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0c29851d49f309b483ddaa701900a4cc0f75fea1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Grey bar appearing over full screen apps on external monitor This happens in VLC, iTerm, Chrome, maybe others where a grey-ish bar appears where the menu bar would normally be and if I mouse over it the menu bar appears. In Chrome this sometimes appears when I have created a new window on my main screen, make it fullscreen, and move it to the second display, but if I exit full screen and re-enter full screen it works, but not for VLC or iTerm. Any ideas on how to fix this?
The third chrome image is what it looks like when it's working correctly (and the mouse is hovering to shown the menu bar).
A: If you don't care about it, you could remove the second menu bar in the settings. It should fix the problem.
http://www.mactrast.com/2013/10/disable-second-menu-bar-os-x-mavericks/
| Q: Grey bar appearing over full screen apps on external monitor This happens in VLC, iTerm, Chrome, maybe others where a grey-ish bar appears where the menu bar would normally be and if I mouse over it the menu bar appears. In Chrome this sometimes appears when I have created a new window on my main screen, make it fullscreen, and move it to the second display, but if I exit full screen and re-enter full screen it works, but not for VLC or iTerm. Any ideas on how to fix this?
The third chrome image is what it looks like when it's working correctly (and the mouse is hovering to shown the menu bar).
A: If you don't care about it, you could remove the second menu bar in the settings. It should fix the problem.
http://www.mactrast.com/2013/10/disable-second-menu-bar-os-x-mavericks/
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3e19740694142902d7048c706e2d5ca68c998a8e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Quick Look sometimes shows blank panel in Mavericks I have OSX 10.9.2 and on some photos the Preview shows blank panel instead of the image. Sometimes it opens the image, other times it's blank (for the same image).
I can't find similar reports on the web. Also is there some alternative way to do that? To integrate some third-party app to show photos when tapping space bar.
A: It seems this fixed it for me:
defaults delete com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection && killall Finder
I turned text selection in the Quick Look Window on a long time ago. After disabling it, the bug is gone
| Q: Quick Look sometimes shows blank panel in Mavericks I have OSX 10.9.2 and on some photos the Preview shows blank panel instead of the image. Sometimes it opens the image, other times it's blank (for the same image).
I can't find similar reports on the web. Also is there some alternative way to do that? To integrate some third-party app to show photos when tapping space bar.
A: It seems this fixed it for me:
defaults delete com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection && killall Finder
I turned text selection in the Quick Look Window on a long time ago. After disabling it, the bug is gone
A: Try:
defaults delete com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection; killall Finder
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6018924?start=15&tstart=0
A: I do not have that Bug on my MBA 10.9.2
I see you use the XEE as your default app for .jpg and others?
There might be a conflict so try disabling the XEE app.
A:
I just found an interesting workaround for comparing two images or just getting an image to show up: press alt to show image at 100% (and cmd to return image to fit in quick look frame). Even if the image has gone blank, this makes it come back for me.
Also, if I'm moving between to files (up and down) and they each keep going blank, I can press alt (while in quick look), go to the next image and press alt, and now Finder lets me go between the two images fine.
It's not a great fix since it's very temporary, but when all you want to do is see the darn picture, this really helps.
source
A: FINALLY! Woohoo! This fixed it!
defaults delete com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection; killall Finder
If I had a list of photographs, all with different sizes, going back one image would show the white screen, if i went back a couple more, the images would show up. Going fwd one image would do the same thing. Very consistant, I've tried many fixes.
The fix above is the only thing that's worked. Yeah, finally!
A: I'm actually guilty here because it was me who discovered the "default write" command a few years ago that activated the hidden text selection feature. It was in my book Mac Kung Fu.
In addition to the above solution, I'd add that the following might be needed, depending on how you implemented text selection in Quick Look:
defaults delete -g QLEnableTextSelection
Then log out and back in again.
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61bc978dfa84e323070391f64ababeacecac001e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change company iOS Developer account name? Is there anyway I can change company name from my iOS Developer account?
Like this for example where it says "By TARDIS59" is there a way to change it to "By Ashley Richards"?
A: in any type of enrollment you cant change the sellers name, its permanent.
I would recommend you to contact Apple Developer Support and ask them if theres a way to change it, if its not you`ll have to buy a new enrollment and transfer your app.
Hope it helps!!
| Q: How to change company iOS Developer account name? Is there anyway I can change company name from my iOS Developer account?
Like this for example where it says "By TARDIS59" is there a way to change it to "By Ashley Richards"?
A: in any type of enrollment you cant change the sellers name, its permanent.
I would recommend you to contact Apple Developer Support and ask them if theres a way to change it, if its not you`ll have to buy a new enrollment and transfer your app.
Hope it helps!!
A: From Apple's website:
To update the Apple ID and/or email address associated with your account, visit My Apple ID, click "Manage your account", and sign in with your current Apple ID and password. To update your address, contact information, or organization name, please contact us.
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163e150abdf06245b330ee670113480e6f7ce53e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Migration Assistant forever looking for other computers I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer data between two macbook pros, both on OS X 10.9.2.
I have them connected via thunderbolt ethernet adapters.
When I go into migration assistant on the target, I can see and select the source and I see a code. The source says on the "Migrate to another Mac" screen "Looking for other computers" forever.
I've ensured that the firewall is off on the source, and that the sharing settings look the same.
What else can I check/try to get this working?
A: I had this same problem in 10.9 trying to migrate across the network -- the source computer would spin its wheels, forever looking for a destination, while the destination computer would immediately find the source.
I accidentally clicked on the icon for the source computer of the destination computer's Migration Assistant and the "next" button ungrayed itself. Upon clicking the button, the source computer's migration assistant showed the proper screen and I was able to continue as normal.
| Q: Migration Assistant forever looking for other computers I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer data between two macbook pros, both on OS X 10.9.2.
I have them connected via thunderbolt ethernet adapters.
When I go into migration assistant on the target, I can see and select the source and I see a code. The source says on the "Migrate to another Mac" screen "Looking for other computers" forever.
I've ensured that the firewall is off on the source, and that the sharing settings look the same.
What else can I check/try to get this working?
A: I had this same problem in 10.9 trying to migrate across the network -- the source computer would spin its wheels, forever looking for a destination, while the destination computer would immediately find the source.
I accidentally clicked on the icon for the source computer of the destination computer's Migration Assistant and the "next" button ungrayed itself. Upon clicking the button, the source computer's migration assistant showed the proper screen and I was able to continue as normal.
A: For me, the problem was the my source computer had the firewall turned on. Once I turned it off, all worked as expected. (Code showed up, M.A. worked properly.)
System Prefs -> Security -> Firewall -> Turn Firewall Off.
A: I solved the problem by configuring on both macs IPV6 to automatic (one has "disabled", the other "automatic").
Hope it will help everybody in the future.
Laurent
A: Happened to me too..
Make sure you click on the time machine disk that shows up in the "transfer information to this mac" screen.
Once you click it, you should be able to continue.
(i also turned off wifi and disconnected network cable as my source was an external hd)
good luck
A: Yes, I think this is largely a bad usability issue. You do not need the source computer to see the target computer. You select the source computer in the target's Migration Assistant panel and press "Continue" on the target computer. Then, go to source computer and press continue after ensuring that the same verification code is displayed.
This may not work for all users and does not seem to affect that Thunderbolt never works. I have no idea what Thunderbolt is supposed to do except sell $40 cables that convey no data, ever.
A: Someone posted the key to this issue above. Once one of the computers finds the source (or destination) click the "next" button on that computer. The "looking" wheel will spin forever unless you do that.
A: As soon as I turned off the firewall, the code showed up on my PC.
A: Folks, I was using a direct Ethernet connection between an old ('08) laptop (10.6.8) to a new MacBook (10.10.1), and having updated all software (Software Update doesn't tell you that MA needs updating; you have to do it manually), I was still seeing the source from the target, but the source was unable to see the target.
After a long(!) exchange with Apple, what worked was to create a new location on each machine (I gave them the same name, in case that matters) and then reboot both machines. After turning off wifi, which comes on automatically upon boot, MA performed perfectly...
Hope that helps...
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ddfdbf4357eb5fb684a4c15c4d2dee4828938140 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does a darker grey arrow in finder represent? I use Finder with the 'view as list' setting. Today I noticed that one of my folders had a darker grey arrow next to it than all the others:
(The notes folder is the one with the darker arrow)
I then took a copy of the folder to see if the copy would also have the dark arrow, but it jumped to a different folder! (now tests_and_trials)
I closed and reopened the finder window, and all the arrows were light grey with no dark grey arrows at all.
What was going on?
(This is on OS X 10.9)
A: This is simply a glitch. The darkened triangle is used when the button is pressed. It doesn't mean anything about the folder and will be fixed by closing and re-opening the window as you discovered.
| Q: What does a darker grey arrow in finder represent? I use Finder with the 'view as list' setting. Today I noticed that one of my folders had a darker grey arrow next to it than all the others:
(The notes folder is the one with the darker arrow)
I then took a copy of the folder to see if the copy would also have the dark arrow, but it jumped to a different folder! (now tests_and_trials)
I closed and reopened the finder window, and all the arrows were light grey with no dark grey arrows at all.
What was going on?
(This is on OS X 10.9)
A: This is simply a glitch. The darkened triangle is used when the button is pressed. It doesn't mean anything about the folder and will be fixed by closing and re-opening the window as you discovered.
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3bfb801a83a4bc5f983d11ffb31d8804b3f517aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does OneNote for Mac store its notebook files? "Create a new notebook" with OneNote for Mac is not possible in offline mode. :(
Editing and updating your notebook, however, works flawlessly in offline mode.
My question is: where does OneNote for Mac store its Notebook files (for offline work)?
Also, I would love to find a workaround to use OneNote in offline mode and to block sync in my firewall.
A: OneNote stores things in an application container in your user's Library folder. Open Finder and use the go to folder function and paste
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.onenote.mac/Data/Library/Application Support/Microsoft User Data/OneNote/
The current version has an offline data file in a 15.0 subfolder. You can snoop on the program when it's running to see what files and ports are open.
sudo lsof | grep OneNote | grep -v Applications
| Q: Where does OneNote for Mac store its notebook files? "Create a new notebook" with OneNote for Mac is not possible in offline mode. :(
Editing and updating your notebook, however, works flawlessly in offline mode.
My question is: where does OneNote for Mac store its Notebook files (for offline work)?
Also, I would love to find a workaround to use OneNote in offline mode and to block sync in my firewall.
A: OneNote stores things in an application container in your user's Library folder. Open Finder and use the go to folder function and paste
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.onenote.mac/Data/Library/Application Support/Microsoft User Data/OneNote/
The current version has an offline data file in a 15.0 subfolder. You can snoop on the program when it's running to see what files and ports are open.
sudo lsof | grep OneNote | grep -v Applications
A: I dug down into the folder you're talking about bmike. The most interesting folder appeared to be OneNoteOfflineCache_Files, but when I tapped on each of the .onebin files, they appear to be just graphics files representing menus and such that you see when you're in OneNote.
The only other folder with something in it was ServerListings and that has a single .onesrvcache file that doesn't look like it has data in it either.
then I took a look at OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache using TextWrangler. It's full of unreadable glop but then I found a section in actual English talking about taxonomy of polar bears! Emboldened I did a search for a term I'd used in a notebook and sure enough my data was in there. Oddly not everything I wrote in my note was searchable, just some terms.
Fun stuff - not terribly useful if you're thinking you can get to that data without OneNote, but still fun in a geeky kind of way. I did find a $20 (Normally $40) application called Outline that says it will open OneNote files though: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outline/id604802021?mt=12
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c362250ca3e51f6c6e89be6d15b142c335734c1f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I am an admin but several preferences are grey and say "your system administrator has not given you access to this preference pane" I have local admin rights on my mac laptop at work but work has MDM restrictions in place.
In the last several days I have lost access to several system preference pane items. Most notably "security and privacy" and notifications.
The icons are now grey and when I hover over them they display "your system administrator has not given you access to this preference pane"
How do I re-enable these preferences?
A: On ElCapitan
With System Prefs not running:
*
*Go to: Hard Drive Name/Library/Managed Preferences/administrator
*Delete or (rename to *_old) com.apple.systempreferences.plist
*Run System Prefs, all should now be visible
| Q: I am an admin but several preferences are grey and say "your system administrator has not given you access to this preference pane" I have local admin rights on my mac laptop at work but work has MDM restrictions in place.
In the last several days I have lost access to several system preference pane items. Most notably "security and privacy" and notifications.
The icons are now grey and when I hover over them they display "your system administrator has not given you access to this preference pane"
How do I re-enable these preferences?
A: On ElCapitan
With System Prefs not running:
*
*Go to: Hard Drive Name/Library/Managed Preferences/administrator
*Delete or (rename to *_old) com.apple.systempreferences.plist
*Run System Prefs, all should now be visible
A: I have found a work around that is a bit hackish.
You can read the details here: http://walkingtowel.org/2010/02/25/accessing-mac-os-x-leopard-greyed-out-preference-panes/
In case the link goes bad, here are the steps suggested:
*
*copy the system prefs app
*in /Applications/System\ Preferences\ copy.app/Contents/Resources, rename or delete NSPrefPaneGroups.xml
*Make sure preferences is not running
*Launch the copied version
*note the empty pane -> use the view menu (all pane exist here)
A: I don't have a fix for 10.11 El Capitan, but I think I know where the problem is. On my system, my IT department put in managed preferences, even for Admin accounts. The list of allowed preferences can be found in /Hard Drive Name/Library/Managed Preferences/User Name/complete.plist
About 3/4 of the way down the file I see the enabled preferences as:
<dict>
<key>EnabledPreferencePanes</key>
<dict>
<key>mcxdomain</key>
<string>always</string>
<key>source</key>
<array>
<string>mcx_computer_com.apple.systempreferences_1c94dead-4cb3-4a32-8a44-d343a0ef3ce0</string>
<string>mcx_computer_com.apple.systempreferences_497c6ca0-fd5c-4400-93aa-ece9aa25f397</string>
</array>
<key>value</key>
<array>
<string>MouseLocator.prefPane</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.users</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.general</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.universalaccess</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.appstore</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.digihub.discs</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.datetime</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.desktopscreeneffect</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.speech</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.displays</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.dock</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.energysaver</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.icloud</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.ink</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.keyboard</string>
<string>com.apple.Localization</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.expose</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.internet</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.mouse</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.network</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.notifications</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.printfax</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.security</string>
<string>com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.sound</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.spotlight</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.startupdisk</string>
<string>com.apple.prefs.backup</string>
<string>com.apple.preference.trackpad</string>
<string>com.oracle.java.JavaControlPanel</string>
<string>com.mysql.prefpane</string>
</array>
</dict>
However, I can't seem to permanently change the file. I've tried copying to my desktop and modifying (both with TextWangler and with Xcode) then moving it back (authentication needed of course) but it doesn't change which preferences are activated when restarting System Preference. I think this file is only read on login. Also, the file reverts back to its original state after I log out and back in, so the changes can't be activated as the file reverts before System Preferences loads it. Is there a way to get System Preferences to re-read the complete.plist file after it is changed?
A: Simply restarting the mac seems to have resolved the issue for me. I'm guessing this answer tells what's really going on:
If the other account is logged in (possible if you have "fast user switching" enabled), you will not be able to make any changes to that account from System Preferences, even as administrator. To reset their password, they cannot be logged in. If you can't log that user out, you can restart the computer to force it to be logged out.
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644d498552ce0426b911bd4b5990edda152ca431 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get out of the "continuous pages" mode? How do I get out of the "continuous pages" mode?
It annoys me like hell! I want to see whole pages with a bit of space around them.
Is this another thing that iWork 13 can't do?
Just a one pixel line separating different pages in image below.
A: This is currently not possible. The gap between pages is not customisable and it is not possible to disable continuous scrolling.
You can provide feedback to Apple regarding this at the following page:
*
*http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
| Q: How do I get out of the "continuous pages" mode? How do I get out of the "continuous pages" mode?
It annoys me like hell! I want to see whole pages with a bit of space around them.
Is this another thing that iWork 13 can't do?
Just a one pixel line separating different pages in image below.
A: This is currently not possible. The gap between pages is not customisable and it is not possible to disable continuous scrolling.
You can provide feedback to Apple regarding this at the following page:
*
*http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
A: Just turn on Facing Pages in Document Tab and, after turning it on, change the zoom to one page.
A: One way to give it some kind of "page view" could be to enable the "Show Layout" option. It give you a view with header, footer and margins shown.
A:
--------------- OR ---------------
A: If you only want to view (not edit) you could do Print/PDF/Open PDF in Preview
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3e8e71529a80e40c5d2db292466c71e229617065 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change keyboard layout but keep shortcuts I use three different keyboard layouts for three different languages on a regular basis and use a shortcut to cycle between them (this is very handy).
The one issue I regularly encounter is that many shortcuts change because the letter on the keyboard changes place, so the shortcut is the same, e.g., Command+Shift+[, but it's on a completely different position on the keyboard which makes the whole shorcut-thing not so short.
So is there a way to change the keyboard layout but keep the position of the keys used in shortcuts the same?
| Q: Change keyboard layout but keep shortcuts I use three different keyboard layouts for three different languages on a regular basis and use a shortcut to cycle between them (this is very handy).
The one issue I regularly encounter is that many shortcuts change because the letter on the keyboard changes place, so the shortcut is the same, e.g., Command+Shift+[, but it's on a completely different position on the keyboard which makes the whole shorcut-thing not so short.
So is there a way to change the keyboard layout but keep the position of the keys used in shortcuts the same?
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97fc452accf7e52048d6ee77b5ef4e18d8207110 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad Camera Connection Kit not showing valid MP4 videos I've been wondering if I can use the camera connection kit as a way to directly copy video files onto my iPad for watching, from SD card. I've tested that photos and videos taken on my digital camera do show up on the "import" screen, but when I copy a different MP4 file (an episode of a TV show) into the exact same DCIM directory on the SD card, it is not visible for import. The MP4 was created specifically for iPad using HandBrake - I know if I import into iTunes library they will work on the iPad because I've been doing that already - but I'm going away and won't have my Mac with me.
Are there possibly file size restrictions in place, or something else I can easily fix?
A: I found the answer to my own question - the filenames must be in strict 8.3 format i.e. the main name is exactly 8 characters long.
| Q: iPad Camera Connection Kit not showing valid MP4 videos I've been wondering if I can use the camera connection kit as a way to directly copy video files onto my iPad for watching, from SD card. I've tested that photos and videos taken on my digital camera do show up on the "import" screen, but when I copy a different MP4 file (an episode of a TV show) into the exact same DCIM directory on the SD card, it is not visible for import. The MP4 was created specifically for iPad using HandBrake - I know if I import into iTunes library they will work on the iPad because I've been doing that already - but I'm going away and won't have my Mac with me.
Are there possibly file size restrictions in place, or something else I can easily fix?
A: I found the answer to my own question - the filenames must be in strict 8.3 format i.e. the main name is exactly 8 characters long.
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94ebccb9562141dd1c827a6865a3deebad9fd82f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make custom routes survive reboots? I use a VPN to connect to the network of my company and add some routes.
After connecting and addding the routes it works just fine. Is there a way to permanently add the routes so that they survive reboots? Currently, I run a shell script to configure them after connecting to the VPN, but I always need to be root to do this.
I'm not experienced with OS X but familiar with UNIX.
A: See this script (don't forget to change ADDRESS/MASK GATEWAY with your values ):
$ sudo mkdir /Library/StartupItems/AddRoute
# cd /Library/StartupItems/AddRoute
$ echo "{
Description = \"Add static routing tables\";
Provides = (\"AddRoutes\");
Requires = (\"Network\");
OrderPreference = \"None\";
}" > StartupParameters.plist
$ echo "#!/bin/sh
# Set up static routing tables
. /etc/rc.common
StartService ()
{
ConsoleMessage "Adding Static Routing Tables"
sudo route add ADDRESS/MASK GATEWAY
}
StopService ()
{
return 0
}
RestartService ()
{
return 0
}
RunService "$1" > AddRoutes
$ sudo chmod 755 AddRoutes
| Q: How to make custom routes survive reboots? I use a VPN to connect to the network of my company and add some routes.
After connecting and addding the routes it works just fine. Is there a way to permanently add the routes so that they survive reboots? Currently, I run a shell script to configure them after connecting to the VPN, but I always need to be root to do this.
I'm not experienced with OS X but familiar with UNIX.
A: See this script (don't forget to change ADDRESS/MASK GATEWAY with your values ):
$ sudo mkdir /Library/StartupItems/AddRoute
# cd /Library/StartupItems/AddRoute
$ echo "{
Description = \"Add static routing tables\";
Provides = (\"AddRoutes\");
Requires = (\"Network\");
OrderPreference = \"None\";
}" > StartupParameters.plist
$ echo "#!/bin/sh
# Set up static routing tables
. /etc/rc.common
StartService ()
{
ConsoleMessage "Adding Static Routing Tables"
sudo route add ADDRESS/MASK GATEWAY
}
StopService ()
{
return 0
}
RestartService ()
{
return 0
}
RunService "$1" > AddRoutes
$ sudo chmod 755 AddRoutes
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bc6c8ae05d7e499823bd1cd19521a8a928aead5a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a PGP/GPG Plugin for TextWrangler? Is there a PGP/GPG plugin for TextWrangler? If so, what is it called and how do I go about downloading and installing it?
| Q: Is there a PGP/GPG Plugin for TextWrangler? Is there a PGP/GPG plugin for TextWrangler? If so, what is it called and how do I go about downloading and installing it?
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92ed337fbedaaf91cb69f37b52ee51cde3f87668 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the keyboard short cut to cycle to a minimized window? For example, if I have 2 Safari windows open. One is minimized and I have focus on the other one, how do I open the minimized one with out using the mouse?
I found ⌘-` activates the next open window in the frontmost application, which will cycle through the open windows.
How do I get to a window that is minimized?
A: This may seem complicated, although after you've done it a few times and use it regularly you'll have it down. Depending on if you have other windows minimized you may have to tap the left or right arrow keys on the last step to pull up the window you're wanting un-minimized.
While holding ⌘ tap tab followed by ←
then ↓ twice, then press return
( keep ⌘ pressed the until after you've tapped the initial
↓ )
| Q: What is the keyboard short cut to cycle to a minimized window? For example, if I have 2 Safari windows open. One is minimized and I have focus on the other one, how do I open the minimized one with out using the mouse?
