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853724a497ff83631ca59a290d63dd92ddb58eb9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I make iTunes video play slower or faster? I want to play videos in iTunes faster (1x, 2x, double speed, etc.) or maybe slower. How do I do that?
A: The Cmd+K shortcut no longer works in Lion or Mavericks.
Please see a post about increasing the playback speed in Quicktime.
The double arrow allows for integer increases in playback speed.
| Q: How do I make iTunes video play slower or faster? I want to play videos in iTunes faster (1x, 2x, double speed, etc.) or maybe slower. How do I do that?
A: The Cmd+K shortcut no longer works in Lion or Mavericks.
Please see a post about increasing the playback speed in Quicktime.
The double arrow allows for integer increases in playback speed.
A: *
*Right click on the iTunes playlist and click Show in Finder
*Right click on the content in Finder and click Open with Quicktime player.
*While watching the video/movie press Command and then right arrow or left arrow to increase or decrease playback speed, respectively.
A: Quicktime Player allows you to play the audio faster, but not slower.
The chosen answer, by @daviesgeek, works for Quicktime Player 7 (Snow Leopard or earlier).
If you're on a later version (well, I only tested this on macOS Sierra and Quicktime 10.4), you can play it faster by doing:
*
*opt + click-on-fast-forward-button. This will increase playback by 0.1x each time.
*opt + right-arrow. This one increases from 1x to 2x to 5x.
You cannot play at a slower speed though (but you can play backwards at speeds greater than 1x).
A: Right click on the file in iTunes and choose "Show in Finder." Then right click the file and open in Quicktime Player. In Quicktime Player you can choose the playback speed by using the A/V Controls (Command + K or Window>A/V Controls). From there, you can select the playback speed:
Alternatively, you could use VLC or another music player.
A: Folks, you can download Quicktime Player 7, which is for Snow Leopard or later Mac OS, and works with older media files (as well as current ones, it seems). It has the variable speed functionality you're seeking.
No guarantees this link will work whenever you read this, but it's working now, Nov 2015:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL923?locale=en_US
(Why Apple removed this functionality from Quicktime, who knows.)
Once installed, then play the audio file by first locating it in Finder, and use CMD-click to "open with" Quicktime Player 7. Voila.
A: Works for me on Lion or Mavericks:
*
*CMD+OPTION+ (right arrow) for 1,1x
*CMD+(right arrow) for 2x
A: macOs Sierra users can use Opt - RightArrow in Quicktime.
A: You can control the playback speed of an audio / video file in your browser by creating a bookmark with the javascript code found here:
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/86817/217003
javascript: var v = document.querySelector('video'); var t = prompt('Set the playback rate'); v.playbackRate = parseFloat(t)
I have done this with Safari Version 12.1.1 (14607.2.6.1.1).
I prefer to use Quicktime built into Safari instead of VLC, because slowing down audio / video files in VLC sound harsh.
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67cafa223a2a65f71e790e9c3816b3d244aecdcc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the keyboard combination for the ⌘ symbol? There are many handy shortcuts for exotic characters in Mac such as Option + 7 for ¶ and Option + G for ©. Is there one to yield the command key ('⌘') sign?
A: As the other answers mention, by default there is no easy way to enter this symbol. You could use a text substitution as well (none of the other answers so far mentioned that), but that’s another imperfect solution.
If you need this (or any other Unicode glyph) frequently and want to be able to type it on your keyboard, your best bet is to create a custom keyboard layout. That way, you can assign a keyboard shortcut of your choosing to the ⌘ symbol.
Using my custom QWERTY layout, for example, I can use ⌥+Shift+C to enter ⌘.
| Q: What is the keyboard combination for the ⌘ symbol? There are many handy shortcuts for exotic characters in Mac such as Option + 7 for ¶ and Option + G for ©. Is there one to yield the command key ('⌘') sign?
A: As the other answers mention, by default there is no easy way to enter this symbol. You could use a text substitution as well (none of the other answers so far mentioned that), but that’s another imperfect solution.
If you need this (or any other Unicode glyph) frequently and want to be able to type it on your keyboard, your best bet is to create a custom keyboard layout. That way, you can assign a keyboard shortcut of your choosing to the ⌘ symbol.
Using my custom QWERTY layout, for example, I can use ⌥+Shift+C to enter ⌘.
A: You can only do this if you choose "Unicode Hex Input" as your keyboard layout in System Preferences > Language & Text. Once you have done so:
Hold down alt and type 2 3 1 8
A: There is not a shortcut key, but the easiest way to use it is to favorite it in Character Viewer. If you don't see the Character Palette in your menu bar: , then go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources and make sure that the Keyboard & Character Viewer is on:
Then, in your menubar, click the character palette icon and choose "Show Character Palette" Search for "Place of Interest sign" or ⌘. Click on it and add it to your favorites:
Then when you need to type it, you can go to the Character Palette and click "Insert" or just drag it to where you want it.
Related: You can also copy all the symbols (⌃⌥⇧⌘⎋⏏⌫↑⇡↖⇞⇥ and more) from this meta post
A: I don't think there is any shortcut key.
But for easier access:
*
*Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Source.
*Check Keyboard & Character View, and Show Input menu in menu bar.
*Click on menubar icon and select Show Character Viewer.
*Click on the setting symbol -> Customize list
*Enable Code Tables -> Unicode. Click done
*Back in your Character Viewer, select the newly added Unicode.
*Scroll down to 2310, select the '⌘' and add to favorites.
*The next time you want to use the '⌘' key, just open up Character Viewer and look it up under favorites.
If you are using Alfred or any other program that support snippets, you can copy and paste it in your snippets databases.
A: For even easier access: In Characters viewer, in the Settings dropdown, select "Customize list," and choose "⌘ Technical Symbols".
A: COPYPASTE THIS> ⌘ Boldface: ⌘ Italic: ⌘ Both:⌘
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48e77be5e58d1bbd87980aeb41d95a9e037258ed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does TextWrangler 4 break BBAutoComplete 1.5.3? I just installed TextWrangler 4, and now when I try to use BBAutoComplete version 1.5.3, I get the error message seen below.
Is there a workaround to make BBAutoComplete work with TextWrangler 4?
A: Yes, it breaks version 1.5.3, and yes, there's a workaround. But now it's unnecessary, because version 1.5.4 has been released and it solves the problem.
If for some reason you want to still use 1.5.3, you can do the following:
In the script ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts/BBAutoComplete, there is a function canCompleteInWindow(w). This function needs to be modified to work with TextWrangler 4.
Open the script in AppleScript Editor.
As it ships, there is a function in the script that reads
on canCompleteInWindow(w)
tell application "TextWrangler"
return class of w is in {text window, disk browser window}
end tell
end canCompleteInWindow
Change it so it reads
on canCompleteInWindow(w)
tell application "TextWrangler"
return class of w is in {text window, disk browser window, project window}
end tell
end canCompleteInWindow
Save the script. BBAutoComplete should now work with TextWrangler 4.
| Q: Does TextWrangler 4 break BBAutoComplete 1.5.3? I just installed TextWrangler 4, and now when I try to use BBAutoComplete version 1.5.3, I get the error message seen below.
Is there a workaround to make BBAutoComplete work with TextWrangler 4?
A: Yes, it breaks version 1.5.3, and yes, there's a workaround. But now it's unnecessary, because version 1.5.4 has been released and it solves the problem.
If for some reason you want to still use 1.5.3, you can do the following:
In the script ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts/BBAutoComplete, there is a function canCompleteInWindow(w). This function needs to be modified to work with TextWrangler 4.
Open the script in AppleScript Editor.
As it ships, there is a function in the script that reads
on canCompleteInWindow(w)
tell application "TextWrangler"
return class of w is in {text window, disk browser window}
end tell
end canCompleteInWindow
Change it so it reads
on canCompleteInWindow(w)
tell application "TextWrangler"
return class of w is in {text window, disk browser window, project window}
end tell
end canCompleteInWindow
Save the script. BBAutoComplete should now work with TextWrangler 4.
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e8f9f6b9b79d0891bce89877e48728ecf3519476 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to share internet with WPA/WPA2 security? I'm using a macmini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard to share a cable internet connection. Sharing works fine except that security is limited to 40/128 bit WEP that is insecure (can be hacked in minutes). Is it possible to share the connection via wifi with stronger WPA/WPA2 security? Maybe using some third-party internet sharing app?
A: Mac OS X Mountain Lion supports Internet Sharing using WPA/WPA2. You will need to upgrade to get this functionality. This article has a little more info. And here is a screenshot of the new option for WPA2 in Mountain Lion (10.8):
| Q: How to share internet with WPA/WPA2 security? I'm using a macmini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard to share a cable internet connection. Sharing works fine except that security is limited to 40/128 bit WEP that is insecure (can be hacked in minutes). Is it possible to share the connection via wifi with stronger WPA/WPA2 security? Maybe using some third-party internet sharing app?
A: Mac OS X Mountain Lion supports Internet Sharing using WPA/WPA2. You will need to upgrade to get this functionality. This article has a little more info. And here is a screenshot of the new option for WPA2 in Mountain Lion (10.8):
A: This is not supported in Mac OS X 10.7 and lower. See:
*
*Can I secure a Mac's ad hoc network better than just the default WEP?
*http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8339.html
Perhaps in the next version of the OS, but currently Lion does not accommodate changing the encryption/authentication protocol of an ad-hoc network based from the device.
Though I have looked, there is no software to my knowledge that supports this feature aside from using a separate OS. You can dual boot: Some versions of Windows do support this feature.
A: It seems that a work-around is to boot into an older version of the OS, configure WPA2, and then boot back.
I set up Internet Sharing a few OS versions ago, and the “Airport Setup” screen had a “Security” dropdown to choose between WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA2 Enterprise. Now, running 10.6.8, the “Security” dropdown is gone, and WEP seems to be the only choice. Yet, when I enable sharing on the machine, it still uses the previously-configured WPA2.
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57d22fc01ef741afbd9128523dbf04b4bad4c1a5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Select outgoing mail folder in Mail.app On my iPhone, I can go to Settings > Mail > Any Account > Account > Advanced > Sent Mailbox and select which folder I'd prefer to have my Sent mail stored in. How can I do this in Mail on a Mac? I am trying to change which folder the sent messages are stored in when saving them to the server.
A: In Mail select the mailbox you want to use from the list on the left and navigate to the menu Mailbox > Use this Mailbox For, then choose the appropriate purpose from the menu:
| Q: Select outgoing mail folder in Mail.app On my iPhone, I can go to Settings > Mail > Any Account > Account > Advanced > Sent Mailbox and select which folder I'd prefer to have my Sent mail stored in. How can I do this in Mail on a Mac? I am trying to change which folder the sent messages are stored in when saving them to the server.
A: In Mail select the mailbox you want to use from the list on the left and navigate to the menu Mailbox > Use this Mailbox For, then choose the appropriate purpose from the menu:
A: I've faced this issue in the past.
You want to be sure to be using a single folder for Sent Mail across all devices and email clients. If you use webmail at all, there is a standard arrangement for inboxes and sent items. Christian explains the issue well:
I use Mail to connect to a traditional IMAP server (non-Gmail). I've noticed that all the messages I send are placed in Mail's "Sent" folder and that Mail is translating this folder to a server folder called "Sent Messages". The problem is that on the IMAP server, the real folder meant to store sent messages is called "Sent Mail".
I occasionally send messages using the server's web interface. Because of this, over time I will have my sent messages spread out over "Sent Messages" and "Sent Mail" in the server. If I want to find a sent message, and because these messages are not consolidated, I now have two places I need to search thru.
I would recommend you map Apple Mail's Sent to "Sent Mail" as used by your IMAP webmail client and do the same with your iPhone.
The same system applies to Drafts, Trash and Junk. Bonus tip: don't use IMAP for drafts as they drafts will multiply across all your computers, becoming unmanageable (up to 25 copies). Instead use a local folder on each of your computers. It's possible that the drafts multiplying like rabbits bug was fixed some time after Apple Mail 4.6 (OS X 10.6.8) but I have no confirmation of a fix.
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81541d84f2ea3e5bb3965d8868559af1dc605629 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does my Macbook Pro try to shut down when I leave it unattended? When I close the lid of my Macbook Pro (Lion), it goes to sleep, which is good: it powers down without closing my applications.
But if I just leave the computer unattended for a while without closing the lid, it attempts to shut down instead. It usually fails at this, because there's often a program such as Photoshop (which doesn't use Lion's autosave feature) blocking shutdown with a "Save as" dialog. But it does always succeed, annoyingly, in closing my browser etc. It does this even when the computer is plugged in and fully charged.
When I leave my computer unattended for 15 minutes, I want it to behave exactly as if I had closed the lid: it should go to sleep, not shut down.
How can I do this?
A: Try going to System Preferences and choosing Security & Privacy. When that application window opens, choose "General" tab and then look to the lower right corner and click on "Advanced". Uncheck "Log out after _ _ minutes of inactivity.
Not sure but this might be the cause.
Good luck
| Q: Why does my Macbook Pro try to shut down when I leave it unattended? When I close the lid of my Macbook Pro (Lion), it goes to sleep, which is good: it powers down without closing my applications.
But if I just leave the computer unattended for a while without closing the lid, it attempts to shut down instead. It usually fails at this, because there's often a program such as Photoshop (which doesn't use Lion's autosave feature) blocking shutdown with a "Save as" dialog. But it does always succeed, annoyingly, in closing my browser etc. It does this even when the computer is plugged in and fully charged.
When I leave my computer unattended for 15 minutes, I want it to behave exactly as if I had closed the lid: it should go to sleep, not shut down.
How can I do this?
A: Try going to System Preferences and choosing Security & Privacy. When that application window opens, choose "General" tab and then look to the lower right corner and click on "Advanced". Uncheck "Log out after _ _ minutes of inactivity.
Not sure but this might be the cause.
Good luck
A: Yes, indeed, the "Log out after 60 min" had a check mark. That was the problem. I was just lucky that the OS was unable to Quit certain applications that do not use the built-in Autosave feature, but many times I found myself at the Login screen when coming back to the puter.
A: It could be the SMC, or a bug in the firmware. Try these two steps:
*
*Reset the SMC, see: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
*You may need a firmware update, see: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1474?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
A: I know this might not be very helpful... but my guess is that you have an app or widget that has scheduled a shutdown... either that or the energy preferences but you checked that already...
A: Thanks for everyone's advice on this. When I asked the question I thought this auto-shutdown thing was some feature I must have accidentally enabled somewhere... But after a lot of searching, update-installing, settings-tweaking, etc, I concluded it was just some rare bug in my system.
In the end, I just re-installed OS X. That fixed it :)
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4ea3e881b975647dd765ebdfe87694820dafe9be | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lion Mail "Show Format Bar' button missing In Lion Mail there is supposed to be a "show format bar" button at top right of a new mail window. It is not there for me. How can I get it to show?
A: You have to customise the toolbar and add the format button.
Drag the format button to the bar:
And when you compose a new message, you can click on the format icon:
And the bar will appear.
| Q: Lion Mail "Show Format Bar' button missing In Lion Mail there is supposed to be a "show format bar" button at top right of a new mail window. It is not there for me. How can I get it to show?
A: You have to customise the toolbar and add the format button.
Drag the format button to the bar:
And when you compose a new message, you can click on the format icon:
And the bar will appear.
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d4d9c12e8c5f349e83930598093a8fb48c58b149 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I find out who is currently using my Airport Express speakers, and kick them? If I want to stream music to an AE when someone else is connected, I get a message "The speaker XXX is currently used by someone else".
Right now, both my flatmates are not connected to the AE but I still get that message - the AE seems to be stuck. It appears all I can do is unplug the unit and plug it in again.
Is there a way for me to kick the current user, or at least see who was last connected to it?
A: Change the WiFi password. If I am not wrong, you can only access AirPlay speakers via WiFi. So change it and the person in question won't be able to connect.
If you want to find out who it is, go on to your router interface something like 192.168.X.X and see who is connected. Most people name their computers, so will probably show up. Sorry if I can't be more specific.
Also, maybe there is a bug with your AE (doubt it). Maybe you should reset it.
| Q: Can I find out who is currently using my Airport Express speakers, and kick them? If I want to stream music to an AE when someone else is connected, I get a message "The speaker XXX is currently used by someone else".
Right now, both my flatmates are not connected to the AE but I still get that message - the AE seems to be stuck. It appears all I can do is unplug the unit and plug it in again.
Is there a way for me to kick the current user, or at least see who was last connected to it?
A: Change the WiFi password. If I am not wrong, you can only access AirPlay speakers via WiFi. So change it and the person in question won't be able to connect.
If you want to find out who it is, go on to your router interface something like 192.168.X.X and see who is connected. Most people name their computers, so will probably show up. Sorry if I can't be more specific.
Also, maybe there is a bug with your AE (doubt it). Maybe you should reset it.
A: When I can't tell which device has a hold of the speakers, I often just reboot the base station. When it comes back i've always been able to grab it first.
I suppose you could also add a password for sharing to reduce the chance someone uses the AirPlay speakers.
Of course if you wanted the satisfaction of doing it surgically you could run tcpdump to sniff the sound packets and the cycle or stop that device, but there is no button to bump one device from the network or the speakers (like there is for the disk sharing on airport extreme and time capsule).
A: A simple solution is to go to the AirPlay tab in the device's settings panel and uncheck "Enable AirPlay," then update. This will kick everyone off. Wait for it to come back, then re-enable.
A: Edit of secound solution
If you want to find out who it is, go on to your router interface something like 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 and see who is connected. If you do not know user/password, you can in many cases use the default user/password(http://routerpasswords.com). Most people name their computers, so will probably show up. Sorry if I can't be more specific.
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a8cdfcbd50fb16548a2a0581d594bea44a5a2124 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an easy to use Bible program for both OS X and iOS? Is there an easy to use Bible program, preferably with dictionary, concordance as well as text for maybe more than 1 translation.
My PC has PC Study Bible and it's great but I've grown to hate Parallels.
Tried Macsword and bombed out, too complicated for me.
A: Logos Bible Software
For both Mac and iOS, as well as Windows, Android, and web based. It has several different versions, some are paid, and some free. It allows you to search within a Bible. Other features include Bible words studies, passage guides, highlighting, and reading plans
iOS App Store Link (iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch compatible)
Logos for Mac
| Q: Is there an easy to use Bible program for both OS X and iOS? Is there an easy to use Bible program, preferably with dictionary, concordance as well as text for maybe more than 1 translation.
My PC has PC Study Bible and it's great but I've grown to hate Parallels.
Tried Macsword and bombed out, too complicated for me.
A: Logos Bible Software
For both Mac and iOS, as well as Windows, Android, and web based. It has several different versions, some are paid, and some free. It allows you to search within a Bible. Other features include Bible words studies, passage guides, highlighting, and reading plans
iOS App Store Link (iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch compatible)
Logos for Mac
A: Top Choices for Mac Bible Software
There are many Bible programs for the Mac.
*
*Logos Bible software Fairly easy to use but also somewhat expensive.
*
*Accordance I have heard that this is the best and most powerful of them, and there is a free version.
*
*OliveTree This is what I use (mostly on my iPad) and I love it.
You can find other links to software here.
A: This is the ridiculously simple answer, but I don't use a special bible reader program; I use built-in operating system features and a high quality text editor.
I constructed a text file called Bible.txt that I open in TextWrangler. The editor's search features function well as a concordance, and for multiple translations, I open additional text files in additional windows. Thanks to the wonders of Unicode, it even works for Hebrew and Greek versions.
I have chapter breaks set up with hard \n characters, and verses separated simply by verse numbers, so each line is a chapter.
It doesn't have a bible dictionary, but three-finger tap on my trackpad brings up the Mac OS X Dictionary, which includes Wikipedia pages that are quite helpful about names of people, places, events, etc.
On the iOS side, I use iBooks. Not as full-featured as the Mac side, but I mostly read there, and don't do a whole lot of active sermon writing on my iPod Touch.
A: I like Blue Letter Bible (Mac/OSX). Different versions for side x side comparison. Great iPhone and and iPad Apps. Has great commentaries (written and Audio). The Apps is where I believe it does the best job. It's free, donations are accepted.
A: If you're looking for synchronization between devices as a key feature, then you could consider using a Kindle bible. Then you've got a web interface, iPad, and iPhone interface that synchronizes your personal notes and highlights. It unfortunately won't have a lot of the other features you're looking for.
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0f18e07b24fe19ed33e860cd32899b06628b295f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Detect single-user mode from the command line Is there a way to detect single-user mode in OSX (Lion, specifically) from the command line?
I've tried who -r, which returns 3 in either standard or single-user mode.
I've also tried nvram boot-args, which does not work either.
Google isn't helping much with this...
A: $ sysctl -n kern.singleuser
0
It's 1 when booted in single-user mode, 0 when not.
| Q: Detect single-user mode from the command line Is there a way to detect single-user mode in OSX (Lion, specifically) from the command line?
I've tried who -r, which returns 3 in either standard or single-user mode.
I've also tried nvram boot-args, which does not work either.
Google isn't helping much with this...
A: $ sysctl -n kern.singleuser
0
It's 1 when booted in single-user mode, 0 when not.
A: Hmm. We don't have runlevel in OS X*, which would be the easy way. How about identifying something in the output of launchctl list which is not present in single user mode but is present otherwise - com.apple.Finder might be a candidate.
*man who includes: -r Print the current runlevel. This is meaningless on Mac OS X.
A: In single user mode open directory is not available except by jumping through hoops. You can test the return value of dscl in that case.
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ec1358ac30f0a1af88dfb4cf552f26c6ddd9108c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When an iPhone app is updated and the minimum required iOS increases, what happens for customers who still have the lower iOS? For example, I'm a developer, and my app is released with a minimum iOS of 3.0 required. If I release an update requiring iOS 5.0, what happens?
Can existing customers running 3.0 attempt to update? What error message (if any) do they receive when attempting this?
Will customers running 3.0 get the 'Update' notification in their app store app?
A: When the user tries to install the update, the app store will alert the user saying something like "you must have iOS5 to install this update.". The user will still be able to use the current version they they have, though.
| Q: When an iPhone app is updated and the minimum required iOS increases, what happens for customers who still have the lower iOS? For example, I'm a developer, and my app is released with a minimum iOS of 3.0 required. If I release an update requiring iOS 5.0, what happens?
Can existing customers running 3.0 attempt to update? What error message (if any) do they receive when attempting this?
Will customers running 3.0 get the 'Update' notification in their app store app?
A: When the user tries to install the update, the app store will alert the user saying something like "you must have iOS5 to install this update.". The user will still be able to use the current version they they have, though.
A: Nothing. The app doesn't create any problem until it is deleted. To be re-installed, it requires update, after being deleted once.
A: As a user, I've found that iTunes downloads the latest app regardless of what iOS the user is using on their device.
iTunes downloads the latest app and deletes (or asks to delete) older app versions from the user's iTunes library – an unwary user will click Yes to deleting the older version, and will be happy to get the latest version.
It is only when the user tries to install this latest version on their device (after removing the older app from their device) that iTunes will then raise the alarm that it is not compatible with their device.
The user is then left without the older version or the update.
It is Apple's hope that the user has backed up their iTunes library prior to downloading updates to their apps. This is a different procedure than just using iTunes to back up their devices, which only backs up the Data on the users' devices and not their apps purchased (downloaded) through iTunes.
If the user doesn't have a backup, Apple does not maintain older versions of apps. So the user has no means of retrieving older versions from the App Store.
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ac1bd50610d2dc805c3a420c3b1c3cd6012655fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: VNC Viewer with clipboard sync I need to connect to Ubuntu Vinegar VNC and Windows UltraVNC. I can't find one that sync's the clipboard so I can past from my Macbook to the others OS. It works fine Windows to Ubuntu and vise versa so the VNC servers are fine.
A low cost solution would be preferred as my countries currency is a quarter of the value of the US$.
A: Jollys Fast VNC
It attempts to keep the clipboards in sync and for the most part it does a very good job of it. Not all objects copied to the clipboard on one machine can be used on another though. For example: copying a file the clipboard just puts a lean file object in the clipboard which has no parallel on the remote machine.
But for text and such it works great.
There's a free trial (that continually renews itself) and you can buy it in the MAS as well for not a lot of money (there's a "home" version for even less).
| Q: VNC Viewer with clipboard sync I need to connect to Ubuntu Vinegar VNC and Windows UltraVNC. I can't find one that sync's the clipboard so I can past from my Macbook to the others OS. It works fine Windows to Ubuntu and vise versa so the VNC servers are fine.
A low cost solution would be preferred as my countries currency is a quarter of the value of the US$.
A: Jollys Fast VNC
It attempts to keep the clipboards in sync and for the most part it does a very good job of it. Not all objects copied to the clipboard on one machine can be used on another though. For example: copying a file the clipboard just puts a lean file object in the clipboard which has no parallel on the remote machine.
But for text and such it works great.
There's a free trial (that continually renews itself) and you can buy it in the MAS as well for not a lot of money (there's a "home" version for even less).
A: TeamViewer supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and has great support for remote actions, file transfers, and native clipboard exchanges. I've never used TV for clipboards with remote Linux systems but it's definitely been better than any VNC solutions I've used. Free for personal use.
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74d72bc43063e2f009a0701392c391bafb3c394a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change the default dictionary on iPhone & Mac? I'm using iPhone and MacBook. Both there are a default English-English dictionary, which is convenient.
