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5086ad4a9ec8e45ddd7b07e21bef0f4d7e5c9395 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I import GoPro mp4 video to iMovie 11? I have video in an MP4 file from a GoPro camera. It imports fine into iMovie on my iPad Mini and I can edit it there, but I'd rather edit in iMovie 11 on my Mac (OSX 10.9). However, iMovie 11 won't import the GoPro MP4 video files.
They play fine on Quicktime Player on the Mac, but iMovie refuses to import them. Quicktime says the MP4 files contain "GoPro AVC encoder, 1280x720 AAC, 48000 Hz stereo, 29.97 FPS".
Why does iPad iMovie work but not the iMovie 11? Do I have to get a converter to convert to a different encoding? If so, which encoding?
A: This problem solved itself when I upgraded to the final OS 10.9 (Mavericks) and installed the latest iMovie. Now I can import MP4 files from the GoPro right into iMovie.
| Q: How can I import GoPro mp4 video to iMovie 11? I have video in an MP4 file from a GoPro camera. It imports fine into iMovie on my iPad Mini and I can edit it there, but I'd rather edit in iMovie 11 on my Mac (OSX 10.9). However, iMovie 11 won't import the GoPro MP4 video files.
They play fine on Quicktime Player on the Mac, but iMovie refuses to import them. Quicktime says the MP4 files contain "GoPro AVC encoder, 1280x720 AAC, 48000 Hz stereo, 29.97 FPS".
Why does iPad iMovie work but not the iMovie 11? Do I have to get a converter to convert to a different encoding? If so, which encoding?
A: This problem solved itself when I upgraded to the final OS 10.9 (Mavericks) and installed the latest iMovie. Now I can import MP4 files from the GoPro right into iMovie.
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0f6dc70af93442aec326b1c3e229ce5b0f4d2a8b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I tell OS X to always mirror displays when I plug them in? I plug the same external HDMI monitor in every day, and each time, I have to manually switch from external to mirrored mode. It's minor, but annoying.
Is there a way to tell OS X to default to mirror mode whenever I plug in a monitor? I looked in System Preferences -> Displays, but I couldn't find such an option.
A: You didn't say what version of OS X you are using. Yosemite remembers your settings by default so just set it once.
| Q: How do I tell OS X to always mirror displays when I plug them in? I plug the same external HDMI monitor in every day, and each time, I have to manually switch from external to mirrored mode. It's minor, but annoying.
Is there a way to tell OS X to default to mirror mode whenever I plug in a monitor? I looked in System Preferences -> Displays, but I couldn't find such an option.
A: You didn't say what version of OS X you are using. Yosemite remembers your settings by default so just set it once.
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2855e822f9b8e78227fb694daf9d6acfc6fa83bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes half-star ratings gone from iOS7 I had enabled half-star ratings in iTunes: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/itunes-half-star-rating/
However since iOS7 has been released, the half-star ratings don't appear in Music app anymore. Instead they appear to be rounded down.
Does anyone have any idea/official word on this?
A: I haven’t seen any official announcement about this, but since it’s an undocumented setting, it’s not surprising that the functionality would’ve silently disappeared. If you’d like it back you might consider filing an enhancement request.
| Q: iTunes half-star ratings gone from iOS7 I had enabled half-star ratings in iTunes: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/itunes-half-star-rating/
However since iOS7 has been released, the half-star ratings don't appear in Music app anymore. Instead they appear to be rounded down.
Does anyone have any idea/official word on this?
A: I haven’t seen any official announcement about this, but since it’s an undocumented setting, it’s not surprising that the functionality would’ve silently disappeared. If you’d like it back you might consider filing an enhancement request.
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e968b48d9f45cf4cec9943893547a131ed60b3cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do Ctrl+F2 and Ctrl+F3 sometimes stop working? I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, one of my favourites is ctrl+F2 (access the menu-bar with the keyboard).
However, sometimes this just stops working. Whenever this problem happens, ctrl+F3 (access the Dock using the keyboard) also stops working. Pressing ctrl+F2 jumps the selection to the bottom in Finder instead of opening the menu.
This happens in Mountain Lion and I remember that this also used to happen in Lion and Snow Leopard. I suspect it's something weird but deliberate, like accidentally performing an unknown shortcut that changes a setting somewhere.
What causes this, how can I avoid it, and how do I rectify it when it happens?
A: I think I have figured this out:
ctrl+F1 apparently turns keyboard access on/off, which disables the other shortcuts. So I have now disabled this shortcut and hopefully the others will no longer get accidentally disabled.
If this happens to you, try ctrl+F1 to re-enable. Also you can disable this in:
System Preferences Keyboard Keyboard & Text Input
| Q: Why do Ctrl+F2 and Ctrl+F3 sometimes stop working? I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, one of my favourites is ctrl+F2 (access the menu-bar with the keyboard).
However, sometimes this just stops working. Whenever this problem happens, ctrl+F3 (access the Dock using the keyboard) also stops working. Pressing ctrl+F2 jumps the selection to the bottom in Finder instead of opening the menu.
This happens in Mountain Lion and I remember that this also used to happen in Lion and Snow Leopard. I suspect it's something weird but deliberate, like accidentally performing an unknown shortcut that changes a setting somewhere.
What causes this, how can I avoid it, and how do I rectify it when it happens?
A: I think I have figured this out:
ctrl+F1 apparently turns keyboard access on/off, which disables the other shortcuts. So I have now disabled this shortcut and hopefully the others will no longer get accidentally disabled.
If this happens to you, try ctrl+F1 to re-enable. Also you can disable this in:
System Preferences Keyboard Keyboard & Text Input
A: If you pressed mistakely Ctrl-F1 it disable keyboard access. Just press again to toggle, Ctrl-F2
work.
A: On my Monterey 12.3.1 system the Ctrl-F2 was not working. If I select the Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys option under Keyboard in Keyboard preferences then it works. As it says, the special features can be used by pressing the fn key. Unfortunately fn-Ctrl-F2 does not give access to the menu with the option disabled.
I have a UK keyboard - I do not know if that makes a difference to the behaviour (it would not would surprise me if it did).
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c90f26dffeab2cdcf41bb5b04bd99bd4ed3fb200 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Magsafe light occasionally turns off while plugged in Every once in a while, the green light on my Magsafe adapter will turn off, but the computer will indicate that it's still running off of AC power. If I unplug the adapter from the computer and then plug it back in, it'll immediately light up again. Is this normal?
A: Here is Apple's troubleshooting documentation: Apple Portables: Troubleshooting MagSafe adapters
I have a late-2011 MacBook Air, and I have never experienced this issue.
| Q: Magsafe light occasionally turns off while plugged in Every once in a while, the green light on my Magsafe adapter will turn off, but the computer will indicate that it's still running off of AC power. If I unplug the adapter from the computer and then plug it back in, it'll immediately light up again. Is this normal?
A: Here is Apple's troubleshooting documentation: Apple Portables: Troubleshooting MagSafe adapters
I have a late-2011 MacBook Air, and I have never experienced this issue.
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edd99ed15c4f935e7fdd54e3814c48922b2b6a30 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Zooming in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel? On Windows and, if I'm not mistaken, on Linux, it's possible to zoom in and out in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel. However, this doesn't seem to be working on Mac OS X.
Does anybody know if this feature can be enabled? Or is there any alternative solution (plugin, script, etc.)?
A: Using this extension from taharactrl I was able to zoom with ctrl+mouse wheel on all websites.
OSX El Capitan + Chrome 47
Note : after installing the extension, for it to work on existing opened tabs you have to reload them.
| Q: Zooming in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel? On Windows and, if I'm not mistaken, on Linux, it's possible to zoom in and out in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel. However, this doesn't seem to be working on Mac OS X.
Does anybody know if this feature can be enabled? Or is there any alternative solution (plugin, script, etc.)?
A: Using this extension from taharactrl I was able to zoom with ctrl+mouse wheel on all websites.
OSX El Capitan + Chrome 47
Note : after installing the extension, for it to work on existing opened tabs you have to reload them.
A: In yosemite, you can activate it at the system level. For example:
Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom > Use scroll gesture with keys to zoom
Select ^ control
Then use control and the mouse scroll to zoom.
(Alternatively, tough that's not what's asked, in chrome, you can pinch to zoom by default)
A: Use Command and the + button to zoom in!
A: There's a Google Chrome extension you can use to do this.
Note: This no longer works!
Hold down Control as you scroll and it will zoom in/out.
Note: Use this instead!
A: You can pinch to zoom, which will simulate Command ⌘+
and Command ⌘-
You can also try the extension, which was mentioned by in Danijel's answer.
Otherwise, you can hold down Control ^ and the screen will zoom in and out. It ends up looking like this though (which I don't think you want):
A: For Macs, you can use BetterTouchTool (free trial for 45 days, then paid). You can assign the action ⌘ + Scroll Up to emit the keyboard shortcut ⌘ + +, and similar for scrolling down.
A: There is no + button for MacBooks! Only possible to write + if you hold down shift and 3 together. It's impossible to zoom out currently without using a proper USB/BT keyboard. And every site or forum I found so far suggested the cmd + or cmd - option which is not working. Only the cmd - because there is a dedicated - button. But nothing for +
A: Solution for Google Chrome:
*
*Zoom out: Cmd+-
*Zoom in: Cmd+¨ (Actually does not work when the cursor is actively blinking in a text field)
*Reset zoom: Cmd + =
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cf065878a9f4e301d275e145e19623ff676d7458 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I set an app to ignore Do Not Disturb? I have an app that informs me of critical events - for example, scheduled automated tasks failing.
But when I set my phone to Do Not Disturb, this app goes silent as well.
Is there a way I can set this particular app to play sounds even if my phone is on Do Not Disturb?
| Q: Can I set an app to ignore Do Not Disturb? I have an app that informs me of critical events - for example, scheduled automated tasks failing.
But when I set my phone to Do Not Disturb, this app goes silent as well.
Is there a way I can set this particular app to play sounds even if my phone is on Do Not Disturb?
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c078515d6ce79cd9a174a5c4aef1e0622a70f5fa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Find which process receives a given keyboard command I'm trying to figure out why a certain keyboard combination is no longer working.
As an example, Sublime Text 2 ships with a keyboard shortcut for opening the Find/Replace panel:
Command + Option + F
This combo worked fine until I did a clean install of OSX 10.8.5, after which it mysteriously stopped working in Sublime Text.
I know keyboard sequences can be captured by processes other than the frontmost (like by the OS) so I was wondering if there is a way of checking by which process a particular keyboard command was "consumed"?
A: ShortcutDetective solves your problem. It's free, simple, and to the point.
| Q: Find which process receives a given keyboard command I'm trying to figure out why a certain keyboard combination is no longer working.
As an example, Sublime Text 2 ships with a keyboard shortcut for opening the Find/Replace panel:
Command + Option + F
This combo worked fine until I did a clean install of OSX 10.8.5, after which it mysteriously stopped working in Sublime Text.
I know keyboard sequences can be captured by processes other than the frontmost (like by the OS) so I was wondering if there is a way of checking by which process a particular keyboard command was "consumed"?
A: ShortcutDetective solves your problem. It's free, simple, and to the point.
A: I don't know any fast and efficient method to find the recipient of a shortcut. But here is a receipe to initiate the hunt:
*
*Close most of your running applications so as to improve the efficiency of the hunt.
*Open a Terminal window, and run the following command:
/usr/bin/sudo opensnoop
This command will track down every open system call.
*Switch to the context where your shortcut is intercepted by an unknown application and type ⌘ cmd+⌥ option+F.
Look for a culprit hint from the file names opened.
*while unsuccessfull, add one application, and
GOTO 3.
A: KeyCue provides visual feedback on the keyboard shortcuts. It can be downloaded as a trial version.
KeyCue from Ergonis
I have it configured so that a double tap and hold on the Command key displays all the currently active shortcuts.
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6a9f662fe1159c377b9c12bce5efe131d89d7b33 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal command to bring up shutdown dialog? I know how to shutdown a Mac from Terminal, but is there a way to actually bring up the shutdown dialog you get from Apple → Shut Down…?
A: You can send loginwindow the kAEShowShutdownDialog Apple event:
osascript -e 'tell application "loginwindow" to «event aevtrsdn»'
The four letter codes for Apple events are listed in AERegistry.h. See this answer for more information.
| Q: Terminal command to bring up shutdown dialog? I know how to shutdown a Mac from Terminal, but is there a way to actually bring up the shutdown dialog you get from Apple → Shut Down…?
A: You can send loginwindow the kAEShowShutdownDialog Apple event:
osascript -e 'tell application "loginwindow" to «event aevtrsdn»'
The four letter codes for Apple events are listed in AERegistry.h. See this answer for more information.
A: This should work:
Applescript:
-- Open Shut Down Dialog...
-- Save this text as file named shutdown.scpt
tell application "System Events"
set uiScript to click menu bar item "Apple" of menu bar 1 of application process "Finder"
set uiScript to click menu item "Shut Down…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Apple" of menu bar 1 of application process "Finder"
end tell
You can run it from Terminal like:
osascript shutdown.scpt
A: You can create an Automator script that you can later run from the command line with "open".
You could "Record" in Automator. I guess that would be the easy way, but there might be other problems. Because when you record, Automator actually records mouse pointer movements…
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4a717a4b0754fde5b37991062ae24a631812d482 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I've taken a screenshot, how do I edit it? I'm used to taking screenshots in Windows and then editing them before posting them (with MSPaint)
How can I edit a simple image quickly on OSX?
I took a picture of a P.O. and I want to remove any PII information
A: There is a default application named Preview in OS-X for editing images.
If you created any screen shots, just open that screenshot image in Preview application and you can see the edit toolbar to edit the image.
| Q: I've taken a screenshot, how do I edit it? I'm used to taking screenshots in Windows and then editing them before posting them (with MSPaint)
How can I edit a simple image quickly on OSX?
I took a picture of a P.O. and I want to remove any PII information
A: There is a default application named Preview in OS-X for editing images.
If you created any screen shots, just open that screenshot image in Preview application and you can see the edit toolbar to edit the image.
A: Depending on your needs you could use one of these free tools:
*
*Apple's Preview (Built-in with OSX)
*Gimp
*Sketchbook Express
If you want something more advanced you could try
*
*Adobe's Photoshop
*Pixelmator
A: I found another application named Skitch for Mac to edit the screenshot. There are many features like free hand circles (which is not available in the Preview app) are available in this application.
A: If you have either an Android device or iOS and need a really comprehensive efficient image editor; export or save the screen shots (any image) into you iPhoto/google drive or Dropbox etc and then give Google SNAPSEED - (iOS Link) a go!.
I have used Adobe CS (Photoshop) etc professionally for years to edit compile images but I find this app really useful and nifty is the best for quick on the fly adjustments for work or fun and is extremely versatile - It doesn't give an Instagram/ready-made one click template feel to your pictures (unless you choose that vibe). If you want to use built in apps then iPhoto should be really fine for basic editing.
With GIMP — unless you have used packages like Adobe CS before — you will have lots of homework to do but it's fun free and does everything that Photoshop does in pretty much the same way or simpler once you work your way around it!
Sorry I don't have before and after for all or in order
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0dbe3aae449d1d78ebf5ac57ed7c8bcfe98ea8be | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to specify artist artwork for Music in iOS 7? I've been a big fan of the redesign of the music app in iOS 7. I noticed that on the Artist list, certain musical acts have a thumbnail of band/artist next to them. This image is independent of any album art that I might have, and definitely comes from iTunes.
I was wondering if there was a way to set this image manually. I have a lot of bands that aren't covered by this feature, and I think it's a cool way to visually identify the music I listen to.
In the screencap below, The Moody Blues, The Mountain Goats and Neil Young all feature this custom artwork.
A: I know this is extremely late but I was just wondering the same thing. In settings under music I unchecked "group by album artist" and well it worked, I'm assuming from that option.
| Q: Is there a way to specify artist artwork for Music in iOS 7? I've been a big fan of the redesign of the music app in iOS 7. I noticed that on the Artist list, certain musical acts have a thumbnail of band/artist next to them. This image is independent of any album art that I might have, and definitely comes from iTunes.
I was wondering if there was a way to set this image manually. I have a lot of bands that aren't covered by this feature, and I think it's a cool way to visually identify the music I listen to.
In the screencap below, The Moody Blues, The Mountain Goats and Neil Young all feature this custom artwork.
A: I know this is extremely late but I was just wondering the same thing. In settings under music I unchecked "group by album artist" and well it worked, I'm assuming from that option.
A: I think you should spell the artist name the same as what Apple's servers are using. In my case, I have a lots of songs by "Linkin Park" and still the artist image is the from cover of their album "Hybrid Theory". When I browse Apple Music their artist name is "LINKIN PARK" (all caps) so I renamed all my LP's songs, restarted the music app and connected to internet to download the image.
A: after 45 minutes on the phone with Apple Advanced Technical Support, "This feature is not available for manually uploaded songs at this time". WTH!!
So this is not possible at present :(!
A: Go to 'Artists' tab on your left under 'Recently Added'.
Right click on the artist name you want, and instead of going to the artwork TAB, Double click on the microphone square in the upper corner. It will then let you upload any picture you want for your artist.
A: You need a pc or mac running itunes.
*
*You can go to artists and select al the songs of the same artist (not
the album title) and then right click, this will show another
pop up with a lot of tabs, if you click the illustrations tab you are
presented with the artwork of your songs or a white square. Click the
add button beneath this box and again navigate to your artwork.
p.s. after doing this you still need to sync your ipod/iphone/ipad to make it show up on the devices :P
A: The special artist pictures are synced in through iTunes when you connect to the internet next (since you synced the songs onto your iPhone/iPod/iPad). But based on the popularity of each artist, each artist has the choice to upload their image (if they choose to). But for example Sia, who never shows her face, has not uploaded an artist picture, even though she is popular enough. But if you want a better chance at the artist tab showing up, you need to make sure that you spell the artist name EXACTLY RIGHT!!! For example, I had (and still have) the rapper B.o.B on my music, but the artist picture didn't show up at first because I spelled it B.o.B. (with the extra period at the end). After I removed the extra period, it then synced in the special artist image from iTunes when I next connected to the internet over WiFi for my iPod Touch 5th gen.
Hope it helped :)
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4c6a2de8c21b8d45ef8e2fdddf4bea74757ec8d8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No exportfs CLI on OS X On Linux, there is exportfs CLI tool which can be used to export NFSs without modifying /etc/exports file. However, I can't find it on OS X 10.8.
Why is it missing? Is there any way to install it or simulate its functionality: dynamically (un)export filesystems?
A: There are no cli tools for this (not in homebrew, fink or MacPorts). Even the Apple documentation on configuring NFS exports talks about using a text editor to manipulate /etc/exports directly.
There is an older user created shell script for exportfs for Mac OS X. The download link on that page is broken, but the script is available on the archive.org page at mac exportfs. One issue that I noticed is that this script uses the outdated (and unavailable) niutil command for the NetInfo database. You could try using this script as a starting point and modify it to use dscl instead of niutil.
| Q: No exportfs CLI on OS X On Linux, there is exportfs CLI tool which can be used to export NFSs without modifying /etc/exports file. However, I can't find it on OS X 10.8.
Why is it missing? Is there any way to install it or simulate its functionality: dynamically (un)export filesystems?
A: There are no cli tools for this (not in homebrew, fink or MacPorts). Even the Apple documentation on configuring NFS exports talks about using a text editor to manipulate /etc/exports directly.
There is an older user created shell script for exportfs for Mac OS X. The download link on that page is broken, but the script is available on the archive.org page at mac exportfs. One issue that I noticed is that this script uses the outdated (and unavailable) niutil command for the NetInfo database. You could try using this script as a starting point and modify it to use dscl instead of niutil.
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3f0bac00fd654982f7ae9e85058f2ab364697767 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does emu4ios Transfer cracked Apps with out jailbreak? Today I came across a strange kind of website that helped me save an app from Safari, to my iPhone 5 on iOS 7. The point being I didn't authenticate the App in the App Store, still it's there. Also fiddling a bit with the mechanism it used I was able to port an other cracked app to my iPhone. So my question being, How is it possible when my OS is not jail broken?
A: When it asks you to change your date before 2012. reason why is before 2012 there was a update that validates cracked apps to be downloaded. When you set it before its sort of removing some of the validates. When it first downloads it downloads a provisioning profile which allows the cracked app to download due to the profile permissions.
| Q: How does emu4ios Transfer cracked Apps with out jailbreak? Today I came across a strange kind of website that helped me save an app from Safari, to my iPhone 5 on iOS 7. The point being I didn't authenticate the App in the App Store, still it's there. Also fiddling a bit with the mechanism it used I was able to port an other cracked app to my iPhone. So my question being, How is it possible when my OS is not jail broken?
A: When it asks you to change your date before 2012. reason why is before 2012 there was a update that validates cracked apps to be downloaded. When you set it before its sort of removing some of the validates. When it first downloads it downloads a provisioning profile which allows the cracked app to download due to the profile permissions.
A: I haven't tried this specific site and have no intention to do so, but it appears based on how-tos and screenshots that they are using some variation of the Enterprise Distribution Profile. (Though I'm not sure how they avoid UDID registration. It may have something to do with the notion of the requirement to roll your device's date back?)
Installing such an app looks like this, from this article which explains how to use it to distribute beta apps:
Installing an app in this fashion, which I understand is a violation of Apple's developer policies if done to publicly distribute an application, does not require you to go through the App Store. However, by doing so, you're explicitly circumventing Apple's vetting and, in my opinion, increasing your risk. I recommend avoiding such downloads except in the context of internal enterprise software distribution or beta testing with a developer.
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fc6d4be3f8ac0c09b37760624fe1119fdd91d452 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Git vs rsync when resource fork must be preserved I have some ancient files that I need to share between Macs. There are over 100,000 of them. I need to keep the directory containing these files in sync. I thought Git would be a good solution, and it was, until I discovered that Git has stripped the resource fork off of every file on the remote machine(s).
So now I'm looking for another solution. Considering rsync but thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has experience with old Mac OS Classic files in a modern Mac OS X environment.
A: Just in case anyone stumbles upon this in the future:
"rysnc -E" as of Version 3.1.0 means "preserve executability".
The flag to preserve resource fork / extended attributes is now "-X"
On MacOS / OS X the command line tool "ditto" does copy the resource fork (unless told not to ..).
(I am aware that this is not an "answer" to the asked question. This is meant to be a comment to the answers given for anyone finding this page wondering about rsync -E)
| Q: Git vs rsync when resource fork must be preserved I have some ancient files that I need to share between Macs. There are over 100,000 of them. I need to keep the directory containing these files in sync. I thought Git would be a good solution, and it was, until I discovered that Git has stripped the resource fork off of every file on the remote machine(s).
So now I'm looking for another solution. Considering rsync but thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has experience with old Mac OS Classic files in a modern Mac OS X environment.
A: Just in case anyone stumbles upon this in the future:
"rysnc -E" as of Version 3.1.0 means "preserve executability".
The flag to preserve resource fork / extended attributes is now "-X"
On MacOS / OS X the command line tool "ditto" does copy the resource fork (unless told not to ..).
(I am aware that this is not an "answer" to the asked question. This is meant to be a comment to the answers given for anyone finding this page wondering about rsync -E)
A: You want to use rsync -E.
$ rsync --help
...
-E, --extended-attributes copy extended attributes
...
A: On OS X, 'cp' works with resource forks, and rsync is reported to as well. If you run Netatalk on your target server, it will work quite well if you use either of these, since Netatalk preserves the resource fork in local metadata (moving between different installations of Netatalk, though, can be QUITE a headache if they have different resource fork metadata schemes and you don't realize until too late).
Meanwhile, I want to find out how to MAKE git work with resource forks, as I have some classic software to maintain and need to keep the resource forks in the repository. I'm exploring some avenues with metastore, but you're probably looking for a solution more like the ones mentioned above if you're just trying to share files (e.g. a vintage software repository, like I have at home).
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2c2673628f276128ffafa38149c6c744008f6233 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac, dragging items into desktop folders keeps on opening a finder window immediately I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having this problem since I haven't changed any of my finder preferences. Say I drag an image from the browser to a folder on my desktop, it opens up a finder window for that folder immediately. I know if you hover over a folder for a few seconds the finder window for that folder would pop up but now it just does that as soon as I drop something into the folder, no hovering over it. The delay is set to medium with spring loaded folders checked as usual but I don't understand what's changing its behavior. Hope that makes sense, thank you in advance for the assistance.
A: This issue seems to correspond to the most recent update for Chrome. No fixes yet, but you may want to track the following discussion on the Chrome forum:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/report-a-problem-and-get-troubleshooting-help/mac/ZO-96WmY6Co
Edit: Seems like there is a fix now: Uploading to Chrome Version 31.0.1650.8 beta makes this annoying behavior go away. You can upgrade to the beta version here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/beta.html
| Q: Mac, dragging items into desktop folders keeps on opening a finder window immediately I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having this problem since I haven't changed any of my finder preferences. Say I drag an image from the browser to a folder on my desktop, it opens up a finder window for that folder immediately. I know if you hover over a folder for a few seconds the finder window for that folder would pop up but now it just does that as soon as I drop something into the folder, no hovering over it. The delay is set to medium with spring loaded folders checked as usual but I don't understand what's changing its behavior. Hope that makes sense, thank you in advance for the assistance.
A: This issue seems to correspond to the most recent update for Chrome. No fixes yet, but you may want to track the following discussion on the Chrome forum:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/report-a-problem-and-get-troubleshooting-help/mac/ZO-96WmY6Co
Edit: Seems like there is a fix now: Uploading to Chrome Version 31.0.1650.8 beta makes this annoying behavior go away. You can upgrade to the beta version here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/beta.html
A: Same here. Firefox works fine for me, though. Try that maybe?
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9d2e54d1d0e5b65706aa56a7257f240878b23a6b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to uninstall Canon IJ Network Scanner? I got rid of a Canon all-in-one printer/scanner, but how can I get rid of the Canon IJ Network Scanner (and other Canon softwares that might have been installed) on my Mac? It is not showing in Applications.