I found ⌘-` activates the next open window in the frontmost application, which will cycle through the open windows.
How do I get to a window that is minimized?
A: This may seem complicated, although after you've done it a few times and use it regularly you'll have it down. Depending on if you have other windows minimized you may have to tap the left or right arrow keys on the last step to pull up the window you're wanting un-minimized.
While holding ⌘ tap tab followed by ←
then ↓ twice, then press return
( keep ⌘ pressed the until after you've tapped the initial
↓ )
A: If you haven't enabled minimizing windows to the application icon, you can press control-F3 to move focus to the Dock, and then select the window with the arrow keys and press return.
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463279216439c2b083f6afc94094ff9cb24189f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pages 5.1 underlines some words as misspelled, but does not allow me to "Ignore/Learn Spelling" I am using Pages 5.1. When I misspell words, spellchecker underlines them in red. I am usually able to either "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" when I right-click the word:
But for some words, those options do not appear despite spellchecker underlining them in red:
This can be particularly annoying when I use recurring names. Why can't I "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" on these words? And is there a way to fix it?
A: I create technical papers, and many words are not recognized by spellchecker. Some words can be learned using control-click but most can't be used at all until added to the dictionary. This is very annoying and time-consuming.
The one things that helps me add words is to use the arrow cursor keys to move the insertion point to the end of the word or past the space and then back a space to "jog" the software into letting you add the word.
If that fails, quitting the app or restarting is sometimes effective.
| Q: Pages 5.1 underlines some words as misspelled, but does not allow me to "Ignore/Learn Spelling" I am using Pages 5.1. When I misspell words, spellchecker underlines them in red. I am usually able to either "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" when I right-click the word:
But for some words, those options do not appear despite spellchecker underlining them in red:
This can be particularly annoying when I use recurring names. Why can't I "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" on these words? And is there a way to fix it?
A: I create technical papers, and many words are not recognized by spellchecker. Some words can be learned using control-click but most can't be used at all until added to the dictionary. This is very annoying and time-consuming.
The one things that helps me add words is to use the arrow cursor keys to move the insertion point to the end of the word or past the space and then back a space to "jog" the software into letting you add the word.
If that fails, quitting the app or restarting is sometimes effective.
A: I am afraid there is nothing you can do because it is not a misspelled word!
If it needs no editing, does it matter whether spellcheck recognizes words or not?
It is just indicating that word since it is not a part of normal vocabulary giving you chance to look it up since there are multiple Meinhard out there.
However:
On a Mac with OS X one can add or remove custom words which are located in the
~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary
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39c756a2edc79de5de560b2a7a80f8b8377adc27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac App Store opens to blank screen; cannot switch between menu options Today I tried opening the App Store to update some software, but when it opens I am left with a blank screen:
Also, when I click on the menu items in the top bar, multiple items will highlight in blue (but the blank screen will not change):
Does anyone know why this is happening? I am using Mac OSX 9.1 (Mavericks).
A: I killed all store* processes in Activity Monitor. Then relaunched App Store and it started working.
| Q: Mac App Store opens to blank screen; cannot switch between menu options Today I tried opening the App Store to update some software, but when it opens I am left with a blank screen:
Also, when I click on the menu items in the top bar, multiple items will highlight in blue (but the blank screen will not change):
Does anyone know why this is happening? I am using Mac OSX 9.1 (Mavericks).
A: I killed all store* processes in Activity Monitor. Then relaunched App Store and it started working.
A: I just had this problem, poked around online, and solved it by resetting the NVRAM. It's generally my second go-to solution if rebooting doesn't fix it.
Here are the Mavericks NVRAM reset instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14222?viewlocale=en_US
Resetting NVRAM
*
*Shut down your Mac.
*Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R.
*Turn on your Mac.
*Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys immediately after you hear the startup sound.
*Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for a second time.
*Release the keys.
A: Mine would always freeze when trying to open it, I tried killing the processes, signing out through iTunes, restarting, and nothing worked. I ended up updating the OS and iTunes through terminal and once I restarted the app store worked again!
From terminal, typing
softwareupdate -l
will give you the available updates. Then you can install them doing something similar to:
softwareupdate -i OSXUpd10.10.4-10.10.4
based off the list of available updates.
Source: http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/01/fix-frozen-app-store-updates-and-high-softwareupdated-cpu/
A: Found Safari would not open any sites, however VNC worked fine. Go to Preference, Network, advance button at bottom, then look at the DNS tab. I found both DNS Servers and Search Domains were blank. Added my DNS info and Domains to search. Started to work. :)
A: Same problem. Tried all the solutions mentioned in this and other threads. Opened iTunes on a whim and saw the system could not authenticate the various CERTS associated with Apple. Looked that up. Found that the solution was to purge your current key store and then reboot. Voila.
In my case, I'm assuming my keystore "corruption" happened because of a system lock up which required a hard reboot. But this solved it.
A: Certificate solution did not work for me, reboot did not work for me.
Killed storeuid process under my user account, opened App Store and it was fixed.
A: I've been having the same issue under OS X 10.11 El Capitan where the App Store would open to a blank page and no errors were listed.
The main solutions I have seen on multiple sites are:
*
*Kill "store" Processes (see this thread)
*Zap NVRAM (Used to be called PRAM) [Reboot and hold down command-option-p-r until it cycles through the reboot sound 2-3 times]
*Use the terminal commands to delete preference files (plist)
*Remove Anti-Virus/Mal-ware software
*Check network settings and remove any proxies
*In the App Store Go to the Store menu and "Sign Out"
#4 and #5 didn't apply to me
I did perform #3 but didn't see any help from that.
What worked for me was a combination of killing the processes (#1), restarting the App Store, and "Sign Out" (#6). Which worked great -- I had a bunch of pending updates.
But then I rebooted and the issue of the empty App Store came back. This time I tried just the "Sign Out" and that didn't work. Killed the processes and opened the App Store and it worked.
I'm going to experiment with the NVRAM zapping and see if that works on a permanent basis. Otherwise I'll open up a bug report with Apple.
A: I had the same problem today..tried rebooting and working fine now.
A: I'm new to Mac and I thought my App Store wasn't working as all buttons were greyed out. Turns out I had no Internet connection :-(
I feel a bit stupid but you'd think OSX would pop up a quick error message telling me that.
A: First, close the app store or itunes, etc. I fixed this by opening a terminal, then getting a super user terminal: sudo su - enter your password now be careful. You are root.
Next we want to kill all the App Store related processes. This doesn't hurt anything. Let's find them using the ps command and then using the grep search utility to get down to what we want.
MacBook-Pro:~ root# ps -ef |grep store |grep -vi google
501 9284 1 0 21Dec15 ?? 0:08.90 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storeassetd
501 9349 1 0 21Dec15 ?? 0:00.73 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storeinappd
501 9353 1 0 21Dec15 ?? 0:01.91 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storedownloadd
501 9459 1 0 21Dec15 ?? 0:00.17 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storelegacy
The second column is the process ID we want. We want to use the kill command:
kill 9284 9349 9353 9459
The numbers will be different on your PC. Open up app store and it should work! I have also read other ways - removing some verisign keys from the key chain app, and others, but this is what fixed me.
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246d94148bcf2d36c40f5f5f3150c91ccd309064 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Xcode 5.1 won't launch -- "being updated" -- but already installed trying to launch Xcode 5.1 and keep getting "Xcode is being updated". It was updated last week and shows as installed. Screen shots to illustrate. Any ideas? I went to the developer portal, but it takes you to the App Store (I was hoping there was a seperate install). Many thanks. Project is stuck at the moment.
A: *
*Show the App Store's Debug menu (enter the following in Terminal):
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
*Select Reset Application and restart the App Store
*Log in to the App Store through the Purchases tab.
*Reboot.
| Q: Xcode 5.1 won't launch -- "being updated" -- but already installed trying to launch Xcode 5.1 and keep getting "Xcode is being updated". It was updated last week and shows as installed. Screen shots to illustrate. Any ideas? I went to the developer portal, but it takes you to the App Store (I was hoping there was a seperate install). Many thanks. Project is stuck at the moment.
A: *
*Show the App Store's Debug menu (enter the following in Terminal):
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
*Select Reset Application and restart the App Store
*Log in to the App Store through the Purchases tab.
*Reboot.
A: Not sure how relevant this question is anymore, but I found it when I couldn't launch Xcode because it thought it was updating and continued thinking that even after a reboot.
I was able to solve it by clearing an extended attribute via this command:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.writer_bundle_identifier /Applications/Xcode.app
Not sure why it thought it was updating, there hasn't been an update for many weeks.
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5b9d16e823c9510253b9ea38ba8d2fd3abc65f08 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to login as a different bash user in terminal? I have to check if my web page running locally on nginx does not work due to permission issue. My web scripts are running as _www user, so I tried to switch to _www but this does not work:
maciek@macus:~$ sudo su - _www
Password:
maciek@macus:~$ whoami
maciek
How can I do this in 10.8.5?
A: Use login:
$ login
login: username
Password:
Last login: Day Month Date HH:MM:SS on ttys000
$ whoami
username
| Q: How to login as a different bash user in terminal? I have to check if my web page running locally on nginx does not work due to permission issue. My web scripts are running as _www user, so I tried to switch to _www but this does not work:
maciek@macus:~$ sudo su - _www
Password:
maciek@macus:~$ whoami
maciek
How can I do this in 10.8.5?
A: Use login:
$ login
login: username
Password:
Last login: Day Month Date HH:MM:SS on ttys000
$ whoami
username
A: The sudo is failing because the _www user has /usr/bin/false as its shell, causing the session to end as soon as you've switched user.
The solution is to use the -s option, which will execute your current shell instead of _www's shell:
$ sudo -s -u _www
Password:
$ whoami
_www
Just tested on a 10.9 system but it should work fine on 10.8.
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41dc1104df34bf8f28b9a7423bdfc5fb188b18c6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cyberduck replacement for SCP transfers Since Cyberduck uses Java, it's out for me.
Any replacement for Mavericks that is good, has similar to WinSCP functionality and has an option to try before I buy?
A: I’ve heard only good things about Transmit.
| Q: Cyberduck replacement for SCP transfers Since Cyberduck uses Java, it's out for me.
Any replacement for Mavericks that is good, has similar to WinSCP functionality and has an option to try before I buy?
A: I’ve heard only good things about Transmit.
A: Interarchy is a FTP client which provides many other protocol, including SCP and SFTP.
A: I switched to Filezilla which works splendid on both Mac and Windows.
https://filezilla-project.org
That was after I found out that the Mac OS X Filezilla client does SFTP on the same servers that also perform SCP.
(note to self: SFTP is not a different form of FTP, it is more like a better SCP)
After having used Filezilla for more than a year now, I would not ever switch back to Cyberduck.
A: Cyberduck does not support SCP (any more). See the closed ticket: ticket 8895.
Try DCommander for SCP on Mac.
A: It looks like Fugu does scp and even won an Apple Design Award for best use of open source (in 2003).
Edit:
Downside: it is a PPC app, so doesn't work unless you are still on Snow Leopard.
A: I can confirm cyberduck works fine in Yosemite, too.
Using Java downloaded from Oracle site.
Cyberduck DOES use SCP, i regularly use it.
Some problems seem arise on simple PFTP site (port 21) for timeouts.
A: Cyberduck 4.4 or later requires no Java installation.
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236bffea1b712e0fb08a2814122b5fbfc9b9b9ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Process 'storeagent' eating bandwidth Recently I noticed a hike in my daily internet usage. After investigation I came to know that a process called storeagent was downloading huge amounts of data from the internet. When googled I found that it's related to app store.
*
*How can I prevent storeagent from downloading data?
*If I do so will it prevent updates for my applications?
*Will it make any security issue?
A: Try turning off the automated download of updates.
*
*Launch the System Preferences
*Go to the App Store preferences pane
*Uncheck Download available updates in the background
| Q: Process 'storeagent' eating bandwidth Recently I noticed a hike in my daily internet usage. After investigation I came to know that a process called storeagent was downloading huge amounts of data from the internet. When googled I found that it's related to app store.
*
*How can I prevent storeagent from downloading data?
*If I do so will it prevent updates for my applications?
*Will it make any security issue?
A: Try turning off the automated download of updates.
*
*Launch the System Preferences
*Go to the App Store preferences pane
*Uncheck Download available updates in the background
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74ce69d38a69e6f19a1ab168c1f35210c34a0ac3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Run sudo From Non-Admin Account Okay, so I'm gearing up to get a new machine so I'm looking at how I can organise things better. Now, currently I use an admin account as my main login account, but I know that that's probably not best practice, so I'd like to switch to a separate admin and non-admin account on my machine.
However, I'm a developer, and I do a lot of work in the terminal, so sometimes I do need to run commands via sudo, but of course that won't work the way I would normally run it (sudo foo, type current account's password). What I'd like to know is, knowing the details for an admin account on my machine, is it possible to run commands via sudo (or similar) from a non-admin account, without having to login to a different account each time? For example, could I trigger the enter admin password dialogue somehow?
A: In Terminal type login, a space, your admin name and hit return. Then type your admin password, hit return and you are logged in as administrator that can issue sudo commands with no additional configuration or files to change.
| Q: Run sudo From Non-Admin Account Okay, so I'm gearing up to get a new machine so I'm looking at how I can organise things better. Now, currently I use an admin account as my main login account, but I know that that's probably not best practice, so I'd like to switch to a separate admin and non-admin account on my machine.
However, I'm a developer, and I do a lot of work in the terminal, so sometimes I do need to run commands via sudo, but of course that won't work the way I would normally run it (sudo foo, type current account's password). What I'd like to know is, knowing the details for an admin account on my machine, is it possible to run commands via sudo (or similar) from a non-admin account, without having to login to a different account each time? For example, could I trigger the enter admin password dialogue somehow?
A: In Terminal type login, a space, your admin name and hit return. Then type your admin password, hit return and you are logged in as administrator that can issue sudo commands with no additional configuration or files to change.
A: Add your existing user name to the sudoers file, and what you need to do is use the visudo command and add lines like this:
User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
<randomuser> ALL=(ALL) ALL
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
Or whatever perms you want to give yourself. then you can run sudo whatever to your hearts extent. That's /etc/sudoers by the way.
A: Seems like you could use the SU command to switch to another user in Terminal. Once you've switched to the admin user you can use sudo commands coupled with the admin account's password.
For example, when I'm at one of my end user's Macs and I need to run something with elevated privileges (chown for example) without logging out and into the admin account (ladmin) I would use something like this (in bold):
Mr-Rabbits-Mac:~ notadminuser$ su ladmin
This will prompt for the ladmin account's password, once entered you will see a bash command prompt. From here I can run any sudo commands desired, entering ladmin's password as needed...
bash-3.2$ sudo chown user2 /some/folder
This will run the chown command using the now logged in ladmin user, prompting for the ladmin account's password. Once finished you can type exit to return to your logged in user's prompt.
Screenshot of similar process, only using sudo to run the ls command (just for example).
A: Go to the Directory Utility, unlock it and then from the Edit menu option select "Enable Root User". Type in a unique password for the root account and re-enter it for verification. Now with that done from any account you can open the Terminal.app from you can run "login" and enter root at the login and then enter the root password you just set up. You should be good to go! ;)
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7ae4378e7d333d04ba997a127ba8a3ca3bc72dc1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Deleting all photos from iCloud I want to free up iCloud storage by deleting photos that are backed up elsewhere. How can I delete photos from iCloud without deleting them from my iPhone?
A: This is possible by opening the Settings.app on your iPhone, scrolling down, and selecting "iCloud". Scroll down, then tap Storage & Backup -> Manage Storage -> [Your iPhone Name] (This iPhone). You will then see a list of all the apps that are storing data in iCloud. Chances are the top one will be "Camera" and you can switch that off. Doing that will delete photos from iCloud, and if you were to ever restore your phone, photos would not be restored. However, it will not delete the photos that are on your device already.
Also, it is important to note that iCloud Shared photos, as well as your Photostream do not count toward your iCloud backup storage limit. There is an arbitrary limit of 1,000 photos on your Photostream. You can safely leave those on without affecting your storage use amount.
| Q: Deleting all photos from iCloud I want to free up iCloud storage by deleting photos that are backed up elsewhere. How can I delete photos from iCloud without deleting them from my iPhone?
A: This is possible by opening the Settings.app on your iPhone, scrolling down, and selecting "iCloud". Scroll down, then tap Storage & Backup -> Manage Storage -> [Your iPhone Name] (This iPhone). You will then see a list of all the apps that are storing data in iCloud. Chances are the top one will be "Camera" and you can switch that off. Doing that will delete photos from iCloud, and if you were to ever restore your phone, photos would not be restored. However, it will not delete the photos that are on your device already.
Also, it is important to note that iCloud Shared photos, as well as your Photostream do not count toward your iCloud backup storage limit. There is an arbitrary limit of 1,000 photos on your Photostream. You can safely leave those on without affecting your storage use amount.
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1079b5b261ca5a0e445a839b4f89ba22288cff58 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to resume iCloud restore? I formatted my iPhone and after setting up iCloud, my apps and pictures were downloading.
In middle due to net disconnection, it stopped and it's in stop state till now.
Apps icons are dim and lots of pictures have empty frame.
How do I start downloading/resume them again?
A: Go to
*
*Settings
*Reset
*Reset All Settings
and the process will start over. You're not losing content this way, because that's the 2nd option on that page.
| Q: How to resume iCloud restore? I formatted my iPhone and after setting up iCloud, my apps and pictures were downloading.
In middle due to net disconnection, it stopped and it's in stop state till now.
Apps icons are dim and lots of pictures have empty frame.
How do I start downloading/resume them again?
A: Go to
*
*Settings
*Reset
*Reset All Settings
and the process will start over. You're not losing content this way, because that's the 2nd option on that page.
A: Erase again and restore again. This is the only way for now
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972aefc7e52692c91ec0cd714e7347f8954bcb61 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Deleting with rm did not free up space I deleted a 5gb video using rm video.mp4, but the space hasn't freed.
This was the situation: while encoding a video with FCP X, I ran out of space, I only had 50 MB free. Since in the trash I had some stuff that I wasn't sure that I could delete it yet, I took the terminal and I manually deleted a big video file with rm video.mp4.
The file is gone, but the main problem is that the disk is still full. What I can do to reclaim this space back?
It's normal that manually deleting a file will not free up space?
A: Probably your file is in use by some process, in this case it's normal. Try to close or kill apps or processes that used that file.
| Q: Deleting with rm did not free up space I deleted a 5gb video using rm video.mp4, but the space hasn't freed.
This was the situation: while encoding a video with FCP X, I ran out of space, I only had 50 MB free. Since in the trash I had some stuff that I wasn't sure that I could delete it yet, I took the terminal and I manually deleted a big video file with rm video.mp4.
The file is gone, but the main problem is that the disk is still full. What I can do to reclaim this space back?
It's normal that manually deleting a file will not free up space?
A: Probably your file is in use by some process, in this case it's normal. Try to close or kill apps or processes that used that file.
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a04747ff8abf73d1fb0044ad85537b2330cd9419 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Monitor GPU performance on OSX Is there an application or tool that can monitor GPU performance on OS X? Specifically I would like to see the current speed/utilization and temperature of the integrated NVIDIA chip.
For Windows, there is CPU-Z and MSI Afterburner. I cannot find anything for OS X, not even an NVidia control panel app.
A: Update: MacOS includes the in-built powermetrics command line tool which allows for access to varity of performance and power info. e.g. to obtain running GPU info every 5 seconds:
sudo powermetrics --samplers gpu_power
To access all info (inluding temperatures for certain devices) run it without any arguments. Or to sample GPU usage for one iteration (-n1 over say 200ms (-i200):
sudo powermetrics --samplers gpu_power -n1 -i200
The Intel Power Gadget also allows for monitoring of Intel GPUs, along with other measures of power usage for CPU, temperature, etc. It also has command line tools that provides for logging to a file.
| Q: Monitor GPU performance on OSX Is there an application or tool that can monitor GPU performance on OS X? Specifically I would like to see the current speed/utilization and temperature of the integrated NVIDIA chip.
For Windows, there is CPU-Z and MSI Afterburner. I cannot find anything for OS X, not even an NVidia control panel app.
A: Update: MacOS includes the in-built powermetrics command line tool which allows for access to varity of performance and power info. e.g. to obtain running GPU info every 5 seconds:
sudo powermetrics --samplers gpu_power
To access all info (inluding temperatures for certain devices) run it without any arguments. Or to sample GPU usage for one iteration (-n1 over say 200ms (-i200):
sudo powermetrics --samplers gpu_power -n1 -i200
The Intel Power Gadget also allows for monitoring of Intel GPUs, along with other measures of power usage for CPU, temperature, etc. It also has command line tools that provides for logging to a file.
A:
I'm using iStat Monitor, which is a really great app.
GPU monitoring is also supported. Here i found YouTube Review (not related with me, have further searches for better/other reviews)
A: You can use Activity Monitor that comes with MacOS in Applications>Utilities
Choose Window>GPU History
or press ⌘4
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f2c8f0b9acdc53969a4a4f2929fe851f7c7ed8a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to create a notification in the Notification Center with a clickable link? I can create a notification in Applescript via
display notification "Notification Text" with title "Title goes here" subtitle "subtitle goes here
However is there a way when I click on the notification it will take me to a url? I tried setting the notification text to something like "https://apple.stackexchange.com/" however that didn't work.
A: What you ask isn't possible with bare AppleScript.
There are 2 possibilites I'm aware off :
*
*Using Terminal Notifier : A CLI binary which will allow you to create notifications
*Using Notification scripting : A .app which can be called with AppleScript to create notifications.
| Q: Is there a way to create a notification in the Notification Center with a clickable link? I can create a notification in Applescript via
display notification "Notification Text" with title "Title goes here" subtitle "subtitle goes here
However is there a way when I click on the notification it will take me to a url? I tried setting the notification text to something like "https://apple.stackexchange.com/" however that didn't work.
A: What you ask isn't possible with bare AppleScript.
There are 2 possibilites I'm aware off :
*
*Using Terminal Notifier : A CLI binary which will allow you to create notifications
*Using Notification scripting : A .app which can be called with AppleScript to create notifications.
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fe2fab8ec685fa510abc1ecd1b056344f809d1f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make an alias link to a Windows server folder On our server (windows 2012) we have a folder for Scan files called server/scans/(username). I know how to setup link from windows PC so that user can access the scans. How do I setup the same thing on a Mac Pro notebook?
