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1f75978febb6a3d8c231bc09bf5271a43c845889 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there anything like the clipboard manager Ditto for Mac? I'm looking for a clipboard manager like Ditto for Mac:
Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, and custom formats.
Meaning Ditto can store about 40 items. Ditto has some extra utilities:
*
*searching in items
*parsing plain text
*keeping images as well
A: The one I've found (Maccy) which is available free (yet if you like it, you should donate as well) and exactly like Ditto, simple and focused.
For details:
*
*here is the link to it's official site: Maccy.app
*github link: Maccy
While deciding on that one, I've searched and tried a couple others but didn't like as much as Maccy:
*
*flycut
*CopyClip - paid app, but does its job well
*ClipMenu
| Q: Is there anything like the clipboard manager Ditto for Mac? I'm looking for a clipboard manager like Ditto for Mac:
Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, and custom formats.
Meaning Ditto can store about 40 items. Ditto has some extra utilities:
*
*searching in items
*parsing plain text
*keeping images as well
A: The one I've found (Maccy) which is available free (yet if you like it, you should donate as well) and exactly like Ditto, simple and focused.
For details:
*
*here is the link to it's official site: Maccy.app
*github link: Maccy
While deciding on that one, I've searched and tried a couple others but didn't like as much as Maccy:
*
*flycut
*CopyClip - paid app, but does its job well
*ClipMenu
A: I use Alfred's clipboard history. It's searchable, it can keep history for up to three months, it has a nice keyboard-centered UI, and it doesn't require running other
applications on the background. It doesn't support images or rich text, but I mostly work with plain text anyway.
A: Try this one out: https://github.com/naotaka/ClipMenu. It's free and you could use shortcuts for it.
A: another one is Flycut which still runs perfectly well in OS10.10.3.
A: CopyQ is the alternative I've got for my Macs. It supports richtext, images and has search. You can also change the key combination to show the list and choose what to paste without using mouse.
A: If you just want clipboard history, check out Jumpcut. Manages your clipboard history just fine. To install:
brew install jumpcut
It’s also a common feature in applications like Alfred (as noted by Lauri Ranta), LaunchBar and Keyboard Maestro.
A: iClip is a little old, but still works well. I believe the only thing it doesn't do is search in items. Other than that, it does everything you want and more: images, plaintext, stores up to 99 items, etc.
A: I just started using quicksilver and it seems to some support for images, but I need it mostly for text. I like that I was able to duplicate Ditto's fast functionality by following this guide.
There's a little bit of setup, but looks like I'm going to be sticking with it for my OS X coding purposes.
Plus it feels good to be back with quicksilver, I remember using it way before spotlight search was any good.
A: CopyClip is available for free in AppStore
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2ac836c994feea9ba7cd04a0d3994cc57852af8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fantastical: how to add alerts/reminders in text I'm a big Fantastical fan, but I can't work out the syntax to add a reminder/alert to a new event:
For example:
Lunch with John at 12:00, alert 15 min before
should give an event with the title "Lunch with John", at 12 o'clock today, and add an alert 15 min before. But it doesn't :)
I tried a lot of different combinations to no avail.
According to some blog post this should be working:
http://flexibits.com/blog/2012/05/1-3-add-reminders-to-fantastical/
Any clue anyone?
Thanks!
A: From the same blog post:
If you’d like to force Fantastical to create a reminder regardless of what you enter, you can start a sentence with “reminder”, “todo”, “task”, or “√” (⌥ option + V).
Also…
You can quickly set the priority of a new reminder by adding exclamation points to the end of your reminder. More exclamation points will increase the priority of the reminder.
| Q: Fantastical: how to add alerts/reminders in text I'm a big Fantastical fan, but I can't work out the syntax to add a reminder/alert to a new event:
For example:
Lunch with John at 12:00, alert 15 min before
should give an event with the title "Lunch with John", at 12 o'clock today, and add an alert 15 min before. But it doesn't :)
I tried a lot of different combinations to no avail.
According to some blog post this should be working:
http://flexibits.com/blog/2012/05/1-3-add-reminders-to-fantastical/
Any clue anyone?
Thanks!
A: From the same blog post:
If you’d like to force Fantastical to create a reminder regardless of what you enter, you can start a sentence with “reminder”, “todo”, “task”, or “√” (⌥ option + V).
Also…
You can quickly set the priority of a new reminder by adding exclamation points to the end of your reminder. More exclamation points will increase the priority of the reminder.
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8a2faee78091a3e075d4a749a2c5b7e931479af4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View the current clock Speed of a CPU in OS X? Does anyone know of a utility to see the current speed of the processor?
To be clear, I'm not looking for the model/speed of the CPU, but rather what the CPU is currently clocked at (i.e. it will reduce speed if it overheats).
A: well there are two ways, if you want to see your processor load you can check activity monitor.
but if you want the actual frequencies here "Intel Power Gadget" is what you are looking for:
(thank Yevgeni for the link)
(UPDATE: APP MAY NOT WORK PROPERLY ON NEWER LAPTOPS os x froze on yosemite)
i just installed it to and it works GREAT
(side note, if you want super accurate readings, keep in mind, the intel application itself, uses some (altho minimal) power)
| Q: View the current clock Speed of a CPU in OS X? Does anyone know of a utility to see the current speed of the processor?
To be clear, I'm not looking for the model/speed of the CPU, but rather what the CPU is currently clocked at (i.e. it will reduce speed if it overheats).
A: well there are two ways, if you want to see your processor load you can check activity monitor.
but if you want the actual frequencies here "Intel Power Gadget" is what you are looking for:
(thank Yevgeni for the link)
(UPDATE: APP MAY NOT WORK PROPERLY ON NEWER LAPTOPS os x froze on yosemite)
i just installed it to and it works GREAT
(side note, if you want super accurate readings, keep in mind, the intel application itself, uses some (altho minimal) power)
A: There is a tool that does that called Intel® Power Gadget.
It will show the current load and Frequency
And Version 3.5.3 on macOS (latest is 3.5.5):
A: If you open Activity Monitor (Applicantions > Utilities > Activity Monitor), you can do two things to get a visual of current processor performance:
1) You can set the Dock icon to display the performance:
In Activity Monitor, go to View > Dock Icon > Show CPU Usage. As a bonus, the performance bars are also shown while Option+Tab'ing through apps.
2) Go to Window > CPU History. This will display a floating window with CPU performance:
It can be set to to always stay on top of other windows too.
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dca843f414bd84bbfddf75e8bc1658f740caa688 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Microsoft Publisher: Mac Equivalent? Microsoft Publisher is an excellent piece of software on Windows. Does a Mac equivalent of Microsoft Publisher exist in its own entity ?
A: What exactly are you trying to create?
You may be going to great expense and, yet be able to accomplish what you need with Pages. Pages is available on the Mac App Store and quite robust.
| Q: Microsoft Publisher: Mac Equivalent? Microsoft Publisher is an excellent piece of software on Windows. Does a Mac equivalent of Microsoft Publisher exist in its own entity ?
A: What exactly are you trying to create?
You may be going to great expense and, yet be able to accomplish what you need with Pages. Pages is available on the Mac App Store and quite robust.
A: If you want a full list of Publisher alternatives for Mac, this may be helpful. I've seen Apple Pages produce some nice documents though it may be more simplistic than Publisher in many respects.
If you are open to a web-based option, our product Lucidpress may serve you well since you can use it on any platform.
A: I'm going to vote for QuarkXpress as a replacement for Publisher. Serious pros either use InDesign or QuarkXpress, and the latter has the advantage of not requiring a subscription fee, as Adobe products do. It's not as cheap as iStudio Publisher, but it's much more feature-rich. As they say, you get what you pay for.
A: You can open Publisher files on Mac using a conversion tool and then convert the .pub file to PDF and open it that way. MS Word also has a Publishing Layout View function which is similar to Publisher. However, for the best alternative, I think Pages does a pretty god job although it's more like Word. For Pros, go with Adobe InDesign. This is a pretty good article on alternatives to Publisher on Mac too.
A: A suitable alternative maybe seen in iStudio Publisher, an easy-to-use page layout application for desktop publishing on Mac, allowing the creation of professional quality documents with ease, including newsletters, brochures, adverts to name but a few.
Video tutorials & a rapid start guide also aid novices to the most experienced of users.
It is considered an excellent resource for those who bemoan the fact that MS Publisher is not available on the Mac platform.
From Apple's App store it is $17.99. Purchasing directly from the website above however gives a 30 day free trial period.
A: No one has pointed out here that although there is no version of Publisher for Mac, some of the functionality of Publisher is available in Word for Mac by selecting the "Publishing Layout View". However, it is nowhere near as functional as Publisher and you're definitely better-off using one of the many excellent Publisher alternatives on Mac particularly InDesign or Quark.
A: The Best option is definitely InDesign. But it's also probably the most expensive one.
It's the reference in Desktop publishing software.
Additional information:
Adobe InDesign is available for Windows and Macintosh. It is a high-end industry standard program used by the publishing industry for producing all kinds of documents up to and including internationally-renowned newspapers and magazines. At this time it is only available by a $50 per month subscription to Adobe's Creative Cloud service. Needless to say, it is much more powerful and advanced than Microsoft Publisher, which is designed for low-end office and small-business newsletter production.
A: If you want to write try Apache OpenOffice.
A: You may also try Swift Publisher from BeLight Software, available in Mac App Store or from their web site (a free trial is available).
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e326b3537b20053b6e0d86896c7f1fb1f8a28b80 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Connecting a VGA monitor via Thunderbolt to a MacBook Pro I have a MacBook Pro 13.3" with OSX 10.8.4, which I use mostly at home and at workplace to connect to external monitor.
At home, I have monitor with HDMI input and at my workplace with VGA input. I'm using a Thunderbolt MiniDisplay port to VGA and a Thunderbolt MiniDisplay port to HDMI cable convertors.
When I connect the monitor with the HDMI input at home it works perfectly and it connects quickly; that doesn't happen with the VGA monitor. When I connect it, the MacBook detects the monitor, but the monitor is not showing anything and goes to sleep mode.
Sometimes opening and closing my laptop helps, but not always.
After restarting the MacBook, I'm able to connect.
It's not comfortable to always restart the laptop, since I mostly leave it in sleep mode without closing applications. Does anyone have the same problem and found other solutions to this problem? How should I connect a VGA monitor without restarting the MacBook?
A: Open System Preferences → Display.
Hold ⌥option which will change the ‘Gather Windows’ button to ‘Detect Displays’.
Clicking it might detect your VGA.
| Q: Connecting a VGA monitor via Thunderbolt to a MacBook Pro I have a MacBook Pro 13.3" with OSX 10.8.4, which I use mostly at home and at workplace to connect to external monitor.
At home, I have monitor with HDMI input and at my workplace with VGA input. I'm using a Thunderbolt MiniDisplay port to VGA and a Thunderbolt MiniDisplay port to HDMI cable convertors.
When I connect the monitor with the HDMI input at home it works perfectly and it connects quickly; that doesn't happen with the VGA monitor. When I connect it, the MacBook detects the monitor, but the monitor is not showing anything and goes to sleep mode.
Sometimes opening and closing my laptop helps, but not always.
After restarting the MacBook, I'm able to connect.
It's not comfortable to always restart the laptop, since I mostly leave it in sleep mode without closing applications. Does anyone have the same problem and found other solutions to this problem? How should I connect a VGA monitor without restarting the MacBook?
A: Open System Preferences → Display.
Hold ⌥option which will change the ‘Gather Windows’ button to ‘Detect Displays’.
Clicking it might detect your VGA.
A: plugging thunderbolt into Mac last worked for me
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26901c636b516ec96f7041a878a071788551b9cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)? How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)? How do I change it?
One of my friend gifted me a Macbook Pro as a gift, and we don't know how to change its Apple ID. He has his Apple ID and password which works perfectly with this Macbook. After changing it, will updating to OS X 10.7 or reinstalling online possible?
Does this process completely disconnect from the previous Apple ID and connect with the new one?
A: System Preferences -> iCloud will tell you what Apple ID is currently being used on that computer and give you the option to sign out and change it if you wish.
I'm unsure about the matters of updating ML. I think it will still work, but I can't say for sure.
| Q: How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)? How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)? How do I change it?
One of my friend gifted me a Macbook Pro as a gift, and we don't know how to change its Apple ID. He has his Apple ID and password which works perfectly with this Macbook. After changing it, will updating to OS X 10.7 or reinstalling online possible?
Does this process completely disconnect from the previous Apple ID and connect with the new one?
A: System Preferences -> iCloud will tell you what Apple ID is currently being used on that computer and give you the option to sign out and change it if you wish.
I'm unsure about the matters of updating ML. I think it will still work, but I can't say for sure.
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7891a886378127a736c457dee699ad65bd65d1ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Send short message to another Mac on the LAN I am looking for an OS X application that will allow me to send a short message (URL, etc.) to another Mac running on the same LAN or WiFi.
I have two Macs at work, my company iMac and personal MacBook Pro, sitting side-by-side. Sometimes I read something on one and want to send the URL to the other. I have Instapaper, but that is overkill for this simple task.
Any ideas?
A: Try this:
*
*keep a text file you use for sending text in a folder on your desktop
*in Terminal run
cat ~/Desktop/TRANSIT/this_message.txt |
ssh user@remotehost "cat >> ~/Desktop/TRANSIT/this_message.txt"
You can then also create an automator action that watches the folder, TRANSIT in my example that executes the above bash command every time you drop a file in the folder...
| Q: Send short message to another Mac on the LAN I am looking for an OS X application that will allow me to send a short message (URL, etc.) to another Mac running on the same LAN or WiFi.
I have two Macs at work, my company iMac and personal MacBook Pro, sitting side-by-side. Sometimes I read something on one and want to send the URL to the other. I have Instapaper, but that is overkill for this simple task.
Any ideas?
A: Try this:
*
*keep a text file you use for sending text in a folder on your desktop
*in Terminal run
cat ~/Desktop/TRANSIT/this_message.txt |
ssh user@remotehost "cat >> ~/Desktop/TRANSIT/this_message.txt"
You can then also create an automator action that watches the folder, TRANSIT in my example that executes the above bash command every time you drop a file in the folder...
A: Messages app on Lion or Mountain Lion supports Bonjour discovery which lets computers discover other devices using Messages app on your local network without needing a central server setup.
Bonjour is not on by default, but you can find the option under Preferences, or simply ⌘+, to open up the panel. Select the account page, and you will find Bonjour in the sidebar.
Turn it on and you're good to go.
Now to retrieve the list of people on your local network, simply ⌘+1 to bring up the buddy list, it is also available under the Windows menu item.
A: You can also use netcat which is built into OSX and many *nix OSes to build a simple chat server:
On your first box (server) type the following in terminal:
nc -n -v -l 10001(or choose your own port here)
On your second box (client) type:
nc -n -v 192.168.10.1(IP address of first box) 10001(port chosen by first box)
Edit: -l and -p cannot be used together.
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8493d606b3da07e95cc253084857c80f0a121306 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Deleting files doesn't free up space I moved away (to an external drive) about 30 GB of files from a drive (startup disk) that had 60 GB of free space. After the move it still shows only 60 GB of free space, not 90, as I would expect. The trash is emptied.
I tried rebooting and verifying the disk (no problems found), but it didn't change anything.
How can I diagnose and fix the problem?
Note: this is what happened during the move. I deleted the "washed out" items and repeated the move.
Update: The space was being taken up by Time Machine's Mobile Backups feature. This has solved the problem.
A: The washed out appearance happened to me once on a failed copy, in my case the files all had an improper creation date. In fact changing the date on the file fixed the issue for me. I think I used the info on this page to change the created date of the files. http://blog.grapii.com/2010/07/change-a-files-creationmodified-date-on-mac-os-x/
| Q: Deleting files doesn't free up space I moved away (to an external drive) about 30 GB of files from a drive (startup disk) that had 60 GB of free space. After the move it still shows only 60 GB of free space, not 90, as I would expect. The trash is emptied.
I tried rebooting and verifying the disk (no problems found), but it didn't change anything.
How can I diagnose and fix the problem?
Note: this is what happened during the move. I deleted the "washed out" items and repeated the move.
Update: The space was being taken up by Time Machine's Mobile Backups feature. This has solved the problem.
A: The washed out appearance happened to me once on a failed copy, in my case the files all had an improper creation date. In fact changing the date on the file fixed the issue for me. I think I used the info on this page to change the created date of the files. http://blog.grapii.com/2010/07/change-a-files-creationmodified-date-on-mac-os-x/
A: I'm thinking there's a permissions issue with the faded icons.
Maybe open a terminal and try to sudo rm -r whatever is left?
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85a261962762ffd0ef2bf2430914ddf1c118bede | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get screen to display a notification or indicator when Caps Lock is turned on or toggled? I'm on OS X Mountain Lion and would like to know how to do this. I know the button has a light to indicate, but I'd like have and indication on the screen.
A: CapSee Notifies You When Caps Lock Is On!
The little app shows you huge icon when caps in on!
| Q: How to get screen to display a notification or indicator when Caps Lock is turned on or toggled? I'm on OS X Mountain Lion and would like to know how to do this. I know the button has a light to indicate, but I'd like have and indication on the screen.
A: CapSee Notifies You When Caps Lock Is On!
The little app shows you huge icon when caps in on!
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26d95abdc2478760b2bf5c1e2af31a8f9dd0b588 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can an iPad be charged while acting as a USB host? I have an iPad that I would like to leave semi-permanently connected to a USB hub (connected to a couple of MIDI controllers and some USB speakers). As it stands, I have to remember to unplug it periodically and plug in the charging cable.
I've been looking for a solution that would let me keep the iPad charged while also keeping it connected. Thinking about it, I realized I don't know if this something supported by the USB standard (let alone by the iPad specifically).
Is it even possible to charge an iPad while it's acting as a USB host?
A: Personal experience, I've never it.
But USB specification actually has defined such standard, under USB On-The-Go (OTG). A connector named Micro-AB plug will allow a device to be charged and enter host mode. This is also mentioned here on another Stack Exchange site.
Back to the question, is it possible? Probably no. According to this Wikipedia article about Lightning. A lightning-enabled device can act as host to power accessories or as client to be charged, but it uses either...or, so not at the same time.
| Q: Can an iPad be charged while acting as a USB host? I have an iPad that I would like to leave semi-permanently connected to a USB hub (connected to a couple of MIDI controllers and some USB speakers). As it stands, I have to remember to unplug it periodically and plug in the charging cable.
I've been looking for a solution that would let me keep the iPad charged while also keeping it connected. Thinking about it, I realized I don't know if this something supported by the USB standard (let alone by the iPad specifically).
Is it even possible to charge an iPad while it's acting as a USB host?
A: Personal experience, I've never it.
But USB specification actually has defined such standard, under USB On-The-Go (OTG). A connector named Micro-AB plug will allow a device to be charged and enter host mode. This is also mentioned here on another Stack Exchange site.
Back to the question, is it possible? Probably no. According to this Wikipedia article about Lightning. A lightning-enabled device can act as host to power accessories or as client to be charged, but it uses either...or, so not at the same time.
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d9a5af775da1dc43fb413a28cbb9c931e5b88389 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MAC OS X 10.8.4 Login Stuck on password - Restart logind service? I have a remote MAC that is stuck on the login screen for the local user. The login screen is stuck right after the password was entered. I can login to the remote MAC with ssh and run commands. This MAC is hosting a database for other users so I would rather not restart it if possible.
Is there a command I can run that would restart the core service logind so that I do not have to restart the computer?
If the answer is no, can I restart the computer using sudo shutdown -r now remotely over ssh?
A: It seems like you could run killall loginwindow to restart the login window process which should stop the authentication attempt.
And yes, sudo shutdown -r now should force the remote Mac to reboot immediately.
| Q: MAC OS X 10.8.4 Login Stuck on password - Restart logind service? I have a remote MAC that is stuck on the login screen for the local user. The login screen is stuck right after the password was entered. I can login to the remote MAC with ssh and run commands. This MAC is hosting a database for other users so I would rather not restart it if possible.
Is there a command I can run that would restart the core service logind so that I do not have to restart the computer?
If the answer is no, can I restart the computer using sudo shutdown -r now remotely over ssh?
A: It seems like you could run killall loginwindow to restart the login window process which should stop the authentication attempt.
And yes, sudo shutdown -r now should force the remote Mac to reboot immediately.
A: Log in as an admin user via SSH and run
ps aux | grep -i loginwindow
Look for the PID of the login process of the local user and then do
sudo kill -9 <PID of user's loginwindow process>
to terminate it.
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aeec0de947a1117931685bea58b635499a7749e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where are the system spellchecking dictionaries? I would like to use the spellchecking dictionaries bundled with OS X from the command line (hunspell), but can't seem to find them. In /System/Library/Spelling there are only 2 files pl_PL.{aff,dic}, and find / -name '*.dic' revealed nothing.
I know I can dowload dictionaries from OpenOffice etc., but I'd like to find the ones bundled with OS X.
EDIT To clarify, there are at least two kinds of dictionaries in OS X:
*
*Definitions used in Dictionary.app. I'm not interested in those.
*Word lists used by the system spellchecker (red dotted lines). I know OS X uses hunspell because the hunspell website says so, and there are numerous posts on how to add new ones (1, 2). Just, I don't want to add new ones but use the English one that obviously comes with the system.
A: The spelling dictionaries you are interested in appear to be located in the following location (checked on 10.8.4 and 10.6.8):
/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources/
The word lists are stored in this directory by language, so U.S. English is in the English.lproj folder.
However, these files are stored in a binary format that I haven't deciphered yet...
| Q: Where are the system spellchecking dictionaries? I would like to use the spellchecking dictionaries bundled with OS X from the command line (hunspell), but can't seem to find them. In /System/Library/Spelling there are only 2 files pl_PL.{aff,dic}, and find / -name '*.dic' revealed nothing.
I know I can dowload dictionaries from OpenOffice etc., but I'd like to find the ones bundled with OS X.
EDIT To clarify, there are at least two kinds of dictionaries in OS X:
*
*Definitions used in Dictionary.app. I'm not interested in those.
*Word lists used by the system spellchecker (red dotted lines). I know OS X uses hunspell because the hunspell website says so, and there are numerous posts on how to add new ones (1, 2). Just, I don't want to add new ones but use the English one that obviously comes with the system.
A: The spelling dictionaries you are interested in appear to be located in the following location (checked on 10.8.4 and 10.6.8):
/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources/
The word lists are stored in this directory by language, so U.S. English is in the English.lproj folder.
However, these files are stored in a binary format that I haven't deciphered yet...
A: Under macOS Catalina...
There are two locations:
*
*/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources/AppleSpell.8
*/Users/${HOME}/Library/Dictionaries/
The first is the system spell check dictionary and the second is the user dictionary that is created/modified when the user adds a learned word. The second one can be edited using any standard text editor.
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9ba9fb32472d6d02b6ceaea8f0c8ee586acf3fbd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I download all MP3 files from a web site? I am wondering if there is any software available in OS X that can download all mp3s or specific type of file from a URL. For e.g. I have a url http://www.parweztv.com/Khan%20Adeeb/SURA-04/ and I want to grab all mp3 from this url instead of right clicking one by one and saving it.
Also wondering, if that can be done using wget or some terminal command in OS X?
A: My recommendation would be SiteSucker. It's a great (free) application! It will allow you to download folders from a site. So, just enter in your URL and click "Download"
SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive, duplicating the site's directory structure. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.
| Q: How can I download all MP3 files from a web site? I am wondering if there is any software available in OS X that can download all mp3s or specific type of file from a URL. For e.g. I have a url http://www.parweztv.com/Khan%20Adeeb/SURA-04/ and I want to grab all mp3 from this url instead of right clicking one by one and saving it.
Also wondering, if that can be done using wget or some terminal command in OS X?
A: My recommendation would be SiteSucker. It's a great (free) application! It will allow you to download folders from a site. So, just enter in your URL and click "Download"
SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive, duplicating the site's directory structure. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.
A: You can use wget like this:
wget -r -nd -A.mp3 http://www.parweztv.com/Khan%20Adeeb/SURA-04/
-r to recursively download all files below the level of the URL specified
-nd to not create a hierarchy of directories in your download location (not necessary)
-A to specify the files you want to download (all files ending in .mp3 in your case)
You can obtain wget for OSX via homebrew or macports.
A: You can write a script for that (preferably in PHP or python, or any other scripting language which has bindings to libxml). but I'm not aware of any solutions that use curl or wget only.
However, there exist GUI level programs for batch downloading. One example is the DownThemAll! Add-On for Firefox.
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e34c2bb5985cef5f117ed0a734960a5efd64f5b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does iTunes not recognise a plugged in iPhone on Windows 8.1? I have iTunes 11.0.4.4 and have just installed Windows 8.1 - iTunes seems to work ok, but when I plug the iPhone in (iOS 6.1.4) it doesn't appear and be recognised.
The OS sees the phone and I can copy files from it, but iTunes doesn't react to it.
Are there any known issues with Windows 8.1 - am I paying the price for being on the bleeding edge?