A: Additional Canon software is installed in /Library/Printers/Canon. You can use Shift-Cmd-G in Finder to open a Finder window for that folder.
| Q: How to uninstall Canon IJ Network Scanner? I got rid of a Canon all-in-one printer/scanner, but how can I get rid of the Canon IJ Network Scanner (and other Canon softwares that might have been installed) on my Mac? It is not showing in Applications.
A: Additional Canon software is installed in /Library/Printers/Canon. You can use Shift-Cmd-G in Finder to open a Finder window for that folder.
A: I would use a great mac app called App Cleaner, you just drag the icon to the window and it deletes all files associated with it.
https://www.google.com/#q=app+cleaner
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e5587f02f8201e90d0922861a3d2773fa401cc24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get rid of "what's playing"-notifications in iTunes 11.1? Since I updated my iTunes to the newest version (11.1), these notifications appear every time I play songs or listen to the radio.
I really don't need that. Does anybody know how to turn them off?
A: You can turn them off in the Notifications preference pane by changing the alert style for iTunes to "None":
| Q: How to get rid of "what's playing"-notifications in iTunes 11.1? Since I updated my iTunes to the newest version (11.1), these notifications appear every time I play songs or listen to the radio.
I really don't need that. Does anybody know how to turn them off?
A: You can turn them off in the Notifications preference pane by changing the alert style for iTunes to "None":
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826a8614699ad20687a14d5d0e66380d089ba90e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I fix non-responsive keyboard and trackpad after sleep on MacBook Pro Retina 15? I'm having a problem with my MacBook Pro Retina 15.
I close the screen to put it to sleep. When I open it back up, the screen wakes up, but the keyboard and trackpad do not work.
If I plug in a USB keyboard, it works fine and I see a message on the screen that says:
Bluetooth Mouse or Trackpad Setup
There isn't a wireless mouse or trackpad connected.
I'm running 10.8.5.
A: The problem seems to have stopped since I upgraded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
| Q: How do I fix non-responsive keyboard and trackpad after sleep on MacBook Pro Retina 15? I'm having a problem with my MacBook Pro Retina 15.
I close the screen to put it to sleep. When I open it back up, the screen wakes up, but the keyboard and trackpad do not work.
If I plug in a USB keyboard, it works fine and I see a message on the screen that says:
Bluetooth Mouse or Trackpad Setup
There isn't a wireless mouse or trackpad connected.
I'm running 10.8.5.
A: The problem seems to have stopped since I upgraded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
A: Resetting the SMC should do the trick. This seems to have fixed the issue. Note that this will reboot the MacBook, so you will lose any unsaved work.
*
*Shut down the computer.
*Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to
the Mac if its not already connected.
*On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option
keys and the power button at the same time.
*Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
*Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
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e44bcb70caf39febe2cbcc8b7c466a3dea259066 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: List view in Apps section of iTunes? I've got two mac and both are running last version of OS X and iTunes but there's a little difference that I hate and I don't know how to solve:
These are the possible views of the Apps section in iTunes of one Mac:
…and these on the other one:
Trouble is that list view would be very useful and I don't know hot to get it on the second Mac too - is there somebody who has an idea?
EDIT: Same trouble even in Mavericks, even in Movies and Books (in iBook), always only in a Mac, on the other Mac everything works fine...
A: iTunes (in menù bar) > Preferences, then General > Show list views for all media.
This setting works for iBook too!
| Q: List view in Apps section of iTunes? I've got two mac and both are running last version of OS X and iTunes but there's a little difference that I hate and I don't know how to solve:
These are the possible views of the Apps section in iTunes of one Mac:
…and these on the other one:
Trouble is that list view would be very useful and I don't know hot to get it on the second Mac too - is there somebody who has an idea?
EDIT: Same trouble even in Mavericks, even in Movies and Books (in iBook), always only in a Mac, on the other Mac everything works fine...
A: iTunes (in menù bar) > Preferences, then General > Show list views for all media.
This setting works for iBook too!
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b607485348dd48f2b921f7c5138edb12c16f67cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View .mkv in quicklook Is there any plugin (or other way), to add support for mkv files in quicklook? In my searches, the way I found of doing it involves installing perian, which I’d really prefer not to do for a number of reasons, one of them being that it’s no longer in development.
A: A quick search turned up QLVideo, which I've now installed. It provides limited functionality with mkv (as well as avi, flv, asf, and a few others) including preview screen shots in QuickLook and thumbnails in Finder's GetInfo window. Unfortunately it does not actually play the video.
https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/releases/tag/rel-172
Sadly, Perian (a brilliant piece of software that I miss dearly) does not work with Apple's new replacement for the QuickTime infrastructure in MacOS.
| Q: View .mkv in quicklook Is there any plugin (or other way), to add support for mkv files in quicklook? In my searches, the way I found of doing it involves installing perian, which I’d really prefer not to do for a number of reasons, one of them being that it’s no longer in development.
A: A quick search turned up QLVideo, which I've now installed. It provides limited functionality with mkv (as well as avi, flv, asf, and a few others) including preview screen shots in QuickLook and thumbnails in Finder's GetInfo window. Unfortunately it does not actually play the video.
https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/releases/tag/rel-172
Sadly, Perian (a brilliant piece of software that I miss dearly) does not work with Apple's new replacement for the QuickTime infrastructure in MacOS.
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93ffbbd519ad7c789ffc08ea5662c5ccf6721899 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is is possible to re-purchase an app for which I requested a refund? Yes, it sounds strange. I purchased an app that didn't initially work and I requested a refund which was promptly processed by Apple. Then I couldn't find a better app for my needs and figured out some workarounds for the initial app. Now I still have the app installed on my phone and the honest thing to do is repurchase it. How can I do that?
A: It's not possible. Once an app is refunded, you cannot re-purchase it, for all eternity. I've spent about 2h with various levels of Apple support without success.
Also, it's worth mentioning that you cannot get updates for a refunded app (makes sense).
| Q: Is is possible to re-purchase an app for which I requested a refund? Yes, it sounds strange. I purchased an app that didn't initially work and I requested a refund which was promptly processed by Apple. Then I couldn't find a better app for my needs and figured out some workarounds for the initial app. Now I still have the app installed on my phone and the honest thing to do is repurchase it. How can I do that?
A: It's not possible. Once an app is refunded, you cannot re-purchase it, for all eternity. I've spent about 2h with various levels of Apple support without success.
Also, it's worth mentioning that you cannot get updates for a refunded app (makes sense).
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797617274035aae1351bfa4892b4bbbed01b81cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can iOS' builtin dictionary be accessed/browsed as an independent app? If you select some text in whatever application, there's a "define" option that will open a builtin dictionary screen:
Can this dictionary be accessed/browsed? As in, an actual application?
iOS 6.0
A: You can access definitions from the phone’s search (Spotlight):
Occasionally you’ll have to scroll lower and expand the list of definitions to see more dictionaries:
A long time ago used to be a nice little app (that luckily I still have) that did exactly that: let you search for definitions directly. It was called Dictionary+ (link no longer available), Apple removed it reportedly for violating the UIReferenceLibraryViewController's terms of use, which states that it should not be used to display wordlists, create a standalone dictionary app, or republish the content in any form.
There's a replacement open source app that you can build, sign and install it manually, I haven't tried it, though: https://github.com/josh-/DictionaryPlusPlus
| Q: Can iOS' builtin dictionary be accessed/browsed as an independent app? If you select some text in whatever application, there's a "define" option that will open a builtin dictionary screen:
Can this dictionary be accessed/browsed? As in, an actual application?
iOS 6.0
A: You can access definitions from the phone’s search (Spotlight):
Occasionally you’ll have to scroll lower and expand the list of definitions to see more dictionaries:
A long time ago used to be a nice little app (that luckily I still have) that did exactly that: let you search for definitions directly. It was called Dictionary+ (link no longer available), Apple removed it reportedly for violating the UIReferenceLibraryViewController's terms of use, which states that it should not be used to display wordlists, create a standalone dictionary app, or republish the content in any form.
There's a replacement open source app that you can build, sign and install it manually, I haven't tried it, though: https://github.com/josh-/DictionaryPlusPlus
A: In iOS 12 Apple provided the free Shortcuts App. You may have to download it from the App Store if you've deleted it. Shortcuts can do what you need and a lot more.
The following simple shortcut is a wrapper to the in-built dictionary and accepts a typed-in word from a prompt. But you may define the workflow to accept text from the clipboard or from a share sheet. You can also add the word to a note in Notes, email it, and so on.
You can finally add the shortcut to the home screen as an icon that can be clicked like any other app.
It's fast.
This is what Shortcuts looks like:
This is a simple one-step shortcut definition, called "Dictionary":
When run from here or from an icon it looks like so:
Press "Done" and the definition appears, respecting your dictionary choices:
And of course don't forget to add the icon to your home screen. I named this one "Look Up" but of course you could name it anything and even give it a custom icon:
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f585917d42190fd658201c110e3ab9efd2b2ea51 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What do I do when OS X freezes? It happened to me twice recently. I was just using my iMac normally, like browsing the web, and it suddenly freezes. I can move the mouse, but I can't click on anything. Keyboard not functioning at all. I couldn't figure out what to do except for pressing the power button and reboot. What else can I do? Is there a way to diagnose and find out what is causing it?
A: A strategy to try when the freeze is actually happening is holding ⌘ Cmd and ⌥ Opt, then hitting ⎋ Escape.
If your keyboard input is still working, this should bring up the force-quit dialog (which can be navigated using the arrow keys and Enter). This may allow you to close problematic applications without a hard shutdown using the ⌽ Power button.
| Q: What do I do when OS X freezes? It happened to me twice recently. I was just using my iMac normally, like browsing the web, and it suddenly freezes. I can move the mouse, but I can't click on anything. Keyboard not functioning at all. I couldn't figure out what to do except for pressing the power button and reboot. What else can I do? Is there a way to diagnose and find out what is causing it?
A: A strategy to try when the freeze is actually happening is holding ⌘ Cmd and ⌥ Opt, then hitting ⎋ Escape.
If your keyboard input is still working, this should bring up the force-quit dialog (which can be navigated using the arrow keys and Enter). This may allow you to close problematic applications without a hard shutdown using the ⌽ Power button.
A: Usual troubleshooting steps for similar cases are:
*
*Clean system and user cache (slightly dangerous procedure if you don't know what you're doing) there is a program called CleanGenius that might help, but it's been severely limited due to the new sandboxing policies introduced with OS 10.7
*repair Disk Permissions (easy, you can do it with Apple's Disk Utility, which is installed by default in the Utilities folder)
*Reset PRAM (easy, you need to start up your computer keeping four keys pressed: command, option, P, R and release them AFTER you heard the startup chime TWICE)
Those steps should solve the problem.
Differential diagnosis would be checking the RAM for a defective bank and checking internet plugins (but in that case, I suppose not all the system would lock up, just the browser) and processes running in the background. But for this kind of diagnosis, I would suggest entrusting your Mac to a specialist.
A: Try cleaning the dust bunnies out of the video card. After months of making me crazy I think I tracked it down to dust blocking the heat sink channels on my video card. I was blaming my freezed on Flash, but I realize that was working my video card just hard enough it got hot and quit. Haven't had a freeze in days.
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5c05006aeda9d35466cbbc1bd74028aeffb6dbc9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone alarm without vibration? I have using an iPhone 5 upgraded to iOS 7. Is it possible to turn off vibrations for alarms? I am currently using a song as alarm sound, the vibration is annoying.
A: It doesn't seem so.
A workaround would be to turn off vibrations when on silent (Settings > Sounds), and have it set to silent (either by the button or a Do Not Disturb).
Maybe another app would do the trick.
| Q: iPhone alarm without vibration? I have using an iPhone 5 upgraded to iOS 7. Is it possible to turn off vibrations for alarms? I am currently using a song as alarm sound, the vibration is annoying.
A: It doesn't seem so.
A workaround would be to turn off vibrations when on silent (Settings > Sounds), and have it set to silent (either by the button or a Do Not Disturb).
Maybe another app would do the trick.
A: Close... in Sound options you can set it to vibrate or not when tone... phone calls and alarms.
When "silent" it will be sound alarm and vibration, but in "tone" it will have sound but no vibration.
The only thing is that you can miss calls if you don't hear it cause it will no longer vibrate, just sound (loudy place)... but in silent there will be vibration and no sound.
A: Leave all your settings as is. Leave it on ring at night. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open Control Center and then activate Do Not Disturb.
A: For jailbroken phones, you can use NoVibratedWakeup.
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bb0931fa97651b09b18747aa2446d345993dfee9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Read epub book purchased from iTunes on Windows I have purchased a book through iTunes, it is formatted as an epub. Is there anyway I can read it in a Windows PC?
A: Depends on whether it's protected by DRM or not. If it's not DRM protected, you can use free software like Calibre. You can also read the ePub books in Firefox using the EPUBReader extension and in Chrome using the MagicScroll eBook Reader extension.
To know if your eBook is DRM protected (fixed the description to correctly say "DRM" instead of "copyright"):
*
*Open iTunes.
*Select the target ebook.
*Choose File.
*Choose Get Info.
*Look at the “Media Kind” field.
*
*If it says “book,” it is a web download.
*If it says “purchased book,” it’s a DRM free iBook purchase/download.
*If it says “protected book,” it has a DRM attached.
| Q: Read epub book purchased from iTunes on Windows I have purchased a book through iTunes, it is formatted as an epub. Is there anyway I can read it in a Windows PC?
A: Depends on whether it's protected by DRM or not. If it's not DRM protected, you can use free software like Calibre. You can also read the ePub books in Firefox using the EPUBReader extension and in Chrome using the MagicScroll eBook Reader extension.
To know if your eBook is DRM protected (fixed the description to correctly say "DRM" instead of "copyright"):
*
*Open iTunes.
*Select the target ebook.
*Choose File.
*Choose Get Info.
*Look at the “Media Kind” field.
*
*If it says “book,” it is a web download.
*If it says “purchased book,” it’s a DRM free iBook purchase/download.
*If it says “protected book,” it has a DRM attached.
A: To read ebooks on a PC, it's best buy them from one of the stores which provides a free ereader app for that platform, probably Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Googlebooks, or Sony.
There is no indication Apple will join that group (it took 3 years to extend iBooks from iOS to OS X), but there are some publishers, like O'Reilly, who sell unprotected books on the iBookstore, and these can be read on a PC with the apps described by M K.
A: You can open your epub files with any of these programs:
*
*EPUB Reader
*Adobe Digital Editions Home (recommended)
*Okular
You can read which one is best for you.
A: On a Windows7 machine I right-clicked the ibook in the iTunes application window and COPIED it via the pop-up menu onto my Windows desktop (you could copy it into any folder of your choosing). I then changed the extension of the copied file, which is a .ibooks-file, to .epub (just simply renaming the extension of the file name). I then could open the renamed file with the Calibre E-book viewer as well as with Adobe Digital Editions. Give it a try!
A: In order to read Ibooks in your computer, you need to install the Adobe Digital Editions software (free). In ITunes, I right click on the book that I want to read then right click and paste it on my desktop. It will be paste with an epub extension. then I use the Adobe Digital Editions to open it. I have read a lot of books using this software with no problem.
A: The ePUb files bought from iTunes are DRM protected, no open source readers could let you read the books. Because you have to remove the DRM protection first, and then you could view the epub ibooks on pc. And the most powerful free Requiem could do this work, but it will cost a lot of time.And it the best one could do the work.
One thing should remind is that this can only use it for personal, not commercial.
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11c2e1d0d3ddde23432597f839d1a938b64e9044 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I disable auto-correction of a single word on OS X? I'm running into an annoying issue with OS X's automatic spelling correction where the word nala gets automatically corrected to napa.
I've tried adding nala to my custom dictionary under ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary but it still reliably makes the correction anyway.
How do I configure OS X to not automatically correct a given word short of turning off automatic correction entirely which is not really desirable?
A: Yes you can do it.
*
*Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text.
*Click the + sign on the bottom left to add a new text replacement.
*In the Replace column, put the word you want OS X to stop autocorrecting (no spaces are allowed).
*In the With column, put the exact same word you put in the Replace column.
Voila. You're done.
This has worked flawlessly for me every time.
| Q: Can I disable auto-correction of a single word on OS X? I'm running into an annoying issue with OS X's automatic spelling correction where the word nala gets automatically corrected to napa.
I've tried adding nala to my custom dictionary under ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary but it still reliably makes the correction anyway.
How do I configure OS X to not automatically correct a given word short of turning off automatic correction entirely which is not really desirable?
A: Yes you can do it.
*
*Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text.
*Click the + sign on the bottom left to add a new text replacement.
*In the Replace column, put the word you want OS X to stop autocorrecting (no spaces are allowed).
*In the With column, put the exact same word you put in the Replace column.
Voila. You're done.
This has worked flawlessly for me every time.
A: If you hold the option key when you hit the space bar after typing the word autocorrect will not change the word.
A: When typing the word, right-click it and choose Spelling & Grammar → Show Spelling and Grammar. This will bring up a window similar to the one below. It should say that the word was not found in the spelling dictionary.
Click Learn to teach the word to the current dictionary.
The file ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary only contains some of your corrections. This depends on which language you have currently selected. For example, my ~/Library/Spelling/ folder contains multiple custom dictionaries depending on the language that I have currently set. As well as LocalDictionary, I have files named en and en_GB. Editing these files instead of LocalDictionary can help set custom words when they refuse to be read from LocalDictionary.
~/Library/Spelling
├── LocalDictionary
├── dynamic-counts.dat
├── dynamic-text.dat
├── en
└── en_GB
0 directories, 5 files
A: Hitting Esc seems to override the autocorrect for me. It has the same effect as hitting the X button on the suggested "correction."
It's not a permanent fix for a word you need to use consistently, but it should help avoid you adding hundreds of words to the dictionary or turning off autocorrect completely.
A: This has been driving me crazy for weeks (on and off for years) until I had time to sit down and briefly brute force find a solution. I figured that there must be a solution - there just must be.
Here is the solution - it works and has been tested on different versions of MacOS. It may be that it was not designed to be a solution to this particular problem and it could be a coincidental answer but it is an answer.
When you have typed the word and before pressing space hold down option (⌥) and the escape whilst pressing space. The word will not be autocorrected.
An occasional side effect of this solution is that subsequent spellings of the word may temporarily also not be corrected but this is not consistent.
A: Go to System Preferences → Language & Text.
Choose the Text tab. There you can see all of the auto-correct words - just disable\delete nala.
A: Right click on the word and choose Learn Spelling.
A: Go to System Preferences > Keyboard . Go to text tab. Uncheck "Correct spelling automatically".
A: *
*tap two fingers on the trackpad with the cursor on the word
*it will pop up a dropdown list
*uncheck the "check spelling" and "autocorrect spelling"
voila! your are done ...the England People will not trouble you anymore
the other options will be a tedious one to add all the craps one by one
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29d09b7d51e6a027d0d7bffb6c2661ad546e6b77 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you force quit an application in iOS 7? In iOS 6 and below I could double tap the home button, tap and hold an app, and click the red - to close an application(s).
In iOS 7 this does not work. How can I restart an app that's exploding without resetting the entire OS?
A: An alternative method: (if you're still in the app)
*
*Hold Power (until you get the slide to power off).
*Hold Home until the app quits.
| Q: How do you force quit an application in iOS 7? In iOS 6 and below I could double tap the home button, tap and hold an app, and click the red - to close an application(s).
In iOS 7 this does not work. How can I restart an app that's exploding without resetting the entire OS?
A: An alternative method: (if you're still in the app)
*
*Hold Power (until you get the slide to power off).
*Hold Home until the app quits.
A: Double tap the home button.
You then get snapshots of the apps that you can scroll to left or right to find the app you want.
You can drag that app up to close it and remove from the display.
A: In iOS 7:
*
*Double tap the home button
*Scroll to the app you want to force quit
*Flick up on the app's window.
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0cd3a89a9db404d5484fb5b4fbe55710cee95375 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Open ports. Safe? My friend is currently running the default firewall with "Block all incoming connection" (except the basic ones like 80). I just scanned his mac for open ports and I found the following:
Open TCP Port: 3128 ndl-aas
Open TCP Port: 8080 http-alt
Is it normal to have those ports open, or does he have something fuzzy installed?
A: It's not normal to have ports open unless configured otherwise. You can find the names of the programs that are listening at these ports using the following command in Terminal (under /Applications/Utilities):
lsof -i :3128
lsof -i :8080
The first column of the output would be the program name.
| Q: Open ports. Safe? My friend is currently running the default firewall with "Block all incoming connection" (except the basic ones like 80). I just scanned his mac for open ports and I found the following:
Open TCP Port: 3128 ndl-aas
Open TCP Port: 8080 http-alt
Is it normal to have those ports open, or does he have something fuzzy installed?
A: It's not normal to have ports open unless configured otherwise. You can find the names of the programs that are listening at these ports using the following command in Terminal (under /Applications/Utilities):
lsof -i :3128
lsof -i :8080
The first column of the output would be the program name.
A: Ports 3128 and 8080 are typically used by HTTP proxy software, such as squid (which uses port 3128 by default.)
Port 8080 is also often used by a local web server used for development or similar, typically because the root account is generally required to listen on port 80.
A: Neither of those ports is opened by the OS. You will want to run a command like sudo lsof|grep LISTEN to figure out what processes have opened those ports on the Mac.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1629 for documented ports that Apple uses and note that neither are used other than 10.4 server and earlier where port 8080 was part of jboss as a stock component of server.
A: If this is OS X, it is quite possible the system has running virtual machine such as Parallels or VMWare running Windows. Windows runs bunch of open ports that are not used by OS X. Closing virtual machine should close those ports.
Check also (netstat -a -p tcp) if source (local) and destination (foreign) addresses do not include 'localhost' in the description. This would further indicate some local process running - in my case resulted by virtual machine.
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6f2e1ee78a542d56533322c515224875600d230d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to search Mail in Time Machine? I'm looking for a specific email I may have deleted, but I don't remember when I received it (it was at least a couple months ago). Digging through my Mail history in Time Machine for a single email would take forever - why isn't there an obvious search function for Time Machine?
Does anyone have a technique or strategy for searching past emails in Time Machine?
A: Emails are stored in sub-directories located in ~/Library/Mail/V2 in .emlx format. This allows you to do a global plaintext search within a specific time machine backup folder.
I wrote a shell script to search for text within all .emlx files in a specific time machine backup.
Alternatively you can do a drive search in terminal (what my script automates). Replace Search Query with what you want to search for:
find "/Volumes/Time Machine" -name "*.emlx" -exec grep -l "Search Query" {} \;
Or also replace /Volumes/Time Machine with a more specific directory to speed things up e.g /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/stan/2014-09-16-084603/
| Q: How to search Mail in Time Machine? I'm looking for a specific email I may have deleted, but I don't remember when I received it (it was at least a couple months ago). Digging through my Mail history in Time Machine for a single email would take forever - why isn't there an obvious search function for Time Machine?
Does anyone have a technique or strategy for searching past emails in Time Machine?
A: Emails are stored in sub-directories located in ~/Library/Mail/V2 in .emlx format. This allows you to do a global plaintext search within a specific time machine backup folder.
I wrote a shell script to search for text within all .emlx files in a specific time machine backup.
Alternatively you can do a drive search in terminal (what my script automates). Replace Search Query with what you want to search for:
find "/Volumes/Time Machine" -name "*.emlx" -exec grep -l "Search Query" {} \;
Or also replace /Volumes/Time Machine with a more specific directory to speed things up e.g /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/stan/2014-09-16-084603/
A: The recommended way to search through Time Machine is using Spotlight.
From Apple Support - Recover items using Time Machine and Spotlight:
*
*Open a Finder window and type a search word or phrase in the search field in the upper-right corner.
*Select a location to search in the location bar.
You can search your entire computer (This Mac) or the folder that was selected in the Finder when you started your search. New search results begin to appear after you select a location.
*Refine the results by specifying search criteria.
Narrow down Spotlight search results
*Click the Time Machine icon in the Dock.
If the Time Machine icon isn’t in the Dock, look for Time Machine in the Applications folder.
*Use the arrows and the timeline along the right edge of your screen to browse through the Time Machine backups. Your search is performed in every window.
*When you find the item you want to restore, select it, and then click Restore.
As another alternative, you can also use the free EasyFind application from Devon Technologies on your Time Machine drive.
A: The trick is to do a Spotlight search in the Finder, but with the starting point already in the Time Machine.
*
*Open a Finder window and navigate in the Time Machine all the way in the computer's folder, so that the Finder window displays the list of snapshots.
*Enter the search query in the Finder search box.
*Click the + on the right side to add a search parameter: Kind is Other. A box will appear for entering the value; enter mail here.
*Click the + again to enter another search parameters: System files are included.
The Finder will consult the Spotlight database for the Time Machine, and display all of the matching mail messages, across all of the snapshots.
You can use QuickLook (the spacebar) to view any message.
The path bar at the bottom of the window shows the (long) path leading to the mail message. About halfway down the path, and one of the few folders with an recognizable name, is the .mbox folder that contains the message. The name of this folder corresponds to which Mail folder contains the selected message.
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267013ed9930fbc0e6df9f8c1e771794e0fc4c90 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why doesn't the escape key close the find window in Chrome? For some reason, Chrome will no longer close my find window when I hit the Escape ⎋ key. Instead, it pulls up some weird kind of autocomplete drop-down. This is incredibly annoying; every time I perform a search, I now need to reach for the mouse immediately afterwards. Anyone know what the problem might be?
| Q: Why doesn't the escape key close the find window in Chrome? For some reason, Chrome will no longer close my find window when I hit the Escape ⎋ key. Instead, it pulls up some weird kind of autocomplete drop-down. This is incredibly annoying; every time I perform a search, I now need to reach for the mouse immediately afterwards. Anyone know what the problem might be?
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8fa502495260d0a33a2cac773ad54abc8b1abe07 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I tell the time with an Apple TV? I'd like to tell the time with my Apple TV, so I don't have to use a computer. But I can't seem to find a single clock app or screensaver for Apple TV. Anyone know if one exists?
I'm using an Apple TV 3, with Apple TV Software 6.0.
