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097aa52cc0fb5214b8968e382e5c43f78283cc14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What machines will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on? Has Apple announced which specific models of Macs will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on and if so, what are they?
A: From Wikipedia, regarding the Developer Preview:
The OS X v10.10 Developer Preview is compatible with all Macs that are capable of running OS X Mountain Lion and OS X Mavericks.
The full list of compatible models from the release notes:
*
*iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
*MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
*MacBook Pro (Mid 2007 or newer)
*MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
*Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer)
*Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
*Xserve (Early 2009)
| Q: What machines will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on? Has Apple announced which specific models of Macs will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on and if so, what are they?
A: From Wikipedia, regarding the Developer Preview:
The OS X v10.10 Developer Preview is compatible with all Macs that are capable of running OS X Mountain Lion and OS X Mavericks.
The full list of compatible models from the release notes:
*
*iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
*MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
*MacBook Pro (Mid 2007 or newer)
*MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
*Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer)
*Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
*Xserve (Early 2009)
A: According to Arstechnica:
Anything that can run 10.8 or 10.9 can run 10.10
A: Business Insider lists the following Macs as compatible :
*
*iMac (mid-2007 or newer)
*MacBook Air (late 2008 or newer)
*MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
*Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer)
*MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
*Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
*Xserve (Early 2009)
A: The watershed for Mavericks seems to be 64-bit hardware drivers, particularly the video card. If your kernel is 64-bit, extensions need to be the same. As video manufacturers tend not to update software for chips they don't make anymore (that would be last year's models) and Apple doesn't (and can't) write all of the hardware drivers, that limits what you can run a 64-bit OS on.
So, the compatibility list for Mavericks will likely be the compatibility list for a while, maybe until a significant processor change. As 128-bit architecture won't be happening any time soon we may be good with current hardware for many years.
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29c1e51b911b35465a24750a3f05b5fc35475cfb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I download xcode 6 without dev account? I don't want to download iOS 8 or so, but I want to start learning Swift without paying 100$. So, is there a way to download xcode 6?
A: Apple won't provide freely a beta of Xcode. Only Yosemite is available for non dev-members. Xcode 6 will be free once it reached a release version.
Though, you'll be able to find XCode on non legal downloading site...
| Q: Can I download xcode 6 without dev account? I don't want to download iOS 8 or so, but I want to start learning Swift without paying 100$. So, is there a way to download xcode 6?
A: Apple won't provide freely a beta of Xcode. Only Yosemite is available for non dev-members. Xcode 6 will be free once it reached a release version.
Though, you'll be able to find XCode on non legal downloading site...
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a68746949a7c3687a5284f1b02566b4c5605b7f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you turn on "Dark Mode" in OS X Yosemite? Has anyone figured out how to enable Dark Mode yet? I've been looking around for a while and haven't been able to find it anywhere.
A: System Preferences > General > Use dark menu bar and Dock
| Q: How do you turn on "Dark Mode" in OS X Yosemite? Has anyone figured out how to enable Dark Mode yet? I've been looking around for a while and haven't been able to find it anywhere.
A: System Preferences > General > Use dark menu bar and Dock
A:
Source of Turn on Dark Mode in OS X Yosemite Gif
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09927a07a642bc92abc5eaa2409ed4b636fbd2f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the new font used on Yosemite Do you have any idea what's the new topygraphy used in Yosemite ?
on Mavericks it used to be Lucida Grande/Helvetica but it looks like it has change on Yosemite.
A: Closing the gap to iOS, they ditched Lucida for Helvetica Neue all the way.
| Q: What's the new font used on Yosemite Do you have any idea what's the new topygraphy used in Yosemite ?
on Mavericks it used to be Lucida Grande/Helvetica but it looks like it has change on Yosemite.
A: Closing the gap to iOS, they ditched Lucida for Helvetica Neue all the way.
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7cc3c800e09ed8db7f318592fedf360cf26ca531 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keeping column width in Finder Is there a way to keep the columns width settings? Every time I open Finder, the columns width default back to whatever OS X's setting.
A: *
*Hold the Option key while resizing a column;
*Close all Finder windows;
*When you next open a window, the column will be the same size as you just set!
See a video example & also check this useful information.
| Q: Keeping column width in Finder Is there a way to keep the columns width settings? Every time I open Finder, the columns width default back to whatever OS X's setting.
A: *
*Hold the Option key while resizing a column;
*Close all Finder windows;
*When you next open a window, the column will be the same size as you just set!
See a video example & also check this useful information.
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29bc474f999a3be514d96f0af5021bf30c5001fd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I remove the strip above my menu bar?
Recently a strip has appeared above the menu bar on my mac and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Any ideas? The above photograph of the problem is screen shotted.
A: That looks the the desktop wallpaper. Try changing wallpaper (or display type; it might be due to the aspect ratio).
| Q: How do I remove the strip above my menu bar?
Recently a strip has appeared above the menu bar on my mac and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Any ideas? The above photograph of the problem is screen shotted.
A: That looks the the desktop wallpaper. Try changing wallpaper (or display type; it might be due to the aspect ratio).
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c40e13811eac3b84e3021a6d6a161b94f27a1f73 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to COMPLETELY delete a Book from my purchased books? Yesterday, I saw that my brother has downloaded an "hentai" on my Mac (shame on me, I didn't lock it !) I deleted it, but it stays on my purchased books, and I don't want it !
Is it possible to totally remove a book from my account's purchased history?
A: If this was bought through the iBooks store, then things will stay in your purchase history for as long as they are available to download. You can try to contact Apple and explain that it was your brother that made the purchase on your account and you want it removed. Also, have your brother pay you back too.
If this was just a web download then if you delete the file from your Mac and synced devices it will be gone and bother you no more.
| Q: Is it possible to COMPLETELY delete a Book from my purchased books? Yesterday, I saw that my brother has downloaded an "hentai" on my Mac (shame on me, I didn't lock it !) I deleted it, but it stays on my purchased books, and I don't want it !
Is it possible to totally remove a book from my account's purchased history?
A: If this was bought through the iBooks store, then things will stay in your purchase history for as long as they are available to download. You can try to contact Apple and explain that it was your brother that made the purchase on your account and you want it removed. Also, have your brother pay you back too.
If this was just a web download then if you delete the file from your Mac and synced devices it will be gone and bother you no more.
A: It worked for me using iBooks on the Mac.
Go to the iBooks store. Top left.
Scroll all the way down and select "purchased"
From here you should see the books. Hover over and click the X in the left side. Works in Sierra.
A: This has since moved from iTunes to within the iBooks app, but the procedure is exactly the same:
*
*Open iBooks
*Click iBooks Store in top-left corner
*Click Purchased
*Click the x in the top-left corner of the book you want to hide
And to unhide:
*
*Open iBooks
*Click iBooks Store in top-left corner
*Click Account
*Click Manage next to Hidden Purchases
*Click Unhide below book in question
A: so the answer is, No. it will be in the cloud permanently.
A: In fact, I found the answer on a French Forum. There is it :
Connect to the Store via iTunes for Mac (I think it works the same on windows but I didn't test)
Choose "Books" on the up "headband" (I don't know the English word, please correct :) )
Click on purchase on the right column
When you mouse over the book you want to delete, a X will appear. Click on it and your book will be hidden. It will be possible to download it again (for free I think, but again I didn't try) but it won't appear anymore in any of your device.
Et voilà ! I don't have this book on my iBook library any longer!
A: Open iBooks
click the top menu "All Books v"
Scroll to the bottom & slide "Hide iCloud Books"
A: Tap the top left corner of iBooks, hit select, then scroll down to the unwanted book and hit it and click delete.
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871e8cd08f2c003ff06dd29d08901c5a31455a97 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a Safari extension to hide results from a Google search? IMHO one of the most underrated browser extension is Chrome’s Personal Blocklist (by Google). It hides results in your Google search results after you have blocked certain domains them once. Is there a similar extension for Safari? Personal-Search-Result-Blocker, an extension hosted on GitHub, doesn’t work.
A: I found this recommendation, uBlacklist, from Reddit: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublacklist-for-safari/id1547912640
uBlacklist for Safari is a Search Engine filter. Help you improve the quality of your search results.
Features:
*
*Support Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia (partially) and Startpage.com
*Blocks sites you specify from appearing in search engine results
*Block sites flexibly using match patterns and regular expressions
*Subscribe to public blacklists keep it up to date
| Q: Is there a Safari extension to hide results from a Google search? IMHO one of the most underrated browser extension is Chrome’s Personal Blocklist (by Google). It hides results in your Google search results after you have blocked certain domains them once. Is there a similar extension for Safari? Personal-Search-Result-Blocker, an extension hosted on GitHub, doesn’t work.
A: I found this recommendation, uBlacklist, from Reddit: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublacklist-for-safari/id1547912640
uBlacklist for Safari is a Search Engine filter. Help you improve the quality of your search results.
Features:
*
*Support Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia (partially) and Startpage.com
*Blocks sites you specify from appearing in search engine results
*Block sites flexibly using match patterns and regular expressions
*Subscribe to public blacklists keep it up to date
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596e9d477364cf0aa20378db3aed7f44cfa0d478 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to tell which OS X processes are using the most power over time? My Android phone comes installed w/ an app that graphs out power usage of various components over time, so it's clear that the screen is the biggest user, followed by the phone, followed by Facebook etc.
Is there a similar app for the MacBook? I'm following best practices yet only getting a couple of hours of time out of a new (reconditioned) 2013 Macbook Pro (Mt Lion) with a battery showing only 10 cycles and near max health on it.
Thanks
A: Activity Monitor has this feature. It can chart power consumption per process in the Energy tab. You can find it in /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app.
| Q: Is there a way to tell which OS X processes are using the most power over time? My Android phone comes installed w/ an app that graphs out power usage of various components over time, so it's clear that the screen is the biggest user, followed by the phone, followed by Facebook etc.
Is there a similar app for the MacBook? I'm following best practices yet only getting a couple of hours of time out of a new (reconditioned) 2013 Macbook Pro (Mt Lion) with a battery showing only 10 cycles and near max health on it.
Thanks
A: Activity Monitor has this feature. It can chart power consumption per process in the Energy tab. You can find it in /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app.
A: The answer to whether there is a similar App for OSX is yes. There are a number of them, but I'd recommend Battery Health which is available for download in the Mac App Store.
It shows cycle count, original mAh vs. current, time remaining on current charge, and processes using the most power over time:
As to whether your battery is defective is a different question. As stated by Apple, your battery is designed to retain %80 of its original full charge capacity after 1000 cycles. To obtain some helpful diagnostic information (much of same information Battery Health shows):
Open Finder > > hold down option > System Information... > Hardware > Power.
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221aa6665ec06ec589b2d54d8dcd06e9446541b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Downgrade from OSX 10.10 Yosemite Beta to OSX 10.9 Mavericks I downloaded the Beta version of Yosemite, but I'm finding that some of my key programs are running properly. I keep regular backups to a Time Capsule. How do I downgrade back to 10.9?
EDIT: 21.5 inch iMac, Late 2013. Original OS: Mavericks
| Q: Downgrade from OSX 10.10 Yosemite Beta to OSX 10.9 Mavericks I downloaded the Beta version of Yosemite, but I'm finding that some of my key programs are running properly. I keep regular backups to a Time Capsule. How do I downgrade back to 10.9?
EDIT: 21.5 inch iMac, Late 2013. Original OS: Mavericks
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8a846675151090d738dd2b60e989a677d234a977 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which devices can run iOS 8? Has Apple released a list of which devices are capable of running iOS 8?
A: It's at the bottom of the public iOS 8 page where it states the 10 models of hardware to be supported:
*
*iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s
*iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air
*iPad Mini and iPad Mini with Retina display
*iPod Touch (5th Generation)
| Q: Which devices can run iOS 8? Has Apple released a list of which devices are capable of running iOS 8?
A: It's at the bottom of the public iOS 8 page where it states the 10 models of hardware to be supported:
*
*iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s
*iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air
*iPad Mini and iPad Mini with Retina display
*iPod Touch (5th Generation)
A: Yes Apple has released the compatible device list (see the bottom) :
*
*iPhone 4s
*iPhone 5
*iPhone 5c
*iPhone 5s
*iPod touch 5th generation
*iPad 2
*iPad with Retina display (iPad 3)
*iPad Air
*iPad mini
*iPad mini with Retina display
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247bf84377b98cdfb017ef9de67bfccd47328902 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I download Xcode (n) Beta? I want to start developing in Swift. I already own an apple developer account, yet am struggling to download Xcode (n) beta.
How can I do this?
Thank you in advance.
A: If you are in the paid developer program you can download the beta from:
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
If you have a free developer account, you cannot download the beta.
| Q: Where can I download Xcode (n) Beta? I want to start developing in Swift. I already own an apple developer account, yet am struggling to download Xcode (n) beta.
How can I do this?
Thank you in advance.
A: If you are in the paid developer program you can download the beta from:
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
If you have a free developer account, you cannot download the beta.
A: *
*Go to https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
*Log in
*Look right above the Resources for iOS 7 header you'll see the iOS 8 beta pill. Or just search for the text iOS 8 beta on the page.
*Click on iOS 8 beta pill
*Heed the Read Me Before Downloading warning
*Click on Download Xcode
*Profit
A: This has changed. The better place to download Xcode 6 Beta (as of Beta 3), is the Apple Swift resources page.
A: Xcode 6 beta is available to anyone that signs up for a free developer account at https://developer.apple.com/programs/which-program/ and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Paid developers get distribution and code signing certificates, but you can start with Swift and the beta Xcode 6 for free. More details are on the developer news and the Apple swift blog:
*
*https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=07112014a
*https://developer.apple.com/swift/
*https://developer.apple.com/swift/resources
The last link with resources has books, guides, sample code and links to the latest Xcode betas as well as WWDC videos covering the language and using it with Cocoa and other Apple API.
A: If you are an Apple Developer for iOS or Mac OS X, which is $99 a year, go to the Xcode page and scroll down to Xcode 6.
If you are already signed into the Apple developer portal, you can download the Xcode disk image.
A: *
*Go to https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
*If you are still not Update Program License Agreement, don't forget to do it:
*In the top left, select iOS 8 Beta
*Scroll down and search for Xcode 6 beta
A: I just downloaded it from here:
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/
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8d280a32dba99c1ca8f9335342ef7566139468bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 9,1 iMac GPU upgrade I replaced the NVIDIA 130GT w/ a 4850 AMD Radeon card from a 27" imac, same year (late 2009). Computer boots, all 4 LEDs go on, computer accessible from remote screensharing on the LAN so is obviously up and running. No picture on the screen (backlighting working).
I think it's an EFI/firmware problem w/ the new card. Any ideas as to a work-around? Edit the BIOS in the GPU to match the 24 inch screen or the Logic board ID? Thoughts? Thanks!
A: It starts fine, but no image on the screen. Clearly think it's a GPU-CPU issue, but obviously they are talking or all 4 LED's wouldn't light up....so it must be something written into the EFI that's preventing screen imaging, I'm thinking.
| Q: 9,1 iMac GPU upgrade I replaced the NVIDIA 130GT w/ a 4850 AMD Radeon card from a 27" imac, same year (late 2009). Computer boots, all 4 LEDs go on, computer accessible from remote screensharing on the LAN so is obviously up and running. No picture on the screen (backlighting working).
I think it's an EFI/firmware problem w/ the new card. Any ideas as to a work-around? Edit the BIOS in the GPU to match the 24 inch screen or the Logic board ID? Thoughts? Thanks!
A: It starts fine, but no image on the screen. Clearly think it's a GPU-CPU issue, but obviously they are talking or all 4 LED's wouldn't light up....so it must be something written into the EFI that's preventing screen imaging, I'm thinking.
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6d3bad32ab784f69cb93699b28b54f8d67fe58dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My computer has no admin user In system preferences, under users, standard is written under my name and there is no admin.
When i try to change preferences it asks for admin name and password to unlock it but my login password doesn't work as I'm not an admin.
A: Boot into single user mode.
Delete the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and then type exit and press return
At that point, the system will boot back to the normal setup process (keeping your old users intact) You will be guided through the steps to create a new admin user so pick a short name that doesn't exist on the Mac and you can then re-grant your normal user admin rights if you wish.
| Q: My computer has no admin user In system preferences, under users, standard is written under my name and there is no admin.
When i try to change preferences it asks for admin name and password to unlock it but my login password doesn't work as I'm not an admin.
A: Boot into single user mode.
Delete the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and then type exit and press return
At that point, the system will boot back to the normal setup process (keeping your old users intact) You will be guided through the steps to create a new admin user so pick a short name that doesn't exist on the Mac and you can then re-grant your normal user admin rights if you wish.
A: One could also try:
dseditgroup -o edit -a shortnamehere -t user admin
But you would likely have to boot into single user mode as mentioned before because I'm pretty sure you can't do it without being root first.
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6be81fea9781634a2465269a2a4e8ede3143be61 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable App Nap via Javascript/HTML Is there a message that could be sent in a way that at least Safari, if not other browsers, understands that tells Mavericks not to engage App Nap? I have an HTML5 pseudo-MIDI rendering app (i.e., sends individual notes out as mp3 audio) which plays back fine on Safari so long as it's in the foreground, but when focus is lost Safari/OS X does not send back sufficient calling information to play the notes at their appropriate times. What I'd love is something like:
if (window.disallowAppNap !== undefined) {
window.disallowAppNap = true;
}
this.playScore(callbacks = {end: function() {
if (window.disallowAppNap !== undefined) {
window.disallowAppNap = false;
}
} }
);
From a web search, it seems that the answer to this is "Nope," but maybe someone on the OS X or Safari dev. team will see this and think, "that's a great idea!" I've looked through the Web Audio API but can't see anything connecting to App Nap.
A: Nope, not currently. JavaScript/HTML can't directly control App Nap in Safari or any other browser on OS X.
| Q: Disable App Nap via Javascript/HTML Is there a message that could be sent in a way that at least Safari, if not other browsers, understands that tells Mavericks not to engage App Nap? I have an HTML5 pseudo-MIDI rendering app (i.e., sends individual notes out as mp3 audio) which plays back fine on Safari so long as it's in the foreground, but when focus is lost Safari/OS X does not send back sufficient calling information to play the notes at their appropriate times. What I'd love is something like:
if (window.disallowAppNap !== undefined) {
window.disallowAppNap = true;
}
this.playScore(callbacks = {end: function() {
if (window.disallowAppNap !== undefined) {
window.disallowAppNap = false;
}
} }
);
From a web search, it seems that the answer to this is "Nope," but maybe someone on the OS X or Safari dev. team will see this and think, "that's a great idea!" I've looked through the Web Audio API but can't see anything connecting to App Nap.
A: Nope, not currently. JavaScript/HTML can't directly control App Nap in Safari or any other browser on OS X.
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ca262026a62bc56d14de3b848a08024168f9b506 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Auto-complete to multiple possible file extensions (Edit: I suspect this was a better fit for the Unix and Linux stack exchange network -- could someone migrate this over there? Or do I have to make an account over there myself?)
I'm converting some of my old terminal scripts (typically written in tcsh) to run as bash scripts in OSX. In particular, I'm trying to get my terminal to auto-complete inputs to certain programs specified by my .bash_profile settings. For example, the command
complete -f -X '!*.tex' emacs
correctly auto-completes emacs inputs only to .tex files. I was hoping something like this would work so that it would only tab-complete to .tex OR .txt files:
complete -f -X '!*.@(tex|txt)' emacs
But this fails. Any suggestions?
A: Cross referencing your answered cross post so future Googlers can find it
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22854848/specifying-two-file-extensions-in-bash-complete
| Q: Auto-complete to multiple possible file extensions (Edit: I suspect this was a better fit for the Unix and Linux stack exchange network -- could someone migrate this over there? Or do I have to make an account over there myself?)
