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50dd880a878195994bd0ee905d367025cb22d6ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use my Macbook Pro Retina as a monitor for PS3? I want to connect my PlayStation3 to my Retina Macbook Pro so that I can play my games using the MBP's display, is it possible to do it with HDMI port or something else?
A: No, the video ports (HDMI and Thunderbolt) are output only. The MacBooks aren't designed to function as monitors.
You could try getting a video capture device that supports live viewing, but the performance and quality are likely to be far from optimal—such solutions are designed for recording video, not live playback or gaming.
| Q: Can I use my Macbook Pro Retina as a monitor for PS3? I want to connect my PlayStation3 to my Retina Macbook Pro so that I can play my games using the MBP's display, is it possible to do it with HDMI port or something else?
A: No, the video ports (HDMI and Thunderbolt) are output only. The MacBooks aren't designed to function as monitors.
You could try getting a video capture device that supports live viewing, but the performance and quality are likely to be far from optimal—such solutions are designed for recording video, not live playback or gaming.
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2a2a1ace294725a674b343fbb3f68a6176244184 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is causing a black screen while switching spaces on Mountain Lion? On Lion I used to see the next space wallpaper while pressing Control + → to switch desktops. But on Mountain Lion I see a Black Screen until the transition is complete. Is it just me who is facing this issue or is this the new behaviour in Mountain Lion?
A: Its now resolved. It was not an issue with OSX. I was using a software called ScreenShade which was causing this issue. Disabling ScreenShade resolved the issue.
| Q: What is causing a black screen while switching spaces on Mountain Lion? On Lion I used to see the next space wallpaper while pressing Control + → to switch desktops. But on Mountain Lion I see a Black Screen until the transition is complete. Is it just me who is facing this issue or is this the new behaviour in Mountain Lion?
A: Its now resolved. It was not an issue with OSX. I was using a software called ScreenShade which was causing this issue. Disabling ScreenShade resolved the issue.
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b367f0dd67c90d683c3113f8b4f491cc92ac0de5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Mail warn when emailing certain addresses? I have my own personal mail account (a gmail account) and my academic email account (a university account) as different profiles on my Mail application in OS X Snow Leopard. I sometimes forget to switch the outgoing account to my university account when emailing my students and it will send from my gmail account instead. This is not a huge deal but I would prefer to have my students never get mail from my gmail account.
Is there a way to have Mail warn you when sending to a certain address (or an address that has a certain keyward in it?)
A: Yes, you can have Mail put certain addresses in the to field in black and all others in red.
I use this to have Mail flag email that's going outside my organization.
Do this by going to Preferences > Composing.
Then under the "Addressing" header check "Mark addresses not ending with [ ]." Inside the box put ".nameofyourschool.edu".
Then every email address destined within your school will be black, and all others will be red.
Just the thing to ensure FERPA compliance.
| Q: Can Mail warn when emailing certain addresses? I have my own personal mail account (a gmail account) and my academic email account (a university account) as different profiles on my Mail application in OS X Snow Leopard. I sometimes forget to switch the outgoing account to my university account when emailing my students and it will send from my gmail account instead. This is not a huge deal but I would prefer to have my students never get mail from my gmail account.
Is there a way to have Mail warn you when sending to a certain address (or an address that has a certain keyward in it?)
A: Yes, you can have Mail put certain addresses in the to field in black and all others in red.
I use this to have Mail flag email that's going outside my organization.
Do this by going to Preferences > Composing.
Then under the "Addressing" header check "Mark addresses not ending with [ ]." Inside the box put ".nameofyourschool.edu".
Then every email address destined within your school will be black, and all others will be red.
Just the thing to ensure FERPA compliance.
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2f01fa46c77397f0a1d7da0abde06ea1bf2ec4ff | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I exit python in the Mountain Lion Terminal? I'm having a couple problems with basic command line stuff in the terminal of Mountain Lion.
control + D does not exit Python as it does in Lion; instead it splits the screen.
Meanwhile, I also haven't figured out how to continue writing after having viewed the contents of a text document - the terminal doesn't allow it.
Hello hello hello!
ex12.txt (END)
So far, no matter what I push after this, I get a nasty little beeping sound
A: You can type exit() to exit Python.
| Q: How do I exit python in the Mountain Lion Terminal? I'm having a couple problems with basic command line stuff in the terminal of Mountain Lion.
control + D does not exit Python as it does in Lion; instead it splits the screen.
Meanwhile, I also haven't figured out how to continue writing after having viewed the contents of a text document - the terminal doesn't allow it.
Hello hello hello!
ex12.txt (END)
So far, no matter what I push after this, I get a nasty little beeping sound
A: You can type exit() to exit Python.
A: As Control + D works for me on multiple Macs, I'll presume something is amiss with your installation, keyboard or keyboard handler. (Your difficulty with the pager also lends credence to this theory.)
You can use the alternate quit() to exit the interpreter until you have looked at how Python was installed or think of some modifications you might have on the key mapping on your Mac.
A: I had the same problem and I came across this post.
I think we both thought that we did ^ Ctrl-D but we actually did ⌘ Cmd-D, which is different shortcut and splits the terminal window.
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e94893f73f8b16875648ec03a2a4b622bbe94f84 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Free presentation helper that shows keystrokes Are there any free standalone presentation tools that shows which keys are pressed on screen?
KeyCastr is not available as build for users without Xcode. Only a community fork (git://github.com/bignerdranch/keycastr.git) is working on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
Mouseposé is commercial.
Related to the Windows 7 Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3529329
A: OS X comes with such a tool.
To activate it, you should go in System Preferences --> Keyboard and select Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar, see screenshot below.
Then in the top menu bar, ext to the clock, you should have a new icon.
Click on it and select Show Keyboard Viewer, now each time you press a key, the Keyboard viewer will briefly display that key. You will have something similar to this:
I hope this was what you were looking for.
| Q: Free presentation helper that shows keystrokes Are there any free standalone presentation tools that shows which keys are pressed on screen?
KeyCastr is not available as build for users without Xcode. Only a community fork (git://github.com/bignerdranch/keycastr.git) is working on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
Mouseposé is commercial.
Related to the Windows 7 Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3529329
A: OS X comes with such a tool.
To activate it, you should go in System Preferences --> Keyboard and select Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar, see screenshot below.
Then in the top menu bar, ext to the clock, you should have a new icon.
Click on it and select Show Keyboard Viewer, now each time you press a key, the Keyboard viewer will briefly display that key. You will have something similar to this:
I hope this was what you were looking for.
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9aa0fac889b9702e75206546c2f1bb6d17d00446 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Safari be configured to not hide the full URL path in the omnibar?
Possible Duplicate:
Fading of the URL in Safari 6's Unified Search and URL Field
How to fix Safari 6 on Mountain Lion that doesn't show the full URL in the address bar unless I click it?
The latest Safari version (6.0 (8536.25)) now hides the URL path from the address bar. Instead, it only showing the hostname (e.g. right now I only see "apple.stackexchange.com"). Clicking on the bar to edit will revert it to the full URL (e.g. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask).
Note that this is different to previous behavior where the URL path was still shown, albeit in a lighter shade of gray. Now it's completely gone, and only clicking will bring it back.
This is very annoying, and downright crippling when developing web applications. Is there a way to disable this behavior? I combed through the preferences dialog but couldn't find anything remotely related.
| Q: Can Safari be configured to not hide the full URL path in the omnibar?
Possible Duplicate:
Fading of the URL in Safari 6's Unified Search and URL Field
How to fix Safari 6 on Mountain Lion that doesn't show the full URL in the address bar unless I click it?
The latest Safari version (6.0 (8536.25)) now hides the URL path from the address bar. Instead, it only showing the hostname (e.g. right now I only see "apple.stackexchange.com"). Clicking on the bar to edit will revert it to the full URL (e.g. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask).
Note that this is different to previous behavior where the URL path was still shown, albeit in a lighter shade of gray. Now it's completely gone, and only clicking will bring it back.
This is very annoying, and downright crippling when developing web applications. Is there a way to disable this behavior? I combed through the preferences dialog but couldn't find anything remotely related.
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f274ac25f6dda7357fce983c6b4354cad203afaa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cron doesn't run after installing Mountain Lion. How can I make them run again? My Cron tasks stopped running after I installed Mountain Lion. How do I get them to run again?
A: The resolution turned out to be creating the etc/crontab file (e.g., sudo touch /etc/crontab). Apparently, this file was deleted during the installation of Mountain Lion.
| Q: Cron doesn't run after installing Mountain Lion. How can I make them run again? My Cron tasks stopped running after I installed Mountain Lion. How do I get them to run again?
A: The resolution turned out to be creating the etc/crontab file (e.g., sudo touch /etc/crontab). Apparently, this file was deleted during the installation of Mountain Lion.
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eedf970b508720ee3ffa2776922a058d5faf68ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Problem changing desktop background in Mountain Lion (10.8.1) I have performed an upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard and now to Mountain Lion (10.8.1). Post upgrade my desktop background isn't no longer changing. The background will not change when I try and select a different background via system preferences. Even if I reset it to the default background the same behavior persists. My system has exhibited this problem for almost 7 months now, I have this ugly plain blue background I cannot look at any more. Can anyone offer a solution that might resolve this?
A: Try deleting /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Then, empty your trash and reboot. This file stores the preferences for desktop wallpaper and deleting it will give you a clean slate. Your system should default to the standard Mountain Lion wallpaper.
| Q: Problem changing desktop background in Mountain Lion (10.8.1) I have performed an upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard and now to Mountain Lion (10.8.1). Post upgrade my desktop background isn't no longer changing. The background will not change when I try and select a different background via system preferences. Even if I reset it to the default background the same behavior persists. My system has exhibited this problem for almost 7 months now, I have this ugly plain blue background I cannot look at any more. Can anyone offer a solution that might resolve this?
A: Try deleting /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Then, empty your trash and reboot. This file stores the preferences for desktop wallpaper and deleting it will give you a clean slate. Your system should default to the standard Mountain Lion wallpaper.
A: Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and paste this command
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Desktop.plist
press 'return' on the keyboard.
Log out, log back in again. Change the wallpaper to what you want. Log out, log back in once more to test.
Any improvement?
A: My steps (on El Capitan 10.11.2):
*
*Deleted com.apple.desktop.plist- problem persisted
*Replaced /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg (req. disabling System Integrity Protection here) - problem persisted
*Repaired permission for /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg as detailed here - problem SOLVED (can choose new desktop image via Sys Pref. as normal)
A: Note that you have to delete the com.apple.desktop.plist file as another user. Otherwise, the original settings will be restored from cache.
A: By any chance have you performed a repair permissions using disk utility lately? Perhaps there is a problem with the OS accessing the files it needs.
A: The easiest fix for this is to just go into your desktop and screen saver settings, under the system preferences tab, and click on the "change picture" button. Then it should allow you to set the background to what you want again.
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6135f6db701a9a020901b986a0387e6a29326443 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to eject my timemachine backup whilst its decrypting? I encrypted my Time Machine backup (A Western Digital 2tb external drive) then realised that Airport wont mount the backup over wifi, so am currently decrypting the drive (via Disk Utility).
I found the command:
diskutil cs list
which shows me the progress of the operation (it took a while to register at the under the the menu-bar icon).
Here's a snippet from the output:
Sequence: 13
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Encryption Context: Present
Conversion Status: Converting
Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
Conversion Direction: backward
Encrypting the backup took about 24 hours, and the time machine icon currently shows 'Decryptig Backup Disk (28%)'.
My question is: can I eject the drive without losing the backup? Will the decryption continue when I mount the drive again?
TIA, Tim
A: I had to leave, so took a punt and ejected my drive. Timemachine took up where it left off when I remounted the drive, no problems!
| Q: Is it safe to eject my timemachine backup whilst its decrypting? I encrypted my Time Machine backup (A Western Digital 2tb external drive) then realised that Airport wont mount the backup over wifi, so am currently decrypting the drive (via Disk Utility).
I found the command:
diskutil cs list
which shows me the progress of the operation (it took a while to register at the under the the menu-bar icon).
Here's a snippet from the output:
Sequence: 13
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Encryption Context: Present
Conversion Status: Converting
Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
Conversion Direction: backward
Encrypting the backup took about 24 hours, and the time machine icon currently shows 'Decryptig Backup Disk (28%)'.
My question is: can I eject the drive without losing the backup? Will the decryption continue when I mount the drive again?
TIA, Tim
A: I had to leave, so took a punt and ejected my drive. Timemachine took up where it left off when I remounted the drive, no problems!
A: I would say no - I ejected a decrypting drive (it was decrypting due to me not ticking "encrypt" when adding it back to the computer and it then starting to decrypt) and on reconnection it a/ does not appear and b/ in Time Machines Preferences reports 0 bytes.
In disk utility the drive is detected, the logical volume is greyed out and will not mount.
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9d841a244dc20f717ebf2aeef2224129a16489d7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: There is no connected camera message with built in FaceTime camera Anyone run into "There is no connected camera" message while using any of the camera applications (Messages, PhotoBooth, Skype, etc.)? I tried force quitting all the applications that use the camera but with no luck. Even tried sudo killall VDCAssistant without any luck. Restarting the machine fixes the issue, but it is highly annoying to do so every day. I am running 10.8.1 on 2012 MacBook Pro.
A: If the issue is not Application-specific, nor User-specific, and your computer clearly recognizes the iSight, you should try reseting the SMC.
To do so, just:
*
*Shut down the computer.
*Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
*On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift+Control+Option and the power button at the same time.
*Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
*Press the power button to turn on the computer.
| Q: There is no connected camera message with built in FaceTime camera Anyone run into "There is no connected camera" message while using any of the camera applications (Messages, PhotoBooth, Skype, etc.)? I tried force quitting all the applications that use the camera but with no luck. Even tried sudo killall VDCAssistant without any luck. Restarting the machine fixes the issue, but it is highly annoying to do so every day. I am running 10.8.1 on 2012 MacBook Pro.
A: If the issue is not Application-specific, nor User-specific, and your computer clearly recognizes the iSight, you should try reseting the SMC.
To do so, just:
*
*Shut down the computer.
*Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
*On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift+Control+Option and the power button at the same time.
*Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
*Press the power button to turn on the computer.
A: From osxdaily:
*
*Quit all open apps that may try to use the FaceTime camera
*Open Terminal, found in the /Applications/Utilities directory in OS X
*Enter the following command string exactly, then hit return:
sudo killall VDCAssistant
*Enter the administrator password when requested, this is required to execute a command with superuser privileges as prefixed by sudo
*Relaunch the app that was attempting to use the camera
Or... Use Activity Monitor, search for VDC and force quit it.
A: Have you checked your antivirus software? Ensure it's not blocking your webcam
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5a42a82345d06af08547de7ddd708a91a89d7d82 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does one change Terminal.app profile for all open tabs using a keyboard shortcut? Would love to know if there is a way to switch all my current Terminal.app tabs to a different profile on the fly.
The use-case being to change Terminal profile from a dark to a light theme, and vice versa, depending on a user's current mood/preference. This can be achieved manually by right clicking on a Tab header and choosing "Inspect tab", and then changing the theme for each tab.
The other option is to close down all the open tabs and reopen them with a new theme, again suboptimal IMHO.
Hope someone has a better way :)
A: Create an AppleScript like this one, and call it something like TerminalNightMode:
tell application "Terminal"
set current settings of tabs of windows to settings set "Pro"
end tell
You can replace the "Pro" setting with the setting name of your choice. When you run this AppleScript, it will change the settings for all the tabs in all windows. I recommend putting this script on the dock for easy access. Likewise, you can make another script for day mode.
| Q: How does one change Terminal.app profile for all open tabs using a keyboard shortcut? Would love to know if there is a way to switch all my current Terminal.app tabs to a different profile on the fly.
The use-case being to change Terminal profile from a dark to a light theme, and vice versa, depending on a user's current mood/preference. This can be achieved manually by right clicking on a Tab header and choosing "Inspect tab", and then changing the theme for each tab.
The other option is to close down all the open tabs and reopen them with a new theme, again suboptimal IMHO.
Hope someone has a better way :)
A: Create an AppleScript like this one, and call it something like TerminalNightMode:
tell application "Terminal"
set current settings of tabs of windows to settings set "Pro"
end tell
You can replace the "Pro" setting with the setting name of your choice. When you run this AppleScript, it will change the settings for all the tabs in all windows. I recommend putting this script on the dock for easy access. Likewise, you can make another script for day mode.
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1566dde2b0779780d590f54491fd6151d92f4d60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I install macports successfully? Right now it's stuck at
Running packages scripts
And here is the log:
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: MacPorts base version 2.1.2 installed,
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: MacPorts base version 2.1.2 downloaded.
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: ---> Updating the ports tree
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
Aug 28 13:48:55 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: receiving file list ... done
Aug 28 13:48:56 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: ports.tar
How do I successfully install macports? I don't see any bandwidth transfer and I cannot exit the setup.
| Q: How do I install macports successfully? Right now it's stuck at
Running packages scripts
And here is the log:
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: MacPorts base version 2.1.2 installed,
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: MacPorts base version 2.1.2 downloaded.
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: ---> Updating the ports tree
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
Aug 28 13:48:55 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: receiving file list ... done
Aug 28 13:48:56 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: ports.tar
How do I successfully install macports? I don't see any bandwidth transfer and I cannot exit the setup.
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03068da140759e513635a246cecdbea110d56613 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Select text in a Quick Look window? Is there any possibility (default write, or something else) to copy text directly from a quick look window? It annoys me that I cannot select and copy text snippets directly from Quick Look.
A: In Terminal, enter:
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE
You have to restart Finder before the option will be available.
Found this on: http://www.defaults-write.com
| Q: Select text in a Quick Look window? Is there any possibility (default write, or something else) to copy text directly from a quick look window? It annoys me that I cannot select and copy text snippets directly from Quick Look.
A: In Terminal, enter:
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE
You have to restart Finder before the option will be available.
Found this on: http://www.defaults-write.com
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7279811fd1437767b24cf94bb05b822f432e4ede | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCal DAV The Server Responded with an Error (HTTP 302) after sleeping Often when my Macbook Pro Retina has been asleep, I get the following upon waking up:
It is irritating because I get the bouncy iCal icon in my doc and have to dismiss the error message every time. Anyone know how to prevent this?
A: Several things could cause this, but you could eliminate or reduce the chance by doing any or all of the following:
*
*Turn off all networking before sleeping.
*Reduce the refresh time period for that calendar to avoid it refreshing while the system is waking or getting re-connected with an available network.
*Quit Calendar before sleeping.
*Move the calendar to another hosting site (assuming it's not really the Mac that's causing the http error.)
| Q: iCal DAV The Server Responded with an Error (HTTP 302) after sleeping Often when my Macbook Pro Retina has been asleep, I get the following upon waking up:
It is irritating because I get the bouncy iCal icon in my doc and have to dismiss the error message every time. Anyone know how to prevent this?
A: Several things could cause this, but you could eliminate or reduce the chance by doing any or all of the following:
*
*Turn off all networking before sleeping.
*Reduce the refresh time period for that calendar to avoid it refreshing while the system is waking or getting re-connected with an available network.
*Quit Calendar before sleeping.
*Move the calendar to another hosting site (assuming it's not really the Mac that's causing the http error.)
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0d4a52ce5287e1c117c95e4ad03b91dfd022cb72 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Switch control and caps lock from command line My tribe like to switch their control and caps lock keys. I know how to do this† from the GUI. I'd like to go one step further, and put this step in my nascent dotfiles/osx file. Does anyone know how to do this from the command line, say using the defaults command?
† If you have more than one keyboard (e.g. you use an external keyboard with your notebook), you must remap each keyboard, while they are attached, using the dropdown on the preferences dialog.
| Q: Switch control and caps lock from command line My tribe like to switch their control and caps lock keys. I know how to do this† from the GUI. I'd like to go one step further, and put this step in my nascent dotfiles/osx file. Does anyone know how to do this from the command line, say using the defaults command?
† If you have more than one keyboard (e.g. you use an external keyboard with your notebook), you must remap each keyboard, while they are attached, using the dropdown on the preferences dialog.
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f690534b6d682b76f7af1efdba71c63612f74e81 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the iSight camera perform facial recognition at the lock/login screen? I would like to know is there any software that will make my Macbook Pro's iSight camera work as biometric authentication by capturing my face? Any free or paid software are welcome (preferably free). I have tried to google it but I found only some forums with posts from 2004 and nothing helpful.
A: KeyLemon looks like what you want: http://www.keylemon.com/product/
It has a free version, but I don't believe it will replace the login screen.
| Q: Can the iSight camera perform facial recognition at the lock/login screen? I would like to know is there any software that will make my Macbook Pro's iSight camera work as biometric authentication by capturing my face? Any free or paid software are welcome (preferably free). I have tried to google it but I found only some forums with posts from 2004 and nothing helpful.
A: KeyLemon looks like what you want: http://www.keylemon.com/product/
It has a free version, but I don't believe it will replace the login screen.
A: I'm not aware of any software that will allow you to do that.
I would comment on the KeyLemon suggestion, but I don't have enough rep!
I do not think this will replace the standard OS X login screen. It looks like it will add another, working like a screensaver, to restrict access to your machine once you have logged on.
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773f6271baac36b78bb53025e13a05dfd9dfaece | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you type Theta on a Mac? I know option o comes out to ø? So I have been using that as my theta.
But I would love to know how to type Theta for a mac?
A: The only way I know is as follows (and I presume you are working with a US/UK keyboard):
System Preferences > Language and Text > Input Sources.
Scroll down and enable Greek (or Greek Polytonic).
Check Show Input menu in menu bar.
When you want to type a θ (theta), switch the menu item to greek.
Type u or U. Change back to your original language.
I hope this helps.
| Q: How do you type Theta on a Mac? I know option o comes out to ø? So I have been using that as my theta.
But I would love to know how to type Theta for a mac?
A: The only way I know is as follows (and I presume you are working with a US/UK keyboard):
System Preferences > Language and Text > Input Sources.
Scroll down and enable Greek (or Greek Polytonic).
Check Show Input menu in menu bar.
When you want to type a θ (theta), switch the menu item to greek.
Type u or U. Change back to your original language.
I hope this helps.
A: In System Preferences, select Keyboard, then again select Keyboard, check the "Show Keyboard and Character Viewer in menu bar" option.
Use the drop-down menu from the menu bar and select Show Character Viewer - there will be a short list that Apple thinks we will use. In the upper-left-hand corner there is a sprocket with a drop-down menu: select Customize List. Scroll down to European Alphabetic Scripts, click the arrow down to open that list, select the Greek check box, then choose Done.
Greek will now be displayed in the list on the left. Select Greek in the list, highlight the theta character in the center, choose your variation, then scroll down and you will find Font Variations of the selected character.
After you have decided which variation you would like to use click Add To Favorites. A new list name will show up under Recently Used called Favorites. When this is selected it will only show the favorites you have added.
A: If you are using Lion or Mountain Lion then just press and hold the 'o' key and a list of o's with accents will appear with a number underneath. Then just type the number for the character you want or click on it. Just like the iPhone works.
You can also use the procedure from this other question to add a theta character to the press-and-hold menu. You would pick a character to add Theta and edit the corresponding file:
/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en.plist
This does not work on OS X 10.11 without disabling SIP as the System Library is now restricted from modifications - even as root.
