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65c3e9d0c9aa785c984bcf68031b11149945a5f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to know the duration of battery usage in one session? I would like to know how long was my battery running since it's last charge. There is a built-in time-remaining counter but I would like a time-used counter.
A: Starting with Mavericks (OS X 10.9), this is available in Activity Monitor. Open Activity Monitor from the /Applications/Utilities folder, and go to the Energy tab. The center pane of the statistics at the bottom of the window includes the amount of time since you last unplugged the charger, which appears shortly after you switch to battery power.
| Q: How to know the duration of battery usage in one session? I would like to know how long was my battery running since it's last charge. There is a built-in time-remaining counter but I would like a time-used counter.
A: Starting with Mavericks (OS X 10.9), this is available in Activity Monitor. Open Activity Monitor from the /Applications/Utilities folder, and go to the Energy tab. The center pane of the statistics at the bottom of the window includes the amount of time since you last unplugged the charger, which appears shortly after you switch to battery power.
A: You can try using the app Battery Truth on the Mac App Store. It costs $2.99 CAD and is supports English and Russian. Though it won't work if you Mac OS is older than 10.10.
The app will tell you:
*
*How much longer the battery will last
*What time the current charge will last you until
*How long the battery will last on a full battery
*How long the computer has been running on battery power for
*And during that time how much of it the computer was asleep or running
A: There is now a "Battery History" screen in recent versions of macOS:
... and one can roughly count the number of hours from the chart, for example, on the example above, the last three blue bars are three hours of uptime, overall, my MacBook was turned on for roughly 6–7 hours on the example above.
I don't know why macOS doesn't provide a simpler way to get this single value.
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ec51035c27f2b8a5ce64b7c5d40b9ed4e63c40bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to copy and paste lines in Nano on OSX I would like to copy and paste multiple lines in the command line text editor nano on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Alt-6 and Ctrl-U do not work as on other platforms.
A: You may be able to cut multiple lines into a buffer using Ctrl-K, and paste them back in using Ctrl-U.
Note that this does not copy the text onto your OS X clipboard, but uses a buffer inside of nano (or the shell?) to perform the actions.
| Q: How to copy and paste lines in Nano on OSX I would like to copy and paste multiple lines in the command line text editor nano on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Alt-6 and Ctrl-U do not work as on other platforms.
A: You may be able to cut multiple lines into a buffer using Ctrl-K, and paste them back in using Ctrl-U.
Note that this does not copy the text onto your OS X clipboard, but uses a buffer inside of nano (or the shell?) to perform the actions.
A: The problem is that in Mac Terminal, the alt key doesn't work unless you change the Terminal Preferences to enable Use Option as Meta key. Then alt+6 will work properly to copy.
Another choice is to use the ESC key instead of alt. So do ESC+6.
A: If you'd like to paste text from clipboard just use
Cmd + V - works well
A: In my case my clipboard was getting bracketed.
Typing reset in the terminal window (or Cmd+R) fixed my issue and allowed me to paste in nano with Cmd+V as usual.
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5491e23fbf26dbd8ae40798fd5f00e6ee4408b8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use AirPlay on a MacBook Pro 2013 with the lid closed? Is it possible to send the audio/video to a 3rd generation AppleTV and close the lid on the MacBook? When I try it, the MacBook goes to sleep. Is there any trick to get this working?
A: You can prevent your MacBook from going to sleep with NoSleep.
| Q: Is it possible to use AirPlay on a MacBook Pro 2013 with the lid closed? Is it possible to send the audio/video to a 3rd generation AppleTV and close the lid on the MacBook? When I try it, the MacBook goes to sleep. Is there any trick to get this working?
A: You can prevent your MacBook from going to sleep with NoSleep.
A: The best thing you can do is turn the Light of the Screen down and use nosleep (or just disable Screensaver and Energysave mode).
On Macs closing the Lid does a hardware Trigger to get your mac to sleep. Don't mess with this because when the Lid is closed the Air-Slices at the Back are covered.
I know one can do this on Windows/Linux Notebooks but you shouldn't do it there either cause they will also overheat.
A: Overheating (as some people say) is not an issue when the MacBook is closed. It is constructed to also be used in a closed fashion, it only sleeps with a closed lid when there is no external monitor and input device connected as Apple notes in their knowledge-base article:
Mac notebooks: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display
There are several free tools that keep the mac awake when closed. I use InsomniaX
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cdd4b59f25019dcd0368b1b52b581c169819085b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks InstallESD.dmg MD5 checksum I've just downloaded OS X Mavericks on a Mac.
I'm trying to convert the file:
/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app\Contents\SharedSupport\InstallESD.dmg
contained inside the download to a .cdr (AKA .iso AKA ISO 9660) file.
I've tried a couple of conversion programs but both of them
report that the file is corrupt.
Hence, I would like someone to post the MD5 checksum so that I may check the
file's integrity with the md5 command from the Mac shell?
That is the only way to determine whether this file is intact or not
and if someone could post the MD5 sum I would really appreciate it.
A: For OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 (build 13A603):
*
*MD5: f222952400db8535c03697c3293e168e
*SHA1: e804dea01e38f8cd28d6c1b1697487e50898dbe7
| Q: Mavericks InstallESD.dmg MD5 checksum I've just downloaded OS X Mavericks on a Mac.
I'm trying to convert the file:
/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app\Contents\SharedSupport\InstallESD.dmg
contained inside the download to a .cdr (AKA .iso AKA ISO 9660) file.
I've tried a couple of conversion programs but both of them
report that the file is corrupt.
Hence, I would like someone to post the MD5 checksum so that I may check the
file's integrity with the md5 command from the Mac shell?
That is the only way to determine whether this file is intact or not
and if someone could post the MD5 sum I would really appreciate it.
A: For OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 (build 13A603):
*
*MD5: f222952400db8535c03697c3293e168e
*SHA1: e804dea01e38f8cd28d6c1b1697487e50898dbe7
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4bd875fa00cf63002f4124d8f81e5ab3f017796d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to keep sound from muting while using dictation? Whenever I try to use the dictation feature in OSX, it mutes my sound. I want to hear the audio I'm playing in iTunes or somewhere else while I have dictation enabled. How can I do that?
A: This preference was made visible in System Preferences, so you don't need to run Terminal commands any more. Go to the Accessibility preference pane, choose Dictation and disable Mute audio output while dictating.
| Q: How to keep sound from muting while using dictation? Whenever I try to use the dictation feature in OSX, it mutes my sound. I want to hear the audio I'm playing in iTunes or somewhere else while I have dictation enabled. How can I do that?
A: This preference was made visible in System Preferences, so you don't need to run Terminal commands any more. Go to the Accessibility preference pane, choose Dictation and disable Mute audio output while dictating.
A: You need to set some hidden preferences to make this work (OS X 10.9 - Mavericks). Open Terminal and enter the two commands below:
defaults write com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore AllowAudioDucking -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs DictationIMAllowAudioDucking -bool NO
After doing this turn off dictation in Systems Preferences, wait a few seconds and then re-enable it. You should now be able to dictate while audio is playing. I’ve only tried this while using a headset/headphones, it’s probably not advisable without. :)
To restore your system to it’s virginal state, run these commands in Terminal and then restart dictation:
defaults delete com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore AllowAudioDucking
defaults delete com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs DictationIMAllowAudioDucking
Found via: https://gist.github.com/rmangino/8388849
A: The program Audio Hijack Pro can handle this.
Add system audio on right, then press hijack 1st and mute 2nd.
A: It's possible to use Voice Control's voice dictation while listening to something on YouTube. At first it wasn't working on Google Chrome but I had to restart the app and now it's working.
The only weird thing is this voice dictation never really stopped so there is never a click sound that says voices dictation is over. Even though I clicked it on so maybe have to restart my whole system but as it stands this is what it does and it looks OK.
I also might mention that it disables it is the dictation button so that's kind of weird and even though I am using AirPods Pro it seems like it's not as tight of a voice dictation accuracy as the original voice dictation.
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522f1273e4cdd7f07fb98325f4bcc250dbd77905 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing text applied when duplicating file in Finder When duplicating files in the finder, OS X attaches a space followed by 'copy' to the file name. This can lead to some file alphabetizing problems and the copies may appear out of order (not directly subsequent to the original). Is there a way to change the appended text? I would prefer that it says '_1' or _copy. Thanks.
A: *
*Open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
Use Show Package Contents to browse the package in Finder, or open using Terminal, etc.
*Open Localizable.strings in BBEdit or other editor capable of editing .strings files.
*N4 contains the string that is used to name the duplicate file.
^0 copy
^0 is the previous file's name. Make sure to keep this to retain the name of the previous file.
*Edit the string how you wish. For example, to duplicate test as test_copy instead of test copy, use…
^0_copy
*Save and relaunch Finder.
killall -HUP Finder
| Q: Changing text applied when duplicating file in Finder When duplicating files in the finder, OS X attaches a space followed by 'copy' to the file name. This can lead to some file alphabetizing problems and the copies may appear out of order (not directly subsequent to the original). Is there a way to change the appended text? I would prefer that it says '_1' or _copy. Thanks.
A: *
*Open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
Use Show Package Contents to browse the package in Finder, or open using Terminal, etc.
*Open Localizable.strings in BBEdit or other editor capable of editing .strings files.
*N4 contains the string that is used to name the duplicate file.
^0 copy
^0 is the previous file's name. Make sure to keep this to retain the name of the previous file.
*Edit the string how you wish. For example, to duplicate test as test_copy instead of test copy, use…
^0_copy
*Save and relaunch Finder.
killall -HUP Finder
A: 2020: macOS Catalina Version
As mentioned above this is a hack and will disappear with the next update you do on your mac.
*
*Create a copy of the file specifying the Finder language specific texts. i.e. to the Desktop
cp /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings ~/Desktop/
*Open with BBEdit
bbedit ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings
*Search for <key>N4_V1</key> and replace <string>^=1 copy</string> as desired and described above and save the file.
*Disable rootless as shown here.
*
*Reboot with Command + R keys into Recovery Mode
*open a Terminal, disable rootless and restart
csrutil disable; reboot
*After reboot, make your Macintosh HD writeable as described here
sudo mount -uw /
killall Finder
*Copy your change file to the original location and restart Finder as mentioned above:
sudo cp ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
killall -HUP Finder
*Enable rootless as shown here.
*
*Reboot with Command + R keys into Recovery Mode
*open a Terminal, enable rootless and restart
csrutil enable; reboot
Enjoy a simplified workflow :-)
A: Option + drag a file into the same directory.
Or option + drag a file into the directory that contains a file with the same name and select keep both.
These actions will append a number "2" without the word copy. If a file with a "2" exists the Finder will append a "3" instead!
You could also multiple-select and then Option + drag into the same directory and the numbers will all increment nicely. It's beautiful.
A: Another option is duplicate the file and copy the text for its name to the clipboard for use later. Then select all the files you want to be numbered, adjust the sort column to make them in the order you'd like. Then still with the files selected right click and choose Rename...
Choose Format, Name and Index, After Name, Start at 1, paste your name text into Custom Format and add a space.
Now your files will all have a numbered suffix from 1 to x.
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c665eaee7e073c830f289f97c42bc8d7ad5acb9e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop Apple updates nagging me Apple updates keeps popping up notifications, and offers me 3 options for "Later".
How do I tell it "Never".
Some of these updates are for programs I have never used e.g. iMovie and Keynote.
I managed to hide Raw Camera updates with Option+Click but attempts to do this with Keynote, required me to logon, and then started download, which is now paused.
I have limited downloads, and don't want to waste on programs I will never use.
A: Open System Preferences -> App Store and disable "Automatically check for updates"
And other solution came to my mind; if you have programs that you never use and those are in App Store, then just delete those programs and install only if you need them.
| Q: How do I stop Apple updates nagging me Apple updates keeps popping up notifications, and offers me 3 options for "Later".
How do I tell it "Never".
Some of these updates are for programs I have never used e.g. iMovie and Keynote.
I managed to hide Raw Camera updates with Option+Click but attempts to do this with Keynote, required me to logon, and then started download, which is now paused.
I have limited downloads, and don't want to waste on programs I will never use.
A: Open System Preferences -> App Store and disable "Automatically check for updates"
And other solution came to my mind; if you have programs that you never use and those are in App Store, then just delete those programs and install only if you need them.
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52cab24403318c7b526d0910f5913b43ea6cd648 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to debug slow terminal prompt? Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, the Terminal prompt became a bit slower at coming back. It's not a huge deal, but there's now a slight noticeable delay before the prompt comes back (maybe like a quarter of a second) which gets annoying over time.
How would I debug this issue? Basically, is there a way to see what exactly it's doing in that time? What are common causes of such a slow down?
A: I was encountering a 5-second lag (!) between Terminal window creation and receiving a bash prompt. (This was on a fresh install of Mavericks on which I had copied user profiles from another machine.) I removed all the *.asl files in /private/var/log/asl/ as mentioned here, and it completely solved my lag issue. Thanks.
| Q: How to debug slow terminal prompt? Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, the Terminal prompt became a bit slower at coming back. It's not a huge deal, but there's now a slight noticeable delay before the prompt comes back (maybe like a quarter of a second) which gets annoying over time.
How would I debug this issue? Basically, is there a way to see what exactly it's doing in that time? What are common causes of such a slow down?
A: I was encountering a 5-second lag (!) between Terminal window creation and receiving a bash prompt. (This was on a fresh install of Mavericks on which I had copied user profiles from another machine.) I removed all the *.asl files in /private/var/log/asl/ as mentioned here, and it completely solved my lag issue. Thanks.
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736dd0e45b6ad2da2acb2b50e16c5d4f17d3e47a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Packet Filter (PF) firewall logging I have PF configured and working with rule sets that are logged.
Where is PF logging to? How do I check these logs? How do I configure them?
A: Packet filter doesn't log on any file. It does log on a network interface named pflog0 (a special device in Unix-lang), see
man pf.conf
You turn on this interface with:
/usr/bin/sudo ifconfig pflog0 create
You suppress it with:
/usr/bin/sudo ifconfig pflog0 destroy
You can follow what does packet filter logs on this interface with
tcpdump or wireshark.
Ex. :
/usr/bin/sudo tcpdump -i pflog0
If you want to go any further with PF and without writing your own configuration files, I highly recommand to test Murus.
| Q: Packet Filter (PF) firewall logging I have PF configured and working with rule sets that are logged.
Where is PF logging to? How do I check these logs? How do I configure them?
A: Packet filter doesn't log on any file. It does log on a network interface named pflog0 (a special device in Unix-lang), see
man pf.conf
You turn on this interface with:
/usr/bin/sudo ifconfig pflog0 create
You suppress it with:
/usr/bin/sudo ifconfig pflog0 destroy
You can follow what does packet filter logs on this interface with
tcpdump or wireshark.
Ex. :
/usr/bin/sudo tcpdump -i pflog0
If you want to go any further with PF and without writing your own configuration files, I highly recommand to test Murus.
A: Generally the PF log file would be stored in:
/var/log/
to tcpdump for example you might do:
tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog1
for more info do:
man pflog
A: For macOS 10.12 the tcpdump command for the logs appears to be broken. Wireshark can be used or Pfloggerd see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7905793
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d4e4e360d3e11e625b09b4429ec18ebc140c8ffb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is Wifi-Networking option under system location services in iOS 7? I've noticed an option called Wifi-networking and I can't seem to figure out what it does, exactly.
A:
Crowd-sourced Wi-Fi and cellular Location Services
If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to augment Apple's crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations. In addition, if you're traveling (for example, in a car) and Location Services is on, a GPS-enabled iOS device will also periodically send GPS locations and travel speed information in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to be used for building up Apple's crowd-sourced road traffic database. The crowd-sourced location data gathered by Apple doesn't personally identify you.
iOS 7: Understanding Location Services
See also How to Protect Private Info Stored on Your iPhone.
| Q: What is Wifi-Networking option under system location services in iOS 7? I've noticed an option called Wifi-networking and I can't seem to figure out what it does, exactly.
A:
Crowd-sourced Wi-Fi and cellular Location Services
If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to augment Apple's crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations. In addition, if you're traveling (for example, in a car) and Location Services is on, a GPS-enabled iOS device will also periodically send GPS locations and travel speed information in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to be used for building up Apple's crowd-sourced road traffic database. The crowd-sourced location data gathered by Apple doesn't personally identify you.
iOS 7: Understanding Location Services
See also How to Protect Private Info Stored on Your iPhone.
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6973909e1948f60e9139aefece1124fb9dc32089 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disk Utility does not show OK message after Verify Disk Rebooted and Verified Disk twice. There is no OK message and stops here:
Is it a new behaviour under Mavericks, or something wrong? How can I fix it?
A: As stated above, this is a known bug issue. However, booting to the recovery partition (CMD + R while booting up) or by holding down Option to boot to a USB recovery drive (for those of us with home-brew FusionDrives who haven't gotten around to setting up a Recovery partition again), the process seems to complete without issue.
| Q: Disk Utility does not show OK message after Verify Disk Rebooted and Verified Disk twice. There is no OK message and stops here:
Is it a new behaviour under Mavericks, or something wrong? How can I fix it?
A: As stated above, this is a known bug issue. However, booting to the recovery partition (CMD + R while booting up) or by holding down Option to boot to a USB recovery drive (for those of us with home-brew FusionDrives who haven't gotten around to setting up a Recovery partition again), the process seems to complete without issue.
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6de16c6b33c69307bec4159e89c7e328900a46c5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I transfer everything I have stored on my phone to iCloud storage? I need to free up space to update my iPhone 4 (8 GB) to iOS 7. I have purchased 25 GB of storage for iCloud.
Is it possible to move everything that is in the phone to the iCloud storage, so I can have room to update? I have been deleting pictures. Instead, can I move them to my iCloud storage?
A: No - not directly, iCloud is not general purpose storage like Amazon S3 or Dropbox offers where you can push files to the store and then delete them and transfer back.
Yes - indirectly, you could ensure your iCloud backup holds everything you care about, turn off backups, delete enough things to run the update and then immediately erase all content and settings to restore the entire backup to your device.
There isn't a good way to actually test that your iCloud backup is complete other than restoring it to a new device since you have to erase your primary device to then get to the restore.
| Q: Can I transfer everything I have stored on my phone to iCloud storage? I need to free up space to update my iPhone 4 (8 GB) to iOS 7. I have purchased 25 GB of storage for iCloud.
Is it possible to move everything that is in the phone to the iCloud storage, so I can have room to update? I have been deleting pictures. Instead, can I move them to my iCloud storage?
A: No - not directly, iCloud is not general purpose storage like Amazon S3 or Dropbox offers where you can push files to the store and then delete them and transfer back.
Yes - indirectly, you could ensure your iCloud backup holds everything you care about, turn off backups, delete enough things to run the update and then immediately erase all content and settings to restore the entire backup to your device.
There isn't a good way to actually test that your iCloud backup is complete other than restoring it to a new device since you have to erase your primary device to then get to the restore.
A: You could use iCloud Photo Library and turn on optimize Storage.
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804b064beb1216e668cddffc98fbac11f2506bf4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Connect to FTP server in Finder not working I can get to my FTP server just fine from the command line but I cannot get to it from Finder. When I am in Finder and I "Connect to Server" and enter ftp://192.168.125.128/, then my credentials when prompted, it gives me the error:
There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.125.128".
The share does not exist on the server. Please check the share name, and then try again.
I can however connect to it anonymously just fine, which is frustrating, because as stated before, I am able to log in just fine and browse around from the command line using my credentials.
ftp 192.168.125.128
Connected to 192.168.125.128.
220 (vsFTPd 2.3.5)
Name (192.168.125.128:name):
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||26727|).
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Dec 12 14:38 yadayada
Is there something else I need to do with Finder?
A: Use username+domain instead username@domain
Example:
ftp://username+domain.com:[email protected]
| Q: Connect to FTP server in Finder not working I can get to my FTP server just fine from the command line but I cannot get to it from Finder. When I am in Finder and I "Connect to Server" and enter ftp://192.168.125.128/, then my credentials when prompted, it gives me the error:
There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.125.128".
The share does not exist on the server. Please check the share name, and then try again.
I can however connect to it anonymously just fine, which is frustrating, because as stated before, I am able to log in just fine and browse around from the command line using my credentials.
ftp 192.168.125.128
Connected to 192.168.125.128.
220 (vsFTPd 2.3.5)
Name (192.168.125.128:name):
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||26727|).
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Dec 12 14:38 yadayada
Is there something else I need to do with Finder?
A: Use username+domain instead username@domain
Example:
ftp://username+domain.com:[email protected]
A: I figured out the problem. I sniffed the traffic from my computer to the FTP server and saw traffic go through when I connected as a guest. I did not, however, see any traffic when I connected as myself. No traffic whatsoever was going through. On a whim, I tried a blank password and saw traffic going through! After changing my password on the FTP server I was successfully able to connect with Finder. It apparently had something to do with my password??? I played around to see what the exact problem was with my password and, at the risk of revealing too much information about my security credentials, found that any password with an '@' symbol in it caused Finder to immediately display that error and not even try to send any traffic to the FTP server.
A: This seems to also impact cPanel FTP user accounts which mandate the addition of the domain name after the username (e.g. [email protected]). This is particularly true for hosting sites like GoDaddy and others who have moved to cPanel on the Linux hosting accounts.
A: You need to be sure your path ends with forward slash '/'
ftp://username:[email protected]/
A: The solution to the cpanel problem that mandate an @ in the username (i.e. user@domain) is to use a separate ftp program like "FileZilla" which has a version for mac.
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9271ec4d4c13c9171791bbfdde1a3d1a31ff0c4a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Word for Mac: how to increase/decrease font size with (laptop) keyboard? Again, title says it all.
On a normal Mac keyboard, shortcuts for font increase/decrease are:
SHIFT CMD < - decrease
SHIFT CMD > - increase
However, on a laptop keyboard the latter doesn't work. I just can't reach the ">" key while CMD pressed. Turn on the keyboard viewer and see for yourself.
I press SHIFT, the "<" turns to ">", so far so good... but once i press CMD (while still holding SHIFT), it goes back to "<" so I can only decrease font size, but not increase.
These shortcuts are speeding up the workflow tremendously, I wan't 'em! :-)
Any suggestions? Thanx...
A: Microsoft Word for Mac 2019 now has built-in shortcuts for this:
⌘ Command+] increases the font size by one step
⌘ Command+[ decreases the font size by one step
| Q: Word for Mac: how to increase/decrease font size with (laptop) keyboard? Again, title says it all.
On a normal Mac keyboard, shortcuts for font increase/decrease are:
SHIFT CMD < - decrease
SHIFT CMD > - increase
However, on a laptop keyboard the latter doesn't work. I just can't reach the ">" key while CMD pressed. Turn on the keyboard viewer and see for yourself.
I press SHIFT, the "<" turns to ">", so far so good... but once i press CMD (while still holding SHIFT), it goes back to "<" so I can only decrease font size, but not increase.
These shortcuts are speeding up the workflow tremendously, I wan't 'em! :-)
Any suggestions? Thanx...
A: Microsoft Word for Mac 2019 now has built-in shortcuts for this:
⌘ Command+] increases the font size by one step
⌘ Command+[ decreases the font size by one step
A: OK, I've found the answer. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to any Word 2011 command. Go to Tools, then Customize Keyboard. Choose Format category. Find GrowFont and assign a keyboard shortcut to it. Find ShrinkFont and assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
I assigned CMD+SHIFT+Arrow keys (up to grow, down to shrink).
They make no conflicts to me, and they are Word only.
These two single keyboard shortcuts make worlds of difference when editing docs.
A: Ctrl+[ increases the font size by one point.
Ctrl+] decreases the font size by one point.
A: *
*Increase the font size: ⌘-+
*Decrease the font size: ⌘--
A: Quite often this type of command, using keys with punctuation rather than just letters, is language-dependant.
Also, quite often, the physical key is in the same place as it would be in English, making the actual keystroke generated different.
Here are common examples of key-stroke types where the generated character changes, but the position remains the same.
These are common pairing positions for many key command 'sets'. It's recommended if you are using a non-English language you try these positions on your own keyboard, ignoring the actual characters printed on them.
The two on the left are different in ANSI [US] & ISO [UK English & variants for rest of the world]
A: Increase the font size : COMMAND + SHIFT + >
Decrease the font size : COMMAND + SHIFT + <
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baf7bb54da068e8cb657e45cfa616b1b5dc690c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make a Mac mini and MacBook Pro work together (one keyboard for two Macs)? I have one MacBook Pro and two monitors (One monitor and one TV. Both of them are connected to my MacBook Pro).
I use this MacBook for business and development work. I would like to simultaneously use this MacBook for development work and one Mac mini I do not have yet for business work.
I want to be able to use the keyboard + Trackpad of my MacBook Pro for my MacBook and my Mac mini. I also want to display the Mac mini output on one of my two monitors (not on the built-in MacBook Pro display).
Any idea how I could set this up?
A: Synergy is amazing! You can check it out at http://synergy-foss.org/ it's pretty great software! I use it in my office to use one Keyboard and Mouse for a bunch of machines I have. Even works between OSX, Linux and PCs.
Check out the site... http://synergy-foss.org/ It is a free download! It's pretty awesome stuff. Hope this helps!
| Q: How to make a Mac mini and MacBook Pro work together (one keyboard for two Macs)? I have one MacBook Pro and two monitors (One monitor and one TV. Both of them are connected to my MacBook Pro).
I use this MacBook for business and development work. I would like to simultaneously use this MacBook for development work and one Mac mini I do not have yet for business work.
I want to be able to use the keyboard + Trackpad of my MacBook Pro for my MacBook and my Mac mini. I also want to display the Mac mini output on one of my two monitors (not on the built-in MacBook Pro display).
Any idea how I could set this up?
