/projects
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary.git ~/projects/pyglossary
*Install lxml and BeautifulSoup, the parsers that pyglossary depends on:
pip3 install lxml beautifulsoup4
Now everything is ready to do the actual conversion.
Performing the Conversion
*
*Convert the source dictionary (in this case Babylon BGL) to AppleDict:
python3 pyglossary.pyw --read-options=resPath=OtherResources --write-format=AppleDict webster.bgl webster.xml
NOTE: This operation can take significant time if the dictionary is big.
*Compile the generated AppleDict sources to OS X Dictionary.app binary files. Pyglossary creates the AppleDict sources in a subfolder named the same as the source file.
OPTIONAL: By default the dictionary name will be derived from the file name of the input file. If you want to modify the name to something else then open Makefile in a text editor, and set the title in the DICT_NAME variable (make sure you include the quotes).
cd webster ### subdir name is derived from the source file
make
make install
NOTE: make can take significant time if the dictionary is big. For huge dictionaries it can take over 10 minutes.
make install copies the generated dictionary to ~/Library/Dictionaries.
Now if you restart the dictionary app and and open preferences (⌘+,) the new dictionary will appear in the list. Click the checkbox to enable it.
Other formats, for example ABBYY Lingvo DSL require more steps such as re-encoding from UTF-16 to UTF-8. Here is a wrapper script for DSL to AppleDict conversion.
Here are some Free dictionaries in Babylon BGL format. There are also literally hundreds of dictionaries available in DICTD, Stardict and ABBYY Lingvo DSL formats.
See also:
*
*https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary/blob/master/doc/apple.md
A: Starting with at least El Capitan, Apple provides one of these:
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87fc905b1161c6c718d4f2b9313fa1a1c29d11dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Tell iTerm2 not to remember open windows on quit After a recent upgrade of iTerm2 (I'm on build 1.0.0.20120203), when I open up iTerm2, it restores all of the terminal windows I had open. How do I disable this behavior so it doesn't "remember" how many windows I had open?
A: This is the resume feature introduced with Lion.
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
| Q: Tell iTerm2 not to remember open windows on quit After a recent upgrade of iTerm2 (I'm on build 1.0.0.20120203), when I open up iTerm2, it restores all of the terminal windows I had open. How do I disable this behavior so it doesn't "remember" how many windows I had open?
A: This is the resume feature introduced with Lion.
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
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f9cf32ed17d536f5ba3e0f4aec9f070f17809d5d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do I need to take special steps to fully restore an iPhone after jailbreaking it? I heard that the iPhone has some sort of counter that counts every unauthorized connect or something like that, and with said counter, Apple Geniuses can tell if it has been jailbroken and they won't fix it. I was also told that when you perform a restore on the iPhone, the counter is saved so anyone can tell if it's been jailbroken even after restore.
Is there a way to fully restore the iPhone and leave no "fingerprints" behind ?
A: This is the first I hear about this so-called "counter". I don't believe in such and I'm pretty sure when you restore an iPhone using DFU modus, the iPhone is completely wiped clean.
As a matter of facts, I've jailbroken all my iPhones so far and passed by the Apple Genius bar several times. Once I even forgot to restore the device when asking a Genius for help. And he just smiled at me and said "jailbreak, right? What's your favorite app?" :)
So, no. I don't think there is such a counter and you're safe with a DFU Full restore.
| Q: Do I need to take special steps to fully restore an iPhone after jailbreaking it? I heard that the iPhone has some sort of counter that counts every unauthorized connect or something like that, and with said counter, Apple Geniuses can tell if it has been jailbroken and they won't fix it. I was also told that when you perform a restore on the iPhone, the counter is saved so anyone can tell if it's been jailbroken even after restore.
Is there a way to fully restore the iPhone and leave no "fingerprints" behind ?
A: This is the first I hear about this so-called "counter". I don't believe in such and I'm pretty sure when you restore an iPhone using DFU modus, the iPhone is completely wiped clean.
As a matter of facts, I've jailbroken all my iPhones so far and passed by the Apple Genius bar several times. Once I even forgot to restore the device when asking a Genius for help. And he just smiled at me and said "jailbreak, right? What's your favorite app?" :)
So, no. I don't think there is such a counter and you're safe with a DFU Full restore.
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aefaec0ec35e49f682ca529ec46194347fcd5c97 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I sync an iCal calendar across Lion, Lepoard, and iOS 5? My Dad wants to be able to sync his iCal calendar across a Lion MBP, a Leopard MB, and an iPad running iOS 5. Since the Leopard MB doesn't support iCloud, I can't use that. How can I sync an iCal calendar across all these devices?
I've tried to use Google Calendar, but with no success. Maybe it's the way I'm importing it, but I can't get the colors to show up correctly in iCal. When I link iCal to Google Calendar, I want the calendars to look the same in the sidebar. It is a bit confusing with out a screenshot, but I will post a screenshot as soon as I have my Dad's laptop.
A: I suggest you use Google Calendar (CalDav). You can import these into iCal (both on iPad and Mac). It sync automatically too, so you can have all iCloud-benefits.
I use it with my girlfriend (who is, sadly enough a windows user) and with my company PC. It works like a charm!
| Q: How do I sync an iCal calendar across Lion, Lepoard, and iOS 5? My Dad wants to be able to sync his iCal calendar across a Lion MBP, a Leopard MB, and an iPad running iOS 5. Since the Leopard MB doesn't support iCloud, I can't use that. How can I sync an iCal calendar across all these devices?
I've tried to use Google Calendar, but with no success. Maybe it's the way I'm importing it, but I can't get the colors to show up correctly in iCal. When I link iCal to Google Calendar, I want the calendars to look the same in the sidebar. It is a bit confusing with out a screenshot, but I will post a screenshot as soon as I have my Dad's laptop.
A: I suggest you use Google Calendar (CalDav). You can import these into iCal (both on iPad and Mac). It sync automatically too, so you can have all iCloud-benefits.
I use it with my girlfriend (who is, sadly enough a windows user) and with my company PC. It works like a charm!
A: I have found a suitable work around that I have been using for a couple of months
While using iCal on a Mac running Snow Leopard, I needed to add an account to iCal. This account would point to iCloud and sync with it.
So, open Preferences and select accounts, enter the add account window by hitting +.
this takes you to:
You need to choose CalDav and enter your Apple ID email address (not your .me.com email address created when you signed up for iCloud)
enter in your password and the server name which in most cases is p06-caldav.icloud.com
Once this has been added you will need to uncheck some of the calendars in the 'on my mac' menu.
A: I assume you can make an iCloud account with either the MBP/Lion or the iPad/ios5. Do that, if you haven't. Then read this article that describes connecting to your iCloud calendar to Snow Leopard using CalDAV.
The gist of it is that you run a quick experiment that helps you determine which iCloud server your calendar is on, and then create a link to that account from your iCal. I don't have a Leopard here to test with, but it does work in Snow Leopard, which, as of Feb 2012, also doesn't support iCloud, so it seems worth a try.
Edit: It seems I failed to link to the article; that link is present now. And BTW, our all Snow-Leopard household shares three calendars this way.
A: You could use this service:
http://www.mac-daddy.co.uk/cloud-solutions/macdaddy-pro-hosting.html
It works over-the-air and is fully compatible with iOS, Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
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7ff2c442fcb8284323bb0631479e4fffb84b0491 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use a Wii remote as a remote control for Keynote on my mid-2011 MacBook Air? I have a Wii Remote and a mid-2011 MacBook Air. What do I do to pair the Wii remote with the Air, and what software can accept input from this Bluetooth device and send it to Keynote?
I'm looking for much more than a link to a piece of software. What software do you use, how do you go about setting up the pairing, and how do you go about using the Wii remote?
A: I believe that you'll need to download Darwiin Remote form here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote/. This software will allow communication between the Wii Remote and your computer.
I haven't played with this for a long time, but I believe that when I did this app allows the Wii Remote to act as your mouse and provide direct interaction with the system (I used a candle to provide the required infrared source for tracking).
| Q: How can I use a Wii remote as a remote control for Keynote on my mid-2011 MacBook Air? I have a Wii Remote and a mid-2011 MacBook Air. What do I do to pair the Wii remote with the Air, and what software can accept input from this Bluetooth device and send it to Keynote?
I'm looking for much more than a link to a piece of software. What software do you use, how do you go about setting up the pairing, and how do you go about using the Wii remote?
A: I believe that you'll need to download Darwiin Remote form here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote/. This software will allow communication between the Wii Remote and your computer.
I haven't played with this for a long time, but I believe that when I did this app allows the Wii Remote to act as your mouse and provide direct interaction with the system (I used a candle to provide the required infrared source for tracking).
A: Remote Buddy supports using a Wii remote to control a Mac and lists Keynote as a controllable application. You can also customise button-presses to perform a range of different actions. Although I've never tried it with a Wii remote, I do use it with an Apple remote to control a Mac Mini as a media centre and its a great piece of software.
The iospirit FAQ's contain information on setting up and pairing the Wii remote. Once paired you should be able to use the Mapping tab to assign functions to the buttons, or pick from a standard set of modifiable 'behaviours'.
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01f8f887f677c3956d0fd8098cca2d3049eaec03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to display iPhone/iOS device on Projector? I want to display my iPod screen in my PowerPoint slide show, or on a projector through WiFi.
How can I do that?
I mean something like what TeamViewer can do.
A: Three possibilities:
*
*Use AppleTV.
*Use an appropriate adapter, such as an Apple Digital AV adapater or Apple VGA adapter. (Works only if you have a 4th generation iPod Touch.)
*Use a document camera to record and project your device's screen. For demos where you want to show interaction with the device, this is a common setup.
| Q: How to display iPhone/iOS device on Projector? I want to display my iPod screen in my PowerPoint slide show, or on a projector through WiFi.
How can I do that?
I mean something like what TeamViewer can do.
A: Three possibilities:
*
*Use AppleTV.
*Use an appropriate adapter, such as an Apple Digital AV adapater or Apple VGA adapter. (Works only if you have a 4th generation iPod Touch.)
*Use a document camera to record and project your device's screen. For demos where you want to show interaction with the device, this is a common setup.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41955"
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6641f918a3b7acaf40e55caefa13172631e3bc07 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I efficiently make a pdf out of 10 jpeg images?
Possible Duplicate:
How do I combine two or more images to get a single pdf file?
In Lion, how can I efficiently combine 10 jpeg files into a single pdf in which each image is a page? I have preview.
A: If you have Acrobat, you can simply select create Pdf from the file menu, then merge files into single pdf, it then gives you the option of small, medium or large size options
| Q: Can I efficiently make a pdf out of 10 jpeg images?
Possible Duplicate:
How do I combine two or more images to get a single pdf file?
In Lion, how can I efficiently combine 10 jpeg files into a single pdf in which each image is a page? I have preview.
A: If you have Acrobat, you can simply select create Pdf from the file menu, then merge files into single pdf, it then gives you the option of small, medium or large size options
A: You may want to watch this YouTube video - it shows the scenario that I believe you're looking to solve - it uses Preview to create a multi-page PDF.
The steps are:
*
*Open your images in Preview
*Select Print from the File menu (or ⌘P)
*Click on the "PDF" button in the Print dialog and select "Save as PDF..." from the dropdown
*Provide a file name and Save
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a38037aa8405e9cc6323a84e7adf3cad67432e4b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any Twitter clients for iPhone with larger font size? Are there any Twitter clients for iPhone that have larger font size than the one used in the official Twitter for iPhone app?
A: TweetBot allows you to choose a font size, and is generally considered a top drawer twitter client.
| Q: Any Twitter clients for iPhone with larger font size? Are there any Twitter clients for iPhone that have larger font size than the one used in the official Twitter for iPhone app?
A: TweetBot allows you to choose a font size, and is generally considered a top drawer twitter client.
A: Here's Tweetbot Huge font size.
A: Here's Twitteriffic large size:
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623e3bb20e4e9ba1c5a386b829eaa06f4eb726e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Parenthesis don't show in built-in iPhone calculator app When you open the iOS's built in calculator app and rotate iPhone you get the scientific calculator.
I am trying to use parenthesis ( ) to write something like (2+2)/4 but the parenthesis don't appear!
How do I enter that expression?
A: The built-in calculator doesn't offer any visual clues to let you know you've opened a sub-group operation in an expression. The only thing that tips you off is you'll get a sub-result after you close the group show up in the display. For example, enter the following:
5 + ( 3 + 3 )
After you type the opening ( you don't see anything on the display. But when you press the closing ) the display shows you 6 to tip you off to the fact that the 3 + 3 operation was performed.
I prefer the TouchCalc app myself. It will show a small ( in the lower left corner of the display when you open a sub-expression grouping so you know you're actually perserving your order of operations as intended.
| Q: Parenthesis don't show in built-in iPhone calculator app When you open the iOS's built in calculator app and rotate iPhone you get the scientific calculator.
I am trying to use parenthesis ( ) to write something like (2+2)/4 but the parenthesis don't appear!
How do I enter that expression?
A: The built-in calculator doesn't offer any visual clues to let you know you've opened a sub-group operation in an expression. The only thing that tips you off is you'll get a sub-result after you close the group show up in the display. For example, enter the following:
5 + ( 3 + 3 )
After you type the opening ( you don't see anything on the display. But when you press the closing ) the display shows you 6 to tip you off to the fact that the 3 + 3 operation was performed.
I prefer the TouchCalc app myself. It will show a small ( in the lower left corner of the display when you open a sub-expression grouping so you know you're actually perserving your order of operations as intended.
A: It does not function correctly depending on the equation. I type in:
600/(¹3)=
and I get 200
The correct answer is 346.41016......