A: Γο το Συστεμ Πρεφερενψεσ/Λανγθαγε & Τεχτ/Ινπθτ Σοθρψεσ, σεαρψη φορ Γρεεκ, αδδ ιτ.
Νος υοθ μαυ τυπε θ φρομ κευβοαρδ.
Go to System Preferences/Language & Text/Input Sources, search for Greek, add it. Now you may type u from keyboard.
Or you may just use Find and replace function in Edit menu to change ø to θ afterwards.
A: It looks like no one has mentioned the Special Characters window.
*
*Press Command ⌘+Control ⌃+Space to bring up the Special Characters window.
*Type theta into the search bar.
*Your theta should be there:
A: As pointed out in this post, you can add keys to the press and hold key feature.
Edit the file "/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en.plist", and add the following code:
By default, there is "no Roman-Accent-t" section, I coppied mine from "Roman-Accent-s." You could add θ to any key you like (e.g: "o") by modifying the appropriate section.
<key>Roman-Accent-t</key>
<dict>
<key>Direction</key>
<string>right</string>
<key>Keycaps</key>
<string>t θ</string>
<key>Strings</key>
<string>t θ</string>
</dict>
Note: Case sensitive. "Roman-Accent-T" is NOT the same as "Roman-Accent-t"
Caution: This is a system-wide change. Edit carefully or make backups.
Now, when you press and hold 't' this appears:
Then click θ or press 1 to have a "θ" inserted into your document.
I did not have to relog after making edits.
A: You can achieve this another way: You can add your own substitutions using Apple's symbol and text substitution in the text tab of Language and Text of System Preferences. I found it very simple and straightforward.
Just as a test, I chose to substitute "o-" with "θ". You can use anything you want to substitute with anything you want. It's the same system that substitutes a typed 1/2 for ½.
A: If you are using Microsoft word you can use auto correct to make the ø symbol into the theta symbol. using the toolbar at the top of your screen click 'insert' and then 'symbol'
proceed to select the symbol that you want and then click 'AutoCorrect...' and you can make Word automatically change ø to theta.
A: in ms word, go to word preferences then equations then math autocorrect. There will be a list of recognized functions and the key combinations for lots of different symbols. At the top of the screen there is an option to use math autocorrect rules outside of math regions, select this.
A: I do a LOT of math answers online such as Yahoo!Answers where I have to enter both Greek letters like θ, but also , √, ±, ≥, ℉, superscripts x² and subscripts H₂O, etc.
I do this in 2 ways:
*
*I use Keyboard and Emoji viewer in the Menu bar.
The setup is: System Preferences, Keyboard, check the box "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar.
To use, click on the icon, select 'show Emoji and Symbols'. Select Greek and theta for θ. I put those I use a lot into my '★ Favorites'. I leave the Character box 'up and showing' so I can select symbols immediately.
Technique 1 above works EVERYWHERE, including in Word.
*The second way is to use the Mac built-in text substitutions. Again in System Preferences, Keyboard, select the text tab. I have entered all the Greek letters such as '!a' (which is exclamation a) for α, and '!t' (exclamation t) for Greek Theta θ. As I type (in most programs) it immediately substitutes one for the other. Does not work in Word.
In conclusion, I prefer the text substitution method (if it works). I even put in my name as ',j' and it types in my name Jim, email as ',e', ',p' for phone number, etc. but use what makes sense to you. BUT, it doesn't work everywhere, for those apps & programs I use the Symbol Viewer.
If ANYONE wants my Keyboard Text Substitution.plist, let me know. You simply drop it into the Keyboard Text area and it adds mine to your list.
If you enter a bunch of Keyboard Text Substitutions, SAVE THEM. It's very very easy! Do a 'Command A' to select them all, then drag the selection to the desktop. It will make a plist file!!! A LOT of people have issues retaining the Text list, so save it after any changes.
A: hold in alt(or option) and shift, then press O (the letter)
A: Ι use command and v on the keyboard. Sorry this is so late. I'm not sure how much help it will be.
A: For Mac Excell 2008:
Go to Toolbox -> Object Pallete -> Symbols (scroll down to Greek letters)
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5ea34570b1af2ec12d6afcbdbd3a0a096b93be16 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a free, actively developed IRC client for Snow Leopard? So far I've been able to find only outdated clients, which are either abandoned years ago or they are currently developed but only for newer systems, or commercial.
Is there a free1 client actively developed for Snow Leopard?
1 Free "as in beer", though, of course, I'd prefer if it was also "as in speech".
A:
Try Adium, which has IRC support and a lot more all free and its still under active development. Also it supports Snow Leopard on the current 1.5.3 version, as long as your up to at least OS X 10.6.8.
Supported services
*
*XMPP ("Jabber"), including
*
*Google Talk
*LJ (LiveJournal) Talk
*Facebook Chat
*Gizmo5
*MSN Messenger
*AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), including
*
*MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac)
*Yahoo! Messenger, including
*
*Yahoo! Japan Messenger
*ICQ
*Bonjour, compatible with iChat
*Twitter
*IRC
*MySpaceIM
*Gadu-Gadu
*IBM Lotus Sametime
*Novell GroupWise
| Q: Is there a free, actively developed IRC client for Snow Leopard? So far I've been able to find only outdated clients, which are either abandoned years ago or they are currently developed but only for newer systems, or commercial.
Is there a free1 client actively developed for Snow Leopard?
1 Free "as in beer", though, of course, I'd prefer if it was also "as in speech".
A:
Try Adium, which has IRC support and a lot more all free and its still under active development. Also it supports Snow Leopard on the current 1.5.3 version, as long as your up to at least OS X 10.6.8.
Supported services
*
*XMPP ("Jabber"), including
*
*Google Talk
*LJ (LiveJournal) Talk
*Facebook Chat
*Gizmo5
*MSN Messenger
*AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), including
*
*MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac)
*Yahoo! Messenger, including
*
*Yahoo! Japan Messenger
*ICQ
*Bonjour, compatible with iChat
*Twitter
*IRC
*MySpaceIM
*Gadu-Gadu
*IBM Lotus Sametime
*Novell GroupWise
A: I use and quite like LimeChat. Free as in beer and free as in speech. The latest release was 2.32 (2012.07.30) -- so it's getting actively developed. I was running it on Snow Leopard just fine. As well as Lion and now Mountain Lion. Snow Leopard is the minimum OS requirement for it.
As for the regular update request: Snow Leopard is getting on in age now. It's two minor versions behind Mountain Lion. Expect that development for this platform is going to taper off severely at this point in time. That's just how it goes. In the case of LimeChat, the 2.30 release support Snow Leopard and it got an update in January 2012. That's hardly a dead and abandoned code line.
A: Colloquy (http://colloquy.info/downloads.html) is actively developed, though not for Snow Leopard. There is an old version still available for 10.6.
It's the only IRC client I've used for any length of time and it seems to do its job fairly well, though it certainly has some quirks.
A: You can use KVIrc, it is free and it received an update recently
A: IRCCloud is a web service with a free tier (iOS and Android apps too). As such, it's actively developed and will run on Snow Leopard.
I ‘wrap’ it in Fluid for some desktop client features (notifications, unread badge, etc.).
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40dcc10f5da7dcd81398322350ba87e2e1d7c3ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: JDiskReport is damaged, can't be opened I have tried downloading and running JDiskReport 1.4 a few times now, and after unzipping it and clicking on the executable I get the message:
"JDiskReport" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash
Why is it not working? I'm running 10.8 Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro.
A: Just tried this myself and confirmed that the executable gives the error you mentioned:
"JDiskReport" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
I was able to get it to run setup by Ctrl-clicking JDiskReport.app, clicking Show Package Contents and navigating to Contents/Resources/Java/jdskreport-1.4.0.jar. Ctrl-clicking this .jar file will allow you to click Open and bypass Mountain Lion's default 'unidentified developer' error. I did not go completely through Setup (only confirmed that it ran), so try this and let me know how it goes.
| Q: JDiskReport is damaged, can't be opened I have tried downloading and running JDiskReport 1.4 a few times now, and after unzipping it and clicking on the executable I get the message:
"JDiskReport" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash
Why is it not working? I'm running 10.8 Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro.
A: Just tried this myself and confirmed that the executable gives the error you mentioned:
"JDiskReport" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
I was able to get it to run setup by Ctrl-clicking JDiskReport.app, clicking Show Package Contents and navigating to Contents/Resources/Java/jdskreport-1.4.0.jar. Ctrl-clicking this .jar file will allow you to click Open and bypass Mountain Lion's default 'unidentified developer' error. I did not go completely through Setup (only confirmed that it ran), so try this and let me know how it goes.
A: The solution above, Show Package Contents... will also fix an 'Unable to load Java Runtime Environment.' on OS X Mavericks with Version 1.4.1 of JDiskReport. Sorry but I can't upvote or comment yet.
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abd437b5e0875d2af15cd7c3da513070e37fb701 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does OSX support (importing) OpenVPN profiles? Is there some way to import the settings of an OpenVPN client into the built-in VPN client in Mountain Lion? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?
A: No.
As of Sept 2012 (and Mountain Lion), macOS does not support OpenVPN in the built-in "Network Manager".
Out-of-the-box macOS only supports:
*
*L2TP over IPSec
*PPTP (not recommended)
*Cisco IPSec
However, you can use the following third-party OpenVPN clients in macOS:
*
*Shimo
*Viscosity
*Tunnelblick (open source, free)
*pritunl client (open source, free)
I can confirm that both Shimo and Viscosity support the import of .ovpnprofiles.
| Q: Does OSX support (importing) OpenVPN profiles? Is there some way to import the settings of an OpenVPN client into the built-in VPN client in Mountain Lion? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?
A: No.
As of Sept 2012 (and Mountain Lion), macOS does not support OpenVPN in the built-in "Network Manager".
Out-of-the-box macOS only supports:
*
*L2TP over IPSec
*PPTP (not recommended)
*Cisco IPSec
However, you can use the following third-party OpenVPN clients in macOS:
*
*Shimo
*Viscosity
*Tunnelblick (open source, free)
*pritunl client (open source, free)
I can confirm that both Shimo and Viscosity support the import of .ovpnprofiles.
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3b196845ef1f2fd98c6b81a80ba0772973213ba3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mountain Lion won't wake up after an extended sleep I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Now whenever the machine sleeps for a long time (more than two hours or so) while disconnected from the mains, it won't wake up. I had to hold the power button to reboot the machine.
Is there a solution to this problem?
A: This is a known issue that hasn't been fixed as of 10.8.1. When Mountain Lion hibernates (either directly or as part of standby mode), it couldn't wake up and thus need to be restarted.
The current workarounds are:
*
*Disable hibernate mode.
*Disable standby mode.
I've written an article how to get around this issue by preventing OS X from hibernating.
For Apple folks: please see rdar://1212084 - Thanks.
| Q: Mountain Lion won't wake up after an extended sleep I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Now whenever the machine sleeps for a long time (more than two hours or so) while disconnected from the mains, it won't wake up. I had to hold the power button to reboot the machine.
Is there a solution to this problem?
A: This is a known issue that hasn't been fixed as of 10.8.1. When Mountain Lion hibernates (either directly or as part of standby mode), it couldn't wake up and thus need to be restarted.
The current workarounds are:
*
*Disable hibernate mode.
*Disable standby mode.
I've written an article how to get around this issue by preventing OS X from hibernating.
For Apple folks: please see rdar://1212084 - Thanks.
A: I encountered the same problem, maybe you can try the following ways to wake up your Mac.
Hold the power button for two seconds, then release the button, not until reboot.
If this way does not work, try this:
Adjust the light button F2, maybe just the screen does not light.
Good luck!
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68060a43d744c948bdae62e59ae4b2364b3adb76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Encrypt existing unencrypted Time Capsule backup Since Mountain Lion Time Capsule can now backup to encrypted sparsebundles. This is great and easy to setup for new backup locations, just select 'encrypt backups'. However, I have backups for around a year now that I want to keep. If I go through the setup, I can only erase the current (unencrypted) backup and start over, or keep using the current (unencrypted) backup. So how can I work around this issue and encrypt my existing backups?
A: The only solution I can offer is to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted sparsebundle, then copy the contents of the existing backup disk into the sparsebundle. This is essentially what Time Machine does.
Then, select a new backup disk in Time Machine and select the sparsebundle. If all works according to plan, Time Machine will ask for your password and begin using the new sparsebundle.
| Q: Encrypt existing unencrypted Time Capsule backup Since Mountain Lion Time Capsule can now backup to encrypted sparsebundles. This is great and easy to setup for new backup locations, just select 'encrypt backups'. However, I have backups for around a year now that I want to keep. If I go through the setup, I can only erase the current (unencrypted) backup and start over, or keep using the current (unencrypted) backup. So how can I work around this issue and encrypt my existing backups?
A: The only solution I can offer is to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted sparsebundle, then copy the contents of the existing backup disk into the sparsebundle. This is essentially what Time Machine does.
Then, select a new backup disk in Time Machine and select the sparsebundle. If all works according to plan, Time Machine will ask for your password and begin using the new sparsebundle.
A: Here is a solution
https://www.howtogeek.com/305540/how-to-encrypt-your-macs-time-machine-backup/
Basically you remove the existing target and re-add it and the select Encrypt.
However, the article is covered by copyright so I can't copy it into this answer but it archived in the Wayback Machine in case it ever disappears.
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039894a7c526d4f15c6bee76c3b6d1eb2fa6cbcf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to move the Downloads folder (in Mountain Lion) to another disc I want the "Downloads" folder not on the system drive but on my second internal drive.
In Lion I just deleted the "Downloads" folder and replace it with an alias with the same name (pointing to the folder on the second drive ofc).
In ML I get ""Downloads" can't be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OS X".
How to delete the folder? Can I change the permissions first to be able to delete it?
Any help much appreciated.
A: I'd encourage you not to mess with permissions.
You can create a new folder on the other drive (or use any other folder that you prefer) and use Safari preferences to set the new folder as the destination for downloaded files to be placed.
| Q: How to move the Downloads folder (in Mountain Lion) to another disc I want the "Downloads" folder not on the system drive but on my second internal drive.
In Lion I just deleted the "Downloads" folder and replace it with an alias with the same name (pointing to the folder on the second drive ofc).
In ML I get ""Downloads" can't be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OS X".
How to delete the folder? Can I change the permissions first to be able to delete it?
Any help much appreciated.
A: I'd encourage you not to mess with permissions.
You can create a new folder on the other drive (or use any other folder that you prefer) and use Safari preferences to set the new folder as the destination for downloaded files to be placed.
A: It is possible to do this from within the Terminal. Launch it from Applications → Utilities → Terminal.
*
*Move the Downloads folder to your second drive, replacing Data (the name of my second drive) with whatever yours is called. You may be prompted for your OS X password.
sudo mv ~/Downloads /Volumes/Data/Downloads
*(Optional) Create a symlink to allow you to access your new Downloads folder in the old location. Again, replace Data with the name of your second drive.
ln -s /Volumes/Data/Downloads ~/Downloads
This has just worked for me on OS X 10.8.1.
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0c9c7df29843cdeb5358fb0c5cb874aa9c09f52d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Dragging selected text using the Three Finger gesture Mountain Lion here. I can select text using the Three finger swipe. But to drag that text (for copying into another window, for example), I have to resort to the old fashioned (:)) press-click-on-trackpad-and-drag-with-second-finger. Is there is some way I could drag the selected text via the same three finger movement (maybe by pressing some modifier key to signal that I wish to drag and not select)?
A: After selecting the text, place your three fingers on the trackpad and don't drag for a half-second or so. Then, slowly drag your fingers until you see the I-beam cursor turn into the mouse pointer. Then you can three-finger drag normally.
When using click and drag for text, you need to hold the click for a half-second or so before the system realizes you want to drag the text instead of selecting it. This procedure replicates that with the three-finger drag gesture. (As you get better at this place-hold-slow-fast gesture, you can speed it up to a point where you're comfortable with the speed and it still works.)
| Q: Dragging selected text using the Three Finger gesture Mountain Lion here. I can select text using the Three finger swipe. But to drag that text (for copying into another window, for example), I have to resort to the old fashioned (:)) press-click-on-trackpad-and-drag-with-second-finger. Is there is some way I could drag the selected text via the same three finger movement (maybe by pressing some modifier key to signal that I wish to drag and not select)?
A: After selecting the text, place your three fingers on the trackpad and don't drag for a half-second or so. Then, slowly drag your fingers until you see the I-beam cursor turn into the mouse pointer. Then you can three-finger drag normally.
When using click and drag for text, you need to hold the click for a half-second or so before the system realizes you want to drag the text instead of selecting it. This procedure replicates that with the three-finger drag gesture. (As you get better at this place-hold-slow-fast gesture, you can speed it up to a point where you're comfortable with the speed and it still works.)
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7212c742dfb76f918a243a78826524a0b21a010a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are the iPad 2 30-pin cable and the iPod touch cable different? They look the same and get mixed up. My iPad 2 can't charge with the iPod's cable but vice-versa works.
Might this iPad question apply?: Using an iPod charging cable to charge an iPad
Can this behavior be because the iPad 2 30-pin cable and the iPod touch cable are somehow made differently?
A: The USB-to-30-pin-dock cables are electrically identical. All of them can carry enough charging current for both devices. The same is not true for the power sources as the iPad gets a 10W supply and the rest 5W.
What power source are you using with the cables? iPads need more power than most USB ports offer to charge with the screen on.
| Q: Are the iPad 2 30-pin cable and the iPod touch cable different? They look the same and get mixed up. My iPad 2 can't charge with the iPod's cable but vice-versa works.
Might this iPad question apply?: Using an iPod charging cable to charge an iPad
Can this behavior be because the iPad 2 30-pin cable and the iPod touch cable are somehow made differently?
A: The USB-to-30-pin-dock cables are electrically identical. All of them can carry enough charging current for both devices. The same is not true for the power sources as the iPad gets a 10W supply and the rest 5W.
What power source are you using with the cables? iPads need more power than most USB ports offer to charge with the screen on.
A: The standard iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch cables are identical and interchangeable. As the Apple store item notes:
This USB 2.0 cable connects your iPhone, iPad or iPod — directly
or through a Dock — to your computer's USB port for efficient syncing
and charging or to the Apple USB Power Adapter for convenient charging
from a wall outlet.
However, the chargers are different - as commenter @Mark noted, it takes a long time to charge an iPad with an iPod charger.
iPhone/iPod Touch charger specs (from Amazon):
Input:110-240V 50/60Hz 1.0A, Output:5V==1A
iPad charger specs (from Amazon):
Input: 100-240V 0.45A 50/60Hz, Output : 5.1V 2.1A 10W
The iPad charger can output twice the wattage and current of the iPod charger, so your iPad will charge a lot more slowly if you use your iPod charger (at about a quarter of the speed using the iPad charger). If your iPad is on, it may not even charge because it's power usage is higher than the iPod charger's capacity to charge, as noted in Adam's answer in the question you've quoted.
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8e0adc829ca47ac3753b00e3700d643b13c1f81b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't unlock preferences - no password dialog In system preferences, if I click the "lock" icon to allow me to make changes as the administrator, no dialog opens. The message "Authenticating..." appears momentarily, then disappears, and the lock stays locked.
I'm on OS X 10.6.8.
Any idea what could cause this or how to fix it?
A: I've had this same issue for months. Before it was my old MBP since "upgrading" from Snow Leopard to Lion, and now again on my brand new MBP with Mountain Lion. After some digging it looks like a fairly common problem, possibly to do with CAC/ID card readers.
Anyway, this worked for me (without a reboot!). From Terminal:
sudo pkill -HUP securityd
When I did this Mail apparently lost it's connection to the security framework and started prompting me for passwords; I just restarted it and it was good to go.
| Q: Can't unlock preferences - no password dialog In system preferences, if I click the "lock" icon to allow me to make changes as the administrator, no dialog opens. The message "Authenticating..." appears momentarily, then disappears, and the lock stays locked.
I'm on OS X 10.6.8.
Any idea what could cause this or how to fix it?
A: I've had this same issue for months. Before it was my old MBP since "upgrading" from Snow Leopard to Lion, and now again on my brand new MBP with Mountain Lion. After some digging it looks like a fairly common problem, possibly to do with CAC/ID card readers.
Anyway, this worked for me (without a reboot!). From Terminal:
sudo pkill -HUP securityd
When I did this Mail apparently lost it's connection to the security framework and started prompting me for passwords; I just restarted it and it was good to go.
A: It sounds as an issue either with permissions or keychains. Try repairing them both.
To check Keychains for problems just:
*
*Locate the Keychain Access application, under /Applications/Utilities.
*Choose Keychain Access > Keychain First Aid.
*Enter your User name and Password.
*Select Verify and click Start.
*If any problems were found, select Repair and click Start again.
A: This issue has something to do with authd. You can just kill or force authd to quit like this (in Terminal on Mavericks):
sudo pkill -HUP authd
(when prompted, type your password.)
Just killing securityd doesn't work on Mavericks.
A: I has the same as original problem after latest update to 10.10.3
killing the authd as this:
sudo pkill -HUP authd
and checking with the terminal and 'ps -ef | egrep "authd|securityd" showed that is was restarted immediately. But this did not change the behavior.
Then I tried the same with the target of securityd,
sudo pkill -HUP securityd
afterwards, it is still not running, but then I did not check before hand and so I don't know whether it WAS running previously. But there is a new behaviour>
When I click the lock icon to unlock access to change the Sys Preferences, it does NOT respond at all - no brief message about authenticating.
That what I get for poking around in the dark :-)
A system reboot will be happening as soon as convenient (reach a good stopping point).
A: My Security & Privacy wouldn't unlock either. I had no password set on my account when this was happening. I went to Accounts and set an arbitrary password and I was able to finally unlock the pane. Afterward, I just reset the password back to being no password.
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614ac6cd9e418f38a92082945d96cda51ed27013 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I open a folder called something.app in various applications? For whatever reason, I created a folder on my Mac called customer.app, and it contains a python module. I want to open that folder and it's files in applications like BBEdit and GitX, but the open dialog shows this folder as greyed out and won't let me select them.
Are there any settings or properties I can set on this folder to tell my Mac that it is just a regular old folder?
A: UPDATE: Recent versions of OS X have removed this ability. The answer below applies to OS X 10.9 or earlier.
A simple right-click of the folder will enable you to view the contents using "Show Package Contents."
If you're trying to access the folder from a Save/Open dialog, then try changing your view type from icons to Column mode.
| Q: How can I open a folder called something.app in various applications? For whatever reason, I created a folder on my Mac called customer.app, and it contains a python module. I want to open that folder and it's files in applications like BBEdit and GitX, but the open dialog shows this folder as greyed out and won't let me select them.
Are there any settings or properties I can set on this folder to tell my Mac that it is just a regular old folder?
A: UPDATE: Recent versions of OS X have removed this ability. The answer below applies to OS X 10.9 or earlier.
A simple right-click of the folder will enable you to view the contents using "Show Package Contents."
If you're trying to access the folder from a Save/Open dialog, then try changing your view type from icons to Column mode.
A: As others have said, a simple right click in a regular Finder window will make it possible to "show package contents".
For a file open dialog, use the "Go to location" functionality (⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+G) and type the full path to a subfolder or subfile of the package. For example...