A: Synergy is amazing! You can check it out at http://synergy-foss.org/ it's pretty great software! I use it in my office to use one Keyboard and Mouse for a bunch of machines I have. Even works between OSX, Linux and PCs.
Check out the site... http://synergy-foss.org/ It is a free download! It's pretty awesome stuff. Hope this helps!
A: I think you could use something like teleport or alike.
A: I have a similar use case where I need to work concurrently on a MacBook Pro and a Mac mini. I like to have the convenience of using the MacBook Pro's built-in keyboard to control both the MacBook as well as the Mac mini. I leverage Screen Sharing feature built into macOS. Here's how can set it up:
Both the MacBook Pro and the Mac mini needs to be connected to the same network. On the Mac mini, go to System Preference → Sharing and turn on Screen Sharing.
Now, on your MacBook Pro, under Network, you should be able to locate the Mac mini with the name set for Computer Name: as shown above. Click on Share Screen.. and you should be able to see you Mac mini's screen in a window.
Move the window to one of the external monitors and make it go full screen. This way, you can have a seamless experience switching between your MacBook and Mac mini while using a single keyboard and Trackpad.
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a999c7be2ac0bb259559d330d7720b66224cbfba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Battery diagnostic tool at Apple Genius Bars I have a one-year old iPhone 5 and it's battery performance has dramatically decreased over the last few months. As I could use my iPhone for over 24 hours a year ago, the lifespan has halved by now.
I'm not interested in the reason why or answers like "it's normal", but in the following. A friend of mine told me Apple has a diagnostic tool at it's Genius bars to check the health of the battery. Is this a rumor or is the tool real? And if so, can it be bought by consumers (I don't thinks so, but you never know :))
A: You can get the battery information that the Apple Genius gets by installing iBackupBot.
*
*Open iBackupBot
*Plugin your iOS device
*Select your device under Devices on the left
*Select More Information
*See Battery details - your battery is in good health if FullChargeCapacity (health of your battery) is near DesignCapacity
| Q: Battery diagnostic tool at Apple Genius Bars I have a one-year old iPhone 5 and it's battery performance has dramatically decreased over the last few months. As I could use my iPhone for over 24 hours a year ago, the lifespan has halved by now.
I'm not interested in the reason why or answers like "it's normal", but in the following. A friend of mine told me Apple has a diagnostic tool at it's Genius bars to check the health of the battery. Is this a rumor or is the tool real? And if so, can it be bought by consumers (I don't thinks so, but you never know :))
A: You can get the battery information that the Apple Genius gets by installing iBackupBot.
*
*Open iBackupBot
*Plugin your iOS device
*Select your device under Devices on the left
*Select More Information
*See Battery details - your battery is in good health if FullChargeCapacity (health of your battery) is near DesignCapacity
A: You can get access to the diagnostic data that the iOS Diagnostics tool sends by following these instructions: http://www.lyonanderson.org/blog/2014/02/06/ios-power-diagnostics/
There's a lot of data to through, but you may find something useful.
A: Users running jaibroken devices can find this information using an app from Cydia called BatteryLife.
A: It is real.
One of the Genius perform the diagnosis right in front of me. If memory serves, it goes like this:
*
*With your iPhone, or whichever iDevice, connected to the Apple Store's wifi, "Apple Store", open Safari, and connect to URL "diagnosis.apple.com" (or diagnostics)
*A page will show up, with a text entry bar for the Genius to enter a verification code.
*The genius will pull up a page from his "Genius" iPod touch, (the one with bar code scanner), and possibly clicked a certain icon, which leads him to the verification code. I assume that the verification code is changing over time.
*After entering the code into your device, there goes the diagnosis page.
In the brief moment he was looking at my iPhone, I was able to see the maximum capacity (by design) and the capacity left, which is 98% in my case. By this figure he will determine whether your iPhone's battery needs a replacement. If not, he will suggest that you restore the iPhone and the battery issue (if any) will likely go away.
I asked the Genius whether that's a secret page, he just calmly answered that it's just a tool for them to do the diagnosis.
So no, you cannot purchase it, as it is simply an internal webpage which requires Genius verification.
As a side note, informed by the same Genius, the easiest way to tell whether your battery/system has problem with battery life is to go to Settings - General - Usage in your device.
Look at the "Time Since Last Full Charge" section, it tells you how long the device has been used and how long it has been on standby. If the two figure are very close, e.g. 2 hours for usage and 2 hours 10 minutes for standby. But you clearly remember that you haven't been "using" the device for 2 hours, but only let in stay in sleep mode. This means that something running in the background is draining your power, and your device is never sleeping.
In this case, the Genius will suggest that you restore the iPhone (and restore from iCloud or iTunes if you wish) and the problem will most likely go away.
==============
Update
After visiting the Genius bar again, I saw a genius helping a customer on similar issue and I took a picture.
Instead of connecting to some normal URL in safari, a link in the format of "diags://#####" would be generated and visited by the device in question.
A: https://getsupport.apple.com/Issues.action
You can run the diagnostics tool there. My phone has been randomly shutting down when it still has around 20 - 30% battery left, and after running the diagnostics tool it said my iPhone 5 has a 'Power issue'.
It doesn't give much more information than that, but I have an appointment at the store this week. I'm not sure what they will do, as I've had it now for just over a year.
A: The iOS Diag tool is an internal installed app, it displays information such as thermal information, intensive battery information (deeper on iOS 7), call drops, crash reports a few other things that aren't customer facing knowledge.
Mr Rabbit's description is spot on. its also only available on the Apple instore wifi
A: I was having the same standby and usage time under Settings -> General -> Usage and found a report like this when connecting my iPhone 5S to Xcode:
Incident Identifier: 941F209C-EC9B-49B8-B796-F9B07543E9ED
CrashReporter Key: 182e9824ae5047b9b2f2fe5e88777bc89fd945ec
Date: 2014-04-19 02:48:06 -0300
OS Version: iPhone OS 7.1 (11D167)
locationd: com.apple.locationd.NetworkProvider.15fd3dec0 NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:03
backboardd: quicklookd[204]-com.apple.mediaremoted.relayxpcmessage [0x17826f4c0]
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:06
backboardd: Music[285]-com.apple.mediaremote.sendremotecommand [0x17007e380]
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:06
backboardd: Skype[129]-Called by Skype, from unknown method [0x1702708c0]
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:02:32
backboardd: BriaVoip[132]-132 [0x17026e780]
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 11:01:09
SpringBoard: com.apple.springboard.idle
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:17
dataaccessd: com.apple.persistentconnection[dataaccessd,100,2B8234AA-88C3-4010-BEED-C4C6DB1FC7BC-PendingSimpleTimer(0x1310cb150)]
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:04
apsd: com.apple.apsd-outgoingmessage
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:03
mediaserverd: com.apple.audio.pid-16.keypress.isprewarmed
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 00:00:06
mediaserverd: com.apple.audio.VAD Aggregate Device UID 15.isrunning
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 05:35:14
mediaserverd: com.apple.audio.AudioSession-132(com.counterpath.bv).isplaying
NoIdleSleepAssertion == 255, held for 09:42:08
Hardware Model: N51AP
Awake Time: 27:14:44 (98084)
Standby Time: 27:14:44 (98084)
Partial Charge: 1
Capacity: 0
Voltage: 3370 mV
I don't know if you can force this report to generate, but it was very helpful to determine that Bria (a VOIP soft phone I need for my work) was preventing the device from sleeping, even after rebooting the device. So I force quit the app and now my battery isn't draining overnight.
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ded4f2861d459934e370d3ea2974f3b3fd1a3e00 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I disable tabs in the Finder? I frequently use command-click in the titlebar to open the parent folder of a folder in the Finder. In Mavericks, instead of opening a new window with the same view style, it opens a new tab in "column" view.
Is there any way to disable Finder tabs? I don't want them, ever, and especially not when command-clicking a titlebar.
A: Finder → Preferences → General → uncheck Open folders in tabs instead of new windows
| Q: Can I disable tabs in the Finder? I frequently use command-click in the titlebar to open the parent folder of a folder in the Finder. In Mavericks, instead of opening a new window with the same view style, it opens a new tab in "column" view.
Is there any way to disable Finder tabs? I don't want them, ever, and especially not when command-clicking a titlebar.
A: Finder → Preferences → General → uncheck Open folders in tabs instead of new windows
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d8e6a9622f649562019c7d66fda109c8cae0bbdd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Linking manuals from Homebrew Whenever I install a software with Homebrew and I try to view the manual I get an error stating:
No manual entry for <name of program>.
As an example, wget: when I type
$ man wget
No manual entry for wget
So, I'm wondering how to link the man pages so I can view them with the command.
A: If you installed Homebrew with standard install directories, i.e. relatives to /usr/local,
there are 2 commands to register the binaries and man files to be used:
/usr/bin/sudo -s
echo /usr/local/bin >/etc/paths.d/homebrew
echo /usr/local/share/man >/etc/manpaths.d/homebrew
exit
Replace /usr/local with /opt in recent versions of MacOS where /usr is protected against writing.
If you are using bash or zsh as your actual shell, you will have to enter one simple command to take into account these 2 environment modifications:
. /etc/profile
If you want to learn more how these 2 directories are used under
MacOS X, read:
man path_helper
| Q: Linking manuals from Homebrew Whenever I install a software with Homebrew and I try to view the manual I get an error stating:
No manual entry for <name of program>.
As an example, wget: when I type
$ man wget
No manual entry for wget
So, I'm wondering how to link the man pages so I can view them with the command.
A: If you installed Homebrew with standard install directories, i.e. relatives to /usr/local,
there are 2 commands to register the binaries and man files to be used:
/usr/bin/sudo -s
echo /usr/local/bin >/etc/paths.d/homebrew
echo /usr/local/share/man >/etc/manpaths.d/homebrew
exit
Replace /usr/local with /opt in recent versions of MacOS where /usr is protected against writing.
If you are using bash or zsh as your actual shell, you will have to enter one simple command to take into account these 2 environment modifications:
. /etc/profile
If you want to learn more how these 2 directories are used under
MacOS X, read:
man path_helper
A: Add eval "$(brew shellenv)" into ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
see brew shellenv output:
$ brew shellenv
export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew";
export HOMEBREW_CELLAR="/opt/homebrew/Cellar";
export HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY="/opt/homebrew";
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin${PATH+:$PATH}";
export MANPATH="/opt/homebrew/share/man${MANPATH+:$MANPATH}:";
export INFOPATH="/opt/homebrew/share/info:${INFOPATH:-}";
man brew and find keywords shellenv:
shellenv Print export statements. When run in a shell, this installation of Homebrew will be added to your PATH, MANPATH, and INFOPATH.
The variables HOMEBREW_PREFIX, HOMEBREW_CELLAR and HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY are also exported to avoid querying them multiple
times. To help guarantee idempotence, this
command produces no output when Homebrew´s bin and sbin directories are first and second respectively in your PATH. Consider
adding evaluation of this command´s output
to your dotfiles (e.g. ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zprofile) with: eval "$(brew shellenv)"
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47241eb5e487352eac28a4e1a749380cc832be3c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't select option in OSX Utilities I'm having a pretty bizarre problem in OSX Mavericks. I'm attempting to install a fresh version of the OS, so I boot to OSX Utilities (Cmd+R). The option that I'm looking for is listed (re-install operating system), but I can't select it or anything else from the list.
I can move the mouse around, but clicking does not work. I tried with both the trackpad as well as a USB mouse. I can navigate through the options with the arrow keys, but pressing enter has no effect.
How the heck am I supposed to do anything from the utilities?
A: To get around this problem I went to the option I wanted with the arrow keys then got frustrated when I couldn`t click.
What I proceeded to do was start in the bottom right with the options key and push all the buttons across and up the next two rows skipping the Cap Locks. The continue button then illuminated. To then select it I pushed the space bar. Hope this works
| Q: Can't select option in OSX Utilities I'm having a pretty bizarre problem in OSX Mavericks. I'm attempting to install a fresh version of the OS, so I boot to OSX Utilities (Cmd+R). The option that I'm looking for is listed (re-install operating system), but I can't select it or anything else from the list.
I can move the mouse around, but clicking does not work. I tried with both the trackpad as well as a USB mouse. I can navigate through the options with the arrow keys, but pressing enter has no effect.
How the heck am I supposed to do anything from the utilities?
A: To get around this problem I went to the option I wanted with the arrow keys then got frustrated when I couldn`t click.
What I proceeded to do was start in the bottom right with the options key and push all the buttons across and up the next two rows skipping the Cap Locks. The continue button then illuminated. To then select it I pushed the space bar. Hope this works
A: After you highlight the option you want with the arrow keys, press the "tab" button to highlight "continue" and then press spacebar to select.
A: Click Harder!
Im not joking. Im experiencing the same issue, tab and space works good too. But I noticed that if I click the trackpad harder and for up to 5 seconds the click eventually registers.
Perhaps the trackpad needs some tuning that doesnt happen in recovery mode.
This is on a 2011 mac book pro with El Captian.
A: As per the above - I had this issue, but I found that although I couldn't 'tap' on my trackpad, I could 'click' (press on bottom left of pad). Alternatively, the Tab key will move the cursor between sections of the window, arrow keys high-light an item within it, and the space bar selects it
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9ca80dd63be0825feed58d1360ff5df9114fb16e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to use Sublime Text with the built-in Apple spellchecker Question in title. Is it possible at all with Sublime Text 3?
Now I can download different spellcheck packages or use the built-in ST spellchecker. However, I would like to use the Mac OS spellchecker as it does a great job in auto-correction and auto-detection of language.
I'm on the last Mountain Lion with Sublime Text 3.
Edit:
I found a plug-in that interfaces with the Apple Spellchecker. It's called CheckBounce. Unfortunately it's broken with the current version of Sublime Text. So any alternatives are still welcome.
A: Old post, but by now a plugin exists that interfaces with OS X's built-in spell checker.
See
https://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11692.
Haven't tried it myself yet, but will now!
| Q: How to use Sublime Text with the built-in Apple spellchecker Question in title. Is it possible at all with Sublime Text 3?
Now I can download different spellcheck packages or use the built-in ST spellchecker. However, I would like to use the Mac OS spellchecker as it does a great job in auto-correction and auto-detection of language.
I'm on the last Mountain Lion with Sublime Text 3.
Edit:
I found a plug-in that interfaces with the Apple Spellchecker. It's called CheckBounce. Unfortunately it's broken with the current version of Sublime Text. So any alternatives are still welcome.
A: Old post, but by now a plugin exists that interfaces with OS X's built-in spell checker.
See
https://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11692.
Haven't tried it myself yet, but will now!
A: Sublime Text is tried to be cross-platform and as there is no built-in auto-correction functionality in other platforms, so if I was the programmer, I wouldn't relay on a feature present only in one of my target platforms and would implement the feature built-in my program to be portable to other platforms.
I love that feature of OS X too, but unfortunately I don't think if that would be possible in your case. :)
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49a22d837c6f4b62eb07948a66ed4318b0a35b4c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Seamless listening from iPhone to iMac? Is there any way to synchronise music playback position between iOS and OS X, so that I can go from listening to a song on my iPhone, then continue listening to it at the same place on my computer when I open it?
A: Yes there is. By using iPhone app called Seamless.
| Q: Seamless listening from iPhone to iMac? Is there any way to synchronise music playback position between iOS and OS X, so that I can go from listening to a song on my iPhone, then continue listening to it at the same place on my computer when I open it?
A: Yes there is. By using iPhone app called Seamless.
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09ea9efdcbb95c2068ade5c2647307ff1413ac01 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use Airplay without Apple TV or Airport I have my PC, IPad and a AirPlay compatible speaker
My question is:
Can I use AirPlay to hear my IPad music in my speaker only with ITunes software only, or I need necessarily to buy AppleTV or an AirPort in order to use AirPlay?
In order to use AirPlay is necessarily to have AppleTV o an AirPort??
A: Rogue Amoeba has a few applications that work together for this sort of thing. Check out Airfoil: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
| Q: Can I use Airplay without Apple TV or Airport I have my PC, IPad and a AirPlay compatible speaker
My question is:
Can I use AirPlay to hear my IPad music in my speaker only with ITunes software only, or I need necessarily to buy AppleTV or an AirPort in order to use AirPlay?
In order to use AirPlay is necessarily to have AppleTV o an AirPort??
A: Rogue Amoeba has a few applications that work together for this sort of thing. Check out Airfoil: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
A: If the speaker supports AirPlay then it should show up as an available destination device in control center regardless of what brand of router you are running.
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2c6c2557b0e01a386ed4c9ae14d52a889704ff9d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: “Warning: SUID file has been modified and will not be repaired” after repairing disk permissions
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
I keep getting this after running Disk Utility to repair permissions.
Will this cause problems?
A: Don't worry, this is one of the messages that are safe to ignore. For a full list, visit the Apple Knowledge Base article on this topic.
| Q: “Warning: SUID file has been modified and will not be repaired” after repairing disk permissions
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
I keep getting this after running Disk Utility to repair permissions.
Will this cause problems?
A: Don't worry, this is one of the messages that are safe to ignore. For a full list, visit the Apple Knowledge Base article on this topic.
A: It's simply telling you that the file has been modified, and because it's been modified Disk Utility can't fix the permissions on it.
ARDAgent.app is the Apple Remote Desktop agent, and the file shown in the path above is the binary file contained within the app package. It's normal for the file to be shown as an error here. Simply ignore it.
Apple KB article TS1448 details which error messages you can ignore in Disk Utility.
The error that you provided is shown in the list, so it can be safely ignored.
Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
*
*Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
A: Note that i made a wrong action by globally changing permissions in the var folder. After reinstalling system, still had problems to open dmg files
The DiskUtility announced the following issues :
Permissions differ on "private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles"; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwsr-s--T
Warning: SUID file "private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles" has been modified and will not be repaired
Permissions differ on "private/var/db/SystemPolicy"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are -rwsr-s--T
Warning: SUID file "private/var/db/SystemPolicy" has been modified and will not be repaired
Permissions differ on "private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd"; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwsr-sr-t
Warning: SUID file "private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd" has been modified and will not be repaired
Permissions differ on "private/var/db/locationd"; should be drwxr-x--- ; they are drwsr-s--T
Warning: SUID file "private/var/db/locationd" has been modified and will not be repaired
Permissions differ on "private/var/yp/binding"; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwsr-s--T
Warning: SUID file "private/var/yp/binding" has been modified and will not be repaired
After carefully reset the permissions by hand as DiskUtility would not do it by itself (why ? ), my problem was solved.
So i don't agree on what is written everywhere : those messages are important, and if you got bad permissions somewhere, you must correct them..
A: This error happened after I updated to the latest RDA from Apple. To track it down I did the following:
*
*Clean install of OS X 10.9.1
*Run "Repair Disk Permissions" - Nothing found
*Update iTunes to latest (and theoretically greatest)
*Run "Repair Disk Permissions" - Nothing found
*Update iBooks (another great piece of work)
*Run "Repair Disk Permissions" - Nothing found
*Update Remote Desktop Admin.
*Run "Repair Disk Permissions" - Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
*Run Repair Disk Permissions - Same results
*Go to System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement
*Rename RemoteManagement RemoteManagement-Bak
*Run "Repair Disk Permissions" - Nothing found (I did not reboot after renaming the directory so if the file is active (and it doesn't show up in Activity Monitor, so I'm not overly convinced that it is), why did it not give me the same error message?
Now, I don't want to jump to conclusions here, but I somehow think the problem is in the RDA upgrade. I never had that error message before (starting with 10.7) but I had it after the upgrade.
Oh, as a side note: Before I renamed that directory and made the error message go away, I booted into single user mode and ran Disk Utility and had the exact same error message.
I then booted from a USB install drive and ran Disk Utility once again, same results. Now if this error is caused because the file is open, why did it not show up on the first run of "Repair Disk Permissions"before I did the updates? Why did it only show up after the update was performed? I may not be Einstein, but I know that 2+2=3.9999999 more or less...and this is a RDA update = error message.
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e1b5c4f483680e527e535785b21cf93b4bddf5c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: FaceTime Calls from Contacts Only? Is there a way to only allow facetime calls from people in your address book?
A: Not really.
On OS X, I wasn't able to find any possibility of doing this. I'm eager to be proven wrong on that point, of course.
On iOS, you can kinda do it - by abusing Do Not Disturb. Following these steps will, of course, make it so that your device won't show you notifications. At all.
Really want to do this? Ok, let's get started:
*
*Find your Do Not Disturb preferences.
*
*iOS 5/6: Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb
*iOS 7: Settings > Do Not Disturb
*Manually turn on Do Not Disturb
*
*iOS 5/6: Root settings window, it's a switch.
*iOS 7: In the Do Not Disturb window, there's a 'Manual' switch. Activate it.
*Turn off Scheduling:
4. Select 'Allow calls from', and set it to 'All Contacts':
Optionally, disable the two-calls-in-three-minutes feature. I wouldn't though - it's kinda important for emergencies.
Now, your iOS device won't accept FaceTime calls from anyone not in your contacts - at the price of not being able to receive notifications, either.
| Q: FaceTime Calls from Contacts Only? Is there a way to only allow facetime calls from people in your address book?
A: Not really.
On OS X, I wasn't able to find any possibility of doing this. I'm eager to be proven wrong on that point, of course.
On iOS, you can kinda do it - by abusing Do Not Disturb. Following these steps will, of course, make it so that your device won't show you notifications. At all.
Really want to do this? Ok, let's get started:
*
*Find your Do Not Disturb preferences.
*
*iOS 5/6: Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb
*iOS 7: Settings > Do Not Disturb
*Manually turn on Do Not Disturb
*
*iOS 5/6: Root settings window, it's a switch.
*iOS 7: In the Do Not Disturb window, there's a 'Manual' switch. Activate it.
*Turn off Scheduling:
4. Select 'Allow calls from', and set it to 'All Contacts':
Optionally, disable the two-calls-in-three-minutes feature. I wouldn't though - it's kinda important for emergencies.
Now, your iOS device won't accept FaceTime calls from anyone not in your contacts - at the price of not being able to receive notifications, either.
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cfa35faa259328c80799427d5bfe520933ff4cd6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change default mail application without configuring mail.app I'd like to change my default application for handling mailto: links to be the gmail browser-based client. I'd like to do this without configuring the default mail.app. That means I cannot get to the mail.app preferences panel. Does anyone know how?
A: RCDefaultApp allows you to pipe mailto: links to an app different to the app you have set as the default mail app.
| Q: Change default mail application without configuring mail.app I'd like to change my default application for handling mailto: links to be the gmail browser-based client. I'd like to do this without configuring the default mail.app. That means I cannot get to the mail.app preferences panel. Does anyone know how?
A: RCDefaultApp allows you to pipe mailto: links to an app different to the app you have set as the default mail app.
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ebe1b9112d8532f716b4f4867b0f901e779cebd2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disk Utility won't allow me to delete and resize partitions I'm running OS X 10.9, and I had a linux partition when I updated from 10.8. Since I updated I can't boot on linux, which is no big deal for me. However, I would like to delete the partition that is left (Linux swap) and merge the free space that was created during the update with my mac partition.
But Disk Utility won't let me delete the Linux Swap and it won't let me change the number of partitions. I'm stuck with this configuration:
I haven't found a solution for this issue browsing the web and I don't want to "break" my disk, so thanks for your help!
A: i would try this:
first boot up you mac with a linux live cd.
then use gparted to remove those un needed partitions. (without resizing just delete what you don't need anymore).
now reboot into os x and now you schould be able to resize the os x partition case there is only free space no other partition formats wich os x can't handle.
| Q: Disk Utility won't allow me to delete and resize partitions I'm running OS X 10.9, and I had a linux partition when I updated from 10.8. Since I updated I can't boot on linux, which is no big deal for me. However, I would like to delete the partition that is left (Linux swap) and merge the free space that was created during the update with my mac partition.
But Disk Utility won't let me delete the Linux Swap and it won't let me change the number of partitions. I'm stuck with this configuration:
I haven't found a solution for this issue browsing the web and I don't want to "break" my disk, so thanks for your help!
A: i would try this:
first boot up you mac with a linux live cd.
then use gparted to remove those un needed partitions. (without resizing just delete what you don't need anymore).
now reboot into os x and now you schould be able to resize the os x partition case there is only free space no other partition formats wich os x can't handle.
A: *
*Use the recovery disk assistant to create a bootable USB
*Restart holding down the option key
*Boot from the USB
*Choose Disk Utility
*Delete the 04 partition then re-size your main partition
Disk Utility does not work if you do not boot from USB as the computer is then still using your 04 partition
A: I had the same problem on a Mac Book Pro from 2009 with Mac OS X 10.6.8. What I did to erase the partition was simply the following two steps:
*
*I reformatted and renamed the swap partition to be a Mac OS X filesystem
*I deleted the partition
Everything with the Disk utility provided by OS X. No need for reboots, backups, install CDs or anything of the like :)
A: I fixed this problem from the command line:
diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ Test /dev/diskname
The disk then unmounted and I was able to remove it in disk utility
A: Go into Disk Utility click on the partition of the Swap Space. Go to the "Erase" tab and erase it with the format Mac OS Extended. Then click on the hard drive and erase the partition.
A: "erase" the disk as MSDOS then you can delete it.
A: it is very easy to solve, do not need to boot or restar. I had same problem before. remember everything can be done with terminal.
you can use a command in terminal to reformat the partition to the default format to MAC os.I am sorry I cannot remember it.
Then you can do anything with this new generated partition using disk utility.
A: In Disk Utility, Just select the first partition and select the erase option.
You will then be able to re-create partitions
A: I tried the same above and it worked finally! Just select the disk (the partition) you want to get rid of > Erase as MSDOS and that's it!
A: This solved my problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4071769?tstart=0
good luck!
A: As Jash Jacob said, use diskutil - list the partitions, identify the troublesome ones, erase them (diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ Test /dev/diskname) changing "diskname" to your disk id which will look like "disk#s#".