A: Sorry for the shameless plug, but I made the app just because Apple TV lacks the time: Screen Clock.
| Q: How can I tell the time with an Apple TV? I'd like to tell the time with my Apple TV, so I don't have to use a computer. But I can't seem to find a single clock app or screensaver for Apple TV. Anyone know if one exists?
I'm using an Apple TV 3, with Apple TV Software 6.0.
A: Sorry for the shameless plug, but I made the app just because Apple TV lacks the time: Screen Clock.
A: On the Apple TV models with apps and Siri (4th & 5th generations)…
Ask Siri
Simply ask Siri for the current time. Hold down the remote button to speak with Siri.
Progress bar
While watching a video in play, tap the touch surface once to see the time remaining to elapse to the end of that show/movie/clip.
Tap again the touch surface to alter the markers on the play progress bar to current time-of-day and estimated time when that show will be done playing if uninterrupted.
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2894d8e1861397427687c14e30ef465d8260858f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apply rules to messages in mailbox I created some rules in Mail 6.6 application.
Now, I want to apply these rules on my existing mails in mailbox, not just to the inbox, that is going to my mailbox after creation of the rules.
How can I achieve this?
A: To apply the rules to existing messages, just select the mailbox and use "Apply Rules" from the "Message" menu. Or use the shortcut ⌥+⌘+L
| Q: Apply rules to messages in mailbox I created some rules in Mail 6.6 application.
Now, I want to apply these rules on my existing mails in mailbox, not just to the inbox, that is going to my mailbox after creation of the rules.
How can I achieve this?
A: To apply the rules to existing messages, just select the mailbox and use "Apply Rules" from the "Message" menu. Or use the shortcut ⌥+⌘+L
A: Best and easiest solution - Select all emails from that folder you want to apply rules, (probably a cmd + A) and Select 'Apply Rules' on right click menu.
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7f41c07885cdcddac15f494a9e0e7bf2d17a0686 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I "go to page" in preview via toolbar? I would like to select the page directly from the window, but it is not accessible :
A: Control click on the toolbar and add the page control field.
It looks blank and has page for the help text in english.
Then you can type whatever page you wish directly into the toolbar without needing to use the Command-Option-G keyboard shortcut to go to a specific page.
| Q: How can I "go to page" in preview via toolbar? I would like to select the page directly from the window, but it is not accessible :
A: Control click on the toolbar and add the page control field.
It looks blank and has page for the help text in english.
Then you can type whatever page you wish directly into the toolbar without needing to use the Command-Option-G keyboard shortcut to go to a specific page.
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4b4fcaf5cf31ec752a3a564150557061baea9097 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to sync a folder from Dropbox to iBook in iPad? I want to copy an folder which may contain lots of folders from Dropbox to iBook, and keep the folder hierarchy correct. I used to use GoodReader and works fine, but it crashes a lot under iOS 7.
A: No, this is not possible since iBooks does not support bulk importing of content from other applications on an iOS device. The three ways to add books to iBooks are:
*
*Purchase from the iBooks store and download
*Sync books through iTunes
*Send a single book (not several) from another application on the iOS device with the Open In...iBooks option
Also, iBooks does not have the concept of folders and folder hierarchies. It does have Collections, but there is no way to map folders to Collections from iTunes or any other source.
| Q: Is it possible to sync a folder from Dropbox to iBook in iPad? I want to copy an folder which may contain lots of folders from Dropbox to iBook, and keep the folder hierarchy correct. I used to use GoodReader and works fine, but it crashes a lot under iOS 7.
A: No, this is not possible since iBooks does not support bulk importing of content from other applications on an iOS device. The three ways to add books to iBooks are:
*
*Purchase from the iBooks store and download
*Sync books through iTunes
*Send a single book (not several) from another application on the iOS device with the Open In...iBooks option
Also, iBooks does not have the concept of folders and folder hierarchies. It does have Collections, but there is no way to map folders to Collections from iTunes or any other source.
A: You can try https://chib.me/dropbooks/
It allows you to sync iBooks with any folder on your Mac. You could use it with Dropbox folder.
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ac443e21ebe10367b2c74bf52de91821da78a2d9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Time capsule over ethernet is incredibly slow I am transferring files from my Time Capsule (4th Generation, 2TB, model A1409) to my laptop (Ubuntu) via the Apple Filing Protocol. The Time Capsule is connected directly to the laptop via an ethernet cable (wifi on the laptop is disabled): standard LAN port to standard laptop ethernet interface. The Time Capsule is not being used by any other device (i.e. it is disconnected from my primary router; no laptops/mobiles/etc are connected to it physically/wirelessly aside from the Ubuntu laptop).
The transfer speeds are incredibly slow: ~260kB/sec. I am transferring several large files that equate to ~7GB, which is taking several hours to transfer.
Why is the network speed so slow? How do I increase the speed?
A: *
*Configure the ethernet interface in Ubuntu to use Gigabit in full duplex
*Reset the network card by powering down the laptop and unplugging it from mains for a few seconds
*To effectively use Gigabit ethernet, use a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable
*Start the copy after a reboot of the devices (with WiFi and other connections disabled)
| Q: Time capsule over ethernet is incredibly slow I am transferring files from my Time Capsule (4th Generation, 2TB, model A1409) to my laptop (Ubuntu) via the Apple Filing Protocol. The Time Capsule is connected directly to the laptop via an ethernet cable (wifi on the laptop is disabled): standard LAN port to standard laptop ethernet interface. The Time Capsule is not being used by any other device (i.e. it is disconnected from my primary router; no laptops/mobiles/etc are connected to it physically/wirelessly aside from the Ubuntu laptop).
The transfer speeds are incredibly slow: ~260kB/sec. I am transferring several large files that equate to ~7GB, which is taking several hours to transfer.
Why is the network speed so slow? How do I increase the speed?
A: *
*Configure the ethernet interface in Ubuntu to use Gigabit in full duplex
*Reset the network card by powering down the laptop and unplugging it from mains for a few seconds
*To effectively use Gigabit ethernet, use a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable
*Start the copy after a reboot of the devices (with WiFi and other connections disabled)
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1fb0fcfdc35f1823fd79dc35e81087a6b1e39e99 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to quickly set year only in iOS 7 Can someone please explain how you can quickly set the YEAR within the date and time settings?
If the battery has been removed then the iPhone is reset back to Jan 1st 1970. This means that the network will not sync and you won't get a signal. Therefore the automatic date setting will not work either.
The only way I have managed so far is to literally scroll through everyday of every month of every year up to the present day until it is correct. This is naturally tiresome and also impractical as often in swiping you drag up the quick menu from the bottom.
A: Try connecting to iTunes, it automatically syncs to the current date.
| Q: How to quickly set year only in iOS 7 Can someone please explain how you can quickly set the YEAR within the date and time settings?
If the battery has been removed then the iPhone is reset back to Jan 1st 1970. This means that the network will not sync and you won't get a signal. Therefore the automatic date setting will not work either.
The only way I have managed so far is to literally scroll through everyday of every month of every year up to the present day until it is correct. This is naturally tiresome and also impractical as often in swiping you drag up the quick menu from the bottom.
A: Try connecting to iTunes, it automatically syncs to the current date.
A: I suppose it's something you need to do repeatedly, if it were just once, you could just deal with it.
As an Apple-Certified Mac Technician I should advise that unauthorised hardware modifications will permanently exclude the device from the official circuit, meaning that your customers won't be able to benefit from Apple's limited warranty, AppleCare or Out of Warranty service.
That said, and assuming you are doing something entirely innocent, you should try hooking up your device to a computer. In the absence of a wireless connection (or being unable to connect to your network because of the wrong date), the device's date should sync with that of your computer.
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7626f3b61a4e52adbf7628be95a9ae7b0997ee43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Replacing The Blue Folder Icon With A Customised Image? How can I select a JPEG image and use that to customise/replace the usual blue folder icon for a given folder (which additionally may even make it easier to tell folders apart, when looking for one)?
If this can be achieved without the use of a specific App, then all the better.
A: *
*Open the image that you would like to be the folder icon in Preview.
*Press ⌘ cmd + A to select the entire image and press ⌘ cmd + C to copy it.
*Get Info (⌘ cmd + I) on the folder.
*Click the folder icon on the top-left and press ⌘ cmd + V to paste in the icon.
To revert back to the default blue folder…
*
*Get Info on the folder.
*Click your icon in the top-left.
*Press ⌘ cmd + X.
The folder icon is stored in the folder, as a hidden file.
.
└── Icon?
0 directories, 1 file
You can also remove the folder icon using the following Terminal command inside the folder with the icon that you wish to remove:
rm Icon$'\r'
| Q: Replacing The Blue Folder Icon With A Customised Image? How can I select a JPEG image and use that to customise/replace the usual blue folder icon for a given folder (which additionally may even make it easier to tell folders apart, when looking for one)?
If this can be achieved without the use of a specific App, then all the better.
A: *
*Open the image that you would like to be the folder icon in Preview.
*Press ⌘ cmd + A to select the entire image and press ⌘ cmd + C to copy it.
*Get Info (⌘ cmd + I) on the folder.
*Click the folder icon on the top-left and press ⌘ cmd + V to paste in the icon.
To revert back to the default blue folder…
*
*Get Info on the folder.
*Click your icon in the top-left.
*Press ⌘ cmd + X.
The folder icon is stored in the folder, as a hidden file.
.
└── Icon?
0 directories, 1 file
You can also remove the folder icon using the following Terminal command inside the folder with the icon that you wish to remove:
rm Icon$'\r'
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3002960067780f877e08b79e0ed5ff6be0558570 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to erase ~Library/Developer? In the user Library, there is a Developer folder with about 3.2 GB of space (2.8GB from DocSets and the rest mainly from Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport). I had Xcode installed, I presume these are from that? I no longer use Xcode, is there any downside to erasing these folders? If I install Xcode again wouldn't it restore what is needed?
A: If the only two directories you have in ~Library/Developer are Xcode and Docsets (or Shared/Docsets) then you should be safe to delete that folder. If you did re-install XCode you would get them (or updated versions) back.
| Q: Is it safe to erase ~Library/Developer? In the user Library, there is a Developer folder with about 3.2 GB of space (2.8GB from DocSets and the rest mainly from Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport). I had Xcode installed, I presume these are from that? I no longer use Xcode, is there any downside to erasing these folders? If I install Xcode again wouldn't it restore what is needed?
A: If the only two directories you have in ~Library/Developer are Xcode and Docsets (or Shared/Docsets) then you should be safe to delete that folder. If you did re-install XCode you would get them (or updated versions) back.
A: No its not safe to delete everything in:
~/Library/Developer
Doing so could cause you to lose backup snapshots, any generated Archives for applications and other customizations set in the XCode IDE.
Specifically within the Developer folder there should be two additional folders.
"Shared" and "Xcode"
Shared contains documentation that you have downloaded using Xcode, depending on how you work and whether you have internet all the time you might not want to trash that, but worst case you can just re download it, so if you need space, and are not concerned about offline documentation, here is where you can grab back some space.
The Xcode folder contain a lot, and potentially some things you might not want to lose.
Archives
If you use Xcodes Archives organizer feature, deleting this will wipe out any Archives you may have.
DeveloperPortal 5.0.db
Contains information probably about using iTunes Connect in Xcode, I would guess its disposable, but you may have to reconfigure Xcode to talk to Apple for App Store distribution, etc.
UserData
This generally contains any changes you made to Xcode color schemes and font themes as well as any changes you may make regarding Key Bindings in Xcode, again this stuff should be pretty small and is probably something you don't want to throw away if you spent any amount of time tweaking those kinds of Xcode settings, you probably just don't want to trash those changes made.
iOS DeviceSupport
Probably some information relating to iOS devices that you have attached to and tried to use in Xcode, should be safe to delete.
DerivedData
Stuff in the DerivedData folder is generally pretty safe to delete, it is all the stuff that gets generated every time you press the build button in a project. It includes the generated log and applications executables and libraries for all the products you build in a project.
Snapshots
If you use Xcodes built in snapshot tools as a means of version control, wiping out your snapshots will wipeout the possibility of reverting to older snapshots.
iOS Device Logs
Safe to delete, unless you need your logs, you would know if you need to keep them.
Templates
Your custom project templates, like a UserData you probably just don't want to trash those changes made.
A: If you have installed 4.3 or later version of XCode, it should be safe to delete.
It's written here :
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/WhatsNewXcode/Articles/xcode_4_3.html
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da9184f89e5adf0c6ef8c82888aa83f8021ebd0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do some contacts on the favorites screen on Phone.app show initials and others an icon? In iOS 7 the contacts in my favorites screen in Phone.app that don't have a photo show either initials or a person icon. Why not just one or the other and what determines which image a contact will get?
I think this is best shown with a picture:
A: The icon is displaying because that contact's "name" is entered as a business name, and their "First" and "Last" names are blank.
| Q: Why do some contacts on the favorites screen on Phone.app show initials and others an icon? In iOS 7 the contacts in my favorites screen in Phone.app that don't have a photo show either initials or a person icon. Why not just one or the other and what determines which image a contact will get?
I think this is best shown with a picture:
A: The icon is displaying because that contact's "name" is entered as a business name, and their "First" and "Last" names are blank.
A: I think I figured out 3 different situations in which an icon instead of initials is displayed
*
*emoji in any of the name fields
*The number is a business instead of a person (Thanks Eddie)
*No name in the person or business fields of a contact
I would think that it would still show initials in the first case if the emoji isn't the first letter in any of the name fields but that isn't the case.
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4be9df648c2f610ef6cd9b276a07db3d38726d20 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to save the order of spaces in Mission Control? Is there any way in Mountain Lion to preserve the order of spaces in Mission Control?
I use four different spaces for four fullscreen apps, and I like to keep them in a certain order so that I know where they all are in relation to each other.
The problem is that once these apps are quit, their spacial arrangement is lost, so I find that I'm always manually reordering them into the arrangement I like (since by default a new fullscreen app is tacked onto the end of the list of spaces).
In Snow Leopard and earlier (before Mission Control), it was possible to "bind" specific apps to specific spaces, so you could do things like always have Safari open in Space 2. With Mission Control, I don't see any way to do something equivalent.
A: What Jay said in a comment...
Uncheck the second box here:
| Q: Is there any way to save the order of spaces in Mission Control? Is there any way in Mountain Lion to preserve the order of spaces in Mission Control?
I use four different spaces for four fullscreen apps, and I like to keep them in a certain order so that I know where they all are in relation to each other.
The problem is that once these apps are quit, their spacial arrangement is lost, so I find that I'm always manually reordering them into the arrangement I like (since by default a new fullscreen app is tacked onto the end of the list of spaces).
In Snow Leopard and earlier (before Mission Control), it was possible to "bind" specific apps to specific spaces, so you could do things like always have Safari open in Space 2. With Mission Control, I don't see any way to do something equivalent.
A: What Jay said in a comment...
Uncheck the second box here:
A: It's possible to assign apps to spaces in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, but it does not work for full screen apps (bold italic emphasis mine in the Apple support document below).
Decide which spaces to use with particular apps
If you work in multiple spaces, you can assign apps to particular spaces.
*
*Press and hold an app’s icon in the Dock. You may have to first open the app from Launchpad to see its icon in the Dock.
*From the shortcut menu that appears over the icon, choose one of these:
To have the app open only in the current space, choose Options > This Desktop. From now on the app will open in the current space; if you are working in a different space, the app’s space scrolls into view.
This setting doesn’t apply to full-screen windows, which always appear in their own separate spaces.
You may have a better solution in the paid app TotalSpaces.
A: Coming in 8 years late…
You cannot fix the positions of fullscreen Spaces. They don't have Space numbers & each sets up 'one to the right' of any existing Spaces. They are created as you go into fullscreen & destroyed when the window is closed or the app is quit.
'Proper' Spaces aren't destroyed, so can be kept in a set order [assuming disabling of the 'automatically rearrange' pref, as mentioned in other answers.]
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460ded6e7a58c8b180be7d54564e318239a76e6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Stop Mail from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email Is there a way in the Mail.app to prevent it from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email.
So that instead you just a get a normal file attachment ?
A: It seems that the display of images (including PDF documents) can be disabled using this Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 1
The display of images/PDFs can be re-enabled by using this command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 0
| Q: Stop Mail from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email Is there a way in the Mail.app to prevent it from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email.
So that instead you just a get a normal file attachment ?
A: It seems that the display of images (including PDF documents) can be disabled using this Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 1
The display of images/PDFs can be re-enabled by using this command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 0
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e09f6dd65c468dbc49f3b606eb49afc07679bd4c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I type the currency symbol for Costa Rican colón on my Mac? On OS X, how can I type the Costa Rican colón?
The symbol is:
₡
A: Add it to the Press & Hold character picker
You can add it to a letter's Press & Hold character picker.
*
*Navigate to System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/.
*Backup the Keyboard-en.plist file.
*Append the following to the Keyboard-en.plist file (before the closing </dict></plist>).
<key>Roman-Accent-w</key>
<dict>
<key>Direction</key>
<string>right</string>
<key>Keycaps</key>
<string>₡</string>
<key>Strings</key>
<string>₡</string>
</dict>
Feel free to change the Roman-Accent-w to any character you wish, providing it does not already have Press & Hold keys assigned.
If you wish to use a character with an existing Press & Hold set, you can append the ₡ to the relevant <string> lines for that character.
| Q: How can I type the currency symbol for Costa Rican colón on my Mac? On OS X, how can I type the Costa Rican colón?
The symbol is:
₡
A: Add it to the Press & Hold character picker
You can add it to a letter's Press & Hold character picker.
*
*Navigate to System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/.
*Backup the Keyboard-en.plist file.
*Append the following to the Keyboard-en.plist file (before the closing </dict></plist>).
<key>Roman-Accent-w</key>
<dict>
<key>Direction</key>
<string>right</string>
<key>Keycaps</key>
<string>₡</string>
<key>Strings</key>
<string>₡</string>
</dict>
Feel free to change the Roman-Accent-w to any character you wish, providing it does not already have Press & Hold keys assigned.
If you wish to use a character with an existing Press & Hold set, you can append the ₡ to the relevant <string> lines for that character.
A: *
*Go to Edit → Special Characters (or press ⌘ cmd + ⌃ ctrl + space).
*Click on the gear wheel at top left and select Customize List…, then check the box for Currency Symbols.
*Select Currency Symbols from the list and find the one you want. Double-click it to enter it at the current insertion point, or drag-drop it to the desired location.
A: you can use this key combination alt 0162 ¢
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64d9e88f1d9c6f796f5fdd070213f4a9af6f3828 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to view all Software Update history, including ones when not signed in with Apple ID In OS X 10.8, for system updates that were installed without being signed into an Apple ID, how can I view the update history?
I looked in Library/Logs for an update log, and also in the Software Update for an Installed Software pane, but I don't have either.
Where can I see the updates?
A: It can be found in an easy to read format using the system information app:
System Information.app > Software > Installations
System information can be found in /Applications/Utilities/System Information.app or via Spotlight.
| Q: How to view all Software Update history, including ones when not signed in with Apple ID In OS X 10.8, for system updates that were installed without being signed into an Apple ID, how can I view the update history?
I looked in Library/Logs for an update log, and also in the Software Update for an Installed Software pane, but I don't have either.
Where can I see the updates?
A: It can be found in an easy to read format using the system information app:
System Information.app > Software > Installations
System information can be found in /Applications/Utilities/System Information.app or via Spotlight.
A: Try:
/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPInstallHistoryDataType
Also, try refining search terms using extended-grep's (grep -E) fuzzy-like search with the or/any operator.:
system_profiler SPInstallHistoryDataType | egrep -A 5 "(macOS|ConfigData|Configuration Data|Device|Xcode|XProtect|XQuartz|BootCamp|Core Services|Technology Preview)"
And see other SP datatypes, such as SPFrameworks. Learn more with the --help flag.
A: It is not easy to read, but it appears to be up to date on my machine. You can find the Install history in: /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist
Wouldn't it be nice it this were listed in the Update tab of the Mac App Store?
A: /private/var/log/install.log
/Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist
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352f6c662dcdf738f24dc535f1dec57dc0a80d3e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get Safari to stop launching an app automatically? I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 7. Previously, when I clicked on a link from an e-mail telling me about a group discussion in LinkedIn, it opened LinkedIn in Safari and took me right there. Now, Safari launches, but then as it processes, it then launches the LinkedIn app. The problem is, most times the discussion in LinkedIn is really just a link to a webpage. I'd rather just stay in Safari, especially since the LinkedIn app takes forever to load. I'm sure Safari does this with other apps, however, the circumstances haven't come up yet for me. I can't find it in the Safari settings or LinkedIn settings to stop this.
Updated to add: I have found that if I go back to Safari after it tries launching LinkedIn and force a page refresh, Safari will load the mobile (rather than app) version of LinkedIn as desired.
A: I would uninstall the LinkedIn app. That would solve the issue - however you may not want to do that. LinkedIn data mines your phone, contacts and emails, I use linkedIn but do not trust the company.
| Q: How do I get Safari to stop launching an app automatically? I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 7. Previously, when I clicked on a link from an e-mail telling me about a group discussion in LinkedIn, it opened LinkedIn in Safari and took me right there. Now, Safari launches, but then as it processes, it then launches the LinkedIn app. The problem is, most times the discussion in LinkedIn is really just a link to a webpage. I'd rather just stay in Safari, especially since the LinkedIn app takes forever to load. I'm sure Safari does this with other apps, however, the circumstances haven't come up yet for me. I can't find it in the Safari settings or LinkedIn settings to stop this.
Updated to add: I have found that if I go back to Safari after it tries launching LinkedIn and force a page refresh, Safari will load the mobile (rather than app) version of LinkedIn as desired.
A: I would uninstall the LinkedIn app. That would solve the issue - however you may not want to do that. LinkedIn data mines your phone, contacts and emails, I use linkedIn but do not trust the company.
A: I found this post helpful, which is simple and easy to do:
*
*Go to settings.
*Search "guided access" (or go to General > Accessibilty > Guided Access)
*Click on Guided Access
*Turn on Guided Access
Then just go to Safari and triple click home button to enable Guided
Access and surf any website without letting Safari to launch apps.
A: Just use the workaround you found - going back to Safari after it tries launching LinkedIn and force a page refresh so that it loads the mobile (rather than app) version of LinkedIn.
Also contact LinkedIn about the slowness you see in the app.
But if you want the choice of not uninstalling the app and trying other solutions, then there is at least one very tedious (really, really tedious) way to deal with it. I'm listing these here more as an exercise in imagination (and humor) than as practical solutions.
*
*One tedious way is to tap on the link, and the moment you're in Safari hit the stop (x), modify the initial part to m.linkedin.com/ to go to the mobile site. I'm not sure if this works well all the time. You can also do this by copying the link, pasting it in Safari and modifying it.
*Another tedious way is to follow this routine every time you open your mail:
*
*Turn on Restrictions from Settings > General > Restrictions and set a passcode.
*Scroll down, go to Apps and tap Don't Allow Apps. This will hide all apps you've installed, including LinkedIn.
*Switch to or open Mobile Safari, use the links and stay within Mobile Safari.
*When done, exit Safari.
*Go to Settings > General > Restrictions and turn it off using the passcode you set earlier.
*Continue using other apps.
A: Settings > general > handoff & suggested apps > turn off suggested apps
Worked for me
A: The easiest way to stop this automatic app launching in the browser is to hold down link until the action window pops up and then press "Open in New Tab"
A: In iOS 9, I've had success doing a long tap on the link and selecting "Open" from the pop-up menu. That opens a link and keeps it in Safari rather than jumping into an app (recently tested with an IMDB link from Google search results).
A: This also irritates me on iOS 9 which more aggressively tries to 'convert' urls to apps. Which is especially annoying on the iPad pro as the YouTube app cannot run partial screen at all, whereas a YouTube tab in Safari can. So the app is a worse experience.
The workaround of tapping cancel to the 'open this in the YouTube app' prompt then refreshing the tab does work for me, though.
If there is a better way to handle this in iOS 9 or later leave a comment and I can edit this answer to improve it -- or suggest an edit.
A: Their are two ways to do it on the article your reading 1. Push the link to share and it links to safari. 2. At the bottom on the page on the iPhone there’s a square box with an up arrow, that loads the app.
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503caf9be3a1727d4f7d69a7cbdee626d65adb3a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Space Occupied By Other Files And Folders On Hard Drive I have been using VirtualBox to create a virtual machine to run Windows 8 on and after deleting the virtual drives and virtualbox due to having issues with Windows 8, I am missing a lot of memory from my hard drive. I currently also have 72GB of backups on my Hard Drive that I did not create, any ideas on how to get rid of them?
When I view my Hard Drive contents via Disk Inventory X it comes up that I have nearly 99GB of space occupied by other files that not even Disk Inventory X can identify!
Area of other files:
A: Have you attempted to empty the trash after removing the VM? Alternately, I believe that VirtualBox keeps its data at "~/VirtualBox VMs". Removing that folder may help you to reclaim drive space.
Here's more info on TimeMachine's local snapshots. If you'd like to disable that feature, you can use these commands to perform that action:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Here's how you can re-enable local snapshots:
sudo tmutil enablelocal
Here's how to take a snapshot:
tmutil snapshot
| Q: Space Occupied By Other Files And Folders On Hard Drive I have been using VirtualBox to create a virtual machine to run Windows 8 on and after deleting the virtual drives and virtualbox due to having issues with Windows 8, I am missing a lot of memory from my hard drive. I currently also have 72GB of backups on my Hard Drive that I did not create, any ideas on how to get rid of them?
When I view my Hard Drive contents via Disk Inventory X it comes up that I have nearly 99GB of space occupied by other files that not even Disk Inventory X can identify!
Area of other files:
A: Have you attempted to empty the trash after removing the VM? Alternately, I believe that VirtualBox keeps its data at "~/VirtualBox VMs". Removing that folder may help you to reclaim drive space.