/Applications/Skype.app/Contents
After doing that, you can browse around inside the folder normally.
A: It is doing this due to the name of the folder, ending in .app
Applications on Mac OS (and iOS for that matter) are actually 'app bundles', containing various resources and executables in a folder ending with .app.
The reason this is grayed out is because the Save/Open box would automatically filter those out.
In Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, if I do the same thing by making a folder with .app at the end, it asks if you are sure you want to do it, and then won't even let you open it through Finder. Much less use and open or save dialog.
I would recommend renaming the folder if you can. It looks like you may have to do this through Terminal. That would be just as easy as running mv customer.app customerdotapp.
I do not know of a workaround on allowing the .app at the end of the folder name.
A: In Finder you can view the contents of a folder whose name ends in .app by doing:
CTRL+left click->Show package contents
A: I know this thread is old, but am sharing in case someone stumbles across it as I did. On my Yosemite based Mac, it appears that naming a directory with the .service extension also has the same effect. Changing the extension name in the command line to something else allowed it to be accessed in Finder.
This may be true on older Mac O/S's; I don't know for sure. Since my folder did not have the .app extension, this thread helped me to at least try changing the extension name as a test. I was not aware of this issue until I found this thread.
A: Some programs allow you to drag files from a finder window.
If that doesn't work, try shift-command-g and type the folder name (something like /Applications/program.app/Contents ) and browse from there.
Should work in all OS versions.
A: *
*Type Command + Shift + G.
*Type your path for the application Eg: /Applications/ReadyAPI.
*Right click on the application and select show package contents.
A: One application which allows you to open .app bundles is BBEdit. You just need to select open file from inside BBEDit then navigate to the application and it will show the enclosed files and allow you to open them. Other full-featured text editors presumably do the same.
NB This does work on modern versions of MacOSX (tested on 11.2, BigSur)
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721de6b3925ae9908722ed72d078836cf60fbdcd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to tame the change notifications each reboot from Mountain Lion Server? I have Server.app installed on 10.8.1. The only service that is configured is file sharing. No DNS, no OD. After every single reboot I get a push notification and email with the following:
Network change notification for computername
The host name of uptown has changed to computername.local. Some services may not work correctly until they have been updated to use the new configuration.
The hostname has not changed. I logged in as an admin and set the hostname with dscl --set HostName and the issue persists. Any ideas?
| Q: Is it possible to tame the change notifications each reboot from Mountain Lion Server? I have Server.app installed on 10.8.1. The only service that is configured is file sharing. No DNS, no OD. After every single reboot I get a push notification and email with the following:
Network change notification for computername
The host name of uptown has changed to computername.local. Some services may not work correctly until they have been updated to use the new configuration.
The hostname has not changed. I logged in as an admin and set the hostname with dscl --set HostName and the issue persists. Any ideas?
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3d9fdb16cfad90c491e7a9f865fd6e325f0d77c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to show all annotations at once in Preview? I just got an heavily commented pdf, when I open it in Preview, all annotations (highlights, notes) are "hidden", i.e. do not show up in the left margin. I can display them by clicking on them but I would like to see them all at once without having to click on each of them individually. I couldn't find a menu item but maybe I missed it? Or is there a keyboard shortcut?
A: This is a workaround, as I couldn't find a hotkey or menu option to do this. Still, clicking
View > Hide Notes
and then
View > Show Notes
Will show all anotations. I can now see all the annotations without manually clicking them. This worked on Preview 5.5.1.
| Q: How to show all annotations at once in Preview? I just got an heavily commented pdf, when I open it in Preview, all annotations (highlights, notes) are "hidden", i.e. do not show up in the left margin. I can display them by clicking on them but I would like to see them all at once without having to click on each of them individually. I couldn't find a menu item but maybe I missed it? Or is there a keyboard shortcut?
A: This is a workaround, as I couldn't find a hotkey or menu option to do this. Still, clicking
View > Hide Notes
and then
View > Show Notes
Will show all anotations. I can now see all the annotations without manually clicking them. This worked on Preview 5.5.1.
A: Click View or View Menu icon in the upper left, then Highlight and Notes.
A: For Preview 8.1, I was also concerned that all my Notes were minimized (their term, not "hidden").
Solution is to change the default (new since 10.7 I think):
View > Highlights and Notes
Once this is toggled, the Notes again show in margins.
A: There is a direct shortcut for it now. Cmd + alt + 4
Other shortcuts:
*
*See table of contents: Cmd + alt + 3
*See thumbnails: Cmd + alt + 2
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4777af5c378d46c4404798d910a0c2460a86257c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does a 'dotted-line' cloud icon in the iCloud file browser represent? What does this "dotted-line" cloud icon next to a file in the iCloud file browser mean?
This is a plain-text file saved to iCloud from Byword, and it refuses to sync to my iPhone. But I'm having the same problem with subsequently-created files in Byword, and they don't feature this icon.
A: A dotted-lined iCloud icon means that it is waiting to be uploaded (or it is currently uploading). Although this KB article applies to iTunes Match, it might help you understand this icon better: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4124
As for Byword's syncing issues, if it is not finished uploading, it won't be accessible by your iPhone. Are the subsequent documents also plain-text? This Byword support FAQ says that Byword's iOS app currently does not support RTF files (rich-text).
| Q: What does a 'dotted-line' cloud icon in the iCloud file browser represent? What does this "dotted-line" cloud icon next to a file in the iCloud file browser mean?
This is a plain-text file saved to iCloud from Byword, and it refuses to sync to my iPhone. But I'm having the same problem with subsequently-created files in Byword, and they don't feature this icon.
A: A dotted-lined iCloud icon means that it is waiting to be uploaded (or it is currently uploading). Although this KB article applies to iTunes Match, it might help you understand this icon better: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4124
As for Byword's syncing issues, if it is not finished uploading, it won't be accessible by your iPhone. Are the subsequent documents also plain-text? This Byword support FAQ says that Byword's iOS app currently does not support RTF files (rich-text).
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a7350284231ba688431516b052b4cf54583a9cfe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: re-mount ejected SD card without reinserting I use a microSD card in my macbook air for additional storage, using a flush adapter (homemade, similar to the nifty minidrive).
To save battery when I'm not using it, I disabled auto-mount using /etc/fstab.
But sometimes, I accidentally eject it instead of unmounting (because that's what the finder gui does).
After it's ejected, the only way I know to remount is to take the card adapter out and put it back in. Since it's flush, I need a paperclip to take it out.
So I need a way to re-enable the card reader without having to re-insert.
In Windows, this is possible using the devcon command-line tool from microsoft, or going to device manager, disabling and enabling the card reader.
There has to be a way to do this, so please don't answer just saying it's not possible.
Thanks
A: Type this in terminal:
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext
This will unload and load the card reader kernel drivers, and it will appear in diskutil again.
Thanks to binarybob for the pointers.
| Q: re-mount ejected SD card without reinserting I use a microSD card in my macbook air for additional storage, using a flush adapter (homemade, similar to the nifty minidrive).
To save battery when I'm not using it, I disabled auto-mount using /etc/fstab.
But sometimes, I accidentally eject it instead of unmounting (because that's what the finder gui does).
After it's ejected, the only way I know to remount is to take the card adapter out and put it back in. Since it's flush, I need a paperclip to take it out.
So I need a way to re-enable the card reader without having to re-insert.
In Windows, this is possible using the devcon command-line tool from microsoft, or going to device manager, disabling and enabling the card reader.
There has to be a way to do this, so please don't answer just saying it's not possible.
Thanks
A: Type this in terminal:
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext
This will unload and load the card reader kernel drivers, and it will appear in diskutil again.
Thanks to binarybob for the pointers.
A: I have built an AppleScript out of Coolkah's solution:
display dialog "Your Administrator Password:" default answer "" with hidden answer
set PWD to text returned of the result
do shell script "sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext" user name "your name" password PWD with administrator privileges
A: Eject/Remount with a keyboard shortcut (prompts for password)
This is based on roadrunner, which was based on CoolkcaH, and based on the apple guide to using Automator.
How to Create a Workflow with Automator
*
*Launch Automator
*Select the "Service" template.
*Select "Utilities" from the Library and double-click "Run AppleScript".
*To create a service that is always available, select:
"Service receives [no input] in [any application]"
at the top of the Automator screen.
*Type the following AppleScript:
on run {input, parameters}
display dialog "Your Administrator Password:" default answer "" with hidden answer
set PWD to text returned of the result
do shell script "sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext" user name "[UserName]" password PWD with administrator privileges
return input
end run
where the part [UserName] should be replaced by your machine's user name / login account.
*Save the service with a unique name. The service will be saved in:
~/Library/Services
*Add a keyboard shortcut. Open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane in the Keyboard panel in System Preferences. Click the + sign to add a new shortcut and find the name of the service. Add a shortcut by double-clicking on the right side of the service name. Example: command+option+F12 (you may want to avoid a key combination that could be accidentally pressed).
A: Mountain provides a feature called "Remount USB Storages" to do what you want.
This blog article tells you how to use Mountain to solve common issues with the Nifty MiniDrive like battery drain in sleep mode or how to reattach the SD card after it has been ejected.
Best thing is Mountain installs a privileged helper tool, so you don't have to enter your administrator password every time you want to remount the drive. Also, you can configure Mountain to do its job automatically in the background.
A: On Mountain Lion with built-in SD readers:
sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC
sudo kextload -b com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC
A: I am using TheMiniDrive with a microSD card (similar to the Nifty). Running Mavericks on a late 2012 13" MacBook with Retina and built-in SD Card Reader.
CoolkcaH's solution unloading/loading AppleUSBCardReader.kext didn't do anything in my tests.
However, Mark Aufflick's solution unloading/loading com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC did remount an ejected SD card, in one step, without having to go to Disk Utility. I used Automator, per PatrickT's solution, and simply replaced CoolkcaH's code with Mark Aufflick's. Here is the entire code that I used to replace Patrick's in Automator (again, make sure to replace [UserName] with your actual user name):
on run {input, parameters}
display dialog "Your Administrator Password:" default answer "" with hidden answer
set PWD to text returned of the result
do shell script "sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC; sudo kextload -b com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC" user name "[UserName]" password PWD with administrator privileges
return input
end run
A: Locations moved around in High Sierra
This will reload the SDXC reader.
$ sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSDXC.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSDXC.kext
A: Probably the best solution I've seen on the web:
Unmounting an attached hard drive
diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
Volume VM Drive on disk2s1 unmounted
Note how we use the unmount command. We need to specify the location of the partition with its full path (i.e. /dev/disk2s1).
Mounting an attached hard drive.
To mount the drive again, without having to take it out and plugging it in again, I can issue this command:
diskutil mount /dev/disk2s1
Volume VM Drive on /dev/disk2s1 mounted
credits
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904e4196d8383801a305555515b320af1b24577c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Air 2011 - External Display I currently have a MacBook Air 13" 2011.
I want to connect two external Displays. Does it work? I think it can speak to two Displays. When the internal Display is closed, it should be possible to connect another display to have two one!
I want to buy a Dock where i can close the display and have two external ones.
Does anyone know if this solution works?
A: The specs say that it only supports a single external display.
| Q: MacBook Air 2011 - External Display I currently have a MacBook Air 13" 2011.
I want to connect two external Displays. Does it work? I think it can speak to two Displays. When the internal Display is closed, it should be possible to connect another display to have two one!
I want to buy a Dock where i can close the display and have two external ones.
Does anyone know if this solution works?
A: The specs say that it only supports a single external display.
A: Check out the Air Display app.
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3c2ab810205a1230566565e4cfd9deb7b742fa55 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to temporarily allow popups in Safari 6 without going into Preferences? If I know I'm about to click on a link that will pop up a window that I want, is there a modifier key or anything I can do to temporarily allow the popup to appear, without going into Safari's preferences window, unchecking the box, opening the popup, then checking the box again (and getting the same warning every single time)?
A: At least in Safari 5.1.7 it's under Safari menu
| Q: Is there a way to temporarily allow popups in Safari 6 without going into Preferences? If I know I'm about to click on a link that will pop up a window that I want, is there a modifier key or anything I can do to temporarily allow the popup to appear, without going into Safari's preferences window, unchecking the box, opening the popup, then checking the box again (and getting the same warning every single time)?
A: At least in Safari 5.1.7 it's under Safari menu
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1b52eaecbd873e6213635258ba1df7f95a83f5fb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Has Mountain Lion changed file sharing setup or permissions? Recently I installed Mountain Lion (I had Snow Leopard), I used to share files with a PC enabling the file sharing and use Filezilla in the PC to download and upload files.
Now with Mountain Lion for some reason I can't connect to the Mac computer. Nothing changed; I'm using the same credentials. This is exactly what I did: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-file-sharing-from-mountain-lion.html
Is there some kind of new security policy or something similar in Mountain Lion?
A: The FTP server in Mountain Lion is still there, just not part of the GUI. You can re-enable it using the following in Terminal:
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
To disable, do unload instead of load.
*The FTP root directory is your Users home folder.
| Q: Has Mountain Lion changed file sharing setup or permissions? Recently I installed Mountain Lion (I had Snow Leopard), I used to share files with a PC enabling the file sharing and use Filezilla in the PC to download and upload files.
Now with Mountain Lion for some reason I can't connect to the Mac computer. Nothing changed; I'm using the same credentials. This is exactly what I did: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-file-sharing-from-mountain-lion.html
Is there some kind of new security policy or something similar in Mountain Lion?
A: The FTP server in Mountain Lion is still there, just not part of the GUI. You can re-enable it using the following in Terminal:
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
To disable, do unload instead of load.
*The FTP root directory is your Users home folder.
A: I assume since you mention Filezilla that you used to access them via FTP. IF you compare the SL and ML preference windows you will see that ML no longer has 'FTP sharing', that option moved to Mountain Lion Server as far as I know. You may still access those files via the Windows based File Sharing (SMB).
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c249d486851cbc6d31dfc457258f11720d7fb92b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I have multiple monitors on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011)? I have a MacBook Pro (13") from Early 2011 and want to use 2 external monitors (And not the actual display). I've seen the Matrox, but that appears to make one BIG display out of 2 monitors, so I can't really have 2 desktops.
Is there any way for me to have 2 external displays and have them recognized by the OS?
A: If you want a cheaper alternative to running two Thunderbolt Displays, you can add a second monitor (in addition to one off the mini-Displayport) try a USB Displaylink adapter, like this one from OWC (there are other brands, any one using the Displaylink technology should work).
The performance won't be as good, but as long as you're not doing anything involving lots of 3D, it should be acceptable.
| Q: Can I have multiple monitors on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011)? I have a MacBook Pro (13") from Early 2011 and want to use 2 external monitors (And not the actual display). I've seen the Matrox, but that appears to make one BIG display out of 2 monitors, so I can't really have 2 desktops.
Is there any way for me to have 2 external displays and have them recognized by the OS?
A: If you want a cheaper alternative to running two Thunderbolt Displays, you can add a second monitor (in addition to one off the mini-Displayport) try a USB Displaylink adapter, like this one from OWC (there are other brands, any one using the Displaylink technology should work).
The performance won't be as good, but as long as you're not doing anything involving lots of 3D, it should be acceptable.
A: Any 2011 MacBook Pro model will support Thunderbolt. You can daisy-chain 2 Thunderbolt displays. You can also connect one mini DisplayPort monitor to the end of a Thunderbolt chain and connect your Mac to your Thunderbolt Display.
A non-Thunderbolt solution if you don't have a Thunderbolt Mac: a DisplayLink-style USB to DVI display adapter.
A: You can always try the Matrox DualHead2Go Digital ME. I use the Mini DisplayPort version and it works well except it can get quite fussy when I try to resume from sleep. Of course, I'm using it with the MBP lid closed; it doesn't seem to have this problem when the lid is open.
One other note: the device makes both monitors appear to the Mac as being a single, giant monitor. However, I haven't really had any issue with this myself.
A: There is a way to connect two non-Thunderbolt monitors to a Macbook Pro (Early 2011). You just have to daisy chain two Thunderbolt docks together, where at least one of the docks has an HDMI out.
This is because each Thunderbolt device can demultiplex only one DisplayPort signal from the Thunderbolt signal. So to get two DisplayPort signals out of the Thunderbolt signal, you need two Thunderbolt devices.
Example
I have an Elgato Thunderbolt 2 Dock and a Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock. My Macbook Pro is connected with a Thunderbolt cable to the Elgato dock. My first monitor is connected to the Elgato dock via the HDMI port. The Belkin dock is then daisy chained to the first dock using another Thunderbolt cable. I then use a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable to connect the Belkin dock to the second monitor. When this is all connected up, the laptop's display shuts off and the two external monitors work normally.
It's not a cheap setup, but second-hand Thunderbolt docks are a lot cheaper than they used to be. Hopefully this helps anyone else like me who is stubbornly refusing to upgrade their 8 year old laptop!
A: It seems I fell into the vicar's tale (http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F4U085/) and bought this Belkin Thunderbolt™ 2 Express Dock HD.
It's page states "Imagine connecting two displays to your laptop. Now imagine one of those displays boasting an eye-popping 4K cinema resolution. With the Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD, you can make the display setup of your dreams a reality." but I cant tell if it's a MacOS issue or not as "notebook" includes WindoZe notes.
If I plug a thunderbolt adapter to it, HDMI port stops ;/
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f012a2ea55689f03c310cc249d961aa1c7d5baea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to prevent Mac sleep from command line? I have a long running script at the remote computer.
I don't want terminate my ssh session, and need enter it into a shell script.
How is it possible to prevent my Mac from falling into sleep from the command line?
A: caffeinate -i -s /bin/ssh ...
Explanation:
-i - Prevent idle sleep.
-s - Prevent system sleep (entirely, even if you close the lid). Note: it only works while on AC power.
/bin/ssh - Just keep writing the command you want to execute. Using ssh directly instead of /bin/ssh should also work.
Results: Your system will not sleep as long as the ssh command is running.
| Q: How to prevent Mac sleep from command line? I have a long running script at the remote computer.
I don't want terminate my ssh session, and need enter it into a shell script.
How is it possible to prevent my Mac from falling into sleep from the command line?
A: caffeinate -i -s /bin/ssh ...
Explanation:
-i - Prevent idle sleep.
-s - Prevent system sleep (entirely, even if you close the lid). Note: it only works while on AC power.
/bin/ssh - Just keep writing the command you want to execute. Using ssh directly instead of /bin/ssh should also work.
Results: Your system will not sleep as long as the ssh command is running.
A: In Mountain Lion you can use the caffeinate command.
caffeinate -u -t 1000
will prevent idle sleep for 1000 seconds.
A: If you are looking for the nuclear option like I was:
sudo systemsetup -setcomputersleep Never
–Set or Disable Sleep Due to Mac System Inactivity from the Command Line in OS X
A: The solution to this problem is not keeping the client (your Mac) awake. Using approaches like this are undependable. What happens if the network connection is lost? Even if your Mac is awake, the script will halt.
Use nohup
If your long-running script is called eternity.sh, try the following:
nohup /path/to/eternity.sh > /path/to/output.out &
Now you can even close the connection and your script will keep running. The & backgrounds the process so you can keep the connection open and enter commands. View any output from your script via:
tail -f /path/to/output.out
The paths in the examples are optional if the script is on your path and you want script output to be written to output.out in the current directory.
I manage scripts that run for days at a time. Scripts like these should be detached from the terminal. Thankfully, nohup provides an easy-to-remember command invocation to achieve this--think no hangup.
A: Another option is pmset. Use the command pmset noidle to prevent sleep as long as pmset is running. Unfortunately, it requires a separate Terminal window with pmset running in it. However, the other option, caffeinate, only lets you set a certain time. So it's a matter of choosing whether you want to open a second SSH session, or deal with a time restraint.
Edit: According to binarybob's comment, you can actually run it in the background like this: pmset noidle & To get back to pmset type fg.
A: use caffeinate.
the installed policies on my machine make everything dependent on the display, so the only thing that worked for me was to invoke caffeinate with the -d option.
$ caffeinate -d
excerpt from the man page:
CAFFEINATE(8)
NAME
caffeinate – prevent the system from sleeping on behalf of a utility
SYNOPSIS
caffeinate [-disu] [-t timeout] [-w pid] [utility arguments...]
DESCRIPTION
caffeinate creates assertions to alter system sleep behavior. If no assertion flags are specified, caffeinate creates an assertion to prevent idle sleep. If a utility is specified, caffeinate creates the assertions on the utility's behalf, and those assertions will persist for the duration of the utility's execution. Otherwise, caffeinate creates the assertions directly, and those assertions will persist until caffeinate exits.
Available options:
-d Create an assertion to prevent the display from sleeping.
A: The StarMessage screensaver ( http://starmessagesoftware.com/moonscreensaver/ ) has also the option to keep the MAC awake for 2 hours, 8 hours, or permanenty.
This way of disabling the MAC sleep, is much easier than caffeine.
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8bbb5d513ac34dacc3217605153be55354297a0a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Microsoft RDC client use retina scale resolution on the MacBook Pro? I'm using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection tool with my MBP retina to connect to a Win7 system, but I can't get the resolution over 1440 x 900, even in full screen mode. Is this a limitation, or am I doing something wrong?
Changing the Retina display scaling didn't seem to make a difference.
I tried Cord instead, and while that seems to support other resolutions, the quality seems terrible.
A: Go to RDP settings, add the full screen resolution of your Mac (eg. 2880x1800 or a scaled version thereof, eg. 1920x1200, 2160x1350, ...).
Go to connection and choose that resolution and enable scaling. Looks exactly like Jump
| Q: Can Microsoft RDC client use retina scale resolution on the MacBook Pro? I'm using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection tool with my MBP retina to connect to a Win7 system, but I can't get the resolution over 1440 x 900, even in full screen mode. Is this a limitation, or am I doing something wrong?
Changing the Retina display scaling didn't seem to make a difference.
I tried Cord instead, and while that seems to support other resolutions, the quality seems terrible.
A: Go to RDP settings, add the full screen resolution of your Mac (eg. 2880x1800 or a scaled version thereof, eg. 1920x1200, 2160x1350, ...).
Go to connection and choose that resolution and enable scaling. Looks exactly like Jump
A: Sorry, you're fresh outta luck here, unless Microsoft re-writes RDC to support Retina.
Basically, what's happening is that OS X is detecting that the app isn't retina-aware, reporting a 1440x900 screen size to the app, then pixel-doubles the app's output.
This is the same as what happens when you run a (non-retina) iPhone app on an iPad in "2x" mode, it just pixel doubles, and the app doesn't know any different.
Great for compatibility, not so great for graphic quality...
I would suggest (to everyone!) to submit as a bug/feature request to Microsoft. If enough people complain, they might just do something about it.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: You might want to give Jump Desktop a try. It's been updated for Retina as at 18th August. At $30 or so, it's a tad expensive for my limited use, but it sounds like your best bet. Cheers!
A: Buy 'Jump Desktop (Remote Desktop)' from the App Store. It solves the lag caused by the retina display...I had the same problem and it was doing my head in. It also makes the resolution look a lot better than the Windows RDC software.
A: I was able to force RDC to accept other resolutions. I already knew in advance that forcing the desktop to Macbook Pro's Retina 2800 x 1800 would cause problems if you weren't able to adjust the text and item size (some Terminal Server setups won't allow display changes - my client's doesn't)
The goal is to get a good-sized piece of real estate with legible text and icons.