A: This technique just worked for me on 11.1.3.8 (it broke on the Windows 8 to 8.1 upgrade):
*
*Control Panel, uninstall "iTunes" and "Apple Mobile Device Support"
*Plug out your iDevice(s)
*Reboot (might be unnecessary, but Windows 2.0 trained me to do this all the time after driver changes)
*Run the iTunes installer (you might already have downloaded it)
*Plug in your iDevice(s)
At this point, my iPod and iPad were recognized and synced. My library appears to be intact as well.
I subsequently rebooted and these devices are still found.
| Q: Why does iTunes not recognise a plugged in iPhone on Windows 8.1? I have iTunes 11.0.4.4 and have just installed Windows 8.1 - iTunes seems to work ok, but when I plug the iPhone in (iOS 6.1.4) it doesn't appear and be recognised.
The OS sees the phone and I can copy files from it, but iTunes doesn't react to it.
Are there any known issues with Windows 8.1 - am I paying the price for being on the bleeding edge?
A: This technique just worked for me on 11.1.3.8 (it broke on the Windows 8 to 8.1 upgrade):
*
*Control Panel, uninstall "iTunes" and "Apple Mobile Device Support"
*Plug out your iDevice(s)
*Reboot (might be unnecessary, but Windows 2.0 trained me to do this all the time after driver changes)
*Run the iTunes installer (you might already have downloaded it)
*Plug in your iDevice(s)
At this point, my iPod and iPad were recognized and synced. My library appears to be intact as well.
I subsequently rebooted and these devices are still found.
A: I have a permanent fix for this. The Apple Mobile Device USB Driver has to be reinstalled for Windows 8.1. To do so…
*
*Plug in your device.
*Open Device Manager (Control Panel → Hardware and Sound → Device Manager) and expand "Other Devices", "Portable Devices" or "Imaging Devices".
*Right click on any selection that recognizes and iPod or iPhone and select "Update Driver Software".
*Allow it to search for the driver software itself and the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver will be reinstalled under "Universal Serial Bus controllers".
After installing and without ever unplugging your device, iTunes will then recognize your device. My iPod Classic 160 GB is now synching for the first time since the update!
A: deleting and re installing will fix it long enough to sync and then its gone again. I have had so many issues with 8.1 I don't know where to start. Most are the fact that the 8.1 install took off most of my dell XPS 12 drivers
A: After spending another couple of hours trying to resolve this, I came up with, if not a permanent solution, certainly something which worked at least once.
*
*unplug the iPhone
*exit iTunes
*open up the 'Services' list and stop the Apple Mobile Device service
*restart iTunes
If you refresh the Services list you'll probably notice that the Apple Mobile Device has been restarted by iTunes.
Now plug in the iPhone and it now recognises the iPhone.
A: THe 64 bit driver for Apple Mobile Devices is not safe code for Windows 8.1.
Microsoft didn't release the development kit for 8.1 until it was released.
You have to wait for Apple to update Itunes 11.1 with a re-written driver.
Steelseries has a similar problem with their Mice driver's causing constant reboots on 8.1.
SteelSeries Engine for Windows
OS: Win XP, Win Vista, Win 7, Win 8 (ALERT: not compatible with Win 8.1) (32/64 bit bit).
Also Avast didn't have a Windows 8.1 capable antivirus until 8.1 was released.
A: I had this issue with Windows 8.1 and iTunes 11.1.3.8. The iPhone connected fine before trying to update it to 7.03 from 6.1.3 but iTunes required an update before I could update my phone. So I installed the new iTunes and the iPhone would not connect to iTunes but still connected fine in Windows Explorer.
What finally worked (after other failed attempts) was:
*
*I downloaded WinRaR and then opened the iTunes.exe installer in WinRaR.
*I then found the Apple Mobile Device.MSI file and double clicked it to install. It asked if I wanted to repair it or uninstall it and I proceeded to un-install the Apple Mobile Device application.
*Then I had to go and double-click it again to re-install it.
*Once it was reinstalled I opened iTunes and then connected my iPhone and all was good.
But now trying to update my iPhone to 7.03 and I get an iTunes error 1667, so the fun continues. I will likely use my Win7 Laptop to update to 7.03.
A: Apple has a support document describing the steps you can take to solve the problem:
*
*update iTunes
*check/replace the USB cable
*verify that Apple Mobile Device Support is installed
*restart the Apple Mobile Device Service
*verify that the Apple Mobile USB Driver is installed
*check for third-party software conflicts
A: go to itunes properties and in compatibility tab click chang settings for all users and the choose run program as admin under priviledge level and apply
A: Finally. A solution that worked for me.
http://www.technipages.com/itunes-fix-iphone-or-ipod-not-detected-in-windows
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12bdc5a697abcecc476d6033f44f6f2fb63ef1a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I systemwide check if a keyboard shortcut is in use or has been registered? How can I query OS X to know if an application has registered a shortcut?
I could inspect every app I have or that is running at least with KeyCue and go through the Keyboard Shortcuts section of System Preferences, but there must be some other method using the shell.
A: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
Will do it for you. Then you can edit the individual keys from there.
The details are extracted from:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57337941-263/tackling-keyboard-shortcut-woes-in-os-x/
You can modify the above file as per:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4850
However note the file is binary and you cannot use a text editor, you have to use the command defaults, or the command PlistBuddy. defaults can be used if you know the individual keys you want to modify. PlistBuddy is more user friendly.
| Q: How can I systemwide check if a keyboard shortcut is in use or has been registered? How can I query OS X to know if an application has registered a shortcut?
I could inspect every app I have or that is running at least with KeyCue and go through the Keyboard Shortcuts section of System Preferences, but there must be some other method using the shell.
A: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
Will do it for you. Then you can edit the individual keys from there.
The details are extracted from:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57337941-263/tackling-keyboard-shortcut-woes-in-os-x/
You can modify the above file as per:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4850
However note the file is binary and you cannot use a text editor, you have to use the command defaults, or the command PlistBuddy. defaults can be used if you know the individual keys you want to modify. PlistBuddy is more user friendly.
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f04f0f6f6d74d197716865b209a4a30a57d7db82 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX Screensaver photo repeat problem I have an iMac running OSX 10.8.4 and I have a large collection of photos (10,000+) that I want displayed during the screensaver. I would like to see a uniform distribution of all photos. However, I am finding that there is only a small subset of the photos that are actually shown, and there are many repeats. It is my hypothesis that OSX is choosing a subset of photos (say, 100) at the beginning of the Screensaver session, and that it is just cycling through these.
My question: is there a setting to change the number of photos that the screensaver uses?
I am comfortable with bash shell commands and am happy to modify plist files.
Thanks. Kevin.
| Q: OSX Screensaver photo repeat problem I have an iMac running OSX 10.8.4 and I have a large collection of photos (10,000+) that I want displayed during the screensaver. I would like to see a uniform distribution of all photos. However, I am finding that there is only a small subset of the photos that are actually shown, and there are many repeats. It is my hypothesis that OSX is choosing a subset of photos (say, 100) at the beginning of the Screensaver session, and that it is just cycling through these.
My question: is there a setting to change the number of photos that the screensaver uses?
I am comfortable with bash shell commands and am happy to modify plist files.
Thanks. Kevin.
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0593eadc93384f635f0a361aeae63467123a9a32 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mount folder as a volume (OSX) Is it possible to (auto) 'mount' folders as Volumes?
I have a large DAS Volume, 'Data', that contains all my data.
To make paths shorter and more future proof, I'd like to have Volumes like
/ContentTypeA/
/ContentTypeB/
Instead of using
/Data/ContentTypeA/
/Data/ContentTypeB/
etc, which is where the data actually resides.
Any ideas on how to do that? It's not a big problem. Just curious.
A: Let's assume you are mounting/attaching your Data drive as usual which will result in paths like /Volumes/Data/ContentA and /Volumes/Data/ContentB. You can now do either of:
*
*create symbolic links via Terminal running the following commands in a Terminal window:
ln -s /Volumes/Data/ContentA ~/ContentA
ln -s /Volumes/Data/ContentB ~/ContentB
*create aliases via Finder by opening /Volumes/Data in Finder, selecting ContentA, pressing Cmd-L to create an alias and moving this alias to your Home folder. The alias file can afterwards be renamed as you see fit.
With both options the content of the Data drive will be accessible via your Home folder.
| Q: Mount folder as a volume (OSX) Is it possible to (auto) 'mount' folders as Volumes?
I have a large DAS Volume, 'Data', that contains all my data.
To make paths shorter and more future proof, I'd like to have Volumes like
/ContentTypeA/
/ContentTypeB/
Instead of using
/Data/ContentTypeA/
/Data/ContentTypeB/
etc, which is where the data actually resides.
Any ideas on how to do that? It's not a big problem. Just curious.
A: Let's assume you are mounting/attaching your Data drive as usual which will result in paths like /Volumes/Data/ContentA and /Volumes/Data/ContentB. You can now do either of:
*
*create symbolic links via Terminal running the following commands in a Terminal window:
ln -s /Volumes/Data/ContentA ~/ContentA
ln -s /Volumes/Data/ContentB ~/ContentB
*create aliases via Finder by opening /Volumes/Data in Finder, selecting ContentA, pressing Cmd-L to create an alias and moving this alias to your Home folder. The alias file can afterwards be renamed as you see fit.
With both options the content of the Data drive will be accessible via your Home folder.
A: I just wanna say thanks to @mixel - that is THE WAY to do it, I actually wanted to mount the iCloud Drive as a volume, so that it appears on the desktop.
Installation of bindfs did not go that easy on Sierra, I had to do the following:
brew cask install osxfuse
brew install homebrew/fuse/bindfs
and then in my case I might add that the handy relevant bindfs option is -o volumename=NAME, otherwise the volume gets some crazy name that hurts eyes.
And for anyone who'd like to have the iCloud Drive appear as a volume, the sequence is this:
sudo mkdir /Volumes/iCloud\ Drive
sudo bindfs -o volname=iCloud\ Drive /Users/robert/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs \
/Volumes/iCloud\ Drive/
A: Update for 2021 on High Sierra:
Trying to install bindfs on MacOS today, using the examples above, I got this error:
Error: bindfs has been disabled because it requires closed-source macFUSE!
Bummer. (Don't you just hate it when someone else's ideology interferes with your technology?)
But thanks to: https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/801 I was finally able to workaround that, and install bindfs from here:
brew install gromgit/fuse/bindfs-mac
A: Sometimes symbolic links may not be suitable for your needs.
In that cases you can use bindfs - a FUSE filesystem for mounting a directory to another location.
Install it with homebrew:
brew install bindfs
And then bind one folder to another:
bindfs /Volumes/Data/ContentA ~/ContentA
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0d64213c2925f72d360df702983ce60764c84ecd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does iOS insist on using my Facebook email address? I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I do use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?
A: Go to account settings in Facebook (web) -> general -> email
Untick "use your Facebook email"
You may need to then re sync your Facebook contacts.
Hey presto... It's sorted!!
| Q: Why does iOS insist on using my Facebook email address? I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I do use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?
A: Go to account settings in Facebook (web) -> general -> email
Untick "use your Facebook email"
You may need to then re sync your Facebook contacts.
Hey presto... It's sorted!!
A: Open up your contact card that is linked to your autofill
Change the label on your facebook email to 'other' or something else and change the label on the email that needs to be auto filled to 'email' or 'home' if 'email' is not available.
If that doesn't work unlink facebook and link facebook again. Facebook should now be at the bottom.
Autofill should pick the top email address.
A: I had the same problem, you need to go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, select your Facebook account then untick the Contacts checkbox http://take.ms/AD4o8V
Then you can select any of the fields in your Contacts app and "reclaim" your desired main email address.
A: First, I created a new contact in my contacts for myself with just my email, and the other specific info I want used for autofill in it, using a name that was not at all similar to the one currently being used (i.e. "hello kitty" or something that you will be able to easily pick out).
Then, I went into Settings → Safari → Passwords & Autofill → My Info. Then type the name you previously created into the search box to choose it as the info you want used for autofill.
Voila! This worked for me.
A: Found an answer for this that worked for me.
1. Go into your contact information and 'unlink' your facebook contact from your regular contact.
2. Go into settings > mail, contacts, cals and make sure the correct contact is selected (non-facebook contact)
3. Go into settings > safari > pws & autofill and again make sure the correct contact info is selected
4. Go back into your contact information and re-link your facebook and your regular contact info.
My worked fine after this and got my gmail. Man this was bugging me.
A: I went into Settings and then scrolled down to Facebook (it was in the 7th group of items listed together in a white box background) and in there under "Allow these app to use this account" I turned the little slidey-switch-thing to off.
A: *
*Go to your iOS Facebook app. On the left side tap on General then tap email then scroll to the bottom , you will see use your Facebook email. Uncheck the box.
*Go back to your iPhone contact list, scroll and find your name, click edit on the top left side. Scroll down until you find the notorious Facebook email. This time it will have a red button where you can delete it. After deleting the next email on line will be your default email.If you dont have another email on the list just type your preferred email and its done.
A: Remove the facebook email address from your facebook account. then resync contacts.
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c0cfcdde0919651a253d7051ef5de29b8ec20aa4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I share my Wifi connection on my iPad? I'll be going away in a couple of days, and I believe that where I am going, the WiFi is restricted to one device being connected at once. However, I would like to have internet access on both my iPhone and iPad Mini. Is there any way I can connect to the internet through my iPad Mini or vice verse, without a jailbreak?
A: Just had the same issue in my hotel in the Dominican Republic, where I enjoy a great snow-free christmas. The hotel locks the DCHP to the MAC address of the first device that connects, thereby limiting usage to one device per paying customer--they think.
Just note the MAC address belonging to the wi-fi adapter of your first device and then you can soft-set that for each of your other MacBooks, Windows laptops or what have you. In OS X you can use…
sudo ifconfig en1 ether <your first device's MAC address>
…and then you are good to go. Turn wi-fi off on your first device. It's not perfect, but at least you do not have to pay multiple fees.
| Q: Can I share my Wifi connection on my iPad? I'll be going away in a couple of days, and I believe that where I am going, the WiFi is restricted to one device being connected at once. However, I would like to have internet access on both my iPhone and iPad Mini. Is there any way I can connect to the internet through my iPad Mini or vice verse, without a jailbreak?
A: Just had the same issue in my hotel in the Dominican Republic, where I enjoy a great snow-free christmas. The hotel locks the DCHP to the MAC address of the first device that connects, thereby limiting usage to one device per paying customer--they think.
Just note the MAC address belonging to the wi-fi adapter of your first device and then you can soft-set that for each of your other MacBooks, Windows laptops or what have you. In OS X you can use…
sudo ifconfig en1 ether <your first device's MAC address>
…and then you are good to go. Turn wi-fi off on your first device. It's not perfect, but at least you do not have to pay multiple fees.
A: Not in any reasonable manner. Instead, use a portable WISP router. This creates your own local WiFi network yet uses the hotel connection as the WAN. Some are no bigger than your finger if you're concerned about size of this additional hardware component.
A: Use iPad mini as a personal hotspot.
From Apple
Where supported, iPad mini can share its high-speed data connection as a personal hotspot.
You can connect up to five devices — such as a MacBook Air, an iPod touch, or another iPad — over Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, or USB.
Share an Internet connection: Go to Settings > General > Cellular and
tap Set Up Personal Hotspot —if it appears—to set up the service with
your carrier. After you turn on Personal Hotspot, other devices can
connect in the following ways: • W-Fi: On the device, choose your iPad
from the list of available Wi-Fi networks.
As @Patrix pointed out, it all depends where your "source" wifi comes from.
There is always a BUT :)
But, since you think you can get only one WiFi connection in the place you are going, try Boingo, to see if they have something there.
In my case, when the hotels are trying to rip me off (like $20 per day for internet use), I use my unlocked phone, go to local store and buy a SIM with Internet for cheep.
A: iOS devices can not relay WiFi signals to other devices (at least not without a jailbreak). To share a single WiFi login with several devices you need to set up a WiFi repeater. Airport Express is one device which can do that, D-Link 505 is another one which I have successfully used for this purpose.
A: Most hotel/resort captive portals require you to pay for each device that is connected to the WiFi, if you want access to the outside world. It is more than likely possible that you could pay twice, (Onnce for your iPad, once for your iPhone) and get the same results..
Spoofing the MAC address on one of your iOS devices is non-trivial and would require jailbreaking. Also, to have two devices with the name MAC on the same network at the same time will cause problems. Simultaneous use is out of the question - in fact you will need to turn one device off in order to use the second device for any period of time.
Also.. will you have a cellular data connection? Can the iPhone continue to use this data connection, while you iPad uses the WiFi?
I know that none of the above actually provides you with the answer you were looking for.
A: You could buy a Dlink 506l device - It will do this. $44 from Amazon. You can also use it as a travel router or to stream/share files from a USB drive.
It does a lot for $44. But needs a firmware upgrade (easy) to work properly.
A: Sharing internet connection from one iPhone to another works well if one of the iPhone has a valid Data Simcard with internet and personal hotspot is turn on.
Once you have done that turn on the wi-fi on the other iPhone that has no internet and let it search search...once detected connect it, that's it. It works well for me and my friends.
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23151c63a93085d375e661a23dcf55b95dc0d773 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I display the current DNS servers from the command line under OS X? I want to display the DNS servers that are used by the current network setup on OS X, from the command line.
A: The following shell command can be useful to list the current DNS entries:
grep nameserver <(scutil --dns)
To filter it out for the script, you can pipe the output into awk '{print $3}' or grep -o "[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+" command.
| Q: How can I display the current DNS servers from the command line under OS X? I want to display the DNS servers that are used by the current network setup on OS X, from the command line.
A: The following shell command can be useful to list the current DNS entries:
grep nameserver <(scutil --dns)
To filter it out for the script, you can pipe the output into awk '{print $3}' or grep -o "[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+" command.
A: There are several ways - here are two:
cat /etc/resolv.conf
-or-
scutil --dns
A: To get all into a comma separated line:
scutil --dns | sed -n '/nameserver/ { s/^.* : \(.*\)/\1/p; }' | sort -u | paste -s -d',' -
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07cf3e3e45c70108bf171314500069ce33e4f9df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: configure multiple networks with static and dhcp ip addresses At work I'd like to be able to use a static ip over wifi for development purposes. At home however, since I'm on a different network I don't want to use a static ip, but dhcp. On OSX 10.8, how can I configure this in a way that I don't have to manually change over each time I switch networks?
A: Configure separate network Locations.
*
*On the Network pane in System Preferences, use the Location pop-up
menu to create a new location name.
*Press the + (plus) button to create a new location.
*Click the Done button.
*Click the Apply button in the Network pane.
You can now configure and select separate network locations via the drop down in the Network pane.
| Q: configure multiple networks with static and dhcp ip addresses At work I'd like to be able to use a static ip over wifi for development purposes. At home however, since I'm on a different network I don't want to use a static ip, but dhcp. On OSX 10.8, how can I configure this in a way that I don't have to manually change over each time I switch networks?
A: Configure separate network Locations.
*
*On the Network pane in System Preferences, use the Location pop-up
menu to create a new location name.
*Press the + (plus) button to create a new location.
*Click the Done button.
*Click the Apply button in the Network pane.
You can now configure and select separate network locations via the drop down in the Network pane.
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79052047184aaa72771150935d020b866b9aab7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: why does my iMac has two IP addresses registered? I have been doing network ping discovery on a WiFi-LAN and one of my iMac has two IP addresses, and I cannot understand why would that be.
the only connection to the LAN is via Wifi, there is no file sharing, no Ethernet, no Bluetooth or any other network services (apart from screen sharing).
A: I have 4 IP addresses on some of my Mac's network interfaces since I set them up in network preferences control panel.
You could go there and delete all un-needed IP addresses or at least know it's not something that was intended.
| Q: why does my iMac has two IP addresses registered? I have been doing network ping discovery on a WiFi-LAN and one of my iMac has two IP addresses, and I cannot understand why would that be.
the only connection to the LAN is via Wifi, there is no file sharing, no Ethernet, no Bluetooth or any other network services (apart from screen sharing).
A: I have 4 IP addresses on some of my Mac's network interfaces since I set them up in network preferences control panel.
You could go there and delete all un-needed IP addresses or at least know it's not something that was intended.
A: Depending on you LAN setup, this can happen if the computer has ethernet and wifi both turned on.
You can verify from the Mac in System Preferences->Network: if both Ethernet and Wifi are green that's it.
In this case the Mac will use the first one listed--- either make sure the faster connection is first or turn off the slower.
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ecf1e2443b0accf8f27634862c9302cc8d4d6792 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add more flags to Mail OSX client Is there any way to add more flags to Mail.app (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)? I have a lot of subprojects, and need more flags.
A: MailTags from http://www.indev.ca can provide you with a number of ways to tag messages in Mail.
You are not going to get a lot of love out of Apple's mail.app otherwise.
| Q: Add more flags to Mail OSX client Is there any way to add more flags to Mail.app (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)? I have a lot of subprojects, and need more flags.
A: MailTags from http://www.indev.ca can provide you with a number of ways to tag messages in Mail.
You are not going to get a lot of love out of Apple's mail.app otherwise.
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479e89a64183a6824706f990d603866324b2e724 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I copy the content of a whole disk on OSX 10.3 I would like to copy the contents of a whole disk into another folder on an external drive.
it should preserve permissions and timestamps.
on linux i use cp -a but on OSX it seems to be different
A: cp -a is just a shortcut for cp -pPR, these options are available in the 10.3 version of cp already. So you can copy the content of your disk with
cp -pPR /old/path /Volumes/new/path
You can also avoid using Terminal altogether and just drag the top folder you want to keep onto the external drive in Finder.
| Q: How do I copy the content of a whole disk on OSX 10.3 I would like to copy the contents of a whole disk into another folder on an external drive.
it should preserve permissions and timestamps.
on linux i use cp -a but on OSX it seems to be different
A: cp -a is just a shortcut for cp -pPR, these options are available in the 10.3 version of cp already. So you can copy the content of your disk with
cp -pPR /old/path /Volumes/new/path
You can also avoid using Terminal altogether and just drag the top folder you want to keep onto the external drive in Finder.
A: Download Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3. It is compatible with your version of MacOS X and processor. This solid software will preserve all the ACL, all the permissions and all the hidden files of your whole file system.
Once you have made your external copy, check it with the original Disk Utility.
Don't use a more recent version of Disk Utility which will want to fix many discrepencies…
which aren't.
A: If you want to take a backup of your whole disk, while maintaining permissions, ACLs, timestamps, symlinks, etc... I would recommend to use tar instead of cp.
Something like this:
tar cjvf mybackup.tar.bz2 <source>
and then extract the tar file in another location
tar xjvf mybackup.tar.bz2
To avoid the temporary file (which may be quite big) you can pipe them together
cd /path/to/source; tar cf - . | (cd /path/to/dest; tar xpf -)
Of course, if you are backing-up file a filesystem, shared by several users, you may need to do so as a root to overcome permissions problems.
A: Another useful method is to use cpio. It can preserve hard links and can handle some long filenames which are not supported into tar.
You can check more details here for a nice comparison between the three techniques.
I believe all of the methods word, you should just fine that suits your needs and do the job more efficiently.
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58541b83dbac114b73545693999820e77143bba6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the Applescript command to show or hide iTerm2 window Does anybody know the Applescript command to show or hide a iTerm2 terminal window? I use iTerm2 in a guake style command window and currently using one window and many tabs.
My use case: I managed to open a new iTerm2 tab from Forklift (see here) but I still need to activate iTerm2 manually with my show/hide shortcut.
A: tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where frontmost is true)
if name is "iTerm" then
set visible to false
return
end if
end tell
tell application "iTerm"
reopen -- open a default window if there are no open windows
activate -- make frontmost
end tell
If others were looking for a way to show or hide iTerm in general, you can set a shortcut for it in the preferences or use Alfred:
| Q: What is the Applescript command to show or hide iTerm2 window Does anybody know the Applescript command to show or hide a iTerm2 terminal window? I use iTerm2 in a guake style command window and currently using one window and many tabs.
My use case: I managed to open a new iTerm2 tab from Forklift (see here) but I still need to activate iTerm2 manually with my show/hide shortcut.
A: tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where frontmost is true)
if name is "iTerm" then
set visible to false
return
end if
end tell
tell application "iTerm"
reopen -- open a default window if there are no open windows
activate -- make frontmost
end tell
If others were looking for a way to show or hide iTerm in general, you can set a shortcut for it in the preferences or use Alfred:
A: Here are several options (none of them have been tested, so test and see which one works for you):
Option 1:
tell application "iTerm2" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm2" to keystroke "h" using command down
Note: Keystroke may be replaced with m if you want iTerm2 to be minimized to the dock with the Genie effect.
Option 2:
tell application "Finder"
set visible of process "iTerm2" to false
end tell
Option 3:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm2" to set visible to false
Note: The process name may just be iTerm instead of iTerm2. I opened iTerm on my Mac and then Activity Monitor, and the Process Name that it shows is iTerm. Please change accordingly if it does not work for you.
Links and Resources
Here is a great WikiBooks link that describes exactly what you need.
Please let me know which option works for you so I can edit the question and only include the option that works.