Here's more info on TimeMachine's local snapshots. If you'd like to disable that feature, you can use these commands to perform that action:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Here's how you can re-enable local snapshots:
sudo tmutil enablelocal
Here's how to take a snapshot:
tmutil snapshot
A: Maybe a little bit different issue, but I also had a huge chunk of Space Occupied By Other Files And Folders On Hard Drive on my external disk. I found the culprit by using OmniDiskSweeper with root priveleges, as explained here.
That means: sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
In this case it was files in the trash bin, which for some reason were not deleted when emptying it. The following command then solved my problem (source):
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/ExternalHD/.Trashes
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cf5b77520726f9ce83c595a445991854738b1f6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to run the Apple Hardware Test without an optical drive? I have a MacBook Pro 13", Mid-2009 and it came with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. As I understand it, that means I would have to use the DVDs provided by Apple
to boot into Apple Hardware Test. The problem is I don't have my optical drive anymore since I swapped it out for an extra HDD. How can I run the Apple Hardware Test?
A: This answer Diagnosis or Hardware Test on a mid 2009 Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.9.2 discusses a GitHub page https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest which has assembled various versions of the AppleHardwareTest which you can download and install in a specific place on your harddisk. This allows you to run the test without a working CRROM.
It worked for me on a Mid 2009 Macpook Pro.
| Q: Is there a way to run the Apple Hardware Test without an optical drive? I have a MacBook Pro 13", Mid-2009 and it came with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. As I understand it, that means I would have to use the DVDs provided by Apple
to boot into Apple Hardware Test. The problem is I don't have my optical drive anymore since I swapped it out for an extra HDD. How can I run the Apple Hardware Test?
A: This answer Diagnosis or Hardware Test on a mid 2009 Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.9.2 discusses a GitHub page https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest which has assembled various versions of the AppleHardwareTest which you can download and install in a specific place on your harddisk. This allows you to run the test without a working CRROM.
It worked for me on a Mid 2009 Macpook Pro.
A: If you have the recovery partition there is a way to do from the partition : Using Apple Hardware Test (Apple.com)
Just press D at the boot chime.
A: If the model of MacBook Pro that you're using does not support the Internet version of AHT and/or does not have an AHT partition on the drive, another Mac that does have an optical drive can be used to copy the Applications Install Disc onto other media (including SD cards, USB flash drives, and external hard drives).
Using Disk Utility's "Restore" feature, you can restore the Applications Install Disc that came with your Mac onto an SD card, USB flash drive, or external hard drive. After restoring the DVD image to another disk, you can startup from the AHT partition by holding the "D" key at boot (while that disk is connected).
Note: this will require you to erase the external drive that you're restoring the Applications Install Disc (AHT) to.
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e193326bd36f7eb44a5dcae4de5a311a20f4394a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to resize a photo in TextEdit? When I add photos to TextEdit, they sometimes appear too big, and I want to make them smaller.
How can I resize or modify photos in TextEdit?
A: TextEdit has no direct image editing options.
You can, though, once you've added an image into the document, double click it to open it with Preview.
Through Preview you'll be able to perform some basic image editing such as size adjustment (Tools / Adjust Size) or adding figures or text (View / Show Edit Toolbar).
| Q: How to resize a photo in TextEdit? When I add photos to TextEdit, they sometimes appear too big, and I want to make them smaller.
How can I resize or modify photos in TextEdit?
A: TextEdit has no direct image editing options.
You can, though, once you've added an image into the document, double click it to open it with Preview.
Through Preview you'll be able to perform some basic image editing such as size adjustment (Tools / Adjust Size) or adding figures or text (View / Show Edit Toolbar).
A: Like Thecafremo already said:
You can, once you've added an image into the document, double click it to open it with Preview.
Through Preview you'll be able to perform some basic image editing such as size adjustment (Tools / Adjust Size).
My addition:
Adjust "Resolution" to something larger, i.e. 300 dpi and make sure you uncheck "resample image".
Now save it (or quit preview: the image will be saved automatically) and the size will be adjusted right away in Text Edit!
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58a4b2bfe3898b6e006f710d10e6404c65c331a6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: TextMate recover after kernel panic I was working on an unsaved file when the kernel suddenly got a panic attack. I have the 'Save files when focus is lost" checkbox checked, and I frequently switched between textmate and the browser, so plenty of oppurtunities to autosave there. I don't see any autosaved documents in my 'recently opened documents'. Is there any chance I can get my work back?
A: The file was located in:
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Session/
This is for the OpenSource version of TextMate 2.0-alpha-9487, on osx Mountain Lion 1.8.5
| Q: TextMate recover after kernel panic I was working on an unsaved file when the kernel suddenly got a panic attack. I have the 'Save files when focus is lost" checkbox checked, and I frequently switched between textmate and the browser, so plenty of oppurtunities to autosave there. I don't see any autosaved documents in my 'recently opened documents'. Is there any chance I can get my work back?
A: The file was located in:
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Session/
This is for the OpenSource version of TextMate 2.0-alpha-9487, on osx Mountain Lion 1.8.5
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309d8794af1446f074ffc37b0376f349a5ee9fff | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I re-enable the Press and Hold character picker on OS X Lion? I disabled the character picker by reading this other question, but I want to remove that change and restore the picker.
When I type -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true into Terminal, it does not work.
How can I re-enable the Press & Hold character picker after disabling it?
A: The command to enable the Press & Hold character picker is as follows:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
Note the addition of defaults write which was missing from your command.
If it does not work in certain apps after performing this, restart/reload those apps (e.g. killall -HUP Finder). Alternatively, log out of your user or just reboot your computer.
| Q: How do I re-enable the Press and Hold character picker on OS X Lion? I disabled the character picker by reading this other question, but I want to remove that change and restore the picker.
When I type -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true into Terminal, it does not work.
How can I re-enable the Press & Hold character picker after disabling it?
A: The command to enable the Press & Hold character picker is as follows:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
Note the addition of defaults write which was missing from your command.
If it does not work in certain apps after performing this, restart/reload those apps (e.g. killall -HUP Finder). Alternatively, log out of your user or just reboot your computer.
A: As grgarside mentioned
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
will enable Press & Hold. But just in case anyone comes across this, this additional command will enable the Press & Hold functionality to work in Terminal as well which it does not do by default.
defaults write com.apple.terminal ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
A: A few years ago the techniques described above stopped working for me. I tried many permutations and combinations but no luck. I then noticed the problem seemed to be following me around, for example it was on my new Mac laptop. Yesterday I finally figured out what was wrong: I had selected "Irish - Extended" keyboard—when I switched to just "Irish" the press-and-hold character picker started working again. I don't know why it didn't work under "Irish - Extended", but I'm glad to have it back.
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671ad067194256c5bdb46fd913a5b97c2bbc5201 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you set a specific WiFi channel with an iOS/iPhone personal hotspot? Anytime when I using my iPhone as personal WiFi HotSpot (sharing 3G internet via WiFi) the iPhone selects channel #1 for this.
Is possible to use another channel number because the channel 1 is already used by another cable modem / WiFi router and turning on (and using) the hotspot on the iPhone causes noticeable degradation of the speed on the cable-WiFi router.
So the question: Is possible somewhat enforce another WiFi channel number for the hotspot on the iPhone? (e.g. 11 or soo)
A: No - the OS picks channels algorithmically so you get what iOS chooses each time you enable personal hot spot. I've seen personal hotspot pick channels 1, 6 and 11 on iOS 7 when in moderately busy wireless environments like this one with 26 advertising base stations (and a few hidden ones as well).
| Q: Can you set a specific WiFi channel with an iOS/iPhone personal hotspot? Anytime when I using my iPhone as personal WiFi HotSpot (sharing 3G internet via WiFi) the iPhone selects channel #1 for this.
Is possible to use another channel number because the channel 1 is already used by another cable modem / WiFi router and turning on (and using) the hotspot on the iPhone causes noticeable degradation of the speed on the cable-WiFi router.
So the question: Is possible somewhat enforce another WiFi channel number for the hotspot on the iPhone? (e.g. 11 or soo)
A: No - the OS picks channels algorithmically so you get what iOS chooses each time you enable personal hot spot. I've seen personal hotspot pick channels 1, 6 and 11 on iOS 7 when in moderately busy wireless environments like this one with 26 advertising base stations (and a few hidden ones as well).
A: Whilst you can't enforce a specific channel on iOS, it does attempt to select the best channel for the situation. I have found that a combination of standing directly next to the router and enabling/disabling Personal Hotspot until you get a channel you want seems to work well enough.
Alternatively, if you have control of the router, you could simply change the channel of the router to be 'out of the way'.
As well as this, if you have dynamic channel switching enabled on the router, turning on Personal Hotspot then standing next to the router for a bit should make the router change channel for you.
A: Hmmm,
Yes i have that channel problem too. i reserched and found that inssider program.
Serving to find out which channel your phone using or other wifi spots. Bad news is u cant edit phones hotspot channel unless its jailbroken.(i didnt try that)
Using my phone with stock OS. İf you have ip4 and dont have ios7 u can try JB.
İF not meaning u have 4 and ios 7 never ever try to JB.
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8f58b5a9f85f9a1540bf66af277d7e72baa1c6b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to find driver for this platform \"ACPI\" MACOSX version: not yet set After applying the latest OSX update, I'm unsure which version it was anymore, but I applied it yesterday, on my MacBook Air I get this screen below and am unable to continue in any way. What now?
A: Try starting up from the recovery partition (by holding command-R), in single user mode (by holding command-S), in safe mode (by holding shift), or in Internet recovery mode (by holding option-command-R).
If you already have backups and you can start up from the recovery partition or in Internet recovery mode, try choosing the Reinstall OS X option. It downloads an OS X installer and installs it over the current installation, keeping user files and settings in place.
If you can start up from the recovery partition but reinstalling OS X does not work, try to erase and reinstall OS X.
If you don't have backups but you can start up from the recovery partition, you can save a disk image to an external drive with Disk Utility.
| Q: Unable to find driver for this platform \"ACPI\" MACOSX version: not yet set After applying the latest OSX update, I'm unsure which version it was anymore, but I applied it yesterday, on my MacBook Air I get this screen below and am unable to continue in any way. What now?
A: Try starting up from the recovery partition (by holding command-R), in single user mode (by holding command-S), in safe mode (by holding shift), or in Internet recovery mode (by holding option-command-R).
If you already have backups and you can start up from the recovery partition or in Internet recovery mode, try choosing the Reinstall OS X option. It downloads an OS X installer and installs it over the current installation, keeping user files and settings in place.
If you can start up from the recovery partition but reinstalling OS X does not work, try to erase and reinstall OS X.
If you don't have backups but you can start up from the recovery partition, you can save a disk image to an external drive with Disk Utility.
A: This happened to me today too, on a Mac Mini Late 2013.
I have many partitions on the only internal hard drive, with a multiboot configuration with macOS 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13.
I suspect this problem has been caused by the update of macOS 10.13.4 to 10.13.6
However, this is how I fixed it:
*
*Boot into Recovery Mode:
*
*Start the Mac, and as soon as you hear the boot sound, press and hold pressed Option, until you see the boot menu appearing
*Select the disk named Recovery-10.9.5 (or whatever macOS version you have)
*Update the Kernel Extension cache:
*
*Start the Terminal (you can find it in the Utilities menu)
*Identify the correct volume by typing
mount
on the command-line
*Find the right volume in the list, for me it was:
/dev/disk0s2 on /Volumes/Mavericks (hfs, local, journaled)
*Change directory to the volume root by typing
cd /Volumes/Mavericks
*Rebuild the kext cache by typing
touch System/Library/Extensions
kextcache -f -update-volume ./
*Reboot your Mac and voilà! Problem fixed!
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7c17dd1742252af637cd7e912982fa78e6879dc2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: A turning gear appears when I run this workflow, why? I am running the following script (called Restart AppleTV) using automator :
on run {input, parameters}
do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod" with administrator privileges
return input
end run
However, I get the following in the statusbar :
The terminal code DOES run, but the gear never disappears unless I manually click the x button .. How can I get rid of this automatically or prevent it from appearing in the first place ?
--Note : This only happens when I run it by double clicking the exported .app file, but not when I run the code through automator.
A: Try:
on run {input, parameters}
set myPassword to "My Password"
ignoring application responses
do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod" password myPassword with administrator privileges
end ignoring
end run
OR
on run {input, parameters}
set myPassword to "My Password"
ignoring application responses
do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod &>/dev/null &" password myPassword with administrator privileges
end ignoring
end run
| Q: A turning gear appears when I run this workflow, why? I am running the following script (called Restart AppleTV) using automator :
on run {input, parameters}
do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod" with administrator privileges
return input
end run
However, I get the following in the statusbar :
The terminal code DOES run, but the gear never disappears unless I manually click the x button .. How can I get rid of this automatically or prevent it from appearing in the first place ?
--Note : This only happens when I run it by double clicking the exported .app file, but not when I run the code through automator.
A: Try:
on run {input, parameters}
set myPassword to "My Password"
ignoring application responses
do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod" password myPassword with administrator privileges
end ignoring
end run
OR
on run {input, parameters}
set myPassword to "My Password"
ignoring application responses
do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod &>/dev/null &" password myPassword with administrator privileges
end ignoring
end run
A: adayzdone's suggestion to route output to dev/null also fixed the spinning gear that was appearing when I used Automator to run Firefox profiles.
So, something like this in a shell script:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P 'Web Dev' -no-remote &>/dev/null &
Thanks!
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e3ec8ca57a4604697418b725b3bd36c472f97c42 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I delete photos imported to an iPhone from a PC? How do I delete photo albums that I accidentally imported to my iPhone 4S from my PC? There is no delete available for either album or individual pictures.
A: *
*Open iTunes and select your device by clicking the device button in the top-right.
If no device button is shown, make sure your device is connected (whether by USB or iTunes Wi-Fi Sync).
*Select the Photos tab.
There should be a list of sources that you can sync from.
*Uncheck the albums that you don't want syncing to your device.
Alternatively, uncheck the Sync Photos to remove all imported photos from your device.
*Click Apply (or Sync) to sync the changes to your device.
| Q: How can I delete photos imported to an iPhone from a PC? How do I delete photo albums that I accidentally imported to my iPhone 4S from my PC? There is no delete available for either album or individual pictures.
A: *
*Open iTunes and select your device by clicking the device button in the top-right.
If no device button is shown, make sure your device is connected (whether by USB or iTunes Wi-Fi Sync).
*Select the Photos tab.
There should be a list of sources that you can sync from.
*Uncheck the albums that you don't want syncing to your device.
Alternatively, uncheck the Sync Photos to remove all imported photos from your device.
*Click Apply (or Sync) to sync the changes to your device.
A: If you cannot see a "delete" button next to an album in your iPhone this is because this album was imported from a different iPhoto library than the one on your current computer.
To delete such albums:
*
*Connect the iPhone via USB to your Mac/Pc and start iTunes.
*Inside iTunes go to your iPhone, and Photos tab, on the top nav.
*Choose "Sync Photos from iPhoto".
This will prompt a warning telling you that pots already synched from different iPhoto libraries will be deleted. This is exactly what you want, so click OK.
*
*Let it start synching, and then cancel the synch. At this point you will be asked whether you want the photos that synched so far left in the phone or removed.
*Chose remove.
You now have wiped out all albums that came from a different computer.
I have managed to delete such albums on my iPhone so this is definitely working.
A: Simply use Syncios, free and VERY easy! Link
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17eba058f848c0a13479a442ea681f96f6423270 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Find My iPad setting prevents restore I'm trying to restore my iPad because the screen passcode was changed and cannot be remembered correctly. When attempting to restore from an iTunes backup, an error message says to first turn off Find My iPad in iCloud settings. I cannot access any setting in the iPad because of the screen lock passcode. Is there another way to do a reset or full factory reset while screen-locked?
A: Try setting the iPad in recovery mode:
*
*connect the iPad to your computer
*turn it completely off
*press the power button (top button) for three (3) seconds
*without letting go of the power button, press the Home button
*keep them pressed for ten (10) seconds
*after the ten seconds, let go of the power button without letting go of the Home button
*keep pressing the Home button until a message pops in iTunes saying
iTunes has detected a device in recovery mode, you must restore it before you can use it.
*restore the iPad
Try doing this a few times if you dont succeed the first time.
| Q: Find My iPad setting prevents restore I'm trying to restore my iPad because the screen passcode was changed and cannot be remembered correctly. When attempting to restore from an iTunes backup, an error message says to first turn off Find My iPad in iCloud settings. I cannot access any setting in the iPad because of the screen lock passcode. Is there another way to do a reset or full factory reset while screen-locked?
A: Try setting the iPad in recovery mode:
*
*connect the iPad to your computer
*turn it completely off
*press the power button (top button) for three (3) seconds
*without letting go of the power button, press the Home button
*keep them pressed for ten (10) seconds
*after the ten seconds, let go of the power button without letting go of the Home button
*keep pressing the Home button until a message pops in iTunes saying
iTunes has detected a device in recovery mode, you must restore it before you can use it.
*restore the iPad
Try doing this a few times if you dont succeed the first time.
A: You can turn off Find my iPhone by logging in to icloud.com from your computer if your iPad is offline (not connected to the Internet).
If it's online, first turn off the iPad completely (press and hold the power button until the slide to power off prompt appears, then tap and slide on the prompt to power it off).
To turn off Find my iPhone on your iPad, follow these steps on the Apple support page iCloud: Remove your device:
Remove your device from Find My iPhone
*
*Sign in to icloud.com/#find with your Apple ID (the one you use with iCloud).
If you’re already using an iCloud web app, click the app’s name to switch apps.
*Click All Devices, select the offline device, then click Delete .
The Delete icon appears only after Find My iPhone has tried and failed to connect to your device (this may take a few minutes).
Note: You can also click “Remove from Find My iPhone” in the device’s Info window.
*Click Remove.
A: I had the same problem; none of the suggested fixes worked.
I used voice commands to disable "voice over". This allowed the unit to unlock.
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df4161b89d25038f061f7c3c08f567600c9394cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I type the euro value sign € on a Mac? I've tried bashing on my keyboard with the ⌥ alt/option key pressed with the ⇧ shift key pressed but I do not seem to be able to find how I can get the euro value sign.
⇧ shift+4 gives the dollar sign: $
What keystrokes do I need to use to get the euro € sign?
A: Just type alt and 2...... €
just those two keys
[Edit] Tested with British & Irish, [both use alt/2] US, Canadian & British-PC [use alt/shift/2] The alternate in each case gives ™
Very similar to the British/US 'pound' symbol, swapped between shift/3 or alt/3 depending on keyboard.
| Q: How do I type the euro value sign € on a Mac? I've tried bashing on my keyboard with the ⌥ alt/option key pressed with the ⇧ shift key pressed but I do not seem to be able to find how I can get the euro value sign.
⇧ shift+4 gives the dollar sign: $
What keystrokes do I need to use to get the euro € sign?
A: Just type alt and 2...... €
just those two keys
[Edit] Tested with British & Irish, [both use alt/2] US, Canadian & British-PC [use alt/shift/2] The alternate in each case gives ™
Very similar to the British/US 'pound' symbol, swapped between shift/3 or alt/3 depending on keyboard.
A: The Euro Currency symbol is found at ⌥⇧2 on the US English keyboard.
In general, if you want to discover what symbols can be found on your keyboard when you press the modifier keys, you can use the Keyboard Viewer window.
To enable the Keyboard Viewer menu item
*
*Make sure System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard » Show Keyboard and Character Viewers in menu bar is checked.
*Make sure System Preferences » Language & Text » Input Sources » Show Input menu in menu bar is also checked.
Once you have the keyboard viewer enabled, go to the keyboard menu in your menu bar (it will look like either a picture of a keyboard or a flag representing the keyboard layout you have selected) and chose Keyboard Viewer. A window will appear with a picture of your keyboard. If you hold down the option, shift, or option and shift keys, it will show you what the keys on your keyboard do with those modifier keys pressed.
A: An option to use once you know how to get the € symbol is to create a text shortcut for the symbol on your Mac for faster typing. You can do this using text replacement.
To get started, follow these steps (also see image below for reference):
*
*Launch System Preferences and click on Keyboard (Language & Text on previous versions of OS X).
*Click on the Text tab.
*The Replace and With columns appear. Click on the + button at bottom-left to add a new text shortcut, which opens a text field for you to type your trigger text, for example euro.
*Press ⇥ tab key or mouse over to the adjacent text field (under the With column) and enter the actual € symbol. This becomes the resulting replacement text.
And you’re done. The next time you enter “euro” it will be replaced automatically with “€”. But you can always press the Esc keyboard button (to cancel the text replacement) if you actually want to type out the word “euro”.
This also works for iOS devices under Settings → General → Keyboard → Shortcuts.
Please note that this does not work automatically in every app. I’ve confirmed it works on iMessage, Notes, Reminders, Mail.
For iWork (e.g., Pages, Keynotes, Numbers) you’ll have to add the shortcuts as they use their own text replacement functionality. For example in Pages, click on the Pages menu item, then click on Auto-Correction tab, and add any text shortcuts in the same way as above. Here you can even choose to toggle (on or off) which text shortcuts you want to be active.
A: On the Euro symbol's own official home page, there's a table of keyboard shortcuts for many national keyboards: http://www.eurosymbol.eu/mac-keyboard Copied and amended here:
keyboard layout keystroke combinations
Austrian Option-Shift-D
Belgian Option-$
British Option-2
Catalan Option-U
Dutch Option-2
Finnish Shift-4
French Option-$
French (num) Option -Shift-R
German Option-E
Italian Option-I
Italian - Pro Option-E
Polish Option-3
Portuguese Option-3
Slovakian Option-R
Spanish Option-U
Spanish - ISO Option-E
Swedish Shift-4
Swiss French Option-E
Swiss German Option-E
U.S. Option-Shift-2
A: Character Viewer
The Character Viewer tool built into macOS offers the symbol you want, depending on what fonts you have installed.
To access, choose the Show Emoji & Symbols menu item in the icon menubar. May be named Character Viewer in older versions of macOS. Find the menu item next to Keyboard Viewer menu item.
If you do not see this menu amongst your icon menus, go to System Preferences > Keyboard. Check the Show Input menu in menu bar.
On the left, click the Currency Symbols grouping.
Note the option to Add to Favorites on the right side. Convenient for frequent use.
A: For Latvian keyboard layout on my mac the combination is Shift+Opt+Q.
A: If you are using Polish OS X keyboard: Option ⌥ + 3
A: On an American English keyboard you can type the European Currency symbol (€) with Option + Shift + 2.
NOTE: It is also worth to note that specifically in Terminal, option 'Use Option as Meta Key' is turned on by default and this blocks this key combination. Please go to Terminal 'preferences', section 'Profiles' and under tab 'Keyboard' untick 'Use Option as Meta Key' checkbox to have it working.
A: If you are using Czech Mac OSX keyboard, you will find € sign under combination of ⌥ + r.
A: just and addition here if you have you option key used to swap spaces this will override the keyboard shortcuts. Uncheck these options to key your true keyboard shortcuts back.
A: On a Greek keyboard use alt+e
A: On my Greek one is alt + shift + 2
A: UnicodeChecker app
The free-of-cost UnicodeChecker app for macOS lets you find and copy/paste any of the over 100,000 characters defined in Unicode. This includes EURO SIGN with code point number 8,364.
This app also shows a list of fonts that include a glyph for this character.
Notice the menu item Favorites > Add Current Codepoint to Favorites…. If frequently used, you may find it convenient to add an item to the Favorites menu for this particular character.
A: On a British Mac keyboard, type [fn]-[alt]-2 to get €
A: Here's an easy way:
Just highlight and copy this: €
And then paste it into your email or whatever.
A: 2016 new MacBook Air. Euro sign is completed by pressing Alt key & 2.
A: It's ⌥ alt+⇧+5 on my Croatian keyboard
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bb28f88ae22adc0259c1980b0f87dd4993762fdf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop loading images in Junk mail folder in Mail.app 6.6 with Gmail I have setup Mail.app to use my Gmail account. Gmail has a spam filter that works excellent for me. But I sometimes check the Junk mailbox in Mail to see if something got there by accident.
When I go through the messages the images in those messages get loaded anyway as the message is placed by Gmail in the Spam folder (which is linked to the Junk mailbox) but Mail.app does not mark it as Junk and therefore loads the images.
If I manually mark the message as Junk, Mail stops loading the images.
How do I make Mail to mark the messages in Gmail's Spam folder to be marked as Junk, forcing it to not load the images?
A: You have to "map" the Gmail folders to match what happens in Mail.app.
*
*Open Preferences in Mail.app
*Go to Accounts and select your Gmail account
*Click the "Advanced" tab
*Enter [Gmail] (yes, with the brackets) into the 'IMAP Path Prefix' field
*Close the window and Save changes to the Account.
| Q: How do I stop loading images in Junk mail folder in Mail.app 6.6 with Gmail I have setup Mail.app to use my Gmail account. Gmail has a spam filter that works excellent for me. But I sometimes check the Junk mailbox in Mail to see if something got there by accident.
When I go through the messages the images in those messages get loaded anyway as the message is placed by Gmail in the Spam folder (which is linked to the Junk mailbox) but Mail.app does not mark it as Junk and therefore loads the images.
If I manually mark the message as Junk, Mail stops loading the images.
How do I make Mail to mark the messages in Gmail's Spam folder to be marked as Junk, forcing it to not load the images?
A: You have to "map" the Gmail folders to match what happens in Mail.app.
*
*Open Preferences in Mail.app
*Go to Accounts and select your Gmail account
*Click the "Advanced" tab
*Enter [Gmail] (yes, with the brackets) into the 'IMAP Path Prefix' field
*Close the window and Save changes to the Account.
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dbfd7de275b04fd6f2332a651f7159a7d25ddb39 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I select paragraphs easier in iOS 7? Selecting text has become very clunky in iOS 7, whereas it was very smooth in previous operating systems. In particular, in iOS 6, three taps of some text would select the whole paragraph. This appears to have stopped working in iOS 7.
Is there a way to select a whole paragraph by tapping the screen in iOS 7?
A: The short answer is no, you can't triple tap to select a paragraph. Here's what I do, however, to select larger chunks of text.
Double-tap and hold your finger puts iOS 7 into "drag to select" mode.