Then, you can get back into the standard disk utility application and erase and remove the partitions.
Thanks Jash - you helped save me.
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be232c128d2bac3a13f5011aaa78fb6ff231d3ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Uploading app to app-store with same name for another developer id Let me explain clearly,
I have developed an application and created an app in the app-store with an apple developer id. But, not uploaded the binary version.
Now I need to upload the app with another apple id with the same name. I know if I delete the old one I can reuse the name with other id.
I need to know two things about this,
Is there any time gap required for using the name after deleting the old app(can I create immidietely after deleting the old app)?
Is it possible to use the same Bundle identifier that I used for the old one?
A: As the old app's binary version is not uploaded and reviewed, I just renamed that application and then used the name for the new developer id.
Apple accepts the name and the app is now in review.
| Q: Uploading app to app-store with same name for another developer id Let me explain clearly,
I have developed an application and created an app in the app-store with an apple developer id. But, not uploaded the binary version.
Now I need to upload the app with another apple id with the same name. I know if I delete the old one I can reuse the name with other id.
I need to know two things about this,
Is there any time gap required for using the name after deleting the old app(can I create immidietely after deleting the old app)?
Is it possible to use the same Bundle identifier that I used for the old one?
A: As the old app's binary version is not uploaded and reviewed, I just renamed that application and then used the name for the new developer id.
Apple accepts the name and the app is now in review.
A: Sorry but this can not be done
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e8b8d7981540bed3cf91807a55da274e4de76264 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to charge the MacBook Pro from 12 Volts? Aim: I would like to charge my MacBook Pro (MBP) form a 12V lead-acid battery. However there are no official chargers from Apple for that purpose. There exist quite some alternative products on the internet. For example this one simply comes with a MagSafe adapter and lets you choose 18V. However I am afraid that such a solution might hurt my battery.
Does anybody know how exactly the MBP battery is charged? Does it require a particular charge line? Is it OK to simply connect 18 Volts and see what happens?
A: If you connect 18 V to the power/ground pins, your Mac will be powered off the 12 V battery, but it won't charge: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/132332/26231
To charge, the laptop needs to identify the charger by communicating over the signal pin in the middle. http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-magsafe.html
Solution: Sacrifice an apple charger by cutting the cable and connecting the correct pins to your DC/DC converter. I recommend using the 45 W ones so your DC power supply doesn't have to be very big.
| Q: How to charge the MacBook Pro from 12 Volts? Aim: I would like to charge my MacBook Pro (MBP) form a 12V lead-acid battery. However there are no official chargers from Apple for that purpose. There exist quite some alternative products on the internet. For example this one simply comes with a MagSafe adapter and lets you choose 18V. However I am afraid that such a solution might hurt my battery.
Does anybody know how exactly the MBP battery is charged? Does it require a particular charge line? Is it OK to simply connect 18 Volts and see what happens?
A: If you connect 18 V to the power/ground pins, your Mac will be powered off the 12 V battery, but it won't charge: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/132332/26231
To charge, the laptop needs to identify the charger by communicating over the signal pin in the middle. http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-magsafe.html
Solution: Sacrifice an apple charger by cutting the cable and connecting the correct pins to your DC/DC converter. I recommend using the 45 W ones so your DC power supply doesn't have to be very big.
A: Use a DC to AC inverter.
You simply attach the alligator clips to the correct battery terminals, turn the device on and plug your cord into the inverter. It's that simple.
Amazon sells a 400 watt inverter for $25, that's all you'll need.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RNOHBC/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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eb40ee3f072cf6b6cc9bf4b4aa6254f788a92f3e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't click with trackpad or mouse (OS X 10.9, MacBook Pro) I have a new(ish) MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. When it boots up to the login screen it will let me move the cursor around, but it won't recognize click events.
I thought it was the trackpad, so I connected a wired mouse, and the symptoms persist.
After a little searching online I found that MacBook Pro owners have been having this same issue, and that Apple recommends closing the lid for 60 seconds, which causes some reset.
This has also worked for me, however, a few minutes into working, the cursor will stop accepting click events (even though I can still move it).
I can't keep closing and opening my lid every few minutes. Anyone got any ideas?
A: I just had this problem and was resetting SMC and all kinds of other things. Then realized I had set something on my Magic Trackpad under my monitor, which was registering a click obviously so killed all other clicking. Make sure you eliminate that possibility!
| Q: Can't click with trackpad or mouse (OS X 10.9, MacBook Pro) I have a new(ish) MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. When it boots up to the login screen it will let me move the cursor around, but it won't recognize click events.
I thought it was the trackpad, so I connected a wired mouse, and the symptoms persist.
After a little searching online I found that MacBook Pro owners have been having this same issue, and that Apple recommends closing the lid for 60 seconds, which causes some reset.
This has also worked for me, however, a few minutes into working, the cursor will stop accepting click events (even though I can still move it).
I can't keep closing and opening my lid every few minutes. Anyone got any ideas?
A: I just had this problem and was resetting SMC and all kinds of other things. Then realized I had set something on my Magic Trackpad under my monitor, which was registering a click obviously so killed all other clicking. Make sure you eliminate that possibility!
A: I just had this problem too. What fixed it for me was enabling the Mouse keys in "System Preferences->Accessibility->Mouse & Trackpad" with the option to press the option-key five times to toggle the feature. Once you have this enabled press the "i" key to single click.
I psuedo single clicked with the "i" key a few times and then my actual mouse clicks started working again.
A: Found a strange solution for the same issue with Mavericks on an iMac not clicking. However, while I couldn't click anything in the desktop, app windows or launchpad, I was able to click menu items.
My solution was simply to open the alert menu (default set to swipe two fingers from the very right edge of a trackpad, toward the left). The first time the menu appeared beneath the application windows, but the second time it moved the desktop and apps in normal fashion.
After that, I was able to click normally. Still don't know what caused the issue.
A: One of the most common causes of this is a magic mouse turned on in your laptop bag or somewhere similar.
Turning off bluetooth will ensure no remote button is being held down.
A: Typically they way I ask people to troubleshoot such problems is asking them if the issues exist using a freshly created new user account on the machine, and if the issues exist when they boot from the Recovery volume. If the answer to both is yes than the likelihood is that you have a hardware problem. If you don't experience the problem in a clean user account than you have an issue with your preferences or applications, and if you don't have the issue in the Recovery volume than you have a system wide issue a re-install will fix.
That said, if it's not a software problem cleared up by one of the above, I've seen similar issues that are hardware related where something presses up against the trackpad from underneath it. Sometimes this has been caused by a building battery in the MacBook, or something that has lodged underneath the trackpad. If there's pressure under the trackpad it will register as if the "mouse" is already clicked down and will also explain why adding another mouse or trackpad also exhibits the same problem.
Does the mousepad physically and noticeably "click" down when pressed? If not then it needs repaired of the issue underneath it fixed.
A: I thought I'd finally fixed the "mouse tracks but won't register clicks" issue by cleaning ALL battery contact points + & - in the belly of the mouse with rubbing alcohol on a swab. In my case, the + contacts were visibly "foggy"/dirty.
After doing so, clicking worked but my iMac behaved as if it wouldn't let go of the "down click" state, so, it lasso'd everything until I turned the mouse off. :(
SO, what actually WORKED was *holding down the POWER button on my Apple wireless keyboard" for a loooong time. Evidently, cycling the power on the wireless kybd "woke up" the proper functionality for my Apple Magic Mouse. (OF course, I trashed the various preference files before any of this, and un-paired & re-paired the bluetooth for the Magic Mouse). Turned my keyboard back on & now all is well... just had to re-enable the right-click functionality via Mouse System Preference.
A: I had the same problems as most of the statements and tried most of the suggestions to no avail. I finally reloaded Maverick, which takes a long time, using the Mac utilities. So far trackpad works like a charm. I don't know if Apple made some changes since Maverick first came out or the first load became corrupted but works great. Hope this helps as I know how frustrating the problem is.
A: I Just had the same problem with my Macbook. Could not left click using the mouse or trackpad. Although the pointer would move and the right click is working.
The solution for me is to take out the battery. Then, the left click and trackpad works fine.
Also noticed the battery had a large bulge in the middle. I'm sure this is putting pressure on the trackpad from underneath.
Good Luck,
Alan
A: What I surmise is that the Trackpad button is stuck clicking. This is disabling
the button on any USB mouse that I connect. The Rowmote iPhone app must use a different
comm HW/SW path. When I set the Accessability Preferences to ignore the trackpad when
a USB mouse is connected, the mouse button works after I close & open the laptop.
So I can use a USB mouse until I replace the top case of the MacBook.
This is kind of the reverse or the problem or a BT mouse being stuck on inside a bag or laptop case.
A: So, what worked for me:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist ControllerPowerState 0
ps -A | grep blue # find the blued process ID
sudo kill -9 PROCESS_ID_NUMBER
Some more commands from: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2619301?tstart=0
sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist ControllerPowerState
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist ControllerPowerState 0
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist ControllerPowerState 1
sudo killall blued
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.blued.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.blued.plist
sudo launchctl start com.apple.blued
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.blued
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cf64a1e849af286040b2688b935ea3ec3ed45a1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to recover missing notes since Mavericks update? Very recently I've updated my computer via the Mac App Store to Mavericks. Today when I opened Notes I noticed the background had changed but even more startling was that all my notes were gone! It shows "error 43".
I have an external hard drive and backed up my computer.
Is there any way to get my notes back?
A: The notes should be stored in your backup, at least. Check here
Solution is to navigate to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes and restore:
NotesV1.storedata
NotesV1.storedata-shm
NotesV1.storedata-wal
Where ~ is your home directory e.g. /Users/your_username
Refer macrumors
or apple discussions
for more info.
| Q: How to recover missing notes since Mavericks update? Very recently I've updated my computer via the Mac App Store to Mavericks. Today when I opened Notes I noticed the background had changed but even more startling was that all my notes were gone! It shows "error 43".
I have an external hard drive and backed up my computer.
Is there any way to get my notes back?
A: The notes should be stored in your backup, at least. Check here
Solution is to navigate to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes and restore:
NotesV1.storedata
NotesV1.storedata-shm
NotesV1.storedata-wal
Where ~ is your home directory e.g. /Users/your_username
Refer macrumors
or apple discussions
for more info.
A: This should fix the problem:
Note: If you do not have an Apple ID, that means your Notes are completely lost.
*
*Go to Finder.
*Click on Applications.
*Find System Preferences.
*Click on iCloud.
*Log in to your iCloud account if you have not logged in yet.
*Select the Notes checkbox.
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13174c7360a37e1f265f1bab5376222f08a0c08b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can entry duplicates (or multiples) in etc/hosts do any damage? Can entry duplicates in etc/hosts do any damage?
For example:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
# and stuff like that throughout the file
A: No, having duplicates is not a problem. Since the file is read in order, the first matching result is read, and the rest of the file is ignored. Having exact duplicates has no effect.
| Q: Can entry duplicates (or multiples) in etc/hosts do any damage? Can entry duplicates in etc/hosts do any damage?
For example:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
# and stuff like that throughout the file
A: No, having duplicates is not a problem. Since the file is read in order, the first matching result is read, and the rest of the file is ignored. Having exact duplicates has no effect.
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291ccbc651508cf706316fd5c088482613bc284e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I move spaces between external monitors in Mavericks? I have a new (late 2013) MBP that I use with an external monitor. Annoyingly, when I plug/unplug the monitor, arbitrary spaces end up being fixed to either the internal or external monitor. Going to mission control doesn't appear to let me move spaces from one monitor to another, so I have to manually shuffle around each window. Is there a keyboard shortcut (or something) I'm missing to move spaces between monitors?
Thanks!
A: TotalSpaces allows you to assign spaces and their contents to specific monitors.
| Q: How can I move spaces between external monitors in Mavericks? I have a new (late 2013) MBP that I use with an external monitor. Annoyingly, when I plug/unplug the monitor, arbitrary spaces end up being fixed to either the internal or external monitor. Going to mission control doesn't appear to let me move spaces from one monitor to another, so I have to manually shuffle around each window. Is there a keyboard shortcut (or something) I'm missing to move spaces between monitors?
Thanks!
A: TotalSpaces allows you to assign spaces and their contents to specific monitors.
A: You can only move spaces which are non-active.
For example, lets say you have spaces 1 and 2. If space 1 is active, you can not move it. You first have to select space 2 then you can move space 1 to a different monitor.
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49070e37416f575dee69f3dc1dfbc9dd5bac1212 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX Mavericks and OSX Lion Login Server At work, we are required to login to our work stations via an OSX Lion Server. I now need to update my iMac to Mavericks (for iOS7 and Xcode 5 support). Will the server need to be updated as well? If so, will every Mac in the office need to be upgraded as well (we are trying to avoid this scenario)?
A: Updating Server.app is not really necessary. OS X Mavericks clients are backward compatible with OS X Lion Server, in the same way Mavericks Server is backward compatible with Lion clients. It is only required to update Server.app if you want the new features available in the updated OS X Server, or if you wish to upgrade the host OS on the server (i.e. Lion Server.app is not compatible with OS X Mavericks).
| Q: OSX Mavericks and OSX Lion Login Server At work, we are required to login to our work stations via an OSX Lion Server. I now need to update my iMac to Mavericks (for iOS7 and Xcode 5 support). Will the server need to be updated as well? If so, will every Mac in the office need to be upgraded as well (we are trying to avoid this scenario)?
A: Updating Server.app is not really necessary. OS X Mavericks clients are backward compatible with OS X Lion Server, in the same way Mavericks Server is backward compatible with Lion clients. It is only required to update Server.app if you want the new features available in the updated OS X Server, or if you wish to upgrade the host OS on the server (i.e. Lion Server.app is not compatible with OS X Mavericks).
A: Are you asking if your workstation (client) iMac can be upgraded to Mavericks and still retain the functionality of accessing your user account / files / etc provided by the Lion Server?
If so then yes. The only functionality that the central Lion Server couldn't provide to you is the Software Update Server, where software updates are cached by and served out from your office's server. In order to retain the Software Update Server, and possible Caching server, functionality you would need to update the Lion Server to Mavericks.
Aside from that you should still be able to access your network user account, shared files, etc from the Lion Server using your iMac running Mavericks.
Source: I currently have 9 Mavericks clients accessing our central Mac Pro running Mountain Lion server. Software Update Server is the only function of the server that doesn't work with the Mavericks clients. For software updates I upgraded an old secondary Mac mini server to Mavericks and installed the 3.0 Server client, the only service that is active is Software Update Server and only the Mavericks clients pull from it.
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677dc57880bd7e817917e4370fce227a313c5396 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use US English keyboard layout with dead keys in Mavericks similar to those from Windows and Linux? I read here that "The standard U.S. layout has a few dead key stated under ⌥". Does that mean that pressing Alt+that key would make that key act as a dead one?
I am looking for a layout that uses as dead keys the symbols that look like accents before the letters that one wants accented, like the "US-International" in Win7 and "English-US, with dead keys" in Ubuntu-Linux. In these layouts, the keys for ` , ' , ^ , " are dead. After them, Space key brings the character as such, while something like e will bring è, é, ê, ë respectively.
Are there such keyboard layouts for Mac? (I am very new to the system.)
(I am not looking for answers like "use this app and create your own layouts".)
A: The answer to your new question is the US International PC layout provided by Apple.
| Q: Is it possible to use US English keyboard layout with dead keys in Mavericks similar to those from Windows and Linux? I read here that "The standard U.S. layout has a few dead key stated under ⌥". Does that mean that pressing Alt+that key would make that key act as a dead one?
I am looking for a layout that uses as dead keys the symbols that look like accents before the letters that one wants accented, like the "US-International" in Win7 and "English-US, with dead keys" in Ubuntu-Linux. In these layouts, the keys for ` , ' , ^ , " are dead. After them, Space key brings the character as such, while something like e will bring è, é, ê, ë respectively.
Are there such keyboard layouts for Mac? (I am very new to the system.)
(I am not looking for answers like "use this app and create your own layouts".)
A: The answer to your new question is the US International PC layout provided by Apple.
A: They don't normally produce absolutely nothing. You will usually see the accent mark in yellow when you press the dead key. Here is a list of standard accent dead keys
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemac.html#accent
That is:
For each accent, a certain different key has to be used along with the Option (Alt) key , before the letter that we want accented:
For example, for the accents with the letter O:
Acute accent (ó Ó) Option+E, o
Circumflex (ô Ô) Option+I, o
Grave (ò Ò) Option+`, o
Tilde (õ Õ) Option+N, o Only works with "n,o,a"
Umlaut (ö Ö) Option+U, o
Example 1: To input the letter ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. Release both keys then type lowercase o.
Example 2: To input the letter Ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. Release both keys then type capital O.
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591145ca1a32c12c659dbe9bcb3359f5b7138cd0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I increase text size in single-user mode? I spend a lot of time in single-user mode on our company Macs as part of my maintenance and OS mass-deployment work. We recently made our first foray into Retina display territory by purchasing some of the new MBPs: MacBook Pro Core i7 2.6Ghz 15-Inch (Dual Graphics - Late 2013 Retina Display), a.k.a. MacBookPro11,3.
When booting into single-user mode (Command-S) on these Retina display Macs, the text is ultra tiny -- I'm guessing because of the high pixel density of the display. My eyes are pretty decent, but I still find myself having to use a magnifying glass just to see what I'm typing. The font size used for the text is just ridiculously small.
Is there a command I can run to increase the text size, decrease the resolution, adjust the DPI, or otherwise "blow up" the text to a legible size in any way?
A:
This is going to be your experience with Single User mode until Apple rewrites the underlying code to allow it to understand what retina is.
Photo courtesy of Bev Sykes
| Q: How can I increase text size in single-user mode? I spend a lot of time in single-user mode on our company Macs as part of my maintenance and OS mass-deployment work. We recently made our first foray into Retina display territory by purchasing some of the new MBPs: MacBook Pro Core i7 2.6Ghz 15-Inch (Dual Graphics - Late 2013 Retina Display), a.k.a. MacBookPro11,3.
When booting into single-user mode (Command-S) on these Retina display Macs, the text is ultra tiny -- I'm guessing because of the high pixel density of the display. My eyes are pretty decent, but I still find myself having to use a magnifying glass just to see what I'm typing. The font size used for the text is just ridiculously small.
Is there a command I can run to increase the text size, decrease the resolution, adjust the DPI, or otherwise "blow up" the text to a legible size in any way?
A:
This is going to be your experience with Single User mode until Apple rewrites the underlying code to allow it to understand what retina is.
Photo courtesy of Bev Sykes
A: I know this is really old but I thought I might share the answer with y'all. The way Apple implements characters in the boot video mode is in pixels. There is an array of 0s and 1s that correspond to white and black respectively. Now since the Retina display has such high resolution, the density of those pixels will have a direct coincide with the size of the characters. For example, this is the implementation of capital A:
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
I hope this answers your question, and as joshfindit said, Apple would need to redesign the boot video mode if they were to fix this.
A: Do you really need single-user mode? If so, why?
You should be able to use the Recovery partition to do much of the same, and possibly also dump the contents of that partition to make it PXE bootable for other Macs on your local LAN...
I tried some tricks by setting NVRAM boot-args instead of booting into single-user mode the usual way. There is the known kernel boot option:
"Graphics Mode"="<width>x<height>x<depth>@<frequency>"
but it doesn't seem to effect console mode. See http://www.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/Org.chameleon.Boot.plist#System_Boot_Options for more info on boot-args
I couldn't find any command-line tools to set the resolution either, or even how to magnify the text (though this might be possible). There is virtually no information online about how to set Darwin's framebuffer resolution. You might find some related code on http://opensource.apple.com if you poked around enough. You could also try to patch the console mode display driver in OS X (probably XNU?) to handle this, or look at alternative boot loaders like Chameleon.
You may also be able to rewrite the EDID presented from your monitor to the Mac to make console mode use a lower resolution. This would require flashing the firmware of your display.
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d84461bcff833210503355a41874608b1761d9db | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apps that have just gone free or are going to? Is there any way to know ahead of time which paid apps are going free, or does Apples RSS feed actually contain data for apps that have just gone free "today" ?
A: There are a lot of Apps which provide a daily list of free Apps. These kind of companies base their business in agreements with the developers, who pay for their Apps to be featured on these App-of-the-Day lists.
So, the Company makes it's business, the Developer's App get notoriety and publicity, which means that on the long shot more people will download the App once it's paid again and the user gets to get free Apps daily. It's a win-win-win.
The best and easies way of knowing of paid Apps going free for limited time is using some of these Apps.
| Q: Apps that have just gone free or are going to? Is there any way to know ahead of time which paid apps are going free, or does Apples RSS feed actually contain data for apps that have just gone free "today" ?
A: There are a lot of Apps which provide a daily list of free Apps. These kind of companies base their business in agreements with the developers, who pay for their Apps to be featured on these App-of-the-Day lists.
So, the Company makes it's business, the Developer's App get notoriety and publicity, which means that on the long shot more people will download the App once it's paid again and the user gets to get free Apps daily. It's a win-win-win.
The best and easies way of knowing of paid Apps going free for limited time is using some of these Apps.
A: I use a a free app called Apps Gone Free which is updated daily with a list (likely not comprehensive) of apps that are free now or for a limited time.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apps-gone-free-best-daily/id470693788
No relation to the developer, I just use the app from time to time.
A: http://www.macappdeals.com/ also this site lists discounts on app prices.
A: Apple provide RSS feeds for their Mac App Store and App Store content. These feeds are used by other sites and services for finding free offerings, price changes, and new releases.
See http://rss.itunes.apple.com to create your own custom feed.
Apple's feeds are not able to directly answer your needs, but the additional filtering can be added by a wide range of other applications or services; or you could create your own with a scripting language.
A: This is the most extensive list of apps on sale I've found
https://www.jucktion.com/forum/apps-gone-free/
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2ce56a0e81291e055a1d0af727abf3624c079592 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Risks of publishing the computer serial number on the Internet I'm searching used Macs to buy in eBay. Some of the offered items show the computer's serial numbers in screenshots and/or plain text.
Reading the Q&A Where to find factory list in apple serial number, we see this snippet from EveryMac.com (emphasis on the original):
Why not? What are the risks of buying a Mac whose serial number has been shared on the Internet?
A: If you have AppleCare phone support, one could, in theory, use your serial number to contact AppleCare for free support. Otherwise, there's no risk to sharing a serial number when selling your Mac.
| Q: Risks of publishing the computer serial number on the Internet I'm searching used Macs to buy in eBay. Some of the offered items show the computer's serial numbers in screenshots and/or plain text.
Reading the Q&A Where to find factory list in apple serial number, we see this snippet from EveryMac.com (emphasis on the original):
Why not? What are the risks of buying a Mac whose serial number has been shared on the Internet?
A: If you have AppleCare phone support, one could, in theory, use your serial number to contact AppleCare for free support. Otherwise, there's no risk to sharing a serial number when selling your Mac.
A: I'm unaware of any risks to the owner directly, but of course the serial number is a unique number that identifies that particular Mac.
Fraudsters are very creative, and it's possible that they could find ways to use the serial, either by pretending to be the owner (e.g. selling a Mac they don't have); or by pretending to be Apple. "Are you the owner of xxxxxx? There's a refund due to a manufacturing defect -- just enter your CC details...."
It's good practice to avoid posting serial numbers where anyone can harvest them, to reduce potential scams for everyone, not just for the legitimate owner.
A: Just throwing my 2 cents in there,
someone could possibly claim it as theirs, and stolen. *shrugs
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efb1b3cbaba399d57310a4a04f5589f2857cb6a5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it impossible to listen to podcasts on iOS 6 now? I'm on iOS 6 on my iPhone, and I don't like iOS 7. When I try to listen to a podcast on the iTunes app, it tells me to download the Podcasts app. When I try to download the Podcasts app, it tells me iOS 7 is required to download the app. So how can I listen to podcasts, short of upgrading to iOS 7?
A: If you had downloaded the podcasts app while iOS6 was the most recent, then you would have a version of the podcasts app that was compatible with it. Unfortunately the current version of the podcasts app is written using iOS7 APIs, including ones to automatically download content for you without you having to manually open the app etc, which are not backwards compatible.
As such, you will have to use a 3rd party app to listen to podcasts, or upgrade to iOS7.
| Q: Is it impossible to listen to podcasts on iOS 6 now? I'm on iOS 6 on my iPhone, and I don't like iOS 7. When I try to listen to a podcast on the iTunes app, it tells me to download the Podcasts app. When I try to download the Podcasts app, it tells me iOS 7 is required to download the app. So how can I listen to podcasts, short of upgrading to iOS 7?
A: If you had downloaded the podcasts app while iOS6 was the most recent, then you would have a version of the podcasts app that was compatible with it. Unfortunately the current version of the podcasts app is written using iOS7 APIs, including ones to automatically download content for you without you having to manually open the app etc, which are not backwards compatible.
As such, you will have to use a 3rd party app to listen to podcasts, or upgrade to iOS7.
A: You can listen to podcasts with the Music app, if you do not want to conform by running iOS7 or run a third party app.
A: I had the same issue. I have an iPhone 3Gs which cannot upgrade beyond iOS 6.1.6. So I cannot download any version of Podcasts.
As others already noted, one solution is downloading a third party app. After reading various reviews, I chose Downcast which works very well.
Personally, I think it is very strange that Apple themselves are actively preventing using their own app.
A: Maybe this wasn't operational right away, but I just now (December 9, 2014) downloaded the Apple Podcast app on my ios 6 iPhone 3gs from the App Store. I was prompted that it requires iOS 7 or later, BUT if I clicked Download, it would download the "latest compatible version" to my iOS. I clicked download, and voila! And yes, it works.
A: I have an iPod Touch 4 with IOS 6.1.6. I followed the instructions on the link https://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/app-store-downloading-older-versions-of-apps-ios and now have a fully functional version of 'Podcasts'.