I'm converting some of my old terminal scripts (typically written in tcsh) to run as bash scripts in OSX. In particular, I'm trying to get my terminal to auto-complete inputs to certain programs specified by my .bash_profile settings. For example, the command
complete -f -X '!*.tex' emacs
correctly auto-completes emacs inputs only to .tex files. I was hoping something like this would work so that it would only tab-complete to .tex OR .txt files:
complete -f -X '!*.@(tex|txt)' emacs
But this fails. Any suggestions?
A: Cross referencing your answered cross post so future Googlers can find it
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22854848/specifying-two-file-extensions-in-bash-complete
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4cdaeff1d5010cfa6afaf3d08679ed15f06079e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Black screen with dual monitors (10.9.3) I have been experiencing a problem with my Macbook Pro (latest version) when connecting it to a dual monitor.
I usually click on the trackpad to wake the computer immediately after it has gone into sleep mode but ever since I have started using dual monitors the computer doesn't wake instantly.
I will see the outline of my mouse but the background remains black.
Here is what the console shows after the sleep-wake up
What have I tried:
To get around this problem I have just changed the sleep time on my computer but that is only a temporary solution.
I also contacted Apple support who suggested a PRAM reset but unfortunately that didn't work either.
Interestingly my roommate has the same problem with his Mac (both are on 10.9.3) so I am wondering if this might be an issue with Apple's dual monitor support and not a hardware issue.
Any ideas?
A: 10.9.4 purports to fix sleep-wake issues. I know on my rMBP (pre-Haswell) I'd have a similar issue after disconnecting from a Thunderbolt display, and it's been resolved since upgrading.
| Q: Black screen with dual monitors (10.9.3) I have been experiencing a problem with my Macbook Pro (latest version) when connecting it to a dual monitor.
I usually click on the trackpad to wake the computer immediately after it has gone into sleep mode but ever since I have started using dual monitors the computer doesn't wake instantly.
I will see the outline of my mouse but the background remains black.
Here is what the console shows after the sleep-wake up
What have I tried:
To get around this problem I have just changed the sleep time on my computer but that is only a temporary solution.
I also contacted Apple support who suggested a PRAM reset but unfortunately that didn't work either.
Interestingly my roommate has the same problem with his Mac (both are on 10.9.3) so I am wondering if this might be an issue with Apple's dual monitor support and not a hardware issue.
Any ideas?
A: 10.9.4 purports to fix sleep-wake issues. I know on my rMBP (pre-Haswell) I'd have a similar issue after disconnecting from a Thunderbolt display, and it's been resolved since upgrading.
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890b9adf9d6ff9618e8d0bcbf268c4c915751204 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard shortcuts with a single key? Some apps (e.g. Tweetbot) have single-key keyboard shortcuts.
However, when trying to set shortcuts in System Preferences, we’re not allowed to do the same. Is there a user-facing way of achieving this?
A: It is possible to do, both natively and easily. Mac OS X hints has a hint (also check Lri’s comment) on how to set up keyboard shortcuts from the command line. We can use this to create single-key shortcuts.
You’ll need to know the application’s bundle ID (unless you want to set global shortcuts, naturally). For special keys, @ is ⌘; ~ is ⌥; $ is ⇧; ^ is ctrl. You can also check other values.
I’ll use Tweetbot as an example, setting “New Tweet” to ⌥+N, and “Reply” (on the multi-shortcut example) to R.
For one-shortcut commands, you can use the form:
defaults write com.tapbots.TweetbotMac NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "New Tweet" -string "~n"
For multi-shortcut commands, use the form:
defaults write com.tapbots.TweetbotMac NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"New Tweet"="~n";
"Reply"="r";
}'
For system-wide shortcuts, use -g, instead of a bundle ID.
| Q: Keyboard shortcuts with a single key? Some apps (e.g. Tweetbot) have single-key keyboard shortcuts.
However, when trying to set shortcuts in System Preferences, we’re not allowed to do the same. Is there a user-facing way of achieving this?
A: It is possible to do, both natively and easily. Mac OS X hints has a hint (also check Lri’s comment) on how to set up keyboard shortcuts from the command line. We can use this to create single-key shortcuts.
You’ll need to know the application’s bundle ID (unless you want to set global shortcuts, naturally). For special keys, @ is ⌘; ~ is ⌥; $ is ⇧; ^ is ctrl. You can also check other values.
I’ll use Tweetbot as an example, setting “New Tweet” to ⌥+N, and “Reply” (on the multi-shortcut example) to R.
For one-shortcut commands, you can use the form:
defaults write com.tapbots.TweetbotMac NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "New Tweet" -string "~n"
For multi-shortcut commands, use the form:
defaults write com.tapbots.TweetbotMac NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"New Tweet"="~n";
"Reply"="r";
}'
For system-wide shortcuts, use -g, instead of a bundle ID.
A: I doubt that you can have a system wide single key shortcut to do something like a cut and paste for instance, if that's what you're asking. Doing so would cause the actions to be triggered when you're typing an email, for example.
Some apps allow that most probably because they're programmed so that the single key shortcuts are only detected in certain modes/interfaces. But I could be wrong about Tweetbot because I've never used it :)
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f290f6f5800994a3c1aa4e45c2b12de3ec8f7bca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Running two separate instances of Safari in the same user session I would like to run two separate Safaris at the same time. Each Safari having his own session, history, cookies, and so on.
I can do that with two users on my Mac.
But doing that in the same user session would be handier.
How can I do that ?
A: You can also type in the Terminal.app
open -n -a Safari
This will open an new instance of Safari even if one is already running. Not every application supports this, like Finder or FireFox. Those applications prefers to have one instance running at a time.
| Q: Running two separate instances of Safari in the same user session I would like to run two separate Safaris at the same time. Each Safari having his own session, history, cookies, and so on.
I can do that with two users on my Mac.
But doing that in the same user session would be handier.
How can I do that ?
A: You can also type in the Terminal.app
open -n -a Safari
This will open an new instance of Safari even if one is already running. Not every application supports this, like Finder or FireFox. Those applications prefers to have one instance running at a time.
A: The best way that I have found to do this is to download Safari Technology Preview. It is a free download and you don't need a developer account to use. It runs separately from native safari and has its own folders for cache, cookies, history, bookmarks, etc. It is perfect for what you need.
The only downside is that it is in beta so you may see minor issues. Although most of the beta features can be turned of the the developer menu.
From Apples website:
Run side-by-side with Safari. Safari Technology Preview is a
standalone app that works side-by-side with the current version of
Safari, so you can continue to use and reference the current release.
A: Safari does not support multiple profiles, so you will have to keep using multiple user account.
If all you want is a separate browsing environment with different accounts (cookies) used, you can try using Private Browsing
A: Depending on your use case, you could also consider Unite from BZ Apps. It turns a browser window into a standalone app. For me, duplicate instances of Safari resulted in combined audio, which did not allow Audio Hijack to record each instance separately. With Unite - Audio Hijack sees each former browser window as a separate app and records properly.
https://www.bzgapps.com/unite
A: It seems like you'll be able to do this in Safari on Yosemite. Chrome is able to do this by just opening a new "In Cognito" window.
A: The Fluid app, like mentioned in the comments, kind of allows this. It is more of a "single page app" tool, but it does use Safari under the hood and I use it to stay signed into different accounts at the same time without having to resort to Chrome[1].
In macOS Sierra the free version of Fluid allows separate cookies storage, while previously it was a (cheap) paid for feature.
[1] Chrome is great but uses too much battery for all day use.
A: Chrome has this built in and is well implemented.
Firefox has a 3rd party plugin that manages this but it isn't as natively supported as it is in Chrome.
Safari, no.
A: There is an app called SwitchUp that does this, however I think it doesn't play well with Safari extensions. Try and see for yourself.
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318b781436401aae6176b27d9b4aaf9d0b4f5e6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch applications using Cmd+Tab when inside VirtualBox without using Host key? When inside VirtualBox in order to switch to an OSX app, I first press Host key which is Right Option, then I press Cmd+Tab.
I wonder if there is some trick to eliminate pressing Host key before Cmd+Tab?
| Q: How to switch applications using Cmd+Tab when inside VirtualBox without using Host key? When inside VirtualBox in order to switch to an OSX app, I first press Host key which is Right Option, then I press Cmd+Tab.
I wonder if there is some trick to eliminate pressing Host key before Cmd+Tab?
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e9af59e6ccea3a8f551884b5ffdded657350bfe7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to access history of podcasts I have listened to in iphone? I don't know if this is possible or not: I would like to see the history of all the podcasts I have ever listened to. Is this possible?
A: There are 2 options: on the listen now page scroll to bottom and click recently played to view the previous podcasts listened to, even if you have not finished episodes, of every show.
Or to view specific show episodes go to the show itself and scroll down to the end and view the previous played episodes.
Unfortunately it doesn’t show the day or times listened to episodes but if you know you listened to them when they came out originally then it isn’t an issue.
| Q: How to access history of podcasts I have listened to in iphone? I don't know if this is possible or not: I would like to see the history of all the podcasts I have ever listened to. Is this possible?
A: There are 2 options: on the listen now page scroll to bottom and click recently played to view the previous podcasts listened to, even if you have not finished episodes, of every show.
Or to view specific show episodes go to the show itself and scroll down to the end and view the previous played episodes.
Unfortunately it doesn’t show the day or times listened to episodes but if you know you listened to them when they came out originally then it isn’t an issue.
A: I am sure the phone logs this information. I have been wondering the same for as long as the Podcasts app came out in the App Store.
Unfortunately I have failed to find a way to extract data around the play history of my podcasts. I think this is impossible at this time.
A: Probably not what you are looking for, but from in show page you can scroll down to the end and tap “Previously Played” which will show you all the episodes you have listened to for the show.
Ideally you should be able to see any listened episode for all shows in one place, but this is the best thing I’ve found so far.
A: ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DrRGi. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201859
Scroll down to the bottom of the Listen Now page of the ap. There is a recently played list. It will show back for quite always, not sure how long.
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04440d1fb9024f80caf8ca2b540276dd1928e9b9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No user on brand new OS X installation I just opened a new Macbook Pro out of the box and, after going through the initial setup (language, timezone, name, etc.), I see the login screen without my username. I tried typing in my username (manually) and password but nothing happens. The only option is to click the back button which then shows a blank alias picture with the word Other underneath it
If I reboot the computer pressing ⌘Sand then do ls /Users to see the users on the system it only has .localized and Shared directories, which indicates to me that the user was not created properly.
How do I correct this so I can have an initial user account?
A: I would hold alt during startup and fire up the recovery, reparing or reinstalling the OS.
You could also try to create a user via the safe-start, using the root account, but that might be too complicated. Just try the recovery.
| Q: No user on brand new OS X installation I just opened a new Macbook Pro out of the box and, after going through the initial setup (language, timezone, name, etc.), I see the login screen without my username. I tried typing in my username (manually) and password but nothing happens. The only option is to click the back button which then shows a blank alias picture with the word Other underneath it
If I reboot the computer pressing ⌘Sand then do ls /Users to see the users on the system it only has .localized and Shared directories, which indicates to me that the user was not created properly.
How do I correct this so I can have an initial user account?
A: I would hold alt during startup and fire up the recovery, reparing or reinstalling the OS.
You could also try to create a user via the safe-start, using the root account, but that might be too complicated. Just try the recovery.
A: I tend to agree with YoshiBotX. Something must have gone wrong during setup. And as you don't have anything installed or invested I would just do a re-install.
To answer your questions. There are several ways to create an account from the situation you are in.
One would be to create an account from the command line. You can find instructions at MacLife.
An other approach would be to run the setup again. You can find instructions to do that at Cnet.
A: Definitely a strange situation, however there's a relatively easy solution.
Boot to single user mode as you did before by holding ⌘S while power it on.
Once you reach the command prompt you can enter the following commands, pressing return after each one:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
reboot
This will remove the file that OS X checks for when booting to determine if the Mac has already been setup. When it fails to detect the file it will start the setup assistant, which includes the step that allows you to create your user account.
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a973b3d25e84522fce00cb3bda2f3074d398f501 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Other" storage in Mac 10.9 I have a Macbook Pro, 10.9 with 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. When I access the Utility app "System Information", this is what I got.
There is a yellow block called "Other". What does "other" storage mean in this context?
A: If you look in to the available categories there are files that do not fit in to any.
That is why are they called others.
Nothing wrong with those files, they just did not fit the given categories.
| Q: "Other" storage in Mac 10.9 I have a Macbook Pro, 10.9 with 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. When I access the Utility app "System Information", this is what I got.
There is a yellow block called "Other". What does "other" storage mean in this context?
A: If you look in to the available categories there are files that do not fit in to any.
That is why are they called others.
Nothing wrong with those files, they just did not fit the given categories.
A: This article is talking about this: “Other” Storage Space: The big monster of Mac OS X
Some examples of the files that may be cataloged as 'Other':
Archives and disk images, including zips, dmg, iso, etc
Personal documents, contacts, calendar data
Items in the OS X folders such as the System folder and caches
App Plugins or extensions
File types not recognized by Spotlight
Documents and file types, including PDF, doc, PSD, etc
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0b11767c4b996def09879405eff9be2d99a50955 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to view files stored in iCloud Backup? I have a backup for my iPhone 5s from January. Is there any way I can download them onto my computer ?
Is there any way I can look into the files that were backed up onto iCloud?
A: No and no, I'm afraid,
You could restore the iCloud backup to the device, then back it up to the computer and use a 3rd party tool to dig into that backup file, but you won't be able to get at the iCloud backup contents directly.
| Q: Is it possible to view files stored in iCloud Backup? I have a backup for my iPhone 5s from January. Is there any way I can download them onto my computer ?
Is there any way I can look into the files that were backed up onto iCloud?
A: No and no, I'm afraid,
You could restore the iCloud backup to the device, then back it up to the computer and use a 3rd party tool to dig into that backup file, but you won't be able to get at the iCloud backup contents directly.
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f85ef61f4c4e6834df38555e5da6bb682deaeae6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding New Dictionary I am following the instructions at the bottom of this article article to add the Webster's dictionary to my dictionary.app list. It does not seem to be working (the new dictionary does not show up in the dictionary.app preferences pane.
I think the problem might be because I am on Mavericks but the dictunifier app is from 2011. Does anyone know of a workable way? The dictionary tar.bz file contains files with the extension .dict.dz, .idx, and .ifo.
| Q: Adding New Dictionary I am following the instructions at the bottom of this article article to add the Webster's dictionary to my dictionary.app list. It does not seem to be working (the new dictionary does not show up in the dictionary.app preferences pane.
I think the problem might be because I am on Mavericks but the dictunifier app is from 2011. Does anyone know of a workable way? The dictionary tar.bz file contains files with the extension .dict.dz, .idx, and .ifo.
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0f96273e3354876acef2834383dc7df4a6347952 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install command line developer tools in Yosemite? I am trying to install xcode developer tools via this command:
xcode-select --install
and I have this error:
"Can't install this software because it is not currently available from the Software Update Server"
I am trying to install developer tools so I can use the Pillow python module. Any ideas? Thanks.
| Q: How to install command line developer tools in Yosemite? I am trying to install xcode developer tools via this command:
xcode-select --install
and I have this error:
"Can't install this software because it is not currently available from the Software Update Server"
I am trying to install developer tools so I can use the Pillow python module. Any ideas? Thanks.
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ffb0b6755d03bd813690a4ebf97e7f03730be453 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preview is closed in Mavericks when last window is closed I did the direct jump from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and there is possibility that I have missed some changes in the versions in between. Nonetheless, here is my problem:
When I open a document (e.g. an image) preview shows up and does its job. The problem is when I press the close button in the finder, the Preview is closed completely. In 10.6 Preview would remain open, indicated by little white dot bellow its icon in the dock. How can I keep Preview open and let it close only if I send a cmd+q?
A: You need to disable Preview's automatic termination.
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE && killall -HUP Finder
This is due to Lion's automatic termination which was introduced so that apps which have no windows open and are not performing a task can be quit to save system resources. Generally it's good to leave on, but if you really want to disable it, use the above command.
You can disable automatic termination in all apps by setting it in the global preferences.
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE && killall -HUP Finder
| Q: Preview is closed in Mavericks when last window is closed I did the direct jump from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and there is possibility that I have missed some changes in the versions in between. Nonetheless, here is my problem:
When I open a document (e.g. an image) preview shows up and does its job. The problem is when I press the close button in the finder, the Preview is closed completely. In 10.6 Preview would remain open, indicated by little white dot bellow its icon in the dock. How can I keep Preview open and let it close only if I send a cmd+q?
A: You need to disable Preview's automatic termination.
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE && killall -HUP Finder
This is due to Lion's automatic termination which was introduced so that apps which have no windows open and are not performing a task can be quit to save system resources. Generally it's good to leave on, but if you really want to disable it, use the above command.
You can disable automatic termination in all apps by setting it in the global preferences.
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE && killall -HUP Finder
A: When you open a file in Preview.app, then close the last window, Preview appears to shutdown too. It disappears from the Dock.
However, if you check your Activity Monitor.app, Preview actually isn't shutdown. It still is listed in the CPU and Memory tab of Activity Monitor. For me, Preview is taking up 60MB of memory and it appears to be closed. It's not in my Dock or in the Menu at the top of screen.
If you open Preview up again. Then close it using cmd-Q or select "Quit Preview" from the menu, it will actually shutdown. It disappears from the CPU and Memory tabs in Activity Monitor.
You don't need to disable automatic termination because it is not automatically terminated.
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2d3d24d3817a6c30e9e753af9abd8477b1b0a91f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get Final Cut Pro to reload my Motion projects without restarting it? I often switch back and forth between working on a Final Cut project and working on a Motion generator or title I use in that project. If I make changes to the Motion project, I have to restart Final Cut to see those changes reflected in the instances of the generator or title already in the timeline.
Is there a way to get Final Cut to reload the Motion files without restarting it?
A: Hey Peeja… the "official" way is to simply REPLACE the title or whatever in the timeline with the original from the browser. Select in the timeline, then select in the browser and hit ⌥R to "Replace from Start". Or drag from the browser ontop of the timeline instance and select replace from the pop-up.
It's because the edited version only exists in the browser and the instance in the timeline is independent of it.
The UNofficial/Power User way … simply CUT the title or whatever from the timeline and… PASTE. Done.
Cheers.
| Q: How can I get Final Cut Pro to reload my Motion projects without restarting it? I often switch back and forth between working on a Final Cut project and working on a Motion generator or title I use in that project. If I make changes to the Motion project, I have to restart Final Cut to see those changes reflected in the instances of the generator or title already in the timeline.
Is there a way to get Final Cut to reload the Motion files without restarting it?
A: Hey Peeja… the "official" way is to simply REPLACE the title or whatever in the timeline with the original from the browser. Select in the timeline, then select in the browser and hit ⌥R to "Replace from Start". Or drag from the browser ontop of the timeline instance and select replace from the pop-up.
It's because the edited version only exists in the browser and the instance in the timeline is independent of it.
The UNofficial/Power User way … simply CUT the title or whatever from the timeline and… PASTE. Done.
Cheers.
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b25b3fc3eea0709e8a6af12c6469f794e9765cde | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make emoji bigger in Messages I just upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.3 from Mountain Lion and the emoticons / emoji are quite small in Messages. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between one and another emoji.
When I open the emoji panel they are bigger, at the size I was accustomed to in 10.8. You can see in the picture the size they appear in a message, as compared to the panel.
I've tried making the font bigger in Message's preferences, but the emoji won't change their size either.
A: The only workaround I've found is to use accessibility zoom; old man style.
The problem persists in Yosemite 10.10.3 with the new Emoji picker.
| Q: How to make emoji bigger in Messages I just upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.3 from Mountain Lion and the emoticons / emoji are quite small in Messages. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between one and another emoji.
When I open the emoji panel they are bigger, at the size I was accustomed to in 10.8. You can see in the picture the size they appear in a message, as compared to the panel.
I've tried making the font bigger in Message's preferences, but the emoji won't change their size either.
A: The only workaround I've found is to use accessibility zoom; old man style.
The problem persists in Yosemite 10.10.3 with the new Emoji picker.
