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a7c7aac6f1471e9e7f43d44f712ed68177ce743d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add an SMIME cert and configure iOS mail to use it? In order to protect ourselves from NSA-style snooping, we need to start using SMIME encrypted email.
Since I have over 10,000 BYOD devices to update, what is the most effective way to
*
*Deploy an SMIME certificate to these users
*Configure the corresponding email account to use that certificate on iOS (Enable signing and encryption)
Since these users have many devices, I'm OK with holding the private and public key for the user and sending it as an attachment they can click on. The problem is that the users get prompted to add an unsigned profile, and the email portion is not clicked.
I'm also not using a globally trusted root, I'm using a private one, so the key deployment will need to also include a way to update the root cert while adding the SMIME cert.
| Q: How can I add an SMIME cert and configure iOS mail to use it? In order to protect ourselves from NSA-style snooping, we need to start using SMIME encrypted email.
Since I have over 10,000 BYOD devices to update, what is the most effective way to
*
*Deploy an SMIME certificate to these users
*Configure the corresponding email account to use that certificate on iOS (Enable signing and encryption)
Since these users have many devices, I'm OK with holding the private and public key for the user and sending it as an attachment they can click on. The problem is that the users get prompted to add an unsigned profile, and the email portion is not clicked.
I'm also not using a globally trusted root, I'm using a private one, so the key deployment will need to also include a way to update the root cert while adding the SMIME cert.
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f3315e388e78d82670e1595887b02a4c9bef524a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Logging onto Mac with RFID Cards I want my users to be able to login to their computers (which are Macs) using RFID or Magnetic Stripe. Can anyone recommend a way to implement this?
They all run Mavericks or Yosemite, and it doesn't matter whether they are connected to AD or not, as long as I can get cards to work! I will unbind the macs if necessary!
Thanks
Ed
A: There are quite a few smart card readers (e.g. this one on the Apple Store) that work with OS X.
For support of Smart Cards you may also want to check out Smart Card Services on MacOsForge.org, as highlighted by this Apple Support document regarding smart cards on OS X Mavericks.
| Q: Logging onto Mac with RFID Cards I want my users to be able to login to their computers (which are Macs) using RFID or Magnetic Stripe. Can anyone recommend a way to implement this?
They all run Mavericks or Yosemite, and it doesn't matter whether they are connected to AD or not, as long as I can get cards to work! I will unbind the macs if necessary!
Thanks
Ed
A: There are quite a few smart card readers (e.g. this one on the Apple Store) that work with OS X.
For support of Smart Cards you may also want to check out Smart Card Services on MacOsForge.org, as highlighted by this Apple Support document regarding smart cards on OS X Mavericks.
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ff0231c89c6e34f8d99df5b6c2a0e103da8e1e2b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Full screen YouTube still shows Dock and Menu Bar Whenever I bring a video to fullscreen on YouTube (on Chrome or Safari), the video will go to fullscreen but the dock and menu bar remain visible, covering the top and bottom parts of the video. They used to be hidden when I went to fullscreen, so I don't know what happened. How do I fix this?
A: If you make the browser fullscreen before making the video fullscreen, this problem should disappear.
| Q: Full screen YouTube still shows Dock and Menu Bar Whenever I bring a video to fullscreen on YouTube (on Chrome or Safari), the video will go to fullscreen but the dock and menu bar remain visible, covering the top and bottom parts of the video. They used to be hidden when I went to fullscreen, so I don't know what happened. How do I fix this?
A: If you make the browser fullscreen before making the video fullscreen, this problem should disappear.
A: I have this same problem with YouTube, Netflix, mPlayerX and VLC, where the Dock stays visible (on-top) after making the video go full screen.
This problem can be fixed by going into System Preferences...Mission Control and turning off the option "Displays have separate spaces." You have to logout after making this change.
A: If none of that works, open Terminal and enter killall Dock.
A: I had the same issue and I find it. This has to do with multiple monitors and mirroring (I connect my tv on the mac). Turn "Display mirroring" to off. That's it!
A: For me this works:
First switch Chrome window mode to full screen mode by pressing the green dot on the top left side of the view:
After that menu bar should be hidden so now enter full screen mode in youtube player:
Enjoy your video on full screen without menu bar.
A: One workaround for this is to change Dock positioning to somewhere else and putting it back to your preferred position.
You can do this under Dock & Menu Bar section of System Preferences.
A: For me I had to use /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app="http://youtube.com" to have it work.
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33830d6fc5a7bdbd8fec9443961ecd89c1dab74f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using AppleScript to lock screen I need an applescript which locks my Mac in the same way pressing shift+ctrl+eject would. I tried two different approaches, but both failed. The first one was to search the internet for a script, which failed. There are only solutions with screensaver or other applications, which I don’t want. I just want to use what I described. The second one was to tell applescript to press the three keys which didn’t work. If someone could tell me how to lock my Mac or how to tell applescript to press three keys, I would be really happy, because I am getting kinda’ frustrated.
A: Found this on another answer but an AppleScript that simply contains the following works for me.
tell application "Finder" to sleep
| Q: Using AppleScript to lock screen I need an applescript which locks my Mac in the same way pressing shift+ctrl+eject would. I tried two different approaches, but both failed. The first one was to search the internet for a script, which failed. There are only solutions with screensaver or other applications, which I don’t want. I just want to use what I described. The second one was to tell applescript to press the three keys which didn’t work. If someone could tell me how to lock my Mac or how to tell applescript to press three keys, I would be really happy, because I am getting kinda’ frustrated.
A: Found this on another answer but an AppleScript that simply contains the following works for me.
tell application "Finder" to sleep
A: I have a simple one liner for this. It uses System Events to send the default key combo for the Lock Screen command and works in all versions of OSX from High Sierra (10.13) on. Even Mojave! Though it will prompt for additional Security permissions for the App, in the newer OSX versions
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "q" using {control down, command down}
A: I use a macro to accept the shortcut Command-L. Having recently switched from Windows to Mac, am easy way to lock my screen was important. In Windows, one merely needs to press the Windows key and L, and, voila, locked.
Using Keyboard Maestro, I created a macro for the shortcut Command-L, being essentially the same (comparing the Command key to the Windows key). The shortcut triggers the function "Login Window", which locks the screen. Easy peasy, at least to me.
(In Keyboard Maestro, the "Login Window" function is under Actions > System Control.)
A: macOS 10.11, El Capitan, seems to have broken ᔕᖺᘎᕊ's answer using AppleScripts, but I found that if I installed Lock Screen, and made my Automator Service open its "Lock Screen Bundle", the rest of the process worked as intended (provided I called the Service "lock-screen", not "Lock Screen": apparently spaces in the filename break the keyboard shortcut for many macOS users).
See Lock screen shortcut on Mac OS X for an illustrated step-by-step guide.
A: For High Sierra (10.13),the accepted answer doesn't work as Keychain Access has no Check Show Status in Menu Bar option. But, based on shamelessly looting the source of the Lockscreen App (as mentioned by @Alice Purcell), I've discovered this nifty GUI-scripting workaround:
activate application "SystemUIServer"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "SystemUIServer" to keystroke "q" using {command down, control down}
end tell
A: Getting information from this answer and this answer:
*
*Press the Spotlight button at the top right of the screen (Cmd + Space)
*Search Keychain Access. Open this
*Open Preferences (Cmd + ,(comma))
*Check Show Status in Menu Bar
*Press the Spotlight button at the top right of the screen (Cmd + Space)
*Search Automator. Select this
*Create new Service
*Search Run Applescript next to the Actions and Variables buttons. Double click this
*Make sure the checkboxes are Service receives no input in any application
*Paste this Applescript:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
tell (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 where description is "Keychain menu extra")
click
click menu item "Lock Screen" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
Save this Automator as something like Lock screen (note: code in GIF is different!)
To make a shortcut:
*
*Press the Apple button at the top left of the screen
*Click System Preferences
*Click Keyboard
*Click Keyboard Shortcuts tab
*Click Services
*Find the name of the service you just created
*Click the blank space on the right
*Type your shortcut in
Use your shortcut in any application!
OR...:
*
*You could buy Alfred
*You could use Cmd+Shift+Eject
A: Here's an answer that works on modern macOS (Ventura as of writing this) that is keyboard shortcut agnostic (meaning, you can change your Lock Screen keyboard shortcut and this will still work).
Use the following AppleScript:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Finder"
click menu item "Lock Screen" of menu 0 of menu bar 1
end tell
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a95f2367dd7a00f95448c29033dc2b16b9a28315 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes stuck on "installing" when installing .ipa files I have downloaded an .ipa file (a free game). when I trying to install it form iTunes to my device, it is stuck on installing:
A: It is very uncommon to download / install a IPA file - free of charge or not.
The IPA files are usually used for known & registered devices (e.g. beta testers) - if your device is not registered and your device is not included in the IPA profile file, then installing the IPA file will fail.
This is kind of the Apple philosophy / protection: either you have a "deep" contact to the developer who includes your device (maximum is 200 devices as far as I know), or you jailbreak (?) your device, or you use the official AppStore and trash the IPA file.
| Q: iTunes stuck on "installing" when installing .ipa files I have downloaded an .ipa file (a free game). when I trying to install it form iTunes to my device, it is stuck on installing:
A: It is very uncommon to download / install a IPA file - free of charge or not.
The IPA files are usually used for known & registered devices (e.g. beta testers) - if your device is not registered and your device is not included in the IPA profile file, then installing the IPA file will fail.
This is kind of the Apple philosophy / protection: either you have a "deep" contact to the developer who includes your device (maximum is 200 devices as far as I know), or you jailbreak (?) your device, or you use the official AppStore and trash the IPA file.
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3fe1ea2456ddf69c9f2e8e9c993987ca6f3d598b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enable random message at login screen In Mavericks it is possible to to show a custom message on the logon/lock screen.
This can be done via "Preferences" -> "Security" -> "Show a message when the screen is locked".
Now I'm wondering if it is possible to display a message that is randomly read from a provided text file and changes every time at logon. For example I'd like to have a file "quotes.txt" with each line being a quotation such that I get some kind of "Quote of the Day" feature.
I guess this could easily be achieved by a script running whenever the users logs off (log in would be possible as well, I suppose), that reads in a random line and sets the "lock screen message" string accordingly. So I'm basically asking, if there is a way to access this string for example via command line to programmatically change it.
A: You can set the text from Terminal by running
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "your text here"
The text is displayed in three lines with a max length of 68 characters each so it it might help to pre-select/format the quotes to match these limitations.
| Q: Enable random message at login screen In Mavericks it is possible to to show a custom message on the logon/lock screen.
This can be done via "Preferences" -> "Security" -> "Show a message when the screen is locked".
Now I'm wondering if it is possible to display a message that is randomly read from a provided text file and changes every time at logon. For example I'd like to have a file "quotes.txt" with each line being a quotation such that I get some kind of "Quote of the Day" feature.
I guess this could easily be achieved by a script running whenever the users logs off (log in would be possible as well, I suppose), that reads in a random line and sets the "lock screen message" string accordingly. So I'm basically asking, if there is a way to access this string for example via command line to programmatically change it.
A: You can set the text from Terminal by running
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "your text here"
The text is displayed in three lines with a max length of 68 characters each so it it might help to pre-select/format the quotes to match these limitations.
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776429b65032e2dbab91ca259e954ff7658f8c96 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Free up over 70 GB of Applications Today I checked out my MacBook Air's storage and found that my Mac is using 70.53 GB on applications out of 120.47 GB. I can't figure out where it is being used as I didn't download any applications. How can free up my Mac's storage?
A: To see the size of each application
*
*open the /Applications folder in Finder
*switch to list view
*make sure to have 'Size' selected in the options (Cmd-J)
and wait a few minutes until all folder sizes are calculated by the system. Then sort by Size and remove any big apps you don't need any longer. I wouldn't recommend to delete the standard applications though.
| Q: Free up over 70 GB of Applications Today I checked out my MacBook Air's storage and found that my Mac is using 70.53 GB on applications out of 120.47 GB. I can't figure out where it is being used as I didn't download any applications. How can free up my Mac's storage?
A: To see the size of each application
*
*open the /Applications folder in Finder
*switch to list view
*make sure to have 'Size' selected in the options (Cmd-J)
and wait a few minutes until all folder sizes are calculated by the system. Then sort by Size and remove any big apps you don't need any longer. I wouldn't recommend to delete the standard applications though.
A: I suggest to use this free and opensource utility: GrandPerspective
It will show you graphically the disk usage. For each rectangle there is also the option "Reveal in Finder" (right click menu) to open directly the selected file/folder.
A: I am a big fan of DaisyDisk. It provides a nice graphical view of the different types of data on your disk. It also permits you to drill down into each data type to get details, as well as delete files from within the application.
Here's a sample of how it looks:
A: You have applications in places other than the Applications folder. To see them all run the system information app (About this Mac > More Info... > System Report...and select Applications under Software in the left panel
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f23e1b7ce95991e7ab9686029a5b9d18b9ffc506 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Difference between Export PDF and Print to PDF in Safari What is the difference between to File > Export as PDF and File > Print > Save As PDF?
A: "Save as PDF" is essentially a digital copy of what you get if you were to print a specific page from Safari. This includes extra headers/footers that include the date, webpage, number of pages, web address, etc.
"Export as PDF" is a simple snapshot of the page as is and does not include all of those extra details.
From the few pages I've compared the differences with these two options, Export as PDF tends to retain more of the formatting details whereas the Save as PDF option can cause the page to look slightly different.
| Q: Difference between Export PDF and Print to PDF in Safari What is the difference between to File > Export as PDF and File > Print > Save As PDF?
A: "Save as PDF" is essentially a digital copy of what you get if you were to print a specific page from Safari. This includes extra headers/footers that include the date, webpage, number of pages, web address, etc.
"Export as PDF" is a simple snapshot of the page as is and does not include all of those extra details.
From the few pages I've compared the differences with these two options, Export as PDF tends to retain more of the formatting details whereas the Save as PDF option can cause the page to look slightly different.
A: Export as PDF is a Safari-specific feature.
The print-option is system-wide. In the case of Safari you'll also have your usual print-features that you can check or uncheck here such as printing the backgrounds as well as headers and footers
A: One difference I have noticed, and it's a big one, is the page size is different in the Export as PDF rather than going to the Print and Save as PDF option. I didn't know about this and was surprised when this happened. It is very annoying but this is the difference I see between the two options. Using the Save as PDF option from the PDF pulldown menu in the Print dialogue gives an A4 sized PDF if the paper size is set to A4. Using Export As PDF gives something different, that changes according to the website thou are exporting.
A: (My answer below applies to Safari 9.1.1 on Yosemite.)
*
*Using "Print to PDF" will apply whatever style sheet you have activated. If you are good enough with CSS to hack your own style sheet for printing, you can get the output look as you please: you can change the page sizes (even to very custom, non-standard ones), margins, font faces, font sizes, etc.
To apply the CSS you want, go to:
Preferences... => Advanced => Style Sheet => (<Other...> || <existing_sheet.css>).
*For using "Export to PDF" I've found no way to influence the look and feel of elements on the PDF, not even page size or margins (for me it's always A4 portrait). For example, the mono font seems always to be Courier (while with the "Print to PDF" approach I could easily change it to Menlo, Monaco or Source Code Pro via CSS).
There may be a way to influence the "Export to PDF" outcome by using some secret defaults write com.apple.Safari ... command lines, but I've not yet explored this path.
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4a2bf66432ecb3a1a6a151eafde5d9a98fdb4001 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove OSX shortcut to switch between spaces (ctrl + number shortcut) On MacOsX Lion (upgrade from Leopard).
Working with some 3d application, I would like to temporarily turn off the shortcut ctrl + [numberOfSpace].
I went to:
Preferences > Keyboard > Mission Control
and unchecked every checkbox;
However, the shortcut is still active. I cannot find the place where it's defined.
I also tried
Preferences > Mission Control
and unchecked all checkboxes in the bottom section, but the shortcut still works.
Is there a way to set/unset those shortcuts ?
A: Please check and uncheck accordingly
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control
| Q: Remove OSX shortcut to switch between spaces (ctrl + number shortcut) On MacOsX Lion (upgrade from Leopard).
Working with some 3d application, I would like to temporarily turn off the shortcut ctrl + [numberOfSpace].
I went to:
Preferences > Keyboard > Mission Control
and unchecked every checkbox;
However, the shortcut is still active. I cannot find the place where it's defined.
I also tried
Preferences > Mission Control
and unchecked all checkboxes in the bottom section, but the shortcut still works.
Is there a way to set/unset those shortcuts ?
A: Please check and uncheck accordingly
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control
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f97ed98bd999da5f76529dc770579423120d3ca0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Import Chrome bookmarks in to Safari? How do I import my Chrome (35.0.1916.153) bookmarks in to Safari (7.0.4)?
A:
Just noting that Safari 8 has an option to import directly from Chrome. In Safari, select File > Import From from menu bar.
| Q: Import Chrome bookmarks in to Safari? How do I import my Chrome (35.0.1916.153) bookmarks in to Safari (7.0.4)?
A:
Just noting that Safari 8 has an option to import directly from Chrome. In Safari, select File > Import From from menu bar.
A: Exporting Your Chrome Bookmarks
Chrome stores bookmarks in a non-HTML format so you need to export them first before you can import them in to Safari.
*
*Select Bookmarks > Bookmark Manager from the menu bar in Chrome
*In the Bookmark Manager UI select Organize > Export Bookmarks to HTML File...
*Select a location to save the file (I suggest Desktop) in the File window dialog and click the Save button
Import the Exported Bookmarks in to Safari
*
*In Safari select File > Import Bookmarks... from the menu bar
*Navigate to the folder where you saved the exported HTML bookmarks file, select the file and press the Import button
Your bookmarks will be imported in to a bookmark folder named imported <date of import>. For example, on the day of writing this answer, my imported bookmarks were placed in a bookmark folder named imported 6/22/14. You can organize your bookmarks in Safari by selecting Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks to open the bookmark editing interface in a tab. Move and re-arrange your imported bookmarks to suit your needs.
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ec60f6aaed502f33ec8ca12e8a385c5c62c36875 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Access tabs directly in Safari with ⌘+1..9 keyboard shortcuts? Can you access tabs directly in Safari using the ⌘+1..9 shortcuts like Chrome?
A: This is now the default behavior of Safari 9.
| Q: Access tabs directly in Safari with ⌘+1..9 keyboard shortcuts? Can you access tabs directly in Safari using the ⌘+1..9 shortcuts like Chrome?
A: This is now the default behavior of Safari 9.
A: Edit: This answer pre-dates Safari 9.0 where Apple correct the Cmd-# behaviour.
You can, but it takes an extension to be able to do it.
You'll need to install Safari Tab Switching by Olivier Poitrey to be able to use ⌘+1..9 to access tabs directly. It's a great extension if, like me, you've got these shortcuts in muscle memory from working with Google Chrome for so many years now. It's also open source and available on GitHub for the curious.
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107523849c28e9ef5c7d3a1458340d4e06d16a85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut for 3 fingers slide? I really like having applications in full screen mode and switch between them using the 3 finger swipe feature.
But can I have a shortcut for it?
Maybe like command + -> , something like this?
A: That would be the
Ctrl-Left or Right Arrow
to slide between full screen applications.
| Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut for 3 fingers slide? I really like having applications in full screen mode and switch between them using the 3 finger swipe feature.
But can I have a shortcut for it?
Maybe like command + -> , something like this?
A: That would be the
Ctrl-Left or Right Arrow
to slide between full screen applications.
A: Yes.
control→ and control← do this by default.
Check under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control.
A: I just realised this. When working on multiple monitors, the shortcut Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow will work on the screen with the mouse pointer in it.
For example, if my mouse pointer is on the Mac screen, the shortcut will switch full screen apps opened on my Mac not on the externally connected monitor. This despite my keyboard cursor being present on the external monitor.
A: fn + Left = "fn" Mac Key + Right = 4 finger swipe left or right = Moves to other desktop. Apps that are in full screen will be put on other desktops.
A: Also, you may want to try:
CTRL + Up/Down Arrow
That's what you get for a 3 fingers slide.
A: You can also assign applications to particular "desktops" or using desktop numbers.