Edit:
If you make the iTerm window the frontmost application (Be careful you don't want to make the AppleScript window the frontmost application), try this script:
tell application "System Events"
set frontProcess to first process whose frontmost is true
set visible of frontProcess to false
end tell
A: I tried every of this solution. None if them worked as expected. They all opened a completely new terminal or did not worked. The only solution which worked for me in the full screen iTerm Hotkey Window was to simulate keypresses.
Be sure to disable Hotkey toggles a dedicated window with profile in settings or you need to simulate even that hotkey press which caused the major pain for my problem.
Here is the file /Applications/ForkLift.app/Contents/Resources/OpenInTerminal.applescript which:
*
*opens my fullscreen terminal app, opens a new session window (my session is named Hot, change it to Default or your desired session type from profiles)
*waits for 1 second (otherwise the new session is not recognized)
*changes the directory and clears screen
tell application "iTerm"
activate
try
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down
delay 1
set _session to current session of current terminal
on error
set _term to (make new terminal)
tell _term
launch session "Hot"
set _session to current session
end tell
end try
tell _session
write text "cd _forklift_path_placeholder_;clear;"
end tell
end tell
A: tell application "iTerm2" to activate
set miniaturized of window 1 to true
end tell
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=12501
the wording of your question makes me think you want individual windows out of the way. The hide function on mac will hide everything. I needed a window away from view. the url above was helpful.
your solution may not be hiding a single window but rather minimizing a single window.
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8588557b0ea77cb31577dc7afb4b62b385874dce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can not copy in Google Docs using Safari I've had this problem for a little while now (can't recall what would have triggered it). I'm using Safari 6.0.5 on 10.8.4 on an early 2011 15" MBP.
When I try to copy anything using the keyboard from google docs nothing happens - I also hear an audible error noise. I think it's Safari saying "HAHA - sucker". Anyhow, I can paste into GDocs with whatever is in the clipboard at the time. I also use PopClip, which gives you the option to copy text when something is selected - that works as normal. If I try to copy something from the edit menu, I get the "These actions are unavailable via the Edit menu, but you can still use:" error dialog.
Cleared cash, disabled plugins, restarted computer...etc...none of the typical troubleshooting stuff works.
Ideas?
A: I have recently switched from Chrome to Safari and now I'm having this problem when working in Google Docs. I'm sorry to say I don't have a solution at this time.
| Q: Can not copy in Google Docs using Safari I've had this problem for a little while now (can't recall what would have triggered it). I'm using Safari 6.0.5 on 10.8.4 on an early 2011 15" MBP.
When I try to copy anything using the keyboard from google docs nothing happens - I also hear an audible error noise. I think it's Safari saying "HAHA - sucker". Anyhow, I can paste into GDocs with whatever is in the clipboard at the time. I also use PopClip, which gives you the option to copy text when something is selected - that works as normal. If I try to copy something from the edit menu, I get the "These actions are unavailable via the Edit menu, but you can still use:" error dialog.
Cleared cash, disabled plugins, restarted computer...etc...none of the typical troubleshooting stuff works.
Ideas?
A: I have recently switched from Chrome to Safari and now I'm having this problem when working in Google Docs. I'm sorry to say I don't have a solution at this time.
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5db5b74e2ccbcb5b12b3ade1a3352385f875cc38 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable iOS messages in-app sounds/vibration When you are in the messages app (this also happens on Facebook app) and you recieve a new message a sound will play even if you're looking at the thread where the new message came in.
How do I disable it? It's very annoying and battery consuming for no good whatsoever.
Any help is appretiated.
Regards, Rodrigo.
A: In the Settings App -> Notifications -> Facebook you can turn "sounds" off.
This will also turn off vibrations.
It will not distinguish between whether the app is currently running or not, it'll just always be off. If you want that, then you will have to send an email to facebook requesting they change how their app works.
| Q: Disable iOS messages in-app sounds/vibration When you are in the messages app (this also happens on Facebook app) and you recieve a new message a sound will play even if you're looking at the thread where the new message came in.
How do I disable it? It's very annoying and battery consuming for no good whatsoever.
Any help is appretiated.
Regards, Rodrigo.
A: In the Settings App -> Notifications -> Facebook you can turn "sounds" off.
This will also turn off vibrations.
It will not distinguish between whether the app is currently running or not, it'll just always be off. If you want that, then you will have to send an email to facebook requesting they change how their app works.
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186e824908a978a45d41521b197d9e058b05abf1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Set OS X Server for remote-only administration I have a Mac Mini with OS X Server in another room with nothing attached but the network cable. I manage it remotely using Apple's Server and Remote Desktop.
Is it possible to disable "locally" using the machine. As to avoid:
*
*Someone attaching a display and seeing my activity.
*Someone taking over the server control by ending my Remote Desktop session.
Cheers
A: Unfortunately as long someone has physical access to hardware they can do pretty much anything with it. (depending upon they skills).
Your only semi safe solution would be to put it in a lock box.
Then set up password for log-in screen and password for idle (sleep mode).
| Q: Set OS X Server for remote-only administration I have a Mac Mini with OS X Server in another room with nothing attached but the network cable. I manage it remotely using Apple's Server and Remote Desktop.
Is it possible to disable "locally" using the machine. As to avoid:
*
*Someone attaching a display and seeing my activity.
*Someone taking over the server control by ending my Remote Desktop session.
Cheers
A: Unfortunately as long someone has physical access to hardware they can do pretty much anything with it. (depending upon they skills).
Your only semi safe solution would be to put it in a lock box.
Then set up password for log-in screen and password for idle (sleep mode).
A: Another alternative was to use Apple Remote Desktop and remotely activate Curtain Mode effectively disabling any local control and video output from the machine (besides rebooting off course).
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8e2443fa540612cf37fe1292dc68508f47a64d61 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to delete system logs? I'm using DaisyDisk to clean my hard drive and it is showing nearly 8GB of files in /private/var/log/asl. Are those files safe to delete?
A: Yes, you can safely delete log files. In the case of an application needing to write a new entry and the file not being found, it will be re-created automatically.
Just bear in mind that these ASL (Apple System Log) files may contain some useful information to trace or debug any issues you could be experimenting with your computer, which, of course, will be lost with the deletion of the files.
So, in case you might want to take a look at these files before deleting them, you could use the syslog command as follows: syslog -f /private/var/log/asl/nameOfTheFile.asl
| Q: Is it safe to delete system logs? I'm using DaisyDisk to clean my hard drive and it is showing nearly 8GB of files in /private/var/log/asl. Are those files safe to delete?
A: Yes, you can safely delete log files. In the case of an application needing to write a new entry and the file not being found, it will be re-created automatically.
Just bear in mind that these ASL (Apple System Log) files may contain some useful information to trace or debug any issues you could be experimenting with your computer, which, of course, will be lost with the deletion of the files.
So, in case you might want to take a look at these files before deleting them, you could use the syslog command as follows: syslog -f /private/var/log/asl/nameOfTheFile.asl
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987c6236d979f88dc8cf03e54aaf660b53468c93 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Ctrl key on Microsoft keyboard does not map to Mac's command I am just settling in a new job and what I got on my hardware setup is a Mac with a Microsoft keyboard. This support page indicates that the Control key on my PC keyboard should be mapping to Mac's Command key but it does not (e.g. CtrlC/V does not work).
How can I fix this?
A: The Control key on your PC keyboard maps to your Mac's Control key. The Windows key on your PC keyboard maps to your Mac's Command key.
When using a PC keyboard you would use windows keyC to copy and windows keyV to paste, etc.
You can set universal keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts > All Applications, you can enter menu values (Save, Copy, Paste, etc) and then assign new key combinations to them. In the example below I've set controlC to copy and controlU to paste.
| Q: Ctrl key on Microsoft keyboard does not map to Mac's command I am just settling in a new job and what I got on my hardware setup is a Mac with a Microsoft keyboard. This support page indicates that the Control key on my PC keyboard should be mapping to Mac's Command key but it does not (e.g. CtrlC/V does not work).
How can I fix this?
A: The Control key on your PC keyboard maps to your Mac's Control key. The Windows key on your PC keyboard maps to your Mac's Command key.
When using a PC keyboard you would use windows keyC to copy and windows keyV to paste, etc.
You can set universal keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts > All Applications, you can enter menu values (Save, Copy, Paste, etc) and then assign new key combinations to them. In the example below I've set controlC to copy and controlU to paste.
A: I run into same issue: At work I have to use Windows and at home I use a Mac. I'm sick of having different shortcuts for these basic tasks. Here is my solution for it:
Go to your User folder on your Mac and open the Library directory.
Here you create a "KeyBindings" folder.
Then navigate into that folder:
(Your User folder)/Library/KeyBindings/
Create a file "DefaultKeyBinding.dict" with following lines:
"^v" = "paste:";
"^c" = "copy:";
"^x" = "cut:";
"^z" = "undo:";
Save everything and restart your Mac.
Now, you will have CTRL + x/c/v/z working like it is on a Windows machine.
BE AWARE: This will overwrite whatever Apple has configured for these shortcuts. For instance CTRL + v is a standard shortcut for page down, which will not work anymore.
A: I think this is unclear text on the MS site. The text says
the keyboard shortcuts that you use map to different keys
which is not what you read and quoted it as. It means the keyboard short cut you type in windows maps to a different keyboard shortcut in OSX.
What the text means that instead of typing ctrlc on Windows you type cmdc on OSX
A: Use this software.
https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
It lets you remap keys on your Mac. I just used it on my Microsoft keyboard and it worked. It's better than just changing the shortcuts for copy/paste because almost every shortcut on the Mac uses those two keys.
Also, after I remapped my keys, I popped out the keys and put them in the similar Mac spots. Windows Key = Apple Key placement, Alt Key = Option Key placement.
I've added an image that shows my exact settings. Yours should be similar.
Now I just need to find a apple logo sticker to place over the windows logo ;-)
Enjoy.
A: In Mojavo you can enable windows keys by system-preferences --> keyboard --> Change keyboard Type. After that it correctly mapped my keys (alt to cmd etc)
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c47f10a8deed8ffcdcb3d31d60757f7fe49f9f53 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install and use The open source Darwin OS Is it possible to install and use the Darwin OS from Apples open source download area, and if so on what hardware would I need?
I'm not even sure if the OS is complete, all I can tell is there are a load of individual installer packages for different applications and subsystems, but no overall OS installer.
A: I'm not sure if this is a good question for Ask Different, maybe Server Fault would be better?
My understanding is it's a complete UNIX server environment but there is no tech support available from Apple or anyone else, and generally the only people who know how to use it are people who contribute code to the project.
You should be able to install it on any x86 system, I'm not sure how. You'll get a standard unix shell on boot and have to create users and install some kind of package manager, then install Gnome or something. Window Maker might be fun.
I'd do it in virtual box personally.
You can probably get help from the FreeBSD community. There is a lot of code shared between FreeBSD and Darwin.
| Q: How to install and use The open source Darwin OS Is it possible to install and use the Darwin OS from Apples open source download area, and if so on what hardware would I need?
I'm not even sure if the OS is complete, all I can tell is there are a load of individual installer packages for different applications and subsystems, but no overall OS installer.
A: I'm not sure if this is a good question for Ask Different, maybe Server Fault would be better?
My understanding is it's a complete UNIX server environment but there is no tech support available from Apple or anyone else, and generally the only people who know how to use it are people who contribute code to the project.
You should be able to install it on any x86 system, I'm not sure how. You'll get a standard unix shell on boot and have to create users and install some kind of package manager, then install Gnome or something. Window Maker might be fun.
I'd do it in virtual box personally.
You can probably get help from the FreeBSD community. There is a lot of code shared between FreeBSD and Darwin.
A: At one point, I was able to download and install Darwin OS from the Apple open-source website. I was able to download Darwin 8.0.1, which is the base for 10.4 (Mac OS X Tiger). If I remember correctly, it was around the time of Leopard (10.5). I cannot find the download link now, but it ran in single user mode, and I didn't continue on to installing an actual GUI.
Found the link from here:
Darwin 8.0.1 (direct download).
And the other (older) ISOs.
You can also take a look at the PureDarwin project:
One current goal of this project is to provide a useful bootable ISO of Darwin 10.x and Darwin 9.x.
The "current" versions of Darwin are 12.4.0 (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4), 13.0.0 (iOS 6, and OS X Mavericks), and 14.0.0 (iOS 7), so these are definitely older versions. Darwin 10.0 is Mac OS X Snow Leopard/iOS 4, 9.0 is Mac OS X Leopard/iPhone OS 1, and 8.0 is Mac OS X Tiger/Mac OS X for Apple TV.
Source
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32e65e6d666586fb0e7a08cbbec4b8774770cf24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Windows 8.1 poor sound quality I installed Windows 8.1 on my MacBook Pro 13 (2011 late) using Bootcamp and everything seems ok except poor sound quality. It is just so impossible to listen to music. The quality is like a radio or telephone. On the other hand on the Mac OS X the sound is pretty good.
Windows built-in tool for driver updates says that my drivers are up to date...
Is there any suggestions how to fix the sound on the Windows? I just really don't want to switch on Mac OS every time I want to listen to music.
Thank you!
A: The Windows 8.1 and the drivers of bootcamp may interfere with each other.
As Windows 8.1 is not yet officially released I would say that bootcamp isn't yet fully compatible with Windows 8.1
Though this link might help: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-hardware/audio-lost-after-installing-windows-81-preview-on/7033e0ac-ba83-4395-afdf-9a312dbb3d99
| Q: Windows 8.1 poor sound quality I installed Windows 8.1 on my MacBook Pro 13 (2011 late) using Bootcamp and everything seems ok except poor sound quality. It is just so impossible to listen to music. The quality is like a radio or telephone. On the other hand on the Mac OS X the sound is pretty good.
Windows built-in tool for driver updates says that my drivers are up to date...
Is there any suggestions how to fix the sound on the Windows? I just really don't want to switch on Mac OS every time I want to listen to music.
Thank you!
A: The Windows 8.1 and the drivers of bootcamp may interfere with each other.
As Windows 8.1 is not yet officially released I would say that bootcamp isn't yet fully compatible with Windows 8.1
Though this link might help: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-hardware/audio-lost-after-installing-windows-81-preview-on/7033e0ac-ba83-4395-afdf-9a312dbb3d99
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d455a63253bb378f8c010cd8823492ac6a72ef61 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a hidden preference to get Mission Control to show application icons when grouping is turned off? When I turn on grouping in Mission Control to I get the application icon overlaid on the windows that belong to the application. Is there a hidden option to show icons on ungrouped windows?
A: Apple Icon>System Preferences>Mission Control>Unselect "Group windows by applications"
I think it is gonna work.
Edit: I tried, it works.
| Q: Is there a hidden preference to get Mission Control to show application icons when grouping is turned off? When I turn on grouping in Mission Control to I get the application icon overlaid on the windows that belong to the application. Is there a hidden option to show icons on ungrouped windows?
A: Apple Icon>System Preferences>Mission Control>Unselect "Group windows by applications"
I think it is gonna work.
Edit: I tried, it works.
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dbc74922b6299386316d4bffb785538f74d406d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I can't see usb-drives and archives in the sidebar of the finder anymore When I plugin a usb-drive or open dmg-archives they don't appear under the 'Devices' section in the sidebar of the Finder anymore.
The drives are there when I check with 'Disk Utility', they appear on the Desktop and I can browse the files if I go to /Volumes.
I have 'Hard disks' and 'External disks' checked in the Finder preferences -> Sidebar tab.
Any ideas on how to get them to show up in the sidebar?
I'm using MacOS Lion 10.7.5.
A: In your Finder sidebar, can you see your internal hard drive listed under Devices? If you hover over Devices you should see either Show or Hide just to the right of it, perhaps it's set to hidden?
| Q: I can't see usb-drives and archives in the sidebar of the finder anymore When I plugin a usb-drive or open dmg-archives they don't appear under the 'Devices' section in the sidebar of the Finder anymore.
The drives are there when I check with 'Disk Utility', they appear on the Desktop and I can browse the files if I go to /Volumes.
I have 'Hard disks' and 'External disks' checked in the Finder preferences -> Sidebar tab.
Any ideas on how to get them to show up in the sidebar?
I'm using MacOS Lion 10.7.5.
A: In your Finder sidebar, can you see your internal hard drive listed under Devices? If you hover over Devices you should see either Show or Hide just to the right of it, perhaps it's set to hidden?
A: In my case it was a faulty usb drive. I still don't see the hard drive in "Finder" sidebar, but I'm figuring that's just the way it is with Lion? I adjusted the Finder Preferences so I can now see the HD and other drives on my desktop...
A: I am on Mojave and nothing of the above worked for me.
In order to have the disk images appear in the sidebar when opening a DMG file, I deleted the preferences of finder in :~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
and sidebar (same folder, file com.apple.sidebarlists.plist).
Please note that I had various com.apple.finder.plist files, with the base-name completed by random alphanumeric sequences: com.apple.finder.plist.QNHART6 and alike. I had to delete of all of these com.apple.finder.plist files.
After what the behavior was normal again : when clicking to open a DMG file, the disk image appears in the sidebar.
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2e1255f61625773a3ecb79f58961cecd928b3a0c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove VIP mail box from sidebar in Mac Mail I accidentally set one of my contacts to be a VIP in Mac Mail, it then added this folder in the image below into the sidebar, when i removed the VIP status of that contact the VIP folder still remained in the sidebar.. any idea how i can remove it ?
A: I found what worked was:
*
*Remove all VIP contacts
*Close Mail
*Reboot the machine
Upon reopening Mail, the VIP section in the sidebar is now gone.
UPDATE - At the time of writing this initial post i was running OSX 10.9.
| Q: Remove VIP mail box from sidebar in Mac Mail I accidentally set one of my contacts to be a VIP in Mac Mail, it then added this folder in the image below into the sidebar, when i removed the VIP status of that contact the VIP folder still remained in the sidebar.. any idea how i can remove it ?
A: I found what worked was:
*
*Remove all VIP contacts
*Close Mail
*Reboot the machine
Upon reopening Mail, the VIP section in the sidebar is now gone.
UPDATE - At the time of writing this initial post i was running OSX 10.9.
A: Got this working in OS X 10.10, Yosemite:
*
*Close Mail.app.
*Go to ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/.
*Edit VIPSenders.plist and remove all the senders.
*Save the file.
*Select the file and press Command + i to see information about the file.
*Check Locked under general info.
*Reopen Mail.app.
A: OS 10.11.6 Open the email in the VIPS folder. Click the star next to the "From" email. That removes it from the VIPS folder and the VIPS folder goes away. If you have more than one email in the VIPS folder, you will need to repeat for each email and then the VIPS folder goes away.
A: *
*close Mail app
*cd ~/Library/Mail/V5/MailData/
*rm VIPs.plist
*rm VIPMailboxes.plist
OS: 10.13.6
A: The way in which to remove a favourite from Mail is simple, highlight the account, for instance if John Smith was a favourite, highlight their name, click on the little settings bar below, thats next to the new mailbox icon, and then click 'Remove from VIP's'.
A: In Mojave 10.14.5:
*
*Remove stars from VIP contacts
*Select any inbox but VIPs
*Restart
Mail
A: What worked for me:
*
*Go to Library/Mail and (depending on your system, V2 or V3) one and find Data and then VPIs.plist and delete it.
*Create a new mailbox and rename it whatever then simply select that dummy mailbox and quit Mail.
*Reopen Mail and the VIPs mailbox should ne be there. Delete the dummy Mailbox.
A: Go to your VIP folder and open an email from the person you want to take off the VIP status.
Scroll over to the email on that person's name in the email heading, and it will be highlight.
To the right of the person's name you will see an arrow. Click on it.
From here there will be an option to "Remove from VIP list".
If you have no more names in the VIP folder, then at this time the folder will disappear.
If you have other names in the VIP folder, then the folder will remain until it is empty of all names.
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549b1edda99b9c4559c5695c855ddc7317b68149 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I Connect to a Local SMB Share? When attempting to connect to smb://localhost/share, I receive an error that I ought to access the files locally. This is not always desirable. For example, this means I can not use my portable home on my Mac Mini that is serving the home directory.
Windows (via native SMB/CIFS) and other *nix systems (via Samba) can access local shares just fine. Why can I not do so on OS X?
A: According this this link it is possible:
https://www.chrisnewland.com/solved-mac-osx-samba-cifs-through-ssh-tunnel-error-the-server-localhost-is-available-on-your-computer-364
Finder identifies smb://127.0.0.1 as a local filesystem and refuses
to mount port 445 even if you've set up an SSH tunnel using
-L 445:localhost:445
The solution is to alias your lo0 interface to
127.0.0.2 and Finder doesn't see this as a local address.
sudo ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.2 alias up
Create the ssh tunnel and map to your Samba / CIFS server
ssh user@remote -L 127.0.0.2:445:smbhost:445
Now you can open the share in Finder
smb://[email protected]
| Q: Can I Connect to a Local SMB Share? When attempting to connect to smb://localhost/share, I receive an error that I ought to access the files locally. This is not always desirable. For example, this means I can not use my portable home on my Mac Mini that is serving the home directory.
Windows (via native SMB/CIFS) and other *nix systems (via Samba) can access local shares just fine. Why can I not do so on OS X?
A: According this this link it is possible:
https://www.chrisnewland.com/solved-mac-osx-samba-cifs-through-ssh-tunnel-error-the-server-localhost-is-available-on-your-computer-364
Finder identifies smb://127.0.0.1 as a local filesystem and refuses
to mount port 445 even if you've set up an SSH tunnel using
-L 445:localhost:445
The solution is to alias your lo0 interface to
127.0.0.2 and Finder doesn't see this as a local address.
sudo ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.2 alias up
Create the ssh tunnel and map to your Samba / CIFS server
ssh user@remote -L 127.0.0.2:445:smbhost:445
Now you can open the share in Finder
smb://[email protected]
A: Of course is difficult to give an answer without details such as OS X version, type of networking and so on.
Generally though, I experienced that by restarting File Sharing (by deselecting/selecting the checkbox from the Sharing Preference Pane) solves several issues, such as Windows machines not being able to connect to Mac shares. This issue was due to a race condition in OS X (that in 10.8.5 seems to be still not resolved) where the smb service starts before an auth service, causing it to fail when other computers try to access shared folders with any sort of privileges.
Are you trying to connect to network shares with CMD+K ? It generally works, otherwise if you click Browse you can see all the attached devices an their shares.
A: I have since found that accessing SMB shares from localhost simply isn't supported. However, I have no single authoritative documentation to cite here, but suffice it to say it cannot be done (natively).
More to the point, it is not supported to log on with a mobile account onto the server hosting the home shares - you should only use local accounts.
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3afab9ee4902aeca7a1528036bee0cb33cf0cfe2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Tethering: Tell iPad to treat Wifi connection as mobile data? I am regularily tethering from my phone to my iPad. Basically this works fine -- except that, being on wifi, the iPad or various apps treat the data connection as if it was a flatrate. The same would probably apply when being in places, that apply a narrow data usage limit to their connections.
Is there some way to tell and iPad (mini) to consider certain Wifi networks as mobile data connection?
Update: I strongly prefer non-jailbreak solutions. if you know a jailbreak-only solution, please still state it for completeness, but I probably will not use it.
A: I know from personal experience as an iOS developer and having researched this topic before that it is not possible.
If the developer was savvy enough they can write code that differentiates a tethered connection from real Wifi.
That, however, would be app specific and furthermore unfortunately there is no blanket setting.
| Q: Tethering: Tell iPad to treat Wifi connection as mobile data? I am regularily tethering from my phone to my iPad. Basically this works fine -- except that, being on wifi, the iPad or various apps treat the data connection as if it was a flatrate. The same would probably apply when being in places, that apply a narrow data usage limit to their connections.
Is there some way to tell and iPad (mini) to consider certain Wifi networks as mobile data connection?
Update: I strongly prefer non-jailbreak solutions. if you know a jailbreak-only solution, please still state it for completeness, but I probably will not use it.
A: I know from personal experience as an iOS developer and having researched this topic before that it is not possible.
If the developer was savvy enough they can write code that differentiates a tethered connection from real Wifi.
That, however, would be app specific and furthermore unfortunately there is no blanket setting.
A: Not easily. Jailbreaking would allow various options for on-phone fire walling but that could get complicated pretty quickly.
There are proxy or vpn services like Onavo that could lead to a solution, but I've not known any that allow you to selectively limit your outbound traffic. These types of service basically route all your network traffic through their servers. Generally done for traffic measurement or security or anonymity. It would be technically feasible to then block some traffic.
Setting up your own proxy or vpn server and then configure outbound limits would be possible, but again, not easy.
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7565284d3d88688a6b1e62b50569c798bb2a7ed9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Mail.app support Exchange "categories" on emails? I've got a team who are all running Outlook on Windows to log into a shared inbox and use "Categories" to delegate incoming work.
A new team member wants to use her Mac, running Mail.app. I had no problem getting the account set up, but the Category markings are not visible anywhere in Mail.app. (Flags are, read/unread are, folder structure is, just not Categories.)