*
*RDC Preferences/Display, change resolution to any value OTHER than “Full Screen”
*Close preferences dialog
*Save the RDP file
*Open Finder, find the RDP file you just created; Open with TextEdit.app
*Find the DesktopHeight and DesktopWidth tags, change the values in the integer tags immediately below to values you want. In my case, I picked DeskTopHeight 1280, DesktopWidth 2048 (nice round hex values, 1 x 1.6 ratio like MacBook Pro’s Retina display of 1800 X 2880)
*Save RDP file
*Open the RDP file you just edited with RDC
*RDC View menu, select Full screen (until you go full screen, it will not be retina resolution).
*In the Windows RDP session you just started, run Control Panel\Display\Adjust ClearType text
I have a pretty nice work surface now; looking forward to trying it out tomorrow. I wish I knew if RDC kept the display resolutions for Preferences in a file somewhere, I’d add 2048 x 1280 in there.
A: Are you sure you've installed the correct drivers?
According to the support pages of the Retina Mac:
Is Windows 7 using Boot Camp supported on the Retina display?
Yes. You
will need to download and install the Windows Support Software using
the Boot Camp Assistant to use the Retina display with Windows 7. For
more information see this document.
You can open Boot Camp Assistant and download the software there.
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edbe27eb980a965006eb96537b053881ff88e0d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to enable Java only for specific applications? I know that it is possible to completely disable Java in OS X, and to disable its use from within a given browser. I use just one or two applications that require Java, and would like to enable it for them, but prevent it from running in all other cases.
Is there a way to enable Java only for certain apps that I specify?
A: There is a way, but it's convoluted and non-intuitive. I will say that I do not recommend this approach, but I am listing it for completeness.
Java Default Policy Administration is the official doc on Java's own internal security and access policy.
The idea is that you can set deny access to files/folders at a global level, then add specific grant permissions to those Java classes/jars you want to allow.
The permission's that can be set are listed in the JDK Permissions
Some examples of what can be done can be found at ExampleDepot
| Q: Is there a way to enable Java only for specific applications? I know that it is possible to completely disable Java in OS X, and to disable its use from within a given browser. I use just one or two applications that require Java, and would like to enable it for them, but prevent it from running in all other cases.
Is there a way to enable Java only for certain apps that I specify?
A: There is a way, but it's convoluted and non-intuitive. I will say that I do not recommend this approach, but I am listing it for completeness.
Java Default Policy Administration is the official doc on Java's own internal security and access policy.
The idea is that you can set deny access to files/folders at a global level, then add specific grant permissions to those Java classes/jars you want to allow.
The permission's that can be set are listed in the JDK Permissions
Some examples of what can be done can be found at ExampleDepot
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c0da46c582e3ff497fed28742a24711f4051e9fb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where are notes stored in Mountain Lion I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get some back...
I've managed to get the hard drive spinning in a usb dock that I have so I can access it, but I don't know where notes was storing it's data. Any ideas?
A: They're in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/CoreData/ExternalRecords/.
You can probably just copy the whole ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/ folder from the old installation.
| Q: Where are notes stored in Mountain Lion I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get some back...
I've managed to get the hard drive spinning in a usb dock that I have so I can access it, but I don't know where notes was storing it's data. Any ideas?
A: They're in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/CoreData/ExternalRecords/.
You can probably just copy the whole ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/ folder from the old installation.
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6caf5ca5fed4b8723058d6f89d9cc0a3300e8596 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can iBooks be read without a data connection? If I am out of my service area can I still read a book in iBooks on my iPhone? If not, is it possible to download part of the book and read it while I am out of the area?
A: Yes, iBooks can function normally while not connected to the internet. As long as you have the book(s) present in the iBooks app before you get out of coverage you will be fine.
If you are out of your coverage area and connect to another network, or roaming, you might have additional expenses for using another network.
| Q: Can iBooks be read without a data connection? If I am out of my service area can I still read a book in iBooks on my iPhone? If not, is it possible to download part of the book and read it while I am out of the area?
A: Yes, iBooks can function normally while not connected to the internet. As long as you have the book(s) present in the iBooks app before you get out of coverage you will be fine.
If you are out of your coverage area and connect to another network, or roaming, you might have additional expenses for using another network.
A: *
*Transfer the books from Mac to iPad/iPhone via iCloud.
*Use Files app to access the books from iPad/iPhone. Open them in iBooks and download them from cloud while connected to internet.
*Once it's done, go to iCloud location in Files app, select all the books and move to the "On my iPad/iPhone" location (for eg., Keynote folder). Turn off internet and see if you can open the books from "On my iPad/iPhone" location.
A: Yes you can I have an iPhone 5s and I tried it without any data services when I was at my brothers baseball game it does work
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3203d355950a14a1a7f31dca2c5bf44c4a19b4ca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to hide the Flagged folder in Mail.app (Mountain Lion)? Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mail.app has sprouted a Flagged folder for each of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts.
I have no use for this and would like to disable or hide it - how can I do that?
To pre-empt some answers, no, this is not a folder that exists in either Gmail account, it's something that Mail.app has made up for itself, much like a Smart Folder.
A: Drove me crazy too, so I made a mailbundle to right this wrong ;-) Download it here:
http://eelco.lempsink.nl/NoFlaggedMailbox.zip
Note: I’ll update the plugin every time when Mail.app breaks it for ‘compatibility’ reasons. Just download it again and run the INSTALL script again to update. (Might take me a couple of days though.)
| Q: How to hide the Flagged folder in Mail.app (Mountain Lion)? Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mail.app has sprouted a Flagged folder for each of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts.
I have no use for this and would like to disable or hide it - how can I do that?
To pre-empt some answers, no, this is not a folder that exists in either Gmail account, it's something that Mail.app has made up for itself, much like a Smart Folder.
A: Drove me crazy too, so I made a mailbundle to right this wrong ;-) Download it here:
http://eelco.lempsink.nl/NoFlaggedMailbox.zip
Note: I’ll update the plugin every time when Mail.app breaks it for ‘compatibility’ reasons. Just download it again and run the INSTALL script again to update. (Might take me a couple of days though.)
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a19ae33e260661a9fd4b505084bfe019a1adb0a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which Macbook Pro USB port should I use to charge an iPad? I heard that one of the two USB ports provides more power, decreasing the charging time.
Still, I forgot which one is the powerful one. I would be nice to give a hint that's easy to rememeber ;)
It is does matter, this is a MBP from Early 2011, not one of the new 2012 series which has a very powerful charging port.
Update! I checked using System Report (you need to restart it after you plug/unplug iPad as it does not refresh itself).
So far there is no difference on my MBP, it it provides is 500 mA which is quite low.
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500
Extra Operating Current (mA): 1600
A: Actually, your Macbook CAN provide extra current for apple products. Your screendump indicates that it is charging with 500mA + 1600mA of "Extra Operating Current" which makes a total of 2.1Amps (same as the iPad charger).
See here for a comparison - http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-effective-charging-apple-ipad-2012
| Q: Which Macbook Pro USB port should I use to charge an iPad? I heard that one of the two USB ports provides more power, decreasing the charging time.
Still, I forgot which one is the powerful one. I would be nice to give a hint that's easy to rememeber ;)
It is does matter, this is a MBP from Early 2011, not one of the new 2012 series which has a very powerful charging port.
Update! I checked using System Report (you need to restart it after you plug/unplug iPad as it does not refresh itself).
So far there is no difference on my MBP, it it provides is 500 mA which is quite low.
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500
Extra Operating Current (mA): 1600
A: Actually, your Macbook CAN provide extra current for apple products. Your screendump indicates that it is charging with 500mA + 1600mA of "Extra Operating Current" which makes a total of 2.1Amps (same as the iPad charger).
See here for a comparison - http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-effective-charging-apple-ipad-2012
A: This is a very interesting question. Apple has a support article about powering peripherals through USB. Apple states that each USB port is supplied with up to 900mA at 5V. There have been a few discussions brought up on various forums about port inequality that I have seen, but I don't think Apple has ever addressed any of the claims.
The users who suggested the inequality took it into their own hands to do a bit of testing; I found this very nicely written breakdown.
Sparing the technical details, they ran tests with the front & back USB ports and noticed very small differences. It also suggests that the keyboard/trackpad, memory card reader, and Bluetooth are all connected to the 'front port', and that iSight and IR reciever are connected to the 'back port'. Based on what is connected where and on the numbers from their tests, it appears as though the back port has slightly better performance.
This all said, the difference is so small you'd never notice it charging a device (especially from Apple). Using your iPad with either port is fine. There won't be a noticeable difference.
As suggested, you'll likely get better charging performance by using the wall cube, rather than charging via USB.
A: Also make sure that the port/device is not being used by Parallels. If you set up your iOS device so it syncs with Outlook on a Windows VM in Parallels, then the current available drops to 500mA. The solution is to temporarily release the device from Parallels, and you will get proper charging ability again.
A: You can use either port, the limitation is that only one USB port can provide this higher power level. If you try and charge two iPads at the same time, only one will get provided with the higher power level, and the decision as to which is made on a first-come-first-served basis.
Edit to Add: I forgot to mention that the article says Macs with more than two USB ports may be capable of powering multiple ports (but not necessarily all) at this higher power level. Unfortunately they don't give any further details.
Source
A: Use either port. There is no risk of damaging your computer. Both should be sufficient to charge your device.
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3ef7110f1d01fd1448148f8a3e0ddb404d172493 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to convert Vmware Fusion virtual machine to bootcamp image i'm using ENVI + IDL software on a windows xp virtual machine. That software is too heavy so i can't work as well on that virtual machine so i need to boot that virtual machine on boot so to have all cpu and memory allocated for windows. Is there something could i do? Thanks!!
A: Converting a VM to a Bootcamp image is not supported and is technically difficult for a number of reasons, not least of which is that a Windows installation for a VM (or any physical computer) will not necessarily have all the drivers needed to run on different hardware. There are other twitchy things about Windows like the whole license activation thing which tend to get in the way as well.
| Q: How to convert Vmware Fusion virtual machine to bootcamp image i'm using ENVI + IDL software on a windows xp virtual machine. That software is too heavy so i can't work as well on that virtual machine so i need to boot that virtual machine on boot so to have all cpu and memory allocated for windows. Is there something could i do? Thanks!!
A: Converting a VM to a Bootcamp image is not supported and is technically difficult for a number of reasons, not least of which is that a Windows installation for a VM (or any physical computer) will not necessarily have all the drivers needed to run on different hardware. There are other twitchy things about Windows like the whole license activation thing which tend to get in the way as well.
A: Although not conventional - you could use a DR (disaster recovery) imaging tool (ie StorageCraft), create a disk-level image backup and save to an external drive, then you would boot from the imaging tool's bootable software on a USB stick and restore it to a bootcamp partition.
A: I think you can open your VM in Parallels. Parallels has a feature that lets you boot your VM in Bootcamp.
I have not done this myself; you'll have to do further research to verify.
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9136daa93debb6823f24a055d12279c2d8d23d1a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fix the Jerky and jumpy Apple Magic Trackpad behavior? My Apple Magic Trackpad has started to move the pointer on the screen with a jerky and jumpy way, that makes it difficult to use it (compared with the macbook pro mid 2010 17inch touchpad).
How can I fix it, and why it appeared so suddenly?
My operating system is Mac OS Mountain Lion.
Thank you.
A: For me, turning Bluetooth off then back on did the trick for a very jerky cursor. Turning the trackpad off and on did not fix it.
| Q: How to fix the Jerky and jumpy Apple Magic Trackpad behavior? My Apple Magic Trackpad has started to move the pointer on the screen with a jerky and jumpy way, that makes it difficult to use it (compared with the macbook pro mid 2010 17inch touchpad).
How can I fix it, and why it appeared so suddenly?
My operating system is Mac OS Mountain Lion.
Thank you.
A: For me, turning Bluetooth off then back on did the trick for a very jerky cursor. Turning the trackpad off and on did not fix it.
A: Apple magic trackpad 2 owner here and every few weeks mine does this on bluetooth (but it's fine while plugged in and charging. The solution is to reboot your trackpad (just turn it off and on again using the switch on the back).
I think it's stupid that I have to reboot my trackpad but here we are. Also if anyone is curious why I'm responding in this question, it's because this is the top google result for 'Apple magic trackpad 2 jumpy".
A: I removed the batteries and then I took a pencil with a soft pink eraser at the end and cleaned the contact inside the Magic Trackpad. Blew out any eraser left on the contact and put the batteries back (new to begin with). Immediate 90% improvement.
This helps since I am using a 30" monitor.
I have Magic Trackpads for all my other machines. No problems with them. Only this machine.
BTW, also tried resetting the PRAM, cleaning the surface of the Trackpad, changed the batteries, grounded myself, scrubbed my fingers clean, and turned off the internal backup (a hidden function for when the machine is not connected to a Time Machine drive).
Info: MacPro '06, 30" Cinema Display, 22 Gig RAM. 6 Gig internal storage, 11.5 total storage. 10.7.5
A: It seems that new Alkaline Batteries may do the trick.I was disappointed because after the replacement of the batteries the problem remained.
But I see that after some time the trackpad returned to its previous good performance!
A: I know this is an old question, but for my current-model magic trackpad, I used two alcohol wipes; the kind used for insulin injections. I turned the trackpad off, then carefully wiped the entire surface in a grid pattern, then did the same with another wipe, being careful not to get the trackpad too wet. Using two wipes ensures removal of fingerprint skin oil. After wiping, I held the surface of the trackpad in front of my desk fan until it was dry (maybe a minute or so.) I turned it back on and the problem was solved.
A: One other thing to consider is to make sure nothing else is touching your magic trackpad, especially the Lightning cable that's used to occasionally charge it (or some may keep it permanently connected). I had a jumpy cursor suddenly and I couldn't figure out what it was until I noticed that part of the cord was very slightly touching the upper corner of the trackpad. Once I moved it out of the way, suddenly the cursor was behaving normally again. Just something else to consider for folks.
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698c1ea3ccda7d512e408da35b7a6525c2a9dd6f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What software extends quicktime to support codecs as an alternative to Perian? Now that Perian is closing its doors (and thus ending support), I'd like to know if there are any alternatives to Perian - specifically alternatives that add Quicktime support for more filetypes (and thus all the benefits with Apples Video editing/burning applications)
Of the alternatives that Perian themselves have suggested, none have Perians integration with Quicktime:
Niceplayer - standalone application that relies on Perian(!)
VLC - standalone application that doesn't integrate with Quicktime
MPlayer - standalone CLI program that doesn't integrate with Quicktime
So, are there any other QuickTime-integrated codec applications out there? Bonus points if like Perian it's one application that bundles many codecs.
A: If even Perian themselves do not suggest anything that has QuickTime integration — they should know — I assume you are out of luck. I miss Perian, too, but have made the switch to Zongyao Qu’s MPlayerX, which is current, useful and pretty (not the Sourceforge flavor!) …
| Q: What software extends quicktime to support codecs as an alternative to Perian? Now that Perian is closing its doors (and thus ending support), I'd like to know if there are any alternatives to Perian - specifically alternatives that add Quicktime support for more filetypes (and thus all the benefits with Apples Video editing/burning applications)
Of the alternatives that Perian themselves have suggested, none have Perians integration with Quicktime:
Niceplayer - standalone application that relies on Perian(!)
VLC - standalone application that doesn't integrate with Quicktime
MPlayer - standalone CLI program that doesn't integrate with Quicktime
So, are there any other QuickTime-integrated codec applications out there? Bonus points if like Perian it's one application that bundles many codecs.
A: If even Perian themselves do not suggest anything that has QuickTime integration — they should know — I assume you are out of luck. I miss Perian, too, but have made the switch to Zongyao Qu’s MPlayerX, which is current, useful and pretty (not the Sourceforge flavor!) …
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18c30699118aa37aec42d569b22e58e22a1d6500 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I associate OpenOffice documents with OpenOffice apps instead of TextEdit? I just updated to Mountain Lion.
My documents were prepared in OpenOffice and contain many mathematical equations. After updating to Mountain Lion, the documents open in TextEdit instead of OpenOffice. This is an issue because TextEdit doesn't render the equations properly.
How can I re-associate OpenOffice documents with the OpenOffice apps instead of TextEdit?
A: Go to one of your OpenOffice documents in the Finder and Get Info (⌘+I). In the "Open with" section, choose the appropriate app in the popdown (OpenOffice or LibreOffice), then click the Change All... button and hit Continue in the confirmation dialog.
| Q: How can I associate OpenOffice documents with OpenOffice apps instead of TextEdit? I just updated to Mountain Lion.
My documents were prepared in OpenOffice and contain many mathematical equations. After updating to Mountain Lion, the documents open in TextEdit instead of OpenOffice. This is an issue because TextEdit doesn't render the equations properly.
How can I re-associate OpenOffice documents with the OpenOffice apps instead of TextEdit?
A: Go to one of your OpenOffice documents in the Finder and Get Info (⌘+I). In the "Open with" section, choose the appropriate app in the popdown (OpenOffice or LibreOffice), then click the Change All... button and hit Continue in the confirmation dialog.
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bb9142a15f1d3ba2fa7f300db21b0d8e33312a5a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhoto files compressed in Time Capsule. Where is the original size? My 8 year old iMac died some days ago. Fortunately, I have everything backed up on my Time Capsule. I just tried to get my photos from iPhoto off it, but realized that all my shots have been compressed down to something between 30 to 80 kB instead of the couple of MBs they should be. Is there any way I can retrieve my photos at their full quality? All my SLR shots just look horrible now.
A: Find your iPhoto Library, which should be in Pictures. It's a package. Control-click on it and select Show Package Contents. You will see a Masters folder. Make a copy of that folder and all its contents by dragging it to the Desktop or anywhere you like, holding down the Option key at the same time — the green plus icon appears. If it doesn't, you're not making a copy.
| Q: iPhoto files compressed in Time Capsule. Where is the original size? My 8 year old iMac died some days ago. Fortunately, I have everything backed up on my Time Capsule. I just tried to get my photos from iPhoto off it, but realized that all my shots have been compressed down to something between 30 to 80 kB instead of the couple of MBs they should be. Is there any way I can retrieve my photos at their full quality? All my SLR shots just look horrible now.
A: Find your iPhoto Library, which should be in Pictures. It's a package. Control-click on it and select Show Package Contents. You will see a Masters folder. Make a copy of that folder and all its contents by dragging it to the Desktop or anywhere you like, holding down the Option key at the same time — the green plus icon appears. If it doesn't, you're not making a copy.
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754a18725613eba71a2cf9959f19308df648c9d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Should the MacBook Air have the same amount of charge as its stated capacity when 'Full Charged'? The following is an extract from System Information (under power):
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 6517
Fully Charged: Yes
Charging: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6690
Is this simply an example of the charger not topping up the battery to conserve cycles, poorly calibrated battery or an issue with my machine's battery?
A: "Fully charged" does not mean exactly 100%, but somewhere between 95% (or even less) and 100%. Obviously it is better for battery life if the battery is not immediately loaded after a small percentage of charge was consumed, if your MacBook is connected to the charger. So you do not have an issue with your battery.
| Q: Should the MacBook Air have the same amount of charge as its stated capacity when 'Full Charged'? The following is an extract from System Information (under power):
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 6517
Fully Charged: Yes
Charging: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6690
Is this simply an example of the charger not topping up the battery to conserve cycles, poorly calibrated battery or an issue with my machine's battery?
A: "Fully charged" does not mean exactly 100%, but somewhere between 95% (or even less) and 100%. Obviously it is better for battery life if the battery is not immediately loaded after a small percentage of charge was consumed, if your MacBook is connected to the charger. So you do not have an issue with your battery.
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66db92ece0c0b947e5a6747900f52b2b827796d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do I have repeated "Are you sure you want to open it?" messages when launching applications? My Security settings are set to "Mac App Store and identified developers". I'm still getting this problem though I've allowed the app to run more than once as an Administrator. Specific apps that are experiencing this problem are Coda 2 by Panic, PDFpenPro by Smile Software, and Firefox.
Panic and Smile Software are identified developers if I'm not mistaken. And Transmit by Panic opens fine without these warnings.
Any idea why this is the case?
A: Solved the problem! The quarantine metadata was not clearing correctly for some reason. I fixed this by doing:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Coda\ 2.app
Big thanks to Thomas Reed in the Apple discussion forums - Link to answer.
| Q: Why do I have repeated "Are you sure you want to open it?" messages when launching applications? My Security settings are set to "Mac App Store and identified developers". I'm still getting this problem though I've allowed the app to run more than once as an Administrator. Specific apps that are experiencing this problem are Coda 2 by Panic, PDFpenPro by Smile Software, and Firefox.
Panic and Smile Software are identified developers if I'm not mistaken. And Transmit by Panic opens fine without these warnings.
Any idea why this is the case?
A: Solved the problem! The quarantine metadata was not clearing correctly for some reason. I fixed this by doing:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Coda\ 2.app
Big thanks to Thomas Reed in the Apple discussion forums - Link to answer.
A: If other applications keep showing the dialogs, you could also try disabling the quarantine warnings completely with defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false. It also disables the warnings shown by Gatekeeper even if it was enabled in System Preferences.
A: The first time you open the file, right click on it and select open. In the future, the application will open without confirmation as it has been approved.
"This is by far the easiest and most secure method...To open a file blocked by Gatekeeper simply right-click the file in question or ctrl-click, and in the menu which appears, select Open. A prompt will now appear asking for confirmation.
In future, the application will open without confirmation,You only need to do this on first launch. This method works for both the “x is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?” and “x can’t be opened because it was not downloaded from the App Store” prompts, and leaves Gatekeeper enabled at all times.
SOURCE
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/04/20/fix-application-from-internet-gatekeeper/
https://www.unlockboot.com/application-downloaded-internet-sure-want-open/
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ec4dd9ef50c0f4d1125df646490a983645ef1329 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the Safari 6 omnibar search be changed from google.com to google.co.uk? How can I change it so when I search using the omnibar it searches google.co.uk and not google.com.
For example when I want to look at prices for a product, I use the omnibar to search google but it shows me prices in dollars as it is looking results in google.com.
I would like to show results from google.co.uk to get localized search for the UK.
A: Just delete all your google.com cookies (not the google.co.uk ones) and it will magically start working! See http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1157369
| Q: Can the Safari 6 omnibar search be changed from google.com to google.co.uk? How can I change it so when I search using the omnibar it searches google.co.uk and not google.com.
For example when I want to look at prices for a product, I use the omnibar to search google but it shows me prices in dollars as it is looking results in google.com.
I would like to show results from google.co.uk to get localized search for the UK.
A: Just delete all your google.com cookies (not the google.co.uk ones) and it will magically start working! See http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1157369
A: I installed a extension, called Keysearch. So that you can config some keywork to do the search. Fo example, you can config a keywork 'gguk' for google.co.uk, and in the ominibar, you can use gguk plus what you want to search.
A: Glims will let you define any search engine as the default, along with many other great features :)
It is not an extension, but a plugin. Agreed, this is not as good as native, but is a one-time install with much less runtime overhead than extensions.
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7da4b1b693ca3d26e6f334fb89c902da90d44714 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I resize the iOS simulator? I know that there's Window>Scale>100/75/50% but the scale of the retina iPad simulator is still too big for my screen to be able to test anything.
