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5b9305b52b2ec07ef94ca25a3f71197f7523e6d0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I don't want to lose my data on my iPhone, can someone help? I got an iPhone 4S not too long ago, maybe a month or so. I already have it set up and I bought all of my music on iTunes. I am getting a MacBook Pro soon, and I want to load the music I have on my phone onto the MacBook without deleting all of my data on my phone. Is this possible? It would be really helpful.
A: Just open iTunes, sign into the store, and you can download purchases directly from the store from your new Mac. No need to plug the phone into the computer and no risk of erasing your phone.
| Q: I don't want to lose my data on my iPhone, can someone help? I got an iPhone 4S not too long ago, maybe a month or so. I already have it set up and I bought all of my music on iTunes. I am getting a MacBook Pro soon, and I want to load the music I have on my phone onto the MacBook without deleting all of my data on my phone. Is this possible? It would be really helpful.
A: Just open iTunes, sign into the store, and you can download purchases directly from the store from your new Mac. No need to plug the phone into the computer and no risk of erasing your phone.
A: So long as you are using the same Apple ID on your Mac as you are using on your phone then anything you purchase through iTunes will be available on both devices. You can administer your Apple ID at https://appleid.apple.com/
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d7ed28e8bd7b0efe981a619da9a3ac746773781a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make/receive Google Voice calls in Mountain Lion? I use Google Voice as my main line now adays. However, having to leave Google Chrome open and logged into Gmail is getting in my way...
I was wondering if anyone has a way to get these calls to go to a VOIP app that is installed on the computer. Does such software exist?
A: Use Fluid to create a site specific browser, log into gmail/gtalk uisng the mailbox of your google voice account. Then convert the SSB to a Menu item. That way it stays active and you never lose track of the soft phone - It's always on the menu when you want to dial or answer a call. Oh, you need to add your google chat as one of the phones you use with Google voice.
| Q: How can I make/receive Google Voice calls in Mountain Lion? I use Google Voice as my main line now adays. However, having to leave Google Chrome open and logged into Gmail is getting in my way...
I was wondering if anyone has a way to get these calls to go to a VOIP app that is installed on the computer. Does such software exist?
A: Use Fluid to create a site specific browser, log into gmail/gtalk uisng the mailbox of your google voice account. Then convert the SSB to a Menu item. That way it stays active and you never lose track of the soft phone - It's always on the menu when you want to dial or answer a call. Oh, you need to add your google chat as one of the phones you use with Google voice.
A: The telephone app in the app store is a great one to use, i'm using it in mountain lion and it works perfectly, was by far the easiest softphone I've ever set up. http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/telephone/id406825478?mt=12
A: If you use Google's browser, Chrome, then you can install the "Chat for Google" extension.
Beside installing the "extension" through the Google Chrome Web Store it requires no configuration because it automatically signs you in unless you're already signed into your Google Account.
It only runs while Chrome is running, which is disappointing, so if you close Chrome that service will quit as well. But if you use Chrome as your primary browser I suppose that doesn't matter.
Also, it displays a window of contacts from your Google account, acting as a chat service. You can close the contacts list, but I'm not sure if you can silent the incoming chats (which is desirable if you use Messages for your chat client).
I happily receive and dial calls from the application though!
A: The Telephone App for OS X does work with both Sipgate One and CallCentric. http://www.tlphn.com/ or Via the Mac App Store. You'll need to set your Google Voice number to forward to the SIP number you register with one of those SIP providers. It is a very good lightweight VOIP (softphone) app and it is free. Blink used to be free but now it is no longer.
A separate but quality non-free notification ($4.99) utility for Google Voice and OS X is GrowlVoice, http://www.growlvoice.com/. It is quite similar to what Google offers for Chrome as the GV Extension (on Chrome Store) but seems to play more seamlessly with OS X and Growl notifications. And it has the added benefit of always running in the system bar, so if you close Chrome you'll still see SMS notifications. Telephone.app doesn't to offer this though, which would be nice, as a sort of integrated system bar icon to know when your GV/SIP phone is ringing.
A third alternative would be to pay Skype for incoming/outgoing forwarding. Skype "Premium" is $30 per channel for unlimited calling (in/out) so a total of $60/year to use it in both directions. Skype of course is a bit larger and more cumbersome of a program and also has pretty bad contact management integration in OS X.
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1737725f89e9761c9aa4e0fb58fc18c597bcd13d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the difference between real memory and CPU, and what are there effects on the performance of my computer? In Activity Monitor, there are a couple fields: "PID", "Process Name", "User", "%CPU", "Threads", "Real Mem", and "Kind". I'm not familiar with the inner workings of computers and the related technical terms, but I've always thought the "%CPU" and "Real Mem" would be synonymous. However, when I look the running processes in Activity Monitor, I see this:
Evident from the image, "Real Mem" and "%CPU" are not synonymous.
What's the difference between real memory and CPU, and what are there effects on the performance of my computer?
A: CPU is the Central Processing Unit. It's an Intel microprocessor. It performs calculations (or more precisely, computations).
Memory is temporary data storage space used by active processes being executed by the CPU.
If we were talking about cars the CPU would be the engine and the memory would be the seats (or possibly the cup holder).
| Q: What's the difference between real memory and CPU, and what are there effects on the performance of my computer? In Activity Monitor, there are a couple fields: "PID", "Process Name", "User", "%CPU", "Threads", "Real Mem", and "Kind". I'm not familiar with the inner workings of computers and the related technical terms, but I've always thought the "%CPU" and "Real Mem" would be synonymous. However, when I look the running processes in Activity Monitor, I see this:
Evident from the image, "Real Mem" and "%CPU" are not synonymous.
What's the difference between real memory and CPU, and what are there effects on the performance of my computer?
A: CPU is the Central Processing Unit. It's an Intel microprocessor. It performs calculations (or more precisely, computations).
Memory is temporary data storage space used by active processes being executed by the CPU.
If we were talking about cars the CPU would be the engine and the memory would be the seats (or possibly the cup holder).
A: To answer your question about performance, it really depends on what you're wanting to do.
CPU: To put it simply, CPU speed defines how quickly your computer can process data.
As you're asking the question in a Mac forum I'll assume you want to by a mac. The most basic MacBook Air laptop has 1.7GHZ dual core processor, which means it has two 1.7GHZ processors. For basic computing this is more than enough, but if you wanted to do something a bit more labour intensive, say photo editing or graphic design or high end gaming, it'd probably be a bit slow.
If you look at the slightly more advanced machines apple has on offer like the macbook pros or the iMacs then the processors are more in the 2.5GHZ - 2.9GHZ range, this is plenty for most high end applications.
Finally the top of the range machines are the Mac Pros. They have quad core, 8 core and 12 core options upward of 3.2GHZ. These are great machines if you have the money and will make photoshop run a little faster, but not really a necessity unless you want to do some really high end stuff like Animation or complex video editing.
Memory: Memory consists of what can be considered your long term memory (your hard drive) which is sometimes called "storage" and your short term memory or RAM (stands for Random Access Memory if you're geeky enough to be interested) which is what the term "memory" is normally referring to.
Ram controls how much your computer can store in the short term to process. Most basic PC's and the most basic macbook airs come with 2 gigs of ram nowadays which is more than enough for basic applications. However, again if you're looking to do photo editing or graphic design or online gaming then you really should be looking at between 4g and 8g otherwise your computer won't have enough memory to process lots of different functions at the same time.
And of course, if you're a budding Peter Jackson about to make the next lord of the rings film and you need to be able to render an army of mediaeval monstors, then the mac pro ranges from 16g to 64g of ram.
Hope this answers your question better.
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ac2b2da976d24449f9aaba2537e5b0a7620b4732 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Music lags after pause I'm listening to music on my iPhone. For some reason I need to pause it, so I press the button on my iPhone earbud thingies. Then when I start the music up again, it very often lags like crazy. The music played fine before, but after I resume, it's just impossible to listen to. Take up my phone and turn on the screen and lagging often goes away. Turn the screen off again and lagging sometimes comes back. Sometimes not.
Anyone else experienced this? Any idea what's going on? Could understand it if there was some rough process hogging resources in the back, but I mean, it plays fine until I press pause and I don't touch anything else until I resume it.
It happens with both the Music app and the Spotify app.
| Q: Music lags after pause I'm listening to music on my iPhone. For some reason I need to pause it, so I press the button on my iPhone earbud thingies. Then when I start the music up again, it very often lags like crazy. The music played fine before, but after I resume, it's just impossible to listen to. Take up my phone and turn on the screen and lagging often goes away. Turn the screen off again and lagging sometimes comes back. Sometimes not.
Anyone else experienced this? Any idea what's going on? Could understand it if there was some rough process hogging resources in the back, but I mean, it plays fine until I press pause and I don't touch anything else until I resume it.
It happens with both the Music app and the Spotify app.
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ed1c4f5aee087e17d6cace4730f4df47e767c6eb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fast user switching: how to prevent volumes from being unmounted? I have a volume mounted. If I switch to another user, this volume gets dismounted. The problem is that I want this volume to be available for every user (but putting it in their login items is not the solution I'm looking for), so: how can this behavior be prevented?
(I'm on Mountain Lion)
A: You can stop Mac OS X unmounting user disks on log-out. This behaviour is controlled with a default (preference).
In this discussion on the Apple Support Community, Király shares the appropriate command to issue:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES
This command needs to be entered into Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app. Aftwards you must restart your Mac for the change to take effect.
Note that the autodiskmount tool has been replaced by automountd; it is possible Mac OS X 10.8 has migrated this default to another file.
You may also find this Super User question useful, Automount external hard drive on Mac.
| Q: Fast user switching: how to prevent volumes from being unmounted? I have a volume mounted. If I switch to another user, this volume gets dismounted. The problem is that I want this volume to be available for every user (but putting it in their login items is not the solution I'm looking for), so: how can this behavior be prevented?
(I'm on Mountain Lion)
A: You can stop Mac OS X unmounting user disks on log-out. This behaviour is controlled with a default (preference).
In this discussion on the Apple Support Community, Király shares the appropriate command to issue:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES
This command needs to be entered into Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app. Aftwards you must restart your Mac for the change to take effect.
Note that the autodiskmount tool has been replaced by automountd; it is possible Mac OS X 10.8 has migrated this default to another file.
You may also find this Super User question useful, Automount external hard drive on Mac.
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38e09e627bd23bf44ce0826a6638fbe0ae32ec41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get Network drive shortcuts added to the Finder sidebar in Mountain Lion? I updated to Mountain Lion from Lion and I noticed that my network drives are no longer shown in Finder's sidebar under Devices.
Under preferences I have all checkboxes ticked. And when I click on "My MacBook Pro" I see the Network drives mounted but when I drag them to Devices (like I used to in Lion) they don't "stick".
Can I only get shortcuts by adding them to my favorites? And even there they get lost when I restart my computer.
A: This is a bug in Mountain Lion for which there seems to be no fix as yet. If you eject the network folder then re-connect it will appear in the sidebar but next time you login it will be gone.
| Q: How can I get Network drive shortcuts added to the Finder sidebar in Mountain Lion? I updated to Mountain Lion from Lion and I noticed that my network drives are no longer shown in Finder's sidebar under Devices.
Under preferences I have all checkboxes ticked. And when I click on "My MacBook Pro" I see the Network drives mounted but when I drag them to Devices (like I used to in Lion) they don't "stick".
Can I only get shortcuts by adding them to my favorites? And even there they get lost when I restart my computer.
A: This is a bug in Mountain Lion for which there seems to be no fix as yet. If you eject the network folder then re-connect it will appear in the sidebar but next time you login it will be gone.
A: Thanks for the answers. This is definitely a bug that hopefully Apple will fix!!
The solution that works for me (more of a workaround) is that you need to have a finder window opened before you mount any network shares.
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*Drag your network shares to the 'Devices' section in the sidebar (they wont stick this is ok for now)
*Close all programs and windows
*Open a new Finder window ⌘N (doesnt matter where)
*Log off then log in again (you dont need to reboot)
*Viola!
(On some machines with lots of startup items, I dragged 'Macintosh HD' into the list before any items to mount shares.)
This has worked for me on multiple ML machines using regular SMB shares, and software managed shares (AvidISIS).
Unfortunately you still do need to remember to keep a finder window open when you shutdown. But in our case most machines stay on, and if I have to reboot or i suffer a crash then it takes less than 20 seconds to open a finder, log off and log back on again. Small price to pay to have the rest of the day with a usable sidebar :p
Credit to rizion216 for finding the workound
A: Here is the fix:
Mac OS X can open or execute designated login items immediately after you log in to your computer. To make a server connection a login item, follow the steps below:
Note: After following the below steps and the "Connect to Server" dialog box appears on startup, type your name and password, or choose Guest access, then click Connect. Make sure to remember the credentials in your Keychain if you don't want to be asked for the login and password every time.
For Mac OS X v10.4, v10.5, and v10.6 and apparently 10.8 (tested it myself April 2013)
From the Finder menu, choose Preferences. Under "Show these items on the Desktop,"enable the option for "Connected servers."
Connect to the server volume(s) you would like to automatically mount at login.
Open System Preferences.
Select the Accounts preference pane
Under your user: Click the Login Items tab.
Drag the volume(s) from the Finder into the Login Items list in the System Preferences window.
Log out and log in again. Wait about 5-20 seconds for it to show up in the side bar.
Taken from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4011?viewlocale=en_en
A: By default it doesnt mount any network drives or shared folders. Just add those drives or folders to your login items under users & groups.
A: This can be easily achieved with the auto mounter. Try this http://www.dforge.net/2012/08/07/create-a-permanent-smb-mount-in-osx/
and then after you have clicked on show connected servers in finder options/view options. you can drag the shortcut to the sidebar. Another solution would be to edit the sidebar.plist. Read this http://tim.lings.me.uk/tag/network-drives/
A: You can't add a network share shortcut to the sidebar anymore.
In OS X 10.8 and up, network shares are listed by server connections.
This prevents the user from using different credentials on the same server which is not a good idea.
In finder preferences you may select the connected servers option to list connected servers.
A: I am assuming this works in previous versions of OS X, but on macOS Sierra you can create an alias of the network drives and add the aliases to the sidebar. If the drive is not mounted, clicking it will also mount the drive. Since it is an alias, it should persist between reboots so long as you dont delete it from your local drive.
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d5c3fac17c30cd2839c54c8fb2b0694173e38198 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can we upgrade PowerPC Macs to OS X 10.7 now that 10.8 is out? I know that 10.8 is out now, but we have older Macs that will not work under 10.8, as they do not have Intel processors. Can we still buy and get 10.7, which I believe will support older CPUs?
A: Although you can no longer buy Lion through the App Store or directly by SKU from the online store, you can still order Lion after Mountain Lion was released.
I called 1-800-MY-APPLE, it took some time to get through but they told me that I would be able to purchase Lion, OS X 10.7 from them for $19.99. They would send me the physical copy through the mail.
Be careful to understand the return policy if you are not certain your Mac can run Lion. OS X Lion 10.7 is only supported on Intel Processors, Intel Core 2 Duo and higher and Lion will not work on PowerPC (PPC) Macs.
I hope that my answer helps you out. Thanks for @DanielLawson for the push.
| Q: Can we upgrade PowerPC Macs to OS X 10.7 now that 10.8 is out? I know that 10.8 is out now, but we have older Macs that will not work under 10.8, as they do not have Intel processors. Can we still buy and get 10.7, which I believe will support older CPUs?
A: Although you can no longer buy Lion through the App Store or directly by SKU from the online store, you can still order Lion after Mountain Lion was released.
I called 1-800-MY-APPLE, it took some time to get through but they told me that I would be able to purchase Lion, OS X 10.7 from them for $19.99. They would send me the physical copy through the mail.
Be careful to understand the return policy if you are not certain your Mac can run Lion. OS X Lion 10.7 is only supported on Intel Processors, Intel Core 2 Duo and higher and Lion will not work on PowerPC (PPC) Macs.
I hope that my answer helps you out. Thanks for @DanielLawson for the push.
A: Since this topic popped up again, several months later, I'll add a quick and impolite answer:
No, you cannot install 10.7 on any Mac that does not have an Intel processor.
All releases of OS X starting with 10.6 require Intel processors.
A: If your attempting to upgrade a PowerPC Mac the most you can upgrade one of those is Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, since it was the last version of OS X to support PowerPC processors.
So the answer is no to upgrading to any OS beyond Mac OS X 10.5 if the Mac your trying to upgrade is has a PowerPC processor.
If you have an Intel Mac that support OS X Lion and you really want Lion or if Lion is the last version of OS X that your Mac can run, you will be able to contact Apple and arrange a way to purchase it via Apple's legacy products list as noted in the following MacWorld article: Apple pulls Lion from the Mac App Store
...while Lion is no longer available for sale from the Mac App Store, customers can still purchase it from the legacy products list via Apple phone sales.
So if you really want lion contact Apple at 1-800-MY-APPLE and let them know you want to order OS X Lion.
A: Sorry, meant to say: "You can run PPC apps from Snow Leopard 10.6 actually with Rosetta":
"Snow Leopard only supported machines with Intel CPUs, required at least 1 GB of RAM, and dropped default support for applications built for the PowerPC architecture (Rosetta could be installed as an additional component to retain support for PowerPC-only applications).[97]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#Version_10.5:_.22Leopard.22
A: What good can the newest Mac OSX do if it can not be installed on a DuoCore Power PC with 16 GB of RAM. Apple is full of it....I won't spend a single dime on Apple products. I got robbed by Apple about $3000.00 a few years ago. I actually found an iPhone 4s and gave it away.
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58fe6491f5123d4f1be0694005e60c8c81588c75 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is my private key available in the Time Machine backups? Where can I find it? I've used Time Machine on my Mac to perform backups of my Lion install. My SSD failed and I installed Mountain Lion on my machine.
Now, I want to recover my private key from my backup so I can continue to sign my iOS apps without having to regenerate all of the certificates and provisioning profiles online.
Is my private key available in the Time Machine backups? Where can I find it?
A: Keychain keeps its files inside of ~/Library/Keychains. In there is a "login.keychain" file that you can add to your current list of keychains in Keychain Access.
| Q: Is my private key available in the Time Machine backups? Where can I find it? I've used Time Machine on my Mac to perform backups of my Lion install. My SSD failed and I installed Mountain Lion on my machine.
Now, I want to recover my private key from my backup so I can continue to sign my iOS apps without having to regenerate all of the certificates and provisioning profiles online.
Is my private key available in the Time Machine backups? Where can I find it?
A: Keychain keeps its files inside of ~/Library/Keychains. In there is a "login.keychain" file that you can add to your current list of keychains in Keychain Access.
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5e8c80dd999b858e24ccef507ed1ab270e84d57b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop the play/pause keyboard buttons from launching iTunes on Mountain Lion? The play/pause keyboard buttons always launch iTunes. I want to use a Subsonic client, Thumper. The buttons control Thumper correctly, but I want to prevent iTunes launching.
There was a hacky solution available previously, but that no longer works.
Is there a way to disable this iTunes behaviour?
A: I searched everywhere for a clean solution. Many solutions that worked for Lion and below no longer worked for Mountain Lion. However, this works and it took me hours to find. Enjoy!
http://gavinroy.com/posts/disabling-default-itunes-launch-behavior-with.html
From the website:
In a search for a non-hacky way to disable direct mappings to iTunes for the play/pause/next/previous buttons in the keyboard in OSX, I stumbled across the "Remote control daemon" (rcd). As it turns out, disabling the iTunes launch behavior for these keys is as easy as unloading rcd with the following command:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist
| Q: How do I stop the play/pause keyboard buttons from launching iTunes on Mountain Lion? The play/pause keyboard buttons always launch iTunes. I want to use a Subsonic client, Thumper. The buttons control Thumper correctly, but I want to prevent iTunes launching.
There was a hacky solution available previously, but that no longer works.
Is there a way to disable this iTunes behaviour?
A: I searched everywhere for a clean solution. Many solutions that worked for Lion and below no longer worked for Mountain Lion. However, this works and it took me hours to find. Enjoy!
http://gavinroy.com/posts/disabling-default-itunes-launch-behavior-with.html
From the website:
In a search for a non-hacky way to disable direct mappings to iTunes for the play/pause/next/previous buttons in the keyboard in OSX, I stumbled across the "Remote control daemon" (rcd). As it turns out, disabling the iTunes launch behavior for these keys is as easy as unloading rcd with the following command:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist
A: If you press ⌘ command + shift + pause it doesn't open iTunes.
Also it sometimes works if you only press ⌘ command + pause or shift + pause
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de1fd584bba2ad7535eb2f203bb9081c69e2765e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent my Mac from periodically whooshing at me? Seemingly randomly throughout the day, my mac will "whoosh" at me. I set up Messages, but whenever I switch to Messages after the whoosh, I don't have any new messages and usually my buddies are set to Away status anyway.
Notification center is empty with "No new notifications."
I don't have the mail client set up or running, so it can't be that. I do use Reminders and sometimes put things in the calendar, but I don't think those are whooshing at me.
What is whooshing at me and how do I make it stop?
A: Could it be the sound alerts Messages has configured by default? I'm particularly thinking about the sound when a contact comes online/goes offline, which sound like a "whoosh".
You can check and disable these sound alerts individually for each event in the Messages preferences.
| Q: How can I prevent my Mac from periodically whooshing at me? Seemingly randomly throughout the day, my mac will "whoosh" at me. I set up Messages, but whenever I switch to Messages after the whoosh, I don't have any new messages and usually my buddies are set to Away status anyway.
Notification center is empty with "No new notifications."
I don't have the mail client set up or running, so it can't be that. I do use Reminders and sometimes put things in the calendar, but I don't think those are whooshing at me.
What is whooshing at me and how do I make it stop?
A: Could it be the sound alerts Messages has configured by default? I'm particularly thinking about the sound when a contact comes online/goes offline, which sound like a "whoosh".
You can check and disable these sound alerts individually for each event in the Messages preferences.
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eb8c43c7ab2169d3f4c9eb724e08234149d6abbb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I reassign the F3 key to another application? I have a gesture for Exposé so I need another button (the F3) to do the same. I'd love to replace F3 to show/hide the MacBartender app.
Would it be possible to reassign this key for such a use? I have KeyRemap4MacBook installed but it does not allow for changing individual keys (I either change all my function keys or none at all).
A: FunctionFlip allows you to change the function keys individually.
| Q: How do I reassign the F3 key to another application? I have a gesture for Exposé so I need another button (the F3) to do the same. I'd love to replace F3 to show/hide the MacBartender app.
Would it be possible to reassign this key for such a use? I have KeyRemap4MacBook installed but it does not allow for changing individual keys (I either change all my function keys or none at all).
A: FunctionFlip allows you to change the function keys individually.
A: KeyRemap4MacBook does allow changing individual media keys.
Save something like this as private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>Change Expose to F19</name>
<identifier>B83A0F12-896A-42C4-AE87-1F24EE0B989E</identifier>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::EXPOSE_ALL, KeyCode::F19</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Press the ReloadXML button and enable the remapping in the first tab.
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18b1406a45664751955fc6947a50d3256f441641 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Toggle "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" via script I toggle the "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" setting very often and would like to automate it via a script (or a keyboard shortcut). Is it possible? I've tried to Google the right arguments for defaults write ... but unsuccessfully.
Update: I ended up creating https://github.com/jkbrzt/macos-fn-toggle based of the answers here.
Update II: There's now also — https://github.com/Pyroh/Fluor — a really nice menubar app that allows you to automatically change the behaviour of the keyboard's fn keys depending on the active application.
A: You can read the current state with the following. (1 for F-keys, 0 for media/brightness etc)
defaults read "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState"
You can write it, however it won't change until you reboot. (I tried killing Dock and Finder instead, no luck)
defaults write "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState" "1" ## F1 F2 etc
defaults write "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState" "0" ## Brightness/Media
I suspect somebody with more knowledge on what reads this plist file could write up a script to kill and restart whatever reads this plist, which should make it acknowledge the change.
| Q: Toggle "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" via script I toggle the "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" setting very often and would like to automate it via a script (or a keyboard shortcut). Is it possible? I've tried to Google the right arguments for defaults write ... but unsuccessfully.
Update: I ended up creating https://github.com/jkbrzt/macos-fn-toggle based of the answers here.
Update II: There's now also — https://github.com/Pyroh/Fluor — a really nice menubar app that allows you to automatically change the behaviour of the keyboard's fn keys depending on the active application.
A: You can read the current state with the following. (1 for F-keys, 0 for media/brightness etc)
defaults read "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState"
You can write it, however it won't change until you reboot. (I tried killing Dock and Finder instead, no luck)
defaults write "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState" "1" ## F1 F2 etc
defaults write "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState" "0" ## Brightness/Media
I suspect somebody with more knowledge on what reads this plist file could write up a script to kill and restart whatever reads this plist, which should make it acknowledge the change.
A: tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "keyboardTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
You could also use defaults write -g com.apple.keyboard.fnState -bool true, but I don't know any way to apply the changes without logging out and back in again.
A: I don't know about script but with some handy reverse-engineering and Googling, I made this since I didn't like the existing AppleScript GUI stuff that was out there:
https://github.com/nelsonjchen/fntoggle
Compiled binary (Toss into your PATH or if you don't know what that is then /usr/local/bin/):
https://github.com/nelsonjchen/fntoggle/releases
Call it from anything (ControlPlane, Automator, sh, etc) by running fntoggle on or fntoggle off.
This script does not require GUI accessibility to be turned on. It also does not require logging out and back in.
A: Actually, you don`t have to run any app with spotlight or anything, the best way in my opinion is to:
*
*Create new Service in Automator
*Drag: "Run Apple script
*In the "Service recieves selected": choose no input
*Paste this code from this other answer:
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "keyboardTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
*Save as "yourname"
*Open System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts
*In the left menu choose: "Services"
*In the right, scroll all the way down to the General, and assign your service some unique hotkey, I choose cmd+shift+L
*Thats it! It's not very fast or anything, but you don't have to run any app or go to the Preferences yourself.
Addendum: With EL Capitan this works only when Automator is in focus, otherwise (eg. if you invoke the script via a keyboard shortcut) you get "The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error" message.