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984ef5f5f62436beea7a0a970f3935e1b2eaa59f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it normal that the ad-hoc url doesn't work in the simulator? I'd like to test my app's ad-hoc deployment link, but navigating to the URL in the simulator's browser only returns 'Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid'. The URL I use looks like itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=[URL TO MYAPP.PLIST] Where going to the apended URL downloads the plist file.
I used XCode 5.1 to archive the build and export it for enterprise distribution with the correct certificates and such. Is the error still somewhere in my build or is this type of install capability turned off for the simulators?
A: Yes, the itms:// type links don't work in the simulator.
| Q: Is it normal that the ad-hoc url doesn't work in the simulator? I'd like to test my app's ad-hoc deployment link, but navigating to the URL in the simulator's browser only returns 'Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid'. The URL I use looks like itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=[URL TO MYAPP.PLIST] Where going to the apended URL downloads the plist file.
I used XCode 5.1 to archive the build and export it for enterprise distribution with the correct certificates and such. Is the error still somewhere in my build or is this type of install capability turned off for the simulators?
A: Yes, the itms:// type links don't work in the simulator.
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e67ff9a13aed13ead27fc5ac50e4a31024f2ff77 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to remember only a username in Safari? Chrome and Firefox allow to remember only a username (gmail, for example) without no problem.
But it's not working the same way for Safari.
Safari, if remembers, it remembers both, username and password.
But if I don't save password it doesn't remember only a username.
How can I do this?
Couldn't find any related post.
A: Go to Safari / Preferences - Autofill. Make sure: User names and passwords is selected.
If you don't want your FB pasword saved, open Keychain Access.
Applications/Utilities.
Select Passwords on the left.
Delete the Facebook keychain. (That's where the password is stored).
Now navigate to the Facebook page, enter your log in data but when prompted for Safari to save that data to a new keychain, click Never.
| Q: How to remember only a username in Safari? Chrome and Firefox allow to remember only a username (gmail, for example) without no problem.
But it's not working the same way for Safari.
Safari, if remembers, it remembers both, username and password.
But if I don't save password it doesn't remember only a username.
How can I do this?
Couldn't find any related post.
A: Go to Safari / Preferences - Autofill. Make sure: User names and passwords is selected.
If you don't want your FB pasword saved, open Keychain Access.
Applications/Utilities.
Select Passwords on the left.
Delete the Facebook keychain. (That's where the password is stored).
Now navigate to the Facebook page, enter your log in data but when prompted for Safari to save that data to a new keychain, click Never.
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3a4cf1bbf5be6b1ddfd43acfbf11641e2f7e2f39 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does leaving LTE on when LTE service is unavailable drain the battery faster? The iPhone 5-series phones all support LTE but if I only have a contract for 3G service will my iPhone battery drain faster because it's always trying to find an an LTE-capable signal? Can I stop it from even looking for LTE?
A: I know it's not specifically what you're asking, but you can disable LTE in settings.
Settings > Cellular > Enable LTE (switch to off)
| Q: Does leaving LTE on when LTE service is unavailable drain the battery faster? The iPhone 5-series phones all support LTE but if I only have a contract for 3G service will my iPhone battery drain faster because it's always trying to find an an LTE-capable signal? Can I stop it from even looking for LTE?
A: I know it's not specifically what you're asking, but you can disable LTE in settings.
Settings > Cellular > Enable LTE (switch to off)
A: Leaving the LTE on will not drain your battery life. The data modem in your phone (a Qualcomm MDM9615M) is a chip that handles LTE and 3G signals. Therefore, your phone is not using a 3G chip and then draining your battery by having a second chip search for a LTE signal.
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4320edc58190254f822d971002e4d072a03ed59d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: App Store asking for other Apple ID when updating apps My friend's mate reset his phone to prove him wrong about a situation and ever since then when he tries to update his apps it asks for his mom's iCloud password yet it says at the bottom of the App Store, iTunes and iCloud that it's signed into his account.
We have tried backing it up into his computer but that didn't help. What can be done?
A: If it's asking for a different Apple ID to update an app or apps, then they have been purchased on the other Apple account.
You can't change the Apple ID that an app has been purchased with. Instead, delete the app from the device and purchase it again with the Apple ID that you want the app registered to.
| Q: App Store asking for other Apple ID when updating apps My friend's mate reset his phone to prove him wrong about a situation and ever since then when he tries to update his apps it asks for his mom's iCloud password yet it says at the bottom of the App Store, iTunes and iCloud that it's signed into his account.
We have tried backing it up into his computer but that didn't help. What can be done?
A: If it's asking for a different Apple ID to update an app or apps, then they have been purchased on the other Apple account.
You can't change the Apple ID that an app has been purchased with. Instead, delete the app from the device and purchase it again with the Apple ID that you want the app registered to.
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1a7f4f8fd06c8f7cc429a5afad645a993c615f10 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X 10.9 Screen Sharing: disable file transfer
On OS X 10.7 or newer (10.8, 10.9) simply drag'n'drop files between
your desktop and remote desktop to transfer the files between
computers
How can I disable this?
I have made restricted account just for Screen Sharing, and I don't want remote user to be able to copy files from my machine without any serious effort.
A: You can just remove Screen Sharing server's helper tools from here:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/screensharingd.bundle/Contents/Support/*
Quick check didn't show anything bad for the rest of server functions.
Please note that after an OS X update these helpers might be resurrected.
| Q: OS X 10.9 Screen Sharing: disable file transfer
On OS X 10.7 or newer (10.8, 10.9) simply drag'n'drop files between
your desktop and remote desktop to transfer the files between
computers
How can I disable this?
I have made restricted account just for Screen Sharing, and I don't want remote user to be able to copy files from my machine without any serious effort.
A: You can just remove Screen Sharing server's helper tools from here:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/screensharingd.bundle/Contents/Support/*
Quick check didn't show anything bad for the rest of server functions.
Please note that after an OS X update these helpers might be resurrected.
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b1b1868913b79d8df57afecfb9ee25271fe85442 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get full path of script in PATH environment variable I was wondering if there is a built-in command in Bash (or even something OSX-specific) that would display the fully resolved path of a script that is in the current PATH environment variable.
For example, my PATH currently looks like this:
>: echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n"
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/X11/bin
/Users/Josh/Dropbox/Scripts/Bash
/Users/Josh/Dropbox/Tools/WinRAR/OSX
And there's a script in Dropbox called get-azurelogs.sh. That path is in my PATH variable for convenience, but if I wanted to display the complete path to that script, assuming I wasn't sure where it was, is there an simple one-liner way to display the fully resolved path instead of testing it at each of the directories above?
A: You can use which. From the man page:
The which utility takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable file that would be run had these commands actually been invoked
| Q: Get full path of script in PATH environment variable I was wondering if there is a built-in command in Bash (or even something OSX-specific) that would display the fully resolved path of a script that is in the current PATH environment variable.
For example, my PATH currently looks like this:
>: echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n"
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/X11/bin
/Users/Josh/Dropbox/Scripts/Bash
/Users/Josh/Dropbox/Tools/WinRAR/OSX
And there's a script in Dropbox called get-azurelogs.sh. That path is in my PATH variable for convenience, but if I wanted to display the complete path to that script, assuming I wasn't sure where it was, is there an simple one-liner way to display the fully resolved path instead of testing it at each of the directories above?
A: You can use which. From the man page:
The which utility takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable file that would be run had these commands actually been invoked
A: A good alternative to which is the builtin type. The advantage being that type is also able to handle bash aliases and functions.
A: which -a [nameofexecutable]
IE:
Macbook-Pro:~ njboot$ which -a chmod
/bin/chmod
Macbook-Pro:~ njboot$ which -a nusers
/Users/njboot/bin/nusers
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7c1e17d24986532c582dd55f62465df463d54093 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Hide .DS_Store and .localized from Desktop only without 3rd party app There is an app called XtraFinder which does exactly that - it shows hidden files while it can still hide those two files from Desktop only.
Is it possible to do something like that without installing a 3rd party app (I'm using Mavericks)?
A: This first command will remove all the icons on your Desktop, but keep the files visible in finder:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder
While this second one will restore all the icons on your Desktop:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true && killall Finder
| Q: Hide .DS_Store and .localized from Desktop only without 3rd party app There is an app called XtraFinder which does exactly that - it shows hidden files while it can still hide those two files from Desktop only.
Is it possible to do something like that without installing a 3rd party app (I'm using Mavericks)?
A: This first command will remove all the icons on your Desktop, but keep the files visible in finder:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder
While this second one will restore all the icons on your Desktop:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true && killall Finder
A: Just like any other hidden file on your Mac, .DS_Store and .localized are going to be one of those files that appear when you turn hidden files 'on'.
Without 3rd party applications you are not able to hide them without hiding every other hidden application.
One thing you can do is, if there is only 1 or 2 hidden files/folders for eg. make aliases which in Windows standards are shortcuts. So Right Click the file > Make Alias.
Then when all files are hidden, the alias/s will still be visible rendering the file/folder openable.
Another thing you can do is actually delete .DS_Store and .localized which according to Wikipedia (I know, not the most reliable source but multiple other websites also said it)
.DS_Store is a proprietary format hidden file created by Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system to store custom attributes of a folder such as the position of icons or the choice of a background image.
The '.localized' files just indicate (by their presence) that apps should display the "localized" name for a given folder if one has been defined. So for example, instead of the folder names showing as "Library" or "Users", someone with their language set to "French" in the "International" pref pane would see "Bibliothèque" or "Utilisateurs" in "Finder" or through "Open" and "Save" dialogues.
The .localized file basically makes it use the system's language for files (Mine is in English so it shows English).
A: I came up with a brilliant way of doing this today.
Where do you usually have your Dock bar? Move it to the opposite side temporarily. Grab both the files and position them as far as possible off the screen on the side that you previously had your Dock. Now, switch the Dock back to the previous side. HIDDEN!
A: Run this command:
chflags hidden ~/Desktop/.DS_Store && chflags hidden ~/Desktop/.localized
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430d3f0bbf53ea442b958e4c81f988ecf10386a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Force Mac to display in grayscale Is there a way to force OSX to display in monochrome(also known as grayscale)?
I'm working with a student who has ADHD (and I am mildly ADHD myself). The colors are too much for him/her to handle.
EDIT: Ideally I'm looking to assign a keyboard shortcut or create a desktop icon.
A: As of Sierra you can tell Siri to ‘use grayscale’, the closest thing to a shortcut I’ve been able to discover so far.
| Q: Force Mac to display in grayscale Is there a way to force OSX to display in monochrome(also known as grayscale)?
I'm working with a student who has ADHD (and I am mildly ADHD myself). The colors are too much for him/her to handle.
EDIT: Ideally I'm looking to assign a keyboard shortcut or create a desktop icon.
A: As of Sierra you can tell Siri to ‘use grayscale’, the closest thing to a shortcut I’ve been able to discover so far.
A: Yes, this can be achieved with AppleScript and Automator.
The setting to automate is located in:
System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Use Greyscale
The keyboard combination option + command + F5 also shows Accessibility options.
This Apple discussion, Keyboard shortcut for "Use grayscale", shows how to use AppleScript and Automator to create a menu bar item that toggles the Greyscale on/off.
A: You can grayscale the display from the accessibility settings, but it's a real pain if you want to temporarily enable/disable it. I have made an app to solve this problem. It allows you to toggle grayscale mode from the status bar.
Tested to work on macOS Mojave.
You can download it from here. The source code is here.
Note: Due to Apple's restrictions you need to allow it to have accessibility and system events permissions.
A: Based on a few StackExchange posts (mostly the credit goes to RecursivelyIronic), I have packaged a solution with instructions into a GitHub repository: macOS-grayscale.
It requires compiling a binary, which can then be assigned a hotkey combination (instructions in the repo).
On plus side it:
*
*toggles fairly quickly
*doesn’t cause a popup
*doesn’t interfere with color inversion
*works on Catalina
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9046f08656c6f3ae61d8ad7faaa6c88bf2c44e56 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: de-grouping iTerm2 windows Activating iTerm2's "hotkey window" (i.e. drop-down console) also brings to front all other iTerm2 windows. Is there a way to avoid this, making OS X treat each window as a separate application rather than as a group of windows?
Aside: Deactivating/hiding the hotkey window again makes it retain focus (only) if the previously focused window was also an iTerm window, otherwise hiding the drop-down console correctly refocuses the previous window. Seems like that might be related to the issue above.
| Q: de-grouping iTerm2 windows Activating iTerm2's "hotkey window" (i.e. drop-down console) also brings to front all other iTerm2 windows. Is there a way to avoid this, making OS X treat each window as a separate application rather than as a group of windows?
Aside: Deactivating/hiding the hotkey window again makes it retain focus (only) if the previously focused window was also an iTerm window, otherwise hiding the drop-down console correctly refocuses the previous window. Seems like that might be related to the issue above.
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624433beed8757b11d2ce6ef1dfb71c75fe0b35d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to stop assignment of numbers to hostnames? My devices, including airport stations, keep being assigned a number following their name (i.e. "ATV (3)"). I was hoping Mavericks would fix it but it did not.
Is this fixable, please?
A: This seems like a problem with your router. Try forcing your hostname with scutil:
scutil --set HostName yourhostname
Why the number?
The bracketed numbers appear because the same Bonjour/ZeroConf name is being used multiple times on the network. If Bonjour detects a duplicate name, a number is appended to ensure uniqueness.
This does not indicate a serious problem. Resetting network caches and devices should help clear out the now superseded name.
Apple's Bonjour Frequently Asked Questions page discusses this behaviour:
12. What should happen when two devices on the network both use the same service name?
In the rare case where a name collision occurs, your device should add
a digit to the end of the name, for example:
"Apple Mac mini (2)"
| Q: How to stop assignment of numbers to hostnames? My devices, including airport stations, keep being assigned a number following their name (i.e. "ATV (3)"). I was hoping Mavericks would fix it but it did not.
Is this fixable, please?
A: This seems like a problem with your router. Try forcing your hostname with scutil:
scutil --set HostName yourhostname
Why the number?
The bracketed numbers appear because the same Bonjour/ZeroConf name is being used multiple times on the network. If Bonjour detects a duplicate name, a number is appended to ensure uniqueness.
This does not indicate a serious problem. Resetting network caches and devices should help clear out the now superseded name.
Apple's Bonjour Frequently Asked Questions page discusses this behaviour:
12. What should happen when two devices on the network both use the same service name?
In the rare case where a name collision occurs, your device should add
a digit to the end of the name, for example:
"Apple Mac mini (2)"
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78c45584bbeaf74cb8f2e5b14f930ce310c28d76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding "Delete" and/or "Mark as read" to mail notifications in Mavericks By default maill.app notifications has two buttons. One for replying to the email and the other one for closing the notification. This is very nice, although, I was wondering if there is any way that I can add either (or both) of the "Delete" and "Mark as read" buttons to the mail notifications. Applescript, hacking some settings, third party apps or any other ways are fine, however, I prefer some native built-in solutions.
A: There is a free app called Herald which does have a Mark As Read button which I have used for a bit now and I can recommend as a stop-gap.
I dug around some plist files to see if anything related to this already exists. No luck, sadly. I also sent feedback to Apple using the link grgarside provided, if others do the same it may actually result in something!
| Q: Adding "Delete" and/or "Mark as read" to mail notifications in Mavericks By default maill.app notifications has two buttons. One for replying to the email and the other one for closing the notification. This is very nice, although, I was wondering if there is any way that I can add either (or both) of the "Delete" and "Mark as read" buttons to the mail notifications. Applescript, hacking some settings, third party apps or any other ways are fine, however, I prefer some native built-in solutions.
A: There is a free app called Herald which does have a Mark As Read button which I have used for a bit now and I can recommend as a stop-gap.
I dug around some plist files to see if anything related to this already exists. No luck, sadly. I also sent feedback to Apple using the link grgarside provided, if others do the same it may actually result in something!
A: This is currently not possible in Mail's preferences. You can provide feedback to Apple here:
*
*http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html
A: Delete button is present in the notifications of Yosemite's (OS X 10.10) version of Mail (8.0).
Sadly, no Mark as read button is available or configurable.
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a3ccf7a2d60627479e44af92fbf94a15190caa70 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to convert window into tab? I can drag a tab out of window, and it becomes independent window in Safari, Finder and other apps that support tabs. Is it possible to reverse this operation, convert window into tab by dragging it to another window?
A: You can just hit cmd + shift + T to make the tab bar visible in any finder window. This allows you to drag the current window as a tab into any other finder window.
| Q: Is it possible to convert window into tab? I can drag a tab out of window, and it becomes independent window in Safari, Finder and other apps that support tabs. Is it possible to reverse this operation, convert window into tab by dragging it to another window?
A: You can just hit cmd + shift + T to make the tab bar visible in any finder window. This allows you to drag the current window as a tab into any other finder window.
A: You need to drag a tab - Safari won't let you drag an entire window into another one. You can hit ⌘T to create a new empty tab (thus making the tab interface visible), then drag your original tab to the other window.
A: Go to Window → Merge All Windows. In Safari, this merges other windows into the currently active window. In Finder, this merges the current windows into other window.
Alternatively, you can show the tab bar with View → Show Tab Bar. This lets you drag the tab when only one tab in a window is open.
A: Yes, you can. Just drag the tab of the new window in the right location of the old window, and it is done. In this way you can also drag-n-drop tabs of safari between different open windows.
I know it works in Chrome like this
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911480022b9a933edfd7245387fe06c71a4825a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Photo thumbnails remain in camera roll after moving photos to computer I'm exporting my photos to my computer by connecting my iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1) to my Ubuntu 14.04 setup and cutting the photos from the DCIM folder and pasting them on my computer.
The photos go through alright, but the camera roll still shows the thumbnails. When I click on the thumbnail I get a white blank screen.
How come?
How can I move photos out of the phone without keeping its thumbnail in the camera roll?
A: A hacky and maybe risky workaround which worked for me was suggested here:
*
*Go to PhotoData folder
*Delete Photos.sqlite
*Restart the iPhone
| Q: Photo thumbnails remain in camera roll after moving photos to computer I'm exporting my photos to my computer by connecting my iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1) to my Ubuntu 14.04 setup and cutting the photos from the DCIM folder and pasting them on my computer.
The photos go through alright, but the camera roll still shows the thumbnails. When I click on the thumbnail I get a white blank screen.
How come?
How can I move photos out of the phone without keeping its thumbnail in the camera roll?
A: A hacky and maybe risky workaround which worked for me was suggested here:
*
*Go to PhotoData folder
*Delete Photos.sqlite
*Restart the iPhone
A: Why is this happening: because deleting the picture from DCIM has no effect on the database listing the pictures neither to the thumbnails generated during the capture of the picture. Once the DCIM empty the DB points to void placeholders.
How to do otherwise: try rebooting the iPhone. Next time delete them form the device or use some 3rd party softs.
A: Well, I did that, too, deleting Photos.sqlite file.
But then when I wanted to look at the thumbnails in the Camera Roll (accessed through running the Camera app) - nothing was there, and it said "Rebuilding Thumbnails" or something, and it took a while. And then all the thumbnails were there. Except one:
I couldn't see a thumbnail of a photo I took while this "rebuilding process" was going on.
(However, it is there in the Photos app.)
Now, that this process is complete it seems that the new photos result in new thumbnails. And I see them appear in the /private/var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/Thumbnails/ folder.
Also, just as an aside, deleting Photos.sqlite doesn't delete all the old thumbnails. And while they are small, they do end up taking some space on the iPhone storage unit.
A: Looking around under:
echo afc://$(idevice_id -l)/PhotoData
For the aforementioned sqlite files, I found the thumbnail files themselves and separate EXIF data (as *.JPG, *.THM) in folders under it at:
./Metadata/DCIM/1??APPLE
./Thumbnails/* # left thumbnailConfiguration
I deleted the Photos.sqlite* files, changes*, and the non-config files from folder listed above. This cleared hundreds of megabytes of space after a few years of use.
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81a5e820a7f074c6625033f21339f182ad0740c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When I tether a MacBook Pro to an iPhone/iPad, how can I restrict what apps use it? I want to prevent Dropbox, Skydrive/OneDrive, and Google drive from syncing (for example) when my laptop is connected to my phone.