A: To make a larger emoji in an email message, I tried this work-around with my Mac. Copy and paste the desired emoji into Text Edit. Using (Command +) I enlarged it to the desired size, then captured it with Command, shift, 4 and pasted it into the email. Yeah, it's a pain, but it works.
A: The best workaround might be to copy & paste from a website like http://getemoji.com which shows emojis at a larger size and has a search feature. I assume there are many similar websites.
It seems there is no good built-in option, including up to OSX Sierra (10.12.6):
*
*The full character viewer that you get to when clicking the icon in the top right of the simpler emoji focused viewer has an option to change the character size in 3 steps (under the gear icon in the top left), but unfortunately it doesn't make a big difference and it only applies to the full viewer.
*Accessibility zooming (ctrl + mouse wheel) doesn't increase the resolution of the icons, so it's not the same quality as emojis rendered at a larger size.
A: While typing in Messages, Mail, and other programs, select Edit, then Emoji and Symbols from the menu bar, and you will see a larger emoji-picker window appear. You can inseet emojis from this larger window instead of having to use the tiny emoji-picker accessible via the text-input field. This is how I get around this problem in 10.10.3
A: In TextEdit, I typed a sentence. I then brought up the Character Viewer (I don't seem to be able to get to emoji any other way, though using Mavericks 10.9.3 on a 2014 iMac), and placed an emoji character into the sentence--the bactrian camel, in this instance. I then selected the emoji in the sentence I wrote in TextEdit and went to the Font Size menu in TextEdit. I chose 36, and the emoji enlarged to size 36. I then selected again and enlarge to size 144. Worked both times.
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ea45b3c5e4f2ef8952374f718bd3d4866249199c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to restore chrome tabs after my Mac got crashed and was subject to reboot automatically? My Mac got crashed and was forced to be restarted automatically. And so my Chrome and Chromium session were gone too, on which when I opened them after the reboot of my Mac, "restore the last session" or some messages like that were shown on the screen. However, despite me clicking on the "restore" button, it didn't restore those tabs I opened! So the 30 tabs that I opened in my browser were all gone, and I'm quite disappointed.
However, is it still feasible to restore those tabs there were there before the OS X crash? I think this post might be what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it's not for OS X.
I use OS X 10.9.3 and the latest version of Chrome and Chromium. I have defaults files in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/.
| Q: How to restore chrome tabs after my Mac got crashed and was subject to reboot automatically? My Mac got crashed and was forced to be restarted automatically. And so my Chrome and Chromium session were gone too, on which when I opened them after the reboot of my Mac, "restore the last session" or some messages like that were shown on the screen. However, despite me clicking on the "restore" button, it didn't restore those tabs I opened! So the 30 tabs that I opened in my browser were all gone, and I'm quite disappointed.
However, is it still feasible to restore those tabs there were there before the OS X crash? I think this post might be what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it's not for OS X.
I use OS X 10.9.3 and the latest version of Chrome and Chromium. I have defaults files in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/.
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ee8fc4da65ba973d02bd32236a0dc9ad50a5bebe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Double click in AppleScript How do you write the command to carry out a double click with a mouse at a specific location in AppleScript?
A: You can use AppleScript to click twice using click at and a delay.
tell application "System Events"
click at {10, 10}
delay 0.1
click at {10, 10}
end tell
| Q: Double click in AppleScript How do you write the command to carry out a double click with a mouse at a specific location in AppleScript?
A: You can use AppleScript to click twice using click at and a delay.
tell application "System Events"
click at {10, 10}
delay 0.1
click at {10, 10}
end tell
A: I'm afraid, double clicks no longer work if you run "El capitan"...
System Events' sdef file says "click at"s must be sent to a process object. This certainly includes buttons, menus, their items & some others, but not even (e.g.) objects visible on your desktop ...
As clicks on UI elements usually demand only one click, double clicks seem to be obsolete in AppleScript (for now).
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d0f1c7a064676fd0a9a792777e1aa775857fe0bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Music Player with ability to repeat a specific part of the song I'm looking for an app with ability to repeat a part of the song playing. I need this as I'm using it for practicing listening skill.
A: *
*Quick Time Player -
Trim function
can do that.
Then use the Loop function to play over and over :)
*
*iTunes can do that (but not so handy)
Right click on the song- Get Info.
In there click on Options tab and select the Start and End time.
| Q: Music Player with ability to repeat a specific part of the song I'm looking for an app with ability to repeat a part of the song playing. I need this as I'm using it for practicing listening skill.
A: *
*Quick Time Player -
Trim function
can do that.
Then use the Loop function to play over and over :)
*
*iTunes can do that (but not so handy)
Right click on the song- Get Info.
In there click on Options tab and select the Start and End time.
A: Practice Player Pro - you can break down, loop and slow down sections of songs.
The Pro version is Free right now, but I suspect it will be paid at some point with a Free counterpart.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/practice-player-pro/id1435249989?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
A: JamUp can do that and lots more... Seems like a nice app!
To access this feature in JamUp:
*
*Launch the app
*Choose "Jam" from the tabs at the bottom of the app
*Click "Load Song" to load a song
*Click the play button to being playing the song
*When you reach the point where you want to START looping, Click the "A" button .
*When you reach the point where you want to STOP looping, Click the "B" button .
*Click the "Loop" icon under the A and B buttons to start looping
*When you dont want to loop anymore, click the "Loop" button again.
A: Learn That Song (PLAY Edition) app (not their Remix edition) is working with Apple Music streaming.
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223960785fe670538a640afe2e7dbf9dba49bbd9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I delete all voicemails from my iPhone? I would like to bulk delete all the voice mails from my iPhone but it appears I need to first delete each one (multiple taps on each message) and then bulk delete them all from the "deleted items" sub folder.
Is there a way to more efficiently delete all voicemail?
n.b. I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 on Verizon that isn't jailbroken but would welcome any answers that work for whatever OS / carrier even if a jailbreak is needed
A: Via swipe left on multiple voicemails you can delete them, and on the Phone app, you can even "delete all" of them.
But to delete Permanently all voicemails Permanently, meaning could not be recovery by any software, you should try iMyfone Umate.
| Q: How can I delete all voicemails from my iPhone? I would like to bulk delete all the voice mails from my iPhone but it appears I need to first delete each one (multiple taps on each message) and then bulk delete them all from the "deleted items" sub folder.
Is there a way to more efficiently delete all voicemail?
n.b. I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 on Verizon that isn't jailbroken but would welcome any answers that work for whatever OS / carrier even if a jailbreak is needed
A: Via swipe left on multiple voicemails you can delete them, and on the Phone app, you can even "delete all" of them.
But to delete Permanently all voicemails Permanently, meaning could not be recovery by any software, you should try iMyfone Umate.
A: The most efficient method of deleting multiple voicemails at once on the device is using multitouch to swipe left on multiple voicemails at once, then tapping delete.
If your device is jailbroken, you can delete voicemails from the location that they are stored in (and the SQLite3 database in):
~/Library/Voicemail/
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11c36a34b583d09b58e068d0f0f50ee588647230 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use touch ID without locking your phone I like to use touch fingerprint ID when in lieu of a password (when buying apps etc...), but I don't want to have to use it to unlock my phone, nor do I want a passcode lock. Is there a way to enable touch ID without locking the phone?
A: This is not exactly what the OP asked for, but it might partially solve the problem:
- Enrol a fingerprint and select a passcode,
- disable "iPhone Unlock",
- change "Require Passcode" to the maximum ("After 4 hours" in my case).
This will allow you to use Touch ID in Applications, but will require passcode for unlock only once in a long time.
| Q: Use touch ID without locking your phone I like to use touch fingerprint ID when in lieu of a password (when buying apps etc...), but I don't want to have to use it to unlock my phone, nor do I want a passcode lock. Is there a way to enable touch ID without locking the phone?
A: This is not exactly what the OP asked for, but it might partially solve the problem:
- Enrol a fingerprint and select a passcode,
- disable "iPhone Unlock",
- change "Require Passcode" to the maximum ("After 4 hours" in my case).
This will allow you to use Touch ID in Applications, but will require passcode for unlock only once in a long time.
A: This is not possible. You need to have a passcode to use it due to the way iOS encrypts passwords. Your iTunes store password would not be encrypted if you were not using a password, even with the Touch ID sensor.
A: I think this is actually possible but I still seem to be finding out myself. I think you just have to turn off Touch ID for unlocking your iPhone, but leave the other 2 Touch ID settings on. These are the ones for Apple Pay--which I don't use--and for websites and apps. Please see elsewhere for the issue which I'm having.
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c579766b6c2b79993ef28b894ef4dca35b2fecb1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: open image full screen with "open -a Preview" Using osx 10.9.3
I would like to write a script that opens images full-screen with preview but I can't seem to find the command line options for the Preview application.
A: Preview.app doesn't have command line options, but you could use AppleScript in Terminal:
open -a Preview somefile.png ; /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "Preview"' -e "activate" -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'keystroke "f" using {control down, command down}' -e "end tell" -e "end tell"
Just replace somefile.png with the path/image you want; AppleScript invokes fullscreen.
| Q: open image full screen with "open -a Preview" Using osx 10.9.3
I would like to write a script that opens images full-screen with preview but I can't seem to find the command line options for the Preview application.
A: Preview.app doesn't have command line options, but you could use AppleScript in Terminal:
open -a Preview somefile.png ; /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "Preview"' -e "activate" -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'keystroke "f" using {control down, command down}' -e "end tell" -e "end tell"
Just replace somefile.png with the path/image you want; AppleScript invokes fullscreen.
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064742d47a49adf1c065b3c480089f0aaf10897a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does the icon of a PC show a blue screen? So in Finder, Mac finds a Windows PC in the Network. When I right click on it and click Get Info, I see an icon that shows a computer monitor with a blue screen. By blue screen I mean a crashed PC. Why is this? Why not a normal desktop image?
A: Because it was Apple's way of making fun of Windows. No reason other than that.
| Q: Why does the icon of a PC show a blue screen? So in Finder, Mac finds a Windows PC in the Network. When I right click on it and click Get Info, I see an icon that shows a computer monitor with a blue screen. By blue screen I mean a crashed PC. Why is this? Why not a normal desktop image?
A: Because it was Apple's way of making fun of Windows. No reason other than that.
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47ba87085bcf942aa7e1f127a99515620199b1b6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I open a hidden file in Text Wrangler? I have a .bash_profile file in my Home folder but it is hidden. How can I open it with Text Wrangler (or any other text editor?)
A: You can use the terminal :
open ~/path/to/.YourHiddenFile -a /Application/YourApplication.app
The hidden file are hidden by adding a dot in the beginning of the file name.
Or with the good old GUI method :
*
*Launch the application you wish to use to edit or view the hidden
file.
*Select ‘Open’ from the application’s File menu.
*An Open Dialog box will display.
*With the dialog box as the front-most window (you can click once in
the dialog box to make sure it’s in front), press command + shift + .
*The dialog box now will display any hidden files or folders within
its list items.
*You can toggle between the hidden files and folders being displayed
by pressing command + shift + . again.
| Q: How can I open a hidden file in Text Wrangler? I have a .bash_profile file in my Home folder but it is hidden. How can I open it with Text Wrangler (or any other text editor?)
A: You can use the terminal :
open ~/path/to/.YourHiddenFile -a /Application/YourApplication.app
The hidden file are hidden by adding a dot in the beginning of the file name.
Or with the good old GUI method :
*
*Launch the application you wish to use to edit or view the hidden
file.
*Select ‘Open’ from the application’s File menu.
*An Open Dialog box will display.
*With the dialog box as the front-most window (you can click once in
the dialog box to make sure it’s in front), press command + shift + .
*The dialog box now will display any hidden files or folders within
its list items.
*You can toggle between the hidden files and folders being displayed
by pressing command + shift + . again.
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5ee40d25e98bebfc5dc48178435cd6ed6fb9d5cc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Forgotten iOS Restrictions Password/Passcode My dad put restrictions on my phone. He put it for many things that he didn't even know about. For example, downloading and deleting apps and Safari. So now that I want to do different things on my phone, I can't because my dad forgot the password.
Is there a way that I could take off the restrictions without deleting all of my things? If that isn't possible, then how can I restore my phone so the restrictions could come off? I heard that you can use find my iPhone someway so I could take off the restrictions but I'm not sure and I don't want to do the wrong thing.
A: There's a tool that can recover the restrictions passcode from a device backup, called Pinfinder. Follow the macOS instructions and download the tool which is a command line binary and it will recover your pin.
| Q: Forgotten iOS Restrictions Password/Passcode My dad put restrictions on my phone. He put it for many things that he didn't even know about. For example, downloading and deleting apps and Safari. So now that I want to do different things on my phone, I can't because my dad forgot the password.
Is there a way that I could take off the restrictions without deleting all of my things? If that isn't possible, then how can I restore my phone so the restrictions could come off? I heard that you can use find my iPhone someway so I could take off the restrictions but I'm not sure and I don't want to do the wrong thing.
A: There's a tool that can recover the restrictions passcode from a device backup, called Pinfinder. Follow the macOS instructions and download the tool which is a command line binary and it will recover your pin.
A: There's no way to do this without restoring the device. You won't break the hardware, but you will lose all your photos and music and apps and data from the apps - so be sure to connect to iTunes or save your photos and anything you can't lose to another place like a computer or a cloud service.
Quoting this Apple KB article titled "iOS: Understanding Restrictions (parental controls)"
If you lose or forget your Restrictions passcode, you will need to perform a factory restore to remove it.
.
.
Last Modified: Mar 25, 2014
The find my iPhone restriction is that if your iCloud account has the device locked, you will need to enter your iCloud password before the restore starts. This password is different from the PIN code that was entered when the parental controls were set up the first time.
If you really can't afford to lose the apps - you could have your parent write down on a piece of paper the pin codes they might choose now and then try entering them one by one to see if you can recall it. That is the best way to unlock, but you will soon run out of time to guess and entering / breaking that restriction by brute force isn't something that's viable.
A: Just go to Restrictions or Accessibility..idk..either way, get to Clear Browser Data and restrictions will be off.
A: There is a file that you can edit to change the Restrictions Passcode to anything you want.
First read the instructions at the following URL to help you understand the issues and reset process.
http://www.techbout.com/reset-restrictions-passcode-iphone-ipad-ipod-8365/
Download and install the following utility: iBotBackup
Do a complete backup using iTunes. Do not encrypt the backup.
Then in iBotBackup, open the file "com.apple.springboard.plist" under
\SystemFiles\HomeDomain\Library\Preferences. You can edit it in the XML editor, or copy and paste the text into TextEdit on the Mac and make the following changes.
1) Find all keys that begin with the string "SPParentalControl". I grouped them together to make it easier to find them next time.
2) Replace the following keys to have the following text values.
<key>SBParentalControlsBlocked</key>
<false/>
<key>SBParentalControlsBlockTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate</key>
<real>504390922.912126</real>
<key>SBParentalControlsEnabled</key>
<false/>
<key>SBParentalControlsFailedAttempts</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>SBParentalControlsMCContentRestrictions</key>
<dict>
<key>countryCode</key>
<string>us</string>
</dict>
<key>SBParentalControlPIN</key>
<string>1234</string>
Before letting iBotBackup reboot the iPad, I also deleted the following key entirely, just for good measure, since it appeared to contain the lockout time interval:
SBParentalControlsBlockTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
504390922.912126
*Select Restore options
You will now be asked to select from the following 3 restore options:
a) Reboot device after restore
b) Don’t Copy backup
c) Remove items from device that will not be restored
From these 3 options make sure that you select the first 2 options and uncheck the third option.
Then use iBotBackup to Restore this file back to your iPad / IOS device.
Your iPad will reboot. Go to Restrictions again, and enter your new PIN of 1234. You may need to enter the new pin more than once.
This worked for me !! It also taught me a few more things about Apple IOS configuration.
The following URL was also somewhat helpful in understanding what keys to change: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2667637?start=105&tstart=0
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b9fdf8f6e4feb5f2f23a625a3a1a5cbdef5ca66e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent iPhone from charging when plugged into a battery powered MacBook Air I would like to prevent my iPhone draining power from my MacBook Air while the laptop is not plugged in and relying on battery power. How would I do this? Note, there doesn't seem to be any "unpowered USB ports" on the MacBook Air, both of them seem to charge my iPhone even when the laptop is not plugged into a power socket...
A: I don't know if there is a software way to do that, but there is an hardware way:
*
*Use an unpowered USB cable (some company makes it, targeting audiophiles), might need an adapter to male lightning.
*Tape/Remove the power plugs on your USB cable.
Also, not exactly an answer to your question, but maybe to your use-case:
Build a binary, then export it to iTunes, then upload via wifi.
No debbuger and much less convenient tho.
| Q: Prevent iPhone from charging when plugged into a battery powered MacBook Air I would like to prevent my iPhone draining power from my MacBook Air while the laptop is not plugged in and relying on battery power. How would I do this? Note, there doesn't seem to be any "unpowered USB ports" on the MacBook Air, both of them seem to charge my iPhone even when the laptop is not plugged into a power socket...
A: I don't know if there is a software way to do that, but there is an hardware way:
*
*Use an unpowered USB cable (some company makes it, targeting audiophiles), might need an adapter to male lightning.
*Tape/Remove the power plugs on your USB cable.
Also, not exactly an answer to your question, but maybe to your use-case:
Build a binary, then export it to iTunes, then upload via wifi.
No debbuger and much less convenient tho.
A: Assuming the only other reason that you would connect your iPhone to your MacBook Air other than charging would be syncing. As far as I know there is no way to disable to charging aspect although you can work around it by syncing over WiFi rather than cable. Hope this helps!
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58bdb0bc627b00eb0aa67ed726005e0f947be299 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Open files using Text Edit by default I have a series of files with arbitrary names and extensions. Like:
*
*APW19981017.0151
*APW19981017.0306
*APW19981017.0477
*APW19981017.0507
*APW19981018.0410
*NYT19981017.0177
*NYT19981018.0098
*NYT19981018.0123
*NYT19981018.0160
*NYT19981018.0185
I want these files to open with an editor, like TextMate or Sublime Text, on double-clicking, without having to right-click and choosing the editor from applications.
Basically the Finder should open any unknown extension file with the text editor.
A: Since the file extensions are all different, you will need to batch edit all the file extensions in order to have TextEdit be used as default. Clicking "change all" on one would not work:
Assuming all the files are in the same folder and are text files, you can use a terminal command to batch edit the extensions so TextEdit opens them by default.
To do so, open Terminal and do the following, replacing the /path/to/folder with the folder containing these files:
cd /path/to/folder
for file in *; do mv "$file" "${file}.txt"; done
e.g. "APW.01" becomes "APW.01.txt"
Alternative, cleaner solution: a sequential rename adding .txt to each file.
cd /path/to/folder; i=1;for f in *; do mv "$f" "APW_0$i.txt";let i++; done
Before:
After:
| Q: Open files using Text Edit by default I have a series of files with arbitrary names and extensions. Like:
*
*APW19981017.0151
*APW19981017.0306
*APW19981017.0477
*APW19981017.0507
*APW19981018.0410
*NYT19981017.0177
*NYT19981018.0098
*NYT19981018.0123
*NYT19981018.0160
*NYT19981018.0185
I want these files to open with an editor, like TextMate or Sublime Text, on double-clicking, without having to right-click and choosing the editor from applications.
Basically the Finder should open any unknown extension file with the text editor.
A: Since the file extensions are all different, you will need to batch edit all the file extensions in order to have TextEdit be used as default. Clicking "change all" on one would not work:
Assuming all the files are in the same folder and are text files, you can use a terminal command to batch edit the extensions so TextEdit opens them by default.