Is there a way I can scale the size of the iOS simulator smaller than one of the default values? I need it to scale down at least to 25% for my screen size to accommodate the window.
A: In Xcode 6.3 just press ⌘+5 (25% scale) or ⌘+4 (33% scale).
Or in Window > Scale
| Q: How do I resize the iOS simulator? I know that there's Window>Scale>100/75/50% but the scale of the retina iPad simulator is still too big for my screen to be able to test anything.
Is there a way I can scale the size of the iOS simulator smaller than one of the default values? I need it to scale down at least to 25% for my screen size to accommodate the window.
A: In Xcode 6.3 just press ⌘+5 (25% scale) or ⌘+4 (33% scale).
Or in Window > Scale
A: Now It's more flexible with Xcode 9- Simulator. You can pick & drag any corner of simulator to resize it and set it according to your requirement.
Look at this snapshot:
Note: With Xcode 9.1+, Simulator scale options are changed.
Keyboard short-keys:
According to Xcode 9.1+
Physical Size ⌘ 1 command + 1
Pixel Accurate ⌘ 2 command + 2
According to Xcode 9
50% Scale ⌘ 1 command + 1
100% Scale ⌘ 2 command + 2
200% Scale ⌘ 3 command + 3
Simulator scale options from Xcode Menu:
Xcode 9.1+:
Menubar ▶ Window ▶ "Here, options available change simulator scale" (Physical Size & Pixel Accurate)
Pixel Accurate: Resizes your simulator to actual (Physical) device's pixels, if your mac system display screen size (pixel) supports that much high resolution, else this option will remain disabled.
Xcode 9.0
Menubar ▶ Window ▶ Scale ▶ "Here, options available change simulator scale"
Using Terminal Command
Follow these steps to scale simulator using terminal commands
*
*Close/Quit simulator. (if open)
*Open Terminal app (using Spotlight search, Press ⌘ + SPACE to open spotlight search)
*Copy following text and paste it next to terminal cursor.
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphonesimulator SimulatorWindowLastScale "0.3"
*Open 'Simulator' (Run your iOS project using Xcode).
You will find simulator scale update.
A: You can't. I've been an iOS software developer for two years and I haven't been able to find a way do this. I have tried to find solutions to this but came up with nothing. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm 99% certain there's no way to do this.
When my screen is too small I use 50% scale window, which is ought to be enough until I hook up my big monitor again at home.
EDIT: As of Xcode 9, you can resize it to any way you want from the corner of the simulator.
A: You can scale iOS Simulator to desire scale (I tried from .2 to 1.4 ) and it worked for me.
To do this you have to go to /Library/Preferences and edit com.apple.iphonesimulator.plist file. Edit value for key SimulatorWindowLastScale to desire scale.
I tried this on latest version of Mountain Lion (10.8.4) and on the iOS 6.0 Simulator.
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6b556816092163e45e08345a3d6ffe17a03c317d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: QuickTime taking control over AVCHD content? I've noticed that on 10.8 QuickTime takes control over the AVCHD content folder on my cameras memory card, turning it into a package and requiring you to open it up in QuickTime and convert the videos to mov files. Is there any way to disable this? I would much rather have raw access to the .mts files so I can work with them in FCPx.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 13" Early-2011. 8GB of RAM. 320GB HDD. OS X 10.8.1.
| Q: QuickTime taking control over AVCHD content? I've noticed that on 10.8 QuickTime takes control over the AVCHD content folder on my cameras memory card, turning it into a package and requiring you to open it up in QuickTime and convert the videos to mov files. Is there any way to disable this? I would much rather have raw access to the .mts files so I can work with them in FCPx.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 13" Early-2011. 8GB of RAM. 320GB HDD. OS X 10.8.1.
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824fa2dc2ce8bf56563b5b06e388c537071f28a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes automatically stops/starts music whenever I start/stop Skype call Couldn't find any similar questions.
So I like that my iTunes music automatically pauses when I accept a Skype call, but usually during a Skype call I turn up the volume. Then when my Skype call ends, my music comes back, but blasted in my ears. Is there a setting I should know of to prevent this?
I am on a Mac Air running Mountain Lion.
A: iTunes has a separate volume control that seems to run independently of the master volume control. It's in the top-left corner, press ⌘↑ or ⌘↓ in iTunes to adjust.
Yours may be too low relative to the master volume.
Skype too has a separate volume control. In the Skype app press ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ to adjust call output volume only.
| Q: iTunes automatically stops/starts music whenever I start/stop Skype call Couldn't find any similar questions.
So I like that my iTunes music automatically pauses when I accept a Skype call, but usually during a Skype call I turn up the volume. Then when my Skype call ends, my music comes back, but blasted in my ears. Is there a setting I should know of to prevent this?
I am on a Mac Air running Mountain Lion.
A: iTunes has a separate volume control that seems to run independently of the master volume control. It's in the top-left corner, press ⌘↑ or ⌘↓ in iTunes to adjust.
Yours may be too low relative to the master volume.
Skype too has a separate volume control. In the Skype app press ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ to adjust call output volume only.
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4cfdebfbd1dd599c2f05726b408dc1d935df9cde | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there external drive enclosures yet with a Thunderbolt interface? I'd like to put some spare disks in enclosures and use the Thunderbolt interface. Does such a thing exist yet? I can't find any. Are there technical issues or licensing restrictions that have stopped this? My searches have turned up no general purpose enclosures and I find that surprising.
This seems like a ServerFault issue but I was sent packing here instead.
A: Taken from Apple.com
Promise Pegasus R4 and Pegasus R6,
LaCie Little Big Disk and 2big,
Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter,
Elgato Thunderbolt SSD.
| Q: Are there external drive enclosures yet with a Thunderbolt interface? I'd like to put some spare disks in enclosures and use the Thunderbolt interface. Does such a thing exist yet? I can't find any. Are there technical issues or licensing restrictions that have stopped this? My searches have turned up no general purpose enclosures and I find that surprising.
This seems like a ServerFault issue but I was sent packing here instead.
A: Taken from Apple.com
Promise Pegasus R4 and Pegasus R6,
LaCie Little Big Disk and 2big,
Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter,
Elgato Thunderbolt SSD.
A: The new Drobo 5D and Drobo mini are both thunderbolt enabled, empty enclosures. Who knows when they'll ship though :/
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f2c352d38a2e81b85afabeb2758604c81ee34da8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will FileVault reduce the power of my hybrid SSD+HDD? I have a MacBook with a Momentus XT hybrid SSD+HDD drive. It have a 500GB HDD plus 4GB SSD which, as I could check, it uses as a cache for read operations. It uses some kind of black magic to determine the most used data and let it easily accessible through the SSD storage.
I wonder if I can enable FileVault 2 to encrypt this drive and if it will kill these feature of the hybrid drive.
I know that FileVault always lead to a performance penalty, but my wonder is if the drive will become unable to determine the portion of data that can be SSD-boosted due to the fact that it will become encrypted.
A: FileVault 2 encrypts the filesystem at a block level. Despite the data being encrypted the cache in your disk should still be able to work out that particular blocks are being accessed more often and cache them in the SSD.
| Q: Will FileVault reduce the power of my hybrid SSD+HDD? I have a MacBook with a Momentus XT hybrid SSD+HDD drive. It have a 500GB HDD plus 4GB SSD which, as I could check, it uses as a cache for read operations. It uses some kind of black magic to determine the most used data and let it easily accessible through the SSD storage.
I wonder if I can enable FileVault 2 to encrypt this drive and if it will kill these feature of the hybrid drive.
I know that FileVault always lead to a performance penalty, but my wonder is if the drive will become unable to determine the portion of data that can be SSD-boosted due to the fact that it will become encrypted.
A: FileVault 2 encrypts the filesystem at a block level. Despite the data being encrypted the cache in your disk should still be able to work out that particular blocks are being accessed more often and cache them in the SSD.
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b67ec0fad26f57fbd98d285e1c49acc47203c683 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to remove cell borders from Numbers? I imported an Excel spreadsheet that contained a few cells with black lines as their border. Is it possible to remove these outlines through Numbers (iOS)?
I have tried copying and pasting, the Format > Cells > Border Style, and deleting the contents, but the black border always remains (and actually spreads if I copy and paste the contents elsewhere).
A: It's not iOS but this is how they've done it on OSX:
Under the "Table" tab, uncheck "Grid Lines"
You might also set "Table Outline" to "None" and play with the 3 buttons to the right to add/remove grid lines from the headers.
| Q: Is it possible to remove cell borders from Numbers? I imported an Excel spreadsheet that contained a few cells with black lines as their border. Is it possible to remove these outlines through Numbers (iOS)?
I have tried copying and pasting, the Format > Cells > Border Style, and deleting the contents, but the black border always remains (and actually spreads if I copy and paste the contents elsewhere).
A: It's not iOS but this is how they've done it on OSX:
Under the "Table" tab, uncheck "Grid Lines"
You might also set "Table Outline" to "None" and play with the 3 buttons to the right to add/remove grid lines from the headers.
A: I know this is an old thread but just had this problem and was looking everywhere for an answer including here and ended up figuring it out on my own.
If you tap the paint brush then cell and border style the last one at the bottom says set default border when you hit that it removes the borders that are in place.
This threw me for a long time because of the wording I thought it was to set the selected cell as the default not to revert to default as in no border
Hope this helps someone else.
A: The only thing you can do is to copy a cell without borders over the one that has. If you type the info in first at least you don't have to remember it.
A: Make a copy of the Excel sheet so you can start over if needed. In the menu bar, View > Show Format Bar (it may already be shown). Highlight the cells in question. Look for these popdowns:
Make sure the border box is set to "none". If this doesn't work, let us know if you are getting warnings when opening the file in Numbers.
A: Tap on the cell or table who's border you are aiming to remove. With the cell selected, tap on the paintbrush icon on the toolbar. Select the table menu and then table options at the bottom of the table window. Slide the Table Border on/off button to off. Viola! You've done it.
A: By far the best answer was posted by Stephan Côte back on Dec 22, 2015. Like Stephan it took me a while using trial and error method as the meaning of the term "Set Default Border" was not intuitively obvious.
Just be aware that this is how to remove a border of a specific cell or a range of cells. If you want to remove all of the outlines in a table then you should use some of the options using the table option. If this is the case try using the methods outlined in some of the other posts.
Here's Spephan's post repeated below. Remember though, you must select the particular cell or range of cells that you want to remove the "border" from before proceeding.
"If you tap the paint brush then cell and border style the last one at the bottom says set default border when you hit that it removes the borders that are in place."
"This threw me for a long time because of the wording I thought it was to set the selected cell as the default not to revert to default as in no border."
A: Tap on the table, tap paint brush, tap Table, tap Table Options, Grid Options, switch off 'Horizontal Lines and Vertical Lines'
A: Right click the cell and click on Reapply Table Style.
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60584eb90a0989502910d58add9263a49ebe52ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to do conditional formatting in Numbers for iOS? Is it possible to do conditional formatting in Numbers for iOS? I'd just like to change the text or background colour depending on the cell's contents.
A: iOS Numbers does not support conditional formatting, and it is removed from the document upon import.
According to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4648 the following changes are made on iOS (my emphasis):
3D charts are converted to 2D charts. Chart data is retained and
editable.
Conditional formatting is removed from imported spreadsheets. Cell
content is retained.
Table Categories are removed. Tables remain organized and category
names are retained as static text.
Filters are removed.
| Q: Is it possible to do conditional formatting in Numbers for iOS? Is it possible to do conditional formatting in Numbers for iOS? I'd just like to change the text or background colour depending on the cell's contents.
A: iOS Numbers does not support conditional formatting, and it is removed from the document upon import.
According to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4648 the following changes are made on iOS (my emphasis):
3D charts are converted to 2D charts. Chart data is retained and
editable.
Conditional formatting is removed from imported spreadsheets. Cell
content is retained.
Table Categories are removed. Tables remain organized and category
names are retained as static text.
Filters are removed.
A: The most recent version of numbers on Mac supports conditional formating rules.
The current version of iOS numbers does support conditional formating, but only shows UI for simple rules (like turning a number red when it's negative)
To access these, select some cells, then tap the format button (paintbrush), tap format, and then the more info/(i) button next to one of the options.
From there you can chose some simple preset options.
If you want anything more complex, use numbers for Mac.
http://help.apple.com/numbers/mac/3.5/#/tan93f5de5c3
A: Yes it is possible. See this and this.
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ebda0e4003491726ac740cfe70ca02dc5d9826b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In terminal, running top, info extends past the view of the window I assume this occurs in more terminal functions than just top. Is there a way to view the information without resizing the console window? I currently have my console window set to open at 80x24, which is far too short in both columns and rows to display all the information.
A: You can select the columns you want to display with -stats:
top -stats pid,cpu,command
See man top for a full list of available columns (listed under -o), the most interesting ones probably are
*
*pid: Process ID
*command: The name of the command
*cpu: CPU usage
*time: Execution time
*vsize: Total memory size
*state: Process state
*uid: User ID (or user for user name)
| Q: In terminal, running top, info extends past the view of the window I assume this occurs in more terminal functions than just top. Is there a way to view the information without resizing the console window? I currently have my console window set to open at 80x24, which is far too short in both columns and rows to display all the information.
A: You can select the columns you want to display with -stats:
top -stats pid,cpu,command
See man top for a full list of available columns (listed under -o), the most interesting ones probably are
*
*pid: Process ID
*command: The name of the command
*cpu: CPU usage
*time: Execution time
*vsize: Total memory size
*state: Process state
*uid: User ID (or user for user name)
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252b68abc8e4a791d679faa5e4fe248c250e6d3c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iMessage buddy list I want to use iMessage on Mountain Lion for my Google Talk buddies. However, the main chat window just shows recent contacts down the left bar, and not my online buddies. I can bring up a seperate window to show my online buddies by pressing Command ⌘+1 but this is lame, I want it all in one screen.
Is there any setting anywhere I'm missing or do I have to return to Adium?
A: Hit command 1 or go to window and click on on buddies. Should bring up the buddy list.
| Q: iMessage buddy list I want to use iMessage on Mountain Lion for my Google Talk buddies. However, the main chat window just shows recent contacts down the left bar, and not my online buddies. I can bring up a seperate window to show my online buddies by pressing Command ⌘+1 but this is lame, I want it all in one screen.
Is there any setting anywhere I'm missing or do I have to return to Adium?
A: Hit command 1 or go to window and click on on buddies. Should bring up the buddy list.
A: Messages > Preferences > General > Show status in menu bar.
You can see all your online buddies with this. You can even change your status or go offline.
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21f1aebc19013c1f108e8a2eb84d731e6bb12c01 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My iMessage won't send I have an iPad 2 and have used iMessages many times. For some reason now I can't message. The send button is not active. I'm trying to message a friend who has an iPhone and who I have messaged many times in the past. Any clue as to what to do?
I have force closed the app, powered off, checked the contact number, all to no avail. WiFi is active. Have gone thru all steps listed as possible fixes except deleting and reinstalling. I can't find iMessage in the App store so I don't want to delete because I don't know how to reinstall.
A: Turn iMessage off, hard reset your iDevice and then turn iMessage back on again and it will start working again! I've had this issue on more than one device, most recently after updating to iOS 6.
| Q: My iMessage won't send I have an iPad 2 and have used iMessages many times. For some reason now I can't message. The send button is not active. I'm trying to message a friend who has an iPhone and who I have messaged many times in the past. Any clue as to what to do?
I have force closed the app, powered off, checked the contact number, all to no avail. WiFi is active. Have gone thru all steps listed as possible fixes except deleting and reinstalling. I can't find iMessage in the App store so I don't want to delete because I don't know how to reinstall.
A: Turn iMessage off, hard reset your iDevice and then turn iMessage back on again and it will start working again! I've had this issue on more than one device, most recently after updating to iOS 6.
A: you may have gotten help by now on this issue, but I had it just happen to me on my IPAD ( 4th edition). I called apple, and the tech walked me through a few things, but what really worked, was going to Settings/general/ scroll down to Reset and hit it then hit Reset all settings. You will then need to sign into your WIFI connection again, so go to settings/WIFI/ and pick your wifi connection and enter your password. Then when you are connected, go back to messages, choose one of your imessages and see if you can send. This worked for me.
Good luck.
A: In my experience, this will occur if the receiver has changed settings for one reason or another, and is no longer "signed in" to iMessage on the particular device that they used to be signed in on. Like if they restored their phone and neglected to set up iMessage with the same sign in that you had addressed previously.
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60d30843f217ccb449cdcc882424bef9f58ec9c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make earphones with full inline controls work with VLC/Spotify? I have a set of earphones with full inline controls (mic, play/pause, vol up/down) but they only seem to work with iTunes (and I'm not sure the mic works at all).
How can I make them work with VLC/Spotify?
A: It's an old question, but I've founded a partial solution to remove the automatic launch of iTunes: http://www.thebitguru.com/projects/iTunesPatch
More info and source code here: https://github.com/thebitguru/play-button-itunes-patch
It's better than nothing
| Q: How can I make earphones with full inline controls work with VLC/Spotify? I have a set of earphones with full inline controls (mic, play/pause, vol up/down) but they only seem to work with iTunes (and I'm not sure the mic works at all).
How can I make them work with VLC/Spotify?
A: It's an old question, but I've founded a partial solution to remove the automatic launch of iTunes: http://www.thebitguru.com/projects/iTunesPatch
More info and source code here: https://github.com/thebitguru/play-button-itunes-patch
It's better than nothing
A: There is a small app that remaps bluetooth headset controls to media keys (those on the keyboard). Fixes this bug on Yosemite with Spotify, VLC, Amazon Cloud Player.
https://github.com/jguice/mac-bt-headset-fix
A: I just wrote a simple Mac app to solve this problem. Give it a try.
(Tested on Mac OS X EI and Sierra. Not working for 10.12.4.)
A: Don't how it went, but some have played around with the earphones driver on mac, to try to make it work with Spotify:
*
*https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15398237/detect-hardware-headphone-presses-in-mac
(English, technical)
*http://www.journaldulapin.com/2013/06/29/apple-mikey-hid-la-gestion-des-ecouteurs-iphone-sur-mac/
(French)
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93dd0e42ff6599a47883de56d03c0c5292a2bbd8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I set a custom avatar for my account profile in Mountain Lion? I just got Mountain Lion. On previous versions of OS X, I could choose a photo from the filesystem as my account avatar. This doesn't seem possible under the Users & Groups section of System Preferences.
Any ideas on how to do this?
A: I haven't found a way to choose a photo from that popup dialog, but you can add one by dragging an image file onto the picture itself (that dialog may have to be closed for this to work).
| Q: How do I set a custom avatar for my account profile in Mountain Lion? I just got Mountain Lion. On previous versions of OS X, I could choose a photo from the filesystem as my account avatar. This doesn't seem possible under the Users & Groups section of System Preferences.
Any ideas on how to do this?
A: I haven't found a way to choose a photo from that popup dialog, but you can add one by dragging an image file onto the picture itself (that dialog may have to be closed for this to work).
A: You can either drag and drop an image file into the avatar selector "well" (next to the Change Password button) or copy and paste image data (open your photo in Preview, Select All, Copy. You will have to click the avatar selector first so that it's focused (has the blue border around it) before you Paste.
A: I did find the actual folder where they are stored
Click on your hard drive/library/User Pictures
I created another folder there for my custom pics and they show up just fine.
A: To expand upon what Andrew Swan and Jonathan Poh have said,
*
*Open an image in Preview and select the desired region you want for your avatar and Copy it.
*Open System Preferences
*Open Users & Groups
*Unlock the Panel if it is locked!
*Click your user icon
*Paste and adjust the zoom as desired
NOTE: Drag and Drop DOES work but only when you drag the image onto the Users & Groups window, over the user's avatar (Seen in picture from Step 5). I kept trying to drag the picture into the edit pane (Like in picture from Step 6)
A: Heads Up,
I was upset when I took a screen shot and the dimensions were not allowing me to paste it using the instructions above.
However...
Step 1: ) Make sure the photo is not too rectangular.
Step 2: ) Open in Preview and export to jpeg.
Step 3: ) If the photo is too obtuse you can do a screen shot of a screen shot.
Step 4: ) Drag the photo onto the existing photo that is presently there.
*
*In Sierra 10.12.6 I found that the image needed to be equal dimensions and saved as a jpeg so that the avatar could fit and be recognized and display properly then I could zoom in and out as needed.
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33da4242d3b02258d68dcecc37887d54d9e58713 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I remove the Reading List column in Safari? How can I get rid of the Reading List column in Safari when I read a webpage? It takes up too much space on the page.
A: Select View > Hide Reading List, press ⇧⌘L, or press the button on the bookmark bar.
| Q: How can I remove the Reading List column in Safari? How can I get rid of the Reading List column in Safari when I read a webpage? It takes up too much space on the page.
A: Select View > Hide Reading List, press ⇧⌘L, or press the button on the bookmark bar.
A: This can be done in Safari's preferences.
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0c4600745bffd65e6add9610461a3a00a4b23e02 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I sync notes from the Mac OS Notes app to plain text? I'd like to sync my notes in the Mac OS (Mountain Lion) Notes app to plain text files. E.g., if I have a note called "shopping list" in the Notes app, I'd like to find a way to automatically export this to, say, shopping_list.txt. Is there a way to do that?
| Q: How can I sync notes from the Mac OS Notes app to plain text? I'd like to sync my notes in the Mac OS (Mountain Lion) Notes app to plain text files. E.g., if I have a note called "shopping list" in the Notes app, I'd like to find a way to automatically export this to, say, shopping_list.txt. Is there a way to do that?
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d56f940d9a46de976d8a46e128e935e27d6c341f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Volume control (sliders or keys) stops working after plugging into/out of headphone jack I plug my machine into a projector/sound amplification setup regularly for teaching. Often, when I get back home afterwards, the sound volume controls no longer work. Neither the dedicated volume keys in the function key row, nor the volume slider in the menu bar have any affect on output volume. Also, the keys changes don't affect the slider position, or vice versa.
I've done some searching and testing and the only working solution I've found is to reboot. Not a great solution. I've tried switching output devices (no change) and restarting coreaudio (no change). I'm on 10.6.8.
Any non-reboot suggestions?
A: According to this thread, holding down any of the volume keys as you plug or unplug the audio jack will solve this problem. It's a known issue.
See this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1254855
| Q: Volume control (sliders or keys) stops working after plugging into/out of headphone jack I plug my machine into a projector/sound amplification setup regularly for teaching. Often, when I get back home afterwards, the sound volume controls no longer work. Neither the dedicated volume keys in the function key row, nor the volume slider in the menu bar have any affect on output volume. Also, the keys changes don't affect the slider position, or vice versa.
I've done some searching and testing and the only working solution I've found is to reboot. Not a great solution. I've tried switching output devices (no change) and restarting coreaudio (no change). I'm on 10.6.8.
Any non-reboot suggestions?
A: According to this thread, holding down any of the volume keys as you plug or unplug the audio jack will solve this problem. It's a known issue.
See this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1254855
A: I have had that problem with my Mac book. The sound was not working after plugging my computer in a pa system. After an hour of searching I found the solution. Plug in your headphone into the port your sound slider should work and you have sound coming through your headphone, reboot your computer keeping your headphone plugin and remove/unplug your headphone your sound slider should work again. The Mac helpline didn't provide a solution except your Mac needs to be serviced! Hope it helps.