In my case when I initially tried to download Podcasts from the App Store with iPod Touch, it advised that I needed IOS 7 and there was no option to install an older version. However as outlined in link above, I downloaded the Podcasts app in iTunes and then synced my iPod with iTunes. Then I went back into the iPod App Store and tried to download it. This time it still advised that I needed IOS 7, however it also gave me an option to download a version compatible with IOS 6.
So, the bottom line here is that Podcasts has a compatible version for IOS 6 in App Store, but Apple does not advert this to users (unless you already have it installed on your iPod) and make it very hard to get. In my case it’s taken me 2 hours of time to solve this problem.
Podcasts are my main use of this perfectly functional device and so getting support for this App was personally very important to me. I hope this helps other users.
A: Assuming you do not have access to a newer device (Andrea's Answer), here's a free workaround.
*
*Download the podcast episodes on your desktop computer using itunes.
*Add them to a playlist. (Optional, this preserves the order of the episodes and makes it easy to sync)
*Select the episodes and right click > Get Info > Options > Media Kind > Music.
*Now you may sync the playlist / "Songs" normally.
Warning: Doing this will remove the episodes from the podcast list. You can switch them back to the podcast media kind, but in my experience the episodes won't necessarily reappear in the podcast list and their order may not be preserved.
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c739fd3a4091d3a9e66248901bf854e8fa993e17 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook booting with wrong keyboard layout I've got a 15-inch MacBook Pro with the latest OS X. Every time I reboot, it resets the keyboard layout to American English even though I set it to Swiss German. This means that I always need to go to the language settings and change it to my layout, which is quite annoying.
Any suggestions how to solve this?
I also posted this question on Apple Support Discussions but wasn't getting any answers.
A: Things you could try:
*
*Run sudo rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist and restart. The current keyboard layout is stored in the first file in 10.9 and the second file in 10.8. The keyboard layout used in the login window and by the guest account is stored in the third file.
*Run open -a KeyboardSetupAssistant to identify the keyboard.
*Run sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone;sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup\ Assistant and create a new account. Set the default keyboard layout to Swiss German in the second step and enter anything else in the other steps. You can delete the account after you have created it.
| Q: MacBook booting with wrong keyboard layout I've got a 15-inch MacBook Pro with the latest OS X. Every time I reboot, it resets the keyboard layout to American English even though I set it to Swiss German. This means that I always need to go to the language settings and change it to my layout, which is quite annoying.
Any suggestions how to solve this?
I also posted this question on Apple Support Discussions but wasn't getting any answers.
A: Things you could try:
*
*Run sudo rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist and restart. The current keyboard layout is stored in the first file in 10.9 and the second file in 10.8. The keyboard layout used in the login window and by the guest account is stored in the third file.
*Run open -a KeyboardSetupAssistant to identify the keyboard.
*Run sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone;sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup\ Assistant and create a new account. Set the default keyboard layout to Swiss German in the second step and enter anything else in the other steps. You can delete the account after you have created it.
A: I had this problem very often, though not always. I think it happened mainly (or always?) when the system was not shutdown or rebooted cleanly. Like in the case of a power loss.
Fixing my config and then copying my fixed $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist file to /Library/Preferences/ didn't work. The system settings file got overwritten on reboot.
What worked for me was to import my user keyboard settings to the default system settings with sudo :
sudo defaults import com.apple.HIToolbox.plist $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist
(This is with High Sierra. I don't know if it works the same with Mojave or Catalina)
A: Had the same issue and the following worked for me. Run in Terminal:
sudo cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist /Library/Preferences/
then do:
sudo chmod 644 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist
Afterwards restart without logging out.
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ab4f70e7cec2b74d1fad1bdda5295678ce1cc615 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to move a window without the mouse? Since installing Mavericks whenever I open a new window in XQuartz (say gvim) it positions the newly created window at the top left of my monitor. Because every monitor now has a menu bar, the menu bar covers the title bar of the new window.
This means I can't use my mouse to grab the title bar and drag the window to a new position.
Are there any ways to drag a window using the keyboard, or failing that a way to click on any part of a window to start a drag operation?
A: I upgraded Xquartz and the problem went away. Windows open below the osx title bar now instead of underneath it.
| Q: Is there a way to move a window without the mouse? Since installing Mavericks whenever I open a new window in XQuartz (say gvim) it positions the newly created window at the top left of my monitor. Because every monitor now has a menu bar, the menu bar covers the title bar of the new window.
This means I can't use my mouse to grab the title bar and drag the window to a new position.
Are there any ways to drag a window using the keyboard, or failing that a way to click on any part of a window to start a drag operation?
A: I upgraded Xquartz and the problem went away. Windows open below the osx title bar now instead of underneath it.
A: There is an option in Mavericks to turn off the menu bar on the second screen. Don't have a Mac at work, so perhaps someone could supply exactly where...
Also some help might be found here on arranging windows
https://superuser.com/questions/331/reset-mac-os-x-windows-position-after-de-attaching-external-monitor
Looks like some good tips and Applescripts for doing what you are looking for
A: Try running scripts like this in AppleScript Editor:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "ApplicationName"
set position of windows to {55, 55}
end tell
tell application "ApplicationName"
set bounds of windows to {55, 55, 555, 555}
end tell
Some windows can also be moved by for example dragging them horizontally from the bottom edge.
A: You could use a third party app such as MercuryMover (many others exist). It will allow you to move windows using the keyboard only.
A: In the Menu for the program you want to reposition - Go to File/ Close all windows/ then reopen the new window and it positions correctly whether you have just the computer or the second monitor attached.
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9b70cd405f1c2fe8e11e2f37b742a3a8f705553c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks in Mac App Store shows install button without text and won't download I am trying to upgrade to OS X Mavericks from 10.7.5 but every time I click the install button in the Mac App Store, it looks like nothing is happening and now the button is all greyed out and I can't do anything.
A: You can enable the Debug menu by typing the following into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
You can then clear the cookies using the Clear Cookies option in the Debug menu.
In addition, you can reset the application using the Reset Application option.
You can disable the Debug menu using the following:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool false
| Q: Mavericks in Mac App Store shows install button without text and won't download I am trying to upgrade to OS X Mavericks from 10.7.5 but every time I click the install button in the Mac App Store, it looks like nothing is happening and now the button is all greyed out and I can't do anything.
A: You can enable the Debug menu by typing the following into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
You can then clear the cookies using the Clear Cookies option in the Debug menu.
In addition, you can reset the application using the Reset Application option.
You can disable the Debug menu using the following:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool false
A: I'm posting this due to having the same issue and being frustrated not being able to find a clear solution online.
I had the bug where the AppStore just said "Install App" or "Upgrade Free" and clicking the button would do absolutely nothing.
The fix was to reboot into safe mode, and then reboot again back to normal mode.
Reboot your mac, right as the startup chime happens, but before the Apple logo shows up, hold down the shift key. This will boot into safe mode and will take about 2-3x longer to boot up than normal.
Once it's finished booting up, just reboot again immediately, back to normal mode.
Now the app store should work correctly again and prompt to download Mavericks, rather than install it.
If you accidentally close Launchpad (which pops up and shows the progress of the download) - use CMD+Space and search for & run Launchpad.
Hope this helps others out there.
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97cebd1c1fe9dd3d20fa23f32f755af823fc4df0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X using lots of memory for no apparent reason I have about 2 GB or more memory that I don't know what its used for. When I restart my computer with no applications running, the used memory is 4 GB, and when I open browsers its over 7 GB used from 8 GB total.
I checked the Activity Monitor, nothing is using more memory than it should be. I am also using Memory Clean app but I don't get more free RAM.
How to solve this? …or even debug my memory usage?
MacBook Pro, late-2011, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 8 GB RAM
A: There's nothing to solve here. You should learn about memory management. The OS will keep as much in memory as much it can even seemingly outdated data that might be needed again (think of undo actions, reopened browser tabs, etc.)
However, if really needed to free up some memory, you can use the purge command in a terminal window.
| Q: OS X using lots of memory for no apparent reason I have about 2 GB or more memory that I don't know what its used for. When I restart my computer with no applications running, the used memory is 4 GB, and when I open browsers its over 7 GB used from 8 GB total.
I checked the Activity Monitor, nothing is using more memory than it should be. I am also using Memory Clean app but I don't get more free RAM.
How to solve this? …or even debug my memory usage?
MacBook Pro, late-2011, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 8 GB RAM
A: There's nothing to solve here. You should learn about memory management. The OS will keep as much in memory as much it can even seemingly outdated data that might be needed again (think of undo actions, reopened browser tabs, etc.)
However, if really needed to free up some memory, you can use the purge command in a terminal window.
A: I'm wondering what you're seeing that makes you think you don't have free memory. The way that the virtual memory system of Unix works, you'd expect about 10% to show up as "Free" in the way Activity Monitor displays memory on a normally running system. (You need a little headroom in order to actually do the tasks of managing memory, so the operating system squirrels that away for this purpose.)
The "Inactive" number would be a better thing to look at, as it would tell you how much memory is currently unallocated to any process.
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4337a3a68d3745a5a856120f8b37f161f943bd42 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to update an iOS device to a version older than the current version? My question title probably sounds confusing, so allow me to explain...
Let's say you have an iPhone 3GS that's still running iOS 5. Is it possible, today, to upgrade that device to iOS 6 (the latest supported version)? Or is it now stuck on iOS 5 because the latest version, iOS 7, doesn't support the 3GS?
Put another way, if you were to go to Software Update on that device, would it offer you an update to iOS 6, or would it say nothing is available because iOS 7 isn't compatible?
A: I was recently looking for the same thing. We develop iOS apps and we wanted a way to test our app with older versions of iOS. Here's what we found to work well:
*
*Download the iOS ipsw you want. We use http://www.getios.com/
*Connect your device to a PC running iTunes and navigate to the device page.
*Hold down the 'Shift' key on your keyboard and click the 'Update' button. Select the ipsw file and iTunes will install this version.
| Q: Is it possible to update an iOS device to a version older than the current version? My question title probably sounds confusing, so allow me to explain...
Let's say you have an iPhone 3GS that's still running iOS 5. Is it possible, today, to upgrade that device to iOS 6 (the latest supported version)? Or is it now stuck on iOS 5 because the latest version, iOS 7, doesn't support the 3GS?
Put another way, if you were to go to Software Update on that device, would it offer you an update to iOS 6, or would it say nothing is available because iOS 7 isn't compatible?
A: I was recently looking for the same thing. We develop iOS apps and we wanted a way to test our app with older versions of iOS. Here's what we found to work well:
*
*Download the iOS ipsw you want. We use http://www.getios.com/
*Connect your device to a PC running iTunes and navigate to the device page.
*Hold down the 'Shift' key on your keyboard and click the 'Update' button. Select the ipsw file and iTunes will install this version.
A: Normally you should be able to update via iTunes (in this case, further information on that below).
If that doesn't work you need to look what model Nr. the iPhone is (something like A1429, for example) and download the appropriate iOS software (about 1 GB). By alt-clicking on the update-button in iTunes you are able to select a specific package you want to update from. Select you downloaded package and wait until the software ist installed on the phone. You should be able to install the most recent version of iOS for your iPhone model this way.
If you're experiencing any problems with this, let me know.
A: To give a clear answer to the question that was asked, which is whether a device can be updated to the latest version of iOS it supports, even if that version of iOS is no longer current.
Yes, it is possible. Software Update, either on the device or via iTunes, will offer the latest version that is supported by your device.
I can't readily find an official reference for this but it is supported by numerous other answers to similar questions on this site.
A: Apple discontinues signing old versions of iOS after a certain period (normally days to weeks for OS's only one or two minor versions out). When your iDevice updates to a new OS, it calls home to verify the OS installed is allowed.
Since Apple no longer signs old OS's, sadly you can't downgrade very far.
Note: there are 'hacky' ways of doing this involving 3rd party tools -- but I didn't believe that to be the intent of this question so I didn't delve into those topics.
A: Check signed versions of iOS on ipsw.me for your device. If you see that older version of iOS is still signed by Apple, you can upgrade to it, but not through iTunes. Because iTunes always upgrades your device to the latest version. To upgrade my iPad from 11.4.1 to 12.1.1 ( which was signed at that time, the last version was 12.1.3 at that moment) I used iMazing app on my Mac. Working version you can download from here: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5651755
Requires registration.
Also you need to upgrade your iTunes on your Mac to the latest version. IPSW file of your desired version of iOS you can download from ipsw.me
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482b1653483ade65eeb75b1492badfe4355e4f15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I do text-to-columns in Numbers? I've got a column where each cell in the column contains two different pieces of data separated by a known delimiter ", ". How can I split each cell in this column around the delimiter?
Given:
COLUMN1
-------
ABC, 123
FOO, 666
ROFL, 411
I want
COLUMN1 COLUMN2
------- -------
ABC 123
FOO 666
ROFL 411
A: Just rename the file in question to end in ".csv"
Then ("File" > "Open…") and Numbers.app did the right thing with the data for me.
| Q: How can I do text-to-columns in Numbers? I've got a column where each cell in the column contains two different pieces of data separated by a known delimiter ", ". How can I split each cell in this column around the delimiter?
Given:
COLUMN1
-------
ABC, 123
FOO, 666
ROFL, 411
I want
COLUMN1 COLUMN2
------- -------
ABC 123
FOO 666
ROFL 411
A: Just rename the file in question to end in ".csv"
Then ("File" > "Open…") and Numbers.app did the right thing with the data for me.
A: In Numbers 3 this worked for me by replacing commas with semicolons in the CSV-file:
Replacing
ABC, 123
FOO, 666
ROFL, 411
with
ABC; 123
FOO; 666
ROFL; 411
and then simply opening the CSV-file with Numbers.
A: You can also replace the delimiters with tabs:
*
*Copy the cells and paste them to a new TextEdit document.
*Replace ", " with tab. You can insert a tab by pressing option-tab.
*Copy and paste the text back to Numbers.
A: You can do this directly in Numbers.
First, add two empty columns after the column with the data you want to split.
If the first piece of data you want to split is in cell B2 and is separated by a space, then use this formula in the empty cell C2: =LEFT(B2, FIND(" ",B2))
If the data is separated by a comma, then replace " " with ",".
In the empty cell D2, paste this formula: =RIGHT(B2, LEN(B2)−FIND(" ", B2))
If your data is separated by a comma followed by a space, then use this: =RIGHT(B2, LEN(B2)−FIND(",", B2)-1)
Hope this helps.
A: Under the option for "format" (should be on the top right) scroll to the bottom of the table option. There you will see "adjust import settings" this option will allow you to set deliminators for the columns.
In my case, I needed to separate via a | (bar). Worked perfectly.
A: It's unfortunate that there is still no built-in split macro.
But these days you can use the textbefore and textafter functions to do the split.
"my:column:to:split"
=TEXTBEFORE(TEXTAFTER($A1,":",1),":",1)
"column"
A: Copy the data to a text editor and save it as mydoc.csv . In numbers, open mydoc.csv.
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20b0d1379e179b63b9d669df088033e892964d51 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I restore my device with simply ipsw file and iTunes? I want to restore my iPod touch 4 gen. using a previously downloaded .ipsw file from the web instead of iTunes trying to download it again. I have tried putting the .ipsw file in the ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates/ folder but it still downloads another one.
By the way, my iPod is stuck in recovery mode and I cannot cannot get it out of it except restoring the iPod. What should I do?
A: Shift-click the Restore button in iTunes for windows user
| Q: How can I restore my device with simply ipsw file and iTunes? I want to restore my iPod touch 4 gen. using a previously downloaded .ipsw file from the web instead of iTunes trying to download it again. I have tried putting the .ipsw file in the ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates/ folder but it still downloads another one.
By the way, my iPod is stuck in recovery mode and I cannot cannot get it out of it except restoring the iPod. What should I do?
A: Shift-click the Restore button in iTunes for windows user
A: Option-click the Restore button in iTunes and a standard file-selection dialog comes up allowing you to find your .ipsw file.
A: As of macOS Catalina, this is done directly in Finder. When your phone is connected to the computer, it shows up in the Finder sidebar under the "Locations" section. (If you don't see it, make sure it is checked under Finder settings, which you can get to with command-comma.)
Under this tab, option-click the "Restore" button and choose the .ipsw file.
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83ecf2aa28416f3cafc35b2401f27b990580503e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I move my MS Office license to a new Mac? I have purchased a new 64-bit iMac and would like to move my version of Office for Mac 11 to it from my older iMac that is a 32-bit machine.
How do I uninstall so that I may use my existing validation codes on my new iMac?
A: I had installed office on a second mac, and when I accidentally opened the first copy while the second was open.
I got an error message: "this copy of office is open on a different computer on your network" a bit creepy, but that was my reminder to delete he first copy.
(Fortunately, Open Office has no such issue.)
| Q: How can I move my MS Office license to a new Mac? I have purchased a new 64-bit iMac and would like to move my version of Office for Mac 11 to it from my older iMac that is a 32-bit machine.
How do I uninstall so that I may use my existing validation codes on my new iMac?
A: I had installed office on a second mac, and when I accidentally opened the first copy while the second was open.
I got an error message: "this copy of office is open on a different computer on your network" a bit creepy, but that was my reminder to delete he first copy.
(Fortunately, Open Office has no such issue.)
A: If you go to System Preferences.app > Security and Privacy and block incoming connections to Word you will be able to use your license on another mac.
*
*Open System Preferences
*Click Security and Privacy
*Click "Firewall"
*Click "Firewall Options"
*Select "Block incoming connections" from the drop down next to Microsoft Word.app
If you want to uninstall, just delete the Microsoft Word.app from the Microsoft folder within /Applications. This will also allow you to use your license again.
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c926d8f1a8b80cd880406bbb53b1b25cd803fbd7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to bypass country restrictions on App Store? I want to download an iPhone app which is not accessible from my country (India). How can I bypass the country restrictions?
A: You need an iTunes account for the country-specific store in order to download apps restricted to certain countries. If the app is not free, you also will need either a credit card issued in that country or some iTunes gift cards (also from that country).
| Q: How to bypass country restrictions on App Store? I want to download an iPhone app which is not accessible from my country (India). How can I bypass the country restrictions?
A: You need an iTunes account for the country-specific store in order to download apps restricted to certain countries. If the app is not free, you also will need either a credit card issued in that country or some iTunes gift cards (also from that country).
A: How to bypass country restrictions on App Store?
I want to download an iPhone app which is not accessible from my country (India). How can I bypass the country restrictions?
Hi Prasanth S here is two solutions involving VPN and DNS. These solutions can also be implemented on a router level but that is another topic.
By pass County Restrictions, block websites, run a vpn, select an open dns- all OPEN SOURCE:
Method 1 VPN:
The apps openvpn and open vpn spider work together. If these apps are blocked I encourage you to try the DNS soloution provided below.
TIP: OpenVpn Spider will show an ad when you attempt to load a profile into Openvpn (your actully loading a certificate into a protocol)- so click a different server in less than 20-30 seconds (after the ad can be closed) or soemthing and you won't be tracked through that ad to the server.
( Otherwise, the ad (likely google) will know which vpn your on. If you care- yes you can view this from either a non signed in account or another- in account info- you can also opt out of the tracking! )
You can select a country in OpenVPN Spider app at the top.
Method 2 ) Change your DNS
Now search for your carriers DNS settings, write them down or copy them to a note. Now search for a subsitute- type "OpenDNS servers " into google/duckduckgo/ whatever. If you were successful in turning on a VPN on your iphone or ipad so far, you can choose to match this county with the DNS server by searching specifically for it.
Google's server- is not really DNS open but it does unblock sometimes- the VPN will automatically be connected to Google's service anyhow. You may attempt to block it as well if you want and divert traffic to a new DNS setting as well- but this will cause most google apps to error and logout- given how prelevant they are I hestiate to suggest that.
Google servers for DNS are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Now go to settings--> General --> Restritions
Turn it on- make a code
Now enable Adult restrictions
You will now see a white list (allow) and a block list
Enter the carrier DNS into the block list (the numbers- which by the way are called an octet- 8 groups of binary numbers showed in decimal form to make it easier on you :) . You can also block a port by entering a semicolon : after the digits. So DNS is port 53. Your entry would look like this-
xxx.xx.xxx.xx: 53
where the ip address is represented prior to the semicolon.
Now scroll up and enter several websites into the allow list- you can add entries in here- just add the DNS server you want to use. Keep in mind the OpenVPN servers do die after a while. You'll also want to add common websites you visit. Some sites are automatically blocked - such as porn- so if you want them you can allow it here. Only make each "similar" entry once.
Putting VPN together with DNS blocking may not be completely necessary but it should unblock you and hide the activity. I'd also download a tor type app for browsing- using this after connecting to the VPN. It sounds like there's not much freedom there...
Method 3 ON WIFI
You may also want to block your home high speed internet's DNS as well. So when you connect to wifi you can bypass the app store block.
Simply find the settings by either going on routers homepage (you can block them there as well sometimes) and noting them.
If you don't have access to the router- simply select the connection in your Wifi settings on your iphone- select manal and copy all the info but the DNS and replace it with what you would like. If you do this prior to selecting a connection agreement and change the last part of the IP address (just extorporlate from what the machine gave you) you can in fact bypass the connection agreement as well if it exists (such as at hotel) .
EXTRA:
Other hidden features of Restricted Websites besides Restricting Websites:
A note on Google HangOuts- this app will also change the number its coming from depdnign on the server you choose.
Actually - in the opposite of this I usually choose to allow accounts.google.com to prevent the logout or problems with their services.
You can also block ( or allow- as in new lines for below) a range of ports such as 81-20000.
Additionally you can refer to the phones local host and block or allow a service on the phone- i.e. an app - for example Google HangOuts uses a specific port. There are also security features you can implement beyond what Apple has provided in restrictions- such as an entire firewall. To refer to the local host, type the IP address
127.0.0.1 or I believe "localhost" (no quotes) works as well. Same thing with the semicolon and the range. [ This is incoming ports , where as an IP address will be treated as outgoing ]
So If we want to block internet entirely for HTTP (the web) we can enter
127.0.0.1:80
If I want to block ports above 80 I can enter
xxx.xx.xxx.xx: 81-20000
Now your use is just governed by the law and there is less if any tracking if you combine this with the other methods listed here . Hopefully this works for you! Thanks for reading.
-Mail
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d6eae7d3d2d940ac9368cda0a669e02df970237d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is shutdown cause -60? Since installing Mavericks on my 2010 MBP, it seems to be giving me the spinning beach ball often. I think I may need a new HDD, as Disk Utility cannot repair it, but I also get this error:
Nov 21 20:33:38 COMPUTERNAME kernel[0] <Debug>: Previous Shutdown Cause: -60
A: -60 is badMDBErr (bad master directory block error)
It indicates that there is something wrong with the drive, and Disk Utility not being able to repair the drive supports this. Back up your data, erase using Disk Utility and reinstall OS X.
OS X Shutdown Causes
| Q: What is shutdown cause -60? Since installing Mavericks on my 2010 MBP, it seems to be giving me the spinning beach ball often. I think I may need a new HDD, as Disk Utility cannot repair it, but I also get this error:
Nov 21 20:33:38 COMPUTERNAME kernel[0] <Debug>: Previous Shutdown Cause: -60
A: -60 is badMDBErr (bad master directory block error)
It indicates that there is something wrong with the drive, and Disk Utility not being able to repair the drive supports this. Back up your data, erase using Disk Utility and reinstall OS X.
OS X Shutdown Causes
A:
Shutdown Cause: -60
This shutdown code is usually related to bad master directory block (badMDBErr).
So you can try to:
*
*Run First Aid from the Disk Utility to check your HD (or fsck from Safe mode).
*Reset the System Management Controller (SMC).
If above won't help, you are advised to back up your data, erase the disk and reinstall OS X.
See: Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere?
The perceptible symptoms may include:
*
*Fail to share or synchronize the Mac files.
*Hard drive issues.
*Sometimes peripheral devices may seem to be disturbed.
*Poor performance of the system in terms of speed, especially.
*Corruption of Mac files without any perceptible warning (e.g. faulty registry entries, file system corruption).
*Mac starts freezing every now and then.
*Occurrence of the error message like “file not found”, “access denied”.
*Operating system malfunctioning
So the real cause could related to different reasons and factors, such as:
*
*The [-60] badMDBErr-bad master directory block can occur due to the fact that a file or a program that your system just called upon has been damaged.
*The problem may also appear if a system file has turned corrupt.
*Due to the fact that you accidently deleted system file…oops…a human mistake.
*When a program was getting executed and suddenly your Mac was turned off due to power cut, or anything like that, the file or program under consideration fail to mount resulting in the [-60] badMDBErr-bad master directory block in Mac.
*This error can also take place if you are sharing file(s) through unsupported platforms.
*Incorrectly modified BIOS settings.
Source: [-60] badMDBErr-bad master directory block Error at howtofixmacerrors site
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3c39d442a7e01f74986a4089dc4b3bbff3bc1b7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's Firefox's default browser helper plugin? On a freshly installed Firefox there is a plugin named:
Default Browser Helper 537
It seems to be something from Apple but i couldn't find more information about it.
What is it and why it there?
Do we need it?
OS X 10.9 (and 10.9.1)
Firefox 25.0.1 (and 26)
A: I did some digging and documented my findings.
The plug-in is used to produce the below dialog. It can be triggered by Apple from inside any other web browser. It is unclear when and where this is used.
| Q: What's Firefox's default browser helper plugin? On a freshly installed Firefox there is a plugin named:
Default Browser Helper 537
It seems to be something from Apple but i couldn't find more information about it.
What is it and why it there?
Do we need it?
OS X 10.9 (and 10.9.1)
Firefox 25.0.1 (and 26)
A: I did some digging and documented my findings.
The plug-in is used to produce the below dialog. It can be triggered by Apple from inside any other web browser. It is unclear when and where this is used.