However, I'd prefer a French-English dictionary, while I'm learning French on iPhone or Mac.
Is there a way to change the default dictionary on iPhone or Mac, to a French-English one?
A: In order to change the priority on your Dictionary App, go do Dictionary > Preferences.
Choose the dictionaries you want to be activated — assuming you have them installed — and drag them to choose the priority, *from top (highest priority) to bottom.
Note that if you look for a word in a certain language, dictionaries that don't have that word won't appear in the search results.
Change localization on your Mac:
*
*Go to System Preferences > International > Languages.
*Click on "Edit list" to add/remove the dictionaries.
*Drag the dictionaries in the list itself to sort the priority which works from top to bottom.
| Q: How to change the default dictionary on iPhone & Mac? I'm using iPhone and MacBook. Both there are a default English-English dictionary, which is convenient.
However, I'd prefer a French-English dictionary, while I'm learning French on iPhone or Mac.
Is there a way to change the default dictionary on iPhone or Mac, to a French-English one?
A: In order to change the priority on your Dictionary App, go do Dictionary > Preferences.
Choose the dictionaries you want to be activated — assuming you have them installed — and drag them to choose the priority, *from top (highest priority) to bottom.
Note that if you look for a word in a certain language, dictionaries that don't have that word won't appear in the search results.
Change localization on your Mac:
*
*Go to System Preferences > International > Languages.
*Click on "Edit list" to add/remove the dictionaries.
*Drag the dictionaries in the list itself to sort the priority which works from top to bottom.
A: And on your iPhone:
You can enable the French language in your Keyboard settings. Then, when tapping the globe next to your spacebar, you can switch languages. The language will shortly appear on your spacebar, and from then on, you'll be using the just selected language with a dictionary.
A: The link is broken - please look at some upvoted answers below as well
Assuming you are talking about the reference dictionary for looking up the meanings of words (NOT spellchecking/autocorrection), you cannot modify that on an iOS device. But in OS X you can add other modules. This page provides some info:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-dictionaries-for-dictionaryapp.html
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4c941fce2e21531d0bb2db7b0af1d05c3025d02e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable Top Sites in Safari on macOS Lion How do I disable the auto-updating of the Top Sites in Safari? I don't want to turn the feature off altogether, I just want to prevent auto-update. I know this may seem like an attempt to defeat the purpose of Top Sites in the first place, but I find that if it auto-updates any of the Top Sites that are forum-based, all of the unread topics are marked as read. So, an even better solution would be the ability to exclude the auto-update of certain URLs/domains, etc. Does that functionality exist?
A: I found this somwhere else which may solve your problem:
*
*Quit Safari
*Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) & paste:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
then hit return & quit Terminal.
To reactivate:
defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy
| Q: How to disable Top Sites in Safari on macOS Lion How do I disable the auto-updating of the Top Sites in Safari? I don't want to turn the feature off altogether, I just want to prevent auto-update. I know this may seem like an attempt to defeat the purpose of Top Sites in the first place, but I find that if it auto-updates any of the Top Sites that are forum-based, all of the unread topics are marked as read. So, an even better solution would be the ability to exclude the auto-update of certain URLs/domains, etc. Does that functionality exist?
A: I found this somwhere else which may solve your problem:
*
*Quit Safari
*Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) & paste:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
then hit return & quit Terminal.
To reactivate:
defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy
A: To disable TopSites, quit Safari, open Terminal and type or paste:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites false
Press Return key. Relaunch Safari.
A: If you use Safari's Private Browsing mode, Top Sites will not update at all. However, this solution might not completely address your original question - I haven't found any solution that could turn-off auto-updates of Top Sites, either completely or selectively for certain URLs/domains.
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df2c2607d86dd7115afe2c897979dff5470455aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I create a DMG file from a directory? I'm trying to add a few files into a dmg. How do I create a DMG file from a directory?
A: Some step by step instructions can be found here.
After opening Disk Utility:
*
*Click the New Image icon
*Place the contents of folder/directory into the newly created disk image.
| Q: How do I create a DMG file from a directory? I'm trying to add a few files into a dmg. How do I create a DMG file from a directory?
A: Some step by step instructions can be found here.
After opening Disk Utility:
*
*Click the New Image icon
*Place the contents of folder/directory into the newly created disk image.
A: If you want to do it from the command line, hdiutil will provide more control than Disk Utility over how the DMG is created. As an example, you can use hdiutil like so:
hdiutil create -volname WhatYouWantTheDiskToBeNamed -srcfolder /path/to/the/folder/you/want/to/create -ov -format UDZO name.dmg
See man hdiutil for more details.
A: I ran across this just as late, and I figured I'd save some time for people.
I used this thread to make my dmg file, but I had to use the "-fs " parameter or hdiutil would error with error -5341.
Using Yosemite, I ran the following:
hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -srcfolder /Users/danlund/TestFolder/ -volname Test test.dmg
A: On Yosemite this did it for me too.
Add this function to ~/.bash_profile:
dmg(){
hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -srcfolder "$1" -volname "$2" "$2.dmg"
}
Usage in Terminal:
dmg /My/Source/Folder NameOfDmg
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071603ae0b8cb5cda5b705887385a06b7d01d4df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I see the stored WLAN settings on my iPhone? Ist it possible to see the settings of my known WLANs stored on my iPhone? I only know that I can access the settings of the current network when I am logged into one.
Edit: The iPhone is not jailbroken and I do not intend to jailbreak it.
A: As mentioned by others, jailbreaking is the easiest way. But if you really don't want to, you can back up the iPhone and use a tool like Backup Extractor to view the .db file that stores the settings.
| Q: Can I see the stored WLAN settings on my iPhone? Ist it possible to see the settings of my known WLANs stored on my iPhone? I only know that I can access the settings of the current network when I am logged into one.
Edit: The iPhone is not jailbroken and I do not intend to jailbreak it.
A: As mentioned by others, jailbreaking is the easiest way. But if you really don't want to, you can back up the iPhone and use a tool like Backup Extractor to view the .db file that stores the settings.
A: No you can't, unless you jailbreak.
However, jailbreaking is now so easy and painless that there really is little reason not to do it. For example, just follow this guide if you're on iOS 5.1.1.
After you jailbreak, you'll be able get apps like "WiFi Passwords" in Cydia which do what you want.
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c7add9796152a5c010ccc82bb496bd529f527fbe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enable HiDPI on 23" iMac? I have a 23" iMac running Lion (10.7.3). I've checked that the "Enable HiDPI display modes" checkbox is enabled in "Quartz Debug" (it was checked the first time I opened it), but there are no HiDPI resolution options in my display settings.
Has anyone had success with using HiDPI display modes on a 23" iMac?
A: Per the instructions on the screen, you have to log out and back in when enabling or disabling HiDPI mode for the changes to take effect:
| Q: Enable HiDPI on 23" iMac? I have a 23" iMac running Lion (10.7.3). I've checked that the "Enable HiDPI display modes" checkbox is enabled in "Quartz Debug" (it was checked the first time I opened it), but there are no HiDPI resolution options in my display settings.
Has anyone had success with using HiDPI display modes on a 23" iMac?
A: Per the instructions on the screen, you have to log out and back in when enabling or disabling HiDPI mode for the changes to take effect:
A: If the checkbox is already enabled, but it doesn't work, disable it, logout when prompted to, login again, re-enable it and at the next login you should find the HiDPI settings in the Displays settings.
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4a8dc2150a5879e07f7820d10c55f4793e7cacc5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: App Store asking for credentials? After trying to install an application on my iPhone 4, I just saw this popup for the first time:
Security Info Required
To help ensure the security of your Apple ID, you must confirm your password and answer your security questions.
[Cancel] [Security Info]
Why is this dialog popping up?
Does it happen randomly? Or is it because I connected to a new Wi-Fi hotspot, and the App Store has never seen this IP address before? Or could it be because someone tried logging in with my account several times and failed?
A: This appears to be a recent change to how purchasing functions, added for increased security. According to TheNextWeb, via MacRumors:
In the past 24 hours, Apple appears to have started prompting iOS
devices owners and those with Apple IDs within iTunes to make their
accounts more secure, requiring them to pick three security questions
and enter their answers when they download a new app.
The company is also asking users to enter a backup email address, in
order to better protect their device but also their account (which is
tied to Apple’s Retail website and all of its media services).
| Q: App Store asking for credentials? After trying to install an application on my iPhone 4, I just saw this popup for the first time:
Security Info Required
To help ensure the security of your Apple ID, you must confirm your password and answer your security questions.
[Cancel] [Security Info]
Why is this dialog popping up?
Does it happen randomly? Or is it because I connected to a new Wi-Fi hotspot, and the App Store has never seen this IP address before? Or could it be because someone tried logging in with my account several times and failed?
A: This appears to be a recent change to how purchasing functions, added for increased security. According to TheNextWeb, via MacRumors:
In the past 24 hours, Apple appears to have started prompting iOS
devices owners and those with Apple IDs within iTunes to make their
accounts more secure, requiring them to pick three security questions
and enter their answers when they download a new app.
The company is also asking users to enter a backup email address, in
order to better protect their device but also their account (which is
tied to Apple’s Retail website and all of its media services).
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cc4a16e29aaacb9f112a77554bc59ab86a581fac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Weird hotspot password on iPhone after it was replaced by Apple Today I got my iPhone replaced by Apple as it was presenting some weird symptoms.
I upgraded the iOS and restored from backup but few hours later I discovered that the hotspot password was replaced with something I never wrote soaked4963.
Is this a bug in their iOS upgrade and/or restore mechanism?
A: iOS auto-generates a hotspot password by default, mine is a word followed by four digits, just like yours. I suspect that the hotspot password just isn't backed up, so the new phone created a new default one.
It's not an issue really, just replace it with whatever you want. If you want to keep the old one to avoid re-entering it on your devices, but don't remember it, you should be able to find it by going into Keychain Access (Applications > Utilities) on a Mac that connected previously. Double click on the entry corresponding to the hotspot name, and there should be a checkbox for "Show password".
| Q: Weird hotspot password on iPhone after it was replaced by Apple Today I got my iPhone replaced by Apple as it was presenting some weird symptoms.
I upgraded the iOS and restored from backup but few hours later I discovered that the hotspot password was replaced with something I never wrote soaked4963.
Is this a bug in their iOS upgrade and/or restore mechanism?
A: iOS auto-generates a hotspot password by default, mine is a word followed by four digits, just like yours. I suspect that the hotspot password just isn't backed up, so the new phone created a new default one.
It's not an issue really, just replace it with whatever you want. If you want to keep the old one to avoid re-entering it on your devices, but don't remember it, you should be able to find it by going into Keychain Access (Applications > Utilities) on a Mac that connected previously. Double click on the entry corresponding to the hotspot name, and there should be a checkbox for "Show password".
A: If you use encrypted backups, your backup will store your passwords (email etc, including the hot spot password). If you do not use encrypted backups, you need to reenter all passwords, including the hot spot one, which will be reentered by a random one as explained by CanuckSkier.
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f68bf67b6864527a75da8eba7beaae0663db49e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any better way to purge the inactive memory? Running purge command in the terminal to free the inactive memory isn't really what I think about Apple.
Lion isn't doing a great at all when it comes to free the inactive memory.
Free memory is reaching 16 MB and applications and the OS are becoming unresponsive, yet OS X isn't reclaiming the inactive memory.
After each session, I put the laptop to sleep. You can say that I shutdown my OS once a month. Unixes after all aren't created to be rebooted.
OS X Snow Leopard was pretty sleek, I don't know but it looks it is a Lion thing (maybe due iOS brought to Lion features).
Any better way to reclaim the inactive memory on Lion?
[EDIT]
I got 4 GB of RAM
A: Yes, you can, one command only (run in Terminal):
purge
And recheck inactive RAM
| Q: Any better way to purge the inactive memory? Running purge command in the terminal to free the inactive memory isn't really what I think about Apple.
Lion isn't doing a great at all when it comes to free the inactive memory.
Free memory is reaching 16 MB and applications and the OS are becoming unresponsive, yet OS X isn't reclaiming the inactive memory.
After each session, I put the laptop to sleep. You can say that I shutdown my OS once a month. Unixes after all aren't created to be rebooted.
OS X Snow Leopard was pretty sleek, I don't know but it looks it is a Lion thing (maybe due iOS brought to Lion features).
Any better way to reclaim the inactive memory on Lion?
[EDIT]
I got 4 GB of RAM
A: Yes, you can, one command only (run in Terminal):
purge
And recheck inactive RAM
A: The real way I've made progress diagnosing this sort of issue is to use sysdiagnose to profile your system immediately after boot, then again before swap starts to get written and again when you note the slowdown.
Issuing purge is not effective with OS X virtual memory on Lion and muddies the waters to find the real culprit in terms of memory leaks or paging stress.
I've found that server Macs are generally stable for 6 months or more and don't need reboots before an update will force a reboot. Client Macs running software like Office, Adobe and even some of Apple's consumer products (or Pro apps) do not run perpetually like other UNIX and benefit from a reboot once a month or so to clear memory if you have issues with swap that cannot be isolated and ameliorated by sysdiagnose or other changes in usage.
A: Probably not much better than what you are doing but I use iboostup occasionally when i wan t to free up some memory. I constantly struggling here with 2gb MBA and i use vmaware fusion for windows machine that just takes the memory from me. It has a couple other nice features too.
http://www.iboostup.com/
A: There are free apps on the Mac App Store that add a free-memory button to the menu bar for quick memory purging.
Search for "memory" in the MAS and choose what suits your needs.
Hope this is what you are looking for.
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1362c5522b3736c90cbbceb8b24b5fe263ae81e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Permission of external disk under Mac OS I plug an external disk to the laptop whose system is Mac OS, but I can't create files/folders, or rename files in the disk... The Sharing & Permissions is You can only read.
Does anyone know how to modify this permission?
A: OS X can't write to NTFS natively - you'll need to install a package like MacFuse/NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS to write to NTFS partitions.
From the BootCamp Apple Support KB:
During installation, the Microsoft Windows installer asks me to format
the Windows partition using NTFS or FAT. Which should I use?
If the partition is 32 GB or smaller, you can use either FAT or NTFS.
If it's larger than 32 GB, or you are installing Microsoft Vista, then
you can only format it using NTFS. Mac OS X can read and write FAT
volumes, but only read NTFS volumes. Refer to the Microsoft Windows
documentation if you are not sure which best suits your needs.
| Q: Permission of external disk under Mac OS I plug an external disk to the laptop whose system is Mac OS, but I can't create files/folders, or rename files in the disk... The Sharing & Permissions is You can only read.
Does anyone know how to modify this permission?
A: OS X can't write to NTFS natively - you'll need to install a package like MacFuse/NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS to write to NTFS partitions.
From the BootCamp Apple Support KB:
During installation, the Microsoft Windows installer asks me to format
the Windows partition using NTFS or FAT. Which should I use?
If the partition is 32 GB or smaller, you can use either FAT or NTFS.
If it's larger than 32 GB, or you are installing Microsoft Vista, then
you can only format it using NTFS. Mac OS X can read and write FAT
volumes, but only read NTFS volumes. Refer to the Microsoft Windows
documentation if you are not sure which best suits your needs.
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eb4b97934e2e3ab9a87b8d7fb9b89ae8e0d37dfb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do iPads detect when a cover closes? Some iPad cases (particularly those that look like book covers) provide a feature that when the cover closes the iPad enters suspended mode and when the cover opens the iPad wakes up. The one provided by the link claims it provides this functionality through a magnetic strip. Does this mean iPads have the ability to sense nearby magnetic fields built in? Why and how does this work?
PS. It appears Apple's Smart Covers provide this functionality too.
A: The Smart Cover has a magnet that interacts with the sleep sensor of an iPad. So whenever you close the Smart Cover, iPad will know when to sleep. The same theory for waking up.
Info from MacRumors
| Q: How do iPads detect when a cover closes? Some iPad cases (particularly those that look like book covers) provide a feature that when the cover closes the iPad enters suspended mode and when the cover opens the iPad wakes up. The one provided by the link claims it provides this functionality through a magnetic strip. Does this mean iPads have the ability to sense nearby magnetic fields built in? Why and how does this work?
PS. It appears Apple's Smart Covers provide this functionality too.
A: The Smart Cover has a magnet that interacts with the sleep sensor of an iPad. So whenever you close the Smart Cover, iPad will know when to sleep. The same theory for waking up.
Info from MacRumors
A: Magnetic Auto sleep/wake function is mainly used in electronic device cases, such as Kindles, iPods and so on... To make this easier to understand, let's focus on an iPad. For this to work, the device cover needs to be held on to the iPad with magnets. These magnets don't just keep the iPad case on but it also aligns the magnets with the ones inside the iPad.
There are 21 magnets in the case and 10 magnets in this device itself. Some of those magnets are used to hold the case on, whilst others are used to activate the "sleep sensor" which you can find on the right hand side of the iPad. It was also found out that the device does not need to be woken up by 31 magnets, but can be woken up by a single 'magnetic pickup stick'. This is because to wake the device up, or put it to sleep, all you need to do is activate the sleep sensor.
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ee3097334108df6cd03e7e37b26d1ae1dc98b3cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I permanently add my SSH private key to Keychain so it is automatically available to ssh? It seems that ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa will load your key but will ask for the password each time you reboot.
I am looking for a solution that would not require me to re-enter the key password between logins.
A: I had a similar problem, in that I was being asked every time for my pub-key passphrase. Per suggestion of user "trisweb" above, I turned on these options to ~/.ssh/config:
Host *
UseKeychain yes
AddKeysToAgent yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
But it still prompted every time I wanted to use ssh. Eventually I turned on ssh -v and found this debug line:
debug1: key_load_private: incorrect passphrase supplied to decrypt private key
I then opened my keychain in "Keychain Access.app", found the key named "SSH: /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa" and opened it up. I clicked "Show password" to disclose the password and indeed found that the passphrase in the keyring was an old passphrase. I updated the passphrase in Keychain Access, and now password-free works.
I could have also updated the passphrase with this phrase:
ssh-keygen -p -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
| Q: How can I permanently add my SSH private key to Keychain so it is automatically available to ssh? It seems that ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa will load your key but will ask for the password each time you reboot.
I am looking for a solution that would not require me to re-enter the key password between logins.
A: I had a similar problem, in that I was being asked every time for my pub-key passphrase. Per suggestion of user "trisweb" above, I turned on these options to ~/.ssh/config:
Host *
UseKeychain yes
AddKeysToAgent yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
But it still prompted every time I wanted to use ssh. Eventually I turned on ssh -v and found this debug line:
debug1: key_load_private: incorrect passphrase supplied to decrypt private key
I then opened my keychain in "Keychain Access.app", found the key named "SSH: /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa" and opened it up. I clicked "Show password" to disclose the password and indeed found that the passphrase in the keyring was an old passphrase. I updated the passphrase in Keychain Access, and now password-free works.
I could have also updated the passphrase with this phrase:
ssh-keygen -p -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
A: To all where the above did not work, my issue appears to have been because I was duplicating the UseKeychain yes & AddKeysToAgent yes in all ssh key profiles / shortcuts. I updated my ~/.ssh/config file to declare these only once and they now all load on login without prompting for passwords on startup, e.g:
Host foo
HostName foo.com
User fooUser
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/foo
Host bar
HostName bar.com
User barUser
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/bar
########################
# Keep the default configuration
# as the last item in this file
Host *
UseKeychain yes
AddKeysToAgent yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/foo
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/bar
A: Also, in macOS Sierra and High Sierra (don't know about previous versions), running ssh-add -A will get the agent to load all keys whose passphrases are stored on Keychain... So very handy
Note that these option flags have been renamed and the old ones deprecated in later versions of macOS. From the ssh man page:
APPLE_SSH_ADD_BEHAVIOR
Enables or disables the older processing of
the -A and -K options used in earlier macOS releases. These options
have been renamed --apple-load-keychain and --apple-use-keychain
respectively.
However, -A and -K still behave as in earlier releases
except in the following circumstances:
*
*If a security provider was
specified with -S or SSH_SK_PROVIDER, or if APPLE_SSH_ADD_BEHAVIOR is
set to the value “openssh”, then ssh-add uses standard OpenSSH
behavior: the -A flag is not recognized and the -K flag behaves as
documented in the DESCRIPTION section above.
*Otherwise, ssh-add -A and -K will behave as in earlier macOS releases.
A warning will be output to standard error unless
APPLE_SSH_ADD_BEHAVIOR is set to the value “macos”. Note: Future
releases of macOS will not support neither -A nor -K without setting
this environment variable.
A: It is not possible to add private key to Keychain, but you can store passphrase for private key in Keychain.
On OSX, the native ssh-add command has a special argument to save the private key's passphrase in the OSX Keychain, which means that your normal login will unlock it for use with ssh. On OSX Sierra and later, you also need to configure SSH to always use the Keychain (see Step 2 below).
Alternatively you can use a key without a passphrase, but if you prefer the security that's certainly acceptable with this workflow.
Step 1 - Store passphrase in the Keychain
In the latest version of MacOS (12.0 Monterey), just do this once:
ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/[your-private-key]
Or in versions of MacOS older than 12.0 Monterey, use:
ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/[your-private-key]
Enter your key passphrase, and you won't be asked for it again.
(If this fails, make sure you are using Apple's version of /usr/bin/ssh-add and not something installed with brew etc.; check with which ssh-add)
Step 2 - Configure SSH-agent to always use the Keychain
(Note: In versions of OSX prior to Sierra, this is not necessary)
It seems that OSX Sierra removed the convenient behavior of persisting your keys between logins, and the update to ssh no longer uses the keychain by default. Because of this, you need to change one more thing for secure persistent key storage.
The solution is outlined in this github thread comment. Here's what you do:
*
*Ensure you've completed Step 1 above to store the passphrase in the keychain.
*If you haven't already, create an ~/.ssh/config file. In other words, in the .ssh directory in your home dir, make a file called config.
*In that .ssh/config file, add the following lines:
Host *
UseKeychain yes
AddKeysToAgent yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Change ~/.ssh/id_rsa to the actual filename of your private key. If you have other private keys in your ~/.ssh directory, also add an IdentityFile line for each of them. For example, I have one additional line that reads IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 for a 2nd private key.
The UseKeychain yes is the key part, which tells SSH to look in your OSX keychain for the key passphrase.
*That's it! Next time you load any ssh connection, it will try the private keys you've specified, and it will look for their passphrase in the OSX keychain. No passphrase typing required.
A: Answer on OSX 12.0 Monterey
You can now use the flag --apple-use-keychain to accomplish exactly this.
ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Add this to your .zshrc or .bashrc file to have it load from your keychain on new logins / terminal instances.
This replaces the -K and -A flags:
WARNING: The -K and -A flags are deprecated and have been replaced
by the --apple-use-keychain and --apple-load-keychain
flags, respectively. To suppress this warning, set the
environment variable APPLE_SSH_ADD_BEHAVIOR as described in
the ssh-add(1) manual page.
A: Add the public key in:
.ssh/known_hosts
Public key usually are on:
/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Hope that helps
A: One of solutions is to delete .ssh from path. Like this - "ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/id_ed25519" or "ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/[YOURS ID OF SSH]"
Also you need to change path in ~/.ssh/config by deleting /.ssh
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4b477b027953eadb8b1a994e909e56bb0e1804f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to prevent warnings like No xauth data when doing ssh from OS X to other machines? I get Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. when I do ssh to other machines from my OS X machine which has X-server installed.
echo $DISPLAY returns something like /tmp/launch-4eEyr6/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
Inside ~/.ssh/config I specified XAuthLocation xauth but I still get the errors.
If I replace the line with full path to xauth (/opt/X11/bin/xauth), I stop getting the errors but the problem is that I do share the ssh config file between several machines, so I cannot put a path that is specific to Mac on it.
I would prefer a solution that would not require me to create a symlink on Mac from /opt/X11/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth.
A: Put XAuthLocation=/opt/X11/bin/xauth in /etc/ssh/ssh_config.
| Q: How to prevent warnings like No xauth data when doing ssh from OS X to other machines? I get Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. when I do ssh to other machines from my OS X machine which has X-server installed.
echo $DISPLAY returns something like /tmp/launch-4eEyr6/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
Inside ~/.ssh/config I specified XAuthLocation xauth but I still get the errors.
If I replace the line with full path to xauth (/opt/X11/bin/xauth), I stop getting the errors but the problem is that I do share the ssh config file between several machines, so I cannot put a path that is specific to Mac on it.
I would prefer a solution that would not require me to create a symlink on Mac from /opt/X11/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth.
A: Put XAuthLocation=/opt/X11/bin/xauth in /etc/ssh/ssh_config.
A: I see it's an old question but for the sake of Google, here is my answer.
On the Mac, you can create an alias in ~/.bashrc like so:
alias ssh='ssh -o "XAuthLocation=/opt/X11/bin/xauth"'
If you also share the .bashrc across both OS X and other unixy machines, you could add a little stanza to the .bashrc as follows:
if [ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]; then
alias ssh='ssh -o "XAuthLocation=/opt/X11/bin/xauth"'
fi
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cf04e8d62c39206ff418eee536903fd06e19b08f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cursor as full screen crosshairs I have a 27" iMac running Snow Leopard. In a wide range of applications I often need to use a straight edge to compare different values on charts, even sometimes charts generated by different applications. To do this I have made do with clumsy solutions like creating a floating and transparent Sticky or using Shift + Command + 4. I've also tried a small app called Crosshairs.