*
*Double-tap and hold your finger on the first word of the paragraph
*Drag down to select
| Q: How can I select paragraphs easier in iOS 7? Selecting text has become very clunky in iOS 7, whereas it was very smooth in previous operating systems. In particular, in iOS 6, three taps of some text would select the whole paragraph. This appears to have stopped working in iOS 7.
Is there a way to select a whole paragraph by tapping the screen in iOS 7?
A: The short answer is no, you can't triple tap to select a paragraph. Here's what I do, however, to select larger chunks of text.
Double-tap and hold your finger puts iOS 7 into "drag to select" mode.
*
*Double-tap and hold your finger on the first word of the paragraph
*Drag down to select
A: A two-finger single tap will select a stand alone sentence or a complete paragraph when in edit mode.
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02971894fb476a452af1af0874f2d1159e0f74e4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How not to download all emails when setting up a new Mail account? When I add a new Email account, Mail application automatically downloads All messages, but I do not need all the messages to be available on my Mac.
Is there a way to tell Mail app to only down messages of the last 3/6 months?
A: Are you using POP or IMAP? If you use IMAP, you can say in the Mail-settings to omit the attachments. This will only download the email headers and bodies, without heavily attachments. Maybe this can fit your needs?
| Q: How not to download all emails when setting up a new Mail account? When I add a new Email account, Mail application automatically downloads All messages, but I do not need all the messages to be available on my Mac.
Is there a way to tell Mail app to only down messages of the last 3/6 months?
A: Are you using POP or IMAP? If you use IMAP, you can say in the Mail-settings to omit the attachments. This will only download the email headers and bodies, without heavily attachments. Maybe this can fit your needs?
A: No - Apple desktop Mail.app doesn't have a setting to only download a window similar to how iOS does on Exchange.
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fbfe903ac045b58e99f6881553d23dd6be84958c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does FileVault encryption slow read/write access on an SSD? Never fancied enabling FileVault on previous Macs but now I'm running OS X on an SSD. Is there a noticeable decrease in speed?
A: Every time you make the computer do something extra, in this case encrypting/decrypting all file access, it will take longer and the machine will slow down a bit.
FileVault 1 did slow things down noticeably, but with FileVault version 2 (Introduced in OS X 10.7 (Lion)) running on an SSD there is no noticeable decrease in reading or writing files. I have this enabled on a 15" MacBook Pro Retina and a 2012 11" MacBook Air. The only time it is noticeable is when you reboot, as it requires a password before starting the boot process.
You may notice that the system is slow when you first enable FileVault 2, since it has to encrypt the whole drive. Once that is done you will probably forget that it is on.
If you decide that you don't agree with me, turning FileVault off is easy enough. You will, once again, have the slow initial period as the whole drive is decrypted.
| Q: Does FileVault encryption slow read/write access on an SSD? Never fancied enabling FileVault on previous Macs but now I'm running OS X on an SSD. Is there a noticeable decrease in speed?
A: Every time you make the computer do something extra, in this case encrypting/decrypting all file access, it will take longer and the machine will slow down a bit.
FileVault 1 did slow things down noticeably, but with FileVault version 2 (Introduced in OS X 10.7 (Lion)) running on an SSD there is no noticeable decrease in reading or writing files. I have this enabled on a 15" MacBook Pro Retina and a 2012 11" MacBook Air. The only time it is noticeable is when you reboot, as it requires a password before starting the boot process.
You may notice that the system is slow when you first enable FileVault 2, since it has to encrypt the whole drive. Once that is done you will probably forget that it is on.
If you decide that you don't agree with me, turning FileVault off is easy enough. You will, once again, have the slow initial period as the whole drive is decrypted.
A: I just finished turning off Filevault 2. For all who happen upon this thread looking for recent information, here it is.
Corsair FORCE GT 480GB 1.5yrs old. Writes on file vault 2 were under 250mb/s. Noticed the performance degradation.
Secure erased free space
repaired disk
disabled file vault 2
New write speeds are 438mb/s almost matching the read speeds at 4510 mb/s.
FileVault 2 will show you extreme performance degradation and should be avoided for all who spent the money upgrading to an SSD.
A: My own experience with File Vault 2 on Samsung 840 EVO on an early 2011 MacBook Pro running Mavericks is that the slowdown is not noticeable.
Details:
I took one speed reading before turning File Vault 2 with
time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=tstfile count=1024
That showed about 490 mb/s. After File Vault 2 was on and encryption was completed, another reading showed about 315 mb/s. This looked bad, so I did a restart.
Then I took three more readings. They showed 492, 507 and 503 mb/s. I am not claiming that File Vault 2 improved speed. I should have taken multiple readings before turning on encryption, to get an idea of the expected range.
With the data that I do have, I'd say that whatever the penalty is, it's not noticeable.
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26bff7d7f5c81666b91091d6ff401a70bdbbf80d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal commands for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop" in Mountain Lion The title pretty much says it all. I need to know the terminal commands for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop" in Mountain Lion so I can make aliases on the dock with Automator. I don't like hot corners, mostly because there are only four corners on the screen and more OS functionality than that. Keyboard shortcuts are all well and good, I just want options.
A: You can execute "Mission Control" with specific arguments to trigger the behavior that you desire:
Mission Control:
/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control
Show Desktop:
/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control 1
Application Windows:
/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control 2
Alternately, you could use osascript to execute the key code that you have setup for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop". In the example below, I have "Desktop" mapped to the F8 key, and "Application Windows" setup to use F9. The key codes for these F keys can be found in various places.
osascript -e "tell applications \"System Events\"" -e "key code 100" -e "end tell"
osascript -e "tell applications \"System Events\"" -e "key code 101" -e "end tell"
| Q: Terminal commands for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop" in Mountain Lion The title pretty much says it all. I need to know the terminal commands for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop" in Mountain Lion so I can make aliases on the dock with Automator. I don't like hot corners, mostly because there are only four corners on the screen and more OS functionality than that. Keyboard shortcuts are all well and good, I just want options.
A: You can execute "Mission Control" with specific arguments to trigger the behavior that you desire:
Mission Control:
/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control
Show Desktop:
/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control 1
Application Windows:
/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control 2
Alternately, you could use osascript to execute the key code that you have setup for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop". In the example below, I have "Desktop" mapped to the F8 key, and "Application Windows" setup to use F9. The key codes for these F keys can be found in various places.
osascript -e "tell applications \"System Events\"" -e "key code 100" -e "end tell"
osascript -e "tell applications \"System Events\"" -e "key code 101" -e "end tell"
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6ed049bab6e2bb6cd901dc7dd0fd30d9bcc9d9c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't change folder permissions I'm running Mountain Lion and I have a folder in ~/sites that has a red icon on the folder and I can't open it because 'access is denied'.
What I've tried:
*
*Get Info > unlock with admin password, change 'everyone' privilege to 'read write' but won't change so tried 'read only' but still 'access denied'
*Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites/lockedfolder
*Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites
*Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites/lockedfolder
*Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites
*Disk utility > repair permissions and steps 1-5 again but no luck
All users now show 'read write' access in get info window but still and no access...
What can I try next?
A: In addition to the Unix file permissions, there are old HFS file bits. To unlock your folder try:
Terminal > chflags nouchg ~/sites/lockedfolder
Alternatively, you could do a Get Info in the Finder, and uncheck the "Locked" checkbox from that window.
| Q: Can't change folder permissions I'm running Mountain Lion and I have a folder in ~/sites that has a red icon on the folder and I can't open it because 'access is denied'.
What I've tried:
*
*Get Info > unlock with admin password, change 'everyone' privilege to 'read write' but won't change so tried 'read only' but still 'access denied'
*Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites/lockedfolder
*Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites
*Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites/lockedfolder
*Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites
*Disk utility > repair permissions and steps 1-5 again but no luck
All users now show 'read write' access in get info window but still and no access...
What can I try next?
A: In addition to the Unix file permissions, there are old HFS file bits. To unlock your folder try:
Terminal > chflags nouchg ~/sites/lockedfolder
Alternatively, you could do a Get Info in the Finder, and uncheck the "Locked" checkbox from that window.
A: This is probably due to an issue with Finder. Relaunch finder with the following command in terminal:
killall -HUP Finder
A: Download BatChmod, free and very, very handy.
When one is done working, correct permissions are easily restored.
A: Giving myself ownership of the directory solved the problem for me:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) .
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e4e1ce9715ffc2d391fcca00a991c711d9c821d7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac terminal command: how to 'ls' for some specific files? My question is about the ls command. If I have too many files in a folder, I might need either:
*
*ls files with a given type only or;
*ls files within a range, i.e., files with names a* to b*.
A: ls *.jpg # files whose name ends with .jpg
ls [ab]* # files whose name starts with a or b
ls [a-c]* # files whose name starts with characters sorted between a and c in the current locale
ls|head -n100 # first 100 files
f=(*);printf %s\\n "${f[@]:0:100}" # first 100 files
ls|sed -n 101,200p # files 101 to 200
find . -name \*aa\* # files whose name contains aa in the directory tree
find . ! -type d # all files except directories in the directory tree
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 # regular files in the current directory
shopt -s extglob;printf %s\\n !(*aa*) # files whose name does not contain aa
shopt -s extglob;printf %s\\n @(aa|bb)* # files whose name starts with aa or bb
| Q: Mac terminal command: how to 'ls' for some specific files? My question is about the ls command. If I have too many files in a folder, I might need either:
*
*ls files with a given type only or;
*ls files within a range, i.e., files with names a* to b*.
A: ls *.jpg # files whose name ends with .jpg
ls [ab]* # files whose name starts with a or b
ls [a-c]* # files whose name starts with characters sorted between a and c in the current locale
ls|head -n100 # first 100 files
f=(*);printf %s\\n "${f[@]:0:100}" # first 100 files
ls|sed -n 101,200p # files 101 to 200
find . -name \*aa\* # files whose name contains aa in the directory tree
find . ! -type d # all files except directories in the directory tree
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 # regular files in the current directory
shopt -s extglob;printf %s\\n !(*aa*) # files whose name does not contain aa
shopt -s extglob;printf %s\\n @(aa|bb)* # files whose name starts with aa or bb
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f68f1347d6ce55abf73239da2c5c5d185490db6c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X change Admin user to Standard user with command line I would love to send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user. The only thing I found close is
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership USERNAME
which does remove the user from the list of admins, but they are still listed as an admin in the user preference panel, and can still use their account to authenticate for admin privileges.
A: Just fought this battle, you can drop the dscl line and use the following;
Type the command
:
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d UserName -t user admin
Where UserName is their actual AD username.
Berry
| Q: OS X change Admin user to Standard user with command line I would love to send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user. The only thing I found close is
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership USERNAME
which does remove the user from the list of admins, but they are still listed as an admin in the user preference panel, and can still use their account to authenticate for admin privileges.
A: Just fought this battle, you can drop the dscl line and use the following;
Type the command
:
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d UserName -t user admin
Where UserName is their actual AD username.
Berry
A: I have done the below command, it is working fine
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d UserName -t user admin
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71c9bf704bc631837f14dbcaa6f0ea3e8403ff87 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Assign Application Windows to Different Spaces/Desktops I have two Spaces configured and I keep some Safari windows in one space and some in another. However, Mission Control only allows you to assign an application to a Space, but not different windows within an Application.
As a workaround I created an AppleScript shortcut that executes a new Safari instance:
open -n /Applications/Safari.app
This successfully creates multiple Safari instances, but the instances are still somehow intertwined in Mission Control. When I select an instance from the Dock and choose Options > Assign To > This Desktop or None, that setting in the other instance is updated to be the same.
Is there any way to launch multiple instances of an Application that are each assignable to different Spaces? (Running Mountain Lion 10.8.5.)
A: You might make a copy of Safari's application bundle and change the bundle identifier:
cp -R /Applications/Safari.app /Applications/Safari2.app
defaults write /Applications/Safari2.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleIdentifier my.safari2
cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist ~/Library/Preferences/my.safari2.plist
Assignments to spaces are per bundle identifier:
$ defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist app-bindings
{
"my.safari2" = "FC886111-EE78-4844-A5E5-A11BECA713CF";
}
In this case, you might also use Webkit.app or create a site-specific browser with Fluid.
| Q: Assign Application Windows to Different Spaces/Desktops I have two Spaces configured and I keep some Safari windows in one space and some in another. However, Mission Control only allows you to assign an application to a Space, but not different windows within an Application.
As a workaround I created an AppleScript shortcut that executes a new Safari instance:
open -n /Applications/Safari.app
This successfully creates multiple Safari instances, but the instances are still somehow intertwined in Mission Control. When I select an instance from the Dock and choose Options > Assign To > This Desktop or None, that setting in the other instance is updated to be the same.
Is there any way to launch multiple instances of an Application that are each assignable to different Spaces? (Running Mountain Lion 10.8.5.)
A: You might make a copy of Safari's application bundle and change the bundle identifier:
cp -R /Applications/Safari.app /Applications/Safari2.app
defaults write /Applications/Safari2.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleIdentifier my.safari2
cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist ~/Library/Preferences/my.safari2.plist
Assignments to spaces are per bundle identifier:
$ defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist app-bindings
{
"my.safari2" = "FC886111-EE78-4844-A5E5-A11BECA713CF";
}
In this case, you might also use Webkit.app or create a site-specific browser with Fluid.
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5682f1f76ab5c5114cd1a85ec2a2b8a8c5e1e627 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I tell iOS 7 which address is my “home” address? In iOS 7, if you bring up the Notification Center in some circumstances it will tell you, “Right now, it would take you 18 minutes to drive home.” I recently moved and the address that iOS 7 has set as “home” is now incorrect, but I still want to include the old address in my contact card. How do I inform Siri (and the rest of the system) that my “home” address has changed?
A: This should do the trick:
*
*Edit your contact card on your phone (in the Contacts application);
*Change the label of your old address to anything you want;
*Set the label of your new address to "home"
| Q: How do I tell iOS 7 which address is my “home” address? In iOS 7, if you bring up the Notification Center in some circumstances it will tell you, “Right now, it would take you 18 minutes to drive home.” I recently moved and the address that iOS 7 has set as “home” is now incorrect, but I still want to include the old address in my contact card. How do I inform Siri (and the rest of the system) that my “home” address has changed?
A: This should do the trick:
*
*Edit your contact card on your phone (in the Contacts application);
*Change the label of your old address to anything you want;
*Set the label of your new address to "home"
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ad0a631130a368a34923ab447c5c9896c6aba4a8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to prevent Option+Command+Space from opening "Searching This Mac"? The following keyboard shortcut will always bring up a window that says Searching "This Mac":
Option+Command+Space
I would like to use this shortcut for another purpose. Is there any way to disable this shortcut?
A: Yes. Go to System Preferences → Spotlight and uncheck the box for the Spotlight window keyboard shortcut. Alternatively, replace the shortcut with a different shortcut.
You can also enable/disable/modify the shortcut through System Preferences → Keyboard → Spotlight → Show Spotlight Window:
| Q: How to prevent Option+Command+Space from opening "Searching This Mac"? The following keyboard shortcut will always bring up a window that says Searching "This Mac":
Option+Command+Space
I would like to use this shortcut for another purpose. Is there any way to disable this shortcut?
A: Yes. Go to System Preferences → Spotlight and uncheck the box for the Spotlight window keyboard shortcut. Alternatively, replace the shortcut with a different shortcut.
You can also enable/disable/modify the shortcut through System Preferences → Keyboard → Spotlight → Show Spotlight Window:
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35b635d57bb16cfdb9f43226988aa0b99077511b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS 7 Mail App WIth Gmail: Hide "Promotions"? Gmail on the web has "Social" and "Promotions" tabs that filter certain types of messages. Most of the time, I plan to ignore emails that end up in either of those folders.
On iOS 7 in the Mail app, is it possible to some how sort out "Promotions" and "Social" emails from the main lot, similar to how Gmail does on the web? I don't like these emails mixed in with my regular inbox (i.e., the important emails).
I am well aware of a couple alternative options (marking "Promotions" and "Social" as spam or unsubscribing from them), but I'm really just looking for a way to sort them out without doing either of those things.
A: Try the latest version of Gmail.app for iOS. It now supports promotions/social/forums messages segregated from your "primary" inbox.
| Q: iOS 7 Mail App WIth Gmail: Hide "Promotions"? Gmail on the web has "Social" and "Promotions" tabs that filter certain types of messages. Most of the time, I plan to ignore emails that end up in either of those folders.
On iOS 7 in the Mail app, is it possible to some how sort out "Promotions" and "Social" emails from the main lot, similar to how Gmail does on the web? I don't like these emails mixed in with my regular inbox (i.e., the important emails).
I am well aware of a couple alternative options (marking "Promotions" and "Social" as spam or unsubscribing from them), but I'm really just looking for a way to sort them out without doing either of those things.
A: Try the latest version of Gmail.app for iOS. It now supports promotions/social/forums messages segregated from your "primary" inbox.
A: Inky mail does the similar work to GMail's: sorts messages into cathegories. However, it uses its own algorithm, not reusing GMail's existing tab sorting (so might be less intelligent, but works with any mail).
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64ac28438985f43a6dbae7b77f838f0f09890512 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to enable fast user switching when Login Options are disabled? I'm not sure how this machine was setup, but I do have control over it now as a local admin.
I need to enable fast user switching, but the option is greyed out along with some others. This is after unlocking the changes padlock.
Is there anything I can do to reenable these options?
A: This isn't a real fix, but I finally found a workaround. Even when fast user switching is disabled, you can still invoke this feature from the command line by running:
"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession" -suspend
This leaves your session running and goes back to the login screen.
I created an alias for this in my .bashrc, good enough for now.
| Q: How to enable fast user switching when Login Options are disabled? I'm not sure how this machine was setup, but I do have control over it now as a local admin.
I need to enable fast user switching, but the option is greyed out along with some others. This is after unlocking the changes padlock.
Is there anything I can do to reenable these options?
A: This isn't a real fix, but I finally found a workaround. Even when fast user switching is disabled, you can still invoke this feature from the command line by running:
"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession" -suspend
This leaves your session running and goes back to the login screen.
I created an alias for this in my .bashrc, good enough for now.
A: The first step is to unlock the preference pane with an administrator user and password. Your user doesn't need to be an administrator - you just need to authenticate as one or have one help out to enable fast user switching.
Next step, check for MCX or MDM restrictions on your Mac to be sure an administrator hasn't disabled these intentionally.
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3a3ad7d1a241d06e94d41524f8a882381186c243 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mp3 player that lets you go back 5 seconds with the left arrow I'm looking for a mp3 player software that lets you go back say 5 seconds of the audio clip by pressing the left arrow key.
I'm using this as a means to memorize, and I used to use winamp on the PC and was wondering what choices I have on a Mac.
A: As always VLC will do that for you. The key combination:
⌘ +^ + →
from within VLC will skip forward 5 seconds. Left arrow for backwards.
You can also change the key combination, as well as skip, 10 or more seconds depending on the combination you choose from the menu, VLC>Prefernces>Hotkeys:
| Q: Mp3 player that lets you go back 5 seconds with the left arrow I'm looking for a mp3 player software that lets you go back say 5 seconds of the audio clip by pressing the left arrow key.
I'm using this as a means to memorize, and I used to use winamp on the PC and was wondering what choices I have on a Mac.
A: As always VLC will do that for you. The key combination:
⌘ +^ + →
from within VLC will skip forward 5 seconds. Left arrow for backwards.
You can also change the key combination, as well as skip, 10 or more seconds depending on the combination you choose from the menu, VLC>Prefernces>Hotkeys:
A: iTunes is highly scriptable.
You could write a one line AppleScript and then assign it to the the key combination of your choice.
-- iTunes Back 5
tell application "iTunes" to set player position to (player position - 5)
Source
A: To do what you want I would suggest following :
*
*Create an automator service
*Add a run AppleScript action
*Select service receives no input
*Copy the following code in the AppleScript action : tell application "iTunes" to set player position to (player position - 5)
*Save you service
*Go to the System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcut
*Add your a shortcut to your newly created service.
*Enjoy your new shortcut !
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9562b243ab86aec4c97ea9d8e235ccee2097b21b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to list all .pkg packages that I have installed? Just wondering if there is any Terminal command to do this, because I think my OSX was already messed up with some incompatible .pkg installations.
Thanks.
A: The package management system used by OS X is rudimentary when compared to Linux counterparts like RPM or DEB. Fortunately, basic operations like listing packages and its contents are possible:
Everytime a .pkg file is installed a BOM file is stored in /private/var/db/receipts/. You can either do ls in that directory or use pkgutil to list installed packages:
$ pkgutil --packages
(...)
com.apple.pkg.HP_Scan
com.apple.pkg.HP_Scan3
com.apple.pkg.HP_SmartX
com.apple.pkg.InstallMacOSX
com.apple.pkg.JavaEssentials
com.apple.pkg.JavaForMacOSX107
com.apple.pkg.JavaMDNS
com.apple.pkg.JavaSecurity
com.apple.pkg.JavaTools
com.apple.pkg.MBP91
com.apple.pkg.MediaFiles
com.apple.pkg.MobileDevice
com.apple.pkg.MobileDeviceDevelopment
com.apple.pkg.OxfordDictionaries
(...)
To query the .pkg file's contents use pkgutil:
$ pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.Pages4 | less
Applications
Applications/Pages.app
Applications/Pages.app/Contents
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/CodeResources
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks/Inventor.framework
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks/Inventor.framework/Inventor
or lsbom:
$ lsbom /private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.Pages4.bom | less
. 40775 0/0
./Applications 40775 0/80
./Applications/Pages.app 40755 0/0
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents 40755 0/0
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents/CodeResources 120755 0/0 28 2941952436 _CodeSignature/CodeResources
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks 40755 0/0
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks/Inventor.framework 40755 0/0
(...)
See man pkgutil and man lsbom for other options.
| Q: Is there any way to list all .pkg packages that I have installed? Just wondering if there is any Terminal command to do this, because I think my OSX was already messed up with some incompatible .pkg installations.
Thanks.
A: The package management system used by OS X is rudimentary when compared to Linux counterparts like RPM or DEB. Fortunately, basic operations like listing packages and its contents are possible:
Everytime a .pkg file is installed a BOM file is stored in /private/var/db/receipts/. You can either do ls in that directory or use pkgutil to list installed packages:
$ pkgutil --packages
(...)
com.apple.pkg.HP_Scan
com.apple.pkg.HP_Scan3
com.apple.pkg.HP_SmartX
com.apple.pkg.InstallMacOSX
com.apple.pkg.JavaEssentials
com.apple.pkg.JavaForMacOSX107
com.apple.pkg.JavaMDNS
com.apple.pkg.JavaSecurity
com.apple.pkg.JavaTools
com.apple.pkg.MBP91
com.apple.pkg.MediaFiles
com.apple.pkg.MobileDevice
com.apple.pkg.MobileDeviceDevelopment
com.apple.pkg.OxfordDictionaries
(...)
To query the .pkg file's contents use pkgutil:
$ pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.Pages4 | less
Applications
Applications/Pages.app
Applications/Pages.app/Contents
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/CodeResources
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks/Inventor.framework
Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks/Inventor.framework/Inventor
or lsbom:
$ lsbom /private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.Pages4.bom | less
. 40775 0/0
./Applications 40775 0/80
./Applications/Pages.app 40755 0/0
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents 40755 0/0
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents/CodeResources 120755 0/0 28 2941952436 _CodeSignature/CodeResources
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks 40755 0/0
./Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Frameworks/Inventor.framework 40755 0/0
(...)
See man pkgutil and man lsbom for other options.
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a56d9f9b8c6d00df88837e11322e124f4ef0e6e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Mail with Gmail Account (IMAP): Moving Mails from inbox to folders fails I have a Gmail account (gmail 1), and if I'm moving email from Inbox to an IMAP folder, the email disappears from Inbox and after changing the folder and going back to Inbox the moved mail is back in my Inbox.
I just created a new Gmail account (gmail 2) and tried it with this account. The behaviour is like expected: moved emails don't re-appear in their old folder.
Now, I don't know how to fix this. I've checked the account settings from both accounts, the new one and the old one and I can't find a settings difference to fix this problem.
I made a short 30sec movie about the problem.
A: The following solved the issue for me:
Gmail Settings:
*
*Inbox → Categories:
Select only Primary
*Inbox → Importance markers:
No marker
*Inbox → Filtered mail:
Override filters
*Forwarding and POP/IMAP → IMAP Access:
When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted: Auto-Expunge off
*When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Move the message to the Trash
| Q: Apple Mail with Gmail Account (IMAP): Moving Mails from inbox to folders fails I have a Gmail account (gmail 1), and if I'm moving email from Inbox to an IMAP folder, the email disappears from Inbox and after changing the folder and going back to Inbox the moved mail is back in my Inbox.
I just created a new Gmail account (gmail 2) and tried it with this account. The behaviour is like expected: moved emails don't re-appear in their old folder.
Now, I don't know how to fix this. I've checked the account settings from both accounts, the new one and the old one and I can't find a settings difference to fix this problem.
I made a short 30sec movie about the problem.
A: The following solved the issue for me:
Gmail Settings:
*
*Inbox → Categories:
Select only Primary
*Inbox → Importance markers:
No marker
*Inbox → Filtered mail:
Override filters
*Forwarding and POP/IMAP → IMAP Access:
When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted: Auto-Expunge off
*When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Move the message to the Trash
A: FYI, if anyone is still experiencing this issue it is due to Smart Folders.
If you drag an email from a Smart folder into another folder, the Gmail "Inbox" label is not removed and the new label for that folder is assigned. Oddly however, if you drag the same email from a normal folder into a folder it works. I suspect this is down to a bug in the Mac Mail logic where it assumes that because the mail is in a folder, the removal of the Inbox label is not required, but a smart folder is not a folder, it's only a view of a folder. Massive fail, and this issue has been like this for 1+ years.
A: Got the same problem and getting insane. The only thing that helped so far was to log in to Gmail and there either click on "Archive" or simply remove the label "Inbox" from an email. Both actions remove the mail from the Inbox and thus also from the Inbox in Mail.app. The mail is then only kept in other folders (or better: labels as Gmail uses it) or "Archive" if no additional folder / label was added. However, there seems to be no way to remove the "Inbox" label from mails through Mail.app.