The calculator does not follow the order of operations for parenthesis in a consistent manner.
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05b38aa878b65587aaefaa7126d931e65303761e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Parental Controls not restrict Terminal Commands? I have a Parental Controls limit on my child so I have to type in my password when they open a new application. I have recently discovered a problem though. They have tried programming in terminal. The problem is that the Mac thinks of each command as an application, so if they want to use a new command, I have to allow it. Is there a way to allow all of the commands, but not the actual applications?
A: Well, allowing all commands would probably allow your child to bypass some or all of the other Parental Controls on the system. Perhaps a simple Linux Virtual Machine without networking capabilities would suit your purposes better? Your child wouldn't be able to bypass any settings on the host machine and if they break the VM, it's trivial to fix/reinstall.
| Q: Parental Controls not restrict Terminal Commands? I have a Parental Controls limit on my child so I have to type in my password when they open a new application. I have recently discovered a problem though. They have tried programming in terminal. The problem is that the Mac thinks of each command as an application, so if they want to use a new command, I have to allow it. Is there a way to allow all of the commands, but not the actual applications?
A: Well, allowing all commands would probably allow your child to bypass some or all of the other Parental Controls on the system. Perhaps a simple Linux Virtual Machine without networking capabilities would suit your purposes better? Your child wouldn't be able to bypass any settings on the host machine and if they break the VM, it's trivial to fix/reinstall.
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82a73ce4dcc89fdf2a0a4bcabb4dd52ba648b1af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to have AppleScript output displayed in the menubar? Before reading further:
I know about butler and similar programs. I am looking for a BUILT-IN way to do this without a third party app.
Anyway, I wrote an AppleScript that runs a shell command. I want to display that output in the menubar at the top... without Butler how can I do this?
A: As a generality, without a third party program, such as Growl, there is no built in way to do this.
However, you could write a script or other program such as one I found here that provides the menulet service for you. I'm sure that Growl integration would be much easier to accomplish.
| Q: Is there a way to have AppleScript output displayed in the menubar? Before reading further:
I know about butler and similar programs. I am looking for a BUILT-IN way to do this without a third party app.
Anyway, I wrote an AppleScript that runs a shell command. I want to display that output in the menubar at the top... without Butler how can I do this?
A: As a generality, without a third party program, such as Growl, there is no built in way to do this.
However, you could write a script or other program such as one I found here that provides the menulet service for you. I'm sure that Growl integration would be much easier to accomplish.
A: There isn't a built in way to do this in OS X. However, using Growl, you can have notifications. Here's a sample script for that:
--Make sure Growl is running
tell application "System Events"
set isRunning to (count of (every process whose bundle identifier is "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp")) > 0
end tell
if isRunning then
tell application id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp"
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Test Notification", "Another Test Notification"}
--Notifications can be enabled in System Preferences>Growl>Applications>Display Options
set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
{"Test Notification"}
register as application ¬
"Growl AppleScript Sample" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
-- Set the icon. You can use any icon from any application
icon of application "AppleScript Editor"
notify with name ¬
"Test Notification" title ¬
"Test Notification" description ¬
"This is a test AppleScript notification." application name "Growl AppleScript Sample"
notify with name ¬
"Another Test Notification" title ¬
"Another Test Notification :) " description ¬
"Alas — you won't see me until you enable me..." application name "Growl AppleScript Sample"
end tell
end if
That should display this:
And if you have the other notification enabled too:
More advanced techniques are described here.
A: Since AppleScriptObjC is part of macOS it is possible to use its "Foundation" framework (incl. NSMenu's methods) to achieve what was probably not possible in 2012.
I found an interesting script to create custom menus from within AppleScript; from this I extracted suitable code to place text in macOS's menu bar. In fact it uses just a menu's "title" for inserting some content.
In order to demonstrate this I implemented a very basic dialog script that asks users for text input (waiting 6 sec.) which is then displayed in the menu bar temporarily (5 sec.).
Here it is:
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"
use scripting additions
property StatusItem : missing value
property newMenu : class "NSMenu"
display dialog "Write something:" default answer "" giving up after 6
set myText to text returned of the result
if myText is "" then set myText to "TOOOOO slow … try again !"
set myText to ">> " & myText & " <<"
set bar to current application's NSStatusBar's systemStatusBar
set StatusItem to bar's statusItemWithLength:-1.0
StatusItem's setTitle:myText
set newMenu to current application's NSMenu's alloc()'s initWithTitle:"Custom"
StatusItem's setMenu:newMenu
delay 5
current application's NSStatusBar's systemStatusBar()'s ¬
removeStatusItem:StatusItem
This AppleScript code can be used in any script of yours. (Its "dialog" part is optional…)
user3439894 helped with closing my "menu", see last line of the script. Thanks a lot!
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08545e48f14478e82ea2db10a5f08edeb5009d9c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Wifi connection has password issue with my Macbook Pro I have a 2010 Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) and I connect to my home internet thru Wifi (via Thompson router).
The problem is, after I choose my Wifi from a list of Wifis and enter the password, majority of the times it fails to connect saying "Incorrect password", even though its correct. All I have to do is keep pressing the return key until a connection is established.
Very few times I get connected automatically without a need to enter the password and sometimes I get the connection on the first attempt, but usually it takes around 5-10 tries.
It doesn't happen to my Windows (vaio) laptop though.
Anyone seen something likely and got it fixed?
A: You could try 'Forget this network' in the Airport settings through System Preferences -> Network, then reconnect fresh again
| Q: Wifi connection has password issue with my Macbook Pro I have a 2010 Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) and I connect to my home internet thru Wifi (via Thompson router).
The problem is, after I choose my Wifi from a list of Wifis and enter the password, majority of the times it fails to connect saying "Incorrect password", even though its correct. All I have to do is keep pressing the return key until a connection is established.
Very few times I get connected automatically without a need to enter the password and sometimes I get the connection on the first attempt, but usually it takes around 5-10 tries.
It doesn't happen to my Windows (vaio) laptop though.
Anyone seen something likely and got it fixed?
A: You could try 'Forget this network' in the Airport settings through System Preferences -> Network, then reconnect fresh again
A: For others finding this thread because they too have the problem:
On my wife's MacBook Pro, the answer turned out to be that the laptop could not differentiate between the 2.4GHz and 5GHz version of the wireless, and if it connected to a different one than last time, told her the password was wrong. The cure was to 'split' the two wi-fi networks by adding '-5' to the 5GHz version SSID, then the Mac could tell them apart. It has the same passcode for both networks (although they could be different) and is now happy to connect to either, every time.
Why this suddenly crops up for some, is down to relative signal strength on each frequency, and maybe a new router having the 5GHz band for the first time, but with the same SSID. (That is how they are normally set up, but Apple has problems with that).
HTH someone.
A: The problem was solved by a firmware update. It specifically addressed this password issue.
A: I have the same issue, and it's driving me nuts.
If I leave MB running unattended, say, overnight, or even if I shut it down, the next time I log in it fails to see the the router. (BT Infinity)
It's not the router, as my iPad and iPhone and other wireless kit I have never have the same problem.
*
*I've tried repeatedly putting in the password without success.
*I've also scanned for malware and virus using Avast and Malwarebytes and no issues.
*I've repaired permissions etc all to no avail.
It is very frustrating.
The only thing that consistently works is to do the following:
*
*Shut my MB down.
*Power down my router and leave it like so for 10 to 15 seconds then power it back up again, wait until router is ready (on BT Infinity it turns Blue)
*Start up MB and log in and bingo it's fixed ! Generally it stays good for the rest of the day providing MB is used even occasionally. Hope this is of some help
A: I spent two hours
*
*Removed the Wifi Service then add it
*Removed all related keys (password) from the KeyChain
*Deleted related config from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
*Reset the Router password, changed the Wifi SSID
and nothing worked,
Finally after removing the USB device, I was able to connect, it seems strange, but it may help someone
A: I recently revived an old MacBook Pro, that could only run Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and suffered from an inability to log in to the wireless network, despite using the correct SSID and password.
I fixed it when I discovered that I had set my router up with slightly differing security protocols for the 2.4GhZ and 5Ghz bands, using the same SSID and password for each. In one I had set it to 'WPA2 Personal' and in tho other as 'WPA2/WPA Personal'. Making both 'WPA2/WPA Personal' solved my problem, and now the MacBook can successfully connect to the wireless network (reportedly using WPA2 Personal and on the 2.4GHz band, of course).
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e3814674d6d3f31a13044f7fde72a1a2d9234739 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Exchange files between 2 Macs over wifi Is there a quick an easy way to share files between two macs (OS X Lion) over wifi?
A: If your Macs are on the same network and the one you want to connect to has File Sharing enabled you should just be able to connect to one from the other in the sidebar under the shared menu. After you connected and select which volumn to mount it will mount it as a volume on the Mac you are using and then you can drag and drop to or from that volume.
Airdrop is not available on all Lion installs, it depends on the age of the Mac, see OS X Lion: Can I use AirDrop with my computer?
| Q: Exchange files between 2 Macs over wifi Is there a quick an easy way to share files between two macs (OS X Lion) over wifi?
A: If your Macs are on the same network and the one you want to connect to has File Sharing enabled you should just be able to connect to one from the other in the sidebar under the shared menu. After you connected and select which volumn to mount it will mount it as a volume on the Mac you are using and then you can drag and drop to or from that volume.
Airdrop is not available on all Lion installs, it depends on the age of the Mac, see OS X Lion: Can I use AirDrop with my computer?
A: AirDrop
Open Finder on both Macs, on the left you'll see the AirDrop icon with the parachute and box. Click that on both macs and you should see each other. Then just drag files to the other computer's picture.
You don't even have to be on a wifi network at all, you just have to have wifi enabled on both Macs.
Edit: As mentioned below, not all Macs have AirDrop. The next best solution is to choose "Create Network" under the wifi menu on the Menu Bar (or join the same wifi network on both machines).
Then enable file sharing.
Now open finder and choose "network" on the left of a finder window, or in the top most folder (ctrl-click on the title at the top of the finder window, mine's called "Lance's MacbookPro") you should see "network" there.
A: Dropbox
Try Dropbox. It has LAN support (which Airdrop operates on) and a filesystem, so if you register an account, download the client for Mac onto both machines, setup the Dropbox folder to be somewhere handy (e.g. Desktop, where you can just drag-drop) it would be at least as speedy as Airdrop, and far more versatile, as it supports online uploading and more operating systems. Only limit is the 2GB of free folder space, which you can either expand via referrals (to 8GB) or by buying more space.
A: Connect to the same WIFI network
(Create one if needed)
Enable guest login or add a user
-> System Preferences -> User & Groups
(Guest login may be enabled only if you solely control your network)
Sharing files
-> System Preferences -> Sharing -> File Sharing
(enable File sharing, add folders to share and write rights if needed)
Now, you should be able to see a shared mac in Sidebar of a Finder window from another computer.
Troubleshooting
try to reconfigure TCP/IP Settings to use DHCP with manual address(es).
WIFI logo -> Open Network Preferences -> Advanced -> TCP/IP
A: Have you tried AirPort? Assuming they are on the same network. It works fairly well, and should be located in the upper left of any finder window you use. Click it on both computers, and drag and drop.
A: My wife and I use DropCopy, which you can download from the app store. The link is to the free version, which is for less than three computers. It's a nice and easy way to share. If you want to send link, it pops up on their computer - they click the window and it opens in a browser. Files are equally as easy.
I love Dropbox, but I don't think it's ideal for link sharing, etc. For large files, it's probably better. Airdrop only works on newer macs too, which might be a problem if you're working on older hardware.
A: Liwi
Download the Liwi App on both Mac and Liwi automatically discovers the devices which are on same WiFi. Then you can transfer files from one mac to other.
Even it allows to browse the shared content of other devices and download the content on demand. It is available for Android and Windows OS as well.
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31bb3ce378daf45328bab572805d4aceb22266d2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I shade the region between two curves in Grapher? How do I shade the region (or area) between two curves in Grapher?
I'm looking for a way to do this in a 2D graph. The only example which comes close to this is the "Evaluation and Integration" example, but I can't figure it out.
For example, I would like to shade the region bound by these two curves:
y = x^2 - 2
y = 0
I'm assuming it's possible based on this comment.
A: First select both equations in the sidebar, and then Equation » Integration… in the menu.
In the dialog, it has preselected Area Between Curves. Confirm it.
You can change the color in the inspector window.
Since your second equation is y=0, you could just select the first one, and integrate it, selecting Area in the dialog. The result should look the same.
| Q: How do I shade the region between two curves in Grapher? How do I shade the region (or area) between two curves in Grapher?
I'm looking for a way to do this in a 2D graph. The only example which comes close to this is the "Evaluation and Integration" example, but I can't figure it out.
For example, I would like to shade the region bound by these two curves:
y = x^2 - 2
y = 0
I'm assuming it's possible based on this comment.
A: First select both equations in the sidebar, and then Equation » Integration… in the menu.
In the dialog, it has preselected Area Between Curves. Confirm it.
You can change the color in the inspector window.
Since your second equation is y=0, you could just select the first one, and integrate it, selecting Area in the dialog. The result should look the same.
A: Plotting y > 0 & y < x^2-2 and y < 0 & y > x^2-2, we obtain the following
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4b43346c136b5c25c9be04d324089c16b06a79cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to uninstall a program through the App Store? I want to uninstall some recently installed software which I installed using the Mac App Store. Is is possible to uninstall those programs from inside the App Store?
A: No.
You cannot uninstall apps from within the App Store.
How can I delete an application?
*
*You can delete them like in iOS:
*
*Open Launchpad.
*Click and hold the app you want to delete (or hold ⌥)
*Delete by clicking on the X.
Note: The X appears only for apps which have been installed using the Mac App Store.