None of these things do what I really want. Ideally, I'd like a full screen crosshair centered on the cursor. Another way to think about this, it would give me a full height vertical and full width horizontal line that would show up over (on top of) any and all applications, just as a cursor does. Nice to haves it would give the coordinates of the display and have toolbar or right click access to turn it on or off.
Any suggestions?
A: While it has many more features than this, something like xScope sounds great for this.
Some main features:
*
*mirroring
*getting on screen dimensions
*rulers
*guides
*frames
*crosshair
| Q: Cursor as full screen crosshairs I have a 27" iMac running Snow Leopard. In a wide range of applications I often need to use a straight edge to compare different values on charts, even sometimes charts generated by different applications. To do this I have made do with clumsy solutions like creating a floating and transparent Sticky or using Shift + Command + 4. I've also tried a small app called Crosshairs.
None of these things do what I really want. Ideally, I'd like a full screen crosshair centered on the cursor. Another way to think about this, it would give me a full height vertical and full width horizontal line that would show up over (on top of) any and all applications, just as a cursor does. Nice to haves it would give the coordinates of the display and have toolbar or right click access to turn it on or off.
Any suggestions?
A: While it has many more features than this, something like xScope sounds great for this.
Some main features:
*
*mirroring
*getting on screen dimensions
*rulers
*guides
*frames
*crosshair
A: QuickLens has an excellent set of tools: a full screen live crosshair, movable/lockable guides, ruler and a few other measurement, magnification and alignment tools. Available via AppStore or as part of Setapp if you happen to subscribe to that.
PixelSnap 2 is a well designed app that provides great crosshair & measurement tools. It's a bit costly as a standalone app for just a crosshair, but it's included in Setapp as well.
Red Lines Tools (App Store, currently free as of 2/2023). It has crosshairs, a magnifier, grid/image overlays, adjustable keybindings, and many other customizations. There are a few bugs but it gets the job done.
Another possible solution: Monosnap is a free screen capture app that displays full-screen crosshairs when capturing an area. You can trigger it via a hotkey and then hit ESC to cancel without actually taking a screenshot if all you want to do is use the crosshairs for alignment.
As others have mentioned, xScope is another option, although it's costly if all you need is crosshairs.
There used to be a small and efficient app called Euclid written by Nicholas Jensen that was specifically for crosshairs. Unfortunately, it's been abandoned.
A: Free solution: Mouse Locator http://www.2point5fish.com/
You can make whatever custom cursors you want.
Hotkeys can turn it on/off, and if you want coordinates, you could launch Pixie (or another app) and keep it in the corner.
A: For a different approach, you can try Free Ruler for Mac OS X. This free application displays a horizontal and a vertical ruler, both of which you can extend. It supports different scales (cm, mm, pixels, inches, etc - it's using the screen DPI to display distance measurements correctly).
I use it quite often when I need pixel-perfect measurements of GUI elements, or other stuff and the application I work with doesn't give me what I need in terms of the measurements.
Please note, I'm NOT affiliated with the developer in any way, just a happy user for the occasional time that an application like this serves my needs.
A: I use Skitch (a free screenshot annotation app) for the crosshair functionality. I have it set so that shift+command+5 brings up the crosshairs.
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9d5bc8c16bc52bfb47923057d14d6d3dde1a3565 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: WiFi or Bluetooth (or USB) for iPad Tethering How do the three tethering options for the iPad compare in the following areas:
*
*Range
*Security
*Speed
*Power usage (both laptop and iPad)
I'm mainly looking for the difference between WiFi and Bluetooth, as USB is pretty obvious except for the speed category.
A: Range
*
*Wifi is the best
*Bluetooth shorter
*USB length of cable (there are 10' USB cables for iPad)
Security
*
*USB is the best assuming you have decent physical security
*Wifi is pretty good if you use WPA2
*Bluetooth is the lowest probably
Speed (usually all better than your 3G speeds so a moot point for 3G)
*
*USB is the fastest @ 480 Mbps for USB 2.0
*802.11n tops out @ 150 Mbps
*Bluetooth is by far the slowest @ ~3 Mbps
Power Usage
*
*USB is the most power efficient, however the iPad will try to charge off your laptop
*Wifi and Bluetooth are less power efficient than USB but I don't know how they compare
Bottom Line: USB is the best if range isn't an issue, If distance is needed use Wifi with WPA2
| Q: WiFi or Bluetooth (or USB) for iPad Tethering How do the three tethering options for the iPad compare in the following areas:
*
*Range
*Security
*Speed
*Power usage (both laptop and iPad)
I'm mainly looking for the difference between WiFi and Bluetooth, as USB is pretty obvious except for the speed category.
A: Range
*
*Wifi is the best
*Bluetooth shorter
*USB length of cable (there are 10' USB cables for iPad)
Security
*
*USB is the best assuming you have decent physical security
*Wifi is pretty good if you use WPA2
*Bluetooth is the lowest probably
Speed (usually all better than your 3G speeds so a moot point for 3G)
*
*USB is the fastest @ 480 Mbps for USB 2.0
*802.11n tops out @ 150 Mbps
*Bluetooth is by far the slowest @ ~3 Mbps
Power Usage
*
*USB is the most power efficient, however the iPad will try to charge off your laptop
*Wifi and Bluetooth are less power efficient than USB but I don't know how they compare
Bottom Line: USB is the best if range isn't an issue, If distance is needed use Wifi with WPA2
A: I just did some speed benchmarks using all three methods. Using WiFi and USB gave around 8.75 Mbps, which were extremely close to the result of doing the same speed test on the phone itself beforehand, but Bluetooth was much slower, at around 0.5 Mbps. The difference was very noticeable when browsing.
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290643c2d6d00a00319c29ebdafddd613edaed8f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I installed latest Xcode (4.3.2) which comes as package, can I delete the older versions? According to apple,
Xcode in the Mac App Store has been repackaged, and is now distributed as a stand-alone application.
Can I safely remove old versions of Xcode which are using a lot of space? They didn't get removed when I installed the latest version. If I can, what should I do? Which files should I remove or what program do I need to run to remove them?
Thanks!
A:
Can I safely remove old versions of Xcode which are using a lot of space?
Yes.
If I can, what should I do?
Run:
sudo <Xcode>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Where <Xcode> is usually /Developer but can sometimes be ~/Developer depending on whether you installed it with sudo privileges or not.
Once you've run that script you can just move /Developer or ~/Developer to the trash, you don't need it any more.
You can can get more details about uninstalling by reading the About Xcode.pdf document in your directory.
If you also have a /Developer-old directory you can just move that to the trash.
| Q: I installed latest Xcode (4.3.2) which comes as package, can I delete the older versions? According to apple,
Xcode in the Mac App Store has been repackaged, and is now distributed as a stand-alone application.
Can I safely remove old versions of Xcode which are using a lot of space? They didn't get removed when I installed the latest version. If I can, what should I do? Which files should I remove or what program do I need to run to remove them?
Thanks!
A:
Can I safely remove old versions of Xcode which are using a lot of space?
Yes.
If I can, what should I do?
Run:
sudo <Xcode>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Where <Xcode> is usually /Developer but can sometimes be ~/Developer depending on whether you installed it with sudo privileges or not.
Once you've run that script you can just move /Developer or ~/Developer to the trash, you don't need it any more.
You can can get more details about uninstalling by reading the About Xcode.pdf document in your directory.
If you also have a /Developer-old directory you can just move that to the trash.
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e34e4da20e130fad3a3381589b84bf2dfc1a686a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable iPhone Cell Antennae I'm planning on travelling out of the country and will bring my iPhone along. There will be WiFi access at my destination and I only intend on planning on using my iPhone for that. Is there anyway to sever all communications (data and voice) with the cell tower and keep WiFi connectivity?
A: Put your iPhone in airplane mode then switch wifi on.
| Q: Disable iPhone Cell Antennae I'm planning on travelling out of the country and will bring my iPhone along. There will be WiFi access at my destination and I only intend on planning on using my iPhone for that. Is there anyway to sever all communications (data and voice) with the cell tower and keep WiFi connectivity?
A: Put your iPhone in airplane mode then switch wifi on.
A: Three methods will work:
*
*AirPlane mode and then enable Wi-Fi
*Pull the SIM chip
*Disable cellular data in the settings app.
These are listed in the most true to your initial intent of not having the antenna operating. I like the middle one as a good tradeoff between not talking with cell towers but maintaining GPS capabilities to tag pictures and use the map with tiles present from WiFi. The battery drain on the second two are more than the first, but still pretty usable in general on the later iOS versions.
Clearly, you can't pull a SIM if you have a phone without one, but the other options work with all iPhone models.
A: The best way to do so is to turn on Airplane mode. This will turn off all cellular and data sercices, but you can then turn Wi-Fi back on.
You will have Wi-Fi and your phone will not connect to the cellular network until you turn off Airplane mode again
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cc67cadbccaff880d4b374a866dff26e664ee71e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the easiest way to have Apple's Mail send an email at a specific time/date? Something in Mail itself? AppleScript? Automator?
I am using OS X 10.7.3.
A: The easiest is to simply set the time in iCal and set the alert to email the details.
If that's not exactly what you want, you could have iCal launch an Apple Script to send a specific draft, but there isn't a built-in feature to handle everything from email.
I suppose you could use the scheduled wake event to wake a sleeping mac and have things ready to go, but this seems more likely to backfire and send it earlier if something else wakes up your mac or you open mail and have an internet connection before the appointed time to send arrives.
| Q: What is the easiest way to have Apple's Mail send an email at a specific time/date? Something in Mail itself? AppleScript? Automator?
I am using OS X 10.7.3.
A: The easiest is to simply set the time in iCal and set the alert to email the details.
If that's not exactly what you want, you could have iCal launch an Apple Script to send a specific draft, but there isn't a built-in feature to handle everything from email.
I suppose you could use the scheduled wake event to wake a sleeping mac and have things ready to go, but this seems more likely to backfire and send it earlier if something else wakes up your mac or you open mail and have an internet connection before the appointed time to send arrives.
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b0e4ba196af8e7376f49ab78ad4ac79a70faa7c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What phonetic language an dictionary is supported by Siri on iOS? I want to convince Siri to properly pronounce and recognise some of my contacts.
I know that I need to tweak the 3 fields: Phonetic First Name, Phonetic Last Name and Nickname for that.
Still, I am missing some very important information:
*
*What phonetic language does it use as it does not seem to be IPA
*Where can I find the list of possible sounds and their letters
A: Just like it sounds.
Obama => Oh Ba mu
| Q: What phonetic language an dictionary is supported by Siri on iOS? I want to convince Siri to properly pronounce and recognise some of my contacts.
I know that I need to tweak the 3 fields: Phonetic First Name, Phonetic Last Name and Nickname for that.
Still, I am missing some very important information:
*
*What phonetic language does it use as it does not seem to be IPA
*Where can I find the list of possible sounds and their letters
A: Just like it sounds.
Obama => Oh Ba mu
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ae6d273295cb6f478455b719e3941646ad7a1f26 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I disable the lighted Apple logo on the back of my MacBook Pro? I want to disable the light on the apple behind my screen. Besides covering it physically, is there a program or setting to disable it?
Reason being - to make my MacBook Pro as uninteresting as possible to hyperactive two-year-olds.
A: I don't think this is possible. The Apple logo (at least on a MacBook Air and the two previous Apple laptops I owned) is lit by the backlight of your screen. (Try changing your screen brightness, and you'll see the brightness of the Apple logo change as well.) I think covering it would be your only option.
| Q: Can I disable the lighted Apple logo on the back of my MacBook Pro? I want to disable the light on the apple behind my screen. Besides covering it physically, is there a program or setting to disable it?
Reason being - to make my MacBook Pro as uninteresting as possible to hyperactive two-year-olds.
A: I don't think this is possible. The Apple logo (at least on a MacBook Air and the two previous Apple laptops I owned) is lit by the backlight of your screen. (Try changing your screen brightness, and you'll see the brightness of the Apple logo change as well.) I think covering it would be your only option.
A: Nope.
The glowing Apple on your MacBook Pro is actually illuminated by the backlight of your screen as well. So you can't turn it off as long as you have your screen lighted on. Your best bet is probably to put a sticker on it.
A: If you can google around a bit, i recall seeing stickers that can be applied to the inside of the MacBooks white plastic apple logo, to give it different appearances. I'm sure you can cover it up with an opaque material like thick paper to keep it from glowing, but to keep it as clean looking as possible on the outside.
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378c0208de4a2d939eef516fd2886cd31e2791e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to type fraction symbols on iPad? Many character sets provide single special characters for fractions like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc. Can these be typed on an iPad?
I have found GlyphBoard that lets you paste them in but it dates back to 2009 and I wondered if native support may have been added in the interim.
A: There are apps which mimic the Mac Character viewer, which I use for once-in-a-while symbols that aren't on the keyboard.
| Q: How to type fraction symbols on iPad? Many character sets provide single special characters for fractions like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc. Can these be typed on an iPad?
I have found GlyphBoard that lets you paste them in but it dates back to 2009 and I wondered if native support may have been added in the interim.
A: There are apps which mimic the Mac Character viewer, which I use for once-in-a-while symbols that aren't on the keyboard.
A: The built-in iOS keyboard does not support this, but you can add a shortcut from Settings > General > Keyboard. This way you only have to copy/paste once.
A: i put these all into one keyboard shortcut. It's Easier to backout what's not needed than to make many small shortcuts or do it manually each time. Not a perfect solutions but …
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b8b1bd56c048d5353dfb91e2cfbf6a8069e37a36 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification? Looking to speed up Growl notifications on a per-application basis (doesn't seem possible within Growl's own GUI), I'm sceptical but still curious if this is possible via GrowlNotify:
Does anyone know whether it's possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification?
A: You can kind of do this with Growl GUI, not the best approach, but should work:
With the Grown GUI you can set event duration per-style. You can also assign styles per application.
So, if you assign different styles to different applications, you can achieve the desired effect. But that would result in different visual styles for different applications, which may not be desired. You may also be able to duplicate styles (don't know how) and assign styles that are the same visually to different applications. Alternatively you may be able to create new styles based on existing ones.
Again, not the best solution but should works.
| Q: Is it possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification? Looking to speed up Growl notifications on a per-application basis (doesn't seem possible within Growl's own GUI), I'm sceptical but still curious if this is possible via GrowlNotify:
Does anyone know whether it's possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification?
A: You can kind of do this with Growl GUI, not the best approach, but should work:
With the Grown GUI you can set event duration per-style. You can also assign styles per application.
So, if you assign different styles to different applications, you can achieve the desired effect. But that would result in different visual styles for different applications, which may not be desired. You may also be able to duplicate styles (don't know how) and assign styles that are the same visually to different applications. Alternatively you may be able to create new styles based on existing ones.
Again, not the best solution but should works.
A: You can use the command line tool growlnotify to make a sticky notification, but unfortunately, you can't set a specific time. Here are the commands:
growlnotify -s
It will prompt you:
Enter a notification description, followed by newline, followed by Ctrl-D (End of File). To cancel, press Ctrl-C.
Make sure you hit Return, then Ctrl + D. The resulting notification will stay up as long as you don't click the "X" in the corner.
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6194d55393429513638960dcdced134c92b79a04 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What Apple mouse or trackpad is best for navigating large two-dimensional documents? I've been using Xcode on my Mac Mini for a few months with large app storyboards etc. To do this, I need to constantly zoom in/out of the document to see what I need to.
I've increased the size of my monitor to a 24-inch display, but I still find myself needing to zoom a lot.
So, what Apple mouse or trackpad (Mighty Mouse? Magic Trackpad?) will help me zoom and navigate fastest in Xcode and Photoshop?
A: I don't use storyboards in my development workflow, but my experience with the Magic Trackpad has been vastly superior too my experience with the Magic Mouse. Lion's gestures were designed for the trackpad, so it's pretty much a win-win there.
| Q: What Apple mouse or trackpad is best for navigating large two-dimensional documents? I've been using Xcode on my Mac Mini for a few months with large app storyboards etc. To do this, I need to constantly zoom in/out of the document to see what I need to.
I've increased the size of my monitor to a 24-inch display, but I still find myself needing to zoom a lot.
So, what Apple mouse or trackpad (Mighty Mouse? Magic Trackpad?) will help me zoom and navigate fastest in Xcode and Photoshop?
A: I don't use storyboards in my development workflow, but my experience with the Magic Trackpad has been vastly superior too my experience with the Magic Mouse. Lion's gestures were designed for the trackpad, so it's pretty much a win-win there.
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c8bb371b357dc913ccf63053fdd5982bef7bf75d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Upload file directly from a URL in upload (File/Open) dialog On Windows, if I go to a web site that needs a file upload, I can paste a URL into the "Open" dialog box that pops up, and Windows will download the file and upload a temporary version of it to the web site.
Is there an equivalent on the Mac? If I hit ⌘+⇧+G, and type in a URL, it says 'The folder can't be found'.
A: The Go To Folder command you mention (command-shift-G) will only navigate your locally mounted volumes, it doesn't understand URLs. I've never seen anything on the Mac that has the function you specify..
| Q: Upload file directly from a URL in upload (File/Open) dialog On Windows, if I go to a web site that needs a file upload, I can paste a URL into the "Open" dialog box that pops up, and Windows will download the file and upload a temporary version of it to the web site.
Is there an equivalent on the Mac? If I hit ⌘+⇧+G, and type in a URL, it says 'The folder can't be found'.
A: The Go To Folder command you mention (command-shift-G) will only navigate your locally mounted volumes, it doesn't understand URLs. I've never seen anything on the Mac that has the function you specify..
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00f7579747271f7fb9415f61cccd0e4885604762 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a signature-taking attendance app for iOS? I have a hobby organization that records sign-ins on a weekly basis. I would like to find an app that allows me to take attendance and have each attendee sign that they were present, then be able to generate a printable sign-in sheet that can go in the printed records.
Does anyone know of such an app? I've found good attendance apps, and I've found apps to take signatures though they usually only allow for one person to sign. I need the best of both worlds!
A: I've used FormEntry for Mac to do this at team meetings. I push out the form to an iPad, and send the completed signed roster to a PDF when the meeting is completed. Caveat: you do need the Mac to design the form, and then you need to push the form to the iPad when completed. This might not be the most cost effective solution, but it works nicely for this and other applications.
| Q: Is there a signature-taking attendance app for iOS? I have a hobby organization that records sign-ins on a weekly basis. I would like to find an app that allows me to take attendance and have each attendee sign that they were present, then be able to generate a printable sign-in sheet that can go in the printed records.
Does anyone know of such an app? I've found good attendance apps, and I've found apps to take signatures though they usually only allow for one person to sign. I need the best of both worlds!
A: I've used FormEntry for Mac to do this at team meetings. I push out the form to an iPad, and send the completed signed roster to a PDF when the meeting is completed. Caveat: you do need the Mac to design the form, and then you need to push the form to the iPad when completed. This might not be the most cost effective solution, but it works nicely for this and other applications.
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fdd8cee2dbc60b9f8fc2826064a0156279577a20 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: is there a way to force iCloud sync? On my mac, i deleted a bunch of songs and checked "delete from iCloud" checkbox. On my iPhone (10 minutes later), songs are still there.
Is there a way to force the sync between devices on demand? (and ultimately delete them from iPhone)
| Q: is there a way to force iCloud sync? On my mac, i deleted a bunch of songs and checked "delete from iCloud" checkbox. On my iPhone (10 minutes later), songs are still there.
Is there a way to force the sync between devices on demand? (and ultimately delete them from iPhone)
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dba535725c4bc639d92fd513c42655baa4437f2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to initiate "delete from iCloud" from iPhone? I know, from within iTunes one can chose to remove an item from iCloud. Is the same possible from the iPhone?
Say you imported an album full os songs and don't like one or two and would like to delete it from iCloud directly from the iPhone.
Can this be done?
A: No, the song can only be deleted from iTunes on Mac or Windows.
| Q: Is it possible to initiate "delete from iCloud" from iPhone? I know, from within iTunes one can chose to remove an item from iCloud. Is the same possible from the iPhone?
Say you imported an album full os songs and don't like one or two and would like to delete it from iCloud directly from the iPhone.
Can this be done?
A: No, the song can only be deleted from iTunes on Mac or Windows.
A: No - this isn't a function that exists today.
You can't download it from the iCloud, but if you've downloaded the song on your iPhone, you can delete the song. Swipe to the right on the song and there will be shown a delete button where you can delete the song from your iPhone and by so, saving space!
If you don't want all your iCloud music be shown in the overview, check off "show all music" in your settings.
Sorry for the Dutch language in the screenshots. But I hope the red bar will make everything clear.
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dc2661337a7ca46588d02402abe9ce51a2091d2d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to view one's iTunes Match content online? After having removed a song from iTunes (and having selected "remove from iCloud") checkbox, my iPhone believes it still can downloaded from the iCloud.
I wonder, if it's possible to view one's content from the stand point of Apple. Do they have the song I removed or do they not? If they do, under my account, I'd like to be able to remove it.
A: No. The clients that access the data are iTunes on the Mac and Windows OS as well as the music app on iOS.
I've seen some desktop iTunes libraries get messed up and not ask to delete a song from the cloud. In that case, set up a new user account on the same computer and sign in and try the delete again.
*
*iTunes Store: How to delete songs from iCloud
| Q: Is there a way to view one's iTunes Match content online? After having removed a song from iTunes (and having selected "remove from iCloud") checkbox, my iPhone believes it still can downloaded from the iCloud.
I wonder, if it's possible to view one's content from the stand point of Apple. Do they have the song I removed or do they not? If they do, under my account, I'd like to be able to remove it.
A: No. The clients that access the data are iTunes on the Mac and Windows OS as well as the music app on iOS.
I've seen some desktop iTunes libraries get messed up and not ask to delete a song from the cloud. In that case, set up a new user account on the same computer and sign in and try the delete again.
*
*iTunes Store: How to delete songs from iCloud
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5ba9c7bd51d19b776f12918b82afe52f0e0b5fcc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Google Chrome on Mac: how to force link to open in new window (not new tab)? How can I get links (boh from web pages within Chrome AND from external apps) to open in a new window rather than in a new tab in the active window?
This has been answered for Windows, but I cannot find a solution for Mac.
A: On Mac, Shift + left click open a link on webpage in a new window.
| Q: Google Chrome on Mac: how to force link to open in new window (not new tab)? How can I get links (boh from web pages within Chrome AND from external apps) to open in a new window rather than in a new tab in the active window?
This has been answered for Windows, but I cannot find a solution for Mac.
A: On Mac, Shift + left click open a link on webpage in a new window.
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77ab136b4cb32ee7bfc759d3fa6bf79a08db97f5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari Auto-Extract ZIP File Upon Download When I download a zip file through Safari it automatically extracts it into a new folder named as the ZIP file is. Is there a way to disable the auto extract feature and just leave the file as is in ZIP format?
A: In Safari go to Preferences -> General and uncheck Open "safe" files after downloading. This disables automatic extracting of archives, including zip files. As noted below the check box this will disable automatic opening of PDFs, text documents, movies and pictures.
| Q: Safari Auto-Extract ZIP File Upon Download When I download a zip file through Safari it automatically extracts it into a new folder named as the ZIP file is. Is there a way to disable the auto extract feature and just leave the file as is in ZIP format?
A: In Safari go to Preferences -> General and uncheck Open "safe" files after downloading. This disables automatic extracting of archives, including zip files. As noted below the check box this will disable automatic opening of PDFs, text documents, movies and pictures.
A: You can also hold the ALT (OPTION) key when clicking the download link (tested and working on Safari v6.0.5)
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faa2d240555f1e7ec1b62bc26c9c1046591c0ab3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTerm2 more contrast to active tab Is there a way using iTerm2 to give the active tab more contrast compared to the rest of the tabs?
A: Yes, you can choose a Tab Style in the preferences, under the "Appearance" pane.
The standard styles "Metal" and "Unified" appear to offer better contrast for the active tab than the other two. From your screenshot, it appears you have selected "Adium" which does indeed have very poor contrast.
| Q: iTerm2 more contrast to active tab Is there a way using iTerm2 to give the active tab more contrast compared to the rest of the tabs?
A: Yes, you can choose a Tab Style in the preferences, under the "Appearance" pane.
The standard styles "Metal" and "Unified" appear to offer better contrast for the active tab than the other two. From your screenshot, it appears you have selected "Adium" which does indeed have very poor contrast.
A: One workaround I found is to set the tab color to a pale and greyish color e.g. 47736b in Profile->Colors->Tab Color and have Light High Contrast theme active. The active tab will have a light bright color.
A: I found that the setting Advanced → Tab → "How prominent .. outline around selected tab .." set to largest (3) makes the selected tab most obvious.
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025e1f6d6e25e778a554339e872c858b3aeee2f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pipe sound output to file? Is there a way to either pipe the sound output of the computer to a file or record what the computer puts out? I know I could use a headphone to microphone cord, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution. Google doesn't give very good results.
A: You might want to take a look at Audio Hijack Pro which can record any audio you can hear on your computer. Free to try.
There's also the cheaper, simpler Piezo from the same company.
| Q: Pipe sound output to file? Is there a way to either pipe the sound output of the computer to a file or record what the computer puts out? I know I could use a headphone to microphone cord, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution. Google doesn't give very good results.