To do so, open Terminal and do the following, replacing the /path/to/folder with the folder containing these files:
cd /path/to/folder
for file in *; do mv "$file" "${file}.txt"; done
e.g. "APW.01" becomes "APW.01.txt"
Alternative, cleaner solution: a sequential rename adding .txt to each file.
cd /path/to/folder; i=1;for f in *; do mv "$f" "APW_0$i.txt";let i++; done
Before:
After:
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37c794e13faeadff448868be2403d31f0260960f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I copy the full smb:// link from a file in Finder? I work in a Windows environment with many different shared drives. I commonly have Finder windows open to different shared drives and nested folders. I have a Service set up (that I created in Automator) that allows me to control-click and "copy full path" of a file or folder that I have selected in the Finder.
What I'm getting looks something like:
/Volumes/someFolder/someFile.docx
However, if I select that item in the Finder and do command-i, I see the full smb:// path that also includes the server name. I would like to copy this, so that it looks like:
smb://Server/someParentFolder/someFolder/someFile.docx
How can I create a service in Automator that will copy the entire smb:// network path to the selected file instead of the one that reports as being the full path?
If Automator won't copy the smb:// network path, is there another way I can create a utility that will do this?
A: You can right click the file, and choose "Get Info" - the popup window will have a property for Server which lists the full URL path with protocol (e.g. smb://example.com/Data/file.png)
| Q: How can I copy the full smb:// link from a file in Finder? I work in a Windows environment with many different shared drives. I commonly have Finder windows open to different shared drives and nested folders. I have a Service set up (that I created in Automator) that allows me to control-click and "copy full path" of a file or folder that I have selected in the Finder.
What I'm getting looks something like:
/Volumes/someFolder/someFile.docx
However, if I select that item in the Finder and do command-i, I see the full smb:// path that also includes the server name. I would like to copy this, so that it looks like:
smb://Server/someParentFolder/someFolder/someFile.docx
How can I create a service in Automator that will copy the entire smb:// network path to the selected file instead of the one that reports as being the full path?
If Automator won't copy the smb:// network path, is there another way I can create a utility that will do this?
A: You can right click the file, and choose "Get Info" - the popup window will have a property for Server which lists the full URL path with protocol (e.g. smb://example.com/Data/file.png)
A: Two years down the road this remains an annoying issue, and not finding a good answer to a similar question, I made an automator service that does this as part of the work needed to make an .inetloc file from the Finder.
Basically, it finds the mount point of the current share using the output of the mount command and matches it up to the 'mounted' path, then glues the two together like Iacopo mentioned above.
Here's how you could do what you want:
Pass the selected finder item to a shell script in automator (as a variable, not stdin) and use this script:
# Match the server address and share/subfolder to the mount point,
# using 'mount' command output:
FIRSTPART=$(mount | grep "$(echo $1 | cut -d '/' -f 1-3)" | sed 's/^.*@\(.*\) on.*$/\1/g')
# Glue on the rest of the path
SECONDPART=$(echo $1 | cut -d '/' -f 4-)
WHOLETHING=$FIRSTPART/$SECONDPART
# now we url encode it
# oneliner modified from http://stackoverflow.com/a/10797966
ENCODED=$(echo "$WHOLETHING" | curl -Gso /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --data-urlencode @- "" | cut -c 3- | rev | cut -c 4- | rev)
# and we need to change the %2Fs back into /s, and add the smb://
FINAL=smb://$(echo $ENCODED | sed 's/\%2F/\//g')
echo "$FINAL"
Then you can use a "Copy to Clipboard" action after the script. Should do the trick. If anyone wants the automator service to make the corresponding .inetloc file, that can be found here.
A: I think you could easily fix that whit a bit of applescript and "sed".
I don't know how your original applescript looks like, but I assume you have a variable that contains the path /Volumes/someFolder/someFile.docx as you said, let's call that variable thePath.
All you have to do is take thePath, remove /Volumes/ and add smb://Server/someParentFolder/
This code does that:
#the following line only removes /Volumes/someFolder, it could also add smb://ecc but it would look like a big mess, I think it's easier to add that prefix in a separate line of code
set relativePath to do shell script "echo \"" & thePath & "\" | sed 's/.*Volumes\/someFolder//'"
#now you add the smb prefix or whatever you want
set relativePath to "smb://Server/someParentFolder" & relativePath
then you are all set, use relativePath for your output instead of thePath and it should work, at least it worked for me :)
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94f7163df18796830fff1845873ca915d390ab77 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why Disk Utility full? My Disk Utility is full. My Disk is about 1T but now I only have no more 100GB to use.
I don't think I have used that much, the yellow one is belong to what? I want to erase some files to get more spaces but I have no idea what to do.
I think all of my folder is just 400GB. I think either Application or images, video are duplicate in somewhere. Please help!!
A: Open finder and use the go menu to open your home folder.
*
*press command 2 to get the folder list view
*press command j and turn on Calculate all sizes
Once you know how large these folders are, you can start determining where the "other space" is allocated. I like to sort by size, decreasing so that the biggest users of space bubble up to the top of the window.
| Q: Why Disk Utility full? My Disk Utility is full. My Disk is about 1T but now I only have no more 100GB to use.
I don't think I have used that much, the yellow one is belong to what? I want to erase some files to get more spaces but I have no idea what to do.
I think all of my folder is just 400GB. I think either Application or images, video are duplicate in somewhere. Please help!!
A: Open finder and use the go menu to open your home folder.
*
*press command 2 to get the folder list view
*press command j and turn on Calculate all sizes
Once you know how large these folders are, you can start determining where the "other space" is allocated. I like to sort by size, decreasing so that the biggest users of space bubble up to the top of the window.
A: Restart holding CMD-R to start from the Recovery partition, and run the Disk Utility from Recovery mode. Do a 'Check Disk' to see if there are any problems - and 'Repair Disk' if it finds any.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you have a backup of your disk before you do this.
Sometimes you can 'find' surprisingly large amounts of free space, by doing this.
Also make sure you always shut down your computer cleanly, and don't press-and-hold the power button to turn it off, EVER.
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85adc642bc139f0d348421d1b877e089634f6305 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to temporarily pause iCloud sync of photos? Is there a way to temporarily pause the syncing of photos over iCloud on an iOS device? Sometimes I'm on a 3G connection and don't want to waste my quota syncing photos or sometimes I want to speed up the download of other files by pausing iCloud. Is it possible?
A: There is no way to pause it, but you can disable it temporarily. The only downside is that you will have to redownload all the pictures when it is re-enabled. To disable cell data for photo stream, you can go into Settings>Cellular and find the Photos app. Simply turn it off.
| Q: Is there a way to temporarily pause iCloud sync of photos? Is there a way to temporarily pause the syncing of photos over iCloud on an iOS device? Sometimes I'm on a 3G connection and don't want to waste my quota syncing photos or sometimes I want to speed up the download of other files by pausing iCloud. Is it possible?
A: There is no way to pause it, but you can disable it temporarily. The only downside is that you will have to redownload all the pictures when it is re-enabled. To disable cell data for photo stream, you can go into Settings>Cellular and find the Photos app. Simply turn it off.
A: I had a slightly different situation...my wifi is shared with macbook air (laptop), 2 iPhones and an iPad. I upgraded my storage plan with iCloud and a lot of syncing was going on so I couldn't do much else online. This article helps pause iCloud syncing on a mac. I then put the phones and tablet into airplane mode. That freed up the wifi so I could at least work on my laptop. Before I go to sleep for the night I will re-activate everything and hopefully syncing will pick up where it left off and be done by morning.
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d7f7041ca5bfa8d472f325cc86aac33fda1cb972 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Wikis on OS X Server - How do I include or embed content from one wiki page on another? How do I include or embed content from one wiki page on another in Wiki Server on OS X Server?
The other wiki page resides on the same server.
This is known as an "include", Redmine has it:
Include a wiki page. Example:
!{{include(Foo)}}
or to include a page of a specific project wiki:
!{{include(projectname:Foo)}}
MediaWiki has it under the name of "transclusion":
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion
Commercial wikis like Confluence have it:
https://wiki.mq.edu.au/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=79103996
Edit: The pages are in the same wiki, actually. I don't want external content, it's just that a lot of information in one page has to appear exactly in other pages.
A: Ok. To anyone running up the same wall I did... I switched to an OpenSource Ruby on Rails app called WAGN http://wagn.org
It does this exact thing and much more.
| Q: Wikis on OS X Server - How do I include or embed content from one wiki page on another? How do I include or embed content from one wiki page on another in Wiki Server on OS X Server?
The other wiki page resides on the same server.
This is known as an "include", Redmine has it:
Include a wiki page. Example:
!{{include(Foo)}}
or to include a page of a specific project wiki:
!{{include(projectname:Foo)}}
MediaWiki has it under the name of "transclusion":
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion
Commercial wikis like Confluence have it:
https://wiki.mq.edu.au/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=79103996
Edit: The pages are in the same wiki, actually. I don't want external content, it's just that a lot of information in one page has to appear exactly in other pages.
A: Ok. To anyone running up the same wall I did... I switched to an OpenSource Ruby on Rails app called WAGN http://wagn.org
It does this exact thing and much more.
A: This is currently not possible in OS X Server wikis. To include content from other pages, that content must be copy-pasted into the desired location—you can't reference text from other pages.
A: When you edit a page you see an arrow in tools bar that permit you to insert link (external or internal).
For the internal link don't copy/paste url, cause it'll doesn't work if you migrate your wiki to another server.
Just use wiki tools.
A: Not sure if anyone else will run into this issue since this is an old post, but I was able to find out how to link to another page within a Mac server wiki. I know that doesn't solve embedding content, but at least for linking to another page:
*
*Click the little backwards pointing arrow button that allows you to insert links.
*Select "Search"
*Type in the name of the wiki page you want to link to.
*Select that page from the results of your search.
*You now have a link to your other page.
When you click on the link button, the page you want may also show up under "Recents" if it is a page you have visited recently.
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d12110a3856022a30ab9e727d6113fd2db0be559 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Command to close terminal window When I want to close a window I type exit :
mbp-thomas in ~
○ → exit
logout
[Opération terminée]
Then cmd + w to close the window.
Is there a way to do it with a little script like if I type quit it exit the session then close the window ?
A: *
*Open Terminal.
*Go to Terminal → Preferences….
*Select the Settings tab, then your profile, and choose the Shell tab.
*Set When the shell exits to Close if the shell exited cleanly.
| Q: Command to close terminal window When I want to close a window I type exit :
mbp-thomas in ~
○ → exit
logout
[Opération terminée]
Then cmd + w to close the window.
Is there a way to do it with a little script like if I type quit it exit the session then close the window ?
A: *
*Open Terminal.
*Go to Terminal → Preferences….
*Select the Settings tab, then your profile, and choose the Shell tab.
*Set When the shell exits to Close if the shell exited cleanly.
A: You could also simply quit Terminal by using Cmd+Q
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483ebf68f596dd4a870643a1523dfd5934459ca8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Watch World Cup on Apple TV How do you watch the World Cup on an Apple TV? Can somebody give me a tutorial with pictures? I do not have any cable subscription whatsoever.
I heard that you can watch it on ESPN on Apple TV, but I want to confirm that this is true.
Extra note: I have the Apple TV with the black console. (see below)
In other words, I have the latest version of Apple TV.
A: I do something different.
I am in Canada, so I am using the CBC's (free) World Cup app on my iPhone, which gives access to live streams of matches. Using AirPlay I stream those to my AppleTV.
The quality is pretty awesome.
You don't mention where you live, but maybe there is an app available in your region too?
| Q: Watch World Cup on Apple TV How do you watch the World Cup on an Apple TV? Can somebody give me a tutorial with pictures? I do not have any cable subscription whatsoever.
I heard that you can watch it on ESPN on Apple TV, but I want to confirm that this is true.
Extra note: I have the Apple TV with the black console. (see below)
In other words, I have the latest version of Apple TV.
A: I do something different.
I am in Canada, so I am using the CBC's (free) World Cup app on my iPhone, which gives access to live streams of matches. Using AirPlay I stream those to my AppleTV.
The quality is pretty awesome.
You don't mention where you live, but maybe there is an app available in your region too?
A: Depending on the cable provider and location, if you are a "member of household" which has a cable subscription to ESPN you should be able to use the ESPN app to watch the World Cup.
As an example: If you are a college student and your parents have Comcast cable subscription to ESPN. Have your "parents" set up an Comcast email account / login for you. You should be able to use that email/login & password to verify the cable account. Then you should be able to access ESPN app content when you are away from home.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/134568"
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81dc351ba120fdd49d4448074d1cde1cc870d438 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do splitters for mac combined mic/headphones exist? I am looking for a splitter that turns my 3.5mm headphone and mic port on my Mac mini into two 3.5mm headphone and mic ports or one audio out port and one audio out/mic port.
I want to be able to leave my speakers plugged in and use my headphones/mic at the the same time. I will turn off speakers when using headphones and mic, but don't want to keep reaching around to plug and unplug.
I was unable to find anything that does what I want. Most splitters seem to only split the combined port into one audio out and one mic port.
A: How about the "Wiretap" from Extrasensory devices?
(source: shopify.com)
| Q: Do splitters for mac combined mic/headphones exist? I am looking for a splitter that turns my 3.5mm headphone and mic port on my Mac mini into two 3.5mm headphone and mic ports or one audio out port and one audio out/mic port.
I want to be able to leave my speakers plugged in and use my headphones/mic at the the same time. I will turn off speakers when using headphones and mic, but don't want to keep reaching around to plug and unplug.
I was unable to find anything that does what I want. Most splitters seem to only split the combined port into one audio out and one mic port.
A: How about the "Wiretap" from Extrasensory devices?
(source: shopify.com)
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439dd5806f2de72b9db88023fc2cd9aab933b872 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use Macbook with 0% health? Is it possible to use macbook pro if the battery is at 0% health?
It is 1% at the moment and work fine when plugged, but what about if it goes to 0% ?
A: It doesn't matter when you plug it in. You can even remove (not advised though) the battery and still use it when the adapter is plugged in. I can imagine the battery does not work properly (or even work at all) when it hits the 0%
| Q: Is it possible to use Macbook with 0% health? Is it possible to use macbook pro if the battery is at 0% health?
It is 1% at the moment and work fine when plugged, but what about if it goes to 0% ?
A: It doesn't matter when you plug it in. You can even remove (not advised though) the battery and still use it when the adapter is plugged in. I can imagine the battery does not work properly (or even work at all) when it hits the 0%
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/134598"
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023626a8f32c8f4f2f0fd088552eaffaf85102b2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use the integrated gpu on MBP retina with Bootcamp? I came across this page which demonstrates that simply two lines need to be changed in order for Windows to detect the integrated gpu and use it: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer/Enabling-Intel-Iris-Graphics-For-Bootcamp-Users/td-p/2535800
Does the above work and if so is it possible to manually control whether the integrated or discrete gpu is in use? Also, would it automatically switch over from discrete to integrated and vis-a-versa when the load requirements change?
A: No, sorry. Apple disabled switching between the (integrated) IGPU and GPU.
I haven't tested what you posted, and I doubt it will work. (Still 1.3 years left on my warranty)
| Q: Is it possible to use the integrated gpu on MBP retina with Bootcamp? I came across this page which demonstrates that simply two lines need to be changed in order for Windows to detect the integrated gpu and use it: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer/Enabling-Intel-Iris-Graphics-For-Bootcamp-Users/td-p/2535800
Does the above work and if so is it possible to manually control whether the integrated or discrete gpu is in use? Also, would it automatically switch over from discrete to integrated and vis-a-versa when the load requirements change?
A: No, sorry. Apple disabled switching between the (integrated) IGPU and GPU.
I haven't tested what you posted, and I doubt it will work. (Still 1.3 years left on my warranty)
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c0cf7c76c6390f0d6d861157e26bc4e57658ea3e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Outlook 2011 - how to disable auto correction? How can I turn off the Auto Correct feature in Outlook 2011?
I was not able to find anything about that in the web.
Edit:
*
*Disabling all Auto Correcting in the Preferences as Buscar웃 suggested did not help.
A: The Auto Correct (spelling) is located in the Outlook Preferences.
Open the AutoCorrect and uncheck all.
Just in case we are talking about something else:
To turn off automatic spell checking, on the Edit menu, point to Spelling and Grammar, and then clear the check mark next to Check Spelling While Typing.
| Q: Outlook 2011 - how to disable auto correction? How can I turn off the Auto Correct feature in Outlook 2011?
I was not able to find anything about that in the web.
Edit:
*
*Disabling all Auto Correcting in the Preferences as Buscar웃 suggested did not help.
A: The Auto Correct (spelling) is located in the Outlook Preferences.
Open the AutoCorrect and uncheck all.
Just in case we are talking about something else:
To turn off automatic spell checking, on the Edit menu, point to Spelling and Grammar, and then clear the check mark next to Check Spelling While Typing.
A: Changing settings within Outlook didn't help. It appears that Apple has an overriding spell check, and when it's on, Outlook still automatically corrects words not in its dictionary, making them into embarassing spelling mistakes.
In my version of the Mac OS (10.9.4), the master switch is in:
- system preferences
- keyboard
-text
Other versions of the Mac OS (Lion?) apparently have it in:
- system preferences
- Language & text
- text
Thanks to answers.microsoft.com for pointing me in the right direction.
A: There are 2 places:
*
*Outlook > Preferences > Autocorrect: uncheck Replace text as you type
*System Preferences > Keyboard > Text: uncheck Correct spelling automatically
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515c4804132ac634690c1dead6d31dfc20fd127f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The iTunes Connect review process for submitted apps is not simple and linear I have two apps in queue for review by Apple.
I had uploaded two app recently.
App 1 >> New App uploaded on 5-Jun-14
App 2 >> Update for app uploaded on 4-Jun-14 (one day before of App 1)
Status I see is
App 1 >> In review
App 2 >> Waiting for review
I just don't understand, how can the app that I uploaded later is in review first? I've asked twice for expedited reviews and they were denied. This is something frustrating me.
Does any one know how app approval process goes?
I wanted the update to get approved asap.
A: Maybe apple prioritises new apps over updates.
If your update contains major bug fixes you can request to get it expedited.
You can checkout recent review times here: http://appreviewtimes.com
| Q: The iTunes Connect review process for submitted apps is not simple and linear I have two apps in queue for review by Apple.
I had uploaded two app recently.
App 1 >> New App uploaded on 5-Jun-14
App 2 >> Update for app uploaded on 4-Jun-14 (one day before of App 1)
Status I see is
App 1 >> In review
App 2 >> Waiting for review
I just don't understand, how can the app that I uploaded later is in review first? I've asked twice for expedited reviews and they were denied. This is something frustrating me.
Does any one know how app approval process goes?
I wanted the update to get approved asap.
A: Maybe apple prioritises new apps over updates.
If your update contains major bug fixes you can request to get it expedited.
You can checkout recent review times here: http://appreviewtimes.com
A: The web site AppReviewTimes collates information about recent app review times. Reviews are currently taking about one week.
Long waits for reviews are not uncommon. Multi-week waits are not unusual; unwelcome but not uncommon.
If you need a swift review, contact Apple and ask for an Expedited App Review.
Expedited App Review
If you face extenuating circumstances, you can request the review of
your app to be expedited. These circumstances include fixing a
critical bug in your app on the App Store or releasing your app to
coincide with an event you are directly associated with.
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ef42ba11cd730a4d88d8d6b918e4e9eb545eb4f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable system services to save data Is there any way I could disable the system services that use data when I am not connected to wifi?
A: Well, as long as your iDevice is not jailbroken, sadly there is no way to fully do that, but you can disable some of them here:
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > scroll all the way down to the bottom > System Services
(At least with the iOS versions up to 7)
| Q: Disable system services to save data Is there any way I could disable the system services that use data when I am not connected to wifi?
A: Well, as long as your iDevice is not jailbroken, sadly there is no way to fully do that, but you can disable some of them here:
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > scroll all the way down to the bottom > System Services
(At least with the iOS versions up to 7)
A: Just take out the SIM card and put it back in. That resolved the problem for me.
A: You can't select which system services have access to 3G from that page. Many system services' data use can't be switched off—only the services themselves.
A: Settings>iCloud>iCloudDrive>Use mobile data. Turn it off. All other cellular datas you need to turn off are already mentioned in the other answers.