Is there a visibility setting somewhere that I'm missing? Or will I need to get Office Business for Mac so she can do this work in Outlook?
A: Mail.app has no categories, but the Outlook 2011 on Mac has.
Also making Mail communicate with Exchange server is tricky, however Outlook 2011 will do that.
So she can still use her mac with Outlook for work, and mail for all other emails.
| Q: Does Mail.app support Exchange "categories" on emails? I've got a team who are all running Outlook on Windows to log into a shared inbox and use "Categories" to delegate incoming work.
A new team member wants to use her Mac, running Mail.app. I had no problem getting the account set up, but the Category markings are not visible anywhere in Mail.app. (Flags are, read/unread are, folder structure is, just not Categories.)
Is there a visibility setting somewhere that I'm missing? Or will I need to get Office Business for Mac so she can do this work in Outlook?
A: Mail.app has no categories, but the Outlook 2011 on Mac has.
Also making Mail communicate with Exchange server is tricky, however Outlook 2011 will do that.
So she can still use her mac with Outlook for work, and mail for all other emails.
A: It appears as if MailTags3 supports categories synchronisation. I haven't tried it personally though.
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d4547c95cf87f2898a7bc82ab11270b17a2c0909 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing the default size of iTerm2 when it opens I feel like this is a pretty stupid question but I Googled it and played around with it and still didn't figure it out so here we go:
When I open iTerm2, it opens in a default size. How can I set it to open in a different window size?
A: The easiest way to have iTerm2 open with a specific size, position and number of windows is:
*
*Get it all set up the way you'd like to see it when it opens. Have all your iTerm2 windows sized and place where you like them.
*From the top menu select Window -> Save Window Arrangement and give it a name
*Go to the Preferences and under the Arrangements section find the named arrangement, select it and press the Set Default button
*
*Go to the General page and select Open default window arrangement
Now, when you start iTerm2, it'll use your saved arrangement to place, size and create the number of windows you saved. You can adjust the settings any time by placing things as you like them and re-saving the default arrangement.
| Q: Changing the default size of iTerm2 when it opens I feel like this is a pretty stupid question but I Googled it and played around with it and still didn't figure it out so here we go:
When I open iTerm2, it opens in a default size. How can I set it to open in a different window size?
A: The easiest way to have iTerm2 open with a specific size, position and number of windows is:
*
*Get it all set up the way you'd like to see it when it opens. Have all your iTerm2 windows sized and place where you like them.
*From the top menu select Window -> Save Window Arrangement and give it a name
*Go to the Preferences and under the Arrangements section find the named arrangement, select it and press the Set Default button
*
*Go to the General page and select Open default window arrangement
Now, when you start iTerm2, it'll use your saved arrangement to place, size and create the number of windows you saved. You can adjust the settings any time by placing things as you like them and re-saving the default arrangement.
A:
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c99b0e59570d4211a1c97fe14b1d54a096f02094 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MySQL (Percona) and homebrew: I'm trying to run MySQL server (Percona) by launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.percona-server.plist and I see the following message in /var/log/system.log:
Aug 9 01:36:14 xxx com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[253] (homebrew.mxcl.percona-server[37257]): Exited with code: 1
Aug 9 01:36:14 xxx com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[253] (homebrew.mxcl.percona-server): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
If I run it manually it gives me
$ /usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err'.
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var/mysql
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 172: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.pid ended
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
Any ideas?
A: The log says it all: The script cannot write to the file /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err due to insufficient permissions.
I assume the log file belongs to a dedicated mysql user while you are starting the process using your user account.
| Q: MySQL (Percona) and homebrew: I'm trying to run MySQL server (Percona) by launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.percona-server.plist and I see the following message in /var/log/system.log:
Aug 9 01:36:14 xxx com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[253] (homebrew.mxcl.percona-server[37257]): Exited with code: 1
Aug 9 01:36:14 xxx com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[253] (homebrew.mxcl.percona-server): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
If I run it manually it gives me
$ /usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err'.
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var/mysql
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 172: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.pid ended
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
Any ideas?
A: The log says it all: The script cannot write to the file /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err due to insufficient permissions.
I assume the log file belongs to a dedicated mysql user while you are starting the process using your user account.
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aaa7be3828624a29ef38f1d7c4430bb9d29d0f2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I set the static library path in OS X Lion? Instead of typing :
g++ functions.cpp /opt/local/lib/libhdf5.a /opt/local/lib/libsiloh5.a /opt/local/lib/libz.a
I would prefer to type:
g++ functions.cpp -lhdf5 -lsiloh5 -lz
I think that I need to add /opt/local/lib (Macports lib install location) to my library path. I have tried:
export LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/local/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/local/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATHS="/opt/local/lib"
None work
A: The normal command line is to use the -L option to add the path to the library search
g++ functions.cpp -L/opt/local/lib -lhdf5 -lsiloh5 -lz
| Q: How do I set the static library path in OS X Lion? Instead of typing :
g++ functions.cpp /opt/local/lib/libhdf5.a /opt/local/lib/libsiloh5.a /opt/local/lib/libz.a
I would prefer to type:
g++ functions.cpp -lhdf5 -lsiloh5 -lz
I think that I need to add /opt/local/lib (Macports lib install location) to my library path. I have tried:
export LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/local/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/local/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATHS="/opt/local/lib"
None work
A: The normal command line is to use the -L option to add the path to the library search
g++ functions.cpp -L/opt/local/lib -lhdf5 -lsiloh5 -lz
A: On OS X the environment variable:
$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
Is the one that you want.
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/local/lib"
does the trick, allowing you to conveniently link to macports static libraries.
Remember to restart your shell.
A: I think this will do
export LDFLAGS='-L/opt/local/lib'
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4bac852677182b66062f058136f2040d854e208d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I view all Wi-Fi network names (SSIDs) in my area? I live in an area dense with Wi-Fi coverage. Eight SSIDs show from my menu bar dropdown, but I know there are more. Where can I view a full list of networks in my area? (I'm on a 2011 MacBook Air running 10.8, but it'd be nice to know in general.)
A: Get a copy of iStumbler. That should do the trick
| Q: How can I view all Wi-Fi network names (SSIDs) in my area? I live in an area dense with Wi-Fi coverage. Eight SSIDs show from my menu bar dropdown, but I know there are more. Where can I view a full list of networks in my area? (I'm on a 2011 MacBook Air running 10.8, but it'd be nice to know in general.)
A: Get a copy of iStumbler. That should do the trick
A: There is a program you can run in terminal.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s
Update for 2021: This command still works (as written) in OS 11 Big Sur.
A: Nice one is the NetSpot app. Simple application to locate and visualize wi-fi spots.
A: Open the Wireless Diagnostics application (/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Wireless Diagnostics.app). Go to the Window menu and choose Scan.
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d81c27fcdf2aca297170c751158b4b6dff390a37 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Some playlists are missing from iTunes Match I've just subscribed for iTunes Match and it did quite a good job of matching stuff except that three of my playlists are missing from it. That three missing playlists only show up on my iMac which is my source Mac for my entertainment.
I tried duplicating and renaming those three missing playlists with no luck.
A: I had the same problem: smart playlist hidden on the iPhone, but fixed playlist (not the smart ones) correctly synchronized.
In my smart playlist, i put a condition like "playlist not 'xxx'". While working on my pc, where the xxx playlist contains already downloaded files, it did not work on the iPhone, because the mobile has no clue how to handle the request.
I changed the playlist, and deleted the dependancy between other playlist, and... tadam... I saw the smart playlist happear on the iPhone.
I hope it will help.
Hans
| Q: Some playlists are missing from iTunes Match I've just subscribed for iTunes Match and it did quite a good job of matching stuff except that three of my playlists are missing from it. That three missing playlists only show up on my iMac which is my source Mac for my entertainment.
I tried duplicating and renaming those three missing playlists with no luck.
A: I had the same problem: smart playlist hidden on the iPhone, but fixed playlist (not the smart ones) correctly synchronized.
In my smart playlist, i put a condition like "playlist not 'xxx'". While working on my pc, where the xxx playlist contains already downloaded files, it did not work on the iPhone, because the mobile has no clue how to handle the request.
I changed the playlist, and deleted the dependancy between other playlist, and... tadam... I saw the smart playlist happear on the iPhone.
I hope it will help.
Hans
A: *
*Turn on the iCloud Download and iCloud Status columns in iTunes, using View > Show View Options (on a Mac). Look for items with problems: for example, voice memos, which can't be uploaded to iTunes Match.
*If step 1 doesn't reveal any problems, try turning off iTunes Match (via Store > Turn Off iTunes Match), then turn it on again.
A: Even though Ashley's solution solved it for a while the problem happened again therefore I tried her solution again. But it didn't stop. It happened again.
Today, it came to my mind out of nowhere that some playlist not syncing while some others were successfully syncing might be due to the ineligible songs in those not syncing playlists. And that seems to be the case.
I removed all of the ineligible songs from those playlists and they instantly showed up on my other devices.
In order to show the ineligible songs in your iTunes, you have to click the header of the songs view in your library and select iCloud status. Selecting this will add an additional column about each of your songs' iTunes Match status.
This seems like a bug in iTunes Match since it can sync playlists with ineligible songs at first but not afterwards.
A: I've been trying to find an answer to this for a week (since Music Match got a mind of its own). Quite by accident, I went to the "More" section of the Music app on my iPhone 5 (with iOS7). The last choice is "Shared". There I found a choice between my iPhone and my Library (on my Mac). I switched from my iPhone to my Library and -- voila -- my playlists showed up on my iPhone. There are still 34 songs missing on my iPhone. But, I think they are from 6 albums that also don't show up. I am not in the mood to do a complete reconciliation. I will leave well enough alone.
A: I had this same issue, It turned out to be the songs that I was missing were mis-categorized as audiobooks and they were in my audiobook section in the Books tab.
A: I've just discovered what I THINK happened to my missing playlists. What was happening was that 2 of my playlists weren't syncing, and even if I made a new copy of them (I was trying anything at this point) they still wouldn't sync. So I tried turning off/on iTunes Match again. It then authorized my computer again. However, when it came back on, while it was syncing information to the cloud I discovered that there were a few songs on each playlist that were "unchecked" (I have no idea why or how they got that way) so I checked them again and BAM my playlists showed up on my iOS device within 60 seconds. So I'm not sure if it was the turning off/on of the iTunes Match that did it, or if it was the simple checked/unchecked issue. Hope this helps someone!
A: I was able to find the songs under "albums" on my iPhone and create a playlist. Not really a great solution but a work around.
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2cdcb74abc3a8ea3e348412587472c85213a9473 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mouse Wheel Emulation on Mac I've recently moved into an office that has standardized on Apple computers and have run into something that I have used with Linux that I know is going to drive me nuts on the Mac. I use a Logitech MarbleMouse, a trackball that does not have a mouse wheel. On Linux, there is a configuration option (EmulateWheel and EmulateWheelButton in evdev) that let's you press a button and have mouse/trackball motion act like a scroll wheel. Is there anything equivalent on Mac?
A: You can map scrolling to pressing a key and moving the cursor from the GUI!
Here, I map the scrollwheel action to pressing the Fn key and moving the cursor. Notice the nice option that enables this behavior for both horizontal and vertical scrolling.
By the way, KeyRemap4MacBook is now called Karabiner.
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
| Q: Mouse Wheel Emulation on Mac I've recently moved into an office that has standardized on Apple computers and have run into something that I have used with Linux that I know is going to drive me nuts on the Mac. I use a Logitech MarbleMouse, a trackball that does not have a mouse wheel. On Linux, there is a configuration option (EmulateWheel and EmulateWheelButton in evdev) that let's you press a button and have mouse/trackball motion act like a scroll wheel. Is there anything equivalent on Mac?
A: You can map scrolling to pressing a key and moving the cursor from the GUI!
Here, I map the scrollwheel action to pressing the Fn key and moving the cursor. Notice the nice option that enables this behavior for both horizontal and vertical scrolling.
By the way, KeyRemap4MacBook is now called Karabiner.
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
A: You can use KeyRemap4MacBook.
Scroll by moving the pointer while holding the secondary button:
<autogen>__PointingRelativeToScroll__ PointingButton::RIGHT</autogen>
Scroll by moving the the pointer while holding F1:
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F1, KeyCode::VK_MODIFIER_EXTRA1</autogen>
<autogen>__PointingRelativeToScroll__ PointingButton::NONE, ModifierFlag::EXTRA1</autogen>
Scroll with F1 and F2:
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F1, KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_SCROLL_UP</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F2, KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_SCROLL_DOWN</autogen>
Scroll by moving the pointer while holding the primary and secondary buttons:
<autogen>__SimultaneousKeyPresses__ PointingButton::LEFT, PointingButton::RIGHT,
KeyCode::VK_CONFIG_SYNC_KEYDOWNUP_notsave_pointing_relative_to_scroll</autogen>
See the source for the key code values and predefined settings.
A: This seems to work with Karabiner-Elements again.
You must "Import more rules from the Internet (open a web browser)," get "Change mouse motion to scroll," and "Enable" it. This adds the ability to hold a mouse button to change the mouse ball into a scroll wheel while the button is held down. You can then change the scrolling speed and feel by adjusting both "speed" under "Parameters" and adjusting "Scrolling speed" in the regular MacOS Mouse System Preferences Pane.
The speed, smoothness, and momentum of the scrolling feels a little weird; I think it's related to the difference in sensation from a regular scroll wheel which kind of clicks as it's scrolled.
A: You can achieve this with the SteerMouse software, by mapping a mouse button to "Scroll", which will then toggle this behavior.
A: Since Karabiner-Elements no longer seems to have this functionality, Smart Scroll is the new way. Just use Mouse Button 4 with the "grab scroll" option. Unfortunately scrolling will stop when the cursor hits a screen edge, so it's not true scrolling, and Photoshop doesn't support it for alt-scroll zooming.
http://marcmoini.com/sx_en.html
A: Now Karabiner has an option for Logitech Marble Mouse
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2dd54ead14b4371edb89abcf5105f70b8e22d68a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Hide the dock in Mission Control and Launchpad? I am really fed up with the Mac OS Dock showing in Mission Control and especially Launchpad.
Is there any way at all (even if I have to program it myself) to hide it in Mission Control and Launchpad because it gets in the way.
I still want it to show on the desktop and when I have applications open.
Can the dock be hidden only for Mission Control and Launchpad in macOS ?
A: You could make it very small by pulling on the divider that is located to the right, usually just before the trash (a line) and it will turn in to double arrow when you click on it.
| Q: Hide the dock in Mission Control and Launchpad? I am really fed up with the Mac OS Dock showing in Mission Control and especially Launchpad.
Is there any way at all (even if I have to program it myself) to hide it in Mission Control and Launchpad because it gets in the way.
I still want it to show on the desktop and when I have applications open.
Can the dock be hidden only for Mission Control and Launchpad in macOS ?
A: You could make it very small by pulling on the divider that is located to the right, usually just before the trash (a line) and it will turn in to double arrow when you click on it.
A: No, the dock is designed to show ever-present, so this isn’t a feature in macOS 10.15 and lower.
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6262ee76e33b5790ced4419dda9ff7e8ace45a47 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac OS X Microphone Auto Mute The microphone on my system is getting auto muted.
Some times I check it and it is set to input level 0. The system menu settings for my microphone are also the same.
Any idea what could cause that or which log file do I need to check for this nasty issue?
UPDATE:
This was previously marked as game related issue (blink engine) and now I noticed this without even launching a game. Today I checked the volume and it was set to %4 percent. Not even 0.
What could cause this issue?
What should I check in the log files?
| Q: Mac OS X Microphone Auto Mute The microphone on my system is getting auto muted.
Some times I check it and it is set to input level 0. The system menu settings for my microphone are also the same.
Any idea what could cause that or which log file do I need to check for this nasty issue?
UPDATE:
This was previously marked as game related issue (blink engine) and now I noticed this without even launching a game. Today I checked the volume and it was set to %4 percent. Not even 0.
What could cause this issue?
What should I check in the log files?
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e5debb283877a9f7d124be2cad8aee30a649b9b7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where should I store command line applications? When I download command line applications they are located in my ~/Downloads/ directory. But I feel this is wrong place to have a command line application located. Where in the Mac OS X filesystem should I store command line applications?
/Applications/ also feels wrong, it´s more for desktop applications. And /bin/ sounds more for applications that belongs to OS X.
A: Consider creating an /opt directory, which is another location that custom Unix software would appear by convention.
| Q: Where should I store command line applications? When I download command line applications they are located in my ~/Downloads/ directory. But I feel this is wrong place to have a command line application located. Where in the Mac OS X filesystem should I store command line applications?
/Applications/ also feels wrong, it´s more for desktop applications. And /bin/ sounds more for applications that belongs to OS X.
A: Consider creating an /opt directory, which is another location that custom Unix software would appear by convention.
A: Since OS X comes from a unix heritage, you will want to store system files in /usr/local/bin for command line applications and scripts that belong to the system locally and not to a specific user. You may need to create this directory first by running:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
You can move any command line application to that folder by running:
sudo mv my-binary /usr/local/bin/
To make sure that /usr/local/bin is part of your standard search path in Terminal, check the content of /etc/paths and add it if necessary:
grep -w /usr/local/bin /etc/paths || sudo sh -c 'echo /usr/local/bin >> /etc/paths'
Some users make a second directory for user level scripts, but this is even more subject to personal preference.
I typically make a bin directory in each user folder and then hide it from Finder - but you can make that decision yourself whether you want it hidden:
mkdir ~/bin
chflags hidden ~/bin
In this case, you'll want to have each user's path include this location by modifying the shell startup scripts (~/.bash_profile for bash which is the standard shell)
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
or by hard coding the path to each app when you run it.
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2501dcabfca34c73ef8f5ad47e6c192ae4146e6b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In Mountain Lion, where is the exclude list for Time Machine stored? I want to know if the list of Time Machine excluded files (pictured below) can be found in a file somewhere.
I know about the question On Lion, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? which has a lot of good information about StdExclusions.plist, mdfind and tmutil – but not the answer for this question.
One answer also talks about .exclusions.plist, which is almost the answer to this question. But there's a catch, I haven't done a backup yet, so I can't read the .exclusions.plist file from the Time Machine backup volume.
I'm doing cd / ; sudo find . -iname "*exclusions*" now, keeping my fingers crossed.
A: The Mountain Lion settings are identical to the Lion settings as described here:
*
*Where does Time Machine store its settings?
The answer is /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
| Q: In Mountain Lion, where is the exclude list for Time Machine stored? I want to know if the list of Time Machine excluded files (pictured below) can be found in a file somewhere.
I know about the question On Lion, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? which has a lot of good information about StdExclusions.plist, mdfind and tmutil – but not the answer for this question.
One answer also talks about .exclusions.plist, which is almost the answer to this question. But there's a catch, I haven't done a backup yet, so I can't read the .exclusions.plist file from the Time Machine backup volume.
I'm doing cd / ; sudo find . -iname "*exclusions*" now, keeping my fingers crossed.
A: The Mountain Lion settings are identical to the Lion settings as described here:
*
*Where does Time Machine store its settings?
The answer is /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
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9dfc708f51e13b52e1c232520644faabe5387772 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Strange bug in MacVim 7.4 and some others apps on MacBook Retina Bug (excuse me for bad quality)
Explanation: In full screen mode in MacVim 7.4 i see the background panel.
I tried set transparency=0 but it does not work, Is it good to see backpanel in fullscreen vim and some other apps?
Thank you.
PrintScreen
| Q: Strange bug in MacVim 7.4 and some others apps on MacBook Retina Bug (excuse me for bad quality)
Explanation: In full screen mode in MacVim 7.4 i see the background panel.
I tried set transparency=0 but it does not work, Is it good to see backpanel in fullscreen vim and some other apps?
Thank you.
PrintScreen
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016bea0536bd12e24555fa8ee351c87a1fcdd485 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does airplane-mode disable GPS? According to
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1355
airplane-mode on the iPhone shuts off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...GPS.
My understanding is that GPS-devices only /receive/ GPS
signals, they don't transmit anything, so I don't
understand why this needs to be shut down. [Of course, if
the iPhone is running at all, then /it/ is emitting some
RF, but I don't see why receiving GPS signals should cause
an additional problem for the airplane.]
I tested on an iPhone 3GS (IOS 6.1.3): Enabled
airplane-mode, then turned-off the phone. Rotated the
phone 180-degrees. Turned it back on (with airplane-mode
still enabled). The compass-app still seemed to find North.
Would someone be willing to do an independent test of this?
A: I think Airplane Mode disables the hardware chips. GPS and 3G/LTE are on the same chip. I would say, Airplane Mode also disables GPS.
| Q: Does airplane-mode disable GPS? According to
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1355
airplane-mode on the iPhone shuts off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...GPS.
My understanding is that GPS-devices only /receive/ GPS
signals, they don't transmit anything, so I don't
understand why this needs to be shut down. [Of course, if
the iPhone is running at all, then /it/ is emitting some
RF, but I don't see why receiving GPS signals should cause
an additional problem for the airplane.]
I tested on an iPhone 3GS (IOS 6.1.3): Enabled
airplane-mode, then turned-off the phone. Rotated the
phone 180-degrees. Turned it back on (with airplane-mode
still enabled). The compass-app still seemed to find North.
Would someone be willing to do an independent test of this?
A: I think Airplane Mode disables the hardware chips. GPS and 3G/LTE are on the same chip. I would say, Airplane Mode also disables GPS.
A: The existing answers are now outdated. Since iOS 8.2, you can still use the GPS even in flight mode.
Apple's statement says:
If you have a device with iOS 8.2 or earlier, Airplane Mode will also turn off GPS.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204234
A: Yes, airplane mode shuts down the radios that amplify all antenna circuitry. Compass isn't affected by airplane mode other than not being tuned by GPS location. Your observed relative changes will be mostly unaffected but absolute accuracy could suffer between one and ten degrees on much of the globe.
Of course the GPS signals still hit the iPhone case and antennas, just the hardware doesn't do the work to fix a location from those signals while in airplane mode. (Nor does e software do any processing of the location updates which is a big part of the functionality for many people as opposed to the hardware side of the radios being idle / off / silent)
A: The compass uses the Magnetometer/Gyroscope which doesn't require antennas (just a chip). So yes it still works in airplane mode.
A: No, GPS only appears to be disabled in the native Apple Maps app. Using another map app such as Google Maps, you are still able to determine your location even with airplane mode on, wifi and bluetooth off.
Tested in iOS 8.3
A: Yes, airplane mode disables GPS
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05b03964bd9e452fe783b8c4097bd74ce44a6bae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Install Unison, simple way Is there any simple way to install Unison (text version), on OSX?
On Ubuntu it's 'sudo apt-get install unison'.
And that's it.
I have read the following guide: http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/freebsd/distfiles/unison-2.45.28/unison-2.45.28-manual.pdf
it's on page 8, lower half. But it strikes me as strange for they claim unix systems to need this complex procedure for installing as I have clearly seen none of this is necessary on Ubuntu. Therefore I wonder if there is not a comparably simple procedure available for OSX.
A: The difference is that you are using a pre-built package under Linux but are looking at the compile-it-yourself instructions (which would work both for Linux and for OS X).
There are at least two options to solve that:
*
*Use one of the package managers available for OS X, e.g. Homebrew and install Unison by running
brew install unison
You will need Xcode installed as well for this
*Follow the "Download" link on http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison and download pre-compiled versions from here.
| Q: Install Unison, simple way Is there any simple way to install Unison (text version), on OSX?
On Ubuntu it's 'sudo apt-get install unison'.
And that's it.
I have read the following guide: http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/freebsd/distfiles/unison-2.45.28/unison-2.45.28-manual.pdf
it's on page 8, lower half. But it strikes me as strange for they claim unix systems to need this complex procedure for installing as I have clearly seen none of this is necessary on Ubuntu. Therefore I wonder if there is not a comparably simple procedure available for OSX.
A: The difference is that you are using a pre-built package under Linux but are looking at the compile-it-yourself instructions (which would work both for Linux and for OS X).
There are at least two options to solve that:
*
*Use one of the package managers available for OS X, e.g. Homebrew and install Unison by running
brew install unison
You will need Xcode installed as well for this
*Follow the "Download" link on http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison and download pre-compiled versions from here.
A: MacPorts works perfect for me if you don't mind the general MacPorts principle of keeping many system libraries in additional versions.
*
*Install MacPorts
*sudo port install unison
Macports will download binaries for most setups of OSX but can in some cases download source code and compile it. If it can use the binary which is on a Macports' server it will not matter that the source code server is down.
A: You can easily download binaries from http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/index.html . This is a reliable source and is even linked to from the Unison project page.
This is the full GUI for Mac, once you run the app it will ask you to install the command line tools. When you allow this it will put unison in /usr/bin/ . From the command line you can then call the text version with the following command:
unison -ui text
This will then run unison with the default.prf that should be in the ~/Library/Application Support/Unison/ folder.
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94f43d466fb6b1d4caa330bbd529725140d45b05 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I cat a deleted file which is still open by its inode? I have deleted a file I still have open. I want to save that file. I know its inode number.