A: You might want to take a look at Audio Hijack Pro which can record any audio you can hear on your computer. Free to try.
There's also the cheaper, simpler Piezo from the same company.
A: These days, I prefer the Blackhole virtual audio driver, together with its Multi-Output Device, which can, for example, mix your regular computer audio with Blackhole to record (Blackhole) and listen (to the regular computer audio) simultaneously.
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fe79a82b39b92bc7d207e904af39b74039d459f5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to delete a folder, even in every backups of Time Machine? I just noticed that a folder containing personal documents was still on my main disk. I copied to my personal disk (password protected), but I want to also delete the copies which are stored in the multiple backups that Time Machine has made over the years.
Is this possible?
A: This functionality is built into Time Machine.
Launch Time Machine. Right click on the folder of choice, and select "Delete All Backups..." from the menu. This will comb through all your backups and delete all traces of that folder and its contents.
| Q: How to delete a folder, even in every backups of Time Machine? I just noticed that a folder containing personal documents was still on my main disk. I copied to my personal disk (password protected), but I want to also delete the copies which are stored in the multiple backups that Time Machine has made over the years.
Is this possible?
A: This functionality is built into Time Machine.
Launch Time Machine. Right click on the folder of choice, and select "Delete All Backups..." from the menu. This will comb through all your backups and delete all traces of that folder and its contents.
A: There's this pretty good comercial tool called Back-In-Time ($30; but I purchased it as part of a MacUpdate Promo pack). It will let you delete a single item from the TimeMachine backup, or even ALL backups of some item (though it doesn't seem to work reliably if the item has been renamed and thus backed up under different names).
Of course, there are cheaper options, too. See this question, and this video tutorial.
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f4711bc553cd0c83248771dad271eda6d7212679 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What RFID options exist for iOS devices? If I wanted to use an iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad) to gather data from RFID chips on equipment in a motor pool, what would I need? Is it even possible today?
A: What type of RFID tags are you trying to read? For a motor pool, I would expect you are looking for UHF Gen 2 RFID or even active tags (like Bluetooth LE) as opposed to NFC where you would need to be standing right at the tag on the auto to read it.
We are developing a UHF Gen 2 RFID system for iOS/Android. The device, unfortunately, needs to be larger than a square since the 10' read range of UHF Gen 2 RFID requires a bigger antenna. Our dev site explains this.
| Q: What RFID options exist for iOS devices? If I wanted to use an iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad) to gather data from RFID chips on equipment in a motor pool, what would I need? Is it even possible today?
A: What type of RFID tags are you trying to read? For a motor pool, I would expect you are looking for UHF Gen 2 RFID or even active tags (like Bluetooth LE) as opposed to NFC where you would need to be standing right at the tag on the auto to read it.
We are developing a UHF Gen 2 RFID system for iOS/Android. The device, unfortunately, needs to be larger than a square since the 10' read range of UHF Gen 2 RFID requires a bigger antenna. Our dev site explains this.
A: check out TSL UK - their 1128 docks iPads etc. http://www.tsl.uk.com/products/1128-bluetooth-handheld-uhf-rfid-reader/
A: Take a look at www.touchtechnologies.co.uk for details on our r-touch solution that turns iOS devices into RFID (GenII) &/or barcode reading devices. Really neat, one charger charges both dock &iOS device simultaneously!!
A: You should look in to http://AsReader.com for UHF and UF RFID solutions for iOS devices. They have compact dock style readers that can move between iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad mini, Air, & Pro. Their readers range from 250 mW to 1 Watt in power and have a unique magnetic charging system. Thousands of these readers are in use at a major automobile manufacturer in Japan as well, so your use for motor pool might be a great fit.
A: Yes there is a RFID dongle that is compatible for iOS devices.
Power is about 1/4 watt.
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54d8b67c6a5eaf016efa913bd5cc16b767f15f06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get a screenshot of what's on my AppleTV? Preferably Wirelessly. Any apps for that?
Obviously I'm talking about the more recent iOS powered little black box AppleTV, not the original model.
A: After some quick Googling I found these steps:
*
*Jailbreak
*Install aTV Flash (black)
*Install nitoTV
*Install 'screencapture' (through nitoTV)
*SSH in: ssh [email protected] (or ssh root@ipaddress, e.g. ssh [email protected])
*At this point typing in screencapture SHOULD save Screenshot.png to root. If it does not you may need to change ownership on root via: chown mobile:staff ./
Obviously less than ideal, but possible.
| Q: How can I get a screenshot of what's on my AppleTV? Preferably Wirelessly. Any apps for that?
Obviously I'm talking about the more recent iOS powered little black box AppleTV, not the original model.
A: After some quick Googling I found these steps:
*
*Jailbreak
*Install aTV Flash (black)
*Install nitoTV
*Install 'screencapture' (through nitoTV)
*SSH in: ssh [email protected] (or ssh root@ipaddress, e.g. ssh [email protected])
*At this point typing in screencapture SHOULD save Screenshot.png to root. If it does not you may need to change ownership on root via: chown mobile:staff ./
Obviously less than ideal, but possible.
A: As far as I know AppleTV has no capabilities for this. What I've done is simply to take a photo of the TV screen.
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c5bde987950c08a3113015067cfcd38c0684fea1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: VMware Fusion virtual machine from a local partition When you have a Windows partition on your system, VMware can see and boot a virtual machine from partition.
However, with other OS X and Linux partition, there's no such option. Is there a way to make a virtual machine and "link" the local partition?
A: This guide appears to show how to do this. Looks like there's some manual commands on the command line to create a vmdk file with a pointer to the raw device:
http://andrewfarley.com/mac/raw-disks-from-vmware-fusion
| Q: VMware Fusion virtual machine from a local partition When you have a Windows partition on your system, VMware can see and boot a virtual machine from partition.
However, with other OS X and Linux partition, there's no such option. Is there a way to make a virtual machine and "link" the local partition?
A: This guide appears to show how to do this. Looks like there's some manual commands on the command line to create a vmdk file with a pointer to the raw device:
http://andrewfarley.com/mac/raw-disks-from-vmware-fusion
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731ef6b303ccda148b99054b439640f77e2cfb2a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTerm as a slide-out terminal from the top of the screen I have installed iTerm2 and was hoping I'd have something like guake (Yes I just switched from Ubuntu). I mapped the hotkey to a button of my choice and it works fine, but I miss the slide-down-from-top animation like I had in Ubuntu.
A: While iTerm2 suggestion is a good one, it has a few problems of its own.
The hotkey activates all iTerm2 windows. Before OS X 10.11 El Capitan I used TotalTerminal (Visor) and I loved it. I had Visor sliding from top down and I used iTerm2 too, depending on task etc. iTerm2 itself seemed not enough for me when I moved to El Capitan.
But there's a way to closely replicate my old setup. A tine app called Apptivate can assign global keyboard shortcut to any application, script, etc. And they can be switched on and off (hidden) with the same shortcuts. Thus you can easily use Apple's Terminal in a way you used Visor (except for the animation). So I'm back with my old combo (Terminal.app + iTerm2) and it's close to ideal. Maybe it will help you too.
| Q: iTerm as a slide-out terminal from the top of the screen I have installed iTerm2 and was hoping I'd have something like guake (Yes I just switched from Ubuntu). I mapped the hotkey to a button of my choice and it works fine, but I miss the slide-down-from-top animation like I had in Ubuntu.
A: While iTerm2 suggestion is a good one, it has a few problems of its own.
The hotkey activates all iTerm2 windows. Before OS X 10.11 El Capitan I used TotalTerminal (Visor) and I loved it. I had Visor sliding from top down and I used iTerm2 too, depending on task etc. iTerm2 itself seemed not enough for me when I moved to El Capitan.
But there's a way to closely replicate my old setup. A tine app called Apptivate can assign global keyboard shortcut to any application, script, etc. And they can be switched on and off (hidden) with the same shortcuts. Thus you can easily use Apple's Terminal in a way you used Visor (except for the animation). So I'm back with my old combo (Terminal.app + iTerm2) and it's close to ideal. Maybe it will help you too.
A: Turn on multiple desktops, have 2, one on top one on bottom. Assign a hotkey to switch to the TOP desktop. Open iTerm2 and put it in the top desktop and open all other apps on the bottom desktop. Either make the terminal maximized or full screen (lion) and it should give you something similar to what your're looking for.
A: You can use iTerm2's system-wide hotkey with the Hotkey Window profile to do this.
In iTerm2 preferences, click on the "Keys" tab and choose "Hotkey". Click "Create a Dedicated Hotkey Window…" and assign the hotkey you'd like to use.
Check the "Hotkey toggles a dedicated window with profile:" option and choose "Hotkey Window" in the popup menu below (should be selected by default).
With default settings, the Hotkey Profile window will stretch across the top of the screen, and the hotkey will drop the window down from the top, complete with animation.
You can customize the settings for the "Hotkey Window" profile under the "Profiles" tab. To make it look like a Quake drop-down terminal, you can use similar "Window" preferences:
A: If you're not married to iTerm2, you could try TotalTerminal. The slide down window is always a keystroke away.
EDIT - I've loved Total Terminal for a long time. However, in late 2015 I moved to iTerm2. It does all the things I loved TT for, but without any of the issues I ran into.
A: The best solution I have found has been dTerm.
A: As state in another stackexchange answer for the same question
TLDR watch a video I created
Step 1 HotKey
Create Dedicated Hotkey Window
Preferences > Keys > Click Create Dedicated Hotkey Window
set hot key by pressing Click to Set (and subsequently your desired key combo)
Step 2 Floating in Focus
Make the app stay above any apps that are currently in the workspace and maintain focus (in the same dialog from above)
*
*Check Pin hotkey window(stays open on loss of keyboard focus)
*Check Floating window
Step 3 Looks
When creating the hotkey terminal a new profile is created (generally named "Hotkey Window"), update profile as desired
OTHER NOTES
*
*To enable some changes you will need to restart iTerm
*You will be using a specific hot key to call up the overlay
*You may also want to access preferences as well, command-,
*if using an older version of iTerm here is the previous video
*if using an even older version of iTerm here is the pre-previous video
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56ac72dfd9ac4b837bcd4ac2f6687c3e35c3c1b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OCR software for handwritten notes I am looking for a way to recognize handwriting of scanned notes (in PDF format).
It doesn't have to be perfect, and it doesn't have to free, but before paying I would like to try it (even with just a single page).
It doesn't necessarily have to be a native Mac OS X application. I would be OK with an online application, or a Unix application to install or compile. In other words, anything that works somewhat decently would be OK.
I am also not necessarily looking for a perfect result. Even transforming my notes into a searchable PDF with just some of the text recognized would be better than nothing.
A: You could use Evernote for this (Free). Just import all of your PDF's as notes and after some time (you can speed this up by upgrading to a paid account), it will automatically process them and recognize the handwriting. You won't be able to extract the OCR text from the notes, but you can search for it.
| Q: OCR software for handwritten notes I am looking for a way to recognize handwriting of scanned notes (in PDF format).
It doesn't have to be perfect, and it doesn't have to free, but before paying I would like to try it (even with just a single page).
It doesn't necessarily have to be a native Mac OS X application. I would be OK with an online application, or a Unix application to install or compile. In other words, anything that works somewhat decently would be OK.
I am also not necessarily looking for a perfect result. Even transforming my notes into a searchable PDF with just some of the text recognized would be better than nothing.
A: You could use Evernote for this (Free). Just import all of your PDF's as notes and after some time (you can speed this up by upgrading to a paid account), it will automatically process them and recognize the handwriting. You won't be able to extract the OCR text from the notes, but you can search for it.
A: Evernote does have handwriting recognition, but unfortunately right now it requires JPG format. It cannot handle PDFs. So your work-around may be to consider converting PDF -> JPG using Preview, etc. and then importing into Evernote for recognition. FYI, the handwriting recognition in Evernote for JPG is decent, but not nearly OCR-level from my experiences.
Also, this post describes a good workflow to use Evernote to recognize handwritten notes.
A: If you're fammiliar with any programming language, take a look @ ocrsdk.com, it's a website that lets you upload images through web API and sends you back OCRed data. Here's the documentation on handwriting recognition: http://ocrsdk.com/documentation/quick-start/text-fields/ and here are some codesamples @ github: https://github.com/abbyysdk/ocrsdk.com There's a nice 50 pages free trial without any upfront charges.
A: I realize that you are looking for a Mac OS application, but for the benefit of readers drawn to this topic by the search for handwriting recognition, I'd like to mention MyScript Memo and Notes Plus on iOS. They share a handwriting recognition engine that seems to work very well in my hands. MyScript memo has a free version that anyone with an iOS device can try.
(I also see that you are looking to recognize handwritten notes scanned from paper, which these apps will not do. They recognize handwritten notes written directly on the iOS device.)
A: Have you checked out Captricity? It's web-based, and they have a mobile app too. They use a combination of computer algorithms and human intelligence, so they do much better with handwriting than any straight OCR software out there. It's pretty fast (on the order of an hour or two for a few dozen or even hundred pages), and while it's not free, there's just a per-page price.
When I tried it, it was free to set up an account (took me about 15 seconds), and I got my first 25 pages free. It looks like they're still giving away the first 25 pages free. I found it really easy to use. I uploaded scans of some forms that were filled in by hand, marked up a template telling Captricity where the data was that I wanted, then uploaded a whole batch of scans. I hear photographs work well too.
Captricity gave me back electronic, machine-readable data. Best thing I've found so far for handwriting, and I've looked a lot.
A: http://www.VelOCRaptor.com/ seems to be an affordable (FREE!) solution for OS X. It has a very simple drag-and-drop user interface. It is based on Google's OCR technology so you can rest assured that it will work properly.
Hope this helps!
A: Brainware... There is no better product on the market, period!
A: Did you try Abbyy Finereader?
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714fc30afcd5c5fff81d2945788bf2fb297e0955 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I switch between desktops and full screen apps when accessing a remote machine via Screen Sharing? When I'm accessing a remote machine with multiple desktops or full screen applications running, via OS X Lion's built-in screen sharing, how do I change desktops/full screen apps on the remote machine?
The usually Ctrl-(#, left arrow, right arrow) modifier keys change the desktop/full screen app on my local machine only.
I've tried reducing my local machine to one desktop as well as running screen sharing in full screen mode and no luck. I'm not able to change the desktop or full screen app on the remote machine.
A: Figured it out: pressing F9 (Or Fn-F9 if you're on a MacBook or using a Apple keyboard) when the Screen Sharing window is active will bring up Mission Control on the remote machine and you can switch between desktops and full screen applications.
| Q: How do I switch between desktops and full screen apps when accessing a remote machine via Screen Sharing? When I'm accessing a remote machine with multiple desktops or full screen applications running, via OS X Lion's built-in screen sharing, how do I change desktops/full screen apps on the remote machine?
The usually Ctrl-(#, left arrow, right arrow) modifier keys change the desktop/full screen app on my local machine only.
I've tried reducing my local machine to one desktop as well as running screen sharing in full screen mode and no luck. I'm not able to change the desktop or full screen app on the remote machine.
A: Figured it out: pressing F9 (Or Fn-F9 if you're on a MacBook or using a Apple keyboard) when the Screen Sharing window is active will bring up Mission Control on the remote machine and you can switch between desktops and full screen applications.
A: *
*Go to Programs
*Create a MissionControl Alias
*Move it to a) the Desktop b) the Dock
*Click on it and be happy ;-)
Chees & Choccolate greatings from the Swiss Alps
A: Will have to go into system preferences, keyboard, shortcuts, and then assign a specific key to activate Mission Control. You can do this either in your host machine or in the remote one. What matters is that the shortcut for the remote machine is not used in the local machine.
You can do the same directly for the ^right and ^left shortcuts. Change them in one of the two machines and then they will work in the remote one.
For example I indicated the F10 to be mission-control on my remote computer, so whenever I press FN+10 I'll get mission control on the remote Computer
A: do a spotlight search on the remote mac with the string "mission control". Works on Yosemite at least
A: It's 2019 and I had a similar problem with mojave : three displays on my remote (work) computer, only one on my client (home) computer.
Many of these solutions that refer to MissionControl will help you swap Desktops, not Displays (physical monitors). Swapping virtual Desktops is easy enough: just add the MissionControl icon to your dock.
To swap displays, you need a sequence of three shortcuts:
*
*⌘-option-X (to switch to observe-only mode)
*⌘-option-2 or ⌘-option-1 or ⌘-option-3 (to swap to the other display)
*⌘-option-X (to switch out of observe-only mode)
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633a00b7eac1987f519191fea10f86510fcbeb04 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is Application Loader and why does it want to open EPUB? I just clicked on an EPUB file and instead of Stanza it opened with "Application Loader", which asked me to accept some terms of service.
What is "Application Loader" and can it really be used to display EPUB documents?
A: Application Loader is a developer tool (part of Xcode) that uploads apps to the Mac/iOS App Stores for sale.
See this question for instructions on fixing your file type associations.
*
*How to Change File Type Associations?
| Q: What is Application Loader and why does it want to open EPUB? I just clicked on an EPUB file and instead of Stanza it opened with "Application Loader", which asked me to accept some terms of service.
What is "Application Loader" and can it really be used to display EPUB documents?
A: Application Loader is a developer tool (part of Xcode) that uploads apps to the Mac/iOS App Stores for sale.
See this question for instructions on fixing your file type associations.
*
*How to Change File Type Associations?
A: According to Wikipedia Stanza is no longer supported: "According to an email received by a member of the Facebook "Revive Stanza" group, Amazon will no longer be updating or supporting Stanza after version 3.2."
I suggest considering Calibre. "calibre is free and open source e-book computer software that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats"
A: Application Loader is the app used to publish content you've created on the App Store. In addition to actual Apps, this also includes ebooks in EPUB format. It's part of Xcode and no, it can't display EPUB documents, so you may want to tell OS X to always open your EPUB documents with Stanza again (this association likely got overwritten when Xcode was last updated).
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c662d04c59d2d661ab0b509fd3d81079cb0d3d92 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I determine how the Flashback trojan infected my machine despite disabling Java? Apple's update on April 17, 2012 detected and deactivated the Flashback trojan.
Yet two weeks ago I had following the instructions here. After concluding that my Mac is not infected, I disabled Java.
I don't understand how Flashback could have sneaked in, especially after my guard has been up after an Arstechnica article, but that no longer matters.
How do I find out what kind of damage might have already been done? Will one of the log files contain a trace of what has happened?
A: I'd be surprised if the logs told you anything useful.
If you're concerned, you could install one of the free AV products for the Mac. Do a full system scan to ensure that all traces of the trojan have been removed.
| Q: Can I determine how the Flashback trojan infected my machine despite disabling Java? Apple's update on April 17, 2012 detected and deactivated the Flashback trojan.
Yet two weeks ago I had following the instructions here. After concluding that my Mac is not infected, I disabled Java.
I don't understand how Flashback could have sneaked in, especially after my guard has been up after an Arstechnica article, but that no longer matters.
How do I find out what kind of damage might have already been done? Will one of the log files contain a trace of what has happened?
A: I'd be surprised if the logs told you anything useful.
If you're concerned, you could install one of the free AV products for the Mac. Do a full system scan to ensure that all traces of the trojan have been removed.
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ac7644aab8686998880805a3e228a3b19ddb77f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Merge multiple m4a files Is there an easy way to do this?
I have several folders with music files that I want to join. So it would be good if there is a batch solution to this problem.
A: brew install ffmpeg sox
#!/bin/bash
for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%m4a}wav"; done
sox *.wav combined.wav
ffmpeg -i combined.wav -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 192k combined.m4a
rm *.wav
| Q: Merge multiple m4a files Is there an easy way to do this?
I have several folders with music files that I want to join. So it would be good if there is a batch solution to this problem.
A: brew install ffmpeg sox
#!/bin/bash
for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%m4a}wav"; done
sox *.wav combined.wav
ffmpeg -i combined.wav -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 192k combined.m4a
rm *.wav
A: I use Rogue Ameoba's excellent Fission to do this.
Join Files. Drag and drop one file into another to instantly join them
together.
Not quite a batch process if you've got lots of files to join, but dragging and dropping audio files to concatenate into its window is straightforward. Fission does have a free trial but won't allow you to save anything without degrading the audio.
Are these files you want to join part of the same audio stream that have been split up? Be aware that if you're joining compressed audio, the transitions between one track and another at the point of the join may not be seamless, as the compression process removes part of the audio which may be audible when joined back together (if they're lossless, then there should be no problem).
Alternatively, if you want something free, I beleive Audacity will also do this for you.
A: You can use Garageband too.
A: It's a cheap shot, but Audacity will allow you to simply copy/paste your tracks into one file. So, no batch solution like you were looking for, but easy copy/paste.
You'll need to download and install the FFmpeg Import/Export Library though.
A: I've found that Join Together from Doug's Scripts works very well if you've already imported the files into itunes. http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/jointogether.php I've used this to convert audio books ripped from CD's to chaptered m4b but works with m4a as well
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df64870f1cf4015052f722a85c9798bd8f8c93b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an app that helps you move files without drag-and-drop? I know that I can move files at the command line, but I'm looking for an elegant desktop solution besides the traditional drag-and-drop of the Finder.
Basically, I want to right-click on a file and have a menu option that says "Move..." with a bunch of recently moved locations, or with a dialog box letting me choose the location.
A: One option is to use the built-in "Copy" and "Move Item Here" options:
*
*Right-click on the source:
*Hold ⌥ Option while right-clicking at the destination:
(Of course, these can also be done using keyboard shortcuts!)
| Q: Is there an app that helps you move files without drag-and-drop? I know that I can move files at the command line, but I'm looking for an elegant desktop solution besides the traditional drag-and-drop of the Finder.
Basically, I want to right-click on a file and have a menu option that says "Move..." with a bunch of recently moved locations, or with a dialog box letting me choose the location.
A: One option is to use the built-in "Copy" and "Move Item Here" options:
*
*Right-click on the source:
*Hold ⌥ Option while right-clicking at the destination:
(Of course, these can also be done using keyboard shortcuts!)
A: OS X Lion has build-in copy & move item function. If you're using (Snow) Leopard, my favorite software is Total Finder.
A: You can check out alfred.
*
*Launch Alfred
*Key in the name of the file that you want to move
*Press Ctrl
*Select Move to...
*Type name of destination folder
Don't even need to use the mouse. And it's a lot more easier than it sounds.
A: My app of choice for this is Path Finder.
A: Yes, Xtrafinder gives you what you are looking for.
I came across this post looking for the same thing, a way to "right-click on a file and have a menu option that says "Move..." with a bunch of recently moved locations, or with a dialog box letting me choose the location." but I didn't find it here.
So I kept looking.
And found it here: http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
Super simple.
You can set up a "Copy to..." menu item, and a "Move to..." keyboard shortcut (no menu item for "Move to..." for some reason, but I just set it to CMND + -> (right arrow) and its smooth as can be.)
A: I'm using FileCutter (on 10.5.8), which does exactly what you're asking about. According to its webpage though there's no support for contextual menu plugins in 10.6+ so I'm not sure if you find it very useful (but see this link).
A: My app of choice for this is moveAddict although it doesn't have the 'recent places' feature that you asked for.
(I'm not aware of any app which does.)
A: You could try QuollEyeTree, a Mac OS X file manager inspired by XTree.
It features a full basic set of file operations, copy, move, rename, delete for files, directories and tagged files file filtering and tagging.
Most operations can be done with the keyboard, mouse or menu, so it should satisfy most - although there is no drag and drop.
It can be downloaded from http://binnie.id.au/Ian/TreeApp.html, which also shows a screenshot.
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07cb57b4043e0621dba055532e7652dd86edceec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does OS X store unsaved TextEdit documents? Where does Mac OS X store TextEdit's unsaved documents?
I want to programmatically:
*
*increase/decrease that size
*flush the cache
*provide configuration option to control the frequency of auto saving/caching
A: Note: For macOS Mavericks, the path is slightly different. It's ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Documents.
| Q: Where does OS X store unsaved TextEdit documents? Where does Mac OS X store TextEdit's unsaved documents?
I want to programmatically:
*
*increase/decrease that size
*flush the cache
*provide configuration option to control the frequency of auto saving/caching
A: Note: For macOS Mavericks, the path is slightly different. It's ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Documents.
A: For Lion: It is in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Autosave\ Information/, e.g. Unsaved TextEdit Document.rtf.
Note that ~/Library is not visible by default in Finder in Lion, but you can access it by pasting the path in Finder (without the backslash in "Autosave Information"; the formatting above is for cd-ing in Terminal.app), or there is an option to enable the visibility (chflags nohidden ~/Library)
For Snow Leopard (credit goes to @binarybob, his comment is below) it is in ~/Library/Autosave Information also named Unsaved TextEdit Document.rtf
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e8e516822340cb811c46f5446d626ba20d2a512e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Green color not so green on my mac? First I've noticed it on my activity monitor:
As you can see Free ram color is set to bright green. And in the activity monitor itself shows color somewhat between green and yellow.
Now also as you can see in bottom left corner, the dock icon's color is ok.
But in the Terminal I get the same crappy color instead of green…
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?
EDIT
After rebooting the Activity Monitor it's colors went back to normal. Haven't tried to do it with terminal yet.