In other words I'd only like to sync email, use VPN, and permit Chrome in these instances.
Is there a product, technique, or hack that will allow me to restrict what apps are permitted to use my internet connection?
A: Check out Little Snitch. It's intended to let you know what apps are using the network at what times, but you can use it's permission function to deny internet access for all apps except the ones you care about.
You can download it for free, it will work for 3 hours before you have to turn it back on again. Or you can purchase the full version so that it's not time limited.
I have no affiliation with it, other than being a satisfied customer.
EDIT: additionally, it will let you setup different deny/allow profiles so that you can set it up once and then just "flip the switch" next time.
| Q: When I tether a MacBook Pro to an iPhone/iPad, how can I restrict what apps use it? I want to prevent Dropbox, Skydrive/OneDrive, and Google drive from syncing (for example) when my laptop is connected to my phone.
In other words I'd only like to sync email, use VPN, and permit Chrome in these instances.
Is there a product, technique, or hack that will allow me to restrict what apps are permitted to use my internet connection?
A: Check out Little Snitch. It's intended to let you know what apps are using the network at what times, but you can use it's permission function to deny internet access for all apps except the ones you care about.
You can download it for free, it will work for 3 hours before you have to turn it back on again. Or you can purchase the full version so that it's not time limited.
I have no affiliation with it, other than being a satisfied customer.
EDIT: additionally, it will let you setup different deny/allow profiles so that you can set it up once and then just "flip the switch" next time.
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b651339a2605c02610a5b8b83156f294d68174b0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to choose keys in keychain access? I would like keychain access to store all my keys and passwords for my ssh accesses.
However, if I store too many keys, I get "Too Many Authentication Failures" since SSH will try to send all keys and passwords.
Is there a way to choose which key or password to send?
A: Put your per-server SSH-configuration into ~/.ssh/config like this:
Host useKeyOnly.net
user sshuser
Identityfile ~/.ssh/mykey1
IdentitiesOnly yes
Host usePasswordOnly.org
PubkeyAuthentication no
Port 53221
user root
| Q: How to choose keys in keychain access? I would like keychain access to store all my keys and passwords for my ssh accesses.
However, if I store too many keys, I get "Too Many Authentication Failures" since SSH will try to send all keys and passwords.
Is there a way to choose which key or password to send?
A: Put your per-server SSH-configuration into ~/.ssh/config like this:
Host useKeyOnly.net
user sshuser
Identityfile ~/.ssh/mykey1
IdentitiesOnly yes
Host usePasswordOnly.org
PubkeyAuthentication no
Port 53221
user root
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9fdf53ccc397b0cd97b28cacaf7be538154c7b57 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to print full presenter notes without slides in Keynote I have a 50 slide presentation with extensive notes, and urgently need to print out those notes.
Keynote 6 appears to offer no way to do this. All print options include slides, and/or do not print the full notes. Any notes that exceed one page, will simply be truncated from the printout.
Is there any way to copy/paste, export, or print the presenter note text in full, without (or even with at this point!) the slides?
A: This applescript should do it for you:
global presenterNotes
tell application "Keynote"
activate
open (choose file)
tell front document
set presenterNotes to presenter notes of every slide as text
set the clipboard to presenterNotes
do shell script "pbpaste > ~/keynote-notes.txt"
end tell
quit application "Keynote"
end tell
| Q: How to print full presenter notes without slides in Keynote I have a 50 slide presentation with extensive notes, and urgently need to print out those notes.
Keynote 6 appears to offer no way to do this. All print options include slides, and/or do not print the full notes. Any notes that exceed one page, will simply be truncated from the printout.
Is there any way to copy/paste, export, or print the presenter note text in full, without (or even with at this point!) the slides?
A: This applescript should do it for you:
global presenterNotes
tell application "Keynote"
activate
open (choose file)
tell front document
set presenterNotes to presenter notes of every slide as text
set the clipboard to presenterNotes
do shell script "pbpaste > ~/keynote-notes.txt"
end tell
quit application "Keynote"
end tell
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22ff1c641c92940aca9803336ae2f325e5c762c5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Extracting Voice Memos from iPhone to iTunes I am currently doing some coursework for my exams, and part of my IT project is to record some audio, and assess it. I recorded this audio on my iPhone, and I plan on using Audacity to edit it. I am having a problem with getting the voice memos off my iPhone, and that's preventing me from doing my coursework. Does anyone know what to do? I use iTunes 11.1.3
A: If you sync your iPhone with iTunes and have the voice memo syncing enabled, then the voice memos will be transferred to your computer when syncing. The voice memos will show in the Voice Memos playlist.
| Q: Extracting Voice Memos from iPhone to iTunes I am currently doing some coursework for my exams, and part of my IT project is to record some audio, and assess it. I recorded this audio on my iPhone, and I plan on using Audacity to edit it. I am having a problem with getting the voice memos off my iPhone, and that's preventing me from doing my coursework. Does anyone know what to do? I use iTunes 11.1.3
A: If you sync your iPhone with iTunes and have the voice memo syncing enabled, then the voice memos will be transferred to your computer when syncing. The voice memos will show in the Voice Memos playlist.
A: The voice memos do not appear under "voice memos" playlist as expected; instead, they appeared when I tried:
*
*Click My Device > Music
*Scroll down the list of individual audio files/songs and voila, there were my memos mixed in with the others.
For some unknown reason, the voice memos did not end up in "Voice Memos" playlist automatically; but they can be moved there to that playlist manually.
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3ef38266e5a823fae9d05122e536c1697d3f4bec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Converting publisher files for use on Mac I have Microsoft publisher files on a windows computer. I recently purchased a macbook air, and would like to move these files to my new computer. How do I do that?
A: LibreOffice 4.0 and later can open publisher files.
| Q: Converting publisher files for use on Mac I have Microsoft publisher files on a windows computer. I recently purchased a macbook air, and would like to move these files to my new computer. How do I do that?
A: LibreOffice 4.0 and later can open publisher files.
A: As others have mentioned there is no Mac application that can work with Publisher files.
(EDIT: As Tom pointed out LibreOffice 4.0 and above, released in February 2013, can now open and work with Publisher files)
What I've recommended for people at our office who have made the switch to Mac is to either export to a different format (Word, PDF, etc) from Publisher on their PC beforehand.
Alternately you can use online services to convert the Publisher file into a PDF, Word doc, etc. I know there are several but the only I've actually used is the service from Zamzar.
Hope that helps!
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71ab1f1c8caa2dfdd14e5fe434fd7e4ec15db06a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adjust horizontal scrolling speed on a mouse or trackpad independent of the vertical speed I have recently bought a Logitech M510 as my main mouse switching over from a magic mouse. I didn't realize missing horizontal scrolling would be such an issue, but apparently it is.
Now a mac does support horizontal scrolling by holding shift + scrolling, this is however amazingly slow.
I have the Logitech Control Center installed, which offers a few extra options, but nothing regarding the horizontal scroll speed. The scrolling speed options offered there only affect vertical scrolling.
Can the vertical speed be one setting and the horizontal speed another?
A: I think Logitech has updated their mouse scroll settings since this answer was asked, and now their settings allow you to adjust horizontal scroll speed. Yay!
I recently (April 2020) bought a Logitech M705 mouse, and once you plug its little usb receiver into your computer for the first time you've got the option to install the "Logi Options" app, which contains a bunch of adjustable settings for your Logitech devices.
*
*Open the Logi Options app
*Select your mouse
*You'll see horizontal scroll speed options.
| Q: Adjust horizontal scrolling speed on a mouse or trackpad independent of the vertical speed I have recently bought a Logitech M510 as my main mouse switching over from a magic mouse. I didn't realize missing horizontal scrolling would be such an issue, but apparently it is.
Now a mac does support horizontal scrolling by holding shift + scrolling, this is however amazingly slow.
I have the Logitech Control Center installed, which offers a few extra options, but nothing regarding the horizontal scroll speed. The scrolling speed options offered there only affect vertical scrolling.
Can the vertical speed be one setting and the horizontal speed another?
A: I think Logitech has updated their mouse scroll settings since this answer was asked, and now their settings allow you to adjust horizontal scroll speed. Yay!
I recently (April 2020) bought a Logitech M705 mouse, and once you plug its little usb receiver into your computer for the first time you've got the option to install the "Logi Options" app, which contains a bunch of adjustable settings for your Logitech devices.
*
*Open the Logi Options app
*Select your mouse
*You'll see horizontal scroll speed options.
A: You can make the horizontal scroll speed faster and independent by overriding the native ⇧+scroll function with SteerMouse's feature to define a custom relationship between inputs, scroll speed, and direction. You can even assign a scroll speed acceleration value if you want to combine slower and faster scroll speeds for enhanced precision.
Here's how to set it up:
*
*In the SteerMouse preference pane, select the "Mouse" tab.
*Switch the "Horizontal scrolling" option from "Tilt" to "Roll" (Fig. 1). This should be enough to let SteerMouse take over the handling of horizontal scrolling, which is what is invoked when you use the native ⇧+scroll function, so if you don't wish to make further scroll speed adjustment, you can stop here.
*Select the "Scroll" tab (Fig. 2).
*Click the "Roll Horizontally" button.
*Make any further acceleration and sensitivity adjustments. You can also invert the horizontal scroll direction (Fig. 3).
A: have you tried increasing the speed in Accessibility options?
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c0992bad7a989e0e3402d49cd9c3efc960fd2a68 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) uses h/w encryption? I have a LaCie 2big, connected via Thunderbolt 2.
When I select as a disk-partition MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), does that uses some type of hardware encryption or is it all software?
A: Using this option, you'll endup with a whole disk encryption.
It uses OSX CoreStorage volume management technology and XTS-AES 128-bit encryption, so it's software.
Edit : As pointed Alan Shutko, since 2011 Intel added an Intruction set to intel processor to do AES encryption.
| Q: MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) uses h/w encryption? I have a LaCie 2big, connected via Thunderbolt 2.
When I select as a disk-partition MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), does that uses some type of hardware encryption or is it all software?
A: Using this option, you'll endup with a whole disk encryption.
It uses OSX CoreStorage volume management technology and XTS-AES 128-bit encryption, so it's software.
Edit : As pointed Alan Shutko, since 2011 Intel added an Intruction set to intel processor to do AES encryption.
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63e174d7ef63efad286772ed4af1e29f2b009747 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS S/MIME Signing Issues When I try to send an email using an installed S/MIME certificate on iOS, I get an alert that says:
Unable to Sign: You can't send signed messages because a signing identity for the address could not be found. Go to the advanced settings for this account and choose a signing identity.
I have a signing identity chosen in the S/MIME settings for the account, and I have tried exporting my private key from my Mac's keychain many different times. The certificate/key match the address I'm sending from. Am I doing something wrong?
A: Not all certificates are supported by iOS, it depends on the encryption method.
I had issues with the free Comodo S/Mime certificates and switched to the free S/Mime certificates from Startssl.com, they work fine
| Q: iOS S/MIME Signing Issues When I try to send an email using an installed S/MIME certificate on iOS, I get an alert that says:
Unable to Sign: You can't send signed messages because a signing identity for the address could not be found. Go to the advanced settings for this account and choose a signing identity.
I have a signing identity chosen in the S/MIME settings for the account, and I have tried exporting my private key from my Mac's keychain many different times. The certificate/key match the address I'm sending from. Am I doing something wrong?
A: Not all certificates are supported by iOS, it depends on the encryption method.
I had issues with the free Comodo S/Mime certificates and switched to the free S/Mime certificates from Startssl.com, they work fine
A: iOS Mail’s S/MIME functions seems to get confused by certificates with the same scope and certification authority being swapped out, as is the case with the free mail certificates, whose time limitations force a swap every year.
If you hit this issue after having swapped out your certificate, follow these steps to get to a clean state:
*
*make sure you have a .p12 file for your certificate at hand, or that you can re-download it from your certification authority;
*delete all offending certificates (current or not) from Settings → General → Profiles;
*reboot your device (hold the on/off button until the shutdown slider appears on screen, slide that, wait for the shutdown spinner to stop, restart device). This will flush Mail from memory and reset its caches, something that cannot be achieved by force quitting it, as parts of Mail run as a daemon;
*import your certificate from step 1;
*make sure the newly installed certificate is selected in Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendar → [your account] → Account → Advanced → Sign.
The certificate should now be recognised correctly.
Related links
*
*Using S/MIME on iOS Devices – feinstruktur
*Using S/MIME on iOS Devices – Mac OS X Hints
A: I had the same issues but i fixed them with a different workaround. If you want to install your Private certificate.
First install the Public certificate of the Issuing Certificate Authority then install your private Certificate as the second one.
This worked fine with my self issued Certificates :)
A: I have a COMODO certificate and was able to get this to work. It is important to delete the previously existing certificates completely and re-start the iPhone / iPad. Then install the new certificate and check it is assigned in Mail settings.
A: I had such problems too and lost hours on them.
Now I can do it with iOS 13.3.1.
I have installed successfully Actalis SMIME certificate following this steps :
*
*send the certificate unzipped and attached to email for which it should be used,
*in iOS Mail receive the email and install the profile: tap the attachment, enter the code...
*follow the instructions: go to settings, find your profile with the certificate pending below it, confirm it.
Now you can receive encrypted mail but cannot sign or send encrypted mail. Therefore, you must go to settings, accounts, IMAP, open the account, advanced and select the certificate you have just installed for signing and encrypting.
It should work without removing expired certificates. If you remove expired certificates then you can't read emails that were encrypted for then, so be careful.
There is a warning "certificate not signed". Eventually this does not appear to impede anything. Maybe somebody will explain why, how, by whom the certificate should be signed. I think that this used to be the cause of old problems that were solved around the beginning of year 2019. This could be checked in iOS release notes.
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588d8266ee67d159ffd9a1ed5314a2953dbedb03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Modify existing Little Snitch rule to be Effective in all profiles I've been using Little Snitch for a while. I have several profiles set up (e.g. Home, Work, Public, etc). I've been working to generalize some of the rules. E.g. Instead of specifically allowing Firefox on port 80 to each of a thousand different websites, just allow Firefox on Port 80 to anywhere. However, I still end up with duplicates of many of those same rules across profiles.
Is there an easy way to modify an existing rule to be effective in all profiles?
A: AFAIK you could simply move the rule from your current profile into your 'Effective in all profiles' Profile. But rules in your current active profile will override your 'Effective in all profiles' rules which means they have a higher precedence.
And allowing outgoing connections for your browser on http and https should not be a big security risk IMHO.
| Q: Modify existing Little Snitch rule to be Effective in all profiles I've been using Little Snitch for a while. I have several profiles set up (e.g. Home, Work, Public, etc). I've been working to generalize some of the rules. E.g. Instead of specifically allowing Firefox on port 80 to each of a thousand different websites, just allow Firefox on Port 80 to anywhere. However, I still end up with duplicates of many of those same rules across profiles.
Is there an easy way to modify an existing rule to be effective in all profiles?
A: AFAIK you could simply move the rule from your current profile into your 'Effective in all profiles' Profile. But rules in your current active profile will override your 'Effective in all profiles' rules which means they have a higher precedence.
And allowing outgoing connections for your browser on http and https should not be a big security risk IMHO.
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ba19303aa0157ea94e7a06ec1130022c1b4f876f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS-level virtualization (containers) for OS X I wonder why, apart from good old chroot, no implementation of operating system-level virtualization (or containers if you prefer) exists for Mac OS X.
Could it be due to kernel limitations or license restrictions? Or simply no one has yet launched a similar project?
A: You'd be surprised - Containers actually are supported - the OS X (and iOS) Sandbox has evolved to use them. They have been introduced in 10.7, and are now de facto standard in 10.10 and iOS 8. In the latter they are more strictly enforced (primarily due to reason of application security), to the point where an app can only see itself , and previous methods of enumerating processes or resources now return container-based results - similar to Linux ipc namespace - but more powerful.
| Q: OS-level virtualization (containers) for OS X I wonder why, apart from good old chroot, no implementation of operating system-level virtualization (or containers if you prefer) exists for Mac OS X.
Could it be due to kernel limitations or license restrictions? Or simply no one has yet launched a similar project?
A: You'd be surprised - Containers actually are supported - the OS X (and iOS) Sandbox has evolved to use them. They have been introduced in 10.7, and are now de facto standard in 10.10 and iOS 8. In the latter they are more strictly enforced (primarily due to reason of application security), to the point where an app can only see itself , and previous methods of enumerating processes or resources now return container-based results - similar to Linux ipc namespace - but more powerful.
A: While it's using "good old chroot(8)", I started a project that tend to mimic docker's behavior on OS X and NetBSD. It's Free-as-in-speech and is available on GitHub. As the README says, this project is neither about security nor production, but will help testing full stacks natively on your workstation.
A: I would imagine the answer to be that no one really wants it. It does seem to be doable.
These things are done mainly for one purpose, conserving performance for VPS vendors. And really no one wants a VPS instance to be OS X-based.
A: A key element required for containerization is isolation of networking and other services, but not just isolation but also virtualization. FreeBSD Jails, Linux "containers" (or more correctly "namespaces"), and Solaris/illumos zones all offer some degree of "virtualization" of these operating system system services.
By virtualization, this means that these servers are available (or potentially available) to things inside the "container", but in a way that protects the other things on the same host outside the container. (For example, a container may have its own TCP/IP stack, with its own IP address, ARP cache, etc.)
OS (operating system) virtualization is how we generally refer to this type of "light-weight" virtualization, where processes think they see a virtual kernel, but are all sharing the same real kernel under the hood; that kernel acts as a sort of hypervisor in ensuring that container/virtualization boundaries are not crossed. (Put another way, the OS services are virtualized.) Compare this to hardware virtualization, where what is virtualized is the hardware -- e.g. devices are emulated in software and presented to an operating system running in the container. This is very powerful, but quite resource intensive -- each virtual machine must have its own copy of the operating system.
Recent macOS has native hypervisor support via Hypervisor.framework which allows software like "XHyve" [A port of FreeBSD’s BHyve] (docker on macOS uses this), but lacks the necessary services under the hood to fully virtualize operating system services.
In truth, a lot of what is needed is probably already present, since the work to provide sandboxes means that there are already logical points where system calls are intercepted and handled differently for different applications. However, that's far from the complete story -- implementing true separate network, IPC, and other namespaces is quite a lot of work.
The best reason for why Apple has not done this is likely the same reason that Apple has not released a platform suitable for running macOS in the data center for many years -- lack of market demand, or perceived lack of market demand by Apple leadership. The desktop and mobile focus where they have focused their attention simply don't need virtual macOS instances that much. (This is sad, because I would love to have virtual macOS support -- for example running macOS on VMs at Travis CI is really time consuming compared to Linux containers).
A: docker (as I understand it ) is only "virtualizing" (layering) the file system and network (cpu / mem are only limited) so all of the same feature should be there but just not marketed the same way.
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4ea8fa6f8f3200efd3f432c99eb6d5d37539030a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I protect Single User Mode to require a password? I once read that you can modify a file on the computer to make Single User Mode behave differently, called "boot.rc" or something similar. Is it possible to modify the behavior of SUM? Since physical access would compromise all security (except FileVault) is it possible to prevent SUM from running bash and immediately boot into the GUI (or at least into something which requests a password) so potential hackers would have no way to gain root access without a password?
A: You can add a firmware password, which will need to be entered before the Mac can be booted into Single User Mode (or from external media). Boot with ⌘R to enter Recovery, then select Firmware Password Utility from the Utilities menu to set it up.
| Q: How can I protect Single User Mode to require a password? I once read that you can modify a file on the computer to make Single User Mode behave differently, called "boot.rc" or something similar. Is it possible to modify the behavior of SUM? Since physical access would compromise all security (except FileVault) is it possible to prevent SUM from running bash and immediately boot into the GUI (or at least into something which requests a password) so potential hackers would have no way to gain root access without a password?
A: You can add a firmware password, which will need to be entered before the Mac can be booted into Single User Mode (or from external media). Boot with ⌘R to enter Recovery, then select Firmware Password Utility from the Utilities menu to set it up.
A: Another option is to enable FileVault 2. It makes entering single user mode require the login password of an account that is allowed to unlock the disk.