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774776fde8330de4a5dc80f14e1ca3f5e09e09f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Incremental Backup of iPhoto Library I have an external hard drive, not always connected to my laptop. I don't use it for Time Machine, as it's not big enough, and most of my important documents are on DropBox... Plus I only connect it a few minutes per week when I need to copy something.
For iPhoto, I found the Library file and I manually copy it to my external drive once in a while. The problem I have with that, is the file is growing big (22GB last I checked), and I feel like it's a waste to wait so long for copying the entire file, while I'm really only adding the last GB for example.
Is there a way to just add the increment?
Keep in mind again I only connect my external drive when needed.
A: Interesting question.
The first thing to realise is that the iPhoto Library is a folder, not a file. The Finder shows it as a file for end-user convenience, but it really is a folder.
There are many tools to quickly mirror a folder from a source to a destination. I would recommend using rsync.
| Q: Incremental Backup of iPhoto Library I have an external hard drive, not always connected to my laptop. I don't use it for Time Machine, as it's not big enough, and most of my important documents are on DropBox... Plus I only connect it a few minutes per week when I need to copy something.
For iPhoto, I found the Library file and I manually copy it to my external drive once in a while. The problem I have with that, is the file is growing big (22GB last I checked), and I feel like it's a waste to wait so long for copying the entire file, while I'm really only adding the last GB for example.
Is there a way to just add the increment?
Keep in mind again I only connect my external drive when needed.
A: Interesting question.
The first thing to realise is that the iPhoto Library is a folder, not a file. The Finder shows it as a file for end-user convenience, but it really is a folder.
There are many tools to quickly mirror a folder from a source to a destination. I would recommend using rsync.
A: Pretty much any app that does incremental back ups will back up the iPhoto Library. Some suggestions:
Chronosync http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
DejaVu http://propagandaprod.com
Carbon Copy Cloner - http://www.bombich.com
I've used all of these at different times and changed for various reasons. But they all work perfectly well. All are straightforward to set up.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111687"
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acc8d38ade9dffc91e7c7fb739686a6c57e8bfa0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AppleScript Editor : comment line shortcut? Is there a keyboard shortcut to comment lines in AppleScript Editor ?
The common Cmd+shift+/ does not work here.
A: I have used FastScripts to assign a shortcut to this script:
set text item delimiters to linefeed
tell application "AppleScript Editor" to tell document 1
set input to its text
set {c1, c2} to character range of selection
if c1 is 0 then
set {p1, p2} to {1, 1}
else
set p1 to count paragraphs of text 1 thru c1 of input
set p2 to count paragraphs of text 1 thru c2 of input
if p1 is not p2 and {return, linefeed} contains item c2 of input then set p2 to p2 - 1
end if
set selection to paragraphs p1 thru p2
do shell script "input=" & quoted form of (paragraphs p1 thru p2 of input as text) & "
if [[ -z $(sed -E '/^[[:space:]]*($|#|--)/d' <<< \"$input\") ]]; then
sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]*)(#|--)[[:space:]]*/\\1/g' <<< \"$input\"
else
sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]*)/\\1--/g' <<< \"$input\"
fi" without altering line endings
set contents of selection to result
end tell
| Q: AppleScript Editor : comment line shortcut? Is there a keyboard shortcut to comment lines in AppleScript Editor ?
The common Cmd+shift+/ does not work here.
A: I have used FastScripts to assign a shortcut to this script:
set text item delimiters to linefeed
tell application "AppleScript Editor" to tell document 1
set input to its text
set {c1, c2} to character range of selection
if c1 is 0 then
set {p1, p2} to {1, 1}
else
set p1 to count paragraphs of text 1 thru c1 of input
set p2 to count paragraphs of text 1 thru c2 of input
if p1 is not p2 and {return, linefeed} contains item c2 of input then set p2 to p2 - 1
end if
set selection to paragraphs p1 thru p2
do shell script "input=" & quoted form of (paragraphs p1 thru p2 of input as text) & "
if [[ -z $(sed -E '/^[[:space:]]*($|#|--)/d' <<< \"$input\") ]]; then
sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]*)(#|--)[[:space:]]*/\\1/g' <<< \"$input\"
else
sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]*)/\\1--/g' <<< \"$input\"
fi" without altering line endings
set contents of selection to result
end tell
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e45ec97b4ca3da499ddb93efa38ff2789cd94a3f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked? Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked?
This behavior started suddenly after migrating to a new machine.
A: This happened to me after changing my login password. I fixed it thanks to article on Apple support: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6724601
Simply I had to change password for my "login" keychain.
But I was asked to input password to open "Local items" keychain. I solved that issue exactly according this post: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203897
You need to open folder ~/Library/Keychains/, find and delete folder with name similar to "A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8" and restart your Mac immediately.
I had to fixed both "login" and "Local items" prompt to solve it. Only changing password for "login" keychain seemed not to work although it should according Apple support. But I haven't test it heavily.
Hope it helps.
| Q: Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked? Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked?
This behavior started suddenly after migrating to a new machine.
A: This happened to me after changing my login password. I fixed it thanks to article on Apple support: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6724601
Simply I had to change password for my "login" keychain.
But I was asked to input password to open "Local items" keychain. I solved that issue exactly according this post: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203897
You need to open folder ~/Library/Keychains/, find and delete folder with name similar to "A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8" and restart your Mac immediately.
I had to fixed both "login" and "Local items" prompt to solve it. Only changing password for "login" keychain seemed not to work although it should according Apple support. But I haven't test it heavily.
Hope it helps.
A: Not sure, but it's a protection of private data against other people in your house who use the same computer. When I open my mailboxes the system asks for it so my wife can't read my mail since she does not know this password.
A: The problem is often caused by the migration to a new mac I do not know exactly why but I know how to fix it. you have to reset your login keychain :
*
*In Keychain Access, choose Preferences from the Keychain Access menu
*click the Reset My Default Keychain button. This will remove the login keychain and create a new one with the password provided.
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26f64ea62af158c46201d3dd92d47f4c2cb53b3b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you disable an application specific hotkey, for example, "Command-P"? In many applications, Command-P is used to print.
My fingers are accustomed to emacs settings and reflexively press Command-P not for printing but for browsing history. It's annoying to see the print pop-up window every time when I press Command-P. I don't need a shortcut to print.
How do you block a shortcut globally?
A: This can be achieved by remapping the Print shortcut to a different shortcut that is out of the way, unused and unlikely to be pressed.
*
*Open System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts.
*Click + to add a new shortcut.
*Application: All Applications
Menu Title: Print… (that's a 'proper' ellipses by the way, use copy-paste if necessary)
Keyboard Shortcut: Set it to something out of the way.
*Click Add.
Now, the Print command is set to a random keyboard shortcut, freeing up ⌘P.
| Q: How do you disable an application specific hotkey, for example, "Command-P"? In many applications, Command-P is used to print.
My fingers are accustomed to emacs settings and reflexively press Command-P not for printing but for browsing history. It's annoying to see the print pop-up window every time when I press Command-P. I don't need a shortcut to print.
How do you block a shortcut globally?
A: This can be achieved by remapping the Print shortcut to a different shortcut that is out of the way, unused and unlikely to be pressed.
*
*Open System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts.
*Click + to add a new shortcut.
*Application: All Applications
Menu Title: Print… (that's a 'proper' ellipses by the way, use copy-paste if necessary)
Keyboard Shortcut: Set it to something out of the way.
*Click Add.
Now, the Print command is set to a random keyboard shortcut, freeing up ⌘P.
A: You can also use defaults to change the shortcut to something like U+200B (ZERO WIDTH SPACE):
defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Print... '\U200b'
nil would be triggered when pressing n in some applications like Audacity and \0 would be triggered when pressing any key in Safari in 10.9.
I use a shell script like this to configure the shortcuts:
defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show Previous Tab"="~@\Uf702";
"Show Next Tab"="~@\Uf703";
"Minimize"="\U200b";
}'
defaults write com.apple.Finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show Package Contents"="@\r";
}'
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79f317ac324232fba0732a442498a1d68bab997b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change the keys for changing windows gone in Mavericks When I got my Mac-Mini, I've changed the cycle-through windows key from ⌘` to ⌘0 (since on the Hungarian keyboard layout I should press ⌘⌥ű, and never could remember which one is it from 5 other key.)
In Mountain Lion this option was still present, but now it is missing from Mavericks. I can't find it in the Keyboard & Input section anywhere. The entry for ⌘⇥ is also missing. This became problematic only now, because I only noticed now, that it clashes with a key combination in Microsoft Outlook. (I don't know if this problem come with the update, or had it before.)
Can anybody help how can I change this option or how to restore it?
I would like to set it to ⌥⌘⇥ and ⇧⌥⌘⇥ as I did it once before. (Or ⌃⌘⇥ should be more comfortable.)
A: On my installation of 10.9 the shortcut can still be changed from System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard > Move focus to next window:
I don't think it was ever possible to change command-tab to another shortcut though.
| Q: Change the keys for changing windows gone in Mavericks When I got my Mac-Mini, I've changed the cycle-through windows key from ⌘` to ⌘0 (since on the Hungarian keyboard layout I should press ⌘⌥ű, and never could remember which one is it from 5 other key.)
In Mountain Lion this option was still present, but now it is missing from Mavericks. I can't find it in the Keyboard & Input section anywhere. The entry for ⌘⇥ is also missing. This became problematic only now, because I only noticed now, that it clashes with a key combination in Microsoft Outlook. (I don't know if this problem come with the update, or had it before.)
Can anybody help how can I change this option or how to restore it?
I would like to set it to ⌥⌘⇥ and ⇧⌥⌘⇥ as I did it once before. (Or ⌃⌘⇥ should be more comfortable.)
A: On my installation of 10.9 the shortcut can still be changed from System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard > Move focus to next window:
I don't think it was ever possible to change command-tab to another shortcut though.
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3539f3d91dea97f1e62ce4ab7f1395eb984cda92 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Switch to MacPorts SSH by default 10.8/10.9 I've installed the MacPorts high-performance variant of SSH (sudo port install openssh +hpn) but now I would like to switch the default ssh command over. However, there appears to be some moral panic around degrading the sandbox (which was only recently introduced) but I am also worried about integration with OS X's keychain and my server keys....
What all do I need to softlink into /usr/bin/ssh or is there a better way to do this?
A: You can list the /opt directories before the system path and the shell will prefer the first match for ssh unless a script explicitly calls the system version.
By default, MacPorts lists /opt/ in your $PATH before the standard system paths. I would inspect your ~/.bash_profile carefully to make sure there are no typos.
| Q: Switch to MacPorts SSH by default 10.8/10.9 I've installed the MacPorts high-performance variant of SSH (sudo port install openssh +hpn) but now I would like to switch the default ssh command over. However, there appears to be some moral panic around degrading the sandbox (which was only recently introduced) but I am also worried about integration with OS X's keychain and my server keys....
What all do I need to softlink into /usr/bin/ssh or is there a better way to do this?
A: You can list the /opt directories before the system path and the shell will prefer the first match for ssh unless a script explicitly calls the system version.
By default, MacPorts lists /opt/ in your $PATH before the standard system paths. I would inspect your ~/.bash_profile carefully to make sure there are no typos.
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aafecbf3032fdcd63de33244ce90dca5d384b87f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I safely change my account's username? My Mac username is set to 'John', and I hate looking at the capital 'J' and would like to set it to 'john'. I see the advanced option in the Users & Groups settings, but I want to make sure that it won't break my setup? Do I need to rename my /Users/ folder? Would it break any programs depending on my home path?
A: Only if you are on a case sensitive filesystem (which OS X supports, but doesn't enable by default) and the program was coded poorly, would it capture the exact path to your home directory. The vast majority of programs use the proper manner to find files relative to your starting home folder and are immune to even more drastic name changes.
I say, back up your files and have a stab at changing the short name to your liking.
| Q: Can I safely change my account's username? My Mac username is set to 'John', and I hate looking at the capital 'J' and would like to set it to 'john'. I see the advanced option in the Users & Groups settings, but I want to make sure that it won't break my setup? Do I need to rename my /Users/ folder? Would it break any programs depending on my home path?
A: Only if you are on a case sensitive filesystem (which OS X supports, but doesn't enable by default) and the program was coded poorly, would it capture the exact path to your home directory. The vast majority of programs use the proper manner to find files relative to your starting home folder and are immune to even more drastic name changes.
I say, back up your files and have a stab at changing the short name to your liking.
A: It should be safe to change your username from John to john from within Users & Groups setting without having to make any further changes via command line.
A: OSX uses a full name and an account name. You can easily change your full name under:
settings > users
but I am not sure if this solves your problem. Changing the account name (that is associated with your home folder) is more tricky. You can do it though. Apple has a page describing how to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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b899fdccec86158c2a49620e6ea95de8bffcbf6c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I get the source code from an IPA? How do I get source code or classes .m and .h files for .ipa files?
A: No - since the IPA file only contains the compiled project, the source code can't be obtained from this.
Certain iOS apps are open source - you can obtain the source code for those apps separately.
| Q: Can I get the source code from an IPA? How do I get source code or classes .m and .h files for .ipa files?
A: No - since the IPA file only contains the compiled project, the source code can't be obtained from this.
Certain iOS apps are open source - you can obtain the source code for those apps separately.
A: If the IPA file is straight from iTunes/iPhone (without any modification), the code section in the binary (as indicated by the Info.plist) is encrypted with FairPlay (Apple's proprietary DRM). If you are unsure, you can check whether the cryptid bit is set with otool (see this page for more details).
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cb789bf964ca2b951489be5a774f39f8a32f6b20 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Late-2013 rMBP able to install & boot Win8 using EFI? I've previously installed Win7 (and then upgraded to 8) via Bootcamp, but I've been looking around some forums recently regarding running Win8 natively.
I now have the impression that the latest-gen rMBP will install and boot Win8 using EFI as if it were a native OS. In other words, off an EFI partition and without BIOS emulation.
Can anyone verify this?
I read on a forum (the post was made several weeks previous and the user didn't respond when I posted this question) where a user reported that Bootcamp had installed Win8 on an EFI partition and that the bootup was so much faster.
A: I can confirm that if Win8 is installed from an ISO (rather than a Win7 upgrade) then it will be installed on a boot-using-EFI partition.
| Q: Late-2013 rMBP able to install & boot Win8 using EFI? I've previously installed Win7 (and then upgraded to 8) via Bootcamp, but I've been looking around some forums recently regarding running Win8 natively.
I now have the impression that the latest-gen rMBP will install and boot Win8 using EFI as if it were a native OS. In other words, off an EFI partition and without BIOS emulation.
Can anyone verify this?
I read on a forum (the post was made several weeks previous and the user didn't respond when I posted this question) where a user reported that Bootcamp had installed Win8 on an EFI partition and that the bootup was so much faster.
A: I can confirm that if Win8 is installed from an ISO (rather than a Win7 upgrade) then it will be installed on a boot-using-EFI partition.
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573de229b3f07f6768b0d4d9151b86b70e8acec7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Allow application to control computer (assistive devices) on Mavericks via Terminal? I'm currently working on automated instalation of Mavericks 10.9. I have NetBoot set up. Everything works OK untill I want to execute Applescript. Since the release of new version I need to manually enable those scripts. Is there a command that I can use in shell script to add app to Assistive Devices list? Or maybe there is some plist that has to be edited for it to work?
A: You can also add the file by following the commands below.
This command will find the Bundle Identifier for the application you are trying to add to Assistive Devices.
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print CFBundleIdentifier' /Applications/enterapplicaitonnamehere.app/Contents/Info.plist
Let's say the application you were trying to add was SKYPE. You would then enter this below:
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print CFBundleIdentifier' /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/Info.plist
And your bundle identifier would be :
com.skype.skype
You then use this output in the command below:
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','',0,1,1,NULL);"
For Skype it would look like this:
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','com.skype.skype',0,1,1,NULL);"
To remove the application you would use the sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "delete from access where client='com.skype.skype';"
| Q: Allow application to control computer (assistive devices) on Mavericks via Terminal? I'm currently working on automated instalation of Mavericks 10.9. I have NetBoot set up. Everything works OK untill I want to execute Applescript. Since the release of new version I need to manually enable those scripts. Is there a command that I can use in shell script to add app to Assistive Devices list? Or maybe there is some plist that has to be edited for it to work?
A: You can also add the file by following the commands below.
This command will find the Bundle Identifier for the application you are trying to add to Assistive Devices.
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print CFBundleIdentifier' /Applications/enterapplicaitonnamehere.app/Contents/Info.plist
Let's say the application you were trying to add was SKYPE. You would then enter this below:
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print CFBundleIdentifier' /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/Info.plist
And your bundle identifier would be :
com.skype.skype
You then use this output in the command below:
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','',0,1,1,NULL);"
For Skype it would look like this:
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','com.skype.skype',0,1,1,NULL);"
To remove the application you would use the sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "delete from access where client='com.skype.skype';"
A: The settings are stored in /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db:
$ sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db 'select * from access'
kTCCServiceAccessibility|com.apple.ScriptEditor2|0|1|0|��
kTCCServiceAccessibility|com.red-sweater.FastScripts|0|1|0|��
kTCCServiceAccessibility|com.apple.AccessibilityInspector|0|1|0|��
kTCCServiceAccessibility|com.slate.Slate|0|1|0|��
kTCCServiceAccessibility|com.apple.Automator|0|1|1|
kTCCServiceAccessibility|com.googlecode.iterm2|0|1|1|
The schema, as given by sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db '.schema access', is:
CREATE TABLE access (service TEXT NOT NULL, client TEXT NOT NULL, client_type INTEGER NOT NULL, allowed INTEGER NOT NULL, prompt_count INTEGER NOT NULL, csreq BLOB, CONSTRAINT key PRIMARY KEY (service, client, client_type));
On my installation the last four columns (client_type, allowed, prompt_count, and csreq) are 0|1|0|\xfa\xde\x0c for applications that were added after the "example.app" would like to control this computer using accessibility features dialog was shown and 0|1|1| for applications that I added by dropping them to the list in System Preferences.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning.plist contains a list of applications for which the warning dialog has been shown:
$ defaults read com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning
{
"/Applications/Automator.app" = 1;
"/Applications/Automator.app/Contents/MacOS/Automator" = 1;
"/Applications/FastScripts.app" = 1;
"/Applications/FastScripts.app/Contents/MacOS/FastScripts" = 1;
"/Applications/Slate.app" = 1;
"/Applications/Slate.app/Contents/MacOS/Slate" = 1;
"/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor.app" = 1;
"/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleScript Editor" = 1;
"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Accessibility Inspector.app" = 1;
"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Accessibility Inspector.app/Contents/MacOS/Accessibility Inspector" = 1;
"/Applications/iTerm.app" = 1;
"/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm" = 1;
"/Users/lauri/Desktop/aa.app" = 1;
"/Users/lauri/Desktop/aa.app/Contents/MacOS/applet" = 1;
"com.apple.AccessibilityInspector" = 1;
"com.apple.Automator" = 1;
"com.apple.ScriptEditor.id.aa" = 1;
"com.apple.ScriptEditor2" = 1;
"com.red-sweater.FastScripts" = 1;
"com.slate.Slate" = 1;
}
I couldn't figure out how to actually allow access for assistive devices for an application though. I tried for example running these commands:
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db 'insert into access values ("kTCCServiceAccessibility","com.apple.ScriptEditor.id.qq",0,1,0,"'$'\xfa\xde\x0c''");'
defaults write com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning com.apple.ScriptEditor.id.qq -bool true
defaults write com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning /Users/lauri/Desktop/qq.app -bool true
defaults write com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning /Users/lauri/Desktop/qq.app/Contents/MacOS/applet -bool true
sudo killall tccd
I also tried restarting to apply the changes and setting the last four columns to 0,1,1,"".
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37e4c653f073ce179cd05477ad5503dc614373b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change master of an existing slide in Keynote 6.0? In Keynote 5.x there was a toolbar button where I could change the master of an existing slide. This would keep the content of the slide, but would change the layout to the new master.
I can not find this functionality in Keynote 6.x anymore. I tried to configure the toolbar - but no "Master" button is there. I looked through all menues. And even the context menu of the slide.
Any hints where this functionality is gone?
A: Ah! A few more minutes of "seeking" - and I found out where Apple moved the functionality.
For all desperate - here the solution:
*
*Make sure you clicked on the slide-overview (on the left), so that the slide gets a yellow border
*Then far-away on the right select the "Format" button. Then below it you will see the current master slide for the selected slide. With a small grey triangle on the right. Click this triangle and a pop over will allow you to change the master of the current slide.
Hope this helps someone in the future...
| Q: How to change master of an existing slide in Keynote 6.0? In Keynote 5.x there was a toolbar button where I could change the master of an existing slide. This would keep the content of the slide, but would change the layout to the new master.
I can not find this functionality in Keynote 6.x anymore. I tried to configure the toolbar - but no "Master" button is there. I looked through all menues. And even the context menu of the slide.
Any hints where this functionality is gone?
A: Ah! A few more minutes of "seeking" - and I found out where Apple moved the functionality.
For all desperate - here the solution:
*
*Make sure you clicked on the slide-overview (on the left), so that the slide gets a yellow border
*Then far-away on the right select the "Format" button. Then below it you will see the current master slide for the selected slide. With a small grey triangle on the right. Click this triangle and a pop over will allow you to change the master of the current slide.
Hope this helps someone in the future...
A: I found I also had to delete the background on the imported slide. I clicked the background, clicked the Unlock button on the Arrange panel, and then hit the delete key to delete the background.
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ed3bca0306c2b4437e09f53501e00b79ab34c8c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes sync stuck on step 5: Importing Photos When I'm trying to sync my iPad 4 (iOS7) using my Macbook (Mavericks) it stucks on the stage "Importing photos". It was syncing for more than 9 hours with absolutely no progress until I cancelled it. There are around 500 pictures to import.
The cord is good. USB port works well. I have the most recent iTunes, iPhoto. Already tried to rebuild iPhoto library. Nothing helps.
Please advice.
A: Deleting ~/Pictures/iPod Photo Cache and emptying the trash did the trick for me.
Just to be clear,
*
*Quit itunes.
*Go to your home folder in the Finder
*Go to the pictures folder
*Right mouse click on "iPhoto Library.photolibrary" and choose Show Package Contents
*Move "iPod Photo Cache" to the trash.
*Empty the trash.
*Open itunes and run a sync
| Q: iTunes sync stuck on step 5: Importing Photos When I'm trying to sync my iPad 4 (iOS7) using my Macbook (Mavericks) it stucks on the stage "Importing photos". It was syncing for more than 9 hours with absolutely no progress until I cancelled it. There are around 500 pictures to import.
The cord is good. USB port works well. I have the most recent iTunes, iPhoto. Already tried to rebuild iPhoto library. Nothing helps.
Please advice.
A: Deleting ~/Pictures/iPod Photo Cache and emptying the trash did the trick for me.
Just to be clear,
*
*Quit itunes.
*Go to your home folder in the Finder
*Go to the pictures folder
*Right mouse click on "iPhoto Library.photolibrary" and choose Show Package Contents
*Move "iPod Photo Cache" to the trash.
*Empty the trash.
*Open itunes and run a sync
A: executive summary: check to see if it's full
I've been having this problem a lot lately, with OSX 10.9 and iTunes 11 on a 4th gen iPod Touch with iOS 6. I think there are a few contributors in my case, that seem to combine to stall it, often at "importing photos" or "preparing items" in step 8 (will stall for hours until I kill it).
One issue is that when I plug it in, iPhoto opens to copy photos off. I think the coordination between iPhoto 9.5 and iTunes may be buggy. Sometimes there are no new photos, and iPhoto doesn't offer any particular path forward, so there's no way for me to tell it I'm done with the (non-)sync. Meanwhile, iTunes seems to be waiting.
Another issue is that there are a couple photos and a couple music tracks that it has trouble moving over; these all work fine on one side or the other (ie Mac can play the audio, iPod can view the photo). I've wondered if a wipe and restore might cure this, but haven't been willing to risk this yet (worried it might fail to restore the same way it fails to sync).
These combine to make sync'ing unreliable anyway, but I think my most recent troubles were triggered by a new issue: the iPod was completely full, and iTunes didn't know this. I was tipped off when it claimed insufficient space for a 21 MB app downloaded in iOS, and I checked the iOS settings/general/usage screen to see "0 bytes" listed free. It had been filled up by me downloading podcasts to it that weren't being deleted -- I resolved this by manually deleting a bunch of them, and after a variety of sync attempts after that finally got it to complete. Even after this, iTunes thinks there is 8 GB free but the device says 4 GB, so there's a disconnect there. The way iTunes and iOS 6 handle podcasts seems clunky and is likely a factor.
A: I would terminate the sync and use Image Capture to retrieve the photos.
You have a much faster import to get them to a folder and then you can also delete them and perhaps isolate one bad photo that hangs or just break up the transfer.
Once you have all the photos off, you could delete a problem photo or two or just clean up the camera roll and try syncing again in iTunes. You could also open iPhoto and do the import directly as it and Image Capture have a better interface for letting you know where the import process is hanging.
A: I repaired privileges with Disk Utility while iTunes and iPhoto were NOT running.
After this I could sync photos to my iPhone 5S with iOS 7.1 from my MacBook Pro with 10.9.2 with iTunes 11.1.5.
Tried all the other things like deleting the iPod cache folder in the Pictures folder, rebuild the iPhoto Database and all. These did not work and iTunes stranded on the "Importing Photos" step.
Hope this will help others!
A: I had to change to the ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library directory and then use the following command to remove the cache:
rm -r iPod\ Photo\ Cache/
Use the tab expansion feature of the shell to get the above command line quickly by typing rm -r iP + [tab] to expand the command line.
A: Using the Disk Utility app and selecting Repair Disk is what I tried first and that worked perfectly.