A: Some AppleScript that might help: Applescript to toggle F1-F11 keys as function keys - MacRumors Forums
A: I've written an an app (free) that does just what you're looking for. You can download it directly from http://www.techmasterdesign.com/fnswitch/
The source code is available here: http://www.techmasterdesign.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=668
A: Given all the answers I applied the following solution for Yosemite.
Using Automator, I created an app with the following code:
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "keyboardTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
Save it, add it to Applications. To avoid the "AppleScript Editor is not allowed assistive access.", go to System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy tap->Accessibility entry and add your app.
If like me you'd like a shortcut, then in Automator create a new Apple Script with Launch App and select your app. Then go back to System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcut tabs->Service entry and at the end of the list, assign a shortcut to your script.
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ceb69429d0ea03a1b3155dd193035f3996581cab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to stream radio from the command line? There is an iMac in our lab at university, running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
It is never used, so we have taken to using it to play music, as we can SSH to it, and it does not require any permissions to play music (using afplay).
Is there any way to stream radio, or any other music stream from the command line?
A: While not (strictly speaking) playing from the command line, you could use a set of AppleScripts (or AppleScript calls) wrapped in shell scripts to control a GUI player or website. In the likely case that the player or site doesn't directly support AppleScriptability, you can use AppleScript GUI scripting to control the mouse and keyboard.
If you're looking at a "normal" streaming radio station (i.e, one that has a downloadable file that specifies the stream), you can put that in iTunes and use its (relatively excellent) AppleScript dictionary to remotely control it.
With either option, if you want to get fancy, you can use remote scripting to send Apple Events from an arbitrary source machine to control your radio-iMac.
| Q: How to stream radio from the command line? There is an iMac in our lab at university, running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
It is never used, so we have taken to using it to play music, as we can SSH to it, and it does not require any permissions to play music (using afplay).
Is there any way to stream radio, or any other music stream from the command line?
A: While not (strictly speaking) playing from the command line, you could use a set of AppleScripts (or AppleScript calls) wrapped in shell scripts to control a GUI player or website. In the likely case that the player or site doesn't directly support AppleScriptability, you can use AppleScript GUI scripting to control the mouse and keyboard.
If you're looking at a "normal" streaming radio station (i.e, one that has a downloadable file that specifies the stream), you can put that in iTunes and use its (relatively excellent) AppleScript dictionary to remotely control it.
With either option, if you want to get fancy, you can use remote scripting to send Apple Events from an arbitrary source machine to control your radio-iMac.
A: You can run VLC to play a stream from the command line:
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC <address>
For example this (address from here) will play BBC Radio 3:
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8
To stop playing, press or send Ctrl+C.
For more information on the command line interface see here and the pages linked from it.
A: I was interested to know the answer to this one myself, so I googled it. Here you go :-)
I use MPlayer under linux, this is a mac port. I typically use cron to schedule the job, mplayer dumps the stream to a tmp wav file and then I use lame to encode it to mp3. If it is already in mp3 format you may be able to configure mplayer to dump directly to mp3.
Here's my script with the url and meta-data cleared:
TMP1=`mktemp -p /var/tmp stream.XXXXXX`
OUTFILE=/var/music/mp3/streams/stream_`date +%b_%d_%Y`.mp3
mplayer -quiet -playlist http://XXX/playlist.pls -ao pcm:fast:file=$TMP1 -vc dummy -vo null -endpos 01:05:00
lame $TMP1 $OUTFILE --tt `date +%D` --ta "Artist" --tg "Genre" --tl "Title" --id3v1-only --nohist --preset standard
rm -f $TMP1
A: Streamripper.
Use the relay function.
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b131ea0252995bea661ed046747a50bb84aa3951 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use Regular Expressions in Spotlight on Mountain Lion? How can I use Regular Expressions in Spotlight on Mountain Lion?
I want to use my knowledge of regular expressions to make my search results more exact.
A: Apple's tools for accessing the Spotlight index (Spotlight itself and the mdfind command) don't offer any regex options, nor do I know of any 3rd party tools that offer that (I'm not actually sure Apple has APIs that would make that possible).
However, the mdfind command does offer a much more powerful interface than the GUI Spotlight search. It offers proper binary operators and finer grained control over what metadata you search. Check out The Power of mdfind (via archive.org) for some good information, as well as the mdfind man page.
| Q: How can I use Regular Expressions in Spotlight on Mountain Lion? How can I use Regular Expressions in Spotlight on Mountain Lion?
I want to use my knowledge of regular expressions to make my search results more exact.
A: Apple's tools for accessing the Spotlight index (Spotlight itself and the mdfind command) don't offer any regex options, nor do I know of any 3rd party tools that offer that (I'm not actually sure Apple has APIs that would make that possible).
However, the mdfind command does offer a much more powerful interface than the GUI Spotlight search. It offers proper binary operators and finer grained control over what metadata you search. Check out The Power of mdfind (via archive.org) for some good information, as well as the mdfind man page.
A: I found a couple alternatives to Spotlight that allow for more control over your searches. Like the mdfind command the Canuck suggested, some of the tools enable you to use boolean operators.
Alternative 1: Find Any File
Find any file is very basic when you first look at it, but once you click the "More Choices" button, many more options pop up so you can refine the search by including more parameters like those seen in the image of a menu:
Alternative 2: NotLight
Although I prefer NotLight to Spotlight, it's search is not as powerful as that of Find Any File and you're not given as many parameters to search by. However, you can search within a specific folder, which is a useful feature.
Alternative 3: EasyFind
EasyFind is by far the most user friendly Spotlight alternative and has the nicest user interface. It is better then NotLight, but does lack some of the functionality of Find Any File. However, if you're the average user and are not looking for incredibly specific search capabilities, then this would probably be the best option.
Hope you found some of these tools useful!
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4851edd2a5d695706170b323f6d936c5ab1f50b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I restore autoconf after Mountain Lion update? I upgraded my macbook to Mountain Lion today and found that I no longer have autoconf installed, is there a specific way to restore that or will I need to manually compile it etc? I have XCode 4.4 installed with Command Line Utilities downloaded and installed as well. Thanks for the information!
A: It sounds like you're a developer. You should install Mac Ports. It's REALLY helpful and useful to have. You can use it to get command line tools such as autoconf. It's always useful to have if you work with command line a lot.
Just install the .pkg from http://www.macports.org/install.php to install MacPorts.
After so, in terminal, run:
sudo port install autoconf
More info:
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=autoconf
| Q: How do I restore autoconf after Mountain Lion update? I upgraded my macbook to Mountain Lion today and found that I no longer have autoconf installed, is there a specific way to restore that or will I need to manually compile it etc? I have XCode 4.4 installed with Command Line Utilities downloaded and installed as well. Thanks for the information!
A: It sounds like you're a developer. You should install Mac Ports. It's REALLY helpful and useful to have. You can use it to get command line tools such as autoconf. It's always useful to have if you work with command line a lot.
Just install the .pkg from http://www.macports.org/install.php to install MacPorts.
After so, in terminal, run:
sudo port install autoconf
More info:
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=autoconf
A: If you already have the latest XCode installed go to it's Preferences -> Downloads pane.
You can install the Command Line Tools there. You may need to reinstall Xcode and then install the Command Line Tools in the same way if that doesn't work.
Either way, to solve this specific issue you don't 'need' Mac Ports as it is a known issue that can be solved as above.
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9e236d4564b107182d1813322329f9012ea54141 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can grep highlight matching text without hiding file content? I frequently use grep's context command line options (-A, -B, and -C), but occasionally I want to view the whole file with matching expressions highlighted. To accomplish this currently I simply specify -C 999999999, but this seems silly.
Is there an option within OS X's bundled grep that will allow me to easily take advantage of grep's matching and colorizing features, without hiding any file content?
A: Assuming you want to read the file yourself, with the bits highlighted, less is the better tool for the job. less yourfile, type /, your pattern and hit return. n goes to the next match and space to the next page.
Alternatively, ack has a --passthru mode that does what you want. ack is so insanely useful it's worth looking into.
| Q: Can grep highlight matching text without hiding file content? I frequently use grep's context command line options (-A, -B, and -C), but occasionally I want to view the whole file with matching expressions highlighted. To accomplish this currently I simply specify -C 999999999, but this seems silly.
Is there an option within OS X's bundled grep that will allow me to easily take advantage of grep's matching and colorizing features, without hiding any file content?
A: Assuming you want to read the file yourself, with the bits highlighted, less is the better tool for the job. less yourfile, type /, your pattern and hit return. n goes to the next match and space to the next page.
Alternatively, ack has a --passthru mode that does what you want. ack is so insanely useful it's worth looking into.
A: Setting -C to a negative integer seems to be equivalent to setting it an arbitrarily large number.
grep something --color -C -1 *.txt
But as with something like -C 9999999, if the file has multiple matches, some lines can be printed multiple times.
A: I don't think there is any simple option in grep but this seems to work fine. From https://stackoverflow.com/a/981831
grep --color -E "pattern|$" file
The |$ at the end of the regular expression makes grep find pattern OR end of lines. It can't highlight those though, so just the pattern gets colored.
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e15d86b7f4d44f02d578e7a32062bf5e4ffca184 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make the Backspace key to take me to the previous page in Safari 6? Backspace/Delete ⌫ no longer works as a back button in Safari 6.
How to make the Backspace key to take me to the previous page in Safari 6?
A: I actually asked a similar question (but more broad so this isn't a duplicate). I got this as an answer (it works, I tested it):
Write the below line in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2BackspaceKeyNavigationEnabled -bool YES
Then restart Safari.
Hope this helps!
| Q: How to make the Backspace key to take me to the previous page in Safari 6? Backspace/Delete ⌫ no longer works as a back button in Safari 6.
How to make the Backspace key to take me to the previous page in Safari 6?
A: I actually asked a similar question (but more broad so this isn't a duplicate). I got this as an answer (it works, I tested it):
Write the below line in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2BackspaceKeyNavigationEnabled -bool YES
Then restart Safari.
Hope this helps!
A: Apple removed the backspace (probably to prevent users that wanted to edit a form field to accidentally go to the previous page)
You've got a number of options:
*
*Use the command + <- shortcut for back.
*Use the 2 finger swipe gesture (push the webpage to the right)
*Install the BringBackDelete safari extension.
A: Type this into your Terminal.app:
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Back" "⌫"
A: Just want to leave this here for when someone stumbles on this topic through a Google search (as I did) with the opposite problem and wants to DISABLE the backspace key (that was added back again in later versions of Safari).
I managed to fix it using the following key in the Safari prefs list to map it to something that doesn't reload a page. I used "Export as PDF…" since I never use that, and certainly with a keyboard shortcut, but you can use any menu item that you never use.
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Export as PDF…" "⌫"
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d9e5908a2350ddef3bbaa69de50ff668c099d793 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to edit binary InfoPlist.strings in Mountain Lion (for Finder to display folders before files)? The article Force your Mac to sort folders on top of files (windows style), lets the Finder change its sorting order to first show folders and next all files.
This trick doesn't seem to work with Mountain Lion, InfoPlist.strings seems to be a binary file.
Do you know how to edit InfoPlist.strings in Mountain Lion?
A: The InfoPlist.strings file you mention is a binary formatted property list. You can convert and edit these files with developer tools such as plutil.
The following article walks through the steps required, Show folders last in Finder.
| Q: How to edit binary InfoPlist.strings in Mountain Lion (for Finder to display folders before files)? The article Force your Mac to sort folders on top of files (windows style), lets the Finder change its sorting order to first show folders and next all files.
This trick doesn't seem to work with Mountain Lion, InfoPlist.strings seems to be a binary file.
Do you know how to edit InfoPlist.strings in Mountain Lion?
A: The InfoPlist.strings file you mention is a binary formatted property list. You can convert and edit these files with developer tools such as plutil.
The following article walks through the steps required, Show folders last in Finder.
A: Download TextWrangler from the Mac App Store. It automatically converts binary strings files and plist files for editing and is a generally good code editor.
A: Open the Finder, on the menu bar go to 'View', then scroll to 'View Options'.
Arrange by 'Kind', and sort by 'Kind' as in the screenshot, and the folders will be at the top.
A: If you have Xcode, it will open plist files, and display them in a nice editable tree-view.
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4bd0be57f70a4548bc1b71da303d869b3f18c5d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set the language of iCloud calendar reminder emails? Ever since iCloud Calendar became publicly available I have used it to arrange my schedule. I meet with people from other countries on a regular basis and I'd like the Calendar reminder emails I send to people when setting up a meeting to be in English. Unfortunately, that's not the case. iCloud always sends my meeting invites in my native language (the country my AppleID is assigned to).
It seems that iCloud is ignoring my OS and iCloud web interface language choice, as they're both set to English.
Is there a way to change the default language of Calendar reminders somewhere?
A: First visit Apple ID. Then click Mange your Apple ID, middle on the right of the page:
Login and then click Language and Contact Preferences.
Here you can select English US or English UK.
| Q: How to set the language of iCloud calendar reminder emails? Ever since iCloud Calendar became publicly available I have used it to arrange my schedule. I meet with people from other countries on a regular basis and I'd like the Calendar reminder emails I send to people when setting up a meeting to be in English. Unfortunately, that's not the case. iCloud always sends my meeting invites in my native language (the country my AppleID is assigned to).
It seems that iCloud is ignoring my OS and iCloud web interface language choice, as they're both set to English.
Is there a way to change the default language of Calendar reminders somewhere?
A: First visit Apple ID. Then click Mange your Apple ID, middle on the right of the page:
Login and then click Language and Contact Preferences.
Here you can select English US or English UK.
A: I had the same problem, and i finally solved it,
Go to appleid.apple.com and set the preferred language for your account.
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ac6daa4331044e8dde164366d1ac66815fc38ca4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there anyway to style Messages.app's message view? Messages.app is a one of my favorite applications now-a-days because it allows me to reach my friends portable devices and computers with great ease and speed. But it didn't really hit the bar with looking as great as messages did on iOS. Images sent don't have proper padding in the bubbles, the typography is awful, and you know what - the whole bubble thing isn't that great anyways.
I peeked around in the .app to see if there was any immediate way I could amend the ugliness of the app and found nothing Kyle-edible. My question is this - is it possible to get custom message views much like Adium or Skype has in Messages for OSX? If it is, how can it be done?
If it's at all possible by anybody, I'd like to send this challenge off to some talented designers to make Messages the great application it should be.
A: The styling is embedded into the app and currently cannot be changed.
| Q: Is there anyway to style Messages.app's message view? Messages.app is a one of my favorite applications now-a-days because it allows me to reach my friends portable devices and computers with great ease and speed. But it didn't really hit the bar with looking as great as messages did on iOS. Images sent don't have proper padding in the bubbles, the typography is awful, and you know what - the whole bubble thing isn't that great anyways.
I peeked around in the .app to see if there was any immediate way I could amend the ugliness of the app and found nothing Kyle-edible. My question is this - is it possible to get custom message views much like Adium or Skype has in Messages for OSX? If it is, how can it be done?
If it's at all possible by anybody, I'd like to send this challenge off to some talented designers to make Messages the great application it should be.
A: The styling is embedded into the app and currently cannot be changed.
A: Styling cannot be changed, but fonts can be.
Furthermore, the plist file for iChat, under /Library/Preferences/com.Apple.iChat.plist contains settings for styling.
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266a7a5987d87ddab701533702f1c38891376122 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I jump to a line number in Safari 6 Web Inspector? So I'm working on some javascript and I want to set a breakpoint on the line that I'm working on. It seems reasonable that I should be able to go into the Javascript debugger and jump to that line number without having to scroll to it manually.
I have read the documentation and have tried a few logical guesses but there doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut to jump to a line number. I can't believe that this would have been missed. Is there a way to jump to a line number?
A: The keyboard shortcut for this is ⌃G in recent versions of Safari. You can find a list of keyboard shortcuts here: https://webkit.org/web-inspector/keyboard-shortcuts/.
| Q: How do I jump to a line number in Safari 6 Web Inspector? So I'm working on some javascript and I want to set a breakpoint on the line that I'm working on. It seems reasonable that I should be able to go into the Javascript debugger and jump to that line number without having to scroll to it manually.
I have read the documentation and have tried a few logical guesses but there doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut to jump to a line number. I can't believe that this would have been missed. Is there a way to jump to a line number?
A: The keyboard shortcut for this is ⌃G in recent versions of Safari. You can find a list of keyboard shortcuts here: https://webkit.org/web-inspector/keyboard-shortcuts/.
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286d065634b2c02731c36d28762ceab5dd67a556 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"? I sent an iMessage to a friend, and at the bottom it doesn't say "Delivered" as it usually does. It doesn't say "Not Delivered" either, it just doesn't say anything at all.
What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"?
A: I believe "Not Delivered" implies an error of some kind, whereas if nothing is displayed that just means the message is queued up to an inactive phone, or backed-up in transit over the network.
| Q: What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"? I sent an iMessage to a friend, and at the bottom it doesn't say "Delivered" as it usually does. It doesn't say "Not Delivered" either, it just doesn't say anything at all.
What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"?
A: I believe "Not Delivered" implies an error of some kind, whereas if nothing is displayed that just means the message is queued up to an inactive phone, or backed-up in transit over the network.
A: It can mean a few things;
*
*The recipients' phone battery is low/dead
*The recipients' phone is out of wifi range.
*The recipient has you on block
*The recipients' phone is off
A: The receiving device is probably off, in sleep mode, out of cell reception, flat battery - something like that.
A: It can mean you have been blocked. I attempted this with my number. I blocked my number send a text, didn't receive it and it never said delivered. I unblocked my number, sent text and it worked as it should by putting delivered under text and me receiving the text.
A: It can also mean that the other individual has simply logged out of their account
A: When it doesn't say Delivered, it means the other person is texting someone else or on the phone. Once they stop texting or hang up the phone, you will see the text message has been delivered.
A: It means that the message was not sent to their phone.
To resolve try the following
*
*in-activate the app
*turn your phone off
*turn wifi off then on
*If none of this works contact your mobile provider or Apple
A: From my understanding, when your message says delivered under it then the person received it. If the word "delivered" dont show it means they are on the phone and it will say delivered once they hang up.
A: When It says “delivered” that means it has sent to your recipient and when it doesn't say delivered that means that either you don’t have WiFi or their battery is dead so the message hasn't gone through I think.
A: It could mean that they are in area with no cellular service, or they could have blocked you –accidentally or otherwise, or their phone might be flat or off.
I texted my friend and it didn't send; it never said delivered but when I text some other friends it sends.
A: If it doesn't say "delivered" within an hour or 2- u were blocked. No one is texting straight thru 2 hours or on the phone more than 2 hours. And I know personally that if I get text while on phone it still says delivered. Some peeps have there's said to "read" n others don't but "delivered" is blocked if never shows up. U can call n won't go straight vm but iMessage/text message will always confirm delivery
A: My friend and I tested it and when someone has their phone off it will not report "delivered" or "not delivered" until the phone is turned on. I hope that helps because I was having the same problem
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49f7078657079ba8afbdd27d68eea22efe4cb9ae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to hide or clear unread badges on Gmail folders in Mail.app? This isn't a new problem with OS X Mail, it persists into Mountain Lion.
The badges are quite obnoxious; I can go into that [Gmail] folder and right-click and Mark As Read. But they start piling up right away again.
Is there a way to never have a badge beside any non-Inbox folder, or have a way for Mail to automatically clean up?
A: Create a filter in Gmail (web settings) to automatically mark all spam emails as read.
| Q: How to hide or clear unread badges on Gmail folders in Mail.app? This isn't a new problem with OS X Mail, it persists into Mountain Lion.
The badges are quite obnoxious; I can go into that [Gmail] folder and right-click and Mark As Read. But they start piling up right away again.
Is there a way to never have a badge beside any non-Inbox folder, or have a way for Mail to automatically clean up?
A: Create a filter in Gmail (web settings) to automatically mark all spam emails as read.
A: I don't know how to make the badge go away but a way to reduce the number of the unread messages if they're spam is to modify the settings on your gmail account on the web. Settings/labels/spam/show/hide in IMAP. Uncheck show in IMAP
| apple | {
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103d547d943acfce54b117afec8b450c39290bdc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set default homepage in safari 6? Since downloading mountain lion and safari 6 I have lost the ability to set my home page. in safari preferences there is the ability to tell it what you want for a home page but it does not take. instead I always get this: http://d3.zedo.com/jsc/d3/ff2.html?n=790;c=3603;s=2952;d=16;w=1024;h=768. I want to know how to get rid of this and get my preference working instead.
A: Two options come to mind:
*
*Reset Safari (in Safari menu), restart the application and try again
*Quit Safari, rename ~/Library/Safari to ~/Library/Safari.old and try again
If the second options work, quit Safari again and copy Bookmarks.plist from Safari.old to the newly created Safari folder.
| Q: How to set default homepage in safari 6? Since downloading mountain lion and safari 6 I have lost the ability to set my home page. in safari preferences there is the ability to tell it what you want for a home page but it does not take. instead I always get this: http://d3.zedo.com/jsc/d3/ff2.html?n=790;c=3603;s=2952;d=16;w=1024;h=768. I want to know how to get rid of this and get my preference working instead.
A: Two options come to mind:
*
*Reset Safari (in Safari menu), restart the application and try again
*Quit Safari, rename ~/Library/Safari to ~/Library/Safari.old and try again
If the second options work, quit Safari again and copy Bookmarks.plist from Safari.old to the newly created Safari folder.
A: Well I'm sure this isn't the easiest way to do it, but it should work!
*
*Navigate to /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
*Open com.apple.Safari.plist
*Find the "HomePage" key
*Go into the value column for the "HomePage" key and set it to the desired homepage. Here's an image:
That's it!
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2a71bc36897d000e5e77e72d48dd28fec012680e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to upgrade the drive in a Time Capsule? The Time Capsule has limited space, and the price difference from 2TB to 3TB is absurd: another $200 for a single additional terabyte. (I'm sure they'll increase that with the next round of Time Capsules, whenever they release those, but I don't know when that'll be, and I'd rather vote with my wallet to tell Apple their Time Capsule is overpriced.)
So how hard would it be to crack open a Time Capsule and upgrade the drive to something a little larger?
A: By all means - vote with your wallet. It's trivial for a trained technician to replace the hard drive on a Time Capsule. Rather than put the rubber covering back on the base, you can use inexpensive silicone bumpers to raise the capsule up from it's shelf. Most feel iFixit has decent repair guides if you care to DIY.
| Q: Is it possible to upgrade the drive in a Time Capsule? The Time Capsule has limited space, and the price difference from 2TB to 3TB is absurd: another $200 for a single additional terabyte. (I'm sure they'll increase that with the next round of Time Capsules, whenever they release those, but I don't know when that'll be, and I'd rather vote with my wallet to tell Apple their Time Capsule is overpriced.)
So how hard would it be to crack open a Time Capsule and upgrade the drive to something a little larger?
A: By all means - vote with your wallet. It's trivial for a trained technician to replace the hard drive on a Time Capsule. Rather than put the rubber covering back on the base, you can use inexpensive silicone bumpers to raise the capsule up from it's shelf. Most feel iFixit has decent repair guides if you care to DIY.
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91ca080065caaa95d794b0e8cfe03758dea8a956 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: High fan speed and CPU temp with low CPU usage? I've been having intermittent fan speed and high CPU temperature when my CPU usage is nearly 0%. I don't run any weird apps. If I put my computer into sleep mode and wake it back up, this fixes the issue. I think this is an System Management Controller(SMC) issue, but I'm not sure. Anyone know how to fix this permanently?
A: Try resetting the SMC as noted in the question for your MacBook Air and see if the problem persists.
If the problem does persist it may be a failing temperature sensor, resulting in the fans running faster than normal to worst case fail-safe full-speed state, your only option at that point would be to take it to Apple Support for repair / replacement.
| Q: High fan speed and CPU temp with low CPU usage? I've been having intermittent fan speed and high CPU temperature when my CPU usage is nearly 0%. I don't run any weird apps. If I put my computer into sleep mode and wake it back up, this fixes the issue. I think this is an System Management Controller(SMC) issue, but I'm not sure. Anyone know how to fix this permanently?
A: Try resetting the SMC as noted in the question for your MacBook Air and see if the problem persists.
If the problem does persist it may be a failing temperature sensor, resulting in the fans running faster than normal to worst case fail-safe full-speed state, your only option at that point would be to take it to Apple Support for repair / replacement.
A: If its a laptop, spin it upside down and blast some air into the vents. The idea is to blow out any dust that may be causing the computer to overheat.
I usually just take a deep breath and give it a good blasting...
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85ca881126150b296e7d097a6cb3d67ef0152fdf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I change the language for dictation on the fly? With English not being my first language, I usually need support for at least two languages when using features like auto-correct and dictation.
Is it possible to toggle the language which is used for dictation via a shortcut?
As of now, I always have to manually navigate through the menus in the System Preferences which if far from convenient. I've tried to see if there are any pre-defined actions in Automator, but found none.
A: Well, when I want to change languages, I just click on the name of the current language in the little dictation widget and get a menu:
Clarification: the menu will only show you the languages you have enabled in the Dictation preference pane. So by default it only shows the main language of the O.S. installation.
| Q: How can I change the language for dictation on the fly? With English not being my first language, I usually need support for at least two languages when using features like auto-correct and dictation.
Is it possible to toggle the language which is used for dictation via a shortcut?
As of now, I always have to manually navigate through the menus in the System Preferences which if far from convenient. I've tried to see if there are any pre-defined actions in Automator, but found none.
A: Well, when I want to change languages, I just click on the name of the current language in the little dictation widget and get a menu:
Clarification: the menu will only show you the languages you have enabled in the Dictation preference pane. So by default it only shows the main language of the O.S. installation.
A: You could either edit property lists that store the setting and reopen the DictationIM process:
#!/bin/bash
k="com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs DictationIMLocaleIdentifier"
if [[ "$(defaults read $k)" == en-US ]]; then
defaults write $k fr-FR
defaults write com.apple.assistant "Session Language" fr-FR
else
defaults write $k en-US
defaults write com.apple.assistant "Session Language" en-US
fi
killall -HUP DictationIM
Or use UI scripting:
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
tell pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
click
if value is "English (United States)" then
click menu item "French" of menu 1
else
click menu item "English (United States)" of menu 1
end if
end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
Both scripts are copied from my answer to How to use applescript to toggle the language setting of new dictation tool (10.8) - Stack Overflow.