A: I agree with user185442. This seems to be impossible. I spent a long time disabling data traffic for all non vital apps and services, including things like Music, iBooks, App Store and a large number of 3rd party apps. I still got 912 MB "System Services" usage in an afternoon. The culprit (apart from Apple's programmers) seems to be iTunes purchases, that probably somehow were downloaded over 3G, even though Mobile Data was disabled for iTunes & App Stores.
A: *
*Turn off the Cellular Data for the apps which are not important.
*Make sure the backup on cloud is not via celluar
*Go To "Reset" and click on "Reset Network Settings".
*After Resetting "General" option will not appear in your System Services.
| apple | {
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1de3fe1541d01c08bc2bd2bb53312fb02877c9d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I remove a preference (save password) set in the iCloud keychain? Months ago I was on a website and after logging in, Safari prompted 'Do you want to save this information to your iCloud keychain' or something. If I'd said yes, the next time I'd went to that site, my login information would already be filled in.
However, for a single site, I (think I)'ve set it to 'Don't remember login information' and I can't get that to change to 'remember login information'; At least, I do not know where to correct that setting.
So simply: How do I adjust a preference of 'Do not remember' to 'remember' or at least that preference?
Thanks!
A: The setting is in Safari, not Keychain.
Open Safari > Preferences... > Passwords. You will see a list of sites that is searchable. Under "Password" you will find some that say "never saved", select that item and click the Remove button.
Basically Safari keeps track of the sites that will have remembered credentials, but they are securely stored in Keychain.
| Q: How do I remove a preference (save password) set in the iCloud keychain? Months ago I was on a website and after logging in, Safari prompted 'Do you want to save this information to your iCloud keychain' or something. If I'd said yes, the next time I'd went to that site, my login information would already be filled in.
However, for a single site, I (think I)'ve set it to 'Don't remember login information' and I can't get that to change to 'remember login information'; At least, I do not know where to correct that setting.
So simply: How do I adjust a preference of 'Do not remember' to 'remember' or at least that preference?
Thanks!
A: The setting is in Safari, not Keychain.
Open Safari > Preferences... > Passwords. You will see a list of sites that is searchable. Under "Password" you will find some that say "never saved", select that item and click the Remove button.
Basically Safari keeps track of the sites that will have remembered credentials, but they are securely stored in Keychain.
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3916430f89d823e3158e23ee16e8531dd7022d7f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Who is the kid on Preview app icon?
*
*Who's this kid?
btw, I am also sure that, he's now not that much innocent, he grew up.
Its also noticeable that with release of Yosemite, the Preview app icon get changed.
A: Apple often uses employee's photos for things like this.
When filling iPhoto with content for on stage demos and later demos in their stores Apple will often request photos from their employees, through an open submission contest. Obviously not every photo gets used but more often than not the family photos you're seeing are shared from an employee somewhere within Apple. I've tried to find some of the old articles that outlined this process but they've either been buried away or removed at the request of Apple.
Knowing that, my best guess is this was a son, nephew, grandson, etc of an Apple employee around the time that Apple was looking to change the Preview icon.
Hardly a definite answer (we still don't know who he is) but it might be the closest we get.
| Q: Who is the kid on Preview app icon?
*
*Who's this kid?
btw, I am also sure that, he's now not that much innocent, he grew up.
Its also noticeable that with release of Yosemite, the Preview app icon get changed.
A: Apple often uses employee's photos for things like this.
When filling iPhoto with content for on stage demos and later demos in their stores Apple will often request photos from their employees, through an open submission contest. Obviously not every photo gets used but more often than not the family photos you're seeing are shared from an employee somewhere within Apple. I've tried to find some of the old articles that outlined this process but they've either been buried away or removed at the request of Apple.
Knowing that, my best guess is this was a son, nephew, grandson, etc of an Apple employee around the time that Apple was looking to change the Preview icon.
Hardly a definite answer (we still don't know who he is) but it might be the closest we get.
A: Using google image search, the only result is this twitter account but it doesn't seems to be him.
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74e5b48fb833299fa91a10352d3b5dc102089d83 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you add blank space to a photo in Mac Preview? I would like to add a title above or below a photo that is open in Preview. I know how to annotate the photo that writes over the photo. I want to add a new blank area where I can put the annotation.
A: The above methods didn't work for me - once saved the image would revert back to the old dimensions. Adding an extra step made it work.
*
*Open in preview
*Copy the image
*Resize the image to desired size using Tools > Adjust Size
*Paste back in the original image (and position it as necessary)
*Add two lines in preview that span the entire image
*Set the colour of the lines to fully transparent
The final image has the desired dimensions with blank space around it.
| Q: Can you add blank space to a photo in Mac Preview? I would like to add a title above or below a photo that is open in Preview. I know how to annotate the photo that writes over the photo. I want to add a new blank area where I can put the annotation.
A: The above methods didn't work for me - once saved the image would revert back to the old dimensions. Adding an extra step made it work.
*
*Open in preview
*Copy the image
*Resize the image to desired size using Tools > Adjust Size
*Paste back in the original image (and position it as necessary)
*Add two lines in preview that span the entire image
*Set the colour of the lines to fully transparent
The final image has the desired dimensions with blank space around it.
A: Here's the hack I did, maybe it will help other people:
*
*Get the size in pixels of what you want the canvas to be
*Generate an image of that size here: https://placehold.it/{W}x{H} (e.g. https://placehold.it/350x1136)
*Copy the image (Control click, copy image)
*Open Preview, press ⌘ command + N or File > New From Clipboard
*In the new image, select all ( ⌘ command + A) then hit delete
*Copy your original image(s) into your new canvas, reposition as needed
It's a hack, but it works. If you need anything more precise, then you'll probably need a proper photo editor.
A: A simplified method that works just as well:
*
*Open your picture in Preview.
*⌘ command + A and then ⌘ command + C to copy it to the clipboard.
*Go to Tools > Adjust Size... and enlarge the image to the overall size you want for the canvas. (I would make it bigger than you need as it is easy to crop at the end.)
*⌘ command + A and then delete to remove the enlarged image
*⌘ command + V to paste back the original, smaller image onto the enlarged canvas.
*Choose Convert when asked to "Convert this document to PNG" (as you can always convert back to JPG later).
A: As far as I can tell you can't do this in preview.
Searching in the Mac App Store for image editor returns quite a few apps that should let you do this.
I've done this with both Acorn and Pixelmator, but they both cost. I haven't tried any of the free apps that show up.
A: That means adjusting a bitmap canvas, which is really a full fledged photo editor kind of job, I highly recommend pixelmator.
Though if you don't care about image quality, one could have the text you care about in a window just above or below the picture and take a screenshot of the picture+words.
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d335518654e67e2774641f6c77881c906fcf0e1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Temperature logger compatible with Mac? I'd like to measure the temperature in my fridge over a few days and graph the results, since I think the fridge may be starting to fail.
So I'm looking for a cheap device which can run independently on battery power, which logs the temperature and timestamp every few seconds to a file. I want to plug this in to my Mac and retrieve the data. I don't particularly need software to generate the graph: I can do this with Numbers, Excel etc.
This "RC-4" unit pictured below is the sort of thing I'm imagining. However, it doesn't seem to be Mac compatible.
Can anyone recommend a suitable product?
Alternatively, I could set up a Windows installation for this device in VirtualBox, but I wonder if that would handle the USB drivers correctly. Can anyone offer any experience here?
A: The Go!Temp from Vernier works a charm for me! 50 USD with free software download.
| Q: Temperature logger compatible with Mac? I'd like to measure the temperature in my fridge over a few days and graph the results, since I think the fridge may be starting to fail.
So I'm looking for a cheap device which can run independently on battery power, which logs the temperature and timestamp every few seconds to a file. I want to plug this in to my Mac and retrieve the data. I don't particularly need software to generate the graph: I can do this with Numbers, Excel etc.
This "RC-4" unit pictured below is the sort of thing I'm imagining. However, it doesn't seem to be Mac compatible.
Can anyone recommend a suitable product?
Alternatively, I could set up a Windows installation for this device in VirtualBox, but I wonder if that would handle the USB drivers correctly. Can anyone offer any experience here?
A: The Go!Temp from Vernier works a charm for me! 50 USD with free software download.
A: If you are comfortable writing a few lines of Python, elitech-datareader seems to be an option to pull data from the RC-4 onto a Mac. I just ordered an RC-5 on eBay, and will update this answer once I'm able to test it out.
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a71487aff25d4456e5abd7f5649ee7d63a3302fd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to show all running launchctl daemons/agents? When I run:
sudo launchctl bslist
... it shows all the running /System daemons, but I have some running from /Library/LaunchDaemons and it is not showing those.
How can I show them all?
A: From launchctl's man page (apple seem to have misplaced the man pages so an external one is here https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/launchctl/)
launchctl bslist lists "Mach bootstrap services "
To get all jobs loaded into launchctl use sudo launchctl list
Daemons are not necessarily the former and other things but daemons are in the list
| Q: How to show all running launchctl daemons/agents? When I run:
sudo launchctl bslist
... it shows all the running /System daemons, but I have some running from /Library/LaunchDaemons and it is not showing those.
How can I show them all?
A: From launchctl's man page (apple seem to have misplaced the man pages so an external one is here https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/launchctl/)
launchctl bslist lists "Mach bootstrap services "
To get all jobs loaded into launchctl use sudo launchctl list
Daemons are not necessarily the former and other things but daemons are in the list
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078c21f54a9aaf6fa37016b220992726d3d5a471 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enter user/pass dialog for acrobat app install: no text visible, can't type into text boxes / press buttons (pic)
Has anyone ever seen this? I wish I could describe it better, but I hoped the picture could do the talking.
This is on a clients computer, running Mavericks, and as you can see trying to install Acrobat.
This dialog box pops up, which would normally ask you to enter your username and password, but instead no text is visible, and you can't enter text or click any buttons.
A: We've experienced one of these empty dialog / password request buttons. It appears when installing any types of software it seems (such as Vectorworks for example),
If you type in your normal password (the text won't show up), it will go away.
| Q: Enter user/pass dialog for acrobat app install: no text visible, can't type into text boxes / press buttons (pic)
Has anyone ever seen this? I wish I could describe it better, but I hoped the picture could do the talking.
This is on a clients computer, running Mavericks, and as you can see trying to install Acrobat.
This dialog box pops up, which would normally ask you to enter your username and password, but instead no text is visible, and you can't enter text or click any buttons.
A: We've experienced one of these empty dialog / password request buttons. It appears when installing any types of software it seems (such as Vectorworks for example),
If you type in your normal password (the text won't show up), it will go away.
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8404ef87956ef96aa6f2a09d0d1f11dc752ca629 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key When I boot my Macbook Pro 13" Retina (running newest Mavericks), it is showing me this error:
However! If I boot holding the ⌥ alt-key, it shows Mavericks as option. When I press ⌤ enter-key to confirm, it will boot normally. (I'm using this Macbook now to type this question).
Why won't my Macbook boot anymore? I did not use disk utility or something. What can cause this issue?
A: Boot normally then open System Preferences.app > Startup Disk. Select your drive and reboot. This should bless the drive and make it the default when powering on.
| Q: No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key When I boot my Macbook Pro 13" Retina (running newest Mavericks), it is showing me this error:
However! If I boot holding the ⌥ alt-key, it shows Mavericks as option. When I press ⌤ enter-key to confirm, it will boot normally. (I'm using this Macbook now to type this question).
Why won't my Macbook boot anymore? I did not use disk utility or something. What can cause this issue?
A: Boot normally then open System Preferences.app > Startup Disk. Select your drive and reboot. This should bless the drive and make it the default when powering on.
A: Better than that. I today tried this manipulation when I got the same error message : on startup keep pressing COMMAND + ALT + P + R to reset the NVRAM of your mac. Let the system restart 2 or 3 times (you know with the famous "Bammm" Mac sound). This should sort things out :)
A: Boot whilst holding ⌥ to open the boot selector, then instead of just pressing Enter on the Mavericks partition, hold ⌃ (control) as you press Enter and the ↑ arrow should change into a circular arrow indicating that this will be the default partition.
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aea9f239d16855b634ea0fe5fcc11e91ece0fd6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set MacBook Pro to use integrated video card during initial start up? When I turn on my macbook pro late 2011 I want it to use the integrated video card(not discrete one).
Is there some sort of setting I can set or a driver I can install or some bios setting to achieve this?
A: Yes, you can achieve that modifying certain EFI variable. I answered this other question with the full procedure to permanently disable discrete graphics card on startup.
| Q: How to set MacBook Pro to use integrated video card during initial start up? When I turn on my macbook pro late 2011 I want it to use the integrated video card(not discrete one).
Is there some sort of setting I can set or a driver I can install or some bios setting to achieve this?
A: Yes, you can achieve that modifying certain EFI variable. I answered this other question with the full procedure to permanently disable discrete graphics card on startup.
A: Your machine should boot with the integrated card by default.
*
*Under System Preferences > Energy Saver > make sure "Automatic Graphics Switching" or (depending on your OSX) "Better Battery Life" is checked.
*Download and install gfxCardStatus. Reboot your machine. Before you do anything else at login, from its drop down menu, check the PID causing the system to switch to the discrete card. Once you isolate the process, you can isolate the application causing it to do so using Activity Monitor.
A: You cannot force the OS X to use the integrated GPU if you have dual GPU (integrated + descrete). By default OS X will use descrete GPU when booting.
Anyway, if you were a victim of infamous GPU failure for MacBook Pros in Late 2011, Apple was fixing it for free. That program ended at the beginning of 2017.
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3928418cbbfb24caae91a6dddcb86b8f4786506f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Locate spinning pinwheel in Mavericks The loading-icon also known as Spinning pinwheel was located in an old Mac version at the following location:
/Library/Frameworks/OpenBaseManager.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gear.tif
In Mavericks, this location does not exist. Where (if not renamed by Apple to something weird) is this file located in Mavericks? I've checked ~/Library but it cannot find the gear.tif it used to be in the past.
A: Here is one
It is called the Wait Cursor :)
/System/Library/Frameworks/GLUT.framework/Versions/A/Resources
You can help looking for it, it does belong to the Cursor category.
| Q: Locate spinning pinwheel in Mavericks The loading-icon also known as Spinning pinwheel was located in an old Mac version at the following location:
/Library/Frameworks/OpenBaseManager.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gear.tif
In Mavericks, this location does not exist. Where (if not renamed by Apple to something weird) is this file located in Mavericks? I've checked ~/Library but it cannot find the gear.tif it used to be in the past.
A: Here is one
It is called the Wait Cursor :)
/System/Library/Frameworks/GLUT.framework/Versions/A/Resources
You can help looking for it, it does belong to the Cursor category.
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9b59235dbd3e5089aad5649a70c29b2b587fb490 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX: Stop autocorrect splitting words I am a programmer, and often I have words in all lowercase, not seperated by a space or hyphen.
In some *situations OSX will sometimes change infoclass to info class for instance
*context aware I'm sure
This feature has breached my annoyance ceiling. Is there anyway to turn it off?
I enjoy autocorrect, just not the word splitting feature.
A: Navigate to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Correct Spelling Automatically (uncheck)
If you wish to leave autocorrect on, but create certain exceptions, you can alternatively leave it checked and in the same pane add, for example:
Replace: infoclass
With: infoclass
This sets up an exclusion of sorts so that autocorrect does not change it to info class
| Q: OSX: Stop autocorrect splitting words I am a programmer, and often I have words in all lowercase, not seperated by a space or hyphen.
In some *situations OSX will sometimes change infoclass to info class for instance
*context aware I'm sure
This feature has breached my annoyance ceiling. Is there anyway to turn it off?
I enjoy autocorrect, just not the word splitting feature.
A: Navigate to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Correct Spelling Automatically (uncheck)
If you wish to leave autocorrect on, but create certain exceptions, you can alternatively leave it checked and in the same pane add, for example:
Replace: infoclass
With: infoclass
This sets up an exclusion of sorts so that autocorrect does not change it to info class
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bd57b0e74cf7dc4fa0e39533630b64c364f5d9ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina + 2 Thunderbolt displays + Apple Cinema Display @2560x1440? I saw this answer by griewei here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124479/81640
Unfortunately I don't have enough rep to comment.
What I would like to do is something similar e.g.
- one latest greatest Mac Book Pro Retina
- 2x Thunderbolt Displays
- 1 Apple Cinema Display via HDMI adapter etc.
@griewei said he was doing this and it was working; does anyone know if the Apple Cinema display is scaled at 2560 x 1440 in this configuration?
I know it was not possible in Mountain Lion but I heard it was possible in Mavericks
Thanks!
A: This is my current setup with a late 2013 MacBook Pro
| Q: Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina + 2 Thunderbolt displays + Apple Cinema Display @2560x1440? I saw this answer by griewei here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124479/81640
Unfortunately I don't have enough rep to comment.
What I would like to do is something similar e.g.
- one latest greatest Mac Book Pro Retina
- 2x Thunderbolt Displays
- 1 Apple Cinema Display via HDMI adapter etc.
@griewei said he was doing this and it was working; does anyone know if the Apple Cinema display is scaled at 2560 x 1440 in this configuration?
I know it was not possible in Mountain Lion but I heard it was possible in Mavericks
Thanks!
A: This is my current setup with a late 2013 MacBook Pro
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c229d9450441145fb32054626e070f07f9755a41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does the iMac charge my iPhone faster than the wall charger? I've noticed that my iMac at work (21.5", Mid 2011) charges my iPhone 5 about 2-3x faster than the included wall charger.
How does it do that?
A: If you have the USB 3 SuperSpeed (on your Mac) it can deliver up to 100 Watts.
For iPhone it will deliver 10 Watts (5 Volt x 2 Amps) which is more than your charger.
| Q: Why does the iMac charge my iPhone faster than the wall charger? I've noticed that my iMac at work (21.5", Mid 2011) charges my iPhone 5 about 2-3x faster than the included wall charger.
How does it do that?
A: If you have the USB 3 SuperSpeed (on your Mac) it can deliver up to 100 Watts.
For iPhone it will deliver 10 Watts (5 Volt x 2 Amps) which is more than your charger.
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c972ae7a246317fc572b1906a04d070e7405dac9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the easiest way to play webm in Safari? Perian doesn't work I want to play webm in my website but I don't know why it doesn't play. I installed Perian and ffmpeg but none helps. Is there any simple pluging/codec as the one existing for IE?
Well it actually plays the sound I don't hear anything! While I hear it in other browsers.
I also tried the following code but yet I can't hear the audio in Safari https://code.google.com/p/webm/downloads/detail?name=WebM%20Component%20Installer.pkg
| Q: What is the easiest way to play webm in Safari? Perian doesn't work I want to play webm in my website but I don't know why it doesn't play. I installed Perian and ffmpeg but none helps. Is there any simple pluging/codec as the one existing for IE?
Well it actually plays the sound I don't hear anything! While I hear it in other browsers.
I also tried the following code but yet I can't hear the audio in Safari https://code.google.com/p/webm/downloads/detail?name=WebM%20Component%20Installer.pkg
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4aacc0147bdd747967b20c35219ba2cede148ea1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Java 7 on PowerPc I have several powermac G4 computers running leopard, and would like to use them as a test environment for my Java 7 based applications. I have looked online a bit but could not find any way to install java 7 on a powerpc computer. I wouldn't mind using linux or other alternative operating systems if necessary to get java 7, but would prefer to stay on os x if possible,
A: I have successfully built and run Java 7 on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC, exactly OpenJDK version 1.7.0-internal-landonf_2009_12_16_12_54-b00, using these instructions.
| Q: Java 7 on PowerPc I have several powermac G4 computers running leopard, and would like to use them as a test environment for my Java 7 based applications. I have looked online a bit but could not find any way to install java 7 on a powerpc computer. I wouldn't mind using linux or other alternative operating systems if necessary to get java 7, but would prefer to stay on os x if possible,
A: I have successfully built and run Java 7 on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC, exactly OpenJDK version 1.7.0-internal-landonf_2009_12_16_12_54-b00, using these instructions.