A: Deleting iPod Photo Cache fixed the stuck sync for me. Note this did break the photo-syncing link between iTunes and my devices: I had to reenable Sync Photos for them, and confirm I wanted to replace the existing photo library on the device.
Apple bless removing the folder: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203156
A: Just solved a similar problem. I even didn’t have to remove the iPod Photo Cache permanently!
*
*The synchronization got stuck on Importing photos.
*I closed iTunes and iPhoto and moved the folder ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/iPod Photo Cache to Trash.
*I opened iTunes and ran the synchronization. It was done in a moment, the synchronization of photos was disabled.
*I closed iTunes and Put back the removed folder.
*Opened iTunes and everything works fine.
A: The easier fix is to rebuild/repair the Photos library.
*
*Quit Photos, and experience the "closing library" hang; now, force quit. (Argh!)
*Hold down Cmd + Opt while relaunching Photos to repair the library.
*Successfully import your stuff.
A: Clear all flies not photos. And run again. And add more photos. No just clean up.
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4c7d533c41a6facf2e1d2d9ff742659ccd4d0af3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I restore the default folder icon? I build web sites on a Mac and after the recent upgrade to Mavericks, the icon for all of my web template folders have changed from the standard Mac folder icon to the Parallels icon. I can change it using Get Info, but this has to be done one folder at a time and is unnecessarily tedious.
Has anyone else encountered this, and more importantly does anyone know how to reset the default to display the standard blue Mac folder icon?
Here is what it looks like right now:
A: *
*Get Info on the folder.
*Click the icon on the top-left of the window.
*Press ⌘X or Backspace
Alternatively, cd into the directory and run
rm Icon$'\r'
To delete the icon from multiple folders at the same time, run the following command:
find ~/Desktop -name Icon$'\r' -delete
Replace ~/Desktop with the containing folder of the folders that you wish to remove the icons from.
| Q: How do I restore the default folder icon? I build web sites on a Mac and after the recent upgrade to Mavericks, the icon for all of my web template folders have changed from the standard Mac folder icon to the Parallels icon. I can change it using Get Info, but this has to be done one folder at a time and is unnecessarily tedious.
Has anyone else encountered this, and more importantly does anyone know how to reset the default to display the standard blue Mac folder icon?
Here is what it looks like right now:
A: *
*Get Info on the folder.
*Click the icon on the top-left of the window.
*Press ⌘X or Backspace
Alternatively, cd into the directory and run
rm Icon$'\r'
To delete the icon from multiple folders at the same time, run the following command:
find ~/Desktop -name Icon$'\r' -delete
Replace ~/Desktop with the containing folder of the folders that you wish to remove the icons from.
A: Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ this is where the resources are. the icon for generic folder is called "GenericFolderIcon.icns". What image is it in your system/ Is it the image of the Parallels icon? By default it should be the blue folder icon.
Source http://yukiyamashina.github.io/blog/2014/10/19/how-to-change-the-color-of-default-folder-icons-in-OS-X-Yosemite/
or you can try liteIcon
A: in the new Yosemite, sip doesn't allow you to change system files due to sip.
system integration protection (sip):
Good to stop viruses and malware, but bad for people who like to tinker. Remember to turn it back on and understand the risks of turning it off. They are important to know;
To turn off sip:
*
*Restart mac
*When restarting hold cmd+r
*Select terminal
*Type in "csrutil disable"
*Click return
*From the menu select restart
*To enable sip again repeat, but type in "csrutil enable" instead
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d88055fed959c568253b48418ae65a82f2694957 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Export Wi-Fi passwords from keychain I want to export all my Wi-Fi passwords and import it to the keychain of my girlfriends Mac.
Is this even possible? And how its done? With iCloud Keychain Sync this passwords should also be available on her iPhone, shouldn't it?
A: *
*From the Finder of original keychain file, press Command+Shift+G to bring up Go To Folder and enter the path:
~/Library/Keychains/
*Copy the ser “login.keychain” file to the new Mac, do this with AirDrop, Ethernet, USB or any external devices.
*On the new Mac, press Command+Spacebar to open Spotlight and type “Keychain Access” then hit return, this launches the Keychain manager app
*Pull down the “File” menu and select “Add Keychain” and browse to the keychain file you copied to the new Mac, selecting Add to import the stored keychain data to the new Mac
Hope this helps :)
| Q: Export Wi-Fi passwords from keychain I want to export all my Wi-Fi passwords and import it to the keychain of my girlfriends Mac.
Is this even possible? And how its done? With iCloud Keychain Sync this passwords should also be available on her iPhone, shouldn't it?
A: *
*From the Finder of original keychain file, press Command+Shift+G to bring up Go To Folder and enter the path:
~/Library/Keychains/
*Copy the ser “login.keychain” file to the new Mac, do this with AirDrop, Ethernet, USB or any external devices.
*On the new Mac, press Command+Spacebar to open Spotlight and type “Keychain Access” then hit return, this launches the Keychain manager app
*Pull down the “File” menu and select “Add Keychain” and browse to the keychain file you copied to the new Mac, selecting Add to import the stored keychain data to the new Mac
Hope this helps :)
A: For further instruction follow this link:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12318681#12318681
and
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2980
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23030c92695f23c6c1ab1ebbde287bd095704fbe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Size in bytes is significantly less ( half the size) then size in MB in get info window In the get info window it says 387,037,139 bytes which is 387 MB whereas the size on disk is 716.9MB which is 716,900,000 bytes.
du -sh paramgen result (in MiB) 684M paramgen
Why is there such a large difference?
A: 387,037,139 bytes is the sum of the file lengths in bytes. A file however uses whole blocks on disk, hence even a one byte file takes one block. On the partition on which I tested this, a block is 4K. The “on disk” value is the number of blocks times the block size.
The difference between 684 and 716.9 is a factor of 1.024*1.024, that is the difference between the two possible meanings of megabyte.
| Q: Size in bytes is significantly less ( half the size) then size in MB in get info window In the get info window it says 387,037,139 bytes which is 387 MB whereas the size on disk is 716.9MB which is 716,900,000 bytes.
du -sh paramgen result (in MiB) 684M paramgen
Why is there such a large difference?
A: 387,037,139 bytes is the sum of the file lengths in bytes. A file however uses whole blocks on disk, hence even a one byte file takes one block. On the partition on which I tested this, a block is 4K. The “on disk” value is the number of blocks times the block size.
The difference between 684 and 716.9 is a factor of 1.024*1.024, that is the difference between the two possible meanings of megabyte.
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bc867d5acded5b0a850e25c2e18012b72f97a6fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I play the sound from the audio in through my speakers? I have got a Macbook Pro 15" that has both an audio in and out port. Now I would like to play the sound from an external device through the speakers of my Mac.
How can I do that? I tried to just plug in the 3.5mm cable from my external device into the audio in port but I simply cannot make my Mac play the sound. However, in System Preferences -> Sound -> Input I can see that the Mac is receiving the signals.
What can I do?
A: If you don't have Garageband installed you can also use Quicktime.
*
*Open Quicktime
*Go to File -> New Audio Recording. You will see the following screen:
*Click on the little triangle on the right and choose Built-in Input: Line in as shown in the screenshot.
*Slide the volume under the record button up until you have the desired loudness.
| Q: How can I play the sound from the audio in through my speakers? I have got a Macbook Pro 15" that has both an audio in and out port. Now I would like to play the sound from an external device through the speakers of my Mac.
How can I do that? I tried to just plug in the 3.5mm cable from my external device into the audio in port but I simply cannot make my Mac play the sound. However, in System Preferences -> Sound -> Input I can see that the Mac is receiving the signals.
What can I do?
A: If you don't have Garageband installed you can also use Quicktime.
*
*Open Quicktime
*Go to File -> New Audio Recording. You will see the following screen:
*Click on the little triangle on the right and choose Built-in Input: Line in as shown in the screenshot.
*Slide the volume under the record button up until you have the desired loudness.
A: You can use GarageBand:
*
*Create a new project and choose for example the voice template
*Set Monitor to On
*Optionally remove the effects from the Edit tab
A: You can use the SoundSource app from Rogue Amoeba to set your sound on "Play-Thru". Or you can do it in their free Line-In app, which has been retired but can still be downloaded.
A: A bit late to the party but I’ve stumbled on a solution on another StackOverflow website that led me here: http://jsfiddle.net/jib1/7ejwaxkc
It works wonderfully as an audio passthrough. Took me ages to find... phew!
Enjoy!
EDIT: Found out the solution isn’t perfect: it’s mono. :(
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7554401764589b639e47360ec95b6db42d0244ec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX : Cancel the shutdown sequence Let's suppose a case where I accidentally start the shutdown sequence of OSX (wrong shortcut, wrong menu item click in the Apple Menu, App asking for a reboot etc.)
Is there a way to cancel the shutdown sequence (during the time OSX kills opened apps) ?
A: If you have any unsaved documents the shutdown process will wait while the application prompts you to save the document, and eventually will time out. You can also click Cancel in the save dialog and shutdown process will interrupt.
| Q: OSX : Cancel the shutdown sequence Let's suppose a case where I accidentally start the shutdown sequence of OSX (wrong shortcut, wrong menu item click in the Apple Menu, App asking for a reboot etc.)
Is there a way to cancel the shutdown sequence (during the time OSX kills opened apps) ?
A: If you have any unsaved documents the shutdown process will wait while the application prompts you to save the document, and eventually will time out. You can also click Cancel in the save dialog and shutdown process will interrupt.
A: You can just launch any app while the Mac is shutting down and that'll terminate the process.
A: sudo killall shutdown
I've tried, it works.
A: Just piggy-backing off @gravicle. When you enter the shutdown command in the terminal it should give you a (pid) number... Just sudo kill the (pid) number. Enjoy
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61b61f42410822f78cb7df8469e933ad3b1f4c14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I enable/disable push notifications for an app on iOS 7? Apps will often ask to enable push notifications the first time they are run. However how do I change this setting after answering this? There doesn't seem to be a single thing in Settings about Push Notifications. The closest I can find is "Notification Center", but this just appears to customize how notifications appear, not whether push notifications are enabled or disabled for the app. This is a really confusing UI.
A: So far the only way I've found to do this is to manually choose the alert style for the app in Notification Center. The default is banner, so enabling push notifications requires setting the alert style to banner, turn on badging, sounds and enable in notification center, and similarly disabling all these (banner style to none) to disable.
I really wish there were a single on/off setting for this but there doesn't appear to be.
Update: I got my wish. As of iOS 8 I believe there is now a single on/off switch to enable notifications for an app. This resides in the Settings->Notifications area under the specific app.
| Q: How do I enable/disable push notifications for an app on iOS 7? Apps will often ask to enable push notifications the first time they are run. However how do I change this setting after answering this? There doesn't seem to be a single thing in Settings about Push Notifications. The closest I can find is "Notification Center", but this just appears to customize how notifications appear, not whether push notifications are enabled or disabled for the app. This is a really confusing UI.
A: So far the only way I've found to do this is to manually choose the alert style for the app in Notification Center. The default is banner, so enabling push notifications requires setting the alert style to banner, turn on badging, sounds and enable in notification center, and similarly disabling all these (banner style to none) to disable.
I really wish there were a single on/off setting for this but there doesn't appear to be.
Update: I got my wish. As of iOS 8 I believe there is now a single on/off switch to enable notifications for an app. This resides in the Settings->Notifications area under the specific app.
A: There is an "include" and a "do not include" section in Notification Center.
Tap "edit" at top right corner of the Notification Center. This allows you to drag apps around in the Notification Center.
Hold the app you want to stop push notifications from, by the lines on the right hand side to its name, and drag it into "do not include" section. It will automatically close all banner settings for the app, and voila! You are good to go.
A: If you go into ""Settings"
Then "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Then "Fetch New Data"
There's an option to turn Push off and on there, I think that effects all apps since I have some that complain that push is turned off when that option is turned off and they don't when that option is on. I could be wrong though
A: I had this problem when I wanted to enable push push notifications for my Amazon app in order to get alerts of when my package was delivered or when my package is being shipped. I selected them to be disabled when I first downloaded the app, and couldn't reenable them when I had the after.
The only way I was able to reenable the push notifications for my Amazon app was to delete The app and re-download it from the app store.
Hope that helps...it sucks we have to erase and redownload an app just to enable push notifications.
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530d81b28c9a5a7286d074fe644dccd8c7715d27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Faulty graphics card or maverick's issue? I've started to get strange artifacts on my 2010 MacBook Pro after updating to Maverick's. I'm not sure if they occur systematically -- I am running a CPU intensive script this time, but have run the same script before without issue. Restarting seems to fix it.
From other posts, it sounds like it most likely is a graphics card issue, but I was wondering if it is potentially an issue relating to the Maverick's update, rather than a graphics card problem.
A: I am having precisely the same issues with the same MacBook Pro, a 2010 15" 2.4GHz i5. When I uncheck the 'Automatic graphic switching' box in Energy Saving in System Preferences, the artefacts immediately disappear. My guess? A Mavericks driver issue with Intel HD graphics in this laptop.
| Q: Faulty graphics card or maverick's issue? I've started to get strange artifacts on my 2010 MacBook Pro after updating to Maverick's. I'm not sure if they occur systematically -- I am running a CPU intensive script this time, but have run the same script before without issue. Restarting seems to fix it.
From other posts, it sounds like it most likely is a graphics card issue, but I was wondering if it is potentially an issue relating to the Maverick's update, rather than a graphics card problem.
A: I am having precisely the same issues with the same MacBook Pro, a 2010 15" 2.4GHz i5. When I uncheck the 'Automatic graphic switching' box in Energy Saving in System Preferences, the artefacts immediately disappear. My guess? A Mavericks driver issue with Intel HD graphics in this laptop.
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260c91dfb3d2240a5a24da4f1a1335d422514f9f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is Soundflower 1.6.6 compatible with Mavericks 10.9? Is Soundflower 1.6.6 compatible with Mavericks 10.9?
A: I just fixed the latest code from cycling74's github (1.6.7) to build it and run it on Mavericks.
You can get it at https://github.com/crmne/Soundflower/releases
| Q: Is Soundflower 1.6.6 compatible with Mavericks 10.9? Is Soundflower 1.6.6 compatible with Mavericks 10.9?
A: I just fixed the latest code from cycling74's github (1.6.7) to build it and run it on Mavericks.
You can get it at https://github.com/crmne/Soundflower/releases
A: at first I thought that no, doesn't work for me.
deeper investigation revealed that indeed it does work but somehow Mavericks install set the volume to 0, means all the streams were nullified. I spent at least 2h fighting this issue and finally found the setting in system Audio Devices (not system preferences)
A: I just tried installing Soundflower 1.6.6 on 10.9 and it does still work. I don't know if there are some compatibility issues, but if there were some major issues they'd probably have released a new version already.
A: If you check on RoaringApps you can see that Soundflower works fine on Mavericks. However, there's only one report stating that, so depending on your hardware configuration you might have a different experience.
A: Sorry to be the first negative, but for me it does not work. Soundflower itself is working, but Soundflowerbed keeps crashing as soon as you want to change any settings. Konsole gives this information:
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 16 beyond bounds [0 .. 15]'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called
There's a lot more on that error report regarding several .dylibs, but mainly thats it. Probably has to do with upgrading from SnowLeopard instead of using a fresh install. So if you want to upgrade the same way (SL > MAV directly) be warned: If you had a working Soundflower installation on SL do not try to upgrade to 1.6.6b, it's not going to work. Just stay with whatever you have, it's running fine.
Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't do anything to solve the problem. At least i recreated SOundflower 1.4.4 and the according .kext file from a TimeMachine Backup which works fine now.
A: No - Soundflower has quit working for me in 10.9.5 using 1.6.7 version of Soundcloud. Worked before in Mavericks but now has a lot of audio feedback. When channeling clive, you can't understand what people are saying.
I use it sometimes to record a video that is on screen with Quicktime.
A: The best answer is Yes and No, it works completely but it causes lag when changing the volume. It can also send pretty cad digital to other apps so better to go without for that and use JackOSX.
A: I finally found that Soundflower has to be selected as both input and output for it to work properly in Quicktime screen recordings. Once I figured that out, it worked excellently.
A: Just use an old version of SoundFlower (for example SoundFlower 1.6.5) on Mavericks.
A: 1.6.7 does not work in OS X 10.10.2. It crashes on start up with:
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < [_itemArray count])'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called
A: Just wanted to chime in. I use SimCap with Soundflower a lot to make demo videos of apps and I haven't been able to get audio to work at all since upgrading to Mavericks. When I've tried SoundFlower with other apps I get similar results. I have both input and output selected for Soundflower in the "Sound" section of System Preferences and both are set to about mid-volume.
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b994d86a4d49b9b9ce9bc9be9695515c4ccbe4ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the use of snapshot.db? After installing Mavericks, I discovered snapshot.db (1.5 GB) file in:
/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db
What is the use of that file? Is it safe to delete it?
A: I filed a bug report with apple for the same issue. They responded that snapshots.db is intended to hold data for the last 3 days and reach 70-150 MB on most systems. However, on mine (OS X 10.9, iMac 27-inch 2.8 GHz i7, 8 GB RAM) the current snapshots.db file has now reached 2.12 GB and is still growing. No further help from apple so far - they apparently cannot reproduce the behavior.
It is possible to manually delete the file, which I did after my first one reached 1.76 GB. You can also replace it with an empty system immutable snapshots.db file, which prevents the system from writing to it, although you then get 'assertion failed' console messages every few minutes.
I have no real use for this file; 70-150 MB would be fine, but the disk space it consumes on my system is unacceptable.
I recommend you file a bug report with apple as well.
| Q: What is the use of snapshot.db? After installing Mavericks, I discovered snapshot.db (1.5 GB) file in:
/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db
What is the use of that file? Is it safe to delete it?
A: I filed a bug report with apple for the same issue. They responded that snapshots.db is intended to hold data for the last 3 days and reach 70-150 MB on most systems. However, on mine (OS X 10.9, iMac 27-inch 2.8 GHz i7, 8 GB RAM) the current snapshots.db file has now reached 2.12 GB and is still growing. No further help from apple so far - they apparently cannot reproduce the behavior.
It is possible to manually delete the file, which I did after my first one reached 1.76 GB. You can also replace it with an empty system immutable snapshots.db file, which prevents the system from writing to it, although you then get 'assertion failed' console messages every few minutes.
I have no real use for this file; 70-150 MB would be fine, but the disk space it consumes on my system is unacceptable.
I recommend you file a bug report with apple as well.
A: Alternatively, you could disable the launchdaemon that spawns these snapshots and writes to that file. I did this on my rMBP running Mavericks since the console was flooded with "powerstats" logs. After I ran the following command, both the console log reports and the growth of the file you refer to ceased.
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.systemstats.daily.plist
A: The systemstatsd daemon collect a selection of system statistics about system power usage and it usually runs unnoticed in the background. So generally, there’s nothing to concern.
If the database file gets too big (snapshots.db), it can be emptied when you stop/unload the service as per this post:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.systemstatsd
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.systemstatsd.analysis
then flush the file by:
sudo sh -c ">/private/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db"
A: I can confirm that running
sudo sqlite3 /private/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db "vacuum;"
will compress the database down. Mine went from 530MB to 74MB, conforming other postings here. Thus, garbage collection or write damage on this database is probably a culprit. I would venture that the more probable assumption is on a bad write, as my CCC could not write it over (nor could I copy it to another directory)
A: At a high level, the file you listed is a binary database file used by the OS to track power usage, performance and sleep/wake data over time. Despite the general guidance to not delete anything from /var/db this appears to not cause undue harm if you were to delete that one file on occasion.
This feeds the new views of energy usage and perhaps might help with diagnostics if you have problems down the line and ask Apple to help diagnose the system.
The program that writes to that file (as well as associated files in /var/db/systemstats ) is systemstatsd.
You can use the systemstats --help command to get more details and read from that file if you are curious. The manual page I linked to is the shell of a manual page and the code is mostly undocumented by Apple other than the documentation that is build into the tool and accessible from calling it with the help option.
It's generally not safe to delete anything in /var/db since the system could depend on the files being coherent, but I've tested removing all contents of that directory by booting into Single User mode and the system seems to recreate things properly and handle any attempts to manually clean up these files.
I wouldn't recommend deleting anything from sytemstats on a Mac you are not ready to erase and reinstall and you also might get odd information from Activity Monitor if you manage to get the database and log files in an inconsistent state. That being said, it looks like the system was programmed defensively to handle things going missing from that directory and not cause erratic operation in general if you do so anyhow.
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90f9275fd42774b11e87baf2896a4c286e0815d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove header columns in Page 5.0 In the new iWork Pages, there is by default 3 cells or columns in the header and I cannot remove the column back to its original one column header just like the normal header in Pages 09'.
If you see that in the image, it is NOT a table, but the header when the cursor hover on it.
A: In fact what Apple did here is better than before :
If you write in only one of these 3 columns it behaves as if there were only one column.
| Q: Remove header columns in Page 5.0 In the new iWork Pages, there is by default 3 cells or columns in the header and I cannot remove the column back to its original one column header just like the normal header in Pages 09'.
If you see that in the image, it is NOT a table, but the header when the cursor hover on it.
A: In fact what Apple did here is better than before :
If you write in only one of these 3 columns it behaves as if there were only one column.
A: When you go to print, "truncated" headers will appear in their entirety on the printed page. It's just a glitch in the editing environment.
A: It helps to insert a text box in one of the cells. You can adjust its size, background, all styling and so on. The best thing is that this text box "overlaps" the header so it does not get truncated.
A: If you have a header that spans more than one column, and choose to stage your headers - i.e. a different header on different "chapters", then your headers are truncated only to the width of the "cell".
A: The only "fix" I've seen that works is to copy an old '09 document and open it in v5.
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27557ad1003441524b8f477c51bdea728ca5cb1f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I run a script when the room brightness has changed? How can I run a script when the room brightness has changed? In particular I want to run a script when the lights have been turned off in the room that my Macbook is in.
A: Lilt will do this.
http://www.jonn8.com/lilt/
I used to use it to change my desktop picture from a light to dark one when the ambient light changed :D
| Q: How can I run a script when the room brightness has changed? How can I run a script when the room brightness has changed? In particular I want to run a script when the lights have been turned off in the room that my Macbook is in.
A: Lilt will do this.
http://www.jonn8.com/lilt/
I used to use it to change my desktop picture from a light to dark one when the ambient light changed :D
A: ControlPlane provides a method of using the Ambient Light Sensor to determin a "location" then the location determines what changes on your computer. While ControlPlane is usually used to change system settings depending on where the computer is located, it could also be used to launch an application (or AppleScript) upon sensing a change in lighting.
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5594caf2b57ad10b1e961fc1d1a5c709165cf046 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I launch a printer scanner from Spotlight? I can go to the "Printers & Scanners" panel from Spotlight, but I cannot call the scanner directly. Is there any way to make Spotlight index a shortcut to the default printer's Scanner app?
It would save the 2 to 3 clicks it takes to click on the correct printer if needed, click on the "Scan" tab and finally on the "Open Scanner" button.
(It's rather counter-intuitive to have to go to a System Preferences panel to be able to scan a document)
[Edit: I mean this app:]
A: Easy,
*
*Open System Preferences
*Select the "Printers & Scanners" control panel
*Select the Scanner that you want to create the shortcut for
*Once the scanning window opens, right-click on the Scanner's application icon on the right side of your dock, and select "option/keep on dock"
*Next time you want to open the scanner, just click on its docked icon
*If it is a combo printer/scanner, step 5 may open the printer queue window instead of going straight to scan mode. If this occurs, simply the click the "Scan" button that shows in the Printer Queue window.
| Q: How can I launch a printer scanner from Spotlight? I can go to the "Printers & Scanners" panel from Spotlight, but I cannot call the scanner directly. Is there any way to make Spotlight index a shortcut to the default printer's Scanner app?
It would save the 2 to 3 clicks it takes to click on the correct printer if needed, click on the "Scan" tab and finally on the "Open Scanner" button.
(It's rather counter-intuitive to have to go to a System Preferences panel to be able to scan a document)
[Edit: I mean this app:]
A: Easy,
*
*Open System Preferences
*Select the "Printers & Scanners" control panel
*Select the Scanner that you want to create the shortcut for
*Once the scanning window opens, right-click on the Scanner's application icon on the right side of your dock, and select "option/keep on dock"
*Next time you want to open the scanner, just click on its docked icon
*If it is a combo printer/scanner, step 5 may open the printer queue window instead of going straight to scan mode. If this occurs, simply the click the "Scan" button that shows in the Printer Queue window.
A: If you make an alias of /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Print.framework/Versions/A/Plugins/PrinterProxy.app/ to for example /Applications/Utilities/, the alias is included in the Spotlight menu:
If you use Alfred, it can be configured to include all applications in the default search results:
A: I have made an applescript that launches the specific printer/scanner app
that resides in user library and then presses cmd+3 as Hotschke suggested.
set SCAN to "/Users/user/Library/Printers/INK 8600.app"
tell application SCAN to activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "3" using command down
this is saved as Scan INK 8600.app in apps folder and launched through spotlight.
It opens the printer app and then launches the scan interface.
A: I know this is an old question, but I found a pretty easy way to access the scanner without going through System Preferences every time.
*
*Find the printer via System Preferences->Printers & Scanners, and click Open Print Queue... This should open a new window for the printer.
*Right-click (or Cmd-click) on the title bar of the print queue window. Select the Printers option. This will open the hidden Printers folder in Finder.
*From here you should be able to see the app for the printer. Hold down Cmd and Alt while dragging the app to create a shortcut anywhere you want (I put mine in the Applications folder), and now you can use the shortcut to open the print queue window directly without going through System Preferences. Then just click the Scanner button to scan a document.
Hope this helps!
A: You could try to type-in the name of your printer inside Spotlight, the interface showing up should let you click on the "Scanner" button.
The quickest way I found so far; and I don't think you can get to that "scanner-button-interface" directly i.e: you have to go through the printer-interface.