A: You can set a firmware password, which will prevent booting to single user, verbose, boot selector, target firewire/thunderbolt, etc. Here's how:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/01/06/set-firmware-password-mac/
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46f143d109798a13385612ed52738ac23a917b0b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable smart quotes [OS X 10.9.3 (Mavericks)] I've disabled smart quotes in the keyboard settings, but whenever I type ' or " in Messages (old name: iChat), they get converted to ‘ and “. How do I disable this default conversion?
A: In addition to System Preferences, this feature can be turned on and off in each app via Edit > Substitutions. Make sure you check that setting as well.
| Q: How to disable smart quotes [OS X 10.9.3 (Mavericks)] I've disabled smart quotes in the keyboard settings, but whenever I type ' or " in Messages (old name: iChat), they get converted to ‘ and “. How do I disable this default conversion?
A: In addition to System Preferences, this feature can be turned on and off in each app via Edit > Substitutions. Make sure you check that setting as well.
A: You will find this option in the Keyboard Preferences pane:
*
*Open System Preferences.
*Click on the Keyboard icon.
*Select the Text tab.
*Uncheck the Use smart quotes and dashes checkbox.
Note that this is almost a homework question. This is a keyboard/text related setting so it's fairly logical to find it under the Keyboard Preferences.
A: In El Capitan (i.e. 10.11.1), I solved it by changing the Smart Quote settings:
*
*Open Keyboard in System Preferences
*Go to Text tab
*Change values for "for Double Quotes" and "for Single Quotes" from drop-down selection to use the simple quotes "" rather than ““
That's it. No need to disable or do any other workaround.
Hope this helps, as I had this problem with Message app when posting code.
A: Unfortunately none of the posted solutions worked for me. I've solved by changing my keyboard layout from:
*
*U.S. International - PC
to:
*
*U.S.
A: This shell script disables smart quotes in all applications that currently have preferences files:
for d in $(defaults domains|tr -d ,);do
osascript -e "app id \"$d\""&>/dev/null||continue
defaults write $d SmartQuotes -bool false
# defaults write $d SmartDashes -bool false
# defaults write $d SmartLinks -bool false
# defaults write $d SmartCopyPaste -bool false
# defaults write $d TextReplacement -bool false
# defaults write $d CheckSpellingWhileTyping -bool false
done
Uncomment the commented out lines to also disable other substitutions or spell checking.
A: Disable smart quotes:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool false
Disable smart dashes:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool false
Disable smart quotes for TextEdit:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit SmartQuotes -bool false
Disable smart dashes for TextEdit:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit SmartDashes -bool false
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7036a889215cba281cd08972200595392423c039 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No more multi-language detection autocorrect in mac os x 10.7.5? I've updated to Mac OS X 10.7.5 and now the autocorrect no longer works as beautifully as it used to. Prior to update, whether I was in mail, safari, wherever, it detected the language & suggested the appropriate correction…now it is only detecting one language (the first on my list in settings) and doesn't detect when I'm using the second language on my list in system preferences.
Can I revert back to the previous software versions b/c this is really frustrating?!?!
…or does anyone know how to fix this??
A: You should find the setting in your System Preferences.
Select Automatic by language or your choice.
| Q: No more multi-language detection autocorrect in mac os x 10.7.5? I've updated to Mac OS X 10.7.5 and now the autocorrect no longer works as beautifully as it used to. Prior to update, whether I was in mail, safari, wherever, it detected the language & suggested the appropriate correction…now it is only detecting one language (the first on my list in settings) and doesn't detect when I'm using the second language on my list in system preferences.
Can I revert back to the previous software versions b/c this is really frustrating?!?!
…or does anyone know how to fix this??
A: You should find the setting in your System Preferences.
Select Automatic by language or your choice.
A: In System Prefs/Language & Text/Text/Spelling, go to the Setup item on the list and make sure that only the languages you are interested in have their boxes checked. You need to also check that Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar is also set correctly in the app you are using.
That is the best you can do. I've rarely heard of anyone who thought Apple's multilingual spellcheck was very satisfactory. But it should detect both languages, unless one of them is a 3rd party add-on dictionary, in which case there is no guarantee.
If by chance you are talking about the Pages app or Word, let us know, because the above is not relevant for that.
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13e76313d76456b4edaa80a254babb73fd8838f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install Xcode 6? I just got myself a MBA and I am wondering how do I install Xcode 6 on my MBA?
In the Mac App Store I can see Xcode 5.1.1 so I have started installing that on the MBA. But, I want to install Xcode 6 and more specifically Swift. How do I do that?
A: Xcode 6 currently requires an active iOS or Mac Developer Program membership, available from developer.apple.com/programs, as Xcode 6 and Swift is not publicly available yet. Once Xcode 6 is out of beta / prerelease anyone should be able to download it from the MAS, but that is speculation based on past experience and not something Apple has announced.
| Q: How to install Xcode 6? I just got myself a MBA and I am wondering how do I install Xcode 6 on my MBA?
In the Mac App Store I can see Xcode 5.1.1 so I have started installing that on the MBA. But, I want to install Xcode 6 and more specifically Swift. How do I do that?
A: Xcode 6 currently requires an active iOS or Mac Developer Program membership, available from developer.apple.com/programs, as Xcode 6 and Swift is not publicly available yet. Once Xcode 6 is out of beta / prerelease anyone should be able to download it from the MAS, but that is speculation based on past experience and not something Apple has announced.
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5cd0da9db663d80f31ae5c341b6a32143cea00ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to sync mouse pointer correctly in screen sharing when connecting to a Windows VM? I am using the screen sharing application on a MacBook Air running OS X 10.9.3 to connect to a Windows 7 virtual machine on a different computer.
Although the keyboard and mouse work in general (input is received by the VM), the mouse pointer is not synced correctly. I see two mouse pointers: the Windows one and the one from my Mac. However, the Windows mouse pointer is always off by quite a bit. It seems to have a higher acceleration. If I quickly move my mouse, the Windows mouse pointers moves more than my Mac's.
I cannot find any information on the Web about this problem. Is this a known issue? Should it work with Windows systems?
A: In the Screen Sharing app, go to the View menu and click "Customize Toolbar..." There's a button you can add to the toolbar called "Cursor" that toggles your Mac's mouse cursor. You can turn it off so you'll only see the one on the remote machine instead of both the remote and local cursor.
| Q: How to sync mouse pointer correctly in screen sharing when connecting to a Windows VM? I am using the screen sharing application on a MacBook Air running OS X 10.9.3 to connect to a Windows 7 virtual machine on a different computer.
Although the keyboard and mouse work in general (input is received by the VM), the mouse pointer is not synced correctly. I see two mouse pointers: the Windows one and the one from my Mac. However, the Windows mouse pointer is always off by quite a bit. It seems to have a higher acceleration. If I quickly move my mouse, the Windows mouse pointers moves more than my Mac's.
I cannot find any information on the Web about this problem. Is this a known issue? Should it work with Windows systems?
A: In the Screen Sharing app, go to the View menu and click "Customize Toolbar..." There's a button you can add to the toolbar called "Cursor" that toggles your Mac's mouse cursor. You can turn it off so you'll only see the one on the remote machine instead of both the remote and local cursor.
A: think this double pointer has something to do with your screen resolution but not the size of the screen. but where it says make text larger or smaller , reduce the percentage back to 100 maybe higer but at 200% of the normal size , the mouse becomes distorted and are inches apart.
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b6aab690554ffe2518740d56b77deb62338b091c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I speed up the network discovery of windows servers from my mac? I just bought my first MacBook Pro. One frustration I have is accessing my shared windows-based network assets. I have two servers on the network, but they seem to take forever to be discovered by my MBP.
Use Case:
*
*I open my MBP
*Once connected to WiFi, I open Finder and then Go > Network
*I wait and wait and wait and wait for the windows-based network assets to be discovered
I'm not sure how long it takes because I usually just go about doing other things then check back. I think it could take up to a half hour though (more/less). Sometimes, even when I can see the server, it takes an unacceptably long time to connect to it.
Is there any way to improve this?
Is the problem a mac/pc thing?
A: Only using Finder the workaround that works for me in macOS 10.14.5 is:
*
*In Finder menu bar select Go > Connect to Sever...
*Use your windows machine IP address to make a Connect
| Q: How do I speed up the network discovery of windows servers from my mac? I just bought my first MacBook Pro. One frustration I have is accessing my shared windows-based network assets. I have two servers on the network, but they seem to take forever to be discovered by my MBP.
Use Case:
*
*I open my MBP
*Once connected to WiFi, I open Finder and then Go > Network
*I wait and wait and wait and wait for the windows-based network assets to be discovered
I'm not sure how long it takes because I usually just go about doing other things then check back. I think it could take up to a half hour though (more/less). Sometimes, even when I can see the server, it takes an unacceptably long time to connect to it.
Is there any way to improve this?
Is the problem a mac/pc thing?
A: Only using Finder the workaround that works for me in macOS 10.14.5 is:
*
*In Finder menu bar select Go > Connect to Sever...
*Use your windows machine IP address to make a Connect
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48fd51c3e0bd08b4ba7852499bc2cc3eb676f610 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using Iphone as bluetooth replacement for mac I have a late 2011 mac book pro with bluetooth 2.1 which works terribly with my speakers. Is there anyway I can use my Iphone 5s with bluetooth 4.0 as a sort of replacement. Through USB, WIFI or Bluetooth?
A: I don't think it's possible to use the iPhone as bluetooth bridge between your macbook and the speakers.
The cheap alternative is to buy a bluetooth dongle like this one:
ASUS USB Adapter with Bluetooth (USB-BT400)
| Q: Using Iphone as bluetooth replacement for mac I have a late 2011 mac book pro with bluetooth 2.1 which works terribly with my speakers. Is there anyway I can use my Iphone 5s with bluetooth 4.0 as a sort of replacement. Through USB, WIFI or Bluetooth?
A: I don't think it's possible to use the iPhone as bluetooth bridge between your macbook and the speakers.
The cheap alternative is to buy a bluetooth dongle like this one:
ASUS USB Adapter with Bluetooth (USB-BT400)
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57f6debfbb87c4ec63ddcfe46ec02f049eca42e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to specify DNS on iOS when connected via VPN? I have set up a VPN connection using my FritzBox 6330. This works great on my Macbook Air if I specify a DNS server (192.168.178.1 - which is the address of my FritzBox) in the network settings of the VPN.
On iOS however there is no such entry field, hence no names can be resolved. The VPN itself works. I can connect to various IP addresses.
A: The DNS settings over a VPN connection should be forced by the VPN server. This makes sure DNS queries get routed securely over the VPN, and allows you to see private services on the intranet that may not be exposed as public DNS records.
It's possible the VPN server may not be telling iOS what DNS server to use, something that could be solved by a configuration change in the VPN server?
| Q: How to specify DNS on iOS when connected via VPN? I have set up a VPN connection using my FritzBox 6330. This works great on my Macbook Air if I specify a DNS server (192.168.178.1 - which is the address of my FritzBox) in the network settings of the VPN.
On iOS however there is no such entry field, hence no names can be resolved. The VPN itself works. I can connect to various IP addresses.
A: The DNS settings over a VPN connection should be forced by the VPN server. This makes sure DNS queries get routed securely over the VPN, and allows you to see private services on the intranet that may not be exposed as public DNS records.
It's possible the VPN server may not be telling iOS what DNS server to use, something that could be solved by a configuration change in the VPN server?
A: When using IKEv2, iOS ignores pushed DNS settings when split-include tunnelling is used.
A: See complete Answer here:
The Wi-Fi settings are easy to override using the device itself, but
it's not global but instead an override on a per-network name basis.
Go to the network settings for a specific Wi-Fi. Under the detailed
screen (tap the blue > sign once you are connected) and swipe up to
expose the DHCP / BootP / Static IP address part of the screen. You
can tap to edit DNS and append, delete or substitute your choice of
DNS settings from that screen.
When I need to run a custom DNS, I often use VPN to get to a router
with known settings and this works over Wi-Fi and cellular data since
all traffic goes to the VPN where I can control the DNS. This requires
time and a server (Amazon web service free tier is ideal for low cost
hosting).
Source: bmike
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202d1723bf759a5aea12554e020b8710e1b9404b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Calendar show more all-day events Is it possible to increase the area dedicated to all-day events? It grows automatically up to 5 events, the 6th is partially shown and from the 7th they are hidden.
A: To see multiple (>5) "all day" events in a single day, you need to use the View by Day option.
Or alternatively you can use the week view but with scroll function.
| Q: Calendar show more all-day events Is it possible to increase the area dedicated to all-day events? It grows automatically up to 5 events, the 6th is partially shown and from the 7th they are hidden.
A: To see multiple (>5) "all day" events in a single day, you need to use the View by Day option.
Or alternatively you can use the week view but with scroll function.
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d91ba3d2294c7dde8ab05ffe52303dead2773f56 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to do SMS from the PC with iOS? Is there a way to implement handoff to iOS so my PC running windows can send iMessage/SMS through bluetooth and iOS cellular data connections. This is analogous to MightyText on PC does to Android hardware and cellular service.
I know I can do iMessage on the Mac, but I do not own that hardware and would also like to do SMS from my PC over iOS.
A: There is currently no way to send SMS from a PC or a Mac.
As you mentioned you can currently send iMessages from a Mac, and you will be able to send both iMessages and SMS from a Mac once OS X Yosemite is released (according to apple.com)
EDIT:
A quick Google search for "send iphone sms from pc" found this: http://www.myphonedesktop.com/
| Q: Is there a way to do SMS from the PC with iOS? Is there a way to implement handoff to iOS so my PC running windows can send iMessage/SMS through bluetooth and iOS cellular data connections. This is analogous to MightyText on PC does to Android hardware and cellular service.
I know I can do iMessage on the Mac, but I do not own that hardware and would also like to do SMS from my PC over iOS.
A: There is currently no way to send SMS from a PC or a Mac.
As you mentioned you can currently send iMessages from a Mac, and you will be able to send both iMessages and SMS from a Mac once OS X Yosemite is released (according to apple.com)
EDIT:
A quick Google search for "send iphone sms from pc" found this: http://www.myphonedesktop.com/
A: I think what you are really looking for is a way to do iMessage from a windows computer. iMessage is not the same thing as SMS. SMS has a lot of limitations compared to iMessage which is why Apple created iMessage.
There are some sketchy looking tools that claim to do this on Windows, but I suggest caution.
A: You can send SMS from your computer. Use mysms.com, register your mobile number and login through that. After that, you can send sms from your computer, which will get routed through your phone, which means you have to have your phone and the computer connected to the internet. This works with Android OS.
For MAC, there is only one way, i.e. to use iMessage. I hope this helps.
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82f23b036c501fe92e875899d7b59c87a5b108c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Error-"Unable to write to the last block of the device." I am trying to setup a new hard drive into my Macbook Pro. However, I keep getting an error in disk utility that states, "Unable to write to the last block of the device." I saw another person was able to solve this by replacing a dead hd cable. Could someone explain what they meant by dead hd cable, or have any other ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for the help
A: Testing cabling is more of an empirical exercise. First you disconnect and reseat both ends of the cable. Next, you put in the new cable and if the problem goes away it was the cable. If you suspect the cable on an intermittent problem you replace the cable and leave it in after reseating doesn't reduce the frequency of the issue.
I'd start with reseating things and re-testing. Since you have a good test you'll know pretty quickly if it's the drive, the cable or the driver board / software that's causing the write failure.
Also, check that the drive has updated firmware / appropriate firmware for your version of OS.
| Q: Error-"Unable to write to the last block of the device." I am trying to setup a new hard drive into my Macbook Pro. However, I keep getting an error in disk utility that states, "Unable to write to the last block of the device." I saw another person was able to solve this by replacing a dead hd cable. Could someone explain what they meant by dead hd cable, or have any other ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for the help
A: Testing cabling is more of an empirical exercise. First you disconnect and reseat both ends of the cable. Next, you put in the new cable and if the problem goes away it was the cable. If you suspect the cable on an intermittent problem you replace the cable and leave it in after reseating doesn't reduce the frequency of the issue.
I'd start with reseating things and re-testing. Since you have a good test you'll know pretty quickly if it's the drive, the cable or the driver board / software that's causing the write failure.
Also, check that the drive has updated firmware / appropriate firmware for your version of OS.
A: The HDD cable physically attaches the internal drive (2.5'' 9mm traditionally for notebooks) to the logicboard, typically via the SATA (II or III) bus. The cable can wear out and cause I/O problems, such as you've as described.
Here is an image of the cable via iFixit. I added brief descriptions:
Using iFixit, identify your machine's model and find the applicable replacement guide for the cable (example). In the guide's preface, see "relevant parts" for the compatible cable and necessary tools. Prices range from $30-$50. Follow the step by step guide carefully and replace the cable.
If you still have the same issue after doing so, the drive itself is defective and should be returned.
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8c2408574783df3133bec24aebd5aa8e81060054 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enable SMB sharing from command line On OS X 10.8, using terminal commands, I'd like to enable SMB sharing as if I had ticked the following checkbox under System Preferences - Sharing - File Sharing - Options:
I've tried the following command:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
But despite the smb daemon seeming to be up and running, the checkbox is still unchecked, as if something is missing.
The same command works, as an example, for screen sharing (com.apple.screensharing.plist) and even for AFP (com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist), only SMB seem to suffer from this problem.
A: I've found the solution. Two commands are needed in sequence:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist EnabledServices -array disk
| Q: Enable SMB sharing from command line On OS X 10.8, using terminal commands, I'd like to enable SMB sharing as if I had ticked the following checkbox under System Preferences - Sharing - File Sharing - Options:
I've tried the following command:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
But despite the smb daemon seeming to be up and running, the checkbox is still unchecked, as if something is missing.
The same command works, as an example, for screen sharing (com.apple.screensharing.plist) and even for AFP (com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist), only SMB seem to suffer from this problem.
A: I've found the solution. Two commands are needed in sequence:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist EnabledServices -array disk
A: For others who might be having this same issue with a different root cause, I found that somehow my com.apple.smbd.plist file had gotten corrupt.
You can check this with cat /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist.
It should appear to be plain text, but if you see a bunch of weird characters, it's probably corrupt.
I simply deleted the file [and after realizing it did not get recreated on reboot] copied my com.apple.smbd.plist from another Mac into /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/. Then I checked the checkbox (or alternately, you could run sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist), and then rebooted.
Problem solved. Same issue, different root cause.
Edit: You should also verify permissions on com.apple.smbd.plist and com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist, especially if copying from a different computer. I discovered that my com.apple.AppleFileSharing.plist file had 777 permission, which was causing it not to load.
Ownership should be root:wheel, and permissions should be 644:
sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist
sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist
A: I came looking for a new approach that would work on macOS 13 (Ventura) and use the modern launchctl syntax. None of the above are working for me.
I'm close with the script below.
sudo launchctl enable system/com.apple.smbd
sudo launchctl bootstrap system /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist
sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.smbd
It does turn on SMB, and the File Sharing toggle in System Settings does flip to the "on" position. But something isn't right with the smbd daemon permissions when invoked this way. Connections from my iOS devices fail in strange ways, certain directories can't be traversed, etc.
One significant thing I discovered is, when toggling File Sharing on via the GUI, running pgrep -lf smbd yields no results. Some other daemon besides /usr/sbin/smbd appears to be providing the service. But sudo lsof -Pi :445 does not reveal which particular binary has the port open.
I'm hoping someone might be able to build on this and figure out the missing piece.
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d879a90dbcdb5abbb124d6452f1b4e6c9f667a6f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X 10.9.3 has two visible cursors Basicaly my problem is, that when i mouse over some text, the default "text-selection" cursor appears. But the mouse pointer (arrow) is still present and i can see two cursors.
What could be causing this? It seems to happen when i "lock" my mac with the login window and then logging in.
Help?
I'm using OSX 10.9.3 on a late 2013 13" macbook pro with retina display and two atached monitors (one on a thunderbolt->DVI connection and another connected via the HDMI out)
A: It just happened to me on 10.9.5 for the first time; don't know what caused it but unplugging the external monitor and then plugging it back again helped.
| Q: OS X 10.9.3 has two visible cursors Basicaly my problem is, that when i mouse over some text, the default "text-selection" cursor appears. But the mouse pointer (arrow) is still present and i can see two cursors.