A: PowerPC is still an official architecture for Debian. The package openjdk-7-jre is availible for powerpc and should run your Java 7 code.
A: Unfortunately, Java 7 is only available on OS X for Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) or later.
The Mac OS X System Requirements page for Java 7 states:
Mac OS X System Requirements
Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) or later.*
Administrator privileges for installation
64-bit browser
Note that installing Java on a Mac is performed on a system wide basis, for all users, and administrator privileges are required. You cannot install Java on a single-user basis.
A 64-bit browser (Safari or Firefox, for example) is required to run Java 7 on Mac OS X. 32-bit browsers such as Chrome do not support Java 7 on the Mac platform.
*Users with Mac OS X versions 10.6 and below should go to Software Update under the Apple menu to look for updates.
There are some very old releases available for PowerPC at SoyLatte, but these may not be suitable.
A: Powermac G4 is 32bit PowerPC/PPC based. PPC32 is only being maintained for Linux nowaday, but the good news is that the 32bit Java 8 from Azul Systems works on PowerMac G4 with Linux. We got OpenHab to work on this configuration.
This is not yet a free download but ask nicely enough and often enough and they make make it available.
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0029199196fd2e806d06390a77e23862d008c5c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install apps which require a newer version of iOS on a 1st gen. iPad? I have a 1st generation iPad and when I download apps it tells me “this requires iOS 6.0 or later” but when I go to update it tells me it's fully updated? Why is this happening, and is there any way I can fix it?
A: The latest iOS version your system supports is iOS 5.1.1. You won’t be able to update it to iOS 6.
Unfortunately, it means you won’t be able to install any app which requires iOS 6 or higher.
| Q: How to install apps which require a newer version of iOS on a 1st gen. iPad? I have a 1st generation iPad and when I download apps it tells me “this requires iOS 6.0 or later” but when I go to update it tells me it's fully updated? Why is this happening, and is there any way I can fix it?
A: The latest iOS version your system supports is iOS 5.1.1. You won’t be able to update it to iOS 6.
Unfortunately, it means you won’t be able to install any app which requires iOS 6 or higher.
A: iTunes 12.7 or later makes this answer into a no - you can’t do it.
Now that iTunes can not manage Apps, you’re not able to side load them over USB.
The only workaround for now is to install a precedent version of iTunes (see this answer) and follow the rest of this answer.
Here's the easiest way to download apps onto an old iPhone/iPad that doesn't support downloading apps through the App Store (if you're getting an error that you need a greater software version to download):
*
*On your old iPhone/iPad, go to Settings -> Store -> set Apps to Off.
*Go onto your computer (it doesn't matter if it's a PC or a Mac) and open the iTunes app. Then go to the iTunes store and download all the apps you want to be on your iPad/iPhone.
*If the iTunes on the computer and your iPad are both signed into the same Apple ID, and the iPad is connected to the internet, then go on your iPad/iPhone to App Store -> Purchased -> tap on an individual app you want to install.
*You'll get a message that says "The current version requires iOS 6.1 or later, but you can download the last compatible version," just hit Download.
This method should at least allow you to have most apps on your outdated device. Most of them will work, but sometimes even once you have the app installed on your it still won't run correctly. That's just tough luck. But in my experience that's not too common; apps usually work just fine.
A: As Édouard said: the latest supported iOS for your device is 5.1.1, and if an iOS application supports only newer iOS versions, then you can not install / update this application.
You could try to search for an similar application with the same features which supports older iOS versions.
Or you could try to contact the software developer / company and ask for a compatible version. I did that for my favorite media application, and they included my old device as beta tester... but this is unusual.
A: The how to fix it seems to be answered by the earlier posters. Here to the why:
When writing a program, one can choose pretty freely how compatible it is with prior versions of iOS. However, the more compatible it is, the less it can make use of newer versions and with that new features and new devices. In some cases, tone can only make it work with an older or a newer iOS, not both. So programmers have to move forward and exclude older versions of the OS.
When an app has been in the app store for longer, several versions of the app are often stored. So installation of the app on older devices works in some cases, but not necessarily always. If only your phone doesn't allow it, while others with the same phone and iOS version have no problems, there is something with your phone or your account - maybe also with your purchases. If others have the same issue, an older version may not be available out of security reasons, for lack of compatibility with newer online features or such.
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b94ae716c476ea6c777cbe9fef61f193396986e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to stop Connection Line from snapping to object in Keynote In Keynote I am inserting multiple connection lines to a single image. As soon as I drag one end point near the image the end point of the connection line snapped onto the image. I would like to have complete manual control over the positioning and depth of connecting lines. How do I stop Keynote from auto snapping my connection line?
A: As noted in the comments, to control the endpoints in the connecting line hold down the ⌘ while dragging the endpoint to the desired position on the object.
| Q: How to stop Connection Line from snapping to object in Keynote In Keynote I am inserting multiple connection lines to a single image. As soon as I drag one end point near the image the end point of the connection line snapped onto the image. I would like to have complete manual control over the positioning and depth of connecting lines. How do I stop Keynote from auto snapping my connection line?
A: As noted in the comments, to control the endpoints in the connecting line hold down the ⌘ while dragging the endpoint to the desired position on the object.
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46764fd02e85ab0b1729a8254e7ac4af07f98bd2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does Chrome starts fullscreen? With Mac OS Mavericks and Chrome 35 : everytime I start my computer, the first time I launch Chrome, it starts in fullscreen mode. If I exit fullscreen, quit Chrome and then restart it, it's normal. If I reboot (I don't check "open my apps on startup") and re-launch, it starts again in fullscreen.
Why does it do this ?
Thanks
Edit
Actually after further testing, it doesn't always start in fullscreen after a reboot, it seems pretty random.
A: You could perform the following steps:
*
*Navigate to chrome://settings
*Press the radio buttons next to Continue where I left off and under the On Startup header.
*Reboot as you've tried and it should remain non-fullscreen next time.
| Q: Why does Chrome starts fullscreen? With Mac OS Mavericks and Chrome 35 : everytime I start my computer, the first time I launch Chrome, it starts in fullscreen mode. If I exit fullscreen, quit Chrome and then restart it, it's normal. If I reboot (I don't check "open my apps on startup") and re-launch, it starts again in fullscreen.
Why does it do this ?
Thanks
Edit
Actually after further testing, it doesn't always start in fullscreen after a reboot, it seems pretty random.
A: You could perform the following steps:
*
*Navigate to chrome://settings
*Press the radio buttons next to Continue where I left off and under the On Startup header.
*Reboot as you've tried and it should remain non-fullscreen next time.
A: The way I solved this problem is by going to chrome settings and signing in with my google credentials... After that it stopped going into full screen mode automatically.
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1b5b30f2f341bd8e22f37ecc7b9303ad426ae963 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iMessage Pidgin plugin Is it possible to use your iMessage to contact other people on Linux, Android or Windows systems? Maybe via another XMPP client (Adium or Pidgin ...)?
What would I have to tell friends on Linux, Windows or Android so they can contact me on my iOS?
Does iMessage use XMPP, so I would have a worldwide reachable Jabber account already?
| Q: iMessage Pidgin plugin Is it possible to use your iMessage to contact other people on Linux, Android or Windows systems? Maybe via another XMPP client (Adium or Pidgin ...)?
What would I have to tell friends on Linux, Windows or Android so they can contact me on my iOS?
Does iMessage use XMPP, so I would have a worldwide reachable Jabber account already?
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eb4f0badb0a8a776e773cd039317b8aa4e711888 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Jabber XMPP chat client for iOS with push notifications Chat Secure is working on iOS with Jabber but it doesn't stay active in the background (just for 10 minutes) so it is not really an alternative to the internal iMessage Chat.
Which app is able to save Jabber messages offline and send them as push notifications as soon as you are online again?
I use iOS 7 on an iPad Air
A: Beejive Pro with Push is the solution !
| Q: Jabber XMPP chat client for iOS with push notifications Chat Secure is working on iOS with Jabber but it doesn't stay active in the background (just for 10 minutes) so it is not really an alternative to the internal iMessage Chat.
Which app is able to save Jabber messages offline and send them as push notifications as soon as you are online again?
I use iOS 7 on an iPad Air
A: Beejive Pro with Push is the solution !
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1d8d9bbb1ca77d96d05fe59387e67e98ed79107b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mirror number of unread mails in title bar Is there a way to show the exact number of unread mails from the Mail.app icon also in the title bar? Note that this is not the same as showing the number of unread mails in inbox, since I can change the folder to something else like a smart mailbox.
(A script which outputs this number would also be okay; I could write a menu bar item around this myself.)
Update: Alternatively, a script which outputs the number of unread mails for a user-definable smart mailbox is also okay. All example code I’ve seen so far only works for non-smart mailboxes.
A: You can obtain the number of unread items with the following AppleScript:
tell application "Mail" to get the count of messages of mailbox "INBOX" of account "Me"
As you mentioned you could write a menu bar item, you could use this AppleScript for it.
Alternatively, you can do this with Mail Unread Menu.
However, I'm not sure if it works with Mavericks.
| Q: Mirror number of unread mails in title bar Is there a way to show the exact number of unread mails from the Mail.app icon also in the title bar? Note that this is not the same as showing the number of unread mails in inbox, since I can change the folder to something else like a smart mailbox.
(A script which outputs this number would also be okay; I could write a menu bar item around this myself.)
Update: Alternatively, a script which outputs the number of unread mails for a user-definable smart mailbox is also okay. All example code I’ve seen so far only works for non-smart mailboxes.
A: You can obtain the number of unread items with the following AppleScript:
tell application "Mail" to get the count of messages of mailbox "INBOX" of account "Me"
As you mentioned you could write a menu bar item, you could use this AppleScript for it.
Alternatively, you can do this with Mail Unread Menu.
However, I'm not sure if it works with Mavericks.
A: Try this:
set unreadNumber to 0
set i to 1
tell application "Mail"
activate
get message viewer 1's selected mailboxes
repeat with thisBox in result
repeat until ((message number is i) exists) is false
if read status of (message number i of thisBox) is true then set unreadNumber to (unreadNumber + 1)
set i to i + 1
end repeat
end repeat
display dialog "You have " & unreadNumber & " unread messages."
end tell
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6830d10a2cac7e0247d0071cfc3ef8a4f53b1101 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the hardware that has this serial number? I have what appears to be an ear piece of some sort. Not sure. Serial number is 12731HOSXAP Model No A1221. What is it?
A: Looks like Apple iPhone Bluetooth headset.
Link to Apple site
| Q: What is the hardware that has this serial number? I have what appears to be an ear piece of some sort. Not sure. Serial number is 12731HOSXAP Model No A1221. What is it?
A: Looks like Apple iPhone Bluetooth headset.
Link to Apple site
A: This is the iPhone Bluetooth Headset, discontinued March 2009.
The support page for the hardware is:
*
*http://www.apple.com/uk/support/headset/
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eebc1ba3d4ad74c4fdbb2defb05ae8ccf872eb45 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to type a NORMAL tilde sign (~) in Mac? I have switched to macOS recently. The only thing that's disturbing me now is the missing the tilde sign (~). The closest thing I achieved to this sign is the accent tilde (˜). This accent tilde won't work with my current passwords.
I'm using a U.S International PC keyboard layout.
How do I make the tilde sign work on my Mac?
A: On a Finnish Mac keyboard layout (probably applies to some other international keyboard layouts as well) the tilde can be produced with the key with the symbols ^¨. That is on the left side of Enter and below the Backspace key.
When pressing Alt ^¨ and space the tilde ~ appears.
| Q: How to type a NORMAL tilde sign (~) in Mac? I have switched to macOS recently. The only thing that's disturbing me now is the missing the tilde sign (~). The closest thing I achieved to this sign is the accent tilde (˜). This accent tilde won't work with my current passwords.
I'm using a U.S International PC keyboard layout.
How do I make the tilde sign work on my Mac?
A: On a Finnish Mac keyboard layout (probably applies to some other international keyboard layouts as well) the tilde can be produced with the key with the symbols ^¨. That is on the left side of Enter and below the Backspace key.
When pressing Alt ^¨ and space the tilde ~ appears.
A: You type the accent tilde (shift `) then space: ~
A: For those readers who want to make tilde accents over characters instead of the NORMAL tilde sign (~) requested by Aborted, here is some possibly useful info:
OptionN applies a ~ to the next a, o, or n that you type (given that you release them first). In the event that your keyboard/keyboard settings do not afford you the character, more modified character options are available in the keyboard preferences option available from the toolbar in the upper right corner.
select "Latin" from the option on the left, then double click on your desired character to insert at your cursor.
Another option is the Accent Menu you get when you hold down the key for the base letter, as described by Apple here
A: In the Spanish keyboard, press the Alt key down and hit "ñ".
A: You might consider switching "U.S. International PC layout" to "U.S. layout"
A: On my Czech keyboard when using the U.S. input source it works to use shift+\ (button next to left shift, see the screenshot). I believe the same button is above the enter key on MacBooks from other countries.
When using the Czech input source with this keyboard, ~ is gotten via Option 5 (where it is printed on the key).
A: On a French, Spanish or German Mac keyboard,
type ⌥+N to write the ~ character then space for normal tilde or n for tilde over n.
A: I just pressed all bottons and found that if you press alt + ¨ you will get ~
A: The U.S International PC keyboard layout was the issue for me, as well as similar issues for other symbols (different versions of ^, and auto options for ' and " that I didn't want). Keyboard shortcuts were ineffective with this layout too, always outputting accent hildes. Changing to the Australian keyboard worked for me, and U.S. layout works too. Other types of keyboards should work too, though based from the other answers, the output for hilde (and also for other symbols) varies across different types of keyboards.
A: On my Macbook with Italian keyboard layout it works with OPTION + 5.
This is tilde as in "~", ASCII 126, that can be used for example in Linux CLI.
OPTION + N followed by SPACE produces the diacritic tilde : "˜"
That looks similar, but it's actually smaller and shifted upwards and is not the tilde ASCII but rather Unicode 0303 combining diacritic tilde https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0303
A: Try
hold option key down and type n
release option key and type n again ñ
A: Try using Shift+Page Down. I don't know Apple keyboard layout (I'm using a Hackintosh) but it works for me.
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3ac5ed8c8c8836696ece35040b1199af09302127 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I list only interface name and assigned IP with ifconfig in terminal Is there a way using only ifconfig to list only network interface names and their assigned IPs?
I am aware that I can do ifconfig | grep inet but this does not include the interface name (en0, en1 etc)
A: You could run ifconfig -l to get a list of interfaces, then iterate through them.
(bash)
for i in `ifconfig -l `; do echo $i; ifconfig $i | grep "inet " ; done
This will print the interface on one line, and the "inet " info on the next line. Note that if you only search for "inet", the "inet6" line will also show up.
| Q: How can I list only interface name and assigned IP with ifconfig in terminal Is there a way using only ifconfig to list only network interface names and their assigned IPs?
I am aware that I can do ifconfig | grep inet but this does not include the interface name (en0, en1 etc)
A: You could run ifconfig -l to get a list of interfaces, then iterate through them.
(bash)
for i in `ifconfig -l `; do echo $i; ifconfig $i | grep "inet " ; done
This will print the interface on one line, and the "inet " info on the next line. Note that if you only search for "inet", the "inet6" line will also show up.
A: Netstat vs ifconfig.
Netstat -i is closest I can find for what you want (it does bit more then you asked).
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lo0 16384 <Link#1> 7096 0 7096 0 0
lo0 16384 localhost ::1 7096 - 7096 - -
lo0 16384 127 localhost 7096 - 7096 - -
lo0 16384 localhost fe80:1::1 7096 - 7096 - -
gif0* 1280 <Link#2> 0 0 0 0 0
stf0* 1280 <Link#3> 0 0 0 0 0
en0 1500 <Link#4> 14:10:9f:f0:29:8c 380920 0 292385 0 0
en0 1500 mynet.local fe80:4::1610:9fff 380920 - 292385 - -
en0 1500 10.5.50/24 10.5.50.95 380920 - 292385 - -
en3 1500 <Link#5> 32:00:1a:e9:a9:a0 0 0 0 0 0
bridg 1500 <Link#6> 16:10:9f:0f:1e:00 0 0 0 0 0
p2p0 2304 <Link#7> 06:10:9f:f0:29:8c 0 0 0 0 0
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fefb2d9048fad1acd816620683c4a3be01d0b84a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable account on OS X Mavericks I have an account on my OS X Mavericks system that I want to disable so it cannot be used for login. I would not like to delete the account permanently but rather disable it temporarily.
I believe that this was possible in Lion – but maybe my memory plays tricks on me?
A: For Yosemite and newer, you can use
sudo dscl . create /Users/UserName IsHidden 1
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203998
| Q: How to disable account on OS X Mavericks I have an account on my OS X Mavericks system that I want to disable so it cannot be used for login. I would not like to delete the account permanently but rather disable it temporarily.
I believe that this was possible in Lion – but maybe my memory plays tricks on me?
A: For Yosemite and newer, you can use
sudo dscl . create /Users/UserName IsHidden 1
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203998
A: You can disable a user account by setting their shell to /usr/bin/false.
Either run chsh -s /usr/bin/false <username>, or change it in Users & Groups → Advanced Options. To change it back, run chsh -s /bin/bash <username>.
A: Changing the login shell does not stop the GUI login, but does stop shell / ssh login.
The answer is given by:
https://serverfault.com/questions/61214/how-can-i-disable-a-user-account-from-the-cli-with-mac-os-x-server#new-answer
With details on hiding given by:
https://support.apple.com/en-au/ht203998
pwpolicy can both disable and enable users, without losing their password
To disable the user
pwpolicy -u username disableuser
To enable the user
pwpolicy -u username enableuser
Use dscl to hide the user so they don't show on login:
sudo dscl . create /Users/username IsHidden 1
To show a hidden user
sudo dscl . create /Users/username IsHidden 0
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4af547f854b15a41d2801f19ec9ef260e861e0dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Removing Items from Reading List How do I remove items (individual or all) from Reading List on my iMac (OS X 10.6.8)?
A: I'm running OS 10.9.x right now, but I don't think it should be too different. When you open the reading list by clicking the little glasses (I think that's what it was- it may be under the same book icon as bookmarks), mouseover the item you want to delete, and you should see a tiny x in a circle appear in the top left of that item. Click to delete it.
| Q: Removing Items from Reading List How do I remove items (individual or all) from Reading List on my iMac (OS X 10.6.8)?
A: I'm running OS 10.9.x right now, but I don't think it should be too different. When you open the reading list by clicking the little glasses (I think that's what it was- it may be under the same book icon as bookmarks), mouseover the item you want to delete, and you should see a tiny x in a circle appear in the top left of that item. Click to delete it.
A: sidebar for reading list, has a tiny x to remove that one item
control-click it to get an option for delete all
found on https://discussions.apple.com/message/24035730#24035730
A: Hold "control" down as you click on reading list item. In the menu that appears choose "delete". You can delete more than one item using "shift" or "command" keys.
A: hold control key, click on item, select remove.
that works now after update
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40677a8baf8b9f79b788c23c70e1141bbc9b25c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restoring selected iOS apps and data to my new iPhone I made a full backup of my old iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1) with iTunes. I'd like to restore only some of the apps and app data to my new 5s from the iTunes backup. Is this possible?
I don't need much of the apps figuring in the iTunes backup just a few games along with their scores which were saved off my old iphone. Thx in advance.
A: Update: apart from iCloud selective app backup which implies that you need to fully restore the new iphone, you can use this to back up and restore only selected apps and app preferences that go along.
Otherwise create another backup of your old iphone, this time via using iCloud. (Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage). From the options on the next screen, choose which and app data you want to back up exactly. Then hit "Back Up Now".
Upon restore to your new iphone only the app data you selected during the icloud backup will be restored.
| Q: Restoring selected iOS apps and data to my new iPhone I made a full backup of my old iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1) with iTunes. I'd like to restore only some of the apps and app data to my new 5s from the iTunes backup. Is this possible?