A: Thanks for the hint about "smart" folders
I found that if in Gmail I uncheck "all mails" in IMAP, then the problem also disappears, I can move messages as I please.
However this is only in Apple Mail, Outlook demands all mail to be visible in IMAP in order to work.
I use Outlook for archiving in the right folders since Apple Mail does not have any shortcut key.
A: It may help to attempt to rebuild the mailbox that you're having problems with. You can rebuild a mailbox by selecting that mailbox from the list on the left-hand side. Then, go up to the "Mailboxes" menu -> Rebuild. You can observe the status of the rebuild by going underneath the "Window" menu -> "Activity". Here is some additional information on rebuilding mailboxes
A: it's not really a problem what you describe its a design decision Apple made.
they made the Inbox (inc. Subfoldes) acting like smartfolders so they always shows all unread messages rhat are in all your imap (gmail) folders.
as you mark them as read they wont be shown anymore.
also take note of the fact, that in the buttom right corner of the mail there are little gray boxes which indicate you where (in which folders) the mail acctually is.
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592b80116911dd85f63e186d7b6b7b7b6ca44b04 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How To Remove iMessage Icon On Toolbar (MacBook Pro) How would i remove this icon in my toolbar on my MacBook Pro?
I have never really used it and would like to remove it from the toolbar.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
A: You can do this by opening iMessage or Messages on your MBP. Then going to Messages->Preferences
There is an option in here to remove it from your menu bar
Hope this helps :)
| Q: How To Remove iMessage Icon On Toolbar (MacBook Pro) How would i remove this icon in my toolbar on my MacBook Pro?
I have never really used it and would like to remove it from the toolbar.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
A: You can do this by opening iMessage or Messages on your MBP. Then going to Messages->Preferences
There is an option in here to remove it from your menu bar
Hope this helps :)
A: Although this is Mac help site, where we are glad to answer questions, reading thru Apple's Mac Basics would aquaint you with the Preferences settings every application has.
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6250dee6899cdba9aa44704ec90f61c965d45b14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I invert photo colors on iOS? I'm looking for a way to invert individual photo colors in iOS 7 to use as a background instead of inverting the entire phones color scheme. How can I do this?
A: You can download the app Photoshop express (free) that has this feature.
| Q: How can I invert photo colors on iOS? I'm looking for a way to invert individual photo colors in iOS 7 to use as a background instead of inverting the entire phones color scheme. How can I do this?
A: You can download the app Photoshop express (free) that has this feature.
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4a0cf82edf5bee5ad29780456de060f729b0a44f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks to include better window management solution? Up until now, I have used a program called Stay to maintain my preferred location and sizing of all my apps. My main use case is that I have two external displays that require me to rearrange my applications after unplugging the displays (which is quite common going to/fro meetings).
Since Mavericks is supposed to enhance the support for multi monitor setups, I was wondering if this new support eliminates the need for a third party solution.
A: Using Mavericks Mac OS X 10.9.1 here with 2 external monitors and the laptop display on a MBP late 2011. One is connected via the thunderbolt port and the 2nd one via a USB external adapter/card. Mavericks does not remember window position and sizing after unplugging my MBP from the two monitors and re-plugging it. Still have to use Stay.
| Q: Mavericks to include better window management solution? Up until now, I have used a program called Stay to maintain my preferred location and sizing of all my apps. My main use case is that I have two external displays that require me to rearrange my applications after unplugging the displays (which is quite common going to/fro meetings).
Since Mavericks is supposed to enhance the support for multi monitor setups, I was wondering if this new support eliminates the need for a third party solution.
A: Using Mavericks Mac OS X 10.9.1 here with 2 external monitors and the laptop display on a MBP late 2011. One is connected via the thunderbolt port and the 2nd one via a USB external adapter/card. Mavericks does not remember window position and sizing after unplugging my MBP from the two monitors and re-plugging it. Still have to use Stay.
A: Yes, Mavericks will keep the window in the same location as when you unplug your external display.
The only exception is when you take one of those windows full screen, in which case it will not return to the original position when you exit full screen mode. The window would instead go to your currently active display.
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7fd8d50314a999f81c102273476ec201d63f6376 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Vmware Fusion, how to remove suspend option completely I have good number of virtual XP and W7 machines on our domain, one thing always cause problems when multiple users are using the same machine. There's always that one person whom put the vm session on suspend instead of shutdown. I know to change under preferences, but somehow users change default back to suspend. Is there a way to enforce shutdown only. this is the case for Fusion 5, 6.
thanks.
A: From Disabling the suspend feature for a virtual machine in VMware Fusion:
VMware Fusion
To disable the suspend feature for a virtual machine:
*
*Shutdown the virtual machine.
*Locate the virtual machine bundle. For more information, see Locating the virtual machine bundle in VMware Fusion (1007599).
*Press Ctrl and click the virtual machine bundle, then click Show Package Contents.
*Open the .vmx file for editing in a text editor. For more information, see Editing the .vmx file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine (1014782).
*Add this line to the .vmx file:
suspend.disabled = "TRUE"
*Save and close the .vmx file.
*Restart the virtual machine.
| Q: Vmware Fusion, how to remove suspend option completely I have good number of virtual XP and W7 machines on our domain, one thing always cause problems when multiple users are using the same machine. There's always that one person whom put the vm session on suspend instead of shutdown. I know to change under preferences, but somehow users change default back to suspend. Is there a way to enforce shutdown only. this is the case for Fusion 5, 6.
thanks.
A: From Disabling the suspend feature for a virtual machine in VMware Fusion:
VMware Fusion
To disable the suspend feature for a virtual machine:
*
*Shutdown the virtual machine.
*Locate the virtual machine bundle. For more information, see Locating the virtual machine bundle in VMware Fusion (1007599).
*Press Ctrl and click the virtual machine bundle, then click Show Package Contents.
*Open the .vmx file for editing in a text editor. For more information, see Editing the .vmx file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine (1014782).
*Add this line to the .vmx file:
suspend.disabled = "TRUE"
*Save and close the .vmx file.
*Restart the virtual machine.
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b3835401986abf45edf9b45571683a2fd53b15b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: After enabling TRIM should I delete free space? I have installed a third party SSD in my Mac. I have used it quite a while before I enabled TRIM.
Does that mean that the SSD cannot reuse any files I have deleted until now? Is it necessary to somehow delete the free space of the disk to tell the disk via TRIM that this is really free space now?
A: If this is not your system disk, you should kick off a disk repair which will trim unused blocks. Otherwise, boot in single user mode (hold ⌘+S during startup) and issue the command:
fsck -fy. Be aware this will not work from rescue systems, as they do not have trimforce enabled, while booting to the single user mode acknowledges trimforce.
| Q: After enabling TRIM should I delete free space? I have installed a third party SSD in my Mac. I have used it quite a while before I enabled TRIM.
Does that mean that the SSD cannot reuse any files I have deleted until now? Is it necessary to somehow delete the free space of the disk to tell the disk via TRIM that this is really free space now?
A: If this is not your system disk, you should kick off a disk repair which will trim unused blocks. Otherwise, boot in single user mode (hold ⌘+S during startup) and issue the command:
fsck -fy. Be aware this will not work from rescue systems, as they do not have trimforce enabled, while booting to the single user mode acknowledges trimforce.
A: Once you enabled trim, the drive is now better capable to self manage storage without needing any special help.
You could kick start the process by making a backup of the drive (just in case the filesystem has corruption) any then boot into Recovery HD and use Disk Utility to repair the drive once (which is functionally equivalent to huy's answer). That intentionally trims all unused blocks when the filesystem is otherwise idle.
I would avoid any attempt to overwrite free space since that just adds more needless writes to the drive. If you feel that's needed, a total erase and reinstall from backup might faster in the end.
You are correct that the first immediate delete operations could leave you with free blocks scattered about non-continuously, but writing a gigabyte or two temporary file and deleting it should get enough free trimmed blocks to make an immediate speed up and the rest of the speed will come after garbage collection cleans up after routine file changes and deletes pass through trim status.
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e6e8beeb8216b10952ae1b50695c487a62b2a67c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac OS X UNIX-oriented Tutorial Is there any Mac OS X tutorial/book that covers the UNIX part of this operating system? Topics like:
*
*Managing daemons from the command-line
*Package management
*Install/Remove dmg's from the command-line
*Environment variables
*Users/Groups/Permissions management
*CLI utilities
*OS Directory structure
*Location of dev headers, libraries, etc
*Devices names
Most of the tutorials I found out there cover GUI applications and that kind of stuff. Is there any material that covers Mac OS X under the hood?
A: I suggest you to try:
Unix for OS X which is a good way to begin with Unix and with the Unix command line interface of Mountain Lion.
O'Reilly is a very good editor in the field of the Unixes environments.
| Q: Mac OS X UNIX-oriented Tutorial Is there any Mac OS X tutorial/book that covers the UNIX part of this operating system? Topics like:
*
*Managing daemons from the command-line
*Package management
*Install/Remove dmg's from the command-line
*Environment variables
*Users/Groups/Permissions management
*CLI utilities
*OS Directory structure
*Location of dev headers, libraries, etc
*Devices names
Most of the tutorials I found out there cover GUI applications and that kind of stuff. Is there any material that covers Mac OS X under the hood?
A: I suggest you to try:
Unix for OS X which is a good way to begin with Unix and with the Unix command line interface of Mountain Lion.
O'Reilly is a very good editor in the field of the Unixes environments.
A: Your question is quite broad. To get the information you seek in different areas and varied levels of detail, you would have to consult:
*
*Start with a FreeBSD book or tutorial, plus use the man command to get information on commands.
*Apple Pro Training Material, like the ones mentioned at OS X and OS X Server training - this includes paid books/videos published by Peachpit as well as free downloadable guides and white papers by Apple. There is a lot of material available from Apple Pro Training.
*A look at the command line section in the OS X Server: Advanced Administration guide (this may seem a bit shallow if you know Unix and/or have worked with OS X on the command line).
*Some older (and somewhat outdated) books like Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach by Amit Singh, and Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core by Jonathan Levin. These are not for the faint of heart, especially the one by Amit Singh.
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7d229dc9ea9a75d99a6d0c84018d5e8e5b2b3e76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spotlight, please don't show mail, but still let me search in Mail app When I search for stuff, even constraining with name:whatIwant, the majority of results are old e-mail messages and Safari history items.
How can I get rid of these results, but still search my email from within the Mail program? I have already added the History folder from Safari to the Privacy tab and put the Mail app in there too, but the results still show.
I am using Mountain Lion at the moment.
EDIT: It turns out I already had Messages and Web history un-selected in my Search Results tab (see second screengrab below), but I am still seeing the results from Web pages and from current (not just archived) Mail messages.
My Spotlight privacy tab:
My Spotlight check boxes...
Some results from my search window:
A: In System Preferences -> Spotlight, go to the Search Results tab, and uncheck Messages and Chats.
This will still allow you to index and search from within Mail, but the results will not show up when searching via Spotlight.
| Q: Spotlight, please don't show mail, but still let me search in Mail app When I search for stuff, even constraining with name:whatIwant, the majority of results are old e-mail messages and Safari history items.
How can I get rid of these results, but still search my email from within the Mail program? I have already added the History folder from Safari to the Privacy tab and put the Mail app in there too, but the results still show.
I am using Mountain Lion at the moment.
EDIT: It turns out I already had Messages and Web history un-selected in my Search Results tab (see second screengrab below), but I am still seeing the results from Web pages and from current (not just archived) Mail messages.
My Spotlight privacy tab:
My Spotlight check boxes...
Some results from my search window:
A: In System Preferences -> Spotlight, go to the Search Results tab, and uncheck Messages and Chats.
This will still allow you to index and search from within Mail, but the results will not show up when searching via Spotlight.
A: You can add ~/Library/Mail/ to the privacy tab, but it also prevents you from searching for messages in Mail.
If you can consider using Alfred instead, it doesn't include mail messages in the default search results, and it can be configured to not show mail messages even when you use the open or find actions.
A: *
*Start Spotlight (by default ⌘ cmd+space) and search for any term, then select Spotlight Preferences… at the bottom of the list.
Alternatively, open System Preferences and select the Spotlight pane.
*Uncheck "Messages & Chats" and close System Preferences.
A: I have struggled with this also (telling spotlight NOT to search in mail etc.)...
The best solution for me so far has been to get in the habit of writing:
-kind:mail
at the end of every search I make in spotlight.
I will admit this isn't a GREAT solution - but it works (and you could probably set a keyboard shortcut to type it for you if you wanted).
A: For me the issue was that my email account was set to automatically download all attachments. Go to mail->preferences->accounts->(click on an account)->advanced->uncheck "automatically download all attachments"
After doing this you might have to remove and add your account for mail
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c73ba3ee7658ae2947fe1082b2cab92a19ecd55f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to let MacBook Pro recognize my external hard drive as internal hard drive? I'd like to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, but as the internal hard drive cable is not working, I'm using it with an external hard drive plugged in which OS X is installed on.
When I try to install Windows 7 it says that I have to have an internal hard drive to install it. So I'm just wondering if there is a way that can make my laptop think that the external hard drive is an internal so I could install Windows, or is there any other way to install Windows?
I don't want to install Windows in a Virtual Machine.
A: You should be able to do this with dd by setting Removable to False.
Unmount your disk, then run…
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1 count=1
Don't forget to replace disk2 with the actual disk identifier. This command will erase the contents of the disk. Untested, be careful, usual 'not responsible if stuff goes wrong' applies :)
| Q: How to let MacBook Pro recognize my external hard drive as internal hard drive? I'd like to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, but as the internal hard drive cable is not working, I'm using it with an external hard drive plugged in which OS X is installed on.
When I try to install Windows 7 it says that I have to have an internal hard drive to install it. So I'm just wondering if there is a way that can make my laptop think that the external hard drive is an internal so I could install Windows, or is there any other way to install Windows?
I don't want to install Windows in a Virtual Machine.
A: You should be able to do this with dd by setting Removable to False.
Unmount your disk, then run…
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1 count=1
Don't forget to replace disk2 with the actual disk identifier. This command will erase the contents of the disk. Untested, be careful, usual 'not responsible if stuff goes wrong' applies :)
A: Using Mac OS X's built-in Boot Camp Assistant (in Applications, Utilities Folder) you can install Windows 7. After install, when you turn-on your Mac, hold the Option Key to Boot into Windows. This method runs the Operating System off it's own Partition of the internal Macintosh Hard Drive. When you boot into it, Windows will be Full-Screen, and "running natively."
-or-
An alternative is to Run Windows INSIDE Mac OS X using a Free program called "VirtualBox." This way, VirtualBox will be in your Dock on the OS X side. You will launch it, and run Windows 7 (or any Operating System) Virtually. Please note, this will be slower, and will need certain Drivers. There may be limited Functionality running Windows inside VirtualBox, instead of natively inside Boot Camp. And it lacks some of the Hardware Features available to a Native Operating System.
If there is a "problem" with your MacBookPro's Hard Drive, I would consider getting a NEW Solid-State Drive (of say, 128 GB). This can be purchased for around $100-$125. A few benefits: your Operating System and Programs will boot/launch Faster.
It may also be a good idea to move all of your Media to the External Hard Drive (noting that they will only be available when the External HD is plugged-in via USB. Go to iTunes and in Preferences tell iTunes to use the External Hard Drive for Storage.
Check your MacBookPro Model Number on Wikipedia (search MacBookPro). Make sure to Upgrade your RAM to Maximum Capacity. Then, Download whatever version of Mac OS X is the latest that machine will run. After Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, the Mac App Store is Available. That means all versions of Mac OS X after 10.6.8 can be easily downloaded via the Mac App Store onto a New Hard Drive.
So, basically:
1. Purchase the latest version of Mac OS X your MacBookPro will run for $20 in the Mac App Store (let's say Mountain Lion, or Mavericks on Tuesday October 22nd)
2. Purchase an SSD (Solid-State Drive) for around $100 at 128 GB
3. Plug the SSD into the Mac's USB Port.
4. Go in Disk Utility.
5. install OS X onto the SSD using Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
6. Turn-off the MBP (afterwards)
7. Flip the MBP over and open the botttom.
8. install the New SSD that you just installed Mac OS X onto.
9. Turn-on the Computer.
10. Run Boot Camp.
11. install Windows 7 onto it's own Partition, using Disk Utility again.
12. After install, boot into Windows by holding the Option Key after hitting the Power Button to turn the Laptop on (hold it down for a few seconds).
13. Install all the Microsoft Updates and Drivers for your Printer and Peripheral Devices.
14. ReStart into Windows.
15. After all this is done, any time you turn-on your Computer, you choose which OS to boot into. You can even choose a Default in Mac System Preferences, System, StartUp Disk.
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ac19b5baf9ad51a8e25fe1b6b49711aadaff9b43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent " quit unexpectedly" message on sigquit I kill Python processes with SIGQUIT by pressing Ctrl\ sometimes (usually my own that are misbehaving). Can I prevent the "Python quit unexpectedly" message? I know I can just hit escape, so it's not so bad.
A: The default behavior when receiving SIGQUIT is to dump core and exit; the crash reporter is triggered as a part of this process.
Starting with 10.5(?) simply setting a signal handler for SIGQUIT should be sufficient to avoid the crash reporter; you will probably want the handler to also call exit.
import signal, sys, os
def sigquit_handler(signum, frame):
print 'SIGQUIT received; exiting'
sys.exit(os.EX_SOFTWARE)
signal.signal(signal.SIGQUIT, sigquit_handler)
# Do your normal work instead of this
print 'Waiting for a signal...'
signal.pause()
The above code was tested on 10.8.5 against /usr/bin/python which is 2.7.2.
| Q: Prevent " quit unexpectedly" message on sigquit I kill Python processes with SIGQUIT by pressing Ctrl\ sometimes (usually my own that are misbehaving). Can I prevent the "Python quit unexpectedly" message? I know I can just hit escape, so it's not so bad.
A: The default behavior when receiving SIGQUIT is to dump core and exit; the crash reporter is triggered as a part of this process.
Starting with 10.5(?) simply setting a signal handler for SIGQUIT should be sufficient to avoid the crash reporter; you will probably want the handler to also call exit.
import signal, sys, os
def sigquit_handler(signum, frame):
print 'SIGQUIT received; exiting'
sys.exit(os.EX_SOFTWARE)
signal.signal(signal.SIGQUIT, sigquit_handler)
# Do your normal work instead of this
print 'Waiting for a signal...'
signal.pause()
The above code was tested on 10.8.5 against /usr/bin/python which is 2.7.2.
A: If you never want to see the crash report dialogs, there is a preference to disable them:
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
Log out and back in to apply the changes.
A: You can also make the message appear as a notification instead:
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter UseUNC 1
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ceea1572724c2108500f7fc7fed1c3536c15732a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Hidden folder without a dot at the start On any unix machine, Mac included, files and folders with dots at the start are normally invisible. However, it seems that the Mac has it's own type of hidden folder.
If I enable showing hidden files in Finder (defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES), there are 70 dotfiles in my home directory. However, there are two hidden folder without dots: Trash and Library. In the root directory, there are several (lost+found, bin, cores, etc…).
Is it possible to make one of these folders that is hidden in Finder while keeping it's path the same (AKA not adding a dot)? I use a utility that needs a ~/tmp folder, and I'd love to hide it in finder.
A: You can use chflags
To hide a file from Finder
chflags hidden /Path/To/File
To unhide:
chflags nohidden /Path/To/File
| Q: Hidden folder without a dot at the start On any unix machine, Mac included, files and folders with dots at the start are normally invisible. However, it seems that the Mac has it's own type of hidden folder.
If I enable showing hidden files in Finder (defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES), there are 70 dotfiles in my home directory. However, there are two hidden folder without dots: Trash and Library. In the root directory, there are several (lost+found, bin, cores, etc…).
Is it possible to make one of these folders that is hidden in Finder while keeping it's path the same (AKA not adding a dot)? I use a utility that needs a ~/tmp folder, and I'd love to hide it in finder.
A: You can use chflags
To hide a file from Finder
chflags hidden /Path/To/File
To unhide:
chflags nohidden /Path/To/File
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f9c8051e2262b70fe44a8a6e32944ae6efbe029d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Photo edits in iOS 7 do not save when exported to PC I applied some edits to my photo using iOS 7's default photo editor: red eye correction, auto enhance, etc.
It looks great when I preview the image on iPhone, but when I look at the image on my PC it looks the same as the original: all the edits are gone. I use the Dropbox app on iOS to sync my camera roll to my PC through the cloud.
What do I need to do to push the edited photo to my PC?
A: Try emailing the photos to yourself.
When you edit photos, iOS doesn't actually modify the JPG file. Instead, it saves an XML file with the same name that contains information about what edits were made—that's why edits "disappear" when you copy the JPG. They were never there in the first place.
| Q: Photo edits in iOS 7 do not save when exported to PC I applied some edits to my photo using iOS 7's default photo editor: red eye correction, auto enhance, etc.
It looks great when I preview the image on iPhone, but when I look at the image on my PC it looks the same as the original: all the edits are gone. I use the Dropbox app on iOS to sync my camera roll to my PC through the cloud.
What do I need to do to push the edited photo to my PC?
A: Try emailing the photos to yourself.
When you edit photos, iOS doesn't actually modify the JPG file. Instead, it saves an XML file with the same name that contains information about what edits were made—that's why edits "disappear" when you copy the JPG. They were never there in the first place.
A: Photos shared from the Dropbox app have their filters and corrections fully applied (at least as of iOS 7.1.1 and Dropbox 3.1.2).
A: I know a solution. But it is too pain.
Open the edited pic in PicsArt and then just save it without doing anything.
And the pic will be there in PicsArt album which will be the final product from inbuilt editor.
But doing this for bulky files seperately is really pain.
Actually I was ended up in this page while searching a solution for this same problem.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any other solution in the web.
A: Flickr uploads seem to retain the edits... looks to me like the current Dropbox doesn't.
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a2885d296eb2a97d06f9935da0c32d5155c2800b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: PDF from pdfLaTeX doesn't print correctly I am trying to print a PDF file generated with pdfLaTeX, but the OS X (10.8) CUPS always shifts and scales the content of the page, without me having any chance to change that behavior.
To reproduce:
*
*Create PDF using pdfLaTeX
pdflatex testpage
*Choose paper size and/or double sided
*Open document
open testpage.pdf
Everything looks as expected in the Preview application, but when I select "Print", even when setting the scale to 100%, the margins are different on all sides, the print size is wrong and shifted. This does not depend on the printer driver I select to print. I have tested with a Canon, a TA and a Dell printer.
Even in the CUPS web interface, I could not find a way to prevent it from altering the document layout.
The print preview in Preview seems accurate, but the scaling and positioning is incorrect as it then comes out of the printer.
How can I fix this?
A: Indeed, the whole problem was rooted in the generated PDF file having letter paper format.
After configuring MacTeX to use default a4 paper
texconfig paper a4
Everything is printed as expected.
| Q: PDF from pdfLaTeX doesn't print correctly I am trying to print a PDF file generated with pdfLaTeX, but the OS X (10.8) CUPS always shifts and scales the content of the page, without me having any chance to change that behavior.
To reproduce:
*
*Create PDF using pdfLaTeX
pdflatex testpage
*Choose paper size and/or double sided
*Open document
open testpage.pdf
Everything looks as expected in the Preview application, but when I select "Print", even when setting the scale to 100%, the margins are different on all sides, the print size is wrong and shifted. This does not depend on the printer driver I select to print. I have tested with a Canon, a TA and a Dell printer.
Even in the CUPS web interface, I could not find a way to prevent it from altering the document layout.
The print preview in Preview seems accurate, but the scaling and positioning is incorrect as it then comes out of the printer.
How can I fix this?
A: Indeed, the whole problem was rooted in the generated PDF file having letter paper format.
After configuring MacTeX to use default a4 paper
texconfig paper a4
Everything is printed as expected.
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53ad6c71dbc9211d5fd3784aec96369175c968a0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When directly unzipping a file attachment in Apple Mail, where does it go? Whenever I get a zip file as an attachment, I can't figure out where the file is actually stored. If I click the file, it is quickly unzipped but I can't for the life of me find where the unzipped file was placed. It's not in Documents, or Mail Downloads, or my Home directory, or anywhere else that I can find.
Does anyone know where attachments are stored, BEFORE they have been saved anywhere else explicitly? I'm using IMAP.
A: I believe this is in:
~/Library/Mail/V2/
IMAP-[address]@[server]/[Mailbox].mbox/
(various folders)/Attachments/(various folders)
If you look in your Library folder for the Mail folder, then explore that a bit, you can hopefully see what I mean. To see your Library folder, in the Finder, open the Go menu, hold opt or alt (depending upon how your keys are labelled) and then choose the Library option that appears.
Be careful not to change files in the Library folder unless you understand the consequences and have a good backup...
| Q: When directly unzipping a file attachment in Apple Mail, where does it go? Whenever I get a zip file as an attachment, I can't figure out where the file is actually stored. If I click the file, it is quickly unzipped but I can't for the life of me find where the unzipped file was placed. It's not in Documents, or Mail Downloads, or my Home directory, or anywhere else that I can find.
Does anyone know where attachments are stored, BEFORE they have been saved anywhere else explicitly? I'm using IMAP.
A: I believe this is in:
~/Library/Mail/V2/
IMAP-[address]@[server]/[Mailbox].mbox/
(various folders)/Attachments/(various folders)
If you look in your Library folder for the Mail folder, then explore that a bit, you can hopefully see what I mean. To see your Library folder, in the Finder, open the Go menu, hold opt or alt (depending upon how your keys are labelled) and then choose the Library option that appears.
Be careful not to change files in the Library folder unless you understand the consequences and have a good backup...
A: In 10.9.5/Mavericks
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads/
Sort on date modified to get the latest folders.