A: I came in with the same problem, but I think I found the solution... I plugged my macbook to a projector for teaching and encountered the same problem. I'm sharing what I did, worked for me, hope to work for you too..
go to System Preferences>Sound>Output
there in the window, the projector output must be highlighted with blue... select the option "headphone" to enable it while your headphone is plugged in. Its just that the projector audio option had been enabled in your mac. Now check your audio through headphones...
I hope this cleared your confusion. Just let me know...
happy macbooking :) :) :)
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e22999b493de1a15d0ac2fa9de699c92b5e03e75 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: sandbox for testing application I have developed an application and I want to test it in a fresh environment (e.g. as if this is a clean OSX, no custom /usr/local, a fresh ~/Library, etc.). What would be the simplest way?
A: Since Lion it is possible to run a virtual copy of Mac OS X on Apple hardware (e.g., with VirualBox, Parallels, VMWare).
You could install a clean copy, take a snapshot and use this fresh installation for tests.
| Q: sandbox for testing application I have developed an application and I want to test it in a fresh environment (e.g. as if this is a clean OSX, no custom /usr/local, a fresh ~/Library, etc.). What would be the simplest way?
A: Since Lion it is possible to run a virtual copy of Mac OS X on Apple hardware (e.g., with VirualBox, Parallels, VMWare).
You could install a clean copy, take a snapshot and use this fresh installation for tests.
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b96e3652427b8d45625a49ea61cf10143be27161 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: SMS Message doesn't state it has been sent I have an iPhone 4, sometimes I get the green sms bubble and sometimes an iMessage bubble. At times it states sent as text message and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't does that mean the message has been sent out?
A: When the bubble is blue, the message is send as an iMessage. If it turn green, it is send as a regular SMS.
The iMessages have a build in delivery report and is will tell you tings like 'delivered' or 'read' when the message gets delivered/read.
However, a regular SMS doesn't provide these options, so you'll have to install some 3th party software to get this kind of feedback. So you have to trust your provider to make sure your message gets delivered.
If you have jailbroken your device, there is an SMS Delivery Report repository in Cydia.
If you don't like your iMessages to be sent as a regular text, you can simply turn this feature off in the Settings < Messages < Send As SMS
| Q: SMS Message doesn't state it has been sent I have an iPhone 4, sometimes I get the green sms bubble and sometimes an iMessage bubble. At times it states sent as text message and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't does that mean the message has been sent out?
A: When the bubble is blue, the message is send as an iMessage. If it turn green, it is send as a regular SMS.
The iMessages have a build in delivery report and is will tell you tings like 'delivered' or 'read' when the message gets delivered/read.
However, a regular SMS doesn't provide these options, so you'll have to install some 3th party software to get this kind of feedback. So you have to trust your provider to make sure your message gets delivered.
If you have jailbroken your device, there is an SMS Delivery Report repository in Cydia.
If you don't like your iMessages to be sent as a regular text, you can simply turn this feature off in the Settings < Messages < Send As SMS
A: When the iPhone doesn’t show the “Sent as Text Message,” and the bubble is blue in colour, the message was sent as iMessage. That means the message has definitely been sent, because iMessage has the ability to report an error with the help of a red exclamation mark beside the message.
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3f8fbaf4a1d263e963ee34a6920c45219267dbbb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: guest access to samba shares on 10.8 Is there any way to allow public (ie no user/password prompt) access to samba shares using the mountain lion built in server?
Even with Everyone set to read/write in System Preferences and the guest account enabled for sharing a password is always required when trying to connect from a windows computer (I've tried both 7 and xp).
A: Yep!
*
*Go to 'Users & Groups' in System Preferences
*Select the 'Guest User'
*Tick 'Allow guests to connect to shared folders'
Done :)
| Q: guest access to samba shares on 10.8 Is there any way to allow public (ie no user/password prompt) access to samba shares using the mountain lion built in server?
Even with Everyone set to read/write in System Preferences and the guest account enabled for sharing a password is always required when trying to connect from a windows computer (I've tried both 7 and xp).
A: Yep!
*
*Go to 'Users & Groups' in System Preferences
*Select the 'Guest User'
*Tick 'Allow guests to connect to shared folders'
Done :)
A: I've got issue to access from OSX to samba server in guest mode.
(probably due to French "invite" instead of guest).
I fix my samba conf to map any bad user to guest.
I hope that can help you.
[Global]
...
map to guest = bad user
✘ MbPro ~ smbutil view -g //wizz
smbutil: server rejected the authentication: Authentication error
✘ MbPro ~ smbutil view -g //wizz
Share Type Comments
-------------------------------
public Disk LinusPublic
IPC$ Pipe IPC Service (Samba)
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681193aa4fc57fb8efc4b0c6b8226fd7fbead22d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install SVN binary on Mountain Lion? I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and now it looks like I need to reinstall the SVN client binary. I realize I can do this via Homebrew, but isn't this also included in an Apple package in the Mac App Store?
I heard it was removed from the XCode package...
A: Once you have installed XCode, you can install SVN and other command-line utilities from the Downloads pane in XCode Preferences.
| Q: How to install SVN binary on Mountain Lion? I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and now it looks like I need to reinstall the SVN client binary. I realize I can do this via Homebrew, but isn't this also included in an Apple package in the Mac App Store?
I heard it was removed from the XCode package...
A: Once you have installed XCode, you can install SVN and other command-line utilities from the Downloads pane in XCode Preferences.
A: Xcode actually has SVN bundled in its .app directory. Its available at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/svn (If you put Xcode.app in your Applications folder). You can add this path to your PATH, then access svn directly again.
If you need other Xcode command line tools (like gcc without installing Xcode), you can actually install them without installing Xcode first by going to Downloads for Apple Developers, and download and install the Xcode Command Line Tools.
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f24649b11bed48ad718e36ad94bd134c3dc66b13 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Chrome v.21 be used without freezing my Mac? Chrome throws many errors, and after a few minutes my Mac freezes. What can I do?
Here is the error message.
Unsure about the internals of CFAllocator but going to patch them anyway. If there is a crash inside of CFAllocatorAllocate, please report it at http://crbug.com/117476 . If there is a crash and it is NOT inside of CFAllocatorAllocate, it is NOT RELATED. DO NOT REPORT IT THERE but rather FILE A NEW BUG.
Google Chrome Helper[2839]: Failed to look up domain bootstrapper during domain extension: 0x44c
Chrome 21.0.1180.89 - no extension.
A: Remove chrome completely and reinstall. You can use appdelete or appzapper or something like that to make sure you get rid of everything associated with the app.
| Q: Can Chrome v.21 be used without freezing my Mac? Chrome throws many errors, and after a few minutes my Mac freezes. What can I do?
Here is the error message.
Unsure about the internals of CFAllocator but going to patch them anyway. If there is a crash inside of CFAllocatorAllocate, please report it at http://crbug.com/117476 . If there is a crash and it is NOT inside of CFAllocatorAllocate, it is NOT RELATED. DO NOT REPORT IT THERE but rather FILE A NEW BUG.
Google Chrome Helper[2839]: Failed to look up domain bootstrapper during domain extension: 0x44c
Chrome 21.0.1180.89 - no extension.
A: Remove chrome completely and reinstall. You can use appdelete or appzapper or something like that to make sure you get rid of everything associated with the app.
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cafde73cc1d57fb13e76c7593679d28d72d53a00 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I recover my MS Office 2011 product key? I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer my data from a Macbook Pro to a Macbook Air. I'm told that I need my product key for MS Office 2011.
Is there a way to find my product key on my mac?
A: Depending on where you bought Office 2011, you can retrieve the product key from Microsoft using the instructions on their website.
If this doesn't work for you (ie. you probably don't own a legitimate copy of the program) I'm afraid you're out of luck, I believe the licensing information may be stored in the com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist file which is located in ~/library/preferences but it's encrypted so... good luck with that.
| Q: How can I recover my MS Office 2011 product key? I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer my data from a Macbook Pro to a Macbook Air. I'm told that I need my product key for MS Office 2011.
Is there a way to find my product key on my mac?
A: Depending on where you bought Office 2011, you can retrieve the product key from Microsoft using the instructions on their website.
If this doesn't work for you (ie. you probably don't own a legitimate copy of the program) I'm afraid you're out of luck, I believe the licensing information may be stored in the com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist file which is located in ~/library/preferences but it's encrypted so... good luck with that.
A: G/L trying to get a replacement from MS based on the Product ID. I just tried & they want to charge $40 for a replacement key (the product is still only good for 1 license)
A: This is an old thread, but I ran into this issue and the way to fix it is as follows:
You have to be able to access the hard drive you migrated from.
Make sure all Office programs are closed.
*
*On the new hard drive/computer you migrated to, delete the following file:
/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist
*Go to the HD you had a working copy on, and copy that same file from the same location to the new HD.
It should have an older date from when you installed it and activated it.
A: In case anyone needs to do this in Office v15, the file has changed to /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist
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730d04041e9f5f19696e7cf9c9fe3a67c6d3be54 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I restore file permissions to get my Mac booting again? Out of curiosity, I set the permissions on my hard drive from "everyone" to "no access". The drive then turned into a blue folder with a red circle on it. I restarted and now I’m stuck at the gray screen with the Apple logo. What can I do to get it back to normal?
A: I accidentally changed the permissions on a disk so that one or more of the permissions were set to No Access, and I can't see the disk to change the permissions back. How do I fix this?
If the disk in question is your Mac OS X startup disk and your computer stops starting up at the blue/gray screen, restart with Cmd-S held down, and enter the following commands:
mount -uw /
chown root /
chmod 1775 /
exit
| Q: How can I restore file permissions to get my Mac booting again? Out of curiosity, I set the permissions on my hard drive from "everyone" to "no access". The drive then turned into a blue folder with a red circle on it. I restarted and now I’m stuck at the gray screen with the Apple logo. What can I do to get it back to normal?
A: I accidentally changed the permissions on a disk so that one or more of the permissions were set to No Access, and I can't see the disk to change the permissions back. How do I fix this?
If the disk in question is your Mac OS X startup disk and your computer stops starting up at the blue/gray screen, restart with Cmd-S held down, and enter the following commands:
mount -uw /
chown root /
chmod 1775 /
exit
A: You should be able to do the following:
*
*Boot up while holding the "Option" key (or command + R for lion and mountain lion users
*Since this is a Lion (or later) system, one of your boot options is "Recovery" - pick that
*Once the recovery partition boots up, go to the menus and select "Disk Utility"
*Find your Macintosh HD drive in the list on the left, select it
*Go to the First Aid tab
*Select "Repair Disk Permissions"
This will take a little bit, based on the size of the disk, but you'll be up and working. After the permissions are repairs, it's a good practice on HFS+ (your filesystem) to choose "Repair Disk" also.
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91fef212b4d8a06f74d29db94068f0aa480ddf21 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to hide preview of text contents from Messages.app notifications in Mountain lion? In Mountain Lion's Notification Centre, I don't like having a notification pop up with the contents of an iMessage text I just got, but I do want to have notifications about it happening.
Is there a way to make it just show a notification without the content, similar to the iOS setting to not "Show preview" that hides the text content from the iOS notification center?
A: If you go to Notification center in your Settings on mac, and then click Messages and then you have an option of "Show Message preview" you can turn it off and I think it will only show the name who it came from but wont show the actual message. If that was your question.
| Q: How to hide preview of text contents from Messages.app notifications in Mountain lion? In Mountain Lion's Notification Centre, I don't like having a notification pop up with the contents of an iMessage text I just got, but I do want to have notifications about it happening.
Is there a way to make it just show a notification without the content, similar to the iOS setting to not "Show preview" that hides the text content from the iOS notification center?
A: If you go to Notification center in your Settings on mac, and then click Messages and then you have an option of "Show Message preview" you can turn it off and I think it will only show the name who it came from but wont show the actual message. If that was your question.
A: This is not possible with the currently available notification options and configuration of Notification Centre. The three options you have are
*
*No notifications
*Banner
*Banners that stay until clicked
You have no control over the content of the message, its just shows what is sent by the notifying application.
So looking at iMessages, there is no way to change or limit the notifications that are sent by default to the Notification Centre.
So the only solution I can come up with is to turn off iMessage notifications completely in Notification Centre
Then using iMessage's built in ability to run Applescripts when events are triggered, then send your own notifications without the offending content (more private IMHO for work machines) to Notification Centre by using third party scripts.
Of course, those notifications would have your own defined content and would also have to come from an application that is enabled in Notification Centre.
This thread might give you a start on how to create a notification that can be called from Applescript.
A: This should now be possible as of macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. In:
*
*System Preferences -> Notifications -> Messages
You can now uncheck an option for 'Show message preview'
Hope that helps!
A: There is an option to "show preview" that can be ticked off in the settings of the Messages app: Go to Settings> Notification> Messaging.
Stated another way:
1) Go to Settings = Click on the GEAR icon (System Preferences)
2) The top-most section of System Preferences on My Mac is labeled "Personal" at the far right is "Notifications" (a black square with a red dot in the center)
3) Click that square and the dialogue window will show a list on the left which should include "Messages" with a sub title "Badges and Sounds"
4) Click that item in the list on the left and you will notice on the right side, toward the top it has three options (the default is Banners). Click the item to the left of Banners (should be None).
Now you can press CMD+Q on your keyboard to close System Prefs and the alerts will stop popping up in the upper right of your screen (you may want to test it)
This was an issue for me because I was allowing one of my staff to use my Macbook for some training and all my personal iMessages kept popping up in front of her - NOT COOL. This ended that problem
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8f041e10bf37e17d0618fa27379d98ac1bab8b02 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can a keyboard shortcut force TextEdit windows to close and discard all changes? Is there any way I could configure TextEdit to close the window (through keyboard shortcut) without asking me if I want to save an unsaved file?
Can be another script/program configure globally when triggered with a certain shortcut or just a script for TextEdit.
The reason for doing it is that I have a lot of temporary notes in TextEdit's window and I want to close them as fast as possible.
A: tell application "TextEdit" to close (windows where name of its document is "Untitled") saving no would close the "Untitled" document without saving it, tell application "TextEdit" to close every document saving no would do the same for all open documents.
You could close the current window with tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to close window 1 saving no. It would close all tabs in some applications that use tabs though.
It's easier to just press ⌘W⌫ in my opinion. You can disable the animation for showing the sheets with defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001.
| Q: Can a keyboard shortcut force TextEdit windows to close and discard all changes? Is there any way I could configure TextEdit to close the window (through keyboard shortcut) without asking me if I want to save an unsaved file?
Can be another script/program configure globally when triggered with a certain shortcut or just a script for TextEdit.
The reason for doing it is that I have a lot of temporary notes in TextEdit's window and I want to close them as fast as possible.
A: tell application "TextEdit" to close (windows where name of its document is "Untitled") saving no would close the "Untitled" document without saving it, tell application "TextEdit" to close every document saving no would do the same for all open documents.
You could close the current window with tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to close window 1 saving no. It would close all tabs in some applications that use tabs though.
It's easier to just press ⌘W⌫ in my opinion. You can disable the animation for showing the sheets with defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001.
A: If you hit cmd+option+q to quit the app (or hold down Option while quitting from the main menu), it will give you the option to discard changes in all unsaved windows at once, rather than having to tell it to discard changes in each window individually. This will work with all Apple apps, not just TextEdit.
A: Solution 1:
Open Script Editor and run the following:
tell application "TextEdit" to close windows saving no
Solution 2:
If the documents still reopen on next launch, they are most likely saved in iCloud/TextEdit. In order to prevent them from being re-opened:
*Quit TextEdit
*Archive all the files in the iCloud/TextEdit folder (and/or delete the unwanted Untitled documents).
*Delete all but the Archive.zip
*Empty Trash
*Reopen TextEdit (it should have a clean state).
*Unzip the Archive.zip to restore the deleted files.
If your TextEdit session is just Untitled Documents, it might be sufficient to just delete all of them and empty the trash.
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8430579437375b7dffed96c2c0dbcc051e8867cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to highlight errors and warnings on iTerm terminal output? I am looking for a solution that would allow me to use color highlighting to a set of important output messages inside iTerm terminal application.
Things to highlight:
*
*application logs file warnings, errors and fatals (apache, nginx, tomcat)
*compiler output
*other similar errors/warnings
A: iTerm supports coloring of console output based on a set of regular expressions. You can set them up in Preferences > Profiles > Advanced > Triggers > Edit.
Here is my current set of regexes:
(?i:.*error.*) // Yellow on Black
(?i:.*(warning|warn).*) // Orange on Black
(?i:.*FATAL.*) // White on Red
You are welcome to improve it :)
| Q: How to highlight errors and warnings on iTerm terminal output? I am looking for a solution that would allow me to use color highlighting to a set of important output messages inside iTerm terminal application.
Things to highlight:
*
*application logs file warnings, errors and fatals (apache, nginx, tomcat)
*compiler output
*other similar errors/warnings
A: iTerm supports coloring of console output based on a set of regular expressions. You can set them up in Preferences > Profiles > Advanced > Triggers > Edit.
Here is my current set of regexes:
(?i:.*error.*) // Yellow on Black
(?i:.*(warning|warn).*) // Orange on Black
(?i:.*FATAL.*) // White on Red
You are welcome to improve it :)
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46c99fe1e5b2d14a67c801bcbf1cb309e492148d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What iOS apps allow free calling to the UK? I travel a lot, so often rely on WiFi for calling. On the iPhone, I use MagicJack to get completely free calls over WiFi/VoIP to US numbers. I'm looking for a similar app to enable me to call UK numbers for free on the iPhone. Does anyone know of one?
Note:
*
*I'm talking only about apps that allow completely free calling to regular chargeable numbers - primarily landlines but ideally also mobiles - the Apple app stores are full of apps that allow "cheap" calling.
*Suspicious apps that require credit card numbers upfront, etc., aren't as interesting.
A: Skype provides a free iPhone app and allows free calls to UK freephone numbers 0800 etc. As for a service that allows totally free calls to chargeable UK numbers (either on iPhone or otherwise) for an indefinite period I can't say I have ever heard of one.
| Q: What iOS apps allow free calling to the UK? I travel a lot, so often rely on WiFi for calling. On the iPhone, I use MagicJack to get completely free calls over WiFi/VoIP to US numbers. I'm looking for a similar app to enable me to call UK numbers for free on the iPhone. Does anyone know of one?
Note:
*
*I'm talking only about apps that allow completely free calling to regular chargeable numbers - primarily landlines but ideally also mobiles - the Apple app stores are full of apps that allow "cheap" calling.
*Suspicious apps that require credit card numbers upfront, etc., aren't as interesting.
A: Skype provides a free iPhone app and allows free calls to UK freephone numbers 0800 etc. As for a service that allows totally free calls to chargeable UK numbers (either on iPhone or otherwise) for an indefinite period I can't say I have ever heard of one.
A: Vonage app will do this, as long as your registered number is in the UK. During the registration you enter your number into the vonage app, it then send you a text to verify you have access to that number. Once you are registered all calls to your local country (if vonage as presence there) are free.
A: Phone calls are cheap enough nowadays.
There is currently no app that will give you indefinite free calls to regions such as the UK. You already benefited greatly from such a US/Canada app, don't be greedy. 2 cents or 1 cent per minute being offered by the popular apps to call UK is not going to kill you, and if you cant find one that wont give everything away for free then dont make calls then, simple :)
A: Get yourself the Yuilop app. It's free and exactly the app you are looking for.
A: To be honest any VoIP system, be it Skype, AIM, etc. will allow you to contact anyone else with that system for free via an internet connection.
A: I have been using voip for quite sometime now, but i think voiphub.net is the cheapest and they charge per second. they can also offer you free calls depending on your destination and subscription.
A: I think you should use Vtok or Google Voice since you can make free calls in any wifi area and you are still allowed to text!
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bec27da81c2e5b05159e25600a9938d90225e549 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What potential dangers arise from a mass iOS UDID leak? Can anyone enlighten us with what a hacker could use one (or a list of) UDID for?
The leak reported September 4 of 1 million UDID's by AntiSec makes me worry. But should I?
What is the worst case scenario with a hacker who has a million UDID's?
A: As bmike notes, UDID on it's own isn't particularly damaging. However if the attackers are able to compromise other databases where UDID is used, the combination could yield quite a bit of identifying personal information, as this article from May, 2012 lays out: De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint.
As with the recent highly-publicized Mat Honan hack, one security breach on it's own may not be overly troublesome, but the damage can grow exponential if the attackers can breach another service you use.
| Q: What potential dangers arise from a mass iOS UDID leak? Can anyone enlighten us with what a hacker could use one (or a list of) UDID for?
The leak reported September 4 of 1 million UDID's by AntiSec makes me worry. But should I?
What is the worst case scenario with a hacker who has a million UDID's?
A: As bmike notes, UDID on it's own isn't particularly damaging. However if the attackers are able to compromise other databases where UDID is used, the combination could yield quite a bit of identifying personal information, as this article from May, 2012 lays out: De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint.
As with the recent highly-publicized Mat Honan hack, one security breach on it's own may not be overly troublesome, but the damage can grow exponential if the attackers can breach another service you use.
A: Now that more "truth" has come out, this leak was from a third party company, Blue Toad and by all reputable accounts, the leak did not in fact contain the either volume of UDID or the additional personal data that would strike anyone as "concerning." The leak was of data collected according to the existing policy by Apple and the app store and is not at all unique as hundreds of companies will have that volume and type of data due to the past use of UDID to identify customers.
The leaked document itself is mostly harmless from a technical standpoint, but quite shocking if you expected to be private and now have some details exposed publicly.
It contains one line with the following types of information for each device that is purported to be listed:
UDID, APNS token, device name, device type
Unless you are a programmer and run a service that could push a message through Apple's push notification service (APNS), then you can't really take any action whatsoever based on the leaked file.
If you do have records of transactions that list a UDID or a device name / type and wanted to confirm another piece of information, this file could be used to link two pieces of information together if you already had that information.
The real security ramifications are that this "leak" is from a spreadsheet file that supposedly contains 12 million entries - not the million that were leaked. The best information we have (if you believe the words of the release text which has some mild profanity if you care about that sort of thing) is that the real data that was stolen also had very personal information like zip codes, telephone numbers, addresses and full names of people associated with the UDID and APNS tokens.
That sort of information in a the hands of a skilled person (government employee, hacker, or simply an engineer with a grudge against you) is something that could do damage to most of us in terms of violating our privacy. Nothing in this release would seem to compromise the security of your using the device - but it does make things that would normally be seen as anonymous less so if the FBI is regularly carrying around lists of millions of subscriber information that would let them tie logs of application use to a specific device or a specific person.
The worst case event with the data leaked today would be someone who has already registered with Apple to send push notifications could perhaps attempt to send unsolicited messages to the million devices (assuming the APNS tokens are still valid) or otherwise correlate a device name with an UDID if they had access to sensitive logs or a database from a developer or another entity. This leak doesn't allow remote access in the way that knowing a password and user ID would.
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be4f6d93dff301abedc174c37ff689ba27c4c1d0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mountain Lion - Cycle though windows not working on Terminal Since updating to Mountain Lion, the keyboard shortcut for cycling through windows is not working for me in Terminal (and is driving me nuts!).