A: I have experienced this behaviour if I use different screens with the same windows. Somehow Mac OS seems to save the colour profile with the monitor where the window has been initially opened. If I open the same window on a different screen e.g. green looks different than it should be.
| Q: Green color not so green on my mac? First I've noticed it on my activity monitor:
As you can see Free ram color is set to bright green. And in the activity monitor itself shows color somewhat between green and yellow.
Now also as you can see in bottom left corner, the dock icon's color is ok.
But in the Terminal I get the same crappy color instead of green…
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?
EDIT
After rebooting the Activity Monitor it's colors went back to normal. Haven't tried to do it with terminal yet.
A: I have experienced this behaviour if I use different screens with the same windows. Somehow Mac OS seems to save the colour profile with the monitor where the window has been initially opened. If I open the same window on a different screen e.g. green looks different than it should be.
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3e80a3e6262063360fa154fa0fae420eb5727ef7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Install Windows 7 on external drive and boot it from a Mac I want to install Windows 7 on an external hard drive, and boot from it when needed.
Is this possible on a Mac? I have heard from some sources that it is not possible to boot Windows from external drives, at least on the new Macs. I found this quite surprising.
Any idea if this is true?
A: Bootcamp simply isn't designed to install Windows on an external drive.
*If I have more than one hard drive, can I install Microsoft Windows on any drive?
You can use Boot Camp to install Windows on any internal hard drive, but not on an external hard drive.
| Q: Install Windows 7 on external drive and boot it from a Mac I want to install Windows 7 on an external hard drive, and boot from it when needed.
Is this possible on a Mac? I have heard from some sources that it is not possible to boot Windows from external drives, at least on the new Macs. I found this quite surprising.
Any idea if this is true?
A: Bootcamp simply isn't designed to install Windows on an external drive.
*If I have more than one hard drive, can I install Microsoft Windows on any drive?
You can use Boot Camp to install Windows on any internal hard drive, but not on an external hard drive.
A: It is possible, but it's not straight forward. This detailed step by step guide (which I did) contains all you need to know to install and run Windows 7 or 8 from an external drive (USB3 or thunderbolt): http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html
To sum up, this guide will help you:
*
*Get the Windows installation pack from a DVD or ISO file
*Partition and format your external drive to make it bootable
*Deploy Windows on your external drive
*Boot on your external drive
*Install Windows
*Download and install the bootcamp drivers (without even using the bootcamp assistant)
A: Silly as I am I wanted to do the same a few weeks ago. But the Windows 7 installer told me that it can't be installed on an external (USB or Firewire) drive.
You could probably installed a Windows PE version. But since that's not the Real Deal it wasn't an option for me.
Update There's a How-To Install Windows 7 on an external drive which I gonna try in the next few days. Not sure if that's gonna work on a Mac.
Update 2 I tried to install Windows 7 on an external USB drive following the How-To in the first Update. Unfortuantely I didn't get it to work. Getting it copied to the external drive worked well but after rebooting I got an error about not finding this Windows installation.
A: There is always the possibility to run Windows 7 as a virtual image (e.g. VMWare, VirtualBox). Works well from an external drive and has the advantage that you can start the image from any computer that has the software installed.
A: for straightforward-method, you can install and run a bootcamp Windows on thunderbolt drive
Bootcamp Windows does not support for usb and firewire external drive, but do support for thunderbolt drive
A: I have followed BleepToBleep's instruction but couldn't get Windows 7 to boot on external hard drive. It supposed-to-be-bootable hard drive failed to start Windows installation after showing the Windows logo.
So I tried other method and succeeded.
Here is the link: How to install Windows on external hard drive
To sum it up:
*
*Download and install WinToUSB app on a PC or virtual PC.
*Partition the external hard drive to have 2 partitions:(similar to BleepToBleep)
1st partition: 350MB FAT32
2nd partition: The rest of the hard drive in NTFS
*Run WinToUSB with the ISO file of Windows 7 or any Windows
*ReBoot the Mac and hold Alt button, boot into Windows and finish the installation. Every times it restarts, hold Alt button and boot into Windows again until the installation finishes.
*Download the driver to the Mac.
If it can be easily found in this link Apple Bootcamp drivers
If it cannot be found, follow this manual instruction to find. (It will take some time)
A: The key to getting the whole thing to work is to run part of bootcamp - the one which creates a Windows partition - but (and here's the key) to make that partition on your internal hard drive VERY small (<1GB).
Then you can run the Windows install from an external USB. BEFORE running the install, you need to enter CMD within the install utility to "flag" the external hard drive as active and bootable.
I have created a detailed guide here:
http://kevtg-compuproductive.tumblr.com
It will work for any Mac, but especially with retina and air users who are having trouble getting other methods to work. The link above is formatted more nicely, but I have pasted the text below. It will work if you follow each step iteratively.
Guide: create external Windows 7 boot drive for Macbook
image
Perhaps you want or need to install Windows on your Retina Macbook Pro. This is not hard to do, if you don’t mind the Windows partition taking up space on your disk drive -or- if you are willing to deal with the performance degradation from using the virtual machines: Parallels or VMware.
Instead of installing Windows on a separate partition within an internal storage disk, you can opt to buy an external Thunderbolt solid-state drive on which to place the Windows OS. You could just as easily use an external hard drive (instead of a solid-state drive) if you prefer a lower cost/GB. It just won’t be as fast.
What these look like:
image
This frees up your internal drive for all your Macintosh computing needs, while also enabling a large external disk on which to place a robust Windows install.
This guide is fairly detailed and only requires that you can follow a series of specific steps. If you can tie your shoes and you can read, you can probably run Windows off an external Thunderbolt drive.
A SUMMARY OF THE STEPS (so you know what you’re getting into)
It should go without saying, but make sure you have backed up your entire system before you proceed.
1) Resize your internal drive partition to make room for windows boot files WITHOUT using Bootcamp. Bootcamp uses a 20GB minimum and we don’t want to lose that much space.
2) Install Windows on external Thunderbolt drive.
3) Install Bootcamp Drivers
THE GUIDE
1) Create a FAT formatted partition within your MBP internal disk. I call this “the sliver” because it is so-so tiny.
you can use Disk Utility or Terminal to resize your MBP internal drive
A. to use Disk Utility
Open it from Applications»Utilities
select the Drive from the top of the hierarchy
click the “Partition” tab
Beneath the “Partition Layout” pane, select your Macintosh HD (or whatever you have labeled you system disk).
Mentally now, subtract 1.0GB from the current size of your internal drive. For example, your drive may read 250.14. In the “size” box, type 249.0 You can actually shrink it by as little as 400MB, but let’s leave a little buffer. This is going to allow you to create a new FAT partition into which Windows will automatically place boot files
click “Apply”
now, click the new blank area below the main partition. Format it to MS-DOS (FAT)
Things should look something like this:
image
B. to use Terminal (faster, but less visual)
open terminal: Apps»Utilities
Type:
diskutil list
You need 2 pieces of information from the resulting table:
1) the size of your main partition and
2) your internal partition identifier (e.g. disk0s2) Double-check. But if you’re typing in terminal you already know that you should be precise anyway
now, execute the resize volume command:
diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 249G MS-DOS FAT 1.1G
In place of “disk0s2,” insert the identifier for your internal system disk partition.
now you have an internal FAT32 “sliver.” Confirm this with diskutil list
Now, there is a SECOND step NOT to be missed: tagging this tiny internal partition as “Active” for the Windows install. Luckily, your Windows install USB/DVD comes with the utility. This is detailed in step 4, below.
2) Create (if you haven’t already) your USB Windows install disk. Go ahead and use Bootcamp utility for this.
Just make sure, in the first window, you deselect the last option for “create Bootcamp partition and install Windows.” We already did this.
So, select “Create Windows 7 or later … ” and “download the latest Windows support…”
Deselect the last option.
this will take a while.
Sometimes, the utility has trouble getting the support software from Apple (fails). This is fine. By the time it reaches this point, it has already created the boot disk. BUT, this means you have to download the Bootcamp drivers manually. You can download them here. Then copy the Bootcamp_version-whatever folder onto the Windows install USB stick. It has been labeled WININSTALL by Bootcamp.
3) Boot to Windows install. Restart your computer, holding the Opt key at the perfect moment! It can be tricky to time it right. Select to boot from the USB “windows” drive. It is orange.
image
4) Mark internal “sliver” as active. After the computer boots to the USB drive, click to select your language. BUT then we need to enter the “Repair utility” to set the small FAT sliver inside the computer to “active.” Don’t worry: you’re not actually performing any repairs. You’re just using the command-line utility that is built-in
After you hit “Repair,” go ahead and skip all the automatic options, so that you can use command-line.
In order now…
diskpart
list disk
select disk # —in place of “#,” your internal disk listed
list partition
select partition # —in place of “#,” the sliver FAT partition we created
active
assign letter=a (or whatever. Get crazy. Call it “Z”)
exit
5) Restart computer, hold option at the perfect moment. Select the USB Windows disk again (the orange one). Enter Windows install setup. You know, keep hitting “next, next next,” until…
6) Select a “Custom install,” when presented with the option, so you can select your external Thunderbolt disk to install. Do not install on your internal Mac drive. Do not install on the internal sliver partition.
Go ahead and format the whole drive using the Format button, after selecting your external Thunderbolt partition. Don’t format any other partitions
The format preserves existing partitions, BUT if you want to create others (perhaps to share with you Mac side) later, you can resize your primary NTFS partition within Windows after you install it.
7) Finish the Windows install. Each time it reboots, you will need to hold down the option key to choose to boot to the new Windows volume you have created during the install. Don’t boot to your USB stick anymore. The Thunderbolt Windows installation appears on the boot option screen as an internal disk, labeled “Windows.” If you miss the timing to initiate the boot menu, don’t worry. Your computer will boot into OSX. Just restart your computer and try, try again.
image
8) Install bootcamp drivers. After the installation completes and you log on for the first time, open your Bootcamp_version-whatever folder you stored in the WININSTALL USB drive you created in step 2.
Double-click the setup or autorun Application.
Hit next-next-next
If your install did not work, look over the instructions again. Though this process does not require any special skill, it is easy to mess up a step. Don’t panic. You already have a complete backup of all your data right??!
Boot into Mac OSX, open Terminal, and type:
diskutil list
If your table does not look like mine, ask yourself, “Why self?”
This will not work with a bootleg version of Windows. Click here for an explanation.
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ba32d2a1fdc633ef76ca7b76d565a7b40cca893f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I send an image via Bluetooth from my Mac to my iPhone? I need to connect my Mac to my iPhone and send a picture via Bluetooth. Can someone give me step by step instructions as in how to do this ?
note: if there's any other way i could do this, then please share it with me
A: Bluetooth transfer is only available to jailbreakers. If you want to go that route, AirBlue Sharing claims to be able to send/receive files over Bluetooth.
Non-jailbreak options include the $1.99 app Photosync, which uses Wifi and requires a free desktop app to receive/transfer files to it:
PhotoSync will transform your photo handling forever. It‘s the first
app that makes wireless transfer of your photos/videos from or to your
computer and other i-Devices - a breeze.
Supported transfer
directions: Device to Computer (Wi-Fi), Computer to Device (Wi-Fi),
Device to Device (Wi-Fi & Bluetooth)
Or you could use Dropbox, drop a picture in the Dropbox folder on your desktop then use the iOS client to access the picture and save it to the device if you want.
| Q: How do I send an image via Bluetooth from my Mac to my iPhone? I need to connect my Mac to my iPhone and send a picture via Bluetooth. Can someone give me step by step instructions as in how to do this ?
note: if there's any other way i could do this, then please share it with me
A: Bluetooth transfer is only available to jailbreakers. If you want to go that route, AirBlue Sharing claims to be able to send/receive files over Bluetooth.
Non-jailbreak options include the $1.99 app Photosync, which uses Wifi and requires a free desktop app to receive/transfer files to it:
PhotoSync will transform your photo handling forever. It‘s the first
app that makes wireless transfer of your photos/videos from or to your
computer and other i-Devices - a breeze.
Supported transfer
directions: Device to Computer (Wi-Fi), Computer to Device (Wi-Fi),
Device to Device (Wi-Fi & Bluetooth)
Or you could use Dropbox, drop a picture in the Dropbox folder on your desktop then use the iOS client to access the picture and save it to the device if you want.
A: You can't send picture from iPhone to a computer via bluetooth unless the iPhone is jailbroken. You can however use iCloud (via wifi) or iTunes (wifi or USB). Or you can email it to yourself.
A: Once you have your devices set up and paired, Bluetooth turned on on both, (I keep Bluetooth off on my phone most of the time) click on the Bluetooth symbol at the top of your Macbook, pull down to "send file" and choose the file. You'll need to "accept" on your phone.
From a real rookie
A: Just get Dropbox for both your iPhone and your PC. It's free and easy to use.
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53e2c59030330e562ca39f998807698186af18f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing Apple ID on iPad to match Apple ID on iPhone My daughter bought a new iPad and gave me her old iPad. However, her old iPad has her Apple ID associated with it.
I want to change that ID to the same Apple ID I use on my iPhone. Is that possible?
A: What part of the iPad do you want to add a new Apple ID to? There are several different places to enter an Apple ID.
Messages
Settings > Messages > Receive at:
App Store
Settings > Store > Apple ID:
Alternatively, you can go to the App Store, click on "Top Charts" at the bottom. Scroll to the bottom and you can sign out and enter a new Apple ID.
iCloud
Go to Settings > iCloud > Account:
| Q: Changing Apple ID on iPad to match Apple ID on iPhone My daughter bought a new iPad and gave me her old iPad. However, her old iPad has her Apple ID associated with it.
I want to change that ID to the same Apple ID I use on my iPhone. Is that possible?
A: What part of the iPad do you want to add a new Apple ID to? There are several different places to enter an Apple ID.
Messages
Settings > Messages > Receive at:
App Store
Settings > Store > Apple ID:
Alternatively, you can go to the App Store, click on "Top Charts" at the bottom. Scroll to the bottom and you can sign out and enter a new Apple ID.
iCloud
Go to Settings > iCloud > Account:
A: You don't say which Apple ID you want to change. The iTunes Store, iCloud and Messages all use Apple ID, and they can all be different. But yes, you can change, one, or all, according to your needs. Most of these changes are made in various Settings on the iPad.
A: Since there are two different Apple ID - you are in a situation where you can use both on one device but you cannot merge the two purchases and have only one account with the contents of both.
Hopefully, one account will be full of free purchases and you can just leave it behind. If not - try to make all future purchases on one account and only use the second account to load those past purchases you need.
This invokes signing in under the old account on each device. Downloading the apps and songs (authorizing that device for the "old" account). Then signing out and in to the new account for the rest of the songs and apps.
Just use care when asked to update apps - you'll need to remember both passwords when asked for each one needing an update.
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29101e89281eff99e5d787fdaee26bd2368c494d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the "standard Unix" fonts. I'm particularly interested in the AmericanTypewriter font. Is there an existing tool to do that or perhaps an Apple Script? If not, are there any other ideas?
A: The solution is to create an afm version of the font you want to use which is American-typewriter for the enscript program to create with.
What you need to do is grab a copy of the AmericanTypewriter font. Which is located at /Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc
Next obtain and run the program ttf2pt1. Copy the output file that you can name atw.afm to enscript's afm directory located at /usr/share/enscript/afm.
Edit the "font.map" file located in /usr/share/enscript/afm
Add in the AmericanTypewriter font to the list.
AmericanTypewriter atw
AvantGarde-Demi agd
... ...
Lastly re-run the enscript and choose the new font, process as you would normally after that but now including the AmericanTypewriter font.
enscript -f "AmericanTypewriter12" -p postScriptOutputfile yourFile.txt
| Q: Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the "standard Unix" fonts. I'm particularly interested in the AmericanTypewriter font. Is there an existing tool to do that or perhaps an Apple Script? If not, are there any other ideas?
A: The solution is to create an afm version of the font you want to use which is American-typewriter for the enscript program to create with.
What you need to do is grab a copy of the AmericanTypewriter font. Which is located at /Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc
Next obtain and run the program ttf2pt1. Copy the output file that you can name atw.afm to enscript's afm directory located at /usr/share/enscript/afm.
Edit the "font.map" file located in /usr/share/enscript/afm
Add in the AmericanTypewriter font to the list.
AmericanTypewriter atw
AvantGarde-Demi agd
... ...
Lastly re-run the enscript and choose the new font, process as you would normally after that but now including the AmericanTypewriter font.
enscript -f "AmericanTypewriter12" -p postScriptOutputfile yourFile.txt
A: If you have some basic LaTeX knowledge (and a working LaTeX installation), I strongly recommend you to take a look at Fletcher Penney's Multimarkdown, an extended Markdown interpreter, which has a great customizable feature of converting text files to .tex –from there, it's obviously a short step to a beautiful .pdf document formatted in accordance with your needs.
Check Chapter 5 of the Multimarkdown manual on how to customize LaTeX output – you will need to install both Multimarkdown (installer) and the support files.
Then, nothing prevents you from using XeTeX instead of LaTeX, which will allow you to use the fontspec package to select any font installed on your system. I haven't actually tried, but it should be fairly easy to create a simple custom LaTeX template for Multimarkdown (without the Author & Title information and all that) to produce PDF output in the font of your choice.
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7cebb4489a3241d09186c33a90bb7238687660bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I show who created/owns a file in the Finder? I wish to see who created a file or who has ownership of a file within the list view of Finder.
Specifically I'm looking at a network Samba volume and can see the owner and group within Terminal.
UPDATE: Using the finder to show the permissions is not enough as it does not tell me who the owner is. Notice below two users have the "Read & Write" permission.
Inspecting the file with terminal shows that the file is owned by 'rpopp'.
Also note that I wish to show this property in finders list view for all files at once.
A: I appreciate this doesn't completely answer your question as its not a modification to Finder, but I've previously used Path Finder to do this - assuming you're willing to pay for and use a 3rd party application (though its does have a 30-day trial).
| Q: How do I show who created/owns a file in the Finder? I wish to see who created a file or who has ownership of a file within the list view of Finder.
Specifically I'm looking at a network Samba volume and can see the owner and group within Terminal.
UPDATE: Using the finder to show the permissions is not enough as it does not tell me who the owner is. Notice below two users have the "Read & Write" permission.
Inspecting the file with terminal shows that the file is owned by 'rpopp'.
Also note that I wish to show this property in finders list view for all files at once.
A: I appreciate this doesn't completely answer your question as its not a modification to Finder, but I've previously used Path Finder to do this - assuming you're willing to pay for and use a 3rd party application (though its does have a 30-day trial).
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ae0b384db3c1ba83e00bde2fe4c0eefadba4addf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Please recommend a good technical design tool for iPad or OS X I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to create isometric and flattened designs. I'm looking for an application that allows designing of engineering projects for wood working.
I've spent a lot of money looking for an app but most are tools for sketching and artwork orientated.
Some features I'm really looking for are:
*
*Easy to use
*Isometric and flat views for same design to be shown
*Vector based design, allowing me to resize, move objects individually
*Measurement and scale support, allowing me to specify a scale and then size elements based on that scale (in metric notation)
*Layers support would be preferred to allow measurements to be supplied on a separate layer
I don't want an overly complex tool, I just want a nice tool to do the job of creating designs alleviating the need for me to use pencil and paper.
A: If you haven't already, check out Google Sketchup. I don't think its on iOS yet, but it is lovely in its simplicity, short learning curve and flexibility. There are tons of YouTube clips showing off features and tutorials.
| Q: Please recommend a good technical design tool for iPad or OS X I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to create isometric and flattened designs. I'm looking for an application that allows designing of engineering projects for wood working.
I've spent a lot of money looking for an app but most are tools for sketching and artwork orientated.
Some features I'm really looking for are:
*
*Easy to use
*Isometric and flat views for same design to be shown
*Vector based design, allowing me to resize, move objects individually
*Measurement and scale support, allowing me to specify a scale and then size elements based on that scale (in metric notation)
*Layers support would be preferred to allow measurements to be supplied on a separate layer
I don't want an overly complex tool, I just want a nice tool to do the job of creating designs alleviating the need for me to use pencil and paper.
A: If you haven't already, check out Google Sketchup. I don't think its on iOS yet, but it is lovely in its simplicity, short learning curve and flexibility. There are tons of YouTube clips showing off features and tutorials.
A: iDesk seems to fit into your criteria. It is a cool iPad app that is more toward diagrams and vector graphics than sketching. It has a very nice interface, too. It has a killer feature that is when you draw a shape (circle, triangle,...) it recognizes it and changes it to the vector form.
Update: I recently found iDraw which blew me away with its abilities in vector graphics. Some even describe it as the illustrator on iOS. You might wanna give it a try.
iDraw: http://www.indeeo.com/idraw
iDesk: http://www.tentouchapps.com/idesk
A: Hexagon from DAZ 3D works well for me, and is simple enough that after an hour I could do some fun things.
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a649a9706f8b784833dd524a5040301972d2b38d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I script Powerpoint to save a directory of PPTX files as PDFs? If I have a directory of PPTX files I would like to save as PDFs. How do I script this operation?
A: Assuming you have PowerPoint installed, this is quite simple using Automator.
(I have Office 2011, so I'm unsure if this would work with 2008)
Start Automator, and create a new Folder Action, and choose the input folder (i.e.: the one containing the PPTX files)
From the Actions list, choose "Convert Format of PowerPoint Presentations". For the "New Format" option, choose "Portable Document Format".
Save it & close Automator, and you're done!
Any PPTX files saved in the chosen folder (either pre-existing, or any new ones you save from now on) will automatically be converted to PDF as an additional copy.
Hope this helps!
-U
| Q: How do I script Powerpoint to save a directory of PPTX files as PDFs? If I have a directory of PPTX files I would like to save as PDFs. How do I script this operation?
A: Assuming you have PowerPoint installed, this is quite simple using Automator.
(I have Office 2011, so I'm unsure if this would work with 2008)
Start Automator, and create a new Folder Action, and choose the input folder (i.e.: the one containing the PPTX files)
From the Actions list, choose "Convert Format of PowerPoint Presentations". For the "New Format" option, choose "Portable Document Format".
Save it & close Automator, and you're done!
Any PPTX files saved in the chosen folder (either pre-existing, or any new ones you save from now on) will automatically be converted to PDF as an additional copy.
Hope this helps!
-U
A: You can use AppleScript to convert PowerPoint files to PDF documents, as described in my answer to a similar question here:
*
*Open Script Editor, select New Document and paste the script below. Make sure you adapt parts that are locale specific like "Sichern", "Vorschau" and the like to your local language ... and check for the latest version at https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ppt2pdf
on run (argv)
log (count (argv))
if ((count of argv) < 2) then
log "usage: ppt2pdf basepath [filenames]"
else
my ppt2Pdf(argv)
end if
end run
--
-- convert PowerPoint to PDF on the given list of files
--
on ppt2Pdf(fileNames)
log "launching Powerpoint ..."
set pp to "Microsoft PowerPoint"
tell application pp -- work on version 15.15 or newer
launch
set isfirst to true
repeat with fileName in fileNames
if isfirst then
set basepath to fileName
log "base path is " & basepath
set isfirst to false
else
if fileName ends with ".ppt" or fileName ends with ".pptx" or fileName ends with ".pptm" then
set filePath to basepath & "/" & fileName
-- set filePath to POSIX path of fileAlias
set pdfPath to my makeNewPath(filePath)
log "trying to convert powerpoint file " & filePath & " to " & pdfPath
open filePath
-- save active presentation in pdfPath as save as PDF
-- save in same folder
-- https://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=26342
--tell application "System Events"
-- set listOfProcesses to (name of every process where background only is false)
-- tell me to set selectedProcesses to choose from list listOfProcesses with multiple selections allowed
--end tell
--repeat with processName in selectedProcesses
-- log processName
--end repeat
if not my chooseMenuItem(pp, "Datei", "Drucken...") then
error number -128
end if
--my showUiElements(pp, "menu button")
-- my waitFor(button whose description is "PDF", 5, 0.5)
my choosePopUp(pp, "Layout für den Druck", "Notizen")
my choosePopUp(pp, "Farbausgabeformat", "Farbe")
--my chooseMenuButtonItem(pp, "PDF", "Als PDF sichern")
local myTitle
tell application "System Events"
-- the magic of Applescript
-- if you really want the title and not a reference to it you need to use an operator
-- http://books.gigatux.nl/mirror/applescriptdefinitiveguide/applescpttdg2-CHP-12-SECT-5.html
set myTitle to title of window 1 of process pp & ""
end tell
my chooseMenuButtonItem(pp, "PDF", "In Vorschau öffnen")
delay 5
tell application "System Events"
log "waiting for Vorschau to display " & myTitle
set timeLeft to my waitForAppearWindow(myTitle, process "Vorschau", 30, 0.5)
if timeLeft < 0 then
log "Vorschau " & myTitle & " window didn't show up after 30 secs"
error number -128
else
log "Vorschau appeared with " & timeLeft & "secs left"
tell process "Vorschau"
delay 0.2
click menu item "Als PDF exportieren …" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Ablage" of menu bar 1
delay 0.5
-- CMD-SHIFT-G to set the export director
-- https://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/keycodes.php
keystroke "g" using {command down, shift down}
delay 0.2
tell sheet 1 of window (myTitle)
tell sheet 1
-- dereference basePath
local basePathStr
set basePathStr to basepath & ""
set value of first combo box to basePathStr
delay 0.2
click button "Öffnen"
delay 0.2
end tell
click button "Sichern"
set timeLeft to my waitForAppear(sheet 1, 3, 0.2)
tell sheet 1
if timeLeft > 0 then
click button "Ersetzen"
end if
end tell
delay 5
keystroke "q" using {command down}
end tell
end tell
end if
end tell
--tell application "System Events"
-- set timeLeft to my waitForAppear("button", button "Sichern" of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of process pp, 5, 0.5)
-- if timeLeft < 0 then
-- log "Sichern button didn't show up after 5 secs"
-- error number -128
-- end if
-- click button "Sichern" of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of process pp
--end tell
--tell application "System Events"
-- delay 0.5
-- try
-- set timeLeft to my waitForAppear("button", button "Ersetzen" of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of process pp, 5, 0.5)
-- if timeLeft < 0 then
-- log "Ersetzen button didn't show up after 5 secs"
-- error number -128
-- end if
-- click button "Ersetzen" of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of process pp
-- end try
--end tell
log "done ..."