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e742ba981a322454da0eb7942180cfcfc69019d2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an application like OneNote for Mac/iOS? I'm looking for a notetaking app that is similar to Microsoft's OneNote. The main feature that I'm looking for is being able to tap/click anywhere on the document to add a text block, unlike most text editors. I'd like it to be more like handwritten notes, where you can write anywhere onscreen, rather than being forced to used tabs/spaces.
I am also looking for a Mac/iOS syncing experience, but I'm open to almost any suggestions.
A: Microsoft has released a version of OneNote for Mac. It is available in the App Store for users with OS X 10.9 or later.
| Q: Is there an application like OneNote for Mac/iOS? I'm looking for a notetaking app that is similar to Microsoft's OneNote. The main feature that I'm looking for is being able to tap/click anywhere on the document to add a text block, unlike most text editors. I'd like it to be more like handwritten notes, where you can write anywhere onscreen, rather than being forced to used tabs/spaces.
I am also looking for a Mac/iOS syncing experience, but I'm open to almost any suggestions.
A: Microsoft has released a version of OneNote for Mac. It is available in the App Store for users with OS X 10.9 or later.
A: Outline 2.0, released on the Mac App Store ($40) in December 2013, seeks to mimic OneNote and even sync with OneNote notebooks hosted on SkyDrive. It has a companion iPad app too, sold separately on the App Store. Polarized set of reviews though.
Also, Microsoft Office 2014 for Mac may include OneNote.
Outline (MAS) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outline/id604802021?mt=12
A: The OneNote app (version 16.x) can be downloaded for O365 subscribers
*
*https://portal.office.com
If for some reason, you need a really old version, you can try installing the unsupported Office 2011 Mac, which has One Note inbuilt. While installing you can choose to install only one note, excluding the rest.
A: You can try:
- Curio 8 or
- Growly notes or <- This is closest to Microsoft one note
- Circus Ponies Notebook
A: Growly Notes is the closest program I have seen compared to OneNote.
But if you're like me and want the real thing, I've setup a very lightweight virtual machine dedicated just for one note. VMWare Fusion has a feature called unity mode which integrates the Windows application windows into OSX's native window managing functions such as Mission Control just like it's a Mac app in itself.
The only downside is that VMWare uses quite some power even when idling and drops a 13" Late 2012 MBP's advertised 7 hour battery life down to 5 hours and starting up VMWare takes up to 30-60 seconds for me on average so it's kinda annoying to start up all the time.
But as mentioned before Growly Notes is the next best thing to the real deal. It's up to you as to what you really prefer.
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2c3b8dc0fab4c91680e6b5c5b8dbfffbc35bb5b6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable iPhone timed auto lock when an app is running? Is it possible to disable the timed auto lock on an iPhone when a particular app is running?
I use my iPhone as a GPS and I have a dock that attaches it to my bike. When im using the GPS app id like the timed auto lock to be disabled.
A: Engage Google Maps turn-by-turn directions. Turn on your app with directions running in the background. Phone will stay on and lit indefinitely. Close both apps when done.
| Q: Disable iPhone timed auto lock when an app is running? Is it possible to disable the timed auto lock on an iPhone when a particular app is running?
I use my iPhone as a GPS and I have a dock that attaches it to my bike. When im using the GPS app id like the timed auto lock to be disabled.
A: Engage Google Maps turn-by-turn directions. Turn on your app with directions running in the background. Phone will stay on and lit indefinitely. Close both apps when done.
A: It is not possible to disable Auto-Lock for specific apps through iOS settings. A workaround is to manually disable Auto-Lock in settings, run the app, and then enable it again once you're done.
An app can request iOS to disable Auto-Lock. In this case, you should contact the Citymapper developer for an update to allow this.
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14f0105ab80bef129685d6fb14a7d03ec8b74160 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to update some application to latest version with homebrew-cask? I noticed some packages provided by homebrew-cask uses a url of the latest version and a version number of "latest" such as dropbox and chrome. Thus they will never be upgraded with brew upgrade. Is there any simple way to update such packages using homebrew-cask?
And if I call brew cask install dropbox again, it shows there already exist some cache of old version, which I feel so dumb.
A: Try this command:
brew cask install dropbox --force
Please consider logging a bug over at homebrew-cask about your concerns with updating this kind of cask.
| Q: How to update some application to latest version with homebrew-cask? I noticed some packages provided by homebrew-cask uses a url of the latest version and a version number of "latest" such as dropbox and chrome. Thus they will never be upgraded with brew upgrade. Is there any simple way to update such packages using homebrew-cask?
And if I call brew cask install dropbox again, it shows there already exist some cache of old version, which I feel so dumb.
A: Try this command:
brew cask install dropbox --force
Please consider logging a bug over at homebrew-cask about your concerns with updating this kind of cask.
A: As of today brew cask does not implement upgrade but there is an open issue that tracks this at https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/4678
If you want to see it implemented sooner you could add your small contribution by fixing one of the todo items listed there.
A: This has really irked me so I created this script to update all Brew apps and allow the user to choose which Cask apps to update. You can exclude apps from consideration too.
https://github.com/derrekyoung/ScriptsAndUtils/blob/master/brew-cask-upgrade.sh
A: brew upgrade --cask dropbox
I find this to be the most convenient way of upgrading a specific app using brew.
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d16c8dee650c39f6b0a9ad896cd1822dbca3387c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks downgrade to Mountain Lion - alert cannot be installed on this computer I purchased a second hand iMac with Mavericks Developer installed already, seen as I am not a developer and other things don't work, I purchased a copy of Mountain Lion but when tring to run the installer it gives me this message
"alert mac os x 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer"
I want to keep all user profiles and software intact so I don't want to wipe the hard drive (although many other posts say when you get that message wiping the hard drive still doesn't solve it)
any ideas?
A: Verify that your iMac can run the older version of Mac OS X. You can see what versions can be run by searching for your specific model of iMac at EveryMac
Sometimes I have seen that even if a Mac was shipped with an older version of Mac OS it is difficult to downgrade due to firmware upgrades that make the system incompatible with older releases. I haven't personally experienced this sort of issue in maybe 10 years.
| Q: Mavericks downgrade to Mountain Lion - alert cannot be installed on this computer I purchased a second hand iMac with Mavericks Developer installed already, seen as I am not a developer and other things don't work, I purchased a copy of Mountain Lion but when tring to run the installer it gives me this message
"alert mac os x 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer"
I want to keep all user profiles and software intact so I don't want to wipe the hard drive (although many other posts say when you get that message wiping the hard drive still doesn't solve it)
any ideas?
A: Verify that your iMac can run the older version of Mac OS X. You can see what versions can be run by searching for your specific model of iMac at EveryMac
Sometimes I have seen that even if a Mac was shipped with an older version of Mac OS it is difficult to downgrade due to firmware upgrades that make the system incompatible with older releases. I haven't personally experienced this sort of issue in maybe 10 years.
A: You can't exaclty "downgrade".
You habe to create a bootable drive with your installer, boot from that drive, reformat your internal (backup first!) and then install 10.7
Make sure your computer supports it first.
A: In my opinion some more infos would be great to help you:
*
*What do you mean with "Mavericks Developer installed already"? Does it mean it is a beta Mavericks installation only available for developers? Or do you mean XCode is installed?
*Why do you want to downgrade to 10.7?
*"and other things don't work": what is not working? I do not see the connection.
*Why do you want "to keep all user profiles and software intact"? You bought a second hand iMac, and I would expect that you would like to reset it.
A little hint for users who sell their computer: you should re-install the Mac system and remove all data before selling you computer!
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e86b59373581ef38c54fcb0da22a3f0ce662cb9c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I view or verify signed .mobileconfig files using Terminal? I need to troubleshoot problems with signed .mobileconfig profiles. How can I show the signature of a these files using Terminal? Is it also possible to verify the certificates that were used to sign the profile?
Is there a way to output the XML content of these files without the signature?
A: Apple's .mobileconfig files are signed using PKCS7. The signing certificate data can be shown using the following command:
openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -print_certs -in ~/Settings.mobileconfig
You can copy/paste ASCII certificate data from the output into a plain text file (with a .cer filename extension) to create copies of the certificates:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIElTCCA32gAwIBAgIBAjALBgkqhkiG9w0BAQswga4xQDA+BgNVBAMMN0tlbGxl
eSBDb21wdXRpbmcgT3BlbiBEaXJlY3RvcnkgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3Jp
dHkxGTAXBgNVBAoMEEtlbGxleSBDb21wdXRpbmcxJTAjBgNVBAsMHE1BQ09TWCBP
...
q19fbG33zNwRhVHceYMpcbWG1MSqLxnPu4wo75OZFIJCaByZykfpKAzRZl9aa7rD
5bAuzZAziXBW7WWKce2a4hGN804W9RHco5HIGLsQAdg4pLZvENXF1+JNHtBVXjjL
WJrCDKjnCyS1DqmJqijk9KIDM8gP6iLLeQ==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
OpenSSL can be used to verify the code-signing certificate as well. Assuming that we've copied the signing CA's certificate text/data into ~/CA.crt, and copied the code signing certificate into ~/CodeSigner.crt.:
openssl verify -CAfile ~/CA.crt ~/CodeSigner.crt
Removing the signature from a file can be accomplished using this command:
openssl smime -inform DER -verify -in ~/Settings.mobileconfig -noverify -out ~/Unsigned.mobileconfig
| Q: How do I view or verify signed .mobileconfig files using Terminal? I need to troubleshoot problems with signed .mobileconfig profiles. How can I show the signature of a these files using Terminal? Is it also possible to verify the certificates that were used to sign the profile?
Is there a way to output the XML content of these files without the signature?
A: Apple's .mobileconfig files are signed using PKCS7. The signing certificate data can be shown using the following command:
openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -print_certs -in ~/Settings.mobileconfig
You can copy/paste ASCII certificate data from the output into a plain text file (with a .cer filename extension) to create copies of the certificates:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIElTCCA32gAwIBAgIBAjALBgkqhkiG9w0BAQswga4xQDA+BgNVBAMMN0tlbGxl
eSBDb21wdXRpbmcgT3BlbiBEaXJlY3RvcnkgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3Jp
dHkxGTAXBgNVBAoMEEtlbGxleSBDb21wdXRpbmcxJTAjBgNVBAsMHE1BQ09TWCBP
...
q19fbG33zNwRhVHceYMpcbWG1MSqLxnPu4wo75OZFIJCaByZykfpKAzRZl9aa7rD
5bAuzZAziXBW7WWKce2a4hGN804W9RHco5HIGLsQAdg4pLZvENXF1+JNHtBVXjjL
WJrCDKjnCyS1DqmJqijk9KIDM8gP6iLLeQ==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
OpenSSL can be used to verify the code-signing certificate as well. Assuming that we've copied the signing CA's certificate text/data into ~/CA.crt, and copied the code signing certificate into ~/CodeSigner.crt.:
openssl verify -CAfile ~/CA.crt ~/CodeSigner.crt
Removing the signature from a file can be accomplished using this command:
openssl smime -inform DER -verify -in ~/Settings.mobileconfig -noverify -out ~/Unsigned.mobileconfig
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56aa12f03dc84f510c3cd814a4c29086756b4d21 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to delete an app from device using iTunes? How do you delete (not just hide) an app? The Facebook app is corrupted and is causing my phone to crash and restart. (4 times just yesterday!) I really don't want to have to restore my entire phone, losing everything on it. It would be much easier if I could delete the app and re-download a version that is not corrupted.
In the past we could do this, but with this latest version of iTunes, I can't figure out how to!
A: Why are you trying to do this via iTunes? You should delete the app on the phone and use the app store on the phone to re-download it.
However if you feel you must do this via iTunes after you have deleted the app from the phone, go to:
~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications
…and delete the application from there.
You can then download it again via the iTunes store and re-synch the phone.
| Q: How to delete an app from device using iTunes? How do you delete (not just hide) an app? The Facebook app is corrupted and is causing my phone to crash and restart. (4 times just yesterday!) I really don't want to have to restore my entire phone, losing everything on it. It would be much easier if I could delete the app and re-download a version that is not corrupted.
In the past we could do this, but with this latest version of iTunes, I can't figure out how to!
A: Why are you trying to do this via iTunes? You should delete the app on the phone and use the app store on the phone to re-download it.
However if you feel you must do this via iTunes after you have deleted the app from the phone, go to:
~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications
…and delete the application from there.
You can then download it again via the iTunes store and re-synch the phone.
A: You can delete an app from iTunes by going to the Apps section (from the dropdown on the left), then hit the Delete key. When it asks if you would like to keep the file or move it to trash, choose to move it to the trash.
You can also delete the app directly on the phone and download it through WiFi. Tap and hold the app's icon until it jiggles, then tap on the x to delete it. Next go to the App Store and install the app afresh.
A: Open iTunes. At the top left of your window, there is a drop down menu, make sure it is set to Apps. You should now see all of your apps in icon form. The tabs below the player window allow you to switch into List view as seen below.
Then select the apps you want to delete, right click and select Delete.
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2f53ab023c936f2cad94f8bdcf0ddc1eb579e54e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Show hidden apps (⌘H) in Mission Control In OS X 10.8.5 if I hide an app with ⌘ cmd+H, it does not show in Mission Control until it has been revealed again via the app switcher or dock.
Is it possible to show windows for hidden apps in Mission Control?
| Q: Show hidden apps (⌘H) in Mission Control In OS X 10.8.5 if I hide an app with ⌘ cmd+H, it does not show in Mission Control until it has been revealed again via the app switcher or dock.
Is it possible to show windows for hidden apps in Mission Control?
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f5621479e0252dff1146fa9fcbfc45d397dc2a3f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What features of Mavericks are beneficial to you? This question serves to share and collect the enhancements that make a large difference to how you use your Mac.
Please post one feature per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted. To search answers for this question use inquestion:this (directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page.
The best answers will not only list a feature, but provide details on how to configure that feature, and provide an image of how to use the feature to be more efficient or effective with Mavericks.
A: iCloud Keychain stores and syncs Secure Notes across Macs.
The new iCloud Keychain stores website usernames and passwords, credit card numbers and Wi-Fi network information and keeps the data up to date across all of a person's Apple devices, including the iPhone and iPad.
It also stores and syncs Secure Notes across Macs, like this:
| Q: What features of Mavericks are beneficial to you? This question serves to share and collect the enhancements that make a large difference to how you use your Mac.
Please post one feature per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted. To search answers for this question use inquestion:this (directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page.
The best answers will not only list a feature, but provide details on how to configure that feature, and provide an image of how to use the feature to be more efficient or effective with Mavericks.
A: iCloud Keychain stores and syncs Secure Notes across Macs.
The new iCloud Keychain stores website usernames and passwords, credit card numbers and Wi-Fi network information and keeps the data up to date across all of a person's Apple devices, including the iPhone and iPad.
It also stores and syncs Secure Notes across Macs, like this:
A: Notification Center appears on current monitor
In a multi-monitor setup, Notification Center now appears on the monitor where your cursor is currently located. This is a nice improvement if you invoke it while you're working on a secondary monitor: it appears on the monitor you're looking at, rather than the primary.
A: You can now sort your documents in Finder even when you have the grouping feature turned on. (For example you group the download folder by filetype and files inside the group are sorted by name)
A: The overhaul of the virtual memory system makes it clear that memory pressure is the primary factor to track and not how many free pages, inactive pages or overall virtual memory is allocated.
The bottom panel is invaluable for diagnosing a slow machine and knowing whether to rule out memory contention as a cause of the slowness. After running your Mac for a week, you should reach a nice steady state like shown above and can know if adding more RAM or adjusting the programs you run will affect performance.
A: Messages (iMessages) can be created quickly in Notification Center
A: Now you can see which all apps are using your location. And you will also a new Privacy tab in Security & Privacy in System Preferences :
A: Safari tells you when a tab crashed
Whilst Safari has always been able to restart crashed tabs, now it tells you when it's done so:
A: Automatically Installs Updates
My favorite feature is the ability to have updates install automatically in the background just like they do in iOS 7.
A: Charging state of an iPad is notified to the user
Because of insufficient current on some Macs, especially older ones or because of USB multipliers, iPads can't get charged or they only get charged when their screen is idle.
Of course, Mavericks can't fix this situation, it's basically an electrical problem but it seems that Apple now made it a little bit more manageable by notifying the user through a Notification Center message if their iPad is not being charged when plugged to their Mac.
A: With a text field active, Control ⌃ + Command ⌘ + Space opens a characters panel including Emojis.
A: The energy consumption view that collects 8 hours of history and graphs the charge level in your battery as well as showing each process that drained measurable amounts of energy is going to make squeezing extra productivity out of one charge much easier.
Not only will developers (I'm looking at you Dropbox) know that they have to be better stewards of battery life, it makes it easy to see which apps support App Nap and even that a program that is quit now was responsible for using energy in the past 8 hours. This tool provides actionable information for users to better manage their experience when away from wall power on a portable Mac.
This detail is quite hidden inside Activity Monitor, but Apple does expose the biggest users of energy in the menu bar for apps using significant energy.
A: Secret Wallpapers
OS X ships with a bunch of really cool sample photos that are not normally available for use as desktop backgrounds.
Previously in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, these were located at:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.Framework/Versions/A/Resources/Default Collections/
In OS X 10.9 Mavericks, they’re now located at
/Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections/
Here's how to get them:
*
*from Finder, use the menu Go → Go to Folder… (or hit ⌘⇧G) and paste in: /Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections/
You should see 4 folders, and inside them you’ll find lots of really cool Wallpapers:
A: Bring Your Home Folder's Library Back with One Checkbox in Mavericks:
Apple decided to hide the Library from its users in recent OS X updates, but in Mavericks you can now change that with a simple checkbox.
In the past you had to enter a Terminal command with every little system update:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
With OS X Mavericks, you can just navigate to your home folder, press Command+J to bring up the folder settings, and check the box next to "Show Library Folder" instead.
A: Full screen finder:
Pretty simple, but really nice.
A: Using Speakable Items and Automator To Command Your Mac By Voice:
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) uses an automator script and the new "Speakable Items" option in Mavericks to achieve this:
System Preferences > Accessibility > Speakable Items to launch apps.
When it's set up, you simply hit a key on your keyboard, speak a phrase, and that launches the apps you choose.
Their example is a simple "Good morning" to start your day.
There is a list of preprogrammed things you can say to command your Mac as well.
They have a video tutorial which takes you through the various steps.
A: Fairly certain that System Preferences has had some visual tweaks, including larger text and icons. There's a new iCloud icon too.
Edit: As per comments, the category titles have been removed.
A: LinkedIn and few others are now supported in Internet Accounts :
A: Finder Tabs
Safari Style
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*Command + T opens a new tab (as it does in Safari)
*Right click (or control + click) a file or folder within a finder window > "open in Tab"
*Control + Tab to cycle through each
*Bunch of open Finder windows? Window > "Merge all Windows" to neatly arrange into one Finder window with tabs.
A: Activity Monitor tells you what pages a Safari process has open
If you mouseover any Safari subprocess in Activity Monitor you can see what pages are loaded in the process in the tooltip.
A: Put your computer to sleep quickly
If you're using OSX Mavericks on a MacBook, tapping the power key briefly immediately puts your computer to sleep—a simple tweak that makes saving energy even easier. For the usual shutdown dialog, just keep holding for three seconds, or press control+power.
As always, you can put just the display to sleep by pressing control+shift+eject or control+shift+power, depending on your model.
A: Using multiple desktops on multiple displays is finally usable. Now I can switch desktops on my left hand monitor while the right hand monitor doesn't change.
A: The battery menu in the top bar now shows apps using high amounts of energy - nice for killing energy-hogs:
A: Move Dashboard in Mission Control
You can now drag to rearrange the Dashboard to move it between your desktop spaces and full screen apps. It can even be dragged to alternative monitors, providing that "Displays have separate Spaces" is enabled in System Preferences → Mission Control.
A: Mac App Store Notifications Now Include Multiple "Later" Options
You can choose from a handful of times in the future to remind you about pending updates from the Mac App Store.
Credit to this reddit.com/r/mac post.
A: The Mail.app for Mavericks supports exporting emails now as PDF files, which is useful. Although if attempting to export multiple emails as PDF, it will simply generate multiple PDF's rather than appending one large PDF file.
A: Disable Mavericks Spelling Autocorrection:
If you get frustrated when OS X 10.9 attempts to autocorrect the multiple technology words that it doesn’t recognize. You should be able to disable the autocorrection feature either globally or on a per application basis.
In theory you should be able to disable it globally or disable it only in certain applications. I have not found that the global disable actually seems to turn off the corrections in all applications though. this is most probably a bug that will be fixed in future Mavericks updates. It is helpful to disable it only in specific applications anyway.
Disable Spelling Autocorrection in all Applications:
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*Select Keyboards under System Preferences.
*Under the Text tab uncheck correct spelling automatically.
Disable Autocorrection for a Specific Application:
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*Open the Apple application that you want autocorrection disabled.
*Right-click (or ctrl-click) into any text field. From the context menu that appears, under Spelling and Grammar uncheck Correct Spelling Automatically.
Remember that various applications can handle spelling correction in multiple different ways. Many applications will maintain the consistency of OS X and have this option available when right-clicking (ctrl-clicking) a text field. Disabling autocorrection in Chrome, for example, is handled this way.
Other applications such as Firefox may require you hunting through the Preferences to disable the autocorrection feature.
A: Finder messages are now Notification Center alerts
Prior to Mavericks, alerts from Finder would show up as a modal window, however they now show as a Notification Center alert, such as below:
A: Battery Life
It's hard to beat getting an additional hour of use on a battery charge. I've been getting at least that much more use before having to plug in my 2012 MacBook Air. My experience matches up well with Apple's claim during the announcement keynote where the 13 inch Air from 2013 with Haswell benchmarked with another hour to an hour and a half of battery life just by installing Mavericks.
A: Disable App Nap on a per app basis in OS X Mavericks:
You may or may not know that one of the more discreet features in OSX Mavericks will be App Nap.
Apps will enter App Nap when they’re completely hidden from view by other apps and when they aren’t actively working. This is a great way to reduce your running apps from killing your Mac’s battery life.
Also, you may want certain apps to never enter App Nap. This could be true for apps that are important to you but sometimes perform long non-interactive tasks.
To prevent apps from entering App Nap, go to Finder -> Applications -> right click on the app you want -> click on Get Info -> and look for the option that says “Prevent App Nap” right under the copyright section, as shown on the picture below:
Please note that said option won’t be there for apps that don’t support App Nap.
A: Show Desktop using Trackpad now follows motion
Using the Show Desktop gesture, the motion of the windows now follows the motion of your fingers on the trackpad. No longer is it a set speed, you can move the windows at the exact speed of your fingers, and even pull them back half way through to cancel the motion.
A: Gatekeeper shows most recent app in System Preferences
After Gatekeeper blocks an app, going to the relevant option in System Preferences shows the app name and a button that allows you to open the app.
This means it is no longer required for new users to know that clicking Open from the right-click menu will bypass Gatekeeper.
A: iCloud Sync:
Automator and AppleScript Editor, both apps have been updated with iCloud compatibility. AppleScripts that you've created or Automator workflows can now be moved into the cloud and synced to all of your Macs that are running OS X Mavericks.
It's useful if you're creating and updating scripts or workflows that need to be deployed to a handful of Macs automatically.
A: Show Twitter feed in Safari's Sidebar
Update: It's not the complete feed, just messages with URLs embedded in them.
Being able to see your twitter feed in a Safari Sidebar is pretty cool, and definitely under documented.
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*Add your Twitter credentials to the "Internet Accounts" panel of "System Preferences."
*Click on the "open book" icon in the new Safari bookmark bar.
*Select "Shared Links" or use the keyboard shortcut ^⌘3 to toggle "Shared Links".
I believe that this is all that I did to be able to see my twitter feed in the safari sidebar.
A: Messages now has a color setting called auto, which will color the messages of the person you're talking to in the way that they color their own messages.
A: This not exactly a useful feature, Java seems to be not installed by default and when you try to check java version in terminal, it takes you to the download page. Run this in terminal : java -version
as a feature, I find this quickest way to install Java :P
A: Hidden Dock won’t appear in fullscreen apps:
You may find that the Dock won’t show up from the bottom or right/left side (depending on where you put it) when apps are in fullscreen, and when you fast-move the cursor to where your Dock is hidden or when you pause right there and let the cursor hover. No Dock.
Here’s the trick:
You need to move the cursor very slowly. That’s all you need to do. If you move it too fast to the edge of your screen, the Dock won’t show up.
A: Side dock has new UI
It now looks like this (I really like the light that indicates which apps are open, it's a lot more clearer than the bottom dock):
A: Open PSDs directly in Safari
You can now preview PSD files (Photoshop Documents) directly in Safari without actually opening Preview, or even downloading the PSD to your Downloads folder.
A: AirPlay display:
The Apple TV makes it easy to see on your TV the media content that is on your Mac, such as to stream videos or photos.
In OS X Mountain Lion, you could also mirror your Desktop to the Apple TV, such as for presentations.
OS X Mavericks takes that to the next step, treating the Apple TV as just another monitor, so you can extend your desktop onto an Apple TV-connected TV or projector.
A: Enhanced Dictation
Enhanced Dictation allows offline use and continuous dictation with live feedback.
Great for those without Internet connections and those not wanting to have their dictation processed outside of their network.
A: ColorSync Utility: New Calculator
This little known included application continues to improve with a new colour Calculator.
Not new to Mavericks but certainly hidden, ColorSync continues to provide interactive 3D colour space visualisation for profiles.
A: Driving directions for iOS:
OS X Mavericks adopts iOS's Maps app. That by itself is not a huge deal, even though it's nice to have an alternative to Google's Web-based maps. But what's cool is the ability to get driving directions and send them to your iPhone or other iOS 7-based device. They show up in the iOS Maps app, ready for you to follow while driving or walking, and they remain in your bookmarked directions for access later if needed.
A: Improved Multiple Screen Support
It is pretty awesome having a menu bar on each screen and being able to full screen apps on a per screen basis. I never used full screen mode before since I always had the linen background on my other screen.
A: New Safari setting to power off plugins when inactive to save battery life as featured in this Ars Technica article.