I understand Apple calls shortcuts as alias. Before I'd just start a shortcut and type in IP address to setup path. How do I do this on the Mac?
A: Drag to the Dock or Sidebar
*
*You can drag the Folder to your dock (between the trash and the separator to the applications), or to the sidebar in Finder.
Create an Alias
You can also create an Alias:
*
*Click the icon to select (highlight) it, and in the File Menu, choose "Make Alias".
*Drag the folder holding down both the 'Option' ⌥ and 'Command' ⌘ keys together while you release the mouse button (a small arrow will appear in the lower left of the icon).
An Alias, like a Windows shortcut, is an icon that can be placed in any folder or on the desktop.
| Q: How to make an alias link to a Windows server folder On our server (windows 2012) we have a folder for Scan files called server/scans/(username). I know how to setup link from windows PC so that user can access the scans. How do I setup the same thing on a Mac Pro notebook?
I understand Apple calls shortcuts as alias. Before I'd just start a shortcut and type in IP address to setup path. How do I do this on the Mac?
A: Drag to the Dock or Sidebar
*
*You can drag the Folder to your dock (between the trash and the separator to the applications), or to the sidebar in Finder.
Create an Alias
You can also create an Alias:
*
*Click the icon to select (highlight) it, and in the File Menu, choose "Make Alias".
*Drag the folder holding down both the 'Option' ⌥ and 'Command' ⌘ keys together while you release the mouse button (a small arrow will appear in the lower left of the icon).
An Alias, like a Windows shortcut, is an icon that can be placed in any folder or on the desktop.
A: You can go to the Finder Preferences then tick 'Connected Servers' under "Show these items on the desktop."
This worked for me.
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93c517c777eb328ace9d9f4a400425405395eaa7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make a duplicate of a photo on iPhone before I crop or edit it? There are many times I want to crop a photo using iPhoto on iOS and post to Facebook, and then possibly crop it another way (like panoramic this time), and post to Facebook, but I don't want to lose the original.
Is there a way to make duplicates of the original and edit it using iPhoto on iOS?
P.S. I also found that when you crop a photo in the Photos app, the original is not lost. You can simply re-crop it again (or un-crop it) to get a different cropping or get back the original. But, it still might be good to have a duplicate if you want to keep 2 different ways of cropping of the same photo.
A: What I do is copy the photo and paste it into the notes app and then save it back to the camera roll, then we have a duplicate and we can edit one of them and still keep the original.
| Q: How to make a duplicate of a photo on iPhone before I crop or edit it? There are many times I want to crop a photo using iPhoto on iOS and post to Facebook, and then possibly crop it another way (like panoramic this time), and post to Facebook, but I don't want to lose the original.
Is there a way to make duplicates of the original and edit it using iPhoto on iOS?
P.S. I also found that when you crop a photo in the Photos app, the original is not lost. You can simply re-crop it again (or un-crop it) to get a different cropping or get back the original. But, it still might be good to have a duplicate if you want to keep 2 different ways of cropping of the same photo.
A: What I do is copy the photo and paste it into the notes app and then save it back to the camera roll, then we have a duplicate and we can edit one of them and still keep the original.
A: Here's a tested & confirmed way to copy photos without downloading any other apps. You will however need wi-fi or wireless service at the time to do this.
*
*Click the photo, click share, select Message, and send it to yourself (your Apple ID).
*Then, open Messages and click on the message you just sent yourself. Click on the image, then click Share, and then Save Image.
*You can repeat clicking Share->Save Image, for as many copies of the photo as you want.
When you're done, go back to Photos and find the copies. Each photo is now an individual copy that can edited, cropped, etc. without the changes being applied to the other copies.
A: I was looking to make a Photo Editing Extension to Duplicate photos easily, but...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duplicate-photo/id930534184?mt=8
... it's already existing =/
A: As of iOS 9.3 you can choose to Duplicate photo directly. Pretty convenient.
A: This functionality is missing. As a workaround you can email or message the picture to yourself and save it again.
A: As of iOS 8 there is at least one commercial product which addresses this limitation. Hopefully Apple will build-in such a function soon.
A: After this "Copy" action you can "Paste" a photo to any not-system album (not Panoramas or Photo Stream for example).
You can not paste to empty album (at least in 8.1.2, seems like a bug), but you can add any photo to this album on creation or by pressing "+" at the upper-left corner.
But sadly this options creates just a link to the photo, not a copy, so every change spreads to all of "copies" of this photo in other albums. This is just a way to tag photos. So email it...
A: Simply AirDrop it back and forth between iOS devices, provided you have two. It's a kluge for sure, but once you've got the basics down, it's like the Trouble with Tribbles episode from Star Trek!!
A: I think this is a bit faster and simpler than any of the methods mentioned above:
*
*View the photo that you want to crop, zoom into it as much as you think is the area you want to crop.
*Hit Home button and Power button at the same time to take a screenshot -- new photo will be saved.
*Go to photos and view the screenshot you took, crop it as you like (remove edges at least).
Done!
A: There is a simple solution but Apple doesn't make it obvious. You don't need to send the photo anywhere, or to take a screenshot of the photo. The following procedure works:
*
*
*
*Edit the photo and save the edited version.
*
*Duplicate the edited version.
You now have two identical photos. They are both the edited version.
*
*
*Click on one of the photos and revert it.
That will give you what you want. It will only unrevert one, not both. Now you have the original plus the edited version.
A: iPhoto always keeps the original. When you go to the edit menu, there's a button to return to the original. And you can always preview the original by holding shift.
Of course you can manuelly use copy-paste or diplicate (cmd+d I believe) if you want to manually duplicate a picture.
A: Simplest way--Choose your photo, then take a screen shot, and presto, a duplicate photo you can edit! Note that the screen shot will have a lower resolution than the original!
A: Copy it and save it to a new album then make the edits
A: I use the "Save to Photo Album" action in the app Workflow, as an extension.
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92a2aa64f517bc36f96a21bdb83f0fbc50a34e34 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere? The numbers in which I'm most interested
*
*-2
*0
*3
*5
… I might add to that shortlist.
What do those numbers mean; where might we find authoritative explanations?
Somewhere in Apple open source, maybe?
Background
There's a suggested answer for -60, a question about -81, a debatable suggested answer for -108, discussion of -128, -72, -62, -30, -2, 0, 3 … and so on, but unless I'm missing something:
*
*nothing like an Apple-provided list of explanations of the commonly seen numbers.
Examples
Three messages recently sent by kernel on a MacBookPro5,2:
2014-03-31 09:04:49.000 kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
2014-03-31 11:01:24.000 kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
2014-03-31 14:47:00.000 kernel[0]: |Previous Shutdown Cause: -60
Possibly relevant to some cause numbers
Error codes in http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CarbonHeaders/CarbonHeaders-18.1/MacErrors.h
*
*that's in Apple open source for Mac OS X 10.6.2 but not in open source for Mac OS X 10.6.3
*the source code for 10.6.2 is almost identical to what's installed under MacOSX10.8.sdk
*it may be sensible to treat some of those error codes as deprecated.
A:
This is the codes we used to use when I worked there
| Q: Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere? The numbers in which I'm most interested
*
*-2
*0
*3
*5
… I might add to that shortlist.
What do those numbers mean; where might we find authoritative explanations?
Somewhere in Apple open source, maybe?
Background
There's a suggested answer for -60, a question about -81, a debatable suggested answer for -108, discussion of -128, -72, -62, -30, -2, 0, 3 … and so on, but unless I'm missing something:
*
*nothing like an Apple-provided list of explanations of the commonly seen numbers.
Examples
Three messages recently sent by kernel on a MacBookPro5,2:
2014-03-31 09:04:49.000 kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
2014-03-31 11:01:24.000 kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
2014-03-31 14:47:00.000 kernel[0]: |Previous Shutdown Cause: -60
Possibly relevant to some cause numbers
Error codes in http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CarbonHeaders/CarbonHeaders-18.1/MacErrors.h
*
*that's in Apple open source for Mac OS X 10.6.2 but not in open source for Mac OS X 10.6.3
*the source code for 10.6.2 is almost identical to what's installed under MacOSX10.8.sdk
*it may be sensible to treat some of those error codes as deprecated.
A:
This is the codes we used to use when I worked there
A: I filed a bug report with Apple about the cryptic numbers, and eventually got this response:
Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based
on the following information:
If your looking for more sleep/wake related info, "pmset -g log" is
the place to go, not the system.log everything behaves correctly.
If you have questions regarding this resolution, please update your
bug report with that information.
We are now closing this bug report.
Please be sure to regularly check new Apple releases for any updates
that might affect this issue.
In summary: they recommend using the command pmset -g log to diagnose sleep issues rather than looking at the system log.
A: I could help you out with code 0 which means there was no problem, and it was successfully.
I have found an old list, from back in 1998 before OS X. It might help you in the right direction even though it isn't quite the exact answer you're looking for.
If an errorcode is deprecated it won't be replaced by a new cause, because that would only make it much more difficult to keep track of these numbers used in OS X and prior.
A: The precise meaning of the codes is not publicly documented, although according to @grgarside's website for Shutdown Causes, the causes for the ones listed in the question are:
*
*5
Correct Shut Down. Shutdown was initiated, from the OS X Shut Down menu or other shutdown command. This normally does not indicate an issue with your system.
*3
Hard shutdown. Check power button.
*0
Power disconnected. Check power supply/battery.
*-2
vTypErr = -2, /*invalid queue element*/
Most likely it's a hardware issue such as faulty logic board, a video card or RAM.
Related:
*
*Previous Shutdown Cause: -2
*macOs Sierra "previous shutdown cause: -2"?
For a full up-to-date list, see Shutdown Causes.
See also: List Of Mac OS X Error Codes.
Here on Ask Different, there have been a number of questions about shutdown causes:
*
*-60: What is shutdown cause -60?
Bad master directory block (badMDBErr).
*-62: Kernel: "Previous shutdown cause: -62"
Watchdog timer detected unresponsive application, restarting the system.
*-64: Random Kernel Panics with Shutdown Cause: -64
*-104: Shutdown cause: -104
Possibly linked to battery issue.
*-108: What is Shutdown Cause -108?
Likely memory issue.
*-112: Shutdown cause -112
Restart cause logged when it freezes in a hard manner.
*-128:
*
*Tracking down hard shutdown cause—software? hardware? overheat?
*Shutdown Cause -128
In general, -128 is unknown hardware problem, but commonly it can be related either to memory issue or to the battery time span (at the end of its useful life).
If you've got negative numbers very often, Apple is more keen to get your Mac to the repair, as it usually indicates problem with your hardware.
General suggestions in case of further problems:
*
*Reset the SMC and Reset NVRAM (which you did).
*Run an Apple Hardware Test.
*Log a kernel panic.
*Install EtreCheck app to find serious problems on your Mac.
A: So the kbase articles on System Error codes date back to the days of PowerPC processors, which apparently needed a lot more bits to report all of the potential hardware errors that could cause a shutdown. Starting with the advent of Intel boards, all shutdowns are tagged with an 8-bit code, if the normal software shutdown flags are not recorded. A positive code indicates a software or HID initiated shutdown, while a negative code (in the range of -1 to -127) indicates hardware-related Intel SMC-initiated shutdown. A -128 shutdown code indicates a hardware-related shutdown of unknown cause.
The 0 shutdown code resides in a liminal space between the hardware and the user; it signifies a sudden loss of power which can either be caused by a hardware failure or user action (if you want to demonstrate this for yourself, try popping the battery out of an old MacBook or MacBook Pro while it's on and unplugged, or pulling the power cord out of an iMac while it's running, then rebooting the computer and checking Console.app. A 0 Sleep Cause results when a MacBook/Pro/Air puts itself into SafeSleep using the last bit of reserve battery power before full system shutdown in order to preserve the contents of RAM in the
/var/vm/sleepimage
file. Unless you happen to connect your MagSafe adapter immediately after the computer goes to sleep, this code is pretty well guaranteed to be followed a 0 Shutdown Cause in the system.log.
Some of the hardware shutdown codes are unique to specific models of computer depending on their configuration because they refer to a specific sensor or device that exists only in that model– when I worked for Apple we were told that Intel was responsible for assigning the codes and wasn't particularly free with the information sharing on that count, even with Apple Engineering. So we pretty much had to figure out the obscure ones on our own.
Previous Shutdown Cause 5 and 3 are holdovers from the PowerPC days- because they're initiated by the user, the OS is still responsible for reporting them.
Code 5 is a clean, user initiated software shutdown, e.g. by selecting Shut Down from the menu, or pressing the power button and selecting Shut Down in the pop-up window, or holding down controloptioncommandeject, or typing
sudo halt
at the command prompt. Similarly, a Previous Sleep Cause of 5 indicates any clean user-initiated sleep, from the menu or a hot corner or the command line or closing the lid and triggering the hall-effect sensor in the top case of a MacBook/Pro/Air.
Code 3 is a "dirty" Shutdown, which can be caused by any user-initiated Reboot of the computer, or by forcing a hardware computer halt by holding down the power button for 5+ seconds.
A: Hope it will helps someone.
MBP 2008
*
*3 Normal behavior... power button was pressed for more than four seconds to force shutdown.
*-5 Normal behavior... regular shutdown
*-60 Try charging battery.
*-70 Replace top case.
*-72 replace heatsink sensor/reapply thermal paste/replace heatsink (it was mine problem)
*-74 swap battery for KGB battery - replace battery
*-78 Charger circuit on logic board...try swapping for KGB left I/O board... replace if necessary/replace logic board
*-82 Test thermal sensor JST connectors for improper seating or damage. Replace thermal sensor(s). See Thermal Sensor take apart section
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6a8c7145ad07b57081581dc8f1104c187847c95a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cydia apps gone after install and respring I installed Overboard from Cydia and after respring all my Cydia apps are gone!
There is no Cydia section in Settings. I have reinstalled Cydia Substrate and PreferenceLoader, but nothing happened.
A: Go into Safe Mode using a tweak or by rebooting whilst holding volume up. Once booted, open Cydia and uninstall Overboard, then respring. If the icons still don't show, ssh into your device as mobile and run uicache then respring.
| Q: Cydia apps gone after install and respring I installed Overboard from Cydia and after respring all my Cydia apps are gone!
There is no Cydia section in Settings. I have reinstalled Cydia Substrate and PreferenceLoader, but nothing happened.
A: Go into Safe Mode using a tweak or by rebooting whilst holding volume up. Once booted, open Cydia and uninstall Overboard, then respring. If the icons still don't show, ssh into your device as mobile and run uicache then respring.
A: I had this problem recently. Uninstalling 'libhide' from cydia did the trick (they were all there, just the hiding function had got a little excited...)
A: I found a way to get my apps back.
*
*I downloaded ifile.ipa and Cydia Impactor
*I opened the Cydia Impactor and then dragged & dropped the ifile.ipa onto it, waited for it to be installed on my phone
*Once it finished I opened iFile on my phone.
*In iFile I went to var/mobile/library/caches/com.saurik.cydia
and then I deleted that folder (com.saurik.cydia)
*I exited iFile and all the missing apps appeared back on my home screen.
I hope this helps!
A: Reboot the device a few times. It worked for me. Had to do it 3 times though.
A: removing Appsync fixed it on 10.2 Yalu/b6. Additionally SSH was not working over wifi so I used the python script @ http://www.hackthatphone.com/5x/open_ssh_usb.shtml to ssh over USB, then used dselect (you can just use an 'apt' command) to remove the troublesome tweak. Forgot how to restring over ssh so restarted and issue resolved. re-jailbroke and a ok.
A: Uninstall AppSync, it worked for me.
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7aa5efef55694ac3766988e1bae0ad1aff012cc0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to run a cron job each time the previous execution has finished? I would like to run a Python script each time it finishes and I think I can do this with cron but I am not sure how to do it.
The idea is each time the Python scripts ends, it will have to run again and again.
I have searched for answers here but I can't find something similar to this.
A: In terminal:
while :; do ./script_name; done
or
while :; do python programm.py; done
If you want add some sleep time before run program again use 'sleep' command:
For example:
while :; do python programm.py; sleep 90; done
in this example cycle will sleep 90 second before run again you program
| Q: How to run a cron job each time the previous execution has finished? I would like to run a Python script each time it finishes and I think I can do this with cron but I am not sure how to do it.
The idea is each time the Python scripts ends, it will have to run again and again.
I have searched for answers here but I can't find something similar to this.
A: In terminal:
while :; do ./script_name; done
or
while :; do python programm.py; done
If you want add some sleep time before run program again use 'sleep' command:
For example:
while :; do python programm.py; sleep 90; done
in this example cycle will sleep 90 second before run again you program
A: Cron is a scheduler, it's good if you want your script to run every 5 minutes, or every 3rd Wednesday etc, but for an arbitrary restart upon completion which could (I presume, you don't indicate what the Python script is doing, how long it takes or if the time to completion is variable etc) be essentially random it's not the best choice.
You can either insert some logic into the script directly, or you could simply wrap the script with some Shell Scripting logic as per @user3439968's answer, my version is essentially the same, but I've shown it a little more verbose with options for keeping an eye on the restarts etc. You can type this into pretty much any command line shell, simplest to just open Terminal and type it straight into it
while true
do
/path/to/script.py
sleep 60
date >> /path/to/logfile.txt
echo "The script ended, and I restarted it after 60 seconds" >> /path/to/logfile.txt
done
In the example above the restart isn't immediate but waits 60 seconds, then appends the current date and a message to a log file on each restart. You can put any control code after the initial run of the Python script and the done line, even get it to mail you that it's restarted etc.
Because you don't specify what "true" is, it can never be false, so essentially everything between do and done is looped over and over until it receives a suitable interrupt signal like a CTRL-c or a kill -9 PID type command from another command line session.
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d749e85b0002770f9a48d2fdc1802ed85daf8db8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get Alfred to run a terminal command and open one app twice? I often need to run multiple copies of an app, like VLC.
For this I use the terminal and run a command similar to:
open -n /Applications/VLC.app
How can I create a shortcut with Alfred to run this one command if I type a keyword like vlcnew?
A: I don't see a feature in Alfred that looks like it will enable that directly (though I might have missed it).
You can:
*
*open Automator
*create a new application
*add the "Run Shell Script" action
*paste in your command
*Select "Save..." from the file menu
*name it vlcnew.app
Now Alfred should find that app if you type vlcnew.
| Q: How to get Alfred to run a terminal command and open one app twice? I often need to run multiple copies of an app, like VLC.
For this I use the terminal and run a command similar to:
open -n /Applications/VLC.app
How can I create a shortcut with Alfred to run this one command if I type a keyword like vlcnew?
A: I don't see a feature in Alfred that looks like it will enable that directly (though I might have missed it).
You can:
*
*open Automator
*create a new application
*add the "Run Shell Script" action
*paste in your command
*Select "Save..." from the file menu
*name it vlcnew.app
Now Alfred should find that app if you type vlcnew.
A: Now you can also run a Terminal Command using Powerpack.
*
*Create a "Blank Workflow"
*On the top right corner, click on the plus sign and choose the trigger you want.
*Click the same plus sign and now choose Actions -> Terminal Command and type whatever command you would like to run
A: You can also just open Alfred and start with a '>' in front of your query.
More information: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/terminal/
A: If you have the PowerPack, you can create a workflow.
Workflows can run bash scripts in terminal, post notifications etc..
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b03c3388f2eb6d772b8a625827a93b21eb2e73e7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Repeat a song in afplay I am using afplay to play a song and I want it to be repeat. Is it possible just using afplay?
A: Loop it in cycle:
In terminal:
while :; do afplay /path/to/song.mp3; done
| Q: Repeat a song in afplay I am using afplay to play a song and I want it to be repeat. Is it possible just using afplay?
A: Loop it in cycle:
In terminal:
while :; do afplay /path/to/song.mp3; done
A: Expanding what @user3439968 said, if you use the fish shell, you can loop like this:
while true; afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Ping.aiff; end
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2fdf6171ce9a8f89500961d92b11ae1f62d14192 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: locate & updatedb - files not found I ran
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
then
locate Radium3
but it returns nothing!
but
$ ls ~/Library/Containers/com.catpigstudios.Radium3/
Container.plist Data
So why doesn't locate see all the files?
Am I using this command correctly on OS X?
A: Try:
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
And look config:
/etc/locate.rc the configuration file
Edited:
Post here output:
echo $LOCATE_CONFIG
And:
cat /etc/locate.rc
And:
echo $0
Update:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/locate.1.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/1/locate
The locate program searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. The data-base database
base is recomputed periodically (usually weekly or daily), and contains the pathnames of all files
which are publicly accessible.
Try mdfind instead locate
Updated2:
mdfind -name text which is more accurate. Just mdfind text gives you files that contain text as well. – David Krmpotic
mdfind -name text
| Q: locate & updatedb - files not found I ran
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
then
locate Radium3
but it returns nothing!
but
$ ls ~/Library/Containers/com.catpigstudios.Radium3/
Container.plist Data
So why doesn't locate see all the files?
Am I using this command correctly on OS X?
A: Try:
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
And look config:
/etc/locate.rc the configuration file
Edited:
Post here output:
echo $LOCATE_CONFIG
And:
cat /etc/locate.rc
And:
echo $0
Update:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/locate.1.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/1/locate
The locate program searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. The data-base database
base is recomputed periodically (usually weekly or daily), and contains the pathnames of all files
which are publicly accessible.
Try mdfind instead locate
Updated2:
mdfind -name text which is more accurate. Just mdfind text gives you files that contain text as well. – David Krmpotic
mdfind -name text
A: Permissions may be the culprit as locate apparently cannot read files that are not world readable. See this answer by Plundra for more explanation.
The findutils package from homebrew does enable gupdatedb and glocate commands that seem to overcome some of the limitations of the builtin utilities.
A: If you want to search the same database that Spotlight uses, you can use the mdfind command as an alternative (although not an exact replacement) for locate:
mdfind Radius3
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f7a35b7ee235733d5054846a5cd47e0be058e931 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which MacBook screen should I buy? My wife broke the screen on her MacBook. I want to buy a replacement and try to put it in myself. How do I determine the correct screen to buy? It is a 13.3" screen. But, the computer is several years old.
I am not asking for a product recommendation. I am going to buy the official Apple screen. I just read that not every screen fits every MacBook. For instance, one site said I have to worry about which wireless antenna I have. Another said I have to worry about unibody or not. But, I don't know the various specs of the MacBook my wife has. I tried to look up the serial number online, but it doesn't list the model number when I do that.