(see How can I access my scanner directly without going through System Preferences?)
A: I have a flatbed scanner, separate from the printer.
Solution 1: What works for me is, in Spotlight, to type the first letters of the name of the scanning device (in my case "Epson Perfection 2400"), and open it. This opens the scanning window directly from Spotlight.
Solution 2: you can rename the scanner device to include the word "scanner", by going to Preferences > Printers and Scanners, right-clicking (or Ctrl-clicking) on the scanner name, and rename it. In my case, I renamed it to "Epson Perfection 2400 scanner". This did the trick. Now I can type "scanner" in Spotlight, and open up the scanning window directly.
A: If you use Alfred.app, add the path ~/Library/Printers to the Search Scope of Default Results
Now, I get following results when entering HP
Final step for my HP LaserJet M1536dnf MFP is to press CMD+3 to open the scanner window!
Or search for the mac OS utility Image Capture which also lists scanner.
A: Type the word scan into spotlight and click the resulting icon.
A: The fastest way to activate any program is to use the ⌘ + SPACEBAR shortcut to bring up Spotlight and then type in the name of the Applciation you wish to start, in this case, your scanning application name is what you would enter. After you enter it in the spotlight search field, it should show up under the Applications heading in the Spotlight Result list, if it isn't selected already, simply use the arrow keys to highlight it and then hit enter to select it.
This is the method I use to start up many, if not all of the applications I use because it doesn't require me to lift my hand off the keyboard and I can just keep working.
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00b3f102453a95e3bb44cdced88490d2440e9edb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Limit my upload speed at OS level ? I know my upload speed is limited at about 100/110KB/s, sometimes I reach this limit and it impacts the connexion of other computer of my home network.
Is there a way to tell OSX to limit its upload speed to (for example) 80KB/s ?
A: Network Link Conditioner
You can create a custom profile for Network Link Conditioner, using the following settings:
It is a free download in Xcode (go to Xcode → Open Developer Tool → More Developer Tools… and download the Hardware IO Tools for Xcode).
| Q: Limit my upload speed at OS level ? I know my upload speed is limited at about 100/110KB/s, sometimes I reach this limit and it impacts the connexion of other computer of my home network.
Is there a way to tell OSX to limit its upload speed to (for example) 80KB/s ?
A: Network Link Conditioner
You can create a custom profile for Network Link Conditioner, using the following settings:
It is a free download in Xcode (go to Xcode → Open Developer Tool → More Developer Tools… and download the Hardware IO Tools for Xcode).
A: Two ways that I can think of:
1. Install Apple's Network Link Conditioner
2. Use ipfw commands to create a pipe and limit bandwidth:
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 80KByte/s
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80
To disable the pipe:
sudo ipfw delete 1
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206cd303e729277e3710d7c09e837f1e53c7e906 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to delete a customer review that contains wrong information? We have an iPad app in the app store. Someone wrote a review that contains some false information about the app.
What can I do about this? Can I flag the comment so that Apple takes a look at it?
A: As of January 2015, you can in Itunes Connect:
*
*Sign in to Itunes Connect
*Go to "Contact Us"
*Choose "App Store Questions"
*Choose "Customer Reviews"
*Choose "Specific Removal Request"
*Click on the 2nd "contact us" link. A form should appear.
*Fill in the form and push "Submit"
*Wait for Apple to contact you.
| Q: Is it possible to delete a customer review that contains wrong information? We have an iPad app in the app store. Someone wrote a review that contains some false information about the app.
What can I do about this? Can I flag the comment so that Apple takes a look at it?
A: As of January 2015, you can in Itunes Connect:
*
*Sign in to Itunes Connect
*Go to "Contact Us"
*Choose "App Store Questions"
*Choose "Customer Reviews"
*Choose "Specific Removal Request"
*Click on the 2nd "contact us" link. A form should appear.
*Fill in the form and push "Submit"
*Wait for Apple to contact you.
A: You can't simply delete the review yourself, however you can flag it for review by Apple to be deleted.
Click on Report a Concern next to the review on the App Store, then select a reason for your flag, followed by comments:
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68b539cc52e2b6345dd1d27e308570db2ad832b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cmd+Tab does not work on hidden or minimized windows When I want to switch between windows using ⌘ Cmd + ⇥ Tab it does not work with hidden or minimized windows. I can see the icons of these windows in the application switcher but choosing them does nothing. How can I get this to work again?
A: Try this:
On your Mac,
*
*Navigate to System Preferences
*Go to Mission Control
*Uncheck "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application"
Try using the cmd+tab now.
| Q: Cmd+Tab does not work on hidden or minimized windows When I want to switch between windows using ⌘ Cmd + ⇥ Tab it does not work with hidden or minimized windows. I can see the icons of these windows in the application switcher but choosing them does nothing. How can I get this to work again?
A: Try this:
On your Mac,
*
*Navigate to System Preferences
*Go to Mission Control
*Uncheck "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application"
Try using the cmd+tab now.
A: Use ⌘ Cmd-Tab to cycle to the desired application and then, while still holding down ⌘ Cmd, press the ↑ or ↓ arrow. This will show the application's windows in Expose. Select the desired window with the arrow keys and press Return to activate it.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1152366/commandtabminimizedwindows.html
A: Majority of the answers are years old. This is a 2021 solution
Use AltTab, it is the exact replica of windows functionality of Alt+ Tab. Takes care of both minimised/maximised window.
It's free and open source.
A: This one is a bit tricky :
*
*press ⌘ Cmd + ⇥ Tab to show your running apps. Keep holding ⌘ Cmd.
*press ⇥ Tab until you've selected the app
*press the ⌥ Option, and let go of the ⌘ Cmd.
( You must release ⌘ Cmd after pressing ⌥ Option ! )
( You must release ⌘ Cmd before release ⌥ Option ! )
A: Press ⌘ Cmd + H to hide a window instead of minimising it.
A: HyperSwitch Does the trick :
https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch
I tested it. It needs to be updated. It's free. When I Cmd+Tab on minimized app it's open!
A: So a summary of answers in other comments here;
Change the way you "Command-Tab"
Cmd+Tab to an app, and before releasing Cmd, also hold down Opt. This will open minimized apps like expected, but is annoying to remember to do.
Install a replacement for Cmd+Tab
brew install --cask alt-tab and use that instead. Should behave more like Windows 10/11, but you have to break the habit of hitting Cmd or use a key remapper to swap them.
Change the way you close apps
Use Cmd+H to hide apps rather than Cmd+W or Cmd+Q. Now opening them with Cmd+Tab should work as expected for those apps. This is what you probably should be doing, if your workflow is to hide things out of sight, then open them again later, e.g. MS Teams, Outlook, Calendar, etc., things that you still want to get notifications from, but don't need in front of you.
Personally, I love my Cmd+Q, so it's a hard habit to break to remember to only hide my Calendar/Slack, etc rather than just killing them.
A: My symptoms..
CommandTab would toggle the heading bar for each application but only some windows for the application would show up.
The suggestion above:
On your Mac,
Navigate to System Preferences
Go to Mission Control
Uncheck "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application"
Try using the CommandTab now.
Was already in place on my Mac. I did the opposite and now CommandTab works perfectly.
A: Like Pirate X mentioned. Alt+Tab works flawlessly. You can even set the key to be Command instead of Option (Alt) and have it work normally but being able to raise minimized windows without having to press alt on the selected window.
It's super easy to install if you have "homebrew" installed:
brew install --cask alt-tab
Or just go to their website: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app and download it for manual installation.
A: Maybe a more convenient alternative to the ⌥ Option solution:
after switched to the desired app and released the ⌘ Cmd+Tab press ⌘ Cmd+↑
A: AppleScript
tell application "Slack" to reopen (activate)
Or try my app Command-Tab Plus, in addition to proper work with hidden or minimized apps has many convenient features that are not efficiently implemented in the built-in MacOs App's switcher
For example, there were discussed the problems of Mac Os X apps switcher
Restricting Command+tab options to only apps that are in the current space
Show only apps that are in the current space
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d09734d6d3f483115f6d43c69add83b14d269c06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: List all tags in Terminal in Mavericks? Is it feasible to list all tags already defined in OS X in Terminal?
I know there are some third-party applications that list all tags, but I just want to use Terminal to find all tags, since I use this tool to work with tags in Terminal (but unfortunately the tool doesn't provide to list tags for an entire system - it just lists for a single or multiple files selected arbitrarily).
Thanks.
A: You can also use tag:
tag -tgf \*|grep '^ '|cut -c5-|sort -u
tag -f \* finds all files with tags, -t includes tag names in the output, and -g prints each tag on a separate line.
| Q: List all tags in Terminal in Mavericks? Is it feasible to list all tags already defined in OS X in Terminal?
I know there are some third-party applications that list all tags, but I just want to use Terminal to find all tags, since I use this tool to work with tags in Terminal (but unfortunately the tool doesn't provide to list tags for an entire system - it just lists for a single or multiple files selected arbitrarily).
Thanks.
A: You can also use tag:
tag -tgf \*|grep '^ '|cut -c5-|sort -u
tag -f \* finds all files with tags, -t includes tag names in the output, and -g prints each tag on a separate line.
A: The tags name are in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.list.
You can read it with
defaults read com.apple.finder.plist ViewSettingsDictionary
It will need some parsing to be a bit clearer :
defaults read com.apple.finder.plist ViewSettingsDictionary |
awk 'NR%12==2'| grep -o '".*"' | sed 's/^.\(.*\).\{18\}$/\1/'
Other possibility is parsing the plist as xml. To do that you'll need to first convert the plist from binary to xml using.
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
A: That list isn't comprehensive. It's only tags added through Finder. There's an additional file ~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.finder.plist, that also lists the tags that have been manipulated in Finder.
If you tagged a file in Terminal or using another tool and never manipulated the tags in Finder, then the tags won't be in either list.
A: You can also use mdfind in combination with mdls to get the same result:
/usr/bin/mdfind -0 "(kMDItemUserTags == '*')" |xargs -0 mdls -name kMDItemUserTags |grep '^ ' |cut -c5- |cut -d , -f 1 |sort -u
Would be interesting to benchmark, which one is faster.
A: Colour followed by path:
/usr/bin/mdfind -0 "(kMDItemUserTags == '*')" | xargs -I % sh -c 'echo $(mdls -name kMDItemUserTags % | grep "^ " |cut -c5-) %'
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d92a255229fb9da44c502f82ef69afbab2da78ce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Messed up fonts on Mavericks retina Macbook Pro secondary monitor Just got my first Mac and am loving it except for the extremely annoying fact that fonts get messed up on my secondary monitor.
The strange thing is that when I drag a window over from my laptop monitor, the fonts look fine on the secondary monitor until I finish dragging, then they get all messed up... some kind of driver issue?
Here's some samples. In both images the left hand side shows how the image looks on my secondary monitor while it's in the process of being dragged over from my laptop monitor, and the right hand side shows how it looks after I drop it:
Any ideas what the hell is going on here? I've tried changing the font smoothing with defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int <1-3>, no dice.
A: You're moving from a retina display to a non-retina display, which changes how things are rendered.
If you didn't have this issue pre-Mavericks, it might have to do with the new "Displays have separate Spaces" setting. Try disabling this in System Preferences => Mission Control.
| Q: Messed up fonts on Mavericks retina Macbook Pro secondary monitor Just got my first Mac and am loving it except for the extremely annoying fact that fonts get messed up on my secondary monitor.
The strange thing is that when I drag a window over from my laptop monitor, the fonts look fine on the secondary monitor until I finish dragging, then they get all messed up... some kind of driver issue?
Here's some samples. In both images the left hand side shows how the image looks on my secondary monitor while it's in the process of being dragged over from my laptop monitor, and the right hand side shows how it looks after I drop it:
Any ideas what the hell is going on here? I've tried changing the font smoothing with defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int <1-3>, no dice.
A: You're moving from a retina display to a non-retina display, which changes how things are rendered.
If you didn't have this issue pre-Mavericks, it might have to do with the new "Displays have separate Spaces" setting. Try disabling this in System Preferences => Mission Control.
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a46c34f7b40b1cbe76f4467912aadff8a99491f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS undo text field clear (x) Seemingly fairly regularly, I find myself clicking on the X in a circle to the right of a text field in an iOS app on my iPad, instead of just placing the cursor next to the final character in the text field. Extremely annoying.
Is there a global undo operation that I just can't find through google, or at least one for the factory provided "Clock" app, which I seem to have the most of this type of problem with?
A: The global undo guesture is to shake the device.
| Q: iOS undo text field clear (x) Seemingly fairly regularly, I find myself clicking on the X in a circle to the right of a text field in an iOS app on my iPad, instead of just placing the cursor next to the final character in the text field. Extremely annoying.
Is there a global undo operation that I just can't find through google, or at least one for the factory provided "Clock" app, which I seem to have the most of this type of problem with?
A: The global undo guesture is to shake the device.
A: There is a new undo gesture under iOS 13 which consists on double tapping with three fingers. Also, just tapping with three fingers shows a contextual menu that allows you to tap on an undo icon and other options.
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4145b3bac24149c255929db0f67cdcabcf98e8b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How would I go about making a stand alone app on my dock to open a game using a terminal command? I have a game that they never released for mac, and I installed the game using WINE, the install itself was flawless, but every time I want to play it, I'm forced to open Terminal and run
cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/
wine Dead\ Space.exe
I saw a question that I thought would answer this using applescript, but when i tried to duplicate the example, it didn't work. I'm sure the information I've given is enough to start the answer to my problem, if not, just let me know. Thanks
A: create the following plain text file:
#!/bin/bash
cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/
exec wine Dead\ Space.exe
save it as dead_space.command
in Terminal, change it to an executabe:
sudo chmod +rx dead_space.command
Now, the file dead_space.command should start your game when you double click on it.
| Q: How would I go about making a stand alone app on my dock to open a game using a terminal command? I have a game that they never released for mac, and I installed the game using WINE, the install itself was flawless, but every time I want to play it, I'm forced to open Terminal and run
cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/
wine Dead\ Space.exe
I saw a question that I thought would answer this using applescript, but when i tried to duplicate the example, it didn't work. I'm sure the information I've given is enough to start the answer to my problem, if not, just let me know. Thanks
A: create the following plain text file:
#!/bin/bash
cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/
exec wine Dead\ Space.exe
save it as dead_space.command
in Terminal, change it to an executabe:
sudo chmod +rx dead_space.command
Now, the file dead_space.command should start your game when you double click on it.
A: This is perhaps "heavier" than Vincent's solution, but you can create a new Automator document and set type as Application.
In the Actions, search for "shell" and drag "Run Shell Script" over to the workflow on the right. Then just enter your commands. Save it and it will be an OS X application that you can put on your Dock like any other.
This might be easier to edit later, and it's good to be familiar with Automator and what it can do :D
A: If you use Automator like @iynque said, you'll end up with an .app
Then you can change the icon on the .app you created by creating an icns file here: https://iconverticons.com/online/ (just drag & drop).
Then right-click your app, do "Get Info" and on the info window, drag and drop your icns file onto the existing icon for the app.
Here is an example of an automator script that resets my DNS, used my horse as an icon 8-P.
A: You can use WineBottler app which can create Windows-based programs as macOS apps.
It also comes with Wine.app, so you can just choose executable files to be opened by Wine without typing the commands in Terminal each time.
Another way is to install Wine.app via Brew Cask, e.g. brew cask install wine-stable.
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c73ed9098026387a2da0526c726ffef8f7f709a3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I subscribe to an RSS feed in Mavericks? I would like to subscribe to some RSS feeds. I originally had them in Mail, which worked just fine. But after upgrading to Mavericks, the RSS feeds disappeared, and I get this message when I click on an RSS feed link:
How do I subscribe to an RSS feed, if this won't work?
A: An option you might look into is Feedly. They have a Safari plugin (and probably other browsers) and work well enough.
| Q: How do I subscribe to an RSS feed in Mavericks? I would like to subscribe to some RSS feeds. I originally had them in Mail, which worked just fine. But after upgrading to Mavericks, the RSS feeds disappeared, and I get this message when I click on an RSS feed link:
How do I subscribe to an RSS feed, if this won't work?
A: An option you might look into is Feedly. They have a Safari plugin (and probably other browsers) and work well enough.
A: As noted in the comments, Apple dropped support for RSS in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). You'll need a third-party RSS reader. Once you get one, you can get a subscribe button in Safari by installing Red Sweater's unsupported Safari Extension.
A: Tbodt I would recommend using Pronto Push app exclusively for OSX Mavericks!
Get Desktop Notifications From any RSS Feed in Mavericks Using Pronto Push
http://www.mactrast.com/2013/10/get-desktop-notifications-rss-feed-mavericks-using-pronto-push/
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034a494f58cef640b686cf7739a8bebb93ab766c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to enter single user mode when rEFIt is installed? When I pressed Command S and tried to enter Single User Mode, my MacBook Air goto the rEFIt shell.
If I click the Apple icon in rEFIt screen, and then press Command S, Mac OS X simple goes straight into the logon screen.
How can I enter Single User Mode when rEFIt is installed?
A: "When you have rEFIt installed and you apply the shortcut to boot in single user mode (⌘+S), you actually land in the EFI shell.
In order to avoid that, boot as usual.
Then choose the Apple icon and press F2.
You will be presented with a series of alternate options to boot Mac OS X (e.g. single user mode, verbose mode, etc.)"
http://tateric.blogspot.com/2010/11/boot-in-single-user-mode-despite-refit.html
Note: After selecting the Apple icon with the cursor, do not press Enter. Right there, on the rEFIt screen, you hit F2. That will bring you to the alternate options, including "Boot Mac OS X in single user mode."
| Q: How to enter single user mode when rEFIt is installed? When I pressed Command S and tried to enter Single User Mode, my MacBook Air goto the rEFIt shell.
If I click the Apple icon in rEFIt screen, and then press Command S, Mac OS X simple goes straight into the logon screen.
How can I enter Single User Mode when rEFIt is installed?
A: "When you have rEFIt installed and you apply the shortcut to boot in single user mode (⌘+S), you actually land in the EFI shell.
In order to avoid that, boot as usual.
Then choose the Apple icon and press F2.
You will be presented with a series of alternate options to boot Mac OS X (e.g. single user mode, verbose mode, etc.)"
http://tateric.blogspot.com/2010/11/boot-in-single-user-mode-despite-refit.html
Note: After selecting the Apple icon with the cursor, do not press Enter. Right there, on the rEFIt screen, you hit F2. That will bring you to the alternate options, including "Boot Mac OS X in single user mode."
A: Hold 'ALT' or 'Option' as the rEFIt Mac is booting up.
In the rEFIt OS selection screen, do this:
1. hold 'Command-S' while you
2. click on the Mac or Mac Backup icon
I got into EFI shell and was able to type 'date' to get system date and time.
From here, you should be able to mount the disk and change whatever you want.
You could also try rEFInd because rEFIt is not supported any more.
-OwL-
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d2ae9010cdf35b8fa826c713a9c9facc0741a0cc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: any way to restrict to newsstand only in guided access mode? In guided access mode, can I restrict to Newsstand alone, so users can only view Newsstand and the subscribed newspapers and magazines?
It seems that the guided access mode can only restrict to a single magazine.
A: It may sound counter intuitive, but each "Magazine" in Newsstand is actually an App, and the Newsstand "App" is actually just a standard folder that's been messed about with a bit at the OS level to make it appear and function a bit differently.
As such, with Guided Access being restricted to single app scenarios, you can't do what you wish, because when you are viewing the Newstand App you are actually just sat in a folder at your home screen - A double slick to bring up the multi-tasking bar shows that the left most screen which is normally associated with the Homescreen page/folder that you last launched an app from is showing Newsstand still.
| Q: any way to restrict to newsstand only in guided access mode? In guided access mode, can I restrict to Newsstand alone, so users can only view Newsstand and the subscribed newspapers and magazines?
It seems that the guided access mode can only restrict to a single magazine.
A: It may sound counter intuitive, but each "Magazine" in Newsstand is actually an App, and the Newsstand "App" is actually just a standard folder that's been messed about with a bit at the OS level to make it appear and function a bit differently.
As such, with Guided Access being restricted to single app scenarios, you can't do what you wish, because when you are viewing the Newstand App you are actually just sat in a folder at your home screen - A double slick to bring up the multi-tasking bar shows that the left most screen which is normally associated with the Homescreen page/folder that you last launched an app from is showing Newsstand still.
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62bf588d15cdc8cf68ef4eb3f990d2f15070b858 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I copy data from an external HDD that is about to fail? I have an external HDD that is about to fail. I want to copy as much as I can to a new external HDD before it completely dies. I've been able to start copying files for a few minutes before the drive starts turning off and on repeatedly and clicking.
Is there a (preferably free) Mac application that can copy files off an about-to-fail hard drive, handle the drive suddenly disappearing, and continue where it left off when the drive is reconnected?
Or do you have any other tips that might help? I've heard rumours about putting a drive in the freezer. Do you think that might help, or is it more likely to kill the drive?
A: I would try using rsync from the command line.
rsync -av --ignore-errors /Volumes/failingDrive/ /Volumes/brandNewDrive
should do the trick. Mind the trailing / at the end of the source. Rsync will not copy files it finds on the destination, so if you call it a second time it will continue where it left off.
| Q: How can I copy data from an external HDD that is about to fail? I have an external HDD that is about to fail. I want to copy as much as I can to a new external HDD before it completely dies. I've been able to start copying files for a few minutes before the drive starts turning off and on repeatedly and clicking.
Is there a (preferably free) Mac application that can copy files off an about-to-fail hard drive, handle the drive suddenly disappearing, and continue where it left off when the drive is reconnected?
Or do you have any other tips that might help? I've heard rumours about putting a drive in the freezer. Do you think that might help, or is it more likely to kill the drive?
A: I would try using rsync from the command line.
rsync -av --ignore-errors /Volumes/failingDrive/ /Volumes/brandNewDrive
should do the trick. Mind the trailing / at the end of the source. Rsync will not copy files it finds on the destination, so if you call it a second time it will continue where it left off.
A: And oddly enough a possible solution that involves no software at all, just your freezer.
Double or triple bag your HD (to keep ALL moisture out) and put it in the freezer for a couple of hours.
Then plug it into your Mac and see if you get a longer useful life (15 min instead of 5 or 10) out of it.
Often times HD issues are exacerbated by heat. Keeping the drive as cold as possible will SOMETIMES delay the heat related failures and allow you to get the necessary data off the drive.
Just be careful to keep the drive DRY as moisture will kill the drive faster than heat. And kill it permanently. So watch for condensation on the newly "frozen" HD.
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86e034becebe15c77fee33d857b5873185cd69e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to write AND condition in Numbers I have a dataset where I want to write a COUNTIFstatement in Numbers (Mavericks). Specifically I want to count if a number is between 16 and 30.
So far I have tried: COUNTIF(test-array, ">15 AND >= 30") with no luck.
Reading from the documentation:
condition: An expression that results in a boolean value of TRUE or FALSE. A condition can contain anything as long as the result from comparing it to a value in test-values can be expressed as TRUE or FALSE.
But I cannot find the correct logical and operator for the condition (tried &&).
A: If you don't mind a separate column/table for this, you can check if each cell is between 16 and 31 like this:
Table 2, A1:
IF(x::A1>15,IF(x::A1<31,TRUE,FALSE))
Table 2, A9:
COUNTIF(A,"=TRUE")
| Q: How to write AND condition in Numbers I have a dataset where I want to write a COUNTIFstatement in Numbers (Mavericks). Specifically I want to count if a number is between 16 and 30.
So far I have tried: COUNTIF(test-array, ">15 AND >= 30") with no luck.
Reading from the documentation:
condition: An expression that results in a boolean value of TRUE or FALSE. A condition can contain anything as long as the result from comparing it to a value in test-values can be expressed as TRUE or FALSE.
But I cannot find the correct logical and operator for the condition (tried &&).
A: If you don't mind a separate column/table for this, you can check if each cell is between 16 and 31 like this:
Table 2, A1:
IF(x::A1>15,IF(x::A1<31,TRUE,FALSE))
Table 2, A9:
COUNTIF(A,"=TRUE")
A: You should be able to use COUNTIFS instead of COUNTIF, using the same range for each test-array/condition pair.
=COUNTIFS(test-array,">=16",test-array,"<=30")
In the following example, the formula in A8 is =COUNTIFS(A1:A6,">=16",A1:A6,"<=30")
A B C D E
1 10
2 15
3 20
4 25
5 30
6 35
7
8 3
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50ca219060473d3779367476df4aeaed65294fee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I access files on my network from my iPhone? I am attempting to access a PDF file on my network from my iPhone and I know how to access these files from Windows OS.
However since I have an iPhone 5, I don't have the knowledge to make that device work with my existing network files.
I have attempted several apps and none seem to work. I am not interested in changing my network to support iOS. My intent is to absolutely have something on the iPhone to access the same sort of files I can from my Windows laptop when connected via VPN.
A: I recommend FileExplorer Free. I just installed it to access files that I wrote on a SD card in my WiFi router. I have an iPhone and iPad. FileExplorer can use CIFS, SMB, FTP and others. It can read many formats such as PDF, video, photos, music and Microsoft Office.
There is priced version for five dollars.
| Q: How can I access files on my network from my iPhone? I am attempting to access a PDF file on my network from my iPhone and I know how to access these files from Windows OS.
However since I have an iPhone 5, I don't have the knowledge to make that device work with my existing network files.
I have attempted several apps and none seem to work. I am not interested in changing my network to support iOS. My intent is to absolutely have something on the iPhone to access the same sort of files I can from my Windows laptop when connected via VPN.
A: I recommend FileExplorer Free. I just installed it to access files that I wrote on a SD card in my WiFi router. I have an iPhone and iPad. FileExplorer can use CIFS, SMB, FTP and others. It can read many formats such as PDF, video, photos, music and Microsoft Office.