-- close filePath
end if
end if
end repeat
-- still in tell powerpoint context
--tell application "System Events"
-- delay 0.5
-- try
-- set timeLeft to my waitForVanish("window", window "Sichern" of process pp, 60, 1)
-- if timeLeft < 0 then
-- log "print dialog didn't vanish after 60 secs"
-- error number -128
-- end if
-- end try
--end tell
quit
end tell
end ppt2Pdf
on showElement(uiElem)
local className
set className to class of uiElem as string
log (((«class pDSC» of uiElem as string) & "=" & value of uiElem as string) & "(" & className) & ")"
end showElement
--
-- show all UI elements
--
on showUiElements(appName, filterClassName)
tell application "System Events"
tell process appName
tell (1st window whose value of attribute "AXMain" is true)
repeat with uiElem in entire contents of it as list
try
local className
set className to class of uiElem as string
if filterClassName is missing value or className is filterClasssname then
log (((description of uiElem as string) & "=" & value of uiElem as string) & "(" & className) & ")"
end if
end try
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end tell
end showUiElements
--
-- wait for the given element to appear
--
on waitForAppearWindow(elementName, parentElement, time, slice)
set timeLeft to time
set appeared to false
repeat until (appeared) or timeLeft ≤ 0
try
set appeared to window elementName of parentElement exists
end try
delay slice
log "."
set timeLeft to timeLeft - slice
end repeat
log timeLeft
return timeLeft
end waitForAppearWindow
--
-- wait for the given element to appear
--
on waitForAppear(element, time, slice)
set timeLeft to time
set appeared to false
repeat until (appeared) or timeLeft ≤ 0
try
set appeared to element exists
end try
delay slice
log "."
set timeLeft to timeLeft - slice
end repeat
log timeLeft
return timeLeft
end waitForAppear
---
--- wait for the given element to vanish
---
on waitForVanish(element, time, slice)
set timeLeft to time
try
repeat while (exists element) and timeLeft > 0
delay slice
log "."
set timeLeft to timeLeft - slice
end repeat
end try
log timeLeft
return timeLeft
end waitForVanish
on chooseMenuButtonItem(appName, buttonName, itemName)
tell application "System Events"
tell process appName
tell window 1
local win1
set win1 to it
tell sheet 1
log "choosing " & itemName & " of menu button " & buttonName
tell menu button buttonName
click
delay 0.1
tell menu 1
click menu item itemName
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end chooseMenuButtonItem
--
-- choose a popup
--
on choosePopUp(appName, buttonName, itemName)
tell application "System Events"
tell process appName
tell window 1
tell sheet 1
log "choosing " & itemName & " of pop up menu " & buttonName
--repeat with pbutton in pop up buttons
-- local pbutton1
-- set pbutton1 to pbutton
-- log description of pbutton & "=" & value of pbutton
--end repeat
tell (1st pop up button whose description is buttonName)
click it
delay 0.5
pick menu item itemName of menu 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end choosePopUp
--
-- https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/
-- LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide
-- AutomatetheUserInterface.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016239-CH69-SW17
--
on chooseMenuItem(theAppName, theMenuName, theMenuItemName)
try
-- Bring the target app to the front
tell application theAppName
activate
end tell
-- Target the app
tell application "System Events"
tell process theAppName
-- Target the menu bar
tell menu bar 1
-- Target the menu by name
tell menu bar item theMenuName
tell menu theMenuName
-- Click the menu item
log "clicking " & theMenuItemName
click menu item theMenuItemName
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
return true
on error
return false
end try
end chooseMenuItem
on makeNewPath(f)
set t to f as string
if t ends with ".pptx" or t ends with ".pptm" then
return (text 1 thru -5 of t) & "pdf"
else
return (text 1 thru -4 of t) & "pdf"
end if
end makeNewPath
*Save the file as ppt2pdf.scpt, for example to a subfolder named bin in your home directory.
*Open TextEdit and paste this (correct the path to ppt2pdf.scpt as necessary):
#!/bin/bash
# use current path as base path
osascript $HOME/bin/ppt2pdf.scpt $(pwd) $@
(In the code above, $HOME is a shell variable that points to your home directory.)
*Save the file as ppt2pdf, for example to $HOME/bin.
*make it executable with
chmod +x $HOME/bin/ppt2pdf
Now, to convert PowerPoint files to PDF documents, open Terminal, change directory to the folder where the PowerPoint files are located, and run:
$HOME/bin/ppt2pdf *.pptx
or just
ppt2pdf *.pptx
if your $HOME/bin directory is part of your $PATH
| apple | {
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a0275374905b2f854f69cb268d9c4b4993e3c8f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Deleting emails on iPhone creates new folder "Deleted Messages" in Mac Mail When I delete an email in Mail on my iPhone, it creates a new folder in Mail on my Mac called "Deleted Messages". Why is it doing this and not putting them in the Trash? I am using iCloud mail on both devices.
A: You can tell iOS which folder it should use for your deleted messages. Open up the Settings app and follow this path:
Mail, Contacts, Calendars < YOURACCOUNT (iCloud) < Account < Advanced (Mail) < Advanced
There you'll see Mailbox Behaviors options to tell iOS which folders to use for Drafts, Sent, and Deleted messages.
In your case, tap Deleted Mailbox and navigation your mail account's hierarchy to find your existing Trash folder. Select that and everything should work as you expect.
| Q: Deleting emails on iPhone creates new folder "Deleted Messages" in Mac Mail When I delete an email in Mail on my iPhone, it creates a new folder in Mail on my Mac called "Deleted Messages". Why is it doing this and not putting them in the Trash? I am using iCloud mail on both devices.
A: You can tell iOS which folder it should use for your deleted messages. Open up the Settings app and follow this path:
Mail, Contacts, Calendars < YOURACCOUNT (iCloud) < Account < Advanced (Mail) < Advanced
There you'll see Mailbox Behaviors options to tell iOS which folders to use for Drafts, Sent, and Deleted messages.
In your case, tap Deleted Mailbox and navigation your mail account's hierarchy to find your existing Trash folder. Select that and everything should work as you expect.
A: For syncing with iCloud you need to choose folder "Deleted Messages" on your iPhone to be default for the Deleted Mailbox. Otherwise it will create a new Folder on the server called TRASH and the emails you delete on your iPhone will in mail on your computer only be seen in this folder and not in the general Trash.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49122"
} |
b0ee6edb83745ed8e9c1f21e501f49de797c83b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Horizontal line appears in fullscreen mode I have an issue when entering fullscreen mode in any application on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.7.3, a white horizontal line always appears at the top of the screen (as shown in the picture).
What is causing that? I've never had it before and I can't figure out what I've done to cause it. Anyone that got the same issue or know what's causing this?
A: Do you have and programs running such as VMware or Virtual Box installed and running in Full Screen Mode in the background? It alsmost looks like a VM or remote desktop toolbar. Have any programs running that have tool bars such as pictured below.
| Q: Horizontal line appears in fullscreen mode I have an issue when entering fullscreen mode in any application on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.7.3, a white horizontal line always appears at the top of the screen (as shown in the picture).
What is causing that? I've never had it before and I can't figure out what I've done to cause it. Anyone that got the same issue or know what's causing this?
A: Do you have and programs running such as VMware or Virtual Box installed and running in Full Screen Mode in the background? It alsmost looks like a VM or remote desktop toolbar. Have any programs running that have tool bars such as pictured below.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49124"
} |
5b9f9001efca3dbb44742a5ce32159af372944a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remote control from one iDevice to another iDevice So what I'm trying to achieve is using my iPad 2 as a media player and I want to be able to control it from my iPhone so I can leave it playing music/movies and I can control the volume, play and pause it without having to manipulate the iPad.
Is this possible? Is there any app that allows to control an iDevice from another iDevice? Please advise. Thanks in advance.
A: I found Tunes Remote which looks like it fits perfectly and it can be downloaded from the App Store. Does anybody know it?
| Q: Remote control from one iDevice to another iDevice So what I'm trying to achieve is using my iPad 2 as a media player and I want to be able to control it from my iPhone so I can leave it playing music/movies and I can control the volume, play and pause it without having to manipulate the iPad.
Is this possible? Is there any app that allows to control an iDevice from another iDevice? Please advise. Thanks in advance.
A: I found Tunes Remote which looks like it fits perfectly and it can be downloaded from the App Store. Does anybody know it?
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49141"
} |
b5328ca6fa7539fe7a937a59bceae9decf57e940 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I hide the toolbar in Safari while in Full Screen mode? When in non-full-screen mode, Safari lets me use the ⌘+| shortcut or View > Hide Toolbar to hide the URL and search bar, etc. However, when I'm in Full Screen mode, this option is greyed out. Is there any way I can hide it without exiting Full Screen?
A: Open console (⌥⌘C or Develop > Show Error Console), paste this code:
(function() {
var el = document.createElement('div'),
docEl = document.documentElement;
el.innerText = 'Go to fullscreen view';
el.setAttribute('style', 'position: fixed; top: 10%; left: 10%; padding: 30%; background: #000; color: #fff; opacity: .7; cursor: pointer;')
document.body.appendChild(el)
el.onclick = function() {
if (docEl.requestFullscreen) {
docEl.requestFullscreen();
} else if (docEl.mozRequestFullScreen) {
docEl.mozRequestFullScreen();
} else if (docEl.webkitRequestFullscreen) {
docEl.webkitRequestFullscreen();
}
document.body.removeChild(el);
};
})();
and click the black box.
You need to activate Developer-Tools for this solution. To enable Developer-Tools, go to Advanced, click "Show Develop menu in menu bar" at the bottom of the window.
| Q: Can I hide the toolbar in Safari while in Full Screen mode? When in non-full-screen mode, Safari lets me use the ⌘+| shortcut or View > Hide Toolbar to hide the URL and search bar, etc. However, when I'm in Full Screen mode, this option is greyed out. Is there any way I can hide it without exiting Full Screen?
A: Open console (⌥⌘C or Develop > Show Error Console), paste this code:
(function() {
var el = document.createElement('div'),
docEl = document.documentElement;
el.innerText = 'Go to fullscreen view';
el.setAttribute('style', 'position: fixed; top: 10%; left: 10%; padding: 30%; background: #000; color: #fff; opacity: .7; cursor: pointer;')
document.body.appendChild(el)
el.onclick = function() {
if (docEl.requestFullscreen) {
docEl.requestFullscreen();
} else if (docEl.mozRequestFullScreen) {
docEl.mozRequestFullScreen();
} else if (docEl.webkitRequestFullscreen) {
docEl.webkitRequestFullscreen();
}
document.body.removeChild(el);
};
})();
and click the black box.
You need to activate Developer-Tools for this solution. To enable Developer-Tools, go to Advanced, click "Show Develop menu in menu bar" at the bottom of the window.
A: In Safari 10.0.1 on macOS Sierra it is quite simple - you have to uncheck View > Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen to hide the toolbar.
A: Enter full screen mode, right-click anywhere around the address bar then click "Hide Toolbar" in the menu that appears.
Although next time you enter full screen mode the toolbar comes back.
| apple | {
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} |
eaf74b6434d464ee6dc8d3a711585386b23b1c2b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop How is possible send all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop.app (ARD)?
Some working, some not, especially don't works gestures:
*
*mission control (4 fingers up)
*exposee (4 fingers down)
*swiping left-right with 4 fingers - switching screens..
These gestures interpreted in my local machine, when i'm in windowed mode of ARD, and does nothing when i'm in fullscreen mode.
Is here any way use all gestures for example in full screen mode?
A: You can use BetterTouchTool to recognize all gestures and than send a keystroke to Remote Desktop which in turn will invoke the desired functionality on the remote machine.
BetterTouchTool can configure actions for gestures based on the current active application. This way you are able, for example, to map "three finger left" to the shortcut for "history back" which you can configure as the action of "three finger left swipe" for Remote Desktop.
| Q: Using all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop How is possible send all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop.app (ARD)?
Some working, some not, especially don't works gestures:
*
*mission control (4 fingers up)
*exposee (4 fingers down)
*swiping left-right with 4 fingers - switching screens..
These gestures interpreted in my local machine, when i'm in windowed mode of ARD, and does nothing when i'm in fullscreen mode.
Is here any way use all gestures for example in full screen mode?
A: You can use BetterTouchTool to recognize all gestures and than send a keystroke to Remote Desktop which in turn will invoke the desired functionality on the remote machine.
BetterTouchTool can configure actions for gestures based on the current active application. This way you are able, for example, to map "three finger left" to the shortcut for "history back" which you can configure as the action of "three finger left swipe" for Remote Desktop.
A: I just had this problem and here's how I fixed it: I went into System Preferences>>Trackpad then unclicked "Swipe Between Full Screen Apps", clicked "Swipe Between Pages", swiped a few times, then went back to Trackpad and reversed them (i.e. -- unclicked "Swipe Between Pages" and clicked "Swipe Between Full Screen Apps"). I don't know if all those steps were necessary, but it worked.
A: Make sure your client computer is set up to recognize those gestures. I would not expect them to be passed in windowed mode, but in full screen mode they should work if they are enabled on the client. My guess is that they simply are not enabled on the client machine.
| apple | {
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faa2141f8bbc2ae568cef407fe62def2092fd11b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Holding the mouse button automatically on OSX Is there some sort of app that will let me, preferably toggleable with a keyboard shortcut, hold down the left mouse button? (Not click fast, just hold down).
A: Will the default double tap to drag work for you? You can enable it in System Preferences>Universal Access:
| Q: Holding the mouse button automatically on OSX Is there some sort of app that will let me, preferably toggleable with a keyboard shortcut, hold down the left mouse button? (Not click fast, just hold down).
A: Will the default double tap to drag work for you? You can enable it in System Preferences>Universal Access:
A: The accepted answer from 2012 is obsolete. Use the following for Mac OS X:
Mac OS X
System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Enable Mouse Keys
Mouse Keys allows the mouse pointer to be controlled using the keyboard number pad.
What if I don't have a "keyboard number pad"?
If you use a laptop that does not have a numeric keypad, you can still the Mouse Keys feature, but you will need to press the Num Lock key first. Once you have turned on the Num Lock, use the keys with the small numbers on them to control the pointer. The I key will perform a mouse click.
http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/input-devices/what-are-mouse-keys/
What if I don't have a "Num Lock"?
I give up. Search the Apple Store or Google for a 3rd part app.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49168"
} |
b7c5c3fa8930d84122b09571f8e8e298d4828b8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: FAT or exFAT or NTFS I recently brought Western Digital's Passport Essential, and will be using with my MacBook (running Snow Leopard), MacBook Air (running Lion) and Windows 7 Desktop. I should be able to read-write data using each machine/OS.
Moreover, I need to store and move files larger than 4GB.
So, what should be preferred file-system type: FAT, exFAT or NTFS? Will my portable drive support exFAT?
A: The only format that support all of your requirements is ExFAT. It is natively supported by Win7, Lion and Snow Leopard (from 10.6.5, I believe).
| Q: FAT or exFAT or NTFS I recently brought Western Digital's Passport Essential, and will be using with my MacBook (running Snow Leopard), MacBook Air (running Lion) and Windows 7 Desktop. I should be able to read-write data using each machine/OS.
Moreover, I need to store and move files larger than 4GB.
So, what should be preferred file-system type: FAT, exFAT or NTFS? Will my portable drive support exFAT?
A: The only format that support all of your requirements is ExFAT. It is natively supported by Win7, Lion and Snow Leopard (from 10.6.5, I believe).
A: I would actually recommend a 4th option - HFS+. I'm using Paragon HFS+ for Windows and its working very well. For $20 I am very happy with it and it definitely had advantages on the Mac side that you will not get with exFAT (TimeMachine, resizability, larger file sizes).
A: I'd like to point out that exFAT is orders of magnitude slower on the mac than HFS+ or FAT32, especially when used on a spinning hard disk. It works well on solid state (ssd's or flash).
A: FAT
Fat is definitely off the table since it only supports files up to 4GB. So you won't be able to transfer files over 4GB like you stated in your question.
exFAT
exFAT won't have this limit since it's capable of supporting files up to 16 exabytes (16.000.000 terabytes). It's an excellent format for your flash drives and/or external (not internal!) hard drives.
NFTS
NFTS is an alternative, but your Mac (starting from 10.3) can only read it. It won't be able to write data on the drive, unless you use some extra software and hacks,
but some users have reported some instability and performance issues using NFTS on a Mac.
Windows/Mac
Windows 7 will read and write FAT, exFAT and NFTS without any problem. (It can even ReadyBoost from an exFat flash drive). Starting from Mac OS X 10.6.5, the OS supports reading from and writing to exFAT formatted drives.
Conslusion
I would go for the exFAT. It's fast, supports huge datafiles and both your Windows 7 and your Mac will be able to read/write to it.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49177"
} |
4edaff410f53997f600d57ae1f6c0f3ddb0ed6ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Troubleshooting high CPU activity in the WindowServer process As far as I know WindowServer process is used by all apps to draw windows that we see. And a lot of people are reporting a problem when their WindowServer is using a lot of CPU. Is there any way to find out what process is interacting with WindowServer besides looking at the precesses at the ActivityMonitor, shutting them down and looking at the result?
A: Check out the man page for perfdiagnose. This tool is purpose-made for diagnosing exactly this sort of issue, where a simpler tool like Activity Monitor can only show you symptoms.
The output from perfdiagnose is not intended for end-users, but for developers and teams at Apple. If you're not able to make any sense of the logs it produces, your best bet is to attach them to a bug report submitted to Apple.
| Q: Troubleshooting high CPU activity in the WindowServer process As far as I know WindowServer process is used by all apps to draw windows that we see. And a lot of people are reporting a problem when their WindowServer is using a lot of CPU. Is there any way to find out what process is interacting with WindowServer besides looking at the precesses at the ActivityMonitor, shutting them down and looking at the result?
A: Check out the man page for perfdiagnose. This tool is purpose-made for diagnosing exactly this sort of issue, where a simpler tool like Activity Monitor can only show you symptoms.
The output from perfdiagnose is not intended for end-users, but for developers and teams at Apple. If you're not able to make any sense of the logs it produces, your best bet is to attach them to a bug report submitted to Apple.
| apple | {
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} |
7bdc28cb191fca19c2bbe0780b4788d7210a2dfc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: CrashReporter itself keeps crashing I never get crash logs when an application crashes, and the reason is that CrashReporter itself crashes:
4/20/12 10:11:25 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[104]
(com.apple.ReportCrash.Self[133]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap
A google search shows that I'm not the only person to experience this. But I haven't found a definitive cure. A popular google hit suggests moving the LaunchAgents .plist file from the System LaunchAgents to the User LaunchAgents, but that made no difference for me. I'm wondering if anyone has actually solved this.
(This is on Snow Leopard. I have a Lion installation and another Snow Leopard computer; the problem doesn't occur there. It's just this one volume.)
A: try these two things:
*
*boot to safe mode, and then reboot. (hold Shift at system chime)
*boot to single user mode, delete /Systems/Library/Caches & subdirectories
fixed lots of crash reporter errors on my machine.
| Q: CrashReporter itself keeps crashing I never get crash logs when an application crashes, and the reason is that CrashReporter itself crashes:
4/20/12 10:11:25 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[104]
(com.apple.ReportCrash.Self[133]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap
A google search shows that I'm not the only person to experience this. But I haven't found a definitive cure. A popular google hit suggests moving the LaunchAgents .plist file from the System LaunchAgents to the User LaunchAgents, but that made no difference for me. I'm wondering if anyone has actually solved this.
(This is on Snow Leopard. I have a Lion installation and another Snow Leopard computer; the problem doesn't occur there. It's just this one volume.)
A: try these two things:
*
*boot to safe mode, and then reboot. (hold Shift at system chime)
*boot to single user mode, delete /Systems/Library/Caches & subdirectories
fixed lots of crash reporter errors on my machine.
A: If you can reproduce this on a clean installation on that machine, it might be interesting to track down why and how the OS has become corrupted. It's not a tidy answer, but even for someone that can debug things - without the source code to the program this may be chasing a needle in a haystack to know why one of your computers isn't happy when it's crashing.
| apple | {
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8efb266be33736eeb4b9b6968916591392a4a625 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I remove or delete an @me.com email? I currently have 2 Apple IDs, one that uses my Gmail account and I have been using this one for a while now, this is the one I want to keep.
When iCloud came out, I registered an @me.com email for free to reserve my name. But when I did this it registered a separate Apple ID rather then attach to my other Apple ID.
This is ridiculously frustrating, all I want to do is remove or delete one of my Apple IDs or @me.com email to make it available to my original Gmail account.
How would I do this? I don't see anywhere allowing you to delete your account.
A: You cannot move, merge, or delete an Apple ID once it is created. Once it is created, it is a permanent account.
More info available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
| Q: How do I remove or delete an @me.com email? I currently have 2 Apple IDs, one that uses my Gmail account and I have been using this one for a while now, this is the one I want to keep.
When iCloud came out, I registered an @me.com email for free to reserve my name. But when I did this it registered a separate Apple ID rather then attach to my other Apple ID.
This is ridiculously frustrating, all I want to do is remove or delete one of my Apple IDs or @me.com email to make it available to my original Gmail account.
How would I do this? I don't see anywhere allowing you to delete your account.
A: You cannot move, merge, or delete an Apple ID once it is created. Once it is created, it is a permanent account.
More info available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
A: Currently, there is no provision to merge accounts which would allow you to combine everything and get rid of the unwanted account cleanly. I've not heard of a process to delete one other than letting it sit unused until the next time the service prunes unused accounts. That would at least let you walk away from everything related to the old account and perhaps enable it to be pruned / reused sooner rather than later.
In the past, unused accounts have not been deleted and freed, but with the move to iCloud some older accounts could get deleted and freed up but only Apple knows if this is planned since nothing has been spoken publicly about this.
What you can do is change all personal information on the account you wish to leave behind and set the password to something written down in a safe location and wait for it to expire.
You can change your Apple ID on all accounts that are not ended with @mac.com @icloud.com or @me.com which is a welcome change to the past when you couldn't even do that. As it's not perfectly clear what your end goal is, why not reach out to Apple's billing and account support and discuss your particular needs with an actual employee trained in how the system works to see if they have a better answer for you.
| apple | {
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968b5ef05446f1c396e3dd4c31d4ea1979e8a8eb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: vim arrow keys inserting strange character in iterm2 vim escape & arrow keys are inserting strange character (the letter q in my case) but works perfectly if launched in a tmux session or with terminal.app
Someone having the same problem?
A: Setting the Report Terminal Type to ansi or linux in my profile solved my problem.
When the terminal type of your sessions is set to one of those "xterm" types, iTerm handles the arrow keys, the home key, and the end key in a special way.
| Q: vim arrow keys inserting strange character in iterm2 vim escape & arrow keys are inserting strange character (the letter q in my case) but works perfectly if launched in a tmux session or with terminal.app
Someone having the same problem?
A: Setting the Report Terminal Type to ansi or linux in my profile solved my problem.
When the terminal type of your sessions is set to one of those "xterm" types, iTerm handles the arrow keys, the home key, and the end key in a special way.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49230"
} |
f0c3b4e124fcad605316fcfa58587b3b51391182 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable iChat's popup "You are not connected to the internet"? I am tired of seeing the "You are not connected to the internet" message from iChat every time after I open my macbook. I use iChat for screen sharing. Is it possible to disable the annoying popup or should I just use another app for messaging and screen sharing?
A: You should probably use another app for screensharing and messaging. If you choose to do this, I reccomend Adium for messaging and TeamViewer for screensharing. I searched the contents of the whole iChat application, and I couldn't find anything, which leads me to believe that the pop up (I've had it too) is not actually part of the iChat application, but used by iChat.
| Q: How to disable iChat's popup "You are not connected to the internet"? I am tired of seeing the "You are not connected to the internet" message from iChat every time after I open my macbook. I use iChat for screen sharing. Is it possible to disable the annoying popup or should I just use another app for messaging and screen sharing?
A: You should probably use another app for screensharing and messaging. If you choose to do this, I reccomend Adium for messaging and TeamViewer for screensharing. I searched the contents of the whole iChat application, and I couldn't find anything, which leads me to believe that the pop up (I've had it too) is not actually part of the iChat application, but used by iChat.
A: Open ichat, close windows, logout. That fixed it for me.