A: Sounds to me like you need to identify your Mac model more than anything else. Give a try How to identify which model is my Mac?
Once you know your precise model, you may want to go to ifixit.com to identify the precise piece number you’re looking for.
| Q: Which MacBook screen should I buy? My wife broke the screen on her MacBook. I want to buy a replacement and try to put it in myself. How do I determine the correct screen to buy? It is a 13.3" screen. But, the computer is several years old.
I am not asking for a product recommendation. I am going to buy the official Apple screen. I just read that not every screen fits every MacBook. For instance, one site said I have to worry about which wireless antenna I have. Another said I have to worry about unibody or not. But, I don't know the various specs of the MacBook my wife has. I tried to look up the serial number online, but it doesn't list the model number when I do that.
A: Sounds to me like you need to identify your Mac model more than anything else. Give a try How to identify which model is my Mac?
Once you know your precise model, you may want to go to ifixit.com to identify the precise piece number you’re looking for.
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7278dd3eb536af818991fcd7406e5dcdf8dcb32b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do iCloud email addresses ignore periods like Gmail? In a Gmail email, you can put periods in your email, but in the end, the address is seen without them.
So [email protected] is also seen as [email protected] or even [email protected].
My question is, does iCloud handle emails this way too? If I have an address with periods in it, could I send an email to the same address without periods and receive it?
A: No, this doesn't work for iCloud email addresses. Just tried it and the email failed to deliver — the email must be exactly correct.
| Q: Do iCloud email addresses ignore periods like Gmail? In a Gmail email, you can put periods in your email, but in the end, the address is seen without them.
So [email protected] is also seen as [email protected] or even [email protected].
My question is, does iCloud handle emails this way too? If I have an address with periods in it, could I send an email to the same address without periods and receive it?
A: No, this doesn't work for iCloud email addresses. Just tried it and the email failed to deliver — the email must be exactly correct.
A: You can create an email alias in iCloud to accept your dotted version.
Eg.
If your iCloud address is [email protected], then [email protected] won't work, unless you add an email alias for it in your iCloud email account. See:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a
For full instructions on how to create your email aliases.
A: Technically this depends.
If the address was set up under the me.com days and you already created an alias with the dot then it will work. Otherwise, it will not.
I have an address previously set up with an alias (during iCloud's me.com days) and mail will be received at the "dotted" address. I think currently iCloud does not allow additional aliases if you were not grandfathered under me.com.
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8186eff1e34a456a828f46ea36df4206a3b59a85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: External windows mouse invert scroll except touchpad I just attached an external windows mouse to my mac and I inverted the scrolling. But now it also inverts it for the touchpad... Is there a way to invert it only for the external mouse? I really don't want to switch it up every time...
A: I've had a simular issue as an inverted (external) mouse is pretty... annoying.
If you never use another computer, you will get used to it eventually.
But if you would like to customize buttons, I would recommend you steermouse as per their site:
SteerMouse is a mouse driver that lets you freely customize buttons,
wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported, no
matter whether the mouse is designed for Windows or Mac.
| Q: External windows mouse invert scroll except touchpad I just attached an external windows mouse to my mac and I inverted the scrolling. But now it also inverts it for the touchpad... Is there a way to invert it only for the external mouse? I really don't want to switch it up every time...
A: I've had a simular issue as an inverted (external) mouse is pretty... annoying.
If you never use another computer, you will get used to it eventually.
But if you would like to customize buttons, I would recommend you steermouse as per their site:
SteerMouse is a mouse driver that lets you freely customize buttons,
wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported, no
matter whether the mouse is designed for Windows or Mac.
A: This is Apple redefining normal. For me it is fine on a trackpad but counter intuitive with a scroll wheel. It started on O/S X Lion and I have been using a little utility called Scroll Reverser to change the behavior:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37872/scroll-reverser
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1208a38be28690642df2f6622cd45ca08e869eb7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My MacBook Air won't charge My MacBook Air won't charge, the MagSafe doesn't even have that green or red orange light and when it does it isn't very bright.
The Battery Icon on the upper right corner indicates not charging.
When I pull the MagSafe out of my MacBook Air it would turn-off but still it doesn't mean its charging.
I could only use my MacBook Air if I'm plugging the magSafe even if it doesn't charge. My battery is still 0%
A: Because you explain the problem perfectly, and in short:
*
*The battery does not charge, and your Macbook does only work with MagSafe attached
There's only one option what could be the problem...
The battery is dead, let me explain you why:
*
*Your battery is ignored somehow, and your Macbook uses power directly from the MagSafe adapter. If you couldn't even use the Macbook with the cable in it, the cable could be the problem. Since it works with cable-attached, it's not.
*You can use the macbook with cable in it as explained above.
| Q: My MacBook Air won't charge My MacBook Air won't charge, the MagSafe doesn't even have that green or red orange light and when it does it isn't very bright.
The Battery Icon on the upper right corner indicates not charging.
When I pull the MagSafe out of my MacBook Air it would turn-off but still it doesn't mean its charging.
I could only use my MacBook Air if I'm plugging the magSafe even if it doesn't charge. My battery is still 0%
A: Because you explain the problem perfectly, and in short:
*
*The battery does not charge, and your Macbook does only work with MagSafe attached
There's only one option what could be the problem...
The battery is dead, let me explain you why:
*
*Your battery is ignored somehow, and your Macbook uses power directly from the MagSafe adapter. If you couldn't even use the Macbook with the cable in it, the cable could be the problem. Since it works with cable-attached, it's not.
*You can use the macbook with cable in it as explained above.
A: You seem to have a dead battery, you can check the status by going to Apple Menu > About this Mac > System Information > System Report (10.7 or later, similar but different on older OS)
Your battery could die for a lot of reasons, it's simply been used a lot, or it's been damaged, or used in environmental conditions that are outside of it's operating spec etc. Check this link to see what a normal cycle count should be so you can at least see if yours has died from old age if nothing else.
You don't say what model of Air it is - if it's an original one, it may have an expected cycle count of as little as 300 (and even then, to acheive that you would have needed to have used it correctly in terms of not storing it with a full or empty charge, regularly fully depleting it etc). Batteries are weird. I had one go on my first Macbook seemingly simply because I left it flat for a month.
A: This worked for me on my macbook air 3,1:
I went to system preferences/energysaver/clicked the battery tab and hit restore defaults. It started taking a charge after that.
I had completely let the battery run out while watching cartoons and I think it caused it to go into some kind of safety mode.
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aa14c6a60227288505622c84e4f0277d14154da6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Way to logout a user from the command line in OS X 10.9 I want to logout my Mac OS X from the command line. My OS X version is 10.9.
I tried command pkill -KILL -u uid, but this command didn't work out.
Is there a command that can be used to log out a user from the system using command line only, not AppleScript?
A: sudo launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u <username>)
or
sudo launchctl bootout user/$(id -u <username>)
Replace username with the target user's user name or replace the whole subshell with the user's uid. This tells launchctl to teardown the users login session (gui specifically refers to the user's temporary login session, user specifies the users background processes).
You can log yourself out without the sudo to test this.
Note that this will ONLY work on macOS 10.11.x or newer (see launchctl help for more)
| Q: Way to logout a user from the command line in OS X 10.9 I want to logout my Mac OS X from the command line. My OS X version is 10.9.
I tried command pkill -KILL -u uid, but this command didn't work out.
Is there a command that can be used to log out a user from the system using command line only, not AppleScript?
A: sudo launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u <username>)
or
sudo launchctl bootout user/$(id -u <username>)
Replace username with the target user's user name or replace the whole subshell with the user's uid. This tells launchctl to teardown the users login session (gui specifically refers to the user's temporary login session, user specifies the users background processes).
You can log yourself out without the sudo to test this.
Note that this will ONLY work on macOS 10.11.x or newer (see launchctl help for more)
A: To log out purely from terminal (or a remote ssh session), just kill the loginwindow process:
sudo pkill loginwindow
You could get fancy and specify the user if multiple users have a loginwindow process, but this is an easy one shot, no prompt way to end a user's graphical session.
A: A nice utility to add to your Terminal is the "logout" command, to be used like:
logout UserName
Here the how to:
*
*Edit your .bash_profile
nano ~/.bash_profile
*Add this line:
logout() {sudo launchctl bootout user/$(id -u "$1")}
*Save the file pressing ctrl+x
*Restart the terminal
You are ready to go ;)
A: This has worked for me in the past:
Log out (with confirmation)
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to log out'
Log out directly (no confirmation)
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to «event aevtrlgo»'
or
osascript -e 'tell application "loginwindow" to «event aevtrlgo»'
This way any running application will get noticed and can terminate in a safe fashion.
A: If you have multiple users ....
Find the Process ID with:
ps aux|grep login
Then kill that process and you logged that session out. But there are a lot of procceses left.
Check with pstree so you know which process to terminate.
A: This does the trick for me.
sudo -s
To get some root privileges and the # prompt, then kill the processes.
killall -vu username -HUP
And if it´s not all gone. Nuke em! Obligatory warning - killing things as root has no undo and no "are you sure you want to interrupt this process without saving your files, including system critical databases that might render the machine unbootable on rare occasion." type warnings.
killall -vu username -9
A: An extreme way to kick the user session out is to force a restart:
sudo shutdown -r now
This works out well if you are trying to update the system.
A: It's just
launchctl reboot logout
(needs to be run under the logout-target user, so prefix with sudo -u …a_user…).
man launchctl:
… With the logout argument given, launchd will tear down the caller's GUI login
session in a manner similar to a logout initiated from the Apple menu. The key
difference is that a logout initiated through this subcommand will be much
faster since it will not give apps a chance to display modal dialogs to block
logout indefinitely; therefore there is data corruption risk to using this
option. Only use it when you know you have no unsaved data in your running
apps. …
A: if you're logged with ssh to a remote computer you can logout by simply typing 'exit':
[host:~user]$ exit
A: This does the trick for me
sudo -su user
and for root
sudo -su root
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872e9edcf1fe2caac2defac6433821fd7ada10ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to delete iPad calendar events when no edit option appears How can I delete iPad calendar events when no edit button appears? Clicking on events only results in "details" button.
A: *
*Go to Settings app → Passwords and Accounts and scroll down.
*The subscribed calendars should be there and click it and click delete account and you should be good.
| Q: How to delete iPad calendar events when no edit option appears How can I delete iPad calendar events when no edit button appears? Clicking on events only results in "details" button.
A: *
*Go to Settings app → Passwords and Accounts and scroll down.
*The subscribed calendars should be there and click it and click delete account and you should be good.
A: If you don't have the ability to delete the event (it's a shared calendar) then the Edit button will not appear.
For such events, you should remove the shared calendar through Calendars at the bottom of the app, then choose ⓘ on the shared calendar and select Delete Calendar.
A: Go to the month calendar and double-click on the event. It does not give you the option to delete but you can decline the invite.
A: Ok, I guess there's no answer for this yet, this is how I did it
*
*Add a new calendar
*
*on the Calendar app, select Calendars, Add Calendar
*On the event you're trying to delete, select the newly added calendar in the Calendar option
*Go back out to your calendars, and delete the Calendar you added on the first step
*Your event is gone gone
A: At the bottom of iCal tap Calendar and it will show you list of all events automatically put into your iCal that has no Edit option. Select item and adjust here.
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2fc9db12ad3779eb1b59b2a5ed4c980b13d648b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How many alarms can be set on iOS? How many alarms can be set on an iPhone 5? Can you set one for every minute of the day (1440) or is there a limit on the number of alarms?
A: Well if we want to be 100% accurate, there is a limit. It is the storage capacity of your iPhone 5s. Somewhere that alarm is taking up space and once it runs out, so do the alarms.
I've just tapped the '+' followed by "Save" and got up to over 300 alarms before I realized how much fun I'll have going back and deleting them all. Or, since their default value after creation is set to "on", absolutely drive people crazy at work tomorrow.
Also, since it only took 5 minutes, it is a dang good prank to play on a friend - or enemy :)
So, realistically grgarside is right. There is not limit set via programming; however, like I mentioned, the storage capacity is the true cap - eventually at least.
| Q: How many alarms can be set on iOS? How many alarms can be set on an iPhone 5? Can you set one for every minute of the day (1440) or is there a limit on the number of alarms?
A: Well if we want to be 100% accurate, there is a limit. It is the storage capacity of your iPhone 5s. Somewhere that alarm is taking up space and once it runs out, so do the alarms.
I've just tapped the '+' followed by "Save" and got up to over 300 alarms before I realized how much fun I'll have going back and deleting them all. Or, since their default value after creation is set to "on", absolutely drive people crazy at work tomorrow.
Also, since it only took 5 minutes, it is a dang good prank to play on a friend - or enemy :)
So, realistically grgarside is right. There is not limit set via programming; however, like I mentioned, the storage capacity is the true cap - eventually at least.
A: There is basically no limit. You can set one for every minute of the day, or even more than one for every minute.
A: Every minute; 1,440 (24 hours* 60 minutes) then add the possibilities for days (i.e Mondays and Tuesdays, every Wednesday etc.) which is 2 (1 for not that day as a possibility and 1 for that day being a possibility; so 2) to the power of how many days you can set (7) gives us 2^7 or 2*2*2*2*2*2*2 which is 128.
So if we combine those two together (128*1,440) we get 184,320 different possible alarms. If your phone could store all these, I'm not certain, but in theory that's the max amount of different alarms.
If we include text descriptions then the number would be such a great amount that no device could ever display it (as we have to take into consideration how many possibilities there are; just two letters in a row with the english alphabet (26 letters), that would be 26*26 (676) without symbols like periods or commas, and without the possibility of different sizes of letters (lower/uppercase).
If an alarm text description could include 20 letters, that can ONLY be letters which are either upper or lowercase, and NO symbols, that would be 26^20 (thats 26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26*26), and that number would equal 19,928,148,895,209,409,152,340,197,376.
TL;DR:
So anyway, 184,320 different possible alarms if you exclude counting different text descriptions, like a sane person. Or a much, much bigger number if you do. Either way your phone probably cannot store that many alarms, so realistically it's probably in the thousands somewhere.
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9ae519d1b36f06f363b9632f4d7d27a2619d4183 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Running shell commands with Automator: how to create a droplet launching an "exec" command? I need to create a automator application that launches the following exec command, whenever a image file is dropped onto it (the exec print the image files with some printing params).
exec('lpr -o ImageableArea=DS_8x6 -o PageRegion=DS_8x12 -o
PageSize=DS_8x12 -o media=DS_8x12 '.$fullPathOfTheImageFile);
How can I create this application? I can't go beyond this point:
A: In the Run Shell Script action, change Pass input:, (upper right hand corner of the action), from to stdin to as arguments. Then you can get the result of the previous action passed to a shell script as an argument. Example:
lpr -o ImageableArea=DS_8x6 -o PageRegion=DS_8x12 -o
PageSize=DS_8x12 -o media=DS_8x12 $1
| Q: Running shell commands with Automator: how to create a droplet launching an "exec" command? I need to create a automator application that launches the following exec command, whenever a image file is dropped onto it (the exec print the image files with some printing params).
exec('lpr -o ImageableArea=DS_8x6 -o PageRegion=DS_8x12 -o
PageSize=DS_8x12 -o media=DS_8x12 '.$fullPathOfTheImageFile);
How can I create this application? I can't go beyond this point:
A: In the Run Shell Script action, change Pass input:, (upper right hand corner of the action), from to stdin to as arguments. Then you can get the result of the previous action passed to a shell script as an argument. Example:
lpr -o ImageableArea=DS_8x6 -o PageRegion=DS_8x12 -o
PageSize=DS_8x12 -o media=DS_8x12 $1
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f2ab69ae5b5d6dbadded4412ab124e703fce6ad4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX Server: failed to connect to the IGD Until recently I had an airport extreme as my router that I managed with Server.app for external NAT for server services in Mavericks/Server 3.1.1. However since I got a new router, server system log is filling up with the error below:
servermgrd[2594]: Failed to connect to the IGD, no status info
available, error is Error Domain=com.apple.ACPDevice Code=-6753 "The
operation couldn\u2019t be completed. (com.apple.ACPDevice error
-6753.)"
Any idea how I can disable this feature so it doesn't keep trying to connect to the IGD?
A: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "delete :managedIGD" /Library/Server/Network/Config/autoportmap.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "delete :lastIGD" /Library/Server/Network/Config/autoportmap.plist
These commands are from
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT200038?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US which explains how to remove an Airport Base Station from Server in Mountain Lion. They also apply to Mavericks.
| Q: OSX Server: failed to connect to the IGD Until recently I had an airport extreme as my router that I managed with Server.app for external NAT for server services in Mavericks/Server 3.1.1. However since I got a new router, server system log is filling up with the error below:
servermgrd[2594]: Failed to connect to the IGD, no status info
available, error is Error Domain=com.apple.ACPDevice Code=-6753 "The
operation couldn\u2019t be completed. (com.apple.ACPDevice error
-6753.)"
Any idea how I can disable this feature so it doesn't keep trying to connect to the IGD?
A: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "delete :managedIGD" /Library/Server/Network/Config/autoportmap.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "delete :lastIGD" /Library/Server/Network/Config/autoportmap.plist
These commands are from
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT200038?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US which explains how to remove an Airport Base Station from Server in Mountain Lion. They also apply to Mavericks.
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4c22d5bce993c02a9f04c3e6f1d08b968cbdce11 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Aufs mount alternative What union mounts are available on OSX? I've been using Aufs on Ubuntu for the past few years without fail and I'm looking for something similar...
Basically, given n directories, merge the contents into another directory in real-time. Any changes to the mount directory does not affect the original paths, and the changes that were made are put into the furthest left path. This allows me to create a complex working directory of several repositories, while maintaining the history and integrity of those directories cleanly.
Example:
mount -t aufs -o br=/src1:/src2:/src3 none /path/to/stacked/dir
Would combine src1, src2 and src3 into /path/to/stacked/dir
A: You can use the union option available in OSX's mount:
sudo mount -t hfs -o union /dev/disk9s1 /tmp/union
See also: Link
| Q: Aufs mount alternative What union mounts are available on OSX? I've been using Aufs on Ubuntu for the past few years without fail and I'm looking for something similar...
Basically, given n directories, merge the contents into another directory in real-time. Any changes to the mount directory does not affect the original paths, and the changes that were made are put into the furthest left path. This allows me to create a complex working directory of several repositories, while maintaining the history and integrity of those directories cleanly.
Example:
mount -t aufs -o br=/src1:/src2:/src3 none /path/to/stacked/dir
Would combine src1, src2 and src3 into /path/to/stacked/dir
A: You can use the union option available in OSX's mount:
sudo mount -t hfs -o union /dev/disk9s1 /tmp/union
See also: Link
A: I am not aware of any equivalent file system for Mac OS X.
The closest offering is the OSXFuse project, where developers can implement custom file systems in user space. OSXFuse mentions the following file systems, none of which rival aufs's capabilities:
*
*sshfs
*procfs
*AccessibilityFS
*GrabFS
*LoopbackFS
*SpotlightFS
*YouTubeFS
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65d495962fb7ae3b94a26795961feb6f4744e613 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What happens if I buy a paid game while it's free? There's this game on the App Store called Flying Hamster HD, before it used to cost like $6 or something now it's free.
If I delete the game I “purchased” when it's free and decide to re-download it am I charged if the price goes up?
A: When it's available for free and you buy it you get it for free.
It's impossible to charge you afterwards because when you decide to download it because it's free. You don’t get refunds if the price goes down or charged if it goes up.
Many apps become free over time, and that's one of the ways how I save a lot of money.
So in short, free = free (watch out for in-app purchases though, they are never free!)
To give you a better detail about updating apps:
*
*It's free if they update the same app, not if they decide to put a complete new application in the AppStore.
| Q: What happens if I buy a paid game while it's free? There's this game on the App Store called Flying Hamster HD, before it used to cost like $6 or something now it's free.
If I delete the game I “purchased” when it's free and decide to re-download it am I charged if the price goes up?
A: When it's available for free and you buy it you get it for free.
It's impossible to charge you afterwards because when you decide to download it because it's free. You don’t get refunds if the price goes down or charged if it goes up.
Many apps become free over time, and that's one of the ways how I save a lot of money.
So in short, free = free (watch out for in-app purchases though, they are never free!)
To give you a better detail about updating apps:
*
*It's free if they update the same app, not if they decide to put a complete new application in the AppStore.
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af558249f17fb33c4c15b96816ad24af2ac6be03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable CMD + E to eject? I have a MacBook Air, I want to disable the CMD+E keyboard shortcut to eject because I want to assign it to another application and I really don't need to eject anything as I don't have a CD drive.
I've searched in the keyboard preference but that shortcut is not there.
Any ideas?
A: You can use Karabiner with a private.xml such as this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>Disable ⌘E</name>
<identifier>DisableCMDE</identifier>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::E, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE,
KeyCode::VK_NONE
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
| Q: How to disable CMD + E to eject? I have a MacBook Air, I want to disable the CMD+E keyboard shortcut to eject because I want to assign it to another application and I really don't need to eject anything as I don't have a CD drive.
I've searched in the keyboard preference but that shortcut is not there.
Any ideas?
A: You can use Karabiner with a private.xml such as this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>Disable ⌘E</name>
<identifier>DisableCMDE</identifier>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::E, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE,
KeyCode::VK_NONE
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
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193ae28dcf94c0910d732784cd2e473a2b7ce024 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to transfer Clash of Clans from one iOS device to another I have two iPhones and an iPad 2. One of the phones is an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6 and the other is an iPhone 4 running iOS 7. Under the same Game Center account they each have a separate village for Clash of Clans. I just got my iPad and wanted to transfer the game on the iOS 6.1.6 device to my iPad. What I was wondering was, if it's even possible to link a game on Clash of Clans from an iOS 6 device to an iOS 7 device, and if so how do I do so?
A: Yes it is possible. All you need to do is have both your devices next to that you want to make the transfer with. Then tap the settings button in clash of clans and you will see "link a device". Follow the on screen instructions after that.
If you have a new account already made on your new device past town hall 4 you are unable to link them. You will need to contact supercell for further information, which is what I had to do.
| Q: How to transfer Clash of Clans from one iOS device to another I have two iPhones and an iPad 2. One of the phones is an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6 and the other is an iPhone 4 running iOS 7. Under the same Game Center account they each have a separate village for Clash of Clans. I just got my iPad and wanted to transfer the game on the iOS 6.1.6 device to my iPad. What I was wondering was, if it's even possible to link a game on Clash of Clans from an iOS 6 device to an iOS 7 device, and if so how do I do so?