What could be causing this? It seems to happen when i "lock" my mac with the login window and then logging in.
Help?
I'm using OSX 10.9.3 on a late 2013 13" macbook pro with retina display and two atached monitors (one on a thunderbolt->DVI connection and another connected via the HDMI out)
A: It just happened to me on 10.9.5 for the first time; don't know what caused it but unplugging the external monitor and then plugging it back again helped.
A: I am trying to figure this out as well -- it isn't just the the text selection cursor, but I think any cursor. I guess the problem is that the primary cursor doesn't disappear consistently. (It goes away when I start typing, but not while the mouse is moving.) I have 3 possibly related situations, only the last one (remote screen) has started recently:
*
*big cursor
*two displays
*remote screen
I always use a larger-than-normal cursor, to find it on big displays. When I go to the Accessibility panel to reduce the cursor size now, it doesn't go down to the smallest size any more.
I've been running with two displays a long time without problem, but recently I started using Apple's remote screen capability. (I'm on a 2012 27" iMac, running 10.9.5.) I've used it in lots of different configs this week (one display, two displays, second display powered on or off).
Force-quit of system preferences doesn't fix the problem, but restarting did. Now my cursor is small and there's only one at a time. Increased the cursor size, still no problem.
So my bet is this is a minor bug with the Accessibility software interacting with remote display usage. But hey, your mileage may vary.
A: I see the same thing here on OSX 10.11.6
I have an external monitor so all I have to do is unplug and replug the monitor back in and the problem goes away.
A: I had a double cursor, or it looked like a cursor and a "shadow" on my external monitor.
It was on both my laptop display and the external monitor.
I unplugged the external monitor and the cursor was fine on the laptop. Plug the external monitor back it, now it's 50/50 - move to the MacBook display, single cursor - back to external monitor, double cursor - back to the MacBook display, single cursor - back to external monitor, double cursor, etc.
I clicked the Apple symbol, System Preferences, Accessibility, then reduced the cursor size and then increased it again, problem solved.
So, it's a software bug. I'm running a MacBook Pro 17 inch late 2011 with Sierra 12.12.2 Beta
A: Same problem here. I'm using 10.12.2 and an external display (laptop closed). I went into the accessibility and moved the cursor size slider up and down and problem fixed itself.
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dfd8f10f2b7cfbec6b46b615a0c901297454df0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fit 2 video clips in iMovie side by side without cropping When using iMovie's side-by-side feature, it cropped the clips automatically by default. How do we make it to fit the clips into the final clip without cropping any parts of the images?
Clip1:
Clip2:
iMovie resulted:
Desired result:
A: With the Video overlay settings set to Side By Side, you should see the Cropping be activated. Click Cropping, then set the style to Crop to Fill and extend the crop to be the entire size of your input video. Repeat this step for the other video clip.
*
*Add one of the clips to the timeline and drag the other clip above the existing clip in the timeline.
*Go to Adjust → Video overlay settings, set the video overlay style to Side by Side and the side for the current clip.
*Go to Adjust → Cropping and set the cropping style to Crop to Fill
*Drag the bounds box to the edges of the selected clip.
*Repeat the previous two steps for the other clip.
| Q: Fit 2 video clips in iMovie side by side without cropping When using iMovie's side-by-side feature, it cropped the clips automatically by default. How do we make it to fit the clips into the final clip without cropping any parts of the images?
Clip1:
Clip2:
iMovie resulted:
Desired result:
A: With the Video overlay settings set to Side By Side, you should see the Cropping be activated. Click Cropping, then set the style to Crop to Fill and extend the crop to be the entire size of your input video. Repeat this step for the other video clip.
*
*Add one of the clips to the timeline and drag the other clip above the existing clip in the timeline.
*Go to Adjust → Video overlay settings, set the video overlay style to Side by Side and the side for the current clip.
*Go to Adjust → Cropping and set the cropping style to Crop to Fill
*Drag the bounds box to the edges of the selected clip.
*Repeat the previous two steps for the other clip.
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66e68077e032f584cec3456563455f1bf616ed7d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Manually lock screen I would like to lock the computer when not at home but leave the computer unlocked at home.
If I choose to lock the Mac after the screen saver starts I can lock it with control+shift+power but then these settings will also force me to enter the password when I am home.
Is there a way to manually force a lock without locking the screen saver?
A: If you don't want to reduce the time for a password prompt after the screen saver starts you can use Keychain Access. Start it and in the preferences choose to show the status in the menu bar
You will be then able to lock the screen immediately with Lock Screen:
| Q: Manually lock screen I would like to lock the computer when not at home but leave the computer unlocked at home.
If I choose to lock the Mac after the screen saver starts I can lock it with control+shift+power but then these settings will also force me to enter the password when I am home.
Is there a way to manually force a lock without locking the screen saver?
A: If you don't want to reduce the time for a password prompt after the screen saver starts you can use Keychain Access. Start it and in the preferences choose to show the status in the menu bar
You will be then able to lock the screen immediately with Lock Screen:
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be8a195ca06bd35399366fd689627c570d2d97f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to use Terminal to send keystrokes? Is there a way for Terminal to simulate pressing multiple keys at once? For example, Shift+Ctrl+R?
I am sshing into OS X from a Windows client (PuTTY) and am wondering if I need to configure the client or is there a native way for OS X to emulate these commands on the receiving end.
A: the cliclick shell tool is pretty awesome. sends keystrokes, clicks, all sorts of stuff
https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick
| Q: How to use Terminal to send keystrokes? Is there a way for Terminal to simulate pressing multiple keys at once? For example, Shift+Ctrl+R?
I am sshing into OS X from a Windows client (PuTTY) and am wondering if I need to configure the client or is there a native way for OS X to emulate these commands on the receiving end.
A: the cliclick shell tool is pretty awesome. sends keystrokes, clicks, all sorts of stuff
https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick
A: You can use AppleScript on the Terminal:
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "r" using {control down, shift down}'
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333c878539ff2843c7af05f322a57fe500a2728d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Set up NTP server on iOS device How can I make an iOS device a NTP server ? The reason for this is, the network of devices I have don't have internet connection but are connected via Wifi. So just want to create a device as a server and let others to associate themselves to it.
A: I'll quote two answers from Stack Overflow with the hope that it will help you figure out what you're trying to do.
There's a small iOS library named ios-ntp. I have used it in one project in the past and it seemed to work reasonably well.
As of mid 2013 the original ios-ntp project has a few missing pieces, so I have mirrored the original svn repository to github. You can checkout out a working version of the code here: https://github.com/jessedc/iOS-ntp
Source
If you're not developing a commercial application, peek at the linux source.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/lucid/ntp
Source
Thread source
| Q: Set up NTP server on iOS device How can I make an iOS device a NTP server ? The reason for this is, the network of devices I have don't have internet connection but are connected via Wifi. So just want to create a device as a server and let others to associate themselves to it.
A: I'll quote two answers from Stack Overflow with the hope that it will help you figure out what you're trying to do.
There's a small iOS library named ios-ntp. I have used it in one project in the past and it seemed to work reasonably well.
As of mid 2013 the original ios-ntp project has a few missing pieces, so I have mirrored the original svn repository to github. You can checkout out a working version of the code here: https://github.com/jessedc/iOS-ntp
Source
If you're not developing a commercial application, peek at the linux source.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/lucid/ntp
Source
Thread source
A: Just use dns to intercept requests to time.apple.com and point to a local Linux or raspi serving ntp. Of course, you will need to set up a dns for this to work.
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50b4c50773129e53a2ce7afc5cc4cb4b7f3bf209 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I perform inverse trig functions in Spotlight? Is there a way to make Spotlight return the sin-1, cos-1, or tan-1 of a given number without opening Calculator.app?
A: asin(x), acos(x), and atan(x) work for me. Spotlight gives the results in radians and will not show any calculator results if you go out of the domains for these functions.
Edit: If you want the results in degrees instead of radians, use asind(x), acosd(x), and atand(x).
| Q: Can I perform inverse trig functions in Spotlight? Is there a way to make Spotlight return the sin-1, cos-1, or tan-1 of a given number without opening Calculator.app?
A: asin(x), acos(x), and atan(x) work for me. Spotlight gives the results in radians and will not show any calculator results if you go out of the domains for these functions.
Edit: If you want the results in degrees instead of radians, use asind(x), acosd(x), and atand(x).
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886a2e54793d9ca5c39bfc354e1167961eab2d98 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove menu bar apps from menu bar in OS X What is best method to remove menu bar apps from MacBook Pro Retina running Mavericks? I've tried Broomstick and a few others with no real easy success. I've also tried going through System Preferences / User Groups and then Login Items
A: Try Bartender. This lets you hide (as well as re-arrange) menu bar items, as well as providing a secondary menu bar so that you can hide icons from the main bar but still have access to them on a keyboard shortcut or menu bar item.
| Q: Remove menu bar apps from menu bar in OS X What is best method to remove menu bar apps from MacBook Pro Retina running Mavericks? I've tried Broomstick and a few others with no real easy success. I've also tried going through System Preferences / User Groups and then Login Items
A: Try Bartender. This lets you hide (as well as re-arrange) menu bar items, as well as providing a secondary menu bar so that you can hide icons from the main bar but still have access to them on a keyboard shortcut or menu bar item.
A: I may be misunderstanding, but to remove items from Finder's menu bar is quite simple:
Hold down Command and drag the icon from the menu bar. Poof! It's gone.
This works for all Apple based menu bar items, and some third party items. Usually, when it doesn't work for a third party application, there is an option within the app itself to remove its icon from the menu bar.
A: I found a way to get rid of any icon from the menu bar of macOS Big Sur.
*
*Open the app whose icon you want to get rid-off from the menu bar.
*From the menu bar, near the apple icon > click the name of the app.
*Click on its preferences > Advanced > Scroll down to locate 'System Integration' > Under it, Uncheck the check box for Show Tray Icon.
*Voilà! The icon is gone.
*The steps, almost works for almost every app. [Apps name near Apple Icon on menu bar > Preferences > Look for its Tray icon check box]
Be free to ask if you are unable to remove the icon of any other app.
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5db779cf7ce9004d1607456061f367cb22e5d6b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Would a lost phone still show as offline if someone found it and erased it? I lost my phone and it looks like it was either turned off or died at 5:41pm. When I use Find My Phone, its says offline.
Is this because it's off or is it possible someone erased my phone? If someone erased my phone, would it still show up as offline, or would it disappear?
I'm trying to figure out if someone has my phone or if it is just misplaced.
A: Yes, if a device has been restored, Find My iPhone will be deactivated and the device will show as offline. If you have iOS 7 or above, you will receive an email if this occurs next time the device communicates with Apple's servers.
However, with iOS 7 and above, attempting to erase an iPhone with an active Find My iPhone will enable Activation Lock. This means the device will contact Apple's servers and be available to you. Activation Lock can't be bypassed without your Apple ID.
| Q: Would a lost phone still show as offline if someone found it and erased it? I lost my phone and it looks like it was either turned off or died at 5:41pm. When I use Find My Phone, its says offline.
Is this because it's off or is it possible someone erased my phone? If someone erased my phone, would it still show up as offline, or would it disappear?
I'm trying to figure out if someone has my phone or if it is just misplaced.
A: Yes, if a device has been restored, Find My iPhone will be deactivated and the device will show as offline. If you have iOS 7 or above, you will receive an email if this occurs next time the device communicates with Apple's servers.
However, with iOS 7 and above, attempting to erase an iPhone with an active Find My iPhone will enable Activation Lock. This means the device will contact Apple's servers and be available to you. Activation Lock can't be bypassed without your Apple ID.
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93efa40fa3efcb10184f93b5830aad43a3643629 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pausing Calendar notifications during presentations While giving a talk (PDF file rendered by Preview) from my MacBook, I'd like to make sure that my upcoming appointments do not show up during the talk.
Is it possible to pause these notifications? How?
Using another account on my machine is not an option. I need to be able to give live code demos from my main account.
A: You can enable Do Not Disturb from the top of Notification Center. Open Notification Center using the button on the menu bar or swiping in from the right side of the trackpad with two fingers, then scroll up and turn the switch on.
You can also ⌥-click on the Notification Center menu bar item to quickly toggle Do Not Disturb. The icon will turn grey to indicate the change in state.
| Q: Pausing Calendar notifications during presentations While giving a talk (PDF file rendered by Preview) from my MacBook, I'd like to make sure that my upcoming appointments do not show up during the talk.
Is it possible to pause these notifications? How?
Using another account on my machine is not an option. I need to be able to give live code demos from my main account.
A: You can enable Do Not Disturb from the top of Notification Center. Open Notification Center using the button on the menu bar or swiping in from the right side of the trackpad with two fingers, then scroll up and turn the switch on.
You can also ⌥-click on the Notification Center menu bar item to quickly toggle Do Not Disturb. The icon will turn grey to indicate the change in state.
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1c647f01ca2c51138f331cc2aa7045914058c0aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Banish "You have forced XXX to quit" from showing on my screen again I never want to see this popup on my computer again.
Is it possible to prevent "do not ask again" this type of dialog?
A: Run the following, then log out and back in
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
| Q: Banish "You have forced XXX to quit" from showing on my screen again I never want to see this popup on my computer again.
Is it possible to prevent "do not ask again" this type of dialog?
A: Run the following, then log out and back in
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
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6574528e7829ff4729268f07f9d467ea97e311b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to edit iOS system file on my iPad over SSH? I have an iPad with iOS 7.1.1. I jailbroke it and was able to ssh it from wifi without a problem.
Lately I wanted to edit some system files to tweak few settings but I realized that there is no vi (or any other file editor) in the file system. Is there anyway I can install 'ios version of vi' or any other file editor?
I don't want to install independent app for it (such as iFile)—I need an editor which works in shell.
A: You can install nano or vi from Saurik's repo.
| Q: How to edit iOS system file on my iPad over SSH? I have an iPad with iOS 7.1.1. I jailbroke it and was able to ssh it from wifi without a problem.
Lately I wanted to edit some system files to tweak few settings but I realized that there is no vi (or any other file editor) in the file system. Is there anyway I can install 'ios version of vi' or any other file editor?
I don't want to install independent app for it (such as iFile)—I need an editor which works in shell.
A: You can install nano or vi from Saurik's repo.
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9b357ae804bb813f5cc53b4e343c860a2ed8e35a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari appending .EXE to the end of .PDF I have had reported on occasions when Safari on Mac is downloading a PDF from one of our sites it will append .EXE to the end of the file. The MIME type is correctly set to be pdf but it still does it occasionally.
I have found http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24293 which seems to indicate that this is a known issue with Safari on Mac however as official as this is (Since it is from Apple themselves) our clients don't seem to want to believe it. So I want to know if there is a solution to this problem?
I say "occasionally" because we have some Macs that this is happening on and some it's not. So maybe it's a setting or something, it downloads perfectly fine in IE, Firefox, Chrome and even downloads fine on mobile Safari. It is just Mac Safari.
A: Just a blind guess:
On the Macs with the issue, install RCDefaultApp, and use it to check if the settings for the mime type and .pdf extension are correct. Could be that they're linked to a Windows VM, for instance.
| Q: Safari appending .EXE to the end of .PDF I have had reported on occasions when Safari on Mac is downloading a PDF from one of our sites it will append .EXE to the end of the file. The MIME type is correctly set to be pdf but it still does it occasionally.
I have found http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24293 which seems to indicate that this is a known issue with Safari on Mac however as official as this is (Since it is from Apple themselves) our clients don't seem to want to believe it. So I want to know if there is a solution to this problem?
I say "occasionally" because we have some Macs that this is happening on and some it's not. So maybe it's a setting or something, it downloads perfectly fine in IE, Firefox, Chrome and even downloads fine on mobile Safari. It is just Mac Safari.
A: Just a blind guess:
On the Macs with the issue, install RCDefaultApp, and use it to check if the settings for the mime type and .pdf extension are correct. Could be that they're linked to a Windows VM, for instance.
A: HTTP Header: Content-Disposition
Have the server include an additional Content-Disposition header when serving the PDFs:
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<MyPDF.pdf>"
This provides the browser with a strong suggestion for the desired filename and suffix. See How to encode the filename parameter of Content-Disposition header in HTTP? for a discussion about limitations and implementing this feature.
MIME Type
Additionally, make sure the server's PDF mime type in the Content-Type: header is set correctly. There are variations in use. application/pdf is the recommended type.
The standard MIME type is application/pdf. The assignment is defined in RFC 3778, The application/pdf Media Type, referenced from the MIME Media Types registry.
Test with curl
Use curl -I http://example.com/mypdf.pdf to test and ensure the correct headers are returned by your server. curl can provide credentials to work as a logged in user.
Potentially related question: When sending headers to download a PDF, Safari appends .html
A: Download the file, then double click on it and choose Open With. Under this menu, select any app capable of opening PDFs like Adobe Reader and the file will open.
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074bb86feee8da125f97edd4b92beb05f111ccf9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What 4K modes does MacBook Pro (Late 2011, Radeon HD6750M) support? I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011, and I'm planning to buy a 4K monitor (http://www.samsung.com/levant/consumer/computers-peripherals/monitors/led-monitor/LU28D590DS/ZN).
However, all the Internet is bloated about 4K support with different answers about 4K support on MBPs. Some say it's not possible, some say only at 30 or 24Hz, some say with multistream etc.
What can I exactly get with late 2011 MacBook Pro (Mavericks 10.9.4) in terms of 4K?
A: I have a Dell P2815Q monitor (nearly 4K) connected to my MacBookPro Early 2011 running 10.9.4 (13E28)
| Q: What 4K modes does MacBook Pro (Late 2011, Radeon HD6750M) support? I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011, and I'm planning to buy a 4K monitor (http://www.samsung.com/levant/consumer/computers-peripherals/monitors/led-monitor/LU28D590DS/ZN).
However, all the Internet is bloated about 4K support with different answers about 4K support on MBPs. Some say it's not possible, some say only at 30 or 24Hz, some say with multistream etc.
What can I exactly get with late 2011 MacBook Pro (Mavericks 10.9.4) in terms of 4K?
A: I have a Dell P2815Q monitor (nearly 4K) connected to my MacBookPro Early 2011 running 10.9.4 (13E28)
A: From the official source
Graphics and video support
AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory on
2.2GHz configuration; or AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory on 2.4GHz configuration.
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native
resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an
external display, both at millions of colors.
Sorry, you will not get 4k resolution due to the Graphics card you have.
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0846e066634c3e8a0215b5c743ab510f9d66e2c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using Alt/Cmd + Right/Left Arrow in iTerm Is it possible to move between words in iTerm using Alt + Right/Left Arrows ?
Now if I press Alt+Left I will get '[D' and '[C' if I press Alt+Right.
A: If you're coming here recently because the preset is no long available under Preferences > Keys > Presets..., the presets had change place. Now, if you want to find one of the default presets (Natural Text Editing included), you may want to go over: Preferences > Profiles > [choose your starred profile] > Keys > Key Mappings > Presets...
On a default setting, that is the area you want to get into:
I was looking like crazy on how to download it, I even found buried inside the .app Resources folder a .plist with this mappings in, so I knew I would find this.
Hope that helps anyone in the future looking forward into this.
| Q: Using Alt/Cmd + Right/Left Arrow in iTerm Is it possible to move between words in iTerm using Alt + Right/Left Arrows ?
Now if I press Alt+Left I will get '[D' and '[C' if I press Alt+Right.
A: If you're coming here recently because the preset is no long available under Preferences > Keys > Presets..., the presets had change place. Now, if you want to find one of the default presets (Natural Text Editing included), you may want to go over: Preferences > Profiles > [choose your starred profile] > Keys > Key Mappings > Presets...
On a default setting, that is the area you want to get into:
I was looking like crazy on how to download it, I even found buried inside the .app Resources folder a .plist with this mappings in, so I knew I would find this.
Hope that helps anyone in the future looking forward into this.
A: *
*Go to iTerm Preferences → Profiles
*select your profile
*then the Keys tab with its sub-tab Key Mappings
*Click Load Preset...
*and choose Natural Text Editing
A: Late in the game but for the visual:
Namely, see the Esc+ is selected.