*Locate the Applications folder where the app is located:
*
*/Applications or /Users/my_name/Applications
*Drag the application to the Trash.
Note: This will only remove the application - this will not remove some other files which may be related to the app (e.g. preferences). If you want to remove such files as well, you can use tools like AppCleaner which @james.garriss has mentioned.
Besides this, applications which have not been installed via the Mac App Store sometimes provide their own uninstaller in the installer .dmg image. I usually keep them in a folder Applications/Uninstaller which I created.
| Q: How to uninstall a program through the App Store? I want to uninstall some recently installed software which I installed using the Mac App Store. Is is possible to uninstall those programs from inside the App Store?
A: No.
You cannot uninstall apps from within the App Store.
How can I delete an application?
*
*You can delete them like in iOS:
*
*Open Launchpad.
*Click and hold the app you want to delete (or hold ⌥)
*Delete by clicking on the X.
Note: The X appears only for apps which have been installed using the Mac App Store.
*Locate the Applications folder where the app is located:
*
*/Applications or /Users/my_name/Applications
*Drag the application to the Trash.
Note: This will only remove the application - this will not remove some other files which may be related to the app (e.g. preferences). If you want to remove such files as well, you can use tools like AppCleaner which @james.garriss has mentioned.
Besides this, applications which have not been installed via the Mac App Store sometimes provide their own uninstaller in the installer .dmg image. I usually keep them in a folder Applications/Uninstaller which I created.
A: I recommend using AppCleaner from FreeMacSoft. You simply drag-and-drop the application you want to uninstall from your Application folder onto AppCleaner. It does the rest, including finding and deleting other related files on your system.
A: Yes, it is possible under macOS Catalina. Not sure when this became available. When in App Store, click on your account in the bottom left corner, the list of the apps installed under the account will show up. Move the cursor over the app which you want to remove; a round button with three dots on it will show up next to it. When you click that button, a drop-down menu opens where you can select to remove the app.
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ae1b32f6b31830f3b27f45617c57258e1ad557bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Internet Sharing stuck on after 10.7.3 update I use Internet Sharing at work to create a local WiFi network (sharing the GigE connection) for my various iOS and tablet devices to connect through. After the 10.7.3 update, I cannot turn sharing off after I unplug the Ethernet cable. All the checkboxes in the system pref pane are cleared, but I am unable to join a WiFi network.
After I plug the Ethernet back in, I can then disable sharing, but only while it's plugged in.
As best I can guess, there might be some xinetd cruft laying around, but I haven't the slightest clue as to how to look for it or fix it. Any ideas?
A: I found a relatively simple solution not involving a system restart - just bring the WiFi interface down and then back up:
$ sudo ifconfig en0 down
$ sudo ifconfig en0 up
In my case en0 is the AirPort interface of my MacBook Air.
Note that turning the AirPort off and on again doesn't work, but bringing the interface down does the job.
| Q: Internet Sharing stuck on after 10.7.3 update I use Internet Sharing at work to create a local WiFi network (sharing the GigE connection) for my various iOS and tablet devices to connect through. After the 10.7.3 update, I cannot turn sharing off after I unplug the Ethernet cable. All the checkboxes in the system pref pane are cleared, but I am unable to join a WiFi network.
After I plug the Ethernet back in, I can then disable sharing, but only while it's plugged in.
As best I can guess, there might be some xinetd cruft laying around, but I haven't the slightest clue as to how to look for it or fix it. Any ideas?
A: I found a relatively simple solution not involving a system restart - just bring the WiFi interface down and then back up:
$ sudo ifconfig en0 down
$ sudo ifconfig en0 up
In my case en0 is the AirPort interface of my MacBook Air.
Note that turning the AirPort off and on again doesn't work, but bringing the interface down does the job.
A: I've had this problem regularly. The only way I can find to fix it is to turn off internet sharing, then reboot. It seems to hang once you've shared the Ethernet connection.
A: I have the issue intermittently, and so far the only simple way I have found to fix it is to plug into a wired connection, then turn sharing off. This usually fixes it. What is strange is that I have the problem often enough that I am now regularly checking to ensure that I have disabled sharing prior to leaving work, but I still have problems when waking the system from sleep after arriving at home. Something is getting stuck; even when sharing has been disabled, it often acts as if it is still active. I'm wondering if sharing needs to be disabled for a certain amount of time before the setting is cleared internally?
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57146ddf8af0d889f417f9ac604030b210d9891a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pair bluetooth keyboard when not logged in I have a brand new Bluetooth keyboard (replacing an old one I spilt coffee on) and I would like to pair it with my iMac.
Trouble is, I can't log in to the iMac because the keyboard is not paired.
How do I resolve this chicken-and-egg situation? (I don't have any other keyboards to hand.)
A: If you have the Apple Keyboard 2 which has the Lightning port on the back of the keyboard, all you need to do is connect the USB -> Lightning cord to the computer and it will just like a normal wired keyboard.
Refer to: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201178
| Q: Pair bluetooth keyboard when not logged in I have a brand new Bluetooth keyboard (replacing an old one I spilt coffee on) and I would like to pair it with my iMac.
Trouble is, I can't log in to the iMac because the keyboard is not paired.
How do I resolve this chicken-and-egg situation? (I don't have any other keyboards to hand.)
A: If you have the Apple Keyboard 2 which has the Lightning port on the back of the keyboard, all you need to do is connect the USB -> Lightning cord to the computer and it will just like a normal wired keyboard.
Refer to: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201178
A: This is only true if you have already selected "check for bluetooth keyboard/mouse at startup" Otherwise you have to connect a USB mouse and keyboard
A: I just had this frustrating problem. Simultaneously pressing the command key and the power button worked for me.
A: Here is a solution as noted here: How to unpair keyboard without original computer
Their solution was to:
*
*Disconnected everything USB, etc. from the computer.
*Restart the iMac while putting the new/different keyboard into discovery mode, and wait for the iMac to detect it.
The deal is you have to unplug ALL USB devices, have your wireless keyboard and mouse turned on, and restart. The system sees that there are no input devices and searches for them. Then asks you to type a passcode and hit return.
A: (Mavericks) Make sure that your new keyboard is on and in the paring mode. then scroll your fingers across on your magic mouse. this will give you a glimpse of your desktop. once you there hold your fingers on the mouse or you will be taken to the lock screen again.
on the desktop you will see the pairing code that you will need to enter on your keyboard. write this down on a piece of paper and then release the mouse and enter the code and hit enter on your new keyboard. you have to be fast as the code resets quickly. then wait for a bit and the new keyboard will connect.
Good luck :)
A: i just bought a secondhand mac mini and the seller installed Monterey and had it paired with his wireless apple keyboard. when i got it home it wouldn’t pair wi the my wireless Matius brand keyboard and plugging the keyboard in doesn’t work (seems the usb connection is simply for charging not for usb comms which is bazar).
Thé Matius keyboard has three wireless connection butta so you can set it up with three different devices and to pair you hold one of those buttons down for a few seconds and it will start blinking and continue for about 40 seconds or until it successfully pairs with a new device at which point it stops blinking.
i can put the keyboard into pairing mode no possibles the issue is with the mini not interested in pairing with devices.
i suspect if i reinstalled macOS overnight i would be able to pair it.
i had tu is same problem last time i bought a new mac mini. you’d think apple would have a ios app to be a remote keyboard or some way of resolving this using another apple device. or just an on screen keyboard that can pop up (like the old key caps extension) or pairing menu item. can’t believe thousands of people don’t waste hours of time on this bs. sure if you live in a city or work in an office just borrow a keyboard. if you don’t you are stuck.
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c44fa22d396d04f6e008b0d6aa2ab2f61b3e2197 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a safe way to shut down a Mac that doesn't have a keyboard or mouse? I'm trying to safely shutdown a Mac desktop that does not have a keyboard or mouse connected to it any more, after hardware damage to the only keyboard and mouse in the house. It also does not have network access that I can get to from an iPhone, eg ssh etc is not enabled.
Besides doing a force shutdown by holding the power button, is there a better way to shut down a Mac in this situation?
This is anonther example of when this might be needed.
A: There are two possible ways provided by OSX.
*
*When you shutdown via menubar → shut down, you get a one minute counter till shut down. That's enough time to disconnect your devices.
*System Preferences → Energy Saver → Schedule
| Q: Is there a safe way to shut down a Mac that doesn't have a keyboard or mouse? I'm trying to safely shutdown a Mac desktop that does not have a keyboard or mouse connected to it any more, after hardware damage to the only keyboard and mouse in the house. It also does not have network access that I can get to from an iPhone, eg ssh etc is not enabled.
Besides doing a force shutdown by holding the power button, is there a better way to shut down a Mac in this situation?
This is anonther example of when this might be needed.
A: There are two possible ways provided by OSX.
*
*When you shutdown via menubar → shut down, you get a one minute counter till shut down. That's enough time to disconnect your devices.
*System Preferences → Energy Saver → Schedule
A: This solves the problem in the case you link to, but not in the general case:
Use a plugged-in USB mouse to initiate the restart procedure ( » Restart) then unplug it during the one-minute countdown. A computer with no USB devices attached will restart, but it had a USB device at the time the restart was initiated.
Another option would be to use System Preferences » Energy Saver » Schedule to set a time to restart. You need a mouse plugged in to set the time to restart, but not at the time the restart happens.
Another option would be using the sudo shutdown -r +n command in Terminal, where n is the number of minutes in the future you want the computer to reboot.
In any of these cases, you need an input device attached to the computer to initiate the restart procedure, but not at the time the computer actually restarts.
A: Yeah, is there more to this situation that could help us figure out what's going on? Wonder if you could use an Apple Remote...
But if there's no keyboard NOW and you have no ability to add one to set up a solution, you're toast. With no keyboard or mouse, it should be yelling at you to connect a bluetooth one on boot, yes? You could then pair a bluetooth mouse or something (technically an answer, since "connected" was the description above) if you're just pranking someone. Is that the goal?
Are you really asking, "How can I shut down a Mac that's not networked that I can't access physically but have line of sight to?" You're very likely toast.
I can't think of another situation where I've got a Mac that I can't shut down and don't have $4 to buy a used USB mouse from a thrift store... Strange. More description needed.
A: Yes, As it turns out there is not really a better alternative to just pressing and holding the power button until the Mac shuts off.
I thought there might have been some kind of a hidden gem like a S.O.S signal that could be signaled via the power button, to tell the computer to shutdown.
That is not the case and there is not really a reason for one, due to the relatively low risk for serious damage by performing a hard shutdown with the power button, thanks to the protections built in to the HFS+ file system to protect against data corruption.
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68ebaada7adeab1c6056c381ea46907973390e6a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Password lock for shut down screen I just got my iPhone stolen and the first thing they did was shut it off. I have a new iPhone and I noticed you have to slide it to power off. Yes, I had no idea. I owned my last phone three weeks. My question is, if it requires you to slide it could an app or something be made to be able to require a password beforehand?
A: No, that's not likely without jailbreaking the phone.
There are only a limited number of features on the iPhone that an app can interface with. I very much doubt "shutdown" is one of them.
| Q: Password lock for shut down screen I just got my iPhone stolen and the first thing they did was shut it off. I have a new iPhone and I noticed you have to slide it to power off. Yes, I had no idea. I owned my last phone three weeks. My question is, if it requires you to slide it could an app or something be made to be able to require a password beforehand?
A: No, that's not likely without jailbreaking the phone.
There are only a limited number of features on the iPhone that an app can interface with. I very much doubt "shutdown" is one of them.
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f57e5c9c4317278d2b73ab6a76c36846fa3bfd48 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I backup a device to a Mac iTunes and iCloud I want to back up my iPad and iPhone to iTunes on my Mac. I also want them to back up to iCloud in case anything goes wrong with the Mac. Is this possible and how?
A: I have accomplished this by plugging it into iTunes, selecting "Back up to this computer" and hitting Apply. It performs a backup to my computer and then I change it back to Back up to iCloud. As far as backing up automatically, I'm not aware of a way to do that.
’Course, I mostly rely on iCloud, but should get in the habit of doing this a little more often just to keep a copy on my computer.
| Q: Can I backup a device to a Mac iTunes and iCloud I want to back up my iPad and iPhone to iTunes on my Mac. I also want them to back up to iCloud in case anything goes wrong with the Mac. Is this possible and how?
A: I have accomplished this by plugging it into iTunes, selecting "Back up to this computer" and hitting Apply. It performs a backup to my computer and then I change it back to Back up to iCloud. As far as backing up automatically, I'm not aware of a way to do that.
’Course, I mostly rely on iCloud, but should get in the habit of doing this a little more often just to keep a copy on my computer.
A: There is no automatic way to switch back and forth or have both backup destinations be active at the same time, but you can easily set a daily or weekly alarm to switch things up.
I've been in the practice of making sure my local backup is updated once every other week and haven't seen any issues from this. I do the same thing with time machine backups but on a longer scale - swapping a pair (or three with offsite rotation) on a monthly basis. The first backup can take a bit longer, but I've got a few copies of my data in several places for that extra level of protection in case my most recent backup has problems or gets broken in some unexpected manner.
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9c9434525f136f22f6a6ddcd204b7292c93fe819 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPod Reverse Tethering via USB I want to use my computer's net connection for my iPod Touch via USB cable.
Creating a wireless AP is not an option as I do not want to setup an AP.
iPod Touch - IOS5.x
Computer - Win7
Bonus - OSX option as well
A: From all my research your request is not possible. Only wireless via internet sharing on your windows 7 machine or the mac.
| Q: iPod Reverse Tethering via USB I want to use my computer's net connection for my iPod Touch via USB cable.