Is there any known fix for this issue? The keyboard shortcut shows up on the Window menu as expected, but doesn't work.
I am, of couse, pressing CMD-`, and is not cycling. Selecting the option from the Window menu does cycle through the windows, though.
Update: Although not resolved in Mountain Lion, this got fixed in Mavericks. It was weird: it works properly on Lion and Mavericks, but breaks on Mountain Lion.
A: Check the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard System Preference-- make sure that Move focus to next window is set to your liking (in the Keyboard & Text item) and that there are no conflicts with any other shortcut settings. Barring that, a complete re-install of ML has fixed other quirks that cropped up when I upgraded.
| Q: Mountain Lion - Cycle though windows not working on Terminal Since updating to Mountain Lion, the keyboard shortcut for cycling through windows is not working for me in Terminal (and is driving me nuts!).
Is there any known fix for this issue? The keyboard shortcut shows up on the Window menu as expected, but doesn't work.
I am, of couse, pressing CMD-`, and is not cycling. Selecting the option from the Window menu does cycle through the windows, though.
Update: Although not resolved in Mountain Lion, this got fixed in Mavericks. It was weird: it works properly on Lion and Mavericks, but breaks on Mountain Lion.
A: Check the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard System Preference-- make sure that Move focus to next window is set to your liking (in the Keyboard & Text item) and that there are no conflicts with any other shortcut settings. Barring that, a complete re-install of ML has fixed other quirks that cropped up when I upgraded.
A: I've been using MoLion for months and have never experienced this issue (and I would have). I tested this again just now with several terminal windows open, and no issue.
You are pressing cmd - ` , right?
A: Are you getting 'cycle through windows' confused with 'cycle through tabs'?
Cycle Through Windows shortcut is CMD-` where Cycle Through Tabs is CMD-}
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0b0824c9b0b2f7a38fcad69c6ef05f73eb7dfb25 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What version of Ruby ships with OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)? I have the default Ruby 1.8.7 on 10.7 (Lion), and I'm wondering if Mountain Lion upgrades this to the 1.9.x series.
A: On my 10.8.1 system:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian [ian@Ian-Cs-MacBook-Pro] [15:48]
> which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian [ian@Ian-Cs-MacBook-Pro] [17:49]
> ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]
| Q: What version of Ruby ships with OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)? I have the default Ruby 1.8.7 on 10.7 (Lion), and I'm wondering if Mountain Lion upgrades this to the 1.9.x series.
A: On my 10.8.1 system:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian [ian@Ian-Cs-MacBook-Pro] [15:48]
> which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian [ian@Ian-Cs-MacBook-Pro] [17:49]
> ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]
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18fb66c5d6121d55602bb332c9aa2133dd6d4731 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does "Enable AirPlay over WAN" do? What does AirPlay over WAN do? I have an AirPort Express 802.11n. This was the last generation to hook directly into the outlet.
A: I believe it refers to accepting airplay connections from computers connected to the wired ethernet port on the AirPort Express. The port's primary purpose when the AirPortExpress was first released was to connect to a cable or DSL modem. Apple and many other home router makers refer to this as the WAN connection. However, I think it only supports AirPlay when the AirPort Express is being used to bridge wired devices onto a WiFi network.
I base this on my interpretation of this review of the AirPort Express on Small Net Builder:
Since the Music screen is unique to the Express, I grabbed a copy of it. The screenshot below shows that the controls are pretty simple. The Enable AirPlay over WAN feature really works, since that's where the iTunes server I used for a quick test sat. Administration from the WAN worked just fine, too.
| Q: What does "Enable AirPlay over WAN" do? What does AirPlay over WAN do? I have an AirPort Express 802.11n. This was the last generation to hook directly into the outlet.
A: I believe it refers to accepting airplay connections from computers connected to the wired ethernet port on the AirPort Express. The port's primary purpose when the AirPortExpress was first released was to connect to a cable or DSL modem. Apple and many other home router makers refer to this as the WAN connection. However, I think it only supports AirPlay when the AirPort Express is being used to bridge wired devices onto a WiFi network.
I base this on my interpretation of this review of the AirPort Express on Small Net Builder:
Since the Music screen is unique to the Express, I grabbed a copy of it. The screenshot below shows that the controls are pretty simple. The Enable AirPlay over WAN feature really works, since that's where the iTunes server I used for a quick test sat. Administration from the WAN worked just fine, too.
A: If the AirPort Express is being used to extend your network and plugged into another router via the WAN port, you will be able to use AirPlay from devices connected to your other router.
A: It allows the use of AirPlay from outside your private network. WAN= Wide Area Network.
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2541122946bac96cb1bbed158ac6aa7e51bfa3b0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mountain Lion: Problem With Permissions I recently tried compiling Textmate 2 now that it's open sourced. Followed all the directions hereand downloaded all the dependencies. Now, when I tried to build (using ./configure && ninja) I received the following error:
make: *** [/Users/~/build/TextMate/Frameworks/SoftwareUpdate/fixtures/secret.pem] Error 1
[6/1169] Copy ‘"Frameworks/OakFoundation/src/NSString Additions.h"’…ninja: ERROR: mkdir(/Users/~/build/TextMate/include/OakFoundation): Permission denied
ninja: build stopped: .
Now, I figured that maybe Mountain Lion messed with permissions, so I gave it the ol' sudo try. I still receive a similar error -
rm /Users/jlvillalobos/build/TextMate/Frameworks/SoftwareUpdate/fixtures/secret.pem
[7/1169] Compile ‘Frameworks/scope/src/match.cc’…ninja: ERROR: mkdir(/Users/jlvillalobos/build/TextMate/Frameworks/scope): Permission denied
Now, I'm pretty stuck. I tried just checking my bash profile and I get a permission denied error on that too! I've ran "repair permissions" in disk utility for posterity and getting the same error. Anyone run into similar issues?
A: Looking at the first error message from make it seems as if the paths got configured wrongly by configure. So just rerun it and make sure to specify any required paths in full (without ~).
| Q: Mountain Lion: Problem With Permissions I recently tried compiling Textmate 2 now that it's open sourced. Followed all the directions hereand downloaded all the dependencies. Now, when I tried to build (using ./configure && ninja) I received the following error:
make: *** [/Users/~/build/TextMate/Frameworks/SoftwareUpdate/fixtures/secret.pem] Error 1
[6/1169] Copy ‘"Frameworks/OakFoundation/src/NSString Additions.h"’…ninja: ERROR: mkdir(/Users/~/build/TextMate/include/OakFoundation): Permission denied
ninja: build stopped: .
Now, I figured that maybe Mountain Lion messed with permissions, so I gave it the ol' sudo try. I still receive a similar error -
rm /Users/jlvillalobos/build/TextMate/Frameworks/SoftwareUpdate/fixtures/secret.pem
[7/1169] Compile ‘Frameworks/scope/src/match.cc’…ninja: ERROR: mkdir(/Users/jlvillalobos/build/TextMate/Frameworks/scope): Permission denied
Now, I'm pretty stuck. I tried just checking my bash profile and I get a permission denied error on that too! I've ran "repair permissions" in disk utility for posterity and getting the same error. Anyone run into similar issues?
A: Looking at the first error message from make it seems as if the paths got configured wrongly by configure. So just rerun it and make sure to specify any required paths in full (without ~).
A: When you're installing unix applications on MacOSX the installer needs to to be run as root.
Try typing
./configure && sudo ninja
or just
sudo ninja
given that you've already run configure.
All going well you should be prompted for your password (it won't print asterisks, just type the passowrd and press return.)
If this doesn't work it's probably because you don't have root enabled. Follow the instructions here to do that, then retry.
A: First thing: Never configure or make as root, unless there is a very specific reason.
Second thing: In make: *** [/Users/~/build/TextMate/Frameworks/SoftwareUpdate/fixtures/secret.pem] Error 1: This /Users/~/ looks HORRIBLY WRONG!
To change the ownership of the files back to you run
sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/build/TextMate
Now do a
make clean && ./configure && make all && sudo make install
(make install is such an exception when you MIGHT want to use sudo.)
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7edf3db8e2d8915d0e46bf2918d3de251a3ca163 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does -tef in the extension stand for anything in documents saved to iCloud in ML? When you save a new iWork document under Mountain Lion you are given the default extension of .pages-tef or .numbers-tef. These files appear to be directories and a different format than your standard .pages or .numbers file (I haven't had the chance to create a new Keynote preso yet).
Does 'tef' stand for anything? Are these just 'iCloud compatible' files and they've been dubbed '-tef' as the extension? Apple isn't one to name things without a specific intent and nothing specific comes to mind.
A: This seems to be the iCloud version of the iWork file format. A good article about it (albeit still without explanation of the acronym) can be found on Mac Observer.
| Q: Does -tef in the extension stand for anything in documents saved to iCloud in ML? When you save a new iWork document under Mountain Lion you are given the default extension of .pages-tef or .numbers-tef. These files appear to be directories and a different format than your standard .pages or .numbers file (I haven't had the chance to create a new Keynote preso yet).
Does 'tef' stand for anything? Are these just 'iCloud compatible' files and they've been dubbed '-tef' as the extension? Apple isn't one to name things without a specific intent and nothing specific comes to mind.
A: This seems to be the iCloud version of the iWork file format. A good article about it (albeit still without explanation of the acronym) can be found on Mac Observer.
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52a5c387dcc09f25838bf5073a3e4c31f1591f01 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Search for one letter only In Apple apps with a search feature, how do I only search for one letter?
Let's say I'm reading a math paper, but forgot what the variable "s" meant. In Windows/Linux apps I could just include spaces in my search (" s ") and it found all instances of the lone letter "s". This does not work with my Apple apps and a search for " s " returns all occurrences of the letter "s", ignoring whether the "s" is part of a word or not.
Thanks!
Ps. the specific program I'm using is "Preview".
A: You quote your search string (put the quotes in the query)
" s "
to force Preview to match the exact query
| Q: Search for one letter only In Apple apps with a search feature, how do I only search for one letter?
Let's say I'm reading a math paper, but forgot what the variable "s" meant. In Windows/Linux apps I could just include spaces in my search (" s ") and it found all instances of the lone letter "s". This does not work with my Apple apps and a search for " s " returns all occurrences of the letter "s", ignoring whether the "s" is part of a word or not.
Thanks!
Ps. the specific program I'm using is "Preview".
A: You quote your search string (put the quotes in the query)
" s "
to force Preview to match the exact query
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a678d89941dc214b86741c17203c9d447869bda7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What software can add a Windows-like taskbar to the Mac OS? What's the best Windows-like taskbar for a Mac?
A: Dock is the alternative for taskbar. Once you have Dock visible all the time (default), all the windows will use the remaining spaces.
I assume you are new to mac. I suggest to go through Dock 101 article from Apple. You can also refer Switch 101 - On Windows, I used to...
Welcome to Apple userland :)
| Q: What software can add a Windows-like taskbar to the Mac OS? What's the best Windows-like taskbar for a Mac?
A: Dock is the alternative for taskbar. Once you have Dock visible all the time (default), all the windows will use the remaining spaces.
I assume you are new to mac. I suggest to go through Dock 101 article from Apple. You can also refer Switch 101 - On Windows, I used to...
Welcome to Apple userland :)
A: There is now one. Check out iTaskbar :)
I'm affiliated to the product, but at the moment it's the only product in the category. To create a taskbar on OS X is not as trivial as on other operating systems. ;)
We hope it will be helpful to all those people who, just like us, need a taskbar to work efficiently.
A: Philip, I would recommend you follow jm666 setup as per answer (above).
If you definitely need something that approximates a Windows-like taskbar, I would go with something like Hyperdock :
http://www.techerator.com/2012/02/make-your-mac-more-like-windows-7-with-hyperdock/
To come down firmly on one side of the Windows vs. OS X debate is
somewhat missing the point. There are always going to be things that
one OS does better than the other. Utilities like HyperDock give you
the best of both worlds, and what I like best about this app is that
it works seamlessly, without the flaky unpredictability that I
associate with Windows UI enhancements that I have tried in the past.
Hope this helps.
A: I developed uBar, which is a taskbar for OS X. It is very well maintained and while it is a Windows-style taskbar it follows the OS X aesthetic which is important. Feel free to check it out, I hope you'll enjoy it.
A: Philip, believe me, it is much better spending some time to learn (and settle in) with OS X style of work than looking some Windows taskbar solution.
Assuming that you have a new OS X notebook, you probably have multitouch trackpad too, so try the following:
*
*Go to System preferences (via the Apple icon in the menubar)
*In the General set the following:
Later you will set direct opposites, (automatic scroll bars, jump on the clicked spot) but for the switchers the above is good for a start.
Next, go to Dock and set like:
The minimize-windows-into-application icon will partially simulate the Windows taskbar, so you will get:
where you can clearly see than the "doc" file is minimized into the app-icon and the untitled is opened.
Third: setup full trackpad gestures - click every checkbox on Trackpad preferences. Take some time to learn 3-finger and 4-finger gestures, especially "swipe 4 finger up/down" and move drag with "3-fingers" (instead of click & drag). This is very not-windows-like, but later will thanks to settle in with this.
After a while you will learn to use it automatically, and will find than you don't need a Taskbar. (Because of "Mission control", "Application windows" and "Show desktop" swipes,)
Four: Setup hot corners in the "System preferences -> Mission Control". Click "Hot corners...". My setup is:
In the "Mission control" uncheck "Show dashboard as space" - left-bottom corner will show to you the Dashboard when needed.
The hot corners will help when you don't want use "swipes". The bottom two corners (around the dock) are for the "applications" (Launch Pad & Dashboard), the upper two corners are for "windows" (Current app-windows and Mission control)
The above is my 2cents - maybe someone will suggest better setup - from my experience the above helps my "switchers friends" greatly.
EDIT after 1.5 years.
Because of commnents I want clarify some things. At time of the question, was not here really usable software what behaves exactly as windows taskbar.
Therefore I tried answer with a setup, what should help switchers as much is possible.
It is not easy to have windows-like taskbar - here are several points:
1.) The taskbar's notification area (commonly referred as systray). In the OS X the top menubar is the place where are placed the notification icons like, date, battery and so on. Moving them to some taskbar like sw is probably not easy.
2.) Taskbar's start-menu. With the above hot-corners setup, the "bottom left" corner is the "Lanuchpad", from where the user can launch any installed application. (Can group applications into categories and/or pages.) It is similar (only similar - not the same) as windows start menu.
3.) Some actions, (what are in the windowsish start menu) in the OS X are in the apple menu, like: shutdown, sleep, logout.
4.) Taskbar's quick-launch area. The whole Dock is like (again, only like - not the same) as the windows-taskbar's quick-launch area, from where you can launch frequently used applications. Similarly as in the taskbar, with the right click on the application icon you can see (and switch) to different instaces of running application or can open recently used files)
Soo, if for someone the above sounds as "opinion", sorry for this, but it is not true. I tried (again, only tried) to suggest a solution (with a setup) what should help switchers. A half year later as i wrote my original answer @Krav added the iTaskbar. Feel free to use it. :)
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743ba5c86985de7b05df33fc85041612415b93d4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Multiboot usb stick with Mountain Lion, Windows 7, lInux, Freebsd Looking for way how to carry always an USB stick (16GB) what allow me live rescue boot for different OSes. Is possible manage multiboot USB stick with 3 or 4 operating systems:
*
*Windows 7
*Mountain Lion
*Linux
*Freebsd
Here is probably no problem for the latter 3, but OS X need GUID(?) and therefore here are(?) probably some problems.
Some pointers would be great. Prefering creating the stick on ML/OS-X from original ISO images (Win7, Xubuntu, Freebsd 9.0) and if it is needed for something using VirtualBox.
Ps: If Win7 causes problems, can miss it - so enough to have OSX/Linux/Freebsd
A: OS X has no problems with MBR partitioned disks. It only checks for MBR when you first install the OS, but after that, doesn’t. If you want to be able to reinstall using the USB install disk, you can.
Just restoring the original ISOs to different partitions on the USB disk will be fine, as long as a Mac is concerned. Other legacy computers, (usually built before 2008) may be a problem.
| Q: Multiboot usb stick with Mountain Lion, Windows 7, lInux, Freebsd Looking for way how to carry always an USB stick (16GB) what allow me live rescue boot for different OSes. Is possible manage multiboot USB stick with 3 or 4 operating systems:
*
*Windows 7
*Mountain Lion
*Linux
*Freebsd
Here is probably no problem for the latter 3, but OS X need GUID(?) and therefore here are(?) probably some problems.
Some pointers would be great. Prefering creating the stick on ML/OS-X from original ISO images (Win7, Xubuntu, Freebsd 9.0) and if it is needed for something using VirtualBox.
Ps: If Win7 causes problems, can miss it - so enough to have OSX/Linux/Freebsd
A: OS X has no problems with MBR partitioned disks. It only checks for MBR when you first install the OS, but after that, doesn’t. If you want to be able to reinstall using the USB install disk, you can.
Just restoring the original ISOs to different partitions on the USB disk will be fine, as long as a Mac is concerned. Other legacy computers, (usually built before 2008) may be a problem.
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db0f5e75642548c47b15bc77fdcb613801a01151 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: unable to reach any KDC in realm LOCAL How I am supposed to configure Kerberos on OS X 10.8 ? I heard that this should work by default, just by calling kinit once.
Still, I am on the corporate network (not joined any domain) and run kinit.
All, I got was kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: unable to reach any KDC in realm LOCAL
Note: I do want to make it work without having to join the Windows domain.
/var/log/opendirectory.log shows:
2012-09-05 14:05:16.600904 BST - 81.144675 - Client: mds, UID: 0, EUID: 0, GID: 0, EGID: 0
2012-09-05 14:05:16.600904 BST - 81.144675, Module: SystemCache - Misconfiguration detected - Failed to insert key 'ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEF00000037' for entry '0x7fbf0fa01140' into hash 'UUID' as 'non-authoritative'
A: On macOS the default client does not fall back to TCP.
In your krb.conf prefix your kdc value with tcp/ to force the client to use TCP if your corporate network blocks UDP (A lot of them do).
kdc = tcp/realm.example.com:88
| Q: kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: unable to reach any KDC in realm LOCAL How I am supposed to configure Kerberos on OS X 10.8 ? I heard that this should work by default, just by calling kinit once.
Still, I am on the corporate network (not joined any domain) and run kinit.
All, I got was kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: unable to reach any KDC in realm LOCAL
Note: I do want to make it work without having to join the Windows domain.
/var/log/opendirectory.log shows:
2012-09-05 14:05:16.600904 BST - 81.144675 - Client: mds, UID: 0, EUID: 0, GID: 0, EGID: 0
2012-09-05 14:05:16.600904 BST - 81.144675, Module: SystemCache - Misconfiguration detected - Failed to insert key 'ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEF00000037' for entry '0x7fbf0fa01140' into hash 'UUID' as 'non-authoritative'
A: On macOS the default client does not fall back to TCP.
In your krb.conf prefix your kdc value with tcp/ to force the client to use TCP if your corporate network blocks UDP (A lot of them do).
kdc = tcp/realm.example.com:88
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1f2a15e77b29e6d834cbf7a30597a426e79e699d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Archive to Gmail Fails, but only when using the Archive Button on the Toolbar If I try to archive an email using the toolbar 'archive' button I get this error message:
"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Archive) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: No folder Archive (Failure)."
However, if I manually drag the email to all mail, it archives just fine. Any ideas?
A: Go to Mail.app / Preferences / Accounts / MailBoxes and under Trash, uncheck Store deleted messages on the server.
Usually this does the trick.
| Q: Archive to Gmail Fails, but only when using the Archive Button on the Toolbar If I try to archive an email using the toolbar 'archive' button I get this error message:
"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Archive) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: No folder Archive (Failure)."
However, if I manually drag the email to all mail, it archives just fine. Any ideas?
A: Go to Mail.app / Preferences / Accounts / MailBoxes and under Trash, uncheck Store deleted messages on the server.
Usually this does the trick.
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45d32d0528e922770fb4be3667d8cd85b7d33c56 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does personal hotspot always use cellular data? If I have my iPhone connected to a wifi connection, then put it on personal hotspot, is the device I'm connecting to my iPhone with using cellular data bandwidth, or the wifi bandwidth?
You'd think it's a silly thing. But I'm JUST out of range of a wifi signal with my laptop, so my plan is to put my phone in a window not too far from my desk, and use it almost as an extender.
A: Personal Hotspot mode detaches the device from any network and is intended to make all data flow to and from the cellular account. If you pulled the SIM card your plan just might work as a stunt to connect two laptops in the absence of another router, but it certainly won't extend an existing wireless network in the manner you describe.
| Q: Does personal hotspot always use cellular data? If I have my iPhone connected to a wifi connection, then put it on personal hotspot, is the device I'm connecting to my iPhone with using cellular data bandwidth, or the wifi bandwidth?
You'd think it's a silly thing. But I'm JUST out of range of a wifi signal with my laptop, so my plan is to put my phone in a window not too far from my desk, and use it almost as an extender.
A: Personal Hotspot mode detaches the device from any network and is intended to make all data flow to and from the cellular account. If you pulled the SIM card your plan just might work as a stunt to connect two laptops in the absence of another router, but it certainly won't extend an existing wireless network in the manner you describe.
A: MyWi lets you share a wifi connection over wifi. But it would require jailbreaking
A: It's not a silly thing. I just noticed that someone was connected to my iphone's hotspot while it's connected to my WIFI. I verified my iPad to see if it was the one connected to the hotspot and it wasn't. I guess someone close by "figured out" my hotspot's password. ALWAYS turn off your hotspot while not in use!
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463d45bdf4ebb6c997de127b3aa15ea8ea262b07 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there leftover files when I uninstall an iPhone app? If I remove an app then will the preferences/caches/logs be deleted as wel?
A: No, no files are leftover when deleting an app. iOS apps (and now OS X apps too), are Sandboxed. This means that each App has its own space in disk, with its own directories, which act as the home for the app and its data.
Deleting an app from the iPhone deletes this sandbox, deleting all data associated with the app.
| Q: Are there leftover files when I uninstall an iPhone app? If I remove an app then will the preferences/caches/logs be deleted as wel?
A: No, no files are leftover when deleting an app. iOS apps (and now OS X apps too), are Sandboxed. This means that each App has its own space in disk, with its own directories, which act as the home for the app and its data.
Deleting an app from the iPhone deletes this sandbox, deleting all data associated with the app.
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28961aa0ced5ee80ede8746d7f60dc0cf2177b51 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you switch dictionaries used for the "Tap with three fingers" lookup? Using Mountain Lion, I want to add or change the dictionary used when I tap with three fingers to define a word. The goal is to use a spanish-english dictionary in place of the english dictionary.
A: You select the dictionary in Dictionary.app > Preferences.
For info about adding dictionaries, see
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-dictionaries-for-dictionaryapp.html
| Q: How do you switch dictionaries used for the "Tap with three fingers" lookup? Using Mountain Lion, I want to add or change the dictionary used when I tap with three fingers to define a word. The goal is to use a spanish-english dictionary in place of the english dictionary.
A: You select the dictionary in Dictionary.app > Preferences.
For info about adding dictionaries, see
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-dictionaries-for-dictionaryapp.html
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27685b71448ae9b2bfcc245f30984ca85f4443d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to check what applications are using the most disk space? I have 380GB left on my SSD and was wondering how much space my applications are using. Is there a way to check this?