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00b52d14e7040fdf95440893b582fb7623eea2cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on? I am trying to use the Network Link Conditioner preference pane included with the Hardware IO tools in the developer tools to throttle Internet speeds. I can open and load the preference pane, but as soon as I try to turn it on, System Preferences crashes.
Why is this happening and how can I fix it? I have a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 running OS 10.7.3.
Here's the log entry for the NLC crash:
5/10/12 9:31:39.150 AM [0x0-0x1c51c5].com.apple.systempreferences: NLCd : Bootstrap failure
A: Just a quick note to say that I eventually stopped the crashing by manually copying these two files from another OS X machine and then manually starting the nlcd daemon
(if you don't have another Mac, I posted my copies of those files here)
Copied these files:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
/usr/libexec/nlcd
Run these three commands:
sudo chown root /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
After that the pref pane didn't unexpectedly exit when moving the switch to 'on'.
Taken from https://devforums.apple.com/message/645980#645980
| Q: Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on? I am trying to use the Network Link Conditioner preference pane included with the Hardware IO tools in the developer tools to throttle Internet speeds. I can open and load the preference pane, but as soon as I try to turn it on, System Preferences crashes.
Why is this happening and how can I fix it? I have a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 running OS 10.7.3.
Here's the log entry for the NLC crash:
5/10/12 9:31:39.150 AM [0x0-0x1c51c5].com.apple.systempreferences: NLCd : Bootstrap failure
A: Just a quick note to say that I eventually stopped the crashing by manually copying these two files from another OS X machine and then manually starting the nlcd daemon
(if you don't have another Mac, I posted my copies of those files here)
Copied these files:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
/usr/libexec/nlcd
Run these three commands:
sudo chown root /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.NetworkLinkConditioner.plist
After that the pref pane didn't unexpectedly exit when moving the switch to 'on'.
Taken from https://devforums.apple.com/message/645980#645980
A: I filed a bug report (#11891721) for this. I linked to odyth's answer in the report and this is their response.
Changing the nlcd file over to an older version makes it compatible
with the preference pane, (as you did in this case). The current
version of the prefpane works with the latest nlcd. We can not do
anything about the older installs of nlcd or the prefpane that you
have.
We are closing this bug since we are aware of the issue.
Please be sure to regularly check the seed notes and release notes for
any updates that might affect this issue. Again, thank you for taking
the time to submit bugs. We sincerely appreciate your input.
So there's the official answer.
A: I had the same issue in Yosemite.
Tried with the files mentioned here, but it was still crashing.
Giving admin rights to my OS X user seemed to "solve" the issue.
In other words, running the app as a "Standard" user seems to cause the crash for me.
Still it is not a nice solution, but maybe it helps some people or give insight for a better solution. :)
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44a772439fb24515ad868fbd85784eae7df9ccc2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Simple auto-typer with AppleScript I want to make a small application that will type the number 1, wait an interval, type the number 2, wait an interval, type number 3, wait an interval, etc.
This works for typing one number over and over:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
key code 18
end tell
return 2
end idle
But I'm struggling to get more than number to work:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
key code 18
end tell
return 2
tell application "System Events"
key code 19
end tell
return 2
end idle
This doesn't work. Nor does this:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
key code 18
return 2
key code 19
return 2
end tell
end idle
I don't know what else to try. Thank you!
A: Try using delay 2 instead of return 2 — return exits from the loop!
| Q: Simple auto-typer with AppleScript I want to make a small application that will type the number 1, wait an interval, type the number 2, wait an interval, type number 3, wait an interval, etc.
This works for typing one number over and over:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
key code 18
end tell
return 2
end idle
But I'm struggling to get more than number to work:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
key code 18
end tell
return 2
tell application "System Events"
key code 19
end tell
return 2
end idle
This doesn't work. Nor does this:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
key code 18
return 2
key code 19
return 2
end tell
end idle
I don't know what else to try. Thank you!
A: Try using delay 2 instead of return 2 — return exits from the loop!
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e94ebab2d8ef00698b3b921abd5510e26be43dac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AddressBookManager using 100% CPU My macbook pro running OSX 10.7.3 will fire up the heavy fans even if left idle with all major apps closed. In Activity Monitor, AddressBookManager is shown as taking 110% CPU, even though I have only two address in my address book (mine and apple's) and I never open the application.
I can kill AddressBookManager from Activity Monitor, but it comes back again in a few minutes.
I still have loads of free memory, and the disk doesn't seem to be being thrashed, it's just the CPU usage. I probably wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for the fans.
Suggested from the comments, here's the accounts in my address book preferences:
As you can see, nothing there untoward.
Thanks in advance and for the help already.
A: I solved this issue:
*
*Export your AddressBook information if necessary.(I did not, because I have no import information in AddressBook)
*Go to this directory /Users/luowensheng/Library/Application\ Support/
*Delete the AddressBook directory, if there is synchronization, it may come back, do not care of that.
*So, you can see the Activity monitor, does the AddressBookManager still high? if still high, delete the AddressBook directory more times.
| Q: AddressBookManager using 100% CPU My macbook pro running OSX 10.7.3 will fire up the heavy fans even if left idle with all major apps closed. In Activity Monitor, AddressBookManager is shown as taking 110% CPU, even though I have only two address in my address book (mine and apple's) and I never open the application.
I can kill AddressBookManager from Activity Monitor, but it comes back again in a few minutes.
I still have loads of free memory, and the disk doesn't seem to be being thrashed, it's just the CPU usage. I probably wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for the fans.
Suggested from the comments, here's the accounts in my address book preferences:
As you can see, nothing there untoward.
Thanks in advance and for the help already.
A: I solved this issue:
*
*Export your AddressBook information if necessary.(I did not, because I have no import information in AddressBook)
*Go to this directory /Users/luowensheng/Library/Application\ Support/
*Delete the AddressBook directory, if there is synchronization, it may come back, do not care of that.
*So, you can see the Activity monitor, does the AddressBookManager still high? if still high, delete the AddressBook directory more times.
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dc7347800f986289c372126dcc1d80fe3d03b6cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: when the GPS is enabled, does it drain battery? if the GPS is enabled, but the app doesn't use it, does it drain battery? (I understand that GPS drains battery because it requires a different component to be charged up.) Or the fact that the GPS is enabled only means that the App can use it?
A: If GPS is enabled at an app level it doesn't use more battery unless an app uses GPS. And even if an app uses GPS it can do so in a way that minimizes it's usage and battery drain. For example if Foursquare were to use GPS efficiently it would only fetch your location when you are checking in or looking up places to check in then turn off it's access to the GPS.
Now at a system level enabling GPS might drain the battery a little but that depends on what you have enabled, i.e. Find my iPhone.
| Q: when the GPS is enabled, does it drain battery? if the GPS is enabled, but the app doesn't use it, does it drain battery? (I understand that GPS drains battery because it requires a different component to be charged up.) Or the fact that the GPS is enabled only means that the App can use it?
A: If GPS is enabled at an app level it doesn't use more battery unless an app uses GPS. And even if an app uses GPS it can do so in a way that minimizes it's usage and battery drain. For example if Foursquare were to use GPS efficiently it would only fetch your location when you are checking in or looking up places to check in then turn off it's access to the GPS.
Now at a system level enabling GPS might drain the battery a little but that depends on what you have enabled, i.e. Find my iPhone.
A: When you give an app permission to use your location, in other words enable GPS for it, the app may or may not use it. Some apps use it briefly to get a fix once each time you start the app, some apps don't use it until you perform a certain action in them, others use it whenever the app is open, and some even continue to use it after you've closed the app - for instance if you're doing turn-by-turn directions in the background.
To know if an app is actively using the GPS, and thus draining the battery faster than normal, is to look in the status bar next to the clock. If there's a little white arrow, then an app (probably the one you've got open right now) is actively using the GPS.
If you don't have an app open, and the arrow appears, you can find out which app is using the GPS by going to the Settings app, selecting Location Services and going down the list of apps. For each app there's the app name, and then a selector that determines whether that app is allowed to use the GPS. Scroll down that list and look for a little arrow between the app and the selector. If any app is using the GPS right now, it will show up as an arrow next to the app name. The color and fill of the arrow provide additional information, which you can find out about here: How can I tell when the iPhone is actively using GPS versus only using region monitoring? . That question also gives a screeshot of the Location Services screen with an arrow showing, so you can get an idea of what to look for when you go through your list of apps. It's for the iPad, but the iPhone is very similar in design.
If an app is using GPS and you don't want it to, change the selector to OFF and it will stop using the GPS and draining your battery.
A: No. setting "location services" to "on" in iphone just gives the apps permission to use the gps module; it's the apps that actually kick starts the gps hardware to function. so, unless until apps start using the gps, no battery is consumed.
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0d2b7db20c9167110ff198fd81a9f7cb4472748a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preventing applications from creating folders in your documents folder I have two applications (Microsoft RDP Client and Parallels Desktop) that insist on creating their own folders in my Documents folder. They use those to store user-specific files, settings, profiles and such.
My Documents folder is neatly organized and I don't want applications creating their folders in it. Parallels Desktop has a setting allowing me to change the path for its folder, but the Microsoft RDP client doesn't seem to.
Is there a straightforward way to prevent an application from automatically creating folders in Documents?
In my specific case, I'd be happy with a solution that prevents RDP Client from creating the directory altogether, e.g. by creating a hidden locked entry with the same name as the folder it wants to create.
A: I understand your frustration, but I suggest you just hide the offending folders from Finder, you can easily do that with the following terminal command:
chflags hidden ~/Documents/HideMe
Preventing those folders to be created is likely going to cause problems running those applications.
| Q: Preventing applications from creating folders in your documents folder I have two applications (Microsoft RDP Client and Parallels Desktop) that insist on creating their own folders in my Documents folder. They use those to store user-specific files, settings, profiles and such.
My Documents folder is neatly organized and I don't want applications creating their folders in it. Parallels Desktop has a setting allowing me to change the path for its folder, but the Microsoft RDP client doesn't seem to.
Is there a straightforward way to prevent an application from automatically creating folders in Documents?
In my specific case, I'd be happy with a solution that prevents RDP Client from creating the directory altogether, e.g. by creating a hidden locked entry with the same name as the folder it wants to create.
A: I understand your frustration, but I suggest you just hide the offending folders from Finder, you can easily do that with the following terminal command:
chflags hidden ~/Documents/HideMe
Preventing those folders to be created is likely going to cause problems running those applications.
A: *
*Right click on folder you wish to have scrubbed from existence.
*Click "Properties".
*Click "Hidden".
*Click "Apply".
Unfortunately this only hides it and does not remove it. You will have to repeat this process for any folders created, but it seems to be a way to at least keep your documents folder organized to your liking.
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235ac014ea00564c5fc6d03a80668153412217ac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I delete/break a symbolic link in Lion? I've made a symbolic link from my SSD to my HDD incorrectly and want to keep the folder on my SSD. How can I delete or break the symlink? Is there a Terminal command that will delete every symbolic link on my Mac?
A: You can delete the symlink the same way as any other file. It will not follow the link. You can do this in finder by moving the link to the trash, or from the command line using rm path/to/symlink.
Do not attempt to remove all symlinks on your computer. They are used by the system in some places, such as frameworks.
| Q: How do I delete/break a symbolic link in Lion? I've made a symbolic link from my SSD to my HDD incorrectly and want to keep the folder on my SSD. How can I delete or break the symlink? Is there a Terminal command that will delete every symbolic link on my Mac?
A: You can delete the symlink the same way as any other file. It will not follow the link. You can do this in finder by moving the link to the trash, or from the command line using rm path/to/symlink.
Do not attempt to remove all symlinks on your computer. They are used by the system in some places, such as frameworks.
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7023a96622e0e4bc27268994e714631fb8013cf1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use my F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys only for specific apps? I constantly use the brightness, mission control, volume, and iTunes playback shortcuts on my keyboard's function row. However, a handful of apps I use make heavy use of F1, F2, etc. for keyboard shortcuts, and it's annoying having to use something like Fn+F7 all the time for something that was intended to be a single keystroke away.
I can think of a few ways to get around this problem:
*
*Manually reassign any and all keyboard shortcuts that make use of function keys to something else. Ugh.
*Enable the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option in System Preferences, and re-train myself to use Fn whenever I want to use the system shortcuts. Ugh.
*Find a way to enable this option only for certain applications.
Is this possible to do? Are there any third-party apps that can take care of this for me?
A: Fluor is exactly what you're looking for. You can chose either default (the settings you can adjust in your system preferences), apple-keys or function keys.
I hope that was helpful!
| Q: Can I use my F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys only for specific apps? I constantly use the brightness, mission control, volume, and iTunes playback shortcuts on my keyboard's function row. However, a handful of apps I use make heavy use of F1, F2, etc. for keyboard shortcuts, and it's annoying having to use something like Fn+F7 all the time for something that was intended to be a single keystroke away.
I can think of a few ways to get around this problem:
*
*Manually reassign any and all keyboard shortcuts that make use of function keys to something else. Ugh.
*Enable the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option in System Preferences, and re-train myself to use Fn whenever I want to use the system shortcuts. Ugh.
*Find a way to enable this option only for certain applications.
Is this possible to do? Are there any third-party apps that can take care of this for me?
A: Fluor is exactly what you're looking for. You can chose either default (the settings you can adjust in your system preferences), apple-keys or function keys.
I hope that was helpful!
A: Try Palua, I think this is exactly what you're looking for. Costs $0.99 / £0.69 in the Mac App Store.
In MacStories: Control OS X Function Keys with Palua
A: I've seen this application before when I was just browsing, never used it though. It's called FunctionFlip.
FunctionFlip individually controls your MacBook or MacBook Pro's function keys, turning special keys back to regular F-keys, or vice-versa. FunctionFlip is a preference pane; you'll find it in the "Other" category in System Preferences.
A: On the machines with Touch Bar, this is built in: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207240
The built-in system manages external keyboards too, but only when the internal keyboard has a Touch Bar.
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f67b1abc93fe3a1e3fefd9f54ebc5cc2182e4663 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Microsoft Word does not respond to keyboard shortcuts I have a MacBook Pro with Microsoft Word 2011 installed on it.
For some reason, all the editing keyboard shortcuts - such as Cut: Cmd + X, Copy: Cmd + C, and Undo: Cmd + Z - does not work in it.
My friend who also has Microsoft Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro has his keyboard shortcuts working fine.
This situation really hinders my work, what could be the problem?
A: Check in the edit menu and see what MS Word thinks its shortcut keys are for cut, copy, and paste.
If they're not the keys you’re expecting, maybe something was accidentally configured in Word’s preferences, e.g. some alternate key mapping.
Also, verify that there are not alternative key mappings specified in the Mac System Preferences, both system wide and application specific, that may be modifying your shortcut mappings to other keys.
| Q: Microsoft Word does not respond to keyboard shortcuts I have a MacBook Pro with Microsoft Word 2011 installed on it.
For some reason, all the editing keyboard shortcuts - such as Cut: Cmd + X, Copy: Cmd + C, and Undo: Cmd + Z - does not work in it.
My friend who also has Microsoft Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro has his keyboard shortcuts working fine.
This situation really hinders my work, what could be the problem?
A: Check in the edit menu and see what MS Word thinks its shortcut keys are for cut, copy, and paste.
If they're not the keys you’re expecting, maybe something was accidentally configured in Word’s preferences, e.g. some alternate key mapping.
Also, verify that there are not alternative key mappings specified in the Mac System Preferences, both system wide and application specific, that may be modifying your shortcut mappings to other keys.
A: If the configuration of the hot keys disappeared from the Edit menu, you can reconfigure them through the menu "Tools", option "Customize keyboard"
A: My keyboard shortcuts for Copy, Cut, and Paste also disappeared under Mountain Lion. Going to Tools/CustomizeKeyboard did not help (the shortcuts are listed under Keyboard Shortcuts but do not show up on the Edit menu).
The workaround suggested above works. In System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts/Application Shortcuts, you can add Microsoft Excel (use the + key, then in the Application pulldown menu you might have to go to Other and navigate through the Microsoft Office menu to be able to select Excel). Then I just added cmd-c, x, and v. The keyboard shortcuts still do not appear in Excel's edit menu, but the keyboard shortcuts work as they had done previously.
A: Hmm, make sure you're using the "command" + "C" / "V" / "x" in order to copy, paste and cut and not "ctrl" + the keys.
Macs dont respond to "ctrl" + other key shortcuts.
A: Try quitting Microsoft Word (literally quitting...Command+Q)
then reopen and see how it goes. It worked for me.
A: I had the same problem, and I found out how to fix it:
*
*Go to "Tools"
*Click on "Customize Keyboard"
*Choose "Edit"
*Choose "Edit copy"
*Highlight F3 and remove it, leaving ⌘ cmd+C and press OK.
The same is for "Edit cut/paste." You just remove the F4/F3 etc.
A: control panel
all items
language
advanced settings
(tick) let me set a different input method for each app
restart word
DONE
A: Mac-Windows-Word/Excel version: this was my fix
*
*In Word or Excel go to File
*Options
*Customize Ribbon
*Keyboard Shortcuts
*In Categories - All Commands
Then search for CopyText, PasteText etc.
If no current keys then Press new shortcut key box and assign the keys wanted
A: [Note: I'm using Cmd- the same as Cmd+ as you don't actually type the hyphen or plus, and Cmd is the "command" keyboard key. I found the problem using Excel with Office 2011, but it may apply to Word too.)
Cmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-X and maybe others stopped working and the shortcuts weren't displayed in the menu after I was messing around trying to add Paste->Transpose to the tool bar. (In addition, selecting an area and hitting Cmd-C did not display the crawling-ants indication around the selection.)
Give this a try, and it may work. I had flakey results: go to menu View -> Toolbars -> Customize Toolbars and Menus...
In the window that appears the Toolbars and Menus "tab" is displayed (for me).
Check or un-check "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands". (That setting is supposed to show what an icon is supposed to do if you hover the mouse-pointer over it.)
Once I UNchecked that box the shortcuts started working again (after "OK" dismissing the window) and the shortcut keys were displayed in the menus.
BTW, "Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips" is checked for me.
Now as I wrote this posting I found out that Cmd-C stopped working again. I went back in and checked "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands" and Cmd-C started working again. And after more experimentation no matter if I check or un-check "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands" I can't get Cmd-C to copy. (However the Edit menu does show that Cmd+C does "copy to scrapbook".)
So I exited Excel 2011 and went back in and all the shortcuts are again working and "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands" is un-checked. I checked it and the shortcuts continue to work and hovering over an icon displays what function it's supposed to perform.
Therefore, the above may or may not work for you.
I still haven't found a way to make a transpose tool bar shortcut, although I read in another forum that Cmd-E is supposed to paste->transpose, but it doesn't for me. (You can get transpose if you use the Home tab's Paste ribbon pull-down but I'm trying to avoid mousing.) I might have to make a macro for it.
A: I don't have an answer for this problem. But I am having problems with Word 2011 and keyboard shortcuts. I am trying to simply create a shortcut for the function "GotoHeader". I set it to F4. But when I depress F4 Word does nothing at all. Is there a trick to getting the program to recognize these shortcuts?
A: I have MBP with MSO 2011 also and had same problem. Use "control" instead of "command" works.
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2c1c5eddce0948be8d98181a3510ba2ac3e57659 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Installing Ubuntu10.10 on Mac Book Air I tried to install Ubuntu by following this tutorial, however finding out that when I tried to boot Ubuntu it gave me the message operating system missing.
Does anyone has an idea what I should do now, or maybe help in providing another solution?
A: What I did was I installed Windows 7 via BootCamp and then installed Ubuntu via Wubi.
This was a lot simpler than the tutorial that you linked to but it's also more expensive (i.e. you have to purchase a copy of Windows) and you didn't indicate whether that was even desirable.
| Q: Installing Ubuntu10.10 on Mac Book Air I tried to install Ubuntu by following this tutorial, however finding out that when I tried to boot Ubuntu it gave me the message operating system missing.
Does anyone has an idea what I should do now, or maybe help in providing another solution?
A: What I did was I installed Windows 7 via BootCamp and then installed Ubuntu via Wubi.
This was a lot simpler than the tutorial that you linked to but it's also more expensive (i.e. you have to purchase a copy of Windows) and you didn't indicate whether that was even desirable.
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4beed657382cb7e075f4b343b3b5a0df227564ec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Outlook 2011: where are mail message in my archive file stored? I use Outlook to access Exchange. I store old mail in an Outlook Archive folder. I know that Outlook 2011 stores data in /Users/<user>/Documents/Microsoft User Data but where exactly are these Archive emails stored on my computer?
The reason I'm asking is because I want to provide the path to my archive files to my cloud backup program and exclude all the other Outlook files that are available/stored on the Exchange server.
A: Outlook 2011 for MAC stores only the indices in a database file and stores the data records (individual emails) as a series of files nested within folders. The Database file and its folders are located here:
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Database
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Data Records
Adding these path's to your backup strategy should address your issue.
| Q: Outlook 2011: where are mail message in my archive file stored? I use Outlook to access Exchange. I store old mail in an Outlook Archive folder. I know that Outlook 2011 stores data in /Users/<user>/Documents/Microsoft User Data but where exactly are these Archive emails stored on my computer?
The reason I'm asking is because I want to provide the path to my archive files to my cloud backup program and exclude all the other Outlook files that are available/stored on the Exchange server.
A: Outlook 2011 for MAC stores only the indices in a database file and stores the data records (individual emails) as a series of files nested within folders. The Database file and its folders are located here:
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Database
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Data Records
Adding these path's to your backup strategy should address your issue.
A: Try this, it explains it quite well.
http://www.arxnetworks.com/news/tag/backup-emails-in-outlook-for-mac/
Since there is more than one way doing this: here is an alternative that might suit you better.
In the Category create a Archive (if it is not there already).
When reading a email that you want to archive click on the category and select archive.
In the File menu select Export!
Looks like this:
That will make a file where you want it containing only archived emails.
Drawback--> you can not keep adding new emails to the same archived file.
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a064cdfa76788dc48f704125fcc6c2e26489fd49 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use "Capslock" in iOS? On rare occasion I'll want to type a whole word in capital letters, but I can't get the iOS keyboard to "stick" it's shift down. In Android I can hold the Shift key and it'll stay in Shift until I hold it again.
How can I capslock/hold shift in iOS' keyboard? I'm on iOS 5.1
A: Double tap on shift to enable caps lock.
The shift button will turn fully blue to indicate caps lock is enabled:
A glow on the shift arrow after a single tap denotes a normal shift press that is removed after the next keystroke:
| Q: How can I use "Capslock" in iOS? On rare occasion I'll want to type a whole word in capital letters, but I can't get the iOS keyboard to "stick" it's shift down. In Android I can hold the Shift key and it'll stay in Shift until I hold it again.
How can I capslock/hold shift in iOS' keyboard? I'm on iOS 5.1
A: Double tap on shift to enable caps lock.
The shift button will turn fully blue to indicate caps lock is enabled:
A glow on the shift arrow after a single tap denotes a normal shift press that is removed after the next keystroke:
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001f62f77b67b7082d03ba81bc5d093425cec947 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Don't want my email contacts in my contact list My native iPhone Contacts show not only my contacts with phone numbers, but also any email address I’ve ever sent an email to or received an email from. I really would rather not have email contacts save into my contact list automatically. Is there a way to stop this from happening?
A: In Gmail Settings, under General, check the following option:
Then go to Contacts and delete all the Other Contacts that were previously added automatically. Performing this action in Gmail will be faster than on your iPhone because you can select all those contacts with a single click. Then, just wait for the deletions to propagate to your iPhone.
| Q: Don't want my email contacts in my contact list My native iPhone Contacts show not only my contacts with phone numbers, but also any email address I’ve ever sent an email to or received an email from. I really would rather not have email contacts save into my contact list automatically. Is there a way to stop this from happening?
A: In Gmail Settings, under General, check the following option:
Then go to Contacts and delete all the Other Contacts that were previously added automatically. Performing this action in Gmail will be faster than on your iPhone because you can select all those contacts with a single click. Then, just wait for the deletions to propagate to your iPhone.
A: I suspect you the see this behavior since upgrading to iOS 9. Go into Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and deactivate Contacts Found in Mail. In iOS 10 it is found at Settings -> Contacts where you can deactivate Contacts Found in Apps. This option should be above the Import SIM Contacts option.
This option does not really write all the addresses into the contacts, it just sorts found mail addresses to your contacts (where you can explicitly add them to the contacts database if you want). This is not permanent unless you explicitly choose to import individual addresses, so maybe you can leave this on.
A: Go to settings
mail, contacts calendars
select your email account
you will see the tab contacts switch this to OFF.
It will ask you to delete email content in your contact list.
Delete it.
Et voila bye bye emails in contact list.
(just FYI - it will delete ALL contacts even the PHONE contacts you have added!)
A: Tap on Phone icon. Then tap on contacts. In the contacts page on the upper left hand corner there is an icon named Group. Tap on that and then you come to a page where the heading is : Show all contacts and below that there is All iCloud, All Facebook and All Yahoo etc. Just click on All iCloud and press Done on the upper right hand top corner. You will find all the emails vanish from your contacts and only the phone contacts will remain.
Let me know if it helps.
A: I had the same problem but what i have just done (pure trial and error) is to go into Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar and, on each of your accounts, unselect Contacts, then import SIM contacts.
Voilà! No more random email contacts and all the numbers from your SIM! (Not sure how this will effect your email contacts when emailing but you can always sync them again if needed, I guess!)