A: check this http://fouquet.me/apps/dictationswitcher/ is very nice.
I Hope this help
A: I found a thread in which the following Applescript was contained:
tell application "System Events" to set p to (path to frontmost application) as string
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
tell pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window "Dictation & Speech"
click
if (get value of attribute "AXValue") contains "English (United States)" then
click menu item "German" of menu 1
say "Dictation set to German"
else if (get value of attribute "AXValue") contains "German" then
click menu item "English (United States)" of menu 1
say "Dictation set to English"
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
activate application p
I tested it out and it works. All you have to do is change "German" to the language of your choice.
Additionally, may I suggest an application called FastScripts, which allows you to run the applescript either from the top menu bar or from a keyboard shortcut.
Hope this solved your problem!
A: On OSX El Capitan I had difficulty getting the script by user495470 to work and likewise with the code from pasawaya. I ended up modifying the code from pasawaya to include:
repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Dictation & Speech"
end repeat
Here's the full slightly modified script which works perfectly for me:
tell application "System Events" to set currentWindow to (path to frontmost application) as string
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Dictation & Speech"
end repeat
tell pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window "Dictation & Speech"
click
if (get value of attribute "AXValue") contains "English" then
click menu item "Danish (Denmark)" of menu 1
say "Dictation Danish"
else if (get value of attribute "AXValue") contains "Danish" then
click menu item "English (United Kingdom)" of menu 1
say "Dictation English"
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
activate application currentWindow
A: Not sure if this helps but someone developped a "Dictation Switcher" a little utility that sits in your Mac's menu bar and makes using Dictation even easier. it can be found here: http://fouquet.me/apps/dictationswitcher/
Understand you had the pleasure to write your own script but just in case, I thought this might help... :-)
A: I had to modify the accepted answer's AppleScript a bit to make it work in Big Sur as there have been many changes since this question was asked in 2012!
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
tell pop up button "Language:" of tab group 1 of window 1
click
if value is "English (United States)" then
click menu item "Chinese (Mandarin - China mainland)" of menu 1
else
click menu item "English (United States)" of menu 1
end if
end tell
end tell
Notably, this only works reliably when System Preferences is already open, but that's fine for my use case (language learning).
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fe8c766aac9ec81dc8c3f00fde1c490eec400491 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Missing 'man' entries after upgrade Having upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion a few days ago, I find that most of the 'man' entries from section 3 (programming functions) are missing. For example:
phillip-millss-macbook-pro:etc phil$ man fopen
No manual entry for fopen
Exploring with the terminal shows me that all that remains in man3 directories within the 'man' search path are things related to Perl.
Is there something extra that I should be installing to get the reference information back?
A: You can set an environmental variable called MANPATH that will tell the "man" command where to look for the man pages. I see my mac 10.12.6 (Sierra) does not have that variable set. According to "man man" output, it uses /etc/man.conf to know where the directories are. You can add missing paths into that file. That file may be overwritten by an mac os x update, so you may have to do it again. To find your missing man3 files, which are probably still on your disk, try "locate \*man3" and it should list every directory with a man3 folder in it.
Boyd
| Q: Missing 'man' entries after upgrade Having upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion a few days ago, I find that most of the 'man' entries from section 3 (programming functions) are missing. For example:
phillip-millss-macbook-pro:etc phil$ man fopen
No manual entry for fopen
Exploring with the terminal shows me that all that remains in man3 directories within the 'man' search path are things related to Perl.
Is there something extra that I should be installing to get the reference information back?
A: You can set an environmental variable called MANPATH that will tell the "man" command where to look for the man pages. I see my mac 10.12.6 (Sierra) does not have that variable set. According to "man man" output, it uses /etc/man.conf to know where the directories are. You can add missing paths into that file. That file may be overwritten by an mac os x update, so you may have to do it again. To find your missing man3 files, which are probably still on your disk, try "locate \*man3" and it should list every directory with a man3 folder in it.
Boyd
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11afef983c01023efee13936cf8c287030b63109 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Messages appearing on locked screen How can I hide text messages from the locked screen of my iPhone 4S?
I find that having a password is useless as everyone could read messages from the locked screen.
A: *
*On the iPhone select Preferences -> Notifications -> Messages
*Scroll to the bottom
*Turn off "View on Lock Screen"
You have to repeat this for all notifications you don't want to be shown on the lock screen.
| Q: Messages appearing on locked screen How can I hide text messages from the locked screen of my iPhone 4S?
I find that having a password is useless as everyone could read messages from the locked screen.
A: *
*On the iPhone select Preferences -> Notifications -> Messages
*Scroll to the bottom
*Turn off "View on Lock Screen"
You have to repeat this for all notifications you don't want to be shown on the lock screen.
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bb99366442fbba0220acf69f82eb68e9fd91e639 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I install MacVim? How do I install MacVim on Mountain Lion? I want to get the MacVim application, as well as the new command-line vim.
I see there are several ways to do it (a snapshot from Google Code, via Homebrew), and if I use Homebrew, I see multiple options. What way will work best both for using the native application as well as using vim on the command line?
A: MacVim maintainer here.
It's an old question, but it deserves another answer for completeness: the new MacVim repo is located at github.com/macvim-dev/macvim, you can check the releases page there to download the most recent snapshot (old ones too). They're always compiled against the last version of OS X (I mean, I don't recompile the old snapshots to newer OS, but the current snapshot is always compiled against the current OS). Of course, you can also download the source and compile yourself or use homebrew as the accepted answer states.
| Q: How do I install MacVim? How do I install MacVim on Mountain Lion? I want to get the MacVim application, as well as the new command-line vim.
I see there are several ways to do it (a snapshot from Google Code, via Homebrew), and if I use Homebrew, I see multiple options. What way will work best both for using the native application as well as using vim on the command line?
A: MacVim maintainer here.
It's an old question, but it deserves another answer for completeness: the new MacVim repo is located at github.com/macvim-dev/macvim, you can check the releases page there to download the most recent snapshot (old ones too). They're always compiled against the last version of OS X (I mean, I don't recompile the old snapshots to newer OS, but the current snapshot is always compiled against the current OS). Of course, you can also download the source and compile yourself or use homebrew as the accepted answer states.
A: Here is the procedure I recommend, for those who are comfortable with the command-line and with Homebrew:
Install Homebrew.
Run the following on the command line (in Terminal):
brew install macvim --with-override-system-vim
brew linkapps
Edit your shell startup files to ensure that /usr/local/bin comes first in your $PATH.
If you use vim as $VISUAL or $EDITOR, add `export VISUAL='mvim -f' to your environment (details).
Check that you installed everything correctly by running
brew doctor
Now, you can run the graphical MacVim on a file by running mvim foo.txt from the command-line. Or, you can run the text-based editor by running vim foo.txt. Also, if other programs (e.g., git) fork off a separate editor, they'll run the graphical MacVim.
See also How to run mvim (MacVim) from Terminal? and Set macvim as default application after homebrew installation.
A: It's pretty straightforward, just download the latest snapshot from GitHub and follow the instructions in the readme.txt
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4ac4ec1c564e30f59e741cc3835f9e4657ec56ac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is sound drift correction on OS X and how should I use it? On Audio MIDI Setup there is an option to to enable/disable audio drifting for any sound output device?
What is this and how should I use it?
I do want to enable sound output for multiple devices: HDI TV and normal jack as I do not always know which one is connected.
A: *
*Select your clock source at the top of the window. This is the audio interface who's wordclock will be used for the other audio interfaces in the created aggregate.
*Select the Sample Rate, this is the sample rate that all the other audio interfaces will sample at.
*Drift correction should not be checked on the interface select above. All other audio interfaces / devices should have the Drift Correction box checked.
Drift Correction keeps these interfaces/devices in sync (in-time) with the primary interface from the drop-down menu at the top that you have chosen, which becomes the Master clock.
| Q: What is sound drift correction on OS X and how should I use it? On Audio MIDI Setup there is an option to to enable/disable audio drifting for any sound output device?
What is this and how should I use it?
I do want to enable sound output for multiple devices: HDI TV and normal jack as I do not always know which one is connected.
A: *
*Select your clock source at the top of the window. This is the audio interface who's wordclock will be used for the other audio interfaces in the created aggregate.
*Select the Sample Rate, this is the sample rate that all the other audio interfaces will sample at.
*Drift correction should not be checked on the interface select above. All other audio interfaces / devices should have the Drift Correction box checked.
Drift Correction keeps these interfaces/devices in sync (in-time) with the primary interface from the drop-down menu at the top that you have chosen, which becomes the Master clock.
A: (This is answering an old question, but since I was researching the topic...)
It's to do with keeping different hardware devices in sync.
When you create an aggregate device, more than one piece of sound generation hardware may be required to operate concurrently. Even if these devices are running at the same sample rate, they're probably all using independent hardware clocks to send buffered audio through their DACs and actually generate sound. If these clocks get out of sync, the audio would drift out of sync too and eventually one or more of the hardware devices would start exhausting its data buffer before others had finished with theirs. In short, it'd get glitchy and break.
So for example, you might connect a TV via HDMI and use it as a second monitor to watch movies, but you might want both the TV speakers and your computer speakers to be used - maybe you've plugged in computer speakers with a subwoofer and you like the added bass that the TV speakers can't produce. So you use Audio MIDI Setup to add an aggregate device for both your computer and the TV. But the computer is sending digital audio over HDMI to the TV which independently decodes it - there needs to be some way to make sure both the computer and the TV decode at the same rate, without any clock drift over time screwing things up.
Over digital links like SP/DIF, hardware devices can both transmit and receive a signal in addition to the audio data which is used to perform this kind of synchronisation. It's called word clock. It's really important when you're recording digital audio, so that the recording digital sink is kept rigidly in sync with the transmitting digital source. You can find out more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_clock
If your aggregate devices all support word clock, then you don't need software drift correction - the master will be used as a word clock source and the word clock data will be sent to the other devices. They'll all use that clock to keep themselves in sync. Otherwise, any devices except the master which don't support word click need the drift correction switch turning on. This uses some sort of software mechanism for trying to combat clock drift (I don't know how it actually achieves this, or how robust / reliable it is).
In the TV example, you'd set the computer as the master audio device and add in the TV audio output, enabling drift correction for the TV (but not for the master device as that wouldn't make sense - the TV audio clock is corrected using them master as the reference). For another example of how word clock and drift correction work together, see steps 11 and 12 here:
http://www.absolutemusic.co.uk/community/entries/set-aggregate-audio-device-mac-os-lion
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26e4aa6b56e82e40fe307c3dca2298061c1b138e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to use Dropbox to share files in Finder by right click on Mac OS 10.8? In Mac OS 10.7, when I right click a file in Dropbox folder, there's a "Dropbox" option which could share files or get the URL of the file. Also there's a "Dropbox" button in Finder's toolbar.
But in 10.8, that feature disappeared.
How can I share files using Dropbox by right clicking in Finder?
A: this might help: https://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/228603324440657921
long story short. Update dropbox is what they say.
worked for me, so should work for you :)
| Q: How to use Dropbox to share files in Finder by right click on Mac OS 10.8? In Mac OS 10.7, when I right click a file in Dropbox folder, there's a "Dropbox" option which could share files or get the URL of the file. Also there's a "Dropbox" button in Finder's toolbar.
But in 10.8, that feature disappeared.
How can I share files using Dropbox by right clicking in Finder?
A: this might help: https://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/228603324440657921
long story short. Update dropbox is what they say.
worked for me, so should work for you :)
A: Update to the latest Dropbox 1.4.12
This will get it back.
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aacb02456a119cd1dc33c312c7c49db012fad590 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I batch set the files "date modified" to the "date created"? I have a folder with a bunch of photos taken by two different cameras, with one camera having been set to the wrong date. I managed to correct the EXIF date using Picasa (see photo.stackexchange), but apparently, it only adjusts the "Date Created" of the file, and not the "Date modified".
How can I make the "Date modified" (shown by default in the Finder) equal to the "Date Created" for a bunch of files?
I've looked in the touch terminal command, but couldn't find an answer there for my specific issue.
A: Assuming JPG files:
for f in *.jpg; do
olddate=$(stat -f %SB -t %Y%m%d%H%M "$f")
touch -m -t $olddate "$f"
done
For other suffixes just adjust the pattern in the for statement accordingly.
| Q: How do I batch set the files "date modified" to the "date created"? I have a folder with a bunch of photos taken by two different cameras, with one camera having been set to the wrong date. I managed to correct the EXIF date using Picasa (see photo.stackexchange), but apparently, it only adjusts the "Date Created" of the file, and not the "Date modified".
How can I make the "Date modified" (shown by default in the Finder) equal to the "Date Created" for a bunch of files?
I've looked in the touch terminal command, but couldn't find an answer there for my specific issue.
A: Assuming JPG files:
for f in *.jpg; do
olddate=$(stat -f %SB -t %Y%m%d%H%M "$f")
touch -m -t $olddate "$f"
done
For other suffixes just adjust the pattern in the for statement accordingly.
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58b863a5cdfc141e8c6b4cc9f555f2413d7d6284 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to recover accidentally deleted data? My data has been deleted accidentally don't know how it got deleted.
Yesterday when I left office the folders where at proper place and when today morning I opened my Mac OS Lion 10.7.4. I found some project files to be missing.
How can I recover back my all data?
A: The only sure way is to restore from your latest backup, which is why Apple added Time Machine for easy use.
If you do not have that then the first thing to do is turn the machine off so that no more data is written to the disk. Then boot the machine off a recovery disk like Diskwarrior. If you are lucky then you can restore data if not the next step would be to send the disk to a specialist and pay them to see what they can get back. If you have a solid state disk then I think you are unlucky and even a specialist will have problems getting data back.
| Q: How to recover accidentally deleted data? My data has been deleted accidentally don't know how it got deleted.
Yesterday when I left office the folders where at proper place and when today morning I opened my Mac OS Lion 10.7.4. I found some project files to be missing.
How can I recover back my all data?
A: The only sure way is to restore from your latest backup, which is why Apple added Time Machine for easy use.
If you do not have that then the first thing to do is turn the machine off so that no more data is written to the disk. Then boot the machine off a recovery disk like Diskwarrior. If you are lucky then you can restore data if not the next step would be to send the disk to a specialist and pay them to see what they can get back. If you have a solid state disk then I think you are unlucky and even a specialist will have problems getting data back.
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c7cff35806cc4dd8b096af0e918434c5d5b9430c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get the three finger 'scroll to top' back in mountain lion? Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
A: In Trackpad System Preferences, set 'Swipe between pages' option to three fingers. Quick scroll to top and bottom seems to work, at least in Firefox.
| Q: How to get the three finger 'scroll to top' back in mountain lion? Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
A: In Trackpad System Preferences, set 'Swipe between pages' option to three fingers. Quick scroll to top and bottom seems to work, at least in Firefox.
A: I looked in System Preferences and didn't see any options for a three-finger swipe gesture. However, there are many applications that enable you to create custom gestures. Here are a couple (these two are both free):
*
*Better Touch Tool
Here's a description from their download page:
BetterTouchTool adds many new, fully customizable gestures to Magic Mouse, Macbook Touchpad and now even the Magic Trackpad!
These gestures are customizable:
*
*three finger swipes (up/down/left/right)
*three finger tap
*three finger click
There are many other gestures that are customizable, but you seem like you want some sort of three finger gesture so I listed those.
*
*MagicPrefs
Mac OS X-only: MagicPrefs lets you create custom gestures (and override existing ones) to provide new multitouch functionality to your Apple input devices. It's like the great Multiclutch, which serves a similar purpose, but with added power and precision that gives you serious control over even the nuances of your gestures.
You have five fingers and MagicPrefs recognizes that, letting you assign actions to taps and clicks based on the number of fingers present on the mouse. Additionally, it supports swiping, rotating, and pinching actions. You can make these actions do carry out tasks like zoom in and out of the screen, start Exposé or Dashboard, initiate Quicklook, and even run AppleScripts. If you find a gesture is too sensitive, or not sensitive enough, you can adjust that. You can even create presets for specific circumstances, so you can assign certain gestures for when you're working and others when you're gaming.
A: In settings under "More Gestures" I changed the top 'Swipe between pages' setting to 'swipe with two or three fingers' and it's working great in Firefox and Safari. No more speed-scrolling for the fingers!
A: I saw that this is a known issue. The workaround is to hold down the Option key and then do the three finger swipe. I miss my "home" and "end" scrolling, too!
A: Under "More Gestures", "Swipe between pages", there are three options - choose "Swipe with three fingers" - quick scroll to top/bottom with three finger vertical swipe is back! (Firefox). Note that under "Point and Drag", "Three finger drag" should be deselected.
A: The fix is: Switch "Mission Control" to four fingers. Then when three fingers are used in a vertical direction, the page jumps to top or bottom of page.
This works!
A: alt + three fingers up/down should do the trick.
A: It may seem annoying to have to install a piece of software to accomplish this, but BetterTouchTool really is the best option because you can do so much with it - and it's free. I have three finger scroll down set to take me to the end/bottom of the page and three fingers up takes me to the top. I use both of these all the time. In web browsers, I use three fingers left & right to switch from tab to tab, left & right. I'd go CRAZY without that feature now. The possibilities are pretty much endless, and it is very easy to work with. I have poor vision, so I use four finger scroll down to zoom in and four fingers up to zoom out. It's so handy.
With BetterTouchTool, you can also program keyboard hotkeys. I have a bunch of custom hotkeys I use to do all sorts of things, including fire off various applescripts. I mean, really... who uses the brightness keyboard keys on a desktop? Not me. So, I reassigned them with BetterTouchTool.
Even better still... if you have an Apple Remote that you're not using, you can use BetterTouchTool to assign what you want the buttons to do.
BetterTouchTool will give you so much power over customizing how you interact with your Mac. I've been using it for ages and I'd go crazy if I had to give it up. Even if it cost a hundred dollars, I'd recommend it. I'm not kidding when I say it's literally THAT good. And it's free.
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086607135be29063df48a37346fd36f08fc63a24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to hit "right-control" in VirtualBox on a remote Linux system over RDP via CoRD? I'm connecting using CoRD to a remote Linux system running xrdp. On that Linux system, I'm running VirtualBox. To escape from Virtualbox, I need to hit a "right control" key. Trouble is... I don't know how.
Anyone have experience with this kind of arrangement? Suggestions?
A: I was able to reprogram the VirtualBox Host Key. It seems to think my right-command key is a left alt, but the end result is the same, it works now.
| Q: How to hit "right-control" in VirtualBox on a remote Linux system over RDP via CoRD? I'm connecting using CoRD to a remote Linux system running xrdp. On that Linux system, I'm running VirtualBox. To escape from Virtualbox, I need to hit a "right control" key. Trouble is... I don't know how.
Anyone have experience with this kind of arrangement? Suggestions?
A: I was able to reprogram the VirtualBox Host Key. It seems to think my right-command key is a left alt, but the end result is the same, it works now.
A: This question seems to indicate there is an app called "Karabiner" that might be able to help you: https://superuser.com/questions/48362/emulating-the-right-ctrl-key-on-macbook-pro-keyboard-lacking-an-actual-right-ctr
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bd18c14396c2462dbbd87b59be251cdbdcbc31a9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I copy a Google search URL from Safari? When I google for images of "apple sauce" (without the quotes), Safari's location bar just displays "apple sauce" (without the quotes) rather than the URL leading to Google searching for apple sauce images.
I want to send someone the search URL. How can I get it from Safari?
A: It's not a very elegant solution, but you can make a bookmarklet that will open a pop-up dialog with a copiable version of the URL.
To do this, bookmark any page you happen to have handy, then open the Bookmarks manager (Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks), and edit the address of that bookmark to be javascript:alert(location.href);. Change the name to whatever you want.
Then when you click it, you should get a popup that looks like this:
| Q: How can I copy a Google search URL from Safari? When I google for images of "apple sauce" (without the quotes), Safari's location bar just displays "apple sauce" (without the quotes) rather than the URL leading to Google searching for apple sauce images.
I want to send someone the search URL. How can I get it from Safari?
A: It's not a very elegant solution, but you can make a bookmarklet that will open a pop-up dialog with a copiable version of the URL.
To do this, bookmark any page you happen to have handy, then open the Bookmarks manager (Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks), and edit the address of that bookmark to be javascript:alert(location.href);. Change the name to whatever you want.
Then when you click it, you should get a popup that looks like this:
A: You could also drag the favicon to a plain text view.
Or assign a shortcut to a script like this:
tell application "Safari" to URL of document 1
set the clipboard to result
A: It's simple. Copy apple sauce or whatever you see in the address bar and paste it wherever you want to. You might feel stupid doing this, but the result will be the full URL, not the search term you saw before copying. This works for me in Safari 10.0.
A: Like suggested elsewhere, you can drag the search text from the URL bar into some plain text view. However, one can also directly drag it into a (rich text) email or chat message. Or into Google's search field which is conveniently close to Safari's location bar:
(In previous versions, you could drag the magnifying glass icon; in 2016 versions just drag the search text like shown above.)
After dragging into Google's search field, the additional search text is already selected and focussed, ready for Command+C:
(In earlier versions, Safari's location bar will still have focus, and the URL in Google's search input will be gray, not blue. In those versions one could first hit Tab after searching to go into Google's search field, hit Delete to clear it, and then drag the icon. After that, the search field is ready for Command+C as well.)
The Share button to the right of the location bar can also share the URL, but probably only when messaging has been configured:
As an aside: the Google URLs include a lot of irrelevant things, specific to your browser, language, etc. Often, it's enough to use www.google.com#q=elvis+is+alive, or for image search www.google.com#tbm=isch&q=elvis+is+alive, but then one needs to change the spaces into plus-characters to ensure it's clickable. (And one also needs to percent-encode other special characters.) It would be nice if Google would provide some bare sharing link on its own site.
A: I've created a Safari Extension: Get URL that highlights the current URL. It's less invasive than a bookmarklet and it's pre-selected, too.
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7cd6fbcf1a2914c4292e089c2cfde4b7348668bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does Apple's Power Nap interact with File Vault? If a machine is periodically waking up to check for updates with Power Nap, does this also mean the disk encryption keys are always in RAM? If so, this makes a DMA attack against a "sleeping" Mac possible.
A: In general, Apple disables FireWire DMA in states where the computer isn't unlocked for use. There were some states they missed early on (see Todd Garrison's description of the problem), but they tightened the access controls in 10.7.2 (see CVE-2011-3215 here).
Power nap adds a new DMA-should-be-disabled state, so there's a possibility that it might have reintroduced this vulnerability, but I would expect Apple to have handled this correctly. Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone who's actually tested it (and I don't have a power-nap-capable Mac myself).
| Q: How does Apple's Power Nap interact with File Vault? If a machine is periodically waking up to check for updates with Power Nap, does this also mean the disk encryption keys are always in RAM? If so, this makes a DMA attack against a "sleeping" Mac possible.
A: In general, Apple disables FireWire DMA in states where the computer isn't unlocked for use. There were some states they missed early on (see Todd Garrison's description of the problem), but they tightened the access controls in 10.7.2 (see CVE-2011-3215 here).
Power nap adds a new DMA-should-be-disabled state, so there's a possibility that it might have reintroduced this vulnerability, but I would expect Apple to have handled this correctly. Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone who's actually tested it (and I don't have a power-nap-capable Mac myself).
A: Unless Apple messed up and writes the keys or passphrase insecurely, then the Mac is no more vulnerable than when it is running or sleeping normally.
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2e796df4e92a36c663ea2a1890a4c8e17f774e2b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Mac App Store Apps be "sideloaded"? The issue I am facing is bandwidth is very expensive where I live, I pay by the MB so if I need to install Final Cut on 10 different computers it would be murder to download it 10 times, is it possible to install on one computer and then move the files over and just pay for it on the other computer without having to get the files again? Or is the installation tied to a computer? Thank you.
A: You can copy/paste the application from one Mac to another, they will run as they are self-contained (no files required in other locations).
You may not even need to login to the App Store to run them. I had to install Xcode and Final Cut Pro on a very restricted network environment where the App Store is blocked, the apps ran fine.
Licensing is an issue if you use the apps in a non-personal environment (businness, education). Download and install work the same way.
| Q: Can Mac App Store Apps be "sideloaded"? The issue I am facing is bandwidth is very expensive where I live, I pay by the MB so if I need to install Final Cut on 10 different computers it would be murder to download it 10 times, is it possible to install on one computer and then move the files over and just pay for it on the other computer without having to get the files again? Or is the installation tied to a computer? Thank you.
A: You can copy/paste the application from one Mac to another, they will run as they are self-contained (no files required in other locations).
You may not even need to login to the App Store to run them. I had to install Xcode and Final Cut Pro on a very restricted network environment where the App Store is blocked, the apps ran fine.
Licensing is an issue if you use the apps in a non-personal environment (businness, education). Download and install work the same way.
A: Technically, side loading is fine. Most applications require you to be signed in to the store to run the app, but you certainly don't need to download 10 copies of the same app if you are using the same account.
License wise, this is fine for personal use since one copy of an App is licensed for use on all of your personal-use computers. You would want to get an OK from Apple for commercial use as you are expected to have one license per computer or person.
A: I think the technicalities lie in how the developer chooses to package their apps. Each download has a signature/receipt file as part of teh download bundle. This should be tied to your Apple ID as part of the purchasing process, so as long as the other computers have access to this ID then copying will work fine. It is possible if I recall correctly to have a receipt file that doesn't require even this level of authentication, and some apps once downloaded can be freely distributed regardless of where is came from - I think most devs have sorted this one out to be honest, but you sound like you are good to go with a legit download and access to the same ID.
A: You can:
*
*enable the Debug menu of the App Store
*Show Download Folder…
*download, and perform a carefully timed copy of the download (timed to occur before the download is purged from that area).
Volatile items in this area may include things that are installers (not the installed results of an installer).
Related, and not limited to Lion: Does the Lion App Store have a debug menu?