I think that sleuthtools icat would work for me except for the following.
$ sudo icat -f hfs /dev/disk0s2 3720257 > /path/to/some_new_filename
Error opening image file (raw_open: file "/dev/disk0s2" - Resource busy)
A: Since the block disk /dev/disk0s2 is in use by the Kernel, use the raw disk:
/dev/rdisk0s2
| Q: How do I cat a deleted file which is still open by its inode? I have deleted a file I still have open. I want to save that file. I know its inode number.
I think that sleuthtools icat would work for me except for the following.
$ sudo icat -f hfs /dev/disk0s2 3720257 > /path/to/some_new_filename
Error opening image file (raw_open: file "/dev/disk0s2" - Resource busy)
A: Since the block disk /dev/disk0s2 is in use by the Kernel, use the raw disk:
/dev/rdisk0s2
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49d7a33f5ddcd990e9691b8a8fcac0361e0bb768 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you change your UID in OS X Mountain Lion kimvais @ kimvais ~ $ id
uid=501(kimvais) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3),405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4),502(com.apple.local.ard_reports),503(com.apple.local.ard_interact),500(com.apple.access_ssh),501(com.apple.local.ard_admin),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),33(_appstore),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),504(com.apple.local.ard_manage),506(access_bpf),406(com.apple.sharepoint.group.5)
How do I change the 501 to something different give by my IT (so that my NFS mounts have correct UIDS) without breaking my system. Changing all the file ownerships I can handle "manually".
A: You want to use dscl (directory service command line):
sudo dscl . -change /Users/YourUserName UniqueID 501 1001
Replace YourUserName with (well, you know)... and, 1001 with the desired UID.
Be careful that you are not logged in as YourUserName when you run the commands.
| Q: How do you change your UID in OS X Mountain Lion kimvais @ kimvais ~ $ id
uid=501(kimvais) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3),405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4),502(com.apple.local.ard_reports),503(com.apple.local.ard_interact),500(com.apple.access_ssh),501(com.apple.local.ard_admin),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),33(_appstore),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),504(com.apple.local.ard_manage),506(access_bpf),406(com.apple.sharepoint.group.5)
How do I change the 501 to something different give by my IT (so that my NFS mounts have correct UIDS) without breaking my system. Changing all the file ownerships I can handle "manually".
A: You want to use dscl (directory service command line):
sudo dscl . -change /Users/YourUserName UniqueID 501 1001
Replace YourUserName with (well, you know)... and, 1001 with the desired UID.
Be careful that you are not logged in as YourUserName when you run the commands.
A: First, I have to say that doing this is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut but here it is.
You will want to change your userid then you will want to change the owner of all your files. You don't want to be logged on as yourself when you do this.
sudo dscl . -change /Users/YourUserName UniqueID 501 1001
is indeed the correct way to do it.
Then :-
sudo find / -uid 501 -exec chown 1001 {} \;
To change the ownership of all your files. This should stop almost all of the breakages inherent in doing this.
I assume there is some perfectly good reason for you not to be using ITs Active Directory or LDAP server to log on to your Mac and avoid all of this problem. This is the accepted way of getting around all these problems, not to mention you will then already be authenticated making mounting the NFS shares easier. Once you've done a network login you can shift your documents from the old local account to the new network account and life is hunky dory.
A: Go to System Preferences->Users & Groups->Unlock the pane->Right-click on the user you want to change->Choose "Advanced Options...".
You can change some advanced user related preferences there, BUT I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT. YOU WILL BREAK THINGS!
A: The solutions above work well for changing the uid; however you need to be a little more careful with changing ownership of the files. Mac (and PC) users tend to use spaces and other naughty characters in filenames so you can't rely on unix to "do the right thing" all the time. This works better IMHO:
find / -uid 501 -print | while read file; do chown 1000 "$file"; done
It is regrettably slower but has the advantage of not being tripped up by spaces and other non-unix filename characters.
A: I had installed Debian Linux on my mac, and wanted the ownership of the files on my macOS to be the same as that on Debian so I wouldn't have problems accessing them from Debian.
This worked for me to change my uid from 501 to 1000, and didn't break anything(default UID under debian is 1000).
With one change: under macOS 10.4.11 find doesn't recognize -uid
use -user instead.
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7cc07cdb2a67d0721734b7ab7e61826779f2d79e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does the Mac choose which connection to use when both Wifi and Ethernet are connected? When I'm connected to two networks with separate routers using Wifi and Ethernet, how does my Mac know what connection to use when I visit a website?
A: It's in your Network Preferences. Here's screen shots from 10.7.3.
Access the settings from the gear at the bottom of the network type sidebar.
Choose "Set Service Order..." to drag them into the preferred order.
| Q: How does the Mac choose which connection to use when both Wifi and Ethernet are connected? When I'm connected to two networks with separate routers using Wifi and Ethernet, how does my Mac know what connection to use when I visit a website?
A: It's in your Network Preferences. Here's screen shots from 10.7.3.
Access the settings from the gear at the bottom of the network type sidebar.
Choose "Set Service Order..." to drag them into the preferred order.
A: The Service Order doesn't work. If you test it, you will find that Mac OS prioritizes Wifi over Ethernet, even if Ethernet is set higher in the Service Order.
One way to test it is to measure your bandwidth (e.g., https://www.fast.com) in the following scenarios:
*
*Connected to Wifi, with Ethernet unplugged
*Connected to Ethernet, with Wifi turned off
*Connected to Wifi and Ethernet
You will find that the speed from #2 is faster than #1 and #3. You will also find that #1 and #3 are the same speed.
The only solution is to disable WiFi when you connect via Ethernet and turn on Wifi when you disconnect Ethernet.
This script does that automatically!
https://gist.github.com/albertbori/1798d88a93175b9da00b
If you have any issues, search the comments for the error message you encounter. For example, I got the Path had bad ownership/permissions error, but the solution is posted in the comments.
A: I recommand you to never use a configuration where you may have at the same
time different interfaces up on the same machine. You won't have any easy knowledge and control of this dual connectivity.
This may lead to huge difficulties to analyse even the simplest network trouble.
This may also cause loops within company or personnal networks very hard to diagnose. For example, have a look at the following command:
sysctl -a | grep forwarding
which will show you if IPv4 or IPv6 is going through your Mac from one
interface through the other without your knowledge or control.
As much as possible define locations with the interface you know you want to
connect to and switch on the right one at will:
Apple menu > Location > Home / AirPort
> Office / Ethernet
> outside / AirPort [unsecure]
> …
When 2 (or more) interfaces (for example Ethernet and Wi-Fi) are flagged green (Connected) within:
Apple menu > System Preferences… > Network
one way to know which one you are taking to reach the outside is the following line command (within a Terminal or xterm window):
route get default | grep interface
A: From the Apple Support database article regarding network connection priority:
If you connect to the Internet or a network in several different ways
(using Wi-Fi or Ethernet, for example), you can change the order of
the network port configurations your computer tries when connecting to
the Internet or network.
If there are multiple active network port configurations when you try
to connect, OS X tries the one at the top of the list first, and then
tries the other port configurations in descending order.
In that support article it is also described how you can change the priority order of network connections in System Preferences.
A: While this is true for some applications, what I experienced when I had connected my iMac to two ISP's - one wifi and another through LAN - applications like uTorrent and Games could apparently use both networks simultaneously. I got more download speed than individual connections and in case of multiplayer games, I could connect to servers with less lag and latency.
A: When my M1 iMac arrives, I will be connecting to my old 2013 27" iMac which I'm keeping until a 32-bit program's conversion to 64-bit is beta. I could use Wi-Fi or an ethernet cable (My old Mac has Thunderbolt-1). And I plan on doing some data transferring with my wife's newer iMac with a Thunderbolt-3 cable, carrying my Mac into her Mac's room.
I figure the Thunderbolt-3 is fastest, and Wi-Fi's slowest.
I'm guessing that I should turn off Wi-Fi while I'm doing the transferring, and that's all I will need to do. Is that correct?
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94cf5601d251df449a673a39d6cdaf34dae5d2e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get a complete list of all applications installed? Using OSX 10.8.4., I am having a hard time finding a complete list of all software applications installed on my Mac. Of course, the Launchpad only shows the list of those that have an app shortcut created, excluding those that do not. I also tried holding down the Option key while in the Apple Menu to change About This Mac to System Information, then Software-->Installations but that still was not a complete list.
How do I get a complete list of all applications installed?
A: These commands listed the same applications on my installation:
mdfind kMDItemContentTypeTree=com.apple.application-bundle -onlyin /
system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType|sed -n 's/^ *Location: \(.*\)/\1/p'
Both were missing some application bundles inside application and framework bundles.
lsregister included more applications inside other application bundles, but it also included applications that have been deleted and applications on a Time Machine volume:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump|awk '/^bundle\tid/{getline;sub(/^\tpath: */,"");print}'
This finds more applications inside other bundles, but it doesn't match applications that don't have a .app extension:
sudo find -x / -type d -name \*.app
| Q: How to get a complete list of all applications installed? Using OSX 10.8.4., I am having a hard time finding a complete list of all software applications installed on my Mac. Of course, the Launchpad only shows the list of those that have an app shortcut created, excluding those that do not. I also tried holding down the Option key while in the Apple Menu to change About This Mac to System Information, then Software-->Installations but that still was not a complete list.
How do I get a complete list of all applications installed?
A: These commands listed the same applications on my installation:
mdfind kMDItemContentTypeTree=com.apple.application-bundle -onlyin /
system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType|sed -n 's/^ *Location: \(.*\)/\1/p'
Both were missing some application bundles inside application and framework bundles.
lsregister included more applications inside other application bundles, but it also included applications that have been deleted and applications on a Time Machine volume:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump|awk '/^bundle\tid/{getline;sub(/^\tpath: */,"");print}'
This finds more applications inside other bundles, but it doesn't match applications that don't have a .app extension:
sudo find -x / -type d -name \*.app
A: Try:
About This Mac > More Info > System Report > Software
.
Not only "Installations" ... but the others may give you some info, too.
A: If you're just looking for a list of applications with a .app extension then starting the Terminal and running
find / -iname *.app > ~/applications.txt
will (eventually) give you a pretty comprehensive list of applications, written to a text file called "applications.txt" in your Home folder.
A: From the command line, try system_profiler(8) (alternative link here):
> system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType
Here is a snipet showing Safari:
Safari:
Version: 7.0.2
Obtained from: Apple
Last Modified: 2/25/14, 3:44 PM
Kind: Intel
64-Bit (Intel): Yes
Signed by: Software Signing, Apple Code Signing Certification Authority, Apple Root CA
Location: /Applications/Safari.app
Get Info String: 7.0.2, Copyright © 2003-2014 Apple Inc.
system_profiler can also output to XML (plist(5) format) that can be easily parsed. For this, use the -xml parameter. Here is a updated Safari fragment in this format:
<dict>
<key>_name</key>
<string>Safari</string>
<key>has64BitIntelCode</key>
<string>yes</string>
<key>info</key>
<string>10.0, Copyright © 2003-2016 Apple Inc.</string>
<key>lastModified</key>
<date>2016-06-30T22:14:21Z</date>
<key>obtained_from</key>
<string>apple</string>
<key>path</key>
<string>/Applications/Safari.app</string>
<key>runtime_environment</key>
<string>arch_x86</string>
<key>signed_by</key>
<array>
<string>Software Signing</string>
<string>Apple Code Signing Certification Authority</string>
<string>Apple Root CA</string>
</array>
<key>version</key>
<string>10.0</string>
</dict>
A: It is unclear from the OP question whether he/she is looking for the easy answer or the hard answer. The way to get almost all the apps into a convenient list would be:
*
*Open Terminal
*Enter ls /Applications for a simple alphabetic list, or ls -l /Applications for more information:
Ewans-Retina-MacBook-Pro:Applications ewan$ ls /Applications
1000 OpenType Fonts.app Garmin MapInstall.app ScreenFlow.app
1Password.app Garmin MapManager.app Sequel Pro.app
A Better Finder Rename 8.app Garmin WebUpdater.app Server.app
A: Open the terminal, and write the following commande sudo find / -iname *.app
It's the same answser than "binarybob" but with the sudo you can access and list some folders you can't do without administrator rights. Your password will be asked and you get the benefits of the sudo "rights" if your account is an admin account.
For example, with find / -iname *.app I get 430 lines, and with sudo find / -iname *.app I get 432 lines. It's an example on my computer and maybe the result will be the same whatever the commande for you.
A: Using plistbuddy you can get some information and parse through it for the things you need.
This will get all installed apps/utilities with their version numbers and put it in a text file for you.
#!/bin/sh
(
for i in /Applications/*.app
do
Printf "$i \t" | cut -c15-1000
/usr/libexec/plistbuddy -c Print:CFBundleShortVersionString: "$i"/Contents/info.plist
done
for u in /Applications/Utilities/*.app
do
Printf "$u \t" | cut -c25-1000
/usr/libexec/plistbuddy -c Print:CFBundleShortVersionString: "$u"/Contents/info.plist
done
) >${USER}Applist.txt
A: I know the question has been asked 4 years ago, several answers have been given, each one tries to solve the problem differently (via GUI or CLI) but none of them is complete.
Yesterday in my company, every macOS user was asked to provide:
a list of all applications installed on their OS X / macOS systems for
a software audit
To make the process consistent, easy and complete, everyone ran the same command in terminal
ls -l /Applications | open -ef && ls -l /usr/local/bin | open -ef
Above command opens 2 files in a default text editor with a list of all installed apps as well as list of all “executables” which should also be considered as applications.
I think that this provides the most comprehensive solution for a given problem. It’s quick and does the job.
To provide more detailed answer let’s finally go through all commands and arguments so that everything is clear to those who are scared with using terminal.
The ls command simply lists directory contents. In this case /Applications as well as /usr/local/bin - this location is for programs that a normal user may run.
Argument -l displays the list in a “long format”. More about “long format" can be found here.
Next we have a pipe symbol |. It separates two programs on a command line so that listed output can be next opened in another program. In this case using open command.
The open command simply opens files and directories but combined with -ef:
*
*-e Causes the file to be opened with /Applications/TextEdit
*-f Reads input from standard input and opens the results in the default text editor.
Finally combination of both lists is glued together with && which allows to execute multiple commands at once so finally we end up with a "one line" terminal command.
Hope this helps and provides detailed explanation.
A: Try running this in Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app):
mdfind "kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-bundle'" -onlyin $scope
# $scope is your search range
# this command will only search all the applications under the given scope if -onlyin is specified
This is a search query that searches items with the given metadata predicate kMDItemContentType == "com.apple.application-bundle", it will give you a full list of all application bundles (.app) in your given scope, or if -onlyin is not provided, the global scale (including external/network drives) will be used.
A: *
*LaunchPad should show all apps in /Applications; they don't have to have a "shortcut" created to appear there.
*You can look directly in /Applications and /Applications/Utilities.
*System Information has a Software > Applications section in the sidebar that'll show an even more complete list, including apps stored in unexpected locations (I think it's using Spotlight to find them).
A: Simple answer I just created from all the answers above.
ls /Applications > Desktop/applications.txt
A: finder>applications . simple as that
A: The application folder.. Just go in to the appplication folder
A: Use "List My Apps". This Little App Show all Apps from the iTunes AppStore.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/list-my-apps/id756968964?l=de&ls=1&mt=12
A: Go to FINDER
Click APPLICATIONS
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bc3463e38bd3238d37f68463b520e9ed03596c9d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable HDMI sound output when using optical (TOSLINK) output on AppleTV I have Apple TV and have both HDMI and TOSLINK (optical) port connected. But the problem is that when i turn on the video via Apple TV I have double sound from the sound - from the TV set connected via HDMI and the sound system connected via TOSLINK. The later is deleyed due to the fact that TOSLINK is coverted RCA. This makes me turn off sound in the TV set.
Is there a way to not transmit sound via HDMI in Apple TV if it is anyway transmited to TOSLINK?
A: You could always use an HDMI cable that doesn't carry sound, not too expensive these days.
| Q: Disable HDMI sound output when using optical (TOSLINK) output on AppleTV I have Apple TV and have both HDMI and TOSLINK (optical) port connected. But the problem is that when i turn on the video via Apple TV I have double sound from the sound - from the TV set connected via HDMI and the sound system connected via TOSLINK. The later is deleyed due to the fact that TOSLINK is coverted RCA. This makes me turn off sound in the TV set.
Is there a way to not transmit sound via HDMI in Apple TV if it is anyway transmited to TOSLINK?
A: You could always use an HDMI cable that doesn't carry sound, not too expensive these days.
A: No, there is no way to disable HDMI sound output on Apple TV. The only solution is to mute sound on the TV itself, so you only hear audio from the receiver (sound system).
A: not sure about your TV but mine has a setting to turn the speakers off on the TV. I never use them anyway - everything runs through my surround sound
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373e3181ca74619bd94731525edfbb1b185ac741 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What build flags are available for brew install of gcc? I'm curious as to what build flags are available to me when installing gcc 4.8 using brew.
This question explains how to install gcc 4.8 using brew, but only specifies two possible flags i.e (--enable-cxx and --enable-fortran).
Is there a list of what's available or can someone iterate them for me?
If it matters I am running OS X 10.7.5 on the Intel i5 dual core.
A: Use brew options. On my machine I get this:
brew options gcc48
--enable-all-languages
Enable all compilers and languages, except Ada
--enable-cxx
Build the g++ compiler
--enable-fortran
Build the gfortran compiler
--enable-java
Buld the gcj compiler
--enable-multilib
Build with multilib support
--enable-nls
Build with native language support (localization)
--enable-objc
Enable Objective-C language support
--enable-objcxx
Enable Objective-C++ language support
--enable-profiled-build
Make use of profile guided optimization when bootstrapping GCC
| Q: What build flags are available for brew install of gcc? I'm curious as to what build flags are available to me when installing gcc 4.8 using brew.
This question explains how to install gcc 4.8 using brew, but only specifies two possible flags i.e (--enable-cxx and --enable-fortran).
Is there a list of what's available or can someone iterate them for me?
If it matters I am running OS X 10.7.5 on the Intel i5 dual core.
A: Use brew options. On my machine I get this:
brew options gcc48
--enable-all-languages
Enable all compilers and languages, except Ada
--enable-cxx
Build the g++ compiler
--enable-fortran
Build the gfortran compiler
--enable-java
Buld the gcj compiler
--enable-multilib
Build with multilib support
--enable-nls
Build with native language support (localization)
--enable-objc
Enable Objective-C language support
--enable-objcxx
Enable Objective-C++ language support
--enable-profiled-build
Make use of profile guided optimization when bootstrapping GCC
A: I'm not aware of a direct way to list all the possible flags for different software. With brew options [formula] you can list the build flags you can use directly with brew install. These options are defined in the Formula of the software and you can inspect it with brew edit [formula] (e.g. brew edit gcc48 and search for option lines).
However, at least with gcc (and any software that uses Autoconf), you can list all possible flags by following the steps below.
First, use brew install -i gcc48 to get a shell with the package to be installed extracted to a temporary directory. From there, you can use ./configure --help to list all possible flags for the particular software.
If you want to use some of the flags not possible with brew, you can proceed as you would with a normal installation without brew (./configure [flags]; make; make install). After that, when you exit, brew should pick up the finished build and you are done.
If you just exit after taking a look at the ./configure --help, brew notices that the there is nothing to be installed and exits with an error ("Error: Empty installation"). The same happens when there is some error in the actual build process ("Aborting due to non-zero exit status").
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aaaf95b1d0985f30e203fbcee21295093dc89520 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Two Monitors Setup On a MacBook Pro I want to setup a two-monitor environment for me and my MBP15 Late 2011. I already have an external monitor (Dell) and I want to buy another one and somehow link them together.
I heard about thunderbolt splitters.
If anyone ever done this please provide me with options and how to carry this out.
A: A standard MacBook (non-retina) only has one thunderbolt out. You can chain Thunderbolt displays but they are very expensive.
To attach a second display I use a DisplayLink USB device. This is basically an external USB graphics card.
| Q: Two Monitors Setup On a MacBook Pro I want to setup a two-monitor environment for me and my MBP15 Late 2011. I already have an external monitor (Dell) and I want to buy another one and somehow link them together.
I heard about thunderbolt splitters.
If anyone ever done this please provide me with options and how to carry this out.
A: A standard MacBook (non-retina) only has one thunderbolt out. You can chain Thunderbolt displays but they are very expensive.
To attach a second display I use a DisplayLink USB device. This is basically an external USB graphics card.
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24d4f555b3d30944937212182a7b16bf49130bed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a systemwide .bash_profile file? The order of directories in my path is messed up, and I'm trying to correct it. Some of the path seems to be coming in from somewhere other than my user bash config files (I'm using both .bashrc and .bash_profile).
Is there a system wide bash_profile (or other config files?) file which is executed before user specific ones? If so, where is it located by default?
A: The answer seems to be yes.
Check out the FILE section of Bash Man page
FILES
/bin/bash
The bash executable
/etc/profile
The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bash_profile
The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bashrc
The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
~/.bash_logout
The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits
~/.inputrc
Individual readline initialization file
In addition to that, shell paths are also loaded from /etc/paths and the files (if any) in /etc/paths.d by /usr/libexec/path_helper (which is executed as part of /etc/profile).
Lastly, there's also /etc/bashrc, intended for functions and aliases (while /etc/profile is designated for system wide environment and startup programs).
| Q: Is there a systemwide .bash_profile file? The order of directories in my path is messed up, and I'm trying to correct it. Some of the path seems to be coming in from somewhere other than my user bash config files (I'm using both .bashrc and .bash_profile).
Is there a system wide bash_profile (or other config files?) file which is executed before user specific ones? If so, where is it located by default?
A: The answer seems to be yes.
Check out the FILE section of Bash Man page
FILES
/bin/bash
The bash executable
/etc/profile
The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bash_profile
The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bashrc
The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
~/.bash_logout
The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits
~/.inputrc
Individual readline initialization file
In addition to that, shell paths are also loaded from /etc/paths and the files (if any) in /etc/paths.d by /usr/libexec/path_helper (which is executed as part of /etc/profile).
Lastly, there's also /etc/bashrc, intended for functions and aliases (while /etc/profile is designated for system wide environment and startup programs).
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63be89124c3818726b70e352c17f5a0bc649a6d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use Quicklook to see the Content of .JSON files? Currently, I can use the space bar to preview a number of files such as .txt, .css, .html etc in Quick Look. I cannot, however, see the actual contents of a .json file.
Is there any possible way to see the contents of .json files through space bar preview in finder?
(I'm Using OSX 10.8.4)
A: Run brew cask install quicklook-json to Preview JSON files.
There are bunch of other usefull here, check following awesome list
https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
Or install with following
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install qlcolorcode qlstephen qlmarkdown quicklook-json qlprettypatch
brew cask install quicklook-csv betterzipql qlimagesize webpquicklook suspicious-package
| Q: Use Quicklook to see the Content of .JSON files? Currently, I can use the space bar to preview a number of files such as .txt, .css, .html etc in Quick Look. I cannot, however, see the actual contents of a .json file.
Is there any possible way to see the contents of .json files through space bar preview in finder?
(I'm Using OSX 10.8.4)
A: Run brew cask install quicklook-json to Preview JSON files.
There are bunch of other usefull here, check following awesome list
https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
Or install with following
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install qlcolorcode qlstephen qlmarkdown quicklook-json qlprettypatch
brew cask install quicklook-csv betterzipql qlimagesize webpquicklook suspicious-package
A: also installable via
brew cask install qlstephen
A: Download a release of qlstephen from Github, and load it into the /Library/Quicklook or ~/Library/QuickLook folder. Then, restart the Dock.
I use this all the time when previewing JSON files, and it works great.
A: You can use the quicklook-json plugin. If you want to install it via homebrew, run
brew cask install quicklook-json
which requires a running
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
if you never did that before.
A: Macports provides an adequate port: sudo port install QLStephen.
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4ecad799f20841d56fbb1bb1b041ae539bb01bfd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will the Macbook Air (Mid 2012) support dual monitors? Can I hook up two external monitors (with a HDMI interface) to a MacBook Air 2012?
I don't want to use the MacBook Air monitor when the two monitors are used.
A: You can hook up two external monitors by using the thunderbolt port that support daisy chaining. You connect the the first screen with your Macbook air and connect the second screen with the first screen.
According to the following KB-article the following models support up to 2 displays through one thunderbolt port.
*
*MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) and later
*MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) and later
*MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
*MacBook Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, Early 2011) and later
*MacBook Air (Mid 2012) and later
*iMac (Late 2012)
*iMac (Mid 2011)
*Mac Mini (Late 2012)
*Mac Mini (Mid 2011), 2.5 GHz
It's not possible to connect 2 monitors simultaneously through one hdmi port.
Arstechnica also has an article about the support of multiple external monitors through one thunderbolt port. Apparently the older Macbook airs only support one external screen due to limitations in the thunderbolt host controller.
| Q: Will the Macbook Air (Mid 2012) support dual monitors? Can I hook up two external monitors (with a HDMI interface) to a MacBook Air 2012?