A: Using the Finder, you can sort the Applications folder (or any other folder) by size, and let it calculate the space inside each folder in addition to sizing the flat files.
*
*The key command Command-Shift-A will open the Applications folder from Finder
*The key command Command-J will Show View Options
Then ensure the checkbox to calculate all sizes is checked. Lastly, click on the size column in the finder window (making sure you are in list view (Command-2) to sort by size. Keep clicking to reverse the sort order if the small applications get sorted to the top.
You will also want to look at your home folder as well as the /Library folder to see if some applications have large media files that you might be able to delete if you don't do movie editing or need all the Garage Band loops for example.
| Q: How to check what applications are using the most disk space? I have 380GB left on my SSD and was wondering how much space my applications are using. Is there a way to check this?
A: Using the Finder, you can sort the Applications folder (or any other folder) by size, and let it calculate the space inside each folder in addition to sizing the flat files.
*
*The key command Command-Shift-A will open the Applications folder from Finder
*The key command Command-J will Show View Options
Then ensure the checkbox to calculate all sizes is checked. Lastly, click on the size column in the finder window (making sure you are in list view (Command-2) to sort by size. Keep clicking to reverse the sort order if the small applications get sorted to the top.
You will also want to look at your home folder as well as the /Library folder to see if some applications have large media files that you might be able to delete if you don't do movie editing or need all the Garage Band loops for example.
A: Try About this Mac / More info / Storage and you'll get something like this:
A: Run Terminal and type the following command:
du -s /Applications/* | sort -nr | head
It will show you the most space consuming applications.
For more advanced solutions, check:
*
*How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying?
*How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?
A: OmniDiskSweeper is free and will do exactly what you are asking for.
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b2f0e457dce9ac2aed1a824ef92e6c3faf965597 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Finder sidebar/Favorites: add MyComputer shortcut? How can I add a shortcut to "MyComputer"/"This Mac" (container of all drives) to the Finder.app sidebar (section: "Favorites), please?
A: Under Finder's Preferences / Sidebar / Devices check your computer's name.
| Q: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Finder sidebar/Favorites: add MyComputer shortcut? How can I add a shortcut to "MyComputer"/"This Mac" (container of all drives) to the Finder.app sidebar (section: "Favorites), please?
A: Under Finder's Preferences / Sidebar / Devices check your computer's name.
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30a622dea930b0c15537dcc9d6a9d45ffbd5f09b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change color of active terminal window I often have a bunch of terminal windows with some various tasks. My problem, however, is that I have a hard time seeing which one is on top. This leads to me often typing [arrow up] + [enter] in the wrong window, one time leading to the execution of "git reset --hard HEAD", trashing a full days work.
So, is there a way to make the inactive terminal window look more... inactive, like changing its background color or something like that?
A: You can add transparency and a blur effect to windows, and you can also set these values seperately for active windows vs inactive windows, making the inactive windows much more transparent for example.
You'll find these settings in Terminal.app Preferences - Settings - Window. Click the colour picker to define them.
| Q: Change color of active terminal window I often have a bunch of terminal windows with some various tasks. My problem, however, is that I have a hard time seeing which one is on top. This leads to me often typing [arrow up] + [enter] in the wrong window, one time leading to the execution of "git reset --hard HEAD", trashing a full days work.
So, is there a way to make the inactive terminal window look more... inactive, like changing its background color or something like that?
A: You can add transparency and a blur effect to windows, and you can also set these values seperately for active windows vs inactive windows, making the inactive windows much more transparent for example.
You'll find these settings in Terminal.app Preferences - Settings - Window. Click the colour picker to define them.
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f4224fccfbbbd5601958c250bfee6a44217e91fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is Mobile Sync - Backup and why is it taking so much space? I was checking my directory and found out that the Folder Backup in Library > Application Support > Mobile Sync > Backup, is taking 13GB of my Harddisk ... What is this and why is taking so much space .. Can I delete it ?
A: It's the folder where iTunes saves the backUps of your iDevice. And it takes so much space because each time you sync a device, previous backUps are not deleted.
Deleting the folder will, then, mean losing those backUps. Doing this regularly is advised for saving HD space. Just make sure to make a new backUp afterwards, and that you won't need those backUps.
You can do that through iTunes too, by:
*
*Opening iTunes / Preferences / Devices.
*A list with all the Devices will be show. Select the one's backUps you want to delete and click Delete Backup.
Note that all of the backUps of that iDevice will be deleted.
| Q: What is Mobile Sync - Backup and why is it taking so much space? I was checking my directory and found out that the Folder Backup in Library > Application Support > Mobile Sync > Backup, is taking 13GB of my Harddisk ... What is this and why is taking so much space .. Can I delete it ?
A: It's the folder where iTunes saves the backUps of your iDevice. And it takes so much space because each time you sync a device, previous backUps are not deleted.
Deleting the folder will, then, mean losing those backUps. Doing this regularly is advised for saving HD space. Just make sure to make a new backUp afterwards, and that you won't need those backUps.
You can do that through iTunes too, by:
*
*Opening iTunes / Preferences / Devices.
*A list with all the Devices will be show. Select the one's backUps you want to delete and click Delete Backup.
Note that all of the backUps of that iDevice will be deleted.
A: I assume that you are referring to ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/Backup. This is the location where backups of iOS devices created by iTunes reside. Each sub-folder represents a different iOS device. If you delete this folder you will be unable to restore your iOS devices to their backed up state from iTunes. if you wish to see a list of backups stored by iTunes, open iTunes, go to the iTunes menu > preferences. Find the Devices tab in preferences and select it and you should see a list of device backups.
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0eb251a7b3985da5d4f044b7a16a53c97def39bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Lion All Files Showing as Type of Document I had an issue where my MacBook Air would not start a couple days back, so I reinstalled the OS. I ran the reinstallation from the recovery partition. Ever since then, almost all of my files show as type "Document", as you can see. Even music does. I do not understand why this is. I even tried reinstalling again and have the same issue. Does anyone know of a fix, this is extremely annoying. I did not have this problem before the reinstallation.
A: Have you tried repairing Disk Permissions using the Disk Utility when booted off your Recovery Partition?
| Q: OS X Lion All Files Showing as Type of Document I had an issue where my MacBook Air would not start a couple days back, so I reinstalled the OS. I ran the reinstallation from the recovery partition. Ever since then, almost all of my files show as type "Document", as you can see. Even music does. I do not understand why this is. I even tried reinstalling again and have the same issue. Does anyone know of a fix, this is extremely annoying. I did not have this problem before the reinstallation.
A: Have you tried repairing Disk Permissions using the Disk Utility when booted off your Recovery Partition?
A: I had a similar issue with video files showing up as Documents.
I fixed it by getting the app Onyx.
Once you get it (make sure it's for the OS X version you are running since latest version is for 10.8 only), go to Maintenance >> Rebuild.
I checked all options and I remember checking "Display of Folders' contents" particularly.
Next, I clicked on Cleaning tap and performed most cleaning scripts.
After that, I did the other maintenance scripts in the app including repairing permissions and restarted.
That took care of the issue for me.
Hope that helps.
A: You do not say if you checked the Finder preferences to verify the option to "Show all filename extensions" is deselected. I doubt this is your problem as this is not selected by default, but it is worth looking into and might be a simple fix.
*
*Select the desktop or a Finder window.
*Open Finder Preference. File > Preferences.
*Select the Advanced tab.
*Uncheck the first option. "Show all filename extensions"
A: I figured this out a while back but have not been here in a while.
If anyone else is having this issue or an issue similar, the Spotlight preferences is where you will fix this. Apparently the index used for Spotlight is is used for more than just Spotlight.
If everything is checked in Spotlight's preferences this issue will go away.
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b575504a5540ad884e4500c1eab07c16cc847dd0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lowest volume is still too loud—how can I make it even lower? The lowest volume I can get by pressing the volume keys is still too loud when I'm wearing headphones. How can I make it even lower?
I have a Mac Mini 2011 (5,1) running Mountain Lion.
A: Pressing ShiftOptionVolume Up/Volume Down allows you to adjust in quarter-box increments. You can also click the volume icon in the menu bar and fine-tune with the slider, or open the Sound panel in System Preferences and get a bigger slider there, which would allow for finer control.
| Q: Lowest volume is still too loud—how can I make it even lower? The lowest volume I can get by pressing the volume keys is still too loud when I'm wearing headphones. How can I make it even lower?
I have a Mac Mini 2011 (5,1) running Mountain Lion.
A: Pressing ShiftOptionVolume Up/Volume Down allows you to adjust in quarter-box increments. You can also click the volume icon in the menu bar and fine-tune with the slider, or open the Sound panel in System Preferences and get a bigger slider there, which would allow for finer control.
A: I’m in what may or may not be a similar situation, with highly-sensitive earpieces. (Shure SE 535s, in case you’re wondering.)
The problem in my case is that the Mac’s headphone output has a certain element of noise to it: for most head- and earphones, this simply isn’t an issue, but for mine, lowering the volume to an acceptable point means leaving me free to hear the background static that much more clearly.
The solution for me is hardware rather than software: a little attenuator that plugs in between the headphone jack and my earpieces. I then turn the volume on the Mac up to 12/16, and use the attenuator to lower the volume to an agreeable level. That combination gives me both fine-grained analog volume control and a conspicuous absence of static. (Shure’s model is the EA650, and sells for a pinch over $16 at the time of writing; there may be others that work just as well.)
A: I just had the same problem with iTunes music being too loud on even the lowest volume setting.
The solution turned out to be that iTunes has a separate volume control. Turning that down reduced the music volume enough that I could turn up the system sound volume a couple of ticks.
This has the added benefit that system sounds are now audible over the music.
A: RobMathers already covered many ways. For terminal geeks, here is another way:
You can use the command line to set exact levels:
$ osascript -e "set Volume 0" # for mute
$ osascript -e "set Volume 7" # for maximum volume
Just checked on my Mountain-Lion-running MacBook: the maximum is 7, not 10 as it was in Leopard. So, when you want the volume level to be 50%, use this:
$ osascript -e "set Volume 3.5" # for 50% volume
and (of course) you can use
$ osascript -e "set Volume 0.1" # for a really LOW volume… ;)
EDIT (june 4, 2014)
I'm surprised with the comments, about the fractional size precison. So, here are some technical details.
*
*audio properties e.g. volume control, are (roughly) managed "at system level". (because this is not a programmer refenece skipping the differences between "Audio Hardware Services" and "Audio Hardware Abstraction Layer")
*the system using an floating point value between 0 and 1. So, for any sound-device (e.g. internal apple speaker, or USB attached speaker) is possible define 0.000001 or 0.999999 or like. The precision is as for 32 bit floating point. (reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1016/_index.html)
*each physical device has different audio properties, whats mean volume 0.5 for internal apple speaker will produce different "decibels" as for example "usb" attached speaker.
For the applescript
*
*Apple script currently converting the entered applescipt decimal value (now between 0 and 7) to system-level value between 0 and 1.
*The importat thing is than the 0-7 decimal values are deprecated now, and can disappear in future OS X releases. (click here for the reference - search for set volume)
*the prefered applescrip method for setting the volume now is:
osascript -e "set volume output volume VALUE"
*
*The VALUE is an integer between 0(mute) and 100(max volume), what is converted to 100 linear system-level volume-value as: 0(mute), 0.01, 0.02 .... 0.99, 1.0 (max).
*is possible to show the current volume by applescript to, e.g.:
osascript -e "get volume settings"
what prints something like:
output volume:10, input volume:92, alert volume:100, output muted:false
So, in the future (when the possibility to set the volume level with decimal values will be removed) will be possible only 101 exact volume levels - as integers between 0 and 100 (inclusive). Of course, this is for the applescript, programmers at system level of course can use any 32bit floating number between 0.0 and 1.0.
If someone want to know, the SHIFT+OPTION+VOLUME sets the next "output volume" (integer) levels: 0 1 3 5 6 8 9 11 13 14 15 17 19 20 22 24 25 26 28 30 31 33 34 36 37 39 40 43 44 45 47 48 50 52 53 55 56 57 60 61 63 64 65 67 68 70 71 74 76 77 79 80 82 83 85 87 88 90 91 93 95 97 98 100, what clearly shows: it using the floating point levels what are rounded to integer with applescript. (therefore mostly skips by 2 but sometimes only by 1)
A: As well as the ways covered in the other answers, there is another simple way to get a volume lower than one box full or one-quarter box full.
*
*Lower the volume to one box full:
*Lower the volume to muted by pressing Volume Down (not Mute):
*Press Mute to un-mute:
This gives you a very quiet volume that is between mute and one box full.
This zero-box-full volume is even quieter than one-quarter box full, the minimum volume you can set with robmathers’s Shift-Option method. However, if sound is playing while you set the volume using this method, the sound is muted for the moment between steps 2 and 3, which can be a little annoying.
A: Very late to the party, but it doesn't seem that anything much changed in these 9 years that the question was posted.
Here's another way I discovered, that no one mentioned yet, which allows to use a very precise slider and doesn't require messing with a terminal.
*
*Fire up spotlight search with cmd+space
*Search for and launch Audio MIDI Setup application
*Choose a device on the left, e.g. "Built-in Output"
*On the right side, find "Master Stream" section.
*Drag the master slider to adjust the value (0.001 is the lowest that I was able to set)
Interestingly, the lowest values, based on the suggestions in this thread are:
*
*Using just the Volume Down button: 0.063
*Shift + Option + Volume Down: 0.016
*osascript -e "set Volume 0.1": 0.014
*osascript -e "set Volume 0.003": 0.001 (seems that setting to 0.002 and 0.001 also works, although it shows as 0 in the MIDI settings and I'm not sure that there's a difference).
At least on my machine, the 0.001 value in the MIDI app is noticeably quieter than the lowest setting of Shift + Option + Volume Down
A: When you hold SHIFT+ALTwhile pressing Volume UP/DOWN, you can change the volume in 1/4 increments.
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27d33bdfbd8dc69901b2c98ebf83224fb5d0cef9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Grey login screen after enabling encryption After turning on encryption with FileVault on my MacBook Air with Mountain Lion my login screen went gray. Is there a way to go back to the default one?
The grey one
The default one
A: Nope, you can’t. When FileVault is enabled, the disk needs to be decrypted on every boot. As the computer can’t access files on the disk, It generates a simple login screen so that you can enter your password and decrypt the disk. This UI is hardcoded into the firmware of your computer, and can’t be changed.
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15823532#15823532
When your Mac first starts up, EFI-boot takes over to decide what to do. It either
*
*continues to bring up the system to the typical OSX login screen, which is managed by OSX's system preferences, or
*it starts a special EFI pre-boot where it displays the FV2 unlock screen with the icons of designated OSX accounts approved to unlock the disk. Once you log on, the EFI unlock sequence carries forth your credentials, performing a single signon.
| Q: Grey login screen after enabling encryption After turning on encryption with FileVault on my MacBook Air with Mountain Lion my login screen went gray. Is there a way to go back to the default one?
The grey one
The default one
A: Nope, you can’t. When FileVault is enabled, the disk needs to be decrypted on every boot. As the computer can’t access files on the disk, It generates a simple login screen so that you can enter your password and decrypt the disk. This UI is hardcoded into the firmware of your computer, and can’t be changed.
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15823532#15823532
When your Mac first starts up, EFI-boot takes over to decide what to do. It either
*
*continues to bring up the system to the typical OSX login screen, which is managed by OSX's system preferences, or
*it starts a special EFI pre-boot where it displays the FV2 unlock screen with the icons of designated OSX accounts approved to unlock the disk. Once you log on, the EFI unlock sequence carries forth your credentials, performing a single signon.
A: I'm afraid it's not common knowledge how to change this (yet). This is the default behaviour when enabling FileVault, and this login background cannot be altered using a standard control that Apple built.
A: That's worked great for me:
OS X 10.8.2 included one important change to Apple’s fdesetup FileVault 2 management tool. fdesetup now has the authrestart verb, which allows a FileVault 2-encrypted Mac to restart and bypass the FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen. Instead, the Mac reboots as a unlocked system and goes straight to the regular login window.
When you run sudo fdesetup authrestart, it asks for a password or recovery key. The password must be an account that has been enabled for FileVault 2 (i.e. an account that shows up at the FV2 pre-boot login screen.) After that, it puts an unlock key in system memory and reboots. On reboot, the reboot process automatically clears the unlock key from memory.
Source
A: You can customise your login screen as shown in this post.
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f8a175538fdc0338ca1d931dc4da9fd95cf8decb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What programs exist to find and delete "orphan files" left after deleting an Application? I have transferred my system from Mac to Mac for over 15 years. I have preference files and other plists lurking around in my system for programs I tested years ago.
Is there a smart program that could point me to these orphan files knowing that the application that created them is not on my system?
A: If you are willing to use Terminal.app you can use find to identify files/folders which haven't been accessed for a long time.
*
*find ~/Library/Preferences -atime +52w will list all prefences which haven't been accessed in the last 52 weeks.
*find -d ~/Library/Preferences -atime +52w -ok rm '{}' \; will ask whether you want to delete it file by file
and if you don't want to get asked for each file, run
find -d ~/Library/Preferences -atime +52w -delete
| Q: What programs exist to find and delete "orphan files" left after deleting an Application? I have transferred my system from Mac to Mac for over 15 years. I have preference files and other plists lurking around in my system for programs I tested years ago.
Is there a smart program that could point me to these orphan files knowing that the application that created them is not on my system?
A: If you are willing to use Terminal.app you can use find to identify files/folders which haven't been accessed for a long time.
*
*find ~/Library/Preferences -atime +52w will list all prefences which haven't been accessed in the last 52 weeks.
*find -d ~/Library/Preferences -atime +52w -ok rm '{}' \; will ask whether you want to delete it file by file
and if you don't want to get asked for each file, run
find -d ~/Library/Preferences -atime +52w -delete
A: OnyX has several cleaning options and might be worth a try.
Other than that, you could check the installation receipts in /Library/Receipts and ~/Library/Receipts. Applications that are installed via installers should write to this directory with what they've installed and where. You could inspect this for programs that you've 'uninstalled' and manually remove the lurking files.
A: I'm not connected to the company but if you want a paid app In the past I have used App Zapper.
It is a drag and drop app. You drag the app to the window and it shows all dependencies for you to delete or not. I did a clean install for ML so I haven't used it in quite some time and I'm afraid I don't recall the cost but I remember it was not expensive.
UPDATE: It cost $12.95; More than I remembered.
Perhaps Pacifist could be used; Open the uninstalled version of the app in Pacifist (drag it there) and look to see what gets installed, then remove those items?
A: We can see the apps previously installed in our macOS with a terminal command:
ls -la /private/var/db/receipts/
Then we can use their codename to locate related files:
mdfind [app_name]
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95b21a6064fb371cddce080c478f5c1e79796874 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: check mail for certain word before sending I have mail templates with placeholders for names (ex. Dear XXXXXX).
Is it possible to make apple mail check the content of my mail when sending and to stop an email from getting send out when it finds my placeholders?
A: Are you committed to using just Mail.app?
If you go to http://macupdate.com and search for Mail Merge there are a page of hits. At first blush, this one seemed to be right up your alley, but I may not understand fully what you are looking for.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11731/mailmergeapp
Claims to use your address book, and a composed message, and it does the substituting.
If your outgoing messages are batched, take a look at external software for sending out email. In my other life I use Mail Chimp to send out news letters, but there are many many others, with various features.
A final possibility is to abandon Mail.app alltogether, and throw together a perl script that does the substitutions, and makes a call to /bin/mail for sending.
| Q: check mail for certain word before sending I have mail templates with placeholders for names (ex. Dear XXXXXX).
Is it possible to make apple mail check the content of my mail when sending and to stop an email from getting send out when it finds my placeholders?
A: Are you committed to using just Mail.app?
If you go to http://macupdate.com and search for Mail Merge there are a page of hits. At first blush, this one seemed to be right up your alley, but I may not understand fully what you are looking for.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11731/mailmergeapp
Claims to use your address book, and a composed message, and it does the substituting.
If your outgoing messages are batched, take a look at external software for sending out email. In my other life I use Mail Chimp to send out news letters, but there are many many others, with various features.
A final possibility is to abandon Mail.app alltogether, and throw together a perl script that does the substitutions, and makes a call to /bin/mail for sending.
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f946a40347e36b19bcc09f87ea8c597135a1b16d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In Keynote, is there any way to assign shortcut keys to select specific fonts? I'm writing a series of lectures where I use a different font to indicate code. Is there any way to assign new shortcut keys/key combinations to select the two fonts I want?
A: Not by default, but according to Apple's Keynote shortcut page you can use:
Copy paragraph style Option-Command-C
Paste paragraph style Option-Command-V
Better than nothing, I hope.
| Q: In Keynote, is there any way to assign shortcut keys to select specific fonts? I'm writing a series of lectures where I use a different font to indicate code. Is there any way to assign new shortcut keys/key combinations to select the two fonts I want?
A: Not by default, but according to Apple's Keynote shortcut page you can use:
Copy paragraph style Option-Command-C
Paste paragraph style Option-Command-V
Better than nothing, I hope.
A: I didn't find any way to modify the style of the selection, but you could use UI scripting to select a font from the format bar.
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Keynote"
tell pop up button 1 of window 1
click
click menu item "Menlo" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
You could assign shortcuts to the scripts with FastScripts or by creating Automator services.
A: I don't know any easy-simple way, but (as usual) Automator and scripting can provide some help.
The basic idea is:
*
*You write the text with the Keynote's default font.
*Select the text.
*Press a hotkey - this will run the Automator script and replace the font for the selected text.
so, to make this work:
*
*Start Automator.
*Select the type "Service".
*At the top change "text" to "rich text" and set the checkbox "Output replaces…".
*From the Library in the left side drag into the right side the following actions. (You can use the search field to quickly locate the needed actions.)
*
*"Copy to Clipboard"
*"Run Shell Script" (and check the box "Ignore this action's input" in the action's Options)
*"Get Contents of Clipboard"
into the "Run Shell Script" action enter:
pbpaste -Prefer rtf | textutil -stdin -convert rtf -font 'Menlo' -fontsize 32 -stdout | pbcopy
Replace the Menlo with your wanted font name and change the 32 to the needed size.
All the above is sounds complicated, but it is much faster to do it as reading the above. ;) Here's what your Automator screen should look like when you're done with the above steps:
Save and name the service, for example, as "SetMyFont". Now you have a new "Service", so let's check it out:
*
*Start Keynote (or TextEdit or whatever program you'll want to use this Service in).
*Select some text that you want to change the font of.
*Go to menu: Keynote -> Services and select your previously named service, e.g. "SetMyFont".
*Your selected text should now appear in the new font.
If the service works, you now should add a global hotkey for it:
*
*Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
*In the "Services" tab, search for your service name, e.g. "SetMyFont". It should be in the "Text" group.
*Select the checkbox and add a shortcut. (see screenshot)
*
*And you're done!
A bit complicated to set up, but it works and when you have lots of text, it can speed up the formatting a bit.
(Somebody will likely suggest much simpler solution using AppleScript directly with Keynote.)
When you've finished the work and don't need the service anymore, you can remove the "SetMyFont.workflow" from the ~/Library/Services, or uncheck that checkbox in the Keyboard preference pane.
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