A: If you use bash, you can also add
"\e\e[D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
to ~/.inputrc.
A: CMD+Delete -- Send Hex Code -- 0x15
To delete the whole line (similar to Option+U)
A: Very edge case scenario, but for me it was an issue in my own dotfiles.
These two lines caused it:
In bash_options
set-o vi
In inputrc
set editing-mode vi
After commenting those two lines out, iTerm2 Natural Text Editing works as expected.
A: Go to iTerm Preferences → Profiles, select your profile, then the Keys tab. Find ⌥← and ⌥→ and set them to send escape sequence b and send escape sequence f respectively.
If you use ⌘→ and ←⌘ you will need to remap the next and previous tab shortcuts which are set to those as default. Terminal uses ⇧⌘→ and ⇧⌘← for these.
You can do this under Profiles, or just globally under Keys (shown below) if you wish to set it globally. Note that settings in Profiles override global settings in Keys.
A: For zsh I inserted in ~/.zshrc
bindkey "\e\e[D" backward-word
bindkey "\e\e[C" forward-word
for bash I inserted in ~/.inputrc
"\e\e[D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
A: *
*Go to: Preferences > Profiles > Keys
*Look for the actions of ⌥← and ⌥→. They would have been mapped to: Send Hex codes
*Change them to Send Escape sequence with Esc+B for backward and Esc+F for forward.
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c3f32082d801b7bfae14eb511b7090f3ecfe3680 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I download Mavericks from Yosemite? Does anyone know how to download Mavericks from Yosemite? I'm trying to get the image to put on a different computer but it won't let me download it from the App Store.
I click "download" and it says "OS X 10.10 is already installed on this computer. Are you sure you want to download OS X 10.9?". I click "OK" and it does absolutely nothing.
[edit]
Solution for anyone looking for it: How to re-download Lion from Mountain Lion
Same thing works here.
*
*Open App Store
*Modify /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and set 10.10 to 10.8
*Start Download
*Revert modifications
| Q: How can I download Mavericks from Yosemite? Does anyone know how to download Mavericks from Yosemite? I'm trying to get the image to put on a different computer but it won't let me download it from the App Store.
I click "download" and it says "OS X 10.10 is already installed on this computer. Are you sure you want to download OS X 10.9?". I click "OK" and it does absolutely nothing.
[edit]
Solution for anyone looking for it: How to re-download Lion from Mountain Lion
Same thing works here.
*
*Open App Store
*Modify /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and set 10.10 to 10.8
*Start Download
*Revert modifications
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ce544a8ff42dbe4af79658727674245f2c058949 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Would Apple still take its 30% cut if I collect donations for charities in an app I develop? I know that selling things without going through App Store In-App Purchases etc. is not allowed widely. Even apps like Dropbox historically had problems with it and even they use in-app purchases for Dropbox upgrades today.
If I'd develop an app that people donate charities using an online payment system (like Balanced or Stripe), would Apple still take my app down because I'm not going through in-app puchases?
A: I have here some App Store Review Guidelines, but you can't use in-app for donations. There are some points in the Apple In-App Purchase Policy covering some of your questions:
21. Charities and contributions
21.1 Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free
21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS
Source:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html (late 2013)
| Q: Would Apple still take its 30% cut if I collect donations for charities in an app I develop? I know that selling things without going through App Store In-App Purchases etc. is not allowed widely. Even apps like Dropbox historically had problems with it and even they use in-app purchases for Dropbox upgrades today.
If I'd develop an app that people donate charities using an online payment system (like Balanced or Stripe), would Apple still take my app down because I'm not going through in-app puchases?
A: I have here some App Store Review Guidelines, but you can't use in-app for donations. There are some points in the Apple In-App Purchase Policy covering some of your questions:
21. Charities and contributions
21.1 Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free
21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS
Source:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html (late 2013)
A: I don't believe that limitation effects Apple Pay transactions, since it's not going through Apple's in-app purchase program. It also wouldn't be subject to Apple's 30% cut. Apple would get a portion of the transaction, but in the form of a fee charged to your credit processing merchant for the service of generating the secure Apple Pay transaction tokens.
A: The main problem with using Apple payment frameworks for donations is that Apple doesn't share user information. Non-profits need user information like name and address for tax purposes. But you can't collect this from Apple.
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0b4f2bfb16928b27469af62c202f64af8ba35213 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Filtering a photo of a document to look like a proper scan So there are a couple of iOS apps that "scan" documents and automatically do some processing to make the image look like a quality scan from a real scanner.
When I'm trying this on the Mac with pictures from a DSLR manually with Photoshop the results are usually not as good as what these apps achieve.
Therefore I'm looking for either a Mac app or instructions for Photoshop on how to achieve this. Or maybe even an Automator script.
Just to be clear: I do not need OCR!
A: You can use ScanTailor.
Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file.
The program is developed for Windows, GNU / Linux, and other Unix-like systems such as Mac OS X. See Installation . You might need to build it from source though.
| Q: Filtering a photo of a document to look like a proper scan So there are a couple of iOS apps that "scan" documents and automatically do some processing to make the image look like a quality scan from a real scanner.
When I'm trying this on the Mac with pictures from a DSLR manually with Photoshop the results are usually not as good as what these apps achieve.
Therefore I'm looking for either a Mac app or instructions for Photoshop on how to achieve this. Or maybe even an Automator script.
Just to be clear: I do not need OCR!
A: You can use ScanTailor.
Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file.
The program is developed for Windows, GNU / Linux, and other Unix-like systems such as Mac OS X. See Installation . You might need to build it from source though.
A: I found this Photoshop tutorial that might help. It's a semi-broken webpage without the images.
https://tricky-photoshop.com/make-document-looks-like-scanned-copy-photoshop
There's a video there that was useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiwvTHLJ0gc&feature=emb_logo
Essentially, it looks like they crop, level to get rid of gray, then increase contrast before running it all through a high pass filter. I used it with a color photo (so I skipped black and white) and it looked pretty good.
I had the same question and am not a photoshop expert. But the instructions worked for me.
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aaa12118e234df4d4ed99762eb391d9908c7865d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does OS X Mavericks have Activation Lock like iOS 7? I have bought a used MacBook Pro Retina, and after three mounths using it, I think I could do a clean install for my Mac. However, if it has an activation lock will that stop me using my Mac after a clean install as it could ask me for an iCloud account?
A: Macs do not have Activation Lock.
The only Find My iPhone lock that is present on OS X is the force lock from selecting the device in the Find My iPhone device list and clicking Lock. Simply reinstalling OS X can't lock a Mac unlike iOS Activation Lock.
Note that Find My Mac will register the serial number (or other hardware identifier) for the purposes of recording a single Mac and that reinstalling OS X will not remove this identifier from Apple's servers and may show a "Find My Mac is already in use" message if you attempt to set it up in the future.
| Q: Does OS X Mavericks have Activation Lock like iOS 7? I have bought a used MacBook Pro Retina, and after three mounths using it, I think I could do a clean install for my Mac. However, if it has an activation lock will that stop me using my Mac after a clean install as it could ask me for an iCloud account?
A: Macs do not have Activation Lock.
The only Find My iPhone lock that is present on OS X is the force lock from selecting the device in the Find My iPhone device list and clicking Lock. Simply reinstalling OS X can't lock a Mac unlike iOS Activation Lock.
Note that Find My Mac will register the serial number (or other hardware identifier) for the purposes of recording a single Mac and that reinstalling OS X will not remove this identifier from Apple's servers and may show a "Find My Mac is already in use" message if you attempt to set it up in the future.
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95ad1796408802f5587077391b8f3f5982ae7ae3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I adjust the music in imovie for part of a movie? I have a imovie project that I am creating and I have video clips and an audio track which plays a song. I see that I can adjust the volume level of the song for the whole song but I want to lower the volume for part of the song (because I want to emphasize the audio coming from the video clip)
Is it possible to adjust the volume of a music track for part of the song in imovie?
A: *
*⌥ alt/option-click on the volume adjustment to create new keyframes
*Adjust the volume between these keyframes by dragging.
| Q: How can I adjust the music in imovie for part of a movie? I have a imovie project that I am creating and I have video clips and an audio track which plays a song. I see that I can adjust the volume level of the song for the whole song but I want to lower the volume for part of the song (because I want to emphasize the audio coming from the video clip)
Is it possible to adjust the volume of a music track for part of the song in imovie?
A: *
*⌥ alt/option-click on the volume adjustment to create new keyframes
*Adjust the volume between these keyframes by dragging.
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66ae7d669869187acff80ee9f105c218b05efa02 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Copy documents to iOS devices via the command line I have a couple apps which I directly copy data in/out of using iTunes (iPhone->Apps->(scroll down) File Sharing. Once there you can drag/drop, but I'd really like to be able to automate this process.
Is there any way to copy new "Documents" into an App on my iPhone via the command-line without using the iTunes GUI?
I'm dreading doing it with AppleScript, but if that's the only method so be it. My device is jailbroken if that helps, but I'd much prefer to do it with standard interfaces.
A: If you have SSH on the device, you can use scp:
scp /path/to/file [email protected]:/path/to/destination
| Q: Copy documents to iOS devices via the command line I have a couple apps which I directly copy data in/out of using iTunes (iPhone->Apps->(scroll down) File Sharing. Once there you can drag/drop, but I'd really like to be able to automate this process.
Is there any way to copy new "Documents" into an App on my iPhone via the command-line without using the iTunes GUI?
I'm dreading doing it with AppleScript, but if that's the only method so be it. My device is jailbroken if that helps, but I'd much prefer to do it with standard interfaces.
A: If you have SSH on the device, you can use scp:
scp /path/to/file [email protected]:/path/to/destination
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4c583e6ea9cd3e8cfc4219f59602730e11e141f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add support for .flac files in SoX? I want SoX to record audio in .flac files. When I do:
rec -t flac ~/Desktop/myrec.flac
…it gives the following error:
rec FAIL formats: no handler for given file type `flac'
I have installed SoX from 'brew' and and I do have flac 1.2.1 installed.
I have gone though man pages at http://sox.sourceforge.net/sox.pdf but did not get the information that I am looking for.
How can I add support for .flac files?
I am on OS X 10.9.3
A: Keeping it simple.
Removing it using brew like so :
brew remove sox
Then installing it again with specific options, like so, did the trick for me:
brew install sox --with-lame --with-flac --with-libvorbis
You may want to remove the --with-lame option if you won't be using MP3s, or the --with-libvorbis if you won't be using OGG.
I hope this helps someone.
| Q: How can I add support for .flac files in SoX? I want SoX to record audio in .flac files. When I do:
rec -t flac ~/Desktop/myrec.flac
…it gives the following error:
rec FAIL formats: no handler for given file type `flac'
I have installed SoX from 'brew' and and I do have flac 1.2.1 installed.
I have gone though man pages at http://sox.sourceforge.net/sox.pdf but did not get the information that I am looking for.
How can I add support for .flac files?
I am on OS X 10.9.3
A: Keeping it simple.
Removing it using brew like so :
brew remove sox
Then installing it again with specific options, like so, did the trick for me:
brew install sox --with-lame --with-flac --with-libvorbis
You may want to remove the --with-lame option if you won't be using MP3s, or the --with-libvorbis if you won't be using OGG.
I hope this helps someone.
A: Try this:
brew remove libogg flac sox
brew update
brew doctor
brew install libogg flac
brew install sox
This should recompile sox with libogg and flac present, and it will then find the FLAC support.
~$ brew info sox
sox: stable 14.4.1
http://sox.sourceforge.net/
/usr/local/Cellar/sox/14.4.1_1 (15 files, 2.1M) *
Built from source
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/sox.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔
Required: libpng ✔, mad ✔
Optional: opencore-amr ✘, libvorbis ✔, flac ✔, libsndfile ✔, libao ✘, lame ✔
==> Options
--with-flac
Build with flac support
--with-lame
Build with lame support
--with-libao
Build with libao support
--with-libsndfile
Build with libsndfile support
--with-libvorbis
Build with libvorbis support
--with-opencore-amr
Build with opencore-amr support
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ab126f67bf39bdf9d20b656f9c7ec56a1e39a1c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an alternative to "Everything" on OS X? Spotlight does pretty much, but it lacks two critical features.
*
*It cannot search arbitrary locations. It excludes system locations for a better user experience I guess.
*It cannot index external drives.
For example I often search the ID of a chrome extension to get to its folder. That's way faster than typing the path. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do this on OS X
Is there an alternative on OS X that includes the features of Everything?
A: In your case probably the
mdfind
will do great job.
It is not a GUI but a Terminal command, and it will search everywhere and everything.
Once found you can triple click on the line (to select it) and Right Click and use the "Reveal in Finder".
| Q: Is there an alternative to "Everything" on OS X? Spotlight does pretty much, but it lacks two critical features.
*
*It cannot search arbitrary locations. It excludes system locations for a better user experience I guess.
*It cannot index external drives.
For example I often search the ID of a chrome extension to get to its folder. That's way faster than typing the path. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do this on OS X
Is there an alternative on OS X that includes the features of Everything?
A: In your case probably the
mdfind
will do great job.
It is not a GUI but a Terminal command, and it will search everywhere and everything.
Once found you can triple click on the line (to select it) and Right Click and use the "Reveal in Finder".
A: If you show hidden files you might be able to search for them via spotlight. Most drives should be indexed (as long as their HFS+ formatted I believe)
A: I've been trying to find some way to reconfigure Spotlight or some third party tool (that's Spotlight-quick or Everything-quick) to find hidden files, like those in ~/.ssh, for some time now. The only thing I've found that works so far is GoToFile, if you remove the exclusions from the scan parameters.
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aa30eeb7c6ba49b56a55437dc8dd2e953e06fa8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Music app without iTunes I don't always have PC with me. Also, I have quite big music collection on my DropBox. Is there any good app for iPhone that I can use to download music from DropBox and listen to without connecting to iTunes?
A: I managed to find appropriate app for this purpose. Its name is VLC for iOS -> https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962?mt=8
I can connect my DropBox account and play music.
| Q: Music app without iTunes I don't always have PC with me. Also, I have quite big music collection on my DropBox. Is there any good app for iPhone that I can use to download music from DropBox and listen to without connecting to iTunes?
A: I managed to find appropriate app for this purpose. Its name is VLC for iOS -> https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962?mt=8
I can connect my DropBox account and play music.
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14500720fc252bb8b40ba9d08f3941e41e988c51 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will Apple EarPods functions work with an Android phone? Will the Apple EarPods microphone and volume functionality work with Android phones?
A: The audio output will work fine with any Android phone with a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The audio input from the microphone on the EarPods will only work on compatible Android devices—this is not guaranteed. As far as I am aware, there are no Android devices which work with the remote controls on the wire.
| Q: Will Apple EarPods functions work with an Android phone? Will the Apple EarPods microphone and volume functionality work with Android phones?
A: The audio output will work fine with any Android phone with a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The audio input from the microphone on the EarPods will only work on compatible Android devices—this is not guaranteed. As far as I am aware, there are no Android devices which work with the remote controls on the wire.
A: As you have probably Goolged the answer and found that there are to many possible combinations, without knowing your specific Android model the generic answers is:
As already answered by George Garside, the audio output will work (you will be able to hear).
The extra functionality like Microphone input works on most HTC phones.
The earpods work on HTC phones (Android & Windows Phones). They do not work on Samsung & Nokia phones. The headset works on any device with a 3.5mm jack, but the mic only works on HTC phones. There may be an exception.
The Start/Stop playing does not work on most phones, but it has been reported that using a Application called Meridian player and Droid phone it kindoff works.
So why is that and what can you do about it.
Just give you some background: From the outside the plugs look very much alike, but inside the engineers have decided (for unknown reasons) to switch functions for microphone).
So what can you do about that: you would need an adapter(bridge) to connect the 2 worlds of engineering.
A: seems everything works with galaxy s4.. and galaxy tab 4
A: Microphone and start/stop works on my galaxy core 2. Ut the volume remote does not.
A: I just migrated from iPhone 4S to Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Cyanogen Mod 12.1), and I can confirm the following:
The audio, microphone, and play/pause button all work. The volume up/down buttons do not work, while the volume up/down buttons from the stock Samsung headset works. Headset control apps within Android failed to solve the problem.
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70d5ecb1c481283bedf9beb78403bd65cabbe3c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Window corners don't render properly I have recently noticed that some of my windows have weird looking corners. It's like they are missing dark pixels right on the edge.
It doesn't always happen, some windows seem to be 'immune' - one example would be Messages, which is the window in the middle.
I'm running OS X 10.9.3.
A: After the OS X Mavericks v10.9.4 Update, window corners have returned to their previous glory. Update notes don't mention any issue of this kind, so I guess it might have been fixed as a side effect of running the system updater.
EDIT: Aaand the corners are ugly again. It's really weird.
| Q: Window corners don't render properly I have recently noticed that some of my windows have weird looking corners. It's like they are missing dark pixels right on the edge.
It doesn't always happen, some windows seem to be 'immune' - one example would be Messages, which is the window in the middle.
I'm running OS X 10.9.3.
A: After the OS X Mavericks v10.9.4 Update, window corners have returned to their previous glory. Update notes don't mention any issue of this kind, so I guess it might have been fixed as a side effect of running the system updater.
EDIT: Aaand the corners are ugly again. It's really weird.
A: I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to be caused by Firefox. If Finder and Terminal are the first windows to be opened after booting the system, they look fine. If I begin by starting Firefox instead, windows opened afterwards become corrupted.
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d7b1c419bfacc7b066e3517441063cdb887c1cc9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a max price limit for in app purchases? I would like to know if there is a max price limit for an in-app item.
I couldn't get a direct answer from Apple.
A: The highest tier is tier 87. This equates to $999.99 or £699.99.
Source: App Store Pricing Matrix (requires iTunes Connect; dynamic link)
| Q: Is there a max price limit for in app purchases? I would like to know if there is a max price limit for an in-app item.
I couldn't get a direct answer from Apple.
A: The highest tier is tier 87. This equates to $999.99 or £699.99.
Source: App Store Pricing Matrix (requires iTunes Connect; dynamic link)
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f1390be17ac0100188d6c62c54d33838f80b385f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Export an email from Outlook to PDF? Is there way to export a specific email from Mac Office 2011 in PDF (or some other portable document format)?
I don't want to export a whole archive, just a particular e-mail to attach to a ticket. External services are not an acceptable solution.
A: You can use the "Save as PDF" option in the Print dialog (drop down is in lower left corner of the dialog window).
| Q: Export an email from Outlook to PDF? Is there way to export a specific email from Mac Office 2011 in PDF (or some other portable document format)?
I don't want to export a whole archive, just a particular e-mail to attach to a ticket. External services are not an acceptable solution.
A: You can use the "Save as PDF" option in the Print dialog (drop down is in lower left corner of the dialog window).
A: Export an email from Outlook to PDF? you should read this technet article, which helps you save your Outlook PST mails as PDF format. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Convert-PST-to-PDF-with-25f19205
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2d78a00e5dabf27df9b90c841bf61038613fa759 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to add account in Google Hangouts I've been unable to login to Google Hangouts via the iPhone mobile app. I keep getting "Unable to add account". I've tried restarting my phone, nothing changes. If it helps, I am using a legacy business account from Google.
iPhone: 5s
OS: iOS 7.1.2
App: Hangouts from Google Inc, 2.1.0
A: If the account you're trying to login with us managed with Family Link, then you cannot access Hangouts on an iPad or iPhone. See https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/2944865
I also tried Google Duo, but that silent fails to login and just boots you back to the login screen.
| Q: Unable to add account in Google Hangouts I've been unable to login to Google Hangouts via the iPhone mobile app. I keep getting "Unable to add account". I've tried restarting my phone, nothing changes. If it helps, I am using a legacy business account from Google.
iPhone: 5s
OS: iOS 7.1.2
App: Hangouts from Google Inc, 2.1.0
A: If the account you're trying to login with us managed with Family Link, then you cannot access Hangouts on an iPad or iPhone. See https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/2944865
I also tried Google Duo, but that silent fails to login and just boots you back to the login screen.
A: You have to enable Google+ in your Google App account to let your phone use Hangout. Login to Google App admin, then choose "More controls" at the bottom and choose "Other Google Services". Then you can see Google+ in the list.