I don't want to use the MacBook Air monitor when the two monitors are used.
A: You can hook up two external monitors by using the thunderbolt port that support daisy chaining. You connect the the first screen with your Macbook air and connect the second screen with the first screen.
According to the following KB-article the following models support up to 2 displays through one thunderbolt port.
*
*MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) and later
*MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) and later
*MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
*MacBook Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, Early 2011) and later
*MacBook Air (Mid 2012) and later
*iMac (Late 2012)
*iMac (Mid 2011)
*Mac Mini (Late 2012)
*Mac Mini (Mid 2011), 2.5 GHz
It's not possible to connect 2 monitors simultaneously through one hdmi port.
Arstechnica also has an article about the support of multiple external monitors through one thunderbolt port. Apparently the older Macbook airs only support one external screen due to limitations in the thunderbolt host controller.
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cd7a52a2d9e2f2a83118ffa09f43a9ae2d32327c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get all frames from .mov video Which program can I use to get all frames from .mov video file. I need this frames in png or jpg. I don't need just one frame I want to export all frames from my video in the same resolution.
A: If you're comfortable using the command line this can be done using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i movie.mov -y -f image2 -c:v mjpeg %03d.jpg
This will write out every frame of the input movie movie.mov as a JPEG named 001.jpg, 002.jpg, ...
If you expect there to be more than 1000 frames you might change the format string of the output filename (%03d.jpg) to include more zeros. For example to have it use a 5 digit filename you would use %05d.jpg.
| Q: Get all frames from .mov video Which program can I use to get all frames from .mov video file. I need this frames in png or jpg. I don't need just one frame I want to export all frames from my video in the same resolution.
A: If you're comfortable using the command line this can be done using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i movie.mov -y -f image2 -c:v mjpeg %03d.jpg
This will write out every frame of the input movie movie.mov as a JPEG named 001.jpg, 002.jpg, ...
If you expect there to be more than 1000 frames you might change the format string of the output filename (%03d.jpg) to include more zeros. For example to have it use a 5 digit filename you would use %05d.jpg.
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9163d859d43e561ccc833f34e79846f17be49cdc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Skype integration in OSX Messages Just curious to see if there is any possible way to do this but is it possible to get Skype chats to work in OSX Messages?
Since I already use 3 other chat methods in Messages (iMessage, Facebook and Google Talk) running a separate program that chews out so much valuable system resources seems a silly way just to stay in contact with a couple more people.
A: No. Skype is developed by Microsoft and Apple wants to promote Facetime. I really wish there was way though because I hate the Skype interface but have to use it frequently for my job.
| Q: Skype integration in OSX Messages Just curious to see if there is any possible way to do this but is it possible to get Skype chats to work in OSX Messages?
Since I already use 3 other chat methods in Messages (iMessage, Facebook and Google Talk) running a separate program that chews out so much valuable system resources seems a silly way just to stay in contact with a couple more people.
A: No. Skype is developed by Microsoft and Apple wants to promote Facetime. I really wish there was way though because I hate the Skype interface but have to use it frequently for my job.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/98994"
} |
70cd25f23db0150fc11364b920e1d60683b4ba3d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MySQL not working on mountain lion I'm using mountain lion, I have installed MySQL.
GUI
It shows MySQL is running, but when I type
mysql --version
It gives error "mysql: command not found"
A: export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
in .bashrc or .bash_profile file (cd ~/.bash_profile)
This will tell your terminal where to find mysql command.
| Q: MySQL not working on mountain lion I'm using mountain lion, I have installed MySQL.
GUI
It shows MySQL is running, but when I type
mysql --version
It gives error "mysql: command not found"
A: export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
in .bashrc or .bash_profile file (cd ~/.bash_profile)
This will tell your terminal where to find mysql command.
A: command not found just means that the executable you're trying to run is not found in any of the directories in your $PATH environment variable.
Try /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
The documentation links include a platform guide where it tells you that MySQL gets installed into /usr/local/, and then a symlink is created at /usr/local/mysql that points to this install dir. Here you can see that I've installed two versions, and that symlink was updated on the last install:
$ ls -ld /usr/local/mysql*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27 Apr 4 2012 /usr/local/mysql -> mysql-5.5.22-osx10.6-x86_64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 4 2012 /usr/local/mysql-5.5.18-osx10.6-x86_64
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544 Mar 2 2012 /usr/local/mysql-5.5.22-osx10.6-x86_64
I don't recall what change I made to put /usr/local/mysql/bin into my PATH, but in my opinion, the cleanest way to do that for all users is
sudo sh -c 'echo /usr/local/mysql/bin > /etc/paths.d/mysql'
and open a new tab in Terminal to get the effect immediately.
| apple | {
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229de2a17b528bdbb51684a6a203c106010be0d0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding The Delete Option To The Right Click Contextual Menu? In Windows it is possible to permanently delete a file or folder from the right click contextual menu. The right click contextual menu in OS X, does not by default give the option to delete a file or folder in this way, only the option to "Move to Trash", which means you then have to empty the trash manually in order to delete the file or folder.
Is it therefore possible to add this option to the contextual menu, to aid quick deletion ?
A: There is a service called Delete Immediately
(through https://superuser.com/questions/10676/permanently-deleting-files-on-mac-os)
or you can make your own with Automator by means of the rm shell command.
Check also here.
| Q: Adding The Delete Option To The Right Click Contextual Menu? In Windows it is possible to permanently delete a file or folder from the right click contextual menu. The right click contextual menu in OS X, does not by default give the option to delete a file or folder in this way, only the option to "Move to Trash", which means you then have to empty the trash manually in order to delete the file or folder.
Is it therefore possible to add this option to the contextual menu, to aid quick deletion ?
A: There is a service called Delete Immediately
(through https://superuser.com/questions/10676/permanently-deleting-files-on-mac-os)
or you can make your own with Automator by means of the rm shell command.
Check also here.
A: I'm surprised it's not mentioned here, but there is a keyboard shortcut for this already.
It's option-command-delete.
This works on El Capitan. I'm not sure which version of OS X it was added in.
This shortcut works from anywhere in Finder (which is what this question is about), and also from inside the Trash (which is where I got the answer).
A: The simplest way is to create your own Service and call it whatever you want to name it.
I created a service simply called Delete Now and put it in my context menu like I have done here:
Make Your Own Delete Service
*
*Open up Automator (/Applications/Utilities/Automator) and create a new Service
*At the top right pane, select files or folders in Finder
*On the left most pane, select Utilities and drag the Run Shell Script option to the workflow
*Change the "Pass input" field to arguments
*Pase the following into the shell script body
for f in "$@"
do
rm -rf "$f"
done
afplay "/System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/SharedSupport/SystemSounds/finder/empty trash.aif"
6. Click File > Save on the menubar and give you service a name. Whatever you name it, is what it will be called
This will enable it immediately on your system. If you ever decide you don't want it, and need to replace this item, navigate to ~/Library/Services/ and you will see a list of folders called {servicename}.workflow. To remove the one you don't want, just delete it then in Terminal type
killall Finder
This will restart the Finder and remove it from the context menu straight away. Otherwise, it will clear up on next restart.
Add Keyboard Shortcut
To make a keyboard shortcut for the Service you created, follow these steps:
*
*From the Desktop, click the word Finder in the top left hand corner of the screen, then go to Services > Services Preferences
*Scroll down the list on the right until you find the service you created by name. In this example, you can see Delete All that I made earlier. Highlight it, and click on add shortcut.
*This will bring up a box. Make sure your mouse cursor is in there and depress the keys that you want to use to set the shortcut. In my example, I have used the combination Control+Shift+L.
*Press Show All to save your settings.
Keyboard Symbols
To help anyone new to Apple keyboard symbols, here they are as follows:
^ = Control
⇧ = Shift
⌘ = Command
⌥ = Alt/Option
A: Windows simply says delete but that's not what it does. Every time you "delete" something you are actually moving it to the recycle folder. There are only a few circumstances when a folder will not be sent to the recycle bin they are as follows.
1 When you close out of something without saving and it hasn't been autosaved or saved before.
2 If you cut an item then cut another item therefore over riding the cache.
3 If the folder is a temporary file.
The nice thing about windows though is that you can let the recycle bin build up without looking at an icon of a whole bunch of trash. I've got a terabyte hard drive I don't have to clear it ever 10 items I delete.
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ffb3c372d4936302cd6f7d1223d07421002cd7f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I view my iTunes wish list in the browser? Can I view my iTunes wish list in the browser ?
Can I - for example - copy the link of my wish list ?
A: Just for Google folks, it is not currently possible to view your iTunes Wish List outside of iTunes.
| Q: Can I view my iTunes wish list in the browser? Can I view my iTunes wish list in the browser ?
Can I - for example - copy the link of my wish list ?
A: Just for Google folks, it is not currently possible to view your iTunes Wish List outside of iTunes.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/99013"
} |
066148479a2fe72f3c44fb7b4bb8d766b4c9ab1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: External display has blurry fonts on Dell U2312hm- MacBook Pro Retina I just bought a new Dell external display (U2312hm) for my MacBook Pro Retina.
The fonts appear to be very blurry. I've searched and found a solution here, but it didn't fix my problem. I ran the script supplied in the thread, followed all instructions and the problem remains (tried on 2 different rMBPs with 2 different U2312hm monitors).
here are real a few examples (the upper browser in each picture is chrome on VMware and the lower is chrome on OSX 10.8.5):
I tried different font smoothing configurations which failed to improve the problem.
I tried using Apple's MiniDisplayPort to AVI and MiniDisplayPort to DisplayPort cables - no change.
What can I do?
A: The solution at http://embdev.net/topic/284710 worked for me.
Attach your display, download the updated patch-edid.rb, run ruby patch-edid.rb in Terminal and reboot. Voila!
Tested and working on both Mountain Lion and Mavericks with two U2713H monitors.
| Q: External display has blurry fonts on Dell U2312hm- MacBook Pro Retina I just bought a new Dell external display (U2312hm) for my MacBook Pro Retina.
The fonts appear to be very blurry. I've searched and found a solution here, but it didn't fix my problem. I ran the script supplied in the thread, followed all instructions and the problem remains (tried on 2 different rMBPs with 2 different U2312hm monitors).
here are real a few examples (the upper browser in each picture is chrome on VMware and the lower is chrome on OSX 10.8.5):
I tried different font smoothing configurations which failed to improve the problem.
I tried using Apple's MiniDisplayPort to AVI and MiniDisplayPort to DisplayPort cables - no change.
What can I do?
A: The solution at http://embdev.net/topic/284710 worked for me.
Attach your display, download the updated patch-edid.rb, run ruby patch-edid.rb in Terminal and reboot. Voila!
Tested and working on both Mountain Lion and Mavericks with two U2713H monitors.
A: Horray! I found a solution.
I bought the Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI converter cable adapter instead of using HDMI, and my picture is much more crisp and clear.
My Retina display is still better, but it's a better screen. my HP monitor is now performing to is ability. For some reason, HDMI must degrade the video quality.
A: Are you using the "Best Resolution for display" setting for the external monitor? I was forcing 1920x1080 and seeing a similar fuzzy look. I changed from the fixed resolution to Best Resolution (even tough they are the same), and my fonts are now smooth on my Viewsonic (at work) and my HP (at home) 24" monitors.
A: Have you tried toggling Use LCD Font Smoothing off and rebooting? To my eyes, it makes fonts on non-Retina displays look super thick and somewhat blurry, not unlike your photos. It's in System Preferences → General:
LCD Font Smoothing http://static.command-tab.com/2013/lcd-font-smoothing.png
A: HDMI did not work for me but the Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI converter cable adapter
worked perfectly! with a HP Pavilion 25bw
A: Image here shows a web page from Internet Explorer (top, on Parallels) and on OSX Chrome (Below).
The problem you saw was not really a problem. It was the different way which Windows and OSX render their fonts (aliasing). Some people prefer Windows's sharp font, others prefer OSX style.
I hope I understood your problem correctly because what you showed in the image(not clear, not a screen capture but from a camera) was what I have noticed before.
See here for a comparison on the two algorithms for aliasing fonts.
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b7493b140318fa90f851c849b4e3193d6844d389 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I import a .terminal file using the command line? I'm writing a (Bash) script to automate setting up my Mac environment and would like to do this, except using the command line only. I'd also like to make that theme the default.
I have a .terminal file exported and all ready to go, I just can't figure out how to do this programmatically. Is there a documentation for this somewhere that I'm missing?
... or would these be easier using AppleScript? Never done that before though.
A: Use the open command, followed by the preference change:
open ~/MyTerminalSettings.terminal
defaults write com.apple.terminal "Default Window Settings" -string "MyTerminalSettings"
defaults write com.apple.Terminal "Startup Window Settings" -string "MyTerminalSettings"
The open command will further open a new Terminal window, but the script will continue running in the original window, and you can close the new window when convenient.
| Q: How can I import a .terminal file using the command line? I'm writing a (Bash) script to automate setting up my Mac environment and would like to do this, except using the command line only. I'd also like to make that theme the default.
I have a .terminal file exported and all ready to go, I just can't figure out how to do this programmatically. Is there a documentation for this somewhere that I'm missing?
... or would these be easier using AppleScript? Never done that before though.
A: Use the open command, followed by the preference change:
open ~/MyTerminalSettings.terminal
defaults write com.apple.terminal "Default Window Settings" -string "MyTerminalSettings"
defaults write com.apple.Terminal "Startup Window Settings" -string "MyTerminalSettings"
The open command will further open a new Terminal window, but the script will continue running in the original window, and you can close the new window when convenient.
A: This isn't an answer but the basic bricks you will have to use to write
your shell script.
*
*Check that Terminal isn't running to avoid corrupting its plist:
if ps ax | grep '[/]Terminal' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo Terminal running! >&2 && exit 2
fi
# go ahead
beware to the [/] which is here to avoid to grep your grep
command which will be always successfull.
*Convert your Terminal plist to a text file with:
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
*Strip your .terminal file from its header, let's says its name is
imported.terminal
sed -n '/<dict>/,/<\/dict>/p' imported.terminal >tmp.terminal
*Insert this tmp.terminal plist within the
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
inside the right dictionary.
This will need some context analysis to do it right.
I'd chose perl if I had to do it, but awk, ex, or sed might
be easier with a few lines and testing.
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9a3383ec613c597f6fe4c845bb492cc3243f8096 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can exclude a whole site from Safari Top sites (and not just an URL)? In this other question, I've asked how to remove a domain from being added to the Safari Top Sites.
Unfortunately it seems that the answer may not be that easy as I though. I've just discovered that the list with the banned domains is on the path ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist, and I tried to add a domain with a wildcard to the BannedURLStrings, i.e. https://apple.stackexchange.com/*, but it doesn't work. Safari removes it as it seems to be invalid. Someone knows if it is possible to add a wildcard, or if they have another syntax, i.e https://apple.stackexchange.com/%.
| Q: How can exclude a whole site from Safari Top sites (and not just an URL)? In this other question, I've asked how to remove a domain from being added to the Safari Top Sites.
Unfortunately it seems that the answer may not be that easy as I though. I've just discovered that the list with the banned domains is on the path ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist, and I tried to add a domain with a wildcard to the BannedURLStrings, i.e. https://apple.stackexchange.com/*, but it doesn't work. Safari removes it as it seems to be invalid. Someone knows if it is possible to add a wildcard, or if they have another syntax, i.e https://apple.stackexchange.com/%.
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ccdccf45e1edea4735d92349be716ba91d67ceb6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does OS X Keep A Log Of Downloaded Files On My Mac? Does OS X make a record or log of every file that has ever been downloaded on my Mac.
Is there any reason to view them (or even delete them) ?
A: Yes, at: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents.
OS X uses the data in this file for the warning messages that come up when you open a downloaded app.
| Q: Does OS X Keep A Log Of Downloaded Files On My Mac? Does OS X make a record or log of every file that has ever been downloaded on my Mac.
Is there any reason to view them (or even delete them) ?
A: Yes, at: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents.
OS X uses the data in this file for the warning messages that come up when you open a downloaded app.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/99125"
} |
ce0aeadd68343350bf0e8e855b9ccd39fe821514 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is the symlink I created inside an application container to allow for external storage not working? I was trying to get around Vemedio's Instacast limitation on storage location by symlinking (ln -s) the Episodes folder in ~Library/Containers/com.vemedio.osx.Instacast/Data/Documents/Instacast to another location on another drive (which is actually internal in my Mac Pro for what it is worth...). I am wondering if Apple's sandboxing is preventing this to work... Once I open Instacast, none of the previously downloaded episodes are marked as available locally and if I try to redownload one, it seems to download the file in the background but never makes it available... Any idea?
A: For some reason, symlinking a part of the folder inside of the Containers folder doesn't work. If you want to symlink, you have to symlink the whole folder, i.e. com.vemedio.osx.Instacast
See https://snipt.net/certainlyakey/os-x-sandboxed-apps-and-symlinks-problem-solution/ for reference.
| Q: Why is the symlink I created inside an application container to allow for external storage not working? I was trying to get around Vemedio's Instacast limitation on storage location by symlinking (ln -s) the Episodes folder in ~Library/Containers/com.vemedio.osx.Instacast/Data/Documents/Instacast to another location on another drive (which is actually internal in my Mac Pro for what it is worth...). I am wondering if Apple's sandboxing is preventing this to work... Once I open Instacast, none of the previously downloaded episodes are marked as available locally and if I try to redownload one, it seems to download the file in the background but never makes it available... Any idea?
A: For some reason, symlinking a part of the folder inside of the Containers folder doesn't work. If you want to symlink, you have to symlink the whole folder, i.e. com.vemedio.osx.Instacast
See https://snipt.net/certainlyakey/os-x-sandboxed-apps-and-symlinks-problem-solution/ for reference.
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f855345cc17bfa97901ea5d256d52a51446a7c7a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac OS X: How to merge pdf files in a directory according to their file names I want to merge several hundred pdf files in a directory automatically according to their file names.
E.g.
The files
1000.1.pdf
1000.2.pdf
1000.3.pdf
1000.x.pdf should be merged into 1000.pdf
and
2000.abc.pdf
2000.def.pdf
2000.ghi.pdf
2000.jkl.pdf
2000.5.pdf into 2000.pdf.
I don’t want to use solutions based on Preview/Automator (if available) because compared to third party software like Adobe Acrobat or PDFpen merging pdf files often (depending on the source documents) results in a significant increase in file size (see e.g. What causes PDF file size to increase when saving in Preview?)
Do you have any recommendations? Thank you!
A: There’s a Python script hidden in Automator.app that joins .PDF-files
/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py --help
Usage: join [--output <file>] [--shuffle] [--verbose]
Example usage:
/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py --output all.pdf *.pdf
| Q: Mac OS X: How to merge pdf files in a directory according to their file names I want to merge several hundred pdf files in a directory automatically according to their file names.
E.g.
The files
1000.1.pdf
1000.2.pdf
1000.3.pdf
1000.x.pdf should be merged into 1000.pdf
and
2000.abc.pdf
2000.def.pdf
2000.ghi.pdf
2000.jkl.pdf
2000.5.pdf into 2000.pdf.
I don’t want to use solutions based on Preview/Automator (if available) because compared to third party software like Adobe Acrobat or PDFpen merging pdf files often (depending on the source documents) results in a significant increase in file size (see e.g. What causes PDF file size to increase when saving in Preview?)
Do you have any recommendations? Thank you!
A: There’s a Python script hidden in Automator.app that joins .PDF-files
/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py --help
Usage: join [--output <file>] [--shuffle] [--verbose]
Example usage:
/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py --output all.pdf *.pdf
A: Try pdftk. It is command-line software that can join PDF files (and do lots of other stuff, too, but that isn't relevant here). You can download it from the official pdftk web page.
Sample syntax:
pdftk old1.pdf old2.pdf old3.pdf cat output new.pdf
will create the file new.pdf that contains the concatenation of the files old1.pdf, old2.pdf, old3.pdf.
To solve your problem, with your example filenames:
pdftk 1000.*.pdf cat 1000.pdf
pdftk 2000.*.pdf cat 2000.pdf
and so on. You can use shell scripting to make this completely automatic if desired (but you'll have to spend a little time on your own learning how to write shell scripts).
Assuming all files are named 1000.x, 2000.x etc. a shell script could look somehow like this
#!/bin/bash
for n in {1..9}; do
if [[ -r ${n}000.1.pdf ]]; then
rm -f ${n}000.pdf
pdftk ${n}000.*.pdf cat ${n}000.pdf && mv ${n}000.*.pdf ~/.Trash/
fi
done
A: You can use pdfunite distributed with poppler. You can install poppler with Homebrew:
brew install poppler
And now use it:
pdfunite input1.pdf input2.pdf input3.pdf output.pdf
poppler also comes with these other commands: pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, in addition to pdfunite.
A: pdftk doesn't work anymore on El Capitan! (OS X 10.10)
An alternative is pagemaster from PDFTron. The syntax would be:
pagemaster -m *.pdf -o output.pdf
It doesn't have the file size increase problem of the Automator solution above, since it uses a custom PDF library.
Note: this is not a free tool. The demo version adds a thin watermark on each page.
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c64c844245305506749f9f8d7cf7421683b1ec06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to always show hidden/dotfiles in Open/Save dialogs? It is possible to show so-called dotfiles/directories like .git or files/directories that have the Hidden attribute in the Finder by running
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1
from the command line (then running killall Finder to restart it). However, this only works in Finder, not in applications' Open/Save dialogs. In those, one can use the ⌘⇧. keyboard shortcut to show these files, but you have to use it each time you open a new dialog as the settings aren't saved.
Does anyone know of any kind of way to make this setting permanent? It could involve a Terminal command, editing a .plist or other file on an application by application basis, anything. This question was asked a while ago with no satisfactory answers, so I'd like to see if there have been any changes in Mountain Lion, or if anyone knows an answer that just missed the first question. I'm currently running 10.8.4, if it makes any difference.
A: Just adding the key to the global domain seems to work:
defaults write -g AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
You have to quit and reopen applications to apply changes as usual.
| Q: Is it possible to always show hidden/dotfiles in Open/Save dialogs? It is possible to show so-called dotfiles/directories like .git or files/directories that have the Hidden attribute in the Finder by running
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1
from the command line (then running killall Finder to restart it). However, this only works in Finder, not in applications' Open/Save dialogs. In those, one can use the ⌘⇧. keyboard shortcut to show these files, but you have to use it each time you open a new dialog as the settings aren't saved.
Does anyone know of any kind of way to make this setting permanent? It could involve a Terminal command, editing a .plist or other file on an application by application basis, anything. This question was asked a while ago with no satisfactory answers, so I'd like to see if there have been any changes in Mountain Lion, or if anyone knows an answer that just missed the first question. I'm currently running 10.8.4, if it makes any difference.
A: Just adding the key to the global domain seems to work:
defaults write -g AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
You have to quit and reopen applications to apply changes as usual.
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a66ec0825cf08eaa5c023374b2b0c2beae06bc15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I listen to FM radio through my iPhone? My mom has an iPhone 4s. I have a iPhone 4. The radio is out of the house. She wants to listen to Garrison Keillor. Can we get radio through our iPhones?
A: The iPhone doesn't have native FM radio support, but you can use the TuneIn app, which lets you stream your local radio broadcasts on your iPhone over Wi-Fi.
| Q: How can I listen to FM radio through my iPhone? My mom has an iPhone 4s. I have a iPhone 4. The radio is out of the house. She wants to listen to Garrison Keillor. Can we get radio through our iPhones?
A: The iPhone doesn't have native FM radio support, but you can use the TuneIn app, which lets you stream your local radio broadcasts on your iPhone over Wi-Fi.
A: iPhone does not have an FM or AM tuner so you would need an accessory to tune in an over the air broadcast.
That said, a lot of radio shows can be listened to through apps or podcasts. Specifically for A Prarie Home Companion, you can use the Public Radio Player app to find your local station and listen to the live stream. Note that this uses your phone's data connection, so if you are not connected to Wi-Fi, it will use data from your data plan with your wireless carrier.
Also, Minnesota Public Radio has it's own iOS app that plays most Prairie Home Companion broadcasts when they air in the normal central US time zone slot.
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8fa94f90aa6acda1c892e499b81aaba3ffd24f43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Long term effects of iPhone left in the sun? I accidentally left my iPhone 5 a few hours in direct sun and it overheated. Obviously I put it in shade to cool down but my question is will there be any significant damage? Long term? It was really hot when I found it.
A: If you cooled it down, then the problem is resolved for now and there is nothing more you can do. Try to avoid doing that again as this will slowly move from the short term effects to long term ones.
Short Term Effects of Overheating
*
*Battery decreases- fast! (Hopefully temporarily, when you cool it down, it will return to 98% of what it was before)
Long Term Effects of Overheating
When the iPhone overheats, Apple also claims that you might experience these (more extreme) results:
*
*device battery stops charging
*display weakens
*poor cellular signal.
To stop this from happening, try and turn your iPhone so that the screen is facing down. This will help it avoid contact with the sun. If you have a case, that will be better because the sun will be hitting the case instead of the phone directly.
| Q: Long term effects of iPhone left in the sun? I accidentally left my iPhone 5 a few hours in direct sun and it overheated. Obviously I put it in shade to cool down but my question is will there be any significant damage? Long term? It was really hot when I found it.