A: Yes it is possible. All you need to do is have both your devices next to that you want to make the transfer with. Then tap the settings button in clash of clans and you will see "link a device". Follow the on screen instructions after that.
If you have a new account already made on your new device past town hall 4 you are unable to link them. You will need to contact supercell for further information, which is what I had to do.
A: With a 3rd party USB iPhone file viewing application on your Mac or PC, such as iExplorer or DiskAid, one can try copying all the files from an app on one iOS device to your Mac, and then copy them all of them onto the other iOS device. To be safe, force-quit the apps on both devices first and do a complete backup of the target device before trying this method, as it can potentially completely mess up an app, and require it to be deleted and re-installed.
A: CoC can be transferred with the "link a device"-option.
Another way to do this is by using the same apple id for gamecenter.
You can change the apple id under Game Center in settings>game center.
Via this way it will also be possible to transfer account that are linked to gamecenter, but do not have an "link a device" option built in.
A: *
*Download iExplore on your computer.
*Connect your old iOS device to your computer, browse to /private/var/mobile/Containers folder then copy the Clash of Clans folder to somewhere in your computer.
*Connect the new device then copy that folder to /private/var/mobile/Containers (iOS7) or /var/mobile/Containers/Bundle/Application (iOS8).
*Login with your related Game Center ID.
*It will ask you if you want to play that Clash of Clans account or not.
Source: http://cocland.com/tutorials/transfer-clash-of-clans-from-old-ios-devices
A: The new version will fix the problem is not loaded games
A: Maybe can be possible making a backup with iTools and restoring into the new one.
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9f81c4634c6c06571c7bb56b75cd2c9e3d138a27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does a red check mark on the OS X login screen indicate? I booted up my MacBook Pro after the lid was closed on it for several days. Today when I powered it on there is a red check mark next to my name at the login screen. Anyone know what this stands for?
A: It means that You were not logged off from this account. Perhaps You've made Fast User Switch or directly go to Login Screen without logging off.
| Q: What does a red check mark on the OS X login screen indicate? I booted up my MacBook Pro after the lid was closed on it for several days. Today when I powered it on there is a red check mark next to my name at the login screen. Anyone know what this stands for?
A: It means that You were not logged off from this account. Perhaps You've made Fast User Switch or directly go to Login Screen without logging off.
A: This happened to me. I believe this only happens when your computer is asleep and the battery dies completely and you plug it in before you snap it out of the sleep. It is supposed to let you know that that account is the one that you are still logged in on. I still can't explain why you have to log in twice. Strange huh I'm not 100% sure though.
A: I believe that it means that you were still logged on when you went off of your laptop/computer. This has happened to me a few times.
A: Has happened to me a couple of times. I think it's because the battery died while I was logged in, (perhaps, but not certainly before it had time to log out?)
Either way, the battery seems to die before the machine feels the log-out process is complete meaning that user is already logged in.
I then have to log in twice too.
A: This happenned to me when I closed my MBP with out shutdown/log out and found Orange tick mark on the following day.Found even keyboard not responding.Had to long press power button to shutdown and the reopen in usual way.
by,
Mohideen
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0e7f2b42fc7def9eb550ed10e59802f43a8e6be7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: outlook.com calendar and contacts sync I recently started using a mac, and my mind was blown by the fact that I can't sync my live.com calendar with the default calendar app (same goes for contacts). I don't understand why this is the case since I can do these things on the iPhone...
I'd like to either,
*
*Find a way to sync my calendar with the NATIVE apple apps (that doesn't involve first sharing the calendar with a gmail, then importing the gmail in to iCal (that's a stone age solution.))
or
*
*Find a tool that works with ALL of the following (because I have 2 mail, cal, and contact accounts).
*
*IMAP
*CALDAV
*CARDDAV
*EAS settings for hotmail
| Q: outlook.com calendar and contacts sync I recently started using a mac, and my mind was blown by the fact that I can't sync my live.com calendar with the default calendar app (same goes for contacts). I don't understand why this is the case since I can do these things on the iPhone...
I'd like to either,
*
*Find a way to sync my calendar with the NATIVE apple apps (that doesn't involve first sharing the calendar with a gmail, then importing the gmail in to iCal (that's a stone age solution.))
or
*
*Find a tool that works with ALL of the following (because I have 2 mail, cal, and contact accounts).
*
*IMAP
*CALDAV
*CARDDAV
*EAS settings for hotmail
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02f3b1a90721aa756768cf3f160440e21e97e86d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I transcribe a Voice Memo to Text? I need to transcribe Voice Memo recording to text. Can I play the recording and use Dictation? is there another method to convert an existing Voice Memo to text?
A: I would try using Soundflower, which allows one to virtually plug your sound output to input, and then use Dictation.
| Q: How can I transcribe a Voice Memo to Text? I need to transcribe Voice Memo recording to text. Can I play the recording and use Dictation? is there another method to convert an existing Voice Memo to text?
A: I would try using Soundflower, which allows one to virtually plug your sound output to input, and then use Dictation.
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0759f69fc8c730c1f34311a0d13bab437c41e299 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How long are text messages saved in the iCloud server? ..and how can I get rid of them before they are subpoenaed?
A: As of the last update of Apple's iOS Security Guide, May 2016:
iMessage messages are queued for delivery to offline devices. Messages are currently stored for up to 30 days.
(emphasis mine)
Note this time period has increased from a prior version of this guide, which stated that messages were queued for up to seven days.
If, by "text message", you actually mean SMS messages, those do not cross onto Apple's servers at all unless you have SMS Forwarding enabled, to have messages from your iPhone forwarded to other devices such as a Mac or iPad. Forwarded SMS messages are encrypted in the same method as iMessage messages (elaborated in the guide). It appears that the 30-day timeframe also applies to forwarded SMS messages.
| Q: How long are text messages saved in the iCloud server? ..and how can I get rid of them before they are subpoenaed?
A: As of the last update of Apple's iOS Security Guide, May 2016:
iMessage messages are queued for delivery to offline devices. Messages are currently stored for up to 30 days.
(emphasis mine)
Note this time period has increased from a prior version of this guide, which stated that messages were queued for up to seven days.
If, by "text message", you actually mean SMS messages, those do not cross onto Apple's servers at all unless you have SMS Forwarding enabled, to have messages from your iPhone forwarded to other devices such as a Mac or iPad. Forwarded SMS messages are encrypted in the same method as iMessage messages (elaborated in the guide). It appears that the 30-day timeframe also applies to forwarded SMS messages.
A: It's unclear how long the messages are stored after transmission through iMessage. But there are plenty of places to find the messages if truly needed. For example, in any iPhone backups, iCloud or local hard drive from iTunes backups: Both not-deleted messages (at the time the backup was taken) and many DELETED messages are available in the backups. I work on the program Decipher TextMessage which allows you to view these messages from the backups, and we've helped many people recover messages needed for court cases.
A: iCloud makes multiple backups of your iOS devices over time, some of these backups are available to restore and some are not. Also you need to be clear on messages that have been deleted and messages that still exist, as both are still in the iCloud database.
To delete all data you would need to wipe the iOS device (there are many options on the market), wipe any iTunes backups on your PC/Mac and delete the iCloud backups of all devices that had that iMessage.
Even then, you might not delete all the copies if they were intercepted while they were delivered or backed up to a location you cannot purge or control.
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5d75a11dbb37cfc65af91a7e3a9b7b2a03cc848e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove spacing between pages in microsoft word for mac How can I remove the spaces (header/footer areas) between pages in MS word? On my PC, I just double click the spaces and it automatically removes them. When I try on my Mac, it just opens the header and footer sections.
A: That feature is not supported on any version of Office for Mac to date. The closest you can get is to change the view. Look towards the bottom left of the screen. You will see icons and the 4th one should be a different color than the other 5. The 2 furthest to the left will allow you to have something that somewhat does the feature that you are looking for. One is called draft view and one is called outline view.
Or you can choose Notebook layout view. This has no gap but makes your document look like a “real notebook”
| Q: Remove spacing between pages in microsoft word for mac How can I remove the spaces (header/footer areas) between pages in MS word? On my PC, I just double click the spaces and it automatically removes them. When I try on my Mac, it just opens the header and footer sections.
A: That feature is not supported on any version of Office for Mac to date. The closest you can get is to change the view. Look towards the bottom left of the screen. You will see icons and the 4th one should be a different color than the other 5. The 2 furthest to the left will allow you to have something that somewhat does the feature that you are looking for. One is called draft view and one is called outline view.
Or you can choose Notebook layout view. This has no gap but makes your document look like a “real notebook”
A: This feature was added in Word 2016 for OS-X.
Simply hover the cursor over the break between two pages, then double click.
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389272bb02f980c4c0246be1d7316f6994c9e30d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I know what to put in DefaultKeyBinding.dict? I am trying to create a few system level key bindings. I know about ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict but I am not sure what to put in there/or how to go about finding the commands and codes.
I would like keybindings to
*
*Opt <- //Move cursor back a word
*Opt -> //Move cursor forward a word
*Opt Cmd <- //Home
*Opt Cmd -> //End
*(the same commands, but adding Shift to select instead of just move
Is there a good resource to help me figure this out?
A: The accepted answer still provides good sources for key codes, however a full list of commands is now available from Apple here:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsstandardkeybindingresponding
| Q: How do I know what to put in DefaultKeyBinding.dict? I am trying to create a few system level key bindings. I know about ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict but I am not sure what to put in there/or how to go about finding the commands and codes.
I would like keybindings to
*
*Opt <- //Move cursor back a word
*Opt -> //Move cursor forward a word
*Opt Cmd <- //Home
*Opt Cmd -> //End
*(the same commands, but adding Shift to select instead of just move
Is there a good resource to help me figure this out?
A: The accepted answer still provides good sources for key codes, however a full list of commands is now available from Apple here:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsstandardkeybindingresponding
A: There is a wonderful resource on DefaultKeyBinding.dict including an example file as well as all the shortcut strings and methods you need, available at:
*
*https://github.com/ttscoff/KeyBindings
There are also numerous other resources listed at the bottom of the page, including the official Apple Developer documentation:
*
*https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/eventoverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html
A: I found an application (KeyBindingsEdit) that is a nice UI for building it. If you are just looking for a good way to edit it, it could be helpful
A: 2020 answer:
I'm using Karabiner
It used to be called KeyBindingsEdit which the other answer links to
It comes with a UI, you can import rules that other people have uploaded, and you can make your own through JSON format file
Here are my configs for moving cursor forward/backwards a word:
(I didn't check if the parenthesis are matching properly, confirm that the format is correct on your file)
{
"title": "personal rules",
"rules": [
{
"description": "cmd + arrow to ctrl + arrow",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "right_arrow",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [ "command" ],
"optional": [ "any" ]
}
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "right_arrow",
"modifiers": [ "control" ]
}
]
},
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "left_arrow",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [ "command" ],
"optional": [ "any" ]
}
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "left_arrow",
"modifiers": [ "control" ]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
You would add it to ~/.config/karabiner/assets/complex_modifications/<customname>.json
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e4f4617773511119aec292612ff640fbf4487ffc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to hide files from Terminal's ls? I am saving some files because I need to reinstall OS X, and noticed oddly high numbers of files in some folders. Is it possible for malware to hide files from ls?
A: Hidden files are hidden from ls unless you use the -a or -A flag:
-A List all entries except for . and ... Always set for the super-user.
-a Include directory entries whose names begin with a dot (.).
Source: ls man page
Therefore, files can be hidden by starting the filename with a . but ls will still show the file if it is run with -a or -A.
Note that not all files that are hidden with a . are malware-related. The system creates many files like this for a variety of reasons in various places on the disk that can cause problems if removed or modified.
| Q: Is it possible to hide files from Terminal's ls? I am saving some files because I need to reinstall OS X, and noticed oddly high numbers of files in some folders. Is it possible for malware to hide files from ls?
A: Hidden files are hidden from ls unless you use the -a or -A flag:
-A List all entries except for . and ... Always set for the super-user.
-a Include directory entries whose names begin with a dot (.).
Source: ls man page
Therefore, files can be hidden by starting the filename with a . but ls will still show the file if it is run with -a or -A.
Note that not all files that are hidden with a . are malware-related. The system creates many files like this for a variety of reasons in various places on the disk that can cause problems if removed or modified.
A: ls is not a command that opens the directory file itself and show it's contents. It uses dirent (Directory Entries) from the C library which is used by a lot of software like stat but also bash's parameter expansion.
So the real question is then: Is it possible for malware to hide files from BSD/Darwin? No, you can't hide files from it's own system because it will turn into waste (read:free to overwrite) very soon.
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1e2ccfc466cd3ad8f7853d47778495f9dd2c54b9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Graphical man pages viewer in Terminal.app There is a feature in terminal to view man-page of selected string in external window with ⌃⌘? shortcut.
But it has a priority to display preinstalled man pages. So for example I've installed gnu coreutils with homebrew and have edited man-pages search path. And if I do man ls in console I get man-page from gnu coreutils but help menu action gives me bsd man-page.
Is it possible to fix man-pages search path for it?
A: Instead of that you can use Dash. It is an application for having and reading different programming languages docsets offline. It also has the ability to read the man pages available on your system.
| Q: Graphical man pages viewer in Terminal.app There is a feature in terminal to view man-page of selected string in external window with ⌃⌘? shortcut.
But it has a priority to display preinstalled man pages. So for example I've installed gnu coreutils with homebrew and have edited man-pages search path. And if I do man ls in console I get man-page from gnu coreutils but help menu action gives me bsd man-page.
Is it possible to fix man-pages search path for it?
A: Instead of that you can use Dash. It is an application for having and reading different programming languages docsets offline. It also has the ability to read the man pages available on your system.
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1177123fa7a756b81fc6fa081b280bb3ccd1622c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change credit card data for Apple ID? How can I change my credit card data? My credit card was stolen and I want to use a new one for paying apps. I don't know how to do that.
A: One way is to go to http://apple.com, click "Store" in the top menu and then click "Account" and "View Account" as in the below screenshot.
Under "Account settings" there is the choice to "Change your default shipping or billing info", click that link and then enter your Apple ID e-mail and password to login. You'll see a box with the heading "Payment Information" under Account Information, click the Edit button there.
You will then see a form for entering your payment information, add your new card details on the right and click save. The card you enter here will be used on the Apple Online Store, iTunes and Apple App Store.
| Q: How to change credit card data for Apple ID? How can I change my credit card data? My credit card was stolen and I want to use a new one for paying apps. I don't know how to do that.
A: One way is to go to http://apple.com, click "Store" in the top menu and then click "Account" and "View Account" as in the below screenshot.
Under "Account settings" there is the choice to "Change your default shipping or billing info", click that link and then enter your Apple ID e-mail and password to login. You'll see a box with the heading "Payment Information" under Account Information, click the Edit button there.
You will then see a form for entering your payment information, add your new card details on the right and click save. The card you enter here will be used on the Apple Online Store, iTunes and Apple App Store.
A: Just open iTunes
Goto the store and click on your account/email.
Click Account menu item and log in.
Now you can change your payment details.
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b2704721d0b3988cc601b69ecfc373ad1a5d46f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Mail is not retrieving mail automatically from Exchange I have an Exchange account set up in Apple Mail. When I click the "Get new messages" button it successfully retrieves mail from the Exchange server.
I have the "Check for new messages" setting in Mail to "Automatically" but it is not retrieving them automatically, I have to manually click the "Get new messages" button again to get the messages.
I have also tried setting "Check for new messages" to "Every minute" but this does not work either.
Initially restarting Mail seems to fix this, but the problem seems to re-occur every time I wake up my computer from sleep/hibernation. I don't want to have to restart Mail every time I do this.
Is there a known fix for this behaviour?
A: After changing the Check for New Messages delivery settings you need to restart the Mail for it to take an effect.
| Q: Apple Mail is not retrieving mail automatically from Exchange I have an Exchange account set up in Apple Mail. When I click the "Get new messages" button it successfully retrieves mail from the Exchange server.
I have the "Check for new messages" setting in Mail to "Automatically" but it is not retrieving them automatically, I have to manually click the "Get new messages" button again to get the messages.
I have also tried setting "Check for new messages" to "Every minute" but this does not work either.
Initially restarting Mail seems to fix this, but the problem seems to re-occur every time I wake up my computer from sleep/hibernation. I don't want to have to restart Mail every time I do this.
Is there a known fix for this behaviour?
A: After changing the Check for New Messages delivery settings you need to restart the Mail for it to take an effect.
A: If your Mac is running 10.9.x, Apple has posted a Knowledge Base article about this issue. There's no fix, but Apple has a manual workaround included in the Kbase article:
Resolution
Quitting and reopening Mail forces it to re-establish a connection to the email server. You can use these steps to receive new mail messages without quitting Mail:
Choose Mailbox > Take All Accounts Offline.
Choose Mailbox > Get All New Mail.
As a shortcut, you can also add the Take All Accounts Offline and Get Mail buttons to your Mail toolbar.
Choose View > Customize Toolbar.
Drag the Take All Accounts Offline button to the Toolbar if it is not there already.
Drag the Get Mail button to the Toolbar if it is not there already.
Click Done
To receive new mail messages, click the Take Offline button, then click the Check Mail button.
OS X: New email messages not received until Mail is quit and reopened
A: I've seen similar issues with Outlook on Windows. Rebuilding or recreating a user profile will sometimes fix it. According to Apple support, here's how to do a rebuild for Mail in OS X Mavericks and what it accomplishes:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14958?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
You might need to rebuild a mailbox to update the list of messages it contains. For example, if messages appear to be missing or garbled, or if you can’t find all relevant messages when you search using Entire Message.
Select a mailbox, then choose Mailbox > Rebuild.
When you rebuild mailboxes for IMAP and Exchange accounts, locally stored messages and attachments are discarded, and the messages and attachments are downloaded again from the server to your Mac. Your mailbox appears empty until the download is complete.
Last Modified: Nov 6, 2013.
A: I have two IMAP accounts and after opening Mail, it would take minutes to have new mail come in. If I hit the get new mail button, it would still take many many seconds to have mail appear.
Per the thread, I went to Mail prefs and toggled from AUTO to 1 minute. Quit Mail.
Launch again and revert back to AUTO and quit Mail.
Upon sending a test email to myself, things seem to be back to normal. I will report again should things change.
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4c91b237cb77d59815c2e0c05192763e58b9d90e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard shortcut to switch between applications in Mission Control Does Apple have keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications in Mission Control? (Instead of hovering over with the cursor)?
e.g., which key combination cal I press to get me from "preview" to "app store?"
A: For anyone wanting a good way to switch windows with the keyboard. I found
https://contexts.co/ the best solution out there.
It's incredibly fast and allows you to select windows based on a fuzzy text search or keyboard shortcuts.
| Q: Keyboard shortcut to switch between applications in Mission Control Does Apple have keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications in Mission Control? (Instead of hovering over with the cursor)?
e.g., which key combination cal I press to get me from "preview" to "app store?"
A: For anyone wanting a good way to switch windows with the keyboard. I found
https://contexts.co/ the best solution out there.
It's incredibly fast and allows you to select windows based on a fuzzy text search or keyboard shortcuts.
A: Hammerspoon is a great solution to this problem. Especially being I already had been using it for years. Once you install you can use the lua code supplied in the docs to get started. https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.expose.html
Once invoked through a shortcut of your liking it assigns and displays a keycode to each of the open windows inside expose/mission control. You can set filters and customize however you'd like.
A: There is no keyboard shortcut to switch between applications within Mission Control.
In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control you can see all of the built in keyboard shortcuts available:
*
*Mission Control
*Show Notification Center
*Turn Do Not Disturb On/Off
*Application Windows
*Show Desktop
*Show Dashboard
*Mission Control
*
*Move left a space
*Move right a space
*Switch to Desktop n
None of which allow you to move between applications in a space.
Mission Control is designed to be used with a mouse or trackpad. If you only use the keyboard, don't activate Mission Control, instead use command + tab to switch between apps.
A: CMD+tab allows you to switch between applications
In mission control Control+arrow key allows you to switch between spaces
Here is a great link for all mac shortcuts http://www.danrodney.com/mac/
A: I think alt-tab does what you want (and is open source).
The shortcut is alt-tab.
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d227a68228e92b0006aab121cbb61d798fb8f449 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to flash screen from command line Is there a way to flash the screen from the command line? I am looking for the same effect that Accessibility does for "Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs", but I don't want it for every alert.
A: As far as I know, you can't replicate this alert without enabling that option. If you do enable that option, you can cause a flash from Terminal using:
osascript -e "beep"
However, if you don't want to enable that option, you can use invert colours. Using the invert colours Accessibility option twice causes the screen to flash, therefore pressing the keyboard shortcut ⌃⌥⌘8 twice will cause a flash:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events" to repeat 2 times
key code 28 using {command down, control down, option down}
delay 0
end repeat
| Q: How to flash screen from command line Is there a way to flash the screen from the command line? I am looking for the same effect that Accessibility does for "Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs", but I don't want it for every alert.
A: As far as I know, you can't replicate this alert without enabling that option. If you do enable that option, you can cause a flash from Terminal using:
osascript -e "beep"
However, if you don't want to enable that option, you can use invert colours. Using the invert colours Accessibility option twice causes the screen to flash, therefore pressing the keyboard shortcut ⌃⌥⌘8 twice will cause a flash:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events" to repeat 2 times
key code 28 using {command down, control down, option down}
delay 0
end repeat
A: It doesn't flash the whole screen (unless you have terminal set to full screen) but if you go to Preferences > Settings > Advanced and select "Visual Bell" you can then type:
echo ^G
(The keystrokes to get the correct characters are: echo control + v control + g because the control character has to be quoted)
to flash the terminal window.
A: For others, one alternative I have found is to use the brightness command line tool, available via homebrew ( You can find instructions on how to install it from http://brew.sh ). Link to discussion: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/127258/23876
The first line installs Brightness, the second shows you what brightness looks like in action.
brew install brightness
brightness 0; sleep 1; brightness 1
It only works on the main display though. If this form of brightness switching is too slow for you, experiment with sleep 0.3 or even sleep 0.1.