I don't need much of the apps figuring in the iTunes backup just a few games along with their scores which were saved off my old iphone. Thx in advance.
A: Update: apart from iCloud selective app backup which implies that you need to fully restore the new iphone, you can use this to back up and restore only selected apps and app preferences that go along.
Otherwise create another backup of your old iphone, this time via using iCloud. (Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage). From the options on the next screen, choose which and app data you want to back up exactly. Then hit "Back Up Now".
Upon restore to your new iphone only the app data you selected during the icloud backup will be restored.
A: Even though this is an older post with a marked answer, I still want to address the question since this page ranks highly in search engines and it's a problem I've been actively working on.
Here's a link to a blog post I wrote about a tool I made for "filtering" a backup made in iTunes so it only contains the data you want to keep: https://deciphertools.com/blog/selective-iphone-backup/ We started the tool because people wanted to transfer Apple Watch Activity data without restoring an entire backup, and it's grown up from there.
You can filter by app, keeping data for only some apps, as the original poster wanted :)
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1726f8fadd4edbb4a6cd764de83365c793a2c0e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sync contacts from iPhone to Gmail I cannot sync contacts from my iPhone to my Gmail account. I have a standard Google account setup in my Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings (Exchange is not available to me). Also, my Gmail is set as my default account.
Note, my contacts are synced from Gmail to my iPhone, but not in reverse; meaning, any contact I add on my phone never makes in into my Gmail contacts. I'd like to not have to do this manually or through iTunes.
A: Check your default contacts account on your iPhone by tapping through Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Next, under the CONTACTS section, tap on "Default Account". Finally, tap your Gmail account from the list.
Now every new contact you create on the iPhone will automatically push to your Gmail account.
| Q: Sync contacts from iPhone to Gmail I cannot sync contacts from my iPhone to my Gmail account. I have a standard Google account setup in my Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings (Exchange is not available to me). Also, my Gmail is set as my default account.
Note, my contacts are synced from Gmail to my iPhone, but not in reverse; meaning, any contact I add on my phone never makes in into my Gmail contacts. I'd like to not have to do this manually or through iTunes.
A: Check your default contacts account on your iPhone by tapping through Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Next, under the CONTACTS section, tap on "Default Account". Finally, tap your Gmail account from the list.
Now every new contact you create on the iPhone will automatically push to your Gmail account.
A: New contacts go to iCloud account in iOS by default, but when I select ONLY the Gmail contact group in the Mail app new contacts appear in Gmail.
iPhone 5S, iOS 8.1.3
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a558cfb93bec64dc66ca3fb08cf5c2bfbb634851 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I set up a keyboard shortcut for switching input source? I have to change my language option very often. It is hard when I write something with combination of both "English" & "Bangla", because I have to change that option rapidly.
Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut, so that I can change my language option by it while typing?
I am using MacBook Pro with OS X.
Here is a screen shot:
Screen Shot of my Preference:
A: Go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Input Sources and define a keyboard shortcut there. As you only have two sources, set a single shortcut for one of the options, then pressing the shortcut will toggle the input sources.
| Q: How can I set up a keyboard shortcut for switching input source? I have to change my language option very often. It is hard when I write something with combination of both "English" & "Bangla", because I have to change that option rapidly.
Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut, so that I can change my language option by it while typing?
I am using MacBook Pro with OS X.
Here is a screen shot:
Screen Shot of my Preference:
A: Go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Input Sources and define a keyboard shortcut there. As you only have two sources, set a single shortcut for one of the options, then pressing the shortcut will toggle the input sources.
A: If you are using Apple's Bangla keyboard, you can type English by holding down the Option/alt key. If you are using Bangla Qwerty, you can do this by pressing the Caps Lock key.
A: Example configuration for Karabiner
{
"title": "select_input_source example",
"rules": [
{
"description": "Change input source by ctrl + 1/2/3 en/es/zh",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "1",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"control"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"select_input_source": {
"input_source_id": "^com\\.apple\\.keylayout\\.ABC$"
}
}
]
},
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "2",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"control"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"select_input_source": {
"input_source_id": "^com\\.apple\\.keylayout\\.Latin*"
}
}
]
},
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "3",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"control"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"select_input_source": {
"language": "zh*"
}
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
based on https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#example_select_input_source
A: grgarside's answer was great.
Here is an another solution for multilingual user.
If you want to switch among three or more input methods quickly or switching to a specific input method by shortcut directly, you may try IMEShortcuts (disclaimer: I'm the IMEShortcuts creator)
It allows you map a shortcut to a input method. You can switch to a specific method immediately by you-defined shortcut without using cmd+space to rotate input methods. It works well on OSX 10.9 ~ 10.12.
Please have a try, I'm glad to hear your feedback. Thanks
A: Follow the bellow steps for macOS Ventura:
*
*Go to your system settings.
*First add the input resource.
*Now add the newly added input source with custom keyboard shortcuts.
*Done. Now type your keyboard shortcuts and see if the input sources are toggling properly.
A: Open System Preference and click language and text instead of keyboard. You can find input source there.
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65410abcaeddd391e0a52534a7f7517e5aaaf71a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apply email rules to existing emails I've added a email rule in iCloud to copy emails with a specific from address to a folder. This is working fine, all new mails are moved to that folder. Is there a way to apply the rule also to mails that I've received before I crated the rule?
A: Use cmd + A to select all your mails, then right click on it => Apply rules
Or as Matteo point out : cmd+shift+L
| Q: Apply email rules to existing emails I've added a email rule in iCloud to copy emails with a specific from address to a folder. This is working fine, all new mails are moved to that folder. Is there a way to apply the rule also to mails that I've received before I crated the rule?
A: Use cmd + A to select all your mails, then right click on it => Apply rules
Or as Matteo point out : cmd+shift+L
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109120d51b3b9683c513267ace3d301bb951f1b7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get ambient light sensor value from ioreg I'm using the ioreg command line tool to try and read sensor information available on my computer (iMac). Particularly, I'd like to read the current value of the ambient light sensor. So far, I have been able to retrieve some general information regarding the sensor via ioreg -f -b -r -c 'AppleLMUController'. But the value is not there:
+-o AppleLMUController <class AppleLMUController, id 0x1000002d8, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 7>
{
"IOProbeScore" = 0
"CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU"
"IOProviderClass" = "IOService"
"IOClass" = "AppleLMUController"
"IOMatchCategory" = "IODefaultMatchCategory"
"IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"0516B563-B15B-11DA-96EB-0014519758EF"="AppleSMCLMU.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AmbientLightSensorHID.plugin"}
"IOGeneralInterest" = "IOCommand is not serializable"
"IONameMatch" = "ACPI0008"
"IOPowerManagement" = {"MaxPowerState"=1,"CurrentPowerState"=1}
"HIDServiceSupport" = Yes
"IONameMatched" = "ACPI0008"
}
I know that there are tools that can use IOKit to access this value using C, ObjC, etc - but I explicitly would like to use a bash one-liner to try and grab the value.
Has anyone been able to successfully do this via the command line and if so, how?
A: Read the current setting
defaults read com.apple.BezelServices dAuto
Write
defaults write com.apple.BezelServices dAuto -boolean true/false
| Q: Get ambient light sensor value from ioreg I'm using the ioreg command line tool to try and read sensor information available on my computer (iMac). Particularly, I'd like to read the current value of the ambient light sensor. So far, I have been able to retrieve some general information regarding the sensor via ioreg -f -b -r -c 'AppleLMUController'. But the value is not there:
+-o AppleLMUController <class AppleLMUController, id 0x1000002d8, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 7>
{
"IOProbeScore" = 0
"CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU"
"IOProviderClass" = "IOService"
"IOClass" = "AppleLMUController"
"IOMatchCategory" = "IODefaultMatchCategory"
"IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"0516B563-B15B-11DA-96EB-0014519758EF"="AppleSMCLMU.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AmbientLightSensorHID.plugin"}
"IOGeneralInterest" = "IOCommand is not serializable"
"IONameMatch" = "ACPI0008"
"IOPowerManagement" = {"MaxPowerState"=1,"CurrentPowerState"=1}
"HIDServiceSupport" = Yes
"IONameMatched" = "ACPI0008"
}
I know that there are tools that can use IOKit to access this value using C, ObjC, etc - but I explicitly would like to use a bash one-liner to try and grab the value.
Has anyone been able to successfully do this via the command line and if so, how?
A: Read the current setting
defaults read com.apple.BezelServices dAuto
Write
defaults write com.apple.BezelServices dAuto -boolean true/false
A: You can't get the value of ambient light sensor from ioreg.
For that, first you should install the system management controller smc .exec then run it using terminal. After that run this command:
./smc -l
It shows the list of all sensors which exist on your Mac. After that try to find the key which is ALSL - this key has the actual value of light ambient sensor of every mac.
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ccce7fa042b01d00ab7a7232a13ea2675432de43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Finder does not show files in folders When I open Finder all folders seem to be empty. Checking with the console shows that all files are there. This is also true if I try to open a file from within an application using the File menu.
If I paste the full path of the file into the text field of the file dialog, the file gets opened.
If I jump to a subfolder with Cmd-Shift-G that works fine. But again the folder is empty.
Any ideas what's missing?
A: After all this turned out to be a side effect from com.apple.IconServicesAgent going wild and eating up lots of CPU.
Running mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices in Terminal solved the problem immediately.
| Q: Finder does not show files in folders When I open Finder all folders seem to be empty. Checking with the console shows that all files are there. This is also true if I try to open a file from within an application using the File menu.
If I paste the full path of the file into the text field of the file dialog, the file gets opened.
If I jump to a subfolder with Cmd-Shift-G that works fine. But again the folder is empty.
Any ideas what's missing?
A: After all this turned out to be a side effect from com.apple.IconServicesAgent going wild and eating up lots of CPU.
Running mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices in Terminal solved the problem immediately.
A: It my case, it was Finder itself that was going wild and eating up lots of CPU. I have no idea why. But killing and restarting the process fixed the issue of empty folders displaying.
In general, I suppose it's a good idea to go into Activity Monitor, see what's eating up CPU and restart anything that's using an unreasonably high level.
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32e2708914033760056691ac263c2cec0907d03f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Developer" option is not available under Settings menu. Why? I am missing a Developer option under Settings menu. What do I need to do to make it appear?
A: I found that by powering off the device, and turning it back on while connected to the machine running Xcode 6.3, the Developer settings menu returned for my iOS 8.3 devices.
| Q: "Developer" option is not available under Settings menu. Why? I am missing a Developer option under Settings menu. What do I need to do to make it appear?
A: I found that by powering off the device, and turning it back on while connected to the machine running Xcode 6.3, the Developer settings menu returned for my iOS 8.3 devices.
A: In versions of Xcode prior to Xcode 6, you can connect the device to your computer over USB, open Xcode → Organizer and select Use for Development.
Use for Development was removed from Xcode in Xcode 6 and later. It is no longer possible to do this for devices using Xcode 6 or later, even with the Devices page (⇧⌘2).
A: Apple removed the device list from Organizer in Xcode 6. Try going to Window->Devices. You should see your attached device in the list and from there you can enable development.
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9c40733e7864a96ff047ff4173c19daaf033ffcb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the quickest way to send some text from desktop\laptop to iPhone? I usually send emails to myself, but I wonder if there is a better way to share something quickly from my PC\laptop to iPhone.
A: I use Messages - it is built-in to OSX and you can drag and drop text and images really easily.
| Q: What is the quickest way to send some text from desktop\laptop to iPhone? I usually send emails to myself, but I wonder if there is a better way to share something quickly from my PC\laptop to iPhone.
A: I use Messages - it is built-in to OSX and you can drag and drop text and images really easily.
A: I usually use notes or reminders which sync over iCloud. If you are using Windows + iPhone you could try using something like Evernote. It avoids your mailbox from cluttering up, but I doubt it's any quicker than mailing.
A: If you are on Mavericks, notes has iCloud support.
However, I prefer Evernote. It's available for all major platforms.
A: Scribe
I haven't used Scribe, but it does look promising. Install their app on your Mac and its companion app on your iPhone, then press command shift X to send the text selected on your Mac to your iPhone. The iOS app keeps a history of sent items too.
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e739178193a18af30c31025c033e0641c18c00a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using iPhoto with an already existing folder I have a pretty big (~60G) already existing folder of photos residing in /Users/ME/OndeDrive/Pictures . I want to be able to use iPhotos with that folder without (a) changing its structure, (b) creating copies of all the files (which is what is done if I do "Import to library"). Is this possible?
A: You can create a referenced library.
Hold ⌥ when launching iPhoto and choose Create New, then select a location for storing the library. This library won't hold the masters but will hold versions and metadata.
Upon opening this library, go to Preferences → Advanced and uncheck Copy items to the iPhoto library. This will make any new imported photos stay in their original location and only be referenced in the library.
| Q: Using iPhoto with an already existing folder I have a pretty big (~60G) already existing folder of photos residing in /Users/ME/OndeDrive/Pictures . I want to be able to use iPhotos with that folder without (a) changing its structure, (b) creating copies of all the files (which is what is done if I do "Import to library"). Is this possible?
A: You can create a referenced library.
Hold ⌥ when launching iPhoto and choose Create New, then select a location for storing the library. This library won't hold the masters but will hold versions and metadata.
Upon opening this library, go to Preferences → Advanced and uncheck Copy items to the iPhoto library. This will make any new imported photos stay in their original location and only be referenced in the library.
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2a97423c83321db834444440e727d6fc49bd1c1e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the Mac Mini Support a 4K Monitor? I'm assembling my workplace and I'm looking into Mac Mini MD387LL along with some 4k monitor like this one, Samsung 28-inch UHD.
Problem is that I'm not sure if the Mac Mini will support this humongous 4k resolution. Does anyone has rock solid information on that?
A: I can confirm 100% that you CAN in fact get 3840x2160 @30Hz 4K from a Late 2012 mini running 10.10.5 using only one MDP to DP cable. I'm writing this using a 2012 Mac mini (Intel HD4000 internal graphics card + 8G ram) with Dell P2815Q 4K monitor. How I achieved this: 1) Used Mini Displayport to Displayport cable that came with the monitor - MDP/thunderbolt from Mac Mini to DP on display. 2) Ran the Mac Pixel Clock Patch for Yosemite: https://code.google.com/p/mac-pixel-clock-patch/source/clones 3) Downloaded and configured SwitchResX, set the resolution, saved and rebooted. Hope the info helps. Enjoy!
| Q: Can the Mac Mini Support a 4K Monitor? I'm assembling my workplace and I'm looking into Mac Mini MD387LL along with some 4k monitor like this one, Samsung 28-inch UHD.
Problem is that I'm not sure if the Mac Mini will support this humongous 4k resolution. Does anyone has rock solid information on that?
A: I can confirm 100% that you CAN in fact get 3840x2160 @30Hz 4K from a Late 2012 mini running 10.10.5 using only one MDP to DP cable. I'm writing this using a 2012 Mac mini (Intel HD4000 internal graphics card + 8G ram) with Dell P2815Q 4K monitor. How I achieved this: 1) Used Mini Displayport to Displayport cable that came with the monitor - MDP/thunderbolt from Mac Mini to DP on display. 2) Ran the Mac Pixel Clock Patch for Yosemite: https://code.google.com/p/mac-pixel-clock-patch/source/clones 3) Downloaded and configured SwitchResX, set the resolution, saved and rebooted. Hope the info helps. Enjoy!
A: MD387LL has Intel HD Graphics 4000, which uses DisplayPort 1.1, with 8 Gbps maximum throughput. In theory, this could support 4k resolution at 30 Hz (Edit: or maybe not, see comment below) but in practice 4k support generally requires 15 Gbps.
So the answer is: unless you write your own graphics driver, 2560x1600 is the highest you can go.
A: Did 4k on mac mini late 2009. The strange problem anohter monitor had to be connected to make icons bigger to fit the 4k, this was solved to connecting two cables to the same 4k screen, and on the screen select the port providing 4k. :) Best mini computer I ever owned back then.
A: In fact if your mac mini support multi-monitor configuration (i.e. 2 monitors) and allows spanning your desktop then you can archive 4k@60Hz using 2 hdmi cables. Samsung UHD has 2 hdmi ports and it supports PBP mode (http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/skp/faq/1061869). Samsung UHD monitor emulates 2 monitors (picture-by-picture mode) with resolution (1920x2160). As a result one hdmi cable is resposible for left part of the picture, anoher for the right part. I have not tried this on mac but yesterday tested it on PC, going to test on mac on Monday.
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a69a54d23578046a323d6185e70e16fcd3db36c2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable "changing a repeating event" dialog in Mac calendar? I have a number of repeating events in Calendar (formerly iCal).
I often make changes to individual ones on-the-go, but every time it asks me this:
How can I make the default behaviour change a single event without that dialog appearing?
I suspect there could be a Terminal command I can run.
BONUS: Then, if I want to edit the series, can I still use the Get Info interface?
A: Unfortunately it cannot be settled up using CLI settings
defaults read com.apple.iCal
have no option to change default behaviour. But you can find useful a scripting with AppleScript
| Q: How to disable "changing a repeating event" dialog in Mac calendar? I have a number of repeating events in Calendar (formerly iCal).
I often make changes to individual ones on-the-go, but every time it asks me this:
How can I make the default behaviour change a single event without that dialog appearing?
I suspect there could be a Terminal command I can run.
BONUS: Then, if I want to edit the series, can I still use the Get Info interface?
A: Unfortunately it cannot be settled up using CLI settings
defaults read com.apple.iCal
have no option to change default behaviour. But you can find useful a scripting with AppleScript
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bbd955a2fd526f48397838d28ad9d249dc44ebc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mirror my iPad 2 screen on my Windows PC? I can't find any app which mirrors my iPad's screen to my Windows computer screen. Since iDisplay has been removed from the App Store I have no other ideas. Any recomendations (up to $15) for a solution to mirror my iPad screen on my Windows PC display?
A: Try out Reflector by Air Squirrels.
It works very well on the Mac, has a windows version and also appears to have a trial version. You can make sure it works before spending money on a license.
| Q: Mirror my iPad 2 screen on my Windows PC? I can't find any app which mirrors my iPad's screen to my Windows computer screen. Since iDisplay has been removed from the App Store I have no other ideas. Any recomendations (up to $15) for a solution to mirror my iPad screen on my Windows PC display?
A: Try out Reflector by Air Squirrels.
It works very well on the Mac, has a windows version and also appears to have a trial version. You can make sure it works before spending money on a license.
A: Try annotate.net. It works on both PC and Mac has a full featured 7 day free trial and even after the expiration of the trial, allows u 10 minutes of free Airplay indefinitely. Can be used across multiple computers unlike Airserver or Reflector which is tied to a single computer.
A: I recommend to use following:
http://www.x-mirage.com/x-mirage/
That helps a lot during development and testing
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1d2459612d4cd97573daffec2c29c8dcf84b1f87 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple has ditched matte laptop displays: Display replacement options? I was thinking about buying a MacBook Pro for coding while not at home, but suddenly realized that they all come with glossy displays. The glare/mirror effect is utterly unacceptable for me. Are there good and easy ways to fix this?
By good I mean:
*
*No voiding of warranty
*No other nasty visual side-effects (apart from slightly reducing overall brightness, which is OK)
*No noticeable additional weight
By easy I mean, either somebody else would install it, or it may be installed by a very silly guy like me with near-zero probability of breaking anything. :)
A: Apple sells an Anti-glare filter on the online Apple Store.
An alternative is the Moshi iVisor which you can find on Amazon.
| Q: Apple has ditched matte laptop displays: Display replacement options? I was thinking about buying a MacBook Pro for coding while not at home, but suddenly realized that they all come with glossy displays. The glare/mirror effect is utterly unacceptable for me. Are there good and easy ways to fix this?