Another volatile area:
/Library/Updates
I'll test to figure out the relationship between the two areas. Maybe:
*
*all App Store downloads go first to the downloads folder
*then downloads that will be used for updates are moved temporarily to /Library/Updates
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0c0783a4369362d0d462b0c44ad0d7ee974828f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to save chat logs in Messages for Mountain Lion? I always used to save my Chat logs because I use IM in the professional environment. Now I find that I can’t save chat logs anymore. That option is gone. Is there any workaround or hidden preference to enable saving chat logs again?
A: In Preferences, select Messages and check "Save history when conversations are closed." Now when you quit Messages, it will create a collection of chat transcripts. You can easily access these in your Library folder. From Finder, select Go>Go to Folder and type: ~/Library/Messages/Archive. If you are on Mavericks or Yosemite, the location is ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages. This will take you directly to the appropriate folder.
| Q: How to save chat logs in Messages for Mountain Lion? I always used to save my Chat logs because I use IM in the professional environment. Now I find that I can’t save chat logs anymore. That option is gone. Is there any workaround or hidden preference to enable saving chat logs again?
A: In Preferences, select Messages and check "Save history when conversations are closed." Now when you quit Messages, it will create a collection of chat transcripts. You can easily access these in your Library folder. From Finder, select Go>Go to Folder and type: ~/Library/Messages/Archive. If you are on Mavericks or Yosemite, the location is ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages. This will take you directly to the appropriate folder.
A: Please note that the new location for logs in Mavericks is ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages (yes, even though the app is called Messages, the container is called iChat).
This appears to be a way of replicating the way that apps like iMessages work on iOS -- Messages gets its own Library folder with its own dedicated hierarchy of files.
Update: At some point after 10.9 Mavericks and by the time of 10.15 Catalina, the real location for stored chat logs became ~/Library/Messages/Archive.
A: I don't know if you are still looking for an answer to this, but it looks like you can use Automator (in Applications) to copy all files to a certain folder when items are added to the Archive Folder us "Folder Action". I am trying it out now, but seems it should work.
A: In addition to native Automator, if you're a Hazel or Alfred user they can give you other ways to do this on addition of a file to a folder.
A: I had the same problem.
On my machine I resolved the problem by removing the Archive link.
Open Messages and send a message. Close Messages. This should now create the Archive folder.
I copied my older chats to this new Archive folder, and everything worked for me.
cp -r /Users//Documents/iChats/ /Users//Library/Containers/com.apple.ichat/Data/Library/Messages/Archive
A: If you want the easiest, most foolproof way to do this with the most flexible format WITH images/videos/gifs/emoji/allthethings, follow along. This method contains absolutely zero automation, so even your hip grandma can follow along.
*
*Open the Messages app
*Open the conversation you want to copy and keep scrolling to the top to load more of the conversation until you've loaded all that you want.
*Select all (Cmd+A)
*Copy (Cmd+C)
*Open TextEdit and start a New Document
*Paste (Cmd+V)
As you can see, all of the text and media are there, and you can edit it like any word file. Want it as a PDF? Just Export to PDF, and it won't even break pages in the middle of images and stuff (as would printing to PDF from the Messages app). Make sure you save this file somewhere before proceeding to the extra step below: resizing photos.
If your transcript contains gargantuan 3648x2736 images like mine do, you're going to want to reduce their size to fit in the document. This is simple: the image data is saved as part of the document. So, just...
*
*Double-click the image you want to reduce to open it in Preview
*Once in Preview, select (from the menu bar) Tools > Adjust Size
*By default, the Width value is selected and the dimensions are constrained (meaning changing one will adjust the other to keep it in the current Height/Width ratio) as depicted by the little locked padlock icon nearby. Enter a more sane value; I like to go with 640x480 for my images. If you're savvy, move to step 4. If you have no idea what value to enter... First make sure the little padlock icon is 'locked'. If it isn't, click on it and it should become locked. Next, select the larger of the two values (double-clicking on it will fully select), delete the value, and then enter 640. Press ENTER or click the OK button at the bottom.
*Your image should now be reduced in size, and you can close the window (Cmd+W), quit (Cmd+Q), or whatever (Cmd+????????)
*You should be back in your text document and the image size will have updated. Note: The one anything thing here is that TextEdit likes to scroll you all the way to the top of the document. Them's the breaks.
There you have it. Chat transcript archived like a boss.
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4d00c546cc614387f91b807b9c4e4339563396ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Desktop image is not showing in Mountain Lion with dual monitor I have a MBA connecting via HDMI to Samsung Monitor.
Problem is desktop background for Samsung monitor is not showing. There is only grey desktop and doesn't have any changes even I try to change the image of the desktop at System Preferences.
Changes for the MBA desktop is ok.
Is that a mountain lion bug?
A: OS X allows you to select different images for each display. When you open the Desktop section in Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences, you should get one dialog on each screen for choosing a desktop image. Each dialog controls only the image for that screen, so make sure you're setting the image you want on both screens.
| Q: Desktop image is not showing in Mountain Lion with dual monitor I have a MBA connecting via HDMI to Samsung Monitor.
Problem is desktop background for Samsung monitor is not showing. There is only grey desktop and doesn't have any changes even I try to change the image of the desktop at System Preferences.
Changes for the MBA desktop is ok.
Is that a mountain lion bug?
A: OS X allows you to select different images for each display. When you open the Desktop section in Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences, you should get one dialog on each screen for choosing a desktop image. Each dialog controls only the image for that screen, so make sure you're setting the image you want on both screens.
A: Restarting the Dock seems to work for me, however I don't know what is causing this grey desktop background.
To restart the Dock, type this into Terminal and press enter:
killall Dock
A: I also experienced this problem and found this workaround:
*
*Open System Preferences -> Displays -> Arrangements
*switch on "Mirror Displays" and switch it off again
This is no solution for the problem of course, but at least the wallpaper is showing again without rebooting...
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7d3938880ac7c76463c6c5ce70e279eede99a259 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Export all stickies at once on OS X 10.8? I am using Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). I have a lot of stickies, but have been unable to find a simple way to export all the stickies at once as either text or HTML.
Have I overlooked something obvious? What is the right way to export all stickies in bulk into a more open file format?
A: Export stickies created by Stickies.app
*
*Install Notational Velocity (NV) and start the application
*In Finder open your Library folder and locate StickiesDatabase
*Drag StickiesDatabase into the 'Filtered Note List' in the NV main window (see here for reference)
*In NV select any number of notes and choose Export from the menu
If you prefer to write your own code, have a look at Learning Cocoa with Objective-C which explains how to reverse-engineer the StickiesDatabase format.
Export Dashboard stickies
Run this in Terminal.app
plutil -convert json -r -o - ~/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist |
awk '$1 ~ /-data/ { start=index($0, ":")+3
end=length($0)-2
sticky=substr($0, start, end-start+1)
gsub(/<.?.?div>/, "", sticky)
gsub(/<br>/, "\n", sticky)
print sticky
print "---" }' > ~/all-my-stickies.txt
| Q: Export all stickies at once on OS X 10.8? I am using Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). I have a lot of stickies, but have been unable to find a simple way to export all the stickies at once as either text or HTML.
Have I overlooked something obvious? What is the right way to export all stickies in bulk into a more open file format?
A: Export stickies created by Stickies.app
*
*Install Notational Velocity (NV) and start the application
*In Finder open your Library folder and locate StickiesDatabase
*Drag StickiesDatabase into the 'Filtered Note List' in the NV main window (see here for reference)
*In NV select any number of notes and choose Export from the menu
If you prefer to write your own code, have a look at Learning Cocoa with Objective-C which explains how to reverse-engineer the StickiesDatabase format.
Export Dashboard stickies
Run this in Terminal.app
plutil -convert json -r -o - ~/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist |
awk '$1 ~ /-data/ { start=index($0, ":")+3
end=length($0)-2
sticky=substr($0, start, end-start+1)
gsub(/<.?.?div>/, "", sticky)
gsub(/<br>/, "\n", sticky)
print sticky
print "---" }' > ~/all-my-stickies.txt
A: Below is a modified version of this script. It exports your stickies into separate txt files.
osascript <<'APPLESCRIPT'
set theName to ""
set i to 0
set n to {}
set L to {}
# prompt for output dir
set destFldr to (choose folder with prompt "Choose a destination folder:") as text
# hardcode output dir
#set destFldr to "/path/to/export/to/" as text
set mydestFldr to POSIX path of destFldr
tell application "Stickies"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Stickies"
set L to name of every window
try
repeat with awindow in L
set m to value of text area 1 of scroll area 1 of window awindow
set i to i + 1
set theName to "stickies" & "_" & i & ".txt" as string
set theFile to mydestFldr & theName
do shell script "/bin/echo " & quoted form of m & " > " & quoted form of theFile
end repeat
end try
end tell
end tell
# display dialog "done"
tell application "Finder"
activate
open destFldr
end tell
end tell
APPLESCRIPT
Note that this will only grab all the stickies from the current Mac 'Space'.
A: Looks like there are simpler ways to do it as well.
*
*Turn on your Apple Computer & Go to the Library folder
*Select the file named “StickiesDatabase”
*Copy the file and save it somewhere else to backup stickies
Refer http://www.macworld.com/article/1160992/software-utilities/transfer-stickies.html for more details.
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56b0ddece0f57d796b3fbf2abe6cf95c5f1ab12b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to completely disable Dock? I want the Dock completely gone. I haven't used it in the past three releases of OS X (10.5 to present). I want it completely gone, and LaunchBar there instead. Is there a way to kill the Dock so that it does not load or run?
A: You can change icons size to 1px using:
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -float 1; killall Dock
To restore it to usable size:
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -float 64; killall Dock
Or simply open System Preferences and change the Dock size there.
There's a downside though, you can't quickly inspect the Dock if you need to, without changing the size back.
| Q: Is there a way to completely disable Dock? I want the Dock completely gone. I haven't used it in the past three releases of OS X (10.5 to present). I want it completely gone, and LaunchBar there instead. Is there a way to kill the Dock so that it does not load or run?
A: You can change icons size to 1px using:
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -float 1; killall Dock
To restore it to usable size:
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -float 64; killall Dock
Or simply open System Preferences and change the Dock size there.
There's a downside though, you can't quickly inspect the Dock if you need to, without changing the size back.
A: The Dock process on OS X is responsible for more than just the actual Dock on your screen. It does a bunch of background stuff, including Dashboard. Most notably, the Finder won't function properly if the Dock process isn't running, so turning it off completely is pretty much a no-go without breaking OS X in the process.
The best I can suggest is keeping the dock hidden, and make the size as small as possible so you're less likely to trigger it.
You can also position it where it's least likely to get in the way - as you probably know, you can put it on the left, right or bottom of your screen. But you can also pin it to a particular corner, just use the defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start command. Type that command in Terminal (replace start with end to change which corner it goes in, or middle to go back to the default), then killall Dock to restart the Dock and apply the change.
A: This answer doesn't really add that much to what is already here, but I felt that the answers offering solutions for hiding it lacked some information.
I personally use uBar and I've used the following set of terminal commands without any issues. I can only confirm that I've used these without any issues since El Capitan. I can't remember further than that for sure.
To be clear, this only hides Dock, so that you will never have to deal with it accidentally popping up.
For those who don't know, these lines of code should be run in Terminal. It can be found here: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. Just open Terminal and paste in the lines and press enter.
# Hide Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE && killall Dock
# Restore Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool false && killall Dock
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool FALSE && killall Dock
You can run each line separately as well.
Explanation on what each line does:
*
*First line turns on autohide
*
*As someone mentioned, Cmd+Alt+D still toggles Dock visibility just like before. This is useful if you need to assign application to a specific space. Using the Dock is the only way (AFAIK).
*By default when Dock autohide is on, hovering over the edge where it sits shows the Dock pretty much immediately. This line Makes the hover delay 1000 seconds, making it pretty much impossible to accidentally show dock if you happen to hover over the edge. You'd have to let it sit there for ~17 minutes.
*This removes the bounce animation that happens when applications want your attention or when an application is launching. I've noticed that depending on the Dock icon size, they may peak from the edge when they start bouncing. This gets rid of that issue.
killall Dock at the end of each line forces Dock to quit and then it restores itself automatically. This is to basically load the new settings. It's only necessary to run killall Dock after the very last line, but this way it's easier to run the lines separately if necessary ...and in bulk it really makes no difference.
A: To double click an icon and toggle the behaviour. using @Jonas code -Thanks!
I saved the following into a file named Toggle_Dock then ran sudo chmod +x Toggle_Dock which might have not been needed. Now I can just use the icon to toggle the dock.
# Check if dock is hidden
if [[ "$(defaults read com.apple.dock autohide)" -eq "1" ]]; then
# Restore Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool false && killall Dock
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool FALSE && killall Dock
exit
fi
# Hide Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE && killall Dock
A: This article from Lifehacker.com.au suggests setting the Dock autohide delay to 1000 seconds, like so:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 1000; killall Dock
To restore the default behavior:
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay; killall Dock
The author says he sets the delay to two seconds, so he can still get to the Dock in those rare cases when it's needed.
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79a88bdf8b70ca167d6d3cdd6182d45721e634df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get OS X Notification Center State From the Command Line On OS X 10.8, users can disable Notification Center for a single day. Is there a way to check if it is enabled from the command line?.
A: You actually can find out if the Do Not Disturb is currently enabled or disabled. Notification Center drops a plist in the following location that you can read the value of.
Run the following to find the plist file:
ls ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.*.plist
Now, you can read the value from the plist you just found by using:
defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.8D3EA20D-8D7F-52E2-9F99-BC17A13A3F0E.plist
NOTE: your actual filename may be different than what I have listed above.
You will see a key called "doNotDisturb" and it will either have a value of 1 or 0 (enabled or disabled)
You can also change it's status by doing:
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.8D3EA20D-8D7F-52E2-9F99-BC17A13A3F0E.plist doNotDisturb 1
or:
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.8D3EA20D-8D7F-52E2-9F99-BC17A13A3F0E.plist doNotDisturb 0
To make the change take effect, you'll need to restart Notification Center by typing:
killall NotificationCenter
I've actually written a very simple Automator script so now I can enable/disable the Do Not Disturb for Notification Center with a keyboard shortcut. Very handy. :)
| Q: Get OS X Notification Center State From the Command Line On OS X 10.8, users can disable Notification Center for a single day. Is there a way to check if it is enabled from the command line?.
A: You actually can find out if the Do Not Disturb is currently enabled or disabled. Notification Center drops a plist in the following location that you can read the value of.
Run the following to find the plist file:
ls ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.*.plist
Now, you can read the value from the plist you just found by using:
defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.8D3EA20D-8D7F-52E2-9F99-BC17A13A3F0E.plist
NOTE: your actual filename may be different than what I have listed above.
You will see a key called "doNotDisturb" and it will either have a value of 1 or 0 (enabled or disabled)
You can also change it's status by doing:
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.8D3EA20D-8D7F-52E2-9F99-BC17A13A3F0E.plist doNotDisturb 1
or:
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.8D3EA20D-8D7F-52E2-9F99-BC17A13A3F0E.plist doNotDisturb 0
To make the change take effect, you'll need to restart Notification Center by typing:
killall NotificationCenter
I've actually written a very simple Automator script so now I can enable/disable the Do Not Disturb for Notification Center with a keyboard shortcut. Very handy. :)
A: To get the Do not disturb status in Yosemite, just enter the following in your terminal:
defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist doNotDisturb
A: Setting of the Notification center is stored in the ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost folder, which means it's a machine-specific settings.
You can use defaults -currentHost command to read the settings within. -currentHost is used to specify the ByHost setting not the common user specific one stored in ~/Library/Preferences.
defaults -currentHost read com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb
Output value 1 means it's activated, 0 for disabled.
In fact, the above command is reading options from ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.<your-UUID>.plist file.
Caveats: Setting ByHost options with defaults -currentHost write doesn't work. The options are indeed written into the file, but it's not reloaded by the corresponding daemon. I guess this is a bug.
References
*
*Modifying plist in ByHost folder.
*ByHost doesn't work: Config Profiles on ByHost Plists
A: Probably the best way I can think of is to install terminal notifier and send it a message from the terminal.
Install Terminal Notifier
Terminal notifier can be installed through Ruby Gems
Type:
sudo gem install terminal-notifier
Send NC a message
Type:
terminal-notifier -message "The notification center is running" -title "NC Status"
If notification center is running you'll get a message that says "The notification center is running"
A: At the moment, the ways to interact with Notification Center programmatically (including via the command line) are pretty limited. As InfluenceJamie noted, there's terminal-notifier, which allows you to send notifications from the command line, but sending notifications is pretty much all programs can do at the moment. From my reading of the developer documentation, programs can only send and get information about the specific notifications they send, no status information for Notifcation Center itself, or other notifications. There's also no Applescript interface.
So at the moment, you're limited to manually testing whether a notification goes through, as InfluenceJamie suggested, or hoping that someone figures out Apple's private APIs and makes a command line interface.
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3943e7d257def59402e60f3707fd3b5ea4545ec9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get disk temperature in terminal Is there a command I can use just to get the hard disk temperature in the terminal?
Is this possible without a third party app?
A: Without add on software there is no command to get the disk temperature, after:
brew install smartmontools
One can run the following command o retrieve de disk temperature:
$ smartctl -a disk0 | grep Temperature
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 044 044 000 Old_age Always - 56 (Min/Max 17/70)
| Q: Get disk temperature in terminal Is there a command I can use just to get the hard disk temperature in the terminal?
Is this possible without a third party app?
A: Without add on software there is no command to get the disk temperature, after:
brew install smartmontools
One can run the following command o retrieve de disk temperature:
$ smartctl -a disk0 | grep Temperature
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 044 044 000 Old_age Always - 56 (Min/Max 17/70)
A: Note: The tool isn't available any longer, and the replacement hasn't been updated since 2014 (and doesn't seem to work on recent versions of macOS).
Unfortunately you won't be able to do this without a third party app. However, if you're happy to use a third party software it is possible to get the temperature in terminal.
You can temperature monitor, which is a free application and provides a command line option. The ins and outs of using the software may be a bit much to go into here, but you can find all the instructions here.
A: You could try Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) which has a command-line app. Most (if not all?) hard drives will report their temperature in the S.M.A.R.T. report.
There's also a native GUI SMARTReporter app which lets you perform certain actions based on temperature, if that's what you're after (and also happens to include the smartctl command-line binary — though if you're just after the binary you should, as a rule, get it from the "original" developers, just to be safe!).
A: Apple doesn’t program that sensor directly for command line access.
You will only be able to get a temperature reading if there is a sensor. This article explains how you can get this information via the ioreg command.
This one-liner worked for me to get the GPU temperature (unfortunately I was not able to see any other IOHWSensors on my machine):
echo $(($(ioreg -c IOHWSensor | grep "current-value" | grep -oE [0-9]+) / 65536))
A: iStat Menus shows a lot of detailed information about the running state of the system, including all temperature sensors.
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bec0cfe92982bee2fac5e84c429caf8026df9d6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to forward Growl notifications to Notification Centre? Since there's a lot of apps that support Growl, and only a handful have been updated yet, I'd like to know if there's a way to convert those Growl notifications into Notification Centre notifications.
e.g. some kind of add-on for Growl or a 'proxy' of sorts so that the notifications all come through ML's Notification Centre.
A: Sure is.
Hiss is an app that takes the place of Growl to catch Growl notifications and reroute them to the Notification Center.
One limitation of Hiss, however, is it displays all notifications as coming from Growl, rather than the application that actually generated them.
| Q: Is there a way to forward Growl notifications to Notification Centre? Since there's a lot of apps that support Growl, and only a handful have been updated yet, I'd like to know if there's a way to convert those Growl notifications into Notification Centre notifications.
e.g. some kind of add-on for Growl or a 'proxy' of sorts so that the notifications all come through ML's Notification Centre.
A: Sure is.
Hiss is an app that takes the place of Growl to catch Growl notifications and reroute them to the Notification Center.
One limitation of Hiss, however, is it displays all notifications as coming from Growl, rather than the application that actually generated them.
A: In the 2.0 version of the Growl SDK, we introduce Notification Center support. If Growl is not running, the app will post directly to Notification Center. If Growl is running, it's assumed the user wants Growl, and the app will post to Growl.
Here's the fun part.
In Growl 2 there will be a big switch that you can turn to on, to turn on NC support in Growl 2. The way it works is that any app that has the 2.0 version of the framework will be notified that the switch is enabled. Those apps will send to both Growl and Notification Center.
If this switch in Growl is enabled, then the visual notifications portion of Growl will be grayed out and you cannot use them. However, actions will work. So you can send notifications to Prowl/Boxcar/MailMe/etc etc and have Notification Center be the visual notifications.
A: In the interim here is another method to forward Growl to Notification Center:
https://github.com/stigi/MountainGrowl
Notifications are still shown as coming from Growl rather than the originating app. In use, it's a bit easier to deal with than Hiss, which seems buggy at present.
A: Since version 2.0, Growl supports "bubbling" notifications to the Notification Center out of the box. You can find the setting for this in the General tab of Growl's preferences.
It does come with the same limitations as Hiss though, all notifications appear to be coming from Growl and not the originating app, and clicking them does not appear to launch the expected actions.
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b59a148a2efd9d112e5844f9cc7d801b877fb8a3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does using a transparent screen protector for the face and the back of the iPhone 4 have drawbacks? I saw multiple videos that the iPhone 4 screen can not be scratched by keys, coins and is even quite resistant to dropping. What are the drawbacks to adding this layer of protection (in general or perhaps for a specific film you have used) so I can weigh whether I wish to use one?
A: In the end, the worth of a case/screen protector is entirely up to you.
The iPhone 4/4S screen is incredibly durable, and without a protector, I've had mine since the release of the 4S and it's only got the smallest micro-buffs in the screen (you really have to be looking at them to see it).
I'd say the only real good reason for protection of any kind is to protect your device from drops. Being that they're a specially treated glass, if you drop it from a sizeable distance, they'll more than likely shatter.
| Q: Does using a transparent screen protector for the face and the back of the iPhone 4 have drawbacks? I saw multiple videos that the iPhone 4 screen can not be scratched by keys, coins and is even quite resistant to dropping. What are the drawbacks to adding this layer of protection (in general or perhaps for a specific film you have used) so I can weigh whether I wish to use one?
A: In the end, the worth of a case/screen protector is entirely up to you.
The iPhone 4/4S screen is incredibly durable, and without a protector, I've had mine since the release of the 4S and it's only got the smallest micro-buffs in the screen (you really have to be looking at them to see it).
I'd say the only real good reason for protection of any kind is to protect your device from drops. Being that they're a specially treated glass, if you drop it from a sizeable distance, they'll more than likely shatter.
A: Apple made big improvements with the latest iPhone screens. I've had the iPhone 4s since for a while now (since it came out) and I'm notoriously hard on my phones, but the screen still looks as good as new. Personally I find the plastic screen covers just annoying, they always come off and they're a pain to apply. Hope that helps.
A: I've been using a transparent protector since I had my first iPhone (4 years ago) and I can only recommend it. If you buy a decent one, you won't even notice it's there.
I agree Apple has made a lot of improvements on the durability of the iPhones, but the protectors has always kept my iPhones next to brand new (which has come handy when I sold my iPhone).
And these days, you can buy 10 protectors for less then $10, so in my opinion, this is a very small amount to pay to keep my iPhone scratch-less.
A: I agree that screen protectors are quite necessary, but not only for just resisting scratches. The ones I have used for years (ScreenGuardz) have an anti-glare feature which is nice to have in bright situations and they are less prone to collecting fingerprints all over the screen.
The decent ones cost a bit more (still inexpensive) but are still worth it. Here's the ScreenGuardz link...
ScreenGuardz - iPhone
Check for them on eBay though, they might have new ones for cheaper. ;)
But, if you have already picked up scratches on your touch screen panel, then make sure to use the right buffing agent for your specific screen to work out the scratches. Touch screen panels vary in their composition (Glass, Acrylic, Gorilla Glass, etc.) so be sure you use the right one. These guys have a line of buffing compounds specifically for mobile device touch panels so you might look them up...
TDI-LLC Technology - Glass, Acrylic, and Gorilla Glass Compounds
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b18d10b4c4d14062b6fa5a3edbf0e3d5d8a429c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can i use my old MacBook charger on my new Mac? I have a 2011 15" MBP, that uses a 85W power supply.
My old 2008 MBP 15" also has a 85W power supply, but I cannot get it to work. Shouldnt it? Its the same watt power, and the adapter fits.
A: The way Apple power adapters are designed is that you can use any charger on any laptop that has the same, or lower, power rating. For example, you can safely use an 85W power adapter (for MacBook Pro) on a MacBook Air (which requires only 45W) or MacBook (which requires 65W).
However this does not work the other way around, you cannot use a MacBook Air (45W) adapter to power a MacBook Pro.
A 2008 MacBook Pro adapter rated at 85W should power a 2011 MacBook Pro with no problem. If this is not the case, then the adapter is faulty.
| Q: Can i use my old MacBook charger on my new Mac? I have a 2011 15" MBP, that uses a 85W power supply.
My old 2008 MBP 15" also has a 85W power supply, but I cannot get it to work. Shouldnt it? Its the same watt power, and the adapter fits.
A: The way Apple power adapters are designed is that you can use any charger on any laptop that has the same, or lower, power rating. For example, you can safely use an 85W power adapter (for MacBook Pro) on a MacBook Air (which requires only 45W) or MacBook (which requires 65W).
However this does not work the other way around, you cannot use a MacBook Air (45W) adapter to power a MacBook Pro.
A 2008 MacBook Pro adapter rated at 85W should power a 2011 MacBook Pro with no problem. If this is not the case, then the adapter is faulty.
A: Yes.
Apple sells and markets the Cinema Display with an 85 watt adapter and it's an accessory for all MacBook whether your portable shipped with an adapter of 45 watts, 60 watts or 85 watts.
Using your higher rated adapter with a Mac that draws less power is safe to do. Going the other way is also safe - but the Mac will either not charge, charge slowly or work fine depending on how much power it needs from moment to moment.