You can also get the current brightness so that you won't reset to 1:
setopt rematchpcre # needs zsh
if [[ "$(brightness -l)" =~ 'display 0: brightness (\S+)' ]]; then
print -r -- "$match[1]"
else
return 1
fi
A: This works for me in Sierra via applescript:
tell application "System Preferences"
run
reveal anchor "Hearing" of pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to click button "Test Screen Flash" of window "Accessibility" of application process "System Preferences" of application "System Events"
A: This is a shellscript that calls applescript to do this (the code needs to be explained more)
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events" to repeat 2 times
key code 28 using {command down, control down, option down}
delay 0
end repeat
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19f630aa9a73a32423480fe71fcaad77b1dab27a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to open a file in Excel from the command line Is it possible to tell Excel to open a file from the command line?
In Linux, I could do this using the command
libreoffice --calc test.xlsx
A: You can use the open command:
This will use the default application for the file type, which may not be the desired application.
open test.xlsx
or, to specify the application explicitly:
open test.xlsx -a /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Excel.app/
or even,
open test.xlsx -a "Microsoft Excel"
A really useful way of doing this is to make an alias to Excel (in your .bash_profile)
alias xl='open -a "Microsoft Excel"'
Then you can just type the following to open an file in Excel:
xl file.csv
| Q: How to open a file in Excel from the command line Is it possible to tell Excel to open a file from the command line?
In Linux, I could do this using the command
libreoffice --calc test.xlsx
A: You can use the open command:
This will use the default application for the file type, which may not be the desired application.
open test.xlsx
or, to specify the application explicitly:
open test.xlsx -a /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Excel.app/
or even,
open test.xlsx -a "Microsoft Excel"
A really useful way of doing this is to make an alias to Excel (in your .bash_profile)
alias xl='open -a "Microsoft Excel"'
Then you can just type the following to open an file in Excel:
xl file.csv
A: To open the excel file from the directory, this is the command you should use
libreoffice --calc /Path/Of/The/Directory/Excel.xlsx
To open new excel file use
libreoffice --calc
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6b8f0fc751ea42b7ea097b3cc568af771c1b04c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create network user with remote home folder I have Mac Server with OpenDirectory configured. Then I create some network users with home folder located on server. Due to the high bandwidth of user usage, I want to add another server that only host user home folders, so the traffic transferred between user and new server while authentication still via old server.
Is this possible to do that? If not, is there any walk around that fix my issue?
A: Yes this is possible. When prompted for the location of the home folder for the user you can choose any shared folder that you have configured to be used as storage for home folders in the File Sharing service. This folder can be anywhere on the machine or anywhere on the network.
| Q: Create network user with remote home folder I have Mac Server with OpenDirectory configured. Then I create some network users with home folder located on server. Due to the high bandwidth of user usage, I want to add another server that only host user home folders, so the traffic transferred between user and new server while authentication still via old server.
Is this possible to do that? If not, is there any walk around that fix my issue?
A: Yes this is possible. When prompted for the location of the home folder for the user you can choose any shared folder that you have configured to be used as storage for home folders in the File Sharing service. This folder can be anywhere on the machine or anywhere on the network.
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dcdf5257f710c3ddae383fcdeb2197568d77b584 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is the CAcert root certificate not trusted on iOS devices? I distinctly remember that when I bought my first iPhone and iPad a couple of years back, I was able to install the CAcert root certificate on those devices and iOS would trust the certificate. These days, however, I can't get this to work anymore. Whenever I install the certificate, iOS always marks it as "not trusted". What is the reason for this? And even more importantly, how can I fix it?
The devices I am talking about are an iPad 2 (iOS 7), an iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) and an iPhone 4S (iOS 7).
A: It turns out that iOS 5 and newer no longer trust certificates that are signed with the MD5 hash algorithm. This is confirmed by the official Apple support document http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4133.
The current CAcert root certificate is signed with MD5, so there is no fix for the problem until CAcert issues a new root certificate.
| Q: Why is the CAcert root certificate not trusted on iOS devices? I distinctly remember that when I bought my first iPhone and iPad a couple of years back, I was able to install the CAcert root certificate on those devices and iOS would trust the certificate. These days, however, I can't get this to work anymore. Whenever I install the certificate, iOS always marks it as "not trusted". What is the reason for this? And even more importantly, how can I fix it?
The devices I am talking about are an iPad 2 (iOS 7), an iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) and an iPhone 4S (iOS 7).
A: It turns out that iOS 5 and newer no longer trust certificates that are signed with the MD5 hash algorithm. This is confirmed by the official Apple support document http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4133.
The current CAcert root certificate is signed with MD5, so there is no fix for the problem until CAcert issues a new root certificate.
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779c2aa8570450f61ab8d43a8ac5adcb33c29011 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Importing a slow-mo video to Windows I recorded a slow-mo video using my iPhone 5s. How do I import that video to my Windows PC without losing the slow-mo effect?
When uploading the video directly to Facebook from the iPhone (from the film roll), the slow-mo effect is preserved (thus, slow-mo effect is part of the video file itself).
I've tried with "Import pictures and videos" which gets the video on the PC, but the imported video seems to lose the slow-mo effect both when playing it on the PC and after uploading the imported video to Facebook.
A: The slow-motion effect applied to the video in Photos.app is not actually applied to the video file. This means that the 120 fps video remains at 120 fps and is played at this higher fps in Windows.
To slow down the video, use a video editor, either on Windows or on the iOS device (such as iMovie which is free on the 5s) to save the slowed video file.
| Q: Importing a slow-mo video to Windows I recorded a slow-mo video using my iPhone 5s. How do I import that video to my Windows PC without losing the slow-mo effect?
When uploading the video directly to Facebook from the iPhone (from the film roll), the slow-mo effect is preserved (thus, slow-mo effect is part of the video file itself).
I've tried with "Import pictures and videos" which gets the video on the PC, but the imported video seems to lose the slow-mo effect both when playing it on the PC and after uploading the imported video to Facebook.
A: The slow-motion effect applied to the video in Photos.app is not actually applied to the video file. This means that the 120 fps video remains at 120 fps and is played at this higher fps in Windows.
To slow down the video, use a video editor, either on Windows or on the iOS device (such as iMovie which is free on the 5s) to save the slowed video file.
A: I asked myself the same question. It appears that the best and easiest solution is to buy the Slo-mo app for £0.69 which allows you to choose the slow effect location but then save it as a normal movie file. It can then be played as usual. Bit of the con this as we should be able to do this within the ios iself!
A: I emailed it to my hotmail account (wouldn't go to my verizon account too big I guess and it's only 4 meg geeze) well went to my hotmail account and worked perfect slo mo and all. then I copied (dragged and dropped to my desktop Windows 7) plyed it from there still slo mo was just the way it was on my IPhone 6 plus.
A: sending the clip to another apple device using airdrop worked for me
A: VLC player is able to play video at 0.1x speed, which roughly corresponds to normal video frame rate.
The slo mo effect is not embedded in the video, because you can edit the start and the beginning of the effect in the device movie editor. My guess is it's kept in the AAE files stored somewhere obscure.
QuickTime, however has the option "Play All Frames" under the "View" menu, which tells it not to drop frames, essentially, not trying to cram 240 frames into a second, but spread them out, which is very similar to the original.
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8a8352099d13baedaf083675701d7ca537e4782b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I vary the playback speed in VLC using keyboard shortcuts? How do I vary the playback speed of media in VLC Media Player using keyboard shortcuts?
I used to be able to do this by holding down Cmd-Alt-[Forward Arrow or Back Arrow] but this doesn't seem to be working any more. Instead it's jumping the video forward and backwards by 19 seconds when I use this key combination.
Is there a way to restore the variable speed shortcut behaviour?
A: VLC has a wonderful short cuts menu where you can see or even set the shortcuts.
Open the VLC preferences and the Hotkeys tab.
Restart VLC after making the hotkey change.
The following was tested by me on VLC Version 2.0.9 Twoflower (Intel 64bit).
Ranting:
I wish every app would have such easy access and feature, rather them me searching the Google to find out what Hotkeys they use and how to set them.
End of Rant.
| Q: How do I vary the playback speed in VLC using keyboard shortcuts? How do I vary the playback speed of media in VLC Media Player using keyboard shortcuts?
I used to be able to do this by holding down Cmd-Alt-[Forward Arrow or Back Arrow] but this doesn't seem to be working any more. Instead it's jumping the video forward and backwards by 19 seconds when I use this key combination.
Is there a way to restore the variable speed shortcut behaviour?
A: VLC has a wonderful short cuts menu where you can see or even set the shortcuts.
Open the VLC preferences and the Hotkeys tab.
Restart VLC after making the hotkey change.
The following was tested by me on VLC Version 2.0.9 Twoflower (Intel 64bit).
Ranting:
I wish every app would have such easy access and feature, rather them me searching the Google to find out what Hotkeys they use and how to set them.
End of Rant.
A: To increase/decrease playback speed on VLC/Mac use command+= and command+-
A: use '[' and ']' keyboard input for decreasing and increasing the speed respectively.
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60bf268ce941160fa6e5b4d22f0729a34f3d703a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where Is The "Summarize" Service On OS X Mavericks? In previous versions of OS X, you could find the Summarize service by highlighting the text you want to summarize, going to the app name menu, click service, and then clicking summarize.
Call me blind but I can't see this service on OS X Mavericks at all? It was really useful in previous versions of the OS so I really hope it hasn't been removed.
A: Turns out this feature has to be enabled now.
After I posted my screenshot I noticed the "Service Preferences..." menu item and clicked it.
Click that menu item, scroll down to where it says "Text" and tick the box that says "Summarize".
| Q: Where Is The "Summarize" Service On OS X Mavericks? In previous versions of OS X, you could find the Summarize service by highlighting the text you want to summarize, going to the app name menu, click service, and then clicking summarize.
Call me blind but I can't see this service on OS X Mavericks at all? It was really useful in previous versions of the OS so I really hope it hasn't been removed.
A: Turns out this feature has to be enabled now.
After I posted my screenshot I noticed the "Service Preferences..." menu item and clicked it.
Click that menu item, scroll down to where it says "Text" and tick the box that says "Summarize".
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4619da8c4a30b38a0b44e2cb229c70bdcbd507bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent Safari from auto-completing a URL incorrectly? Whenever I try to type plus.google.com into Safari, it starts auto-completing the URL to plus.url.google.com. I've tried removing all my of vists to this domain from my history hoping that plus.google.com would be what it auto-completes with, but that doesn't seem to help.
How do I get rid of plus.url.google.com and have Safari auto-complete to plus.google.com?
A: There are three main sources for Safari's auto-complete:
*
*History
*Bookmarks
*iCloud Tabs
Clearing the URL from your history is not enough — make sure that plus.url.google.com does not appear in any of your bookmarks or any iCloud tab. Once a URL does not appear any of these places, relaunch Safari.
| Q: Prevent Safari from auto-completing a URL incorrectly? Whenever I try to type plus.google.com into Safari, it starts auto-completing the URL to plus.url.google.com. I've tried removing all my of vists to this domain from my history hoping that plus.google.com would be what it auto-completes with, but that doesn't seem to help.
How do I get rid of plus.url.google.com and have Safari auto-complete to plus.google.com?
A: There are three main sources for Safari's auto-complete:
*
*History
*Bookmarks
*iCloud Tabs
Clearing the URL from your history is not enough — make sure that plus.url.google.com does not appear in any of your bookmarks or any iCloud tab. Once a URL does not appear any of these places, relaunch Safari.
A: One simple way is to use a keyboard shortcut to remove the incorrect auto entry.
Highlight the incorrect entry like the:
plus.url.google.com
and pres fn+shift+delete
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600ac65015c666d95996746cafddd941bc34e6b0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mapping F13, F14, F15 I am a programmer and I would like to map all the unused function keys (from F13 to F19) on my Apple Keyboard to some useful chars like parenthesis: {, }, [, ] and quotes
Is there a free software for Mac OS X 10.7+ that I can use?
Thanks!
A: You can use a private.xml like this with Karabiner (previously named KeyRemap4MacBook):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>test</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F13, KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, VK_SHIFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F14, KeyCode::BRACKET_RIGHT, VK_SHIFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F15, KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F16, KeyCode::BRACKET_RIGHT</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Change for example KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, VK_SHIFT to whatever key combination inserts { in your keyboard layout.
| Q: Mapping F13, F14, F15 I am a programmer and I would like to map all the unused function keys (from F13 to F19) on my Apple Keyboard to some useful chars like parenthesis: {, }, [, ] and quotes
Is there a free software for Mac OS X 10.7+ that I can use?
Thanks!
A: You can use a private.xml like this with Karabiner (previously named KeyRemap4MacBook):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>test</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F13, KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, VK_SHIFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F14, KeyCode::BRACKET_RIGHT, VK_SHIFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F15, KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F16, KeyCode::BRACKET_RIGHT</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Change for example KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, VK_SHIFT to whatever key combination inserts { in your keyboard layout.
A: Just try BetterTouchTool, you can do almost everything you want!
Better Touch Tool
Just download and install it. Then run it and select "Keyboard" tab where you can configure buttons. Click on "Add new shortcut" and then just specify your shortcut - in your case "Keyboard shortcut" will be F13 and "Trigger other Keyboard shortcut" will be { And do it for next keys like F15 etc...
You also can configure this shortcuts only for your IDE. In left panel "Select Application" click on "+" and select your IDE, then just configure your shortcuts for your IDE..
Ohh and you can have a problem to mapping F14-F15 keys, because in default OS X use it for monitor brightness.. So you have to go to the Mac Preference - keyboard - shortcut - monitor/display - uncheck f14 and f15 keys and enjoy!
I'm using it also for my Magic Mouse configuration. For example middle click and other shortcuts and gestures that I was missing. It also supports window snapping and much more. It's just on of the must have application on your Mac.
My recommendation is to go to the BetterTouchTool settings and check "Launch BetterTouchTool on startup"
Happy Coding ;-)
A: What about karabiner app?
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Hope it will help
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61e27a6b895e46315e48f40677d1e2c77dd4d02d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add this line on Pages? How can I add this line on Pages? Is there a shortcut? I can only repeat press -.
If this is not possible on Pages, similar layout will also be OK.
A: You can have Pages automatically add a line across the whole page, the formatting options (dash size etc.) are rather limited though:
You can also use the fill option when setting tabs:
| Q: How can I add this line on Pages? How can I add this line on Pages? Is there a shortcut? I can only repeat press -.
If this is not possible on Pages, similar layout will also be OK.
A: You can have Pages automatically add a line across the whole page, the formatting options (dash size etc.) are rather limited though:
You can also use the fill option when setting tabs:
A: You can add a rule to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and have it replace --- by any number of dashes you’d want.
A: option + - gives you an em dash (–) if that is what you are asking.
A: I don't know if it's possible in Pages directly, but you can add a text shortcut for the line.
This can be done in Settings.app via Keyboard -> Text.
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ba694fa479aeaeb8740ca2b9ef09ffd3cbb3b791 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Convert single unicode character to png image I need to convert a Unicode character (e.g. ⦿; CIRCLED BULLET; U+29BF) to a PNG image for use within a reporting tool (Crystal Reports). I need to preserve the font, size, and formatting of the character.
Is there a more-accurate way to do this than just ⌘⇧+4 and a less-burdensome way than Gimp or Seashore?
A: The way I would do it is by typing it in a graphics editor and rasterizing it to a png to whatever size I need. Why not use Gimp or Seashore?
| Q: Convert single unicode character to png image I need to convert a Unicode character (e.g. ⦿; CIRCLED BULLET; U+29BF) to a PNG image for use within a reporting tool (Crystal Reports). I need to preserve the font, size, and formatting of the character.
Is there a more-accurate way to do this than just ⌘⇧+4 and a less-burdensome way than Gimp or Seashore?
A: The way I would do it is by typing it in a graphics editor and rasterizing it to a png to whatever size I need. Why not use Gimp or Seashore?
A: Using ImageMagick:
convert -pointsize 64 -font /System/Library/Fonts/Apple\ Symbols.ttf label:⦿ output.png
convert -background transparent -fill 'hsb(0%,0%,0%)' -font /System/Library/Fonts/Apple\ Symbols.ttf -pointsize 64 -size 200x200 -gravity center label:⦿ output.png
A: Character Map is the (clunky) equivalent of Character Viewer on OS X:
Note the Font — only certain typefaces contain U+29BF and U+2318. Most applications including Crystal Reports support Unicode Fonts.
A: Possible solution: Create Banner Image from Text
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aaa74e585edd07770d74dfb53a2fed1617c2ca9b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you go to an Apple store for a problem with a product you bought in another country? I got an iPhone in Germany, but I'm in Japan now. The camera has got some issues, and I wonder if I can go to a Japanese apple store with my problem or do I have to wait until I'm visiting Europe/Germany the next time?
A: Absolutely go to an Apple retail store if one is convenient. Worst case, they can assist you in setting up service in the country of origin if that is needed, but in many cases, parts are universal should you need an actual hardware repair.
Both countries you mention also have web service, so you can set up service and possibly a repair without needing a trip to the store.
Technically, Apple could ask you to mail the product back to the country where you bought it, but my experience is that is reserved for rare circumstances and not the normal procedure.
| Q: Can you go to an Apple store for a problem with a product you bought in another country? I got an iPhone in Germany, but I'm in Japan now. The camera has got some issues, and I wonder if I can go to a Japanese apple store with my problem or do I have to wait until I'm visiting Europe/Germany the next time?
A: Absolutely go to an Apple retail store if one is convenient. Worst case, they can assist you in setting up service in the country of origin if that is needed, but in many cases, parts are universal should you need an actual hardware repair.
Both countries you mention also have web service, so you can set up service and possibly a repair without needing a trip to the store.
Technically, Apple could ask you to mail the product back to the country where you bought it, but my experience is that is reserved for rare circumstances and not the normal procedure.
A: I believe the iPhone warranty is limited to the country of purchase.
I was able to find this:
IMPORTANT RESTRICTION FOR iPHONE AND iPAD SERVICE.
Apple may restrict warranty service for iPhone and iPad to the country
where Apple or its Authorized Distributors originally sold the Apple
Product.
http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/iphone-english-uk-africa.html
Also, once when I was at an Apple service center in India, I saw a big board they had put up which said "iPhone support is provided only to locally purchased devices."
But I guess there is no harm in trying. These things are not always set in stone.
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e156455919b610d6215e18c8a98f1fc6567217ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to generate random passwords in Safari, without iCloud? I know that iCloud Keychain has a feature where it offers to generate strong, random passwords directly in Safari. Some third-party password managers allow it, but I'd prefer to store the password in the OS X keychain, so I'm really just looking for a password generator, not full-blown manager. For other browsers there is addons that offer similar functionality. It's possible to do it in the regular non-iCloud Keychain Access app, but this is a bit cumbersome.
Is there any way of generating a random password directly in Safari, but without using iCloud keychain?
A: One can always keep a sign-up form with a displayable password field close at hand, for instance Google's. Save the link to Bookmarks > Favorites. Then when it's time:
*
*Visit the site
*Use Safari to suggest a password
*Toggle password visibility
*Copy the text
| Q: Is there a way to generate random passwords in Safari, without iCloud? I know that iCloud Keychain has a feature where it offers to generate strong, random passwords directly in Safari. Some third-party password managers allow it, but I'd prefer to store the password in the OS X keychain, so I'm really just looking for a password generator, not full-blown manager. For other browsers there is addons that offer similar functionality. It's possible to do it in the regular non-iCloud Keychain Access app, but this is a bit cumbersome.
Is there any way of generating a random password directly in Safari, but without using iCloud keychain?
A: One can always keep a sign-up form with a displayable password field close at hand, for instance Google's. Save the link to Bookmarks > Favorites. Then when it's time:
*
*Visit the site
*Use Safari to suggest a password
*Toggle password visibility
*Copy the text
A: No there is no way in Safari directly,
You can only go directly to the Keychain
(Spotlight -> Keychain // or via the Finder -> /Applications/Utilities/Keychain.app)
and create a new Key (CMD+N).
You will get the window with the little key icon and when you click on it, it will show you a little popup with the Password Assistant.
A: When using the process proposed by @Felicio, I have also noticed that you cannot see (or copy) the entire generated password. The following steps will let you see all of it, but you still can't copy it until after it gets saved in the keychain.
*
*Visit the site's registration form
*Click in the Password box to get Safari to suggest a password
*Click "Don't Use"
*Click the key icon in the Password box
*The popup shows the entire generated password following "Fill Password Again:" along with letting you pick a new one
*At this point, I usually save a screenshot to my desktop to temporarily save the generated password just in (the rare) case that Safari doesn't successfully save the password to the keychain.
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7f1686650b548992d32c0da1d5561ef9b259f96f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Excessive CPU usage from sysmond Does anyone know what the sysmond application does on OS X? Lately it has been taking about 25-30% cpu constantly for no apparent reason.
Things I've tried so far:
*
*Reboot
*SMC reset
*PRAM reset
*Starting up in safe mode (sysmond also sucks up resources there)
*Filesystem check (except for the regular incorrect directory count, no errors or whatever)
For the time being I've just disabled the sysmond plist but I guess it's not completely useless so I'm wondering what it's supposed to do and whether disabling is harmful ;)
A: What sysmond does on OS X
Watching the CPU usage of sysmond through Activity Monitor is pointless! It turns out that sysmond process is what Activity Monitor uses to get it's readings.
So if sysmond is using lots of CPU, just kill activity monitor for it to stop.
Warning
Increasing the update interval for Activity Monitor dramatically increases the CPU load, that's why I initially never noticed it and see it a lot more right now.
| Q: Excessive CPU usage from sysmond Does anyone know what the sysmond application does on OS X? Lately it has been taking about 25-30% cpu constantly for no apparent reason.
Things I've tried so far:
*
*Reboot
*SMC reset
*PRAM reset
*Starting up in safe mode (sysmond also sucks up resources there)
*Filesystem check (except for the regular incorrect directory count, no errors or whatever)
For the time being I've just disabled the sysmond plist but I guess it's not completely useless so I'm wondering what it's supposed to do and whether disabling is harmful ;)
A: What sysmond does on OS X
Watching the CPU usage of sysmond through Activity Monitor is pointless! It turns out that sysmond process is what Activity Monitor uses to get it's readings.
So if sysmond is using lots of CPU, just kill activity monitor for it to stop.
Warning
Increasing the update interval for Activity Monitor dramatically increases the CPU load, that's why I initially never noticed it and see it a lot more right now.
A: The high CPU usages seems related to the columns displayed. As soon as I turn on 'Real Shared Memory' or 'Real Private Memory' the CPU% of the sysmond process jumps from around 3% to above 30% and back again if none of the two is selected.