Creating a wireless AP is not an option as I do not want to setup an AP.
iPod Touch - IOS5.x
Computer - Win7
Bonus - OSX option as well
A: From all my research your request is not possible. Only wireless via internet sharing on your windows 7 machine or the mac.
A: Apparently this is possible, if your iPhone is jailbroken:
(update: this does not seem to work for iPod touch, iPads without 3g etc. - because they lack the "second network card" interface)
can i get it on my ipod touch...?
Unfortunately, not.
ipod touch doesn't have gprs/edge network interface to redirect it to the proxy.
Follow this lengthy procedure (note that it's originally for iOS 2.x, using a Windows PC):
SSH to get your iphone online via USB cable
We will connect it to the Internet-connected PC via standard USB cable and get the iphone online in this passthru, reverse mode. Without wifi, without GPRS/EDGE fee to GSM operator. Incredible, impossible? Read further...
*
*On the PC you will need: Bitvise Tunnelier, itunnel
*And on the iPhone/iPad3G: OpenSSH and a proxy-setting file
Alternatively you could try this procedure by dy2k (again only for iDevices supporting Internet Tethering) :
Reverse Tethering iPhone 3G/3Gs using USB
Step 1: Set up internet tethering on your iPhone.
Step 2: Plug you iPhone into your PC using the provided USB cable.
Step 3: Go to Settings>General>Network>Internet Tethering and switch it to "On." Then it will prompt you for bluetooth or USB, select USB
Step 4: Go to network connections and you should see your LAN connection and a new connection that says "Apple Mobile Device Ethernet." Simply highlight both connections, right click on one and select "Bridge."
You will now be using your PC's internet connection on your iPhone! It works for Cydia App store, Facebook, Safari, ect ect.
Note: After terminating the connection you must delete the bridge and make a new one when you re-connect.
A: The iOS software does not look to receive network traffic in from the 30 pin connector, so a major amount of jailbreak work would be needed to accomplish this assuming the hardware has the channels to support "backwards flow" of networking.
A: Its possible
http://alk2blog.blogspot.sk/2008/08/ssh-to-tether-your-iphone-over-usb.html
Or
http://forums.imore.com/jailbreaking-unlocking-hacks-themes-mods/232233-use-pc-internet-over-iphone-via-usb-cable.html
But needs jailbreak...
Works nice
A: i was able to reverse tether my iphone 4s using my ethernet connection through a windows 7 laptop , but not through a Mac Laptop/MacPro . That is quite unsatisfactory for apple users but still shows that it is possible to use existing ethernet connection to provide internet to Iphone.
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fdb63d6dd3675e3fadebf5ec22e7b3204c02248d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does "@" signify in unix file permissions? I have a file with the following permissions on my MacBook Pro:
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 101K Feb 29 17:09 apachectl
What does the @ stand for? I can't execute the file and this is the only thing that's standing out to me. How can I get rid of it?
Just as some background, I copied this from a Time Machine backup.
A: If the file or directory has extended attributes, you'll see an @ in the permissions field. For extended security information (ACLs), you'll see a +.
From man ls on OS X:
-@ Display extended attribute keys and sizes in long (-l) output.
The xattr program can be used to display and manipulate extended attributes. Take a look at what's there before deciding to go while deleting those attributes, though. Definitely take a quick look at the man page for xattr too.
A quick example from some example PHP compromise code I keep around for reference:
$ ls -@l php-compromise.php
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user group 502620 Jul 5 2011 php-compromise.php
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
com.apple.TextEncoding 15
| Q: What does "@" signify in unix file permissions? I have a file with the following permissions on my MacBook Pro:
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 101K Feb 29 17:09 apachectl
What does the @ stand for? I can't execute the file and this is the only thing that's standing out to me. How can I get rid of it?
Just as some background, I copied this from a Time Machine backup.
A: If the file or directory has extended attributes, you'll see an @ in the permissions field. For extended security information (ACLs), you'll see a +.
From man ls on OS X:
-@ Display extended attribute keys and sizes in long (-l) output.
The xattr program can be used to display and manipulate extended attributes. Take a look at what's there before deciding to go while deleting those attributes, though. Definitely take a quick look at the man page for xattr too.
A quick example from some example PHP compromise code I keep around for reference:
$ ls -@l php-compromise.php
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user group 502620 Jul 5 2011 php-compromise.php
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
com.apple.TextEncoding 15
A: Thanks to @Jeff for the correction. I was miss-remebering.
*
*The @ is displayed with a extended attribute is set
*The + is displayed for an ACL.
*IF you have both an attribute and a ACL then you see @.
Run the command ls -le filename to see if it has any ACLs set.
Since your problem seems to be with accessing the file, I bet you have a ACL set in addition to an extended attribute.
To get rid of an ACL run echo | sudo chmod -E filename for a file or echo | sudo chmod -R -E directory name for a directory.
See the chmod man page.
A: With the apple quarantine attribute, chmod is not enough to remove it.
You need to remove the attribute explicitly:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine my_file
A: The @ stands for extended attributes, in addition to the standard unix file permissions.
Check the extended attributes:
ls -l@
Reset all extended attributes for a single file:
sudo xattr -c <filepath>
Reset all extended attributes recursively:
sudo xattr -rc <directory>
sudo chmod -R -N <directory>
Checked on macOS High Sierra (10.13) and macOS Mojave (10.14.6).
A: I found that the -E or -N are actually invisible even when using sudo. The only way I could fix it was by logging in as root
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cced2f359b53e8a6550baf40b41913e232844ce5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make my 27" iMac and my 27" Thunderbolt display the same height? I'm using an external 27" Thunderbolt display with my 27" iMac and I want the iMac and display to have the same height. By default, the Thunderbolt display is about an inch shorter than the iMac, which is quite annoying.
I'm sure this problem comes up all the time. Is there any solution for evening out the heights? I'm open to something as hacky as "this book is the right height – put it under the display."
A: Looks a product was created for this task. Checkout the HiRise by Twelve South as reviewed by MacWorld. Boom iMac and Display = Level.
Mac accessory maker Twelve South has introduced the HiRise for iMac, a stand that lets users elevate their desktop Mac monitors to a better viewing level.
The $80 device is designed to support all generations of Mac that have an L-shaped stand, including the largest 27-inch displays on the latest generation of iMacs. The stand itself looks a little bit like an older, metal-shelled hard drive—a reminder of the days when drives and displays were separate components of the same computer.
| Q: How can I make my 27" iMac and my 27" Thunderbolt display the same height? I'm using an external 27" Thunderbolt display with my 27" iMac and I want the iMac and display to have the same height. By default, the Thunderbolt display is about an inch shorter than the iMac, which is quite annoying.
I'm sure this problem comes up all the time. Is there any solution for evening out the heights? I'm open to something as hacky as "this book is the right height – put it under the display."
A: Looks a product was created for this task. Checkout the HiRise by Twelve South as reviewed by MacWorld. Boom iMac and Display = Level.
Mac accessory maker Twelve South has introduced the HiRise for iMac, a stand that lets users elevate their desktop Mac monitors to a better viewing level.
The $80 device is designed to support all generations of Mac that have an L-shaped stand, including the largest 27-inch displays on the latest generation of iMacs. The stand itself looks a little bit like an older, metal-shelled hard drive—a reminder of the days when drives and displays were separate components of the same computer.
A: Ars Technica's Eric Bangerman has solved this problem…twice:
via Ars gear: 2008 triple-headed "Harpertown" Mac Pro
A: There's the LapWorks 10" Heavy Duty Swivel:
Used under the Thunderbolt monitor, levels the two perfectly and makes the the Thunderbolt monitor nice and swively.
A: A piece of plywood (or, if necessary, two pieces of plywood sandwiched together) or cutting board made from bamboo or plastic can provide material for risers. You can easily cut and sand these materials with simple tools. Hardwood can also be used, though it will be harder to shape. Fit and finish quality will depend on your skill and patience, but if you use one of the softer materials, a casual evening's work should produce something that registers okay at three feet.
On the other hand, if you have access to a CNC router or a Bridgeport mill you can machine the riser out of a solid block of aluminum to produce an aesthetically pleasing solution.
You could take this one step further by extending the riser out towards the viewer and incorporate cut-out trays to store the mouse, paperclips, etc.
A: Carefully tap the outer "corners" of the base of the Thunderbolt Display to accept threaded "leveler" feet commonly found on the bottom of tables and electronics cabinets.
Image source Edmund Optics. Provided for reference only.
If drilling into the base of your monitor isn't something you're comfortable with, you might find self-stick rubber feet that are thick enough to provide the appropriate rise.
A: I know this is an old ask/thread, but thought I'd post in case anyone is still looking for a good and cheap way to accomplish this. I've been using a book for a few years now and decided to find a better way and more aesthetically pleasing way. I really don't like the look of the stands that are out there for this specific purpose. I also think the stands available are too expensive for what I was wanting. I just fixed the problem for good and for only $9. I ordered these:
4 Large Extra Tall #2-1" H X 1.10" W Round Rubber FEET Bumpers - Made in USA - Heavy Duty - Non Marking for Furniture, Tables, Chairs, Desks, Benches, Sofas, Chests, Other Large Items.
I measured the book I was using to lift the display and found the closest thing to it on Amazon (above). Got them today and they work perfectly. I just placed them underneath the display in the four corners and can't be happier with it.
A: I'd recommend buying this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Thunderbolt-Kid-Memoir/dp/0767919378/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1330596630&sr=8-7
It's exactly 1" thick, put it under the monitor.
A:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010E8N5E0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I just bought a 27" iMac and ran into this issue and some $24 monitor stands I bought for my 27" Thunderbolt Displays a few months ago work perfectly. The support stands are 3-part, 2 plastic and some rubber feet. I removed one of the plastic support pieces on the stand I use for the iMac and it lowered that monitor perfectly in line with the other 2 that use both pieces.
A: If you want something more elegant than a book under the iMac, you can can add vesa mounts to your iMac and Thunderbolt display and then attach it to a desk or wall mounted adjustable monitor arm. There are many to choose from but here is one pictured below to give you an example. So you could technically mount both or just one to a VESA stand. Note that most monitor stands allow you to infinitely adjust the height, angle, rotation, with in pre-determined ranges.
Just be aware of the maximum weight capacity of the VESA monitor mount you choose. The 27" iMac weighs 11.2kg or ~ 24.7 LBS and the 27" Thunderbolt display weighs ~ 10kg or ~ 22.1 LBS without their included stands.
A: Just saw this post, as I was looking for an answer to the same question. Discovered that two old desktop drives fit nicely side-by-side under the 27 inch thunderbolt monitor. Raises it almost perfectly with the iMac screen and provide plenty of stability.
A: This is such a massive oversight by the apple design team, I myself use books to prop up the display, just had to find the right combo.
Good luck
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88330a6d8562244a8e602bdd32f8ce664299fd55 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I download plain .txt files in Safari/Chrome? Some data formats will not be automatically downloaded by Safari/Chrome. Usually there are other options:
*
*.jpg → right-click will show a dialog with an option download
*.pdf → when you hover over the PDF an option to download appears
How can I download a plain .txt file? (example URL)
A: Safari
*
*Highlight URL in the address bar
*Press ⌥ and then ↩ to download.
Chrome
*
*File -> Save As
*
*No options appear as to what the downloaded format is. For a plain .txt file it will be a simple text file.
| Q: How can I download plain .txt files in Safari/Chrome? Some data formats will not be automatically downloaded by Safari/Chrome. Usually there are other options:
*
*.jpg → right-click will show a dialog with an option download
*.pdf → when you hover over the PDF an option to download appears
How can I download a plain .txt file? (example URL)
A: Safari
*
*Highlight URL in the address bar
*Press ⌥ and then ↩ to download.
Chrome
*
*File -> Save As
*
*No options appear as to what the downloaded format is. For a plain .txt file it will be a simple text file.
A: If you're on a page with a link to a txt/plain text, do a right-click on the link and choose "Download Linked File" or "Download Linked File As ...".
Per default the file will go in your Downloads folder.
If you're already on the txt page/plain texte page, do a cmd ⌘ + A .(to select all the text) then a cmd ⌘ + C (to copy) the text, then you can paste it where you want (cmd ⌘ + V).
A: If you already with the URL in the address bar, just open it, and right click on the page and an option save as... should appear.
A: *
*Find the text to copy (or in this case, use ctrl+A).
*Copy the whole text (= ctrl+C).
*Open TextEdit and press ctrl+V to paste the text.
*Vwoila!
A: If you use PHP then it might be easy one for you using "Content-disposition:" tag. It forces the browser to download the given file, without displaying or playing it.
Make a small php script and upload your file in the same folder. The sample script is
<?php
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=movie.mpg');
header('Content-type: video/mpeg');
readfile('movie.mpg');
?>
Found this solution at http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/forcedownload.html
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e4479ee25b20591c91353bd4191d0067f0e07b6e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Given its IP, how can I find out the name of a Windows PC on my network? I'd like to find out the computer name of a Windows PC (like the name shown in the 'Shares' section of the Finder, e.g. bill-pc) given only its IP address. nslookup doesn't do the trick.
I'm also interested in the reverse lookup: given its Windows name, how can I find out its IP address? ping bill-pc or ping bill-pc.local seems not to work in some cases.
A: If you're using Lion, you can use smbutil:
usage: smbutil [-hv] subcommand [args]
where subcommands are:
help display help on specified subcommand
lookup resolve NetBIOS name to IP address
status resolve IP address or DNS name to NetBIOS names
view list resources on specified host
dfs list DFS referrals
identity identity of the user as known by the specified host
For example (assuming 192.168.1.9 is a valid IP on your network):
smbutil status 192.168.1.9
smbutil lookup bill-pc
If you're using Snow Leopard, you should be able to use nmblookup:
nmblookup -A 192.168.1.9
nmblookup bill-pc
| Q: Given its IP, how can I find out the name of a Windows PC on my network? I'd like to find out the computer name of a Windows PC (like the name shown in the 'Shares' section of the Finder, e.g. bill-pc) given only its IP address. nslookup doesn't do the trick.