A: After 2 years my Macbook Pro battery life has seen better days. It will only last 2 hours max. However, I recently visited friends and forgot my 85W power supply. Instead I charged up with the 13" Macbook 60W adapter. Yes, it took longer to charge all the way. However, I found a seemingly rejuvenated battery - with life extended to 4-6 hours depending on what applications I'm running.
To test this phenomenon, I have since tried multiple charge cycles with both a 60W and 85W adapter. Sure enough, every time I used the 60W charger I had a much longer battery life. And when I switch back to my brand new 85W power supply, I'm back to about 90 minutes battery life.
I've discussed this with several physicist and engineer friends, who can't offer an explanation. I assumed that the battery life was running down with time (even though I maintain proper battery training protocol) but I can't argue against the reality that using a 65W adapter has yielded a bigger charge and longer life. Go figure?
A: I have only just found out that adaptors are universal. I saw the new shape attachment on my MacBook Pro and thought it would not fit my old Macbook. The old 65W adaptor works well on my upgraded 2011 Macbook Pro and vice versa. The battery life is good. I'm so happy to discover this.
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cd593176352e4e6c3e71a84017d6b1a4ca6cfe6c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Sleep Display Without Eject Key? I read that if you want to put your display into sleep the keyboard shortcut is Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏, but what is it in Mountain Lion or Lion using a retina MacBook Pro or MacBook Air without an eject button?
A: Found two options:
*
*Use BetterTouchTool add global keyboard shortcut and choose Sleep Display.
*Use Hot Corners (System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver) and choose Put Display To Sleep. (You can hold down Command ⌘ and then it will only work when you're in the selected corner and while ⌘ is pressed.)
| Q: What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Sleep Display Without Eject Key? I read that if you want to put your display into sleep the keyboard shortcut is Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏, but what is it in Mountain Lion or Lion using a retina MacBook Pro or MacBook Air without an eject button?
A: Found two options:
*
*Use BetterTouchTool add global keyboard shortcut and choose Sleep Display.
*Use Hot Corners (System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver) and choose Put Display To Sleep. (You can hold down Command ⌘ and then it will only work when you're in the selected corner and while ⌘ is pressed.)
A: I finally found the solution to get the same functionality as the previous model (The model with the Eject ⏏ button).
The same thing can be achieved by replacing the Eject ⏏ button with Fn + Power button.
Control ^ + Shift ⇧ + Fn + Power: Turns off your screen
Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Fn + Power: Put Macbook to Sleep
All other solutions involved a third party software, a new shortcut or did not work.
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19115443#19115443
A: (At least on the Retina display MacBook Pro) use the Power button the same as you previously used the Eject button. So Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Power puts the display to sleep and Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Power puts the machine to sleep.
A: Found a solution over at the Apple Support Communities:
I just found out that pressing the function (fn) key and the power button calls up a dialog box where you can choose to sleep or shut down (shut down is the default when you press return.
Give it a shot!
A: There's a short program on StackOverflow which uses a "semi-undocumented api" to put all displays to sleep.
Putting this in Automator should allow you to hook it to a global keyboard shortcut, I think.
A: The difference between putting the display to sleep and putting the computer to sleep might be important to some users:
*
*Ctrl-Shift-Eject ⏏ puts the display to sleep
*Opt-Cmd-Eject ⏏ puts the whole computer to sleep
Putting only the display to sleep allows any running programs (including large downloads that are in progress) to continue while you lock your screen (if you have it set to require a password) and leave the computer, while putting the whole computer to sleep will stop a download's progress as soon as you put it to sleep.
A: you can hold the power button for a little more than 1 second!!
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8d4f72fd1e146f9e2433d72a042802e032077ded | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard Shortcut For Entering Screen Saver How can I enter Screen Saver without wating few minutes? Is there an application I could run, keyboard shortcut maybe? I'm using rMBP running ML.
EDIT: All I found was using Hot Corner as explained here: https://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#quickscreensaver
Basically it means I have to move my mouse cursor into a corner and maybe comine a key such as command to enter Screen Saver. I don't really like this solution.
A: If you open Keychain Access (I use Spotlight, but you can go to /Applications/Utilities), go to the main menu and hit Preferences... (or Command-,) you'll find a checkbox labeled "Show keychain status in menu bar..." If you check it, you'll get a little lock in your menubar.
If you click "Lock Screen", your screensaver will activate. I use this at work as an OSX Control-Alt-Delete alternative.
(Note: it will require your user password to unlock the screen. This may/may not be desirable.)
| Q: Keyboard Shortcut For Entering Screen Saver How can I enter Screen Saver without wating few minutes? Is there an application I could run, keyboard shortcut maybe? I'm using rMBP running ML.
EDIT: All I found was using Hot Corner as explained here: https://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#quickscreensaver
Basically it means I have to move my mouse cursor into a corner and maybe comine a key such as command to enter Screen Saver. I don't really like this solution.
A: If you open Keychain Access (I use Spotlight, but you can go to /Applications/Utilities), go to the main menu and hit Preferences... (or Command-,) you'll find a checkbox labeled "Show keychain status in menu bar..." If you check it, you'll get a little lock in your menubar.
If you click "Lock Screen", your screensaver will activate. I use this at work as an OSX Control-Alt-Delete alternative.
(Note: it will require your user password to unlock the screen. This may/may not be desirable.)
A: Well this is sort of a hack, but you can create a script/service to enable the screensaver and then assign it a shortcut. This AppleScript works for enabling the screensaver:
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate
You have two options for assigning a keyboard shortcut to this script:
*
*Save it as a service and assign it a keyboard shortcut through System Preferences. Here's how you would do it:
*
*Open Automator and select Service
*On the left-side menu, select Utilities.
*In Utilities, drag and drop the "Run Applescript" action into your workflow
*Copy the applescript above into the "Run Applescript" action
*Save
*Open System Preferences and go to the "Keyboard Pane"
*Navigate to the "Services" menu from the "Keyboard Shortcuts" pane
*Select the service you just created and give it a shortcut
*Download FastScripts and give it a keyboard shortcut through there.
A: After adding Keychain Access to the menubar, you can use ^F8 to highlight it in the menu, then press ↓ twice if you don't like to use the mouse for it.
A: This looks to be similar to your last question, What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Sleep Display?
If all you want to do is trigger the screensaver earlier than the designated timeout period, you can use Hot Corners.
A: I use a hot corner, and find it even easier than a keyboard shortcut. You don't need to press any keys with a hot corner.
A: From Apple's discussion forum
Another option would be to use Automator to create a service to start the screen saver and set a keyboard shortcut to turn it on.
To do this, open Automator and choose Service as the template for a new workflow. Type "screen" in the search field to locate the "Start Screen Saver" action and drag it to the workflow. Set the "Service receives selected" option to "no input". Save your workflow with the same name you want it to have in the Services menu.
Next, open System Preferences > Keyboard and go to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. In the left column, click on Services and scroll the right column down to the bottom to find the Service you just created (it will be listed under the General category). Then assign whatever keyboard shortcut you'd like to use.
A: Hot corners suck if they activate when you don't want them, as they frequently do for me. A keyboard shortcut is much easier to control precisely.
OSX Daily explains how to do it right:
How to Start the Mac Screen Saver with a Keyboard Shortcut in OS X
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418332e7122be32b780f3f9706bf2687f19b880e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to delete or rename files from inside the open dialog on OS X? By default I know that OS X does not allow you to do any modifications from inside the open dialog, like
*
*rename files
*move files
*delete files
*tag files/folders
Is it possible to tune the system in order to enable this functionality?
A: Why not do all this in Finder? Check this animation for a useful way to locate your file in Finder, directly from any Document window and Open/Save dialog:
I use this dozens of times every day.
| Q: How to delete or rename files from inside the open dialog on OS X? By default I know that OS X does not allow you to do any modifications from inside the open dialog, like
*
*rename files
*move files
*delete files
*tag files/folders
Is it possible to tune the system in order to enable this functionality?
A: Why not do all this in Finder? Check this animation for a useful way to locate your file in Finder, directly from any Document window and Open/Save dialog:
I use this dozens of times every day.
A: The Default Folder X add-on could help you out here. It offers a ton of additional features for the Open/Save dialog including favorites, file/folder renaming and deletion and access to metadata (tagging).
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36c445a27b0aa858006ea84ec609ef62899fd7ea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get two status-bar clocks with different timezones? I'd like to have one clock in my status bar set to the same timezone as my servers. I've found three applications that will allow me to add another clock:
*
*Day-O
*MenuCalendarClock
*iClock
but they all use the system time (which I'd like to keep as-is). Are there any applications that allow timezone-munging inside the app, or will I need to write this myself?
A: Lovers clock might be the one you are looking for
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26202/loversclock
| Q: How do I get two status-bar clocks with different timezones? I'd like to have one clock in my status bar set to the same timezone as my servers. I've found three applications that will allow me to add another clock:
*
*Day-O
*MenuCalendarClock
*iClock
but they all use the system time (which I'd like to keep as-is). Are there any applications that allow timezone-munging inside the app, or will I need to write this myself?
A: Lovers clock might be the one you are looking for
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26202/loversclock
A: Would having a menubar clock that displays other timezones in a drop-down menu work? I find iStat Menus works for me for seeing other timezones easily, albeit not as easily as having the time in the timezone you want shown right there. It's commercial software, but there are similar open source project out there. Maybe one of them does the "other timezones in the dropdown" thing?
A: Status clock is free, and available from the mac app store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/status-clock/id552792489?mt=12
Worth a look too: https://github.com/palaniraja/mclock
Note: Loversclock, mentioned in another post, didn't download.
A: There is a free option. Install BitBar and then the World Clock plugin from:
https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Time/worldclock.1s.sh
A: I would also really like to display multiple times in my menu bar, but I'm not able to find anything like that either. I landed on Clocker. It's free and you can easily assign a keyboard shortcut which is really nice.
A: World time widget
Try this app
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48ce778c0e91b80ee19a120332163da551cb2a3e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I force Keynote to sync with iCloud? When I create new Keynote presentations on my Mac they are not showing up on my iOS devices. I noticed when I open a document from iCloud there is a dotted iCloud symbol in the file viewer.
Is there a way to manually force the sync to occur? Last time I resolved this by disabling my iCloud account and re-enabling it, this is pretty painful though as it takes awhile.
Anyone know why these documents won't sync?
A: Ok so I got ahold of Apple support and they helped me resolve the issue by deleting the Keynote preferences file located at
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.plist
They instructed me to move it to the Desktop for backup purposes and then reboot the system, after rebooting and opening Keynote again the file was regenerated and the issue was resolved. They then had me trash the old property list file.
| Q: How do I force Keynote to sync with iCloud? When I create new Keynote presentations on my Mac they are not showing up on my iOS devices. I noticed when I open a document from iCloud there is a dotted iCloud symbol in the file viewer.
Is there a way to manually force the sync to occur? Last time I resolved this by disabling my iCloud account and re-enabling it, this is pretty painful though as it takes awhile.
Anyone know why these documents won't sync?
A: Ok so I got ahold of Apple support and they helped me resolve the issue by deleting the Keynote preferences file located at
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.plist
They instructed me to move it to the Desktop for backup purposes and then reboot the system, after rebooting and opening Keynote again the file was regenerated and the issue was resolved. They then had me trash the old property list file.
A: In my case that file was not present, so i deleted:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork09.plist
That did the trick.
A: I did not have either of the files mentioned by Chris or Bert. I was able to sync my iCloud files by logging out of my Apple Id account and signing back in.
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cba1cff66b13026d4ad201104c5bfdeedcc4d427 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable individual USB ports by script? I am looking for a script which will allow me to disable one specific USB port on my Mac mini. It would only serve a purpose if it works in real-time and didn't require a reboot. I've found scripts for various Linux distros that seemed to do something similar - however most required a reboot.
I've got ambient lighting behind my monitor which is powered by USB and it doesn't turn off when the system sleeps. So my office is constantly lit up, it would be nice if I could write a script that would disable that specific USB port.
How to disable individual USB ports by script?
A: Have you seen this thread and the code here? Maybe shell could be used to "manually" rename the device ID or port to something odd that won't work, upon a specified event, then renames it to what it's supposed to be later.
| Q: How to disable individual USB ports by script? I am looking for a script which will allow me to disable one specific USB port on my Mac mini. It would only serve a purpose if it works in real-time and didn't require a reboot. I've found scripts for various Linux distros that seemed to do something similar - however most required a reboot.
I've got ambient lighting behind my monitor which is powered by USB and it doesn't turn off when the system sleeps. So my office is constantly lit up, it would be nice if I could write a script that would disable that specific USB port.
How to disable individual USB ports by script?
A: Have you seen this thread and the code here? Maybe shell could be used to "manually" rename the device ID or port to something odd that won't work, upon a specified event, then renames it to what it's supposed to be later.
A: Another way of attacking the problem could be to add a USB hub to the system and connect the ambient lighting to that.
Some USB hubs supports that you enable/disable individual ports from software - it is called "ganged power switching". That way you can control the lighting from a script. You will need to select a supported USB hub though.
I used this method for controlling power under Linux - but the same method could also be used on Mac OS X. The USB hub was very cheap.
You can find source code for controlling the external hub power here:
http://www.advistatech.com/software/hub-ctrl-20060120.c
I don't know if it builds with libusb on Mac OS X, but it might.
A: Unfortunately, what you are asking is not possible with any OS X API or AppleScript hook. This is something controlled by the hardware layer of the OS and involves far more work than it's worth. While similar scripts exist for Linux, you must keep in mind that even though OS X and Linux are distant cousins, OS X wasn't built for such fine-grained control over its components like Linux was. Sadly, the only options you have in this case is to unplug the device or completely disable the USB interface. That last one, of course, isn't feasible for you, so unfortunately, there's no solution to this problem. Sorry. :(
Good luck and happy sleeping!
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7aecc0c7c0ed83f8ec927d2d2ed57c8fb961c87d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the recommended way to flag a contact as being deceased in the Contacts app on Lion or Mountain Lion? Death is a sad fact of life and over the years some of my old contacts have died. I still wish to keep a record of their details, birthday, day they died, notes, spouse, kids etc in my Contacts and am looking for a recommended way to flag those records to indicate that the person is dead. I am interested to know how other people have dealt with this.
A: I've had the same "need." I guess we all do sooner or later. Here's what I did.
Card menu > Add Field > Dates. Then select the Date field drop down in the contact and select custom.
You can also change the general new contact template in the same Cart menu.
I hope this helps.
| Q: What is the recommended way to flag a contact as being deceased in the Contacts app on Lion or Mountain Lion? Death is a sad fact of life and over the years some of my old contacts have died. I still wish to keep a record of their details, birthday, day they died, notes, spouse, kids etc in my Contacts and am looking for a recommended way to flag those records to indicate that the person is dead. I am interested to know how other people have dealt with this.
A: I've had the same "need." I guess we all do sooner or later. Here's what I did.
Card menu > Add Field > Dates. Then select the Date field drop down in the contact and select custom.
You can also change the general new contact template in the same Cart menu.
I hope this helps.
A: As CDK suggests, my solution was adding a new custom date.
My problem was that I didn't want to be reminded with this person's birthday every year. Finally, I deleted the birthday and added a new custom date for "birth", so it's not recognized by iCal and there are no more notifications about it.
A: You could also add a special symbol to the contact’s comments (I use «†», also known as U+2020 DAGGER), and then create a smart group, where the criterion is Note > contains > † (Alt-t).
A: As others have said, you can add a custom date for deceased and that will help you keep a record. But that doesn't flag them very well for general viewing. You can't filter by the presence or absence of your custom field (at least not in 10.7).
I would also insert a keyword in the notes to use as your filter, something like #deceased. Then you can set up a filtered group called Not dead to mask all those poor folks. And conversely a Dead and gone group will help you reminisce.
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6f69e23289c519eef5a23cc0c017203cb905ccd9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I delete my iCloud email account? I signed up with iCloud and I see that there is an @me.com email account associated with my account. I don't have any interest in using email with iCloud - I use gmail for email. Is there a way to remove email from my iCloud account all together?
Perhaps I am being paranoid, but I am afraid there might be security risks from having another email account around that might be used for Apple account change notifications. Since I never check that account I wouldn't know if something seemed wrong.
A: It seems to be impossible to get rid of this account.
What I've done is:
*
*Connect to my iCloud account (with my Apple ID, the same for the App Store and others).
*Go to Mail.
*In Preferences (top right), choose rules…
*Add a rule to redirect all emails received at my @me.com address to my main email.
It can take several minutes to work, but I don't lose anything like that.
| Q: Can I delete my iCloud email account? I signed up with iCloud and I see that there is an @me.com email account associated with my account. I don't have any interest in using email with iCloud - I use gmail for email. Is there a way to remove email from my iCloud account all together?
Perhaps I am being paranoid, but I am afraid there might be security risks from having another email account around that might be used for Apple account change notifications. Since I never check that account I wouldn't know if something seemed wrong.
A: It seems to be impossible to get rid of this account.
What I've done is:
*
*Connect to my iCloud account (with my Apple ID, the same for the App Store and others).
*Go to Mail.
*In Preferences (top right), choose rules…
*Add a rule to redirect all emails received at my @me.com address to my main email.
It can take several minutes to work, but I don't lose anything like that.
A: go to Settings, mail, then Icloud, and turn off Mail
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aff64d4763f15f07f13876da9312089c1c7e7500 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to auto-import AVCHD video? I need a way to just auto-copy AVCHD from my memory card to the Mac.
The Image Capture and AutoImporter apps both work great for still photos and for MP4 video. Image Capture completely ignores AVCHD, while AutoImporter seems to hang when I plug in the memory card with some AVCHD clips:
When manually browsing the memory card, there is on its root level a package called "PRIVATE":
And only 3 levels down can I find the actual MTS files that should be copied... :
How can I get these videos to be auto-copied when I plug in the memory card?
A: Try the free AVCHD to MOV Lite on the App Store to convert it to MOV format, and then import to Photos. This will remux the video (convert it without reprocessing/converting the audio or video) losslessly.
(Hat tip to How can I convert .MTS file (AVCHD) to .mp4 by ffmpeg without re-encoding H264 video stream?
).
| Q: How to auto-import AVCHD video? I need a way to just auto-copy AVCHD from my memory card to the Mac.
The Image Capture and AutoImporter apps both work great for still photos and for MP4 video. Image Capture completely ignores AVCHD, while AutoImporter seems to hang when I plug in the memory card with some AVCHD clips:
When manually browsing the memory card, there is on its root level a package called "PRIVATE":
And only 3 levels down can I find the actual MTS files that should be copied... :
How can I get these videos to be auto-copied when I plug in the memory card?
A: Try the free AVCHD to MOV Lite on the App Store to convert it to MOV format, and then import to Photos. This will remux the video (convert it without reprocessing/converting the audio or video) losslessly.
(Hat tip to How can I convert .MTS file (AVCHD) to .mp4 by ffmpeg without re-encoding H264 video stream?
).
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d808fc164bccbe4d3dc3550f4642acb1b47c573a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I download something with display turned off (Ctrl+Shift+Eject)? In Lion I could just press Ctrl+Shift+Eject to turn off display on iMac.
In Mountain Lion it looks like this shortcut turns off whole computer. It looks like sleeping mode. So my downloads stop when I press Ctrl+Shift+Eject.
How can I download something with turned off (Ctrl+Shift+Eject) display?
A: I always use this combo as well, however this does not immediately sleep my machine in ML.
I believe this is a separate issue at play here. According to Siracusa's ML review, unlike in previous OS X versions, in 10.8 your system is eligible for sleep immediately upon "user inactivity" (the inactivity delay being set in your energy saver settings) unless the currently running apps make "power assertions".
In this case, that key combo is signalling to the OS that "user inactivity" should be triggered right away. In such a case, if your particular app that's downloading stuff does not make power assertions, your system will sleep.
I have come across the same issue generally (not necessarily related to triggering the screen sleep combo). See: Mountain Lion sleeps too aggressively
| Q: How can I download something with display turned off (Ctrl+Shift+Eject)? In Lion I could just press Ctrl+Shift+Eject to turn off display on iMac.
In Mountain Lion it looks like this shortcut turns off whole computer. It looks like sleeping mode. So my downloads stop when I press Ctrl+Shift+Eject.
How can I download something with turned off (Ctrl+Shift+Eject) display?
A: I always use this combo as well, however this does not immediately sleep my machine in ML.
I believe this is a separate issue at play here. According to Siracusa's ML review, unlike in previous OS X versions, in 10.8 your system is eligible for sleep immediately upon "user inactivity" (the inactivity delay being set in your energy saver settings) unless the currently running apps make "power assertions".
In this case, that key combo is signalling to the OS that "user inactivity" should be triggered right away. In such a case, if your particular app that's downloading stuff does not make power assertions, your system will sleep.
I have come across the same issue generally (not necessarily related to triggering the screen sleep combo). See: Mountain Lion sleeps too aggressively
A: You can set a hot corner to turn off the display.
Mountain Lion ships with a new command, caffeinate, to temporarily prevent the machine from sleeping. Current power state assertions can be viewed with pmset -g assertions. Get more detail from here and here.
A: Use BetterTouchTool add gloabal keyboard shortcut and choose Sleep Display.
. See my question and answer here: What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Sleep Display Without Eject Key?
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f7bf0a9a42ad5a20efd6f9bf4224f94370b1c0ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Different language for Mac OS and AppStore's softwares My OS X (Mountain Lion) is in English, and I want to keep it like this.
But, for some softwares in the AppStore (not necessary all), I would like to turn it in French when supported (like OmniFocus) because all my colleagues are working in French, and it's hard for me to tell them what to do when they have a problem:
The translator of the software does not necessarily use the same words as me, and it become difficult to navigate through the menus in some cases.
So, is it possible to configure just some software (or all of them as a last resort) to use a different language that the one used by the Mac OS?
A: Yes! You can launch a single app into any other language with this nifty tool: Language Switcher. I use this all the time when I need english error messages for writing questions on stackexchange.com etc.
| Q: Different language for Mac OS and AppStore's softwares My OS X (Mountain Lion) is in English, and I want to keep it like this.
But, for some softwares in the AppStore (not necessary all), I would like to turn it in French when supported (like OmniFocus) because all my colleagues are working in French, and it's hard for me to tell them what to do when they have a problem:
The translator of the software does not necessarily use the same words as me, and it become difficult to navigate through the menus in some cases.
So, is it possible to configure just some software (or all of them as a last resort) to use a different language that the one used by the Mac OS?
A: Yes! You can launch a single app into any other language with this nifty tool: Language Switcher. I use this all the time when I need english error messages for writing questions on stackexchange.com etc.
A: It shouldn't take that long to just change the language in System Preferences and reopen applications.
Language Switcher allows temporarily changing the language of single applications.
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cb9c1ddafe13bf805ba5648cb3fc93c28b5c2a2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to lock a full screen application in in a certain space? I want to keep the mail applicaton fullscreen in the far right space.
Every time I open a fullscreen application it moves to the far right.
How do I lock a fullscreen app in say the far right space?
A: This feature has been asked for by users many times, but unfortunately, Apple hasn’t implemented it yet.
A very ugly workaround is:
*
*Add a new desktop in Mission Control.
*Switch the Mail app to windowed mode.
*Open Mission Control, and move the window to the newly created Desktop.
*Switch to the Mail app. Right click on the icon in the Dock. In options, select “Assign to this Desktop.”
This is a very ugly workaround and you can use Mail only in Window mode this way.
| Q: How to lock a full screen application in in a certain space? I want to keep the mail applicaton fullscreen in the far right space.
Every time I open a fullscreen application it moves to the far right.
How do I lock a fullscreen app in say the far right space?
A: This feature has been asked for by users many times, but unfortunately, Apple hasn’t implemented it yet.
A very ugly workaround is:
*
*Add a new desktop in Mission Control.
*Switch the Mail app to windowed mode.
*Open Mission Control, and move the window to the newly created Desktop.
*Switch to the Mail app. Right click on the icon in the Dock. In options, select “Assign to this Desktop.”
This is a very ugly workaround and you can use Mail only in Window mode this way.
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9ac764681e43d3ff6e2604252b629004fe2af19e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make files I drag to the desktop stay where I put them? In Mountain Lion, when I drag a file to the desktop, it's automatically moved to a neat grid in the upper left of the desktop.
But I want it to stay in the spot to which I dragged it (usually because it's one I can see, so I can drag it to another window).
I thought it might be the "sort by" setting, but it's set to "none", so that's not it.
Thanks to those suggesting I change "sort by", but it's already on "none". Here's what's weirder: the files sometimes snap to a neat grid, and sometimes appear near (but not exactly where) I dragged them, with no other changes (I literally tested a few in row from the same program). It's really bizarre since in the answer below, i cannot reproduct this and I'm trying to confirm (for others) that it was fixed by an OS update. The issue may be related to external displays being attached on systems running 10.8.2 and earlier.
A: In Finder: cmd+J ➝ Sort by: none.
| Q: How can I make files I drag to the desktop stay where I put them? In Mountain Lion, when I drag a file to the desktop, it's automatically moved to a neat grid in the upper left of the desktop.
But I want it to stay in the spot to which I dragged it (usually because it's one I can see, so I can drag it to another window).
I thought it might be the "sort by" setting, but it's set to "none", so that's not it.
Thanks to those suggesting I change "sort by", but it's already on "none". Here's what's weirder: the files sometimes snap to a neat grid, and sometimes appear near (but not exactly where) I dragged them, with no other changes (I literally tested a few in row from the same program). It's really bizarre since in the answer below, i cannot reproduct this and I'm trying to confirm (for others) that it was fixed by an OS update. The issue may be related to external displays being attached on systems running 10.8.2 and earlier.
A: In Finder: cmd+J ➝ Sort by: none.
A: *
*Right Click on your desktop.
*Select “Show View Options.”
*In the “Sort by:” drop down, select “None.”
*You can now place icons wherever you want.
A: This has simply stopped happening. I think it must have been fixed in an OS update as I still regularly have an external monitor connected and no other change was made to my system.
Please upvote this only if you had this problem and it stopped since you updated. I don't want to accept this if others who updated are still having the problem and need help.