A: The iOS email contacts are saved into the Contacts app; so, the only way to remove the email addresses from your Contacts app would cause the email addresses not show up in the Mail app. If you are using Gmail, the official Gmail app could be the solution, but I have not used the Gmail app so I cannot be sure.
A: You need to go into your Outlook to your Contact tab and create a folder for business contacts and for personal contacts and separate them accordingly. Then on your iPhone go into your Contacts and hit groups and you can select either folder or both and this should fix your problem.
A: Go to Phone then select Contacts, or select the Contacts app directly. In the upper left corner select Groups, then remove Suggested Contacts from the list of synced contacts.
A: 1) Go to 'settings' --> 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars". Scroll down till you see "import SIM contacts". Click on that to import your phone contacts to your iPhone.
4) On your homepage, click on the Phone icon. On the contacts page, click on the 'Groups' button on the top left. Uncheck all (your email accounts), except for 'All on my iPhone'. Now click 'done', and you're all set! Go to your Contacts app directly and do the same (uncheck all email mailboxes).
If that doesn't work, try doing this:
1) Go to 'settings' --> 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars". Under 'Accounts', access each mailbox and toggle the 'contacts' option to 'off'.
2) On the same page (Mail, Contacts, Calendar), scroll down till you see "import SIM contacts". Click on that to import your phone contacts to your iPhone.
3) Now, scroll back up to 'Accounts' and toggle the 'contacts' option of all the mailboxes back to "on".
4) Go back to your homepage and click on the Phone icon. On the contacts page, click on the 'Groups' button on the top left. Uncheck all (your email accounts), except for 'All on my iPhone'. Now click 'done', and you're all set! Go to your contacts app directly and do the same (uncheck all email mailboxes).
A: I use my iPhone 5 for work and it syncs with my Outlook on my Windows PC/laptop. When I went to settings and turned off the Contacts switch for the email account it deleted all my contacts. Not a good thing. Instead, I went into Contacts and selected Groups at the top of the screen. I then deseleted Suggested Contacts. Now only the contacts that I input show up and all the random email addresses that I sent an email to once are hidden. They are still there in Suggested Contacts if I want to see them.
A: I was reading all of these and started to follow the path as I too had loads of email junk contacts. Once I opened the Contact page and clicked groups I noticed three choices... All exchanges: Contact: suggested contacts. I clicked the work contacts and the other options no longer have checks next to them. Voila all the junk is gone and only my outlook contacts remain.
A: Let's keep it simple, if you sync with your work Exchange outlook contacts, click on the "Phone" icon on your Iphone, in the upper left corner of the screen click on "Groups", under "EXCHANGE" make sure only "contacts" is checked. If you have "All Exchange" checked, it will load all the email addresses as contacts in your IPhone directory.
A: Install 'Delete Contacts' App free from the app store > scroll down to smart filters > scroll down and find 'no phone' > click on this and all the contact with no phone numbers will show up > delete them all and > go back to contacts and sync... all done.
A: Tap Contacts, Groups , then un-tick 'All yahoo'. that's all
A: Happened when I started using gmail. This worked (pasted from above):
Tap on Phone icon. Then tap on contacts. In the contacts page on the upper left hand corner there is an icon named Group. Tap on that and then you come to a page where the heading is : Show all contacts and below that there is All iCloud, All Facebook and All Yahoo etc. Just click on All iCloud and press Done on the upper right hand top corner. You will find all the emails vanish from your contacts and only the phone contacts will remain.
Let me know if it helps.
Thanks,
A: I actually solved the problem on my iPhone 5s by going to Contacts, Groups, then I clicked on my email address only. It removed all my email addresses from the contacts, but kept the rest, so I didn't have to import contacts from my SIM or do anything else for that matter.
A: Contacts > Groups > uncheck any email servers (make sure there's still a check by your icloud settings). Only contacts you would have entered manually to your phone and backed up via icloud will be there.
A: Go to Contacts app. On the left side at the top you will find Groups. If you select ‘Show all contacts’ you will have all the accounts of contacts, whereas if you select only the iCloud option you will only have phone contacts.
A: Just done it, contacts, groups and check the ones you want to hide so in my case Outlook contacts, click done and they disappeared.
A: Its correct that you can click on Groups and then uncheck suggested contacts and it fixes the problem. However, in 15 or 20 min (Im assuming this is when the phone syncs back to exchange server) the suggested contracts gets checked again and the problem is back. Im not sure how to stop it from checking itself back on.
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447c2e218dd93542a022dc9e63282a7c4b249098 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: is there an App that can extracts parts of a mp3 file without re-encoding the file? I have a big (one hour) mp3 file and want to make one mp3 for song or section of the big mp3, without re-encoding.
Would be great to have a UI that permits the selection of the sections that I want to save as individual mp3s.
I want to know if is at all possible to do it without re-encoding the file section again.
A: Sounds like Rogue Ameoba's Fission should do what you want:
With Fission's streamlined audio editing, you can quickly copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files. Fission also works with compressed MP3 and AAC formats to edit without the quality loss caused by other editors. Get perfect quality audio when editing natively in the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV formats.
| Q: is there an App that can extracts parts of a mp3 file without re-encoding the file? I have a big (one hour) mp3 file and want to make one mp3 for song or section of the big mp3, without re-encoding.
Would be great to have a UI that permits the selection of the sections that I want to save as individual mp3s.
I want to know if is at all possible to do it without re-encoding the file section again.
A: Sounds like Rogue Ameoba's Fission should do what you want:
With Fission's streamlined audio editing, you can quickly copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files. Fission also works with compressed MP3 and AAC formats to edit without the quality loss caused by other editors. Get perfect quality audio when editing natively in the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV formats.
A: I decided to go with Magic Cutter because was on the AppStore and does the split very easy.
I would like to have used the Mp3splt Project but was lazy to see how I could install it on my Mac.
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68343d07fb335db1b14e13bc0a27a42d5d654c1e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does iTunes save iOS updates? When I choose to install a new version of iOS on my device via iTunes, the installation file is huge (e.g. 750 MB). Where does iTunes save this file, and does it get deleted after the installation is done?
A: On Mac, you can delete the iOS firmware by going to Finder, pressing ⌘ cmd + ⇧ shift + G and go to ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates. From there, you can delete the files.
You don't have to delete them unless you are short on disk space, as they get replaced by newly downloaded files whenever there is an upgrade.
| Q: Where does iTunes save iOS updates? When I choose to install a new version of iOS on my device via iTunes, the installation file is huge (e.g. 750 MB). Where does iTunes save this file, and does it get deleted after the installation is done?
A: On Mac, you can delete the iOS firmware by going to Finder, pressing ⌘ cmd + ⇧ shift + G and go to ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates. From there, you can delete the files.
You don't have to delete them unless you are short on disk space, as they get replaced by newly downloaded files whenever there is an upgrade.
A: On Windows XP
Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates
On Windows Vista/Windows 7
Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates
Windows 8/10
\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\
Windows 10 (latest)
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\AppleInc.iTunes_nzyj5cx40ttqa\LocalCache\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates
On Mac
~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates
I believe that the updates do not delete after they are installed.
Via this iPhone FAQ article.
A: C:\ProgramData\Apple Computer\iTunes
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3096989146adaa3b7c20e45029b26ab05d7287af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to delete ipsw files? I just updated my iPod Touch to iOS 5.1. During the process, iTunes downloaded a 750MB file: ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates/iPod4,1_5.1_9B176_Restore.ipsw. I have no use for this file anymore, and it's just using up my limited disk space, so I want to get rid of it.
Questions:
*
*Will this file ever get deleted automatically, or will it stay there
indefinitely?
*Is there any GUI command in iTunes that will delete all such files?
*Is it safe to manually delete this file?
*If I manually delete it, will I be able to easily download it again if I ever do need it?
Update: Ipsw files now appear in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Software Images, and they take up 1+ GB.
A: *
*I think that old .ispws will eventually get deleted, depending on the quantity and version.
*I don't think there are any commands
*Yes, it shouldn't harm your computer or device in any way.
*Yes, by using Felix Burns or if you click restore iPhone, let iTunes download the *.ispw, but eject before it can restore (this worked for me once, but I can't be certain, so don't loose all of your data!).
| Q: Is it safe to delete ipsw files? I just updated my iPod Touch to iOS 5.1. During the process, iTunes downloaded a 750MB file: ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates/iPod4,1_5.1_9B176_Restore.ipsw. I have no use for this file anymore, and it's just using up my limited disk space, so I want to get rid of it.
Questions:
*
*Will this file ever get deleted automatically, or will it stay there
indefinitely?
*Is there any GUI command in iTunes that will delete all such files?
*Is it safe to manually delete this file?
*If I manually delete it, will I be able to easily download it again if I ever do need it?
Update: Ipsw files now appear in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Software Images, and they take up 1+ GB.
A: *
*I think that old .ispws will eventually get deleted, depending on the quantity and version.
*I don't think there are any commands
*Yes, it shouldn't harm your computer or device in any way.
*Yes, by using Felix Burns or if you click restore iPhone, let iTunes download the *.ispw, but eject before it can restore (this worked for me once, but I can't be certain, so don't loose all of your data!).
A: According to this website, it is recommended to get rid of all the old ipsw's, but to keep the most recent ones.
Every major iOS update for each type of device synced to your computer is retained. So if you have an iPhone 3G, a second-generation iPod touch, iPhone 4, and an iPad, you'll have all the updates for each of those devices, because the updated content for each device or generation of a device is different. Obviously, this can add up to a large amount of space over time with even a single device. So getting rid of older (but not the most recent) update files can free a lot of space.
For duplicate iOS versions (e.g. such as betas) usually searching for the build number on Google will let you know which version of the OS it is (e.g. search for 9B176 in the original example).
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996154268816279dd1bd2b46dbab508bff66ad14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011? When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of contents item in Preview or Skim, it doesn't jump to the page containing the content for that item.
In contrast when I save the same document to PDF in Word 2010 (the Windows version), the PDF table of contents hyperlinks are created and works fine both on Windows (Acrobat Reader) and on the Mac (Preview and Skim).
Is there a configuration option that I'm missing in Word 2011? How to get Word 2011 to generate the table of contents PDF links? I've tried printing the document to PDF but it didn't work.
| Q: Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011? When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of contents item in Preview or Skim, it doesn't jump to the page containing the content for that item.
In contrast when I save the same document to PDF in Word 2010 (the Windows version), the PDF table of contents hyperlinks are created and works fine both on Windows (Acrobat Reader) and on the Mac (Preview and Skim).
Is there a configuration option that I'm missing in Word 2011? How to get Word 2011 to generate the table of contents PDF links? I've tried printing the document to PDF but it didn't work.
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368a475667daebaba20b48b971b4db7a7bd7fc0f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Running custom software on an Airport Extreme base station? Is it possible to run custom software on an Airport Extreme base station?
I've read it has a MIPS processor inside. So, can one put some software compiled for MIPS (addtionally to the already present printing and file-sharing services) on a connected hard drive (or install it), and then run it in the base station?
I'm thinking about the possibility of running a torrent-client on the base station, or an FTP-server, or, perhaps, a Coda filesystem server, and the like.
A: Currently there is no way to jailbreak either an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule.
Whilst they are probably in the same order of difficulty as jailbreaking as say an iOS device, no one has really spent any effort on doing so.
Personally I think this is probably for the following reasons:
*
*limited target audience (low numbers of product in the world)
*limited 3rd party development support
| Q: Running custom software on an Airport Extreme base station? Is it possible to run custom software on an Airport Extreme base station?
I've read it has a MIPS processor inside. So, can one put some software compiled for MIPS (addtionally to the already present printing and file-sharing services) on a connected hard drive (or install it), and then run it in the base station?
I'm thinking about the possibility of running a torrent-client on the base station, or an FTP-server, or, perhaps, a Coda filesystem server, and the like.
A: Currently there is no way to jailbreak either an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule.
Whilst they are probably in the same order of difficulty as jailbreaking as say an iOS device, no one has really spent any effort on doing so.
Personally I think this is probably for the following reasons:
*
*limited target audience (low numbers of product in the world)
*limited 3rd party development support
A: You can already ftp to it without hacking it.
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fb669365098fb32694eafc5f23cb80c4907d084b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to recover deleted voicemail from iPhone 4S? I have the iPhone 4S. This morning, I had 2 unheard voicemails. I attempted to listen to them but no sound was delivered and the progress bar did not move. A few minutes later I looked down and my messages were no longer there. Is there any way to recover these deleted voicemails?
A: If you did actually delete the voicemail, a new cell should have appeared if you scroll to the bottom of your voicemails.
Then, tap on Deleted Messages, and you should get this screen:
Now, tap on the voicemail that you would like to delete, and press Undelete:
Hope this helps!
| Q: How to recover deleted voicemail from iPhone 4S? I have the iPhone 4S. This morning, I had 2 unheard voicemails. I attempted to listen to them but no sound was delivered and the progress bar did not move. A few minutes later I looked down and my messages were no longer there. Is there any way to recover these deleted voicemails?
A: If you did actually delete the voicemail, a new cell should have appeared if you scroll to the bottom of your voicemails.
Then, tap on Deleted Messages, and you should get this screen:
Now, tap on the voicemail that you would like to delete, and press Undelete:
Hope this helps!
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2ac01ffd370b41d7651500989ab42508df28a719 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Extract an image file of my signature from Preview? The Preview application in OS X Lion includes the ability to take a screen capture of your written signature and save it for later application in to any PDF file.
Where does Preview store the image file for this signature? Is it possible to extract the signature for use in another application like Adobe Reader?
A: It appears that Preview stores the signature files in an undocumented, encrypted form directly in the Keychain. Without hacking their encryption and storage format, the file cannot be extracted...
but if you can make the signature appear on screen, you can capture a screen shot of said signature, and use that file in another application.
| Q: Extract an image file of my signature from Preview? The Preview application in OS X Lion includes the ability to take a screen capture of your written signature and save it for later application in to any PDF file.
Where does Preview store the image file for this signature? Is it possible to extract the signature for use in another application like Adobe Reader?
A: It appears that Preview stores the signature files in an undocumented, encrypted form directly in the Keychain. Without hacking their encryption and storage format, the file cannot be extracted...
but if you can make the signature appear on screen, you can capture a screen shot of said signature, and use that file in another application.
A: This solution worked for me using 10.8.2 (mountain lion).
A: *
*Insert your signature in preview on a blank part of a pdf page
*Press Shift+Command+4 to choose image for a screen shot
*Use the + that appears on screen to choose the signature for as your screen shot
*Open the screen shot and export as pdf, save
You now have a pdf of your signature that can be used, for example, in Adobe Acrobat.
A: You can alternatively try to insert your signature in a blank pdf document, crop to take only your signature and then save the document as a PNG file.
FYI, it's seems that the signature is stored in a .plist file.
The file name is "com.apple.Preview.signatures.plist" and it's in folder : /Users/YourAccount/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/
Hope this helps !
A: *
*Open transparent png file with Preview.
*Add your signature.
*Export file as png with Alpha channel.
A: Probably easiest just to scan in a new signature into an image file? Or take a photo of it.
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5887fdc8ebb3f4747b457d2bc378209f57c1ae3d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X/ iOS Password Managers So I have been reading some articles today and I see the 1Password app coming up a lot. Is there anything special with it? I am currently using Wallet for both OS X and iOS and it does its job quite well. I was just curious because Wallet got 23 reviews while 1Password seems to be a lot more popular.
Is there anything making that app better than its competitors?
A: 1Password started as OS X-only, so it's more popular among long-time Mac/iOS users. Their Mac/iOS support should (theoretically) be better because it's their original platform.
That said, I use LastPass on OS X and iOS (and, occasionally, Windows and WebOS) and I'm quite happy with it. I haven't heard of any one cloud password management being significantly particularly better than its competitors nowadays.
| Q: OS X/ iOS Password Managers So I have been reading some articles today and I see the 1Password app coming up a lot. Is there anything special with it? I am currently using Wallet for both OS X and iOS and it does its job quite well. I was just curious because Wallet got 23 reviews while 1Password seems to be a lot more popular.
Is there anything making that app better than its competitors?
A: 1Password started as OS X-only, so it's more popular among long-time Mac/iOS users. Their Mac/iOS support should (theoretically) be better because it's their original platform.
That said, I use LastPass on OS X and iOS (and, occasionally, Windows and WebOS) and I'm quite happy with it. I haven't heard of any one cloud password management being significantly particularly better than its competitors nowadays.
A: Caveat: I'm not familiar with Wallet.
After reading this article, my guess is the reason why users prefer 1Password is because of its browser integration and ability to auto-fill web login forms and the like depending on browser URL. This is one of 1Password's key selling feature.
Evidently Wallet does have some form of auto-fill, but it only supports Safari. 1Password supports nearly every major Mac browser. Also, according to that article, you have to type in your password every time you visit a new site and need to login. It may be more secure this way, but I'm sure most people prefer to automatically login if they have unlocked their keychain (which of course can be locked after a set period of inactivity.)
If I'm reading Wallet's homepage correctly, for device-to-device synchronization, a premium subscription is required. The data is then synched to Moxier's servers. 1Password uses the popular Dropbox (referral link) service for its synchronization, and is therefore free. (A basic Dropbox account includes 2 GB of free space.)
So, for those two reasons alone (easy web logins on every browser, free device-to-device synchronization) I would not replace 1Password with Wallet. If you don't require these features, keep on truckin'.
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307bd0da42486cf7348ad8c790f405d366f85b43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to select all similar files in an directory If I want to view images I made with my camera using Preview, I have to select all files separately. Because when I select all files (cmd + a) all the videos I made get selected (and opened in Quicktime) too.
So I was wondering how I can select only the images in a certain directory?
A: You can use the Search feature in Finder to limit the view in a specific folder to search criteria that matches what's in the search field. One of the criteria you can search on is kind. In the screen shot below I start typing kind:jpeg in the search field and you see that Finder presents me with a drop down list that includes JPEG Image. I select this from the list and I'll see only files of that kind. To limit the filter to just this folder I make sure the Downloads view is clicked on the Search: area just about the list of files instead of This Mac.
Once you've searched and filtered your view this way, you can select all to perform an operation on files that match that search.
| Q: How to select all similar files in an directory If I want to view images I made with my camera using Preview, I have to select all files separately. Because when I select all files (cmd + a) all the videos I made get selected (and opened in Quicktime) too.
So I was wondering how I can select only the images in a certain directory?
A: You can use the Search feature in Finder to limit the view in a specific folder to search criteria that matches what's in the search field. One of the criteria you can search on is kind. In the screen shot below I start typing kind:jpeg in the search field and you see that Finder presents me with a drop down list that includes JPEG Image. I select this from the list and I'll see only files of that kind. To limit the filter to just this folder I make sure the Downloads view is clicked on the Search: area just about the list of files instead of This Mac.
Once you've searched and filtered your view this way, you can select all to perform an operation on files that match that search.
A: If all of the images have the same extension the following command (when run in Terminal.app) will search your directory for files with that specific extension and open them in Preview.
find /yourdir -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec open -a /Applications/Preview.app {} \;
If you want to search through multiple directories and not stop at the root directory (in this case "yourdir" you can remove the "-maxdepth 1" portion.
If you want to search for multiple file extensions (jpg and tif) use the following command.
find /yourdir -maxdepth 1 -type f \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.tif' \) -exec open -a /Applications/Preview.app {} \;
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019c66a24e86d9a3c5923dd568cb7799e9fc950a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Ubiquity process root certificate not valid What are com.apple.ubiquity.... certificates in keychain? I have three of them and the Keychain access warns me that their root certificates are invalid. I previously had little snitch asking me about Ubiquity(ubd process) wanting to connect to configuration.apple.com. Anybody has any ideas about it? There are also other processes like AWACS that try to connect to Apple servers.
A: The certificates are probably self signed certificates that get generated to make each mac unique and avoid sending data in the clear between macs and macs/apple servers performing iCloud services.
As for the processes you mentioned, these belong to iCloud and back to my mac location services and are part of a normal installation of Lion. You'd need to checksum / verify binaries to be sure you are safe, but the presence of them shouldn't be startling as they are normal processes on Macs.
| Q: Ubiquity process root certificate not valid What are com.apple.ubiquity.... certificates in keychain? I have three of them and the Keychain access warns me that their root certificates are invalid. I previously had little snitch asking me about Ubiquity(ubd process) wanting to connect to configuration.apple.com. Anybody has any ideas about it? There are also other processes like AWACS that try to connect to Apple servers.
A: The certificates are probably self signed certificates that get generated to make each mac unique and avoid sending data in the clear between macs and macs/apple servers performing iCloud services.
As for the processes you mentioned, these belong to iCloud and back to my mac location services and are part of a normal installation of Lion. You'd need to checksum / verify binaries to be sure you are safe, but the presence of them shouldn't be startling as they are normal processes on Macs.
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68afa1238aec936a5e4082bde8b03c9fc5b796c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Delete swap partition I made a swap partition to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Air 2011, but now I want to clean all the partitions up. However, I can't delete the "swap partition" in Disk Utility. Can anyone help me?
A: You should be able to use a tool, such as a GParted Live CD, to delete the swap file partition and resize the OS X partition afterwards.
Per this Apple discussion forum that covered this topic:
I believe that you can do it with a Live GParted CD.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Boot with the Live CD in the drive and delete the swap partition. You
may even be able to resize the OS X partition with GParted afterwards.
Alternately, back up all of your data and applications and wipe/repartition the main drive and install OS X from scratch. Takes a bit longer, but will give you a fresh OS X installation.
| Q: Delete swap partition I made a swap partition to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Air 2011, but now I want to clean all the partitions up. However, I can't delete the "swap partition" in Disk Utility. Can anyone help me?
A: You should be able to use a tool, such as a GParted Live CD, to delete the swap file partition and resize the OS X partition afterwards.
Per this Apple discussion forum that covered this topic:
I believe that you can do it with a Live GParted CD.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Boot with the Live CD in the drive and delete the swap partition. You
may even be able to resize the OS X partition with GParted afterwards.
Alternately, back up all of your data and applications and wipe/repartition the main drive and install OS X from scratch. Takes a bit longer, but will give you a fresh OS X installation.
A: To delete swap partition go to disk utility. Select that partition, and choose erase from top right. From the the format options choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and press erase. This will erase everything on that partition. Now go to Apple SSD (or whatever is the hard drive where this partition is), choose partition. In the partition menu on the left hand side there will be all the partitions, choose the swap partition and press the "-" (minus) sign at the bottom. This will delete that partition. Then you can just pull and drag the mac partition to resize it. Hope it helps.
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022e8f4be150ac18a4610b3f35418f00282c79c5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I move a window to my secondary monitor above the menu bar? I just bought a second monitor which I've placed on a stand above my macbook. It seems to be working great but I can't move any application windows on to it because it's also above the menu bar. Is there a way to be able to move windows above the menu bar to the secondary monitor without having to put the menu bar on it too?
A: I had the same problem with a secondary display that was at a lower resolution than my MBP display. OS X would not let me drag a window above the menu bar UNLESS I resized it so that it was small enough to be entirely contained within the smaller resolution of my secondary display. When I did that, it worked every time.
| Q: How do I move a window to my secondary monitor above the menu bar? I just bought a second monitor which I've placed on a stand above my macbook. It seems to be working great but I can't move any application windows on to it because it's also above the menu bar. Is there a way to be able to move windows above the menu bar to the secondary monitor without having to put the menu bar on it too?
A: I had the same problem with a secondary display that was at a lower resolution than my MBP display. OS X would not let me drag a window above the menu bar UNLESS I resized it so that it was small enough to be entirely contained within the smaller resolution of my secondary display. When I did that, it worked every time.
A: SOLUTION: Move your mouse, while dragging a window, up through the menubar faster.
*
*Go to System Preferences -> Display.
*Select the Arrangement tab, and arrange the secondary monitor so that it sits on top of your MacBook monitor.
You should be able to move your application window up to the secondary monitor now.
As mentioned in the comments, if the menu bar is blocking you from moving windows up to your secondary monitor: go to the Arrangement tab and drag the little menubar representation from one screen to the other. (The solution says drag the window THROUGH the menu bar FASTER i.e. quickly. This works!!)
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23320cf1e3fc5af3ae56efa875bf7c8ad0e3fab2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Error message "iPod is disabled. Try again in 22,236,924 minutes." I think my son was trying to guess the passcode! What do I do?
I can't wait 42 years!
A: No harm done, that is if you have a backup on iTunes.
The Apple Support pages tell you can reset the block by restoring it within iTunes.
If you cannot remember the passcode, you will need to restore your
device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows
you to reset your passcode and resync the data from the device (or
restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that
was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the
device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be
present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
software.
| Q: Error message "iPod is disabled. Try again in 22,236,924 minutes." I think my son was trying to guess the passcode! What do I do?
I can't wait 42 years!
A: No harm done, that is if you have a backup on iTunes.
The Apple Support pages tell you can reset the block by restoring it within iTunes.
If you cannot remember the passcode, you will need to restore your
device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows
you to reset your passcode and resync the data from the device (or
restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that
was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the
device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be
present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
software.
A: This happened to me when I plugged my iPod Touch to my work computer to charge it. I unplugged it and hooked it up to my personal laptop (the computer with the iTunes account that it is synced to) and it let me put in my password to unlock it! :)
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