I'm also interested in the reverse lookup: given its Windows name, how can I find out its IP address? ping bill-pc or ping bill-pc.local seems not to work in some cases.
A: If you're using Lion, you can use smbutil:
usage: smbutil [-hv] subcommand [args]
where subcommands are:
help display help on specified subcommand
lookup resolve NetBIOS name to IP address
status resolve IP address or DNS name to NetBIOS names
view list resources on specified host
dfs list DFS referrals
identity identity of the user as known by the specified host
For example (assuming 192.168.1.9 is a valid IP on your network):
smbutil status 192.168.1.9
smbutil lookup bill-pc
If you're using Snow Leopard, you should be able to use nmblookup:
nmblookup -A 192.168.1.9
nmblookup bill-pc
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d7fb5c2470790b207ebd649b25437ffda2703629 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Backup Mac OS partition to NTFS: are there any drawbacks? I need to backup Mac data into our NTFS storage partition. Are there any issues/drawbacks I should consider?
A: If connected directly to your Mac, you may need to install something like MacFuse and NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS to be able to write to NTFS partitions. Per Apple Support:
Mac OS X can read and write FAT volumes, but can only read NTFS volumes.
If the drive is connected over the network, then your main issues will probably be network speed/latency, authentication, and the size of the backup data compared to the size of the drive.
| Q: Backup Mac OS partition to NTFS: are there any drawbacks? I need to backup Mac data into our NTFS storage partition. Are there any issues/drawbacks I should consider?
A: If connected directly to your Mac, you may need to install something like MacFuse and NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS to be able to write to NTFS partitions. Per Apple Support:
Mac OS X can read and write FAT volumes, but can only read NTFS volumes.
If the drive is connected over the network, then your main issues will probably be network speed/latency, authentication, and the size of the backup data compared to the size of the drive.
A: Since you are going over the network. They only drawback relating to NTFS is that if other PCs will be using the file share that are not Macs, you might want to disable some of the files Mac OS is creating on every network volume it touches. Consider adjusting some setting to prevent .DS_Store files from being written to the NTFS drive, that might clutter the "Windows Experience" as referenced from Share Files from Mac OS X to Windows PC’s Easily
What about the .DS_Store files?
Depending on the Windows PC settings, you might see a bunch of .DS_Store files on the Mac file system. These are normal but if you’re peeved by them, you can disable .DS_Store files by entering the following defaults write command in OS X’s Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
If you want them back, just switch that to ‘false’ at the end.
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67fc1657fd8d2eebbf5471d16ab2206ebfcb887c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I generate a password-less version of a protected PDF? I have a PDF file that has been password protected. I know the password. The password's only use, in our case, is to protect the PDF during email transmission. Now that I have the PDF, I'd like to remove the password, as it is annoying to have to look-up and type it in every time I want to use the PDF.
In a pre-Lion version of Preview, I was able to print and "Save As PDF" to create a copy of the file that didn't have a password. However, when I try the same maneuver in Lion, the "Save as PDF" entry is greyed-out.
Is there some other software (preferably free) that would let me save the PDF without the password? Some other thing I can do to the file to enable Preview to "Save as PDF"?
A: Workaround (Working for most people) : Open the PDF in Chrome (or Firefox) and then Print it to PDF as destination.
| Q: How can I generate a password-less version of a protected PDF? I have a PDF file that has been password protected. I know the password. The password's only use, in our case, is to protect the PDF during email transmission. Now that I have the PDF, I'd like to remove the password, as it is annoying to have to look-up and type it in every time I want to use the PDF.
In a pre-Lion version of Preview, I was able to print and "Save As PDF" to create a copy of the file that didn't have a password. However, when I try the same maneuver in Lion, the "Save as PDF" entry is greyed-out.
Is there some other software (preferably free) that would let me save the PDF without the password? Some other thing I can do to the file to enable Preview to "Save as PDF"?
A: Workaround (Working for most people) : Open the PDF in Chrome (or Firefox) and then Print it to PDF as destination.
A: Open the document in Preview, select File > Duplicate, enter the file location and save a copy.
You can do a similar thing with File > Export.
A: try "print to file" option :-)
A: Open in Preview but instead of trying to create a duplicate or export it (which will also result in a locked PDF), just select print / PDF.
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59ad4ffbe2a95a17f3ebaa240d6b660128e2a0af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail? Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail.app?
For example, I have a folder of mail messages containing invoices that I need to export and hand over to a new accountant.
In my search so far, I've only found a way to export my entire inbox.
A: *
*In Mail click the button Show which is in the top left of the application window:
*After step one you can see all your inboxes and folders. You can export any inbox or folder via the right-click menu dialog.
| Q: Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail? Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail.app?
For example, I have a folder of mail messages containing invoices that I need to export and hand over to a new accountant.
In my search so far, I've only found a way to export my entire inbox.
A: *
*In Mail click the button Show which is in the top left of the application window:
*After step one you can see all your inboxes and folders. You can export any inbox or folder via the right-click menu dialog.
A: If you want separate PDFs of your emails, just select the emails in question and hit print, choose PDF on the bottom of the window. (The naming of the PDFs is not necessarily the same as the email subject line, but it works.)
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0a29f79769f419bd8c5f05f92feb2755c9979845 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to write a script to change the Energy Saver settings in OS X (10.7.3)? Basically, whenever I know I'm going to be gone, or if I'm going to sleep, I change the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences in OS X (10.7.3) for Power Adapter to:
*
*Computer sleep: 1 min
*Display sleep: 1 min
If I know I'm going to be around a while, I like to change the Energy Saver settings for Power Adapter to:
*
*Computer Sleep: 15 min
*Display Sleep: 15 min
Is it possible to script this sort of change? I do it often enough that a script would be worth it.
A: Look for the section titled "Changing Power Management Settings" in this MacScripter guide. An AppleScript example from the guide:
do shell script "pmset sleep 30" with administrator privileges
| Q: Is it possible to write a script to change the Energy Saver settings in OS X (10.7.3)? Basically, whenever I know I'm going to be gone, or if I'm going to sleep, I change the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences in OS X (10.7.3) for Power Adapter to:
*
*Computer sleep: 1 min
*Display sleep: 1 min
If I know I'm going to be around a while, I like to change the Energy Saver settings for Power Adapter to:
*
*Computer Sleep: 15 min
*Display Sleep: 15 min
Is it possible to script this sort of change? I do it often enough that a script would be worth it.
A: Look for the section titled "Changing Power Management Settings" in this MacScripter guide. An AppleScript example from the guide:
do shell script "pmset sleep 30" with administrator privileges
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ad2bd24d7e53e64c6b145224d974b1181d92b466 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I mount an encrypted disk from the command line? When I type diskutil mount disk3 in the terminal, it says Volume(s) mounted successfully. However, the disk is not mounted and I can confirm this by opening the GUI of Disk Utility.app and also the disk does not show in the Finder.
I suspect this is because the disk is encrypted and the terminal command is not passing via "Keychain" to retrieve the password for the encrypted disk.
What do you think? Is there a way to mount encrypted disks via the command line?
Thanks.
A: You want to run diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume <UUID>, where the UUID is the Logical Volume UUID associated with your encrypted disk, /dev/disk3. You can get the lvUUID by running diskutil cs list in the terminal and looking for the output related to /dev/disk3. The identifier is a long string that would look something like this 'B807C2A0-577F-3DB0-9002-F82B9137696C'.
It will prompt you for a password at that point and if it's correct, unlock the disk.
| Q: How can I mount an encrypted disk from the command line? When I type diskutil mount disk3 in the terminal, it says Volume(s) mounted successfully. However, the disk is not mounted and I can confirm this by opening the GUI of Disk Utility.app and also the disk does not show in the Finder.
I suspect this is because the disk is encrypted and the terminal command is not passing via "Keychain" to retrieve the password for the encrypted disk.
What do you think? Is there a way to mount encrypted disks via the command line?
Thanks.
A: You want to run diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume <UUID>, where the UUID is the Logical Volume UUID associated with your encrypted disk, /dev/disk3. You can get the lvUUID by running diskutil cs list in the terminal and looking for the output related to /dev/disk3. The identifier is a long string that would look something like this 'B807C2A0-577F-3DB0-9002-F82B9137696C'.
It will prompt you for a password at that point and if it's correct, unlock the disk.
A: I can't see what I'm doing differently today, but
diskutil unmount disk3
and
diskutil mount disk3
are working fine and properly unmounting and mounting the HDD and it is viewable in the Finder. Encryption doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
A: You can use hdiutil to mount a disk image that is protected with a passphrase.
hdiutil attach -agentpass /path/to/image.dmg
That should attempt to mount the disk image, prompting you for the passphrase. If it's encrypted with a public key, you can pass that using option -pubkey.
A: Enter Recovery Mode. Open Terminal app. Launch Disk Utility app from the command line by executing:
/Applications/Utilities/Disk\ Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk\ Utility
Select the lock drive and click mount. It will prompt for a password if encrypted
You can then enter your root volume normally.
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2831723ef4660244f94df66b7415814889f8a41e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Utility to move windows as a group for Mac OS X? Is there a utility for Mac OS X that will group windows (2 separate apps)? Similar to how objects are grouped in PowerPoint or other design apps. I would like both windows to move together.
A: There are 5 apps on the App Store that match the search term "arrange windows" and I have heard good things about three of them (in reverse aplhabetical order):
*
*WindowTiler
*Cinch
*BetterSnapTool
The one I use is also on the app store, but doesn't show in that search term but it's fabulous.
*
*Divvy
| Q: Utility to move windows as a group for Mac OS X? Is there a utility for Mac OS X that will group windows (2 separate apps)? Similar to how objects are grouped in PowerPoint or other design apps. I would like both windows to move together.
A: There are 5 apps on the App Store that match the search term "arrange windows" and I have heard good things about three of them (in reverse aplhabetical order):
*
*WindowTiler
*Cinch
*BetterSnapTool
The one I use is also on the app store, but doesn't show in that search term but it's fabulous.
*
*Divvy
A: X-Assist.
However it seems to be an old app.
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3e772be14f95137df383aa22bdb322e296d73687 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Linear and fast mouse speed in OS X Lion. Possible? I've got a 27" display and, at present, I need to use the whole mousepad just to get across the screen.
How can i make my mouse (Logitech MX 400) movement linear AND fast? How do i speed up the mouse with NO acceleration?
A: Open System Preferences > Mouse to speed up or slow down the mouse.
Go to System Preferences > Trackpad to change trackpad speed.
I don't believe acceleration is native to OSX. I have Kensington Trackball Works installed (for my kensington trackball) which has acceleration, and your Logitech Mouse center may have the same. If Logitech Mouse center is System Preferences chances are it will be under "Other".
| Q: Linear and fast mouse speed in OS X Lion. Possible? I've got a 27" display and, at present, I need to use the whole mousepad just to get across the screen.
How can i make my mouse (Logitech MX 400) movement linear AND fast? How do i speed up the mouse with NO acceleration?
A: Open System Preferences > Mouse to speed up or slow down the mouse.
Go to System Preferences > Trackpad to change trackpad speed.
I don't believe acceleration is native to OSX. I have Kensington Trackball Works installed (for my kensington trackball) which has acceleration, and your Logitech Mouse center may have the same. If Logitech Mouse center is System Preferences chances are it will be under "Other".
A: Try MouseZoom for all the speed you want! It provides a preferences panel to increase the scaling value beyond the limit imposed by the Mouse panel.
A: A recently released app called SmoothMouse will do exactly what you want, and (in my opinion) works much better than the other alternative mouse drivers. It's free and available here: http://smoothmouse.com
On top of offering options for both linear and Windows-like acceleration curves, it also removes the 32ms of lag that OSX typically imposes on mouse cursors. To me, this is just as essential as changing the acceleration.
This thing is really pretty close to the holy grail - great-feeling mouse movement on OSX.
A: If you want to increase the speed of mouse tracking to fasted then allowed in the system preferences follow these steps:
*
*Open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities
*Type open ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
*Increase the value of "com.apple.mouse.scaling"
*Logout/Re-login
*Repeat until you have set the speed to the desired value
A: 1st set your system preferences > mouse settings
then get a precision or gaming mouse that has adjustable settings.
I have a 24" imac & use a razer imperator set to maximum sensitivity because I prefer the lack of acceleration with the mouse setting.
in my experience the osx mouse settings do tend to implement acceleration in the tracking speed.
A: The Speed setting in System Preferences > Mouse should do what you want, I believe.
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461333b50df18229fcd9303be7d0d3401bca184c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iChat call forces in-call status bar in iOS simulator Is there a way I can disassociate the iOS Simulator from my iChat calls, currently I am working on my app and I am using iChat for a video call and the in-call status bar comes and I can't toggle it off.
It actually says that it's a FaceTime call.
More:
I am developing an iPhone application and I am using he iOS Simulator application to test it. However I am also using iChat to speak to someone on a video call at the same time on my mac.
Consequently in my iOS simulator, the green in-call status bar is appearing. This is stopping me working on some things in my app and I am trying to find a way to switch it off.
A: I don't know about the iPhone simulator, but if this was happening on an actual iPhone, I would associate the phone with a different Apple ID.
Can you do that in the simulator?
| Q: iChat call forces in-call status bar in iOS simulator Is there a way I can disassociate the iOS Simulator from my iChat calls, currently I am working on my app and I am using iChat for a video call and the in-call status bar comes and I can't toggle it off.