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74c7f9150ba288bea868624ee268040168372dc4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Better to migrate before upgrade to Lion, or upgrade before migrating? I'm getting a new MacBook Pro, and I am wondering about the relative merits of:
*
*installing Mountain Lion on the new laptop before migrating my account from my old MBP; or
*migrating my account and then upgrading to Mountain Lion
Or are the two methods functionally equivalent?
A: It is best to upgrade and then migrate. Usually problems occur while upgrading, and it is best to upgrade or install from scratch, as opposed to upgrade on a system which might have something incompatible already installed.
| Q: Better to migrate before upgrade to Lion, or upgrade before migrating? I'm getting a new MacBook Pro, and I am wondering about the relative merits of:
*
*installing Mountain Lion on the new laptop before migrating my account from my old MBP; or
*migrating my account and then upgrading to Mountain Lion
Or are the two methods functionally equivalent?
A: It is best to upgrade and then migrate. Usually problems occur while upgrading, and it is best to upgrade or install from scratch, as opposed to upgrade on a system which might have something incompatible already installed.
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d76a772038e7742a0bbcb3547ca6fb1e4cde0b8f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't archive mail on one of my Exchange accounts I have a few Exchange accounts set up in Mail that are working fine. Deleting sends the mail to the Trash folder, archiving sends the mail to the Archive folder. However, one of the accounts won't let me archive. The mailbox has a folder under the "Archive" section on the sidebar, and I can manually drag messages to it, but when I click Archive I get the following:
The message “[subject]” could not be moved to the mailbox “(null)”
The destination mailbox does not exist.
I would assume this means that Mail can't find the appropriate folder to put the message in, but since the account has a folder under the Archive heading, I'm confused.
Any ideas?
A: I had the same problem. I went into Preferences > Accounts and deselected "Enable this account." Then, I quit Mail and restarted it. I went back into Preferences > Accounts and selected "Enable this account" and it all started working.
| Q: Can't archive mail on one of my Exchange accounts I have a few Exchange accounts set up in Mail that are working fine. Deleting sends the mail to the Trash folder, archiving sends the mail to the Archive folder. However, one of the accounts won't let me archive. The mailbox has a folder under the "Archive" section on the sidebar, and I can manually drag messages to it, but when I click Archive I get the following:
The message “[subject]” could not be moved to the mailbox “(null)”
The destination mailbox does not exist.
I would assume this means that Mail can't find the appropriate folder to put the message in, but since the account has a folder under the Archive heading, I'm confused.
Any ideas?
A: I had the same problem. I went into Preferences > Accounts and deselected "Enable this account." Then, I quit Mail and restarted it. I went back into Preferences > Accounts and selected "Enable this account" and it all started working.
A: Rename the Archive folder on Exchange
Seems some sort of bad situation manifested itself between Mail and the Exchange server. I had to Rename the folder named Archive on the server to OldArchive, then attempt to archive a message and allow Mail to recreate the Archive folder. Then I copied all the mail in OldArchive to the new Archive.
A: Old thread but I still faced this with macOS 10.15.4
None of the earlier tricks helped, but I found that by using another icon than the default 'archive' I can move the mails:
This is enough for me, for now. If you know how to really fix this for macOS in 2020, I'm all ears.
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6cbac4b168f95f81e122d99d22e94a7208917d9e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to know when a new iOS app is released by a specific company? I'd love to know when Kairosoft gets a new game released on iOS. Is there an app or site that monitors the daily release list against a user supplied criteria?
A: One quick way is on AppShopper.com.
*
*Enter "Kairosoft" in the search box.
*Click on any app title link.
*Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on the "Other Apps By This Developer" link. This will bring up a custom page for that developer listing all of their app titles and update info.
*A custom RSS feed is also generated in the upper-right corner of the screen. This feed will update for any new app releases.
| Q: Is there a way to know when a new iOS app is released by a specific company? I'd love to know when Kairosoft gets a new game released on iOS. Is there an app or site that monitors the daily release list against a user supplied criteria?
A: One quick way is on AppShopper.com.
*
*Enter "Kairosoft" in the search box.
*Click on any app title link.
*Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on the "Other Apps By This Developer" link. This will bring up a custom page for that developer listing all of their app titles and update info.
*A custom RSS feed is also generated in the upper-right corner of the screen. This feed will update for any new app releases.
A: Some games are released only in Japanese App Store and AppShopper.com might not notify you.
You can check kairosoft's official site.
Japanese iOS games: http://kairopark.jp/iphone/
English iOS games: http://kairopark.jp/iphone/en/
Hope this helps!
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e11e29db02c20803a054f8c6d2538df4dc93d983 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a .eml email file viewer that can also save attachments? I'm looking for a free .eml file viewer to just read email files and for extracting attachments.
I don't want to use Mail.app as it requires account setup - when I click on a .eml file Mail.app opens with a window for setting up an account - which I don't want to do - I never use Mail.app - I use gmail.
Is there a .eml email file viewer (including extracting attachments)?
A: There's a free online .eml viewer you can use to extract messages and attachments from .eml, .msg and winmail.dat files: http://www.encryptomatic.com/viewer
| Q: Is there a .eml email file viewer that can also save attachments? I'm looking for a free .eml file viewer to just read email files and for extracting attachments.
I don't want to use Mail.app as it requires account setup - when I click on a .eml file Mail.app opens with a window for setting up an account - which I don't want to do - I never use Mail.app - I use gmail.
Is there a .eml email file viewer (including extracting attachments)?
A: There's a free online .eml viewer you can use to extract messages and attachments from .eml, .msg and winmail.dat files: http://www.encryptomatic.com/viewer
A: Look at the FileInfo for EML file: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/eml. Sparrow also can open EML file, but not sure if need you to setup an account. If you just want to view the file, just use Quick Look but cannot save attachment.
A: To extract attachments from the Terminal, you can use a couple of different methods. Probably the easiest is
perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print decode_base64($_)' < file.eml > out
where file.eml is the email file in question and out is the name of the attachment.
The same thing can be accomplished by using the base64 command, but you have to do some cleanup work on the original email file first -- namely strip everything out of the eml file before the base64 encoded attachment. The command would be something along these lines
base64 -D -i file.eml -o out
If you take the 2nd approach, recommend that you operate on a copy of the original file.
Of course for reading the eml files, you can probably use cat or your favorite editor. Works in a pinch, but certainly not the easiest way to deal with email.
A: MailRaider Pro for Mac OS X does just what I need in terms of being able to open .eml files WITHOUT the need to setup a dummy account or whatever. It just works - I can just open it. I have bought it, it works on El Capitan.
*
*official site: http://www.45rpmsoftware.com/mailraider.php
*on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailraider-pro/id765096886?mt=12
It also says it handles attachments, but I haven't tried that yet.
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3b62548ca2f46584f9301b0526cb8653d254d55f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you get system diagnostic files from macOS? I am trying to debug a crashed (or hanging) app. How do I get the diagnostic files from the crash?
A: Console
To find existing diagnostic or crash files, open Console app and find the files in User Reports (located at ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports) in or System Reports (located at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports) sections. See: Where can I find my crash logs?
sysdiagnose
As per official sysdiagnose instructions for macOS, you can trigger a sysdiagnose either by:
Note: To access above link, you need to log-in to Developer Apple site first.
*
*Briefly press the following keys simultaneously:
Command-Option-Shift-Control-Period (.)
and wait. The sysdiagnose process can take 10 minutes to complete. Once finished, Finder should automatically appear showing the generated file in /private/var/tmp/ (e.g. sysdiagnose_2017.mm.dd_hh-mm-ss-0000_12345.tar.gz).
*Trigger a sysdiagnose from Terminal by entering this command:
sudo sysdiagnose
core dumps
To generate crash core dumps, see: How to generate core dumps on macOS?
| Q: How do you get system diagnostic files from macOS? I am trying to debug a crashed (or hanging) app. How do I get the diagnostic files from the crash?
A: Console
To find existing diagnostic or crash files, open Console app and find the files in User Reports (located at ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports) in or System Reports (located at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports) sections. See: Where can I find my crash logs?
sysdiagnose
As per official sysdiagnose instructions for macOS, you can trigger a sysdiagnose either by:
Note: To access above link, you need to log-in to Developer Apple site first.
*
*Briefly press the following keys simultaneously:
Command-Option-Shift-Control-Period (.)
and wait. The sysdiagnose process can take 10 minutes to complete. Once finished, Finder should automatically appear showing the generated file in /private/var/tmp/ (e.g. sysdiagnose_2017.mm.dd_hh-mm-ss-0000_12345.tar.gz).
*Trigger a sysdiagnose from Terminal by entering this command:
sudo sysdiagnose
core dumps
To generate crash core dumps, see: How to generate core dumps on macOS?
A: Individual crash reports are stored in /Library/Logs/CrashReporter but there is a system wide log collection tool called sysdiagnose.
Once you start experiencing the issue, hold down the
4 modifier keys and then press the period "." key. shift+control+option+command+.
You should see the screen flash white. After about 15 seconds, a Finder window will open with a sysdiagnose file highlighted.
This keyboard shortcut simply executes the sysdiagnose command, so if you are familiar with Terminal and want to pass in a process ID, you can get enhanced debugging information about that specific program. The key shortcut calls the tool with no arguments and captures the basic report only.
A: Apple sysdiagnose
This shell script(on 10.8 and lower) and executable program by the same name on 10.9:
*
*gathers system-wide diagnostic information
*is integral to OS X Lion and greater
*is not available as a separate download
*is not open source (I have asked Apple to make it so).
Preparing for the keyboard-only approach to sysdiagnose
In Terminal, run the following command.
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.stackshot.plist
*
*if prompted for a password, enter your admin password for the operating system
*that's a one-off, no need to repeat the command.
Take a written note of the following key chord, you'll need it later:
Control-Option-Command-Shift-.
Diagnosis by the system
When an issue occurs:
*
*use the key chord
*for at least ten seconds, touch nothing
*allow maybe five or ten minutes for all parts of the sysdiagnose routine to complete – simply wait as long as you can (there'll be no on-screen indication of progress)
*Finder should open a window to the end result.
Exceptionally
In rare cases, an issue may prevent sysdiagnose from completing (I have made improvement suggestions to Apple). If this happens – if you're sure that you have waited long enough – it may be sensible to restart the Mac. Then:
*
*in Finder, go to /private/var/tmp
*seek a file or folder with a name beginning sysdiagnose_
*if that file or folder exists, move it to a convenient place – your desktop, maybe.
Hints
Without the key chord, you can run sysdiagnose from the command line (see below, Apple manual page). But it's often more useful, or necessary, to use the chord – so be prepared.
Whilst I don't encourage carelessness, you can be a little careless with Control-Option-Command-Shift-. … if you struggle to avoid the fn key on your laptop, don't worry; including it by accident should not prevent the run of sysdiagnose.
Human analysis of diagnosis by the system
Hint: someone might like to ask a separate question about analysing the results of sysdiagnose – a more generalised answer could be useful.
If sysdiagnose_… from the /tmp area is a file
Presence of a sysdiagnose_….tar.gz file indicates that all parts of the sysdiagnose routine completed, and that the results were archived. If you wish, open the archive – its contents will appear as a folder.
If sysdiagnose_… from the /tmp area is a folder
Presence of a sysdiagnose_… folder (not a .tar.gz file) indicates that either:
*
*the routine was interrupted before completion; or
*some part of the routine could not complete.
Within the archive/folder
Some files are human-readable and may help to troubleshoot an issue.
Other files are more developer-oriented.
Related:
*
*How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?
For an incomplete run of sysdiagnose it may be useful to focus some attention on files that are abnormally empty …
Technical and other notes
stackshot(1) OS X Manual Page
sysdiagnose(1) OS X Manual Page
Some of what's above is a more generic edition of an accepted answer that appears elsewhere.
Diagnostic and usage information, other files of interest
Be guided by the log list in Console:
Expect to find files at the following paths:
*
*~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
*/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
*~/Library/Logs
*/Library/Logs
*/private/var/log
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73dad3817518f944dbab8d664d6858efae4ab6b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When does the Mac App Store produce notifications? According to Apple's page on Mountain Lion, the Mac App Store is supposed to send you notifications:
Mac App Store notifications
The Mac App Store notifies you when
updates are available for OS X or purchased apps.
This doesn't seem to be the case for me, as I have now opened the App Store twice to find updates (one for Day One, another to Xcode), having never received a notification for either. Does the App Store only notify about OS X updates, does this feature not actually function, or am I missing something?
A: You need to have it set to "Automatically download system updates" in the software update panel of system preferences. I got a notification about the xcode update today.
| Q: When does the Mac App Store produce notifications? According to Apple's page on Mountain Lion, the Mac App Store is supposed to send you notifications:
Mac App Store notifications
The Mac App Store notifies you when
updates are available for OS X or purchased apps.
This doesn't seem to be the case for me, as I have now opened the App Store twice to find updates (one for Day One, another to Xcode), having never received a notification for either. Does the App Store only notify about OS X updates, does this feature not actually function, or am I missing something?
A: You need to have it set to "Automatically download system updates" in the software update panel of system preferences. I got a notification about the xcode update today.
A: When new updates are available on the Mac App Store, it doesn’t notify you at first. It waits “for a while” and then downloads them in the background. This includes ALL updates. System updates, app updates, all of them. When the download is complete and ready to be installed, that’s when it notifies you.
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8bac18534ea71700b80daa83cf683a2010fc8701 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In full-screen mode, Chrome only sometimes reveals tabs -- why? In full-screen mode, Chrome reveals all open tabs when you move your mouse to the top of the screen. Except when it doesn't. Sometimes clicking on the content of the currently open tab seems to jolt Chrome and make it start noticing the mouse-to-screen-top movements, sometimes I have to do Command-L to reveal the search/URL bar to force the tabs to show.
Anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Is this just a bug?
A: Make sure "Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen" is enabled under "View" when Chrome is open.
| Q: In full-screen mode, Chrome only sometimes reveals tabs -- why? In full-screen mode, Chrome reveals all open tabs when you move your mouse to the top of the screen. Except when it doesn't. Sometimes clicking on the content of the currently open tab seems to jolt Chrome and make it start noticing the mouse-to-screen-top movements, sometimes I have to do Command-L to reveal the search/URL bar to force the tabs to show.
Anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Is this just a bug?
A: Make sure "Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen" is enabled under "View" when Chrome is open.
A: No, it's not just you, no, you're not doing anything wrong, and yes, it seems to be just a bug.
I had exactly the same problem. When this happens, using Command-L or any tab-related shortcut (opening, closing, switching, etc.) will reveal all open tabs, but sometimes they disappear immediately, and sometimes they don't.
From what I can tell, both the bar refusing to reveal and the bar refusing to stay visible once it does while in Presentation Mode are completely random. However, this issue appears to have been fixed in recent updates, because I haven't noticed it happening to me in a long time.
If it's still an issue, the topic Frustrating Show/Hide Tab Bar Behavior in Presentation Mode on Google Product Forums may be of use.
If I notice it happening to me again I'm going to try the solution linked. I'll update on whatever the result is.
A: I had similar problem but not exactly as yours.. In my case, sometimes in full screen mode of chrome and safari, the address bar and tabs bar was autohide enabled and sometimes it was not. After searching google I found the keyboard shortcut (command + shift + F) for switching applications to full screen mode, when I switch chrome to fullscreen from normal mode using this shortcut the tabs bar and address bar hides automatically.
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68bc52318ff3e86a140d25951371f0b3370af141 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No sound and volume icon I have a Mac mini and the sound has disappeared. I have also lost the sound icon off the toolbar. I went to preferences for the sound and see that mute is checked. I can't un-check it because it is in gray-scale. Any ideas?
A: Try to open the system preferences then click sound,on the sound you can see the Internal Microphone below the Name,on the lower,beneath the output you can see the Show Volume in Menu Bar,you can put some check on it and everything's gonna be alright :)
| Q: No sound and volume icon I have a Mac mini and the sound has disappeared. I have also lost the sound icon off the toolbar. I went to preferences for the sound and see that mute is checked. I can't un-check it because it is in gray-scale. Any ideas?
A: Try to open the system preferences then click sound,on the sound you can see the Internal Microphone below the Name,on the lower,beneath the output you can see the Show Volume in Menu Bar,you can put some check on it and everything's gonna be alright :)
A: I had it once before. You should check your audio-input. Good chances there is a red light inside your input.
Inside your audio jack, there is some kind of spring which controls your output (internal speakers or headphones). And for some reason, this switch inside the audio jack is stuck. Try using a toothpick (if you dare) and try to unlock the quill.
If using a toothpick did not work, you need to take the computer in for service, because there is probably something wrong with your I/O board.
If there is no red-light, my answer expires.
About the disappearing of the icon in the menu-bar, you should try and reset your PRAM.
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09382bb784d4ef5e996e4a15935ae3c757ed83c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the alert sound in Mountain Lion's notification center be customized? Is there a way to change the default "Basso" alert sound in Mountain Lion's Notification Center? What I'd really like is support for application-specific notification sounds, so I can tell without looking at the screen whether a notification is from, say Mail vs. iCal. Is this possible, and if so, is it something the application controls or NC controls? If not, at least the ability to change the sound from Basso to something else would be an improvement.
A: An even better Idea is to got to ~/Library/Sounds and create a sound file with the same name as Basso.aiff and it will supersede Basso without the need for deleting a system sound file.
| Q: Can the alert sound in Mountain Lion's notification center be customized? Is there a way to change the default "Basso" alert sound in Mountain Lion's Notification Center? What I'd really like is support for application-specific notification sounds, so I can tell without looking at the screen whether a notification is from, say Mail vs. iCal. Is this possible, and if so, is it something the application controls or NC controls? If not, at least the ability to change the sound from Basso to something else would be an improvement.
A: An even better Idea is to got to ~/Library/Sounds and create a sound file with the same name as Basso.aiff and it will supersede Basso without the need for deleting a system sound file.
A: Unfortunately, no, you can’t specify different Notification sounds for different apps. That’s the job of the app developer, just like on iOS. There is no “default” sound in Notification Center. It’s all app specific. It’s just that Calendar and Reminders use it for their Notifications. If you don’t like the Basso sound:
1. Go to /System/Library/Sounds.
2. Delete the “Basso.aiff” file.
3. Make a copy of the alert sound you want.
4. Rename the copy to “Basso.aiff.”
5. This will make all apps that use Basso for Notification Center play your chosen sound instead.
P.S. Basso is a really awful sound effect
P.P.S. You'll need to restart your Mac for the changes to take effect.
A: In System Preferences, select Sound (on the far right-hand side under Hardware) and then click the Sound Effects tab, if necessary. From there, you can select a different alert sound. Unfortunately, you can only select one sound for all alerts.
A: An earlier post suggested deleting Basso.aiff and replacing it with a copy of another sound renamed "Basso.aiff". A safer alternative to deleting Basso is to rename it to something else (like "Basso-BACKUP.aiff"). That way, if you ever decide you want to get the sound back, it's not gone forever. Or you could make a backup copy of it in some other directory.
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658d0881f73e643a4860e120f29bb1f53bc37826 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: X11 Forwarding with my Entire Screen I am able to ssh to my Linux computer which is on the same network as my Mac. From the Linux machine, I can ssh to my Macbook.
I am currently at work and I want to forward my Mac's display to the Windows machine that I am currently on (using Putty and Xming). I am able to run "Xeyes &" so I know that the X11 forwarding is working correctly.
How can I forward my entire screen, preferably without having to setup VNC? And remember, I only have access to the command line.
A: This isn't how X11 works on the Mac currently (or at any time in the past).
The native Mac window manager uses Quartz 2D and Core Graphics to accomplish the rendering and composting of windows and icons on the Mac screen.
X11 writes into that space as a consumer - not as the end-all provider of drawing services so it can't forward things it doesn't get to see.
You will want to set up VNC sharing (which is the native Mac screen sharing technology) if you can't get by with just forwarding the X11 graphics.
| Q: X11 Forwarding with my Entire Screen I am able to ssh to my Linux computer which is on the same network as my Mac. From the Linux machine, I can ssh to my Macbook.
I am currently at work and I want to forward my Mac's display to the Windows machine that I am currently on (using Putty and Xming). I am able to run "Xeyes &" so I know that the X11 forwarding is working correctly.
How can I forward my entire screen, preferably without having to setup VNC? And remember, I only have access to the command line.
A: This isn't how X11 works on the Mac currently (or at any time in the past).
The native Mac window manager uses Quartz 2D and Core Graphics to accomplish the rendering and composting of windows and icons on the Mac screen.
X11 writes into that space as a consumer - not as the end-all provider of drawing services so it can't forward things it doesn't get to see.
You will want to set up VNC sharing (which is the native Mac screen sharing technology) if you can't get by with just forwarding the X11 graphics.
A: You can run a VNC session through ssh.
Connect to the remote system from Terminal:
ssh -Y -g -l username -C -L 5901:localhost:5901 remote_hostname
Start VNC server on the remote system. The above assumes your server starts on display port 1.
Launch a VNC viewer on your local system and enter the connection information. In this example you would use 'localhost' for 'Host', and '5901' for your port.
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5ec108b1dd2f9c99953d63d669bff40b4acdba76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to view iTunes Store purchase history on a regular internet browser? Is there a way to view iTunes Store purchases without using iTunes? My bank account shows several music purchases I'm not aware of and I would like to verify them but currently don't have access to my main computer.
A: no you can't but you can you report a problem to list your purchases
https://reportaproblem.apple.com
| Q: Is there a way to view iTunes Store purchase history on a regular internet browser? Is there a way to view iTunes Store purchases without using iTunes? My bank account shows several music purchases I'm not aware of and I would like to verify them but currently don't have access to my main computer.
A: no you can't but you can you report a problem to list your purchases
https://reportaproblem.apple.com
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a282cd36de9bc8108af90d3a5a02c6e171ffd741 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sounds are not working on Mountain Lion Notification Center Although I see an option in System Preferences > Notifications to enable applications to pop a sound on new notifications, Mountain Lion is not actually playing those sounds.
Has Anyone run into similar problem?
A: I upgraded my mother's new iMac to Mountain Lion and noticed that the mail sending and receiving sounds were not occurring. I found the following URL which was a temporary fix, but the problem comes back... so I think there's a bug here.
You might try the following to see if this helps:
http://applehelpwriter.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/no-sound-or-volume-after-upgrading/
Lynn
| Q: Sounds are not working on Mountain Lion Notification Center Although I see an option in System Preferences > Notifications to enable applications to pop a sound on new notifications, Mountain Lion is not actually playing those sounds.
Has Anyone run into similar problem?
A: I upgraded my mother's new iMac to Mountain Lion and noticed that the mail sending and receiving sounds were not occurring. I found the following URL which was a temporary fix, but the problem comes back... so I think there's a bug here.
You might try the following to see if this helps:
http://applehelpwriter.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/no-sound-or-volume-after-upgrading/
Lynn
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b56fab385b3f455516835c95de7c70ba02a20cec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to upgrade the ssh program on OS X 10.6.8? I would prefer to do this through the command line rather than downloading Macports.
Any help appreciated.
A: Note that ssh on OS X is part of the default OpenSSH suite included with OS X. So to upgrade ssh you should upgrade the entire OpenSSH suite of programs to get a newer version of the ssh program.
Check out the OpenSSH Portable version
*
*Download load the version you want.
The portable OpenSSH follows development of the official version, but releases are not synchronized. Portable releases are marked with a 'p' (e.g. 4.0p1). The official OpenBSD source will never use the 'p' suffix, but will instead increment the version number when they hit 'stable spots' in their development.
*Read the Installation instructions carefully, before installing.
As noted there:
The OpenSSH provided here is designed to run on the following Unix operating systems:
AIX
HP-UX
Irix
Linux
NeXT
SCO
SNI/Reliant Unix
Solaris
Digital Unix/Tru64/OSF
Mac OS X
Cygwin
... and more are being added all the time.
| Q: How to upgrade the ssh program on OS X 10.6.8? I would prefer to do this through the command line rather than downloading Macports.
Any help appreciated.
A: Note that ssh on OS X is part of the default OpenSSH suite included with OS X. So to upgrade ssh you should upgrade the entire OpenSSH suite of programs to get a newer version of the ssh program.
Check out the OpenSSH Portable version
*
*Download load the version you want.
The portable OpenSSH follows development of the official version, but releases are not synchronized. Portable releases are marked with a 'p' (e.g. 4.0p1). The official OpenBSD source will never use the 'p' suffix, but will instead increment the version number when they hit 'stable spots' in their development.
*Read the Installation instructions carefully, before installing.
As noted there:
The OpenSSH provided here is designed to run on the following Unix operating systems:
AIX
HP-UX
Irix
Linux
NeXT
SCO
SNI/Reliant Unix
Solaris
Digital Unix/Tru64/OSF
Mac OS X
Cygwin
... and more are being added all the time.
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ee50dcbac849f988552a2d513982723d1a298c0e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can a connected Thunderbolt display be put to sleep while the MacBook Pro remains running? Does anybody know a way to sleep the Thunderbolt display if I don't need it for a short time? Like if I'm going to watch TV, normally I've just got my MacBook Pro's display turned on, while my old external then got turned off.
I'd like to do the same with the Thunderbolt display - to sleep it, or at least turn off the display, but still keep the screen on in my MacBook Pro.
I don't care if I need to use a program or something to do so. I would just like to be able to actually sleep the Thunderbolt display because there's no power off button.
A: SwitchResX lets you disable an unused display via a handy menubar item (bottom of page). This should cause your Thunderbolt Display to sleep.
| Q: Can a connected Thunderbolt display be put to sleep while the MacBook Pro remains running? Does anybody know a way to sleep the Thunderbolt display if I don't need it for a short time? Like if I'm going to watch TV, normally I've just got my MacBook Pro's display turned on, while my old external then got turned off.
I'd like to do the same with the Thunderbolt display - to sleep it, or at least turn off the display, but still keep the screen on in my MacBook Pro.
I don't care if I need to use a program or something to do so. I would just like to be able to actually sleep the Thunderbolt display because there's no power off button.
A: SwitchResX lets you disable an unused display via a handy menubar item (bottom of page). This should cause your Thunderbolt Display to sleep.