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cec6e1c789e32408f6286b997f11f72b08703304 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: List wireless connection information in terminal In OSX if you hold down the Option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar it will show details of the wifi connection - speed, BSSID ,channel etc.
Can this information be listed in the terminal?
A: Yes, with the following command:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I
| Q: List wireless connection information in terminal In OSX if you hold down the Option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar it will show details of the wifi connection - speed, BSSID ,channel etc.
Can this information be listed in the terminal?
A: Yes, with the following command:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I
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1a614743b0f8621665bd3fd2a22b1fc31d9640c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in VMWare Fusion, on a 10.9 host? I'm working on fairly new Mac Mini, running OS X 10.9.4 and VMWare Fusion Pro 6.0.4.
For software testing purposes, I want to install both a OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion inside a virtual machine. I have access to the developer downloads under http://developer.apple.com/downloads.
I can find numerous packages saying, for example "OS X Lion 10.7.2 Build XXXXX", but all of them seem to updates and are relatively small in size (~ 700 MB). I can't seem to find any image that would allow me to install a fresh 10.7 or 10.8 inside a new VM.
So how exactly do I go about creating those two virtual machines on my OS X 10.9 host?
A: If you don't have them in your Purchases in the Mac App store, you can order Lion and Mountain Lion directly from Apple for USD $19.99 each.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
| Q: How to install OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in VMWare Fusion, on a 10.9 host? I'm working on fairly new Mac Mini, running OS X 10.9.4 and VMWare Fusion Pro 6.0.4.
For software testing purposes, I want to install both a OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion inside a virtual machine. I have access to the developer downloads under http://developer.apple.com/downloads.
I can find numerous packages saying, for example "OS X Lion 10.7.2 Build XXXXX", but all of them seem to updates and are relatively small in size (~ 700 MB). I can't seem to find any image that would allow me to install a fresh 10.7 or 10.8 inside a new VM.
So how exactly do I go about creating those two virtual machines on my OS X 10.9 host?
A: If you don't have them in your Purchases in the Mac App store, you can order Lion and Mountain Lion directly from Apple for USD $19.99 each.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
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492d812f7df993494a45364568c195c52b99d90b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Install Apple Symbol font on Mac OS X I use MacBook Pro Retina ME864 with Mac OSX 10.9.4 ,
Recently I download a Word file from internet which use Apple Symbol font and because I don't have this font on my system the characters shows wrong.
How can I install Apple Symbol font ?
A: Download the font from below, then drag and drop that file into Font Book.app
*
*https://gitorious.org/deblock/iphone/raw/ce72bc0d9bc69ffcaef4320450aeb5a38003d663:Resources/Fonts/Apple%20Symbols.ttf
| Q: Install Apple Symbol font on Mac OS X I use MacBook Pro Retina ME864 with Mac OSX 10.9.4 ,
Recently I download a Word file from internet which use Apple Symbol font and because I don't have this font on my system the characters shows wrong.
How can I install Apple Symbol font ?
A: Download the font from below, then drag and drop that file into Font Book.app
*
*https://gitorious.org/deblock/iphone/raw/ce72bc0d9bc69ffcaef4320450aeb5a38003d663:Resources/Fonts/Apple%20Symbols.ttf
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3785f5cd3970572141a197931e4a51e578b03b79 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I get my text messages back from my lost iPhone? I lost my iPhone so I bought a new one. I am now wanting to get my text messages back.
Can I get my text messages back? If I get my old mobile number back will my text messages come back? Does iCloud store text messages?
A: If you used iCloud backup, you can restore your previous phone's backup to your new phone by resetting the new phone's Content and Settings in Settings → Reset.
iMessages are separate to SMS/MMS and will be restored when you log in with your Apple ID into iCloud. Both of these are separate from your mobile number. iCloud does not store SMS/MSS messages like iMessages, only the database in iCloud backup.
This iLounge guide has more information about restoring text messages from an iCloud backup.
| Q: Can I get my text messages back from my lost iPhone? I lost my iPhone so I bought a new one. I am now wanting to get my text messages back.
Can I get my text messages back? If I get my old mobile number back will my text messages come back? Does iCloud store text messages?
A: If you used iCloud backup, you can restore your previous phone's backup to your new phone by resetting the new phone's Content and Settings in Settings → Reset.
iMessages are separate to SMS/MMS and will be restored when you log in with your Apple ID into iCloud. Both of these are separate from your mobile number. iCloud does not store SMS/MSS messages like iMessages, only the database in iCloud backup.
This iLounge guide has more information about restoring text messages from an iCloud backup.
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41345c8d05a9a8862dba2ec00f4c4fed87224e29 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Group by subject in iOS Mail app How do I make the default Mail app on iOS group by subject? I've enabled "Organize By Thread" but that doesn't help.
On my Mac (OS X 10.9.4):
On my iPhone (iOS 7.1.2):
A: Mail on iOS, like on OS X, uses multiple factors to determine whether two or more emails are part of a thread. By not relying solely on the subject, Mail is able to keep a thread together even when other email programs/servers modify the subject (for example, adding "RE:"). This is seen by Apple as a feature and is not able to be modified.
Enabling Organise by Thread is the best you can do. If the emails still don't group together, then Mail is determining that the emails are not part of the same thread and this can't be changed.
| Q: Group by subject in iOS Mail app How do I make the default Mail app on iOS group by subject? I've enabled "Organize By Thread" but that doesn't help.
On my Mac (OS X 10.9.4):
On my iPhone (iOS 7.1.2):
A: Mail on iOS, like on OS X, uses multiple factors to determine whether two or more emails are part of a thread. By not relying solely on the subject, Mail is able to keep a thread together even when other email programs/servers modify the subject (for example, adding "RE:"). This is seen by Apple as a feature and is not able to be modified.
Enabling Organise by Thread is the best you can do. If the emails still don't group together, then Mail is determining that the emails are not part of the same thread and this can't be changed.
A: As others said, that feature is not available in iOS 7, but it looks like it will be available in iOS 8.
Show related messages:
http://gizmodo.com/ios-8-the-best-hidden-features-that-apple-didnt-show-y-1586023628
A: Unfortunately, here we are in iOS 10 and Apple still has not address this capability. The Apple Mail app does not support thread organization with Subjects that do not match the "multiple factors" that @grgarside pointed out.
Since this is not possible with the stock mail app, @Tonny suggested an alternative which is Outlook. I have confirmed that Outlook does join conversations that have identical Subjects.
An example being the below which will work in Outlook but not iOS Mail:
*
*Alert Message
*Alert Message
*Alert Message
The below will work in Outlook and iOS mail:
*
*Alert Message
*RE: Alert Message
*RE: Alert Message
Outlook does not require the words "RE:" or "FWD:"
A: You can use outlook. I had the same problem, but outlook does better grouping. Even in iOs9
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e28fc85643315d78c834e6b45b301eb9783ea9ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Force OS X Finder to always show dimensions of images in sidebar OS X Finder does sometimes, but not always, show the dimensions of an image selected in Finder, in the sidebar. Why? Is there a way to force it to always show the dimensions? It seems very arbitrary when it decides to show and not to show.
Note: this folder is on a local drive - the default Macintosh HD.
A: You might need to re-index the directories on your system by doing the following:
*
*Go to Apple > System Preferences > Spotlight and chose the Privacy tab.
*Drag a directory (or an entire volume) into the list, and confirm the action
*Remove the directory (or volume) from the list via - it, which will trigger a re-index of the directory or volume.
Source
| Q: Force OS X Finder to always show dimensions of images in sidebar OS X Finder does sometimes, but not always, show the dimensions of an image selected in Finder, in the sidebar. Why? Is there a way to force it to always show the dimensions? It seems very arbitrary when it decides to show and not to show.
Note: this folder is on a local drive - the default Macintosh HD.
A: You might need to re-index the directories on your system by doing the following:
*
*Go to Apple > System Preferences > Spotlight and chose the Privacy tab.
*Drag a directory (or an entire volume) into the list, and confirm the action
*Remove the directory (or volume) from the list via - it, which will trigger a re-index of the directory or volume.
Source
A: Here is what worked for me in OS X 10.10.3
*
*Open all the images in Preview.app at the same time; drag them all to Preview.app
*With the Preview.app Thumbnails Sidebar (alt command 2) and the Preview.app Inspector window open (command i) use the arrow keys (up/down) to view through all of the images. Each one should be open long enough for you to see the images dimensions in the Inspector window.
*Close Preview.app and now the Finder Preview sidebar will now show the image dimensions.
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ffa49dd467e4f90120d1620763b0dc75ea017fa4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's a way to run an automator/bash/applescript command right when a laptop starts charging and right when it stops being charged? I'm trying to automate running a background application only when my laptop is charging to save battery.
So it will launch when I plug the laptop in, and quit when I take it out.
A: You can do that very easily using ControlPlane, a free (open-source) application:
ControlPlane, a fork of MarcoPolo, brings context and location sensitive awareness to OS X. With ControlPlane you can intelligently reconfigure your Mac or perform any number of actions based on input from a wide variety of evidence sources [...]
from: https://github.com/dustinrue/ControlPlane
You can very easily add a "power source rule" which then launches or quits an application or script. As you can see in the attached screenshots, it's very easy to set-up.
| Q: What's a way to run an automator/bash/applescript command right when a laptop starts charging and right when it stops being charged? I'm trying to automate running a background application only when my laptop is charging to save battery.
So it will launch when I plug the laptop in, and quit when I take it out.
A: You can do that very easily using ControlPlane, a free (open-source) application:
ControlPlane, a fork of MarcoPolo, brings context and location sensitive awareness to OS X. With ControlPlane you can intelligently reconfigure your Mac or perform any number of actions based on input from a wide variety of evidence sources [...]
from: https://github.com/dustinrue/ControlPlane
You can very easily add a "power source rule" which then launches or quits an application or script. As you can see in the attached screenshots, it's very easy to set-up.
A: One option is a third party product like the one discussed here or the free SleepWatcher.
Another option is to write a script to query the status using ioreg. Here is snipset from code that I found elsewhere sometime ago...
set Cap to (do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep ExternalChargeCapable")
tell Cap to set {wallPower} to {last word of paragraph 1}
if wallPower = "Yes" then
....
end if
Have the script to run continuously so you can detect changes and then perform the action you desire as necessary.
Hope that helped.
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5f310d04500feba39cac406aeb83b8cb95f1d2e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The time using 'Set date and time automatically' differs between OS X and iOS On my OS X Mavericks my time is always a few minutes (about 4 minutes) ahead of my iOS 7.1.2 iPhone. Both devices are set to set the date and time automatically.
On my Mac I can choose from:
*
*Apple Americas/U.S. (time.apple.com.)
*Apple Asia (time.asia.apple.com.)
*Apple Europe (time.euro.apple.com.)
but these do not differ more than a second or so.
On my iPhone I can only choose 'Set Automatically'.
Why is there a difference between both times? And which one is 'real'?
Screenshot taken with a few seconds in between (believe me ;)
A: The iPhone does not use NTP to synchronize its clock. It uses a feature of the cellular network. I can't tell you why your Mac's clock is off that far, but I suggest you use nl.pool.ntp.org instead of time.euro.apple.com.
| Q: The time using 'Set date and time automatically' differs between OS X and iOS On my OS X Mavericks my time is always a few minutes (about 4 minutes) ahead of my iOS 7.1.2 iPhone. Both devices are set to set the date and time automatically.
On my Mac I can choose from:
*
*Apple Americas/U.S. (time.apple.com.)
*Apple Asia (time.asia.apple.com.)
*Apple Europe (time.euro.apple.com.)
but these do not differ more than a second or so.
On my iPhone I can only choose 'Set Automatically'.
Why is there a difference between both times? And which one is 'real'?
Screenshot taken with a few seconds in between (believe me ;)
A: The iPhone does not use NTP to synchronize its clock. It uses a feature of the cellular network. I can't tell you why your Mac's clock is off that far, but I suggest you use nl.pool.ntp.org instead of time.euro.apple.com.
A: It's possible your ntp.drift file is something insane - check /var/db/ntp.drift, delete it if necessary, and restart (kill) ntpd.
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a7137afdaac04b1c19bc1f8ec2e36e29b24e3c8e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change finder thumbnails size In previous Mac OS versions (<10.9) I was able to change the images' thumbnails in the finder by zooming or unzooming with the trackpad. Now that I run on Mavericks, I can't find a way to do it. Does anyone know a trick for that ?
A: In any folder or window (including Desktop) simply press :
CMD+J
| Q: Change finder thumbnails size In previous Mac OS versions (<10.9) I was able to change the images' thumbnails in the finder by zooming or unzooming with the trackpad. Now that I run on Mavericks, I can't find a way to do it. Does anyone know a trick for that ?
A: In any folder or window (including Desktop) simply press :
CMD+J
A: If the Status Bar is showing (View > Show Status Bar), then you can use the slider in the bottom-right corner to adjust the thumbnail zoom.
A: In list view, you can't get your icons any bigger than the larger of the two sizes available in the View Options choices; it's been a problem for when trying to review (most) images since the thumbnail icons came out.
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6be976f3c30ba72b751ba8fc21efdd1458118867 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to have an iMac maintain target display mode even through sleep/screensaver I want to be able to make it so that my iMac doesn't exit target display mode until the thunderbolt cable is pulled from my Macbook. I love target display mode in theory, but every time I lock my Macbook, the iMac exits target display mode. I then have to use the iMac keyboard to set the computer back to target display mode, which isn't a big deal when doing it just a couple times, but is incredibly obnoxious in aggregate.
Is it possible to make it so target display mode stays even after locking the connected laptop/computer?
| Q: Is it possible to have an iMac maintain target display mode even through sleep/screensaver I want to be able to make it so that my iMac doesn't exit target display mode until the thunderbolt cable is pulled from my Macbook. I love target display mode in theory, but every time I lock my Macbook, the iMac exits target display mode. I then have to use the iMac keyboard to set the computer back to target display mode, which isn't a big deal when doing it just a couple times, but is incredibly obnoxious in aggregate.
Is it possible to make it so target display mode stays even after locking the connected laptop/computer?
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349a2db9773859621a2d8629b185e780fc8ebfbe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Diagnostics on M7 motion coprocessor I own an iPhone 5S and use the apps Argus and Nike+ Move that utilize the M7 motion coprocessor.
A few weeks ago both apps were unable to properly import motion data (they would hang when loading up trying to update motion information).
Is there any way to diagnose if the M7 motion coprocessor on my iPhone 5S is faulty?
A: Yes - you would use the health app and place steps and distance walked/run into your dashboard and then take the phone out for a walk or jog.
If no data is logged, you can conclude that the processor is likely faulty. You could confirm it by backing up the device and restoring a clean OS and repeating the step test.
| Q: Diagnostics on M7 motion coprocessor I own an iPhone 5S and use the apps Argus and Nike+ Move that utilize the M7 motion coprocessor.
A few weeks ago both apps were unable to properly import motion data (they would hang when loading up trying to update motion information).
Is there any way to diagnose if the M7 motion coprocessor on my iPhone 5S is faulty?
A: Yes - you would use the health app and place steps and distance walked/run into your dashboard and then take the phone out for a walk or jog.
If no data is logged, you can conclude that the processor is likely faulty. You could confirm it by backing up the device and restoring a clean OS and repeating the step test.
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2756455f83f97108fdc3e14ba9a45cbac7fc7492 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enable ~/Sites Folder I have been following this tutorial in order to setup my local ~/Sites folder.
/etc/apache2/users/carloabelli.conf:
<Directory "/Users/carloabelli/Sites/">
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I have restarted apache numerous times. Whenever I go the the url http://localhost/~carloabelli I get the following response:
403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~carloabelli on this server.
What else do I need to do to get this to work?
A: Take a look at the Permissions set on the /Users/<username>/Sites Folder.
The "web user" (i think on Mac www is used for this) must have the Rights to read and execute so in most cases a chmod o+rx /Users/<username>/Sites should be enough.
If this doesn't work let us know what you are using to control your Webserver? OSX Server or MAMP or something else?
| Q: Enable ~/Sites Folder I have been following this tutorial in order to setup my local ~/Sites folder.
/etc/apache2/users/carloabelli.conf:
<Directory "/Users/carloabelli/Sites/">
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I have restarted apache numerous times. Whenever I go the the url http://localhost/~carloabelli I get the following response:
403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~carloabelli on this server.
What else do I need to do to get this to work?
A: Take a look at the Permissions set on the /Users/<username>/Sites Folder.
The "web user" (i think on Mac www is used for this) must have the Rights to read and execute so in most cases a chmod o+rx /Users/<username>/Sites should be enough.
If this doesn't work let us know what you are using to control your Webserver? OSX Server or MAMP or something else?
A: In your httpd.conf file you will see User and Group at the top
You have to sent
User <your uer name>
Group www (no change needed)
You have to change it because the default apache user _www which will not have access to the directories under <user>, _www will have access only to /Library/WebServer/Documents/ So you have to change the user in httpd.conf. So that apache can access the files under your user Documents. Hope it helps
A: Aside from getting the permissions correct for reading and executing the Sites directory and its parents, recent configs, i.e, 10.12, require additional configuration options in several files:
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf. -- uncomment:
LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
...
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf -- Uncomment:
Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf
Create a file /etc/apache2/users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE.conf with:
<Directory "/Users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
If the lines are commented out, your per-user file will not be read.
Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/225346/how-do-i-setup-a-localhost-using-the-sites-folder-on-my-mac/566617#comment1813417_566617 and preceeding.
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93aef246c995f63c231840da33caa0a54a6d6388 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the App Store policy on displaying a fake access popup request? For humor, I was considering including a popup message much like this one in an App:
But something like '"App" would like to access your hopes and dreams'. Would this spoof on a common Apple API make the app more likely to be rejected? Or is there any official policy which could be construed this way?
A: There's nothing specific in the App Review Guidelines regarding this, although Apple reserve the right to reject your app and/or modify the guidelines:
It is a living document that will evolve as we are presented with new Apps and situations, and we'll update it periodically to reflect these changes.
Source: App Store Review Guidelines
| Q: What's the App Store policy on displaying a fake access popup request? For humor, I was considering including a popup message much like this one in an App:
But something like '"App" would like to access your hopes and dreams'. Would this spoof on a common Apple API make the app more likely to be rejected? Or is there any official policy which could be construed this way?
A: There's nothing specific in the App Review Guidelines regarding this, although Apple reserve the right to reject your app and/or modify the guidelines:
It is a living document that will evolve as we are presented with new Apps and situations, and we'll update it periodically to reflect these changes.
Source: App Store Review Guidelines
A: It would be considered "deceiving" and probably not allowed.
It will be left to interpretation (by Apple), if such pop up is deceiving (witch it is) and what is its the ultimate purpose, since it is possible that some users would react rather negatively until they realize it was a joke.
If you app is some kind of game in that nature, then yes, but if it is some kind of board game, then no.
22.2
Apps that contain false, fraudulent or misleading representations or
use names or icons similar to other Apps will be rejected.
Source: https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
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5d77397065db4bd6e0b12179843b0a1b1aa14bdc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to programatically remap the keys in a Macbook running OSX Mavericks? I want to remap the keys on my keyboard. I want to do it programatically, because I will use some logic to decide what to input. For example, when a user press "A" followed by "S", I will output "λ". In other words, everytime I type a key on my keyboard, I want to intercept it, apply some logic to it and give it back changed before it goes to the focused app.
How?
A: Have you looked into Keyboard Maestro? I use it all the time, I believe you can accomplish with what you want using Keyboard Maestro.
For example: You can have it check for a typed in string "good" and return morning or afternoon based on the time of day.
With Keyboard Maestro you can execute AppleScript or Shell scripts. Keyboard Maestro is pretty powerful. Your macros can then be global or specific to an application.
| Q: Is there any way to programatically remap the keys in a Macbook running OSX Mavericks? I want to remap the keys on my keyboard. I want to do it programatically, because I will use some logic to decide what to input. For example, when a user press "A" followed by "S", I will output "λ". In other words, everytime I type a key on my keyboard, I want to intercept it, apply some logic to it and give it back changed before it goes to the focused app.
How?