It actually says that it's a FaceTime call.
More:
I am developing an iPhone application and I am using he iOS Simulator application to test it. However I am also using iChat to speak to someone on a video call at the same time on my mac.
Consequently in my iOS simulator, the green in-call status bar is appearing. This is stopping me working on some things in my app and I am trying to find a way to switch it off.
A: I don't know about the iPhone simulator, but if this was happening on an actual iPhone, I would associate the phone with a different Apple ID.
Can you do that in the simulator?
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ab13ec07ed061b7fb6c81837a75e603c6dd961a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to show/open the Trash? I know how to create custom shortcuts with scripting, but I want to know if there's a built-in shortcut. To clarify, this is to show the Trash, not to empty it.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Trash?
A: According to Apple there is no native shortcut to open Trash.
| Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to show/open the Trash? I know how to create custom shortcuts with scripting, but I want to know if there's a built-in shortcut. To clarify, this is to show the Trash, not to empty it.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Trash?
A: According to Apple there is no native shortcut to open Trash.
A: A very poor man's solution would be to just use Shift-Cmd-G in Finder to open ~/.Trash.
A: If you are using a Spotlight or a program such as Quicksilver that allows you configure keyboard shortcuts to perform actions. Here is a solution, create an AppleScript run only Application that will open the trash can for you. Its not a built in command but is should fit the bill nicely and you can do it all with built it tools.
*
*Open AppleScript Editor
*Open a new script editor window if one did not already open.
*Enter the follow in to the blank editor window
tell application "Finder"
open trash
end tell
*Test the script, press Run, trash should open.
*Save the Script with the name "OpenTrash" make sure to select "File Format:" Application and check the "Run Only" option.
*Open the newly saved OpenTrash Application, trash can contents should open in the Finder.
Introduce it to your favorite program launcher, and set up keyboard shortcuts etc. Also note that spotlight should index it as well and you can use that to open the Trash can now too.
⌘ + space and then search for "Tr"... Then press enter once "OpenTrash" is highlighted.
A: @MrDaniel thank you so much, that worked great. I didn't see the option for Run Only to select, but it still works in 2022.
I followed the steps from that post, plus I added my own notes/steps, including adding an icon image and adding a shortcut in Finder.
*
*Open Script Editor.app
*Type:
tell application "Finder"
open trash
end tell
*
*Create/name a folder Scripts
*Save As OpenTrash.scpt and save to Scripts folder
*Save As OpenTrash.app; File format: Application and save to Desktop
Note: I don’t see an option to set as ‘Run Only’ per original post from MrDaniel from 10 years ago
*Open System Preferences > Dock and Menu Bar
*Set Dock to Large size
*Uncheck Automatically hide and show the Dock
*Screenshot the Trash from the Dock
*Go back to System Preferences > Dock and Menu Bar
*Set Dock to Small size
*Check Automatically hide and show the Dock
*Right-click the screenshot on the Desktop
*Click the OpenTrash.app to select it then Cmd+I
*Click the top left icon
*Cmd+V
*The Trash image now displays for OpenTrash.app
*Cmd+Del the desktop screenshot
*Open Finder
*Press and hold Cmd and drag OpenTrash.app from the desktop (or wherever you saved it) to the top of the Finder window
*Click the Trash icon at the top of the Finder window
*Another Finder window opens for the Trash
*Close both finder windows
*Cmd+Space > type "OpenTrash"
*OpenTrash.app with the Trash icon displays & OpenTrash.scpt with the page icon displays
*Press Enter & OpenTrash.app will open the Trash folder
Info/Question: I've noticed if I have another Finder window already open I have to then press Cmd+Tab to go to that folder. Does anyone know what needs to be added to the script for something like 'bring folder to the front'?
A: LaunchBar has this built in - macOS does not.
Type OT and select the action, a feature of this app is self-training easily to shortcuts of your typing.
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688026f9a26c5e0d26ad8cef89eb7eba8e611cb3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Possible to search Safari's "Reading List"? Anyone know if there is a way to search Reading List?
Not necessarily the full text of the pages — but at least the titles/descriptions that you see when looking at the Reading List pane within Safari:
A: Scroll up within the Reading List to reveal the search function.
| Q: Possible to search Safari's "Reading List"? Anyone know if there is a way to search Reading List?
Not necessarily the full text of the pages — but at least the titles/descriptions that you see when looking at the Reading List pane within Safari:
A: Scroll up within the Reading List to reveal the search function.
A: I am not aware of any options in Safari. Neither the search option under Help, nor the search option under All Bookmarks yielded any results.
But, OSX's Spotlight did index the reading list: Results appear in the section Webpages.
First I added the webpage to the reading list. Then I reset Safari.
And voilà, Spotlight found it. Not the best solution, but the best I found.
A: Create an AppleScript .scpt or Automator Service workflow and assign it a shortcut key.
The following script opens your default editor's window with the search results. A bit kludgy, and if the search string is in the Preview field but isn't in the URL you'll get back the line from the Preview field but not the URL. Might be possible to code round that with awk, but I haven't got round to figuring it out yet. Otherwise it works quite well.
--AppleScript
display dialog ("Enter the string to search for: ") default answer "Search Safari Reading List" buttons {"Cancel", "Search"} default button 2
set searchTerm to the text returned of the result
do shell script "strings ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist | grep -i '" & searchTerm & "' | awk '{ print FNR \"t\" $0}' | open -f"
--EOF
(Note: you need to scroll right to see the end of the final line. From 'do shell script.... to ....open -f" ' is all ONE line).
You should see something like this after hitting "Search" (obviously your results will differ from mine!)
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5068c0c00987c74d008030a4f2202da5c4d82206 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Copy Video from Mac to iPhone How can I copy my video from my Mac and send it to my iPhone via a cable or wireless?
A: Dropbox is always an answer when transferring/syncing files to your iPhone. It's easy; just drop a file in your Dropbox folder and it will show up on your iPhone after a bit. No plugging or syncing required.
| Q: Copy Video from Mac to iPhone How can I copy my video from my Mac and send it to my iPhone via a cable or wireless?
A: Dropbox is always an answer when transferring/syncing files to your iPhone. It's easy; just drop a file in your Dropbox folder and it will show up on your iPhone after a bit. No plugging or syncing required.
A: Depends on how you plan to play it on the iPhone. Both following ways require iTunes and an iPhone connected to it by cable or wireless.
*
*If you want to copy it to your Media library and play it natively you will need to:
*
*Select your device
*Click on Movies tab
*Check Sync Movies and check the desired movie from your iTunes library
*If you use an app (such as VLC) to play it you will need to:
*
*Select your device
*Click on Apps tab
*Scroll to File Sharing and select desired app from list
*Press on Add.. button and select desire movie from file chooser dialog
Alternately, you can share/stream your movie to your iPhone over wireless connection if you don't want to take it with you.
A: TransPhone is always an answer when transferring/syncing files from computer to your iPhone. It's easy and compatible with Mac system; just add a video file in your finder folder and it will show up on your iPhone after a few steps.
If your movies are less than 50 files, the free demo might be good to copy them onto your iPhone altogether.
A: You could use the command line as well. Install homebrew from https://brew.sh and then simply:
brew install libimobiledevice
The documentation for the project is quite good - on par or better than Apple's manual pages and the community is quite active on fixes and updates.
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65eef0914469733282fba8c8d6ee3d647f7639f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Mac App Store installs & upgrades be automated? How can I script installing or upgrading apps from the Mac App Store? I'd prefer command line tools, but AppleScript or some other API would suffice.
Relevant puzzle pieces:
*
*installer: note especially the -store flag which is used to simulate App Store installs for package devs.
*systemupdate: capable of handling updates to Apple apps, flags -i installs and -a tells it to install all available updates
A: This is possible using the open source mas command line utility:
mas-cli
A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting and automation.
Disclosure: I am the creator of mas
| Q: Can Mac App Store installs & upgrades be automated? How can I script installing or upgrading apps from the Mac App Store? I'd prefer command line tools, but AppleScript or some other API would suffice.
Relevant puzzle pieces:
*
*installer: note especially the -store flag which is used to simulate App Store installs for package devs.
*systemupdate: capable of handling updates to Apple apps, flags -i installs and -a tells it to install all available updates
A: This is possible using the open source mas command line utility:
mas-cli
A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting and automation.
Disclosure: I am the creator of mas
A: You may want to check out sprout-wrap and soloist. You can install OSX packages from a uri using the dmg_package provider. Check out some of the recipes in sprout for some examples.
To auto-update security updates, use the pivotal_workstation::osx_updates recipe. (Note that this uses softwareupdate)
For Homebrew apps, the brew provider has an upgrade action.
As far as I know, there's no provider to auto-update App Store apps. However, you may be able to use the built-in auto-update feature of some apps within an execute or bash provider block. You may also be able to use AppleScript within a chef recipe to automate the App Store app. For some examples of using inline AppleScript, take a look at the sprout-osx-settings::function_keys recipe. (Some other examples: sprout-osx-settings::remove_expose_keyboard_shortcuts, sprout-osx-settings::set_finder_show_user_home_in_sidebar)
A: Most people can just turn on automatic updates and let Apple manage all updates. If there’s a reason why you can’t or won’t do that, a command line tool does exist to automate App Store installs and updates.
One notable open source tool to replicate the Mac App Store from the command-line is mas:
*
*https://github.com/argon/mas
To install:
brew install mas
Once it's in, you could update all the apps that are available with:
mas upgrade
If you don't want to trust third party software with your Apple ID, you could also automate your UI and can store the account name and password using keychain.
The Apple solution for non-App Store security patches and updates is to run the softwareupdate tool from the command line to update all software that Apple intends to be installed without user intervention or going through the App Store UI.
Currently on Lion and Mountain Lion - this means that the Mac will hit a local OS X server that is caching downloads for system updates and software installed outside the App store. If you don't have a local software update server, it will of course download files directly from Apple.
For Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and lower, - everything still comes through the App Store - so the Apple software like OS X updates is fully scriptable using this tool for updates and non-App Store updates only.
What isn't scriptable (yet or perhaps ever) are apps that are installed from the App Store like Xcode and Pages and third party applications. This means that you cannot just have one tool to update all the software without opening the App Store app and entering a password at the user interface screen.
What you can do is download the apps once and then copy the app to multiple macs as long as the Apple ID used to download the first copy of the app is also used on all of the Macs that will run the app.
I know of several institutions that buy one copy of each app for a lab of 20 computers to get a license for each seat, but then deploy one file to all the Macs so that once one update download is accomplished, a tool like Apple Remote Desktop or Caspar or a home made tool like scp or rsync is used to move the updated version of the app to all Macs in the lab.
If you go the route of individual Apple ID for each machine, you will not be able to script the installation of App updates since each will request the password for each account unless you are comfortable knowing all of the passwords and performing UI scripting where AppleScript can enter the correct username and password programatically and then click the button to begin the download process for each machine's updates. The way that app store apps are code signed makes it hard to just slide in an update without invalidating the package or somehow reverse engineering / jailbreaking the whole app store process and sidestepping the normal flow of letting the app installer do it's work.
A: I'm not sure about an AppleScript type solution, but there are tools for managing large numbers of OS X systems.
The one I'm most familiar with is radmind (which started out at UMich for managing their labs (old site)).
radmind is really geared toward deploying a standard OS template to a bunch of machines and keeping it up to date, so for a small site it may be a bit too much work. The basic workflow is:
*
*Make a clean "build machine" and install radmind & all your standard software.
*Create radmind transcripts for that build machine.
*Install radmind on your client machines and pull/apply the transcripts to install them.
*For updates, update the build server and make an update/patch transcript, then apply it to the clients.
…So in the strictest sense it's not automating the install, but you only have to do the interactive bit once and then distribute the updated OS to your clients.
Obviously this works best if you can install a standard set of software everywhere - If your clients are all special and unique this might not be a great solution.
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97785cc732dec7f531397c896b5040cce996e9ea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use two 27" Cinema Displays from a 15" MacBook Pro? I am interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro and running multiple monitors when I am at my desk. Ideally, I'd like to run two 27" Cinema Displays when I am working at my desk, but would be okay with two smaller monitors.
Is this configuration possible? Does it require a combination of both Thunderbolt and DVI connectors?
I am aware that there is a similar question about utilizing multiple monitors when using the MacBook Air, but didn't feel like it gave enough detail about MacBook Pros.
A: If you are talking about a Thunderbolt equipped 15-inch MacBook Pro then yes according to this:
Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch): Connection options for Thunderbolt Macs
Interestingly you can also drive two from a 13-inch MacBook Pro, it will disable the built in display.
| Q: Can I use two 27" Cinema Displays from a 15" MacBook Pro? I am interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro and running multiple monitors when I am at my desk. Ideally, I'd like to run two 27" Cinema Displays when I am working at my desk, but would be okay with two smaller monitors.
Is this configuration possible? Does it require a combination of both Thunderbolt and DVI connectors?
I am aware that there is a similar question about utilizing multiple monitors when using the MacBook Air, but didn't feel like it gave enough detail about MacBook Pros.
A: If you are talking about a Thunderbolt equipped 15-inch MacBook Pro then yes according to this:
Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch): Connection options for Thunderbolt Macs
Interestingly you can also drive two from a 13-inch MacBook Pro, it will disable the built in display.
A: Yes, you can. You'll need a Matrox DualHead2Go DP and 2 DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort adapters.
A: I have a mid 2011 15" MBP, 2.3 GHz i7, 16Gb RAM. This model is equipped with one thunderbolt port; I have two 27" Thunderbolt displays daisy chained to the port with full resolution and no issues.