I have high expectations that this will stop the issues occurring when my girlfriend has 15 tabs with flash players open in the background while working in other programs.
A: Easily Identify New Apps:
If you use Launchpad, any new apps you download will sparkle to denote their newness.
Once you acknowledge them, or they've sat there neglected for awhile, the sparkles will disappear.
A: Move Dock Between Monitors
The Dock starts on your main monitor, but if you put your cursor in another monitor, go to the bottom of the screen, and then keep moving down, the Dock will pop up (and disappear from wherever it was previously). This is really nice if your "main" monitor isn't actually.
The motion has to be pretty straight down and surprisingly long - it's a bit finicky.
A: Responsive scrolling
In Mountain Lion and earlier, any window content that doesn't fit in the current frame of the window (like a long webpage) isn't drawn until scrolled into view. In Mavericks, this offscreen content is "pre-rendered" during idle time, which results in vastly improved scrolling performance (especially noticeable with complex documents or webpages).
A: Disable Notification Center on the Lock Screen:
Notification Center doesn't see a whole lot of improvement this time around, but the update does mess with your settings a little bit. If you're not a fan of getting a million notifications, you're going to want to pop into System Preferences > Notifications and take a look at the new options. The big one to check is "Show notifications on lock screen."
If you don't want your emails or anything else showing when you're computer is locked, uncheck this box.
A: Zoom pictures in QuickLook
You can now zoom pictures in QuickLook using the default zoom gestures: Pinch In & Pinch Out, as well as panning with two fingers.
A: Debug menus have been updated
The debug menus have been updated for various apps.
Below is the debug menu for App Store and Contacts:
To activate the menus, run the following commands (and restart the apps):
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
defaults write com.apple.AddressBook ABShowDebugMenu -bool true
Replace true with false to remove.
A: Did someone noticed that the Remove from Dock option on the Trash icon's context menu in the Dock is gone. I clicked that a couple of times accidentally and then had to bring it back in Mountain Lion.
A: Event reminders based on travel time
When you create an event in Calendar, you can specify a location. If the address is recognized, it'll insert a map right in the event details (and even give you the current weather conditions!).
But it goes even further. Calendar can also determine your current location, so you can tell it to calculate the travel time to the event based on where you currently are. If you do, that gives you a new alert option: "when I need to leave."
This is so much better than the old fixed-time options (1 hour before, 30 minutes before, etc.) because it's dynamic based on where you are and how far you need to drive.
A: iBooks (for Mac) stinks (can't edit any metadata, kinda flakey about syncing with my iPad, you now have to interact with two programs to manage your books, etc.), but if you were unfortunate enough to have it suck all of your books out of iTunes and into its universe before you knew what was going on then here are a couple of tips.
To delete a book or PDF select the book and hit the Delete key. (There was something in iTunes that worked in that same non-intuitive way, wasn't there?)
To reduce the the flakiness of the sync I had to double-home-button-kill iBooks on my iPad, then try syncing again. It helped.
If out of habit you drag a PDF into iTunes it will be gladly accepted, but you won't be able to see it anymore, because the Books category is gone and there's no Library category anymore. It will show up as Music and you can delete it from there.
UPDATE: 9:30pm: NOW there's a "Delete" item showing up when you right-click on a book in the popup menu. That hasn't been there all day. Have no idea what made it start showing up. This program needs some work. It should have been iBooks beta.
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4512d8e2c28ac9e8cd15df8f7fb91883d9693f44 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Other than size, what's the difference between the iPad Air and the Retina iPad mini? They both have an A7 processor, the new MIMO wifi, etc.
What, if anything, are the technical or spec differences other than screen size?
A: Here's a modified screenshot of Apple's iPad comparison page, differences are highlighted.
The only differences are the prices, height, width, weight, screen size, and density. Everything else, including the battery life and thickness surprisingly, is exactly the same:
| Q: Other than size, what's the difference between the iPad Air and the Retina iPad mini? They both have an A7 processor, the new MIMO wifi, etc.
What, if anything, are the technical or spec differences other than screen size?
A: Here's a modified screenshot of Apple's iPad comparison page, differences are highlighted.
The only differences are the prices, height, width, weight, screen size, and density. Everything else, including the battery life and thickness surprisingly, is exactly the same:
A: To a first approximation, the performance of the iPad Air and the retina iPad Mini are identical due to the same M7 CPU in all three devices. Most everyday tasks won't run any faster or slower on the iPhone 5s versus the two new iPads. The primary observable difference (other than physical dimensions) is longer battery run time of the Air.
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*both have M7 chip like the iPhone 5s
*both have identical cellular chipsets and LTE support internationally
*due to a larger frame, the Air can sustain higher CPU clock rates initially and over time as compared to the Mini. It's measurable in benchmarks, but I haven't seen a real world test where this is measurable in practice.
*due to the larger battery, the Air maintains an LTE hotspot for 24h whereas the Mini will tether data for 18h on one charge.
Now if you are benchmarking things and measuring things to the % or fraction of a per-cent, there are reliable reports of slight differences with the Air being marginally faster than the phone and Mini.
The first effect is the iPad Air runs the CPU at a slightly higher 1.4 GHz nominal clock rate whereas the iPhone 5s and iPad Mini start with clock rates of 1.3 GHz. Now, chips like these don't run at full speed until they have significant loads and often will run at lower clock rates when mostly idle (or sleep a substantial portion of the time when able) in order to conserve battery power.
I would also expect that the Air is able to maintain the full CPU speed longer when running a sustained task since the heat generated by the A7 CPU can be cooled better when in thermal contact with a much larger chunk of aluminum which also has a larger surface area to radiate the heat away.
So if you are going to encode video or process a podcast and that operation takes 25 minutes - you might expect the Air to complete the task even faster than the 1.4/1.3 CPU clock speed ration if the Mini and iPhone 5S can't radiate away the heat and have to reduce clock speed further to keep the heat generation within limits.
Anandtech has a very nice graph that shows both of these effects clearly.
You can see the blue iPad Air lines clustered to the left a few percent higher than the red iPhone 5s lines and then the iPhone 5s either throttles down the performance to save power or stay within thermal limits.
Luckily Anandtech ran a second review of the retina Mini and report that thermal considerations are strongly suspected to make up the performance difference over long task runs between the iPad Air, iPad Mini and iPhone 5s:
A: An alternative comparison of the two tablets highlighting:
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*Differences (What are the advantages of each)
*Key features of both (screen resolution, camera resolution, CPU Cores & Frequency)
*Full list of specifications of each
Maybe seen at Tablet Rocket: Apple iPad mini 2 vs Air
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Q: Can I upgrade from Lion to Mavericks? Or must I upgrade to Mountain Lion, first? I never bothered to upgrade my 2012 MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Currently I am on Lion.
Can I upgrade straight to Mavericks, or do I need to first upgrade to Mountain Lion and then to Mavericks?
A: According to the Mavericks How To Upgrade page you can update from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) Lion (10.7), or Mountain Lion(10.8) later to Mavericks (10.9) if your hardware meets the requirements, which yours does. I upgraded my 2012 MacBook Air to Mavericks about two weeks ago and the battery life is noticeably better.
| Q: Can I upgrade from Lion to Mavericks? Or must I upgrade to Mountain Lion, first? I never bothered to upgrade my 2012 MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Currently I am on Lion.
Can I upgrade straight to Mavericks, or do I need to first upgrade to Mountain Lion and then to Mavericks?
A: According to the Mavericks How To Upgrade page you can update from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) Lion (10.7), or Mountain Lion(10.8) later to Mavericks (10.9) if your hardware meets the requirements, which yours does. I upgraded my 2012 MacBook Air to Mavericks about two weeks ago and the battery life is noticeably better.
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163a353a237c81eeee4f838505ce88e617c18514 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards? What exactly is the difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards?
I’m talking about the hardware keyboards specifically, not about keyboard layouts (in System Settings).
A: Latest version from the official Apple website:
QWERTY - International & QWERTY - US
The link below is to the overview of all keyboard layouts that Apple provides. Might be useful.
Link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794
| Q: Difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards? What exactly is the difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards?
I’m talking about the hardware keyboards specifically, not about keyboard layouts (in System Settings).
A: Latest version from the official Apple website:
QWERTY - International & QWERTY - US
The link below is to the overview of all keyboard layouts that Apple provides. Might be useful.
Link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794
A: The most important differences are the size and position of the Enter/Return, and a few differences in the layout. The ~ key and the \ key have an entirely different position on both keyboards. Also, the US keyboard has no € label (although it can be entered: Alt+Shift+2).
The International keyboard (‘keyboard type’ = ISO) also has one more key than the US keyboard (‘keyboard type’ = ANSI). Some Apple keyboard layouts use that key for essential characters, and this can cause problems for users with only the US keyboard.
Below is a high-quality visual comparison.
US QWERTY Apple keyboard:
EN International Apple keyboard:
A: It doesn't have the alternate "upper" characters of the number keys, i.e. the pound sign.
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11ba74332de66874078475eb2d3cc9614d0b8d0a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Re-use Mavericks install file I have three Macs I want to upgrade to Mavericks. Is there a way of re-using the install files, so I don't have to do three separate 5gb downloads?
A: Download the update from the App Store. Once the file has finished downloading, check your Applications folder for the "Install OS X Mavericks" icon. Copy this installer to your other computers before going through the install process. The installer will delete itself after the install is finished.
| Q: Re-use Mavericks install file I have three Macs I want to upgrade to Mavericks. Is there a way of re-using the install files, so I don't have to do three separate 5gb downloads?
A: Download the update from the App Store. Once the file has finished downloading, check your Applications folder for the "Install OS X Mavericks" icon. Copy this installer to your other computers before going through the install process. The installer will delete itself after the install is finished.
A: Background: when you run the "Install OS X Mavericks" application to upgrade your Mac, the app deletes itself when it's done.
Solution: make a copy before you run it. Since the App Store opens it automatically, you need to quit it, go to the /Applications folder, and make a safe copy somewhere. Actually, my standard procedure is to create a zip archive of it (select it in Finder, then choose File menu > Compress). The zip archive won't get deleted, and is easier to save, copy around, etc than the application (which is actually a folder with complex internal structure). Anytime you want to reuse it, copy the archive to /Applications, double-click to expand, then double-click the expanded app to run it.
There is one hangup, though: the zip archive will be over 5GB, and the FAT32 volume format (frequently used for flash disks and such) can't deal with files over 4GB. You may have to reformat disks to a more modern format, like exFAT or Mac OS Extended, in order to use them to store and transport the file.
Another option is to use the installer to convert a USB disk into a bootable (and reusable) install disk. This makes reinstalls much faster since the installer is stand-alone and bootable.
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*How do I make a bootable USB flash drive a Mac?
Either use DiskMaker X, or do it yourself at the command line with the createinstallmedia tool hidden inside the installer application -- right-click the installer app, select Show Package Contents, then open Contents/Resources, drag the createinstallmedia tool into a Terminal window, and follow its instructions. You should end up with a command like this (assuming the disk you want to erase & convert into an installer is named "Untitled"):
sudo "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume "/Volumes/Untitled" --applicationpath "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app"
A: DiskMaker X takes a bit of time for a USB, and beside the initial screen you will think it hangs, but it works, just look on the Led of your USB stick. In my case to revert from Yosemite (I do not tell you what I think about Yosemite and Apple Inc.) to Mavericks it took more or less 15 minutes to generate the installation on a USB 3.0.
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ac919e6fc283cef892a0c2823eecc13fe9b0ec76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Dock shows on only one screen on OS X Mavericks I understood that every display would behave independently on OS X Mavericks, and that it would get its own bar (top of the screen) and dock.
However, the dock shows only on the main screen, and not on the other screen, is it normal?
A: None of this works if you use a left or right positioned dock in Mavericks. The dock will ONLY migrate with a Bottom mounted dock and ONLY if the monitor positions are set side-by-side (corner or top/bottom mounted will not work, at least as of 10.9.1 and 10.9.2 versions of OS X). Apparently, people who prefer left/right positioned docks (to maximize vertical space without hiding since most monitors are now wider than tall) are now second class citizens. The now semi-opaque color is also much brighter for such left/right docks as well, which many seem to hate).
| Q: Dock shows on only one screen on OS X Mavericks I understood that every display would behave independently on OS X Mavericks, and that it would get its own bar (top of the screen) and dock.
However, the dock shows only on the main screen, and not on the other screen, is it normal?
A: None of this works if you use a left or right positioned dock in Mavericks. The dock will ONLY migrate with a Bottom mounted dock and ONLY if the monitor positions are set side-by-side (corner or top/bottom mounted will not work, at least as of 10.9.1 and 10.9.2 versions of OS X). Apparently, people who prefer left/right positioned docks (to maximize vertical space without hiding since most monitors are now wider than tall) are now second class citizens. The now semi-opaque color is also much brighter for such left/right docks as well, which many seem to hate).
A: The dock only shows on one display at a time. It is hidden on all other displays, but can be made visible just as you would any hidden dock. That is, moving your mouse cursor below the display you would like the dock to appear (or left/right depending on where your dock normally is). Then the dock will hide on it's current display and appear on that display.
A: Please see this link:
http://rwillgo.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/mac-os-x-mavericks-how-to-move-the-dock-from-one-display-to-another/
The gist of it is that you have to tap + hold + drag the mouse to the bottom of the screen for the dock to move.
A: If you're using a stacked display configuration, as in main monitor with the secondary above, then the dock does not appear on the second display. If it can or does, I'd like to know because this is how I run my setup.
If you have them oriented right to left, then the dock will appear. In my limited experience, only one image of the dock appears at a time on whichever monitor you activate it on. You have to play with it, as the cursor motion seems to need to be elongated or dramatic or whatever. Not a big thing, just different.
It's there by default, trust me. HTH.
A: The issue is nothing to do with which screen is active, and more to do with a "safety feature" that prevents the Dock from popping up too easily.
To get the dock to appear on another screen (active or inactive), you need to move the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen and keep moving past the bottom edge until the dock appears.
Leaving the pointer at the bottom edge of the screen will not work.
With a Magic Trackpad, it's a bit more fiddly - you can either take one giant fast swipe down past the bottom edge, or swipe down several times (about 4) in quick succession after the pointer has already hit the bottom of the screen.
And, once again, you do not need to click on the screen to make it active before the Dock will appear.
A: In order to make the dock switch from one screen to the other, you should "jump" with the mouse on the bottom of the screen you want it to be shown on.
Here it is shown more: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5891?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US (look for "Working with the Dock")
A: To bring the dock over to a different display:
If you've clicked on a display to make it active, note how the Menu Bar brightens. But you don't need to.
Without clicking the mouse again, move the cursor all the way down to the bottom of the screen. This is the same technique as if you had invoked System Preferences > Dock > "Automatically hide and show the Dock."
When the cursor touches the bottom, the Dock will rise up from the bottom and stay there on the selected display. (If you had previously enabled "Automatically hide and show the Dock," it will disappear as you move the mouse upwards, but remain tied to that display.)
To move the Dock back to the main display (or any other display), repeat the process starting with Step #1.
A: exactly correct. move the cursor to the next screen, all the way to the bottom and then keep scrolling as if to move it beyond the bottom for a second and the dock will appear. It does not do this if you just tap the bottom of the screen with the cursor, bouncing it off of the bottom so to speak, apparently because this may be an unintentional mouse movement. with a little practice, this becomes second nature.
A: It worked fine here:
Moving the dock to a second display is not straightforward but it’s easy to do. Assuming you are using an Apple Magic Mouse, you can tell OS X to move the dock to the active display by following these steps:
First, click the desktop or any window on the display where you want the dock to move to. This will make the menu bar go active.
Then, place your finger on the mouse while moving the cursor towards the bottom of the screen. The dock will them pop up.
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78b2a0cc63d745c4ab87101e99de5575e808093b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to set the *default* monospace font in Safari? I have a web application that uses the browser's default monospace font. It's set up that way so that the user can pick their own. In Chrome, this works well, as it's easy to set the default fonts, but in Safari, they removed the option.
Is there some way for users to set default fonts in Safari?
A: The following information was correct when it was posted, but now only applies to obsolete versions of Safari.
There are unexposed preferences for changing the default fonts and font sizes:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2StandardFontFamily Georgia
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFontSize 16
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2FixedFontFamily Menlo
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFixedFontSize 14
Another option is to edit the CSS file that defines the default styles (look in
Preferences > Advanced > Stylesheet), adding something like this, for example:
@font-face {
font-family: monospace;
src: local('Menlo');
}
That rule makes any element that uses font-family: monospace (as well as elements like <pre> and <code> by default) use Menlo. Just change the font name (being careful to keep the enclosing quotes) to whatever you prefer.
| Q: Is there a way to set the *default* monospace font in Safari? I have a web application that uses the browser's default monospace font. It's set up that way so that the user can pick their own. In Chrome, this works well, as it's easy to set the default fonts, but in Safari, they removed the option.
Is there some way for users to set default fonts in Safari?
A: The following information was correct when it was posted, but now only applies to obsolete versions of Safari.
There are unexposed preferences for changing the default fonts and font sizes:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2StandardFontFamily Georgia
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFontSize 16
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2FixedFontFamily Menlo
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFixedFontSize 14
Another option is to edit the CSS file that defines the default styles (look in
Preferences > Advanced > Stylesheet), adding something like this, for example:
@font-face {
font-family: monospace;
src: local('Menlo');
}
That rule makes any element that uses font-family: monospace (as well as elements like <pre> and <code> by default) use Menlo. Just change the font name (being careful to keep the enclosing quotes) to whatever you prefer.
A: As of Safari 12, all options for doing so have been removed:
*
*The Appearance panel is (long) gone
*The defaults keys are no longer respected
*CSS @font-face definitions are limited to a built-in whitelist of local() values, ignoring any other fonts installed on the system, which is part of a broad package of anti-fingerprinting measures
Taken together, this means there is no way to change the defaults away from Times for serif, Helvetica for sans-serif, and Courier for monospace.
The only thing you can still do is create a user stylesheet to style various elements directly. So for example you could change the default font family from serif to sans-serif:
body { font-family: sans-serif }
Or you can even still name specific locally installed non-system fonts:
body { font-family: 'Open Sans' }
Unfortunately while this works reasonably well for changing the default document font, it is complicated to use the same approach to restyle every element that defaults to a monospace font. I am not sure CSS can even fully emulate the default behaviour for such elements at all – whereas it was previously easy to do so by using either defaults or a user stylesheet with a @font-face rule for monospace (which simply redefined what monospace meant without touching the default styling itself, and so allowed the default behaviour to apply to that other font).
I viscerally dislike reading large amounts of text set in Courier, so it looks like in the future I will have to use another browser to read RFCs…
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8ae08d1f3735f497a15aef5aa3bdadb613b30fc9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the best way to generate a Yosemite or Mavericks Install USB flash drive? I could probably copy the contents from the package, but what is the best way to create an install Flash Drive for Mavericks?
Of course ideally the drive should be bootable.
A: The absolute easiest way (Trust me on this) is to download this application LionDiskMaker
and it will do everything everyone have said, only it will do it all automatically
(feel free to donate (I'm not the creator of the app, however it works perfectly))
Direct Download link!
| Q: What is the best way to generate a Yosemite or Mavericks Install USB flash drive? I could probably copy the contents from the package, but what is the best way to create an install Flash Drive for Mavericks?
Of course ideally the drive should be bootable.
A: The absolute easiest way (Trust me on this) is to download this application LionDiskMaker
and it will do everything everyone have said, only it will do it all automatically
(feel free to donate (I'm not the creator of the app, however it works perfectly))
Direct Download link!
A: Assuming that you have a USB flash drive plugged into the computer that has the name "Untitled", my preferred method to create a bootable Mavericks install disk would probably be:
hdiutil mount "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg"
sudo asr restore --source "/Volumes/OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg" --target /Volumes/Untitled --erase
sudo unlink "/Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Installation/Packages"
sudo cp -Rp "/Volumes/OS X Install ESD/Packages" "/Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Installation"
A: Edit: this also should work for El Capitan with a 6.33GB+ partition
Currently the best way seems to be through createinstallmedia, which is also Apple's recommended method.
First create a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition on the USB key with 5GB or more:
then in the terminal use the createinstallmedia command. It can be found in the Maverick install apk. By default the path is /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia.
Replace /Volumes/MavericksInstall with your own partition name:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MavericksInstall --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
The output should be along these lines:
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Copy complete.
Done.
The setup should take few to few dozens minutes depending on your USB drive.
To create a USB installer for multiple OS X versions you can to go through the following procedure:
*
*Start disk utility
*Create multiple partitions formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Give them names like:
*
*OS X Lion : LionInstall
*OS X Mountain Lion : MountainLionInstall
*OS X Mavericks : MavericksInstall
*
*Generate multiple install partitions using the createinstallmedia tool of each OX 10.9+ version and add the other install partitions using disktool :
*
*restore the InstallESD.dmg from /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion/Contents/SharedSupport to /Volumes/LionInstall
*restore the InstallESD.dmg from /Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion/Contents/SharedSupport to /Volumes/MountainLionInstall
*sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MavericksInstall --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
From experience here is the data usage for each OS X version :
*
*OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard: 7.19GB
*OSX 10.7 Lion: 4.78GB (requires 6.13 GB)
*OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion: 4.48GB
*OSX 10.9 Mavericks: 5.4GB
*OSX 10.10 Yosemite: 5.25GB
*OSX 10.11 El Capitan: 6.33GB
*macOS Sierra: 4.84GB
A: From this Gist Creating a bootable OS X Mavericks USB installer:
*
*First, plug in an 8GB (or bigger) USB drive, and use Disk Utility to erase it
*If you use the default settings, you should wind up with a blank drive at /Volumes/Untitled.
With that volume in place, and with the Mavericks installer sitting in /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app,
run the following command in your terminal to create a bootable install media:
sh
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
You should see output like the following—it might take a while to finish.
Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%...100%...
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Copy complete.
Done.
To boot from the installer, reboot your Mac and hold down the alt/option key, and it will let you
choose to boot from the USB disk.
A: Just copy the installer to the flash drive. When the flash drive is mounted all you need to do is double click it to install. It will install faster if you move it from the flash drive to the /Applications folder on your boot drive. It should also clean up the installer when it is finished.
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7a9f51ee76a1ad40bdaf5d5b7f74525badcc379d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Help!!! I upgraded to Mavericks and a whole bunch of mail disappeared from my gmail inbox! According to the Gmail web interface, I have 319 messages in my inbox, 51 of them unread.
According to Apple Mail earlier this afternoon, back when I was running Mountain Lion, the same was true.
I upgraded to Mavericks. Now I have 8 messages in my inbox. As far as I can tell, the missing messages do appear in the new "Archive" folder, but mixed in with all the other messages I've archived over the years.
Does anyone know what causes this and what can be done about it (besides restoring to my backup of Mountain Lion?
A: I had zero messages in my mac mail inbox but 33 in my gmail inbox. I marked the messages as unread in gmail and they all appeared in my mac mail. I then marked them unread.
| Q: Help!!! I upgraded to Mavericks and a whole bunch of mail disappeared from my gmail inbox! According to the Gmail web interface, I have 319 messages in my inbox, 51 of them unread.
According to Apple Mail earlier this afternoon, back when I was running Mountain Lion, the same was true.
I upgraded to Mavericks. Now I have 8 messages in my inbox. As far as I can tell, the missing messages do appear in the new "Archive" folder, but mixed in with all the other messages I've archived over the years.
Does anyone know what causes this and what can be done about it (besides restoring to my backup of Mountain Lion?
A: I had zero messages in my mac mail inbox but 33 in my gmail inbox. I marked the messages as unread in gmail and they all appeared in my mac mail. I then marked them unread.
A: A Mail update for Mavericks is now available.
Mail Update for Mavericks includes improvements to general stability and compatibility with Gmail, including the following:
*
*Fixes an issue that prevents deleting, moving, and archiving messages for users with custom Gmail settings
*Addresses an issue that may cause unread counts to be inaccurate
*Includes additional fixes that improve the compatibility and stability of Mail
Download here
A: This is an answer but not an explanation. When I disabled 2-factor authentication on my Google account, all my messages appeared. I don't have any explanation why I was able to download 8 (new!) messages but not the others — if the computer couldn't authenticate, it would seem that none of them should show up. But that worked. Now for the why…
A: I can confirm what Bob posted: open your GoogleMail or GoogleApps e-mail inbox directly in a browser and mark them all as "unread". Then sync your e-mails in Apple Mail by clicking "Send & Receive All" (or whatever it's called in the English Apple Mail user interface).
Then, in your GoogleMail, mark them all as "read" and sync again.
That's it, the e-mails will show up correctly.
A: I've just tried a lot of things, for now the best method seems to be only using my Mac for IMAP actions. If I do them on anything else, my Mac is inconsistent about updating it, which isn't exactly acceptable.
A: For those struggling with this, two things: #1. There's an update for OSX today which supposedly deals with mail. It didn't solve the problem for me, but it's worth updating anyway. And #2. Logging into my Google Settings security page (not to be confused with Gmail settings) DID SOLVE this issue for me, though I have absolutely no idea why. Following a suggestion on this page, I logged into Gmail to check to see if I'd enabled 2-step authentication. I had NOT, which means I didn't change it... but when I clicked back over to Apple's Mail app, suddenly, all of my messages were there even though I did nothing other than log into my Google settings page to check my settings (but, again, I did not change them).
So, for me, this issue was solved (temporarily?) by simply logging into my Google settings security page. YMMV, but definitely be sure to log into your Google Settings.
I should note that I'd given up on Mail since upgrading to Mavericks once I realized messages weren't being delivered. I switched to the Airmail app (it's ok). Interestingly, Airmail seem to receive all messages, including the ones that Apple's Mail did not.
A: Here are the steps to get back deleted GMail on Mavericks.
*
*When you open mail, you’ll see the sidebar where the folders were before.
*You’ll see these options: MAILBOXES, ON MY MAC, SMARTMAILBOXES
*Hover your mouse over “ON MY MAC” and then click “Show”. The folders should be back.
Content from- http://www.askiyogi.com/gadget/40845.html
Hope it helps!
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