A: Unplug the thunderbolt display cable from your macbook.
A: I don't know how to put just one display to sleep, but you could put both of them to sleep by pressing control-shift-eject. On 10.8, the power key can be substituted for eject on laptops without an eject key.
You could also try decreasing the display sleep times in the energy saver preferences.
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2d16c9450937790f72ef6f14b4a50f439a9582f3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mountain Lion Upgrade Internet Issues My MacBook Air late 2010 worked perfectly before the Mountain Lion upgrade. After I updated to Mountain Lion, the Internet stopped working on my WiFi network. It detects the network and connects to it with no problems, but cannot access the Internet. On my home network, my Windows 7 PC, iPhone, and iPad all connected to the Internet with no issues. I took the MacBook Air to a local reseller and they connected to their WiFi network and it works perfectly fine. I also connected to other public networks and it works fine as well. I also brought it to work and it works perfectly too. Just no internet on my home network. I tried disabling the firewall, but that didn't help.
| Q: Mountain Lion Upgrade Internet Issues My MacBook Air late 2010 worked perfectly before the Mountain Lion upgrade. After I updated to Mountain Lion, the Internet stopped working on my WiFi network. It detects the network and connects to it with no problems, but cannot access the Internet. On my home network, my Windows 7 PC, iPhone, and iPad all connected to the Internet with no issues. I took the MacBook Air to a local reseller and they connected to their WiFi network and it works perfectly fine. I also connected to other public networks and it works fine as well. I also brought it to work and it works perfectly too. Just no internet on my home network. I tried disabling the firewall, but that didn't help.
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a313405420999e16b31e78351cc3e97bed5b7cbb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does the Finder refresh in OS X Mountain Lion? I just batch edited some pictures with Preview and changed the name of one file in the Preview window.
Minutes later, Finder still didn't show the changed file sizes (not even when opening the Info dialog) and changed names. Switching from list view to icon view or so didn't fix it.
I restarted Finder and then the names changed.
How come, is there an update or refresh command? Thought it'd be in the View menu but it isn't.
A: A "Refresh" feature can be added to Finder by 3rd-party software like XtraFinder (free).
| Q: How does the Finder refresh in OS X Mountain Lion? I just batch edited some pictures with Preview and changed the name of one file in the Preview window.
Minutes later, Finder still didn't show the changed file sizes (not even when opening the Info dialog) and changed names. Switching from list view to icon view or so didn't fix it.
I restarted Finder and then the names changed.
How come, is there an update or refresh command? Thought it'd be in the View menu but it isn't.
A: A "Refresh" feature can be added to Finder by 3rd-party software like XtraFinder (free).
A: Alt click and select "Get info." This will refresh the folder. I have this problem with ftp folders mounted as a drive via Transmit.
A: The Finder's information should be refreshing automatically and instantly as files and information is changing that is the goal and why Apple does not provide a "Refresh" option, although in practice things sometime don't work for whatever reason.
If the information is not automatically updating changes to files etc, it may be the result of a bug or Finder preferences corruption, or other corruption.
*
*Make sure you are running the latest version of OS X, as the issue may be a bug that has been fixed already.
*Additionally for folders where the contents are not updating properly it might be a good idea to try and remove the .DS_Store file for that directory, and see if that has an effect. (restarting the finder to verify)
*The next option would be to reset the Finder's preferences. Try removing the the file named com.apple.finder.plist located at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist (restarting the finder to verify)
*If the problem is consistently occurring contact Apple and show them the issue and how to repeat it, you may have found a bug.
A: Just go to the parental directory and into the specific folder again and it refreshes the content. Or use the back and forward button.
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ae45f674b1a8af7d8fc9fc9c19acfb07bb4092cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Making Microsoft Office Reminders get your attention Does anyone know how to have Office reminders pop up in front of any application? Now, if I'm working on something, they silently pop up in the background.
It's one of the few features I miss from Outlook on windows, and I keep missing appointments.
It's driving me nuts (not to mention generating hate from colleagues whose meetings I miss).
Or should I just junk Office reminders, and use another application?
A: If you REALLY want to keep using Office you could sync office with reminders and iCal. But i'd recommend using iCal for this or if you're on office 2011 use the calendar in outlook instead of the reminder app.
| Q: Making Microsoft Office Reminders get your attention Does anyone know how to have Office reminders pop up in front of any application? Now, if I'm working on something, they silently pop up in the background.
It's one of the few features I miss from Outlook on windows, and I keep missing appointments.
It's driving me nuts (not to mention generating hate from colleagues whose meetings I miss).
Or should I just junk Office reminders, and use another application?
A: If you REALLY want to keep using Office you could sync office with reminders and iCal. But i'd recommend using iCal for this or if you're on office 2011 use the calendar in outlook instead of the reminder app.
A: I had problems with Office Reminders on OSX, too. The problem was that I was getting rid of the reminder box by hitting command-Q. The reminders would go away for the remainder of the day.
Instead, I now clear the reminder by pressing Enter or Command-Enter, and then the reminder comes up for all invites.
As far as I know, the reminder window should pop up on top of all other windows.
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43f40ddf880e71b9549ec62fa50912aaaca3cbad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Show github notifications in Mountain Lion Notification Center Simply put: Is there a way to show the notifications on github in the notification center of the new Mountain Lion?
A: The simplest way at the moment would be to install one of the github growl notifiers, either githubnotifier or gitifier, which forwards github notifications to growl and then use hiss (a separate app) to forward growl messages to the Notification Centre.
| Q: Show github notifications in Mountain Lion Notification Center Simply put: Is there a way to show the notifications on github in the notification center of the new Mountain Lion?
A: The simplest way at the moment would be to install one of the github growl notifiers, either githubnotifier or gitifier, which forwards github notifications to growl and then use hiss (a separate app) to forward growl messages to the Notification Centre.
A: Also you can try GitHub client for MacOS.
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64603fc166e7008f1044a73ee2fdfde3beaf7199 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal? Some GUI apps use OS X location services, but I want to retrieve a Mac's physical location from the command line. This could be useful for running scripts, switching settings etc. The mechanism should be CoreLocation, not a Geo IP service (data too low-res, needs online connection).
Minimum requirement is output of longitude and latitude. Nice would be a number indicating the precision. Super nice: a geocoder that provides location names.
A: I'm the author of LocateMe, and I just discovered that I have to copy LocateMe into the /Applications folder for it to work in Mountain Lion. I'm not sure what I'd have to do to avoid that -- probably something about getting a cert, which I'm not likely to pursue anytime soon.
In the meantime, for LocateMe and probably the others, try copying them to /Applications and see if you have better luck.
-Rob
| Q: Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal? Some GUI apps use OS X location services, but I want to retrieve a Mac's physical location from the command line. This could be useful for running scripts, switching settings etc. The mechanism should be CoreLocation, not a Geo IP service (data too low-res, needs online connection).
Minimum requirement is output of longitude and latitude. Nice would be a number indicating the precision. Super nice: a geocoder that provides location names.
A: I'm the author of LocateMe, and I just discovered that I have to copy LocateMe into the /Applications folder for it to work in Mountain Lion. I'm not sure what I'd have to do to avoid that -- probably something about getting a cert, which I'm not likely to pursue anytime soon.
In the meantime, for LocateMe and probably the others, try copying them to /Applications and see if you have better luck.
-Rob
A: Those apps need to be signed with a developer certificate before they can authorise with the Core Location service. If you look in Console.app you can see the failed attempts to authorise:
31/12/2012 13:08:26.441 locationd[484]: Couldn't get information from PID 40084
31/12/2012 13:08:27.515 CoreLocationAgent[40086]: CodeSigningInforequest for pid=40084
I’ve used my developer account to build and sign a new whereami binary. After you run it Mountain Lion will ask your permission to enable it to access location data.
A: I'm the author of CoreLocationCLI, mentioned in the comments above. Just wanted to note that we have moved the project to this location:
https://github.com/fulldecent/corelocationcli
Also, it now supports --once if you are only looking for a single output, rather than continuous output.
Lastly, there is a full binary on the project page as well if you would rather not compile it yourself. You will still need to authorize ("Would you like this app to be able to access your location") on the first app run.
A: vilmoskörte's answer appears to be a good one, but I took it upon myself to make a tool that does this for my own education. I put it on GitHub.
WhereAmI
A simple command line tool. No options, just runs and outputs Lat/Long, accuracy in meters, and a timestamp. It will need OS X Location Services to be turned on (System Preferences > Security & Privacy), and permission to gather your location (OS X will prompt you on first run).
Direct Download Link (.zip)
A: This already has been programmed, have a look at
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/locateme/
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6514ddb992b9d8a0020ac94d541449829b4ff25b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to auto-adjust the resolution of a Windows 7 VM using VMware Fusion? Recently, I have acquired a MacBook Pro Retina. Previously, I had always used Windows, and I still need it, because of Visual Studio. Hence I installed VMware Fusion and Windows 7 as a virtual machine.
The problem is that whenever I launch the VM, VMWare automatically sets the resolution of the guest to the maximum available on the Mac (that is 2880x1800). So I changed the resolution from Windows and set it to 1440x900, but, when I restart, on the login screen, it automatically reverts back to 2880x1800. I thought it was due to the VMware Tools, so I uninstalled them. It now works correctly, however I lose a lot of features without the Tools installed. How can I solve this?
A: Edit ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences file by adding following lines:
pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "FALSE"
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "stretchGuestToHost"
pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "FALSE" disables auto fit for Single Window mode.
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "stretchGuestToHost" disables auto fit for Full Screen mode.
| Q: How to auto-adjust the resolution of a Windows 7 VM using VMware Fusion? Recently, I have acquired a MacBook Pro Retina. Previously, I had always used Windows, and I still need it, because of Visual Studio. Hence I installed VMware Fusion and Windows 7 as a virtual machine.
The problem is that whenever I launch the VM, VMWare automatically sets the resolution of the guest to the maximum available on the Mac (that is 2880x1800). So I changed the resolution from Windows and set it to 1440x900, but, when I restart, on the login screen, it automatically reverts back to 2880x1800. I thought it was due to the VMware Tools, so I uninstalled them. It now works correctly, however I lose a lot of features without the Tools installed. How can I solve this?
A: Edit ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences file by adding following lines:
pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "FALSE"
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "stretchGuestToHost"
pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "FALSE" disables auto fit for Single Window mode.
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "stretchGuestToHost" disables auto fit for Full Screen mode.
A: Download the VMWare Fusion 2012 technology preview, this issue is fixed in that release.
A: You can also use the following command to set the resolution:
C:\Program Files\VMware Tools\VMwareResolutionSet.exe" 0 1 , 0 0 1920 1440
A: I'm using VMWare Fusion 5.0.3. With vmwaretools installed, it's very easy to change the resolution on the Windows VM:
*
*go to Virtual Machine > Settings > Display
*there is a checkbox Use full resolution for Retina display
*uncheck it and the vm changes back to normal resolution.
A: I dont have a real fix I guess that will require a patch from VMware. In the meantime I found this hint via Google:
Go out of full screen mode (ctrl-cmd-F) and then back again.
A: I am using VMWare Fusion 5.x on MAcBook Retina 13' and as a workaround, I have created a .bat file (auto executable) to automate the commands as suggested by Michiel on my Windows and I just double-click it to bring back my preferred resolution.
ResetResultion.bat file has the following content:
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareResolutionSet.exe" 0 1 , 0 0 1920 1200
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89247607b9669bb8e06ba202aae135862026934d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why won't OS X Mountain Lion remember smb password on login? After mounting an smb shared drive and putting in my username and password, OS X will ask me if I want to save password to keychain. I can say yes but it will not save it. The drive has also been added as a login item.
My username requires the domain, so it's like:
mydomain\firstname.lastname
On login, the window pops up and has forgotten the mydomain\ leaving firstname.lastname and the password field is, of course, blank.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
A: You can create a link file with the username and password, and put that in the login items.
In Finder select Connect to Server and enter:
smb://domain\username:password@serveraddress
Don't click connect or press enter, just highlight the whole address and drag to desktop (or anywhere else), and it will save as a file. You can rename it, if you like.
Then from System Preferences, Users and Groups, Login items, add the file you just created.
| Q: Why won't OS X Mountain Lion remember smb password on login? After mounting an smb shared drive and putting in my username and password, OS X will ask me if I want to save password to keychain. I can say yes but it will not save it. The drive has also been added as a login item.
My username requires the domain, so it's like:
mydomain\firstname.lastname
On login, the window pops up and has forgotten the mydomain\ leaving firstname.lastname and the password field is, of course, blank.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
A: You can create a link file with the username and password, and put that in the login items.
In Finder select Connect to Server and enter:
smb://domain\username:password@serveraddress
Don't click connect or press enter, just highlight the whole address and drag to desktop (or anywhere else), and it will save as a file. You can rename it, if you like.
Then from System Preferences, Users and Groups, Login items, add the file you just created.
A: Try making an alias of the network drive that you would like to connect to and store that in the Login Items.
*
*Connect to the device / computer using the Finder. (Note don't connect as a guest)
*Connect to the share or drive on that source, and open it using the Finder.
*With that window open showing the contents of that connected share click the network share disk icon next to the window name, and drag it to the desktop while holding down the option+Command keys.
Note: The icon just dragged to the desktop should have a tiny black arrow in the lower right corner, indicating that it is a alias.
*Add the Alias to your log in items.
Note: If the problem persists, try removing the saved password for that share in the Keychain Access Application, and repeat.
A: I have had the same problem, and I have had it for ages. I eventually got rid of it by having a close look at the entries saved in the keychain - I actually found two relating to that server - and deleting them. (Keychain Access in Programs > Utilities is the tool for that.)
Once the botched entries were removed from the keychain, I could save my login credentials. Dragging the share to the sidebar in Finder, or to the desktop, also worked all of a sudden (it didn't previously).
A: There may be a corrupt entry for that server in the Keychain. Delete the entry for that server from KeyChain Access, log out and back in, and try saving it again.
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8f7c7542580e5d9c38794712148d3e2b80f7ee1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I find my IP address - not my company's router, but my local machines I run rails servers at ports 3000 and 5000.
What do I use (or how do I find) the IP address of my Mac?
Not the one used for web browsing which is my companies host supplied IP but rather my local machine one.
I imagine it would be 192.168.x.x?
A: Alternatively, you could try running
ifconfig
in the terminal. It will show a list of interfaces with IPs by default, along with many many other details such as physical addresses. It can also be used to configure network adapter settings, the man page is here: http://linux.die.net/man/8/ifconfig
or you can run man ifconfig on the terminal.
In your case you're probably looking for en0 or en1, look under inet for the IP address.
| Q: How can I find my IP address - not my company's router, but my local machines I run rails servers at ports 3000 and 5000.
What do I use (or how do I find) the IP address of my Mac?
Not the one used for web browsing which is my companies host supplied IP but rather my local machine one.
I imagine it would be 192.168.x.x?
A: Alternatively, you could try running
ifconfig
in the terminal. It will show a list of interfaces with IPs by default, along with many many other details such as physical addresses. It can also be used to configure network adapter settings, the man page is here: http://linux.die.net/man/8/ifconfig
or you can run man ifconfig on the terminal.
In your case you're probably looking for en0 or en1, look under inet for the IP address.
A: I installed iStat Menues. Now I can see all the IPs, the one from my provieder is called "public ip" and the in the WiFi network is called "private ip" in iStat Menues.
It could also work with the iStat Nano Widget. Only tried the full version.
I only need to click on the menu bar item to get the info.
A: I used:
ipconfig getifaddr en1
A: There are several methods...
...but some methods give different kinds of IP addresses. Make sure you know which kind of IP address you need. For many (most?) purposes, the public IP address is what's required.
*
*Your public IP address is the one people on the internet will see. (This is usually what people mean if they don't specify which kind of IP address.)
*Your local IP address is the one that your router uses to communicate with you on your local area network.
Note: in certain situations, your local IP address may be the same as your public IP address.
Here's a few ways to get each kind of IP address:
#1: From the WiFi menubar -- gives your LOCAL IP address
Hold option and click on the WiFi icon in the menubar at the top-right corner of your screen. You will see a special menu that lists, among many other things, your IP Address.
#2: From Network Preferences -- gives your LOCAL IP address
There are two ways to get to Network Preferences:
*
*Click on the WiFi icon in the menubar, then select "Network Preferences"
*Go to the System Preferences (either on your Dock at the bottom of the screen or by searching for it with Spotlight), then open "Network".
You'll see your IP address as shown:
#3: From a terminal (Method A) -- gives your LOCAL IP address
Fire up your favorite terminal (e.g. Mac OS X comes with one called Terminal), and type the following:
*
*ipconfig getifaddr en0 if connected via a wireless connection.
*ipconfig getifaddr en1 if connected via ethernet.
*ipconfig getifaddr en3 if connected via a Thunderbolt-to-ethernet adaptor.
#4: From a terminal (Method B) -- gives your PUBLIC IP address
Fire up your favorite terminal (e.g. Mac OS X comes with one called Terminal), and type curl http://ipecho.net/plain; echo.
#5: From a browser -- gives your PUBLIC IP address
There are many websites you can use that will tell you your public IP address. The simplest is probably a Google search for "what is my ip address".
A: I can't believe nobody has suggested the simplest method of all, only 2 clicks (or 3 if your adapter isn't at the top of the list).
Click System Preferences, click Network.
It will display the IP address of the adapter under Status to the right of the network adapters. If your device isn't at the top (which will be the default selected) then simply click on the one with the green status. It's going to be either Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
A: All these answers are good... I'd like to add one thing. If you're trying to get your Mac's IP so you can access the server you're running locally on the same Mac, you can use http://127.0.0.1/ (the local loopback IP) or http://localhost/. It is always the same and you can use it without even being connected to any network.
If you're trying to let others connect to the server on your Mac it would likely be easier to give them your hostname which you can set from the Sharing System Preferences pane (at least as long as they are using a Bonjour-enabled system). Then you can access something like http://mymacbook.local/
A: You can also go to "About this Mac" and click on the grey text under "Mac OS X" until it displays your local IP address for OS's before Lion.
Also, for Mac OSX versions before Lion, this action also works at the login screen.
A: ifconfig en0 inet
Use ifconfig , then followed by the interface.
Use man ifconfig to know more.
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90ae3e9f1316ebf93b671c8c9ca405e6667bd707 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 10.8 reminders snooze duration When I get either a Calendar or Reminders notification, I have the option to 'snooze':
I would like to be able to say something like 'remind me in 10 minutes' or 'remind me in 2 hours' (much like the iCal notifcations used to allow in <= 10.7).
Is this possible?
A: Yes, Apple failed to include a multi-time snooze feature in the Mountain Lion version of Calendar. LIke you, thousands of us would like to have this feature back.
Go to www.apple.com/feedback and tell them. I did. If enough people point out this omission, they will address it sooner than later.
Power in numbers!
| Q: 10.8 reminders snooze duration When I get either a Calendar or Reminders notification, I have the option to 'snooze':
I would like to be able to say something like 'remind me in 10 minutes' or 'remind me in 2 hours' (much like the iCal notifcations used to allow in <= 10.7).
Is this possible?
A: Yes, Apple failed to include a multi-time snooze feature in the Mountain Lion version of Calendar. LIke you, thousands of us would like to have this feature back.
Go to www.apple.com/feedback and tell them. I did. If enough people point out this omission, they will address it sooner than later.
Power in numbers!
A: In Mountain Lion, you can select the snooze duration by holding down the button:
The various times in the menu differ based on the length of time before the event begins. There's no visual clue that this functionality is available, but it is.
Update: The same functionality is available in Yosemite
A: SnoozeMaster solved this issue for me. It works with both Calendar and Reminders alerts, giving you many more options than the default OS X Mountain Lion 15-minute Snooze. I didn't want to switch to a non-Apple program (such as BusyCal) because I like the way Apple Calendar syncs easily with my other OS X and iOS devices. SnoozeMaster allows me to keep using Apple Calendar, but with a much more flexible Snooze option.
You can enter any value you like for the Snooze period. Alternately, you can configure your own drop down menu (similar to the default Apple drop down in OS X Lion). This configurable menu can contain as many items as you like, with time values of your choosing (5 min, 15 min, 3 hrs, 7 days, 0.5 min, etc.).
While running, SnoozeMaster lives in the menu bar under a ".zZ" icon. To insure that it's always monitoring your alerts, I recommend setting SnoozeMaster's preferences to:
Start at Login: On
I also recommend turning off Apple Notifications for Calendar and Reminders. These settings can be found in System Preferences:
System Preferences > Notifications > Calendar > Calendar Alert Style: None
System Preferences > Notifications > Reminders > Reminders Alert Style: None
Then you will only get alerts generated by SnoozeMaster and not Apple Notifications.
A: Yes, that drove us crazy too, so we wrote a menubar app to have control over snoozing the Apple Calendar alerts. Check out "SnoozeMaster" on the App Store. Hope everyone likes it?
A: Busycal seems to be the main contender for the throne and it has a 30 day trial. I am about a week into my trial and I was fairly sure I was going to buy it within the next day or two as it is at a reduced price til the end of the month... until I went and looked at SnoozeMaster (which is only $2) and which seems to do the job - so I'm off to buy that instead.
update: Bought it and it seems perfect - much better than the old Apple iCal one in Lion as you can set any times you want - and certainly better than Mountain Lion as that is totally unusable! Just sent them an email request asking if they would add an option to put off alarms until 9am tomorrow - that would be perfect.
A: According to this answer in the Apple Discussion Forums, it appears to be no.
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27f5541dc418f7fb954d5bf1e752e6e1280e015b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to have terminal close tab when shell exits? I just recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8. On 10.6 I could set the terminal to close the tab/window when the shell exits.
Mountain Lion's terminal just says the process is completed and the tab/window stays open:
bash$ exit
logout
[Process completed]
I find this very annoying, but I no longer see the preference to change it.
Is there a way to set Mountain Lion's Terminal to close when its process exits?
A: You can change this in Terminal's Preferences:
| Q: How to have terminal close tab when shell exits? I just recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8. On 10.6 I could set the terminal to close the tab/window when the shell exits.
Mountain Lion's terminal just says the process is completed and the tab/window stays open:
bash$ exit
logout
[Process completed]
I find this very annoying, but I no longer see the preference to change it.
Is there a way to set Mountain Lion's Terminal to close when its process exits?
A: You can change this in Terminal's Preferences:
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365e5084f12377d9be417b51f7e96c20bca83605 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What drivers should I install to use the trackpad "two finger swipe" on Windows 7 running under VirtualBox? I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to run several VMs on my MacBook and am unable to use the trackpad to "two finger swipe" to the previous webpage under Win 7.
I'm guessing this is a driver issue.
Since my mac never came with a CD, or anything else, where can I download the Win7 drivers that will allow me to properly "swipe" under Win7?
(The OracleBox drivers do currently support two finger scroll, but not the "go back" macro in IE)
A: Multi-touch gestures aren't built in to Windows. you'll need to use third party utilities to get these sort of functions. Check out this page for instructions on how to get the various mac functions working in Win7.
| Q: What drivers should I install to use the trackpad "two finger swipe" on Windows 7 running under VirtualBox? I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to run several VMs on my MacBook and am unable to use the trackpad to "two finger swipe" to the previous webpage under Win 7.
I'm guessing this is a driver issue.
Since my mac never came with a CD, or anything else, where can I download the Win7 drivers that will allow me to properly "swipe" under Win7?
(The OracleBox drivers do currently support two finger scroll, but not the "go back" macro in IE)
A: Multi-touch gestures aren't built in to Windows. you'll need to use third party utilities to get these sort of functions. Check out this page for instructions on how to get the various mac functions working in Win7.
A: Those gestures are specific features of the Mac operating system, so they are not supported on Windows by default.
Elan Smart Pad is software which will allow you to do thinks linke gestures on a trackpad, so maybe there is your solution?
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20cb2d29e14c67ae3ba4cb7a24c636859ff06551 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the difference between various VM solutions? I'm new to the Mac platform and need to figure out which virtualization platform is best for me.
Is there a comparison list of features (and missing features) for each of the major virtualization platforms? (VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, Microsoft VirtualPC, or VMware ESX?
I have a license for each and am running on a retina MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM. I need to run a number of Microsoft operating systems in 64-bit mode.
A: As you've pointed out, there is plenty of virtualisation software. However, the most famous are Parallels and VMware Fusion (the other ones I haven't used, so I can't give you an opinion about them).
In my opinion, Parallels is the more robust one and gives me the best performance. There are a lot of online battles going one between both camps and there both apps have their (dis)advantages. For me, Parallels is the best way to go, because it has the most functions.
For most people it's a close race and they let the price decide. Both companies often hold special sales, so you should look for those kind of things.
| Q: What is the difference between various VM solutions? I'm new to the Mac platform and need to figure out which virtualization platform is best for me.
Is there a comparison list of features (and missing features) for each of the major virtualization platforms? (VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, Microsoft VirtualPC, or VMware ESX?
I have a license for each and am running on a retina MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM. I need to run a number of Microsoft operating systems in 64-bit mode.
A: As you've pointed out, there is plenty of virtualisation software. However, the most famous are Parallels and VMware Fusion (the other ones I haven't used, so I can't give you an opinion about them).
In my opinion, Parallels is the more robust one and gives me the best performance. There are a lot of online battles going one between both camps and there both apps have their (dis)advantages. For me, Parallels is the best way to go, because it has the most functions.
For most people it's a close race and they let the price decide. Both companies often hold special sales, so you should look for those kind of things.
A: VirtualBox is free so the downside to trying it is just your time. I did, and stayed with it. I primarily run XP but I did play with a couple of Linux flavors on it as well.
Its seamless mode works well, showing only the application's windows on your OS X desktop among whatever other OS X stuff is there. I point my few remaining Windows apps to shared folders on the OS X file system which means I don't have to backup the Windows VDisk very often; my data is safely included in my OS X backup scheme.
A: VirtualBox is free. I’ve used it with various Linux distro’s, but didn’t find it too stable. It crashed way too often.
Parallels is a good solution, but they force ads on you. I don’t like that. This solution is reputed to have the best performance.
Fusion is a good product, not free, but no ads. As a bonus, you get the VIX API for controlling virtual machines across the entire VMWare product line. For some, that’s very important.