There is priced version for five dollars.
A: You're not specific enough by what "on my network" means, but since you mention Windows, I'll assume you want to access files via CIFS protocol.
There are several apps on the app store for iPhone that claim to offer the ability to access files shared via CIFS. Rather than enumerate them, or recommend any since I haven't tried any, I'll just suggest you search the app store for CIFS. (one word)
A: Our University recommends "Filebrowser" by Stratospherix, available from the app store (non-free, but less than EUR 10.) I have a free cripple-ware "Lite" version (which I don't see in the App store at the moment), which supports Windows and Mac shares and a bunch of cloud services. If you haven't tried it out yet, you might want to take a look.
PS. Sorry if this is too much like a "shopping question" answer. I have the impression they're less off-limits here than on other sx sites (though still frowned upon)...
A: The only built in iOS app with network access is Safari, so if "first party software only" is your rule then you'll need to set up a web server to host your PDF content.
If a local web server is out of the question, you'll need to investigate a 3rd party app. I'm partial to Dropbox but there are dozens of other choices.
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acc1adfdb906c3bfbd9ad944530f37feaa3e6245 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to format pendrive, diskutil error When I insert my USB Pendrive in my iMac i see this message:
I tried to format it both with DiskUtility and with diskutil command in terminal but I get this error:
iMac:~ User$ diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ PenDrive disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Erasing
newfs_hfs: WriteBuffer: pwrite(3, 0x108551000, 131072, 0): Device not configured
newfs_hfs: write (sector 0): Invalid argument
Mounting disk
Could not mount disk2 with name (null) after erase
Error: -69832: File system formatter failed
How can I solve it?
A: Click on "Initialize..."
or if the useer your login with can adminastrat the computer then try adding "sudo " and entering your password when prompted.
So:
sudo diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ PenDrive disk2
| Q: Unable to format pendrive, diskutil error When I insert my USB Pendrive in my iMac i see this message:
I tried to format it both with DiskUtility and with diskutil command in terminal but I get this error:
iMac:~ User$ diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ PenDrive disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Erasing
newfs_hfs: WriteBuffer: pwrite(3, 0x108551000, 131072, 0): Device not configured
newfs_hfs: write (sector 0): Invalid argument
Mounting disk
Could not mount disk2 with name (null) after erase
Error: -69832: File system formatter failed
How can I solve it?
A: Click on "Initialize..."
or if the useer your login with can adminastrat the computer then try adding "sudo " and entering your password when prompted.
So:
sudo diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ PenDrive disk2
A: You could try booting into any free Linux livecd with Gparted on it, or this one called Parted Magic which is designed for disk maintenance tasks like this. (it costs a tiny $5 though.)
Do note that you may not be able to format as HFS+ using linux, however if you choose a compatible file system like FAT32 you'd be able to read/write to the drive in most OS's.
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4ab0ecb1b6893ce31a5c92d653e3ff599c08e7fb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why don't pinned tabs in Chrome save when the browser is closed? In Google Chrome on both Windows and Ubuntu, pinned tabs are saved upon closing and reopened automatically the next time Chrome is started. With OS X, pinned tabs are not saved properly in Chrome and disappear with new browser sessions. Why is this behavior different and how can I get my pinned tabs to save?
A: I'm not an expert on OS X, but it seems that if you use the red 'x' to close the window, the application itself is not closed, only that window of the application. If you were to use Command + Q or quit via the application menu, the pins do save as expected.
| Q: Why don't pinned tabs in Chrome save when the browser is closed? In Google Chrome on both Windows and Ubuntu, pinned tabs are saved upon closing and reopened automatically the next time Chrome is started. With OS X, pinned tabs are not saved properly in Chrome and disappear with new browser sessions. Why is this behavior different and how can I get my pinned tabs to save?
A: I'm not an expert on OS X, but it seems that if you use the red 'x' to close the window, the application itself is not closed, only that window of the application. If you were to use Command + Q or quit via the application menu, the pins do save as expected.
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16f2b7ff84fbe92966c9fe464d72a1df528b5fcf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preview - Export to PDF without margins Preview (like most Mac apps) can print to PDFs, and even has a shortcut for this functionality via a menu option Export as PDF....
I have a scanned document in .tiff format that I'd like to convert to a PDF, but using the option above yields a PDF with large margins around the image file.
Is there a reason why this is happening? More importantly, is there a way to suppress these margins?
A: Apologies if you've already tried this, but the only thing I can think to suggest is making sure that you use the "Show Details" button in the Print window:
And then once you have expanded it, adjust the 'scale' settings under 'preview'
You will probably not be able to make it "full bleed" -- I believe that Preview will always require some type of margin, but as you can see from the image here, it does not have to be very large.
(It also might matter which printer you have selected, as I believe the printer definition files tell Preview how much of a margin is required by each printer, but I could be wrong about that.)
| Q: Preview - Export to PDF without margins Preview (like most Mac apps) can print to PDFs, and even has a shortcut for this functionality via a menu option Export as PDF....
I have a scanned document in .tiff format that I'd like to convert to a PDF, but using the option above yields a PDF with large margins around the image file.
Is there a reason why this is happening? More importantly, is there a way to suppress these margins?
A: Apologies if you've already tried this, but the only thing I can think to suggest is making sure that you use the "Show Details" button in the Print window:
And then once you have expanded it, adjust the 'scale' settings under 'preview'
You will probably not be able to make it "full bleed" -- I believe that Preview will always require some type of margin, but as you can see from the image here, it does not have to be very large.
(It also might matter which printer you have selected, as I believe the printer definition files tell Preview how much of a margin is required by each printer, but I could be wrong about that.)
A: If you don't want any borders, create a custom paper size and change margin size to 0 as shown below:
Name your custom paper size, use it and create PDF.
A: *
*Open your PDF document in Preview
*Go to View -> Thumbnails - you will see all the pages as thumbnails
*Select all the Thumbnails in the tab opened in 2nd step
*View > Show Markup Toolbar > select 'Rectangular selection' instrument on appeared Markup Toolbar
*On 'Content' view (where the PDF pages are actually displaying) > select the area you want to leave (this selection should be applied to each page in the document, because they were all selected in the 3rd step)
*After selection is done - Crop button should appear -> press it and you'll crop all the pages
A: If you use Preview's "Export As PDF..." menu item, Preview will place the image on a page. All these attempts to match the page size to the image are futile.
Instead, you need to use the "Export..." menu item, and select PDF as the image format. That will save the image in a PDF wrapper, without putting it on a page.
A: Best way to convert multiple PDF's in mac is by:
*
*Launch Keynote
*Delete everything from the slide (lorem ipsum/dummy text)
*Change the size of the slide to the size of your image. For eg: if your image resolution is 2550px X 3300px, make that size of your slide too.
*Export it as a PDF
:)
A: For those who already have multiple files with margins and know that a selection of them would be the same size without margins, follow m.zhelieznov's instructions for one of the files and then:
*
*Save the cropped file
*Get its new PAGE size using the inspector
*
*Press CMD + I in the preview to inspect the file
*Open the next file
*Follow Jonathan Fernandez instructions, BUT:
*
*When creating the custom paper size, use the page dimensions from the inspector (in addition to zeros for margins)
*Save and start tweaking
*
*Because the inspector only shows rounded numbers (+- 0.01cm in Europe), the ratio might not be perfect, which becomes visible if you have a page filling image somewhere (you'd still get a tiny white border)
*If this happens, make minor adjustments to you custom paper size, redo 5. and check if you get the white border to become smaller (else repeat 3. and 4. until you're done)
A: Use "Print" other than "Export" gives the most customizability.
Print (⌘ + p) > Paper Size > Manage Custom Size > Set Left Top Bottom Right to 0mm.
To export PDF, click PDF > Save as PDF in Print Window.
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e16b8df926504fdc68fa60603cfb157fda71cfaa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: HEX-/RGB-colors in Terminal I'd appreciate to be able to use my Linux colorscheme in Terminal.
Is there a way I can specify HEX-codes or maybe RGB-values?
A: You can specify the colors as RGB from the second tab of the color picker:
You can specify a color as a hex code by installing Hex Color Picker.
| Q: HEX-/RGB-colors in Terminal I'd appreciate to be able to use my Linux colorscheme in Terminal.
Is there a way I can specify HEX-codes or maybe RGB-values?
A: You can specify the colors as RGB from the second tab of the color picker:
You can specify a color as a hex code by installing Hex Color Picker.
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74683b672d86162427b308d9102b2f49b47dc65c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install firefox using the terminal app I am trying to install Mozila Firefox on the school's server via ssh. Given that I have authorization to install it on the server, could someone guide me through the steps to install firefox?
It has to be done through the Terminal, from my remote laptop using ssh instead of the graphical log in.
A: I am assuming that you already have a connection via Terminal to the school server.
You need to download the .dmg first. Goto the directory in which you want to download the dmg file (command cd \PATH\TO\DIR)
Then enter this into the terminal:
curl http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/mac/en-US/Firefox%2025.0.1.dmg -o firefox25.dmg
This is the latest Firefox Release for OS X.
Then mount the dmg:
hdiutil attach firefox25.dmg
Goto the mounted dmg (probably under Volumes):
cd /Volumes/Firefox
There you can find the Firefox.app which you can now copy to your Applications folder:
cp Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox.app
To unmount the dmg:
hdiutil detach /Volumes/Firefox
| Q: How to install firefox using the terminal app I am trying to install Mozila Firefox on the school's server via ssh. Given that I have authorization to install it on the server, could someone guide me through the steps to install firefox?
It has to be done through the Terminal, from my remote laptop using ssh instead of the graphical log in.
A: I am assuming that you already have a connection via Terminal to the school server.
You need to download the .dmg first. Goto the directory in which you want to download the dmg file (command cd \PATH\TO\DIR)
Then enter this into the terminal:
curl http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/mac/en-US/Firefox%2025.0.1.dmg -o firefox25.dmg
This is the latest Firefox Release for OS X.
Then mount the dmg:
hdiutil attach firefox25.dmg
Goto the mounted dmg (probably under Volumes):
cd /Volumes/Firefox
There you can find the Firefox.app which you can now copy to your Applications folder:
cp Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox.app
To unmount the dmg:
hdiutil detach /Volumes/Firefox
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1db1198c4d8ed7ae3ed6ec6988def574efb37b18 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't stream audio from OSX Mavericks to Apple TV Lately, when I click in "Apple TV" (trying to select it as default sound output), OSX changes it back to "Internal Speakers".
A: Just had this problem myself, and this solution worked for me:
Open a terminal and kill the audio driver, it will restart and everything should work straight away.
sudo kill `ps -ax | grep 'coreaudiod' | grep 'sbin' |awk '{print $1}'`
| Q: Can't stream audio from OSX Mavericks to Apple TV Lately, when I click in "Apple TV" (trying to select it as default sound output), OSX changes it back to "Internal Speakers".
A: Just had this problem myself, and this solution worked for me:
Open a terminal and kill the audio driver, it will restart and everything should work straight away.
sudo kill `ps -ax | grep 'coreaudiod' | grep 'sbin' |awk '{print $1}'`
A: sudo killall coreaudiod is easier.
A: much simpler command:
sudo pkill coreaudiod
A: Disable and enable wifi.
This avoids killing coreaudiod.
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89356d448932183eda62695cbb037f0d15838e81 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone 4s running iOS 7 displays pictures taken with filter as white I have an iPhone 4s and am running iOS 7 on it. When I take a picture with the "process" filter, it then displays in place of the photo a blank screen. It doesn't happen when using the camera without a filter. Why is this happening, and what can I do about it?
A: If you have tried all the above with resetting your camera settings and iPhone settings you might need to restore the whole iPhone. I used to see this a lot in iOS 3 and 4 where you could take pictures but they save as blank/white images. Fix was in those OSes and iDevices to DFU restore the sucker without restoring from a backup sorry to say.
| Q: iPhone 4s running iOS 7 displays pictures taken with filter as white I have an iPhone 4s and am running iOS 7 on it. When I take a picture with the "process" filter, it then displays in place of the photo a blank screen. It doesn't happen when using the camera without a filter. Why is this happening, and what can I do about it?
A: If you have tried all the above with resetting your camera settings and iPhone settings you might need to restore the whole iPhone. I used to see this a lot in iOS 3 and 4 where you could take pictures but they save as blank/white images. Fix was in those OSes and iDevices to DFU restore the sucker without restoring from a backup sorry to say.
A: I had the same problem with my iPhone 4s. If all the iPhones are connected to the same iCloud account, you have to wipe out everything and start over (as the apple store told me). I had a warranty on mine, and went through about 4 different iPhones with the same problem, including the camera not even working at all and just showing a black screen. Then, the apple store told me they had done everything they could and the only thing to fix it would be to wipe out all information and set up a new iCloud. I can't tell you if it worked or not because I didn't want to lose everything so I never fixed it.
A: Opening it and tapping "edit" brings it back but you have to apply another filter or magic touch for it to stick around.
A: Here's a workaround: View the problem photo in your camera roll, click edit, click rotate twice to make the image upside down. Click save. Click edit again, rotate back to normal, and save. Now you have your image back!
Not sure what causes this, but I have the problem also on my 4S. I did find that closing all the apps and rebooting helps.
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a0d8452b72214426b667ded8be8f668191ad87fa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent OS X from resetting/disconnecting from wifi when left idle? Doing work at home, I noticed that OS X would drop my wifi connection when I left my 2011 MacBook Pro and it went into idle mode (screen black, but still powered on).
When I moved the mouse or touched a key, OS X would "wake up" but not have a wifi connection. Then it would not connect to the wifi for a minute or two, before resuming normal connectivity.
This was new to me since I have had the machine for more than two years and had never experienced this, but recently updated OS X to Mavericks.
A: Goto System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Check "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off"
The options may be slightly different depending on what generation macbook you have, but this should help point you to the right place. :)
| Q: How can I prevent OS X from resetting/disconnecting from wifi when left idle? Doing work at home, I noticed that OS X would drop my wifi connection when I left my 2011 MacBook Pro and it went into idle mode (screen black, but still powered on).
When I moved the mouse or touched a key, OS X would "wake up" but not have a wifi connection. Then it would not connect to the wifi for a minute or two, before resuming normal connectivity.
This was new to me since I have had the machine for more than two years and had never experienced this, but recently updated OS X to Mavericks.
A: Goto System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Check "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off"
The options may be slightly different depending on what generation macbook you have, but this should help point you to the right place. :)
A: I don't have this problem. My Macbook doesn't disconnect from the WLAN when entering the idle mode.
Does the Mac disconnects the connection while using the battery or even while using the power plug?
Did you upgraded from OSX < 10.9 to Mavericks or did you a clean install?
A: On Ventura (macOS 13), this option has been moved to System Settings app, Displays > Advanced, Battery & Energy section of that dialog. The setting text is also worded slightly differently:
Prevent automatically sleeping on power adapter when the display is off
This may or may not be in addition to having to change System Settings app, Battery, Energy Mode section, setting "On power adapter" to "High Power".
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a1322f03ba95a474470f8772337c57e9a312b83d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does iTunes keep re-downloading my deleted podcast episodes? I delete my podcast episodes from iTunes after I listen to them. Recently, I migrated from a Lion machine to a Mavericks machine (both iTunes 11), bringing my iTunes Library with me (but not my preferences file). Since then, when iTunes updates my podcast, it insists on re-downloading the episodes I've deleted (and worse, now they're marked as unplayed).
Is there a setting I need to change to stop this? It used to work fine.
A: I still don't know why it was doing this, but I've since set iTunes to automatically delete played podcasts after 1 day, and stopped deleting them manually. That does what I need.
| Q: Why does iTunes keep re-downloading my deleted podcast episodes? I delete my podcast episodes from iTunes after I listen to them. Recently, I migrated from a Lion machine to a Mavericks machine (both iTunes 11), bringing my iTunes Library with me (but not my preferences file). Since then, when iTunes updates my podcast, it insists on re-downloading the episodes I've deleted (and worse, now they're marked as unplayed).
Is there a setting I need to change to stop this? It used to work fine.
A: I still don't know why it was doing this, but I've since set iTunes to automatically delete played podcasts after 1 day, and stopped deleting them manually. That does what I need.
A: Try this:
Go to Settings.
Tap on the 'Podcast' section.
Tap on 'Limit Episodes'.
Select how long you want your episodes to be kept.
A: After you have verified all your settings within the app, check your phone settings --> podcast settings for "Only Download on Wi-Fi". Make sure this is checked green positive.
I recently went on a vacation in Death Valley (because there is no wifi in Death Valley) and toggled my podcast setting to NEGATIVE for "Only Download on Wi-Fi". When I got back to civilization, I forgot to change it back to "Only Download on Wi-Fi", and this is what ate up my cellular data and battery. It kept re-downloading stuff I already listened to and/or deleted.
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0359147ae254c00d88ef5e75f012fa53b6d00b04 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to disable Personal Hotspot on iPhones with a configuration profile? The company I work for is having an issue with users racking up huge data bills with iOS hotspot tethering. Is there a way we can push a profile that will disable this feature? I have looked through the iPhone Configuration Utility and cannot find any settings for this feature.
A: As of iOS 9.2, there is no way to disable the Personal Hotspot feature through Configuration Profiles.
The best you can do at the moment is to use an MDM server to report on the status of the Personal Hotspot feature and manually instruct users to switch it off, or arrange to disable it through your carrier.
| Q: Is it possible to disable Personal Hotspot on iPhones with a configuration profile? The company I work for is having an issue with users racking up huge data bills with iOS hotspot tethering. Is there a way we can push a profile that will disable this feature? I have looked through the iPhone Configuration Utility and cannot find any settings for this feature.
A: As of iOS 9.2, there is no way to disable the Personal Hotspot feature through Configuration Profiles.
The best you can do at the moment is to use an MDM server to report on the status of the Personal Hotspot feature and manually instruct users to switch it off, or arrange to disable it through your carrier.
A: Yes,you can.I just spoke with AT&T and they walk me through a process.I have IPHONE 6.
You go to Settings#General#Restrictions,select ON#Data# select "Don't alow changes"
A: This is not quite what the OP is looking for because their question is coming from a business context, but for those who may be interested in this question for parental control related reasons: I think when Qustudio is set up using a VPN as instructed in the link below a side effect is that tethering is effectively disabled (you can still start tethering and connect devices but those connected devices will not have any internet access via the tethering).
https://www.qustodio.com/pt/help/article/2076783/ (Note: I think the use of a Supervised phone setup in the link may not be necessary, probably any way of setting Qustudio up on ios would work. Though this is probably the most robust setup)
A: If you can't find an option in iPCU, it seems that there probably isn't a way to disable the Personal Hotspot feature. Is there any way that you could cancel the tethering option with your carrier? (If you are unaware, carriers provide tethering as an option that can be disabled/enabled at carrier level at free will.)
A: This is now possible (sort of). As of Apple Configurator 2.9 there is a new relevant configuration option (only for supervised devices).
If you open a recent version of Apple Configurator 2, create a new profile, go to the Restrictions section (click "Configure") and scroll down you will find "Allow modifying Personal Hotspot settings (supervised only)".
The problem is that, as highlighted in this article, you can't outright turn off Personal Hotspot in iOS 13.1 and later. So you can lock "Allow Others to Join" as off, but it's not that simple to prevent all possible Hotspot usage. The article says "When [Allow Others To Join] is off, only iCloud-connected devices can connect and approved Family Sharing group members may use it, if any.". So this means that in order to completely disable the usage of Personal Hotspot it would be necessary (as far as I'm aware) to ensure that:
*
*the Apple ID of the iPhone is not under the control of the iPhone user
*the Apple ID is not part of an approved Family Sharing group of the iPhone user
*that changing account settings is disabled on the iPhone
*the iPhone is supervised and the "Allow modifying Personal Hotpot settings" policy has been properly set to disallowed.
Then the iPhone user should not be able to use Personal Hotspot.
This should work, but I have not tested it out and it may not work in future if iOS changes in ways that cause flaws in this approach. Note that the Apple ID of the iPhone can be different from the iTunes & App Store account, so I can see this working in a situation such as parental controls and if absolutely necessary perhaps in business too like the OP's original question (from 6 years ago).
A: usually you are able to produce/edit/setup/maintain/distribute profiles with the Profile Manager as part of Mac OS X Server
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e734dc84ae7e3e0b4b3a880dd14e4112452aa818 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I move all recent photos from iPhone to PC, but keep my favourites on my iPhone? I regularly plug my iPhone into my Windows PC and 'Import photos and videos', and then delete them from the device, which is what I want.
But how can I select a few 'favourite' photos and keep those on the iPhone, without them getting removed when I do regular transfers to the PC of all my new photos?
A: Assuming you are using iTunes for syncing your phone, take a look at this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
It describes how you can sync photos from your PC to your iPhone. So, if (for example) you keep a folder on your PC called Favorite Photos, and have that folder selected to sync to your phone, it will always copy those photos to your phone, even after you remove all the pictures during an upload.
| Q: How do I move all recent photos from iPhone to PC, but keep my favourites on my iPhone? I regularly plug my iPhone into my Windows PC and 'Import photos and videos', and then delete them from the device, which is what I want.
But how can I select a few 'favourite' photos and keep those on the iPhone, without them getting removed when I do regular transfers to the PC of all my new photos?
A: Assuming you are using iTunes for syncing your phone, take a look at this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
It describes how you can sync photos from your PC to your iPhone. So, if (for example) you keep a folder on your PC called Favorite Photos, and have that folder selected to sync to your phone, it will always copy those photos to your phone, even after you remove all the pictures during an upload.
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dcd03a84013737874818a6ec45f9c2a7fbeab0bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: X forwarding application shows blank window after one successful load I'm running into a strange issue trying to forward an application from a remote Linux server over X (through ssh).
The application (it is a java application---a commercial program, not my own) seems to load successfully once, but after exiting and trying to run it again I only get a blank X11 window, with the correct application title. I don't get any errors, the window just doesn't load.
My .ssh\config options for both servers include ForwardX11 and ForwardX11Trusted.
I'm running OS X 10.9, with XQuartz 2.7.5. One machine I'm trying to run this application from is Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, and the other is RHEL 6.4.
Any ideas, or suggestions on where to look for an issue? I've tried ssh'ing with -vvv, but I didn't notice any obvious error messages.
| Q: X forwarding application shows blank window after one successful load I'm running into a strange issue trying to forward an application from a remote Linux server over X (through ssh).
The application (it is a java application---a commercial program, not my own) seems to load successfully once, but after exiting and trying to run it again I only get a blank X11 window, with the correct application title. I don't get any errors, the window just doesn't load.
My .ssh\config options for both servers include ForwardX11 and ForwardX11Trusted.
I'm running OS X 10.9, with XQuartz 2.7.5. One machine I'm trying to run this application from is Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, and the other is RHEL 6.4.
Any ideas, or suggestions on where to look for an issue? I've tried ssh'ing with -vvv, but I didn't notice any obvious error messages.
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e799d1923ddc3bad825fd4ab2e8d0d7246019ad6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turning off keyboard popup When I connect a bluetooth keyboard to my computer, it pops up this icon:
Can I get rid of that?
A: DISCLAIMER: I have never tried this - though it should not hurt your system.
You could remove /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin... but removing this package would take all the bezel style interface items with it. (volume up/down, brightness, remote paring, etc.)
Removing this package could have undesired effects, beyond just removing the bezels, but I can't think of any specifically... It should work... However, keep a copy of it, make note of the permissions, and put it back if it dorks other stuff up.
Also, expect later updates of OS X to replace this package...
Some may suggest viewing the contents of the package and removing just the bezels you don't want from /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/BezelUI/HiDPI but I notice there is a _CodeSignature directory here: /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/_CodeSignature and that may invalidate the entire package.
After making whatever changes you want to the BezelServices.loginPlugin you should probably restart your computer, or at the very least log out and back in - before you will see the desired effect.
Sorry for not providing a clearer answer.
| Q: Turning off keyboard popup When I connect a bluetooth keyboard to my computer, it pops up this icon:
Can I get rid of that?
A: DISCLAIMER: I have never tried this - though it should not hurt your system.
You could remove /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin... but removing this package would take all the bezel style interface items with it. (volume up/down, brightness, remote paring, etc.)
Removing this package could have undesired effects, beyond just removing the bezels, but I can't think of any specifically... It should work... However, keep a copy of it, make note of the permissions, and put it back if it dorks other stuff up.
Also, expect later updates of OS X to replace this package...
Some may suggest viewing the contents of the package and removing just the bezels you don't want from /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/BezelUI/HiDPI but I notice there is a _CodeSignature directory here: /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/_CodeSignature and that may invalidate the entire package.
After making whatever changes you want to the BezelServices.loginPlugin you should probably restart your computer, or at the very least log out and back in - before you will see the desired effect.
Sorry for not providing a clearer answer.
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61df6bf09f57df62f07d587a819f98a9fe0e67c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add Spotlight Comments without tags on OS X Mavericks I would like to add comments to files or folders. On previous OS X versions, there would be a text field to add comments that become searchable via Spotlight.
Now, in OS X 10.9 Mavericks the text field now says 'Add Tags' instead of Comments. When I add text in there, it shows up system-wide. This is not ideal when I only want to tag a single folder with a unique phrase. Is there any way to get File Commenting back?
A: Turns out, commenting is still there, just hidden a little. Commenting is now a collapsible pane beneath the Name & Extension text field.
| Q: Add Spotlight Comments without tags on OS X Mavericks I would like to add comments to files or folders. On previous OS X versions, there would be a text field to add comments that become searchable via Spotlight.
Now, in OS X 10.9 Mavericks the text field now says 'Add Tags' instead of Comments. When I add text in there, it shows up system-wide. This is not ideal when I only want to tag a single folder with a unique phrase. Is there any way to get File Commenting back?
A: Turns out, commenting is still there, just hidden a little. Commenting is now a collapsible pane beneath the Name & Extension text field.
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