A: This is what I found on my system
/usr/libexec/sysmond
/usr/share/man/man8/sysmond.8
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.sysmond.plist
It is described as some sort of system/files monitoring.
DESCRIPTION
The sysmon.conf file is the main configuration file for the
sysmond(man) which monitors systems and services on various
machines connected to a network.
A: SYSMOND = System Monitor Daemon - monitors all system activity in background and automated by LaunchD (Launcher Daemon)
A: I had the same problem. I tried quitting it with the Activity Monitor button, didn't quit. Then I force-quit it and Activity Monitor stopped updating.
Then I restarted Activity Monitor and it updated again, and sysmond is no longer taking lots of CPU (launchd automatically started a new process).
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6d4ee841e8c5432e1ec75e1afb2bf600636d06a8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Copy/Paste creates a hidden files I have a copied music files to USD drive, but after copy/paste, the files are hidden. For example, in Finder:
Console:
And in hidden file there are a many attributes.
Example:
com.apple.quarantine^@^@^@^A^K^@^@^@�^@^@%com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms^@0001;53419077;Google\x20Chrome;BFE9A983-768C-4B56-BC4F-1A2B69A72963bplist00�^A^B_^P9
How can I can a disable the hiding of files for coping/pasting files?
A: These are AppleDouble files. As you discovered by opening them, they contain metadata for the files that you copied.
Since the disk is formatted as MS-DOS, OS X needs somewhere to store certain metadata for the file. This metadata is stored in an AppleDouble file. Such metadata includes Finder information and extended attributes.
These files begin with a dot, so are hidden. You shouldn't unhide these files, or modify them. You can remove AppleDouble files using dot_clean -m
| Q: Copy/Paste creates a hidden files I have a copied music files to USD drive, but after copy/paste, the files are hidden. For example, in Finder:
Console:
And in hidden file there are a many attributes.
Example:
com.apple.quarantine^@^@^@^A^K^@^@^@�^@^@%com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms^@0001;53419077;Google\x20Chrome;BFE9A983-768C-4B56-BC4F-1A2B69A72963bplist00�^A^B_^P9
How can I can a disable the hiding of files for coping/pasting files?
A: These are AppleDouble files. As you discovered by opening them, they contain metadata for the files that you copied.
Since the disk is formatted as MS-DOS, OS X needs somewhere to store certain metadata for the file. This metadata is stored in an AppleDouble file. Such metadata includes Finder information and extended attributes.
These files begin with a dot, so are hidden. You shouldn't unhide these files, or modify them. You can remove AppleDouble files using dot_clean -m
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e5825fe35be4d02273d0d9d7a23f5d3ad21a642c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Hide month in menu bar in OS X On my MacBook Pro the date is shown like this:
I'd like to remove the word 'Chaitra' from the menu bar (Chaitra is a month of the Hindu calendar). How can I do that?
A: To change the format of the date, you want to go to your "Language and Text" settings. Click on the "Region" tab at the top, then go to the section under "Dates":
Click on the "Customize..." button, then you should see a whole drag and drop section where you can change how the date is displayed:
| Q: Hide month in menu bar in OS X On my MacBook Pro the date is shown like this:
I'd like to remove the word 'Chaitra' from the menu bar (Chaitra is a month of the Hindu calendar). How can I do that?
A: To change the format of the date, you want to go to your "Language and Text" settings. Click on the "Region" tab at the top, then go to the section under "Dates":
Click on the "Customize..." button, then you should see a whole drag and drop section where you can change how the date is displayed:
A: Go to System Preferences → Date & Time → Clock and uncheck Show Date.
To change the language used, go to System Preferences → Language & Region → Advanced and set Format Language to the language you want to use.
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dcb389dc0ada6c7cb300354077e8b7d2239ee436 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I disable Safari's pinch-to-zoom tab switcher? When looking at a PDF document I often want to zoom-out to scroll quickly to its contents and get an overview.
However, when I zoom-out past a certain threshold (it seems to differ per PDF) Safari thinks I want to see the tab overview:
I have never found a use for this function, so it only causes annoyance.
Can I turn this tab overview off somehow? A solution that uncouples the pinch-to-zoom gesture from the functionality would also work.
I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Safari 6.1.3.
A: This is currently not possible. Apple does not provide a way to turn this off.
Note that if your swiping is begun whilst still zoomed slightly, the tab switcher is not invoked. See this animation:
This is a pretty large GIF — it'll take a while to load and be smooth.
| Q: Can I disable Safari's pinch-to-zoom tab switcher? When looking at a PDF document I often want to zoom-out to scroll quickly to its contents and get an overview.
However, when I zoom-out past a certain threshold (it seems to differ per PDF) Safari thinks I want to see the tab overview:
I have never found a use for this function, so it only causes annoyance.
Can I turn this tab overview off somehow? A solution that uncouples the pinch-to-zoom gesture from the functionality would also work.
I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Safari 6.1.3.
A: This is currently not possible. Apple does not provide a way to turn this off.
Note that if your swiping is begun whilst still zoomed slightly, the tab switcher is not invoked. See this animation:
This is a pretty large GIF — it'll take a while to load and be smooth.
A: As of Mojave (10.14 at least, possibly earlier) you can turn off the pinch to zoom gesture system wide which disables this behavior:
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8d816fe389c33996416cdd037a4ab94b5a2ef33b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Exporting sized PDF in Omnigraffle In Omnigraffle, if I want to export a fitted PDF that only encloses the objects I've drawn, I can select "export all objects" from the export menu.
However, I don't know what to do if I have a multi-canvas document in omnigraffle and I want to export a PDF of the entire document with each canvas sized appropriately. If I export the entire document it exports the entire canvas.
Now I could manually resize each canvas, but that's a pain if I later wish to add something that changes the canvas size. I'd much prefer an automatic solution if one exists.
| Q: Exporting sized PDF in Omnigraffle In Omnigraffle, if I want to export a fitted PDF that only encloses the objects I've drawn, I can select "export all objects" from the export menu.
However, I don't know what to do if I have a multi-canvas document in omnigraffle and I want to export a PDF of the entire document with each canvas sized appropriately. If I export the entire document it exports the entire canvas.
Now I could manually resize each canvas, but that's a pain if I later wish to add something that changes the canvas size. I'd much prefer an automatic solution if one exists.
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314dba950cd4780ee4a5f06040d744ac06fc44b0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Google chrome wants to use the keychain password frequently Google chrome wants to use the keychain password frequently in my mac system(OSX version 10.9.2).
Before updating the OS to new version, the applications like Textedit, Preview are used to ask the password while accessing them. If I click the cancel button twice, the popup will be disappeared. But, after updating to new OS version, a popup saying Google chrome wants to use the keychain password without any reason.
I need to click the cancel button for eight to twenty times to disappear the popup. While writing this question that dialog box appears three times. Sometimes, I keep that alert box to the bottom like below.
I tried deleting the password for Chrome in keychain, as suggested in this link. But, no use.
| Q: Google chrome wants to use the keychain password frequently Google chrome wants to use the keychain password frequently in my mac system(OSX version 10.9.2).
Before updating the OS to new version, the applications like Textedit, Preview are used to ask the password while accessing them. If I click the cancel button twice, the popup will be disappeared. But, after updating to new OS version, a popup saying Google chrome wants to use the keychain password without any reason.
I need to click the cancel button for eight to twenty times to disappear the popup. While writing this question that dialog box appears three times. Sometimes, I keep that alert box to the bottom like below.
I tried deleting the password for Chrome in keychain, as suggested in this link. But, no use.
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669adc3e14efceeb3eb5171035f7dedc5465a1fd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a simple texteditor accessible from the menu bar for making fast snippets? Do you know some solution or some clever way how to link some text editor to menu bar with an icon in the menu bar?
The desired app should look something like this:
http://www.sourcedrop.net/mac
BUT:
*
*no need for hosting on the Internet
*using of local files
*enabling inline editing
*enabling easy search
A: NoteAway is a free* menu bar oriented notes app that seems ideal for your situation.
* with pro in app purchase
| Q: Is there a simple texteditor accessible from the menu bar for making fast snippets? Do you know some solution or some clever way how to link some text editor to menu bar with an icon in the menu bar?
The desired app should look something like this:
http://www.sourcedrop.net/mac
BUT:
*
*no need for hosting on the Internet
*using of local files
*enabling inline editing
*enabling easy search
A: NoteAway is a free* menu bar oriented notes app that seems ideal for your situation.
* with pro in app purchase
A: Give Evernote a try. On the Mac, it includes a menu servlet that is a simple text box, which saves to your Evernote.
You don't need to host anything of course, and there is no need to ever visit the Evernote on the web. Its easy search, inline editing, and all your notes are stored in the Evernote app. Evernote sync's to local Evernote files on your Mac, and if you prefer, it can be local only, though I suspect the menu servlet does not sync with the local only files.
A: How about
Stickes.app
Or Notes. App
Or TextEdit.app
all available in your OS X
Once you tell me which one you like we can proceed on making a menulet for it.
A: What about Scribblet?
It includes Saving, Printing and Favorites.
“Scribblet is an elegant note app for OS X.
Quick access: Open Scribblet using a convenient icon on the menu bar, or assign a keyboard shortcut that works anywhere.
Beautiful design: Great care was taken with the software's minimalist look, which makes it simple to learn and effortless to use.
Customisable: Change lots of settings to fit your exact workflow.
Power users: Access almost every feature using just the keyboard.
Favourites: Switch between notes instantly using the drop-down menu
”
A: another option is notefile
http://junecloud.com/software/mac/notefile.html
junecloud sync
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dd0e07c86e839758b7b2413ec75ce0e8f9ae2862 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Attempting to play video on iOS 7 shows play button with line through When I try to watch video in my browser I get a play button with a line through it and it doesn't work. I have tried Safari, Chrome, and Mercury. They all give me the play button with a line through it. When I use my old iPhone with iOS 6 I have no issues. This seems to be an iOS 7 issue.
A: Well, on an adult website I've been on, i just refreshed the page or went back a page, went back to the same video and it played again. It only gives me that when I turn my phone off and its on the video player. Tried the same thing with my old 4g IPod. Just go back a page and reclick the video., Only if we're on teh same website....
| Q: Attempting to play video on iOS 7 shows play button with line through When I try to watch video in my browser I get a play button with a line through it and it doesn't work. I have tried Safari, Chrome, and Mercury. They all give me the play button with a line through it. When I use my old iPhone with iOS 6 I have no issues. This seems to be an iOS 7 issue.
A: Well, on an adult website I've been on, i just refreshed the page or went back a page, went back to the same video and it played again. It only gives me that when I turn my phone off and its on the video player. Tried the same thing with my old 4g IPod. Just go back a page and reclick the video., Only if we're on teh same website....
A: Try closing ALL other apps, cold start your iPhone, re-open Safari and try again. Several people on other forums have had memory issues with exactly the same consequences. It's definitely NOT an ios version problem.
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a59de752890b0128d7d4cdb6f75b41647c0a2adb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I skip the desktop while cycling through finder windows with cmd+`? I often have to copy-paste files from 2 finder folders. I use the cmd + ` shortcut. But it cycles through Window 1 > Desktop > Window 2.
Is there a way to skip desktop?
A: Desktop is a folder, so cycling between active folder is an expected behavior in Finder. The only way to achieve what you want is to hide Desktop by entering the command below.
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop FALSE
After this, cycling between window will happen to the folder you’ve opened. This suggestion is recommended only if you don’t use Desktop to place temporary files.
| Q: How can I skip the desktop while cycling through finder windows with cmd+`? I often have to copy-paste files from 2 finder folders. I use the cmd + ` shortcut. But it cycles through Window 1 > Desktop > Window 2.
Is there a way to skip desktop?
A: Desktop is a folder, so cycling between active folder is an expected behavior in Finder. The only way to achieve what you want is to hide Desktop by entering the command below.
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop FALSE
After this, cycling between window will happen to the folder you’ve opened. This suggestion is recommended only if you don’t use Desktop to place temporary files.
A: If your goal is to go back and forth between two windows several times in a row, you can alternate between ⌘` and ⇧⌘`, which goes the other way round.
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81be4ba6b65cc9512ee5d13a1fd376f2016f1414 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where are the apache config files stored? I thought the apache config files were stored in /etc/apache2. Yet if I remove the /etc/apache2 directory and run a sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start the web server runs and serves up pages.
Is there another set of config files?
A: At least on my system (OS X 10.9.2), I see that apache is going to use /private/etc/apache2. Note SERVER_CONFIG_FILE below:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -V
Server version: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix)
Server built: Dec 10 2013 22:09:38
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:33
Server loaded: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.12
Compiled using: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.12
Architecture: 64-bit
Server MPM: Prefork
threaded: no
forked: yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/private/var/run/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="/private/var/run/accept.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf"
Normally /etc is a symlink to /private/etc, but if it isn't on your system, that may explain the discrepancy.
| Q: Where are the apache config files stored? I thought the apache config files were stored in /etc/apache2. Yet if I remove the /etc/apache2 directory and run a sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start the web server runs and serves up pages.
Is there another set of config files?
A: At least on my system (OS X 10.9.2), I see that apache is going to use /private/etc/apache2. Note SERVER_CONFIG_FILE below:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -V
Server version: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix)
Server built: Dec 10 2013 22:09:38
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:33
Server loaded: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.12
Compiled using: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.12
Architecture: 64-bit
Server MPM: Prefork
threaded: no
forked: yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/private/var/run/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="/private/var/run/accept.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf"
Normally /etc is a symlink to /private/etc, but if it isn't on your system, that may explain the discrepancy.
A: A good way to find out this is to use the command :
apachectl -t -D DUMP_INCLUDES
Which will output something like
Included configuration files: (*) /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
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38c13eb51ba19f43cda7f902f1c01ae670a69c8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Blocking internet access for a specific application on Mac OS X How can I block internet access to a specific application in Mac OS X? I need this to be done from the command line and hopefully use the ipfw terminal command.
Specifically I am looking to toggle the internet connection on and off in the iPhone simulator application since there is no airplane mode.
A: You can use the Lulu open-source macOS firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, unless explicitly approved by the user. Whilst it has a GUI, the set of blocked applications can be controlled via the command line by modifying the config file /Library/Objective-See/LuLu/rules.plist as explained in the Lulu webpage (near the bottom).
| Q: Blocking internet access for a specific application on Mac OS X How can I block internet access to a specific application in Mac OS X? I need this to be done from the command line and hopefully use the ipfw terminal command.
Specifically I am looking to toggle the internet connection on and off in the iPhone simulator application since there is no airplane mode.
A: You can use the Lulu open-source macOS firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, unless explicitly approved by the user. Whilst it has a GUI, the set of blocked applications can be controlled via the command line by modifying the config file /Library/Objective-See/LuLu/rules.plist as explained in the Lulu webpage (near the bottom).
A: I don't have a command line solution to do so, but there is an application that can successfully do exactly what you want.
Little Snitch is an application that has the ability to block certain processes and monitor connections. You could use this to block the iPhone simulator process from any network connectivity which would achieve the same effects as airplane mode, minus the native airplane mode features such as "You must turn on Airplane mode to use this feature", but so will a terminal command.
Hope this helps a little and good luck with developing your app! :)
A: You could also block incoming connections to an application by using the firewall. follow the instructions given below:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201642
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3e7efb6df58eda68ec1844ba8cc78b1611d8926e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Stop windows from resizing automatically? OS X keeps hitting a pet peeve nerve that I have, and it is normally happening with internet browsers.
I'll describe two examples:
*
*When using Safari, I am surfing normally on one web page. I open a
new tab and the new tab bar shows up. The browser resizes to be
larger by the amount of the height of the tab bar.
*When using Google Chrome, I start a download and the download bar pops up on the
bottom. The browser window resizes to be larger by the amount of the height of
the download bar.
For some reason this annoys me greatly. I resize and position windows in a way that helps me focus, I guess. It's an organizational thing.
This happens for multiple reasons and in multiple applications. The above examples are just to illustrate a point.
Is there a way to disable applications in OS X from changing sizes with me dragging the window edge?
| Q: Stop windows from resizing automatically? OS X keeps hitting a pet peeve nerve that I have, and it is normally happening with internet browsers.
I'll describe two examples:
*
*When using Safari, I am surfing normally on one web page. I open a
new tab and the new tab bar shows up. The browser resizes to be
larger by the amount of the height of the tab bar.
*When using Google Chrome, I start a download and the download bar pops up on the
bottom. The browser window resizes to be larger by the amount of the height of
the download bar.
For some reason this annoys me greatly. I resize and position windows in a way that helps me focus, I guess. It's an organizational thing.
This happens for multiple reasons and in multiple applications. The above examples are just to illustrate a point.
Is there a way to disable applications in OS X from changing sizes with me dragging the window edge?
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189fa487c7b0ab686920d33536e356478702e4a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: free Apple apps for iPhone 4S? Apple said that they make iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote free with iOS 7. I looked in the app store with my device (iPhone 4S) but the apps are not free. So it seems that is only valid for the new devices?
A: Yes, those apps you mentioned are free for new devices. ie, activated on or after September 1, 2013.
All five apps will be free if you meet the following criteria:
*
*You have to activate an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on or after September 1, and
*The device has to be compatible with iOS 7, and you can check our complete list of devices that can run iOS 7, and
*You have to install iOS 7, which will be available September 18. Before then, the apps will still have a price tag on them.
Source.
| Q: free Apple apps for iPhone 4S? Apple said that they make iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote free with iOS 7. I looked in the app store with my device (iPhone 4S) but the apps are not free. So it seems that is only valid for the new devices?
A: Yes, those apps you mentioned are free for new devices. ie, activated on or after September 1, 2013.
All five apps will be free if you meet the following criteria:
*
*You have to activate an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on or after September 1, and
*The device has to be compatible with iOS 7, and you can check our complete list of devices that can run iOS 7, and
*You have to install iOS 7, which will be available September 18. Before then, the apps will still have a price tag on them.
Source.
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98bc818b286a11cfb6b3e18d30cd41f62243b7b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCloud Keychain - view online Is there any way of viewing the contents of your iCloud Keychain online? After a computer failure, I have no access to my keychain items!
I have another laptop running Snow Leopard, but it is not compatible with iCloud.
I have looked through the iCloud FAQs, but have found nothing useful:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5813
A: No, your iCloud Keychain can't be viewed online. You need to access the iCloud Keychain service through OS X or iOS to be able to access it, which requires a compatible version of either.
Furthermore, the data is not stored within Documents & Data so you can't access it through iCloud Developer.
| Q: iCloud Keychain - view online Is there any way of viewing the contents of your iCloud Keychain online? After a computer failure, I have no access to my keychain items!
I have another laptop running Snow Leopard, but it is not compatible with iCloud.
I have looked through the iCloud FAQs, but have found nothing useful:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5813
A: No, your iCloud Keychain can't be viewed online. You need to access the iCloud Keychain service through OS X or iOS to be able to access it, which requires a compatible version of either.
Furthermore, the data is not stored within Documents & Data so you can't access it through iCloud Developer.
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09bbc225a44739fe81e88c908ac4fc58e88b7d1a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad 1 update from 5.1.1 to 7.1 How can I update iPad 1 from iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 7.1?
I tried checking for updates but I get a message "your software is up to date".
A: You can't install iOS 7 (or even iOS 6) on an iPad 1.
Source: http://www.apple.com/ios/features/
The last version of iOS capable of being installed on an iPad 1 is iOS 5.1.1 and since this is the version that you are currently on there are no updates available.
| Q: iPad 1 update from 5.1.1 to 7.1 How can I update iPad 1 from iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 7.1?
I tried checking for updates but I get a message "your software is up to date".
A: You can't install iOS 7 (or even iOS 6) on an iPad 1.
Source: http://www.apple.com/ios/features/
The last version of iOS capable of being installed on an iPad 1 is iOS 5.1.1 and since this is the version that you are currently on there are no updates available.
A: This just isn’t possible.
From Apple's Support:
iOS 6 is not available for the iPhone 3G or earlier, iPod touch (3rd generation) or earlier, and iPad (1st generation).
iOS 7
System requirements
iPhone 4 and later
iPad 2 and later
iPad mini
iPod touch (5th generation)
iOS 8
System requirements
iPhone 4s or later
iPad 2 or later
iPad mini or later
iPod touch (5th gen)
A: According to this site, the latest version of iOS supported by the original iPad is 5.1.1, so the answer is that within the constraints of the question (no jailbreaking, etc.) you can't upgrade beyond 5.1.1. Sorry.
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bb8c06f74d9bfdd1a9e6f4040542516cf7fc31f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Text not displaying correctly We just recently got new iMacs at work, and we're all having the same issue
Not only do we get characters like those in all web browsers, but even some apps!
Is there a way to fix the characters? We've tried changing default fonts without success :(
I'm running 10.9.2
The problem happens in local apps as well, not just browsers. How can I check fonts integrity?
A: In your Applications folder, there is an app called Font Book.
Open this app and go to File → Restore Standard System Fonts. This will remove any non-standard fonts on your system and reinstall any missing standard fonts.
| Q: Text not displaying correctly We just recently got new iMacs at work, and we're all having the same issue
Not only do we get characters like those in all web browsers, but even some apps!
Is there a way to fix the characters? We've tried changing default fonts without success :(
I'm running 10.9.2
The problem happens in local apps as well, not just browsers. How can I check fonts integrity?
A: In your Applications folder, there is an app called Font Book.
Open this app and go to File → Restore Standard System Fonts. This will remove any non-standard fonts on your system and reinstall any missing standard fonts.
A: Go to font book and disable Helvetica font family
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5c06bf446cfbe60830faabe5855300b4ff29a7c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to monitor the network usage of specific apps on iOS? I am currently helping someone who has experienced large amounts of data being transferred over her DSL connection. After long research (via IRC support) I found out that her iPhone is obviously sending lots of data, i.e. several hundred kbyte/s, as soon as she connects it to her home network. The iPhone itself seems to work fine.
To find the culprit responsible for these huge amounts of data I would probably need to find a way to measure how much data all connected applications are sending within a specific interval.
As I do not use an Apple mobile device myself I am not familiar with iOS. Are there any possibilities to get information about the network usage of specific apps, either natively or with the help of a third-party application that is for free or at least offers a free trial version?
A: You can do this with Onavo Count
Onavo Count monitors and analyzes all types of mobile data and phone use. This includes background, foreground, and Wi-Fi use.
| Q: How to monitor the network usage of specific apps on iOS? I am currently helping someone who has experienced large amounts of data being transferred over her DSL connection. After long research (via IRC support) I found out that her iPhone is obviously sending lots of data, i.e. several hundred kbyte/s, as soon as she connects it to her home network. The iPhone itself seems to work fine.