By good I mean:
*
*No voiding of warranty
*No other nasty visual side-effects (apart from slightly reducing overall brightness, which is OK)
*No noticeable additional weight
By easy I mean, either somebody else would install it, or it may be installed by a very silly guy like me with near-zero probability of breaking anything. :)
A: Apple sells an Anti-glare filter on the online Apple Store.
An alternative is the Moshi iVisor which you can find on Amazon.
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aa9a542000747e3df2580ac07250fe9bc5f15ef0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does hard reset downgrade device? I just "repaired" an iPod Touch, 4th generation (MC540BT). A friend of mine didn't use it for a year because it didn't charge. After playing with it a little; I finally managed to turn it on and it worked. She (my friend) told me that it didn't work as soon as she updated it to 6.0.1 and asked me if I can downgrade it to the previous version. I told her about hard reset but I want to know if hard reset brings it back to the iOS version that it left the factory with.
In less words:
Does a hard reset downgrade device or allow me to downgrade?
A: No - If by hard reset you mean 'restoring', it will restore the device to the most recent version of iOS that is able to be installed on the device. Restoring will only let you install the last version—there's no choice.
| Q: Does hard reset downgrade device? I just "repaired" an iPod Touch, 4th generation (MC540BT). A friend of mine didn't use it for a year because it didn't charge. After playing with it a little; I finally managed to turn it on and it worked. She (my friend) told me that it didn't work as soon as she updated it to 6.0.1 and asked me if I can downgrade it to the previous version. I told her about hard reset but I want to know if hard reset brings it back to the iOS version that it left the factory with.
In less words:
Does a hard reset downgrade device or allow me to downgrade?
A: No - If by hard reset you mean 'restoring', it will restore the device to the most recent version of iOS that is able to be installed on the device. Restoring will only let you install the last version—there's no choice.
A: If you want to downgrade your device, you have to save SHSH (see below) with third-party software like TinyUmbrella to make such restores possible.
What is SHSH?
Every time you install or upgrade your iOS, installer asks Apple if this installation is possible for this device. This answer can't be generated (Apple closed this bug). When Apple releases new iOS version for given device, answer to install outdated iOS version be always negative.
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654be1edcbe61cc5377952e32cf25369eea1a3db | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTerm2, unicode and sympy In my both Mac (OS X Mavericks) and Ubuntu machine, I have installed sympy that is a python library for symbolic mathematics. Part of sympy is the pretty print functionality that uses unicode characters to prettify symbolic expressions in the command-line environments with unicode support. For example, in my Ubuntu machine and in its gnome-terminal running the following code
from sympy import *
x = Symbol("x")
pprint(Integral(sqrt(1/x), x))
renders to
However, the same command in OS X with iTerm2 (that should support unicode) results in
I'm using sympy 0.7.5 that I have made from source with the latest build of iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20140518). Is there anything that I miss here? The lead developer of sympy is one of the StackExchange network. It would be great to know his opinion on this one.
A: I finally found out what the problem is. The problem was not with the terminal emulators themselves as both OSX Terminal and iTerm2 were using UTF-8 by default. It turned out one has to inform python explicitly that the terminal is capable of handling unicode by way of
export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
Credits to this stackoverflow answer.
| Q: iTerm2, unicode and sympy In my both Mac (OS X Mavericks) and Ubuntu machine, I have installed sympy that is a python library for symbolic mathematics. Part of sympy is the pretty print functionality that uses unicode characters to prettify symbolic expressions in the command-line environments with unicode support. For example, in my Ubuntu machine and in its gnome-terminal running the following code
from sympy import *
x = Symbol("x")
pprint(Integral(sqrt(1/x), x))
renders to
However, the same command in OS X with iTerm2 (that should support unicode) results in
I'm using sympy 0.7.5 that I have made from source with the latest build of iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20140518). Is there anything that I miss here? The lead developer of sympy is one of the StackExchange network. It would be great to know his opinion on this one.
A: I finally found out what the problem is. The problem was not with the terminal emulators themselves as both OSX Terminal and iTerm2 were using UTF-8 by default. It turned out one has to inform python explicitly that the terminal is capable of handling unicode by way of
export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
Credits to this stackoverflow answer.
A: Make sure your terminal in the iTerm preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal supports Unicode (the character encoding should be "Unicode (UTF-8)". SymPy will choose ASCII if the terminal does not report that it supports Unicode.
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08da18df710c363187d65ba5c6051ddf2740ec40 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a hotkey to Search Wikipedia for "x"? This is a question about keyboard shortcuts. I think it's quite cool that you can put a word into the spotlight and one of the options is to search Wikipedia for it, but to get that functionality takes a lot of typing or mouse movement. Is there a fast way to do it?
Example: CMD-Space opens the spotlight, I type tidal basin. About 30 files, most irrelevant appear, and at the bottom is the wikipedia search. I can use the mouse to click on it, or I can hit ctrl-n many times to get there and then return. Is there a faster way to do this?
A: In the default setup for Spotlight, Search Wikipedia is the second to last option, Spotlight Preferences being the last option. You could invoke Spotlight, press Fn + -> (or End if you have a full size keyboard with that key) then up and Enter.
Very little hand pivoting is necessary to accomplish this.
| Q: Is there a hotkey to Search Wikipedia for "x"? This is a question about keyboard shortcuts. I think it's quite cool that you can put a word into the spotlight and one of the options is to search Wikipedia for it, but to get that functionality takes a lot of typing or mouse movement. Is there a fast way to do it?
Example: CMD-Space opens the spotlight, I type tidal basin. About 30 files, most irrelevant appear, and at the bottom is the wikipedia search. I can use the mouse to click on it, or I can hit ctrl-n many times to get there and then return. Is there a faster way to do this?
A: In the default setup for Spotlight, Search Wikipedia is the second to last option, Spotlight Preferences being the last option. You could invoke Spotlight, press Fn + -> (or End if you have a full size keyboard with that key) then up and Enter.
Very little hand pivoting is necessary to accomplish this.
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69aa22dd11ec19e9f73bc27b746bd25aba1a45a9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to search by partial phone number in iOS 7? I'm trying to search my contacts to match a partial number (four digits) to a name. Is this possible?
A: You can search your contacts by partial phone number using Spotlight.
| Q: Is there a way to search by partial phone number in iOS 7? I'm trying to search my contacts to match a partial number (four digits) to a name. Is this possible?
A: You can search your contacts by partial phone number using Spotlight.
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4ef77374f4fce0589c860e91ec08929632d96ac9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Since the newest Airport Extreme routers don't support SNMP, how can I monitor bandwidth usage on my network? I am currently using about 600gb a month and Comcast is about to start charging me for anything over 300gb. I need to find out which devices are using the most bandwidth so I can get it under control.
The newest airport extremes (the tower version that supports 802.11ac) do not support SNMP. Is there any other way to monitor bandwidth usage by device on my network?
A: PFSense, DD-WRT/Tomato, Peplink, or some other router in front of the Apple AirPort Extreme will likely be the best solution. Don't think there's an easier way unless you're running on a single machine for your whole network (not likely). All the routers I mentioned support realtime traffic monitoring. NetGear Nighthawks have this capability too.
| Q: Since the newest Airport Extreme routers don't support SNMP, how can I monitor bandwidth usage on my network? I am currently using about 600gb a month and Comcast is about to start charging me for anything over 300gb. I need to find out which devices are using the most bandwidth so I can get it under control.
The newest airport extremes (the tower version that supports 802.11ac) do not support SNMP. Is there any other way to monitor bandwidth usage by device on my network?
A: PFSense, DD-WRT/Tomato, Peplink, or some other router in front of the Apple AirPort Extreme will likely be the best solution. Don't think there's an easier way unless you're running on a single machine for your whole network (not likely). All the routers I mentioned support realtime traffic monitoring. NetGear Nighthawks have this capability too.
A: Comcast offers a Usage Data Meter on their website, but that has limited capability and shows only totals.
To continuously monitor usage by application you can use a number of 3d party apps, including:
*
*Wireshark
*SurplusMeter
To stay away from 3d party apps use the build in tools:
*
*Activity Monitor on your Mac.
will show you usage by application and cumulative total between shutting down the network.
If you want to be more analytical you can use your Terminal:
Netstat -i will give you usefully information
I recommend:
*
*Using the activity monitor to see what is going on
*Use the Comcast to see the cumulative total between billing periods.
A: You can always add a pfSense box (or other type of router / firewall) in between your LAN and your internet connection.
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d3797851917a1788b881b774a9fe84da2d23f5ed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Wifi: not configured I was removing a wifi network and after removing it, my wifi icon is blank, showing a cross over it, while i hover over it which says Not Configured, I googled the problem but didn't find any solution to the problem, I tried reinstalling mavericks, while everything (user, setting and everything remain same) the problem remain same too. What can be the problem? How can I fix it?
and
A: Rather than removing a Wi-Fi network, it appears you've removed the Wi-Fi service. In OS X prior to 10.10, this means the AirPort shows Not Configured.
To allow configuration of AirPort, you need to add the Wi-Fi service back to the list of services:
*
*Go to System Preferences → Network and click the + button to add a service.
*Select Wi-Fi as the Interface and provide a service name.
This will allow configuration through the menu bar item.
| Q: Wifi: not configured I was removing a wifi network and after removing it, my wifi icon is blank, showing a cross over it, while i hover over it which says Not Configured, I googled the problem but didn't find any solution to the problem, I tried reinstalling mavericks, while everything (user, setting and everything remain same) the problem remain same too. What can be the problem? How can I fix it?
and
A: Rather than removing a Wi-Fi network, it appears you've removed the Wi-Fi service. In OS X prior to 10.10, this means the AirPort shows Not Configured.
To allow configuration of AirPort, you need to add the Wi-Fi service back to the list of services:
*
*Go to System Preferences → Network and click the + button to add a service.
*Select Wi-Fi as the Interface and provide a service name.
This will allow configuration through the menu bar item.
A: As even after installation, your hardware is not functioning, then it certainly HS. Do an Apple Hardware Test in advance mode (could take time)
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e324d567d32515bed02355f8177eb74302ad08ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Excluding Chrome's session storage from Time Machine Is it advisable to exclude ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session\ Storage/ from Time Machine backups? It certainly sounds like a prime candidate, but I am unable to find confirmation anywhere, which surprises me given that Chrome is fairly widely used.
A: Since you're concerned about this occupying space unnecessarily, you could the exclude the folder. While you're at it, you could exclude the following folders since the rest (apart from Session Storage) are not useful to backup repeatedly/regularly either:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session Storage
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Application Cache
In more recent versions of Chrome/OS X, these folders may be located in:
/Users/$USER/Library/Caches/Google/
Note that excluding Session Storage will prevent your sessions from being backed up - so you cannot restore back to older sessions from a backup.
Excluding Local Storage will prevent restoring the storage used by some/many web sites that use local storage to store information (to support offline use or for longer term identification).
| Q: Excluding Chrome's session storage from Time Machine Is it advisable to exclude ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session\ Storage/ from Time Machine backups? It certainly sounds like a prime candidate, but I am unable to find confirmation anywhere, which surprises me given that Chrome is fairly widely used.
A: Since you're concerned about this occupying space unnecessarily, you could the exclude the folder. While you're at it, you could exclude the following folders since the rest (apart from Session Storage) are not useful to backup repeatedly/regularly either:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session Storage
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Application Cache
In more recent versions of Chrome/OS X, these folders may be located in:
/Users/$USER/Library/Caches/Google/
Note that excluding Session Storage will prevent your sessions from being backed up - so you cannot restore back to older sessions from a backup.
Excluding Local Storage will prevent restoring the storage used by some/many web sites that use local storage to store information (to support offline use or for longer term identification).
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db8abc0e0f18df5908bc5d67fa4ff005dee11b19 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: rMBP 15inch Wifi Issue I've just bought a new rMBP 15 inch a few days ago and for some reason every time it goes into sleep / powernap mode, when I turn it back on the wifi doesn't work. The odd part is the wifi still appears to be connected but I can't transfer any data, go online etc. I have to turn wifi off and on in order to get back online.
Any ideas what's going on? I have Mavericks installed and completely up to date.
A: I have exactly the same issue on my rMBP, but only with my home router. Every other router works fine, so I've put it down to the router being strange (it's a proprietary ISP router) as opposed to the Mac.
| Q: rMBP 15inch Wifi Issue I've just bought a new rMBP 15 inch a few days ago and for some reason every time it goes into sleep / powernap mode, when I turn it back on the wifi doesn't work. The odd part is the wifi still appears to be connected but I can't transfer any data, go online etc. I have to turn wifi off and on in order to get back online.
Any ideas what's going on? I have Mavericks installed and completely up to date.
A: I have exactly the same issue on my rMBP, but only with my home router. Every other router works fine, so I've put it down to the router being strange (it's a proprietary ISP router) as opposed to the Mac.
A: One potential solution is that you may have static IP or DNS addresses in your WiFi setup. For me, I encountered the problem with my new rMBP when I was trying to go online outside the home (at a car shop, as it was). I had a valid network connection, but zero internet capability. It was quite frustrating.
As it turned out, when I migrated my settings from my MBA, the static IP and DNS addresses in that machine transferred over. I had not used the MBA outside my home, and it had been set up that way because my previous ISP provided router did not play nicely with Apple products.
Once I changed back to automatically assigning DHCP, the problem was resolved. I think I also had to clear a static DNS entry.
I hope this helps.
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213cfc16747b630d056202ca9a241e5ce44537d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I downgrade to Mavericks after installing Yosemite (beta/developer preview)? I have installed the developer preview for Yosemite.
Huge mistake. Everything in my workspace is broken.
I don't have any sort of backup image. I was wondering if I could re-download Mavericks and run the installer - would that effectively downgrade me back to Mavericks?
A: To downgrade, boot into Internet Recovery with ⌥⌘R and select Reinstall OS X.
With regard to the original question for Yosemite Developer Previews, yes you can, but note that Yosemite DPs so far do seem to break most of the App Store. If you are still running an early Yosemite Developer Preview, you can downgrade using the Recovery HD (⌘R) as the Recovery HD was not upgraded. For later DPs, including GM and public beta, see above.
| Q: Can I downgrade to Mavericks after installing Yosemite (beta/developer preview)? I have installed the developer preview for Yosemite.
Huge mistake. Everything in my workspace is broken.
I don't have any sort of backup image. I was wondering if I could re-download Mavericks and run the installer - would that effectively downgrade me back to Mavericks?
A: To downgrade, boot into Internet Recovery with ⌥⌘R and select Reinstall OS X.
With regard to the original question for Yosemite Developer Previews, yes you can, but note that Yosemite DPs so far do seem to break most of the App Store. If you are still running an early Yosemite Developer Preview, you can downgrade using the Recovery HD (⌘R) as the Recovery HD was not upgraded. For later DPs, including GM and public beta, see above.
A: No you cannot generally migrate everything back to a lower OS and if you attempt to run any installer that is older than the installed OS, it will error and tell you it won't even start the install.
But if you don't mind hand migrating documents or making a new backup (as opposed to settings and internal database files), the answer shifts to yes by erasing the new OS and starting new on the older installer.
Apple publicly explains how to erase your Mac and reinstall a lower version of OS X on the Public Yosemite Seed FAQ page:
*
*https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/faq
Specifically the part where it states:
What if I have problems running the pre-release software? :
If you must remove the beta software from your computer, you will need to erase, install, and restore the Time Machine backup of Mavericks that you created before you installed the OS X Yosemite Beta. Any changes to your files and documents since you installed the OS X Yosemite Beta will not be preserved when restoring your Mavericks backup, so be sure to copy any new or changed files before you begin restoring from your Mavericks backup.
It then links to the Apple support articles below:
*
*Learn more about how to erase and install OS X
*Learn more about restoring from a Time Machine backup
A: just to say that I DID succeeded to re-install Mavericks over my Yosemite Beta without erasing anything. Boot on Mavericks back OK without any data, app or personnal document lost, even plug-ins in apps still working together. My admin account only appeared to be now a Standard account but I fixed it via the "root user".
Here is how I did and it's not difficult :
*
*Downloaded from another Mac the Mavericks installer (from App Store) as I didn't had with me where I am right now (may be optionnal to you)
*Made it a bootable USB drive with DiskMaker X
*Boot of the Yosemite Beta Mac with "alt" to get the various boot options and selected the USB installer of Mavericks
*Installed it over the Yosemite Beta without doing anything to this disk
Hope it helps some to spare time looking around! And sorry for my english which is not my language...
A: Just sign up to share my solution to this issue :)
I just received my Macbook Pro and when to the beta without doing any backup because the machine was brand new with nothing on it. After a few problems with the beta and decided to downgrade and realised that the recovery partition has been update also.
I call Apple tech support and here is the solution:
*
*Shutdown your machine
*Boot while holding option+CMD+R ( instead of CMD+R )
This boot the "Internet recovery" mode instead of the partition recovery. This mode will redownload automaticly your Mavericks installer and reinstall it properly :)
Enjoy!
A: Clean installation
You can:
*
*erase the volume where Yosemite was installed
*install Mavericks to that volume.
No downgrade; no migration from a newer release of OS X
Migration Assistant 5 (610) in OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 (13E28) explicitly prevents migration from a Yosemite system. Apple's alert states:
This source contains a newer release of OS X. Your Mac requires an upgrade before you can migrate from this source.
If command line developer tools are installed, you can run a command to see that statement:
strings /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemMigration.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings | grep "newer release"
… if I could re-download Mavericks and run the installer - would that effectively downgrade me back to Mavericks?
No; simply using Install OS X Mavericks – without first erasing the volume where Yosemite was installed – can not effectively downgrade the system.
Caution
In commentary, from the opening poster:
I like to live dangerously.
I also live dangerously, sometimes, but casual readers of Q&A such as these should – please – not underestimate the significance of there being no downgrade path.
Revert
Not an ideal word – too easily misinterpreted – but it's used by Apple:
*
*OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
In the context of this question, you can:
*
*erase the volume where Yosemite was installed
*restore from a Time Machine backup of Mavericks.
A: I also downgrade like François's method. To re-grant administrator privileges, I removed /var/db/.AppleSetupDone via CMD+S; /sbin/mount -uw / and then I configured a new administrator account using the first boot wizard, from which then I grant admin to my old account in System Preferences.app
But, there are some repetitive crashes from apple services: WiFiAgent, bird, callservicesd, cloudpaird, fmfd, CallHistorySyncHelper, AOSHeartBeat. I hope they don't care.
Also, iTunes Library must be recreated (the iTunes 12 format is incompatible with iTunes 11).
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8a2496727ec05815c7e34978920d05bc53fdfec2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Diagnosis or Hardware Test on a mid 2009 Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.9.2 I would like to test hardware on a mac book pro model from 2009 with Mac Os X 10.9.2 installed. Since it is running unreliably I would like to perform a diagnosis/hardware test.
What is easy to find on the internet is, that on pre 2013 models, the apple hardware test was to be run, on models after that, the apple diagnosis, see
*
*http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5781?viewlocale=en_US
*and http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14291
Now I wondered what to do with a macbook that has had its OS version updated (10.9.2 Maverick).
I have plainly now just tried starting the laptop while keeping D pressed multiple times and I never ended up in a AHT or diagnosis mode.
A: The Apple Hardware Test is included in the installation DVD. Insert it, hold D and boot from it.
If you don't have the installation DVD at hand, have a look at https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest
| Q: Diagnosis or Hardware Test on a mid 2009 Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.9.2 I would like to test hardware on a mac book pro model from 2009 with Mac Os X 10.9.2 installed. Since it is running unreliably I would like to perform a diagnosis/hardware test.
What is easy to find on the internet is, that on pre 2013 models, the apple hardware test was to be run, on models after that, the apple diagnosis, see
*
*http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5781?viewlocale=en_US
*and http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14291
Now I wondered what to do with a macbook that has had its OS version updated (10.9.2 Maverick).
I have plainly now just tried starting the laptop while keeping D pressed multiple times and I never ended up in a AHT or diagnosis mode.
A: The Apple Hardware Test is included in the installation DVD. Insert it, hold D and boot from it.
If you don't have the installation DVD at hand, have a look at https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest
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