There is one item of concern however...I feel this at the edge of what my computer can handle. My system resources are not taxed but my fans are on pretty high to accommodate the increased strain on my GPU...I suspect anyway.
I used @Robins link and verified my model is capable of running two displays(see item 14 in the post)...14. How many Apple Thunderbolt Displays can I use with my Mac in OS X?.
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45a92fbf065b2a880e3764b6875760d6796e74d2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to Unset iTunes Track Start And Stop Time For Multiple Tracks? For some reason a lot of tracks in my iTunes library have senseless start and stop times set. This is really annoying as some tracks get skipped after a few seconds. There are Apple Script commands for setting them but I didn't find a way to clear all times. How can I batch clear them?
A: I just tried this script from dougs scripts on latest iTunes and it worked on the few tracks I selected.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=resettracksstartstop
| Q: How to Unset iTunes Track Start And Stop Time For Multiple Tracks? For some reason a lot of tracks in my iTunes library have senseless start and stop times set. This is really annoying as some tracks get skipped after a few seconds. There are Apple Script commands for setting them but I didn't find a way to clear all times. How can I batch clear them?
A: I just tried this script from dougs scripts on latest iTunes and it worked on the few tracks I selected.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=resettracksstartstop
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ff9f308acc2195262c4d8029afc12bc876371b76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use my 27" Thunderbolt monitor with a Macbook that has only DisplayPort output Somehow this doesn't work out of the box – is there an adapter I can buy that will allow me to connect the Displayport output of my Macbook to the Thunderbolt input of my 27" Thunderbolt monitor?
A: As @bmike, @djacobson, and @jaberg have stated in comments, that will not work. There is currently (as of March 2012) no adapter, nor do I expect there to be one to adapt mini-DisplayPort to Thunderbolt. (The standards were defined to be backward-compatible, not forward-compatible.)
| Q: Use my 27" Thunderbolt monitor with a Macbook that has only DisplayPort output Somehow this doesn't work out of the box – is there an adapter I can buy that will allow me to connect the Displayport output of my Macbook to the Thunderbolt input of my 27" Thunderbolt monitor?
A: As @bmike, @djacobson, and @jaberg have stated in comments, that will not work. There is currently (as of March 2012) no adapter, nor do I expect there to be one to adapt mini-DisplayPort to Thunderbolt. (The standards were defined to be backward-compatible, not forward-compatible.)
A: No this will not work. Check the system requirements for the Apple Thunderbolt display.
System Requirements
Thunderbolt-enabled Mac computer, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac
OS X v10.6.8 or later
As of yet there is no way to add a Thunderbolt port to a Mac that did not ship with Thunderbolt.
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353351e95e0ab62babc637de00d6b62b3d7c1d6f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can app creators continue to access my data after I delete their app? I know that once I have subscribed to a given app, that I have granted permissions to the author to access various bits of information. but,my question is - what happens when I delete the app from my phone and library?
Is the author of the app simultaneously and unilaterally denied the future ability to gather anything more from my phone? Is it possible that while the app is deleted, the app developer is allowed to maintain a mechanism which continues to gather information (and presumably which I was told about in the original T's and C's which I agreed to) ?
A: If the app is deleted, so are all connections to said developer. It wouldn't get through the approval process if it was allowed to continue farming your data, plus it'd need to stay on your phone for this to work.
| Q: Can app creators continue to access my data after I delete their app? I know that once I have subscribed to a given app, that I have granted permissions to the author to access various bits of information. but,my question is - what happens when I delete the app from my phone and library?
Is the author of the app simultaneously and unilaterally denied the future ability to gather anything more from my phone? Is it possible that while the app is deleted, the app developer is allowed to maintain a mechanism which continues to gather information (and presumably which I was told about in the original T's and C's which I agreed to) ?
A: If the app is deleted, so are all connections to said developer. It wouldn't get through the approval process if it was allowed to continue farming your data, plus it'd need to stay on your phone for this to work.
A: Each app runs in a "sandbox" which isolates it from the rest of the phone / other apps on the phone. Access to the OS is limited by the functions a developer is provided to use. When an app is deleted it's entire sandbox is removed so nothing is left of that application. If however you gave data to the app and the app sent that information to the developer over the internet and/or you gave the app permission to use your facebook data offline for example, the developer could continue to access your facebook data from facebook until you deauthroised that app on the facebook platform for example.
A: After uninstalling an app I can see that it continues to access the Internet.
Before I uninstall each app now I block its access to the Internet. Later I check my log file and can see each attempt at Internet access. l also have a counter on each app. Many apps show from 6 to 500 attempts per week and some far more. I have even tried good uninstall software. I have also tried to reinstall and uninstall but without result.
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18104b0d3f6d338ed1b724ca77d53927f8876a1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Air Charger 45w vs 65w Can you use a 65W apple charger instead of the 45w charger that comes with the Macbook Air? How will this affect the machine.
A: This will not affect the Mac at all. It will not charge faster. It will not damage your battery. It will not damage your adapter.
Information on power adapters is detailed on Apple's support site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2346
| Q: MacBook Air Charger 45w vs 65w Can you use a 65W apple charger instead of the 45w charger that comes with the Macbook Air? How will this affect the machine.
A: This will not affect the Mac at all. It will not charge faster. It will not damage your battery. It will not damage your adapter.
Information on power adapters is detailed on Apple's support site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2346
A: Yes this is fine (assuming you refer to the 60W Magsafe) and this has been confirmed by Apple to be safe
Although you should always use the proper wattage adapter for your Apple portable, you can use an adapter of a higher wattage without issue.
A:
To find the right charger for Macbook ,there are three kinds of power rating Macbook power adapter in the market,45 watt, 60 watt, or 85 watt. It should be noted that higher wattage chargers can be used on the lower wattage laptops, but not vice versa.For example,If you have mac laptops that have used all three wattages. you could buy the 85w ones as my back up. Why? Because the 85w will work on any laptop, but the 45 and 60 will not. Further, the cost difference between the 45w, 60w and 85w is virtually nothing so you might as well “go big” and never worry if you have the right adapter for the right laptop.You can also find the Power Rating details on your orignal macbook charger and get the same Power Rating as your origanl macbook charger .
From: http://www.eachbattery.com/guide/how-to-choose-the-right-macbook-charger/
A: It DOES charge quite a bit faster. Just enough to make it more practical.
But I won't use it if it will spoil the battery sooner. I don't really trust the algorithms controlling the charging parameters.
A: You can use the 85w too, but bear in mind that periodic use of power adapter with more wattage, will decrease your battery life. I can't find the link for that information, but it has been mentioned to me in at least three different Apple Stores by different employees when I lost (twice!) my 45w power adapter and needed to buy a new one; the first stores didn't have stock for the 45w and they strongly advised me against buying the 60w version. I ended up finding a 45w later that day.
Your battery will charge slightly faster and that is not good. There's a reason why each machine has a different battery size and therefore a different power adapter.
Occasional usage of a different model is ok. For example if you're running low and need to keep working or something like that, but don't buy one and use it all the time.
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3985dd5032f49cfa1ea136548c03ae83df8ceffa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I upgrade my MacBook mid 2010 to 16GB of RAM? (2x8G) I bought a MacBook mid 2010 which I have upgraded to 8GB of RAM. But now, 8GB is not enough for me. I need more RAM for my work.
Can I upgrade my MacBook's RAM to 16GB? I know the new Macbook Pros can do it, but I am not sure about mine.
A: I am actually shocked. I've just tested my Macbook Pro 17" core i7 2.66Ghz, 2010 model and Core i5 2.53Ghz 15" 2010 Macbook Pro.
I put 2 8GB memory sticks (total of 16GB), and it's shows in About my Mac.
So 2010 models do accept 16GB of RAM.
| Q: Can I upgrade my MacBook mid 2010 to 16GB of RAM? (2x8G) I bought a MacBook mid 2010 which I have upgraded to 8GB of RAM. But now, 8GB is not enough for me. I need more RAM for my work.
Can I upgrade my MacBook's RAM to 16GB? I know the new Macbook Pros can do it, but I am not sure about mine.
A: I am actually shocked. I've just tested my Macbook Pro 17" core i7 2.66Ghz, 2010 model and Core i5 2.53Ghz 15" 2010 Macbook Pro.
I put 2 8GB memory sticks (total of 16GB), and it's shows in About my Mac.
So 2010 models do accept 16GB of RAM.
A: (Note: The original post said "No", which was right at the time it was written, but as of February 15th, 2014, the OWC page says that you can install up to 16GB of RAM on mid 2010 MacBooks (2.4GHz).)
It Depends.
OWC continously tests the max RAM which apple computers support - which is usually more than Apple officially states.
The mid-2010 MBP is size dependent. The 13" will support 16GB. The 15" and the 17" will not.
The following table shows that the max RAM supported by your Macbook Pro based off size (mid 2010) is 16GB (officially 8GB).
A: Any mid-2010 MacBook Pro i5 or i7 is limited to a maximum of 8GB RAM. If you have a 2010 MacBook Pro Core2Duo (13"), then you are in luck and you can upgrade to 16GB RAM.
The type of RAM needed is DDR3 PC3-8500 1066.
I believe there is an EFI limitation in OS X Mountain Lion that will not allow the 2010 i5/i7 Macbook Pro's to be upgraded over 8GB RAM. After doing some digging around, it sounds like the limitation has to do with the IntelHD graphics SW that is used by OS X.
Some datapoints to note:
*
*A 2010 i5/i7 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM running MountainLion/Mavericks will kernel panic during normal boot.
*You will be able to boot into safe mode OK and it will show the 16GB RAM in System Information. Notice that the graphics card is listed as "Nvidia ..." in safe mode, as opposed to "IntelHD...".
*It is possible to limit Max RAM to 8GB using the command: sudo nvram "-v maxmem=8192". This would limit the usable RAM to a maximum of 8GB (official Apple Max); however this also will cause a kernel panic during normal boot when 16GB RAM is physically loaded. A maxmem=2048 will allow the system to boot normally with 16GB RAM loaded; however only 2GB RAM will be usable.
*If you load Ubuntu 12 onto the MacBook Pro (2010 i5 or i7) with 16GB RAM loaded, Ubuntu will boot OK and be able to see/address the 16GB RAM.
*If you load Windows 7 onto the MacBook Pro (2010 i5 or i7) with 16GB RAM loaded, Windows 7 will boot OK and be able to see/address the 16GB RAM.
As far as I can tell, this appears to be an Apple SW limitation of some sort.
A: I had 16GB stuffed into my first generation unibody 17" MBP.
Now I'm back down to 8GB, swapping the two sticks with my 2011 Mac mini.
I've stuffed a few more recent MBPs with 16GB, regardless of OWC or Apple have to say.
A: OWC now shows that your MacBook can support up to 16GB of RAM. Check that page out for yourself. Seems like it was recently updated.
A: It accepts it but won't let you use it while using an apple OS. It is clearly a software problem and it is shocking that apple will not give an update to solve this issue!!!
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928badf8d0fef5ca529038424bac5f915e2f34bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to properly use drag and drop with MacBook Pro on OS X 10.7? It seems extremely hard to be able to drag and drop files between two finder windows with a single move on the trackpad - as soon you reach the end of the trackpad you'll drop the files,… in the wrong place.
How can you solve the drag'n'drop problem without using a mouse and still be able to use gestures?
A: You can use your thumb to click on the lower part of the track and the index finger to move. As long as you keep the trackpad pressed with the thumb you can release the index finger.
| Q: How to properly use drag and drop with MacBook Pro on OS X 10.7? It seems extremely hard to be able to drag and drop files between two finder windows with a single move on the trackpad - as soon you reach the end of the trackpad you'll drop the files,… in the wrong place.
How can you solve the drag'n'drop problem without using a mouse and still be able to use gestures?
A: You can use your thumb to click on the lower part of the track and the index finger to move. As long as you keep the trackpad pressed with the thumb you can release the index finger.
A: Holding with your thumb and dragging kills the thumb after a while. You can enable double tap to select (versus clicking) and drag in preferences> accessibility under the mouse area in Yosemite. Then just tap lightly twice and drag with your finger. You might need to have tap to click enabled under the trackpad settings. That's the best way to do it if you're on your machine all day and prone to repetitive strain injury.
Update: I'm now using 3 finger drag available in the accessibility settings area.
A: Click and Drag
Press the physical button, then drag. While the button is depressed, you can reposition your "dragging" finger without letting go of what you're dragging.
One-Finger Tap & Drag
With Dragging enabled, tap the trackpad twice and start dragging on the second tap (instead of lifting your finger from the trackpad). There is a short delay from when you lift your finger from the trackpad and when the drag actually ends, during which, you can reposition your finger on the trackpad to continue dragging. To end a drag immediately (without the delay) you can tap the trackpad again.
Three-Finger Drag
Tap the trackpad with three fingers and drag all three fingers. This has the same delay as the one-finger drag, so you can reposition your fingers and continue dragging. Again, a single tap will end the drag without the delay.
Drag Lock
Drag Lock works with both the "one-finger tap & drag" and the "three-finger drag". When enabled, the drag does not end after lifting your finger(s) from the trackpad. Rather you have to tap/click the trackpad to end the drag.
In Snow Leopard, the Dragging and Drag Lock settings are in System Preferences > Trackpad, but in Lion they were moved to System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options.
With Dragging enabled, you may notice a delay when tapping compared to when it's disabled (at least in Lion).
Three-Finger Drag with Inertia
This is easily the most fun way to drag. This is like the three-finger drag, but instead of moving all three fingers, you only move one finger, keeping the other two in place on the trackpad. When you do this, you can use a flick gesture with the finger that's moving and whatever you're dragging will continue to move after you lift that finger, gradually slowing down. It works very much like scrolling with inertia. As long as you keep your other two fingers in place on the trackpad, you can lift your third finger without letting go of what you're dragging.