A: If you cooled it down, then the problem is resolved for now and there is nothing more you can do. Try to avoid doing that again as this will slowly move from the short term effects to long term ones.
Short Term Effects of Overheating
*
*Battery decreases- fast! (Hopefully temporarily, when you cool it down, it will return to 98% of what it was before)
Long Term Effects of Overheating
When the iPhone overheats, Apple also claims that you might experience these (more extreme) results:
*
*device battery stops charging
*display weakens
*poor cellular signal.
To stop this from happening, try and turn your iPhone so that the screen is facing down. This will help it avoid contact with the sun. If you have a case, that will be better because the sun will be hitting the case instead of the phone directly.
A: Starting at 40 Celsius (104 F) we think it is very hot.
At 50-60C (122 F-140 F) it is burning hot and we could not touch it.
Above that we actually get burned.
So you phone could have not been hotter then the outside temperature in the Sun (probably 40-45 C max if you live in Arizona).
Still that is hot and could have impact on your battery life.
Preventive methods are:
Using a white color phone housing.
Using the reflective phone housing.
In both case the temperature would be lower by as much as 10 C. (due to the reflection).
A: I left my iPhone 5s in the sun for about an hour or so while I was swimming. When I got to it the phone was burning hot, so I put it into some shade. The iPhone died eventually and when I got home I put it onto the charger and it was fine. The next day my iPhone did not work properly I could barley type in my passcode and if i did end up getting into my phone it would start going into randome apps and doing randome things when I didn't even touch anything. My iphone is now disabling me from unlocking it because it's typing in Random numbers on my passcode.
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0e7965e8a085de501383f14996195eaa0012e68a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Drives and dmg's mounting okay but not appearing in the Finder sidebar Drives and dmg's are mounting okay on my Mac, and I can find them at /Volumes/. However, they aren't appearing in the sidebar in the Finder. What's the best way to start fixing this?
A: In Finder you can show or hide the disks and other devices
Go to the sidebar and mouse over DEVICES you get to the right text that says Show or Hide. Click on that word to toggle the display of the devices.
| Q: Drives and dmg's mounting okay but not appearing in the Finder sidebar Drives and dmg's are mounting okay on my Mac, and I can find them at /Volumes/. However, they aren't appearing in the sidebar in the Finder. What's the best way to start fixing this?
A: In Finder you can show or hide the disks and other devices
Go to the sidebar and mouse over DEVICES you get to the right text that says Show or Hide. Click on that word to toggle the display of the devices.
A: I faced a similar problem today, but the "devices" show/hide solution didn't quite solve it for me.
However, going to the Finder's Preferences > Sidebar > Devices, the box next to "External disks" was neither empty (unselected) nor check-marked (selected), but rather marked with a hyphen (partially selected). After clicking the box next to "External disks" until the check-mark appeared, my mounted image started to show up in Finder.
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28bd5003caa41d4f34a101c5af4af18bc8b7c96e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change Users Home Directory I have created a new user but the new user's home directory has the old users path. How can I update my new user's home directory so that the terminal opens to this directory and all software considers this new directory my home directory? I'm using OS x 10.8.4.
A: A safer way to change the home folder associated with an account is to do so through System Preferences.
*
*Click on the Apple menu, then System Preferences.
*Select Users & Groups.
*Click the lock at the bottom left and authenticate as an administrator.
*Right-click on the account you want to change and select Advanced Options.
*Change the "Home directory" path and click OK.
| Q: Change Users Home Directory I have created a new user but the new user's home directory has the old users path. How can I update my new user's home directory so that the terminal opens to this directory and all software considers this new directory my home directory? I'm using OS x 10.8.4.
A: A safer way to change the home folder associated with an account is to do so through System Preferences.
*
*Click on the Apple menu, then System Preferences.
*Select Users & Groups.
*Click the lock at the bottom left and authenticate as an administrator.
*Right-click on the account you want to change and select Advanced Options.
*Change the "Home directory" path and click OK.
A: Apple's support site provides steps to change the "account name" (that is, the name of the home folder for a particular user).
*
*Enable the root user (using these steps).
*Log in as root.
*Navigate to the /Users folder.
*Select the Home folder with the short name you want to change, and rename it just like you would rename any folder. Keep in mind that the shortname must be all lowercase, with no spaces, and only contain letters.
*Use the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier) in System Preferences to create a new user with the Account name or Short Name that you used in the previous step.
*Click OK when "A folder in the Users folder already has the name 'account name'. Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?" appears. Note: This will correct the ownership of all files in the Home folder, and avoid permissions issues with the contents.
*Choose Log Out from the Apple menu.
Log in as the newly created user. You should be able to access all of your original files (on the desktop, in Documents, and in the other folders of this Home).
*After verifying that your data is as expected, you can delete the original user account via the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier).
*Disable the root user (using these steps).
A: You can assign a home folder to something other than "/Users/yourUserName" in the Terminal.
sudo dscl . -create /Users/YourUserName NFSHomeDirectory /path/to/new/home/folder
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54a65589077fa6aa590cf12056e3c763c1c9bbc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone field test instructions
"Access the iPhone’s Field Test mode by typing 3001#12345# in the phone’s keypad and press dial. This will bring up the Field Test menu."
Doesn't work for me.
A: The correct code is
*3001#12345#*
(note the asterisks at the beginning and end).
| Q: iPhone field test instructions
"Access the iPhone’s Field Test mode by typing 3001#12345# in the phone’s keypad and press dial. This will bring up the Field Test menu."
Doesn't work for me.
A: The correct code is
*3001#12345#*
(note the asterisks at the beginning and end).
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5f9af778780f9492bd5142b53be931c4f785da7e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The simplest way to transfer photos from an iPhone to PC selectively (not sync-all) Windows 7 user here, though access to a Mac (in case that'd be the only way to do this) wouldn't be impossible.
I know I could download iTunes and sync all the photos, but I have nearly 4000 of them and I'd only consider that a last-resort option. What would be simply perfect: Can I just browse them in Windows Explorer on my iPhone? If not Windows Explorer, some App. If I could even get a list of Albums part of my dreams would come true.
A: Windows 7 should see your connected iPhone as a Photo Camera. Just use the same software that you'd use for importing individual photos from a regular USB-connected camera. Also make sure to have your phone "trust" your computer by turning on the phone and selecting "trust" from the pop-up.
On OS X, you can use the built-in Image Capture utility (or iPhoto or Aperture if you have those).
| Q: The simplest way to transfer photos from an iPhone to PC selectively (not sync-all) Windows 7 user here, though access to a Mac (in case that'd be the only way to do this) wouldn't be impossible.
I know I could download iTunes and sync all the photos, but I have nearly 4000 of them and I'd only consider that a last-resort option. What would be simply perfect: Can I just browse them in Windows Explorer on my iPhone? If not Windows Explorer, some App. If I could even get a list of Albums part of my dreams would come true.
A: Windows 7 should see your connected iPhone as a Photo Camera. Just use the same software that you'd use for importing individual photos from a regular USB-connected camera. Also make sure to have your phone "trust" your computer by turning on the phone and selecting "trust" from the pop-up.
On OS X, you can use the built-in Image Capture utility (or iPhoto or Aperture if you have those).
A:
Can I just browse them in Windows Explorer on my iPhone? If not Windows Explorer, some App. If I could even get a list of Albums part of my dreams would come true.
Yes, as the posters above mentioned. You can also use a tool like iExplorer, which runs on both Mac and PC, to manage your photos selectively. I do this when I don't want to mess with iTunes.
Further, if you just want to sync all of your photos automatically, and manage them afterward, Dropbox does this very nicely with its Camera Upload feature.
A: Make sure your iPhone is unlocked before you plug it in to your USB, otherwise your PC won't see any files.
A: In Mac OS X you can easily explore them and transfer the ones you want with iPhoto.
And in Windows you can see the iPhone as a device in "My Computer" and access the pictures that are stored in folders pending from Apple iPhone\Internal Storage\DCIM. They will have names like 823WGTMA, so it's not easy to know where are the concrete pictures that you're looking for.
A: Apple has a support document covering this topic: iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
A: Search "ePhotoTransfer" in app store. It lets you select photos to transfer. The transfer speed is fast at Wi-Fi speed.
If you don't need to transfer videos but only images, use their free version: http://appstore.com/ePhotoTransferFree.
Video:
http://youtu.be/lRvwynV4xyE
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99e6da7def1259ef07075fcfa9e287d7c6f036dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Display seconds in addition to hours and minutes on the Clock How would I go about getting the clock on my iPhone to display the seconds beside the minutes?
I have looked at Settings → General → Date & Time, but it only allows me to choose a Time Zone, Set the clock automatically or toggle 24-Hour Time.
Is there anything I can do to cause the clock to display seconds in addition to minutes and hours?
A: If you look at the icon for the Clock app on your home screen it has a second hand. For most cases this is sufficient for me.
| Q: Display seconds in addition to hours and minutes on the Clock How would I go about getting the clock on my iPhone to display the seconds beside the minutes?
I have looked at Settings → General → Date & Time, but it only allows me to choose a Time Zone, Set the clock automatically or toggle 24-Hour Time.
Is there anything I can do to cause the clock to display seconds in addition to minutes and hours?
A: If you look at the icon for the Clock app on your home screen it has a second hand. For most cases this is sufficient for me.
A:
Is there anything I can do to cause the clock to display seconds in addition to minutes and hours?
In the default, non-jailbroken OS? I don't think so.
In the status bar on a jailbroken iPhone? Yes. It's called StatusBarSeconds.
A: If u want to time 90 seconds set it to 2 minutes then run it down to 1 min 30 secs. Hit pause. Now u can run 90 secs.
A: As they say there is an App for that. Here is one I found:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emerald-time/id290384375?mt=8
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98778df8dc1fd1b738a87a88e7968b3ec87d5746 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac OS X - File Open Dialog: Can't sort or resize columns I'm having a problem where when I go to File > Open; I can't resize the different columns.
A: Set the arrange by mode to none:
| Q: Mac OS X - File Open Dialog: Can't sort or resize columns I'm having a problem where when I go to File > Open; I can't resize the different columns.
A: Set the arrange by mode to none:
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7330af7b811354cd96cdbf8e2c5a2c6bfc261c41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to verify iOS app integrity? If I write an app for iOS and it's accepted by the AppStore, how do I know if the app is actually the app I compiled and has not being substituted/altered by, say, a "Man in the middle" style interception/attack? Is there a way to do a checksum either after the fact or from inside the app itself?
A: Actually, it turns out, when backing up to iTunes, the *.ipa file is copied from the iOS device. This file is simply a *.zip with a different extension. Using a tool like 7-zip allows One to examine the contents after the back up to iTunes. A checksum can be run on the individual components in this archive, verifying a lack of tampering.
| Q: How to verify iOS app integrity? If I write an app for iOS and it's accepted by the AppStore, how do I know if the app is actually the app I compiled and has not being substituted/altered by, say, a "Man in the middle" style interception/attack? Is there a way to do a checksum either after the fact or from inside the app itself?
A: Actually, it turns out, when backing up to iTunes, the *.ipa file is copied from the iOS device. This file is simply a *.zip with a different extension. Using a tool like 7-zip allows One to examine the contents after the back up to iTunes. A checksum can be run on the individual components in this archive, verifying a lack of tampering.
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45125ac792460f2f68f87397162fba9269310cf5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the Firefox 23.0 icon back to the old one? In firefox 23.0 they use a new icon that doesn't look so much 'flat' as 'blurred' or 'smudged'. How do I go back to the old one from Firefox 22.0?
A: *
*Download the Firefox 22.0 release binary from one of these locations:
*
*http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/22.0/mac/en-GB/
*ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/22.0/mac/en-GB/
*Double-click to mount the Firefox 22.0.dmg file.
*Copy the icons using Terminal:
*
*cd /Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/
*cp document.icns firefox.icns /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/
*Reboot.
Note: If you want to do the copy from Finder, you'll need to right-click on the Firefox.app icon in the mounted dmg file and select "show package contents" then using a separate Finder window do the same thing for /Applications/Firefox.app, then change into Contents/Resources in both windows and copy the files across.
| Q: How do I change the Firefox 23.0 icon back to the old one? In firefox 23.0 they use a new icon that doesn't look so much 'flat' as 'blurred' or 'smudged'. How do I go back to the old one from Firefox 22.0?
A: *
*Download the Firefox 22.0 release binary from one of these locations:
*
*http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/22.0/mac/en-GB/
*ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/22.0/mac/en-GB/
*Double-click to mount the Firefox 22.0.dmg file.
*Copy the icons using Terminal:
*
*cd /Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/
*cp document.icns firefox.icns /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/
*Reboot.
Note: If you want to do the copy from Finder, you'll need to right-click on the Firefox.app icon in the mounted dmg file and select "show package contents" then using a separate Finder window do the same thing for /Applications/Firefox.app, then change into Contents/Resources in both windows and copy the files across.
A: *
*On each of the Firefox 22 and Firefox 23 apps, right click and select "Get Info".
*In each information windows that pops up, unlock the lock at the lower right (click, and enter admin credentials when prompted).
*In the Firefox 22 information window, click on the small Firefox icon at the upper left and and type Cmd+C.
*In the Firefox 23 information window, click the small icon at the upper left and and type Cmd+V.
*Close the information windows; you're done.
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b9b012067eac14a4c075d1795a9c81864f644ee8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make a command line executable an application? I have a command line executable (specifically JMeter), which opens a GUI application when launched from the terminal. However, I would like to create a link to it that would wrap it up to become a proper Mac application (included in /Applications directory and all that). How do I do that?
A: Use Automator.
*
*Open Automator and double-click on Application.
*In the "Name" search box, type Apple and you should see "Run AppleScript".
*Drag "Run AppleScript" into the right-hand window.
*Where it says (* Your script goes here *), replace that text with the following code:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "JMeter"
end tell
*File > Save and enter a name, and choose where to save the application.
*Double-click on the newly created application.
| Q: How to make a command line executable an application? I have a command line executable (specifically JMeter), which opens a GUI application when launched from the terminal. However, I would like to create a link to it that would wrap it up to become a proper Mac application (included in /Applications directory and all that). How do I do that?
A: Use Automator.
*
*Open Automator and double-click on Application.
*In the "Name" search box, type Apple and you should see "Run AppleScript".
*Drag "Run AppleScript" into the right-hand window.
*Where it says (* Your script goes here *), replace that text with the following code:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "JMeter"
end tell
*File > Save and enter a name, and choose where to save the application.
*Double-click on the newly created application.
A: Short answer:
do shell script "/your/script/path/shellscript.sh"
Use this snippet in an AppleScript, then save it as an application.
A: Here are the commands to create a minimum version of the app which runs top command:
APP=Foo
mkdir -vp ${APP}.app/Contents/MacOS ${APP}.app/Contents/Resources # Create the folders.
PATH="$PATH:/usr/libexec" # Make sure PlistBuddy is in the PATH.
printf '#!/usr/bin/osascript\ntell application "Terminal"\n\tactivate\n\tdo script "top"\nend tell\n' > ${APP}.app/Contents/MacOS/${APP}
chmod +x ${APP}.app/Contents/MacOS/${APP} # Sets the executable flag.
PlistBuddy ${APP}.app/Contents/Info.plist -c "add CFBundleDisplayName string ${APP}"
PlistBuddy ${APP}.app/Contents/version.plist -c "add ProjectName string ${APP}"
find ${APP}.app # Verify the files.
open ${APP}.app # Run the app.
Note: The above commands should be executed in shell e.g. in Terminal.
In above code, you can replace top with your shell command.
In case, you're dealing with Windows apps, consider using WineBottler app.
A: The answer that uses Automator worked for me to wrap GNumeric, but it was opening an ugly Terminal box and I could not close it without closing GNumeric, so I was able to get rid of it by changing it as follows:
tell application "/usr/local/bin/gnumeric"
activate
end tell
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aaf315c091659ce743cba434ad0396a949f76a7e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In iMovie 11, how do I export at my custom resolution/aspect ratio? It only allows 16:9/4:3? I see a few posts that say it will also export at the aspect ratio you imported at, but how?
I recorded a portion of my screen with Quicktime's screen recorder, and it came to a resolution of 680x812. I imported that into iMovie, as well as a 640x812 image at the end, but when I go to export, I only get this screen, where none of them are the resolution of my video, and it puts black letterboxing on the sides:
How do I do it?
Also, how do I get it to not degrade video quality?
A: I can address your first question. You can't export into a custom resolution. For that, you need Final Cut Pro X and Compressor. See this blog post for a description of the process.
(Apple's) suggestion was to edit your video using standard video formats in FCP X, then export it to Compressor and use the Geometry tab in Compressor to create the final movie size you need.
| Q: In iMovie 11, how do I export at my custom resolution/aspect ratio? It only allows 16:9/4:3? I see a few posts that say it will also export at the aspect ratio you imported at, but how?
I recorded a portion of my screen with Quicktime's screen recorder, and it came to a resolution of 680x812. I imported that into iMovie, as well as a 640x812 image at the end, but when I go to export, I only get this screen, where none of them are the resolution of my video, and it puts black letterboxing on the sides:
How do I do it?
Also, how do I get it to not degrade video quality?
A: I can address your first question. You can't export into a custom resolution. For that, you need Final Cut Pro X and Compressor. See this blog post for a description of the process.
(Apple's) suggestion was to edit your video using standard video formats in FCP X, then export it to Compressor and use the Geometry tab in Compressor to create the final movie size you need.
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da95fa023f7f541600502de982df2830fc56e9ef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to update the itunes without updating Xcode? I am having updates for both itunes and xcode in the App store.
When I click update to itunes, it asks me to close both the itunes and xcode.
I don't want to update xcode.
Is it possible update the itunes without updating Xcode?
What will happen if I click continue on the below image?
A: If you have both iTunes and Xcode installed, Xcode needs to be closed to update iTunes even if Xcode itself is not getting updated. There are some dependencies between iTunes and Xcode for app provisioning and such and closing Xcode ensures that the installation will run through.
All that you need to do it quit iTunes and Xcode to make the update continue. Xcode will not get updated from the Store by that.
By the way, if you're not a developer, consider to remove Xcode from your Mac to save space and hassles.
| Q: Is it possible to update the itunes without updating Xcode? I am having updates for both itunes and xcode in the App store.
When I click update to itunes, it asks me to close both the itunes and xcode.
I don't want to update xcode.
Is it possible update the itunes without updating Xcode?
What will happen if I click continue on the below image?
A: If you have both iTunes and Xcode installed, Xcode needs to be closed to update iTunes even if Xcode itself is not getting updated. There are some dependencies between iTunes and Xcode for app provisioning and such and closing Xcode ensures that the installation will run through.
All that you need to do it quit iTunes and Xcode to make the update continue. Xcode will not get updated from the Store by that.
By the way, if you're not a developer, consider to remove Xcode from your Mac to save space and hassles.
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e529763c1672041c91f43e91f0b6f4ddee3a9bd9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any way to enable File Vault for just one user? At the office, I use a machine which is used by several people.
Is there any way to enable File Vault ONLY for MY user folder?
(I.e., /Users/me)
A: FileVault 1 used to do just this but the current FileVault 2 is whole disk encryption. It is technically possible to use the Logical Volume Manager underpinning FV2 to accomplish this, but it's rather complicated and not supported by Apple or any GUI System Preferences.
You could consider using an encrypted disk image created with DiskUtility. This would give you an optionally mountable disk that is encrypted. It appears on the HDD as a large file (like most installer .dmg files) and mounts with a double-click and password. This is similar to what FV1 used to do with a user's home directory.
| Q: Any way to enable File Vault for just one user? At the office, I use a machine which is used by several people.
Is there any way to enable File Vault ONLY for MY user folder?
(I.e., /Users/me)
A: FileVault 1 used to do just this but the current FileVault 2 is whole disk encryption. It is technically possible to use the Logical Volume Manager underpinning FV2 to accomplish this, but it's rather complicated and not supported by Apple or any GUI System Preferences.
You could consider using an encrypted disk image created with DiskUtility. This would give you an optionally mountable disk that is encrypted. It appears on the HDD as a large file (like most installer .dmg files) and mounts with a double-click and password. This is similar to what FV1 used to do with a user's home directory.
A: Filevault 2 is full hard drive encryption. It is not possible to set that to a folder or single user.
However you can reenable the legacy file vault. This does what you are asking for. This does require some tinkering on the command line and is not for the faint of heart.
You can find instructions on http://www.taborcg.com/2011/10/16/how-to-enable-legacy-filevault-on-mac-osx-10-7-lion/.
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94c1d6c6d2e7812cb6fc860acd4a60d513622b45 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing Creation Date of a file Could you please let me know how I can change the creation date of a file in Lion. I realise there is the touch-t command but that does not work in Lion. A couple of people have mentioned another way, but I think they've written the solution in "coder" language rather than layman language - would someone be able to answer it in a way a layman can execute?
Many thanks for your help.
A: Greats hints here, in particular the last one (from Lauri Ranta, answered Aug 21 at 15:21). Perfekt!
I now use a simple Automator Workflow to batch change multiple files:
*
*Get Selected Finder Items
*Run Shell Script, "Pass input: as arguments"
The shell script is:
for f in "$@"
do
SetFile -d "$(GetFileInfo -m "$f")" "$f"
done
This works like a charm.
| Q: Changing Creation Date of a file Could you please let me know how I can change the creation date of a file in Lion. I realise there is the touch-t command but that does not work in Lion. A couple of people have mentioned another way, but I think they've written the solution in "coder" language rather than layman language - would someone be able to answer it in a way a layman can execute?
Many thanks for your help.
A: Greats hints here, in particular the last one (from Lauri Ranta, answered Aug 21 at 15:21). Perfekt!
I now use a simple Automator Workflow to batch change multiple files:
*
*Get Selected Finder Items
*Run Shell Script, "Pass input: as arguments"
The shell script is:
for f in "$@"
do
SetFile -d "$(GetFileInfo -m "$f")" "$f"
done
This works like a charm.
A: In Mac OS X there appears to be four different timestamps associated with a file. These timestamps are not always updated independently from each other, but one can have some individual control with a bit of care and with use of touch, SetFile, and chown (or chmod). To see this, let's experiment and create a new file from the command prompt #:
# touch a.txt
# stat a.txt
16777218 5969798 -rw-r--r-- 1 username staff 0 0 "May 19 00:11:14 2015" "May 19 00:11:14 2015" "May 19 00:11:14 2015" "May 19 00:11:14 2015" 4096 0 0 a.txt
The first date listed is last access time (atime), the second is last modification time (mtime), the third is last status change (ctime), the fourth is time of file creation (birth, Btime), see man lstat.
To modify access time (atime) to a specified time use:
# touch -a -t201412312359.59 a.txt
# stat a.txt
16777218 5969798 -rw-r--r-- 1 username staff 0 0 "Dec 31 23:59:59 2014" "May 19 00:11:14 2015" "May 19 00:11:46 2015" "May 19 00:11:14 2015" 4096 0 0 a.txt
To modify modification time (mtime) and time of file creation (Btime) to a specified time use:
# touch -m -t201312312359.59 a.txt
# stat a.txt
16777218 5969798 -rw-r--r-- 1 username staff 0 0 "Dec 31 23:59:59 2014" "Dec 31 23:59:59 2013" "May 19 00:12:19 2015" "Dec 31 23:59:59 2013" 4096 0 0 a.txt
Apparently this also automatically updates the time of last status change (ctime) to the current system time!
To modify only the time of creation/birth (Btime) to a given time, use (as proposed by others above):
# SetFile -d "12/31/1999 23:59:59" a.txt
# stat a.txt
16777218 5969798 -rw-r--r-- 1 username staff 0 0 "Dec 31 23:59:59 2014" "Dec 31 23:59:59 2013" "May 19 00:12:19 2015" "Dec 31 23:59:59 1999" 4096 0 0 a.txt
To modify only the time of last status change (ctime) to the current system time use for example:
# chown username a.txt
# stat a.txt
16777218 5969798 -rw-r--r-- 1 username staff 0 0 "Dec 31 23:59:59 2014" "Dec 31 23:59:59 2013" "May 19 00:13:45 2015" "Dec 31 23:59:59 1999" 4096 0 0 a.txt
where username is the owner of the file (as reported by stat or ls -l). This doesn't change the ownership of the file, but accesses the file's inode and records this as a time of last status change. Unfortunately, it is not possible to specify the time explicitly here other than by changing the computer's time...
In summary, to be able to change the four timestamps independently, one may use (in this order for the last 3):
*
*touch -a -tCCYYMMDDHH.SS <file>
*touch -m -tCCYYMMDDHH.SS <file>
*SetFile -d "MM/DD/CCYY HH:MM:SS" <file>
*[set system date] chown username <file> [revert to normal system date]
(Of course, resetting the system date may not be a risk-free operation, you've been warned.)
A: The command-line touch command works in Lion, but you need a little background on how to use it.