A: Have you looked into Keyboard Maestro? I use it all the time, I believe you can accomplish with what you want using Keyboard Maestro.
For example: You can have it check for a typed in string "good" and return morning or afternoon based on the time of day.
With Keyboard Maestro you can execute AppleScript or Shell scripts. Keyboard Maestro is pretty powerful. Your macros can then be global or specific to an application.
A: Most of the text macro tools available on the Mac will be able to trigger scripts (Applescript, shell scripts, etc.) as well as perform standard expansions based on the input and context.
I like to start my expansions with the semi-colon since I know I will rarely accidentally trigger an expansion in my normal typing, and it's an easy key to hit.
For instance:
*
*When I type ";check", it automatically expands to "✓"
*;yen → ¥
*;dt → 2014-07-11 (current date)
*;email → expands to my email address
*etc.
These expansions can also call scripts rather than basic substitutions to perform more advanced functions if you'd like. Some popular software options for this are aText, Typinator and TextExpander among many others.
A: The answers that others have given are probably the way you want to do this, but if you really wanted to intercept and inject keystrokes, check out how Karabiner (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook) does it.
Here's the interesting bit: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/tree/master/src/core/kext
It would be pretty involved to adapt their code and do what you want, but it's certainly possible.
A: Another option is to create ~/Library/KeyBindings/, save
{
"a" = {
"s" = (insertText:, "λ");
};
}
as ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict, and quit and reopen applications to apply changes.
That prevents you from inserting a, but you might replace a with another key combination like ~a (option-a) or \Uf704 (F1).
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"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138609"
} |
db99b111661eb288f1e2b704666db827a9103c95 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I "Delete All" from Inbox or Sent mail folder in iOS? The sent items folder is about 8 GB and I need to clear it out to free up space. Is there any way to do it without selecting each individual message?
A:
*
*Go to your Sent folder
*Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right
*Select the first email in your list
*Hold down the "Move" button
*While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail
*Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds
*Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails
*Select the Trash-Folder
*Inside the Trahs-Folder, you can delete all items at once
| Q: How can I "Delete All" from Inbox or Sent mail folder in iOS? The sent items folder is about 8 GB and I need to clear it out to free up space. Is there any way to do it without selecting each individual message?
A:
*
*Go to your Sent folder
*Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right
*Select the first email in your list
*Hold down the "Move" button
*While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail
*Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds
*Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails
*Select the Trash-Folder
*Inside the Trahs-Folder, you can delete all items at once
A: This worked for me:
*
*Select the Sent Items folder
*Select Edit
*Select Select All (all the sent e-mails will be highlighted)
*Press the Delete key (all the highlighted e-mails will move to the Deleted Items folder
*
*
*a) Right click on the Deleted Items folder
*b) Select Empty 'Deleted Items' folder
Or
*If your Outlook is set-up to automatically delete the items in the Deleted Items folder, they will auto delete when you close Outlook.
| apple | {
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f482f0d1fd5de246d56dee71aca1ad627c0cd4df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does Google Chrome Helper spike my CPU? This has been happening on and off since I switched to a mac at work. Google Chome Helper occasionally runs my cpu into the red and has the fan spinning madly. Sometimes restarting Chrome fixes the problem, sometimes not. Eventually it always surfaces again.
A: The problem, in my case, seems to have been one of the tabs I always have open runs some crazy cpu-intensive plugin for ads (I suspect Grooveshark, but am not positive).
The fix was to go into Chrome settings (settings > content settings > plugins) and choose Click To Play. By default Chrome runs all plugin content as soon as the page is loaded - regardless of what is is, or how much memory it takes.
| Q: Why does Google Chrome Helper spike my CPU? This has been happening on and off since I switched to a mac at work. Google Chome Helper occasionally runs my cpu into the red and has the fan spinning madly. Sometimes restarting Chrome fixes the problem, sometimes not. Eventually it always surfaces again.
A: The problem, in my case, seems to have been one of the tabs I always have open runs some crazy cpu-intensive plugin for ads (I suspect Grooveshark, but am not positive).
The fix was to go into Chrome settings (settings > content settings > plugins) and choose Click To Play. By default Chrome runs all plugin content as soon as the page is loaded - regardless of what is is, or how much memory it takes.
A: I found the issue for me was that some plugins needed to be removed (or disabled and enabled) - particular Markdown Here.
There's an ongoing ticket here about this bug, it's got something todo with Google Offline and Markdown Here, I disabled both and re-enabled them (in your Chrome Settings > Extensions). This fixed the problem!
How to fix High CPU usage Google Chrome Mac
This may be down to this plugin or some other, here are the steps I took to diagnose it.
*
*Open your Task Manager (In Google Chrome > Settings Icon > More Tools > Task Manager)
*Open your Activity Monitor (Used to view system wide CPU usage)
*View the CPU in the Chrome Task Manager, if any of the plugins are taking a significant amount of memory. Disable and Re-Enable them. The CPU usage should drop immediately.
View the open issues on markdown here's github page.
Note: You may have another plugin causing a similar issue. The idea is to view the chrome task manager and the CPU column to detect exactly what's causing the high memory usage.
If it's a plugin, disabling and re-enabling it may help. If it still continues, probably best to remove the plugin (and file an issue with the plugin vendor if possible).
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70c833041135eb7976e9c6b88c4844fc22f21f64 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I enable SNMP on latest Time Capsule 802.11ac? There is a known issue that latest Time Capsule and Airport Base stations have SNMP disabled. But SNMP ports 161 and 162 are still reserved by Time Capsule for SNMP. It leads to the question: Is there someone who was able to enable SNMP on the latest models of TC and AE?
A: Neither the AirPort Extreme 802.11ac nor the AirPort Time Capsule 802.11ac appear to support SNMP or syslog data to maintain or monitor these devices.
You'd have to load some custom firmware or discover an older management tool that can convince them to configure either of those services. Nothing I can find from Apple shows that either functionality remains on the current AirPort line of hardware.
| Q: How can I enable SNMP on latest Time Capsule 802.11ac? There is a known issue that latest Time Capsule and Airport Base stations have SNMP disabled. But SNMP ports 161 and 162 are still reserved by Time Capsule for SNMP. It leads to the question: Is there someone who was able to enable SNMP on the latest models of TC and AE?
A: Neither the AirPort Extreme 802.11ac nor the AirPort Time Capsule 802.11ac appear to support SNMP or syslog data to maintain or monitor these devices.
You'd have to load some custom firmware or discover an older management tool that can convince them to configure either of those services. Nothing I can find from Apple shows that either functionality remains on the current AirPort line of hardware.
A: With the old 5.6.1 airport utility the options in the tool is available. On my time capsule the snmp-options are missing but the syslog-option is there. Not available in the OSX most recent version of airport-utility though. .. found the old version here: https://www.naschenweng.info/2017/02/24/enable-missing-snmp-airport-express-monitoring-librenms/
| apple | {
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"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138642"
} |
b6a55d5f959279a8c81a8b41186a5f314f3ad6bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: what is access_bpf group? Does anyone know what the "access_bpf" group is / does. I noticed it when I went into Preferences > Users & Groups.
I've searched around and found that it has something to do with Wireshark, however I have not installed the program on my Mac so I'm too sure how the group got added.
A: Wireshark's installer configures your system so that the user doing the installation can capture network traffic without the capturing program having to run as root.
The way it does this is to:
*
*create an access_bpf group;
*put the user into that group;
*install a StartupItem (in older versions) or a launch daemon (in newer versions) that, when the system is booted, changes the permissions of the BPF devices to rw-rw--- and the group owner of the BPF devices to access_bpf;
*arranges that the StartupItem/launch daemon run at that time.
Note, BTW, that this also allows you to capture traffic with Wireshark (or Wireshark's TShark or dumpcap programs) without having to run them as root, it also allows you to capture traffic with tcpdump without having to run it as root.
| Q: what is access_bpf group? Does anyone know what the "access_bpf" group is / does. I noticed it when I went into Preferences > Users & Groups.
I've searched around and found that it has something to do with Wireshark, however I have not installed the program on my Mac so I'm too sure how the group got added.
A: Wireshark's installer configures your system so that the user doing the installation can capture network traffic without the capturing program having to run as root.
The way it does this is to:
*
*create an access_bpf group;
*put the user into that group;
*install a StartupItem (in older versions) or a launch daemon (in newer versions) that, when the system is booted, changes the permissions of the BPF devices to rw-rw--- and the group owner of the BPF devices to access_bpf;
*arranges that the StartupItem/launch daemon run at that time.
Note, BTW, that this also allows you to capture traffic with Wireshark (or Wireshark's TShark or dumpcap programs) without having to run them as root, it also allows you to capture traffic with tcpdump without having to run it as root.
A: The Installer for Wireshark will create the access_bpf group! or in your case who knows :)
Since you do not remember installing and do not use it then just remove it.
To remove Wireshark from your machine, look for following files on your Mac and remove them if they exist:
sudo rm -r /Applications/Wireshark.app
sudo rm -r /Library/Wireshark
sudo rm /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF.plist
sudo rm /Library/Application\ Support/Wireshark/ChmodBPF/ChmodBF
sudo rm /Library/Application\ Support/Wireshark/ChmodBPF/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF.plist
Also remove the access_bpf group
A: Navigate to System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Unlock it as Admin -> open the field Groups under Users -> select and delete.
Or via terminal with
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/access_bpf
A: This group will also be created by installing Debookee, a macOS-native network traffic analyzer tool, which uses an embedded Wireshark.
https://debookee.com
A: This also could be the remnants of you were hit with a java drive by malware attack.
In this case, a bot will gain root access, create a guest account (perhaps hidden well) and start looking at your keychains..
if you see mitmproxy under certs, call apple or another trusted support contact immediately.
they've talked to me over the phone as if they've never heard of the issue.
the fact still stands that MacOS is not perfect. if you still need help, feel free to write.
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37ca4705c4ccea98855bf7b51dd53e969a1731e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad Air Not Charging on Left USB of Retina MBP '15 I am trying to charge my iPad Air via the USB ports on my '15 Retina Macbook Pro. When I plug it into the port on the right side of the device, it charges fine, but when I plug it into the left-side USB port, the battery indicator on the iPad switches from charging to normal and back rapidly and repeatedly. Is this due to different power outputs between the two USB ports, or is something wrong with my laptop that I should get checked out?
A: Go to the Apple on your Menu Bar and select "About this Mac". You will get the System Information app. Select System Report. On the left side, under Hardware, select USB, then find all the available outlets. If they are all similar, you may need some hardware diagnosis. If one is significantly less than the others, that is your answer--it just can't pump out enough juice.
| Q: iPad Air Not Charging on Left USB of Retina MBP '15 I am trying to charge my iPad Air via the USB ports on my '15 Retina Macbook Pro. When I plug it into the port on the right side of the device, it charges fine, but when I plug it into the left-side USB port, the battery indicator on the iPad switches from charging to normal and back rapidly and repeatedly. Is this due to different power outputs between the two USB ports, or is something wrong with my laptop that I should get checked out?
A: Go to the Apple on your Menu Bar and select "About this Mac". You will get the System Information app. Select System Report. On the left side, under Hardware, select USB, then find all the available outlets. If they are all similar, you may need some hardware diagnosis. If one is significantly less than the others, that is your answer--it just can't pump out enough juice.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138718"
} |
1311d63ad8c5c6eec3be60af1b5322cbbba181f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove Eject Icon from Menu bar How do I get rid of this icon?
I'm not even sure what it's for.
It's possible that it's for remote CD Drive, but I don't remember how I got it up there in the first place.
Details:
*
*iMac 27 inch late 2012
*OS X Mavericks
A: The Eject menu is part of the Menu Extras that are of the standard core service items for the Mac.
It is not normally enabled.
But one way of enabling it is to double click on the
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu file.
The Eject menu is normally for your built in disc drive if you have one.
It may or may not work on external disc drive.
To remove the Eject Menu
*
*Press and hold the Apple/Command key.
*Click and drag the Eject menu icon off the menu bar.
*Once you start dragging the Eject icon, you can release the
Apple/Command key.
*Release the mouse button when the Eject menu no longer appears in the
menu bar.
The Eject icon will disappear.
| Q: Remove Eject Icon from Menu bar How do I get rid of this icon?
I'm not even sure what it's for.
It's possible that it's for remote CD Drive, but I don't remember how I got it up there in the first place.
Details:
*
*iMac 27 inch late 2012
*OS X Mavericks
A: The Eject menu is part of the Menu Extras that are of the standard core service items for the Mac.
It is not normally enabled.
But one way of enabling it is to double click on the
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu file.
The Eject menu is normally for your built in disc drive if you have one.
It may or may not work on external disc drive.
To remove the Eject Menu
*
*Press and hold the Apple/Command key.
*Click and drag the Eject menu icon off the menu bar.
*Once you start dragging the Eject icon, you can release the
Apple/Command key.
*Release the mouse button when the Eject menu no longer appears in the
menu bar.
The Eject icon will disappear.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138749"
} |
2f80271f4d45a732ad3df6d5dd1246b2032d29ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: -d option for split is illegal on OS X 10.9 I have bash script that works on Ubuntu but for OS X 10.9 i get the
error for split command:
split -b 1000000 -a 3 -d $F $F && rm $F || { echo "Error: 'split' command not installed" ; exit 1 ; }
split: illegal option -- d .
According to the split man page, -d is
-d, --numeric-suffixes
use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
Is there workaround for this?
A: The GNU version of split is different to the OS X version of split.
OS X is based on BSD Unix, and Linux (often referred to as GNU/Linux) uses the GNU toolset.
The GNU version of split is part of the coreutils, and the good news is that these are available in MacPorts. If you have MacPorts installed, you can install the coreutils port using the command:
sudo port install coreutils
This installs the GNU core utilities (including split) with a g prefix, so you call split using the command gsplit.
| Q: -d option for split is illegal on OS X 10.9 I have bash script that works on Ubuntu but for OS X 10.9 i get the
error for split command:
split -b 1000000 -a 3 -d $F $F && rm $F || { echo "Error: 'split' command not installed" ; exit 1 ; }
split: illegal option -- d .
According to the split man page, -d is
-d, --numeric-suffixes
use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
Is there workaround for this?
A: The GNU version of split is different to the OS X version of split.
OS X is based on BSD Unix, and Linux (often referred to as GNU/Linux) uses the GNU toolset.
The GNU version of split is part of the coreutils, and the good news is that these are available in MacPorts. If you have MacPorts installed, you can install the coreutils port using the command:
sudo port install coreutils
This installs the GNU core utilities (including split) with a g prefix, so you call split using the command gsplit.
| apple | {
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"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138785"
} |
ef63436e10de9542921a73faa5025be767ac2d4f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to invert screen colors and color hue? I want to "smart invert" my colors like this app does: http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen/
I tried the app called "Nocturne 2.0.0" but its "Invert Hue" option has no effect because of this issue: https://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/issues/detail?id=63
Is there a way to do this?
I am using Mavericks 10.9.2 on MBP2011
A: If you can create or find an appropriatey inverted ICC profile, this can be used to invert your colours.
See White on black without inverting colors? for more about how the display's colours can be manipulated.
| Q: How to invert screen colors and color hue? I want to "smart invert" my colors like this app does: http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen/
I tried the app called "Nocturne 2.0.0" but its "Invert Hue" option has no effect because of this issue: https://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/issues/detail?id=63
Is there a way to do this?
I am using Mavericks 10.9.2 on MBP2011
A: If you can create or find an appropriatey inverted ICC profile, this can be used to invert your colours.
See White on black without inverting colors? for more about how the display's colours can be manipulated.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138807"
} |
aafcd9dfac042c403b14ed84e929e31dc1c36102 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I tell Mobile Safari to stop remembering to never remember my password? I've changed my mind about having Safari/iCloud Keychain never remember my password for a given website. I'd like to remove that setting and store the password, but I can't find any ability to delete/change it anywhere. I've already gone into Settings->Safari->Passwords & Autofill -> Saved Passwords, and the website in question does not show up in the list with a 'never' entry to delete.
How can I make Safari forget to keep forgetting this login info?
A: Manually enter your username and password. Tap "Passwords" right above your keyboard. Tap "Save This Password." It still won't autofill when you first load the page, but now you can tap in the username field and hit "Autofill Password." There seems to be no way to actually reset the "Never for this site" setting. Sounds like a job for http://apple.com/feedback.
| Q: How can I tell Mobile Safari to stop remembering to never remember my password? I've changed my mind about having Safari/iCloud Keychain never remember my password for a given website. I'd like to remove that setting and store the password, but I can't find any ability to delete/change it anywhere. I've already gone into Settings->Safari->Passwords & Autofill -> Saved Passwords, and the website in question does not show up in the list with a 'never' entry to delete.
How can I make Safari forget to keep forgetting this login info?
A: Manually enter your username and password. Tap "Passwords" right above your keyboard. Tap "Save This Password." It still won't autofill when you first load the page, but now you can tap in the username field and hit "Autofill Password." There seems to be no way to actually reset the "Never for this site" setting. Sounds like a job for http://apple.com/feedback.
A: I’ve actually figured out a way to undo this. It’s klunky AF, but it works. Go to the login page you’re looking to undo this for, and tap the “passwords” label on top of the onscreen keyboard. From the pop up that appears, select “suggest new password”. Attempt to login with the new password. While you won’t successfully login with it, a login entry for the site will now be saved in your account password settings. Edit the entry with the correct information, and you’re done.
A: On your iPhone just clear the history of your Safari and then visit the website again... it's done, now just go back to the Safari on your iPhone and just put credentials it will ask you for if you want to save or not.
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9462b3ff6e38fafe9ea2c8d6f14cc0e48ac22afd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does the brightness still automatically adjust after turning it off (Mavericks) I turned off automatic brightness adjusting in the display preference pane (as explained here). The brightness still adjusts automatically. If I have the preference pane open I can even watch the slider moving to the right. Is this a bug? I would like to set the display to a lower brightness to save battery.
This is a Retina MBP from late 2013 with Mavericks.
A: Normally if the preference settings do not obey your wishes means your user profile needs repair.
Try using different user to test.
Try the safe mode to test.
Reset your user profile ACL's
| Q: Why does the brightness still automatically adjust after turning it off (Mavericks) I turned off automatic brightness adjusting in the display preference pane (as explained here). The brightness still adjusts automatically. If I have the preference pane open I can even watch the slider moving to the right. Is this a bug? I would like to set the display to a lower brightness to save battery.
This is a Retina MBP from late 2013 with Mavericks.
A: Normally if the preference settings do not obey your wishes means your user profile needs repair.
Try using different user to test.
Try the safe mode to test.
Reset your user profile ACL's
| apple | {
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"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138831"
} |
0155f0d44f18d8d1f6c2a336d5c061fa005895a1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Google Chrome closing tabs instead of quiting application When I click the close button on Google Chrome, it closes all tabs instead of exiting and remembering the open tabs on next launch. Any way to fix this ?
I expect the X button to close the app.
I can only do that if I select quit (from menu or by keyboard shortcut).
A: That is the way most apps behave on Mac OS X.
The red x button in the corner of the screen closes the window, while choosing Quit from the menu or clicking Command+Q will close the app.
There is no way to "fix this" because that is the way the app is meant to behave.
| Q: Google Chrome closing tabs instead of quiting application When I click the close button on Google Chrome, it closes all tabs instead of exiting and remembering the open tabs on next launch. Any way to fix this ?
I expect the X button to close the app.
I can only do that if I select quit (from menu or by keyboard shortcut).
A: That is the way most apps behave on Mac OS X.
The red x button in the corner of the screen closes the window, while choosing Quit from the menu or clicking Command+Q will close the app.
There is no way to "fix this" because that is the way the app is meant to behave.
A:
When you click the x Button, then the current window is getting closed.
A workaround to reopen the Tabs is via the Menu:
So when you close the window via the red x button, Chrome is still active. You can then click on the dock icon, and then go to File->Menu and click on Reopen Closed Tab. Alternatively you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Command+T to quickly reopen closed tabs.
A: If you want chrome to remember the tabs which you closed, you can enable it in chrome settings by going to 'on startup' and choose 'continue where you left off'. When you open chrome, the closed tabs should open automatically.
| apple | {
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"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138851"
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