If you wanted to, you could actually keep one finger in place on the trackpad and use two fingers for dragging, but that's a bit awkward.
A: I turned on 3 fingers for dragging in the trackpad preferences. There also used to be an option on there called Click lock, where you would double click and drag and then the file would stay with the mouse until you clicked again. I can't seem to find that particular option anymore, but I know that if you enable the three finger dragging gesture that it's supported, so you just tap twice with three fingers on the file you want and then start dragging, and tap again when you want to drop the file.
A: Another technique to avoid premature dropping is to take advantage of trackpad acceleration.
Let's say you are dragging a file from left to right. When you run out of room on the right edge of the trackpad:
*
*Slowly drag the file to the left side of the trackpad.
*Then quickly drag the file to the center/right of the trackpad. Due to difference in acceleration, you should be on the right half of your screen.
*Now you have of lot of space to move before dropping.
This also works for a mouse if you run out of mousepad or desk space.
A: Instead of using trackpad gestures for App Exposé and Mission Control - it's more reliable to use hot corners instead.
The setting can be found under System Preferences → Mission Control → Hot corners...
If you want to avoid accidental tiggering of hot corners, you can add modifier-keys to them (i.e. trigger by ⌥+dragging to corner).
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01cb12eddd62ff26ab216646bfff71db426c4dbf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Apple still make iMovie HD available to iLife users? When Apple "upgraded" iMovie back in 2008 from its previous version to the completely rewritten program with a star-shaped icon, they kept the previous version available for download.
Currently, I can't find the older version of iMovie on Apple's site. My question is either a) is there still a legal way to get iMovie HD or b) when did it cease to be available?
A: No. Apple has removed it from the download section of their site as of about January 26, 2009. See: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/27/imovie-hd-6-no-longer-available-for-download/
The direct download link in that article now returns a 404 error.
| Q: Does Apple still make iMovie HD available to iLife users? When Apple "upgraded" iMovie back in 2008 from its previous version to the completely rewritten program with a star-shaped icon, they kept the previous version available for download.
Currently, I can't find the older version of iMovie on Apple's site. My question is either a) is there still a legal way to get iMovie HD or b) when did it cease to be available?
A: No. Apple has removed it from the download section of their site as of about January 26, 2009. See: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/27/imovie-hd-6-no-longer-available-for-download/
The direct download link in that article now returns a 404 error.
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7d5ab712994da8faced491a0f56887f469e4b67a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: VM size in Activity Monitor: hundreds of GB? When I open the Activity Monitor, I get something looking like this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342.
But why the heck is "VM size" around 100-200 GB??
Here is the capture from the apple support:
See the "VM size: 172.23 GB".
Is that a bug, or can you explain to me where are those GB?
A: They are virtual and cost nothing to make. The VM hands out space to each program that asks for any but leaves tons of room to grow between each real allocation. These virtual addresses get mapped into the real RAM space as needed and mapped out when they are freed or otherwise inactive. They can even get paged to your storage if needed.
You can reboot to convince yourself it starts back at zero. This is expected that it grows over time and not a bug. The real query is what apps are requesting all that data and if you don't mind looking at files in the terminal sudo sysdiagnose is a great tool to dive deeper into virtual and real memory allocation.
| Q: VM size in Activity Monitor: hundreds of GB? When I open the Activity Monitor, I get something looking like this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342.
But why the heck is "VM size" around 100-200 GB??
Here is the capture from the apple support:
See the "VM size: 172.23 GB".
Is that a bug, or can you explain to me where are those GB?
A: They are virtual and cost nothing to make. The VM hands out space to each program that asks for any but leaves tons of room to grow between each real allocation. These virtual addresses get mapped into the real RAM space as needed and mapped out when they are freed or otherwise inactive. They can even get paged to your storage if needed.
You can reboot to convince yourself it starts back at zero. This is expected that it grows over time and not a bug. The real query is what apps are requesting all that data and if you don't mind looking at files in the terminal sudo sysdiagnose is a great tool to dive deeper into virtual and real memory allocation.
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d6bbb85504e21a122edc0917043dd6884183e9d2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mini display port cable and Thunderbolt cable compatibility I need to run a Mini DisplayPort cable from a last generation Xserve to a circa late 2010 iMac so I can directly share the iMac's display while I set up the Xserve.
Apple no longer carries Mini DisplayPort cables at their stores here in NY. No one at the store could tell me if I could use a Thunderbolt cable with the hardware I have.
So, a hopefully simple backwards compatibility question: Can I use a Thunderbolt cable to connect the Mini DisplayPort of the Xserve to the Mini DisplayPort of the iMac?
A: According to this source, you will not be able to use a Thunderbolt cable in this fashion.
You can, however, get a Mini DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable from Monoprice for about $5 and that should work just fine.
| Q: Mini display port cable and Thunderbolt cable compatibility I need to run a Mini DisplayPort cable from a last generation Xserve to a circa late 2010 iMac so I can directly share the iMac's display while I set up the Xserve.
Apple no longer carries Mini DisplayPort cables at their stores here in NY. No one at the store could tell me if I could use a Thunderbolt cable with the hardware I have.
So, a hopefully simple backwards compatibility question: Can I use a Thunderbolt cable to connect the Mini DisplayPort of the Xserve to the Mini DisplayPort of the iMac?
A: According to this source, you will not be able to use a Thunderbolt cable in this fashion.
You can, however, get a Mini DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable from Monoprice for about $5 and that should work just fine.
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4bcdf64a46db3396e0935c0eb0d7058eb77c05b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCloud backup from old 4S to new 4S? I just got a replacement for my 4S. Before, I did an iCloud backup and thought I could just restore from that. But with the new phone, it says there's no backup to restore from available.
Any ideas?
A: Backups are generally portable across any and all iOS device. Could the new device be at a lower software level? Try an over the air update to ios 5.0.1 and also be sure everything is exact in the account. [email protected] is not always the same as [email protected].
| Q: iCloud backup from old 4S to new 4S? I just got a replacement for my 4S. Before, I did an iCloud backup and thought I could just restore from that. But with the new phone, it says there's no backup to restore from available.
Any ideas?
A: Backups are generally portable across any and all iOS device. Could the new device be at a lower software level? Try an over the air update to ios 5.0.1 and also be sure everything is exact in the account. [email protected] is not always the same as [email protected].
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3c881473ba278935ffcee4389112547daefbf510 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Putting a folder in the dock Is this possible? How can I do it? I want to put applications in a folder in my dock.
A: You can't put a folder in the left side of your Dock where the programs are, but you can drag a folder to the right side of your Dock. In Leopard (10.5) or later, by default, the folder will appear as a stack, but starting in 10.5.2, you have options for how the folder or stack appears. In Lion (10.7), for instance, you can select whether you want the folder to appear as a folder, or as a stack.
| Q: Putting a folder in the dock Is this possible? How can I do it? I want to put applications in a folder in my dock.
A: You can't put a folder in the left side of your Dock where the programs are, but you can drag a folder to the right side of your Dock. In Leopard (10.5) or later, by default, the folder will appear as a stack, but starting in 10.5.2, you have options for how the folder or stack appears. In Lion (10.7), for instance, you can select whether you want the folder to appear as a folder, or as a stack.
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3b348105d2adf810330cb3df18728c0ee34b04a8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Not able to extract any .gz or .tar file (Mac OS X 10.5.8) I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. I am not able to extract .tar or .tgz files with any of the extractor utilities (Mac OS Default Archiver or WinZip or 7zip or any other, I have tried almost all possible).
Each of them give same error:
"Unable to unarchive. (Error 32 - Broken pipe.)"
There is no problem with archived files, I can extract each of them when I use same extractors on Windows.
Would someone please help me with this?
A: Does it work from a terminal for tgz files? Open a terminal and cd to the folder that has the files and try something like this:
tar xvzf file.tar.gz
Or for plain tar files:
tar xvf file.tar
| Q: Not able to extract any .gz or .tar file (Mac OS X 10.5.8) I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. I am not able to extract .tar or .tgz files with any of the extractor utilities (Mac OS Default Archiver or WinZip or 7zip or any other, I have tried almost all possible).
Each of them give same error:
"Unable to unarchive. (Error 32 - Broken pipe.)"
There is no problem with archived files, I can extract each of them when I use same extractors on Windows.
Would someone please help me with this?
A: Does it work from a terminal for tgz files? Open a terminal and cd to the folder that has the files and try something like this:
tar xvzf file.tar.gz
Or for plain tar files:
tar xvf file.tar
A: There may be too many NUL blocks at the end of the tar file, so that the tar command prematurely finishes its executions (and closes its standard input) after having received two NUL blocks while the gunzip command is still trying to write to the pipe that now has no reader anymore (which raises an EPIPEerror message with error number 32 for a broken pipe; for more information see: Tar-filled pipes).
According to the output of newproc.d Archive Utility.app seems to use the following commands (Mac OS X uses bsdtar by default):
/usr/bin/gunzip -c file.tar.gz | /usr/bin/tar xf - -C dir
To see the number of trailing NUL blocks in the tar file use:
gnutar -tzf file.tar.gz -i --block-number | nl | tail -n 25
To extract the tar archive try:
# -i: ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)
gnutar -i -xvf file.tar.gz
.zip files can be tested with:
unzip -lv file.zip
unzip -t file.zip
A: check the directory and the path, the scipt may lead you to users/download/folders/blah
but you keep it on users/favourite/folder/blah (example) thats make the error.
A: Your Hard Drive may also be running out of storage.
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fbf44bc161da64166c2a51106813fb22769b98fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iMac iPhone USB Internet Sharing I have a MacBook Pro and a iMac. On the MacBook I see a network interface named "iPhone USB" in my Network Settings. On the MacBook the internet sharing over usb works fine. But on the iMac it doesn't work. On the iMac there is no "iPhone USB" interface and it doesn't appear a "New network device detected" window if I connect the iPhone to the iMac via USB. How can I add the "iPhone USB" network interface?
Please help.
Software Versions:
iMac 10.7.3
MacBook Pro 10.7.2
iPhone 5.0.1
A: Try this:
*
*Turn off tethering on your iPhone
*Plug iPhone into iMac
*Turn tethering back on
| Q: iMac iPhone USB Internet Sharing I have a MacBook Pro and a iMac. On the MacBook I see a network interface named "iPhone USB" in my Network Settings. On the MacBook the internet sharing over usb works fine. But on the iMac it doesn't work. On the iMac there is no "iPhone USB" interface and it doesn't appear a "New network device detected" window if I connect the iPhone to the iMac via USB. How can I add the "iPhone USB" network interface?
Please help.
Software Versions:
iMac 10.7.3
MacBook Pro 10.7.2
iPhone 5.0.1
A: Try this:
*
*Turn off tethering on your iPhone
*Plug iPhone into iMac
*Turn tethering back on
A: Try checking out the iPhone: Trouble Shooting Personal Hotspot article. Specficially the USB Trouble Shooting information.
If you are using USB to connect your computer to Personal Hotspot and you are unable to get an Internet connection, check your computer's network settings. You may need to adjust your computer's network settings to disconnect and reconnect the USB Ethernet interface.
Open System Preferences > Network. Locate and select the Ethernet adapter listed, and then click the gear icon and choose Make Service Inactive. Then choose Make Service Active:
A: A couple other things to try are:
*
*Run the latest combo update
*Update iTunes to the latest version
The combo update has solved several of my networking problems over the years.
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8d8239b0afafa4e7934b06414b0c24f38569a56c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get HFS+ filesystem blocksize How can I find out the HFS+ filesystem blocksize for a local volume on a MacbookPro5,4. I think its 4k. I need to confirm this. Diskutil reports that the disk blocksize is 512 bytes.
A: You could try "stat" with the "%k" format option. According to the man page this is the "Optimal file system I/O operation block size". Command line is:
stat -f "%k" FILE
Where "FILE" is any regular file on your system (e.g. "~/.profile"). It should say "4096" or something like that. I cannot 100% guarantee this is what you're looking for, but it seems close.
| Q: How to get HFS+ filesystem blocksize How can I find out the HFS+ filesystem blocksize for a local volume on a MacbookPro5,4. I think its 4k. I need to confirm this. Diskutil reports that the disk blocksize is 512 bytes.
A: You could try "stat" with the "%k" format option. According to the man page this is the "Optimal file system I/O operation block size". Command line is:
stat -f "%k" FILE
Where "FILE" is any regular file on your system (e.g. "~/.profile"). It should say "4096" or something like that. I cannot 100% guarantee this is what you're looking for, but it seems close.
A: If you want to verify the block size, you can modify the answer given by neuroburn to include the file size and the number of 512-byte blocks allocated:
stat -f "%k, %z, %b" FILE
The number of allocated 512-byte blocks will be a multiple of the number of 512-byte blocks in one file system block. For example, a 4096-byte file system block contains 8 512-byte blocks:
MacBook-Pro:~ ian$ echo foo > foo.txt
MacBook-Pro:~ ian$ ls -l foo.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian staff 4 12 Jul 00:21 foo.txt
MacBook-Pro:~ ian$ stat -f "%k, %z, %b" foo.txt
4096, 4, 8
Doing this a few times will give more confidence in the simpler command proposed by neuroburn. (Please note this answer has been edited to correct the command parameters… former parameters "%k, %z, %” caused the command to fail.)
A: That's a fair enough measurement, but the right way to do it would be to query the filesystem itself, which you can do programmatically by statfs(). Alternatively, you can read directly from the HFS volume header - a free tool called HFSleuth, at http://www.newosxbook.com/ - allows you to do just that.
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