Firstly, you need to type it in, it's not a utility that operates graphically in a window. The place you type it in is an app called Terminal. You can find this in your Utilities folder, or use Spotlight search to find it.
Once you start it, you get a command line window where you can type in commands. Just because you are typing doesn't mean it has anything to do with coding, but to someone new to "old fashioned" OS commands it can look a little intimidating.
So, the command is called touch, and after the command you can pass various parameters, the only required one being the filename. Typing the following will set the last modified date of the file to the current time:
touch filename
Of course, you may need to find the file first, which could require further commands to get to it. the cd or Change Directory command helps here:
cd ~/Desktop/files/PDFs
touch filename
Or, you can simply add the full path to the file as part of the command:
touch ~/Desktop/files/PDFs/filename
More advanced usage of the touch command allows you to specify the time you want to set, rather than using the time at execution, set access instead of modification times etc. This is what parameters like -t and others do. Some set the time to be the time of another file, some set it to go back, or forward in time by X amount, (see here for more details), eg:
touch -d '1 May 2005 10:22' file8
The following is from this page which is also useful reference, and a great example with some tips for those who are uncomfortable with file locations on the command line
Note that this will change both the date modified and date created attributes only if your file was created after the date you enter. This is because a file cannot be modified before it has been created. If created before the date you set, only the modified date will be changed.
How to change the date created attribute of a file?
*
*Open up the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) or if you prefer use iTerm.
*Type this into Terminal (without hitting enter/return) inserting the date in the format of YYYYMMDDhhmm:
touch -t 201212211111
*Open a Finder window and locate the file you wish to modify and drag and drop it into the Terminal window, it will then insert the file location using command line terminology. Here’s an example of what should be typed into the Terminal at this point:
touch -t 201212211111 /Volumes/Mac\ HD/Pictures/somefile.jpg
201212211111 in the example above represent “December 21, 2012 11:11 AM
A: touch -t normally only changes the modification and access times. It only changes the creation time if the target time is before the original creation time.
touch -t 199912312359 file.txt
touch -t $(date -jf %FT%T 1999-12-31T23:59:59 +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) file.txt
SetFile -d always changes the creation time.
SetFile -d '12/31/1999 23:59:59' file.txt
SetFile -d "$(GetFileInfo -m test.txt)" file.txt
SetFile is part of the command line tools package which can be downloaded from developer.apple.com/downloads or from Xcode's preferences.
A: The easiest way I found was to create a new folder, copy all the sub-folders of the greyed out folder into the new folder, and voila, the new folder is not greyed out. You can even do this in the finder.
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50e571df25fb8c2b2138e108b14e3469c6156b65 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does lsboxd process do on os x? My firewall asked me for a connection from lsboxd (module com.apple.ls.boxd, ) to one another computer in my network to the port tcp 548. What does it do? I found that it is a part of sandbox technology of a OS X, but what is it more specifically? I found it in my launchctl list output:
com.apple.LaunchServices.lsboxd
A: lsboxd is part of the OS X Sandbox.
It allows communication between sandboxed applications.
lsboxd is in the Launch Services API. It is the Launch Services Sandbox Daemon, which governs what apps can launch apps in the OS X sandbox. You can peruse the App Sandbox Guide for more information about sandboxing.
PDF: App Sandbox Design
Guide
| Q: What does lsboxd process do on os x? My firewall asked me for a connection from lsboxd (module com.apple.ls.boxd, ) to one another computer in my network to the port tcp 548. What does it do? I found that it is a part of sandbox technology of a OS X, but what is it more specifically? I found it in my launchctl list output:
com.apple.LaunchServices.lsboxd
A: lsboxd is part of the OS X Sandbox.
It allows communication between sandboxed applications.
lsboxd is in the Launch Services API. It is the Launch Services Sandbox Daemon, which governs what apps can launch apps in the OS X sandbox. You can peruse the App Sandbox Guide for more information about sandboxing.
PDF: App Sandbox Design
Guide
A: Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Calendars and uncheck the box next to the lsboxd
Why this part of XCode needs access to your Calendar, is a different story.
A: Isboxd behaves as spyware, because it is spyware. The fact that it is part of OS X does not "explain" or justify its spyware function. It snoops for more PERSONAL info about you, the MAC user - nothing new, I hope...
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2fe4d1414b89eff6b88e6b18982b40237af41bc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What do appleeventsd and AppleIDAuthAgent do? I looked in the activity monitor to clarify what are those processes and started with alphabetic order. I know different resources where many processes are described. But appleeventsd and AppleIDAuthAgent are not the case even for goole search - only issues results were found without explaining what does these processes stands for.
A: appleeventsd is the Apple Events daemon, which handles cross-application interaction. It is the underlying basis for AppleScript amongst many other things.
AppleIDAuthAgent is "used to check the validity of AppleID certificates".
| Q: What do appleeventsd and AppleIDAuthAgent do? I looked in the activity monitor to clarify what are those processes and started with alphabetic order. I know different resources where many processes are described. But appleeventsd and AppleIDAuthAgent are not the case even for goole search - only issues results were found without explaining what does these processes stands for.
A: appleeventsd is the Apple Events daemon, which handles cross-application interaction. It is the underlying basis for AppleScript amongst many other things.
AppleIDAuthAgent is "used to check the validity of AppleID certificates".
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004c5b22dd4e3cb1c4547c38973157184ea9bfe9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does Dia interface look blurry on my Mac? I have installed the latest Dia and XQuartz (X11) on my Mac OS X 10.8.3 retina display. As seen in the screenshot below, why do the items and anything I draw look blurry and pixelly? What can I do about it? Thanks!
A: The issue stems from the way X11 handles pixels. There are some third party workarounds, but it would seem that one needs to wait until XQuartz is updated to deal with Retina scaling.
I have installed QuickResFree from the Mac App Store, which lets you have finer control over the resolution than the Mac display defaults. This makes it so I can use my X11 apps and decrease the apparent blurriness, but switch back to something more reasonable for Retina-compatible apps.
I will note that this solution is not optimal, and the problem still lies in the fact that many apps are not yet programmed to be able to deal with the pixel scaling and Retina.
| Q: Why does Dia interface look blurry on my Mac? I have installed the latest Dia and XQuartz (X11) on my Mac OS X 10.8.3 retina display. As seen in the screenshot below, why do the items and anything I draw look blurry and pixelly? What can I do about it? Thanks!
A: The issue stems from the way X11 handles pixels. There are some third party workarounds, but it would seem that one needs to wait until XQuartz is updated to deal with Retina scaling.
I have installed QuickResFree from the Mac App Store, which lets you have finer control over the resolution than the Mac display defaults. This makes it so I can use my X11 apps and decrease the apparent blurriness, but switch back to something more reasonable for Retina-compatible apps.
I will note that this solution is not optimal, and the problem still lies in the fact that many apps are not yet programmed to be able to deal with the pixel scaling and Retina.
A: It's probably because the app does not support the retina display.
Twitter had this issue for a year, and it actually looked worse than simply "non-retina" graphics, as it was blurry and hard to read. The fix for that app was to right click on the application in finder and check "Open in Low Resolution".
Rather than trying to upscale, I believe that approach simply doubles the pixels (i.e. 1 pixel in the app is displayed as 4 retina pixels).
For Twitter (until they added retina support) at least, this fix made the app usable and not "hurts your eyes" blurry. It may not help your exact situation but it provides an alternative for the retina upscaling.
A: An alternative if it isn't working, is Lucidchart. It supports retina display, and is compatible with all operating systems since it's online. I can't tell you exactly why Dia isn't clear, but I can recommend this way around it. Lucidchart
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b33a7339dce87c7a76ddeb90ce7892f72e67428f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I set Mail.app not to send the recipient names as they appear in my address book When I send mails to addresses from my address book, the recipients in the address bar are shown like name <[email protected]>. Can I somehow prevent that name part, so that only the actual mail address is shown and not the names, as I name them in my personal address book? I kind of feel like it's not for the public how I name my contacts.
A: While composing and email you can click the arrow in the address and choose Edit Address or double-click the address to edit the information. By deleting the name and leaving just the email address (it should look something like < [email protected] >) should do the trick. I couldn't find a way of having this changes done permanently, though.
| Q: How do I set Mail.app not to send the recipient names as they appear in my address book When I send mails to addresses from my address book, the recipients in the address bar are shown like name <[email protected]>. Can I somehow prevent that name part, so that only the actual mail address is shown and not the names, as I name them in my personal address book? I kind of feel like it's not for the public how I name my contacts.
A: While composing and email you can click the arrow in the address and choose Edit Address or double-click the address to edit the information. By deleting the name and leaving just the email address (it should look something like < [email protected] >) should do the trick. I couldn't find a way of having this changes done permanently, though.
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fcfbcb80969a919a7389a49e9fafc1fa5c83db72 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What do the appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper processes do? I found in activity monitor appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper but after googling a while didn't found any interesting information:
*
*wdhelper - could be a webdrive or webdav - found only wdhelper.dll but nothing really related to the process
*appleprofilepolicyd - something related to “Apple Profile Policy” ("captain obvious to the rescue!") - but still no related search results for it
What are theese processes do and what are they required for (dependencies)?
A: From the Apple Developer man pages:
appleprofilepolicyd is a system daemon that implements a policy for the services provided by AppleProfileFamily. When an AppleProfileFamily user asks to perform an action, this daemon is invoked to make the final policy decision.
Essentially, this governs what apps, accounts, processes, etc. have access to what services and activities.
I believe wdhelper is a LaunchDaemon that is implemented by, for example, a WD MyBook drive when it is installed to the Mac.
| Q: What do the appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper processes do? I found in activity monitor appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper but after googling a while didn't found any interesting information:
*
*wdhelper - could be a webdrive or webdav - found only wdhelper.dll but nothing really related to the process
*appleprofilepolicyd - something related to “Apple Profile Policy” ("captain obvious to the rescue!") - but still no related search results for it
What are theese processes do and what are they required for (dependencies)?
A: From the Apple Developer man pages:
appleprofilepolicyd is a system daemon that implements a policy for the services provided by AppleProfileFamily. When an AppleProfileFamily user asks to perform an action, this daemon is invoked to make the final policy decision.
Essentially, this governs what apps, accounts, processes, etc. have access to what services and activities.
I believe wdhelper is a LaunchDaemon that is implemented by, for example, a WD MyBook drive when it is installed to the Mac.
A: wdhelper XPC helper tool for performing privileged operations for WirelessDiagnosticsSupport.framework
A: wdhelper is a daemon launched from:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.wdhelper.plist
which is located there:
/usr/libexec/wdhelper
which is regularly running on your system as soon as you are using
a wireless (AirPort, Wi-Fi or WLAN) interface.
From my personnal analysis,
this daemon is in charge to guess which is the
nature of the wireless environnment:
*
*channels
*signal quality
*access control (802.1X, captive portal…)
*well known hot spots
*well known constructors misbehaviours
it does launch nc (netcat), netstat, kextstat, ifconfig, ipconfig, scutil, airport and airportd
it does also inspect the MacOS X system behaviour, most presumably because this daemon could become too intrusive, through the use of
spindump, system_profiler, top, ioreg and killall (in case processes fail that bad).
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90d43efee691a31afed47b56f8693574e9a790fa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How old are Macs that cannot run 64-bit applications? We're trying to decide how much effort to put into ensuring that our software works well in 32-bit mode. (It's scientific software that must handle large datasets, so ensuring that it works well does not only mean building universal binaries, but also designing around address-space limitations.)
Q: In what year were the last Macs sold that, out of the box, could not run 64-bit applications?
By "out of the box," I mean in the hands of naïve users that do not upgrade the OS, choose different kernels, or change the system configuration from the default in any significant way.
A: The Core Duo was the last 32-bit processor. So I think those were from around 2006, when Apple first switched to Intel processors.
Edit:
See Apple History for more information.
| Q: How old are Macs that cannot run 64-bit applications? We're trying to decide how much effort to put into ensuring that our software works well in 32-bit mode. (It's scientific software that must handle large datasets, so ensuring that it works well does not only mean building universal binaries, but also designing around address-space limitations.)
Q: In what year were the last Macs sold that, out of the box, could not run 64-bit applications?
By "out of the box," I mean in the hands of naïve users that do not upgrade the OS, choose different kernels, or change the system configuration from the default in any significant way.
A: The Core Duo was the last 32-bit processor. So I think those were from around 2006, when Apple first switched to Intel processors.
Edit:
See Apple History for more information.
A: In this aspect, Apple "retreated" a little when it switched to Intel processors. At that time, All G5 PPC based Macs were 64bit, and the introduction of the first Core-Duo brought new 32-bit Macs to the market, when they were already phasing out 32-bit. Not for long though.
I clearly remember Steve Jobs Keynote in WWDC 2005, apologetically explaining the move to Intel, to be mainly due to "the solid processor roadmap presented by Intel to him, versus the declining interest of IBM in low-energy desktop computing".
Last, my friend, you can very confidently forget about 32bit if you're developing an application. Xcode's "standard architecture" for a Mac target is 64bit only, and Apple has neglected the Obj-C runtime in 32bit for few years already.
This means - no ARC, no auto synthesis of Properties, fragile isa objects, and much much more. Building Universal or 32bit imposes grave limitations on your development.
A: EDIT: Based on the comments on the question and this answer, I think the link Mac OS X v10.6: Macs that use the 64-bit kernel is much more relevant.
Basically, only the mid 2010 Mac Pro, the early 2011 MacBook Pro and the mid 2011 iMac were booting by default on 64-bit mode with Snow Leopard. Since Lion (mid 2011) every new Mac is 64-bit only.
So to answer your question:
In what year were the last Macs that were not capable (without user tweaking) of running 64-bit software sold?
==> 2011
EDIT 2: As Vebjorn Ljosa mentioned in the comments, having the kernel run in 32-bit or 64-bit mode makes little difference for your binary, so you can probably assume that Macs sold after mid 2007 will run a 64-bit app (based on the data just below).
*
*Mac mini:
*
*last 32-bit only processors: late 2006
*oldest 64-bit capable processors: mid 2007
*iMac:
*
*last 32-bit only processors: early 2006
*oldest 64-bit capable processors: late 2006
*Mac Pro:
*
*always been 64-bit capable
*MacBook:
*
*last 32-bit only processors: early 2006
*oldest 64-bit capable processors: late 2006
*MacBook Pro:
*
*last 32-bit only processors: early 2006
*oldest 64-bit capable processors: late 2006
*MacBook Air:
*
*always been 64-bit capable
So it seems the last Mac to sell with a 32 bits only processor was the late 2006 Mac mini.
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c383175d81efb84b72c02d0ec11eadbe0552dead | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Three dots but no message in iMessages When I text another iPhone user I see the balloon with the three dots but sometimes no message appears after the three dots.
Is it possible they are typing a text to a different user?
A: The person might accidentally typed a letter. Hitting space right before the home button will trigger the three dots in the other end. I see this happen a lot to friends that either doesn't understand that the touch screen recognizes every tough as input or they just don't care.
If they don't empty the message box it will continue to show the dots for some time. And if they're in an area with bad coverage Apple's iMessage server might have received the started typing command, but never got the clear command, or if you're in a bad area your phone might have received the started typing command, but not the clear. Usually happens to me when travelling on country roads.
| Q: Three dots but no message in iMessages When I text another iPhone user I see the balloon with the three dots but sometimes no message appears after the three dots.
Is it possible they are typing a text to a different user?
A: The person might accidentally typed a letter. Hitting space right before the home button will trigger the three dots in the other end. I see this happen a lot to friends that either doesn't understand that the touch screen recognizes every tough as input or they just don't care.
If they don't empty the message box it will continue to show the dots for some time. And if they're in an area with bad coverage Apple's iMessage server might have received the started typing command, but never got the clear command, or if you're in a bad area your phone might have received the started typing command, but not the clear. Usually happens to me when travelling on country roads.
A: The 3 dots indicator appears when a user is typing and they have enabled the "Show typing" setting. However, they may start typing and then decide not to send the message, or stop to do something else, and therefore the message is never sent. The 3 dots indicator is not an indication that a message is incoming, simply that the user is typing.
The indicator only appears when they are typing a message specifically to you. It does not trigger when they are typing messages to others.
However, the indicator can get stuck if there are network errors or slowness, if the server is overloaded or has stale data. In practice, it can remain stuck until you get another complete message from that sender or you decide to delete that conversation.
A: Or, this:
Read instructions here.
A: It simply means they decided against sending a message after starting to type one.
You can find a detailed breakdown of when that indicator appears in the April 2015 Slate video, "When Can Someone See You Typing? Explained." On iOS, the indicator appears as soon as the user on the sending end starts typing. It only goes away when either that user sends a message, or 60 seconds elapses. In other words, if they type even a single keystroke (perhaps accidentally) but don't push send, you will see the Typing Awareness Indicator for sixty seconds.
A: Flex works, download flex then install the patch "Remove your typing indicator on iMessenger"
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d9350021fd955921ec3dbde607625d906e2e1b2a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to sync mac mail app with only unarchived/recent gmail messages I recently purchased a Macbook Air and I wanted to use the default Mail app that came with it. When I add a gmail account to it, it tries to download all the mail I've ever received (~10 years worth of email).
In Gmail, I have a habit of archiving mail instead of deleting them. Is there anyway I can sync the mail app to only download mail that is in my inbox (unarchived mail) or the last ~50 mail that was sent to me?
A: You can't limit it to the last 50 messages, but you can limit it to the last 1000 messages in each "folder" (label).
*
*Go to the Gmail website and click on the gear icon to the top-right side.
*Click on Settings.
*Click on the "Forwarding and IMAP/POP" tab across the top of the Settings area.
*Towards the bottom of the IMAP section, change the "Folder Size Limit" setting to "Limit IMAP folders to contain no more than this many messages". By default 1000 is selected, though you can also choose 2000, 5000, or 10000.
*Click Save Changes at the bottom.
| Q: How to sync mac mail app with only unarchived/recent gmail messages I recently purchased a Macbook Air and I wanted to use the default Mail app that came with it. When I add a gmail account to it, it tries to download all the mail I've ever received (~10 years worth of email).
In Gmail, I have a habit of archiving mail instead of deleting them. Is there anyway I can sync the mail app to only download mail that is in my inbox (unarchived mail) or the last ~50 mail that was sent to me?
A: You can't limit it to the last 50 messages, but you can limit it to the last 1000 messages in each "folder" (label).
*
*Go to the Gmail website and click on the gear icon to the top-right side.
*Click on Settings.
*Click on the "Forwarding and IMAP/POP" tab across the top of the Settings area.
*Towards the bottom of the IMAP section, change the "Folder Size Limit" setting to "Limit IMAP folders to contain no more than this many messages". By default 1000 is selected, though you can also choose 2000, 5000, or 10000.
*Click Save Changes at the bottom.
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b8e84585b1a79eca3ed665f1e1da2b5cc251fa06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Menu Bar Maintenance I grow weary of all of the icons running in my menu bar. At this point, most of the menus on the left side are overlapped by icons from the right. Is there a good app for fixing this? I know I can drag the system ones off to the desktop and delete them, but installed apps are another story.
A: You need Bartender, which allows you to control what displays where in the menu bar.
Organize your menu bar apps
*
*Lets you tidy your menu bar apps how you want.
*See your menu bar apps when you want.
*Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
*Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
*Rearrange your menu bar items as you wish.
| Q: Menu Bar Maintenance I grow weary of all of the icons running in my menu bar. At this point, most of the menus on the left side are overlapped by icons from the right. Is there a good app for fixing this? I know I can drag the system ones off to the desktop and delete them, but installed apps are another story.
A: You need Bartender, which allows you to control what displays where in the menu bar.
Organize your menu bar apps
*
*Lets you tidy your menu bar apps how you want.
*See your menu bar apps when you want.
*Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
*Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
*Rearrange your menu bar items as you wish.
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1249080c89b5f4d64f1539b933fc3701b734a835 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Siri can no longer find my home # Whenever I wanted to call my land line at home, I would instruct Siri to "call home" (my home number is listed as home in my contact list) She would respond by saying "calling home" and the call would be made. Now she says "I dont have a home number for John" (this is my name). A friend is having the same problem. What has happened?
A: I had similar problems, only Siri was not finding contact information of any kind, was not locating my friends, and not opening apps on command. I found that the problem was that Siri was having an issue with opening apps was causing all problems listed. To fix I used a Cydia app called iFile to locate the following files:
/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore
/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist
Delete both the files, close iFile, and reboot device. After restarting all your apps will be gone and they will come back one at a time. Took only a few seconds for them all to load. Tested Siri and all my problems solved.
I'm using a jailbroken iPhone 5 with 6.1.2
| Q: Siri can no longer find my home # Whenever I wanted to call my land line at home, I would instruct Siri to "call home" (my home number is listed as home in my contact list) She would respond by saying "calling home" and the call would be made. Now she says "I dont have a home number for John" (this is my name). A friend is having the same problem. What has happened?
A: I had similar problems, only Siri was not finding contact information of any kind, was not locating my friends, and not opening apps on command. I found that the problem was that Siri was having an issue with opening apps was causing all problems listed. To fix I used a Cydia app called iFile to locate the following files:
/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore
/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist
Delete both the files, close iFile, and reboot device. After restarting all your apps will be gone and they will come back one at a time. Took only a few seconds for them all to load. Tested Siri and all my problems solved.
I'm using a jailbroken iPhone 5 with 6.1.2
A: I had the same problem with Siri not being able to access some contacts. "Call Joe Smith." Siri responds "I don't have a number for Joe Smith. Did you mean these other names." Then she gives me a list of the all other Smiths except Joe. I thought it was a fluke, but it started to occur with other regularly used contacts. A restart did the trick at least for now. I only restart my phone when I get on a plane, so it had been three weeks since my last shutdown
A: Go to Settings-> Mail, Contacts, Calendars-> My info
and select the contact that you want to be matched with you. Be sure that this contact has a Home number. That's it
A: Don't know if you resolved this, but I had this problem and discovered that Siri differentiates numbers labeled "mobile" and numbers labeled "home". Setting it to "Home" works, setting it to "Mobile" it doesn't.
This is the top hit for this question via Internet search so I hope this helps and I save some frustration out there.
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32f2da8708a27a9fe592cd1908b8786abf833235 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why Does CalendarAgent Access Strange Domains? Okay so I have OS X's Calendar app setup using a Google calendar, and I have Little Snitch installed so I am warned when an application tries to make unrecognised outgoing requests.
What I'm seeing is that the CalendarAgent process occasionally tries to access Google domains that don't appear relevant, such as translate.google.com, feedburner.google.com or play.google.com, none of which seem necessary when I've already allow calendar.google.com.
Does anyone know why these domains are being accessed, and whether I should let allow them or just block/ignore them? When I temporarily block them it doesn't seem to affect anything, but it just seems weird for requests to go to these domains.
A: I would say because those links are on calendar.google.com and Calendar app is following the links for some reason. When I go to calendar.google.com in a browser it has links for play and feed burner and translate.
| Q: Why Does CalendarAgent Access Strange Domains? Okay so I have OS X's Calendar app setup using a Google calendar, and I have Little Snitch installed so I am warned when an application tries to make unrecognised outgoing requests.
What I'm seeing is that the CalendarAgent process occasionally tries to access Google domains that don't appear relevant, such as translate.google.com, feedburner.google.com or play.google.com, none of which seem necessary when I've already allow calendar.google.com.
Does anyone know why these domains are being accessed, and whether I should let allow them or just block/ignore them? When I temporarily block them it doesn't seem to affect anything, but it just seems weird for requests to go to these domains.
A: I would say because those links are on calendar.google.com and Calendar app is following the links for some reason. When I go to calendar.google.com in a browser it has links for play and feed burner and translate.
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93e981ecfed796c2835892d723c6bbe8509909bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I shut off the confirmation prompt when I delete conversations in Messages in OS X? I receive a lot of messages on my MacBook Pro on a daily basis. Periodically throughout the day I need to delete multiple conversations in messages for clarity purposes. Each time I delete a conversation thread I receive the following prompt:
I have looked around in Messages preferences and I can not see any readily apparent option to disable the deletion confirmation pop-up dialog box. Is there any way to disable this dialog in Messsages or otherwise?
A: This is more of a workaround. If you enable the "Save history when conversations are closed" option under Preferences->Messages, you won't be prompted when deleting conversations.
| Q: How can I shut off the confirmation prompt when I delete conversations in Messages in OS X? I receive a lot of messages on my MacBook Pro on a daily basis. Periodically throughout the day I need to delete multiple conversations in messages for clarity purposes. Each time I delete a conversation thread I receive the following prompt:
I have looked around in Messages preferences and I can not see any readily apparent option to disable the deletion confirmation pop-up dialog box. Is there any way to disable this dialog in Messsages or otherwise?
A: This is more of a workaround. If you enable the "Save history when conversations are closed" option under Preferences->Messages, you won't be prompted when deleting conversations.
A: You can hold Option and click Delete or (x).
A: After reviewing the preferences as well as defaults, there does not appear to be a way to disable the confirmation message.
A: I figured it out..... Strangely you have to click on save messages history when closed then you can just delete and it does away without asking for confirmation. Seems like it would be the opposite... I hope this helps.
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