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d52e00c312dc05142ac8410b6d1bc5a53d2b1cb8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What terminal commands are new or updated in Mountain Lion? Where can I find a list of new or updated terminal commands or features for Mountain Lion?
Lacking any list, does anyone have a sugguestion on how to generate that list? (some combination of ls & diff)
A: AD user @patrix did a great AD blog post on new terminal commands in Mountain Lion. You can find it here: http://apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/07/interesting-new-unix-commandsbinaries-in-os-x-mountain-lion/
| Q: What terminal commands are new or updated in Mountain Lion? Where can I find a list of new or updated terminal commands or features for Mountain Lion?
Lacking any list, does anyone have a sugguestion on how to generate that list? (some combination of ls & diff)
A: AD user @patrix did a great AD blog post on new terminal commands in Mountain Lion. You can find it here: http://apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/07/interesting-new-unix-commandsbinaries-in-os-x-mountain-lion/
A: The answer is in the following post:
New Unix commands in ML
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67ca3945f554847ddba470ffb9af903adcfaf3cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to queue up the next song on my iPhone? Is there a way to pick which song should play after the current song finishes?
I often browse my music library while listening, and I'll want to play a specific song, but not stop the current song in the middle. Is there a way to queue up a song to start after the current one?
A: As they say in the iPhone world, "There's an app for that" (Review) :-) It's called OnCue.
| Q: Is there a way to queue up the next song on my iPhone? Is there a way to pick which song should play after the current song finishes?
I often browse my music library while listening, and I'll want to play a specific song, but not stop the current song in the middle. Is there a way to queue up a song to start after the current one?
A: As they say in the iPhone world, "There's an app for that" (Review) :-) It's called OnCue.
A: You could try Play It Next, it does just that.
A: You should get the Music Queue Player, this app will solve your problem. It uses the iOS music library and iOS 7 design and allows you to manage queues of songs that you can update whilst playing. You can also save queues. It's the best app of this kind I've seen!
A: This requires just a little preparation: first you need to be playing a playlist.
*
*create a new playlist
*add your first song
*hit 'Done'
*Play the song you've added
*hit the back button to view the playlist
*hit 'Edit'
At this point you can add and rearrange songs without interrupting playback. I always miss the function 'Play in iTunes DJ' which iTunes on the Mac has, which would shortcut this whole process.
A: OnTheFly Playlist does exactly what you are asking.
A: Queue Music does exactly what you are asking for:
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4f608b8ddeaa255f21979b6d775bac4829b6a20d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I create a new group for items in the Sidebar in Finder? I have:
*
*Favorites
*Shared
*Devices
I'd like to create something like:
*
*Cloud Files
My Favorites is getting a little cluttered with shortcuts to a DropBox folder, a SkyDrive folder, a Google Drive folder, an IDrive folder, etc.
How can I create a new group for items in the Sidebar in Finder?
A: No. You can rearrange the order of the three you mentioned though - just click and drag to move them.
A possible workaround would be to create a new folder, say "Cloud files", and put it in the sidebar. You could then place aliases of your other folders into that one. This would help trim down the folders in your Favorites section, as well as keep the same quick access to them.
| Q: How can I create a new group for items in the Sidebar in Finder? I have:
*
*Favorites
*Shared
*Devices
I'd like to create something like:
*
*Cloud Files
My Favorites is getting a little cluttered with shortcuts to a DropBox folder, a SkyDrive folder, a Google Drive folder, an IDrive folder, etc.
How can I create a new group for items in the Sidebar in Finder?
A: No. You can rearrange the order of the three you mentioned though - just click and drag to move them.
A possible workaround would be to create a new folder, say "Cloud files", and put it in the sidebar. You could then place aliases of your other folders into that one. This would help trim down the folders in your Favorites section, as well as keep the same quick access to them.
A: I use a folder named ------------ as a divider. If you need more dividers you could create a new folder inside the first one and so on, be creative!
A: I really can't understand why apple can't implement this, since many finder app alternative have this feature! I don't think it is so difficoult! If it can be of any help to you, I use ForkLift, and it has such feature out of the box
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9b1b2d8791c3b6cbafdfd9c2867a82b365823c05 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Toggle Finder sort order with AppleScript under Lion 10.7? For years I've been using this AppleScript to toggle the sort order of a Finder window:
if sort direction of column id size column of list view options of window 1 is normal then
set sort direction of column id size column of list view options of window 1 to reversed
else
set sort direction of column id size column of list view options of window 1 to normal
end if
(You can replace size with kind, name, modification date, etc.)
But ever since Lion, this no longer works!
The little arrow in the column header DOES change, but the items do not re-sort.
Any way to get this working?
A: This is a bit hacky, but changing the sort column before and after changing the sort direction seemed to work on Mountain Lion.
tell application "Finder"
tell list view options of window 1
set sort column to name column
tell column size column
if sort direction is normal then
set sort direction to reversed
else
set sort direction to normal
end if
end tell
set sort column to size column
end tell
end tell
| Q: Toggle Finder sort order with AppleScript under Lion 10.7? For years I've been using this AppleScript to toggle the sort order of a Finder window:
if sort direction of column id size column of list view options of window 1 is normal then
set sort direction of column id size column of list view options of window 1 to reversed
else
set sort direction of column id size column of list view options of window 1 to normal
end if
(You can replace size with kind, name, modification date, etc.)
But ever since Lion, this no longer works!
The little arrow in the column header DOES change, but the items do not re-sort.
Any way to get this working?
A: This is a bit hacky, but changing the sort column before and after changing the sort direction seemed to work on Mountain Lion.
tell application "Finder"
tell list view options of window 1
set sort column to name column
tell column size column
if sort direction is normal then
set sort direction to reversed
else
set sort direction to normal
end if
end tell
set sort column to size column
end tell
end tell
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fd2c0f428dbf4170effb8c6af410dfceb99bc12c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to highlight changes when comparing versions of a document in OS X? I've been exploring the versions functionality of the new document model in Mac OS X 10.8. It's mostly similar to what was in Lion. In the title bar of a supported document choose "Browse all versions…" from the drop-down menu.
It seems handy enough, but how can you easily tell what has changed between each document without having to manually scan each line? I assumed there must be a feature to highlight the changes but I can't find it. Has anyone figured this out?
A: Sadly, I'm quite sure the highlighting doesn't exist. Apple's documentation doesn't mention it either: OS X Lion: About Auto Save and Versions
(I know it's from Lion)
Mountain Lion changes to Auto Save doesn't mention it either. What's New in OS X v10.8 (Auto Save is mentioned under AppKit)
| Q: How to highlight changes when comparing versions of a document in OS X? I've been exploring the versions functionality of the new document model in Mac OS X 10.8. It's mostly similar to what was in Lion. In the title bar of a supported document choose "Browse all versions…" from the drop-down menu.
It seems handy enough, but how can you easily tell what has changed between each document without having to manually scan each line? I assumed there must be a feature to highlight the changes but I can't find it. Has anyone figured this out?
A: Sadly, I'm quite sure the highlighting doesn't exist. Apple's documentation doesn't mention it either: OS X Lion: About Auto Save and Versions
(I know it's from Lion)
Mountain Lion changes to Auto Save doesn't mention it either. What's New in OS X v10.8 (Auto Save is mentioned under AppKit)
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b8787b48cb1b281762f44c7d3ff460542d6d84f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you cancel an automatic connection to a once joined wi-fi network on 10.7.4? I wish to no longer log on automatically to a wi-fi network that I once logged on to access the internet.
I have tried everything in the advanced tab of the Network preference panel to no avail: the computer never "forget" the WEP password no matter what I do.
Any further reaching solutions I would not be aware of?
THanks.
Paul
A: *
*Go to System Preferences > Network.
*Select your Airport/WiFi connection on the left.
*Click on the "Advanced..." button in the lower right of panel.
*You should see a list of "Preferred Networks." Select the one you want to "forget" and click the minus "–" button below.
*You can also un-check "Remember networks this computer has joined" – that will cause the computer to – you guessed it – NOT remember networks it has joined! :-)
| Q: How do you cancel an automatic connection to a once joined wi-fi network on 10.7.4? I wish to no longer log on automatically to a wi-fi network that I once logged on to access the internet.
I have tried everything in the advanced tab of the Network preference panel to no avail: the computer never "forget" the WEP password no matter what I do.
Any further reaching solutions I would not be aware of?
THanks.
Paul
A: *
*Go to System Preferences > Network.
*Select your Airport/WiFi connection on the left.
*Click on the "Advanced..." button in the lower right of panel.
*You should see a list of "Preferred Networks." Select the one you want to "forget" and click the minus "–" button below.
*You can also un-check "Remember networks this computer has joined" – that will cause the computer to – you guessed it – NOT remember networks it has joined! :-)
A: Check if the wi-fi password is saved in the Keychain (Applications -> Utilities -> Keychain Access.app), if you haven't changed any Keychain settings, it should be in the "login" keychain, look for an entry with Name the same as the wi-fi network name and Type Airport network password. If there is such entry, delete that entry (click on the entry corresponding to the wi-fi network, then Edit -> Delete, or right-click -> Delete). Make sure that you don't delete the whole login keychain.
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40e7a2fffb4d2bfc886088bd1fcb485a0431a9ca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Deleting VPN Configuration Files From Network System Preferences Unfortunately I used a bad VPN service called VPN OneClick Pro. When you uninstall the app it does not remove the VPN configuration files it creates in Network in System Preferences.
So in other words, when you open System Preferences and then click on Network, to your left you always see your Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Firewire, etc. VPN OneClick Pro places about 28 VPN Configuration files. The minus button "-" has been greyed out so removing them is impossible.
How do I remove the remnants ?
A: To remove the VPN Profile from your Mac:
System Preference > Profile > Vpn One Click > Remove.
| Q: Deleting VPN Configuration Files From Network System Preferences Unfortunately I used a bad VPN service called VPN OneClick Pro. When you uninstall the app it does not remove the VPN configuration files it creates in Network in System Preferences.
So in other words, when you open System Preferences and then click on Network, to your left you always see your Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Firewire, etc. VPN OneClick Pro places about 28 VPN Configuration files. The minus button "-" has been greyed out so removing them is impossible.
How do I remove the remnants ?
A: To remove the VPN Profile from your Mac:
System Preference > Profile > Vpn One Click > Remove.
A: If you can't remove vpn in the System Preference, you can remove it like this:
open Terminal.app, run the command below to get vpn name
networksetup -listallnetworkservices
then run the command below to remove it
networksetup -removenetworkservice "vpnname"
A: The problem appears when you first uninstall VPN and then try to remove the configuration from Network Preferences. So next time first go to Network preferences.
If that's too late this way is dummy-proof, worked even for me:
In /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration, track down the following 3 files:
Networkinterfaces.plist
preferences.plist
com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
Have no fear, remove these files and restart your Mac.
All network configuration will be deleted and your Mac will have the default settings again. So take note before you begin, but the actions are simple enough even for me.
VPN, Bluetooth PAN, and Thunderbolt (bridge) connections will probably all be lost. You will have to log into your Wi-Fi again so have your password handy.
A: I ended up with an MDM-installed Algo VPN IKEv2 IPsec profile that Network Manager cannot delete.
The – deletion sign is greyed out:
Typically, one would uninstall the corresponding MDM Profile to remove the linked VPN Profile, but I had no MDM Profile to delete.
Reinstalling the original .mobileconfig MDM profile would create another VPN Profile, and removing MDM Profile would only delete a second VPN Profile, leaving the original one intact.
I found that such VPN profiles are stored in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkextension.plist binary plist file.
I already had PLIST Editor, so I used to remove $objects array elements mentioning stale VPN profile.
Since this is a system plist, one would need first to copy it somewhere to edit and then copy it back with the modifications.
A: You can remove them from the place you have the original file.
I had the same problem on my iPhone. It has a red button that said "Remove".
A: Open the finder, press Cmd + shift + G and paste this: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
copy the preferences.plist file to your desktop (Admin account)
right click and open with X-Code (Get it if you don't have it, it's free)
Expand the NetworkServices key, expand every group in that key and look for the UserDefinedName you need to delete (VpnOneClick - something)
click the - button to the right of the group number (make sure the that row is selected)
you will notice the whole group is marked in a blue square when that is done.
Save the file
Drag the file on the desktop to the original location and authenticate
Open the network settings and you will see the vpnOneClick entries are gone!
A: system preferences profile Vpn One click and then the '-' button you have in network settings to, it worked with me flawlessly
A: First of all go to System Preferences, then Network, then click on VPN on the left. Click click on the minus button under the screen and remove all the VPNs, then close it.
Now go to Finder → Applications and delete VPN One Click
If the system says VPN One Click is running, then quit the app from the Dock and try again.
A: I had the same issue with IPVanish. They installed probably 30 or 40 different VPN configurations, and going through each one and selecting Remove would be aggravating and tedious. I just deleted the file: ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<UUID>.plist. It's a binary XML, so open it in Xcode or TextMate first to confirm that there's nothing there which is important to you. Or rename the file and/or set permissions to 000.
By the way, this is on macOS Sierra. So other OSX versions may differ.
A: System Preference > Profile > Vpn One Click > Remove.
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b1d435d116c25d0890ac0ec927c4fe303da14e95 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are there folders in /Users of already deleted users? Some time ago I had a user called "xy" on my system. I have deleted the user but in the /Users directory there are folders called "xy" with a Desktop, Library etc. in it.
Why are they not deleted and can I delete them manually?
A: What version of OS X are you using?
In Mountain Lion, when you delete a user, you are presented with a dialog with the option to delete the home folder of the user you are deleting.
It shouldn't be any problem deleting it. It's personal settings and assets stored. Nothing global to the system. Do delete you log in with an administrator account and do one of
*
*go to /Users in the Finder and delete the "xy" folder
*open Terminal and run sudo rm -rf /Users/xy
| Q: Why are there folders in /Users of already deleted users? Some time ago I had a user called "xy" on my system. I have deleted the user but in the /Users directory there are folders called "xy" with a Desktop, Library etc. in it.
Why are they not deleted and can I delete them manually?
A: What version of OS X are you using?
In Mountain Lion, when you delete a user, you are presented with a dialog with the option to delete the home folder of the user you are deleting.
It shouldn't be any problem deleting it. It's personal settings and assets stored. Nothing global to the system. Do delete you log in with an administrator account and do one of
*
*go to /Users in the Finder and delete the "xy" folder
*open Terminal and run sudo rm -rf /Users/xy
A: TLDR: Deleting this user's home folder will not harm your system. It will, obviously enough, delete any of the files you created when you were logged in as the previous user.
How is it possible that there be a folder for a user who doesn't appear at the login window?
OS X keeps track of users and their passwords using Directory Services. On most people's computers the Directory Services files are stored in /var/db/dslocal. This database stores the names of users, and other information, such as the location of their home folder. When you deleted your user, your Mac removed the account entry (from the dslocal database), but did not delete the home folder stored in the /Users folder.
So why didn't the system automatically delete the home folder when it deleted the user from the database?
When you delete a User from System Preferences, you are asked what to do with the home folder itself. You can see from this screenshot which option you must have accidentally chosen:
What's the best way to delete the old user's home folder?
I would suggest logging into the account one last time to ensure it does not contain any files you wish to keep, and then deleting both the user record and its files (as you originally intended). To do so:
*
*in System Preferences > Users & Groups, create a new account with the exact same name as the old user's home folder. The system will ask if you wish to use the existing home folder. Choose to do so.
*From the Apple menu, choose "Log out" and then log back in to the old user (ie: the user you just recreated).
*Take look around in the user's Pictures folder, Documents folder, etc to make sure there are no files you wish to keep
*Log back in to your normal account
*Delete the old user from "Users & Groups" but this time, choose "Delete the home folder"
A: How to delete a user folder from orbit
To avoid needing to create a user account with the same user name as the orphaned /Users/ home folder. You can simply delete the folder if you do not care about any data loss. Providing your current account is an admin account you can elevate your privileges to delete that orphaned home folder.
DANGER: "rm -rf" is risky do not make a typo on the <user_home_folder>.
Open Terminal
$ cd /Users
$ sudo rm -rf <user_home_folder>
Password:
The command "sudo rm -rf" means: Super User Do, Remove This folder recursively and all sub-folders, Force it and don't warn me about deleting these folders/files. It is dangerous because you can permanently delete something by accident if you make a typo. For example, "sudo rm -rf /" would delete your entire Macintosh HD drive.
DANGER: "rm -rf" is risky do not make a typo on the <user_home_folder>.
If this does not work, you may have some disk errors at play (happened to me just the other day). Boot in Recovery mode by holding CMD+R when powering on, let go after the bong or when you see the Apple logo. Run Disk Utility and check your internal Macintosh HD drive with First Aid. If this doesn't work, make a creatable boot OS flash drive and boot with that and run Disk Utility on the entire internal disk.
How to create a bootable installer driver for macOS
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
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57c95661c302210f0d9b3258029063a8c23e9d5a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal uses one theme for the first window and a different theme for later windows I want to set the "Homebrew" theme to be the default in Terminal.
I've changed the setting in the preferences: I chose "on startup, open" : "new window with settings" : "Homebrew".
Here is a screenshot:
Terminal uses "Homebrew" only for the first window. Then I do cmd-W to close the window and cmd-N to get a new window. The new window appears with the "Basic" theme! But if I do cmd-Q and restart Terminal then it gives me a "Homebrew" window again. Why don't terminal themes work properly?
A: Go to Terminal → Preferences → Settings → Profiles, select the Homebrew theme, and click the ‘Default’ button. Then quit Terminal and restart to confirm it works.
| Q: Terminal uses one theme for the first window and a different theme for later windows I want to set the "Homebrew" theme to be the default in Terminal.
I've changed the setting in the preferences: I chose "on startup, open" : "new window with settings" : "Homebrew".
Here is a screenshot:
Terminal uses "Homebrew" only for the first window. Then I do cmd-W to close the window and cmd-N to get a new window. The new window appears with the "Basic" theme! But if I do cmd-Q and restart Terminal then it gives me a "Homebrew" window again. Why don't terminal themes work properly?
A: Go to Terminal → Preferences → Settings → Profiles, select the Homebrew theme, and click the ‘Default’ button. Then quit Terminal and restart to confirm it works.
A: On High Sierra, Terminal, Preferences, General then New window, select profile and
bottom half:
New window opens with Same
New tab open with same
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23f545c09a5cabae7e011afedb8aa753f596f3a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I create an AppleScript that will quit an application at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep? I've been toying around with AppleScript and Automator to get this thing to work, but I just can't seem wrap my head around it. If anyone could show me an example or give me some tips on how I can set an application to close at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep or shutdown, it would be greatly appreciated.
A: You can schedule an event once with at:
at 23:59 <<< 'osascript -e "quit app \"Mail\""; pmset sleepnow'
Or to schedule it to repeat every day, edit the crontab with EDITOR=nano crontab -e and add an entry like this:
59 23 * * * osascript -e 'quit app "Mail"'; pmset sleepnow
| Q: How do I create an AppleScript that will quit an application at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep? I've been toying around with AppleScript and Automator to get this thing to work, but I just can't seem wrap my head around it. If anyone could show me an example or give me some tips on how I can set an application to close at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep or shutdown, it would be greatly appreciated.
A: You can schedule an event once with at:
at 23:59 <<< 'osascript -e "quit app \"Mail\""; pmset sleepnow'
Or to schedule it to repeat every day, edit the crontab with EDITOR=nano crontab -e and add an entry like this:
59 23 * * * osascript -e 'quit app "Mail"'; pmset sleepnow
A: I'm assuming that you'd like to initiate this procedure as opposed to having it run at a regularly scheduled time.
My approach would be to initiate this from the command line, but any commands can be run in a shell script component of an Automator script with some modification. The following approach combines a few components to get the job done:
*
*A tell command to quit the application
*A command-line call to put the computer to sleep
*A command-line call to schedule 1 and 2 for a specific time.
1. Telling the Application to quit
This can be as simple as:
osascript -e 'tell application "AppName" to quit'
2. Putting the computer to sleep
Have a look at pmset for more details, but issuing the following command will put your computer to sleep:
pmset sleepnow
3. Scheduling an operation to be run at a specific time
Have a look at the at command. This command gives you the ability to specify a time for a command to run. You'll need to enable this functionality as it is not by default. To enable the atrun daemon, run the following command [reference on SU]:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.atrun.plist
Once you've enabled atrun, any command can be scheduled for a specific time by issuing
echo "<command>" | at HH:MM
which works because at takes it's input from stdin by default. A simpler approach is to run commands listed in a file. A file can be executed by using the -f flag, followed by the name of the script to be run like this:
at -f /path/to/file HH:MM
Putting it all together
What follows assumes that atrun is enabled. As a toy example, let's say that I want to quit Mail and put the computer to sleep at 11PM. I would create the a file containing the commands that I want run as follows:
osascript -e 'tell application "Mail" to quit'
pmset sleepnow
Save that file to quit-and-sleep and then run on the command line
at -f /path/to/quit-and-sleep 23:00
Caveats
I didn't do any checking to make sure that Mail actually closed. The script also assumes that nothing else is going to get in the way of putting the computer to sleep. I've kept it simple here as a starting point for what you want.
A: Here's a strictly applescript version that accomplishes this given a hard-coded time value. You could, of course make this part interactive if you want. Also, this version assumes the time-string relates to today.
--Get time setting for action to occur
set t to "3:16:30 PM"
--build a time string to use as a target.
set cd to (current date) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set targetTime to text items 1 thru -3 of cd
set targetTime to date ((targetTime as text) & " " & t)
repeat while (current date) < targetTime
beep
delay 30 -- check the time every 30 seconds
end repeat
tell application "Mail"
quit
end tell
tell application "Finder"
display dialog "Do you want to shut the computer down now?"
if button returned of the result is "Ok" then
shutdown
end if
end tell
A: Here's code that will wait an amount of seconds before quitting the current application and going to sleep.
delay (your amount of seconds here)
tell application "System Events"
key down {command}
keystroke "q"
key up {command}
set volume "1"
say "computer going to sleep"
tell application "Finder"
sleep
end tell
end tell
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f4387cf6d13972a6f3445b82d8ba6170315635fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does com.apple.timemachine.supported denote? What does the presence of a file named .com.apple.timemachine.supported denote?
Is it safe to delete?
I find about a dozen of these scattered across my local hard disks, not the TimeMachine volumes...
A: It means that the folder it is in is supported as a target for Time Machine backups. They are very tiny files and wouldn’t be a space hog. But if you are seeing them, you are probably seeing other hidden files as well. But if you are using Time Machine for backup, don’t delete these files or the folder/disk wouldn't be able to be used as a Time Machine backup target.
| Q: What does com.apple.timemachine.supported denote? What does the presence of a file named .com.apple.timemachine.supported denote?
Is it safe to delete?
I find about a dozen of these scattered across my local hard disks, not the TimeMachine volumes...
A: It means that the folder it is in is supported as a target for Time Machine backups. They are very tiny files and wouldn’t be a space hog. But if you are seeing them, you are probably seeing other hidden files as well. But if you are using Time Machine for backup, don’t delete these files or the folder/disk wouldn't be able to be used as a Time Machine backup target.
A: Yeah, it just denotes that the particular entry is supported for time machine backup.
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0eb5bf410581f5ea127e8ab0a052ff7212038fcc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Built-in iSight camera in MacBook Pro stops working in Skype I'm using macbook pro mid 2009. Everything is working good but my camera. The problem is camera stops working after 1-2 minutes in skype chat. And during the conversation I can't close my camera because camera icon is not working. Is that problem about camera or skype? And how can i fix it ?
A: I've seen problems like this before with Skype and I'm pretty sure there's nothing you can do about it. Make sure you're not running any other apps that are using the camera and that you've got the latest version of Skype installed. I've found that sometimes going into the Skype preferences and clicking on the "Audio/Video" icon can "free" it up.
| Q: Built-in iSight camera in MacBook Pro stops working in Skype I'm using macbook pro mid 2009. Everything is working good but my camera. The problem is camera stops working after 1-2 minutes in skype chat. And during the conversation I can't close my camera because camera icon is not working. Is that problem about camera or skype? And how can i fix it ?
A: I've seen problems like this before with Skype and I'm pretty sure there's nothing you can do about it. Make sure you're not running any other apps that are using the camera and that you've got the latest version of Skype installed. I've found that sometimes going into the Skype preferences and clicking on the "Audio/Video" icon can "free" it up.
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f300845df5ac3a796eea9d1bddc38083c89e3d5e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable workspace switch when opening a new window of a program already opened in another workspace When I want to open a new window of a program already opened in another workspace the opened window gets automatically focused in the other workspace. Thats annoying because I always have to get back to the previous workspace and use the context menu in Dock to force a new window. How is it possible to turn that off? I am using OS X Mountain Lion.
A: You can do this by turning off the "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" checkbox in Mission Control preferences.
However, this will mean that when you toggle to a different application, with Cmd+Tab or another mechanism, you'll stay in the same workspace. This may or many not be convenient for your workflow.
| Q: Disable workspace switch when opening a new window of a program already opened in another workspace When I want to open a new window of a program already opened in another workspace the opened window gets automatically focused in the other workspace. Thats annoying because I always have to get back to the previous workspace and use the context menu in Dock to force a new window. How is it possible to turn that off? I am using OS X Mountain Lion.
A: You can do this by turning off the "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" checkbox in Mission Control preferences.
However, this will mean that when you toggle to a different application, with Cmd+Tab or another mechanism, you'll stay in the same workspace. This may or many not be convenient for your workflow.
A: You can do this by turning off the "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" checkbox in Mission Control preferences.
This option does next to nothing. Mission Control still switches workspaces when switching applications, closing windows, opening windows, etc. As far as I can tell, the only thing this option has any effect on whatsoever is Chrome. When I click on Chrome in the dock with a window open elsewhere, it does not switch and gives me a chance to open a new window. (However, if I make the mistake of clicking twice, I get banished from whatever it was I was working on).
Is there any way to disable auto-switching entirely? I NEVER want to be moved to a new workspace against my will. I can't imagine this is a pleasant experience for anyone.
Thanks.
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