To find the culprit responsible for these huge amounts of data I would probably need to find a way to measure how much data all connected applications are sending within a specific interval.
As I do not use an Apple mobile device myself I am not familiar with iOS. Are there any possibilities to get information about the network usage of specific apps, either natively or with the help of a third-party application that is for free or at least offers a free trial version?
A: You can do this with Onavo Count
Onavo Count monitors and analyzes all types of mobile data and phone use. This includes background, foreground, and Wi-Fi use.
A: iOS can do this natively under network usage. Just reset the stats with the bottom button and review later.
Go under Settings > Cellular and scroll down. You will see what each app installed on her device uses as far as data. (This is on iOS 7)
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c59e9f5f427a9c2870542d16c0f752c72592cf09 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How are paths to files and folders constructed in OS X? I need to indicate a right file path to read a .csv file into R on OS X, but how can I find where the file is stored? Looking at Excel files, the file path starts at users/…, but there is no indication of a disk or something.
A: There's no disk letter in OS X unlike Windows.
The mount point for disks is usually /Volumes. For example, files on a flash drive with the name FLASHDRIVE will be located in /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE/.
The startup disk is the root, /. Therefore, the Users folder is /Users. No drive letter is prepended to this.
| Q: How are paths to files and folders constructed in OS X? I need to indicate a right file path to read a .csv file into R on OS X, but how can I find where the file is stored? Looking at Excel files, the file path starts at users/…, but there is no indication of a disk or something.
A: There's no disk letter in OS X unlike Windows.
The mount point for disks is usually /Volumes. For example, files on a flash drive with the name FLASHDRIVE will be located in /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE/.
The startup disk is the root, /. Therefore, the Users folder is /Users. No drive letter is prepended to this.
A: You can right click the file and "Get Info". The path is written right there. Alternatively you could e.g. drag the file into a terminal window to see the path..
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781fdeb40133c4b43349fac8ca7211d4550fce67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Switch between instances of apps in full screen? I can use command tab to switch between apps, and command tilde to switch between windows of the same app (for example, a regular window and an incognito window of Chrome).
However, when I full screen a window of Chrome, I lose the ability to switch between windows of the same app with command tilde. I also cannot switch back to it with command tab.
What I want is to be able to full screen all windows in all apps, and still be able to switch between apps and windows with the keyboard. How can I do this?
A: A bonus method if you want to do this entirely with trackpad instead: I forgot to mention that HyperSwitch also adds this functionality into the mac's built in CMD+Tab app switcher.
You need to enable the setting in HyperSwitch to display window previews on the app switcher.
Again, using BetterTouchTool, I used a trackpad gesture to trigger the application switcher. This BetterTouchTool gesture makes the switcher stay open until you click on something, so you can switch windows entirely with trackpad.
| Q: Switch between instances of apps in full screen? I can use command tab to switch between apps, and command tilde to switch between windows of the same app (for example, a regular window and an incognito window of Chrome).
However, when I full screen a window of Chrome, I lose the ability to switch between windows of the same app with command tilde. I also cannot switch back to it with command tab.
What I want is to be able to full screen all windows in all apps, and still be able to switch between apps and windows with the keyboard. How can I do this?
A: A bonus method if you want to do this entirely with trackpad instead: I forgot to mention that HyperSwitch also adds this functionality into the mac's built in CMD+Tab app switcher.
You need to enable the setting in HyperSwitch to display window previews on the app switcher.
Again, using BetterTouchTool, I used a trackpad gesture to trigger the application switcher. This BetterTouchTool gesture makes the switcher stay open until you click on something, so you can switch windows entirely with trackpad.
A: you would need to create a new instance of the application via terminal:
In general it is simply :
open -a 'application' -n
But for Google Chrome it is:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --user-data-dir=my-profile-dir
that gives you the ability to switch between two windows in full screen mode that are completely seperate from each other. But i requires some sort of new user, also discussed here on SuperUser : https://superuser.com/questions/415531/how-can-i-have-multiple-browsing-sessions-in-google-chrome
And regarding the ability to switch the full screen-Apps: You know that you can switch between them with CTRL+Arrows (Left+Right = Switching Application) (Up + Down = Overview) ?
A: I know this post is old, but I came across it in Google when I was looking for a solution myself. Maybe someone else will look here too. I have found an answer by using the free app Hyperswitch
This engages a window switcher (fullscreen instances included) using cmd+`
It operates the same way as the normal mac cmd+tab app switcher. I also went to System Preferences--Keyboard and redefined the Mac OS "move focus to next window" command to Cmd + Shift +
`
Then I tied that Cmd + Shift + ` keystroke to a trackpad gesture using BetterTouchTool. This allows me to also retain that "move focus to next window" functionality.
Here is Hyperswitch: bahoom.com/hyperswitch
Here is BetterTouchTool: www.boastr.net/downloads/
A: System Preferences > Trackpad > More gestures
Tick App Expose
Swipe down with three fingers
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3123cfdec09fec55eba288eddfe660f0daa6555f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Has anyone seen this weird floating light in iTunes before? I connected my iPhone to my computer, and iTunes opened up as it always does. However, I got this weird video playing in the window. I have no videos on my phone or in my iTunes library. It wasn't interactive—clicking didn't do anything.
It's like I had a UFO on my computer :) Has anyone seen something like this? I can't recreate it for the life of me.
.
A: What you are seeing is the visualizer in iTunes. Right now its just in idle mode. It will dance if you play something. Hold down Command and press T to turn it off.
| Q: Has anyone seen this weird floating light in iTunes before? I connected my iPhone to my computer, and iTunes opened up as it always does. However, I got this weird video playing in the window. I have no videos on my phone or in my iTunes library. It wasn't interactive—clicking didn't do anything.
It's like I had a UFO on my computer :) Has anyone seen something like this? I can't recreate it for the life of me.
.
A: What you are seeing is the visualizer in iTunes. Right now its just in idle mode. It will dance if you play something. Hold down Command and press T to turn it off.
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f28284e41586b4150129e7a48afb909106a39b99 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I skip the downloading of the Windows support software if I already have it? Yesterday I was facing a problem that Boot Camp Assistant was stuck on copying Windows files but that problem is solved now. After that copying files Boot Camp Assistant is showing that it is "Downloading Windows support software". I have already downloaded this Windows support software on my MacBook, therefore is there any way to skip this process?
Unticking the option is grayed out unfortunately.
A: If you are creating a Windows install disk then you can't unselect the option to download the Windows support software. Boot Camp Assistant, whilst creating the boot disk, will copy the relevant support software into the install media. This process requires a copy of the Windows support software which it will download from the internet.
There is currently no way to use your own copy of the support software if you create a boot disk. If you already have the boot disk, you can just select the option to install Windows, in which case you can use your own copy of the Windows support software.
| Q: Can I skip the downloading of the Windows support software if I already have it? Yesterday I was facing a problem that Boot Camp Assistant was stuck on copying Windows files but that problem is solved now. After that copying files Boot Camp Assistant is showing that it is "Downloading Windows support software". I have already downloaded this Windows support software on my MacBook, therefore is there any way to skip this process?
Unticking the option is grayed out unfortunately.
A: If you are creating a Windows install disk then you can't unselect the option to download the Windows support software. Boot Camp Assistant, whilst creating the boot disk, will copy the relevant support software into the install media. This process requires a copy of the Windows support software which it will download from the internet.
There is currently no way to use your own copy of the support software if you create a boot disk. If you already have the boot disk, you can just select the option to install Windows, in which case you can use your own copy of the Windows support software.
A: first download Boot camp software from https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1635?locale=en_US then start boot camp and create or check the first option "create a Window 7 or later version install disk" then at the end it will say "can't connect to internet to download the support software" so just close the Boot camp app then open the flash drive that the boot camp created a bootable windows os (there should be a windows installation files in it) and then unzip the boot camp file that you just downloaded and copy all the content in to the flash drive. At last open Boot Camp and check only the the third option that is "install Window 7 or later version" and continue from this point. After installing Windows, install Mac drivers and other support software for Windows. The support software installs Boot Camp drivers to support your Mac hardware, including AirPort devices, the built-in camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function keys on an Apple keyboard. The software also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item.
I hope it works for you.
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67293dae7c904ed093964aaac415dc503d97e81d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Mavericks scrollbars appear even without external mouse For about 2 weeks now are the scroll bars appearing permanently at my mac. I know that they appear when you have an external mouse connected. It was normal that they appeared only when I scrolled, but now they don't disappear anymore.
MacBook Air Late 2010, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
A: For what ever reason you have this enabled in your general preferences
| Q: OS X Mavericks scrollbars appear even without external mouse For about 2 weeks now are the scroll bars appearing permanently at my mac. I know that they appear when you have an external mouse connected. It was normal that they appeared only when I scrolled, but now they don't disappear anymore.
MacBook Air Late 2010, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
A: For what ever reason you have this enabled in your general preferences
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6f74e646d35b566c31ce5b9b1b98702538e9dc47 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find default Microsoft fonts Calibri, Cambria? If I want to test or use default Microsoft fonts on my Mac, and I own a post-2006 copy of Windows or Office, I believe I can legally use Calibri and Cambria although IANAL. This would be especially helpful when collaborating with colleagues using Office products like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Right now, I get a warning like: "Calibri not found. Trebuchet MS used instead." Where can I find them?
A: If you have local Microsoft Word installation, say in /Applications, you can find the bundled fonts in the locations below:
*
*/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/DFonts
*/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts (for earlier versions of Microsoft Office)
The same should apply to other Office applications as well. Then you can copy the fonts to:
~/Library/Fonts
BTW, in Finder, there's Go > Go To Folder...(⇧⌘G), which can be used to quickly navigate to a specific location.
| Q: Where can I find default Microsoft fonts Calibri, Cambria? If I want to test or use default Microsoft fonts on my Mac, and I own a post-2006 copy of Windows or Office, I believe I can legally use Calibri and Cambria although IANAL. This would be especially helpful when collaborating with colleagues using Office products like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Right now, I get a warning like: "Calibri not found. Trebuchet MS used instead." Where can I find them?
A: If you have local Microsoft Word installation, say in /Applications, you can find the bundled fonts in the locations below:
*
*/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/DFonts
*/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts (for earlier versions of Microsoft Office)
The same should apply to other Office applications as well. Then you can copy the fonts to:
~/Library/Fonts
BTW, in Finder, there's Go > Go To Folder...(⇧⌘G), which can be used to quickly navigate to a specific location.
A: If you use homebrew, try the homebrew-fonts-nonfree tap
A: To find and install default Microsoft fonts on a Mac:
*
*Navigate HERE in your browser.
*Download the .ZIP file.
*Unzip it (double-click it).
*Open the folder that appears.
*Select all the .TTF files inside the folder.
*With the files selected, right-click.
*From the pop-up menu, choose "open with → Font Book".
*Click "Install Font" for each font.
Note: Changes to fonts take effect when an application is opened or a user logs in to the account or computer on which the changes occurred, see support.apple.com.
A: Use the official Fonts distributed by Microsoft
If you have installed any Microsoft product, there is a chance you already have all Microsoft Fonts in your Mac.
For instance, the path to the fonts of MS Word is:
"/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts"
In general:
"/Applications/some_ms_app/Contents/Resources/Fonts"
Using the Terminal app, you can copy any font to your font folder: ~/Library/Fonts
Below are the step-by-step instructions in case you are not familiar with using the terminal:
*
*Open Finder and go to the Applications Folder (SHIFT+CMD+A)
*Locate MS Word or MS Excel or MS PowerPoint.
*Right-click and select Show Package Content.
*In Finder navigate through Contents/Resources/Fonts.
You will see all the installed MS Fonts.
*Drag and Drop (press the Option key) the desired fonts to your Desktop (or any other user folder).
You must press the option key to create a copy of the fonts and not a link.
*Select (in your Desktop) the fonts to install. Right-click and then Open.
The "Font Book" Application will check the fonts and it will probably give you some warnings.
*Select the fonts in Font Book app and click Install.
*Delete the extra copies you have in the Desktop.
Do not try to install right from the application package or you will receive a fatal error. That is why in 5. you must make a copy to some user folder (ex. your Desktop)
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55ac6891b2d6282d5fc629350bd99ce757262d2c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why don't I have to install programs? I've just started using a Mac for iOS development, coming from two decades of Windows use, and I'm astonished and confounded to find that there's no installation process for Mac programs....you just download them, open the DMG, copy the file over, and presto.
This confuses me to no end.
Can someone explain on a technical level what the difference is? How could it conceivably not be necessary to perform an installation process?
And if such a thing is possible, why don't all OSes work that way?
A: Actually, there are a lot of things on OS X that need to be "installed".
Normally, the apps that are "installed" are packages that include certain instructions. To put it simple, the package runs a script and tells the system to create/move files in different parts of the OS. This is necessary for software like the Adobe CS suite or Microsoft Office.
The other kind of apps, are kinda "standalone apps", in which you only need just one executable file. This file, when opened, then creates its dependencies, preferences files and such.
| Q: Why don't I have to install programs? I've just started using a Mac for iOS development, coming from two decades of Windows use, and I'm astonished and confounded to find that there's no installation process for Mac programs....you just download them, open the DMG, copy the file over, and presto.
This confuses me to no end.
Can someone explain on a technical level what the difference is? How could it conceivably not be necessary to perform an installation process?
And if such a thing is possible, why don't all OSes work that way?
A: Actually, there are a lot of things on OS X that need to be "installed".
Normally, the apps that are "installed" are packages that include certain instructions. To put it simple, the package runs a script and tells the system to create/move files in different parts of the OS. This is necessary for software like the Adobe CS suite or Microsoft Office.
The other kind of apps, are kinda "standalone apps", in which you only need just one executable file. This file, when opened, then creates its dependencies, preferences files and such.
A: In many cases, a Windows installer don't really do anything other then extracting the compressed files, and writing them to the destination.
And then it creates a few shortcuts, and it might register itself to open files with specific extensions.
There is nothing magic about installing software in windows, and for much Windows software, you can in fact take the installed software directory and copy it directly to an other computer and run it there without doing a (re)install.
So it is mostly a difference between userinterfaces(Who is responsible for copying the files) not a difference between what really happens.
A: Us Mac users ask the same question the other way: Why do you need an (un)installer for everything in Windows?
The majority of Mac programs are complete bundles - all their resources are in the Application's folder (right click on App icon -> Show Package Contents). So they will run from anywhere, there's a system variable that tells the code where it is. Often, an application can be run directly from the downloaded DMG and even from a remote server. Bit of a performance hit but it will work. User settings are in the user's library, there are also system routines to handle the mechanics.
Macs have no central registry that requires setup (or maintenance) so nothing needs to go there either.
If you are developing Mac applications you should try very hard to not need an installer - only if you are installing shared libraries or shell-level services. In general, it's possible to do without.
Since you are heading towards iOS programming I would suggest just not worrying about it. iOS rules will tell you where to save what, and it is NOT negotiable. Preferences go here, user data goes there. You will use the supplied APIs. Comply. Obey.
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7ed934eca6a5d3701ad4fa50ca02c6eb84508784 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where are my all installed programs? I am new to Mac OS X and till the time I was using Windows 7/8. I tried to download and install programs in Mac OS X, but I do not see them in Launchpad.
Where are all my programs are going. Secondly, what is path where software are actually installed in Mac?
A: All software in Mac OS X is installed in /Applications, which can be found in the Finder sidebar
Most Mac applications don't have to be installed, you just have to copy the applications in the Applications folder. Normally, all installed applications that are in the /Applications folder appear automatically in the Launchpad.
You can uninstall applications that don't come from the Mac AppStore simply by moving them in the Trash, applications from the Mac AppStore can be uninstall by entering Launchpad, holding the option key and clicking the little x that appears at the app-icon.
The location of the applications folder in the Finder:
| Q: Where are my all installed programs? I am new to Mac OS X and till the time I was using Windows 7/8. I tried to download and install programs in Mac OS X, but I do not see them in Launchpad.
Where are all my programs are going. Secondly, what is path where software are actually installed in Mac?
A: All software in Mac OS X is installed in /Applications, which can be found in the Finder sidebar
Most Mac applications don't have to be installed, you just have to copy the applications in the Applications folder. Normally, all installed applications that are in the /Applications folder appear automatically in the Launchpad.
You can uninstall applications that don't come from the Mac AppStore simply by moving them in the Trash, applications from the Mac AppStore can be uninstall by entering Launchpad, holding the option key and clicking the little x that appears at the app-icon.
The location of the applications folder in the Finder:
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9bdb5e2aa1f89c097c9da0d10d3ccae5011bd7df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Bootcamp with Ubuntu Linux Is it possible to use bootcamp to make bootable linux drives for you, or is there a similar boot manager for linux?
A: Yes you can. Use Boot Camp Assistant normally to create the partition, then boot into your Linux install media and select the new BOOTCAMP partition as the destination for the install.
This will set the default boot disk as the Linux partition, forcing you to alt-boot to boot into OS X. To reverse this, change your startup disk in System Preferences.
| Q: Bootcamp with Ubuntu Linux Is it possible to use bootcamp to make bootable linux drives for you, or is there a similar boot manager for linux?
A: Yes you can. Use Boot Camp Assistant normally to create the partition, then boot into your Linux install media and select the new BOOTCAMP partition as the destination for the install.
This will set the default boot disk as the Linux partition, forcing you to alt-boot to boot into OS X. To reverse this, change your startup disk in System Preferences.
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0efa63a29ff74d52277ff98560e882d645d0b62f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: imovie. Adding a static image without the gentle zooming effect I'm using imovie 10.0.3
When I add a static image (a jpeg file) to my movie it adds a gentle zooming effect. Very pretty but I didn't want it, and I cannot work out how to switch it off. Infuriating!
I'm trying to add the image either by dragging it onto the movie, or by clicking the [+] button which appears on the photo. Either way it adds it with a zooming effect.
Within the movie I notice I can select it, and then use an "Adjust" toolbar to achieve various things (mostly colour shifts in the image)... but I can't see any options for disabling the effect.
A: In Preferences, Photo Placement is by default set to "Ken Burns". Set it to something else and you'll avoid this annoyance.
| Q: imovie. Adding a static image without the gentle zooming effect I'm using imovie 10.0.3
When I add a static image (a jpeg file) to my movie it adds a gentle zooming effect. Very pretty but I didn't want it, and I cannot work out how to switch it off. Infuriating!
I'm trying to add the image either by dragging it onto the movie, or by clicking the [+] button which appears on the photo. Either way it adds it with a zooming effect.
Within the movie I notice I can select it, and then use an "Adjust" toolbar to achieve various things (mostly colour shifts in the image)... but I can't see any options for disabling the effect.
A: In Preferences, Photo Placement is by default set to "Ken Burns". Set it to something else and you'll avoid this annoyance.
A: In the Adjust toolbar, click Crop, then Fit.
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3cfe25aad718147c3e27271dd7e109cf1a576104 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I easily copy or replicate an advanced gradient fill in keynote? Setting up advanced gradient fills is somewhat time consuming. If I'm creating a new shape and I want to apply the same gradient fill as an existing shape, is there any way to copy the gradient fill for the existing shape and quickly apply it to the new shape?
Copying/pasting the shape is not the answer I'm looking for. Sometimes it's an entirely different shape you want to create, but with the same gradient fill.
A: Use ⌥+⌘+C to copy style and ⌥+⌘+V to paste style.
| Q: Can I easily copy or replicate an advanced gradient fill in keynote? Setting up advanced gradient fills is somewhat time consuming. If I'm creating a new shape and I want to apply the same gradient fill as an existing shape, is there any way to copy the gradient fill for the existing shape and quickly apply it to the new shape?
Copying/pasting the shape is not the answer I'm looking for. Sometimes it's an entirely different shape you want to create, but with the same gradient fill.
A: Use ⌥+⌘+C to copy style and ⌥+⌘+V to paste style.
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b5777e2b38ab6153844374425b9046e7e142db66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Show In-App Purchases" Not Showing In App Store I have an app on the App Store that has In-App Purchases, but on the store there isn't a button that says "In-App Purchases" where a user can see what the IAP are.
Where on mine (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/uidesign-draw-your-concept/id725323019?mt=8) says it Offers IAP but there isn't a button at the bottom that shows what the IAP are.
How do I make it available for users to see what IAP i have in my app.
A: I was having same problem for my new app - submitted a question to apple support - they replied:
The In-App Purchases section of your app’s product page will contain
the top In-App Purchases for the app only after a minimum purchase
requisite has been reached. If the number of completed In-App
Purchases doesn’t exceed the minimum threshold, this area will not
appear.
| Q: "Show In-App Purchases" Not Showing In App Store I have an app on the App Store that has In-App Purchases, but on the store there isn't a button that says "In-App Purchases" where a user can see what the IAP are.
Where on mine (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/uidesign-draw-your-concept/id725323019?mt=8) says it Offers IAP but there isn't a button at the bottom that shows what the IAP are.
How do I make it available for users to see what IAP i have in my app.
A: I was having same problem for my new app - submitted a question to apple support - they replied:
The In-App Purchases section of your app’s product page will contain
the top In-App Purchases for the app only after a minimum purchase
requisite has been reached. If the number of completed In-App
Purchases doesn’t exceed the minimum threshold, this area will not
appear.
A: It is now showing my In-App Purchases on the App Store.
It just takes a couple days or so to appear on the App Store.
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9a44487a9bf1190afc312dfa9c62ba55e4482956 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sync custom App Shortcuts via iCloud I know that with Mavericks and iOS 7, iCloud syncs text shortcuts automatically across devices. Does iCloud also sync custom Application specific Shortcuts across Macs?
Application specific shortcuts:
A: No, App Shortcuts are not synced over iCloud.
The shortcuts are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist, so if you want to sync them you are free to symlink this through Mobile Documents, however that file contains many preferences outside of just your app shortcuts.
| Q: Sync custom App Shortcuts via iCloud I know that with Mavericks and iOS 7, iCloud syncs text shortcuts automatically across devices. Does iCloud also sync custom Application specific Shortcuts across Macs?
Application specific shortcuts:
A: No, App Shortcuts are not synced over iCloud.
The shortcuts are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist, so if you want to sync them you are free to symlink this through Mobile Documents, however that file contains many preferences outside of just your app shortcuts.
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